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EASTMAN TIMES. A. Live Country Paper. every Wednesday morning, Hy the EASTMAN TIMES PI BLlSfllNfi COMPANY. terms of SI bscriptioh. < >ne oopv, one year $ 2.00 One copy, six montha 1-00 l en copie*, in club*, one year, each 1.50 Single copies 0 Hs THE MA S Q UE/iADE. Gaily I w**nt to the maaipipra'le, Donned ray bright velvet*, and plaited ray hair. “ Look now your faireat, O face,” I -aid ; “ Itobee, be your prettiest—he will be there !” “Maekn cannot hide us!” I laughed at the thought. "l.aees and Glks k-r-p his eye from my fare? Oavaller’e plume or the cloak of a king Turn to a stranger’s his manhood and grace?” Gay flashed the lightu and around whirled the crowd, Gli tering, changing, mysterious still; Lauuhter and music now low and ho*’ loud. Beauty to charm, hidden glances to thrill. ’Mid the soft music he eatue to my side, “ ‘La Fide du Regiment,’ you do I know, This glove te'ls the secret you thought it would hide. Be mine in this dauce, now, my friend,” soft and low. .Swifter the wild strains swept out on the air, Softer the weird rhythm crept out on the air, Linking his light words to melodies rare, Flooding my heart with love’s jubilant strain. What (lid I see that my face grew so strange When the gay maskers laid by their disguise ? Others came hack to themselves in the change ; Two masks had hidden my friend from my eyes. Both fell at once. One was silken and white ; Noble the features concealed in its flow, I’ride In the lips, and tho eyes full of light, Sweetness and strength; yes, this face did I know. “ The other 7” I fancied that constancy, truth, Purity, honor abode in his heart— Enough—thvas a mask ; it* fell, and, forsooth, I, woman-like, showed my surprise in that start. Think not I turned myself sadly away, Deem me not heartless in that I still smiled; Why should 1 weep that my idol was dav ? Why should 1 mourn over fate like a child? Yes. dear, I own there’s pain ’neath the smile. Hearts won’t forget all their tricks in a day, And mine will elude my skill once in a while. Looking bach stlil, when I’d pass on my way. MY FRIGHTS. There aro some who aver that they have never been frightened. As I am far from being a strong-minded woman, I cannot say as much. Perhaps I am too easily alarmed. I am, for instance, afraid of a cow. It may bo very silly ; but I can’t help it. All the pleasured' a country walk through a fine landscape lias often been spoilt for me because of cattle iu tho field. If I pass through them without being tossed or gored, the recollection that I have got to come back again remains with me the rest of the day. As for a bull, I would rather never see the country than ruu the chance of meeting with such a creature. A dog is thought to boa very harmless animal—a domestic animal—and the “friend of man.” He is not, however, the friend of woman—or at least a nerv ous woman like me. I should be afraid to write down how often I have been prevented from calling at a friend’s house by the presence of a little poodle or terrier upon their doorstep. I should as soon have thought, of disturbing an ndder. The Homans (a people quite remarkable for their courage) used, I am tool, to paint Cave canem, “Bo ware of the dog,” at their front doors; but such a warning would have been unnecessary in my case. I am always fully “beware” of it. Every farm yard in tho country has a dog, and that is why I don’t like farm yards. My Avidowed sister-in law (the fat one) and myself once lived in such a a plaeo a whole summer, during which nYi'theVTmeln a*Turkisli sunset to sunrise I was in a perpetual fright, from fear of robbers; and Avhen the days grew shorter, and the nights longer, the place became insupportable, and I fled from it. The usual nightly programme was as follows : My sister in-law, who occupied the same apart ment, as myself, would fall asleep as soou as her head touched the pillow, and leave me, as it were, alone, a prey to my terrors. She always reminded me of the irritating bed-fellow described in ghost stories, who will not wake while the apparition is peeping through tho bed curtains at you, and who, when all the dreadful things are over, cannot be persuaded that they actually occured. Next to ghosts themselves I dislike peo ple of this cast, and Avould as soou almost have no companion at all. If the wind was up lat once began to pic ture to myself a band of ruffiaus effect ing a forcible entry into all the rooms below stairs, and giving shouts of triumph at the ease with which they accomplished their purpose. We could not afford to keep a man servant, and even if we had done so I should have always imagined him the accomplice of the burglars, or coming up stairs upon liis own account with a carving-knife concealed in a scuttle of coals, as I had once read of in a book. Our house pretended no means of resistance, and I always phiced tho plate-basket and its eouteuts upon tho landing of the stairs, in hopes that the gang might take what they came for and go away without ask ing for my money or my life. On a particular occasion, being unable to sleep, I fancied I heard the approach of robbers up tho stairs. Being no longer able to contain myself, I with an effort roused Charlotte, who, however, pooh-poohed the whole affair, and dropped to sleep again, leaving me to mv fears. However, one very wot aud dark night she g>t a pretty fHerat hersolf. It was a little past midnight. The drip, drip, drip of the rain was ceaseless, but for all that, as I lay awake, I could hear men’s steps, as the wretches walked tho house looking for the most conven ient point of eutry. Then I heard the back door “ go”—it burst open with a sort of muffled violence, like the sud den outpour of a waste-pipe—and then that “ pit a pat” I knew so well, of feot •mug up the stairs. Then a pause of frightful significance. “CharJoMe /” cried I, in an agony, They are r ally here. They are re uily are, this time. Wake, wake ! ” 1 Rubbish, ” cried she. “I am Avide awake, and I hear nothing.” “They are just outside the door,” A' luspered 1 ; “ they are listening at the key-hole. Hark! ” “ I certainly hear eaves dropping ” was her heartless answer (ehe was a wo mau who enjoyed a joke, and her fat sides wobbled with mirth at this one) ; l>u f it’s only the rain from the roof.” “ I tell you,” said I solemnly, “there are robbers in the—” Hete something fi ll in the draAviug room beneath us with a hideous crash. In an instant, and before I could recovej bom the sort of collapse into which Juis shock h-1 thrown me, Charlotte hau flopped ou of bed, seized the lamp and was about to hurry from the room. No, said she, pausing in the door ■ay ; it is better that they should not ? Rut that I should see them.” oe,, tainly much better, consid ?£?* very slight attire, that ,e YObbera should pci %ee her; htH; Two Dollars Per Annum, VOLUME TI. why she should w T ant to see the robbers was quite unintelligible to me. “ Stop ! ” cried I; but the fatal deed was done, onl I w.b le't in the dark ness. Dreadful as it was to accompany her upon such such an expedition, it seemed a thousand times worse to remain in the room alone ; and, trembling in every limb, I hurried alter her. To reach the drawing-room, it was necessary to pass through the dining room. It was pitch dark, but I could hear her breathing hard (for her stout ness made her very short of breath) as she made her way round the table that occupied the center of the room. Fear lent me wings, and I hurried round the other way to meet her, and rushed into her arms just as she was feeling for the drawing-room door-way. Directly I did so, she uttered a shrill scream, and fell on the floor in a dead faint. I had forgotten that the poor dear did not know I was pursuing her, and she very naturally took me for the robbers. I suppose I fainted, too; for the first thing I remembered was hearing a loud purr close to my ear, which proceeded from our favorite cat, who, having knocked down the fire-irons in the next room (which w T as the noise we had heard), had come, as it were, to assure us that there was nothing the matter. That Avas the last night we spent in our country house ; and I remained in town for three whole summers afterward. Though fresh air and “ change,” I was told, were indispensable, I resolved to do without them, since one might just as well die as be frightened to death. In the July of the fourth year, how ever, I received an invitation to the seaside, which I really thought it safe to accept. My host aud hostess lived at Disney Point, in Cornwall, a very lonely spot, it is true, but one in which no burglary had ever been committed within the memory of woman. “There Avere no bad people,” wrote my friends, Avho were aware of my nervous peculiar ities, “within a bundled miles of them.” When I reached their house, I was really incline! to believe that this Avas the case. A more beautiful and retired spot than the little village in which they dwelt, nor one inhabited by a more simple and innocent set of peo ple, it was impossible to imagine. It was situated in a wooded ravine, through, which a trout stream ran down to the sea ; aud upon the hill top, between it and the ocean, were the most picturesque church aud church yard I, or auy one’s eye, ever beheld. From the house we could only hear the distant whisper of the waves, like the murmuring hum of bees, but they were giant waves, and the rocks were torn and split with their fury into wierd and horrid shapes. It avus tho grandest sea-coast I had ever visited, and all day long I sat beside it with my sketch-book or merely watching the white wrath of the breakers, and listening to the thun der in the caverns at my feet. I was iint. at all afraid of the sea—when I was upon me mmt. mneea, i am nor alarmed at anything (notwithstanding what some people say to the contrary) unless there is a reasonable cause for fear. For instance, I am not afraid— at least, I Avas not until the catastrophe occurred of which I am about to relate, of supernatural apparitions. When 1 announced my intention, one evening, of going up the hill to sketch the churchyard by moonlight, there arose quite a rude titter in ray drawing-room. “Surely not alone, Mary Anne? Let one of the girls go with you,” said my hostess. “ What is there to be afraid of iu a church-yard ? No, I thank you,” re plied I proudly. “The miserable su perstitions of the country do not afflict me, I do assure you.” “ But it is so lonely up there, my dear.” “ What of that ? Solitude aud still ness are the fit accompaniments of such a solemn scene. I had much rather go there by myself.” I was resolved to exhibit my inde pendence, as well as to do away with any false impressions my excellent hostess might have received from Char lotte ar others with respect to my cour age ; but at the same time she need not have reminded me that it was “so lone lv up there.” I did not expect to find. Disney churchyard the center of fash on, or the scene of an excursion picnic at ten o’clock at night, of course ; her remark was officious and unnecessary, and at the same time it made my blood run cold. However, when the moon rose, so did I, and, sketch-book in hand, toiled up to the old church, which was also, from its prominent position, a landmark used by sailors, which taught them to avoid the rocks at Disney Foint. Whatever might be the matter, there was always a wind up there, and even in that still summer night it was wandering about the grasses of the graves, and whispering into the ears of the stone gargoyles of tho church, which seemed to grin in malice at its news *of storra and wreck to come. I seated myself on ray camp-stool, just in front of the porch, and began what I intended to be a hasty sketch, just a few strokes, to be filled in at my leisure, for I felt the situation to be “uncanny,” and already wished myself at home. My fingers shook a little, certainly not with cold, and, though the architecture was said to be a “fine specimen of tho perpendicular,” it did not appear so iu my sketch-book. Suddenly I heard a subdued sob ; the utterance, as it seemed to me, of some poor creature of my own sex in distress. It came from an obscure corner of the churchyard, where the graves were not so well cared for and tended as the others were— a spot, I had been told, where those were laid whom the piti less sea had drowned. When a ship xvas cast upon the rocks yonder it was rare even for one of its crew to reach that rock-bound shore alive ; and after a great storm whole ships’ companies were sometimes buried at once in the churchyard of Disney head. I listened with beating heart, and the sound Avas repeated ; and this time I felt sure it was as I had supposed. Doubtless some AA'oman had come to weep in secret over the grave of her sailor son or husband ; there was no need to be frightened in such a case. It might be that I should be able to give her comfort. I rose, and moviDg to, w. r ird the tyreek-oorirer (ass it wpsj^led). EASTMAN, DODGE €O., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1874. could dimly make out a woman’s figure kneeling at the bead of a grave. In the presence of so great a sorrow, I seemed to lose all selfish fear, and ventured softly to address her. She did not reply, nor even so much as tu.n her head, though I felt certain she must have heard me; and since she A\as a woman, and did not speak, I felt there must be something very wrong with her. As I drew nearer, I beheld a spectacle that overwhelmed me with pity. The unhappy creature before me Avas naked to the waist, and with her arms straight down by her side, was gazing on the grave beneath her with a look of indescribable despair. She shed no tear, but her eyes wore a look of hopeless woe and yearning beyond all ordinary sorrow. “You are killing yourself, my poor woman,” reasoned I, “to kneel there in such a plight. The dead you mourn can ask no such sacrifice as this that you should join them.” But again she answere l nothing ; and then, to my horror, I observed that she had dug another grave at the head of that she was watching, and was already buried in it up to her waist. Was she, then, bent on committing suicide, or was she herself an inhabitant of the tomb, like those around her, and were the graves indeed giving up their dead at that witching hour of night, as I had read of, but had not believed ? In an agony of terror, such as even I had never before experienced, I flung down my sketch-book, and rushed from the churchyard and down the hill. “What is the matter, Mary Anne?” cried my amazed hostess, who was sit ting up for me with her husband in the parlor, as I tore into the room shrieking for help. “ Matter !” cried I. “ There is a poor young woman, with nothing upon her, half buried alive ia the Avreck corner of the churchyard. She has already lost her sight aud hearing, for she took no notice of me at all.” • “ Impossible !” cried my hostess. “But I’ve seen her,” shrieked I. “Not a moment is to be lost.” “Ah, bless you, we’ve seen her too,” aid my host, laughing; “it’s the fig urehead of tho Bella. When the ship came ashore we stuck it up at the cap tain’s grave, by way of headstone—poor fellow ! She has not got much on her, it’s true; but I don’t think she’ll hurt.” Congressional Manners. Many journals and critics are from time to time finding fault with 1 he man ners of the house in debate, and some think it would be better to cease report ing their proceedings unless the mem bers can govern their tongues and tem pers in decenter fashion. Coarseness and intemperance in debate do not, however, constitute more than a more moderate proportion of the offences of t.iat body against good taste. The of fences of indecorous speech and churl ish temper are simply in keeping with t.Wo Tjersonal deportment of a cons dura ble squad of memoers upon the floor. A glanoe from the gallery reveals to the eye of a gentleman or lady, if the ses sion be a lull one, the spectacle of mem bers scattered here and there in every attitude of indecorum and boorislmess —some sprawled along the sofas, with one leg on the floor ad the other pro trudi g a foot of undue proportions over the back of tho temporary couch, where it besmears the delicate tints upon the wall ; seme smoking in the doors of the cloak rooms, and even at their desks ; some chewing tobacco, and voiding tlieir rank expectorations upon the pretty carpet, or firing it Avildly at the bright ventilating registers in the floors ; some gathered in groups with their backs toward the speaker, or any other man whom it might concern, rela ting stories, stale, smutty, or other wise, and breaking into occasional whin nies and guffaws ; some gazing at the galleries, and strutting up and down the aisles and passages with a conscious ness of themselves and their new clothes that suggests a speckled circus horse on court Aveek ; some munching apples and the like,*or diligently strewing the floor with bits of paper, torn very fine ; some complacently combiug their whiskers or paring their nails ; some, and they were not a few, tilted back in their swivel chairs, with their feet thrust so far across their desks that the legs of their pantaloons were pretty effectually skinned up over their boots, giving their shanks a picturesque effect; and all over the house goes on the endless scribbling, the reading of newspapers, the hand-slapping for errant pages, and the unintermitting jabber, generally unnoted, of the man who is supposed by a parliamentary fiction to be occupying the floor.— Washington Herald. A Comma that Cost $2,000,000. The importance of correct punctua tion was strongly illustrated at a meet ing of the ways and means committee of the United States house of repre sentatives, when it Avas shown that a comma in one place was worth $2,000,- 00 '. Iu the tariff bill which went into effect August 1, 1872, the free list was extended by the addition of several hundred articles. Among the number was “ fruit plants, tropical and semi tropical,” for the purpose of propaga tion and cultivation. In engrossing the bill, or in the process of copying it for official printing, a comma was inserted after “fruit,” and all fruit was thereby placed upon the free list. The customs officers, however, uoticing the change, continued to oollect duties on fruit until the error was discovered. The ways and means committee have now agreed to report a bill to remove the comma, in accordance with the iutent of the law of 1872. The amount, of tax illegally collected is not far from $2,- 000,000'. —The other day, in Ohio, a yonng lady died of what a thick-headed old doctor said was “ heart klot, or em byolism of the main flue of the heart.” She revived in an hour, however, and it was found she had been temporarily choked by a piece of gum she had been chewing. —The editor of the Griffin News makes it a point to inquire of the lead ing Georgia planters who visit that of fice as to their prospects, and they all concur in the determination to so pitch their c&pa the present year as to be able to control their vsufcon nex f ses sojj. wfeen they please, Iti God Jfe Trust. GRANT AND LEE. A Xtw Story ot tle Surrender of Lee at Appomattox. From a London Review of Lieut. Col. GUesney’s ‘‘Essays in Military Biographies.’’ Four or these essays relate to the great war in America, the events of which, perhaps in themselves as inter esting in a military sense as those in any war the world has seen, have not received the careful attention which they merit, owing to the distraction of the more recent continental campaigns. As Col. Cliesney truly remarks: “ There is a disposition to regard the American generals and troops which they led as altogether inferior to regular sol diers. This prejudice was born out of the blunders and want of coherence exhibited by undisciplined volunteers at the outset—faults amply atoned for by the stubborn courage displayed on both sides throughout the rest of the struggle; while if a man’s claims to be regarded as a veteran are to be meas ured by the amount of actual fighting he has gone through, the most seasoned soldiers of Europe are but as conscripts compared with the survivors of that conflict.” The'essays on Generals Grant and Lee are mo'st valuable and exhaustive studies. His strictures on Grant’s reskless sacri fice of his troops in attempting the im possible by fighting the battle of Cold Harbor, after he should have learned by the experience of tie long and butchering battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, that the “ continuous hammering ” in which he had some what boastfully trusted might break the instrument Avhil its work was yet un finished, are b, th severe and well founded. He calls the battle of Cold Harbor “ the darkest spot on the career of Grant as a commander. * * * It requires,” he continues, “more ex cuse than has anywhere been offered for the sacrifice. It may be that Grant’s usually imperturbable temper was ruffled by the continued readiness with which his adversary mot him; or that he believed the Confederates already so worn down by their unsupplied losses as to be un able to man tlieir Avorks; or that he judged that his new command had not been suficiently put to the proof by the stern doings of the month just past; or that all these causes acted together. Possibly he was influenced more than all by the uneasy consciousness that he had brought the criticism of the world upon his strategy by his famous dis patch, * I propose to fight it out on this line if it!| takes all summer ; ’ for had not this line been already abandoned, and no result Avon? ” Col. Chesney ac curately apportions between Grant and Sheridan the merit of the final effort which forced Lee to surrender, of which merit Americans are becoming more and more prone to assign an undue share to the subordinate commander. His sketch of Gen. Lee cannot be condensed. “ Like Napoleon, his troop soon learnt to believe him equal to - —-r ■ — -- - *— •“o Like Hannibal, he could speak lightly and calixly at the gravest moments, be ing then himself least grave. Like Rag lan, he preserved a sweetness of temper that no person or circumstance could ruffle. Like Ciesar, he mixed with the crowd of si ldiery freely, and never feared that his position would be for gotten. Like Blucher, his one recog nized fault was that which the soldier readily forgives, a readiness to expose his life beyond the proper limits per mitted by modern war to the comman der in-chief. What Avcnder, tliep, if he commanded an army in Avhich each mai would have died for him; an army from Avhich his parting wrung tears more bit ter than any the fall of their canse could extort; an army which followed him, after three years of glorious vicissitudes, into private life, without one thought of further resistance against the fate to which their adored chief yielded Avithout a murmur ?” But with all this warm eulogy he impartially points out the faults and failings of Lee—how he made no attempt to check indiscipline ; never used his authority to purge his command of inefficient officers; failed to enforce on the government the vital necessity of bringing the furnishing of supplies more directly under his own control, so that his army starved in Richmond while large supplies were available had proper energy been used by the war department; and, lastly, how he so marched his cavalry off their legs, that in their last campaign the confederates were left almost destitute of that most necessary arm. But these shortcomings, although the military critic must notice them, are but the in evitable specks on the bright surface of an illustrious military character; on Lee’s personal character there lingers no breath of tarnish. Inexpressibly pathetic in its simplic ity is Col. Chesney’s brief account of the bitter ending of his long struggle aud matchless strategy. Gordon had sent back the word that the way of escape was completely barred; and now there confronted him but the inevitable capitulation. “ For a moment those who looked on him saw him almost overcome ; and the first words of com plaint ever heard from his lips, during the war, broke sharply forth, ‘ I had rather die a thousand deaths !’ Musing sadly for a few seconds, as his men’s favorite cry broke on his ear, ‘ There’s Uncle Robert!’ in deep, sad tones be said to those near him, ‘ How soon could I end all this and be at rest! ’Tis but to ride down the line aud all would be over.’ Then pre ently recovering his natural voice, he answered one who urged that the surrender might be mis understood : ‘ That is not the question. The question is whether it is right. And if it is right I take the responsi bility.’ Then after a brief silence, he added, Avith a sigh, ‘lt is out duty to live. What will become of the wives and children of the south if we are not hete to protect them?’ So saying, he sent in Ins flasr of truce wituout further hesitation to Grant. The coming action was stayed on the instant, and the struggle of the confederacy Avas virtu ally over.” __ Italian Beggars.— A writer from Naples says : “ There is no disguising the fact that, although there is much of poverty and suffering here from real want, yet begging is chronic with the common pe- pie. The petty shopkeepers, after selling you an article and reeeivng the agreed price, will beg for a few sola in addition. Your guide, well paid at his own rate, will beg for a trifle over at the close of the day’s service ; the coach man, liberally compensated, like 01 ver, asks for more ; and so throughout all the departments of employment. In deed, one cannot turn round without meeting an extended hand asking for money. Thus is the stranger absolutely fleeced from the hour his arrival until that of His departure, which is almost always hastened in the attempt to avoid such teasing annoyance.” Khivan Proverbs. He who steadies himself between two ships will certainly be drowned. Shame is worse than death. He who weeps from his heart will pro voke tears even from the blind. A lean horse and a hero in a strange country each look amiss. When you go to law against the em peror, God Himself should be the judge. The wise man strikes twice against one and the same stone. You may praise the Russian a thou sand times, but his eye will still be blue (the reverse to handsome, accord ing to Usbeg taste). Young men may die ; old men must. The over licking (flattering) tongue soon makes a wound. He who fears the sparrow will never sow a millet. When the ass bears too light a load he wants to lie down. The spoken word cannot again be swallowed. He whose heart is full soon finds a ton£ ue. Smoke rises only from large blocks of wood. A living mouse is better than a dead lion. Him whom God has marked, the prophet strikes him Avith his wand. He who is on horseback no longer knows even his own father. (The armed man on horseback spares not his near est relation.) When you die, even your tomb shall be comfortable. Men speak to each other by words; animals by signs. Man is caught by his tongue ; an ox by bis horns. That which is taken in with the milk only goes out with the soul. (Faults contracted with infancy disappear but with death.) The open mouth never remains hun gry- Do not fasten up your garment until you see the water. Time does not bow to you ; you must bow to time. A great head has great cares. A Leper in Detroit. There is at present in one of the pub lic institutions of Detroit a genuine, well-defined case of leprosy. The vic tim is John McCarthy, a native of Buf falo, aged twenty-one years. He has been afflicted with it ever since his ear- HIXS(; A VAA/11 Lmwj lvvl u V life, wandering, a hopeless out-cast, from city to city, occasionally dropping into alms-houses and frequently finding refuge in penal institutions as a vagrant. McCarthy is covered with white scales which fall off constantly,and are as con stantly'reneAved. r lliese[are on the scalp, face, and hands, and also over some por tions of the body half an inch in thick ness, having the appearance of dried codfish skin. Physicians, accustomed as they are to sad sights, have turned away from the contemplation of McCarthy’s horrible case, sick in body and in spirit. Tlie patient is rapidly becoming imbecile from disturbed nutrition and want of rest, for until'recently he has scarce been known to sleep. The entire affec ted region is a mass of leprous irri tation, and a shower of scales flies off with the least motion, the bed present ing the appearance sometimes of hav ing been liberally strewn with coarse bran. Medicines thus far have had but little effect, owing in part no doubt to bad hygiene, poor food and insufficient clothing. Now, even should he improve for a time, the disease would probably return with all its original virulence. McCarthy long since reached a con dition of mind where he regards the prospect of death as a blessing infinitely to be preferred to longer endurance of his present pitiable condition. Such is leprosy. Alexander Dumas and His Son. The recently elected member of the French Academy is described, at the age of twenty-one, by his father, as fol lows : “What shall I tell you of my son ? He has come into the world at the melancholy hour when it is no longer day and is not yet night; so the assemblage of antitheses which forms his strange personality is one composed of light and shade. He is idle, lie- is active; he is a gourmand, and he is sober ; he is prodigal, and he is econom ical ; he is mistrustful and credulous ; blase and innocent; thoughtless and devoted ; he has a cold tongue, and a prompt hand; he mocks me with all his wit, and loves me with all his heart. Finally, he is always ready to steal my cash-box like Yalere, or to fight for me like the Cid. Moreover, possessing a nerve the maddest, the most attract ive, and the most steadfast that I have ever seen sparkle on the lips of a young man of one-and-twenty, and which, like a flame poorly shut down, breaks out incessantly in revery as in agitation, in calm as in danger, in smiles as in tears. From time to time we fall out, and, like the prodigal son, he takes liis inheritance and quits the paternal man sion ; then I straightway bay a calf and fatten it, quite certain that before a month he tfill return to eat his share of it. It is true that evil tongues affirm that it is for the calf he returns, and not for me, but I understand all about that.” —-Sydney Smith said : “Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know of anyone more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which e encontend. It is, as Mr. Burke calls it, “ the cheap . efer se and orna ment of nations.” It produces more labor and more talant than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is coin of genius, and it is the impe rious duty of every man +0 bestow it with the most scrupulou iqvt>e and the wisest Payable in Advance. NUMBER t). FROM WASHINGTON. Indian Appropriations— Slew Bounty A:t Confirmations and Appointments. Secretary Richardson reports to the senate, in response to their inquiry, that it will take four [ years to have sil ver enough coined by the miuts to re place the fractional currency. The house committee on appropria tions has completed the Indian appro priation bill. It appropriates five million dollars, being a reduction from the estimates of $1,500,000. The joint committee on library have decided it is not expedient to rec ommend the purchase, this season, of the Catlin collection of paintings and implements of North American Indi ans. The price asked is said to be about SIOO,OOO. The president has approved the act au thorizing the secretary of war to ascer tain the amount of expenses incurred by the territorial authorities of Dacotah for arms, equipments, military stores, supplies and all other expenses of the volunteer forces of the Indian war of 1862. The senate has confirmed John W. Jenkins, of Virginia, to be secretary of Colorado, and Tom. B. Searight, of Pennsylvania, to be surveyor-general of Colorado, but the nomination of Gen. Edwin McCook, to be governor of Colo rado, has not been confirmed. The President has nominated William A. Simmons to be collector of the port of Boston, vice Thomas Russell, who is to be minister to Venezuela, The senate has, to this time, failed to confirm Gen. Van Buren (oft Vienna fame) as con sul to Kanagawa. The senate committee on public Lands agree to recommend the passage of a bill extending until December 1, 1876, the time for the completion of the Wisconsin Central railroad. The law now requi es its completion by next May under penalty of forfeiture of its large land grant. The committee also took action on house bill amendatory of the act to encourage the growth of timber on the western prairies and will report amendments limiting the amount of land that may be thus required by homestead settlers, in addition to the 160 acres of homestead, to 40 planted with trees contiguous to said home stead. By a full vote of the judiciary committee, a bill has been presented to the house providing that whoever, being a creditor of the United States on ac count of any contract made on the 14th of April, 1861, or a claimant of any bounty of the United States given by law for military or naval service, done before the 14th of Ajiril, 1861, shall be entitled to receive the amount due and payable* notwithstanding any participa tion or sympathy in the rebellion, or the exercising of the functions of any office whatever under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to "the United States, and all laws and parts of laws contravening the provisions of this act be the same are hereby repealed. Aoconipaujrlug tills Dill In n rt?pui( from the judiciary committee, to whom was referred a house resolution of March 1, 1867, prohibiting the payment of debts due by the United States before the war unless loyalty is proved, and also a house bill to repeal the oath at present required of applicants for pensions, and to prescribe another oath. The com mittee, having considered the above msntioned resolution and bill, report that “It seems to your committee that as all o'her property and rights of pro perty of persons engaged in the late re bellion have by general acts of the am nesty and laws of the United States, been exempted from confiscation, there can be no reason for now retaining on the statute books such acts and parts of acts as were very properly enacted to prevent aid and comfort to the enemy of the United States during the war, which, by their impediments to the creditors "of the United States in re ceiving their just dues, amount to con fiscation, and also such acts to the same effect which were passed to hinder aud prevent disloyal persons whose disabili ties had not been removed because of their participation in the rebellion from making any claims against the govern ment for debts due, aud claims not aris ing out of the rebellion prior thereto, should also be repealed. Therefore, your committee have reported the ac companying bill covering the resolution and referred to them, so as to remove all disabilities in that regard.” Pre-Historic Man. A possible addition to the controversy concerning pre-hi toric man is fur nished by a Viiginian newspaper, which asserts that its information was ob tained from gentlemen of the highest character, who saw with their own eyes and tested with their own bands the won derful objects of which they make report. A railway is in progress of construction between Weldon and Garrysburg, and while the workmen were employed on a river bank, about a mile from the for mer place, they discovered a vast heap of skeletons, packed closely together, tier on tier, and interminrl' v 5 '-it li *the human bones a let of sharp stone ar rows, rude mortars and pipe bowls. The skulls were nearly an inch in thick ness, the teeth were as large as those of a horse and filed sharp like those of cannibals, and the leg bones indicated that the statxire of these remnants of a “ lost and forgotten rac6” must have been as great as eight or nine feet. The newspaper from which we obtain those facts hopes that “some effort will be made to preserve authentic and ac curate accounts of these discoveries,” and if they are honestly reported, we have little doubt that there will be.” —M. Lachaud, who defended Mar shal Bazaine on his trial, has declined to take any fee, and the ex-Empress Eu genie has sent Lira aprestntasa souvenir of the affair. The Queen of Spain has assumed the costs of the trial, and has offered fo provide for the education of Bazaine’s children. —A Kansas gentleman has thought fully put his fr >nt gate in the parlor, so that his daughter and her young man can swing on it without taking cold du ring the cold weather. This is a (n.mane suggestion to h 1! fathers A trout in the p trio? n_ v save a good manv pi firs that w( other" is hi p i u* fpr soothing aitii •; EASTMAN TIMES. RATES OF ADVERTISING: J" " ■■ VWi.— 6m. 12 m. HlO 00 $ 15 00 18 00 35 00 ' 28 00 89 99 One-fourth coL U6O 22 60l t 34 00 46 00 Oue-half e0L......... 20 00 82 60 ,86 00 80 00 Oneoolumn.. 36 00 60 00l 80 00 180 00 Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.60 per square for the first insertion, and "5 cents for each subsequent one. Ten lines or leas constitute a square. Professional cards, $16.00 uer annum; for lAx months, SIO.OO, in advance. GRAVE AND GAY. —The London Morning Post declares that Mark Twain, as a humorist, is a fraud, not fit to be mentioned the same day with Artemus Ward. —Russia is about to adopt a general conscription law, which, it is thought, will bring the strength of the army up to 2,000,000 within fifteen years. —The scarcest fur in Alaska is that of the black fox. Of 21,000 skins taken in 1872 there was cnly one black fox skin, which sold for the large price of $l5O. —A Springfield (Mass.) firm who have already supplied the Russian govern ment with 40,000 cavalrv pistols, are now completing and order for 20,00 more. —A great drinker being at a table they offered him grapes at dessert. “Thank you,” said he, pushing away the plate, “ I don’t take my wine in pills. ” —A “public adjudication,” alias a foroed loan, of twenty-five millions pesetas is decreed at Madrid. It is guaranteed by the revenue from the stamp tax. —A lengthy article is in circulation telling how to make a good mustard plaster. An article telling how to suc cessfully dodge one is what a smitten people want. —Richmond’s* (last census having footed up only 51,000 names, it is pro posed to have it taken over again by a man from Chicago, who guarantees a population of 74,000, or no pay. —The following is the latest obitu ary : Here lies interred Priscilla Bird, Who sang on earth till sixty-two, Now, upon high, above the sky, No doubt she sings like sixty, too. —The Normandie cap, which iised to be worn by babies and little children, has been modified and worked over into a dainty bit of head-gear for newly married ladies. It resembles an in j ured kite. —The prayer reform movement seems to be a sort of high moral epidemic. A crazy darkey in Troy entered the de tectives’ office the other day, and offered up a fervent petition for the graceless and unappreciative officials. —lt is stated by the New York Price Current, on the authority of the secre tary of the treasury, that a number of prominent English manufacturers con template the removal of their manufac tures and capital to the United States. —With a number-one Bogardus, a kicker and a copy of the Dead Beats’ Directary recently invented by some body in Chicago, every nespaper office ought to enjoy a degree of serene hap piness which until now was impossible. —At a recent golden wedding in Nau gatuck, Conn., the old couple showed the young folks liow “ courtin’ ’ was done fifty years ago, and those of the young folks who know how it is done at the present day couldn’t see that the metnod nad cliauged. much. —The Red river saloon, New Mexico, *is an exciting place for lunch. A ruf fian known as Chunk amused himself in shooting the eyes out of pictures and opening champagne bottles with pistol bullets. His eye became fixed on a stockman named Allison. At the srup per-table they sat opposite, each with his pistol in his lap. Allison dodged Chunk’s ball, and shot Chunk through the right eye before he had time to en joy his coffee. The sheriff arrived. He waited Chunk for a murder in Texas. The Ypsilanti Commercial tells this story : A few weeks since two of our prominent citizens swore off from drinking. One of them had occasion to visit Chicago. Meeting some friends they urged him to drink. He pleaded bis agreement wiih B. in Ypsilanti. The friends of A. in Chicago were not satis fied, and telegraphed to B. in our city, saying, “ A is getting awful dry. Can’t you let him off this once ? ” The noble f“fpir tan’s reply telegraphed back was : “No!if he must die, let him die sober.” —The Cheynne Leader says the Arapahoes and Cheyennes at present located near the Red Cloud agency, who assume the right to roam at will ovir northwestern Wyoming, and who have committed many murders and depiedations upon the citizens, have resolved not to abandon their hunting grounds for a reservation on the Arkansas river. The Arapahoes num ber about 2,000 and the Cheyennes more than 5,000, and there will be trouble if the Indian department insists upon its purpose to send them south. Hints to Advertisers. —When peo ple see a man advertise they know he is a business man, and his advertising proclaims that he is not above business, but anxious to do it. Customers, like sheep, are gregarious, and flock where they see others go. If nobody else were engaged in the same business, it would be important to tradesmen and dealers to advertise in the paper, because peo ple are tempted to buy what they read of. But others are engaged in the same business, and even if they do not ad vertise, it becomes the more important for you to do so; if they do advertise it becomes doubly important. —A non. Without the aid of advertisements I could have done nothing in my specu lations. I have the most complete faith in “ printer’s ink. ” Advertising is th “ royal road to business.” — Bamum. A Carload. —What constitutes a car load? Asa general rule, 20,000 pounds, or 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 90 of whisky, 200 sacks of flour, 6 cords of hard wood, 7 of soft wood, 18 to 20 head of cattle, 50 to 60 head of hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep, 9,000 feet of solid boards, 17,000 feet of siding, 12,000 of flooring, 40,000 shingles, one-half less of hard lumber, one-fourth les6 of green lumber, one-tenth less of joists, scant liup and all other large timber, 343 bushels of wheat, 360 of corn, 680 of oats, 4°o of barley, 360 of flax seed, 360 r f 430 ot I'osh potatoes, 360 of s . e„t potatoes, LOOO bushels of bran. The foregoing table may not be exactly L ., j, reet, for I he reason that. iailioa>ls do i .-x erjx agree in their rules and es ie pro ,r annroxiroates so closely -‘v i- that-hq pers-ill V,. ’ " ,/ . , i. :i: *e -*■ - r-a^ST oif c) -.* a ,