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7<^ sPfS PUBLISHED BY I HANCOCK, GRAHAM & REILLY. ( DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS AND GENEBAlj| jEQQEESS—INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. -j • ... ‘M ... TERMS: Tl\ree Dollars a Year, PAYABLE Ef ADVANCE. "Volume 17. ** r n..r. or Ailv.rtlalng. JIT FAMII.IAH. AMERICUS, A B0MANCE OF THE WAS. GEORGIA-, FRlf NOVEMBER 35. 1870. = Number 40. «, firht insertion,. aliseqnent insertion,. Tkn JJSEs of Minion type, solid, consti- lvertisementa not contracted for will be ii above rates. rt lament* not apocifvinR the length of r whirl) they are to be inserted will becon- nutil ordered out and charged for accord- cupy fixed places will be •egal Advertising. :i;-e t« Debtors and Creditors, . riiTs Sale, (per levy) ... Professional Cards. js a. nawuxs. fuank r. dukee. HAWKINS & BURKE. Attornoyai at 3L»»t America*, Georgia. oct»tt . Jno. D. CARTER, iTT4U5ISY AT UW, Americus, Georgia, in Amcricns Hotel building, corner i and College streets. may 18 tf. FORT & HOLUS, ,0, ~ iTTGBSBTS AT liW, And Solicitors of Patents. Americas, Georgia. »in ih'> ronn oror It. T.Byrd’s store. april 29 tf 0. T. GOODE, Attorney at Law AMERICBS, GEORGIA. Office over W. T. Davenport’s Drug store. SAM. LUMPKIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, America* Georgia. Wiil practice in all the courts of 8. W. Ga. JACK BROWN, A ttoruoy at Xiat AMERICUS, GA. It. Office in Court House with Judge Stan- f .r.L feu 16 tf. N. A. SMITH, A-ttoru oy at Uaw, W ILL practice in the Courts of Sumter and adjoining Counties, and in Circuit Court of United Staten. if Office ou College street, next to Republic raiisOcs. feb2a tf. J. A. ANSLEY, Attorney-atLaw Amorious, Go.. Will practise in the Courts of Southwestern (nurgia and in the United States Courts atSa- vanuab. Spt'dai attention givhn to collection of in.l pvrehase of lands and tbe in- V large assortment of legal dcc23tf i of titles ii hand. DUPONT UUERBY. HAWKINS & GUERRY, Attorneys-at-Law, OfEUICCS, cssional services to the public. > practice in Sumter and adjoin- ul in United States Circuit and 'ouuru, tx savannah. Particular atten- t. 'ii oven to collections. Office—corner College and Lanur streets, over Granborry &. Co’s. District Court A. Ii. BEOWN, ATTORiVEI AT LAW, Atocricun, Georgia. ttrlLl. give nrompt attention to all buainesa n fcntrnsted to las care. novgOtf George W. Wooten, ATTOUSUV-AT-LAW, Amorlotisi, - - «■ Gnx m O-u-e-h, the Court House. jaul3tf GEORGE W. KIMBROUGH, attorney at law, A' nTV* 1 ^K e nt for the sale and purchase « und m Southwest Georgia. Investigate i sdheredto. \\ill faithfully at- varkv n L T ut ' 88 eutru “ l «d to his care. • “ttvuie, Lee county, Ga. novlltf OR. WILLIAM A. GREENE, AMKB1CUS, GEORGIA. AOSTISCES to serve hia friends of Amcricns ‘‘ onu,r y>n all the depart- o.euUofiu, pnjf«Mtioa, »prlS-l7 Dr. J. B. HINKLE V r °E? .MOio leodjr hi, wnicc. (in on th, * pscial attention given to Surgery. ' of the liberal patronage upon him ' swenrion given liAd^uarters at the Drug „ Evidence fronting that of Rev. J, June 8tf Dr. S. B. HAWKINS. at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. thc Methodist Church. *^s5?sias sas—•"*'- MEDICAL cardT «™rllr. Sewell’. dm™ r. ijgJ where he will be found at all times, U n u%T D i on Professional duty. He solicits on w, , d* and the afBicted generally to call h ’ tre *‘ <>■ H. CALLAWAY & GO.. MILLERS, F0RT °AINES GEORGIA. ° r ^reeli Flour ground at their p und “ d ap in 35,60 and 100 *und Sacks. ’ *** ^rn iad LIoJ i]wi,« o Again I hear creaking stepl He’s rapping at the door 1 Too well I know the boding sound That ushers in a bore. I do not tremble when I meet Tho stoutest of my foes, But heaven defend me from the friend Who comes but never goes. Ho drops into my easy chair. Ami asks about the news; He peeps into my manuscript, Ami gives hia candid views; He tells me where he likes the lino, And where he’s forced to grieve; He takes tho strongest liberties— But never takes his leave! Ho reads my daily papers through Before I’ve seen a word; He scans the lyric (that I wrote), . And thinks it quite absurd; He calmly smokes my last cigar. And cooly asks for more; He opens everything he sees— Except the entry door 1 He talks about hia fragile health, And tells me of tho pains He suffers from a score or ills. Of which he ne’er complains ; And how he struggled once with death To keep hia friends at bay; On themes likaihose away he goes But never goes away. He tells me of the carping words Some shallow critic wrote, And every precious paragraph Familiary can quote, He thinks the writer did me wrong: He’d like to run him through! He says a thousand pleasant things But never says ** Adieu!” Whcn’er he comes—that dreadful man— Disguiso it aa I may, I know that, Pke an antumn rain, He’ll last throughout the day. In vain I speak oi urgent tasks, Iu vain I scold and pout; A frown is no extinguisher— It does not put him out 1 I mean to take the knocker off, Put crape upon the door. Or hint to John that I am gone To stay a month or more. I do not tremble when I meet The stoutest of my foes; But heaven defend toe from thc friend Who never, never goes! WOMAN’S TOGUERRY. BLAST AT SOME OP ITS FEATURES BY WOMAN. Again: What sense is there in long skirts for business women at any time. ’Tis trne that they are pretty nearly all the dressing or protection the lower limbs hare; but what kind of protection? Sufficient, perhaps, when worn for noth ing but to hide the limbs, but what against dampness, dust and the bleak, wintry winds. Against these, clothing more nearly adjusted to the limbs is re quired; so that it comes down to this at lost; that long skirts are worn, not for clothing, but for the purpose of hiding the limbs. Dress is either for the purpose of pro tection or for disguise. If for the last —and it is indelicate or revolting to the future of woman to so dress her legs that they can be free to perform the functions of locomotion—why should it net be just ns indelicate to go with arms naked to the shoulder, as thousands do who would scream if their leg to the knee were exposed? And why should it not be considered a hundred fold more in delicate to expose, virtually, their breasts to tho waist, os thousands do, than it is to tastefully aud reasonably dress iheir legs ? The fact of the case in this matter of female dress is, that a blind and foolish custom has decreed that women must *ar skirts to hide their legs, while they ay, almost ml libitum, expose their arms and breast. For onr part, we can see indelicacy in a properly clad leg than a dropely clad arm; but we can see a deel of sentimental and hypocriti cal mock modesty in the custom which demands skirts and allows bare arms, shoulders and breasts. It is time to call things by their right names, and to bo honest enough to speak the troth about these things, which are fettering and dis easing women, and producing a genera tion of sickly children. If those who effect a great deal more modesty and delicacy than they are will- to allow that those have, who are 1 enough lo discuss this question truthfully, vent their spleen and show their virtuous indignation, by calling us bad names, we simply assure them, that our estimation, of troth, and our oesire to promote the true interest ef our sex, far above all care for whatever they may say or think, and that we are perfectly willing to intrust the vindication of onr coarse, to tbe next ten years, when such unsightly and health-destroying things os onr present system of dressing presents, will be among the things which were. What we have said thus far upon this subject may be considered as simply sug gestive, compared with what might be direct attack npon the system sept IS tf. Dissolution. T®??.'. 0 ! ADA1 “. WASHBURN A CO., i. tunTrJSS dmolved b J content. H. K. Wash- '*• mwi mb- tier, w« k Colto *>» pledging prompt ttten- 1, " • *'*' « arranged to fioht cotton for three «. rihL ™ <Ie “ re a. and advance thr«r*ortha " •. .“an, ADAMS ABBO. _ _ a. a. arum, carannah, Oa., Nov. ,, 1870. novlotf NEW STABLE. I"*V>>ncd. 'tdl'eiv. ucca m mj asm. . GSSsBfeMSKKQB J. W. JORDAN, Jr. from the standpoint of indelicacy. Wo have often been in stores when it necessary for the female employee to climb a step ladder to obtain articles of goods from nigh shelvings; we have often witnessed the exposure of ladies “ into omnibnssess. In either of cases, had they been property az cionsiy dressed, they would hav the extreme of deheacy compared with what they were;, and hence it Is, that we reassert, that the system prescribed fay present custom has nothing to recom mend it, but everything to condemn it When women take the equality which we are showing they are entitled to un der onr Constitution, just as it now is, it is to be hoped that they will also exercise the right to dross themselves according to the requirements of - their callings, even if that demands the proscription of skirts of which women have been dragged lb death so many years. . The World says: “ The average weight all tho year round, of that portion of wo man’s clothing which, h* supported from the waist, is between ten and fifteen pounds. Are weak backs a wonder ?— Put on suspenders* girls r’—IFootttufl** Weekly. B&. A gueatof a hotel sent In a bill to the landlord for cervices rendered in kil ling bed bugs. At thei same hotel, a gen tleman was looking over the register when Ids eyes caught sight of one of those pests of creation traveling about leisurley over, the page. He turned qui etly to a friend and remarked : ‘’Well, this is the first hotel ^ ever saw where the bod bugs looked over, the register tc see what room you occopy.^Rodm Courier. • ▲ Handsome Young Tbaxtobess With Count Bqiubcx. The German newspapers thus relate the manner in which the last and secret telegraphic communications oi Paris with the south and north of France were cat off. The search after these myste rious wires had given a great deal of trouble to tho Prussians, without lead ing to any result It happened, howev er, that during this time the Count von Bismarck, Gen. Von Moltke, and the Crown Prince of Prussia each received several letters in a feminine hand-writ ing, begging of them to set at liberty the hnsband of the lady author of this correspondence, and who was kept pris oner by the French at Montereao. In exchange for this favor she promised to reveal to them an important secret. As offers oi this kind, and a great many others analagous to it, were made to the above named personages by hundreds every day, they took no account of the letters we have just referred to. Bat on the morning of the 28th of September the visit was announced to Count Bismarck of a young lady, who urgently requested permission to speak to him. He ordered her to come in. She then explained to the Connt that the letters addressed to him were in her hand-writing; that her husband, a Jew and a Hungarian by birth, Joseph Hau ser by name, had as a naturalized French man, been employed in the general management of railways at Paris in the capacity of engineer, and that before the investment of the capital he had been specially employed in constructing tbe underground telegraph between Paris and Tours, as well as that between Par is and Rouen. After having completed his underta king he had been sent to Montereao in order to superintend the service and to moke some repairs there, and he had re ceived from General Trochu a letter ap parently containing recommendations to the authorities of that town. But when he arrived there it was an- pounced to him that in consequence of his German origin (he was born at Pres- burg) tho authorities were going to place him under surveillance for some time. A few days afterward the Mayor gave him to understand that three mines had been constructed along tbe line of rail way near Montereau, with tho view of blowing up the Prussian troops if they arrived by the train, and that he must connect tbe mines one with another by electric battery. *‘My husband,” continued the lady, “refused to do that, pointing out that his mission was to su perintend the existing wires, and not to lay down new ones. There-upon he was ill-treated, cast into prison, and no doubt is now in danger of death. After the lady had sufficiently proved her identity, Count Bismarck had a con versation with Baron Von Moltke, and, three hours later, a small squadron of hussars set out for Montereau, and the most extraordinary precautions were ta rn In the evening the troops arrived tho town, which was astonished at tho occurrence. Tho Mayor, who was still astounded, was arrested, and the Hungarian engineer was liberated from his prison. The mines already referred to were discovered and destroyed, and, under the direction of Lauzer, the Prus sians likewise soon found in the bed of the Seine, in four different directions, the mysterious telegraphic communica tions with the capital. )W THE GERMANS DEFEATED A FRENCH STRATAGEM. A small squad of Uhlans had defeated, ie day in the beginning of October, a gang of Frauc-tireurs, capturing their ammunition, near Lho village of Dariez, in France. After they had driven the free-shooters into the mountains they took their quarters in a large inn. They were lodged in a large hall, up stairs, and the landlord was very officious in giving them good accommodations. This extreme friendliness aroused the suspicious of the Lieutenant, and, tasting the wine, he believed that he discovered that it was drugged. So he warned his men not to drink it, and, putting ont the lights, he ordered his men to sham sleep. Now he crept out of the house aud concealed himself at a place where he could watch the doors. Presently, as he had suspected, he saw the landlord steal forth in tbe direction of the Franc- tireurs. He turning as silently to-lhe he had left it, ho called out his men, who sallied forth without arousing the household. In one of the halls was placed all the captured ammunition con nected with a train of powder leading oak After they had done this, the troopers lay in wait, and before long they saw the Franc-tireurs approaching the house, led by the treacherous host. One by one’they entered, their unsheathed knives gleaming through the night At Iasi they were • all inside. A few mo ments after a terrible explosion occur red, and tbe old inn was only a heap of ruins, burying the host and the Frano- tireurs, so that not one man escaped. Novel Ticket Office.—And now comes a correspondent of the Courier Journal with the report that the Indiana apolis and St. Louis Railroad have put tickets, to all the principal points East on sale at several of the most prominent houses of prostitution in St Louis, se lecting ono of-the most charming of the soiled doves as agent for which theypey a ; liberaT commission. . Distinguished Visitors.—Hon. Simon Cameron and family are in-the <#7: guests of Mr. 0, A. Nutting. Hon. Columbus- Delano, Secretary of tho In terior* is also in the city—the' guest of Mr. W. 0- Morrill. These gent '.e non, we learn, are on strictly private business. '—Telegraph & Messenger. tis in g by means of newspapers seems only to be appreciated by the Anglo- Saxon race. Take np a Figaro of six months bock, a period when that paper In its zenith, and ypn find merely of its four pages devoted to advertise ments, aud yet it was the most widely circulated paper in France. Again, the Independence Beige, which ranks.in European influence next to the Times and enjoys * circulation throughout the world, only has sufficient advertisements to cover a portion of a single page. It * much the same* with the Continental papers. Another strange feature, in French papers especially, is that they apparently either have a difficulty in fill ing their columns even at the most excit ing times, or that their readers prefer rubbishy novel to information re garding important current events. For example, the French journals have been carrying on their wretched feuilletons at a time when their country has been vulsed in this awful struggle, when any one would have supposed that every inch of space would have been precious, and when American and English journals are daily devotiug to a record of the nearly as much type os a whole copy of the Figaro contains. Is there not in this something painfully indicative of a want of earnestness in the people of France .?—World. *Sy*Tlie story of the capture of Or leans reads like a pago from the history of the Crusades. The French, destitute of artillery and fearfully outnumbered, were forced to defend the city by individual bravery, and made the victory a dear one for the Germans. During the night before the assault, little “snake parties” were ganized to creep ont through the long grass and met the Prussians crawling in. And every now and then tho silence broken by a sharp, hissing cry as] snake met snake in the nnderwood, and the stings, in the shape of the long hunting knives carried on these expeditions, went to work. Next day, it being evident that the town must fall, it was decided to tho bulk of the army by retreat, while the Foreign I region and Pontifical Zouaves engaged the Prussians and cov ered the retreat Aud nobly they did it The Prussian artillery rained missiles of death upon them, till they judged them broken, and then assaulted en masse, only to be driven back in ruin. Four times did they meet repulse, but ou the fifth assault not a shot was fired against their heavy masses as they deployed i the open plain, but as they swarmed into Banieu and into tbe railway station about hundred and fifty ghastly creatures the military garb rose up to meet them the longed-for embrace of death.— Orleans was won. But of these 150 not GO escaped to tell the tale of how it defeated. Of 1,500 of the Foreign Legion 3G came back to Biots, and of 370 Zouaves but 17 left tho field alive. Tub Situation—230,000 Defenders f Paris 530,000 French under Arms in the Provinces—Privations of the Pkus sians.—The correspondent of the World, writing from Versailles 7th, gives the fol lowing comprehensive review of the present situation of both belligerents nt Paris : General Trochu has 230,000 men fit for offensive servioe in the field. Paris is absolutely impregnable to attack and can be conquered only by starvation.— There is abundant food in Paris sufficient to last two months longer.* There sre six armies outside of Paris numbering 530,000 drilled and well armed the field. Besides the numerous detachments of francs tireurs. and the regular troops are the army of the Loire, General Paladine, 120,000 men ; army of General Heratry, 100,000 men ; army of the North, General Bourbaki, G5.000 men; army of the Centre, General Tripant, 90,000; army of Rhone, General Michel, 110,000 men; and army of Vosges, Gener al CambrieHs, 45,000men. All these are well supplied with everything save artil- ery, which deficiency is rapidly being ended. The army of the West has 55 breech-loading field pieces. At nc quarter is there no deficiency in money, provisions, amnnition, clothing oi horses. The army beseiging Paris continues to suffer greatly from sickness, which con stantly increases. A recent morning re port of the oondition of the army shows an average of 300 men on tbe sick list in each battalion with n.nominal strength of 1,500 men. No more reinforcements can arrive from Germany. The last recruits are nearly all boys nnder nineteen, who are now on their way. Former reports concerning the disposition of the army of Prince Fredrick Charles were inac curate. The tenth corps has gonoto Paris; the eight corjts to Thionville; the seventh corps remains at Metz ; the first is at Lillo; the third at Troyes, and the second and ninth on the way to Lyons. Truthful. The Memphis Avalanche utters the fol lowing very truthful sentiments: The South to be strong must not dream of the past’ Live with the present Uni- venal suffrage has increased the political strength of the Southern States, and di minished the power of the East The destruction of stave labor will for years increase the profits of agricultural pur suits, until the accumulations of two hun dred millions in gold annually will in a decade restore to us the losses of the war. If the balance of trade is in favor of the South it will not be long before the bal ance of power will be in the same hands. We must show ourselves equal to the times. Not by folding our hands, but by taking hold and working with all our might The political, organizations of the past must be giyen up as Lor left the .doomed cities, without looking behind. In this great political dispensation of a Confederate hero, with peace in his breast marchi ng with the ateady step of diacip- line, wiujoin hands and mck shields with the true Federal soldiers, not as veterans; not as men of wai>—but as citizens of a great Republic. ^ Improve your looks with “Bmett’s.” In tho year 1843, during the revolu- l a Lieutenant in the Prus- (who was a son a of Prussian pensioned General of the enamored of a girl whose m (she was an actress) was tth him that under the con- rales governing the social rela- that country, he could not mar aud hope to retain his family and ifanding. Impelled by his blind tion, in an evil hour, he fled with America. In New York he had ity to fully realize tbe unhappy —“ of his illict amour. Without at friends, and without in fluence he socn) learned that he had done a rash and foolish, no t to say a wicked act. He had ruined himself, and what was atilt worse, had ruUeda trusting and confiding girl whose passion for him was such that she had been easfi? induced to accompany him to America, where she fondly hoped that there would bq no so cial o* qLher obstacle to a marriage whioh was next to impossible in her native laud. But poverty among strangers and for eigners soon brought them to trouble. Starvation stared th«Qi in the face. • The young nobleman also found that in *£. dition to the displeasure of hi« family he had incurred the severe penalty which the military law of his Government i n . flicts npon all soldiers “absent without leave.” The offence in an officer, was under the law, nothing less than " deser tion,” and punishable by death. Shortly after his arrival in New York he learned from the German papers, which soon followed by the mail, that he hiul been promptly published by the military authorities of Prussia as a desert er and the severest penalties of the law were held iu readiness to be vis ted upon him should he return. Filled with morse for the ruin he had brought upon the girl, and seeing no prospect of her escape from starvation should she remain with him, he, by the aid of the Prussian Consul, sent her back to her friends and native land. He dared not accompany her, but hoped in time and by influences which he hoped to bring to bear through his parents upon the military E owers, to be permitted to return to his ome, perhaps to his profession of arms. Meanwhile banger compelled him to look for the meaus of sustenance. By some influence not known, in 1852 he was led to Canada. There he applied for employment on a railroad then iu course of construction. The contractor to whom he applied was a German, and a man well known in this section as a rail road builder. He was engaged, aud his first labor os a railroad hand was shovel- ig earth. Thus the scion of a noble house and the officer of high rank was reduced by his own folly to the necessity of labor for bread. But his appearance, conversa tion and manners soon revealed to the discerning that he had the breeding and education of a gentleman. For a long time he was silent as to his origin and history, and studiously, even haughtily he repelled every attempt to penetrate the mystery which enveloped his career. By degrees, however, he learned to trust his employer, and after a long struggle to preserve his secret, he finally revealed his whole history. His youth and his situation gained him sympathy. His story was confided to a few wealthy Ger mans of his acquaintance, and they in curred the expense of sending a lawyer as a confidential agent to Prussia, to see his parents and his young brother, and endeavor to secure their forgiveness for his misconduct and their^influenco at court to secure his pardon. His afflicted parents were easily won over to give the forgiveness lie craved and were willing to promise to do all in their power to avert the displeasure of the military au thorities. Not so, however, with his brother, now the heir of estate and title. This brother was himself a military ofli of high rank, an adjutant on the staff of Prince Frederick Charles, and had felt so keenly the disgrace brought his name by the desertion of hi brother that he was unwilling to cor sent to his return, or to any steps by. the family which would make it possible. The father would do nothing against 'the will of his son and heir, he to whom ti tlo and estates wonld soon fall, must, iu the father’s judgement, be left to decide whether ho wonld incur the hazard of restoring or attempting to restore a brother who had lost caste. The nego tiation, therefore, failed and the lawyer returned. But the yearnings of a moth er's love could not be so repressed. Heir boy, whow she had dandled, and fon dled and reared in luxury and refinement was laboring for daily bread. Though husband and son both refused to take any steps, even by remittances, to aid the prodigal, she through her own brother, the uncle of tbe wanderer un dertook to make quarterly remittances whereby her boy would be relieved from drudgery and toil. The failure, of the tiation to secure his return td home friends wrought strongly on the sen sitive heart of the misguided youth. His mother’s money saved him from toil, but at the same time furnished him with the means wherewith to pnrehase the stupefying draught. Believed from the necessity of labor, idleness left his mind unoccupied except by his own ’ y thoughts. By nature of a frauk ly disposition, he craved sympathy, human sympathy. The intoxicating cup bad not yet established entire mastery over him. Hopeless now of any restora tion to home and.friends, he turned to seek such companions and sympathy as a man in his circumstances Could secure. Whilst employed as a railroad hand he became somewhat acquainted with the daughter of a respectable farmer, near Simcoe, Upper Canada. Her womanly sympathies were with the unhappy stran ger. The upshot was love and iu a few months marriage. This Was in 1853. From thia time until 1804—eleven years the writer of this knows nothing of his history. Daring IS 61 be was first seen in Kala mazoo by his old employer, the German railroad contractor of Canada. Shortly afterward hia brother died (he was kill ed at the battle of Koeniggratz). but in addition to the old difficulties, hit mar riage increased the difficulties that bar red hit return to Germany, and to titles and estates of which lie was the heir. He had gone from bod to wore. For a partial livelihood for him self and family, ho bad-turned a part of bis military education—a part peculiar to Prussian military discipline and. poli cy—to account He was a veterinary surgeon; The present war between France and Germany caused him to feel, more than ever, hia disgrace and-'tbe •chances of honor ho had forfeited in the service of liis country. . . . On Saturday night, the 15tii of Octo ber, in a fit oi intoxication he entered a car, and lin the morning. Was have adopted to an alarming extent the practice of eating arsenic. The object, as most people know, is to give whiteness r.ad clearness to the complexion, and in some ports of Continental Europe the habit is very common. By gradual in crease of the dose, one may take with im punity, so far as immediate risk is con cerned, enough arsenic to kill several strong men not accustomed to its use. The secret, however, is soon betrayed in the countenances of the victims to the practice. A deadly pallor settles upon the face and lips, and an unnatural brightness steals into the eye. It is said too, that a person once firmly attached to its nse finds it almost impossible to give up the fatal practice. No doubt the custom now so prevalent of dyeing the hair to the various “blonde” shades is responsible for the introduction of this new and portions device. Pearl powder, bismuth preparations af^ lead* and even corrosive sublimate ,MB VlBTvV we suppose, inadequate to make the skin of most women, whose hair is naturally dark, correspond with the yellow, rud dy, and flaxen hues now thought so beautiful. Bnt it may interest those who are on the verge of falling a prey to this pernicious habit, to know that the aver age age of people who merely work with arsenious acid, and do not voluntarily “ke it into the system, is less than thir- V c J® 818 - The experiments of Tich- ucu sht, w that while arsenic for certain peculiar diseases may be given in large doses with comparative safety, it is in general steadily injurious to the vital functions, imcf ultimately destructive. One ghastly ev ii incidental to its use can by xio means %>o avoided. This is that the habit, once thoroughly formed, can ' " v , relinquished at the expense of an J or wasting aWy of all the physical powers. Arsenic is it this respect worse than opium or alcoholX if ladies must wear golden hair, and araWnd to have complexions to match, tb^y ought to depend altogether on external cosmetics always including those hygienic promo ters of roses and lilies, fresh air a\j ex ercise.—AT. Y. Times. This is a trne histoiy of the singular and sod career and tragus' death of him irim m Proatria was called Baron Carl Oscar Wilhelm von Hake, but in Kala mazoo was known to many os Dr. Oscar Von Hake, the veterinary surgeon,— [Kalamazoo (Mick) Gazette/ - COLLAPSED. 3JDDEN AND MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE of a Circus. Robinson's Circus, which pel formed here on election day, left that night for the South, having been advertised to r.p- pear at various times in Alabama, inclu ding Elyton. Tbe following concerning it appears in the Chronicle: is stud that James Robinson’s Circns collapsed nt Nashville the other day, and failed to meet its appointment* made ahead of that city. The Chattanooga Times of Sunday, has the following; A large number of country people were in the city yesterday, anxiously waiting the arrival of James Robinson's circus. It appears that James has suf fered a collapse up about Nashville, and could not meet bis arraugemtnts here and elsewhere. Everybody seemed to be disappointed at the non-appearance of the champion rider, and we think he would have met a warm reception in our city. As yet, we have not learned the full particulars, bnt it is attributed to general “squash." The Louisville Commercial furnishes the following rather sensational explana tion of the mystery. Jim Bobin8ou, with his company, pass ed throngh the city a few days ago for Cincinnati, breaking up his southern ap pointments. He was' led to toko this coarse by a little incident which took place at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In the afternoon, a six foot chap, backed by ten followers of similar calibre, went u] to Robinson, who was keeping door, am remarked, “We’re going in!” •Tickets, gentlemen.” responded the amiable bare-back rider. “This is what we’re going in on,” re sponded the six-footer, drawing a hugi revolver. This sort of tender was exposed by his amiable followers, and they, passed in, much to the disgust of Robinson. They kept quiet during the performance, thus disappointing Robinson, who,- during the evening had armed all his men. The fate of. the unfortunate Colonel Ames in Georgia, together with this trifling incident, and a scarcity of mon ey, was sufficient to cause Robinson to break-his Southern engagements, and retire to the north of the Ohio. The revolver is a powerful means of helping one along, cither on a highway or r~ - circus. Not having heard anything of this at Murfreesboro, we are inclined to the opinion that this is a weak invention of the circus enterprise to explain a lit- tle embarrassing shortness of currency with-which to cany on the great moral •how.—Nashville Banner. Stamp Duties.-—There seems to be [>me misunderstanding among business men generally os to the construction of that port of the act of July 14, 1870, which exempts “promissory notes for a less sum than ona hundred dollars from stamp duty. The law as it now stands, divested of its verbiage, -js as follows: The tax on checks, drafts or orders drawn for anv sum whatever upon any bank or trust company, and a like amount when drawn “for any sum exceeding tea dollars upon any other person or persons, com panies or corporations.” Rills of Ex change (inland), draft or order, for the payment of any sum of money not ex ceeding one hundred dollars, .otherwise than at sight or on demand, or any promissory note (for a less sum than one hundred dollars), are exempted from stamp on and alter the 1st of Ook 1870. Evidences of debt such as ‘fL O, U, $100,” “due you $100,” usually called ‘due bills,” or promissory notes to .“pay afe sight,” are reliable (as in tho fiat para graph above) to the two cent stamp duty. A Suit for Damages. —A dispatch from New York says: “The druggist Helmbold has brnght suit against the Herald for one hundred thousand dollars’ damage for ridiculing and abusing him in its columns, because as be alleges, he had withdrawn his advertisements from that paper. Helm- bold publishes ii card, saying he has fre quently sought to obtain satisfaction from TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES FROM EUROPE COMPLICATED AND EXCITING. . ENGLAND GETTING HER BACK UP. BCYIXG POWDER AND PROVISION. EGYPT, SYRIA AND ROUMANIA. BBEAD6TUFFS ADVANCING. ‘ KINO WHLIAM WANTS TO GO HOME AND CANT. Washing, dispatches complicated and exciting. England is resolved to stand firm to the treaty engagements of 1856, and is mak ing extensive preparations to enable her to do so with effect. Gibraltar is being re-provisioned, and the Government is purchasing powder in large quantities to be need in the event of a declaration of ter. v 1 It is thought that Egypt, Syria and Roumania would unite against Turkey to save their own Independence in the event of war. * -• r • There is intense excitement in Lon don, nnd breadstuff's are advancing rap idly in price. In France matters are assuming a bet ter shape for the French. The Germans around Paris are uneasy. Moltke’s reported sickness is serious.— King William wants to go to Berlin bnt afraid to risk the journey without an immense escort whioh cannot be spared. The Duke of Aosta has been elected ^ing of Spain. London, Nov. 19,—Queen Victoria, it is said, disapproves of Earl Granville*! has by reply to the Russian notice in re gard to the treaty of 1856. Russia denies offering neutrality, to Prussia on oondition of setting aside the above mentioned treaty. The feeling in England is somewhat more peaceful, but there is a strong un der current of feeling in the matter, and great olthongh quiet excitement exists. Securities are lower and breadstuff's are higher. England, with the approval of the pro visional government, has renewed her proposals for on armistice between France and Prussia, based upon a pecuniary war compensation raiseing the frontier fortresses, and the neutralization (sic) of Alsace and Lorain, and the Great Fow- to guarantee the fulfillment of these conditions by any future French Govern- •nt Also fof an' European Congress assemble to settle all disputed ques tions, and to deliberate npon the.Eastern question. The American Government is suspect ed of sympathy with Russia. Minister Motley will, it i» understood, remain some time in Europe, although without official position. Switches and iCHiaNosa.—The recent revelations about “ jute”—tbe dark fibrous b^rk, resembling hemp—where with women endeavor cheaply to counter feit thc luxuriant heads of hair dotted them by nature—have been regurded, no 4onbt, .as merely sensational, or perhaps the product of some misogynist imagina tion, but the doubters jhavs no chance. The distinguished little borer that fills the fibre, of the ‘Jute’plant, whether used massive chignons or long hunches are causing a lively and by no means pleasant excitement in. various quarters, finding their way to the heads of their harborers, they burrow until the scalp becomes raw, and in many cases affect the whole nerv ous system. : and craze tho brain. . The only remedy wp know of is to abandon the use of chignons and switches alto gether, and, treat with “ Barrett’s Vegita- Me Hah: Restorative,” a thorough appli cation of which laocordiog to directions will soon supply the deficiences ofnature and give you njfne healthy• luxuriant head of hair. Hie Ladies all prefer “Bar- rett’s’ because it is much dearer and does opt gum of maf the hair. B&- A young man who speaks from experience, gives vent to his feelings in an original poem .Which commences thus- ly: “ ’Tis sweet to court, but oh, how bitter to court a gal, and then not get her.” This is all we can stand to publish at one time. - ; •' * THE ALABAMA CLAIMS; Washington, Nor. 12.—The govern- ent authorities have information that a plan is on foot among individual claim ants for damages committed fay the rebel privateer Alabama, to effect an organiza tion this winter, and demand of the Presi dent negotiations for au immediate set tlement with the British government The claimants assert that if, this Gov ernment does not aooept their claims and give them some ^security for their early payment by issuing Alabama claim bonds, bearing a reasonable interest until paid, they will sell their claims to the British Government itself, and thus dispose of the great international question. They claim the power to do this, but if their right should be questioned then the claims will be sold to a company of Eng lish Capitalists, to be organized under the authority of the British government^ will purchase all the claims coming into their possession* v m . This'movement -made by individual claimants is likely togite » new phase to the long pending controversy, and may lead to advances byoar authorities fora settlement 6t the question at oooe. It is reported that certain persons who are largely interested fn these chums here have corresponded with the English statesmen, and the latter report ed that their ’government would gladly buy up the^daims, either directly or through third parties, and thus take the question out of the control of the United States authorities.—AT.: F. Posh Machine Oil, at **-•* Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. two in the New York Assembly. Connecticut had a law against the use of tobacco, in 1664. The woman of Marseilles, France want to re-establish the gfcilotine. Bishop Simpson has declared in favor of woman suffrage. The strength of the United States ar my is 34,870. ***• A son of Horn George H. Pendleton is among the defenders of Paris. The first contribution to the Richmond Lee Monument was a gold dollar sent by a little girl in New York. The negroes down at Quitman are drill ing everu night, in largq numbers, in the manualpf arms. . / „. The. Archbishop of Paris has given permission to use horse flesh on fast days. h service has i seillea and left for tbe fiield. The journals report 'the' Prussians to have lost over10,000killed and wounded, and 18,000 prisoners,'in battles around Orleans. . »' - . • \ A laky in Oshkosh amused herself in chnrch, on Sunday, by counting the dif ferent styles of doing up - the pair,, and found fifty one. The sale of tho horses and moles ba nging to the Circus of Col. Ames, isad- erased to take place at Maoon, at tho Fair Grounds, to-day, * (Saturday.) Two negroes in Cnthberi had a butting match the other day. After sixty or sev enty rounds they became disgusted with the monotony of one thing end quit. Tbe Price of passage in a balloon out of Paris is eight, hundred dollars, aud no indemnity against accidents. A Baptist Chnrch in New Orleans was recently offered the benefit of a horse race to cancel its debts* The baboon factory at Paris now tarns out one balloon a day. This is the way Paris rises above her troubles. An editor says; **The inarch of civili zation is onward—onward—like the slow but intrepid tread of a jackass towards a peck of oats. • . t - . * They say there’s a girl in San Jose, California* poesesed of a devil. There -re many girls about here who play the -1 with “young affections.” General Frank P. Blair was elected a Democrrtic. member of the lower House of the Missouri Legislature, at the elec tion in that State on the 8th instant Out in Minnesota, a lady named Had- wig Kouschonroska has cheerfully chang ed her name by marrying Mr. Hel Dam- broger. But what profane people that on’s parents must have been. Bishop Beckwith, with his family, has taken up his permanent residence in the house lately occupied by Fracis Sorrell, Esq., on Madison Square, in Savannah. Thc Savannah News, has volumnious election dispatches from k lorida, which all tend one wav. The Democrats have carried their ticket for Lieutenant Gov ernor and Congressman, and claim a majority of four in the Senate, and from fivo to ten in tho House. The World’s special from Tours says thatjnumerousyeports reach there stating that Trochu made a magnificent sortie on the 15th, inflicting an immense Ion on the Prussians, and establishing commu nication with Gen.- D’AnreJle. The Is to Gen. & E. Lee did not em ploy a lawyer to write his will. The doc ument is in his own handwriting, and was executed as. long ago os 1846. It has been admitted to probate, G., W. C. Lee and Mrs. Lee are the executors. Tlie vote of New York city was 86,561 for Hoffman, (Dem) and 34,472 for Woodford, (Rad). For Mayor, Hall, (Data.) bad 71,298, and Led with (sore head and bolter) 46,217. General Frank P. Blair was elect ed Democratic member of the lower House of the Missouri Legislature, at the election in that State bn the 8th instant. W4l#h her shot atajMB who had called in to see film, and whom I alie was entertaining until tbe husband could make hiswappeawacq. ^ A Herald telegram Nay* the inhabitants of Paris, pressed by thapsngs of extreme ihnuger,’ commenced so .slaughter and eat the flesh pt tir* different , animals in the Jardra dee Planteson the 7 th instant. The meat rates high in the market.— Yak sold at, thirty franca per pound.— The monkeys are to be killed and eaten goring the next ensuing wade. ; ■* *v , It is stated that a favorite method of [offering and a&Mpting a bribe during thh recent election was as follows :- Bribe to voter ; “ITl beb you $10yon don’t vote for—’’Voter to Briber: “I’ll bet you $10 I will.” Voter goes and votes for—” wins the bet, and gels his money.—[Pro- cidence Journal. Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, in b re cent speech in Chicago, earnestly advo cated a law,to prepare the way for specie yments. Ho thinks the time lias come - require the banks to keep: in resenfc *. against their currency all the coin re ceived as interest on their bonds, until they are ready to resume. Hon. Jefferson Davis seems to have a vein of humor left in him still. He re- oentiy toasted Mr. Snthedin, the! Presi dent pf tbe \ lrginia State. Fair, in this ’ “'"Ajor Sutherhn is a trne best fellow I met in Danville—except his wife.” ■ > :: .‘-.-Til >!. ■ 1 —r. DESPERADO Caught.—Nashville Nov. 13.—Lewis Travis, colored, a fugitive from justice, was arrested yesterday charged with killing Major Lawrence, Of Spanldiog county^ Georgia, and Dr. Butler, wife and cbjjU(,. and three other persons. . A large reward was offered for him. H© resisted arrest, ind shot several times at Policeman Stiles, ft slight wound. Stiles- shot him through | the neck. Ho will be taken to Georgia. The negyo has sinoediedofhia Wound. J C®, Pomeroy’s Democrat has the 'lar gest circulation’of any politicial paper in .the .world. 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