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EASTMAN TIMES. -A- K*l Live Country Paper. l’l 'ILIBHIL EVERT THUItbDAY MORNING, —BY— H. S. BURT 0 2NT. TilßMhi OB 1 lIIIUR€KIPTION j One eopy, one year $ 2.00 One copy, eix montk* j qq 'J en copies, in clubs, one year, eaob 1.60 Single copies g ots TIRED MOTHERS. A little elbow leans r.pon yonr knee Your tired knee tliat lias ho much to bear - A child’s dear eyes are looking lovingly ’ From underneath a thatch of tangled hair. Perhaps you do not. heed the velvet touch Of warm, moist lingers holding you so tight • You do not prize this blessing overmuch ; ’ You almost are too tired to pray to-night. But it is blessedness ! A year ago I did not see it as I do to-day— We are all so dull and thankless-, and too slow To catch the sunshine till it slips away. And now it seems surpassing strange to ino That, while I wore the badge of motherhood, I did not kiss more oft and teqderly The little child that brought me only good. And if, some night, when you sit down to rest, You miss this elbow from your tired knee— This restless, curly head from off your breast, This lisping tongue that chatters constantly • If from yonr own the dimpled hands had slipped, And ne’er would nestle in your palm again • If the white feet into their grave had tripped, I could not blame you for j-our neai i-acne Then. * clinging to their gown ; Or that the foot-prints, when the days are wet, Are ever black enough to make them frown. If I could find a little muddy boot Or cap or jacket on my chamber floor; If I could kiss a rosy, restless foot. And hear it patter in my home once more ; If I could mend a broken cart to-day, To-morrow make a kite to reach the sky— There is no Woman In God’s world could say She was more blissfully content than L But, ah ! the dainty pillow next my own Is never rumpled by a shining head; My singing bird ling from its nest has flown ; The little boy I used to kiss is dead ! WRONGFULLY ACCUSED. It. Ims been ninny long days since then, yet I remember it all, just as t! ougli it had occurred but yesterday. I was a carpenter, the foreman of a large establishment, and as such pos sessed the entire confidence of my em ployer, who, by tho way, had been a schoolmate of mino. One day ho called me into his office lo look at some coins he had just pur chased. “ Here,” said he placing in my hand a heavy gold piece, “ is one worth more than all the rest put together. It is a great cur.osity. I paid two hundred dollars for it, and considered it cheap at lhat. I could easily double my money in selliDg it; ancFso you see, Harvey, it is really a good investment.” “No doubt it is,” said J, “ though it seems a large sum to have lie idle.” I breathed an involuntary sigh as I laid the coin down on the desk, for two hundred dollars would have seemed a fortune to nio just then. Tho severe illness of my wife and one of my children, and tho death of an other, made serious inroads on my urse, and it had required the exercise of the utmost economy to koep myself free from debt; nay, I had been obliged to withdraw from the bank the small sum which, besides my salary, was all 1 possessed o£ worldly treasures. Thinking of this, T lniil the coin down with a sigh, and turned away to attend to iny duties. • Tho next morning I was again sum moned into tne oilice, but this timo" I met with no such friendly greeting as usual. “ Harvey,” said my 'employer, ab ruptly, “that coin we were looking at has disappeared. I have made a thorough search, but it can Dot be found. It has been carried away by some ouq, You alone saw or know of it, and—” He paused and looked significantly into my face. I finished the sentence for him, the hot blood dying my cheeks and brow as I spoke. “ You mean, that I took it—ll” “What else can I think? The coin was here, you alone saw it. I cannot recall having seen it since it was in your hands. You are in need of money; you have told me that yourself. It was a great temptation, and I forgive you because of our old friendship, but I cannot retain you in my employ. Hero is the salary duo you.” “ Very well,” said I, with forced calmness. “So be it. Since you have so poor an opinion of me after years of faithful service, I shall not stop to de fend myself.” Then I took the money ho had laid upon the desk, and went from his pres* eace a well-nigh broken-hearted man. lint for the tender love for my wife, I doubt not but that, I would have bnried mv sorrows in the grave of a suicide. Supported by hat love, however, .and the consciousness of my own innocence, 1 took fresh courage, and set resolutely to work to find anew employer. Powerful is the breath of slander; turn which way I might. I ever found that the story of my dismissal for theft had preceded me, and application for employment uniformly met with re fusal. thrac went on ; pieee by piece of fur niture, and every spare article of cloth ing, found ts way to the pawnbroker’s, until at length even this poor resource* tailed us, and my children cried in vain for food. et l did not sit down in idle despair; dd not afford to do so ; the life or <tnath of all T loved on earth depended - ; my exertion, and so, turning away a heavy heart, I once more set out on bje weary search for work. final aft r refusal met 'uy entreaties for employment, and 1 turniug homeward wiHi a listless , . '-sing an immense church, 1 , 8 ! ' Dieted by a group of men at its * t" ; u by some strange impulse, I 1 rr’r 1 Urid with them. Was landing near by, ‘ steeple, which fiftv feet * -i u e two hundred and feet above them, while a gentle wim .evidently an architect Yasad dressing him in earnest lanmi? and g, I> ' ,i “ tin " &-S "to I tJn l ” ! Sn ? mito? the spire. ~ ; ' y° n ' he exclaimed, as I drew “■VV'teWottr out of * iob ?P Ce.“ Do it W youS 6 i7v 8 S ° *‘ igtl it done.” urselt, if you want 1 would if X W n Ve ” r, a'™; &W *0 i™Sl The o’ : ™ '“r J°'>ao itT ** was about to mo™ „ and 1 gentleman stepped forward. ' ' VHy a fi0 > I Two Dollars Per Annum, VOLUME 11. „ " Wliat it you want done?” I asked. I am a carpenter; perhaps I cam do He turned eagerly towarl me. make it worth your while, lake < own lhat cross, and I will pay you a hundred dollars. You will have to ascend those •rnamental blocks, and 1 tell you candidly they are not to be t de / They must bo weak and for they have been up there for years. I looked up at the spire; it was square at the base and tapered to a sharp point, while along each angle were naded small gilded blooks of wood It s a dangerous place to work,” i said, and there will be even more S-f/[/VOO A ulAmg- n £fig"c4i>sß, and then—” “ If any accident happens to you, my brave fellow, the money shall be paid to your family. I promise you that. Give me your address.” “Here it is,” I said, “and as you value your soul keep yonr word with me. My wife and children are starving, or I would not attempt this work. If I die, they can live on the hundred dol lars for a while, until my sick wife re covers her strength.” “I’ll make it a hundred and fifty, ” exclaimed the architect, “and may God protect you. If I had the skill neces sary to ascend that steeple, I would ask no man to risk his life there. But come, and keep a steady hand and eye.” I followed him into tho church, then up into the spire, until we paused be fore a narrow window. This was the point from which I must start on the perilous feat which I had undertaken. Casting a single glance at the people in the street below—mere specks in the distance—l reached out from tho win dow, and, grasping one of the ornamen tal blocks, swung myself out from the spire. For an instant my courage faltered, but the remembrance of my starving family came to my aid, and,’ with a si lent prayer for protection and success, I placed my hand on the next block above my head, and clambered up. From block to block I went, steadily and cautiously, trying each one ere I trusted my weight upon it. Two-thirds of the space had been passed, when suddenly the block that supported me moved—gave way. O, heavens ! never, though I shoufd live to see a hundred years, shall I cease to shudder at the recollection of that ter rible moment. Yet even in the midst of my agony, as I felt myself slipping backward, I did not for one second lose my presence of mind. It seemed to mo that never before had my koiirph heen so naturally acute as then, when a horrible death seemed inevitable. Down, down I slipped, grasping at each block as I passed it by, until at length my fearful course was arrested ; and then, while my head reeled with the sudden reaction, a great shout came from the people below. “Come down! oome down!” called the architect from the window; “half the sum shall be yours for the risk von havo run. Don’t try it again. Conie down!” But no; more than ever now I was determined to succeed. I was not one to give up after having undertaken a difficult task. Coolly but cautiously I commenced the ascent once more, first seeking in vain to reach across to the next row of blocks, for I did not dare to trust my self again on that which had proved so treacherous. This I was compelled to do, however, until the space between the angles became sufficiently small to allow me to swing across. Accomplishing my purpose at length, I went up more rapidly, carefully testing each block as I proceeded. Ere long I reached the cross, and there I paused to rest, looking down from the dizzy height with a coolness that even then astonished me. A few strokes wi.h a light hatchet that the architect had hung at my back, and piece by piece the rotten cross fell to the ground. My work was done, and, as the last fragment disappeared, I found a sad pleasure in the thought that, should I never reach the gi ound alive, my dear ones would have amply means to sup ply their wauts until my wife could find employment. % Steadily and cautiously I lowered my self from block to block, and at length reached the spire window amidst the cheers of those assembled iu the street. Inside the steeple the architect placed a roll of bank notes in my hand. “You have well earned the money,” he said. “It does me good to see a man with so much nerve—but—bless me ! what is the matter with your hair? It was black bofere you made the as cent, now it is gray.” And so it was! "That moment of in tense agony, while slipping downward, bad blanched by hair, until it appeared like that of an old man. The work of years had been done in an instant. Entering the bare, cheerless room which was now all I called my home, I found a visitor awaiting me—my late employer. “Harvey,” said he, extending his hand, “ I have done a great wrong. It cost me a terrible pang to believe in your guilt, but circumstances were so strongly against you that I was forced to believe it. I have found the coin, Harvey; It slipped under the secret drawer in my desk. Can you forgive me, dear old friend ?” My heait was too full to speak, 1 silently pressed his hand. “ I will undo the wrong I have done. All the world shall know how I accused you unjustly, not through my words only, but through ny actions too. You must be my partner, Harvey. H you refuse, I shall feel that you have not forgiveu me.” x did not refuse. Instead, I thank fuilyjaccepted the offer which my friend so generously made, knowing that no surer method could have been devised to silence forever the tongue of slan der and free my name from the unmer ited reproach which of late had rested upon. it. Prosperity has attended my steps ever since that eventful day, but neitli prosperity nor wealth can efface inem ■ ry from my heart, nor restore my with ered looks to their own raven hues EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1874. SOUTHERN HISTORY. Extracts front Grit. Joseph K. .John ston's Hook on the hate War. General Johnston fought through the whole war in the east and in the°west. He began it with the occupation of Har per’s Ferry and the victory of Bull Bun He maneuvered the shattered confeder ate armies of the west during the latter months of that great campaign on the Mississippi which made Gen. Grant commander of the armies of the union and broke the backbone of the confed erate system. He stayed for long weeks with an inferior force the march of Sherman to the sea, and when at last he was forcedAiUecQflPWSfr.fjjfo l - lhe Garolmas, the people of the ate states all felt that the verdict of fate had been pronounced against them. Gen. Johnston’s account of Bull Run explains the failure of the confederates to follow up tho day by i n advance up on Washington. “The victory,” says General Johnston, “was as complete as one gained by infantry and artillery on ly can be,” but he declares it to be his opinion that “if the tactics of the fed erals had been equal to their strategy wo should have been beaten;” He" thinks that “ General McDowell great ly underestimated the strength of his enemy,” and that this was the cause of the fatal inferiority above alluded to. It is General Johnston’s opinion that the disasters of the north at the outset of the war were due to the fact that it un dertook an offensive warfare ; and that the south would have been just as bad ly beaten, therefore, had the offensive been originally taken on that side. “Either country,’’ he says, “could have raised armies stronger both in numbers and in spirit for defensive than for offensive war. ‘ At the ontset,” says General John ston, “ the southern troops were superi or to their adversaries, from greater zeal and more familiarity with the me of firearms. The thorough system of instruction introduced into the United States army gradually established equality in the use of firearms, and our greater zeal finally encountered better discipline. Upon the operations which preceded the fall of Vicksburg and the great ad vance of Sherman through Georgia, Gen. Johnston’s book throws floods of new light. We shall content ourselves with a few striking extracts, which will give, we think, a fair notion of the spirit and stylo of his remarkable pub lication. He says : On the 21st I received the following letter from the president, dated 23d. Like that of the secretary of war, it was ostensibly intended for my instruct tion : “ General : — This is addressed un der the supposition that you have ar rived at Dalton, and have assumed com mand at that place. The, intelligence recently received respecting tile condi tion of that army is encouraging, and induces me to hope that you will soon be able to commence active operations against the enemy. “The reports concerning Missionary Ridge show that our loss in killed and wounded wafi not great, and that the reverse sustained is not attributable to any general demoralization or reluc tance to encounter the opposing army. The brilliant stand made by the rear guard at Ringgold sustains this belief. “In a letter written to me soon after the battle, General Bragg expressed his unshaken confidence in tbe cour age and morale of the troops. He says ; ‘We can reedeem the past. Let us concentrate all our available men, unite them with this little army, still full of zeal, and burning to redeem its lost character and prestige—hurl the whole upon the enemy, and crush him in his power and glory. I believe it practicable, and that 1 may be alio ved to participate in the struggle which may restore to us the character, the prestige and the country we have just lost. This will give us confidence and restore hope to the country and the army, while it will do what is more import ant, give us subsistance, without which Ido not see how we are to remain united.’ “The official reports made to my aid-de-camp, Colonel Ives, who has just returned from DaltoD, presented a not unfavorable view of the material of the command. “The chief of ordnance reported that, notwithstanding the abandonment of a considerable number of guns dur ing the battle, there was still on hand, owing to previous large captures by our troops, as many batteries as were pro portionate to the strength of the army, well supplied with horses and equip ment, that a large reserve of small-arms was in store at readily accessible points, and that the supply of ammunition was abundant. “ Comparatively few wagons and am bulances had been lost, and sufficient remained for transportation purposes, if an equal distribution were made throughout the different corps. The teams appeared to be generally in fair condition. The troops were tolerably provided with clothing, and a heavy in voice of shoes and blankets daily ex pected. “The returns from the commissary department showed that there were thirty days’ provisions on hand. “ Stragglers and convalescents were rapidly coming in, and the morning re ports exhibited an effective total that, added to the two brigades last sent from Mississippi and the cavalry sent back by Longstreet, would furnish a force exceeding in number that actually engaged in anv battle on the confeder ate side during the present war. Gen eral Hardee telegraphed to me on the 11th instant : ‘ The army is m good spirits ; the artillery reorganized and equipped, and we are now ready to fig “ The effective condition of your new command, as thus reported to me, is a matter of much congratulation, and i assure you that nothing shall be want ing on the part of the government to aid you in your efforts to regain pos session of tlie territory from which we have been driven. You will not need tTbave it suggested that the imperative demand for prompt and vigorous action arTes not only from the importance of restorin'* the prestige of the army, averting the injurious and du.pir.tmg i results 'that must attend a season of m. Iji God ITrtdt. activity, but from the necessitv oi reoc cupying the country, upon the supplies of which the proper subsistence tf onr armies materially depends. “ Of the immediate measures to be adopted in attaining this end, tty full importance of which I am sure jot ap preciate, you must be the best judge, after due inquiry and consideration "on the spot slial. have matured anopinioD. It is my desire that you should commu nicate fully and freely with me concern ing yonr proposed plan of action, that all the assistance and co-operation may be most advantageously afforded that it is in the power of the governmer*- render nc , ling that your jj ea]fll w preserved, and that me aninoun and re sponsible aut'ies you have undertaken may be successfully aocomplished, I re main very respectfully and truly yours, “Jefferson Davis.” I was unable then, as now, to imag ine any military object for which this letter could have been written, especi ally by one whose time was supposed to be devoted to the most important con cerns of government. The president could not have thought that I was to ba taught the moral and material condition of the army around me by him, from the observations of his aide-de-camp, who had never seen military service, instead of learning them by my own. Nor could he have believed that the ar my which he so described was compe tent to recover “the territory from which it had been driven.” He had visited it some two months before, and seen that it con id make no forward movement for the purpose then, when the opposing federal army Lad not been increase.! by the corps of 20,000 veterans led from Mississippi by Sherman ; nor ours weakened by the withdrawal from it of Longstreet’s corps, and its losses at Missionary Ridge. Those losses must have been severe, for such troops are not easily driven from strong and in trenched positions, still less easily rout ed. As 1 had much better means of information on the subjects of this pa per thau its author, it could not have been written for my instruction. THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOUTH. Much has been and much more said of the cause of the overthrow of the confederate states in their great contest for independence. One class, and much the largest—for it iicludes tho people who were victorious in tho war, and those Europeans who watched the struggle with interest, as well as many of the southern people—ascribes it to the superior population and great er resources of the northern states. An other, a class of scutliern people, attri butes our defeat to a want of perseve rvance, unanimity, and even of" loyalty on °™ r ow n part, and the consequent abandonment of the government of the confederacy in its efforts by the people themselves. In my view both are far wrong. The CfiusiQ of the oulvjugtitiiun Of fhe southern states was neither want of wealth and population lor of devotion to their own cause on the part of the people of those states. That people was not guilty of the high crime of un dertaking a war without the means of waging it successfully, They ;had am ple means, which, unfortunately, were not applied to the object of equipping great armies and bringing them into the field. A full treasury was necessary to de fray the expenses of a great war. The south had the means of making one, in its cotton alone. But its government rejected those means, and limited its financial efforts to printing bank-notes, with which the country was soon flooded. The necessity of actual money in the treasury, and the mode of rais ing it, were generally understood in the country. It was that the government should take the cotton from the owners •and send it to Europe as fast as -possi ble, to be sold there. This was easily practicable, for the owners were ready to accept any terms the government might fix, and sending to Europe wns easy in all the first year of the confed eracy’s existence. Its government wert into operation early in February, The blockade of the southern ports was pro claimed in May, but not at all effective until the end of the following winter, so that there was a period of about twelve months for the operation of converting 4,000,000 or 5,000,009 bales of cotton iuto money. The sum raised iu that way would have enabled the war depaitment to procure at once arm* enough for five hundred thousand men, and after that expenditure the confed erate treasury would have been much richer than that of the United States. By applying the first money received in this way to the purchase of arms and military accoutrements or using for the purpose the credit which such an amount of property would have given, the war department would have been able to equip troops as fast as they could be assembled and organized. And, as the southern people were full of enthusiasm, five hundred thousand men could have been ready and in the field, had such a course been pursued, at the time when tke first battle was actually fought—the 21st of July, 1861 Such a force placed on the northern borders -of the confederacy, before the United States had brought a fourth of the number into the field, would prob ably have prevented the very idea of “coercion.” Such a disposition of such an army, and the possession of financial means of carrying on war for years, would have secured the success of the confederacy. The timely adoption of such a finan cial system would have secured to ns the means of success, even without an extraordinary exportation of arms and the immediate organization of large ar mies. It would have given the confed eracy a treasure richer than that of the United States. We should thus have had, to the end of the war, the means of paying our soldiers, and that would have enabled of them as belonged to the laboring cl as3 to remain iu the ranks. This class, in the confederacy, as in all other countries, formed the body of the army. In all the earlier part of the war, "when the confederate money was not much below that of the United States in value, our troops were paid with some regularity, and soloiers of the laboring class who had families fed and clothed them with their pay, as they had formerly done with the wages of their labor. ‘.And so long as that state of things continued the strength of the confederate armies was little im pairod ; and those annus were main tained on such a footing as to justify the hope, which was general in the south until the fall of 1864, that we were to win in the contest. But after the confederate currency had become almost worthless when a soldier’s month’s pay would scarcely buy one meal for his family—and that was the case in all the last period of ten or twelve months—those soldiers of the laboring class who had families were compelled to choose between their mil - tea wives j Ttoj obeyed the strong est of those obligations, left the army and returned to their homes to support their families. The seceding states, in general, made no preparation for war by procuring arms—none of consequence, that is to say. I believe that Georgia procured 80,000 old-fashioned muskets, and Vir ginia had 40,000, made in a state armory more than forty years before. They had, of course, flint locks. Each of the other southern states on seceding claimed, and, when practicable, took possession of the military property of the United States within its limits. They obtained in that way the arms with which they began the war. To recapitulate : The confederate states began the war with 120,000 arms of obsolete models, and 700 of the re cently adopted weapons, “rifled mus kets,” and the United States with about 450,000 of the old and all of the mod ern arms that had been made since the adoption of tlic new model, about the middle of Gen. Fierce’s administration, when Mr. Davis was at the head of the war department, except, however, the 700 hold by the confederacy. The equip ped field batteries and fixed ammuni tion of all kinds were in the north, as well as the establishments for the man ufacture of arms and the preparation of ammunition, except that at Harper’s Ferry, which, being on the border, was abandoned by the United States, after an attempt to destroy it, which left lit tle besides machinery. *The chief of ordnance, Col. Craig, m his report on the subject states that but 80,000 of the arms ordered by Mr. Floyd to be sent to the south were actually removed. BURIED TREASURE UNEARTHED. A Conledernlc Soldier Makes a Death bed Will-!|7r,000 in Gold lU tored to Circulation. From the Memphis Register. When the war between the states broke out, there lived in Memphis a certain young mechanic who voluntered his services as a soldier in'the confeder ate cause. Just before receiving march ing' orders he fell heir to $7,500. which he received in English gold, and buried $7,000 of the same beneath the roots of a tree on a certain lot in the city. The st.-d rot beiong-oi ’. a friend of tlie young man whose family had kindly nursed him during a protracted illness, and for whom he felt a deep sense of gratitude, It chanced that said soldier became tired of his unrequited life, and-despairng of the cause which he deemed “lost,” before many of his fellows came to the same conclusion, he left his comrades without the usual preliminary of an honorable discharge, and passed beyond the boundary of the confederate states into Mexico, In due course of time he sailed for Eng land and there shipped as a sailor on a merchant vessel. After various adven tures around the wourld he was at length taken very ill recently, while sailing in the Mediterranean, and, be fore meeting with his approaching death, summoned to the side of his •hammock the master of the vessel, re vealed to him the above stated facts, and desired him to write a will in which he bequeathed to the friend in Mem phis, who had nursed him in sickness, his buried treasure. This was accord ingly done and the will signed and witnessed. The master of the vessel faithfully carried out the dying request of the deceased soldier and sailor and commu nicated the facts with the will to the Memphis legatee, who received the same. But he had some time before sold and delivered another party the lot on which the valuable sovereigns were deposited. How to get at it now without incurring opposition and per haps litigation, was the question which arose in his mind. After taking the advice of counsel, he concluded to de velop the wdiole matter to the purchaser and owner of the place and ask for the right to make search. This was done, and the proprietor generously for warding his wishes and giving him every facility to possess himself of the treasure. On digging at the foot of the tree described in the will, the gold, amounting to £7,000, was happily found the new owner made glad by the glittering heap. Thus did the “ bread cast on the waters return after many days.” And thus is truth again proven to" be “ Stranger than fiction.” This remarkable statement is vouched for by a respectable lawyer of this city. It furnishes abundant foundation for an interesting romance, which we hope some competent person will work up. Veils. Alas for veils ! From the tiny infant in the nurse’s arms to the ancient widow in her weeds, the whole sex is vailed. Veils answer many purposes. They conceal defects, they heighten beauty, they cover grief, and so we see a whole race of women of every age, style and condition laying foundations for disea ses of the eye through an almost need less fashion! These blinders are of eve ry conceivable style, from white dot on the child to the English crape on its grandmother. The best oculists give testimony against this wholesale wear ing of veils, and we thiok they shoul 1 make protest against it, even at the ri. k of injury to their calling. At least let the mothers of to-day look to it that they will be held responsible, in an other generation, for suffe ing their lit tle ones to go veiled, as the matrons of a past generation were for allowing tig ;>t lacing and all the evils which that distressing practice en ailed. —The smallest salary paid to a post master in this country is two dollars, and a large number receive sums rang ing from that emouqt to twelve dollars. Payable in Advance. NUMBER 11. BALD MOUNTAIN. “ Sawbuiei ” Elucidates the Ciissfdne*s of Newspaper Humanity. NeaiT the Volcanic Regions, March 19—“ H—ll afloat in the mountains !” — “Old Baldy” Preparing to Ernct ! Volcano !—Smoke !—Fire! —The Earth Quaking!—Things Trotting!” I heard all this, and I could not stand it. I had never seen a volcano, s I mounted my horse and put out for “ Old Bald.” The news got worse the farther I went. As I approached the mountain I met the natives APet^’—: back, and sung, “Turn, sinner, turn,” and I think some of them prayed for me. It beat old Mrs. Ward’s saloon at Greenville. To get out of the fuss I pushed on. I struck a leading spur of old Bald, and rode up, up as l'ar as I could ride. Then I dismounted, hitched my horse and walked on. Where the spur joined the main mountain, my way was obstruced by perpendicular rocks. I could see smoke from the top, but I could not hear the rumbling. I climbed up and around the mountain to avoid the rocks. After proceeding for some time, I began to hear the rumhlirg. It appeared to be below me and farther around the mountain. I got on a high point, from which there was a com manding -view below. The rumbling from this point was terrible and unac countable. Just here I saw a sight that astonished me more than if the earth yawned at my feet. I saw a wagon, with four mules, driven furiously around the side of the mountain. It had on it an old-fashioned wagon-bed, and from the noise, there was a few loose rocks in it. How the thing held together, bounc ing about over the rocks, is unaccounta ble. It went a few hundred yards, and turned round. It stopped about ten minutes as if to rest the mules, then, here it came again. The road (if it could be called a road) was about four hundred yards long. It would turn and rest the mules at each end. I saw it make several trips. Then I took a drink from my flask, and scrambled down to this Devil’s turnpike. I placed myself by the side of the road, to wait for the ivacron. In a few minutes here it came. The driver did not see me until he ivas within fifty steps of me. Ho appeared astonished, stood up in his stirrflps (he was riding one of the mules), and tried to bluff me by veiling out r “Get out of the way, you d—d fool !” As soon as he spoke I knew him. It was George Sikes. He used to live over in Buncombe when Madison was part of Buncombe. I picked up a couple of rocks and placed myself in the middle of the road. Then he stop ped and I went for him. Said I, ‘ ‘George, ie 37m don’t want to be lifted from that mule with one of these doruiukn, talk fast. ” “ Talk what ?” said he. Volcano,” said I. “ Now look Imre, Sawbones ” (he al ways called me Sawbones), “you know that lam a poor man. lam paid by the editors to do this.” “ But how about the smoke and fire?” He said one of his boys was on top and with sticks and wet leaves he kept up a smoke. At night they built a fire. “ How about the the blow out ?” Here George laughed outright. He said the natives were very skittish when they heard the rumbling, but when “the blow up” came, they incontinently tod dled ! He had buried a keg of powder about eight feet deep, inserted a tin tube in the keg, tramped in the dirt, lit a slow'match and then she blew out! “They say they hear this rumbling to Old Fort?” “O, yes ! They hear it there ! They will hear it in New York sood, the news is spreading mighty fast! Sawbones, for God sake give me all the tobacco you have about you—go home to your family and keep your mouth shut.” I did oome home to my family. The old quilt saw me coming and ran to meet me. The first word was “volca no !” I told her the volcano was all right, but that the cussedness of hu man nature was breaking my heart, and that if she didn’t get in the house and make me a strong cap of coffee, there would be a volcano right there. She went—not being a strong-minded cru sader, she consequently does what I ask her to do. i If you are in the “volcano” business you can suppress this. Ido not want to injure any man’s business; and this volcano-earthquake news is mighty ex citing reading. Small Means. The power of money is on the whole over estimated. The greatest things which have been for the world have not been accomplished by rich men, or by subscription lists, but by men generally of small pecuniary meacis. The greater thinkers, discoverers, inventors and art ists, have been men of moderate wealth, many of them little raised above the conditi-n of manual laborers, in point of worldly circumstances. And it will always be so. Riches are oft.ener an impediment than a stimulus to action ; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing. The youth who inherits wealth is apt to have life made too easy for him, and he soon grows sated with it, because he has nothing left to desire. Having no special object to struggle for, be finds time heavy on his hands ; morally and mentally asleep ; and his position in so ciety is often no higher than that of a polypus over which the tide floats. —William (ted, the inventor of stere otyping, was a Scotchman. He was a jeweler in Edinburg. So long as he ad ! hered to his original vocation he was permitted to prosper. When he ven tured to exercise his ingenuity by facil itating the printer’s art, he was doomed. On his making known his discovery of block printing, the trade deemed their c aft in danger, and formed a eorabina i tion for his destruction Master print ers, journeymen, and apprentices uni ! ted against him as a c >mmon enemy ; they loaded him with invectives ; they reproached him with ignorance and as 3umption. The arrows of calumny hit j him on all sides. Who could long with- I stand such an array of hostilities? Poor I Ged, who ought to have made a fortune by his discovery, sunk under the load of persecution, and died of a broken heart. EASTMAN TIMES. BITES OF ▲DVBR'MSnttt! ' -I ■' stack. li sm. am. 13m. One squaw $ 4 oo' $ 7 iWJ 1000 $ IS 00 Two squares 6*6 12 001 18 00 #S 00 Four squares ......... 976 19 OO) • go 0# One-fourth col. 11 60 W *oi , 6*oo 46 00 One-half col 20 00 99 80l fiWOfi go 00 .One Advertisements lussrted si the rate of (IJB per wjuve for the first Insertion, and 76 cents for saoh subsequent cue. Ten Lints or lass constitute n square. Professional cards, $16.86 ne r eunsjaj f<* El months, SIO.OO, la advenes. FACT AND FANCY. —A Keokuk butcher gives away a chromo with ever v ten pounds of meat. —“ He handled a gun carelessly, and put his angel plumage on,” is an obitu ary which appears in a western paper. —How happily things turn out. It is now declared that Gladstone has long been very anxious to withdraw from public lifo. —There is always some incentive to the Ajnerican youth to study and work. He mav not become president of the -suited yfates, but he may be the oldest Mason. —There is a general opinion that the ice crop for 1874 will prove a complete failure, and much suffering has been apprehended among the wealthy next summer. —The St. Louis Journal “trusts there is no truth in the rumor that the tem perance crusaders intend to carry on the Campaign until every cotton gin in the south is closed. ” —A malicious politician says the Grangers in Illinois turn out to dig the graves ot deceased brothers, thus pre venting extortion on the part of that “ middleman,” the sexton. —A California paper says of Gov. Stafford, of Arizona, that “he can go it as long without a plug hat and a biled shirt as any man who ever looked a grizzly square in the face.” —M. Ollivier says “that no govern ment can be founded in France without a plebiscite, and if we have one the em pire will receivo far more votes than all the other parties put together.” —Ohio men don’t ask each other now to go in and have something to drink, but maintain personal friendship by passing around handfuls of magnificent ly-developed peanuts and gum-drops. —A fat French lady says: “I am so fat that I pray for a disappointment to make me thin. No sooner does the dis appointment come than the mere expec tation of growing thinner gives me such joy that I become fatter than ever.” —Horace Greeley’s estate will prove much more valuable than has been sup posed. Instead of being worth but 825,000 'or s.‘>o,ooo, as was thought a short time after his death, it probably represents a value of about $125,000 quite enough to render his daughters comfortable. —The latest precocious sayiDg is by au infant on the Pacific coast. She had torn one of her nails to the quick, and going to liermother, while the pain filled her eyes with tears, said, holding up her wounded finger, “Mamma, I dess I shall have to go up to heaven and dit anozzer put on.” —A workingman of Dundee, Scot- ' land, writing of co-operation in that town, say tiiat aooufc a year ago a few men clubbed together and bought a box oi BOR'p and a client of tna, ami retailed it among themselves. The results were URtuiiioliiiig. Thoro nro now one hun dred and eighty shareholders, and they have a shop of their own. —A good thing is told of the Bishop of Montreal. It seems that the good bishop has prohibited dancing, and two officers, wishing to obtain permission to dance the polka at a military ball, danced it together to show the bishop how it was done. After the exhibition the bishop gave his permission in these terms: “You can dance the polka as long as you please—with each other.” —When Charles Lamb was invited, at a public dinner, to say grace, and responded with the remark, “Is there no minister present ? Then let us thank God !” Le was a satirist, and knew it. When a sheriff down in Vermont, in opening the county court, cried, “ All persons having causes or matters pend ing therein, draw near, and they shall be heard, and God save the people!” he was a satirist, and didn’t know it. —There is nothing funnier in cockney vernacular than .Teamcs’ letter, when he is in doubt which to prefer of his two lady-loves, Mary Hann and Hangelina. He writes : “There they stood together, them two young women. I don’t know which is the ’andsomest. I couldn't help comparing them ; and I couldn’t help comparing myself to’a certain han nimle I've read of, that found it difficult to make a choice between two bundles of A.” * Advice to Correspondents. There are a few things that we would like to impress upon the minds of those whose fortune, or misfortune, necessi tate their sending correspondence to a newspaper. Here they are : Write plainly. Not to do so is to mtke an item almost valueless, and sometimes worse than uselesp. If you write a “ back” hand, learn to do it with the left hand, that the com positor may not have to stretch his neck to the left to a dangerous extent to get the run of a word. Don’t underline every adjective in the sentence, after the style of a lawyer’s brief. If you have ever studied punctuation at all, punctuate ; but if you have not, let is slide. If you have occasion to make a capital J, write it below and not on the line. If John Smith or William McFaden has purchased a piece of property of Hezekiah Hobbletop for one thousand dollars, say so, if you desire to see the notice in print. There is no occasion to say, “Our highly-respected and hon- Oied citizen, John Smith, who for the last ten years has been selling milk at ten cents a quart, thereby realizing a munificent profit, has purchased from his neighbor, Mr. Hezekiah Hobbletop, a most estimable citizen, and honorable vender of garden tags and sich, that beautifully located piece of property known as" ‘Fools’ Folly Plot,’ and in that most salubrious location intends erecting a house thereon.” Self praise is no recommendation, neither does it pay the printer, but it does disgust him. Dot your i’s, cross you t’s, point'your u’p, and make them distinct from the rounded and. Use ink. Lead pencil writing over strains the eye of the compositor when deciphering it, and also causes him to indulge in “ cuss words.” Be sure to spell names correctly. A man wants his name given rightly or not at all.