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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. By S. H. SMITH & CO.] Professional ami linsincss * I——- —moBJiS w. MiLxn: WOFFORD & MILNER, at law, (VItTURSYILLE, GA. . p ~p stairs, Bank Block. / J * * 1 SJ-5-ts. /■i G. TL'MLUii (j. * ATTORNEY AT LA W , CARTERSVILLE, OA. Oflicc OW the Bank. |<>l s k l 7 moo n , ATTOII Ni; Y A T LA W , • CABtETtJfVILLE, GA, l \V ill ]>r;u lice in the counties comprising tbe v hcrokea Circuit, office over l.iehiuan’»store. | > W. MU Kill GY, A T*T OItNEY A T LA W , CARTERSViLI.E, 6.\. Will practice In the courts oCtlic Cherokee ( in-nit. Particular attention given to Ike col> < <•lii.il oiviaiiil-. OJll.e with Col. Alula John* Oct. 1. i’. wo/t<>ia>, ATTOIt NK Y A T LAA\ . CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE in Court-House- jan 20 »f7 POCTTE, A TTO It NE Y A T LA\V , CARTERSVILLE, GA ( With (Li- Wiirrrn Akin,) W 1,1 practice in Ine courts of Bartow, Court. Polk 1 lovil, Gordon, Murray, IN liitlleld an.l iwl Joining counties. 30. nrARREN A KIN, ATTORKEY A T LAW CARTERSVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the courts of the State. 11 li. McUANIEL, J. ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office with John W. Wofford. jan ’»- > , O. TRAMMELL. ATTO RN E Y A T LA W , CARTF.USVILL.3, GA OFFICE W. Main St., next door to Standard .V Express Office. Felt. 15,lfH3~wly. rjjl II OM A S W . I) oI)I* , ATTO R N E Y AT LA\V , OAUTERSVILLK, GEORGIA. (vFFICE over the Bank. } jnntsH- <2. CIN. wTt. WOFFRD. J No. 11. WIRES. Woflorcl dbs VirilAlo, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, ANI) Real list n ft* Agents, Carters! illc, On. : I'KCT A L ATTENTION pivdn lo the pur r.lia- e and sale of Beal Estate. -28-Orni. Dental Card. f |IHK undersigned, a practical dentist of 18 I year, experience, hav iug purchesed Prop erty and located pci matieiitly in the city of < artersy hie,tvtll rniittrme tho practice In rooms opposite tlio-e ol Wofford ,V Mil in the new building adjoining the Bank. With experience and application to mv profession, charges al ways reasonable and just, 1 hope to merit the patronage of a generous public. oilire hours, from November Ist proximo, 8 to P 2 A. M., Sto 5 I’. M. Sabbaths excepted. Culls answered at residence, opposito Baptist ehnrt-h. It. A. SEALE, 10-1; if Surgeon Dentist. DR. J. A. JACKSON, PRACTICING PHISUIAX AND SIRGEON. / \FFIOEtn W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next \/ door to Stokcly & Williams’. oet‘27 DU. C'HAS. D’ALVIGNy, , ,3if- Jp" i> e rs T t is t , Cartersvilks Gjt. SPECIAL ATTF.NTK'iX’given to children's teeth. 8-15— ' W. R. MounlfasUo, Tonvplgt and Watch and Clock Repairer, CAKTEUSVXLLK, GEORGIA. \>ilice in trout of A. A. skinner & Co’s Stove. THE AMERICAN HOTEL, ATLANTA. OEOItOIA, Having l>een thoroughly- repaired aiul refur iu*UeiL nit now, is now open Vo B O A R. 33 33 XL AND TUAWSiENS COMPANY, JOHN C. M.YKTIX, l’roprietof. .1. A\ . DYlitt, 'OUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL PAINTER, • TILT. <lo CHAINING in Oak, Walnut, fV Itir.t-.’-eye Maple, satin Wood, Malioga :m ii: • ■ '■ ■!. 'Also, 1 >1 IT \ fION of the different marLlos. Sienna, I ' • i. and Gold, St., Ain’s, Vev.l An iline, r.gvi i .a Green, Uotigc Hoi.,ltalian.)as „'r, Dove, i.l'k ltardilla, Derbyshire Spin 1 , and iranites. Returns his thanks to the eitizcnsof Carters ille and vicinity, for past favors, and holies .hat by a srriet attention to his profession to merit a continuance of their patronage. IVI .v. -1 y. w. u. lion;, jno. v. leigh, mii. ucctrux HOPE, LEIGH & CO., J Sucre* sorsjp Tamell, Leigh & Cos., | COMMISSION MERCHANTS, FOOT OF MARKET STItF.ET, t HATT*UrOOG.3, TEJt'A\ Prompt attention tu. Orders and Cush -Ad vances oa Consignments. Refer to Messrs. Satterfield, Pyrou & Cos., Cos., AV, AV. AVhite, .T. C. AVofford. Special reference to Hanks of Cliattauooga. , «20-6 m/■ |-|*|||% HOL L Y STEAM FLOURING MILLS, Cartersville, Ga., | hoen enlarged and improved with increased p rinding capacity, will now com mence grinding for the Pt'lll.lc for - the nsiiiaV ton. A good yield guaranteed and satisfaction given. Farmers, brin tin your grain, and we Avill grind it promptly. The AliU will rnn every day In the week, EXCEPT HONDA A'. FLOUR and MEAL On hand and for sale as heretofore. Highest price paid for WHEAT and COHN. i. C. MANSFIELD & CO. July 19,19T* I A'lus pDrivullc i Modi like * warranted not to ! contain a single particle of MfKcntv, or any i trtjitrious miner at oob»tanee, but is PURELY VEGETABLE. For FDB’l’l 1 l.Alka it Jins proved H- great value in all di»en*** of the Myck. Bowulh and KI dm;V s. Thousand* oi the good and great in all parts of the country vouch for its wonderful and peculiar power in purifying the Blood, stimiilatiag tin; torpid Liver amt bowel-, amt imparting new life and vigor to the u lioit sys tem. Simmons’ Liver Regulator i- acknowl edged to have no cquul m a LIVER MEDICINE. It contains four medical elements, never l>e fore uoiicd in the -tme happy proportion in an\ i.il, i j,m n:uion; viz. : a gentle Cathartic, a wonderful Tonic, an unexceptionable Alter ative, and a certain I • o-reetive of at 1 impurities of the body, such signal success lias attended it- nave tmgmrmsil u* tit« GREAT UNFAILING SPECI FIC for User Complaint and tho painful offspring thereof, to wit: Dyspepgln, Lon-tipation, Jaun dice, LiUions attacks, .■side Headache. Colic, Depression of >piril , .-sour Stomach, Heart Burn, it e,, A c. Begitlate the Liver and prevent CHILLS AND FEVER. Simmons’ Liver Regulator J. H. ZEILIN & Cos., MACON, GA., AMD PHILADELPHIA, Price sl. pr package; sent by mail, postage fluid $1.2.". Prepared ready for use in bottles, $1.50. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 4©"‘ Beware of all Counterfeits and Imitations Gilbert & Baxter, HARDWARE & IRON STORE, Agent- fer sale of Fertilizers. Agricultural and Mill Machinery, Engines, Grist, Saw and Sorghum Mills, Reapers and Mowers, Thresh ers and Sepmnters, Horse Powers, etc. For goods on Commission, at Manufacturers’ terms and prices. For our own goods. Terms Cash. march SH-lv STERLING SILVER-WARE. SIIAIM > & FLOYI > No. I».i Whitehall Street, ATLANTA. Specialty, Sterling l Silver-Ware. Special attention Is requested to the many new and elegant pieces manufactured express ly to mir order the past year, and quite recently completed. An unusually attraclive a-.-ortmeutofnovel ies in Fancy ,-diver, cased for Wedding and Holiday present., of a medium and expensiv character. The House wc represent manufacture on an unparalleled scale, employing on sterling sil . ver-Warc alone over One Hundred skilled hands, the mo lt accomplished talent in Design ing, and the best Labor-saving Mach inary, en abling them lo produce works of the highest character, at price I’N’A ITI’O.YCHKD by any competition. Our stock at present is the lar gest and most varied this side of Philadelphia Au examination of our stock and prices will guarantee our sales. OUR HOUSS USE ONLY 925 Dillilyll STERLING, 11)00 siul—tf SoietMDi to lie ConsideretL Cum petition is suM'tO liotlio life orinisinass but■ there i* another element cqally ns essen tial, which in promptne-.*. The former, at present, is flourishing, but tho latter is rather a low ol,]». All who are in favor of this latter ter element being revived—wc mean those who are entitled to exercise tlie right—will mani fest it by coming forward and paying up their notes and accounts due the undersigned. The truth of the business is, we neeiT onr money, and hope all tlicso indebted to us will call and settle up without further notice. 11 -7- tr. x. t; r lreatu x sox. NOTICE^ ~ Those indebted to me up to November Ist are requested to settle immediately. Relieve me M«o>we ! I NEED MONEY ! 11-7-ts. J. T. OWEN. PUNTERS'& MINERS’ BANK CARTERSVILIiE, GEORGIA, ORGANIZED JUNE, 1872. DIRECTORS: LEWIS TI MLIN, J. J. HOWARD, M. G. DOBBINS. JAS. \V. BALL, B. J. WILSON. M. Ct. DOBBINS President, D. W. K, PEACOCK, Cashier. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. SIOO,OOO. in 9 £50,000 mins Bank will do a regular discount and 1. exchange business; will receive deposits ot money lroui Courts, Tublie Institutions,-Ad ministrators, Guardians and private individu als of all professions, payable at rail or on time certificates of Deposit, and allow such interest as may be agreed upon. Collections a specialty CARTERSVILLE IVIALE HIGH SCHOOL. The Exercises of this Institution will com mence August sth, to continue four months. For. particulars apply to 0-ffi-lin. It. .JOHNSTON, I'niN'Cii'ii.. SHEPARD, BALDWIN & CO., Wholesale Dealers in LIQUORS and TOBACCOS, N 11 Decatur Street, Opposite Kimball House, ATLANTA, CEORCIA. sept 2il, 1873-wly BOARDING. WI7J: HAVE seemed the elegant Brick 1 t Mansion of Col. .lame- M. ( ailioun on tho eonirr of Alalwmaand Washington streets, to entertain Boarder*, and would lie thankful for such patronage as we may merit. Mila. N. J. CO EE, MltS. M. E. HAV. 29-1 . Atlanta, Ga. COTTON CROP OF 1812. ~g J, HOWARD tenders the use of his J • NEW COTTO GIN rtm bv WATER POWER, to the public and li is,file nils, and will GIN COTTON at tbe cus tomary rates of tlie country. Will furnish Bagging and Ties at Csirteisrilie prices to all customers, lie will run day and night if nee cssary, and will pack on the celebrated Brook*’ Press”. The Gin is located between theCassville Road ami the road leading to Mr. Baxter’s, one anil one-quarter biiles from town. Good roads leading from both public roads to tho Gin. Give this neiv, celebrated Water Gin a trial. J. J. HOWARD. r. S.—Foil Salk.—One good second-hand Griswold Gin and all the running gear in complete order; also an Utley Press will be sold on h credit until Ist .January, l«7ti. B-W-lm, J, J. HOWARD. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER W, 187*. THE t.KOBLIi LELISLiTttE IIESATOBS. First District—R E Lester. Second District—ll W Mattox, j Third District—J C Nicho!*. Fourth District—J M Arnow. Fifth District—M Kirkland. Sixth District—John D Knigbt. Seventh District—W L Clarke. Eighth District—D F Brinberry, RaJ. Ninth District —Reuben Jones. Tenth District—VV A Harris. Eleventh District—L C lIoyL Twelfth District- J E Garter. Thirteenth District—R G Black. Fourteenth District—C C Kibbee. Fifteenth District—D VV Cameron. Sixteenth District—J i Roberson. Seventeenth District—J S Cone. Eighteenth District—J G Cain. Nineteenth District—Columbus Heard’ Twentieth District—John A Gilmore. Twenty-first District—J B Deveaux, col. Twenty-second District —Thos J Sim mons. Twenty-third District—l II Anderson, col- Twcnty-fonrth District—B II Crawford, Twciity-fifth District—W P Maddox. Twenty-sixth District—W W Mathews, Twenty-seventh District—E Steadman. Twenty-eighth District—J W Hudson. Twenty-ninth District—W M Reese. Thirtieth District.—Robert Hester. Thirty-first District—VV S Erwin. Thirty-second District—W II McAfee. Thirty-third District—M Van Estes. Thirty-fourth District—Samuel J Winn. Thirty-fifth District—G Ilillyer. Thirty-sixth District—George L Peavy. Thirty-seventh District—G W Reddy. Thirty-eighth District—J A Illance. Thirty-ninth District—J F Brown. Fortieth District—H W Gannon. Forty-first District—J A Jervis. Forty-second District—John W Wofford. Forty-third District—L N Trammell. Forty-Fourth "District—W II Payne, RKPRKSENTATIVKS. Appling—Sellers Lee. Baker—YVm II Hargard. Baldwin—Wm M Williamson. Banks—James J Turnbull. Bartow—Thomas II Baker, Thomas Tum lin. Berrien—Wm II Snead. Bibb—C A Nutting, A 0 Bacon, A M Locket. Brooks—J H Hunter. Bryan—llenry E Smith. Bullock—Robert DeLoach. Burke—J A Shewmake, J B Jones, II C Glisson. Butts—M V McKibbin. Calhoun—Thos J Dunn. Camden—Ray Tompkins. Campbell—Thos M Latham. Carroll—Benjamin N Long, Rad. Catoosa—Nathan Lowe. Charlton—Geo VV Roberts. Chatham —T R Mills, Jr, G .V Mercer, A G McArthur. Chattahoochee—J M Cook. Chattooga—Robert W Jones. Cherokee—W A 'Beasley. Clark—ll II Carlton, Frank Jackson. Clay—John B Johnson. Clayton—LC Hutcherson. Clinch—Joseph Sirmons. Cobb—W D Anderson, J D Blackwell, j Coffee—John Lott. Columbia—Simmons C Lamkin, Wm Me- j Lean. Colquit—John Tucker. Coweta —A Moses, Auselin Leigh. Crawford—.l W Ellis. Dade— Dawson—Samuel N Fowler, Rad. Decatur—T A Swearingen, A Nicholson Rads. DeKalb—Samuel C Masters. Dodge—James M Buchan. Dooley—Hiram Williams. Dougherty—Win 1! Gilbert, Thomas R Lyon. Douglas—F M Duncan. Early—lt O Dunlap. Echols—lt W Phillips. Effirngham—C F Foy Elbert—J L Heard. Emanuel—Green B Spence. Fannin Duggar. Fayette—lt T Dorsey. Floyd—John R lowers, Fielding Higlit. Forsyth—Robert A Eakes. Franklin—R D Yow. Fulton—C Howell, W L Calhoun, E F lEoge. Gilmer—N L Osborne. Glasscock—Abraham Brasscll, negro. Green—i-G II Thompson, Jack Heard, ne- | groes. Gordon—R M Young. Gwinnett—James W Baxter, B A Blake ly- Habersham—James H Grant. Hall—Allen D Candler. Hancock—George F Pierce, Jr, John I. Culver. Harralson—lt 11. Ilutcliorson Harris—John V/ Murpliey, Flynn liar I gett. Hart—Moses A Duncan, Rad. Heard—M C Summerlin. Henry—Elijah Morris. Houston —G M T Fagin, VV A Mathew, C II Richardson. Irwin—Jacob Dorminy. Jackson—Greene R Duke. Jasper-x Lucius B Newton. Jefferson—Marcus A Evans, James Staple ton. Johnson—Robert J Hightower. Jones—Charles A Hamilton. Laurens —JolinT Duncan’ T ce—ll 13 Lipsey, W F Sadler. Liberty—llendley F Home. Lincoln—W D Tutt. Lowndes—Joseph A Ousley. Lumpkin—M F Wkelcliel. Macon—Leroy M. Felton, William II Wil lis. Madison —John F Kirk. Marion —Edgar M Butt. McDuffie—Alfred E Sturgis, Mclntosh—T G Campbell, Jr, negro. Meriwether —Jolmß Roper, 11 A L Free man Miller—lsaac A Bush. Milton—A S Bell. Mitchell—John B Twitty. Monroe—Wm J Dumas, A II Shi. Montgomery—John Mcßae. Morgan—Seaborn lteese, James G Bost wick. Murray—l3'F Wofford. Muscogee—John Peabody, Thos J Watt, j Newton—A B Simms, W F Davis. Oglethorpe—J T Hurt, Willis M Willing ham, Paulding—Robert Trammell. Pickens—A P Loveless, Rad. Pierce—B D Brantley. Pike—John 11 Jenkins. Polk—E D Hightower. Pulaski—T J Bankwell, C II Colding. Putnam—Wm F Jenkins. Quitman —llenry M Kaigler. Rabun-- Randolph—Wm Colman, Charles A Har ris. . Richmond—W A Clarke, P Walsh, II C Foster. Rockdale--James A Stewart. Schley*—C B Hudson. Screven —John C Dell. Spalding—William M Blanton. Stewart— Win VV Fitzgerald, John II Lowe. Sumter—Allen Fort, James II Black. Talbot—Roland M Willis, Cliartes B Leitner. Taliaferro—Samuel J Flynt. Taflnall—George M Edwards. Taylor—Bennet Stewart. Telfair-T J Smith. Terrell—W Kaigler. Thomas—A Fred Atkinson, Jasper Bat tle, col. Towns--Judge G Stephens. Troup —Francis M Longley, John L Hill. Twiggs—William Griffin, Rad. Cnion—Marion Williams. Upson— F F Mathews. Walker—J C Clements. Walton—Henry D McDaniel. Ware---John II Cason. Warren--C S Dußose, T N Poole. Washington—l 1 R Taliaferro, W G Mc- Bride. Wayne—Daniel llopps. Webster--.lohn P Beaty. White—A Merritt. Wilcox -George P Reid Wilkes—Thomas A Barksdale, John W Mattox. Wilkinson—W C Adams. Whitfield—Jackson Rogers. Worth--Dugal MeLellau. COTTON FACTORIES AT THE SOUTH. Aieex, S. C., November, 1872. Julitor of the N. Y. Journal of Com merce: It is astonishiug that the success of the few cotton factories at the South since the war has not induced capitalists from abroad to increase the number. From the reports of the President of the Grnuiteville Mills (five miles distant from Aiken) for the years 18G8, 1869 and 1870, I collect the fol lowing figures, and I learn that the report for tli3 past year was still more favorable. The machinery of this mill at the ex piration of the year consisted of 9,120 spindles and 337 looms, worn out, and its capital was injudiciously in creased from $169,000 to $716,500. — Yet, notwithstanding this great dis parity between capital and spindles, the exhibit develops the fact it has re newed the greater part of its machin ery, increasing its spindles to 24,000 , and its looms 570, and the productive j capacity from 60,000 to 175,000 yards per week, besides new houses for op eratives and other improvements, ana all this without stopping dividends or assessing the stockholders. In 1866 the oompany was owing $156,- 000, most of it bearing interest at 12 per cent., while in 1871 the surplus was $187,000. In the year ending March 1, 1871, 3,080,123 pounds of cotton was con sumed at an average cost of 17.13 cents per pound, producing: Yards. 3,444,076 4-4 sheetiug. 2,722,080 7-8 sheeting. 1,221,419 7-8 driling. 1,567,300 3-4 sheeting 8,954,875 at au average of 8.02 cents per yard. Total gross profits for the year Less expenses $45,554 38 Dividends paid 57,320 00 Carried to surplus fund. .$104,561 71 Balance to credit of surplus fund 82,069 77 Total $17,63148 At a meeting of tho stockholders in the spring of 1872, the President proposed to double the capsicity of the mill the three years, and yet pay a dividend of ton per cent, per an num. Can any Northern factory make u better exhibit? The cotton mills of Augusta and Columbus, Georgia, are doing proportionately well. The Augusta mills, with a capital stock of $600,000, had in 1870 $400,- 000 as a surplus fund, and commer cial (vipit’ll after ptiying quarterly dr. idciids ui spii cent., or 20 per . cut. per annum. It has been practically demonstra ted that cotton can be spun into yarns at the South for five cents per pound cheaper than it can be spun in Old or New England; consequently a proper ly conducted mill could make live cents on each pound of yarn more than Northern factories, which are and have been enriching their stockholders and peopling with teeming thousands tho rocky hills of the East. I would call particular attention to the following extract from a report made by Colonel J. 15. Palmer, Presi dent of the Saluda Cotton MilD, in 1869: I support these positions by the following statement of actual cost of manufacturing at the Saluda Mills, as shown by our books. It must be recollected that we have employed, in the manufacture of No. 20 yarns, only 4 000 spindles ( Jenks ring travelers). Os course, a greater number of spindles, of the production of yarns of a lower number, would ensue a less cost per pound. Labor —Superintendent, 37 cents; spinning, 76 cents; reel ing 75 cents $2 44. Repairs—Labor and materials 22. Packing, building, &c—Labor and materials 58. General expenses-Watck, 13 cents; hauling, 32 cents; findings, 20 cents; oil, 15 cents; salaries 64 cents;miscellaneous, 56 cents.. 200 Aikl-Loss by waste, 450.1b5. cot ton, costing S9O, making but 400 lbs. yarn 2 50 Ten per cent, for wear and tear of machinery, charged to pro duction, per lb 1 26 Total cost of manufacturing $9 90 Cost of cotton 20 00 Freight and insurance to New York or Philadelphia 80 Cost per 100 lb. of Southern vara No. 20, delivered in New York The very lowest estimates I have seen of the cost of manufactur ing at the North places like ex penses of manufacturing at per 100 lbs $lO 24 Loss by waste-Cotton at 20 cents in Columbia would be 221 cents in New York; 450 lbs. would cost slOl 25, making 400 lbs. yarn 2 81 Ten per cent, for wear and tear of machinery 1 26 sl4 31 Add cost of cotton 22 50 Cost of No. 20 yarns made North $36 81 Showing a difference in favor of the South of 7 01 Deduct commission, carriage, &c. 2 01 And we have a net profit of 5 cents per pound to the Southern manufac turer, provided he sells at the cost of Northern production. A manufacturer of cotton yarns from Manchester, England, after look ing at our books, told me that we manufacture cheaper than they did by about the difference in value of our currency and gold—that is to say, 4| cents pei’ pound. Among the advantages enjoyed by the South over the North, in manu facturing cotton, may be enumerated the following: 1. Here the raw material is pro duced, and by working it here various expenses incidental to its transporta tion could be saved—such as profits made by those who invest capital, time and labor iu moving it from place to place, insurance during trans portation, loss by samplings aud steal ages from the bales. 2. Experts claim that in our warm Southern clime cotton works to bet ter advantage, some estimating this advantage as high as ten per cent. 2. Reclamation on false-packed and damaged cotton is direct and easy. 4. Freights on manufactured goods are less iu proportion than on bulky i and hazardous bales of cotton. — Yarns can be delivered in New York, from this vicinity for 60 to 80 cents | per cwt. 5. Abundaut supply of operative labor at low rates and consequent ex emption from strikes. Northern su perintendents of Southern mills ad mit the superiority of our factory hands (white) sjad the eaee with which they are ©ontrolled. The ave rage wages paid at the Saluda Kills is $142 82 per annum. 6. The mildness of the climate en ables the operatives to enjoy a larger proportion of comforts on a given amount of wages. Ia cold climates a larger proportion ol carbonaceous fooil, nor do the houses for operatives , require to be so expensive as In colli er regions. Lumber of the best kinds cost only sl2 to sls per M. The short winters require less fuel. Land ia cheap, and each household can oave its garden, cows aud pigs. 7. There is a homo demand for goods—the larger couutry stores keep supplies of yarn for salt ns regularly as they do sheetings. 8. By purchasing seed cotton from the planters and ginning it as the cot ton is in a better condition 'or work ing than after it bos been compressed into bales, and after it has been com pressed into bales, aud the expense of packing the cotton, bagging, ties and handling would be saved, as well as well as the expense of rauniug it through the picker. The w&steage cotton undergoes in different ways has been estimated at one-tenth of the bale. The Langley Mills, ten miles from Aiken, were exempted by an Act of the Legislature from taxation for a term of years, and as there is a dispo sition to encourage manufactures, a like immunity would be granted to other companies. The remarkable healthfuluess of this sand hill region is not«d far and wide. For years Aiken has been, not only a resort for Northern invalids in winter, but also a retreat for the citi zens of the Southern coast regipus in summer. Situated among the piues iu tho heart of the “coitou region,” aud in close proximity to Augusta, the largest interior cotton market, and connected by rail with Charleston, one of tho best Southern sea-ports, this neighborhood is a favorable point for the location of factories. The pre eminent success of the Augusta, Gran iteville and Langley Mills warrants the opinion that other mills would prove successful. Could the entire crop of cottou be converted into yarns at the South and shipped abroad iu that form it would add $150,000,000 aunually to the wealth of this portion of the Uuited States. Foreign mills would adapt their machinery to working up the yarns instead of the raw cotton. If but one quarter of the crop could be thus converted it would be a great blessing to this couutry, aud enable numbers of womeu and children who are now dependent on others to sup port themselves. five-minutes chat with GIRLS. , The preacher will assure you, nays Dio. Lewis, that love to your God aud to your fellow-man is all there is of it. And yet ho goes on preaching aud exhortiug all his life. So I assure you that the laws of health are few and simple, and vet I have gone on preaching aud exhor ting for thirty years and shall keep it up as long as I live. Girls, the great obstacle in the way of your health and happiness is what we have been talking about all our lives —viz: shivery to custom or fash ion. To illustrate it for the tkousauth time, I will relate a fact. Years ago I sailed from New York on board the staunch old Cunarder Africa, bound for Liverpool. Among our passengers were some newly-mar ried couples. One of them was from Philadelphia. The bride waa a deli cate aud beautiful girl. My state-room joined theirs. Wo were scarcely out of the harbor be fore the lady began to vomit. During the entire voyage her sufferings were dreadful. The ship’s physician real ly became alarmed. A friend happen ed to cull me Doctor in the presence of the young husband, when ho ea gerly inquired. “Are you a physician?” “I said yes.” “Do come and see my wife, and for mercy’s sake try and save her.” We did everything in our power, but the sensitive brain would not be appeased and the retching aud fain ting continued until she was carried out of tho ship at Liverpool, more dead than alive. Two mouths after landing I hoard this beautiful, bright young woman describing, to a group of admiring friends, in a Parisian hotel, the spleu> dors of a sea-voyage. “Oh, it is magnificent!— the sea in a «torm —the wild mountain-waves crested everywhere with foam. OLi, that sea in a storm is perfectly glori ous !” The poor child had hoard fashion able people make such exclamations, as she had seen them wear absurd drss; as she had heard them talk ab surd nonsense; as she had seen them walk and wiggle aud giggle in au un natural and ridiculous manner. She, like too many girls, had aspirations for recognition among the fashionable. So, from her close little state room lying ilat on her back, retching and vomiting, fainting and dying, she saw the magnificent, glorious, foam cap ped waves.’’ Ah girls, if you could rise above such weakness, if you could only think and feel, dressfand walk, speak and act, for yourselves, what an im mense gain in all ways! How much you could help us in a higher life! Last Sunday a worthy father of a numerous family was taking one of his little on*es, & child of eight years, to church. On the way the little fel low met a playmate, and stopped to play marbles. A quarter of au hour after, his father saw him coming to him bathed in tears. “What is the matter,” he asked? “Papa, I have lost all my marbles.” “Os course ; God punishes you for not going to church.” “But, papa, neither did Joseph go, and ho has won.’’ A country deacon was called in by a colored family to make a few re marks at the funeral of their sou, in the absence of the only clergyman in tho place. The weeping friends were seated about tbe room, when he arose' and said: “It’s pretty bad; but if I were you I vyoulden’t taka on so. It’s all for the best. S’pose he’d lived aud growed up to be a fat, healthy boy —why he’ never be nothing but a nigger, anyhow!’’ 1 A GOOD STORY, THOUGH NOT NEW. One winter ovening a country store keeper in the Green Mountain State was about closmc up for the night, and while standing in the snow out side putting up the window saw through the glass a lounging, worthless fellow within grab a pound of fresh butter from the shelf aud cou oeal it iu his but. The act was no sooner detected than the revenge wan hit upuo, and a very few minutes found the Green Mountain storekeeper at once indulg ing his appetite for fun to the fullest extent, and paying off the thief with a facetious sort of torture, for which he would hare gained a premium from the old Inquisition. I say, Seth, said the storekeeper, coming in and dosing the door after him, slapping his hand over his shoul ders and stamping the snow off’ bis feet. Seth had his hand on the door, his hat on his head, and tbe roil of batter in his hat, anxious to make his exi t as soon as possible. I say, Seth, ait down; £ reckon, now, on such a cold night as this, a little something warm would not hurt a fel low. Seth felt very uncertain; he had the butter, and was exceeding anxious to be off; but the temptation of some thing warm sadly interfered with his resolution to go. This hesitation, however, was soon settled by the right owner of the butter taking Seth by the shoulders and planting him in a seat close to the stove, where he was in such a manner cornered in by the boxes and barrels that, while the gro cer stood before him, there was no possibility of getting out, and right in this very place, sure enough, the gro cer sat down. Soil), wo will have a little warm Santa Cruz, said the Green Mountain grocer; so he opened the stove door and stuffed iu as many sticks as the place would admit; without it you would freeze going home such a night as this. Seth already felt the butter settling down closer to his hair, and ho jumped up, declaring he must go. Not till you have something warm, Seth. Come, I have a story to tell you, and Soth was again rushed into his seat by his cunning tormentor. Oh! it is so hot here, said the thief, attempting to rise. Sit down, don’t be iu a hurry, re torted the grocer, pushing him back into his chair. But I have the cows to feed, aud the wood to split, aud I must be go ing, suid tho persecuted chap. But you mustn’t tear yourself away in this manner. Sit down; let the cows take care of themselves, and keep yourself cool; you appear to be a little fidgety, said tho roguish grocer, with a wicked leer. The next thing was tho production of two smoking glasses of het toddy, the very sight of which, in Seth’s pres ent situation, would have made the hair stand erect upon his head had it not been well oiled and kept down by the butter. Seth, I will give you a toast, now, aud you can butter it yourself, said tho grocer, with an air of such con summate simplicity that poor Seth believed himself unsuspected. Seth, here is a Christmas gcojo, well roast ed, eh ? And Seth, don’t you use hog’s fat, or common cooking butter to baste it with; come, take your butter—l me»o, Seth, your toddy. poor Seth now began to smoko as well as melt, and his mouth was lier nietrically sealed up as though he had beeu born dumb. Streak after streak of tbe butter came pouring from un der bis bat, and his handkerchief was already soaked with the greasy over flow. Talking away as if nothing was the matter,' the fun loving grocer kept poking wood into the stove, while poor Seth sat upright with his back against the counter aud his knees almost touching the red hot furnace before him. Co\d night this, said the groce I ’. Why, Seth, you seem to perspire as if you wore warm. Why don’t you take off your hat? Heie, let ine put your hat away. No, exclaimed poor Seth, at last.— No, I must go; let me out, 1 aiut well, let me go? A greasy cataract was pouring down tbe poor man’s face and neck, and soaking into his clothes, aud trickling down bis body into his boots, so that be was litteily in a perfect bath of oil. Well, good night, Seth said the hu morous Vermonter. if you will go; and added, as he darted out at the door— I say, Seth, I reckon the fun I have had out of you is worth niuopenco, so I skant charge you for that pound of butter- in your hut. “What are you about, my dear?’ said a grandmother to a little boy, who was idling about the room, and cast ing fur five glances at a gentleman who was paying a visit. “I’m trying to steal papa’s hat out of the room without letting the gentleman see it, for papa wants him to think ho’s out.’ Tux Roll Call « Hl.ivlN.-Ad inci dent is related by a Chaplain who was in the army during a hard fought battle. The hospital tent had been filled np fast, the wounded men had beeu brought to the rear. Among their number was a young man who had been mortally wounded, and not able to speak. It was near midnight, and many a loved one from their homes lay sleeping upon the buttle field that knows no waking until Jeeus shall cull them. The surgeons had baen on their ronnds of duty, aud for a moment all was quiet. Suddenly this young man, before speechless, calls in a clear, dis tinct voice: “Here!” The surgeou hastened to his side and a*ked what he wished. “Nothing,” he said; “they were cal ling the roll iu Heaven, and I answer ed to my name.” He turned his head aud was gone —gone to joiu tho great army whose uniforih is washed white in the blood of the Lamb. Reader, iu the great roll-call of Eternity, when your name shall be called can you answor “Hare!” Are you one of the soldiers of Christ, Cap tain of our Salvation?” A. Boston gentleman who could not waltz, offered a young lady SIOO if shs would let him hug her as much as tho man who had just waltzed with her. It was a good offer, and show ed that money was no object to him, but they put him out of the house so bard that his eyes were quite black. An Irish schoolmaster set the fol lowing “copy” for one of his pupils: “Idleness clothes a man with uaked ueee.’’* POETBY. JEXNY. On a sKBDjr hummer morning Karly u the dew «M dry, I'p the hill I went a berrying, Anti I’ll tell the reason why: farmer Uttu hml • daughter, And it happened that I knew On each sunny summer morning She went out a berrying too. Leeely work was picking berries. So I joined her on the MU; "Jenny, dear," said I, "your basket's Quite too large for one to fill." So we went about to ill it; Jenny talking—l was still leading where the hill was steepest, ricking berries up the hill. "I'his is up-hill work," said Jenny, "Se is life," said I, "but we Climbed the hill so well together. I'm thinking you and we Would de well to try a life-climb— What say you!" end came aad meet Colo? redder than the berries. As she garu a sweet consent. GONE! Over the west, to crimson turning, The sun, like n ruby sat in gold, “ —lt- nT fit arm kerning. fastens its mantle fold on fold. The sea like o maiden's faee is flawing, The sweet south wind is merrily blowing— Still I am sad, for summer is going— bummer is going—summer is gone! Sever a leaf on a treo is faded, Never a blade of grass is sere, Gayer and brighter the lowers ere shaded, fairer and fairer grows the year; Only— who knows what my fancy is show ing. Only the roses no longer arc growing— Only I feel that the summer is going bummer is going—summer is goual Brighter and brighter the skies ere shin ing, Deeper and deeper the freeh air thrilla, Largor and fuller the vines are twining. Clearer than ever the distaat hills; The lull tides sweep in their ebblug and flowing, Nothing it lost that is worth the knowing, Only I feel that the summer is going— Summer is golug—summer is gone! What do I mourns Whokuows? Vor sure ly Never was world more fair than new, from the harvest moon as it rides so purely To the red ripe apple upon the bough. What do I mourn? Alas, no knowing: , Nothing is lost that is worth the showing. Only I feel that summer is going— Summer is going—summer is gone! THE CRADLE SONG OF THE POOR. Winter approaches, and the liclpless, the in firm, the poverty-stricken ure seen on every hand. Those blessed with abundance should not forget the unfortunate. Thera is no such uuinixed happiness as that derived from the consciousness or good deeds giving happiness to others. Os all men that walk the streets, the pinched laces of the selfish, however blest by fortune, betray least of that sunshine ever beaming from the eyes of tbe generous and good. Read tho simple story that poverty tells —"The Uradle Song of the Boor.” liushi I cannot bear to hear thee Stretch thy hands in vain, I have got no bread to give thee, Nothing, child, to ease thy pain. When God sent thee first (to bless ine. Proud and thankful, too, was I; Now, my darling, I, thy mother, Almost long to soe thee die. Sleep, my darling, thou art weary; God is good, but life is dreary. I have watched thy beauty fading, Aud thy atreugtU sink day by day; Soon, I know will want and fever, Take thy little life away. Famine makes thy father reckless, Hope has left both him and me; We could suffer all, my baby, Had we but a crust for thee. Sleep, my darling, thou art weary; j God is good, but life is dreary. I Better thou shouldst perish early, Starve so soon, my darling one, Than live to want, to sin, to struggle Vainly, still, as I have done. Better that thy angel spirit With my joy, my peace were flown. Than thy heart grow cold uud careless. Reckless, hopeless, like my own. Sleep, my darling, thou art weary; God is good, but life is dreary. I am wasted, dear, with hunger, Ami my brain is all oppressed, I have scarcely strength to press thee, Wan aud feeble to my breast. Patience, baby, God will liclp us. Death will come to thee and me, He will take us to His Heaven, Whero no want or pain can be. Sleep, my darling, thou art weary; God is good, but life is dreary. Such the plaint that late and early. Did we listen, we might hear Close beside us—but tlia thunder Os .a city dulls our car. Evesy heart, like Gods bright ungel, bid one such sorrow cease; Godfhas glory when iiis children Bring his poor ones joy aud peace; Listen, nearer, while she slug*, Souudsthe flattering of wings. MODERN DICTIONARY. Water—A clear fluid ooce used at a drink. Honesty—Au excellent juke. Tongue—A little honso tlnst is con tinually running away. My Dear—Au expression used by man aud wife at the commtuooiuefit of a quarrel Bargain—A ludicrous transaction, in wliicli each party thiuks be cheated tbe other. Doctor—A man who kills you to day to save you from dying to-mor row. Wealth —The most respectable qual ity of men. Esquire—Every body, yet nobody, equal to a Colonel. Jury—Twelve prisoners in a box to try one or more at the bar. Sbite’s Evidence—A wretch wko is pardoned f>r being baser than his comrades. Modesty—A beautiful liiUa Jtlowsr that flourishes in secret places. Lawyer—A learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your snsmy aud keeps it for himself. Tbs Grave—An ugly hole iu the ground which lovers and poets wish they wets iu, but taka unoosoaou measures to keep out of. , Money—The god of the couutry. An old Dutch taveru keeper, who bed his third wife, thus expressed his views of matrimony: “VeU, >ou see, de first time I married for love—dst was goot; deu I marries for beauty — dat was goot, too, about os goot as ds first; but dis time I marries for mon ey, and dat ia better as both.” “Well farmer, you told us you pises was a good place for hunting; now ws have tramped it for three hours, aud found uo game.’’ “Just so,” said the farmer, “as a general thiug, tho leas game there is, the more hunting yon have.” A woman in Rutherfordton, N. C., has been fined by the Mayor of that ilk for the dreadful offence of nailing the marshal “Old pewter battous.” Where ia our boasted freedom ? RECREANT MINISTERS. W« clip the following from a West ern secular paper: The charcbea of all denominations have been sadly grieved in the last jemr or two by the fall into grievous sins of one or more of their popular ministers. So far as we remember ao church of any size has been exempt in this particular, or has aught to boost over their brethren of other churches. Many shallow reasonen have jumped to the conclusion that religion wiU be almost extinguished in our land, aud all confidence in the | clergy be destroyed by these sad oc currences. According to the last of the United States there were : orty -eight thousand six hnndred and eighty ministers of all sorts—Protest ant. Jewia and Rotnish in our coun try. Now, if they had fallen in the same proportion os the twelve apos tles under our Lord’s immediate su pervision, there woeld have been no less than aight thousand and thirteen of them who had fallen in the past three years, and yet one hundred, if not a less number, would include all who have fallen within that time. Whenever one folia now, his fall in all its aggravations, and often far beyond its real enormity, is proclaimed by ev ery newspaper and telegraph line in the whole country. It was not so twsnty-five or thirty years ago. “ But,” said a young coxcomb tbe other day in our hearing with a curl upon his lip, “ the preachers are getting to be the worst men in the land.” “Not so fast,” said we, “ young friend. Take forty-eight thousand doctors, og law yers, and apply the same strict test of moral conduct to them that you do to the ministers, every time one gets drunk, or is otherwise guilty of im moral conduct, put his name in the newspapers, and telegraph him all over the world, and you would not have room enough in the newspapers, were they ten times as large as they are, for oae in ten of tbe teles of scan dal that would fill them.” We say, after a long and intimate acquaintance with hundreds, yea, we might say, with thousands of ministers of all sects iu our land, ws have found the great mass of them neither im pure uor intemperate. From the New York Hernltl. A PLUCKY WOMAN. A Rrutal Negro Breaks into a Lady’s Sleeping Apartment—The Woman Instantly Shoots Him. A diabolical attempt was but a few nights ago made upon the family of one of the civilian employees of tho government at Fort Davis, Texas.— A feeling of dread apprehension and in security has for some time prevail ed among the officers and their fami lies, except a few who pooh-poohed and said that it was all imagination. About two o’clock one morning, Mrs. F. A. Kand&ll, whose husband is teuipui 'irily absent on duty, was awa ken . and by a noise ss of someone break ing hi iuu sash of a window opening from net sleeping apartment upon the porch iu the rear. She promptly a woko her companion, a young lady, and daughter of one of tlie officers of the garrison, and asked in a loud voice, “Who’s there?" Receiving no reply, the plucky little lady took her revolv er and listened. Bits of broken glass continued fall ing on the floor, convincing her that the fiend was persisting in his efforts to enter the room; and theu, with the consciousness that on her depended the safety of herself and companion from a fate worse than death, and doubtless their lives and those of her three little childreu, she called several times, “Who’s there?" and receiving uo reply, she stepped lo the window, and aiming over the bed occupied by her little ones, at a head just being thrust through the broken sash, fired. She heard, instantly after, the fall of a heavy body on the porch and a stifled groan. An examination proved him to be Corporal Taliaferro, a bidqpus negro belonging to Company I, Ninth Unit ed States cuvalry, one of the compan ies composing this garrison. The bulle t penetrated the skull and must have killed him instantly. E. G. S. Recently a colored citizen of Thom son, attempted to descend a ladder with • revolver in his coat-tail pocket. Alluding to the wound which was dis covered by the physician, the Journal says it has been skillfully probed with a broomstick, but the bullet hasn’t yet come down. At last accounts he was able to walk, very bench legged, and sits down the other way.—Red Top. The old woman who walks five miles to church every Sunday and takes care ot a ltu ge household, milks the cows and makes butter and cheese, bus been heard from. She dwells at present iu Lewiston, Me. Her name is Hobson, and her age is eighty-eight. The matter of walking to ehurch is said U> be Hobson’s choice. The approaching Legislature in Georgia wil! have the pleasuro of electing a successor in the Senate of the Uuited States to Hon. Joshua Hill. As Mr. HiU has announced that the “interest of his family” compels him to support General Grant of course General Grant will prove a most un gruteful fellow if he foils to support Mr. Hill’s family wheu the State of Georgia retiree from the business. THE SECRET. “I noticed,” said Franklin, “a me chanic among a number of others, at work on a house being erected but a little way horn my office, who always appeared to he iu a merry humor, wko had a kind word aud cheerful •mile for every one he met. Let the day be ever so cold, gloomy or sun less, a happy smile danced like a sun beam on his cheerful countenance.—* Meeting him one morning, I asked him to tell me the secret of his con stant flow of spirits.” “No secret, doctor,’’ he replied; “I have got one of tbe best wives, and when I go to work she has always a kind word of encouragement for me; aud when I go home she meets me with a smile and a kiss, and then tea is sure to be ready; and she has done so rnauy little thiugs tbrough the day to please me, that I cannot find it in my heart to speak au unkind word to any body.” What influence, then, has woman over the heart of man, to soften it and make it the foundation of cheerful and pure emotions. Speak gently, then; greetings after the toils of the day ore over cost nothing, and go far toward making home happy and peaceful. Mrs. O’Leary wonders “if them Bosting spalpeens will be after •chweariug that it was her poor baste of a cow that burned their city.* * VOL.IB-SO.SS. MECHANICS. Wbo built ail our cities, our Tilla ges, every hamlet sou cottaga in the land ? Mechanics. Who built every ship, steamer, ves sel and water craft that floats on every ocean, and plows the surface of I every river ? Mechanics. Who printed every Bible, hymn - ' book and newspaper, printed and bound every printed volume on the* globe ? Mechanics Who constructs all the workshops on the earth, and who runs them t Mechanics. Who makes every instrument of music from the organ down to the jews-harp ? Mechanics. Who makes all the agricultural im plements /or cultivating the soil, all nautical iuatr aments for navigation of the ocean ? Mechanics. Who constructs ell oar railroads, their locomotives and cars, the Pull man ears, and all the telegraph lines V Mechanics. Who makes all the magnificent fur niture that ornament the mansions of the rich—carpets, mantle ornament* silver and china table aarviee ? Me chanics. Who makes all the jewelry that adorn the persona of the ladies f Me chanics. What would the civilized world be without mechanics ? A waste, howl ing wilderness, and man a barbarian. We never think of this brave cUe4 of men, and their great work, with out a sense of profound gratitude per vading our whole nature. We honor and revere them for thsir gre.l achievements. We oannot espeut every fool to do so, however. MODERN COURTSHIP. One quiet day iu leafy June, when bees and birds were all in tuue, two lovers walked beneath the moon. The night was fair, so was the tuaid, they walked and talked beneath the shade, with none to ham or maks afraid. Her namo was Sal aud his was Jim, and she was fat aud he was slim; he took to her and she to him. Says Jim to Sul : “By all the snakes that squirm among the brush aud brakes, I love you better’u buckwheat oakes." Said she to Jim, since you’ve begun it, and been aud goue and done it, “ I love you next to u new bonnet." Says Jim to Sol: “My heart you’ve busted, but I have always gals mistrusted.” Says Sal to Jim: “I will be true, if you love me like I lovo you, no knife can cut our lovo iu two.” Suys Jun to Sal: “Through thick and thiu, for your true lover, couut me in, I’ll court no other gal ugiu.” Jim leuued to Sal, Sul leaned to Jim, his nose just touched beueath her chin, four lips met—went—ahem— ahem! And then—apd then—and then. Oh, gals! beware of man and June, and uuderueuth the silvery moon, when frogs and junebuge are in tune, lest you get your uome m the paper soon. Occasionally, when the train arrives at Middleton, Ct., a nice young mau jumps oil' and kisses the best looking girl at the depot, supposing her to be his sister. He apologizes so nioely that the gil ls are getting so that they look for him regularly. ANCIENT “UNCLE NED.” An old colored man* familiarly known as “Uncle Ned," living at the eastern terminus of Tatusll street, died on Saturday night at the advanc ed age of 112 years. He was partic ularly noted for his inordinate love of tobacco, and was constantly ohewiug. His death should be a warning to those who use the weed. CAN THIS BE TRUE ?—THE COT TON TAX IN CONGRESS. Referring to the fact that during this short JGongresa of only tl#ea months duration, several large lobby schemes will be pushed, among others the World thus speaks of the propos ed refunding of the cotton tax: Another subject which will be press ed upon Congress this winter by a powerful lobby, is the refunding of the cotton tax. We earnestly fought that tax when it was imposed, for reasons which we still believe sound. But the pretence of repaying it cov ers one of the most gigantic and most corrupt jobs even of this degenerate time. If Congress could restore the money to those from whom it was really taken, it might be very well; but that is as impracticable as it would be to take the water from the bed of the Mississippi, and reconvey it by artificial means to the thousand millions of acres of oozing soil which feed the first sources of the river.— The tax came out of the wages of the {ilantation hands; it came out of the essees or owners of cotton lands; it came out of the great mass of the cotton-growing community. If it were granted back, the lion’s share would go to the colossal ring of lob byists and cotton dealers who are pushing this scheme, and the rest to various eotton factors scattered through the South. The amount of the tax is seventy millions of dollars, and we have learnt, from an authen tic source, that there is a settled bar gain that the cotton ring shall have one-half of it, or thirty-five millions, if they succeed in carrying the job through Congress. We publish this statement for the purpose of provoking a reply from those interested and who know all about it. If the allegations are false they should be promptly and author itatively denied and refuted. Our columns shall be open for that pur pose. PAYMENT OP COST OF ADVER TISEMENTS IN ADVANCE. We beg leave to coll the attention of our county officers and others in terested, to the following act paased by the last Legislature, entitled an act to require the payment of cost in certain cases: Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That from and af ter the passage of this act, no sheriff or deputy sheriff in this State shall be required to advertise the property of anv defendant in fi. fa. for sale un til the cost of such advertisement shall have been first paid by the plaintiff in fi. fa., his agent or attor ney; provided, that when any such party plaintiff, or his agent or attor ney for him, shall make and file an affidavit in writing, that owing to hht poverty he is unable to pay such coat, then it shall be the duty of said sher iff or his deputy to proceed as now required by law. Section 2 repeals conflicting laws. Approved August 24,1872. Sheriff sales must be paid for in ad vance or no insertion. — Stan. A Ex.