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'lo PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING -BY r r w. " * tors. and proprietor*. TERMS OF SCBSCBIFTKW: A MAP OF BUSY _ rnP Y One Year,...— oNECOPy^t Qno YeaP> . FIVE COPIES, One Yo»r,. ..$ 2 00 „ 8 7B _ 1500 tE M COPIES, ' * Th. rti®* only .pply *»«• wv^eriptlo. No. 64 k Athens, Georgia, Saturday, November 8, 5 OLD SERIES—Volume Lit! ** X NEW SE|UESr^VoLUME ff.;. The old Forsaken School-llonso, >ft the •cho<*l-hou*e 1 r bullets at tbo matter's time- Th „.„ ;,n .nc < UarUe, .here Ani»h<* •>« V»P* r h “ ; which It hung, the muter The h *>k I* on sl^er ,h H°" krt can never cast a shadow • v p huilt a new. Imposing one—the pride of * 1 th<» town, j auKhinji lad* and lassies go its broad step* nirsnddown; » , \ A t>ver crowns Its summit with a new, - in oistcr bell, Th.il youthful ears in distant homes, iraj bear Wit and Humor. iu music swell. I'm • iitlnt in the old one, with its battered bin.:*leas door; The windows ar • all broken snd the stones lie on the floor: I, alou*% of sll tho merry boys that romped, and studied here, * . It<-m«incii to see it battered up and lea ao lone snd drear. Via sbtin* on the itme old bedch where we eat side by side And carved our names upon the bench when not t»j master eyed ; Since then a dozen boys have sought there great skill to di*|dsy. And like the foot-prints on the sand, our names have passe 1 away. ’ Twas here we learned to conjugate * amo, amas, a mat.* « While glance* from the loraies made our hearts go pil-ti-pat; ’r*a«hore weffell n love, you know, with girls who looked us through— Your* with her piercing eyes of black, sod mine w ith eyes of blue. Our sweethearts—pretty girl* were they—to us how wry dear— H>w d**wn your head with me my boy, and shed for them a tear ; With them the earthly school is out; each lovely m lid now stands ft.fore the one Great Master, in the house not unde with han da. Yon iell me von aTC far out West, a lawyer deep in'Uws, Wv\h .to who sat behind us here and tickled ua with straws ; l,„>k out for number one.^boys : may wealth come at v >iiT touch, Du with your lone, strong legal straw, don’t tickle men too much. Here to the ri-;ht sat Jimmy Jones—yo^ must re- innnl»er Jim— H i. teaching now, and punishing, as master punched him : What an unlucky lad he was! his sky was dark with woes ; Who rer did the sinning It waa Jim who got the Mows. Th. .lays are all gone by, my boys; life’s bills wri-'re coinr down, ih ‘ ere snd there a silver hair amid the school h«y brown; m-»r.» *ries can never die; so we’ll talk o’er th**j^vs •hared together In this house, when you and I were boys. T.iough ruthless hands may tear it down—this h » .s • *o old and dre »r— The 11 n t destroy the characters that sorted out ■nm here; T>n-’s angry waves may sweep the shore and rash out all beside— Mru-ht a* the star* that shine above, they shall for aye abide. • seen ;he new house, Charlie; ’tis the pride of :i I the town, >1 laughing lads and lxsslcs go its broad steps uf* and down ; t vou nor 1. my dear old friend, can’t love it half so well , this condemned, forsaken one, with crackad and tongueless bell. Last words of Jack—“ Fll be hanged if I go up on that platform.*^ * When are skipping lambs like liter ary volumes ? When they nre boun din’ sheep. An Indiana jury recently returned a verdict of “Mode to pieces by a biler busting.” Many a roan, who thought he had made a bargain buying silks, found that he had got worsted. A Fort Plain merchant advertises his goods at oxyun. That man has al* ways steered clear of newspapers, r.-.v Basilioonthaumaturgist is the title by which a conjurer of Harrisburg, Penn., chooses to advertise himself. A green-grocer advertises “ Ham and cigars, smoked and unsmoked, for sale.” A thief who stolen tanner’s water melons sent the seeds back in a letter, requesting him to plant them for uext year. A North Carolina baby was born with its false hair on, thus establishing the genuineness of the divinity that doth hedge a woman. A Michigan manufacturer has eigh teen thousand broom-handles ready for shipment. This ought to set hus bands to thinking about comiug home early. In passing through a .'lark tunnel on a Pennsylvania rail raid, a woman’s voice was heard exelniining : “Don’t you fool around ! I airy a pistol in my punier! ’’ The King of Dahomey adorns his prepossessing person by posting the labels of medicine bottles over it, which is quite right, his majesty being an unmitigated puke. At a hotel table one hoarder remark ed io his neighbor: “This must be a healthy place for chickens.” “.Why ?” asked the other. “ Because I never see any dead ones hereabouts.’’ An exchange says: “A Michigan railroad is haunted by a ghost that doesn’t pay its fare.” Which is not surprising, considering that all ghosts are “dead-heads.” A correspondent entered an office and accused the compositor of not hav ing punctuated his communication, when the typo earnestly replied: “ I’m linter, I’in a setter.” Paris Letter FROM THE European Correspondent —of— The North-East Georgian. Paris, September 24th, 1873. Editors North-East Georgian: The Comte de Chainbord after being all his life a complete letter-writer, re mains .as sileat. i*. a sphinx, when a note, not intended for publicity, to a devoted follower is anxiously expected, and ingenuity iu He does not even give a burleighshake! |L ni * appliances for was compromised by his Bonapartism, and hence, why many of his obituary notices are measured, and a few for getful of de mortuis nil nisi bonum. He died of Bright’s disease, and kuew well his recovery was hopeless: It has been remarked tbat is a malady not uncommon among the distinguished dead of the medical profession. The deceased was eminent in France, but perhaps pre-eminent only out of it. He was more celebrated as au opera tor, than as a lecturer or a writer, and fits best works are his clinical notes, taken and edited by his pupils, but most important all the same. As an operator he was remarkable fur fun sangfroid, which gave confidence to his the famous four Sergeants of Rochelle. The pftal was intended, but not under stood, at a voluntary in houor of ‘the liberation ofFrance. ; ham- The Jews ore at present celebrating New Teat’s day, which as in the case of thetGTeekt, Arabs, and primitive nations, is calculated by the revolutions of the .moons. The fate in question is considered to be the occasion when God judges the conduct of men and fixes their destinies, and when men by pen itence and humiliation returns to purity and inhoceuce; examines his life, his conduct, the road he is pursuing, and thefattlTOons that influence. Gentiles might -worsHp -hcre with.profit. The republicans pure, date tile revolutionary calendar from this ra«LWUFS ashantee trouble. vd ' What is it all About.’ .f J.fvr Great nations can: but rarely afford to venture upon little wars, As a rule they cost mure Qian this benefited to accrue from them are worth. -The British Government, has had a partic ularly large and varied experience in this respect, but it does not appear to greatly profit by it. * The war against the scmhbarbarihns of Abyssinia, a few years ago, is to have its counter part* now in a hostile demonstration against the half, or two-thirds, savages of the African Gofd Coast ; and, as if history had nothing to do but to re peat itself the memorable inarch to Mag. dila thou is to be supplemented with a campaign now against Coomasic, the capital of the Ashautees. War is not formally declared as yet, but as all the necessary preparations for it have been made without any indications of a disposition on the part of the Ashautees to do anything to avert it, we may as well take it for granted that there will he no susj>ension of opera tions until “ the hitter end ”—whatever or whenever that may he—is reached. And now tho question arises, what is it all about? The answer would be less difficult if one could hear the Asliantecs relate their version of the case but as it is, we have nothing to reply upon save the one-sided repre sentations of the other party iu interest to enable us to understand the real causes of the quarrel. It is easy to see, however, that it h the old story again—a thirst ior dominion and power on the one hand, and a natural resist ance to its gratification on the other. That is what the metaphysicians and the political philosopher, would call the morale of the matter. Leaving the abstract question of right or wrong for matters of fact, however, it is well to bear in mind that this is not the first time Her Majesty’s Government has taken the Ashautees to task. The English connection with the Gold Coast dates back to 1672, and for a long period it was of a purely commer cial character. In that year the Royal African Company waa established, under whose auspices Forts Accra, Dix Cove, Secondee, Arrombe, Com- mendah and Winnebah were built. This company prosecuted its operations until 1750, when it gave place to an other known as the Great African Company, which lasted down to 1821. Both these associations were liberally subsidized by Government, and up to 1807 they were permitted to trade in slaves, as well as in gold and other commodities. At the abolition of the slaves trade the subsidy was increased to £20,000 per annum as a sort of re compense for losses thereby incurred. Meauwhile other nations were attract ed to the coast, and in course of time the French, Dutch. Danish and Portu guese had establishments which kept up a sharp competition with one another. Iu 1821, the Brittish Gov ern men t placed these various settlements under the protection of the Crown, and from that moment trouble with the Ashautees began. The Govern ment of the Gold Coast was place<l un der that of Sierra, .Leone, and the Ashautees, having subdued all the weaker tribes in the interior, liegan to CO mein hostile contact with the Europe ans. Sir Charles McCarthy, the Gov ernor then undertook tj deal with them by force, and this (1824) was the first war. McCarthy’s troops were beaten at the start, but afterwards the enemy was driven off to the interior. In view of the trouble, loss and disas ters incurred by these hostilities, the home government seriously contem plated abandoning the Gold Coast altogether. The merchants, however, persuaded it to centinui nominal gov ernment, leaving the actual adminis tration wilh them. Then (1831) n treity was made with the Ashantee king, by which the independence of the Fan tees and other tribes was ac knowledged ; the paths were to be open to all for lawlul traffic, and all disputes were to lie referred to the English. This treaty worked very well for a long time; and for twelve years, or up to 1842, affairs on the Coast went on smoothly. But, unhap pily, the government resolved once more to assume the direct administra tion of the settlements, and this wjs done in 1844. At first they were C ‘ ed under tho jurisdiction of Sierra ne, but in 1850 they were made into a distinct government, with legis lative and executive councils, and so forth, an arrangement that continued until recently, when the settlements were again placed under the govern ment of Sierra Leone. The next Ashantee war was in 1863, and was patient, and above all for his readiness discovering means j month also. It was at midnight on the every emergency. 21st of September, 1789, that commen- LIFE IN THE COUNTRY. Experience as told by the Danhnry News. of the head. We want to know on what conditions he would condescend to sit on the throne of France, what submission he requires from a repen tant people, what concessions he would make to our feebleness, errors aud prejudices. Are his promises to live and die in the folds of the white flag, to eschew modern society asbclial, like pie-crust or as eternal as Benedick’s vows against matrimony ? Is he like the braves on the stage who, acknow ledging the moment has come to show themselves, agree to hide? So many miracles have occurred of late, that the conversion of Henri V. to liber alism would not be surprising; there has been the strange spectacle of the Bonapartists being taken into partner ship with a coalition of “ honest men of Thiers being scurvily treated for liberating aud reorganizing his coun try ; ofOrleauists Princes selling their liberalism, or rather that of Louis The case of Garibaldi is tho most fa mous illustration, where with a white porcelain probe, blackening on touch ing lead, he proved to Dr. Partridge and fifteen other incredulous surgeons, that the ball Garibaldi received at Aspromonte in 1862, was in the wound. The French were naturally very proud of this triumph. The Prince Imperial, life lie saved iu 1867; the Prince had taken the habit in the riding school, of making the poney keep so close to the panelling as to rub his leg against it; in vain his mother and father begged of him to desist, but all to no purpose. At last the Prince was observed to halt; Nelaton was called in ; at once made an iucUion in the leg, keeping the wound open. On allowing the latter to heal, the patient exhibited symptoms of fevers; the blood had undergone purulent infec tion. Without a moments hesitation, Nelaton made a more profound incis- sion, to remedy perhaps the imperfec tion of the first, aud the Prince rapidly recovered. Nelat< n was rewarded with a Senatorship, an office only ex acting “yes” to every imperial decree j presented. Not being a poor man re- Philippe, for a mess of potage; and of | quiring the salary of the office—for The city man who goes into the o.ni-iirv to spend the Summer must m ike up his mind to learn something o t'ie routine of rural life. A New Y rk man who is spending the hot weather season with a family on Pine -I reel, wai asked by the lady of the l>"ii'0 if he would take a hen off the ne-t, a* it wanted to set, and she didn’t v. >a: it to. “ Certainly,” said he. and • ..aiisliatelv started out to the ham when? the hens were kept, tocrush out the maternal prospects of this particu lar one. He went straight to the nest • hi. her off, and reached out his '•an i or that purpose, hut immediate- I;, drew it kick again, and tucked it ‘••'■hr n,e other arm, and sqeezed it n 1 rV, w ; ,it . lie Jrexi- up his lips as if ah at to vbigtfe something. Then he I !->"d <!i« eand stared at the hen, and * '■ J‘fce.1 up her head, and stared back lf a a. wiiuing her eye with singular velocity. •• Get off, won’t you ? ” said he, after a pause. She made no re- s|m"-o. lie drew out his baud and h"'ke.l at a red spot on one of the kiiunties, and then put the knuckle in iih mouth to mol it, looking all the Mhiie a: the hen, and wondering how- mi earth she moved so quickly. The longer lie eyed her, the Jess inclined he i“!t to touch her, and finally he climb ed up a post to a beam which ran over lh.* ne-t. and working hi* way out on it till he got just above the hen, took iff his hat and shook it at her, and tdvi-ed her to get. But she only .Hiked up at him, one eye at a time, in.) clucked omniously. He told her t she didu’t leave he would come lown there and kick her through the lam, but immediately gave up the >1 nod-thirsty design when he reflected that it was a dumb animal, and could ti n reason like a human being. Then he happened to think of his pants. *hich were white linen, and rubbed this fiogirs on the beam to fiud them f»'l "f black dust, which led him to his body around to look at the nut*. while making this very uat- M move, he suddenly slipped, made kf v'V® renew his hold, shrieked mt ’ ^'Pl*** a gain, and then came to P of the hen and the nest, 8 them both to the floor, up- Lj.v barrel, and filling the air kriek Ust * (eal hers, hen noises and im it '' ' wn ‘b® family reached the uuetliin* ,M Ilf,,rlunale Ilj an, looking wK'V 1 -Poster on legs. Bund i" s i^ 1 ’ a,ul was turning X “ri rubbin S head in an racted manner, anti every time he ise cains'L °™ e ^ tte ®" white linen P in tlie vv ^' e the hen stood I a Io. i/' i ere ? t COn,er °n one leg, Ll , 0 ^ lain gl«d astonishment not a pointer, “ Vegetable pills!" exclaimed an old lady: “ don’t talk to me of such stuff! The best vegetable pill ever made is apple-dumpling. For destroying a gnawing in the stomach, there is noth ing like it. It always can be relied on. It has been remarked that ladies have generally a great fear of lightning, and this has been superficially ascribed to their natural timidity ; but the great truth is, that it arises from their con sciousness of lieing attractive. A young gentleman having called in his physician, said: "Now sir, 1 want no trifling; 1 wish you to strike at the cause. It shall be done,” replied the doctor, and lifting his cane, smasher! the decanter of wiue upon the table. Magistrate—“ You may have been intoxicated ; but the officer testifies that you were not so tipsy a not to know what you were about.” Prison er—“ Oh, if I had known that was an objection, i could easily have taken another drink or two.” A Cincinnati firm received a letter from a correspondent in Mississippi, saving—“Gentlemen, I am Due you 826 10-100 which pleas hold upon me a few days I happen to a misfortune this day 2 weeks ago & I had to kill a man in Self Defence which my Law yer fee cost me 500.00 which throws me behind a little I am all right now.” A Michigan butcher takesth^bones out of his meat before selling it now. He had a dream the other night, in which he found himself at the celestial gate, but confronted by a mountain of bones, which a tenant spirit said were what he had sold to customers, and he must climb over them if ha would en ter heaven. t^?** °* lier countenance, minutes of industrious ap- FWwk with . a chi P. the gentleman ^ned into the house, where con.f *, a8 ^bed with spirits, and Million* generally attended to. 4orir"^ T 47?' he ^ i8 * singular ^ acres ater Tk 6 on th o surface of the •»nt*rriM ‘i**? “ ®°*ered with tet idth ’wkl th ?r e ar etre« fifteen r lowered .» the «* raised Whrf »: * l da™ °f the pond the £ua fi e, *u1 frtowith UT Itaf- Srf^^terfor fish, Urge nu, le are J c * u 8 ht by boring . ’»inS filhMI8 doWn trough the too Just the worst typographical error on record has befallen the Niles, (Ind.) Democrat, which printed a pathetic obituary closing with a statement made hv the compositor on his own respon sibility, that the lamented and lost “ is not dead but squeaketb,” which re minds us of the dead squeaking and gibbering in the Roman streets. See what pluck and enterprise will do. An indolentsort of a cha,* in a neighboring county, who ind the repu tation of never having earned a cent in his life, went into the poultry busi ness the other day and raised fifty fine chickens during one night. There were more on the roost, but some got away. A man about fifty years of age, ac companied by his wite, who looked still older, applied for tickets to Pittsburg. When told the price he demured; and, after withdrawing for a consulta tion, he returned to the window and asked, " Well, won’t you knock off a dollar if the old woman will ride on the platform ? ” A Texas editor, whose midnight oil must have failed him just os he was going to press, prints the following en ergetic opinion : “ The man who would water petroleum and sell it, would sneak into the palace of the king of kings and steal the gilding from the wings of angels.” The sufferer could hardly have been more vigorous in his denunciation if he had caught somebodyflmterin^is whiskey. Mrs. Sarah Briggs (who is perusing the Jones county Eagle),—*• Bakes are * alive, I wouldn’t, no more name a child Alias than nothin’ in the world! They’re always cuttin’ op some caper! Hera’s Alias Thompson, Alias Wil liams, Alias the Nignt utwit, afl heen took up for steelin’. Mary Jane, don't ye never name none o’ yer children Alias.” 7 a fortuitous majority in the Assembly inclined to restore a regime, or better principles, repudiated not only by France but by tbe world, and hesita ting to consult the nation that elected it to sign a peace, and to abstain through sovereign, from dabbing in constitution-making. Will the Count cede, or not cede, that is the question; is he made for thirty-six millions of people, or three millions for him; is Providence interested in the white flag aud the Divine Right abuses, that the vox popidi, asserted also to be the ro.r clei, swept away in 1789? The Comte de Chambord has never been the political jurist he pretends now to he; advancing age and an ascetic life have made him imagine he i8 an infallibility. It is a popular er ror, and notice alas in addition, to be lieve he is the depositary of any polit (cal idea, or unites in himself a legacy of ancestral traditions. Henri IV. negotiated with the League, the Church, and Paris; Louis XIV. never would allow the Gallican Church to be the obedient servant of Rome; and Louis XVI., unless his-life were a lie, accepted sincerely some of the first lessons of the Involution. Iu 1844, the Comte de Chambord appeared on the political stage, like any other pre tender, and then according to the “au thorized collection of his letters,” now published at two sous, he claimed merit and good service as his distinc tions ;” i.i 1848, he was prepared “to bow to the wants of society, as de- elopcd by the changes of half a cen tury;” in 1851, he urged the clergy to avoid mixing themselves up with politics, that they ought to have no concern with temporal matters, such being contrary to religion and the in terests of the Statein 1857, he wrote to the due de Nemours touchiug the white flag now inseperable from his honor, “that belonged to these ques tions, which the interests and wishes of the country will resolve, and that one cannot dispose of France without her consent.” Within twenty years he has passed from an acceptable to an impossible pretender, incompatible with modern society, that no varnish of concessions can place in harmony with France. Paul was converted on the road to Damascus; even suppo sing an equal miracle in the case of Henri V., it is not the possibility of being restored that should occupy him, but how long he could keep his seat The dissolution of the Assembly, and combination of MacMahon aud Thiers are the ends to which thoughts arc turned. It is the prevailing belief that the cholera is rapidly declining, which is more important* than the King-ques tion. Official figures, ever to be sus l*ected from a good motive, corrobo rate the disappearance of that unwel coine guest. The city is very salubri ous, and if the danger has been con jured, it is largely due to treating all cases of diarrhoea promptly, whether in hospitals or homes, and to the gen era! extra cleansing and disinfecting of would-be cholera nests. A medical gentleman assured roe, that it was more by change of dietary, attention to drink, and personal hygiene, rather than to medicaments that the profes sion in Paris have so successfully com bated the enemy. Citizens boast that it is necessary to go to Vienna to fell a victim to cholera, as several distin guished Frenchmen have died there of that malady within the last few months. Work is still very slack in Paris, although manufacturers have their hands full of foreign orders, and pending the political atmosphere clear ing np matters must remain as they are. Thera ia not the slightest fear that order will be troubled ao long as MacMahon is in power. It is true that Dr. Nelaton has pot had troops of friends. He was natu rally a retiring man, did not much rel ish society, loved Greek anthors more, and waa most happy in the quiet so ds family. elusion of bis: 30,000 fr’s per year—and the appoint ment commanding no popular respect, he was considered to have made a great mistake, especial y as he was after all only ranked at the Tuileries in the category of friends of the “second de gree. He was more respected than popular with the medical students, and was estimated by confreres, in the man ner that every distinguished member of a profession ts envied by his less fortunate brethren. He had the good chance to catch an heiress with a for tune of uearly two miliious of francs, and to wed her the day after lie re ceived his diploma. This luck did not make him friends dither, though lie accommodated needy Bob Sawyers with small loans, and thus made them his enemies for life. His youthful days were a hard struggle ; his father fell at Waterloo; the widow was poor, and the son during session lived in a miserable garret, like tbe youth of other eminent men, Thiers to wit. He oc cupied once the attic wherein Dulxiurg a few years ago assassinated his adul terous wife. As a student he worked assiduously, and his bed, made of a deal plauk resting on two cane chairs, on which he read till he was drowsy, and that upset when he dropped asleep, and so wakened him, is a common anecdote in the quarlier Latin. Profane science has taken verbrage at the miracles performed at Laurels and Salette, and publishes the list of miraculous cures affected in hospitals and other places independent of shrines and relics. It is admitted that paraly sis can be cured by a powerful effort of imagination, ora moral shock carefully prejiared. The Hotel dien in Paris lassuch a reputation in France, that invalids believ 3 if once within its walls, they will recover. And several have been admitted ior a week; entering with loss of speech and locomotion, they have been d sclmrged with the recovery of both, having received no medical treatment whatsoever. Faith saved. At Arras a fetv years ago a wwder magazine exploded, and a para- ytic woman, acting on Mrs. Chicks’ advice “made an effort,” jumped out of her bed, and was encountered ruuuing like a hare two miles out of the town, a half naked condition. Many bed-ridden and tongue-tied persona during the late invasion recovered mo tion and speech at the terrible news that, “the Prussians were coming.” An indignant mother, has not unfre- quently astonished a naughty child by soundly boxing its ears with her para lysed hand. If Henri V. succeeds to :ed the “first year ot liberty anti in 1792, this* was further altered to the fourth year of liberty and the first of ejuality.” Both the liberty and equal ity for France exist to-day only in the calendar, or painted so high on public buildings, as not to pay the expenses of obliteration. The months in the year ofGrace Four, were named after the Bastille, Canon, People, Justice, Regeneration, &c., later they were bap tized after the seasons. Iu addition, each day of the year was named after an implement ot agriculture; plough, shovel, rake, Ac.; after a useful ani mal ; horse, dog, cow, cat, ass ; also after grateful vegetables; cabbage, potatoes—the disease was then un known—wheat, grapes, turnips, Brus sels’ sprouts, parsnips, artichokes aud cauliflowers, instead of Saints Peter, Paul, John, Jaiucs, etc, days.” “Ban yan day ” is the only vegetable we Georgians chant a twenty four hours to—but not for a joy. Conte’s human itarian almanac was as positive, he had Homer aud Shakspeare days, Ac. Had he lived we must have had the Ides of Bismarck : the pilgrims would claim the dies nefasti, aud patriots longing for alsace could insist on a few dies prodiales, sacred to the memory of Hoch, Isurdan, aud Moreau. The markets continue to be well sup plied with game : seagulls fetch 22 sous each ; herons, cormorants, bitterns, and birds worthless for either wasting or boiling, or that these operations can iu no way alter, 18 sous; crows, thresh es, and robbin red-breasts sell by the half-dozen; wcazels and squirrels cost half a franc, the same price as a dozen of filed frogs thighs. The grape season being well in, tbe suails its usual arc out. In the exhibition of Oriental curiosi ties, busts of M. M. Theirs and his Minister Du fa tire are placed on each sideof a figure of Buddha. An admirer of our actress passed a day with her in the country, and was most niggardly in paying for carriages, breakfasts, Ac. In the evening he beg ged her—-his angel, to look up to heav en anti see his star. She did so, aud at once recognise 1 “ the Great Dog Star.” G. R. N. “Make former tiiae* slake hinds with latter, Ami that which was before, cotue after," the pilgrim movement will be contin ued; if otherwise, the “revival” in France may be considered at an end. The only really new incident in the Bazaine affair is, the number of can dles that his friends supply to be burn ed, in the church of Natre Dame der Victories, to implore his triumph; there is one taper for every count in the indictment, so the spectacle of some sixty tall and slender war lights i< brilliant. Even Gambetta does not believe his “grand traitor,” or lules Favre that, “our glorious Bazaine” will be found guilty on all the issues. There is less interest felt in the verdict by the populace, who seem to believe it is not worth while in any case shoot ing him after such a lapse of time. The whole trial is perhaps now less po litical, than to vindicate the honor of the army. The Bazaine reporters are all at their posts; one journal will pub- COMPENSATIOX FOR EMANCIPA TION.—Iii the recent speech by ex- Senator R. M. T. Hunter, of Virgin ia, at the Winchester Agricultural Fair, the following statement was made: In the interview at Old Point Comfort, between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward and the Commissioners of the Confederate States (of whom I was one) this subject of compensation for emancipated slaves was introduced by Mr. Lincoln himself. He said that a prominent citizen of New York, whose name, if given, would probably sur prise us, had written to him to say that if the slaves were emancipated 8400,000,000 ought to be distributed among their former owners. The money, as well an I remember, was proposed to be given to the States in proportion to the number of negroes freed within their borders, and by them to be distributed among the in dividual owners. That this would have be n n very inaduequate compen sation for 4,590,000 slaves is evident to alb But who can estimat the relief which it would have afforded to the despoiled South? If distributed to them just after the war it would have been of in estimable value. Mr. Lincoln said he had no authority to speak for any one but himself, but he himself was in favor of it. Mr. Seward expressed some impatence, saying that the Gov ernment paid enough in the expenses of the war, which 1 suppose he felt to have been waged T5r negro emanci pation—a poor excuse to be made in regard to the claims of any of the States, bjit none ccrtaiuly in the cases of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware, which never seceded, and were never called rebellious. To this Mr. Lincoln replied with equal earn estness, “I know you say it was we liafl 7 agreed to give thwn by the treaty of 1831. But even then a con flict ought have, been warded off had. we acted with prudence and diplomatic courtesy. The King of Ashantee did ntft invade us the moment we interfer ed with his long established plans and arrangements at Elmina. He wrote to our authorities, and he never was properly answered. We sent to him, as a king of ambassador, a nia n who waa notoriously his enemy. And, iu fact, whether we meant it or not, we did almost all that, could.be . done to provqke what has ao unnecessarily and unfortunately happened. TMsbs a sorrysuo wing serfttr ft* right and wrong are concerned. But it is tt*o lute to dwell on that nsjrcct of the case. Tho expedition to chastise the Ashautees is under way, and from present indication- a march into the interior is inevitable. Wc have no doubt the Asliantecs will be soundly beaten—if they will only stand up anti fight—but at an expenditure of blood and treasure which may well appall the average Brittish mind to contemplate. As for ourselves, we have hut little immediate interest ill tiie affair, apart, perhaps, from the sentimental aspira tion that our own race and lineage in all such contests with barbarism may come out on the winning side. That aspiration, it is said to reflect, is not always in strict harmony with ethics or with the abstract principles of justice, but it is part of our imperfect human nature, and that is about nil that can be said of it.—N. Y. Bulletin. RATES OF ADVERHSIKG: 1 Square (one inch) tnl Hantiui K»cb subsequent in*crtion...................... <■» 1 Square 1 T 12 Columnl " Woe S « “ .;ux.O—u m A i*«fliMagsray ftftr 1 •• 20 00 a <“ "."••Yrasar-Hrfr-,TwrtT>Jj^~> ft •• ' i I {- r 11 T*Yir-L’ —100 on 12 “ —.—..............—,W„ Eight Years \Y ithout Eating— Remarkable Cask of Abstinence from Food—There is a young woman uamed Mary Faucher, residing at tho corner of Gates avenue and Downing street,‘Brooklyn, who has, it is assert ed by her physician, I)r. S. F. Spier taken no food for eight years. She is twenty-five years of age, bright and in telligent. As a girl she was a close applicant to her studies, and was wont to abandon her meals to ponder over her books until the strain upon her in tellectual and physical strength over came her. She also sustained injuries by being thrown from a horse. Sub sequently she fell oft’a Fulton avenue car, and was dragged along the street for a distance of forty feet by her crinoline catching in the car. She was then afflicted by absolute nervous pros tration, and has since been confined to her lied. Her legs are twisted and her hands arc drawn up behind her head. She sleeps but little, and About Dolls.—Some dolUM«»d»r are made of wqpdt-thaflO-jyp called wooden dolls. Wood comes from tr«M, which are found in tb« country. Trees have leaves also; they grow up, . but dolls do not grow. Mottle 1 trace are pine, some apple, some pine-apple, ! and some inurhogganv, a hard word to spell. These- heads aro very hard, and you can pound them without hurt ing. 1 >r Some dolls’ heads are made of wax, and are called wax-dolla. The wax come from a litt'e/ aaifiial called tbe bee,' that lias wings. Sometimes it Is called the busy bee, because it buzzes. The hoe does not, make the dolls, but the wax. It goes in a straight lino - to a flower, and pokes the honey out with its sting. Then you feel glad you arc not the (lower, because tho sting hurts—it docs—that is the way it makes the wax. But it ia not good to ■ put these doll- in the sun or over a furnace. Some dolls are made all over of Inf-' ilia rubber, ami you can fling then* about anyhow. They grow on s tree'/ the India rubber does, in India, where they make India rubber boots. It is a good kind to have, because you cant throw it about like a ball. But then the face is painted, and inay rub off —some noses do. Then there’s China dolls, made of what ten sets are; but they don’t comer fiom the China where they make the fire-works, through they dk> make thw tea. These might smash, if pounded with a hammer. There’s another kind I don’t know about, that Elsie’s made of. It don’t matter, any way. My aunt helped me about the spelling, except murhoggany—that I knew. I shall write auother volume, telling more about trees and bees, and why dolls should take care of themselves. This is enough for oucc.—A Boy’s Composition. Donaldson and His Trip rff Europe.—Donaldson announces that he will make that trip to Europe iff the Graphic’s silk balloon in the Spring,’ and in the meantime will make fre quent ascensions in a paper balloon for the purpose of testing the easterly cur rent theory. The cotton balloon, by the way, which ended its voyage so disastrously throe weeks ago, fell among the Philistines. When the aeronauts attempted to gathev up their property and take it back to New York, all Canaan (Connecticut) was aroused. The sharp nosed inhabitants iieau. one sieeos um nine, anu is , , ■ .... •, , i , 1 , ... i - . comedown tiiMin it with claims as uu- said to be endowed with clairvoyant 1 , c .. ... i merous as the sands oi the Sound faculties. She works embroidery in colors with great facility, anil has made slippers and smoking caps with initials worked in them. The doctor is [>osi- tive that there is no deception in the case, and has used every effort possible to detect any sign of imposition, but to no purjiose. The case has baffled the skill of hundreds of physicians who have examined it—. X. Y. Herald, 23d. sinful to hold slaves, and, as there was no right to do so, there is no justice in the claims for compeu^ion. Now,” said he, “if it was a sin in the South to hold slaves, it was a sin in the North to sell them, which they did to a very great extent, as we all know. ” lisb the trial every day in three ian- A Procession of Turtles and Frogs—For some days past the weather had been dry, and the ponds on the prairie failed in water. The turtles and frogs that had been living in the vicinity of one of these stood it far a day or two, but it finally became too dry for frogs and they decided to mi grate. The nearest pound that con tained water was three miles distant, and to this the turtles aud frogs started His popularity guages—German excepted, and anoth er will give daily illustrations of the most graphic incidents, the marshal’s portrait as he was in his halcyon clays, after his defeat, and as a prisoner, will permanently adorn th6 title page. On Sunday last some amusement was caused in, the city, by the church bells ringing out a merry pea). On consulting the calender , of the saints, nothing remarkable was found; the profane almanac, however, Indicated the day was the anniversary for the opening of the National Convention, which abolished the monarchy in France, and later, of the ojesutioa of* in solitary procession, the turtles in advance, sagaciously piloting the way, and the frog* bringing up the rear, with their deep bass and shrill tenor, cries: "Go it!” “Go it!” “Water! “Water!” The procession stretched out over the prairie a quarter of a mile long and steadily marched to the goal, when such a roheking scene as ensued can be better imagined than described. —Logansporty (Ind) (Star. Tiik Efficacy of Prayer.—The Rev. Newman Hall is no follower of Professor Tyndall ou the question of prayer, as is shown by the following extract from a lecture delivered bv him in Baltimore last Saturday: “ Not long since, a friend told him of a case which occurred, at a place called Newport, in Scotland. A poor man wanted £39 to liquidate some little debts and keep his family from want. The man and liis wife engaged for some time in prayer before going to lied, calling upon God to rescue them from their distressful condition. Just after they had turned off the gas and gone to bed, a knock was heard at the door. The gas was relighted, the door opened, and a sea captain presented himself in search of seamen’s clothes.—Tlicontfits required were furnished him, and the money to pay for them, amounting to just about £30, was counted nut and paid. This the lecturer regarded a* a direct answer to prayer. An instance had occurred in his own family. When he was young his dear mother was stricken down by disease, and the physi cians had given her up for lost. The children and grand children were gath ered round the bedside bidding her a last farewell, when the distracted hus band came iu, sinking on his knees at the bed side, prayed fervently that God would spare the dear wife and mother. The patient soon began to revive. She opened her lips, nourishment was given her, aud she finally recovered, living to ba eighty-five before she died. The p!u8 : cians said it was a miracle.” shore. "One mail wanted'five hundred dollars for damage to his fence ; an other one hundred dollars for the liiutil- ation of a tree; about one hundred miners brought in claims of five dol lars each for helping to catch tho bnl- loon, and threatened to destroy every thing if they were not paid. Evon tbe sheriff thought R was a good oppor tunity to mulct the scientific strangers, and laid ou his fees. After bleeding at every pore of their pocketboofca, Donolson and Lunt managed to rescue their property, and departed ost of Canaan vowing that the next time they were obliged to alight tboy would choose to do it among the sharks of the sea rather than Imtd-sharks of the Nuttmeg State. 11 brought ou by the Governor of Gold Fourteen Years in I’uison fob Another’s Crime.—Fourteen year# ago Louis Waidenbcrger was arrested in Egg Harbor city, N. J., on charge of murdering his child, tried, hud sentenced to be hanged. The sympa thy of his neighbors was aroused. They did not believe that he was guil ty. ’ This feeling was so strong that the court of pardons commuted hisaeu- tcnce to imprisonment for life. Ix these fourteen years that lie has been .enreerated his wife has died/ and many of his friends who had tried to secure his freedom. From certain statements made by bis wile, on her death bed it is probable that she was the guilty one. The inhabitants of Egg Harbor are moving to secure bis re lease. Ten of the jurymen who con victed him have signed the petition, one of them is dead, and the other has departed for parts unknown. There is living a native ofNewbprry county, South Carolina, twenty year* of age, who weighs only thirty-three f ronds, bis height being six ^ inches. da Tbuab is distanced. Coast extending hospitality to a fugi tire officer of the King of Ashantees. On that occasion the enemy simply re tired into the interior, leaving the Brit tish troops to be used up by the climate. Peace soon followed, but not long afterward the Dutch settlements were seized, with the view—as acknowledg ed by tbe English themselves—of im posing higher customs duties all along tbe coast, so as to make the revenues of tbe settlements more lucrative, and of doing away with the antagonsim the representatives of the Dutch aud Eng lish. Thus in 1871 Elmina passed into English. This place had previ onsly been the headquarters of the Ashantee coast trade. Thither they bad been accustomed to come for many years, apd .they had intimate relations with the Dutch, there being mutual obligations and liabilities recognized between them. The London Morn ing Herald, from which we condense this historical retrospect, says: “ When we took possession of Elmina we ignored all these obligations and liabilities. We increased the duties, and we would not allow the Ashantees to trade with and through those that they had been accustomed to deal with. In fact, we entirely disturbed the trad ing and other arrangements of the Ashantees, and virtually stopped them |having thst fryLgrcr?= 5-,w^r, Important to Bankrupts.—Per sons who are indebted to a bankrupt estate must be very careful how they make payments to any one who claims to represent it After commence ment of proceedings in bankruptcy tbe title to all such debts will rest in the assignee, although he may not then be appointed, and the payment to the in solvent himself, or (o any other party for him, after such time will be of no avail to protect the debtor from pay ing the same amount over again to the assignee, who can sue for and receive it. We know of a coal dealer here, says a New York exchange, who sold all his customers their Winter supply of fuel, and then became insolvent, and applied for the benefit of tbe hank rupt act. After the proceedings were commenced, and publio notioe had been given in some obscure paper not generally circulated, the dealer went around ’and collected all bis bills. His customers paid him in good faith, knowing nothing of his pecuniary troub les, andtook his receipt. Every ode of them was obliged afterward to pay the debt over again to the assignee, who had the dealer’s books, and proceeded to collect every dollar not paid to him before tbe proceedings were commenc ed. A Lady who, the other day bought a barrel of cabbages in ‘the Georgetown, D. C., market found live baby ia it, well dressed, with milk bottle in its mouth, and so pro tected by the manlier in which the cab bage had been arranged as tJ prevent , .iJ - - —*«■■■ A Tallow Tree.—“Is it a make- believe tree, made out ot tallow, liko candles? ” you ask. Oh no; the tallow tree is a real tree that grows from twenty to forty feet high. Its native place is China, but it has been trans planted into some of our hot-house**. The tallow comes from the seeds. They are pounded and boiled in water, when something like fat rises on the top.. This flit is skimmed off and when cold ib is as white as snow and almost as soft.. The Chinese mix this vegetable tallow with wax to harden it, and out of the- mixture make candles, which give a clear, bright light. Now, then, if you want a candle, and you know any one who has a hot-house with a tallow treo. in it, it would be better for you to buy ( a candle ia a grocery store; for we do not believe you could make one without’ wasting a great many tallow-plant' seeds. One of the latest additions to the nift-' sen m of the State University Medical' Department, at Iowa City, is a li+b rattlesnake sent to Pfof. Clapp by Ex press. It measures ten feCt in length, and is said to be as big around as a churn, and has a set of rattles as bigas an ear of corn. The serpent was con fined in a box which had girolet-holtoin it to give him air. lf the box were touched, be would make his rattles play with a roar like a train oro'saing a bridge. ;• *** - : The application made at newspaper offices fora “kpam paper” is donsider- ed to be quite as unreasonable a call upon a dry goods store for ’> spare yard of ribbon, or a yard of tape.” “ I declare, mother,” said a pretty little girl, in a pretty little way, “ 'tis too bad! You always send me to bed when I am not sleepy, and y<ui always make roe get up when I*4*uv
