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“EitiS-TMAN TIMES. A Real Live Country Pa|>er. Published every Wedn Hday Morning, by It. S. BURTON. Terras of luhur ptlont One cr>v>r, one year...... * |2.00 One copy, six months ”** jqq Ten copies,'in clubs one year, each 1.50 Single copies 8 cfw subscriptions Javar/;>olJr jp advance. No name entered upon the list until the subscription is paid. vm| OLD FAhMEk SHOWN. *T Ino INK 3. Hall. Prom th harvest.find. old Farmer Brown came home with m look of care; He threw hla bat ou tho fl.x>r, aud sat down In bit old splint-bottomed chair; He wiped the sweat from uiw dripping brow, and pulled ont his old jack-knife; He whittled away to himself awhile, and called to his little wife. From her quaint and tidy kitchen, she came through the open door, With her sleeves pinned np to her shoulder* and her shirt pinned np t:clbre. She looked as ferted, wrinitled sad worn as the felds of her gingham gown, When she saw the haggard and hopeless look on the face of Farmer Brown. Than down in her rocking-chair she sank, in a sort of a bolplsss way, Nor spoke one word, but listened and looked to hear what be might nay. " Hannah, I’m sick e-Lina’ hero, and a-workin’ from spriug to fall, A-raisin' ’tatt rs an’ corn to sell, that don’t bring nothin’ at all. Here we hav worked together, tot forty years, like a pair of slaves, Au’ that old mortgage ain't lifted yet, that I owe to Qideou Graves, That Ju*t#rant note o’ Deacon UounV will soon be . . .. iaiUq’,dU 45,. An’ where the money's a ootnin’ from, why, I cant tell, nor you. I’m kept in sech a worry an’ fret by all o' those sort o’ things, That I nave to sell the stmT that 1 raise right off for what it brings. . . , It cost- no much for my taiee cow, an’ to keep the wolf away. That I haven’t no chance to make a cent, an’ that is what’s to pay. Hannah, we’ve both on us grown old, an’ our chil dren all are gone; There is no one now that is left at home for us to depend upon. I ain’t as strong an I used to be, nor as able to work, lknow; But I’ve got to eot them matters square, and the farm ’ll have to go. “ Hall o’ the world lives idle, with plenty to eat an’ wear, An’ the ones who work the hardest have often the lease to spare. , The farmers work till their forms are bout, an’ their hands are hard aui brown; ’ ' 9* **~ The workmen delve in the dust an’ smoke o’ the wo.-k-.bopa in the town; The sturdy Bailors bring to our shore* the wealth ••<v ’ >reigu lands; An the * naif o’ tne world subsist** by the work hands. An’ this is one o T twsj-easonß why I can’t pay what I owe. While you an’ I are a-gettin’ old, and the farm ’ll have to go. ** worked in tne woods in the winter.Ume, I’ve plowed an’ Bowed In the spring, I’ve hoed and dug through summer an’ fail, au’ I , haven't made** thing. Uemetunea I lie awake all night, an’ worry an’ fuss an’fret, An* never a Biugle wink o’ sleep nor a bit o' rest I get. I think o’ our grown-up children, on’ the life they’ve Jest begun; They’ve got to noe the same hard row aa yon an’ I have none. 1 thiuk o’ the politicians, an’ the way they rob an’ steal, An’ the more I think o’ farmin', the poorer it makes me feel. The speculators buy up our cheese, our butter, our wool an’ nay, An’ they sell ’em igm for woro’a twice a.* much as they bad to pay. They bleed us in transportation, they fleece ns every-whOre; They cueat ns on our provisions an’ they very clothes we wear. They live in their lofty houbes, on the best shat can be found, Their wives wear dazzlin’ diamor an’ thnir chil dren loaf around; in the summer they go to the eeskore an’ the ( spring*, to make a show, An’ that 1- the way our butter an’ cheese, oar corn an’ taters go. “ We worn la tiie sun *u anmmer. tiuae “ corn on shares, That the railroads an’ politicians may cheat r,s an’ put ou airs. They carry the reins o’ power, and will till w* fill our grave®; , They rule an' ruin the markets, an’ wo are a pack o’ slaves. . What’s to be done ? God only knows. I’ve failed In many ways In tryiu’ to lay a ieetle by to ease my declinin’ days. I never have been a shiftless man ; I’ve figgered, I’ve worked an’ tried, While tbo old farm’s been a rnnuin’ down sinoe the day that father died. I’ve borrowed money to pay my debts, an I\e Watched the Interest grow; Till it I airly got the start o’ me, and the farm 11 have to go.” Then the little wife of Farmer Drown atood ap upon the floor, And she looked at him in a kind of a way that she never bad before. The furrows tlud from her shriveled cheeks, and her lace grew all aglow: ,l \ never will sign the deed, John, and the farm Bhall never go. There’s Jest otje thing to be done, ft* Bure as you an’ I are born: You munt Join the Orange an’ -vot9, John, if yon would sell your ooru. Hope au’ prayer are good, John, for tho man who digs an' delves, But heaven will never nelp us, John, unless we help ouruelves. 2 ain’t as chipper, an’ smart au’ spry, nor as strong * as I used to be, But I’ve got a heap o’ spunk, John, when it’s Btarted np in me.” Over the old man’s furrowed face the tears began to * 4&w, He never bad felt more strong and proud since their wedding loug ago; A golden gleam of heavenly hope Illumined his ■soul’s despair, And kneeling down on the time-worn floor, both bowed tlieir beads in prayer. The Castle-Builders of Padua. Oiulio aiid Ippolito were eons of a farmer living near Padua. The old man was of a quiet and placable tem per. rarely suffering any mischance to ruffle him, but, in the firm and placid hope of the future, tranquilizing him self under the evil of the present. If a blight came upon his corn one year, he would say ’twere a rare thing to have blights in two successive seasons ; and so he would hope that the next harvest, in its abundance, might more than com pensate for the scarcity of the last. Thus he lived from boyhood to age, and retained in the features of the old man a something of the lightness and vivac ity of youth. His sons, however, bore no resemblance to their father. In stead of laboring on the farm, they was ted their time in idly wishing that for tune had made them, in lien of healthy honest sons of a farmer, the children of some rich magnifioo, that so they might have passed their days in all the sports of the times, in jousting, hunt ing and in studying the fashions of brave apparel. They were of a humor at ofloe impetuous and sulky, and would either idly mope about the farm, or violently abuse and illtreat whomsoever accident might throw in their way. The old man was inly g ieved at the wil fulness and disobedience of his sons, but, with his usual dispos tion, hoped that time " might remedy the evil; and so, but rarely reproving them, they were left sole masters of their hours and actions. One night, after supper, the brothers walked into the garden to give loose their idle fancies, always yearning after mat ters visouary and improbable. It was a glorious night, the moon was at the full, and myriads of stars glowed in the de p blue firmament. The air stirr ed among the trees and flowers waifting abroad ' their sweetness; the dew glittered on the leaves, and a deepvoiced nightingale, perched in ...a citrop .tree, purred fourth a torrent ioL.* ag ripon the air. It was an .hour f >r good thoughts and holy aspirations, v Qtul io threw inins-lf upou a bank, ami, gazing with intentness at the sky 2‘w.claitufd,—, . V ' oiu.’ that, f had fisldi ample W the By R. S. BURTON. VOLUME I. EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1873. NUMBER 41. “I would,” rejoined Jppolito, as many sheep as there are stars. ” ,;“And what,” asked Giulio, with a sar castic Rmilo, “ would your wisdom do With thorn?” “ Marry,” replied Ippolito, “ I would pasture them iu your sageship’s fields.” “ What! ” exclaimed Giulio, sudden ly rising upon hia elbow, and looking with an eye of fire upon his brother, “ whether 1 wonld or not?” “ Truly, ay, ” aaid Ippolito, with a stubborn significance of manner. “ Hare a oaro,” cried Giulio, “ have a oare, Ippolito ; do not thwart mo. Am I not your elder brother ?” “Yea; and marry, what of that? Though yon came first into the world, I trow you left some manhood for him who followed after.” “ You do not mean to insist that, de spite my will, despite the determination of your elder brother, yott will pasture jonr nheep in ray grounds ?” “ In truth, but I do.” “And that,” rejoined Giulio, his cheek flushing, and his lips tremulous, “ and that without fee or recompense V” “ Assuredly.” Giulio leaped to his feet, and, dash ing his clenched hand against a tree, With a face full of passion, and in a voice made terrible by rage, he scream ed, rather than said, “By the blessed Virgin you do not 3 ” “ And by St. Ursula and her eleven ihonsand virgins, I protest I will.” This was uttered by Ippolito iu a tone of banter and bravado that for a mo ment mode the excited frame of Giulio quiver from head to foot. He gazed at the features of Ippolito, all drawn into a sneer, and for a moment gnashed his teeth. He was hastily approaching the BooffeV, when, by an apparently strong effort, he arrested himself, and, turn ing upon his heel, struck hastily down another path, whore he might be seen pacing with short, quick steps, while Ippolito, leaning against a tree, careless ly sang a few lines cf a serenata. This indifference was too much for Giulio ; he stopped short, turned and then rapid ly came up to Ippolito, and, with a man ner of attempted tranquillity, said, “Ippolito, 1 do not wish to quarrel with yon; I am your eider brother; then give up the point.” “ Not I,” replied Ippolito, with the same immovable smile. “ What, then, you are determined that your sheep snail, in very despite of me, pasture in my fields ? ” “ They shall.” “Viilian 1 ’’raved Giulio, and ere the word was well uttered he had dashed his cJeuohed hand in his br< other’s face. Ippolito sprang like a wild beast at Giulio, and for some moments they stood with a hand at each other’s throat and their eyes, in the words of the psalmist, were “whetted” on one anoth er, They stood but to gain breath, then grappled closer. Ippolito threw hit* brother to the earth, huddling his knees upon him; furious blows were ex changed, but scarce a sound was ut tered, save at intervals a blasphemous oath or a half-strangled groan. Giulio was completely overpowered by the su perior strength and cooler temper of his brother; but lying prostrate and con quered, his hands pinioned bis breast, and Ippolito glaring at him with mali cious triumph, he cursed and spat at him. Ippolito removed his hand from his brother’s throat, and, ere his pulse could beat, Gmlio’s poniard was in bis brother’s heart. He g<vo a loud shriek, and fell a streaming oorpse upon his murderer. The father, aroused by the sound, came hurrying to the garden ; Giulio, leaping from under the dead body, rushed by the old man, who was all too speedily bending over his dead child. From that hour hope and tran quility forsook the father: he became a brainsick, querulous creature, and in a few months died almost an idiot. Giulio joined a party of robbers, and, after a brief but dark career of crime, was shot by the spirri. Ye who would build castles in the air—who wonld slay your hours with foolish and unprofitable longings- pon der on the visionaiw fields, the idle sheep of Giulio and Ippolitd.—Doug las Jerrold. rjr The Bed Biver Baft. One of the great improvements of the days is the removal of the Red river "raft.” This raft is formed by the accumulation of trees, roots and debris of all kinds, in the channel of the river. This raft grows year by year, and deposits of mud thioken upon tho logs and vegetation springs up, un til islands are formed miles in length. In 1805 the raft was more than a hun dred miles long. It consisted of accu mulations of the up-country forests throughout all time. In 1885 the gov ernment set to work to clear the river. Capt. Shreve, after whom the town of' Shreveport took its name, was at the head of tte work. From that time to the present, spasmodic attempts have been made from time to time to remove these raf s, at immense labor and ex pense. The present raft region is thir ty-five miles in length, and extends from a point forty miles above Shreve port to the Arkansas state line. Navi gation can only be accomplished through the raft region through the bayous at high water. At other times the river is entirely blockaded. In 1872, Lieutenant Woodruff made a survey of the raft, and submitted plans for re moving it. An appropriation was voted aud the work begun. The raft is com posed of logs, roots ami snags of every description, which had been crowded and jammed into a tangled mass, be coming more 1 compact each year as the pressure from above increased. Annual freshets had brought down mud and de posited it in and over thiß mass until, in places, the rait itself had become entirely oovered with earth, small is lands, or tow heads,” thus being formed. Upon these tow-heads were growing trees, usually three feet and more in circumference. The means used for the the removal of these obstructions are various. Blasting powder was used at first, and failed Dynamite was substituted but was found to bo ineffectual. At last re course was bad to n|tr<j-pl roe ripe. This failed to wo k. The work has progressed , rapidly, Lieutenant Woodruffs management, and a few weeks will suffice to clear the channel entirely, so that na . d ? on will be un interrupted from Bhr v eport, Lovj*iana, to Jefferson, Texas, During the war, this sam stream oame to grh vous no tice through the disastrous failure ol banks, and the brilliant feet of engi neering whereby a great flotilla of gun- Apats was successfully carried out of Tne clutches of the enemy and absolute ly floated over a fall of sixty or seventy feet, which had for days been very near ly bare. The name of Bailey was im mortalized by that feat, and the run itself made historic. A Piece of Sponge. There is a regular fishing season for sponge in the Mediterranean, aiid at one time it used nearly all to go to Smyrna, and be sold os Turkey sponge: but now, when the rocks of Syria and the Grecian isles have been well dredged, and the collected sponge Is dried, it is shipped off at once for Euro /pean markets. We know, principally by eight, two kinds of sponge: the fine, close, elastic; and the dark, open sponge, familiar to us as “honey-comb.” To the uninitiated it would seem that these were the produce of different countries ; but it is not so, for the two qualities are found growing together, side by side, upon the same rook, and are dredged with the same net. The fishing season lasts for about four months, and is carried on in a rough, primitive fashion, but with tolerably satisfactory results, though the thick, ooarse, honey-comb sponge is far infe rior in commercial value to its close grained, firm brother, the Turkey sponge par excellence. Probably for want of research, the supply of sponge is almost confined to the Mediterranean and the West Indies. Florida and the neighborhood of the Bahamas form the sponge-hunter’s ground, and it is probably the case that the turtle may make his resting-place among the jelly- ike groves of the sponge. To see the late contents of a case of sponge after being moistened, one is tempted into comparisons with the genius of the Arabian Nights who escaped from the vessel that bore Solo mon s seal—inasmuch as the dry sponge j is close, compact, and tightly packed in, while the application of water swells it out to a largo bulk several times the original. We have pretty good samples of this in the woll-puffed-out pieces of fered for sale by street vendors ; and, by-the-way, strange stories of these pieces of sponge are told, as to their be ing refuse cleaned up for sale—tales that have very little foundation in fact, for the pieces are for the most part new. The collection of sponge in the Le vant is dignified by tlio title of fishing, and partakes very much of the nature of the process practiced to obtain pearls ; nasmuefc as divers go down in some eight or ten fathoms of water, taking with them a triangular-shaped piece of stone to oonquer the buoyancy. A. rope is attached to this stole and held by companions in the boat. Once down, the diver’s object is to wade rapidly to the pieces of rock bearing the growing sponge ; this he rapidly tears off, till he has as much as ho can conveniently car ry, or till his power of remaining below is exhausted, when he pulls his rope, and is rapidly hauled up into the boat In some parts of tbo east, though, the diving is not practiced, but the sponges are collected from shallower water by means of a fork at the end of a long pole. In this way the pieces are forced or dragged from the rock, but very of ten at the expense of the sponge, which is thus made ragged and unsalable. A similar process is followed out in the West Indies, a long fork being used in place of the diving. A Business Fact. A good advertisement, in a widely circulated newspaper is the best of all possible salesmen. It is a salesman who never sleeps, and is never weary; who goes after business early and late; who accosts the merchant in his shop, the scholar in lib study, the lawyer in his office, the lady at her breakfast table ; who can be in a thousand places at once, and speak to a million people every morning, saying to each one the best thing in the best maimer. A good advertisement insures a busi ness connection on the most permanent and independent basis, and it ia in a certain sense a guarantee to the custo mer of fair and moderate prices. Ex perience has shown that the dealer whose wares have obtained a public ce lebrity is not only able to sell, but can afford to sell at a" small profit, because he sells largely. The seller of wares with celebrity is compelled to keep and offer good waxes to maintain their repu tation. It is therefore to the interest of the purchaser to buy from the mer chant who advertises liberally, both on the score of ecomomy and the merit of the articles. A worthless article was never made good by advertising; but good articles are always extensively sold by making the public acquainted with their value and the place of sale through the widely circulated newspa per. A Botanist’s Protest. —Mr. Atkin son, an eminent English botanist, pro tests against the extirpation of rare wild plants though the eagerness of incon siderate specimen hunters. This work of destruction is enoouraged by the per sistent offer of prizes for the la. gest and best collection, by botanic societies, thus often leading collectors, in their anxiety to defeat their competitors, into the habit of destroying such pre cious plants as cannot conveniently be taken away. The indignant botanist adds : The absurd notion seems to pre vail that botany consists in the getting together, no matter by what means, of as many specimens as possible, especi ally of the rarer species, and calling them by their scientific names; and this without the least pretension to a knowl edge of tlieir intimate nature, as if mere physiognomy were quite above physi ology. Accordingly, money is offered to encourage a system which, so far from being a test of the knowledge oi the candidate, or likely to direct them in the right road for its pursuit, only tends to foster mere vanity and to lend the miii 1 from the true path of science. This last aud moat essential point might be gaiib and, and the knowledge of tbe c mpetite a tested far more effectually bv meads at once easy aud rational, and wi'lnmMhe least damage t) those rar6 plaut.a which it is bur duty to protect aud preserve, In God we Trust. Old Clothes Market. A correspondent of the Baltimore American thus describe* ihe marche de Vieux Linge in Paris : Tt is a market for old clothes, and stuffs, shoes and tools, and is a very ex easivo affair. It l about seven hundred feet long by two hundred feet brogd, built in iron pavillions, and contains two thousand four hundred places for dea’ers, each of about thirteen square and all these stalls are filled w'th dealers, from which some idea car. be obtained of the seme her© presented. This was built a3 a speculation, the oitv .grant ing the contractor the right to build it and receive the rents for fifty years, at the same time paying the city two hun dred thousand francs per aunuin, and the whole to revert to. the city at the expiration of fifty years. It "cost the contractor iiiree million five hundred thousand ira&eei. The new ct&lls set up for the dealers are so elegant, and the articles olfei ed for sale so cleverly renovated,” that the vifdtor can scarce ly believe himself to be in an “old clothes” mart. It has been a very suc cessful speculation, an<l the poor man can here procure a very rf spec table out fit for a very small outlay. These dealers are constantly on the lookout for the contents of rubbish rooms, old cloths, and all the odds and ends that accumulate in an easy living household. The space occupied by this structure is two entire blocks, the street passing th-ongh it being roofed with iron, glass and zinc. It is a very elegant struct ure, built on t! model of the Grand Central market, entirely of iron. The roof is about forty l'eefc high, with a great elevation in the center, where there is an immense open gallery, reached by two flights ot iron stairs. Seeing that there was a crowd of peo ple up there, wo ascended, and found a door-keeper, who required one sou ad mission, This proved to be a place for the sale of A clothes too far gone for renovation, pd, the articles were piled up in lines along the floor, through which the purchasers, to the number of probably a thousand, were circulating. Both b.iyer and seller pay on** sou ad mission, which defrays the expense of this branch of the establishment. Mus ty-looking >/ ■* rjhoQS by the cart load were here old hats, and all manner or. woman’s apparel. They were doin - an extensive business, how ever. and daring our ramble we were frequently invited to purchase some threadbare garment, from which it may be judged how shabby the European iravoler gets ,+ n his outward appearance by the time he 1 tplies Pans. The goods displayed ii *c two thousand four hundred stales below looked as bright and new, almost, as the display in the windows on the boul varda, though many of them were slightly out of fashion, The King nf the SB4 rskinds. Two weeks ago we had a ball at the palace of our king, Lunalilo I. He is my friend. When he was still mere ly crown prince I loaned him once $2 —only for a day, as ho said. When I met him a year afterward I reminded him of the loan, but ho told me to wait till he should have become king, of which the prospects were then very slight. But now he is king, and I have silently made him a present of the s2—cheap friendship, considering he is a king. It was a fine ball, which he gave in honor of the English admi ral, and the king was the first who got gloriously drunk ; next came the musi cians, then the guests, and finally I my self began to feel a little unsteady. I saw a young English naval officer oc cupy the kingly throne, with a Hono lulu girl by his side, while the king and and Queen Emma sat at his feet. Then the king took a brum and walked around the floor beating the tattoo. Finally the musicians began quarrelling and fighting in regular John Bull style, so that the admiral could not part them ; aud all this in the midst of the court ball. But our king is said to have amused himself exceedingly, particular ly as lots of drinkables remained for him to consume himself, though an aw fttl quantity was drank. Whether he did consume it all, I don’t know ; but I it is said that he was not sober for two ; weeks afterward, though ho can stand a vast amount! Otherwise the king is a good fellow, and likes us Germans particularly, probably because we "treated” him so often when he was merely crown prince. He has even learned some German songs, which he sings passably; for instance, "When the swallows homeward fly,” and out of the tavern I’ve just stepped to-night,— Honalulu lettter. Beauty in Greek Art. —Be it truth or fable that love made the first attempt in the imitative arts, thus much is cer tain ; that she never tired of guiding the hand of the great master of antiqui ty. For although painting, as the art which reproduces objects upon fiat sur faces, is now practiced in the broadest sense of that definition, yet the wise Greek set much narrower bounds to it. He confined it strictly to the imitation of beauty, The Greek artist represen ted nothing that was not beautiful. Even the vulgarly beautiful—the beauty of inferior types—he copied only inci dentally for practice or recreation. The perfection of the subject must charm in his work. He was too great to require the beholders to be satisfied with the mere barren pleasure arising from a successful likeness or from considera tion of the artist’s skill. Nothing in his art was dearer to him or seemed more noble than the ends of art! Who would want to paint you, when no one wants to look at you : l say an old epigramma tist to a misshapen. Many a modern artist would sky, "No matter how mis shapen yon are, I will paint you. Though people may not like to look at y on, they r/iii be glad to look at my picture, not as _a port]ait of you, but as a proof of my skill fu making so close a copy ol such i monster. 1 ’ — lasting. Guano Not the Excrement of feEA birds.—The lotig-rcccived opinion that guano is the deposit ß oi myriads of sea birds, accumulating through long ages, is rendered untenable by the recent in vestigations of Dr. Hubei. AfteT treat ing the guano with an acid, microscopi cal and chemical examination revealed hat the insoluble residue was composed ot fossil sponges turn other marine am- | male and plants precisely similar, in 1 constitution to suoli as still exist in those sea*. The fact that the anchors of ships in the neighborhood of the guano islands often bring np guano from the bottom of the ocean, is quite in opposition to the prevalent belief. Dr. Habel therefore considers that the deposits of guano must be the result of the accumulation of fossil plants and animals whose organic matter has been transformed into nitrogenous substance, the mineral portion remaining intact. A Thunder Storm in Nebraska. The following vivid description of an electrical thunder storm in Nebraaba is from the pen of the ltev. Alexander dark, editor of the Methodist Keeor der : One of the peculiar grandeurs of Nebraska is witnessed in its electrical phenomena. On Uae first a ter our arrival at Linooln, just before twi light, it was our privilege to behold the magnificent play of the lightnings. In timberless regions, like this, the atmos phere is surcharged with electricity. Especially after a sultry day, as Thurs day, September 18, the conditions are favorable for the blaze and quiver of the lightning. To the west and south, rimming the vast prairies, the dark clouds lay in convolvulating folds against the sky. The winds had lulled and silence pervaded the expanse, save as the distant rumbling of thunder was heard, like attracting and answering volleys of artillery. The whole firma ment, in the direction of the storm, flashed in fire, flame challenging flame, from the zenith all around to the earth. The glances of the lightning scarred the face of the heavens at every angle, as if mighty swords were swung by invisible arms. Vertical lines of zigzagging fire; wide, level, billowy waves of A me, cir cling like seatides out to the horizon; irregular and centers of radiating light, all combined to make a picture, the like of which, for magnificence and awe, we have seldom seen. No obtruding hills obscured the view; no interposing forests diverted or divided the intensity; no descending showers relieved the shade, or dimished the agitation ; and this display of the celestial forces and glories was, for the space of half an hour, grand and impressive beyond ex pression. At length the gathering power •of the air retreated to the far southeast, the list lingering thunder sound died into midnight silence, and the quiet stars appeared. Other lands had the benefit of the rain, while ours had enjoyed the splendor of the pre paration. Russia and the Tureomaas, A letter from Sam&rcand in the Goloss saya that so far from the Busman c&m- Eaign against Khiva being at an end, it as hardly begun. The alleged victo ries of Gen’l Kauffmoim and Golo* ?.t~ ehrJ o 7CT the Tareccaiftns were not, the correspondent asserts, by any mesne as complete as the official reports repre sent them to have been, and the gov ernment would probably have as great a dread as Pyrrhus of the repetition of Ruch victories. “ Not a single officer in the column of GenT Golovaicheff, who was himself severely wounded by two sword-cuts in the head and shoulder, returned from the expedition uninjured. Several of them, such as Lieut.-Col. l aipoff, Ensign Kamentzky, and others, were literally cut to pieces. That the losses in the ranks must have been cor respondingly great is evident. The Turcomans fought with indescribable fury; women fought by the side of men in the ranks, and even surpassed them in reckless courage. Nor did our army gain mueh when they entered the towns of the Turcomans by putting all the in habitants to the sword. While peace was being restored in this terrible man ner in one district, on insurrection broke out in another. * * * The troops are compelled to make long and exhaust ing marches to which the sufferings they had to endure up to the capture of Khiva were mere child’s nlay. Five thousand camels have already perished, and the troops have hardly any means of transport for their baggage; the offi cers are only allowed to take with them two shirts and a linen haversack.” The correspondent concludes, from the above facts, that it will be impossible for Rus sia to establish order permanently in Khiva, or derive any -advantage from its conquest, so long as Bokhara, which ex tends along the whole eastern frontier of Khiva, is not made Russian territory. —The best news that wo have seen from South Carolina for a long time is that two first-class locomotives have lately been turned out of the South Carolina railroad shops at Charleston, at a cost considerably below Philadel phia prices, and the Charleston papers say, fully equal to the best northern built engines. The more of such items the south can furnish the better is the guarantee for her future permanent prosperity. Many millions of dollars would be kept in the southern etates by tne establishment of work-shops, such as in the northern states gives employ ment to thousands of mechanics, and the work once fairly begun, it will be found that the home-manufactured arti cle will be in most cases not only aa good as that which is now brought from abroad, but actually cheaper.- Courier Journal. A Puzzle.— A couple of scientific Frenchmen (of course!) have been pros ing themselves and each other with the question as to where a man who, traveling west from any place at the rate of a thousand miles an*hour, would find Monday pass into Tuesday. If he started at noon on Monday the sun would always be in the meridian, be cause he would journey with equal rapidity with the earth's motion, and the gun would, therefore, be at rest, so far as he would be concerned. It would, therefore, be always Monday noon to him, but when he completed his journey it would be Tuesday noon. These unhappy individuals cannot find out whafe Monday night occurs to the traveler. i .—Prof. Hitchcock states that the to ■ t,kl area of the coalfields of the United States amounts to 230,659 square miles, besides the strata which belong to other formations than the carboniferous, aa for instance those of Virginia, of the territories west oi the Missouri river, and those in California, $ 2 00 per Annum. English Avarice and the A&hantees. Moaouiw I). Conway writes of the British war with King OoiToe ; Daring the late civil war in America wo used to attribute the liberal sale of munitions of war to the confederates by British manufacturers to their moral sympathy with the south; but wo peril ans gave too muoh credit to the British trades man’s sentiment. It now appears that ever since this Aslumtee war breeze sprung up a largo trade has been carried on in Birmingham in the export qf guns to those savages who are arrayed against the queen. The trims shipped are, in deed, not of the most civilised kind; they are not of such a scientific kind as is demanded by other nations more ad vanced in humanity and enlightenment; they are “ Africans” or “ park palings,” and consist of a long iron barrel, breech stock, and flint look: bn* they arc as deadly as any other gum at I short ranges, and it is almost certain that every weapon recently used against the Eng lish boats’ crews, which suffered so much at the coast, was manufactured in England. The guns are made at a cost of ten shillings each, imd also “ matehet knives,” two feet long, at one shilling, are exported for the Africans. Surely wo ought to acquit English manufacturers and ship-builders of an extra partiality for the secesh tribe, un less wo adopt the theory that the sup plies they are sending out to the Ash ahtees are sent from motives of philan thropic sympathy with them against civilized injustice. This latter theory I find hardly probable. I fancy, how ever, that the government will be rattier more sharp and prompt in looking after these generous Birminghamites than they were in looking after those who gave Jeff Davis such substantial aid, ten years ago. Meanwhile the little bill of account of King Coffee is run ning up. The life insurance companies, looking to their Abyssinian experience, when they lost by increasing the rate on those in service by from 20 to 30 per cent., have resolved to cancel all insur ances on those who go to the Cape Coast war, and those who are drafted for that service naturally demand of the govern ment guarantors of the amounts for which they are insured, to be paid to their families in case of death. A Crushing Blow. “ Last evening,” relates the New! Or leans Herald, “while the chief * ?en gineer of a lung-tester was expatiating upon the benefits to be derived from the free use of his instruments, a cadaver ous individual stepped out of the crowd and remarked to him, 4 Mister, do you think it would help me any to blow into that can?’ ‘Yes, sir, certainly; it would expand your chest, give elasticity to the lungs, and lengthen your life. Why, you and soon b© able to blow 50b pounds, and win the $6 prize.' 4 Why. does a fellow pet $5 vh- abe blow that mam pounds?’ ‘Yes, sir; won dut you like to make a trial ?’ with a know ing wink to the crowd. 4 1 don’t care if I do,’ said Greens, walking around and planking down a dime of the greasy shin-plaster sort. Then, taking the mouthpiece in his hand, made ready. He opened his mouth until the hole in bis face looked like a dry dock for ocean steamers, and began to take in wind. The inflation was like that of the Daily Graphic balloon, but not so disastrous. That fellow’s chest began to grow and distend until he resembled a pouter pigeon more than a man, at which point fee put the mouthpiece to his lips, and blew with such force that his eyes came out and stood around on his cheek bones to see what was the matter. But that can-top went up like a flash, and the needle of that indicator spun around like a button on a country school-house door, until it stood still at 500 pounds! The crowd cheered, and the keeper of the can paid over the *5 in stamps, with a mutter of astonishment. Bat Greens pocketed them coolly, and, turning to the spectator®, said, 44 Look here, gents, that ain’t nothing to do at all for a man who has been bugler in a deaf ond dumb asylum for seven years, like mo!” New Russian Iron-Clad. Admiral Pope IT, the inventor oi the round iron-clad, has at length the satis* ! faction of seeing his idea carried out • j and scientific men will now have an op | portunity of judging whether the Pb | povka is likely to be studied aa a model for other vessels of the same type, or I whether she is only to serve as araonu ! ment of the inventor’s ingenuity. The I Novgorod, as the new iron-clad is called J was built at Nicolaielf, and sent ! from that port to Sebastopol, where she I arrived on the 14th mat., amid the ac ! el area t ions of an immense crowd which had been anxiously waiting to fee her. This strange looking vessel, which lias been so much talked about, is thus des cribed by a correspondent of the Nico lai eff Messenger: “Imagine a large bowl sunk to its edue in the water, covered with a sau cer of the same diameter, turned up side down, on the bottom of which is placed a glass of a cylindrical form. All this together forms the hull of a vessel weighing more than 150,000 pounds—say 2,400 tons—bililt entirely of iron. The saucer represents the deck of the ship, and the glass the tur ret, which is to be armed at Sebastopol with two enormous 11-inch guns.” The Popovka steams eight knots an hour, and is easily manageable. Dionitt of Wobk.— All work has a humanitarian and honorable aspect; runs paralled with the aims and uses of providence; shares the dignity of na ture’s processes ; and every true worker is fellow to all the ranks, including the deity himself. If any man reelaim i.au acre of laud by irrigation, or o i bog by draining, and makes it green and bloom ing, let him currv his head erect oh his shoulders, and see that- his work is no; unworthy of him who, iu meadow and prairie, has wrought to the same end. This man with his hoe and spade is a joint-creator of lieauty ami provender for coming generations. -r&'vnuur Kilts.’ —ln Japan there are said to be trees four hundred or five hundred years old, which produce teas worth five dollars a pound. Japanese writers say that the tea tree was introduced into their coun try from China nine hundred years ago. The plant is utilized as a in the lanes of the villages and around the kite hen gardens. - EASTMAN TIMES. ■ ; ** bates op Ai>vEivn9Tya: * utAcx. j 'Bia. f Four sqoarw* [ l£s' < 4* 00 One-finrth eoiTddf 11 SO 00 One-half ebl T.,1 20 <*r m ™ * $ rhit' i-ohnftn.‘./I nsj*'! a> WjjgjgLJ Advertisement* Imertwl kt Uk- Gf. I > • , ' l . j’ < 7' square for th# Jlret insertion, 75yntUU, sTibseqnem rate. Tea Uihw or 1 ess constitute a •quart 1 . t .. • j. . Profe<i'Tnai cards, $15.00 aantun,. icr sir months, SIO.OO, in advance* „ GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP. —The Chicago Times thinks V the iron infant " can run alone after years of fiemrishment at "the public ex pense. r • x —The Detroit Free Press says : ‘.‘The New York World discourages baby shows, probably having a in fant on its hands.” i * —burgeon Duvall, of the. navy, has been sentenced to a suspension of three years for shooting two marines picking blackberries in the enclosure of the Annapolis academy. „ ' —The cause of Wilkie Collins; sick ness is said to bo the statement of one of his American acquaintances, mr his presence, that he looked like the. pic ture on a fifty-cent scrip. —A man in mouse—<scene Baris, of course—present* a bottle of pcrfunic to his beloved, saying.: “ When you epnell this you will regret that your • Creator did not make you all nose ” “ —The courts of Illinois are reported to have already over 8,000 divorce oases on their dockets, with accessions of new applications at the rate of 20,000 per annum. . : " —Mrs. Cady Stanton is reported as announcing that “When physical mon strosities are born; the physician thinks it is perfectly just, to put thorn out of the world.” —A baby was born on a street railway car in St. Louis. If it’s a boy it ought to be christened H’os-car.— World. But as it’s a girl the mother has determined to namo it Car’line. —Any man who raises hens in BoStou is an agriculturist. They take him into the 44 Grange” right away, and that en ables the members to get T eggs at half price. —Brooklyn Bogle. —Reading in his morning paper that Thalberg had been embalmed by his widow, Muggins remarked that he knew several married men who were kept alive in a pickle by their wives. —Mrs. Louisa Chandler nay a that 4 * she who rocks the cradle rules. Let the strong-minded sisterhood beware, then, how thev surrender the prrviligo of rocking the cradlo to their miserable husbands. r' —The Lacon Home Journal man has made this norve-quieting discovery : “If anybody sees a row of buttons com ing down street, let him preserve his equilibrium and think not of supernatu ral agencies. There’s a woman behind them.” —An alterative femalo. letter-writer saya that, if she could driest herself of her troubles and petticoats and be a mar for o twelve-month, she would choose for that space to occupy the “pulpit, pantaloons and perquisition of Henry Ward Beecher. I want to be a granger. And *“* ‘g* Iranger stand, , —■ Wjw -f, r f acy it***—. Beneath fhe tali tomato tree I’ll r\vin a the gutter jo; a And smite the wild pofoto-bug As he skips o’er the ‘.now. i ; .;. I’ve bong Jit myself a I"irhfcjly ram And> gray alpaca eow, ‘ ' ‘ ■' A lock-stitch Osage ;>ruiigo , , Ami a patent-leather plow'. —Ocn’l Oustar was a listener at Du luth to a lecture on how to save the Indians. Ho admitted that the lectur er’s doctrines were good for the interior of a church, but insisted that r man could, not practice them upon the, plains and save his hair. —The people of Chicago arc getting more from their great lake tunnel than anticipated. It not only supplies them with water, but the Tribane says that people “spoon fish out of their coffee and catch small eels in their mustaches as they quaff the sparkling water.” -—ln Hot Springs, those who are not prosperous express it in this w ise; “ I’m J. Cooked; I’m Tuckered; I’m City Reripped ; I’m Graphieisod; I’m jun jammed, btirsfced, suspended, played out. financially the worst treated and most unfortunate cuss of the can’f-pay class in the country.”. —A young lady it Foil du Lao, while out walking with her lover, was attacked by a savage dog. Who -seized Tier by the breast and tore it from her body. Tho lover fainted with horror at the right, but the young lady, much mortified, went for the dog with a picket, remark ing that “ That ‘ero cost a dollar and a half, and want made for no dog to ohaw up.” —l>r. Neal, while iu Vienna, asked the waiter if there were any Baptists in the city, and he vas referred to the “head cook.”. This reminds us of the fur-trader out west who, after buying skins of the woman, in the absence of her husband, asked if there were any Presbyterians about there. “ T guess not,” was the reply; “my husband never shot any.” -—Some idea of the Galifornm wine and grape trade may be formed from the fact that this year there will be pro duced theze twelve million gallons of wine, two million pounds of grapes for table use, and two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of besides the brandy of wlfich we hav no Btativtien. Forty thousand acres are in vineyard, and the area is constantly increasing. —Pheasant shooting is now in set- ou in England, and the woods abound with that favorite game, but a true western hunter, who has been accustomed to hit a deer running,'or a prairie chicken on tho wing, will be disgusted to Yd ad that many indolent English sportsmen aru in the habit of shooting from chairs, with two or three loaded guns near, on attendant to hand them to him, and several other attendants to drive the game past his coign of vantage. —Among the first who hastened to the relief of the Shreveport sufferers was a beautiful young lady of Philadel phia, who wft3 willing to brave even the terror of death to give aid and comfor* to the helpless ■wetitts of n terrible scourge. Sin* was Agues, the daughter of a United States naval officer, de eeased, and was adopted by S. and Agnes Arnold of Philadelphia, \then Hcareeiy three yeais pld. At Shreve port her noble bravery and devotion gained father the title of Angel Agnes. One night, while walking with a sick . child jn jhei; arms, she fell down a stair way and* fractured her spine, and died in great agony. Only a few day s’pre vious,' her intended husband,' who had followed her to Shreveport, died with the fever.