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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. U, SMITH. WHILE & CO.] MANDEVILLE. A MYSTERY OF CALIFORNIA. BY JOHN CLERKE. Chap. I—Continued. From JUllou's Moathlv Magazine.] ImfkllKd by the instinct of self preservation, I drew my own revol ver, at the same time wheeling my mule So quickly as to tiring him in collision with Mandevillo’s horse at the very momentJhis pistol was dis charged, hut not—as I discovered to my confusion anil chagrin—at me. Casting my eye In the direction in which thi* weapon was pointed, I Haw, utarnt seventy-five yards distant, a large buolCbound twice into the air and then fall, i believed that Man ilevilh* wa* fully cognizant of the mistake I ;hud made, i>ut he only “ S”ou -hould not allow yourself to become so much excited, "Brentford. You nearly spoiled an excellent shot. Will you assist me to secure the game? We shall relish a part of it for supper.” W hen we reached the sjiot where the buck had appeared, we found him already dead. The ball had entered hi - heart. The afternoon was now far ad vanced, and by the time we reached a small mining-eamp on one of the tributaries of the N übu, it had grown dark. Our beasts were obliged to “ stake out” to grass, as we were unable to find shelter of any kind for them ; but we were furnished rude accommodations for ourselves sin a building of a composite order of architecture—being constructed of I x >les, clap-boards and canvas—and containing three rooms, one of which was used as a kitchen, another as a dining room and dormitory (lodgers being permitted to spread their blankets on the floor), and the third as a bar and sitting room. Having supped on venison steaks, fried bacon, biscuits highly flavored with salieratus, and strong coffee, we j repaired to the bar room, where, hav- 1 ing obtained a couple of tolerable! cigars, we sat down on a rude bench i to enjoy them. There were already several men, evidently miners, in the room, with whom we were presently | engaged in desultory chat, our prin- I cipal topics of conversation being the mines, the weather, rich strikes, etc., concerning which Mandeville dis played a degree of knowledge which speedily gained for him the respect of our new friends. Soon another party entered, somewhat under the Influ ence of liquor and rather boisterous. They were led by a rough-looking man of Herculean mould, who ad vanced to the liar, called for liquor, i and in a tone more pressing than po lite, invited every one present to par take. The invitation was accepted by all except Mandeville and myself, who asked to be excused on the ground that we had just eaten supper. “ That hid lx* a mighty good excuse arter breakfast or dinner, if a feller j was a gwine to work,” said the giant; \ “ but arter supper, it won’t nigh do;! So jest walk up here and take your I licker like men, and liev no hard i feelins about it.” “ We thank you, sir,” said Mande ville, “ hut we do not wish to drink, and positively decline doing so.” “ O, yer won’t, won’t yer?” said the giant, with a fearful string of oaths. “ 1 don’t allow nobody in this camp to go back on me, and es you don’t come up to the bar lively and take yer pisen, why, I’ll fetch you up, that’s all.” “I beg of you, for your own sake, not to attempt anything of the kind,” said Mandeville, calmly. “I should not like to hurt you.” Thu giant burst into a derisive laugh, in which lie was joined by those who had entered with him, and Stepping up to Mandeville roughly took hold of him. when the latter, tmrnm in the lug ruttian by the collar and a convenient part of his pantaloons, and with scarcely an effort hurled, him through the open door into the dark ness, when* with a thud and a groan we heard him fall on the ground. The rage and astonishment of the bully’s friends was freely vented in oaths and exclamations, as they whipped out their knives and pistols. Mandeville cooly remarked: “ You had better put away those playthings and look after your friend. 1 think he needs your assistance.” I iis manner awed them, and they slunk away without attempting the violence they had meditated. They stopped in their retreat to pick up their comrade, who, as we learned, was somewhat bruised and consider ably frightened, but not seriously damaged. Two even ings later the little pioneer steamer Washington landed us in San Francisco. We secured quarters at a hotel, and, having placed my saddle bags with their contents in charge of the landlord for safe keep ing, I signified my intention of re tiring early to bed. Mandeville, how ever, who was assigned to a room with me, informed me tlntt he should probably Ih> out until a late hour. “ 1 have some business,” said lie, “ which will keep me engaged through the evening. Meantime take your rest; and to-morrow we will look over the city together.” 1 had been asleep perhaps two hours, when I awoke to find Mande ville standing by my bedside with a light in his hand. “ Brentford,” said he, “ I want a part of your dust, which I will repay to you in the morning. I have made a strange mistake; but the tide will now turn in my favor.” The explanatory part of his speech was entirely beyond my comprehen sion ; but I did not for a moment doubt him. I arose, hastily dressed myself, went down stairs," obtained my saddle bags and gave him the amount he required. lie thanked me hastily and went out. I had in- 1 tended to return immediately to bed, j but I observed that the moon was shining brightly, and yielding to an irresistible impulse, I sallied forth for a brief walk. Strains of music from a brilliantly lighted building attract ed me, and entering the open door I found myself in a large gambling saloon, furnished with a handsome and costly bar, decorated with life size pictures of classic nudities, and, though the time was near midnight, nearly filled with men, whose atten-: t on seemed to be chiefly occupied " fin one particular table. Elbowing iny way with some difficulty through uic crowd, l got near this table, and H eaine a spectator of a scene which l n atoned with more interest than surprise. 1 he game was faro, and the contest' appeared to be chiefly between the dealer and a single better, who was no other than Mandeville. He gave me a slight look of recognition when I drew near the table, and thencefor ward took no more notice of me At ' first the fortunes of the game Were j variable, with no decided advantage on either side; and Mandeville made his bets cautiously; but at length the luck inclined toward my friend, and he played high, winning nearly every time, though occasionally los ing a heavy stake. I had but little knowledge of the game, but I could readily perceive that in this ease the struggle was conducted with mere than ordinary pertinacity and spirit, and the placid imperturabilixy of the antagonists, as they won or lost large sums upon the turn of a card, had a curious fascination forme. The direct interest I had in the game did not cost me a single thought. My confidence in Mandeville was com plete, and the possibility that he might lose, and thus, perhaps, render me a defaulter, never once entered my mind. j ortune at length remained with j Mandeville, and his winnings rapid- I lv accumulated until they far exeeed -led the amount remaining in the j Imnk. Then, for the first time since ] my entrance, he broke the silence: “ Will you stand a tap?” “ Yes, with a fresh deal.” “ How much have you in bank ?” “ About fifty thousend dollars.” “ Yery well. Take another deck, , if you choose.” A fresh deck was placed in the box, and the dealing commenced. For several turns Mandeville declined to l>et, but at length, placing a chip on the nine spot, he said : The dealer slowly drew the cards from the box. “Nine wins!” he exclaimed: and you have broken the bank. This is the second time.” “ The second time,” repeated Man deyiile, “ but not the last time.” The crowd, which bail, especially through the latter stages of the game, maintained a silence most profound, now grew noisy, and indulged in ex clamations of admiration, envy or dislike of the successful player, accor ding to their several humors. The dealer rang a bell and ordered a cock tail for himself and such drinks as they preferred for as many of the by standers as chose to partake with him. Then, addressing Mandeville, he remarked: “ You don’t want to tarry that stud' with you to-night.” “ No; I shall leave it with you till morning.” “ l>o you want a memorandum or receipt for it?” “ No; between you and me that Is unnecessary.” The dealer summoned his assist ants, who removed the money, and Mandeville, turning to me, said : “ A fair night’s work. We should , sleep soundly after it. Let us go home.” On the following day he placed in my hands, in addition to the sum I had lent him, sixty thousand dollars I as my lawful share of the winnings, j in consideration of having furnished the stake which enabled him to con tinue the game, after his own finances l were exhausted. “ I am now going down the coast for a while, Brentford,” said he, “and we shall not meet for some months. 1 have only this to say to you : Never gamble. It is a bad business at best, and you could never win. Good-by.” CHAP. 11. I had intended immediately upon my arrival in San Francisco to place the package of specimens I had selected for a present to Lizzie Dunbar in the express office to he forwarded to the East by the first steamer ; but my purpose was delayed by one cause and another, until an event occurred which, as Mandeville had predicted, changed it altogether. My sudden and unexpected acqui sition of wealth, instead of satisfying, only stimulated my desire for more. 1 resolved to invest the whole amount in merchandise suitable to the wants of a mining community; and, my capital being so largely increased, I was enabled to select a wider range of articles than I had previously calcu lated upon. I did not much relish the idea of association with partners comparative poor; but what I then conceived to be a nice sense of honor impelled me to adhere to the agree ment I had made with them, and I consoled myself with the reflection that of course the profits of the con cern would be shared according to the amount invested, and that I could at almost any time, after establishing a business, buy out my partners, if I doomed it politic to do so. The ex- j pansion of my original design in- j volved, of course, time and consider- j ation. I wrote to my associates, in- j forming them that I should furnish ! a stock three or four times greater than we had contemplated, and re <i>iestinjT them to secure at any reasonable cost a Duiiumg y,t mui ample accommodations than the one we had selected for our business. As this would necessarily occasion some delay, I resolved to take a leisurely survey of the mercantile facilities of the city, and watch for opportunities of purchasing cheaply such goods as I thought would be adapted for our prospective trade. In pursuance of this plan, I visited some of the prin cipal merchants, informed them of my means and purposes, and obtain ed their lowest figures for the purpose of comparing them, in order that I might lay out my money to the best advantage. Os course, so promising a customer received a great deal of consideration and courtesies, which were not usual at that time of business bustle and ex citement, were freely extended to me. But of all the merchants of the Bay, Henry Wardlaw, a young man of dashing exterior and great energy, paid me the most attention, lie chaperoned me to such places of amusement as the city at that time afforded ; treated me to wine break fasts at the Case de Parte, and, a few days after our first meeting, took me to dine with him at his own house. He was a bachelor, he informed me: but his dear sister, who superintended his household, would be glad to meet me, and he thought he could promise me an agreeable reception. Wardlaw’s house, although—like most residences in San Francisco at that date—small and of plain exteri or, was handsomely and tastefully furnished within; and to tread its soft carpets, press its yielding cushions, regard my form and fea tures in its costly mirrors, and admire its elegant piotures, vases, and other expensive ornaments, were luxuries which I enjoyed the more because I had for some time been a stranger to them. But the crowning grace and ornament of the place was its mis tress, Miss Bessie Wardlaw, a beauti ful and fascinating young woman of perhaps twenty years, with a self possession, and refinement of manner which could only have been acquired by constant intercourse with the best society. Her dress was calculated to set off her superb charms to the best advantage; and as she received me with gracious cordiality, with a cap tivating smile and a just perceptible pressure of the delicate white hand she offered me, I thought her the most attractive woman 1 had ever seen. Our conversation at dinner embrac ed a variety of subjects, social, com mercial aud political, upon all of which she spoke with ease and sprightliness, and with an exquisite modulation of her low musical voice that charmed me. Once or twice I surprised myself in the act of regard ing her with a too attentive gaze, and mentally comparing her with Lizzie Dunbar, rather to the disadvantage of the latter, who, I remember, was simply a pretty country girl, shy, modest and confiding, but of limited social advantages and accomplish ments. Once 1 would not have had her changed in a single particular; but my ideas had expanded with my wealth. If my career continued as prosperously as it had commenced — and I saw no reason to doubt that it would—l could erelong assume a so cial position second to none; and it was only natural that I should desire mv future wife to be fitted to adorn , the station to which 1 would exalt her. I entertained some vague pur ! |iose of causing Lizzie to be supplied lit my own expense, through the me dium of special preceptors and pre ceptresses, with the graces and ac complishments of which I thought she stood in need. I determined at all events, in my next letter to her, to plainly point out the defects in her i manners and education, to which my love for her had hitherto blinded me! but which hail now become so pain futly apparent, and ask her to make to remedy them, so far as CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11,1872. possible. I thought to heal any wound to her sensibilities caused by ' these suggestions by an extraordinary declaration of affection conveyed in the same letter, and by the handsome presents I designed sending her, but which I had hitherto unaccountably neglected. I spent the evening with theWard i laws, and was agreeably entertained Iby them. Bessie played aud sang di | vmely; Wardlaw was—as indeed he always was—cheerful and brilliant, and under such pleasant influences I ; yielded myself wholly and unresist ingly to the intoxication of the hour. If Bessie exerted herself to fascinate me, she certainly succeeded. I am ashamed to confess it, but the truth must lie toid; w r hen I parted from her that night I was madly in love with her. Not that I had forgotten my plighted truth to Lizzie Dunbar—l remembered it but too well, and was base enough to seek in my mind jus tification for breaking it. Had I re mained a comparatively poor man, I reasoned with myself, Lizzie would have made me a good enough wife ; “ love in a cottage” with her, though tame and monotonous, would lie en joyable ; but with my altered pros pects it would be wrong toward both of us to place her in a position for which she was so wholly unsuited. W ith such flimsy pretexts I strove to convince myself that my conduct was not altogether despicable; although I utterly failed to stifle the remorseful pangs which would frequently assail my heart, and almost force mo to as sort my manhood. I Called the following morning upon Wardlaw in his counting-room, and was greeted by him with energetic cordiality. “ I am" glad to see you, Mr. Brent ford,” said he, seizing my hand and shaking it vigorously. “Sit down and smoke a cigar with me. I want ed to see you ; indeed, if you hadn’t come, I should have gone to look for you.” “ Anything important ?” I inquired carelessly, as I lighted my cigar. “ Yes—rather. I presume you have not yet purchased any goods ?” “ No.” “ And your capital remains intact?” “ It does.” “So far, well. Now, I have a prop osition to make to you, and I want you to think twice before you reject it. I frequently engage in " mercantile speculations outside of my regular business, and though there is certainly some risk in them, I have found them exceedingly profitable. There is a good thing now on the cards, which I believe has not yet occurred to any one but myself. I have not, however, the funds necessary to take hold of it, and besides, I should want a partner.” “ How much do you lack?” “ From fifty to seventy-five thous and dollars—not less than the former nor more than the latter sum.” “ What is the nature of the specula tion ?” “ I will explain it to you, trusting, of course, to your honor to say noth ing about it should you decline to go into it. The stock of flour in the city is smal I, and in the interior it is al most exhausted, but the fact has been strangely overlooked, and the article lias not appreciated. One reason for this is doubtless that the ship Sky rocket, which sailed from New York for this port in November last with fifteen hundred tons of flour, is daily expected, as she is reported to have been spoken by the last steamer from Panama, within five hundred miles of here, and both wind and weather have since been favorable for vessels bound to this port from the southward. I have, however, accidently ascer tained that the vessel spoken was not the clipper ship Skyrocket, but the Danish ship Skager Pack, and that her lading is not flon’* but German wines and liquors. have also relia ble information that the Skyrocket recently put into Callao in a damaged condition, and will require two or three months for repairs. Further, I have ascertainedj by careful examina- Uuu of the shipping records from the Eastern ports, that no other vessel la ucii w ith Hour inay be expected for some weeks. There is none now on the way from South American ports, and the surplus of Oregon is exhaust ed. It is clear, therefore, that in buy ing up what there is in market and putting it up at ojice to double, treble or quadruple its present price, there would be a chance for a handsome profit, while the risk would be noth ing.” “It seems clear enough. But I do not like the idea of speculating in a necessary of life.” “ My dear fellow, it is very plain that you are unsophisticated in world ly matters—you who propose to be come a merchant, and to grow rich by trade. Now, 1 have long since dis covered that the only way to wealth is to buy cheap and sell dear, and if conscience stands in the way of a lucky strike, put it quietly aside until a more convenient season. Every body does it; and if you would hold your own and acquire more in this scheming world, you must do as oth ers do. Eor my part, I hold that all articles which can be bought or sold come under precisely the same mer cantile law of demand and supply, and that it is no more wrong to buy flour as cheaply and sell it as dearly as you can, than it is to buy a house, or a piece of land, or a horse, or a bale of dry goods, for a low price and sell it for a high one. Why is a man gifted with superior foresight and shrewd ness, if he is not permitted to use them for his own advantage—and that of his friends ?” My avarice aided Wardlaw’s spe cious reasoning in convincing me, and the result was that I entered al most unresistingly into the scheme. It was arranged that 1 should make the purchases, as Wardlaw’s doing so might excite suspicion, and lead to the partial frustration of our plans. I set about it at once, and proceeded with such dispatch that by nightfall eveijy pound of flour in the market had passed into our hands. We im mediately put up the price from five cents per pound, at which we had pur chased, to twenty cents. A panic en sued, and we soon raised the price to thirty, and eventually to thirty-five cents per pound, at which we closed out the stock. Two days afterward the Skyrocket entered the harbor with her lading in safety, and flour fell to four cents per pound. My share of the gains from this ne- j farious transaction amounted to about seventy thousand dollars; and so ela ted was I with my success that I was easily persuaded to abandon my in tention of commencing business in Coyoteville, and join my fortunes with those of Wardlaw in speculative pur suits in the city. I accordingly took steps to break off my business engage ments with my former partners, pro vided myself with suitable lodgings in a convenient locality, and devoted myself to speculation and love: for I had now become a devoted, and, as I thought, not an unwelcome admirer of Miss Bessie Wardlaw, my frequent visits being warmly encouraged by both herself and brother. I had not the courage to write to Lizzie Dunbar and tell her the truth, though my conscience smote me when I looked at her unanswered letters, which for a time continued to reach me with un failing regularity, telling always the simple and beautiful story of unchang ing affection, but ceasing at last with a wail of despair which would have touched any heart less obdurate than mine. Though a dull pain tugged at my heart strings, I threw those sweet, tender, passionate epistles aside, with a cold criticism upon their chirogra phy and orthography, and sought consolation in the society of my new love, to whom, in my infatuation, I gave the presents I had intended for the old, Yet I never dared to speak to her of love, although I knew tha t she must have divined my sentiment,, I towards her, and believed that she re j ciprocated them. A feeling of ming led shame and remorse paralized my i tongue whenever I attempted to ap ! proach the subject. There were plenty of opportunities 1 for speculation in those days of change and unrest, when every steamer and sailing vessel that came to the golden i shore was crowded with passengers,' and every summer and autumn long I trains of immigrant wagons poured over the Sierra Nevada, and rested i from their long and weary journey j beside the rich placers among the foothills. We ventured boldly, and j were generally successful. We were ' occasionally “caught napping,” and .received a blow which staggered us a 1 little financially; but on the whole we had good reason to be satisfied with the results of our investments. W T e did not confine our attention to mer- j cantile transactions, but dealt in real instate, bonds and other securities, ditch-stock—everything that offered a good margin for profit; and our gains increased so rapidly that we soon reck oned ourselves " millionaires. We seemed, like Napoleon at the summit of his power, to be superior to fortune —to command destiny—to order events. If it Ls in the power of wealth to make a man happy and contented, I should have been so; but I was not. Surrounded as I was with ever luxury that I desired and wealth could pur chase; basking in the smiles of the most beautiful woman I ever knew, and who I believed loved me as fond ly as I loved her; honored, courted, fawned upon and servilely flattered by all classes, I was yet the most mis erable dog alive. I thought there was but one thing nesessary to my happi ness, but so often as I would have stretchd forth my hand to grasp it, the pale sad face of Lizzie Dunbar seemed to interpose itself like an angry spirit between me and the object of "my de sire. At this time lawlessness and vio lence held sway in San Francisco, j Murderers and thieves were high in j offices under the municipality, and | their fellows in crime committed their evil deeds in daylight with impunity. Assassinations, burglaries and high way robberies were of frequent occur rence, and their perpetrators, if ap prehended, were almost certain to es cape the punishment due to their I crimes. Terror at length drove the law-abiding citizens to concert meas ures in defense of their lives and prop-1 erty, which the law was powerless to protect, and the vigilance committee was formed. I w T as solicited to take an active share in its organization, but declined, because, as I then believed, legal remedies for the evils sought to be extirpated had not been exhausted. This fact occasioned some ill-feeling against me among the more active members es the committee, some of whom had perhaps sufficient reason to dislike me, on account of business transactions in which I had been the gainer at their cost. One evening, shortly after the or ganization of the committee, I receiv ed a message from Bessie Wardlaw', requesting me to call upon her imme diately. I lost no time in obeying the summons. I found both her "and her brother at home;'but, though they received me with their usual apparent cordiality, there w r as an air of gloom and constraint upon them, and a strange pallor on their faces, which I could not help remarking. Wardlaw was strangely morose and taciturn ; Bessie was evidently weighed down by some secret trouble which rendered abortive all her attempts at cheerful ness and pleasantry; and I felt a sense of oppression and dread in the pres ence of a mystery which I could not fathom. The hours passed tediously and painfully, and I was several times on the point of taking my leave, but w r as restrained by a meaning look from Bessie, who, I j udged from her ex pression, desired to say something privately to me. At length, during the momentary absence of her broth er from the drawing-room, she hastily whispered: “ Thank you for coming. I cannot explain to-night; but to-morrow you uhall know everything.” W ardlaw’s return at that instant prevented any further privacy between us, and I shortly afterwards took my leave. Wardlaw bade me a simple “ good-night,” without leaving liis chair; but Bessie accompanied me to the hall door, and at parting, as if moved by a sudden impulse, threw an arm around my neck and gave me a passionate kiss, then hastily retreat ed. ' At another time such a demon stration on her part would have filled me with joy and delight, but now it only added to my surprise and bewil derment. Although the hour was pretty late, I felt no inclination to seek my apart ments. I was confused by the myste ry I had left behind me, and, brood ing upon it, lighted a cigar and stroll ed mechanically up Clay Street to the very summit of the hill. It was a pleasant starlit night, and, sitting down upon a little grassy knoll, I looked upon the city wrapped in stil ness and shadow, through which at intervals I could see the gleam of the lanterns borne by the patrolem of the vigilance committee. I had rested here but a moment, when I was start led by a hand laid upon my shoulder, and, looking up, saw two men stand ing beside me. “ Good-evening, sir,” said one of them, in a pleasant but strange voice. “ Are you fond of the night and soli tude?” “ Good-evening, gentlemen,” I re plied, assured by their appearance and manner that they meant me no harm. “I do not often seek solitude at such an hour, but to-night I am unusually wakeful.” “ You have need to be,” returned he. “ You know how Judas betrayed his master?” “I do not understand you,” I re plied. “No ; because you are blind. But the kiss of a traitoress is fresh upon your lips.” “ What do you mean ?” I cried, starting up in indignation and aston ishment. “ I am not at liberty to explain just now. Our present duty, and the ob ject for which we have followed you hither, is to warn and protect you.” “I thank you, gentlemen; but as you are entirely unknown to me, lam at a loss to what motive to attribute your interest in my concerns, or to ac count for your knowledge of an occur rence of which I am sure there was no human witness.” “ You are Mandeville’s friend—that is sufficient warrant for our interest in you. The sources of our knowledge we cannot reveal.” The stranger’s tone and manner convince dme of his candor, yet I thought there must be a mistake somewhere. Surely Bessie could not be a traitress. “Is it against Miss Wardlaw you would warn and protect me?” I asked. “ Do not press for explanation now,” he answered. “ To-morrow you will j know everything.” “ And meantime?” “ Meantime you will return with us to the city. Hark ! there is the sig nal. The first act of the drama is over, and the second is begun. Let us ; go.” A bright column of flame shot up I through the dim starlight from a house far below us on the slope of the hill. Presently we could hear the sounds of alarm throughout the city ; the ringing of bells, the rattling of en gines and the shouts of the multitude which swarmed into the streets and surged toward the scene of the confla gration. “It is Wardlaw’s house!” I ex ! claimed, as the steadily increasing volume of flame brouggt the building i and its surroundings plainly into view. | “ Yes, it is Wardlaw ’s house said I the man who had hitherto conducted | the conversation with me. “ Your i personal safety is now assured, though i you must suffer annoyance and loss.” He descended the hill, and joined the crowd that thronged around the burning house. The fire jttade rapid work, and in spite of the effort.' of the firemen and others who e*£rted them selves to save it, but little remained of the building when we reached its vicinity. My companions suddenly disappeared, and, in looking around for them I met an acquaintance who seemed to be sufficiently unoccupied to answer a question or tiro. “ How did this occur?” I inquir ed. “ Don’t know,” said he, “It’s re ported to have been set afire by the murderer.” “ What murderer ? Where are the Wardlaws ?” “ Why, the fellow whotcilled Rich ard Wardlaw, to be sure. The corpse was dragged out of the house before it was burned much, and the coroner’s took charge of it, to hold an inquest the first thing in the morning. Miss Wardlaw went with the corpse and the coroner.” At the same moment I heart l a voice saying, ‘ There he is—arrest him !” And I was immediately laid violent hold of by two men w earing the badges of the vigilance committee’s patrolmen. , (". 0 BE CONTIKCKD NEXT WEEK.) A BOY’S ADVICE TO OU> MEN. I cannot pick up a newspaper with out “ Advice to Boys” stores me in the face. Old men write it, I s’pose. Nobody else is capable of giving ad vice to boys—of course not! They know 7 all about us, ’cause they have been there. Advice is a good thing to have, no doubt, and no family should lie without it; but a fellow 7 don’t want to be crammed with it all the time, to the exclusion of all other diet. Now, old men need advice occa sionally, but in looking through a newspaper, I don’t see that they get it. So I just thought I would write a little “ advice to old men” myself, if lam not presuming too much—as I Cioe says—and I presume I am. in the first place, you old chaps j ought to get over telling how much smarter boys were when you were boys than boys are now. You believe it yourself, of course, ’cause you’ve told it so many times; but w 7 e boys can’t see it. We have a notion that; boys are boys, pretty much—except some are world over, and j one generation of them don’t lie over , another generation to any alarming j extent. Only let you tell it, and you could \ out-run, out-jump, out wrestle, aud I out anything else of the rising gen eration of to-day when you were a | hoy. Grandfather, who lias got the | gout and a half a dozen different kinds of rheumatism, hqalways say ing that “ I would I were a boy again.” I would he were, too. If I couldn’t beat him running, and flop | him on his back, side holt, I don’t | want a cent. I would’t go so far as to say, “ Pa rents obey your children,” but I i would suggest to fathers that they 5 give us a hearing occasionally on 1 matters in which we are the most in-! terested party. Don’t make us go j and slkle.down hill, when we want to skate, and don’t try to make i preachers of us when we much prefer to run a saw-mill. After giving us boys sage advice about our conduct, and how to be have, you old men ought to be care ful how you get to relating your boy ish scrapes to each other, and laugh ing over them, before we get out of ear-shot. —Golden Hours. The Roman Sentinel.— When Pompeii was destroyed, there were many buried in the ruins of it, who were afterwards found in different sit uations. There were some found in deep vaults, as if they had gone there for security. There were some found who were in the streets, as if they had been attempting to make their escape. There were some found in lofty cham bers. But where did they find the Roman sentinel ? They found him standing at the city gate, with his hand still grasping his war weapon, where he had been placed by his cap tain ; and there where the heavens threatened him, there where the lava stream rolled, he stood at his post, and there, after a thousand years had passed away, ho was found. So let Christians learn to stand to their duty, willing to stand at the post on which their captain has placed them, and they will find that grace will support and sustain them. Prior to slumber, the female form divine is understood to be enveloped in a long white garment, said to give the figure a most ghostlike air just be fore the light goes out. In attire of this description Mr. Grant is up to his eyes. He has been braking open trunks and searching wardrobes in York county, South Carolina, for Ku- Klux disguises, and the nearest ap proach thereto has been the curious habiliments above noted. The con queror of Appomatox has been smell ing out treason in bandboxes, and, not to put too fine a point upon it, has come upon no more dreadful raiment than a chemise. Meanwhile, three ladies —doubtless for standing on the defense of their bureau draw ers—have been put in jail and the entire female world in Western South Carolina knows not at what moment Mr. Grant may hound his dragoons upon them too. — World. “A person converted in youth,’’ says John Angel James, “ is like the sun rising on a summer morning to shine through the long bright day. But a person converted late in life, is the evening star, a lovely object of Christian contemplation, but not ap pearing till the day is closing, and then but for a little while.” A Down-East paper alluded to an eminent citizen as “ a noble old bur gher, proudly loving his native State;” which neat little compliment came from the compositor’s hand reading, “ a nobby.old burglar prowl ing around in a naked state.” “ Equality” means, says a French writer “ a desire to be equal to your superiors, and superior to your equals.” Mrs. Jones says: “ I believe I’ve got the tenderest-hearted toys in the world. I can’t tell one of them to fetch me a bucket of water but he’ll burst out crying.” An old bachelor, who bears his lonely state with much equanimity, says: “It is better to be laughed at for not being married than to be una ble to laugh because you are.” The best mode of fastening a horse in a stall is the English one of attach ing a light weight to the end of the halter and allowing it to run up and down under the manger, which should always be boarded in front from the floor up. By this arraugement, the horse enjoys sufficient liberty and yet has no chance of getting cast by step ping over his halter. Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to in toxication for the ease of one’s mind, is to cure melancholy by madness. Our brightest moments are fre quently those which arise to us from the bosom of care aud anxiety—the gems that sparkle upon the dark ground. This is the way which a local re porter chronicled an accident: “A child was run over by a wagon three years old and cross-eyed with pante lets on whiefc never spoke afterwards. Carpet-BaggLsm the Same in all Times an and Places — How it Worked in Massachusetts Cen turies Ago. It looks odd (says the Floridian) that Massachusetts should be quoted in justification of Southern opposition to carpet-baggers. But such is the faet. The people of that old common wealth were once made the victims of a carpet-bagger, and they protested lustily against this outrage. In a document bearing date April 18,1669, and entitled, “ The Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants and Inhabit ants of Boston and the Country Adja cent,” they complain that Sir Ed mund Andros had been brought from New York to be their Governor, and they set forth their grievances after this manner: “ The Government was no sooner j in these Hands, but care was taken to ! load Preferments upon such men as | were strangers to and halers of the Kople; arid every one’s observation ith noted what qualifications reeom mended a Man to publiek offices and Employments, only here and there a j good Man was used when others could not easily be had; the Governor him self, with Assertions now and then falling from him made us jealous that it would lie thought for his Majesties j Interest, if this People were removed I and another succeeded in t heir room. And these far-fetched Instruments that were growing rich among us would gravely inform us that it was not for his Majesties interest that we \ shoidd thrive. But of all our oppressors we were ! chiefly squeezed by a crew of abject Persons fetched from New York, to | be the Tools of the Adversary, stand ing at our right hand ; by these were extraordinary and intolerable Fees i extorted from every one upon all oe-; easions, without any Rules but those ! of their own insatiable Avarice and Beggary ; and even the probate of a j Will must now cost as many Pounds \ perhaps as it did Shillings heretofore: j nor could a small volume contain the ! other Illegalities done by these \ Horse-Leeches in the two o"r three j years that they have been sucking of us. * * * Persons who did but peaceably object against the raising of Taxes without an Assembly, have been for it fined, some 20, some 30, some others 50 pounds. Packt and Pickt Juries have been very common j things among us. * * * Borne have been kept in long and close Imprison ment without any the least Informa tion appearing against them, or an Habeas Corpus allowed unto them.” The protest was printed in pamphlet form and no doubt had a general cir culation among the people of that day. In commenting upon it, the Nashville Union and American says: The car pet-bagger as here pictured nearly two hundred years ago, is true to his instincts to-day. The picture is so life-like that it seems to have been drawn for the Southern States in the light of the past five years. The gov ernments of the Southern States were “no sooner in these hands, hut care was taken to load preferments upon such men as were strangers to and haters of the people ; and every one’s observation had noted what qualifica tions recommended a man to public officers and employments; only here and there a good man was used when others could not easily be had.” THE CI'RSE OE THE HOIK. There is too much lying. On every hand we meet with exaggeration, equivocation, deception. We call it all lying, and every man or woman who varies one iota from the strictest fact and truth is indeed a liar. The expressman agrees most sol emnly to deliver a trunk for you at a certain place by a certain hour. He delivers it the day after the time promised, and thus lies. The grocer promises to send you the best tea in the market. He takes the first his hand falls upon without any care for the quality, and dispatches it to you without a twinge. He is a liar. The printer promises to do your work cheaper than it can be done elsewhere in town. He forgets his promise— charges you what he pleases—and lies. The tailor agrees to deliver a suit of clothes without fail by six in the evening. You get them in the morning, and the tailor is a liar. The dentist pledges his word that your teeth :is filled by him will be all right for a dozen years. The fillings come out in six months, and the dentist lies. A man over the way is in need of a temporary loan. You lend him a small sum, which he promises by everything to return at a given time. He keeps it a month over the time and is a liar. An auctioneer tells you a certain picture is by a master-artist, when he knows it was painted by a fourth-rate painter. He lies, and is not worthy of trust. A salesman lies about his goods. A bootmaker lies about your boots. The jeweller lies about your watch. Thegossiper at the dinner table tells exaggerated stories to astonish the ladies, _ and is nothing else than a liar. The florist assures you that his flowers were picked in the morning, when they are nearly two days old. He lies, and will lie about anything. The hook publisher advertises that his book is selling by the tens of thousands, when he has not sold a thousand. He is a liar and one door off from the mur derer. Everywhere, everywhere we hear lying, lying. Men arid women who would knock you down if you called them liars, lie every hour. Deception is the rule rather than the exception. Canvassers lie about insurance com panies. Brokers lie about stocks. Editors lie about politics. Exagge ration and misrepresentation rule the hour and its curse. Gentlemen—ladies—why cannot the trutli be told always and ever? Why all this deception and lying? Why so much falsifying and cheating? In the name of all that is true and good, we beg of you to Do as you agree! Do as you agree! Do as you agree!— Evening Mail. PAPER CLOTHING. The uses to which paper is applied are constantly multiplying, until it is now made serviceable in nearly every department of manufacturing" indus try. The paper collar was considered an ingenious novely when it first ap peared closely followed by cuffs, frills, etc., of the same material; but the attempt to apply the same principle to the production of other articles of raiment was for a long time unsuc cessful. An English inventor has at length, it is said, surmounted the difficulties of the case, having pro duced a fabric from which all sorts of clothing for person and for beds, as well as numerous other articles em ployed in furnishing an apartment, can be made at a small expense and of a very durable character. The pa per thus used is made from a pulp composed of wool, silk, hemp, cotton, flax and jute, which is subjected to bleaching and felting, and a fabric thus obtained on which a strong seam can be made with the same facility as upon cloth. Shirts, skirts, panta loons, blankets, table-cloths, etc., are made of this material, possessing such toughness and flexibility as scarcely to be distinguished from linen or com mon cloth. The process is new to the European and American markets, but a similar art has long been in use in China and Japan, where a paper coat which will stand a reasonable amount of wear can be bought for ten cents, a whole suit for twenty-five cents. Rice Waffles.— Boil two gills of rice soft, mix with three gills of flour, a little salt, two ounces of melted but ter, two eggs beaten well, as much milk as will make it a thick batter; beat it till very light, and bake in waffle-irons. THE FAMILY CIRCLE. THE RniSELLER. Even. 7 individual in society is ex pected to contribute something to its advancement and interest. We re i member to have read, many years ! ago, of a company of tradesmen ‘ who j united themselves into a mutual ben : efit society, and each one had to re late what he could contribute to its support First the blacksmith came forward and said: “ Gentlemen, I wish to become a member of your association.” “ Well, what can you do?” “Oh! I can iron your carriages, shoe your horses, and make all kinds of implements.” “ Very well, come in, Mr. Black smith.” The mason applied for admission into the society. “ And what "can you do, sir?” “ I can build your barns, houses, stables, and bridges.” “ Very well, come in ; we cannot do without you.” Along comes the shoemaker,, and ; says, “1 wish to become a member of your society.” “ Well, what can you do?” “ I can make lioots and shoes for you.” “ Come in, Mr. Shoemaker ; we ' must have you.” I turn all the different trades and professions applied, till at last an in dividual came in who wanted to be come a member. “ And what are you ?” “ I am a rumseller.” “ A rumseller! and what can vou do?” “ I can build jails, and prisons, and poor-houses.” “ And is that all ?” “No; I can All them. I can fill your jails with criminals, your pris ons with convicts, and your poor houses with paupers.” “ And what else can you do ?” “ I can bring the gray hairs of the aged to the grave with I can break the heart of the wife, and blast the prospects of the friends of talent and fill the land with more than the plagues of Egypt.” “ Is that all you can do?” “Good heavens!” cried the rum seller, “ is not that enough?” THE ART OF NOT HEARING. The art of not hearing is fully as important to domestic happiness as a cultivated ear, for which so much time and money is expended. There are so many things which is painful to hear, many of which, if heard, will disturb the temper and detract from contentment and happiness, that ev ery one should be educated to take in or shut out sounds at will. If a man falls into a violent passion and calls me all manner of names, the first word shuts my ears, and I hear no more. If in my quiet voyage of life I am caught in one of those domestic whirlwinds of scolding, I shut my ears, as a sailor would furl his sail, and, making all tight, scud before the gale. If a hot and restless man be gins to inflame my feelings, I consid er what mischief these sparks might do in the magazine below where my temper is kept, aud instantly close the door. Does a gabbing, mischief making fellow begin to inform me what people are saying about me, down drops the portcullis of my ear, and he cannot get in any farther. Some people feel very anxious to hear everything that will vex or annoy them, they set about searching and finding it out. If all the petty things said of one by the heedless or ill natured idlers were brought home to him, he would become a mere walking pin-cushion, stuck full of sharp remarks. I should as soon thank a man for emptying on my head a bushel of nettles, or setting loose a swarm of musquitoes in my chamber, or raising a pungent dust in my house generally, as to bring upon me all the tattle of spiteful people. If you would be happy when among good men, open your ears ; when among had, shut them. It is not worth while to hear what your servants say when they have slamm ed the door; what a beggar says whose petition you have rejected; what your neighbors say about your children; what your rivals say about your business or dreas. I have no ticed that a well-bred woman never hears an impertinent remark. A kind of discreet deafness saves one from many insults, from much blame, from not a little apparent connivance in dishonorable conversations. FOR MOTHERS. Send your children to bed happy. Whatever cares press, give it a warm good-night kiss as it goes to its pillow. The memory of this, in the stormy years that may be in store for the little one, will be like Bethlehem’s star to the bewildered shepherds. “ My father, my mother, loved me.” Nothing can takeaway that blessed heart-balm. Lips parched with the world’s fever will become dewy again at the thrill of youthful memo ries. Kiss your little child before it goes to sleep. GIRLS. It is the power of young girls to make themselves very dear and very useful to their married friends, and to render them such services as are beyond all price. In times of sick ness and of sorrow, the sympathy and presence of a beloved female friend are among the best of heaven’s «*ifts; while she who ministers to the af flicted, is as much blessed as blessing. Let no young person stay away from a friend who is ill or in affliction, from the fear that her inexperience will render her company undesirable; all who have strong affections, and a ready power of sympathy, can make themselves acceptible, and in endeav oring to do so, will increase their own happiness. Never let mere conveni ence induce you to stay at the houses of persons whom you cannot esteem ; by so doing, you bring on yourself an irksome obligation; you take on yourself the duties of a friend, with out having the sentiments that would make their discharge easy. A MOTHER’S IXFLIEYCE. llow touching is this tribute of Hon. T. H. Benton, to his mother’s influence: “My mother asked me never to use tobacco; I have never touched it from that time to the pres ent day. She asked me never to f amble, and I have never gambled; cannot tell who is losing in games that are being played. She admon ished me, too, against hard drinking; and whatever capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever use fulness, I nave attributed to having complied with her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total ab stinence ; and that I have adhered to it through all time, I owe to my mother.” WORDS FOR THE YOOG. Young friends, education is to you what polish and refinement is to the I rude diamond. In its rude state, the diamond resembles a stone, or piece of charcoal; but when cut and manu factured. it comes out a bright and beautiful diamond, and is sold at a great price. So it is with you. Ed ucation calls forth the hidden treas ures and latent brilliancies of your minds, which previously lie dormant and inactive, or, in other words, asleep. It cultivates and develops your understandings, and fits and prepares you for the duties and re sponsibilities of coming years, which, we trust, will be years of usefulness— useful to yourselves, to your associ ates, and society at large. items of interest. Many and warm have been the dis putes to determine the true Sham rock the national emblem adopted by the Irish. Some contend for the wood-sorrel, the leaves of wliieh im fold about St Patrick's Day; while others maintain that the whfto clover is the favored plant. j Ring worms, as they are called, are | s .km troubles which those parts of the face apt tobe’slighted in washing are most subject to. Such, for instance, |as the neighborhood of the nose. In I fact, no such icorm exists, but the : pores of the skin become closed, and ! the natural secretion gets to be solid, ami assumes a black appearance. Bav rum dissipates this concretion anil opens the pores again. The revenue and expenses (in mill ions of dollars) of Great Britain and the United States wore, last vear, as follows, according to the morithly rt'- port of the Bureau of Statistic's, No. 11, dated August, 1870: Great Britain, income revenue, $450.000,000; expen ses, $360,000,000. United Stall's, rev enue, $408,000,000; expenses, $292,- 000,000. The tonnage of the merchant marine of each (sea-going vessels only) was as follows: Great Britain, 8,- 644,929. United State's, 2,914,899. Upon being introduced to a lady, it is not according to the strict rules of etiquette' to shake hands with her, un less she, of course, offers to do so. Shaking hands is a proof of intimacy. Neither does a ball-room introduction necessarily admit of subsequent rec ognition, in the street or elsewhere. It is morely an introduction for the evening, and nothing more, unless the lady herself chooses to consider it otherwise. A gentleman cannot, with any pro priety, introduce himself to a lady; and no lady who entertains any re spect for herself would allow a gentle man thus to form her acquaintance. You may fancy that the young lady whom you so often meet at church, in in the street or elsewhere, “ would l>e pleased if you could only manage to become acquainted with her;” hut you must ask the aid of some mutual friend to obtain an introduction in the only proper, legitimate fashion. We have seen the origin of the word “ Bogus” ascribed to its being a corruption of one “ Borghese,” a very corrupt individual, who, many years ago, did a tremendous business in the way of supplying the Great West, and portions of the southwest, with coun terfeit bills, and bills on fictitious flanks. The people fell into the habit of shortening the name of “ Borghese” to that of “ Bogus,” and his bills, as well as all others of a like character, were universally styled by them “ bo gus” currency. To crystalize flowers, dissolve 18 ounces of pure alum in a quart of soft spring water, by boiling it gently, in a close tin vessel, over a moderate fire. When the liquid is cold, suspend the flowers to be crystal ized, by means of a small thread or twine, from a stick laid horrizontally across the aperture of a deep glass or earthen jar, into which the solution has been poured. The flowers should remain in the so lution for twenty-four hours. When taken out, they are to be suspended in the shade until perfectly dry. There are very few subjects in the vegetable kingdom which cannot be thus crys talized and preserved. According to the census taken at midnight, on Sunday, April 3, 1871, the population of London, England, was 3,883,092 persons. What an enor mous city this make's, can be seen by a glance at the number of our largest city populations it takes to make up this immense sum. The aggregate populations of eleven of the largest cities in the United States, viz: New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, New Orleans, San Fran cisco and Buffalo, (according to the latest census), only amount to 3,828,- 675, or 54,517 less than that of London alone. London is, beyond all doubt whatever, the largest and most popu lous city in the world. The Croton Aqueduct, by which New York City is supplied with wa ter, is a work worthy of being ranked with the grandest of the old Roman aqueducts. It commences about 41 miles from the city, at the Croton River, the waters of which are col lected by an immense dam. The aq ueduct proceeding thence, is arched over and under, being 6 feet 3 inches wide at bottom, 7 feet 8 inches at top, and 8 feet 5 inches in height. It lias a descent of 1.33 inches per mile, and discharges 60,000,(XX) gallons in 24 hours. It crosses the Harlem River over the famous High, Bridge—a granite structure, 1450 feet long, with 14 arches, each of 80 feet span, 110 feet above tide-water. The receiving reservoir lias a water surface of 31 acres, and contains 150,000,000 gallons; the distributing reservoir, covering 4 acres, has a depth of 40 feet, and holds 21,(XX),000 gallons. Thence the water is distributed over the city by means of iron pipes, extending, in 1870, to the length of 320 miles 5237 feet. The Mamelukes were a body of sol | diery who ruled Egypt for several | centuries; they were introduced into ! that country in the middle of the thirteenth century, being Asiatic i youths, purchased as slaves. They were trained to military exercises, and formed into a corps of 12,000 men, | called “ Memlooks.” They soon ex ! hibited a spirit of insubordination, and in 1254 assassinated the Sultan, and raised one of their own number, I Eybek, to the throne. A line of Sul tans, known as the Turkish dynasty, followed, all of whom were raised to | jM*wer by the Memlooks. They con tinued to exercise controlling influ ence over the country until the mid dle of the eighteenth century, when i their number and wealth gave them | such a preponderance of power, that ! the Pasha, named by the Porte, was reduced to a merely nominal ruler. The number of them scattered t throughout all Egypt was at that time between 10,(XX) and 12,000. They were all massacred at Cairo, by Mehemet ! Aii, on March 1, 1811. There has been more than one ori gin assigned to the term, “ Lynch Law,” as applied to the administra tion of justice by persons not authorize ed by the State to do so. One au thority says that it takes its name from the stern and summary act of one James Lynch Fitzstephen, a mer chant of the Irish town of Galway, and, in 1526, its mayor. The son of this man committed a foul murder whereupon his father, exercising his authority as mayor, had him arrested, and brought to trial before himself. On conviction, Brutus-like, the father sentenced his son to death, and fear ing a rescue from the prison, had him brought home and hanged before his own door. The commonest, however, is that, about the time of the Revolu tionary W T ar. some of the earlier set tlers in Virginia, west of the Allegha nies, being unprovided vith courts and county organization, named one Lynch judge or justice of the peace, with almost unlimited powers. He seems to have been a very fair man, as his decisions always "commanded respect, and were immediately en forced, far and wide; so that “ Lynch Law” became proverbial for its cer tainty and promptitude. Little Hock, Arkansas, has been visited by a fire—loss SIOO,OOO. Mr. A. Scheuerman, for many years a prominent Griffin merchant, died in that place last Monday of pneumo nia. Danville, December 28. —The Rev. R. J. Breckinridge is dead. John C. Calhoun’s plantation in South Carolina has been bought by a wealthy colored man. VOL. 12—SO. 27 OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. A PROCLAMATION. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Atlanta, Ga., December 28,1871. WHEREAS, Tho following petition, sworn to and duly attested, has been received by me, to-wit: Tb His Excellency, BENJAMIN CON EE V, Governor of Georgia : The petitioners, Uenry Clews and Theodore S. Fowler, of the city of New York, in the State of New Y ork, partners in business in said city as bankers, under the name, firm and style of Henry Clews & Cos., respectfully represent : That they are the holders and owuers of one hundred and, seventy-live (175) bonds of the Cartersvillc and Van Wert Railroad Company, a corporation organized brand under the laws of the State of Georgia, said lionds being num bered from one (1) to one hundred and seventy lire (175) inclusive, and each being for the amount of one thousand dollars, with interest coupons attached payable seini-.uyinally on the first day of March and the first day of Sep tember in each yeai, at the rate of seven per cent, per annum. That your petitioners paid ninety (90) per cent, ou the par value ol'each and all of said bonds in cash, lawful money ol' tho United States. That said one hundred and seventy five (175) bonds were issued on and cover the first fourteen (14) miles of said railroad, and each of said bonds|tias indorsed thereon the guaranty of the State of Georgia for the pay ment of the principal ands interest thereof in accordance with the provisions of an art enti tled “ An Act to loan the credit of the State to the Cartorsvill# and Van WertJUailroad Com pany.” Approved March 12, 1869. And your petitioners aver that the semi-an imal interest, amounting to $6,125, which be came due on their said bonds on the first day of September A. 1). 1870, was not paid by said Oartersville and Van Wert Rail road Company at the time said interest became due, nor has said company since paid said interest or any part thereof, and the same is still due and ow ing to your petitioners. Wherefore, your petitioners pray that your Excellency forthwith seize anil take possession of all the property of said railroad company and apply the earnings of said road, alter pay ing all laborers’ liens, if any there .be, to the extinguishment of said unpaid coupons, ashy the 4tn section of said act provided. And your petitioners will ever pray, Ac. HENRY CLEWS, THKO. S. EOWLKK. Dated at the city of New York, in the State of New York, on the Fourth day of December, A. D. 1871. state of New Yoke, City of New Yoke ss. Ou this, the fourth day of December, in tho year 1871, before me personally came Henry Clews and Theodore S. Fowler, to me known to be the individuals described in, and who exe cuted the within instrument, and severally ac knowledged that they executed the same for the purposes therein mentioned. EDMU ED T. MOULTON, [Notary’s Seal.] Notary Public. State of New Yoke, City and County of New Y oke ss. Be it remembered that on the fourth day of December, A. I>. one thousand eight hundred und seventy-one, before me, Charles NetUoion, a Commissioner, resident in the city of New Y ork, duly commissioned and qualified by the Executive authority, and under the laws of the State of Georgia, Intake the acknowledgement of deeds, Ac., to be used or recorded therein, personally appeared Henry Clews and Theo dore 8. Fowler, to me personally known to be the individuals named in, and who executed the foregoing petition, who signed the same in my presence, and severally acknowledged that they executed the same, and they also made solemn oath before me that the statements thereon set forth, are true. In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal. CHARLES NHTTLKTON, Commissioner for Georgia, 117 Broadway, New Y'ork City. (Commissioner’s Seal, i j State of Georgia. ) And whereas, by virtue of an act entitled “An Act to loan the credit of the State to the Car ters ville and Van Wert Railroad Company,’’ approved March 12,1869. it was enacted by the fourth (4) section thereof, as follows, to-wit: “ That in the event any bond or bonds, in dorsed by the .State, us provided in the section of this act, or the interest that may ac crue and become due thereon, shall not tie paid by said railroad company at maturity, or when due, it shall be the duty of the Governor upon information of such default by any holder of said bond or bonds, to seize and take possession of all the property of said railroad company, and apply the earnings of said road to the ex tinguishment of said unpaid bond or bonds, or coupons, and may, at his discretion, upon con tinued default in such payment by said com pany, for a period of six months, sell the said road and its equipments and other property belonging to said company, or any portion thereof, in such manner and at such time as in his judgment may subserve the interest or all concerned.” And whereas, the State of Georgia by author ity of law, and by the act aloresaid, has a prior lien on all the property of the said Cartersville and Van Wert Kail road Company, now the “Cherokee Railroad Company,” on account of the indonemcnt by the State of the bonds set forth in said petition. Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Conley, Cover nor of the State of Georgia, and communder-in chief of the army and navy of the State, and of the militia thereof, upon the information to me given by said petition, that the said Cherokee Railroad Compuny, formerly Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad Company, have made de faults in the payment of the interest due on said bonds indorsed by the State, do issue this my proclamation to the end that the petition aforesaid as well as the prayer therein may be granted and carried out in accordance with the 1< vof the State, and the act aforesaid, and do hereby make known, that the State of Georgia has taken, and hereby docs take, possession of the said Chorokee Railroad, formerly Carters ville and \ an Wert Railroad, with all the prop erty of said company, and its equipments of whatever kind, character or description ; and I, as Governor of this State have, and do hereby place the some in charge of Dan’l S. Printup, Ksq., ol Rome, Ga., as agent of the State of Georgia, and hereby give full jiowcr unto the said Daniel S. Printup, Esq., as such agent of the State, to take into his possession all the property aforesaid of the said Cherokee Rail road Company, to control and manage the same in accordance with and as provided by the act aforesaid, and the laws of this State. And it is further ordered : That all oflicers of this State, civil and military, exercise due dili gence, to the end that the said agent of this State lie maintained in the peaceful possession, control, management, and use of the said Cher okee Railroad, formerly Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad, and all the property of the said company, until further ordei; of the Governor of this State. Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State at the Capitol in Atlanta, this twenty eighth day of December, in the year of our L«rd Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Ninety-sixth, BENJAMIN CONLEY. By the Governor : David G. Cottxng, Secretary of State. jan4-3t. I. O. O. F. THE regular meeting of Etowah Lodge. No. 47, I. O. O. ¥., is held on every Thursday night, in the Masonic Hall. JOHN M. DOBBS, Sec’y. Cartersville, Ga., Oct. 9th, 1871. TO RENT OR SELL, A large and elegant residence, ton rooms and a tire-place in each room, nine closets, jin} completed and finished up. In the town of Car tcrsville. For further particulars appply to ARTHUR DAVIS. edc. 8, —wl S Cartersville, Ga. “ WHO WILL SUFFER It is now i( years since Dr. Tobias’ Venetian Einimeut was put before the public warranting it to cure Chronic Rheumatism, Headache, Cuts. Bum, Bruise*, Old Sores, Mains in tiie Limbs, Bae'j nd Chest ; and it ha# «ever failed. Sold by ruggists. Depot, 10 P 4 rk riaoe, New York* j FAIR WARNING ! ALL persons indebted to the firm of It. \\r i Satterfield A Bro.. are again, ami for th la»t th nr. notified to settle up at once, which, i vou fail to do upon the warning, you will i.,» required to settle with an officesof court. Wq must bring up oar business, as we are compell ed to have the money. Come up without delav friemls and patrons, and settle up your ac. counts, and let there he no strife between ns. R. W. SATTERFIELD * BHO. dec 14 ts THE HILTON 9LRSIEBIGS, OFFER for sale this season a large stoca „ grafted fruit trees, consisting of APPLES Southern varieties. PEACHES, PEARS aril PLUMS, CHERRIES, APRICOTS, also gra,i vines, strawberries Ac. B. HAMILTON' R. S. Bowie Traveling Agent, «m eanvasa Bartow county this fall. vans as# artersville, Ga., Aug. 7th 1871 J