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The Gainesville Eagle, r UULLSH ED K V EK Y FRIDAY MORNING. .X - E3 . IDL BDW I 3ST H . Kftitiir ami Proprietor. 1 KRMS : ss‘. l A-Year, in Advance. OFFICE Up stairs m Caudier Ilall building, north-west corner Tublic Square. Agents for The Eagle. -I■ SI. Idea, lilairaville, Ga.; J. V. Howaiio, Hhvae eeo, <ia.; W. M. Sanukbson, Haysville, N. C.; Da. N. C. Osboun, Buford, Ga. Tiie above named gentlemen are authorized to make collections, receive and receipt for subscription to The Eaulz office. -&A ItnteH of Advertising. One dollar per square for first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six lines will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be inserted at any price. Communications of genera! or local Interest, under a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any source. Kate* of Advertising. Sheriff’s sales for each levy often lines or less $2 50 Each subsequent ten lines or less - - 2 50 Mortgage sales (Go days) per square - • .5 00 Eich subsequent ten lines or less - 6 00 Adm’r’s, Ex’r's or Guard’n’s sales, (40 days) pr nq 5 00 Notice to debtors and creditors - - 5 00 Citat’s lor Jot'rs of adtn’u or guard'ns’p (4 wks) 400 Leave to sell real estate - - - 5 00 Lot’rs of dism’u of adin'n or guard’n (3 mo.) G 00 Estray notices 3 00 Citations (unrepresented estates) - - 4 00 Itule nisi in divorce cases ... o 00 &4T Fractions of a square (or inch) are charged in all cases as full squares or inches, Notices of (irdiuaries calling attention of adminis trator.-*, executors ami guardians to making thmr an nu il returns; and of Sheriffs in regard to provisions sections 3641). or the Code, published free for the fcjhoriffrt and Ordinaries who patronize the Eagle. Advertisers who desire a specified space for 3, 6 or 12 months will receive a liberal deduction from our regular rates. Mitt" All bills due after first insertion, unless special contract to this contrary be made. (JK >KIt A L DIRECTORY. Hon. George l). Rico, Judge 8. C. Western Circuit. A. L. Miteliel, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. B. M. Winburn. Ordinary. John L. Gaines, Sheriff. J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff. J. J. Mayne, Clerk Superior Court. N. R. Clark, Tax Collector. J. It. H. Luck, Tax Receiver. Gideon Harrison, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner. R. C. Young, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Pkksuvtehtan Church— Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pas tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night, except the second Sabbath. 8u day School at ha. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock. Methodist Church Rev. I>. D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday Sc,bool ata. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Church Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at ‘J a. in. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o’clock. YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. A. M. Jackson, President. R. C. Maddox, Vice President. W. B. Clements, Secretary. Regular services every Sabbath evening at one of the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every Tues day night in “Old Town,” and Friday night near the depot. FRATERNAL RECORD. Alleghany Royal Arch Chapter meets on the Sec ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. J. T Wilson, See,’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P. Gainesville Lodge, No. 2111, A.-. F.-. M.\, meets on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the month U. Palmouu, Sec’y. J. E Rkdwtne, W. M. Air-Line Lodge, No. 04,1. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. C. A. Lilly, Sec. W. n. Harrison, N. G. Gainesville Grange No. 340, meets on the Third Saturdiiy and First Tuesday in each month, at one clock, p. m. j. E. Redwink, Mastei. E. D. Cheshire, See. Morning Star Lodge, No. 313, I. O. G.T., meets ev ery Thursday evening. Claud Estes, W. S. J. P. Caldwell, W. G. T. North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., meets every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. J. A. Smith, W. C, T. It. V. Gittenh, W. S. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railrood, the following will be the schedule from date: Mail fro n Atlanta [fast] 5.11 p. m. Mail for Atlanta [fast] .. .11.20 a. m. Office hours: From 7 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1 p. m. to 7p. in. No office hours on Sunday for general delivery window. All cross mails leave as heretofore. mails close: Dahlonega (Stage, Daily) - - 8:30 a.m. rlffoi*Hon. (Stage, Wednesday and Saturday) icon p. m. Cleveland, (Stage, Monday and Friday) 8:00 a. in. Homer, (Horse, Friday) 12:30 p. m. Wahoo “ “ - - - 5:00 a.m. Dawsonvillo, (Horse, Saturday) - 7 30 “ mails arrive: Dahlonega, 3:00 p.m. Jefferson ( Wednesday and Sat * rday) 6:00 p. m. Cleveland, (Monday and Thursday) - 6:00 “ llomer, (Friday) - - ; 12:00 m. Wahoo “ 6:00 a.m. Dawsonvillo, (Friday) - - 6:00 p.m. M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Professional and Business Cards. MAKI.EK Ac PKUKY. 1 TTOUNF.YB AT LAW. GAINESVILLE, GA, . V Oilieo ill the Court Houso. One or the other of the firm always present. Will practice in Hall and adjoining counties. aug2s-ly V . .T. SHAFFER) 37IIYSICIAKT AND S l 1< (i EO N, Gaiiiosvillo, On. Otllco and Rooms at (Tamos’ Hotel, Gainosville, Ga. jan*2l-ly IN I lIIMARY, FOU TUE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN. AND OPERATIVE SURGERY, At the Gaines' Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by .laniSS tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D. V. !). LOCKHART, M. I)., Polkville, Ga., WILL DU ACTIO IS MEDICINE in all its branches. Special attention given to Ohronio Diseases of women and children. feblß-6m Oil. R. 11. ADAIR, DENTIST, GttiucMvlUe, Ga, .JanU ly MA USUAL 1.. SMITH, VTTORNRY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Dawsonvillt *, Damon county, Ga. jaul4-tf JOHN It. ESTES, VTTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county, Georgia. C.J. WELLBORN, 4 TTORNEY-AT’-LAW, Rlairevillo, Union county, Georgia. SAMUEL C. 1)1 \L AI, VTTORNISY AT LAW. Gainesville, Ga. Olliee in the Caiuller building, in the room occupied by the Eagle in 187;. " aprstf. w. u. williams^ VTTOKNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Cleveland, While. Cos., Go., will practice in the Courts of the Western Circuit, and give prompt atten tion to all business entrusted to his cave. Juno 12, 1874-tf YVIEK BOYD, VTTOKNEY VT LAW, Ihthloncya. Ga. I will Practice in the counties of Lumpkin, Dawson, Gilmer. Fannin. Union and Townseouuties lithe Blue Ridge Circuit; all.! Hall, White and Ralniu in the Western Circuit. May 1, 1874-tf. HEV. A. MARTIN, \TTORNEY AT LAW, Dahhmcga , Qa. . }uly2l, 1871-tf S. k. CHRISTOPHER, VTTOKNEY AT LAW, Hiumssee, Ga. Will execute promptly ail business entrusted to his care. novlGtf THOMAS E. GREER, VTTOKNEY VT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN Fspiilv and Bankruptcy, Kllijay. Ga. Will prac tice in the state Courts, and in tile District and Cir cuit Courts of the It. S., in Atlanta, Ga. June 20,1878-tf ill. W . KI DEN, 4 TTORXKY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia. Jan. 1,1876-ly .1 AMES M. TOWERY, A TTORNFY AT LAW, V Gainesville, G. J. J- TERN 111 EL, 4 TTORNKY AT LAW, Homer , Ga —Will practice iLin all the counties composing the Western Cir cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted to his care. lan. 1. 1875-ly. .1A >1 ES A. 111 TT, Attorn ey at law a land agent, Biau-tviiu Ga. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. June 2,1871-tl The Gainesville Eagle I wotcd to Polities, News of the I >!ty. The Tarm Interests, Home Matters, and Choice Miscellany. VOL. XI. “BY THE STILL WATERS.” Don’t you hear the hickory crackling ? Mnllled like, and soft, and low; Sounds just like an army tramping, Only it’s a sign of snow.. Here’s a cinder smouldering, burning, Droppin’ ashes, powdered fine; Don’t be frightened, little missis, It’s a coffin, but it’s mine. Let me see the balm o’ Gilead, Wavin’ by the cabin do’, I won’t hear its leaves a rustlin’ Iu the spring, my child, no uio’; Maybe I won’t hear de blue bird Singiu’ in de apple trees; But L’ii hear the angeis singiu’ - Dey’ll have sweeter songs than these. Hark ! is dat de thunder rolling— Bee de forked lightnin’s gleam; Many a time I’ve soothed the baby When de storm disturbed her dream. Now de drum—l hear it heatin’ Slow and solemn like, for mo: Maybe it’s de waves a breakiu’ On de shores of Galilee. ’Twon’t ho dark, de stars am shinin’ Way above do storm and rain: Dere’ll be long protracted meetiu’s Camping on de heavenly plain. Dere won’t be no wailin’, weepiu’— Dere won’t be no day to part; Christ will hear mo when I knock dere, He will bind do broken heart. ’Cross cold Jordan’s troubled waters, Into Canaan’s land I fly: Dere de tree of life is bloomin’, All the hosts am passin’ by: liaise mo up, I hear de rustlin’, Angels at the cabin do’; Don’t you weep for poor ole mammy, She won’t never grieve no mo’. [St. Louis Republican. A smart writer says: ‘No man ever became a drunkard, lived a drunkard’s life, died a drunkard’s death, and filled a drunkard’s grave, as a matter of free choice. No one ever became an exces sive drinker, who did not begin by the habit of beiug a moderate, a very mod erate drinker. If it were the habit of all not to take the first step, and thus not become moderate drinkers, the un utterable horrors and woe, the destitu tion and crime, which result from this master evil of intemperance, would cease. Wives and children and com munities would not mourn over loved ones thus dishonored and lost. But it is the habit of drinking becoming the law of their beiug, and of tkoir daily life, the lack of resisting power result ing Irom this terrible thraldom, the fever of habitual temptation and ap petite, which causes that yearly death march of sixty thousand of our people to the saddest of all graves, followed as mourners by half a million of worse than widowed wives, and worse than orphaned children. A girl that is never allowed to sew, all of whoso clothes are made for her and put on her till she is 10, 12, 15 or 18 years of age, is spoiled. The mother has spoiled her by doing everything for her. The true idea of self-restraint is to let the child venture. A child’s mis takes are often better than its no mis takes; because when a child makes mistakes, and has to correct them, it is on the way toward knowing some thing. A child that is waked up every morning, and never wakes himself up; and is dressed, and never makes mis takes in dressing himself; and is wash ed, and never makes mistakes about being clean; and is fed, and never has anything to do with its food; and is watched, and never watches himself; and is cared for, and kept all day from doing wrong—such a child might as well boa tallow caudle, perfectly straight, and solid, and comely, and uuvital, and good for nothing but to be burned up. Judge Longstreet says this about newspapers: Small is the sum that is required to patronize a newspaper, and most amply remunerated is the patron. I caro not how humble and unpretend ing the gazette which he takes, it is next to impossible to fill a sheet fifty two times a year, without putting into it something that is worth the sub scription price. Every parent whose son is away from him at school should be supplied with a newspaper. I well remember what a difference there was between those of my schoolmates who had and those who had not access to newspapers. Other things being equal the first were always decidedly supe rior to the last, in debate and composi tion, at least. The reason is plain— they had command of more facts, louth will peruse a newspaper with delight when they will read nothing clso. -< ♦ - A correspondent of the English Me chanic insists that musical sounds stimulate the growth of plants. He gives an instance in point. In a bar ren section of Portugal he built a small conservatory, and endeavored to cultivate roses and other llowers under shelter, but in spite of his precautions and industry, they did not fiourish.— One day he took a harmonium into the greenhouse, and played for several hours. The practice he maintained for several months, and was surprised to see a gradual but rapid recovery of health on the part of his plants. He attributes their improvement to the influence of music, and unfolds the theory that the singing of birds is con ducive to vegetable life. GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9. 1877. COULD WE DO BETTER IF WE HAD Our Lives to Live Over ’ We heard a man of middle age re gretting the mistakes of life, and say ing, ‘lf I had my life to live over I could do better.’ Perhaps not. True, if you had the experience of your life to aid you, you might avoid many er rors of the past, but what guaranty would you have that you might not make other and sadder mistakes. There is perhaps no man living that has not much to regret in life’s voyage. We are all sorry that we did not act with more caution; that we were not more watchful over our words, our thoughts, our deeds. We are constant ly meeting the results of mistakes made in former years—and how often we are filled with remorse as we con template misspent time, lost opportu nities, bad investmets, and the results of unfortunate associations. This is one side of the case. Let us look at the other. How thankful we ought to be that we have made so few mistakes com pared with others whom we have known. Who, in iooking back to his childhood days and calling up the companions of youth, does not remem ber those who started with as fair prospects, and under much more fa vorable auspices, who have long since made sad and total shipwreck of all earthly prospects, and have filled early graves ? Some who have been stranded on the shores of business, and are left penniless and in hopeles ruin ? Some who have done worse—have become wrecks in body and mind—the victims of bad habits which seem incurable ? The writer remembers of his school mates, one who was noted in his youth for wealth and intelligence. He stood at the head of his class in school, and had every comfort that wealth and po sition could give him. He is to day a drunkard, and without money or po sition in society. We remember an other who was the son of promise, and had as fair a start in life as any boy ever bad, who now fills the grave of a suicide. Upon one occasion when we visited a lunatic asylum wo met a man whom we had not seen for twenty years, who was once a schoolmate, and whose mind was then as good and brilliant as that of any boy in tbe school. Oh how we ought to thank our Heavenly Father that we have escaped so well! Through how many trials we have passed unharmed. How often have we boen at the point where the slightest turn in the wrong direction might have wrecked us, and yet, through the mercy of God we have escaped “as a bird from the snare of the fowler.” In the language of Addison: ‘When in the slippery paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm unseen, conveyed me safe, And led mo up to man. ‘Through hidden dangers, toils and deaths, It gently cleared my way; And through the pleasing shares of vice, More to bo feared than they.’’ What then should we do ? Thank God for past deliverance, and resolve to do better in the future. Walk cir cumspectly, and try by God’s grace to redeem the time; and what time we live make such progress as that when the end comes we may have few re grets, and leave behind us the savor of a good name, which may be a heritage to our children, and a matter of rejoic ing to our friends and brethren.—Rev. John W. Burke, in Southern Christian Advocate. CALUMNY. The rules of politeness are never at variance with the principles of morali ty. Whatever is really impolite is really immoral. We have no right to offend people by our manner or con versation. We have no right to be influenced by gossip about the people we meet. Their private affairs are none of our business. If we believe a man to be unfit company for us, we must not invite liim; but if we meet him where he has been invited by others, we must treat him with civili ty. If we kuow a man or woman to be a grave offender we cannot use that knowledge to injure him or her, un less it is absolutely needful for the protection of others. The greatest and best men in the world have been as sailed with calumny. The purest and noblest do not always escape it. We cannot investigate, as a rule: wo must disregard all slanders. Where great offenses become notorious, the offend ers must be exeommunicated. In all other cases we must give every one the benefit of a doubt, apply charitable construction, hope for the best, and consider every one innocent until he is proven guilty. A good, coaivenieut and effectual remedy for stj'ngs of wasps, bees and other insects is simply to place a key over the spot stung, press it hard into the flesh, and when taken off the poison will be on the surface, where it can do no harm. A thimble with a closed top will answer the purpose, but not quite so well. A GAME AT DREAMING. While Sir William Johnson was Su perintendent of Indian Affairs in the Mohawk Valley, in 1755, one of his staunchest fiiends was the old Mohawk sachem, Hendrick. Sir William had great confidence in the old ,chiefs judgment, and seldom made a, move against the hostile Indians and French without consulting him. ‘lf they are to fight, they are too few; if they are to be killed, they, are too man,y ; ’ was his laconic response to Johnson’s ques tion touching the propriety of sending out a small body of men which he had organized against an expected inva sion. On a certain occasion Sir William was unpacking a large box of clothing which he had just received from Eng land. Hendrick chanced to be pres ent and was particularly attracted by a x’ichly embroidered coat which he saw brought forth and shaken out in all its glittering splendor of gold lace and gilded buttons and bright silk facing. The old Indian’s eyes sparkled, afid ho could scarcely keep his hands from the coveted prize. But he held and held his peace for the time. On the following morning, however, the chieftain waited upon the Gover nor for a purpose, as was evident from the intensity of his look. ‘Sir William,’ said he, with wide open eyes, and a general expression of wonder, ‘me have a great dream last night. Me dream that you say to me, ‘Good Hendrick, you have been my friend, and now I will reward you.’ Aud you gave me the new coat, with the bright gold on it, that came in the box.’ The Baronet reflected a few mo ments, and finally said: ‘lt is true, Hendrick, you have been my friend. The coat is yours.’ fhe chief went away fairly beside himself with delight. A few days after that said Sir Wil liam to his dusky ally: ‘Hendrick, I had a dream last night.’ ‘Ah ! and what did my white brother dream ?’ ‘I dreamed that you took me by the hand and said to me, ‘Sir William Johnson, you have been my true friend, and I will give you proof of my great love for you.’ And you gave to me the tract of land on the great river and Canada creek,’ describing a square territory embracing nearly one hun dred thousand acres of choice land. The old chieftain was for a little time utterly confounded. This was the fairest of his domain. But he was not to be outdone in generosity. ‘My pale-faced brother,’he at length said, ‘the land is yours.’ And after a pause he added, with a significant nod: ‘Sir William, we won’t dream any more. You dream too big for me.’ The title of the land was confirmed to Sir William by the British Govern ment, and called the Royal grant. The land was north of the Mohawk, and lay mostly in what is now Herkimer county. The following is an extract of a let ter written to a friend by Mr. Carlyle: ‘A good sort of man is this Darwin, and well meaning, but with little intel lect. Ah! it’s a sad, a terrible thing to see nigh a whole generation of men and women, professing to be culti vated, looking around in a purblind fashion, and finding no God in this universe. I suppose it is a reaction from the reign of cant and hollow pretence, professing to believe what, in fact, they do not believe. And this is what we have got to. All things from frog spawn; the gospel of dirt the order of the day. The older I grow—and I now stand upon the brink of eternity—the more comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes: ‘What is the chief end of man ? To glorify God ind en joy Him forever.’ No gospel of dirt, teaching that men have descended from frogs through monkeys, can ever set that aside.’ While the lasses of the East are in the habit of screaming when a mouse glides out of a corner, the maids of the West amuse themselves by choking rattlesnakes and killing pan thers. Six miles above Sheridan, Or egon, on Decmber 23d, a young lady 6f eighteen attacked a panther which had been making havoc of her father’s sheep and killed him at the second shot. The beast weighed 150 pounds. Dina pre sented her spoil to the stock-raisers of the county, who drank her health as ‘one of our girls.’ Says the Fort Valley Mirror: ‘Hous ton county has three thousand three hundred and thirty-five voters, and eight hundred and fourteen laborers, between the ages of sixteen and sixty five years. It isn’t the low price of cotton, nor the political troubles of the country that is going to ruin us; it’s the disposition to lean up against the sunny side of a fence, or sit over a handful of goods in t little store and let some other fellow 3peed the plow.’ GOSSIP AND SCANDAL. One of the greatest defects of this age is the ‘fastness’ of our boys and girls. And every bit of it is traceable back to the homes, where idle news carriers drop in continnally, and are permitted to unfold their "budget of gossip and scandal. Children hear more than is ever believed, and the winks, nods and hints that they catch at intervals excite their curiosity, and to satisfy which chances are not want ing. But to prevent betraying that they hear, they also learn to be very sly, so that in time they are able to build block houses, make kites, or even pretend to study their lesson,and yet hear every word that is said. Is it a wondei*, that by tbe time tbe nerve and purity of the mother’s mind is worn out, that the daughter is in just the same condition, with this difference that, while the mother has family ties that serve as a check, and has the judgment of maturer years, the daugh ter is hampered by none of these, so that, as she stands at the threshliold of lile, she is like a boat tossed out ou Lfe.aea,- without a pilot, save her own desire, and the crew, instead of being all good influences of the past, are just tbe reverse. It will be a miraele if abe sails through safely, and if she should sink we must accept the penalty, and know that it is the work of our own hands. Can’t we, from this day, shut out all gossip, scandal and low stories from our homes ? Do not tolerate it, and if any one insists upon entertain ing y°n on these subjects, do what you would were they offering you 'poison. SWEARING OFF. It has frequently been the case that a confirmed drunkard, desirous of strengthening his resolutions to re form, has gone before a magistrate aryl taken a solemn oath to abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks, either for a definite or indefinite time. This is commonly called ‘swearing off,’ am) an instance is reported in the Charleston News and Courier, of a colored citizen of South Carolina, who resorted to a similar method for em phasizing his abhorrence of the vice that is embodied in the pretended Chamberlain government. When the to receive the assess is for the llaniplon government ini Barnwell county opened his books at, Barnwell Court-house, among the firist of the citizens to respond to the cafil were fifteen colored tax-payers, one of whom had been a leading politi cian, and a zealous supporter of Cham berlain, but who announced that he had become satisfied that tbe carpet baggers had been stealing for eight jdars, and bad broken all their prom ises of better behavior. Then, after paying his tax, he marched over to the office of a notary public, and in due form made an affidavit that he would never again support the Repub lican party or pay another cent of taxes to its representatives in South Carolina. Those who have contended that crime is inherent and due to defective organization have a powerful supporter in Prof. Benedict, of Vienna. Up to the present time he has examined the brains of sixteen criminals, all of which he finds abnormal on comparing them with a healthy brain. Not only has he found that these brains deviate from the normal type, and approach that of lower animals, but he has been able to classify them, and with them the skulls is which they were contained, in three categories: 1. Absence of symmetry between the two halves of the brain. 2. An excessive obliquity of the ante rior part of the brain or skull; in fact, a continuation upward of what we call a sloping forehead. 3. A distinct les sening of the posterior part of the skull in its long diameter, and with it a diminution in size of the posterior cerebral lobes, so that, as in the lower animals, they are not large enough to hide the cerebellum. In all these peculiarities the criminal’s brain and skull are of a lower type than those of normal men. California was annexed to the Unit ed States in 1847, and received its first colonists from this country in 1848—the previous settlers being Mexicans and the population very sparse. Now, after the lapse of only thirty years, as we learn from the San Francisco Journal of Commerce, it has a population of 900.000; San Francis co 280,000; the addition in 187 G was 35,000; the import trade of the same year was $80,000,000; the export trade $50,000,000; its manufactures in 1876 were to the value of $61,000,000; its yield of gold and siver on Ihe Pacific coast amounted to $10,000,000. An instance of coolness in danger was seen in the Ashtabula disaster, when a man cleared himself from the smashed car as soon as it struck, found his satchel, over-coat and cane, and walked up the bank with a check in his hat, to calmly inquire when the next train came along. FIFTEEN OPINIONS OF THE HILL. R. Burchard Hayes says: Ido not care on my own account, but my heart does bleed for the poor African. William Almon Wheeler says: It is of the nature of a compromise, aud entitled to no respect whatever. Ulysses Simpson Grant says: It is better to be tight than to be Presi dent. Oliver P. Morton says: A shameful specimen of political trickery. John Sherman says: A direct and deliberate insult to the Louisiana re turning board. Wells, Anderson, Casanave and Kenner says: It is unpatriotic, un statesmanlike, dishouest and revolu tionary. William Pitt Kellogg says: That’s wbat comes of parting your hair in the middle. Jay Gould says: It knocks h—ll out of my investment; [and therefore] Whittle Law Reid says: It is plain ly unconstitutional. Don Cameron says: No high-prin cipled statesman can approve such po litical truck and barter as this measure involves. Simon Cameron says: You heard Don ? John A. Logan says: But what be comes of me ? James G. Blaiue says: It is the log ical outcome of Audersouville. Zach Chandles says: -• ! The common sense of the country says: A patriotic measure of inten tions; we hope it will prove wise and work justice.—New York Sun. A petition of the leading bankers, merchants, clergymen and citizens of Louisiana denounces as false the state ment of outrages in that State, and shows the utter incorapetency of the Packard government to secure consti tutional liberty. This petition, in con nection with the evidence elicited by the Privileges and Powers Committee in regard to the infamous action of tbe returning board, must, if there is any honesty or truth left in the Republican party, satisfy them, or the honest por tion of them, that they have clasped in political friendship hands polluted by every manner of political crime and treachery, and must end good to all honest meu of either party. i ; Mr. Lancaster Hodges, of Brown ville, Me., is a gentleman who has at tained the rather mature age of 106 years. The other day a youth of 80 appeared at the centenarian’s home, and taking up his fiddle, enthusiastical ly played divers old-fashioned dance tunes like ‘Money Musk.’ Presently the old gentleman of 106 began to lift his snowy head with an excited air, and in five minutes he was iu the mid dle of the floor cutting the pigeon wing and other figures in a hilarious and scientific fashion, which could not be surpassed by any youthful votary of Mr. Swiveller’s favorite exercise, the mazy. Looking over the whole ground carefully, considering the perplexities of the Supreme Court, and the desire to conciliate the good opinion of the country, it seems most probable that the commission will find a method of easing their own consciences and strengthening their decision by an award which will not be an absolute triumph for either, and a partial victo ry for eac. If there be such a disposi tion, the way out of the dilemma is simple enoug. It looks as if Tilden would be president and Wheeler Vice- President on the 4th of March.—New York Sun. The Madison Home Journal has this cruel fling at Georgia law makers: ‘A Georgia legislator, when he is at home, can get up at the bewitching hours of early morn, chop the wood, make the fires, bring the water and be useful generally. Cut as soon as he reaches Atlanta, and begins retrenchment and economy, he must have a page to bring him a drink of water, hang up his hat, dip his pen in the ink, and put hot bricks at his feet, and the people must pay the page one dollar and fifty cents a day to attend to the wants of this great advocate of reform.’ When a woman marries she takes possession of her husband with all the confidence of one who feels that she has just acquired the fee simple of a valuable piece of property. When a man marries he is apt to entertain a similar view of his bargain, but the first time he sits on the front door stoop all night he seriously reconsid ers his former impression, and con cludes that he is, perhaps, only a ten ant by courtesy. Some of the Philadelphia papers are nearly filled with advertisements of real estate in that city to be sold at public sale under the Sherffs hammer. The sales to a large extent are to secure mortgages and taxes. Real estate in Philadelphia, as in other cities, has largely depreciated in value, and will not sell for much more than half what it would three or four years ago. CAUSE Til El’S UEHM’N. The following, which we find in the Chicago Tribune, is as applicable to any of the Southern States as it is to Louisiana. It is a part of the testi mony taken by the Senate investigat ing committee: A negro who testified to having voted the Democratic ticket in Ouachita was asked by Senator Oglesby how he came to change from the Republicans to the Democrats. He replied, ‘Well, sah, my old massar was an old Jackson Democrat, and I was his body-servant. I would always have voted the Demo cratic ticket, but the niggers wouldn’t, let me. This time I had a chance, and I voted that ticket.’ He was then asked if he thought.it was the proper thing for him to do to leave the party that had achieved his emancipation—if lie thought he would fare as well in the hands of the Democrats as in the bands of the Republicans. He answered, ‘I don’t know about that—l think we’s all instruments in the hands of the Lord. I guess the Lord raised up old Massar Davis to be an instrument, just as much as he did Massar Lin cum.' The next questiou put to this philosopher was: ‘Have you any other reason for joining with the Democra cy?’ and he answered: ‘Well, cause they’s geram’n.’ He was then asked if he meant that the Republicans were not gentlemen, and by replied: ‘Well, I don’t allow as you'fi no gemm’n; but them what we got in our parish is all on the steal ’ A FISHY STORY. In Peter Dwyer’s Gospel Mission last night an old missionary spoke. He told of an incident that happened while he was preaching in ‘Africa, Thompson street, in this city. A man present scoffed and threw beans at the preacher. The preacher told him to repent. The scoffer said he wanted to go to hell. When he died he want ed to shutlle off at about half-past eleven o’clock in the morning, so as to be in hell at noon in time to dine with the devil. He boasted that he had committed all the crimes known to the law and was glad of it. Soon after ward a murder was committed, and suspicion fastened on this man. He fled the city, and nothing was heard him until last week, when the missionary Received a letter from * him saying that* he was off his deatjr bejtl, and asked for his prayers. He begged to be forgiven of his sins and asked Christians to pray for him. The mis sionary withheld the name of the man, ‘because the police are looking for him.’ The missionary’s statement was corroborated by another person, who said he knew the man —N. Y. Herald. JOSH KILLING’S APHORISMS. Be merciful to all dum animals; no man can git to heaven on a sore-backed horse. The grate fight iz fust for bread, then butter on the bread, and then sugar on the butter. The grate secret ov popularity iz to make every one satisfied with himself fust, and arterwards satisfied with yu. The grate mistake that most people make iz, they think more ov their cun ning than they do ov their honesty. The unhappiness of this life seems principally to konsist in gitting every thing we kan and wanting everything he haiu’t got. I hav finally cum to the konklushun that the best epitaff eny man kan hav, for all praktikal purposes, is a good bank ackount. Paupers suffer less than mizers do— the man who don’t kno where he is go ing to git hiz next dinner suffers less than the one who is aukious to kno how much it iz a going to kost him. A citizen of North Indianapolis thought he would play it on the pub lic. So he got his marriage license, and the bride got her wedding gar ments, but they kept it quiet. A few people were invited, under the pre tense of its being simply a little gath ering, and the preacher was requested to come over after he got through his sermon that night. He did so, when the bridegroom took him aside, show ed his marriage license, and said he wanted to be spliced right then and there. ‘My dear, sir,’ said the preacher, ‘I can’t marry you. I’m not a licensed preacher—only an exhorter.’ A faint suspicion stole over the groom that somebody had been sold, and it wasn’t the public, either. The weddiug was postponed till the next night.—lndianapolis Herald. If the people of the United States could have seen the two white and the two mulatto returners who, by fraud and other rascalities, have undertaken to make a President, as they stood ar raigned for contempt before the House of Representatives, on Saturday last, there would be no occasion for any electoral commission. The plain hand of Providence has written their true characters in every feature—New York Sun. feathks. Man alone is born crying, lives com plaining, and dies disappointed. Lawyers should sleep well—it is im material on which side they lie. It is a Christian consolation to know that some men are not so bad as they look. Some men are good because good ness pays best; some are good for nothing. NO. 6 A certain physician gave a patient a box of pills, with directions to ‘take one pill five times a day.’ There are 43,000 clergymen in the United States. But what can they do against a million newspapers ? Everybody rails against punctilio, but it never breeds half the quarrels caused by excessive familiarity. The reason why bankers are so apt to prosper is because they always take so much interest in their business. The total membership of the Baptist church in this country is 1,932,385. The number of baptisms last year was 87,874. Men are frequentlv like tea—the real strength and goodness are not proper ly drawn out until they have been in hot water. The tax collected by the government from whisky and tobacco alone amounts to one hundred millions of dollars for the past year. A sensitive old bachelor says that pretty girls always affect him as orna mental confectionery does—they give him the heart burn. First citizen—‘And you, too, are for a war ?’ Second citizen—‘Not a bit of it. My brave substitute suffered too much in the last one.’ Even electricity goes West easier than it goes East. A London dispatch is said to reach New York sooner than a New York dispatch reaches London. An inebriate fell and struck his nose against a barber’s pole, and exclaimed: ‘What in thunder ’zat (hie) woman wi’ striped stockin’s on got (hie) agin me!’ It costs S4OO to welcome a Brigadier General to the Pacific coast, and then for the first four weeks he is allowed to beat everybody at poker for courtesy’s sake. Georgia constructed only forty-four miles of railroad during the past year. The Northeastern, which is forty miles, and the Sandersville and Tennille, four miles. Doctor: ‘Only winged again. You won’t get much of a bag to-day, Char lie.’ Charlie (nettled): ‘lmpossible to kill every time. I don’t load with pre scriptions.’ Plenty of money is a great conveni ence, but if obtained from the poor man’s labor unfairly, it will some time in the fubf~%rn out the vitals of the posses' A innj/kiufi fcave ‘-be following presc AH i upa sick lady: ‘Anew bonm, .rfmeie shawl, and a silk dress.’ The lady, it is needless to sav. has entirely recovered. Judge David Davis, now of the Su preme Court of the United States, but from the 4th of March next, a United States Senator from Illinois, is said to be worth $2,000,000. It was a New Jersey wife who said, ‘my dear, if you can’t drink bad coffee without abusing me, why is it that you can drink bad whisky without abusing the bar-keeper ?’ A man who, three years ago, paid taxes on $40,000 worth of Boston real estate, has just been forced to apply for a position on the police. Paying taxes on real estate soon gets a man down. When a young lady begins to look at the clock and keep up a steady fus ilade of yaws it is time for the young man either to put on his hat or quit talking about the weatte and come right down to business. A young woman arrested in Balti more, for shop-lifting, proved to be the daughter of a wealthy man. She had spent the money obtained from thievery in the support of her child, of whose existence none of her friends knew. An old toper hearing some ladies discussing the wonderful fact that a baby can say ‘no’ several months be fore it can say ‘yes,’ remarked: ‘Well, ladies, you see that’s ’cause babies ain’t never asked if they’ll take some thin’. ’ The London World states that in the archives of the British colonial office, is a letter from Ben Franklin, asking for an appointment as distribu tor of the very btarnps which brought about the independence of the United States. Surprise is the essence of wit, but somehow when a man is climbing down a ladder in an awful hurry, and never finds out that one of the rounds is gone until he tries to step on it wilh both feet, it never seems very funny to him. ‘Why is it that everybody in Texas thinks it necessary to carry one or two revolvers? ‘Well, stranger,’ said the Texan, ‘you mought travel round lure a good long time and not want a wea pon, but when you do want a pistol in this country you want it bad.’ ‘The sentence of the court is,’ said Judge Porter, a popular Irish magis trate to a notorious drunkard, ‘that you be confined in jail for the longest period the law allows; and I hope you will spend the time in cursing whisky.’ ‘Be jabers I will, and Porter, too,’ was the answer,