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DlfrRtOOliATIC IN POUTXC8) FUHK AND.lJmA.tll'IirVTt, EN EiTiatlATtmK; AND X»noailEfciWIA r X3 IN SOirrllKUN IN'I'I'.III'XIV.
WHITMAN & WRENCH. • DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27,1870. - ’ VOL. ITl-NO. 4.
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i. a. n. hanks. fuhll. j:. a. nlviuOR.
'^Ai'Timxuys at law,
SpStMmln "ltltig SjtMffHii, HuUnn.Oa,
jj wa Kants, m.n.,
•I’bjolclnn, HtirRcon rtml Areourhoi'ir,
IlKtllllftoK MV,cl, in llio 1*1 I’HM'ii
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Soj liUloor, irB»t«lr#.lp Uleim liulltUtig,
Jauuh of Dutton iuuI Mirroandliui country.—
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"WlSf MISSION HKllCIIANTS,
A AWnicAitatcfctt., .‘■■i • 1 • •' • Y
AluUumn, 8tr., AtlnntA, On
M a WKn^fctWirtrufft*, 1’i-opriotor.
wimwirty.'diotV;' ! \ . v * - ■ ' ,
‘ No Autt.,fi;on»,l>0iio> fieri of
Scraps.
Com Is quoted at Chattanooga at 81.10,
Bulk moat, is@mj,.
. In a Now York court a gat Has rcoovor-
od $0,500 damages for slaudOr from Jior
X.W. Proctor, a Philadelphia mor-<|7' ,v f r ' 1 ? 01 v ' a Now Yoi-k-to San Francisco
chnnt has absconded with 830,000, leaving In six days-oountliig the l ino fVom New
From Liverpool to IJrtn I'nuiclscu in Six
, fc ' »nvh.
Undor llio aliovo heading the Pottsvlllo
(Pa.) Minor’s Journal notices tbs model of
a now railroad mid machluory by which,
it Is claimed that a trip can be made from
.jiialnuSofij; Tgim,
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-in; nor.iUliio,Uo Ulu A l.upitfO;i|inMl. , ■■ -■
ji.nIJ’AWIIW’iti 1
W . flAJUUCm A.UWCINS,
MilhiiriVoltivarifiiriit 'JoCwHof
Hats,' Gaps (vndftttmly’ Gorftds,
pAUJU..JO»J3 R , .i*.. , -
■>VholcsnW (Junior In
Brnitdloa, Wines, "wiilsklos, Ulus, AOh.
c'-l'sICcmTBil^STitli'A’i'r.ASTA,•■()!»:
P ws,sr .ATO«,t* *i*>»
"*■ WluH<M{iloananctan tloiOorSin
Groceries -Iffiil TiirtlsloiiSj
f v> ’ OoyiicMlrnniT Hint
s >,*(i»It»jcr’d OKIKliwul,)
Jniyi^a^ ; ' ugoitnfo. *
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Haiihmllor. Hlatlnum- "’><1 Ve„« limn,
Ami lleal.tr tfi livV ('.o-ale, Ihu'CCl-l.-s. I'ruillteo.
■1 1 l-.ci -Ip cMlM.roa, GA.
ProtlUeo Comml*Hlon Muivltiinli*, nml Dealers
nov Oiu* llftltlmoro.
^,-s AXo'i.ocKeJiiTii,
DuiUpr in
]few Guns, Pistols, CartridgeB, etc.
iMOfeKMittfBtiftM ntm8r<»n<u»liu»ii street.
Now miles mmlo to order, anrt nil rrpnlrtijK
(louo onuUpvt.npUoiv nnjLwnrmntuu,
uuu-ly
II. HKiNCVltm.
” u l<1i HIIOTMJ
j. :v am *<*
• • Wntnfoaaia
Grocers, Liquqr & Commissiou
48 South ITownrti U(>'vnpl Slypots. between
Lombard rftip.T’nitt
. ...V,. BAi/mioiiK.
Ordoys snlloltod,'- • ' -:■« mWJin
AEZSg**™*;'***-
Klhg Btreot, •Dftlion, broovitlit. I
(JlnliUN, nml Bxooutlve DmmrtmuitN ut U imh;
iutti D. t),: in tbuKuilurnl t'ouvtj* fiiv.thoNovtli-
omDlstnot or.UeoVgfu' nml unnkcuptj Conn nti
AtUvntaVUa. j In ilm Stale Cmn U U\ Urn t oniw
•h m&K tu ‘
ins. .uicfd'iivfi/
Waiicliriia'kc.r land Jeweled,
Shop In Dr. llrowu’w Now Drutf Store,
. ItumlUmi Btroot, Ibilton; QeoV^n.
Hnnilsomo nlnelc of imro .Imvolry, for LmlloH
nml (Joutlcim-n, wntelien, rloeki*, fie. Ib'I'ulr-
.. wcMumiij J«i>*ii
liabilities to tho amount of $188,000,
A fellow was only eent to tho Peniten
tiary for nlno years, In I’ennsylvanla, for
beating Ills boltor-lialf to death.
Chattanooga Is tohuvoaonohumlrcd
end llfty Uumsnnd duller lintel.
It Is Bald that tho Maxwell House had
bleared thirty thousand dollars to tho 1st
January.. .
Horace Greeley’s salary, as leading odl
tor or tho New York Tribune, Is $10,000
ayenr.
^lioOhlo, tho Cumberland and ilioTon-
nesscii rivers ere all on a big bust;
Tlio streams In Kentucky am said to be
higher than over known boforo.
A Cihclnnnlt dlspntoh sayB Mill Crook
Valley Is wholly submerged.
It required seventaen bridesmaids,
four ctorgymon and three bands of music
to carry on nn English wedding recently.
Tho coltan crop of Toxns will reach
800,0)0 bale's. The famous Boa Island
kind is now being grown extensively
there.
A'mob at Atclilson, Kansas, littng a
negroialit week for wounding a white mim
with a pistol.
Thoronre threo toils of frnukcd'muU nrnt-
lor In llio post-offleo at Alliens, Waiting
transportation in tho direction of tlio Se
quatchie Valley.
Old man Sphiner-has been reeling off a
yarn that tlio public debt is being largely
and rapidly rednood. A pleasant ftellon
which the old gontlomnii hlipself rio doqbb
believes. . *
Troubles are Itao blibies, they grow big
ger by nursing. •
* .Each niombor nl Congress goto 1,350
pounds of Agricultural Report, 081 pounds
of Patent OIBeo Report, and 1;840 pounds
of Congressional Globe.
It is very ourmntly rumored that Ren.
■Terry aspires to bo United States Senator
from Georgia, says the Costitiltion.
Til Rntler county, Mo., six'men'' hftd.-n
light in a Justice's ofllco, about a wqtoh.
Strnngo to soSf.only two men were killed
fatally..
Til 4,750 tenomniftlinnses in New York,
there are 30,018 lHmllibs, an average of a!
most nine families to a house.
. Gov. Alcorn has booh elected to the TJ.
R. Senate from' IR^iiSslppl for tlio long
term; and Ge.noral Ames, "'ho liianipnla-
ted- tbf. laic olecUon, : for llio unoxpired
term,
A New Yorker has sued Ills wife’B so
diuier and recovered Hwm tho churls of
Hint'Stato ‘$3,000 for tho loss ofherlovo
and to soothe Ills Wounded honor,
Much excitement4ms prevailed In Cork,
Irckimi, by a crowd firing at tho police
whllc’tha latter were. aUoiuplhlg to cap
lure deserters.
A TVomnn’s SullVngo Convention meets
in IVasblngton thin week, but General
Grelnt lias bearilcssly refused to lot the.
Uopartmeut clerks lrnvo holiday to attend
Its meetings.
A military expedition has, set out from
Helena' fbr Teton rlvor to dcmand.tho snr-
roiidorof the murder of ilalcolm Clark;
from the Rlaekfect Indians.
The Paraguayan Ijogiition, at Purls, do-
nles'that Lopez is a'fugitiv), and asserts
That lie Is in llio Great Cordilleras ut the
head of eight thousand mon.
It is H80rtcd.that tlio Canadian Cabi
net will abolish tho system of licenses to
American fislitrinoii, and will take
oil' sovcral dutiable articles from the, free
list, I ‘t,: 1 :
Tlio Red River war continues. The
French have seised the'safe of the H ud
son Bay Company ut Fort Gary, nml ta
ken a quarter of a million pounds in gold
to pay troops,
York to San Francisco In two and a half
daysl Wo ate pro'parsd In this ago of pro
gress for almost any Improvement or In
vention, and nro consequently not sur
prised at. tho crudulity of the Journal,
which says:
Wo woro shown yostorday tho model of
now rallrnnd and machinery Invoutod
by It, A. Wilder, Esq., for whloh ho lms
made application for a patent, by which
tho trip can bo made from'New York to
Sun Francisco In sixty hours, including
mo'dorntc stoppages at tlio principal points,'
with much more safety Ilian on tlio pres
ent road. There will bo four rails laid
down inslead.of two fora single track, and
will be laid ill Snell a manner that the road
calvbo used iu various ways. Wo aro not
nt liberty at present to give the full partic
ulars, but this much wo can say, Hint tlio
passengers and freight cars can be built
seventeen feet wido; that they enu bo run
at. the rate of sixty miles an hour, with
ilpublc. If not trobfe tlio safely, over-run
ning tho present cars at forty miles an
hour. That a doublo engine of sixty tons
will take olio thousand passengers In a sln-
glo train,' with less wunr.and tear to the
roadway than Is now caused by a thirty-
five ton engine. Tlio expenses of building
such a road will be nbuut 88,1180 a mile
more, than building one of llio present sln-
Id. lrauk roads, \vldclu_ for 8,000 miles.
mill uuiiiimii'-ii, >» nix m «•» ■
i nr, yHjiily-mi'lf.nl.Htimtlrtlly
KDlC-VI, AND 3UIIGTC/
M
,VL NOTICE.
l>r«. A. W. UiviujarK ^ »Oii,
Formerly of Bontlr Carol Inn,
Tomler tliolr Profeuiiloaul Hervhies to the oilI-
aojin of Daltor *
oial uliuntlon
Itoji ami HtitTouiiillJiK coqutry. 8i»o-
Lqii h I von-to till oLroinci ntMtM.
irliij? tlUHlay,*M*r»o>’of Klnujt l'tinlx
«l nl«l»t at I’uMtUMotj on ’i homton
otllue, rtnrlng
HtrooU, ami nljjbt ... ..... -
Avon no, formerly ooouplbtt by Mr. •!. II. KI11J5.
A. W. UlvliiKH,) . . -f «.,U
•J.G.Divings, ] .TannaryJ-ly.
. n. li. tmoSvx,
•men
jy ** ” * KikoStu., DM.
Insurance and Land Agent.
ASOTtTO/TOnaUfomuUtlrolnsomneeCom-
punv | nlso, JtalVivoi, Slid .himisjtlvor
Jf’h’U IiiNumneo Coninunli’H, of > it.,,
v i< Brit6rpWaot Clrternimtl.artil
l’utnam, llartfonl.
* ALfiO, OKNKliAL LAND -AGENT
For nnyIhwIy wlio on t rnla thMr UhfI nohh t o It Im.
Ad*RofotM to CM. (ML Wolttorn, Atlanta: anil
Col. W. II. Tibbs, Lowry * Eiwon, Hon. 1>. A.
■pBNTlST. opiTlii;.,
Fprmi-rly of O.iinily, U',.-n
■ T,i«*pfoniilvohf siiylnR Ifitt lie Inn wnna-
iientlv locuteil In I>1111011 Slid now Qtfcfu lil» »or.
vlotr-to-t-ao neoplo o* tills Iiir.l .in-vonmltiia
oDUntry.* All work wnrntntM, lorinw eiisn.
All Otsunsos of tho tcolli trostml niiCCTSsfii IV.
nr 110 pay roquiriHl. Artinolsl ti-rlli lotorteil
on tliu riililicr bnsls, or any way proliirrml-
aiiJkUion.
mrri“
G. W. Smalley, the well known corres
pondent of llio N. Y> Tribune, attended
tlio o[Hiuiugof the Suez.Canal. Of Egypt
Unsays:
Egypt Is Inexpressibly painful. Another
Easiuru country niny’ be equally bo, or
more so; I know none of them.. But ill
Egypt 1 saw . for tho first time a mlsciy
among.the people that I could imtehduro.
Heaven knows there is cuuugli of it iu Eu
rope. A man need not leave London to
find it; nor can lie escape it ill any city or
country. I lmd soen Ireland you know
wlmt that is; I had seen French villages,
where moil anil women work 10 hours n
day oi| two nioals of boiled greens; I had
spent three months iii.8|«iin, tho most
wretched country of Europe, nml counted
one afternoon iu the-main street of Mud-
aifamileh
OlHco with Dr. BivlnBon,l
i. tin; ooly
Livery, Feed nml Sale Stable,
..Crawforcl Stvom, Pulton, (In
Wlioro bo .will lio pi on him I to furnUli lo Um
pnhllq, nt nil bonr»,-No..l IforsoH nml Now Bug-
Kl<!». ‘ I hnvo a eomuioUloua llnuk; uHo ft
" -“ • -- '• • *“*■ wpubl
waaon. uml bnrsr.M, to let: nml voulil ic-
HIMiotfnllyuftk UHicjLl/.cns nun pubHf*orf»orftBy
toglY^nU'ftcull.' Stoolc fofl on nborf.notleo,
‘i’ormsjnoiTovjitr. 'Will biwor noil stock.
VlBfiOLUTION OF GOlUnTXKRSILIl\-Tlio
/ oopiirtnorablr *“ <‘~ rJ •*—
» nnmo and »ty
B UlDWELTi’S COAL OIL ttUkASK-tliobeFt
uriiclo In pso for Cnnilil«« H, Whmohh, nml
ami OVcnaintr. Call nud net a box. <>ulv tvron
t>* tIvpruiHH,at . Lowhy A Eason’s.
rio . Imuk romtfl, wlucn; tor ibIIob,
rom Now York tO'San Francisco, would
jo nil extra exponso of only 834,000,000.—
A sluglo passenger, merclmudiseor bng-
gngo ear, capable of carrying doublo the
liumber of passemrers nml double tho quan
tity of merchandise, -will weigh at least
live toneless llian.iuiy two of the cars now
in use. The capacity of tho road, single
i-raek, Wlltbo nearly, if not quite, threo
times as great as thatwf Ihonroscntslttgle
lines. There will.be no .oscillating move
ment in the cars wliuu running at a high
rata of speed; and it 1b allnostlmpossiblo.
for a car to bo overturned hi enso of mi ac
cident. On Buch a'l'ond, with passenger
cars seventeen,feet wido, they can befitted
up witli state-rooms, &c., and with near-;
ly nil tho comforts that can no obtained In
a first-elass hotel.
Should the project also be carried but of
extending a railroad from New York to
the most remote point in New Foundland,
nnd establish a line of steamers to cross
the ocean in three days',from that ]sjlnt—
which can bo done, ns tho distance Is only
1,200 milfrt—the distance frphi Liverpool
to New York rajj be mnde In six. days;
add two aii.l a iialf jneretlays to San Fran
cisco, tho whole mute cun bc traveled in
ahoiitnlne days,-n distance of upwnvjls of
a,000 miles, Is not this a Wonderful age?
Tile nysl.rl.nil tunkths CInhm.ii,
. Congress is perplcxcd-Over .a mysterious
little mil of S?0,n!l0 for-looking glasses (1)
in tile Treasury Uepartiheiil. Mr. MeGer-
tee. Sripwmtondenftif the Treasury De-
parl ment, fit the time tho iiurenascs
were made, denies. all knowledge of tlio
matter. Mr. Mullettwnslieforutlio House
Appropriation Committee on tlio letli, but
eouhl givo no satisfiyatipn tis to wbo.wns
resiioiislble. -It is Ine.iateiilion, of tlio
comirilttfSe 16 strike out the appropriation
nske'd for-ontil something more definite is
known. ,
Under Rndical rule there lmve'beon from
one to two hundred -grass willows” and
pretty girlssif various degrees of grnsBi-
ncss,. wh" have heen drawing snlnrics as
Oii-rks .iii the .Treasury Deparlmuiil; hut
most of wiiom owed tlu-ir position tli,oro,
it has hc-en ssid, to tho favor of forty or
fifty “lending Senators or mcmllors of Con
gress,” who have thus been enabled to
nntlntain one or more tiuatruasoa In Wash
ington, year in amt year out, at Hie ;h-o-
lili-'s cxixmse. It has been said that tho
Treasury Department has been turned in-
to-n grand hagnlo.or iissigimUon house—
andcortalnfy somoof the evidence elicited
at a certain investigation in 1802 did look
like it. These ‘.'leadingSeiintorsniul mem-
bcrS'nf Ci)Ugress”aro mostly nmrriod men
mul Uiey nro accustomed to justify Hie se
verest measures of vengeance upon the
Southern States by n loud talk about the
“Interests of morality” nml. “progress,”
These arc the men who are ruling the coun
try. No doubt there have been- some re
spectable and deserving women employed
ill the Treasury Department; hut Hie indi
cations seem to bo Hint they did not con
stitute tho nmjorily.. But few are now
•employed. Bettor pay tlm hill ami hide
the disgraceful record from slgiifc—Uiirt-
ford ’limes.
Lon- Price or Wlicnt nml Flour.
Tho low prloes of wheat,and' Ilnur |n tho
great AVoat Is thus accounted fbr by a Now
-York,paper!-
Why, tlion. the low prices? First, ‘ tho
deolino in gold, nilil'next, the want or a
sound and roliablo fiimiielal policy oil Hie
ljart of the Federal ndmhiistratlon^ hnvo
prloes or in any regular course of trade,—
l’oqple will neither dean nor invest their
money. IiUho-mcnnUmo, the grcht pro
ducing Interests of tlio country are sovero
sufl'orors—selling their products at a loss-
ami t)ielr misfortunes react upon the whole
liUSluoRS eoinmuutly. It is to bo hopod
tlicsa. things will not .ho forgotten when
members of Congress nro to ho chosen next
fall, and that abettor commercial knowl
edge and financial Integrity will bo Infused
Into that gathering of babblers at Wash
ington.” '
A 1’nritdlNo for TItlevon. .
ThoMomphls Avalancho says another
El Dorado has. been opened to carpet-bag
gers. When Tettnossoo passed from Bnd-
icnl rnlo they migrated to Mississippi.—
But the reconstruetlon of that State Will
cause another exodus. Alcorn does net
seolh to favor 'thcifi, nnd if dclorndned,
will see that their bods are not made of
roses, Thera is nothing toft to steal In
Arkansas or Louisiana, ami tho'diiy’for
fat pickings has passed in Texas. But
Georgia is rith. Her broad acres yield
millions, which fliid their way into tile
Tronaury. As- Mr. Squeer’s sold of tho,
milk: “Hero’s richness.’’ - Georgia is to'
bo reobnstructed; 8h? is to be onco morq
ground llirougli tho mill. Wluvt is not, Is
tofid. Whatls,ishol tobo. .Thocarpet-
baggefs, tho scalawags nnd-tho doyll aro to
hold high carnival for a year oi two;—
Hundreds of offices aro to ho emptied, aiid
ho refilled avllh worse ltieii,' If possiblo,
than now"in them. Slxtcon-Strlng Jack
-will come down tho chlmrioy, Fra Ifiavold
into tlio 'window and' Mophitophires
through- llio kOy-holo. For two ychrs
Georgia bids fair to become a cntpetliag-
gor paradise. For two years It will be
hoove decent men to fajejf oho lighd oh
their pocket-books and tbo oflior.to theli-
noses, for the stench will bo terrible.—
Nothing iviJI exceed it in volume hut tho
stalling. Four Geoi-glal
Tlio Boy of the Pevled.
A lady walking along, tlio street Was at-
tinotad by the bright oj-cs and hlondo curls
of a little iirehin seated 6u the curb-stone,
Slid nppronohed and ■ asked him if lie wru
anewb-buy. “No, ma’am; I aln’tn'of
t.” '“Hi •
Tho Storm of Monit(i3’.
The terrific storm of wind and rain last
Monday appears to have traversed a wido
extent of country add done a great deal
of damage. At Knoxville, suvc-riil busi
ness houses woro unroofed, chimneys blown
down; and things knocked about, for a
while in tlie liveliest sort of maimer. No
casualty of a ftital character- is reported.
At Mossy Greek, tlio now Presbyterian
Clulrob.lmilding ill courpo of erection, was
destroyed. On tho Memphis and Chai-Ies-
tonltoad, below Stevenson, a brick do-
pot was completely demolished and luium-
tijr of bales of cotton blown “clean out of
sight.” At Nnahvlllo, ono building was
blown down, nml several others unroofed.
Gave City, on tholine of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, is reported almost en
tirely destroyed nml eight or ten persons
kitltid | a number of others were injured."—
A dispatch to the Courier-Journal, dated
from tho unfortunate town, says: About
ftft- 1 ' ' ■
Nlton'-Flaliqs.
Out rtf tlio Islsoni tit Hid air,
Outer tlloclomUolilnol la-r :utim on t» ilaiki-n
6vor tl\o wooitlamts la-own umlbaio,
Oyer.tho lilirVosl flolils ,1'oi-Hakon, i
sin-at, uml nett, mul slow.
IJososmls tbo biiow.
Kvrn ns our olouily fanobiB talro
Siultlculy Blispo la Bomb aivtnp expression,
Kvun ns ths troublart heart dolli nmke
In tbo,wUits couutoiinnooconfijsBton(
Tbs'troubled slcy.roVi-sU ’
Tbo Brief It feeln.
This Is tbopoem of tlm sir,
Slowly in flltmt DiU'li -i record od |
Thld In tiio soorot Of dospslr,
Lonif In Us olouily bosom boarded,
Now whispered nnd rovwiled
To wood and Hold.
A Wclnro of Floating Washington No-
cloty.
Tlio Now York Sun’s ■Washington cor-
spondont draWs tho following picture of
taehingtoii sooiety,, Hits any body snub
bed him?
Shoddy and Potrolcum aro spreading
their wings hero in all tliolr trtimiiery and
splendor. They have taken possession of
society, and affect tlio airs of their betters
In a most ludicrous manner. Such intenso
vulgarity anil low brooding hayo never be
fore boon witnessed In hlgh places, nor
were thoy tolerated nnlongthoso who once
gavo social tone and- elevation to this com
munity. The obtrusion of Ignorance,
combined with money, no matter how ac
quired, and conspicuous fcnturcs.at the of-
’ it-
detai and scml-omclnl rbeoptions. ns they
nro called, and at most of the pretentious
ntortalumeuts. It is clutto fuuny to See
uX-stovo sailors from New York niul.olso-
wlioro turning their backs upon their for
mer frlonds, setting up for fashion, nnd
thrusting their coarseness forward on ev
ery possiblo occasion. Adventurers, eon-
tractors, jobbers, plumbers, arid illtby in
triguers are In thbnsecudant. ahoy rnlo,
and are tho fiivoritcs of fortune, and no-
and pro-
inrfi” “Have ymi -no homo?” “No,”,
“ Wouldn’t you like, to have one?” “Yon
liet..’’ “You should not speak so idly, my-
Sqti._ Rut come; - how- would- you like to
have me for a moUiol'V’’ Tlio little fellow
scanned her from bond to fool for a nib-,
picut, nnd thou inquired: “Would you
whip riio?i’ “Not unless you werebnd.”
“Let mo golinre-fooled?” “No.” “l’lay
boss?” “No.” “Piiil tlio-cat’s tail?”—
“No.” .“Licktilepmidin’dish?;’ “No.”
“Ouss?” “No.” “Chaw tolineco?.”—
“Nor 1 ,’ ”,Smoke?” “No.” “Then go
alongwitlrvou; you don’t know any thing.
I reckon next you’d say a feller shouldn’t,
cross Iris' legs aud sing, ‘Gome Along Jo-
sey,-’ ” Ami the little Rjllow’s face glow-
A witha seuso of inofiablocontenipt.
lEoga Kluiixhtorcd.
The dUl'ereriqo In tho numhor 'of liogs
slaughtered during 'tho season just closing
and.Unit of tho previous year is 893,173^-
Uipavcrago weight, however, of tlio last
Is above thatoEHieformor. l’liese figures
Include full returns "frdm all tbo leading
packing, points, and forty-two mlnoi; pla
ces Iu tlie West, and It is oxpoeted that
wlth’Hiq shigle exceptions ofOhicngo and
Iuwa, the slauglitoring -season will close
this week. The total number of packing
points is 180, In Illbiois, including Chi
cago, there is a deficiency of 300,000 hogs,
and it is estimated that Indiana falls short
fully 75,000 hogs-this year, while from
Oldo tho returns contain vory slowly, with
a tlefieleiicy in Cihclttnatl.
rid, half a mile long, a hundred and forty-
suven horrible beggars. Butin Egypt .Hu
misery is obtrusive arid oppressive, and lib
Inst intolerable. Tlio Egypt of to-day is
filled with horrors. Till you Imye seen
that .eonutry, yon liuvo rio conception of
wlmtpovorly is; the poverty which weighs,
not <m imllviduitls as a consequence of
idleni-ss or misfortune, or want of work,
but the poverty whioli is a heritage of r
whole race of patient, industrious men and
womon. I would givo something to for
get wluvt I saw—to forget, for instarico,
tile swarms of child rcn siiftbring, as almost
every ono docs, from an qplfUialimq tlm,
makes tliem the proy of elusteriug and
festering Dios.
. CapItnllNts Coming to tieorirln.
The Savannnh Republican says that Mr,
,1. W. Gregory, of tlie Farmers Club of
New York, has just arrived ill that city
wlthniiarly of capitalists, who propose
ta locate alargo eohmyon the const of
Georgtu or in FR>rida. Tliolr more un- °
mcdlato objective point is tho neigliber- cubn,
hood of Medway river, In Liberty county, | Tho correspmnlniit of the Journal of
'which, with other places, they will visit | Commerce, in Washington, writes: “Don't
riud
then
dored homeless ami uestituto. ol el
and jood.. It nil occurred in less than Iwo
minutes. The moon went down-before'
day, and tho darkncos was IriUinse. Tlie
houses were literally torn to splinters, not
cvoii a wliolo sliinglo lieiiig left. Some
were carried away nnd scattered to Uio
winds, and others crushed upon their fbrin-
dntions. AdispqudV from LouisvillOsays:
Everyhouso butween Gliuigovv ncd'Oavo
City wore prostrated by tho storm; twon-
ty-fivo lives were lost. The.lqst is proba
bly an exriggrfation. The accounts from
points further North ami West, represent
the streams as much swollen, pud moiuor
less danuVge hi their immediate vicinity.
In this neighborhood tlio storm of wind
and rain was violent slid lasted lfcarly an
hour, hut ns far its ivo have "heard, wilhuut
other dailinge flmn the overflowing uf the
bptlorii lands and tlie pros trillion of i; good
A MlBBlojinvy's Bnufflitor Vlio Qnoeu or
tlie Flillnilelplila Forty Tbloves. .
The Philadelphia Ago says that Emma
West Danlleld is Quconef a gaiig in that
city known as tlio “ Forty Thioves.” She
is a young woman. Her age is twonty-
ono years, nml slie Is noltlier protty nor
exceedingly plain iu np]»anmco. Sho
stales that shu is the daughter of a local
pronchor livingin Uernmiitown, who once
was a' missionary to India. For mpr-
than tivo years sho lms Ixien ono of; Hi
moving spirits of tho “Forty Thioves, ”-
Against the entreaties of her parents,
against all tlio petitions of her friends to
return to her homo nnd-stay there, sho
turned ndeuf ear. Wherever tho
held its rendezvous, there she wouli ,
nnd remain for wooks nfra time, dolngtho
cooking for tho yagnbonds who composed
It. Iu a hollow, made by the intersection
of the Junction railwny enihankmelitwlth
that of tho Nortieton'n railway, tlio mefn-
lxirs gonomUy assembled. Old rails and
boards were leaned against one bf the
steep embankments, rind this formed a
rude shelter under which llio gang slept.
A pile of old railroad tics, nonr by, was us
ed lo cover up the booty that was secured
:in tlio city, uy rohbors of overy descrip
tion. Tlie stump of atreo was burned
out, and made quite a stove, by which Uie
‘.‘Qncell” cooked the food for tho thieves,
.This girl has hecn oftcu nu inmate of tlio
st&ttou-housM. Slie is euriuing in her
•speech, relative to.tho -operations of tlio
'gang. Sho traces her first step downward
lo the hilluenco of a'near relative.
Apponrnneo of llio Holy Fstbor.
A correspondent of Hie'NcW York Tri
bune, who writes from Romo Hie day nftor
-Cliristmns, describes some of the churcll
scenes attendant upon the holiday senson
The writer was within a few steps of ono
of tbo'proco68iO!is cfi'Christmas eve, aud
saw the Pope near by, TIe.says:
“Tho Popolookcd aged auddecrepld. ,
His face was pale, or perhaps rather sal
low, witli a smile ot habitual bonignity
playing upon Ills lips. Tlio expression of
lilt ;(3;,tures Indicated less activity of in
tellect than is shown in Iris usual por-
examine during Iho present week, and j believe relioris nlKiut ti.o failure 6f tho
, iii»-iinn(i pvti-nO fiRtle lAm-rinv ini,, Guban cause. They are Cilse. It is npw
1 perhaps,-exhum their jonim.y lute Jfost jlvcly* assorUa that the, Admiiiietra-
iioii will deal more lilierally willi the Cn-
lians. Your', cofrespondent- asked how
Florida. Theft colony consists 'of farmers
and machinists chi,-lly from abroad, nml
they propose to make their settlement as
soon ns tho lands are secured.
flood.
Tlie Mississippi Radicals, it nppei
ent a full-blooded negro to the I
Ill'S,
have sent a full-blooded negro to tho Uni
ted States Sounta fertile shortterm, to end
in-1871. Glvehimthc sent closest to .Sum
ner,
frnmthisState, He isnltadlcal b
I’rotiy Wood.
How 'InqtinNiMt
Tlio Atlanta Era Is vory Jubilant ifboat
lolling Iho people *ltat the Stale .Road is is n (^'.indidate rnr Uniled States
makh!gibutlhoiwo(dowauttqkqowftlmt *■ “ " '
Is being done, with llio moiiey.
CoiiiIhh' Nftiinntlon. . f
t T1io Atlanta GonslUiilioii snys Hint city
is to bo attacked by a “Woman’s Rights”
gal shortly. Sho Is going to make a speech.
Sloro t'ounlerfolts. . '*'■
A New York .paper says: Dangerous
counterfoils.of llio fifty cent'fractional
notes of the new Lincoln vignette issue
lmvo Just heen put in circulation. The
hacks nrc very good, hut tho faces of tile
notes lopk rather dark and blurred.
~r
ccssarily'of society. Deltcney-and pro
priety have boon put on tlie retired list. , •
Through Tickets Arbuurt llio World.
It 1b annoqnfccd that 6110 of 'tho loading
Eastern railways lias nn arrangement
nearly cbmplclijd to Issuo through tlckeia-
by rail and steamer around tlio world. It
is believed tlio wholo thing can ho coinplo.
ted by the 1st of February. . The tickets
ntc to be good until used, giving.travolors
an opportunity to riinko excursions hi Ja
pan, Ohina.nnd the Holy Land, or whore-
over tourists rimy he disposed to lonvo tho
mate line of travel. Tho rirmngoinonts
are now complete, and prices fixed fVom
New York; ns far east Os Alexandria, In
Egypt, nndwost toYokolmmnand Shang
hai. An agent Is rioW on his Waytoar-
rangq witli- thb, English steanisliip' fines
hctwecii China and tho'bond of tho Red
Son and tho rftllway to Alexandria, As
soon ns this Is done, It will be announced
In Now York by. telegraph, nnd Uie tipk-
ots will he ready, fiir delfvcry,
A tnl^p of 'distances, with tlftio, between
important points, etc., to to bo printed
upon them, atul a synopsis of nil inform*-'
tion that will ho essontiol to the traveler
The whole Irlp can he made 'luSUlo of
nlpety days, and the cutire cost will ho
ribbiit seven hundred and fifty dollars In
gold. Wo are not Informed whctller thto
sum will lneiudo state-room and meals
upon Btonmcrs, npd berths on PalUuan’s
palaco car "ftno from N cw • York to San
Franclsoo, hut wo presumo It will, for Uto>
intended to combino tho highest possible
spend and comfort for tho-travelcr, The
scheme to linportant (nlta,mftgriltiido,and<
probable results upon tlio commerce und
the civilization of the world, but jtlsnow
certain that'it few weeks, aVmost, will
see It fully realized'. Tho cost" of an en-
tlnftrlp around the world will lie froth a
thousand to twclvo hundred , dolktra In
coin. *
Tkrco Dcutl ulptblcd In tho Wootl.”
On Now Year’s day throe children, .sons
Joseph Wyhle, a respectable laboring man
residing near Pompton, in Paaslo county,
N. J., at llio base of tho Wynockio moun-
tain, left home for tho purpose of “going
nutting” in tlm' woods on'the mountain.
It was four o’clock ,when they left horiio,
so that their failure to: return before night
fall occasioned but little alarm. Alter
that, however, tliolr canHriuod absence
rondorod the distracted parents.almost
frantic. The fearful rain storm noxt day
fearfully intensified tbo feolings of tlib be
reaved father and ihothcr, inasmuch ns
their little darlings hml not yet been seen
or heard from. On Monday a search wns
mndebyanumberoftheoountry people, but
nothing could ho discovered of tho where
abouts of tlm missing children',, whose ara
wore respectively ten, seven, and five
years. Tlio cutire neighborhood at length
joined In tho soarph, audit was not til)
Heavy on Nyo.
Senator Nyo, of Novadn, was somowhat
snubbed when ftp stated in the Sennto that
'•‘the Democrats never went into Hie war. •*
“Why, slr j ”rcsponded SountorThurman,
“my own county, with Its Democratic ma
jority of threo thousand, scntmoro Dcmo-
errits to the war than there nrovotofB in
the. wholo State of NovadaJ’'
Transfer or Fnxllxli Ootton Hills to
‘“its America, j: r
An oxeliango says It Is reimrled that
John Bright to building cotton mill? in
Amoripa, and' tlriit Whitworth, tho great
English maclilntet, Ins already an estah-
llslimsnt on this side of tho water mnnu-
fitcturlng cotton machinery. Tho host
class of English mechanics, too, are emi
grating tq the Unlted Stptos; and a totter
from Londofi Bjiceulalcs upon tho proba-
hlllly that ore long “Lancashire will bo a
weird wilderness of smokeless chimneys. ”
Pulpit tloqucnoo.
Tlio following occurred in a sermon dc
llvCred in Chicago n few Sunday’s ago:
“Yonder, on tlio crag, amid tho Btorms
oftho mountalhs, tho eaglo hangs her nest.
Sho craves for her .offspring tlio elements
of royalty and power, nnd takes turns with
the thunder in singing them to sleep, and
with the lightning In watching theft re
pose. She tears up her nest, and leaves
Ilium to drag to Hie erngs. When they
flutter nnd fall, sho swoops under them
and hears them up, repenting the process
until, matured lustrunglh, thoy can mount
above tho storms. So God treats us.
UMd 1 Blill AnolKdl 1 .
His rumored obouulml Gol. It. I,. Mott,
A'Craillo Nam,-.
inkcry piukory toc-tocl
Toosory pooserv show, sliowl.
Hiotoda-da, :
Kiss-ktosy inn,
Ickloty plckloty, bo, holil
Tuesday that tlio inystory wns solved
The innocent trio - were found lying
-dead, side by side, on-the south side of tho
mountain, some ten or eleven miles fr-om
tlioirhomo. It was,quite thickly covered
with timber, where tho bodies were dis
covered. From tlio appearance of the
latter it to thought that tlie children ex
isted for sovoral days, on the nets they had-
gathered previous to being benighted, and
liaying lpst theft way., were overtaken by
.physical exhaustion and starvation, which
resulted .In doathf ,Tlm bodies: were re
moved to toe homo of their heart-broken
-parents', for whom Wm entire community
evince tho deepest sympathy;
• oooloklcnl Curiosities.
Tho EsSox Marshes, near London; arc
now being cxeavaled for the pnrposo of
forming reservoirs 130 acres In oxtont, to
be used by the East London Water Works
Company, which drafts' its supply from
llio river I-on. . Tho excavations, it is
stated, furnish important information in
reference to the geological changes of tho
surface of this part of Great Britain—
The Essex mjirshos formed part of Wal
thamstow forest, which in 1154 abounded
111 wolves, wild boavs, stags and wild bulls.
Tlie cuttings exhibit iu,succession, turf,
clayey loam two fret deep, peat'beds threo
foot thick; and filled with hnzel nuts rind
oak and alder timber. Next nemos n-hnri
ol'whito niurloy matter formed of small
elielto in myriads, nnd -with occasional
bones of fishes, bird and land anlmalg
long extinct in Grout Britain. Tho trace's
sion of less vigor, leSB.alacrity,
fore the opening of the counolf. lllnstep
is still firm, and his voice- is clear niid so
norous. Ha is said to enjoy excellent
was t©Mr ^ishwfil comWe’hlstnnrii I assertion that ho .tokos cheerful views of
sitiim ipore slreuiiously Ilian ever, Lnt Ihe action oj UiU'COuneii.nndu! confident
Uml lie will lie the humiliated witness of 9* tlie success of ins amid tious .schemes,
action tokcii in many things relating to I ' ' r* “T S. .
Cuban afflUrs indiivct o|i;iesilibn toliis l Novtlicrncrsarc artivmgin Honda in
udvice aud policy.” large numbers.
traits. There wns nn aft of• weariness Jwl ,.
nlmiit Idm, as if the oarcs'of.State sal heavy 0 f man in bronze, iron-rind bone weriporis
oil Ids Jirow. I tliinkhe gives theimpres- an g ornaments, amt various Vessels of an-
1 vigor, less, alacrity, tlmubc- htuiuopotievy. From tliu underlying grav-
ol.bdncs'of the mammoth, of a gigantic,
dcor and of the ftlld butt; have been ox‘-
tracted. Tho excavations also show how
bcd*.of iron- ore are forraod by means of
tbo persolalton.of water. This iron, held
in solution", is deposited-upon vegotablo
matter, encrusting the l-oots-nnd twigs
with oxydes, .and tlio process goes ou un
til tlie mitioraliupcrcedeS tlio vegetable,
and a ball of iron is formed, to commence
witli others, tho building up of.a large
lxjd.
Tlio Monnest Man,
Tlio meanest man lh Wisconsin runs a
saw-mill in Wood county. Ills name to
Uoorgo Hilca. A son of Mr. Alexander,
of 'Vlroqua, was killed While In lilies’ em
ploy, and thp father, on going to bring
bomb the, body of his son,'had a bill of
$I4.B0 cents to-pny to lilies, made Up of
items like those:-For washing tho.body
and laying It out. SJj.for going across tho
Btreet-for a eofiln S3.50; for placing tho
body in tho collln, S3; for plain, rough
hoard eofiln, S3; for taking inventory of
tho offeets oftho deccBed, SlOi'niid so on.
ConnnblnllllBB.
Whllo Adam slept; God from him took
A bone; and as nn omen, ' : v
He hindo.lt like a seraph look,
And thus created woman.
Ha took this bona riot from hto pate,
To show her powor more ample;
Nor'froni life feet, to designate
That ha on, her might tramplo.
Bnt.'ncath his qrm to clearly show
: Ho always should protect nor;
And noar hto heart, to let hint know
How, much ho should respect her,
Ho took this hone, crooked enough, •
Most crooked of tho human,
Toshowlihn iiowmuch crooked stuff
He’d always Arid in woman.
Tlio llc'nrt or n Bnrglhr Tonciieilf
The Pontine (Miohiganj- Gazette- has
this Item: "A poor young widow 1ft Bdr-
-iln,.eonring homo the ‘other night, fouusl
on a table a ftoto addressed to ller, reading
os follows;
“Madafne—I came hero with tlio Inten
tion of robbing you, hut tlio sight of
respectable and peaceful attic room, i
rated with religious pictures and ndorned
with pious souvenirs, arid, above Oil, your
two children, who were qulotly Bleeping
In tliolr little bids, and smiling In tliolr
dreams, lmvo touched my honrt, auil-ln-
stoad of depriving yog ol tho little monoy
I found In the drawer, I tnko tho liberty
of loa-vlng here' fifly-doUars, hoping that
you will accept, them as a tribute of my
respoctnnd admiration. True, the mon
ey lms been stolon; bnt perhaps in the
coprso of evoryday life, you have take-
money from n worso nmn than.
Your Obedient Servant.
*Twns Evov Tblis.
Tho Jbllowhig touching poem will find
an echo in many a disconsolate heart,—
There is more tlmu ono “Uncle John” in
tills cold nnd cruel world:
’' 1 novdr reared a young gazoljo,
Because, you soo, I never tried;
But hod it known arid lovr 5 — -
Nodouhtthecrfiamrewbl
My rich nnd aged .Unble Ji
Has known mo' longandl
But stlll porstots In living on— I
I would ho were aiyoung gazcllol
I never loved a tree of flower:
But if 1 had, I beg to say,
Tlio blight, tlio wind, tlio sun or shower,
Would soon lmvo withered It away,
I'vo dearly loved my Undo John
From childhood to tho present hour,
Arid yet ho will go living on—
I would ho Were a tree or ilower.
Horse TIilof Killed.
Webb, a noted horso thief, was overlak-
cn. tho other day in Walker cmmty, Ala.
with two stolen mules,'and whou tho de-
maud was made for lift' surrender, ho un-
dof took to .dofend himself with an iron
wodge ho found lying near, and was shot
and killed by his pursuer, who was tho
ownflr oftho property he had stolen,
Xew .Torsey.
' The New Jorsey. Legislature organized
on Wednesday, audGovcrnor Randolph’s
messago was sent in. Referring to the
coming- rejection of the fifteenth amend
ment by the State, ho recommends a.radi
cal change m the policy of the country
upon tho BtUftnJo question. Tho univer
sality of kuffrage ■ is tho evil out of which
most of our troubles have grown, and tlio
trim remedy isle coniine a suffrage lo those
who now have itiir rimy obtain it under
existing law within, a fixed'period,and
thereafter to restrict It lo those who shall
possess some simple, reasonable, but intel
ligent qualification for its exorcise.
Tlie receipls nf the Georgia
December, 1809, from pnsseng
was 300,000.
\ (i„o,rMnlMi.
Tlie Grinin Methodist Glmrch hate re-
ceiitly raised (he salary of their pastor,
Rev. Armlmus Wright, to $2,000 a year.
“S’nnell.'*
Alluding to chignons, Mrs. Glover said:
"A girl now seems all head.” "Yes, till
you talk lo her,” replied Mrs. Clever.
Moro Nelrtlers.
Two hundred recruits are ordered from
Newport Barracks, Kentucky, to Atlanta,
On., for tho Eighteenth infantry.
F.nroiirnclBN.
In fitly libel suits against newspapers in
Ibis country, during tlio last ten years,
tho damaged parties who, brought them
only got 83,000, cash In hand, to heal
their wounds. Detecting counterfeiters
it la Wimpy vs. Wogan & Co., is a milch
easier atul Burer way of getting rich.
Knlurnl Inference.
A little Boston girl thought tho minister
wanted some office, heenuso in praying, ho
kept saying, “Grant, wo beseech thee,”
Apiiroprlnto Text.
Elder Cooko wants lo pfenoli on the suh-
joctof his recent elopement. last him taka
for a text, “Suffer little children (female
ones sixteen years old) to coinc unto me, ”
Miracles.
“IIow could God make a woman out of
a rib, papa?” "I don’t know, my child;
it was a miracle.” “All questions you
can’t answer you call miracles, don’t you,
papa?” . u
Will bo Srnrnl.
A Boston' preacher, speaking of tlio com*
ingof Hie millennium, says Hint lie believes
tlio time will come when tho lion and tho
lamb wilUio down together, hut thinkB Hus
lamb will he d—d badly scared tho first
night. .-in .'.at;•>r.
■ . .. - J ••From “Brloh.”
An Iowa girl who wants to commitsul-
cldo, to looking for a chap to go her halves.
Sho prefers to die by being smothered with
kisses. It is just Our luck lo live so far
from Iowa. If it was hi New York, sho
needn’t livo an hour If wo lmd her address.
' Wblsby Rebellion.
Tlio Charleston Courier reports that n
sqnad of Federal soldiera nt Spartanburg
fthilo assisting in some revenue soizufes of
whisky,stills, etc., and capturingsome pris
oners were whipped out and fofeed to take
reftigo in'tlio county jail, hut were storm
ed out anil forced to give up thoir prison
ers and spoils. They have called for help,
ItelniinliiK to Nnvnprery.
Tho Mariana Courier snys there nro not
less than three hundred negroes Iri Jackson
county, West Florida, who have moved
on public lands nnd ceased to labor on tlio
plantations, except when Hie pinch of hun
ger compcto them; A majority of tliom
are without visible means of snpport, nnd
have, it is thought, lived ton great extent
on the live stock, which lmvo been on tho
decrease fog tho last threo years, This
class tarnishes tlie most of tho criminals
"or tho penitentiary, and to a great draw
back on-the mofo' thrifty and industrious
of tliolr color.
Wntor-PrOor Pi,|>cr.limn,Inna.
A Gorman manufacturer has recently
introduced water-proof paper-hangings,
which can bo washed witli soap and wa
ter without the slightest detriment, and
which also , do riot-permit , the moisture
tom the damp walls to strike through.—
L’liese wall-papers do not differ from tho
irdiunry kinds except in a more intenso
’.it! softer tone of tho colors. The expenso
s said to ho hut little more tlmu that for
tho old fashioned sort.
Fnncrul.
Oontorivplftting tlio possibility of Vir
ginia’s restoration, the Richmond Enquir
er says:
“And if wo get in the Union, lot us not
make fools of ourselves. There to no sort
of nn occasion to givo a dinner. Wo go
in—not ns wu went in before—but under
heavy conditions. There Is noUring to
mnkoauy task about ”
Afraid.
mst Butler explains tho secret of his
rigid viow of Southern Reconstruction to
irninialody. lie confesses that- lie is
mortally afraid of tlio boys now growing
lip, They aro not loyal entfdgh to suit
him, - '
ATiilnl Nntnipy.
The Fifth Military District lms killed
three satraps in two years, Griffin, Rous-
: and- Mower. Strange to say, tho
— ono of these died oil the anniversary
of hto predecessor’s death.
Tlio NcUmpMl
The Atlanta Radicals, after publishing
in tho papers their employment of counsel
to prosecute Democrats who took tho oath,
Aro now telegraphing to Washington, ns a
rebel outrage, that funds have been raised
to secure counsel for their defence! What
noxtV ^
■ , ilndlcnl Lmv lit Alnbniim.
Tlio Supreme Court of Alabama luis
just rendered several decisions, tlie argu
ments leading lo which establish the im
portant fact that all marriages which took
plnco in Alabama during Hie wnrnro null
aud void, nnd that the issuo of suuh'nmr-
riuges ere illcgiHmnto.
Tbo Mormons.
To keep people’s, minds in a slate ofne-
Uvity wo have a prospect Of a Mormon
war. Tlio Mormons say they will not lie
stamped out by Uucle Sain, but will re
sist Congress if that bnd.v passes bills to
their destruction. Who’ll “volunteer” to
fight tlie Mormons? They are tough fel
lows, nnd have religious fanaticism lo sus
tain them. - -
Another Caution.
Dr, J. M. WUherwnx and old prncli-
HouernfScottcounty, Imvn, yeoopflj eiunn
to his (lentil by lead poisoning thi nugli tlio
use of hair-dye. The symptoms of Ids dis
ease were peculiar Arid obscure, lint nu ex
amination of the bodv after death I, ft no
doubt of its cause. Four separ-tle analy
sis of tile liver niul ope nf the kiilncv*.
made by Dr.*. Iliizen aud Cnrtwcll, cxldli-
•itct\li:n’d ill tile texture of these organs.