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The Gainesville Eagle. i’l BUSHED EVERY FRIDAYMDKNIYG. J . E . I 7 ! Id XD W INEZ KiUtor Proprietor. rER2 ' Year, in Advance. OFFICE l"p stairs in Cancller Hall building, north-west corner Public Square. Agents lor The Eagle. ■I. 11. Bn ,i. Blairsville, Oa. ; B I>. Howaud, Hiwas sho, (la.; W. M. Sandkukon, Haysville, N. C.; On. N. C, Os horn, Buford, Oa. i:t~ The above named gentlemen are authorized to make collections, receive and receipt for subscription to Tiik Ragle office. Ha t es orAdvertiNiug. Ono dollar per square for first insertion, and fifty cent* for each subsequent insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six linen will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be inserted at any price. Communications of general or local Interest, under a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any source. lialt-S of Istg<tl Ally crtUing. ohe riffs sales for each levy olten lines or less $2 50 Each subsequent ten lines or less - - 250 Mortgage sales (Ou days) per square - - 500 Kiob subsequent ten lines or less • 500 AduiVs, Ex'r’sor (iiui d’n’s sales, (40dajs) pr sq 5 00 Notice to debtors and creditors * - 5 00 01tat*s lor let'rs of adm'u or guard’ns'p (4 wks) 400 Leave to sell real estate - - • 5 00 Jiefrs of disrii’n of adm’n or guard'n (3 mo.) f> 00 i.stray notices 3 00 Citations (uni estates) - - 4 00 ltiife tiiNi in divorce cases - - - 0 0U *jT Fractions of a square (or inch) are charged in all easy us fuU }></uarrs or inch'*. Notices of ordinaries calling attention of adminis trators, oxocutor sand guardians to making thir an* n i■! r,durns; and of Sheriffs in regard to provisions h•• ■• t ions 304 >. of tilt; (>ile, PUBLISH El) FREE for the Mhcrilf :*.u(l Or iiuari- h who patronize the Kaule. AdvertiHern wh** desire a specified space for <5, 6 or 12 mouths will rocoivo a liberal deduction from oux regular rates. HJT Afi bills due after first insertion, unless special contract to tin*, contrary be made. GENERAL DIRECTORY. Hun. i b'orßH |j. Jtico, Judge 8. 0. Western Circuit. A. L. Mitchrl, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. i*J. M. Winliurn, Ordinary. John f,. Gaines, Sheriff. J. F. Dudkott, Deputy Slieriff. J. J. Mayue, Clerk Superior Court. 8. li. Clark, Tax Collector. J. n. H. Buck, Tax lteceiver. Gideon Harrison, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner. K. C. Young, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. I’i'K'.iivruiu.w Church—ltev. T. t*. Cleveland, Pas tor. Preaching every Sabbath— luornlug and night, except the second Sal'bath. Sue day School at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at, 4 o’clock. Mktuodikt Church ltev. D. D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday Sell nil at Ja. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Bai rial Church —Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 9 a. m. Prayer mooting Thursday evening at 4 o’clock. YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, A. M. Jackson, President. It. C. Maddox, Vice President. W. B. Clements, Secrotary. 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. Ai.i.B(imavv Royal Arch Charter meets on the See ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. W. M. Puckett, Seo’y. A. VV. Caldwell, H. P. Gainesville Romuc, No. 21!) A.-. F.-. M.-., meets on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the mouth It. Palmoum, Seo’y. It. E Giiekn, W. M. Air-Lise Boixje, No. <14,1. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. 0. A. Billy, See. W. H. Harrison, N. G. Morninu Star Bodge, No. 3I;I, I. O. G.T.,meets ev ery Thursday evening. Claud Estes, W. 3. J. P. Caldwell, W. C. T. North-Eastern Star Bodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., Mieots every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. IF. S. Hudson, W. C. T. H. VV. Rhodes, Secretary. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule on tho Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railrood, tho following will he the schedule from date: Mall 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., anil from 11., p. m. to .7 p. m. . No office hours on Sunday for general delivery window. All cross mails leave as heretofore. mails close: llahlouega (Stage, Daily) - - 8:30 a.m. Jefferson, (Stage, Wednesday and Saturday) 9:0(1 p. m. Cleveland, (Stage, Monday and Friday) 8:00 a. in. n. Mjor, (Horse, r'' "lay) JH:.lo p. 111. Vvalioo ‘‘ “ 6:00 a. m. Dawsonville, (Horse, Saturday) - 7 30 •• mails arrive: llnhhmega 3:00p. m. Jefferson (Wednesday and Saturday) 0:00 p. m. Cleveland, (Monday amt Thursday) - (i.Oo “ Homer, (Friday) - - 12:00 m. Wnhoo <• 0:00 a.m. Dawsonville, (Friday) - - fi:oop.m. M. R. ARCHER, I’.M. Professional nn<l Business Cards, MAIILUK *V PERRY. Attorneys at law, Gainesville, ga, Office ill the Court House. One or the other of the firm always present. Will practice in Hall and adjoining counties. aug2s ly A. .T . SH A F F KB, r*IXYSICIAKT AND S U It (l E( N , (iiuncNvillc, "(sa, Om.'o anl Uooniß at Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga. jauil-ly I IN FIRRARYi for TUE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN, AND OPERATIVE SURGERY, At the Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by janJH tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D. V. S>. LOUKIIAKT, M. D., I'olla ill**, Ga., UriLL PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its iiranches. I Special attention given to Chronio Diseases of I women and children. feblß -Gin D K It. li. AI) A I It, DENTIMT, (laiiKvsvilliN Ga. janl4 iy ill V USUAL L. SMITH, VTTORNRY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, DawsomnUe, ltawson county, Ga. Janl4-tf JOHN B, ESTJES, 4 T I'OKN KY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hull county, XX Georgia. (’. J. A\ l'-LLUOKN, VTTOUNKY-AT-Ii.VW, Blairsville, Union county, Georgia. S A :>!l F, I. ('. DUNLAP, VTTOHXEY AT LAW, Gainesville, Ga. Office in the Gaudier building, in the room occupied by the l'.aglo in 1875. apr6tf. W. K. WILLIAMS, * TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, A •Greta,uj White Go., Ga., will practice in the Courts ol the u ostcni Circuit, mui glvo prompt atteu tion to all business entrusted to his care. Juuel’2, 1874-tf 3YIFR BOYD, VTTORNI-A A T I.AW, Dahlonega, Ga. 1 will ITacm-e In Iho counties of Lumpkin, I>aw*nn. Gilmer, Fannin. Union and Townseountins nili.' Him- Hiilge Circuit; and Hall, White and Raima in the Western Circuit. May 1. 1874-tf. BRV. A. MARTIN, V I t'ORNKY AT LAW, Dahlonega, Ga. xA jnlyjl, 1871-t.f S. Iv. CHRISTOPHER, VTTORNF.Y AT LAW. Himassee. Ga.' Will execute promptly all business entrusted to bis care. novictf TIIO.HAS F. GREER,' VTToKNKY \T LAW, ANi> SOLICITOR IN Kquity and Bankruptcy. Eltija t/, Ga. Will prac tice in the Slate Courts, and in the District and Cir cuit Courts of the U. S., in Atlanta, Ua. June 20,187.1-tf >l. W. UI DEN, ATTORN KY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia. Jan. 1.1876-1 y JAMES M. TOW FRY, A TTORNFY AT LAW, Gainesville, tL. J. J. TI K.MM U, ATTORNEV AT LAW. Homer , Ga. —Will practice in all the, counties composing the Western Cir cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted to his care. Jan. 1. 187S-ty. JAMES A. HCTT, Attorney at law & land agent, Biairsvuu Ga. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. june 2,1871-tl The Gainesville Eagle. Devoted to Polities, News of tlie Day, The Farm Interests.. Home Matters., and Olioiee Iktiseellany. VOL. XL A I* R A ¥ E R . BY A QUAKER. O, that inino ev-es migLt closed bo To what concerns me not to see; That deafness mi"ht possess mine ear To what concerns me not to hear: That truth mine tongue uniy always lie ; From ever speaking foolishly; That no vain thought wonld ever rest, Or be conceived within my breast; That by each word, and deed, and thought, j Glory may to my God be brought. | But what are wishes? Lord miue eye, j On Thee is fixed, to Thee I cry; I Wash, Lord and pnrify my heart. And make it clean in every part; And when ’tis clean Lord keep it so. For that is more than I can do. TELL YOUR WIFE. The following advice from a corres pondent of the Country Gentleman is well worthy of acceptance, but we would add a little more to it in the form of a suggestion, that in case you are a farmer and have no wife—get one; “If you are in any trouble or quan dary, tell your wife—that is if yon have one—all about it at once. Ten to one her invention will solve your difficulty sooner tbaa all your logic. The wit of woman has been praised, but her instincts are quicker and keener than her reason. Counsel with your wife, or your mother, or sister, and be assured light will hash upon your darkness. Women are too com monly adjudged verdant in all but purely womanship affairs. No philoso phical students of the sex thus judge them. Their intuitions or insights are tho most subtle, and if they cannot see a cat in the meal, there is no cat there. I advise a man to keep none of his affairs a secret from his wife. Many a home has been happily saved, and many a fortune retrieved, by a man’s full confidence in his wife. Woman is far more a seer and a profit than man, if she be given a fair chance. Asa general rule, wives confide the minutest of their plans and thoughts to their husbands. Why not reciprocate, if but lor tho pleasure of meeting confidence with confidence? I am certain no man succeeds so well in the world as he who, taking a partner for life, makes her tho partner of his purposes and hopes. What is wrong of his impulse or judgment, she will check and set right with her almost universally right instincts. And wlmt she most craves and most deserves is confidence, with out which, love is never free from a shadow.” Nothing shows a greater abjectness of spirit than an overbearing temper appearing in a person’s behavior to inferiors. To insult or abuse those who dare not answer again, is as sure a mark of cowardice, as it would be to attack with a drawn sword a woman or child; and whenever you see a per son given to insult his inferiors, you may assure yourself he will creep to his superiors, for the same baseness of mind will lead him to act the part of coward to those who he can. But though servants and other dependents may not have it in their power to re tort in the same taste, the injurious usage they receive from their superiors, they are sure to be even with them, by the contempt they themselves have for them, and the character they spread abroad of them through* the world. Upon the whole, the proper behavior to inferiors is to treat them with generosity and humanity; but by no means with familiarity on one hand or insolence on the other. A Frenchman who liad won a high rank among men of science, jet who denied the God who is the author of all science, was crossing the Great Sa hara in company with an Arab guide. He noticed with a sneer that at times his guide, whatever obstacles might arise, put them all aside, and kneeling on the burning sands, called on his God. Day after day passed, and still the Arab never failed; till at last one evening the philosopher, when ho rose from his knees, asked him, with a con temptuous smile, ‘How do you know there is a God?’ The guide fixed his beaming eyes on the scoffer for a mo ment in wonder, and then said solemn ly, ‘How do I know there is a God ? How do I know that a man, and not a camel, passed my hut last night in the darkness ? Was it not by the print of his feet in the sand ? Even so’—and he pointed to the sun, whose last rays were flashing over the lonely desert— ‘that foot-point is not of a man.’ The Courier-Journal says: “The frog ponds in the vicinity of Columbus are alive with the news about Haves. Far into the night may be heard the deep base of the taurine batrachian convej*- iQg the information, and the small frog reiterating their question. Thus they go: ‘Hayes Jumps—Hayes flumps in !’ ‘How did-he-git-it ?’ ‘How did-be-git it ?’ ‘Aliunde ! Aliunde !’ ” The Queen’s state saloon od the , Great Western Railway, England, is made entirely of boiler plate, and so I lined and padded that if the carriage were to go over an embankment and roll to the bottom the chances are that | the occupants would escape uninjured. A TALE FOUNDED ON FACT. (From the Philadelphia Tim on. J “Recent advices from the Pacific givi some .interesting particulars of the dis turbance which has arisen concerning the succession to the Crown of thi Cannibal Islands. It is known that foi many years great uneasiness has beei felt among the faithful subjects of Hii Majesty the King, because he was with out an heir, and when it was at lengtl announced that the Queen was aboui to present him with the hoped-for child every one awaited the interesting evenl with the utmost anxiety, and especially the King himself and his household, who dreaded the dynasty that must oc cur should the King die without an j heir male. There was a considerable party in the kingdom, however, to whom the idea of a change was not dis tasteful, and who therefore rather hoped that the child might prove a girl. In due time the child was born, and the certificate of royal physician and the royal nurse set forth the welcome fact that it was a boy. Great was the rejoicing m the King’s household; but soon it began to be whispered abroad that the physician and nurse had either made a mistake or had told a lie. One of the ladies-in-waiting had declared her belief that the child was a girl. The consulting physician had thrown out the same idea. The matter got into the newspapers, and became the subject of excited discussion in Parlia ment. The King and liis counselors stuck to it that the heir was born and all was well, but the popular excite ment became so great that it was evi dent that some steps must be taken to settle the controversy. It was ac cordingly agreed, with the concurrence of all parties, that a High Commission, composed of fifteen eminent physicians, should be appointed to examine the child, and, that there should be no ap pearance of partiality, seven were to be chosen by the opposition. So fair an arrangement did this seem that the whole public readily acquiesced. It would require but to view the infant to decide the case, and surely fifteen pairs of scientific eyes could not be all deceived. And so the High Com mission was convened, and the nation quietly abided the result. “The Queen was duly int’ormea-.r Royal Inquisition that was about to visit her, and all was made in readiness for their reception. The chosen fifteen put on their stateliest robes of office, and proceeded upon their mission, and with due dignity approached the portal of the Royal bed-chamber. But here it was that the Kiug’s adherents showed the wisdom and sasty of their action. ‘Halt,’ said the fifteenth Commissioner; ‘know you that the law is written which forbids our entrance here? No foot of man less sacred than the King’s or his own physician’s dare cross the border of the Queen’s apartment. It is not for us to enter here. The law forbids. We must seek for evidence, but within the law.’ “‘Yes,’ said an objector, ‘but see the purpose for which we were appointed. The law which created us knew it were impossible to decide the issue without an entrance here. It certainly was its intent that we should do so. Is not every thing made ready for reception ? The power vested in us is our author ity.’ “ ‘Nay, not so,’ was the reply. ‘Let us seek the evidence we have. See here, this certificate bears all the marks of legal requirement; its signatures are those of the lawful officers; it says the child is a boy, and so must our decision be. What says the Court?’ “And eight responded; ‘So think we,’ and seven answered ‘No.’ And thus was given in the verdict that the child must be a boy. “So it happens that the Cannibal Islands are filled with mutterings of discontent, since it is now known that the child was a girl, and it is generally thought that the change of dynasty has only been delayed ” The latest and most effective coun terblast against tobacco was delivered by a ladj r in a Sixth avenue car on Saturday. One of those noble speci mens of manhood who chew the weed and with impartial mind distribute saliva upon everything and everybody within range, was sitting opposite the lady. From his capacious mouth, at regular intervals, a stream of amber juice fell upon her dress. Her look of blank amazement soon gave place to one of wrath; a frown blacker than midnight gathered upon her face.— Patience ceasing to be a virtue, she at last rose, carefully gathered up her dress so as to lose not a drop of the fragrant liquid, and leaning toward her vis-a-vis, wiped his face with the garment he had desecrated, and then deliberately resumed her seat. The astonished man roared with rage and pain, vainly tried to wipe the tobacco juice from his smarting eyes, and at last rushed from the car, followed by roars of laughter from the passengers. Out iu Illinois they are making su- 1 gar from common corn. A bushel of AJorn yields thirty pounds of sugar. GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 16. 1877. CAPITAL AND LABOR. The best and sweetest friend of the laborer is economy. Save a little every day, lay it by, and it will soon become self-accumulating, by the safe and generous principle of compound inter est. It is astonishing, with such a habit once formed, how soon the la borer may find himself enjoying all the pecuniary faculties which he has been in the habit of envying in the capital ist. We know that such a course in volves self-denial, no indulgence in li quor, no sacrifice to superfluous fan cies, no riotous living; but yet it does admit of all necessities and the intelli gent cultivation of the mind. Indeed, this last purpose should never be lost sight of. If we know how to spend less than, we receive, we have the phi losopher’s stone, says the stoic. Any thing which is not absolutely needed is dear, no matter what the price may be; or, in other words, nothing is cheap which is superfluous. Extreme measures defeat them selves. If, by any extraordinary com bination, workmen should succeed in establishing five hours per day as the legal representative of a day’s labor, is any intelligent person so blind as to suppose, for a single moment, that the laborer has really and pecuniarily ben efited himself, though he gets as much for his five hours as he did formerly for ten hours faithful work ? The truth is very simple; he who runs may read. The man’s dollars, which he receives for circumscribed production, are worth just so much less as the amount of labor which he gives for them is di minished and he will inevitably find their purchasing power to be in that exact ratio. Money is but the circu lating medium; his labor is the crite rion of value. The loss of five hours, more or less, as the case may be, is just so much loss of real wealth in the world; and so long as the workman lives be is as much a loser as the capi talist who employs him. Of course five hours will not produce 1 so many shoes, hats or potatoes. ”*. , 1 . itinval o; ,„e% it mil 4TS^g, ttl , of M dollars to cover hr/ . , , . ■, i * . rfionous victory for our feed him. A. 15 , , , , .. „ . . „id mplete rout, for the Gc him just so as his limitdP eß,Z * treatlu When he the value of# ou f? h be v/as baUly w ° l All associl? iichmond > lk ' vas Qot Untl must be upon aV rm ? had b< ) en . . • Amusi. a den bargain that is one-SKYeXt. vo. f , , .irorn servi sonable can never be made to all the legal documents that could be drawn upon that basis would be as naught. The laws of compensation are inevitable, and the rule of justification will come in, by and by, and assert itself. Employers and employed, master and men, are equally amenable to this great and good law of Providence. Be sure there is always a third, silent par ty all of our bargains.—American Cul tivator. Miss Cora Dickson, a young girl of 22, arrived in Paris the other day from South America. Her life has thus far been a checkered one. At the age of 15, tired of the monotony of home, she ran away from her father’s house with a large sum of money. She cut her hair short and donned a boy’s garb. After becoming in succession a cabin boy, a clerk, and a horse dealer, she turned up iu Buenos Ayres, where she entered the army, still disguised. She distinguished herself in the service, and became a colonel. Some months ago, at a meeting of officers, she quar relled with one of those present. A duel followed, and she killed her ad versary. On examining the dead man’s papers, she found that she had killed her oldest brother, who had left home when she was two years of age. Hor ror-stricken, she threw herself at the bishops feet, who promised to intercede with her father. You hear that a man has died worth a million. Why, my dear friends, he was not worth anything when he died. Ho was worth nothing at all the min ute after he died. All he was worth then was what he had laid up yonder. If a man isn’t right toward God he dies a pauper. If our hearts are set ou things down here, we don’t grow spiritually, and we are dwarfed and crimped as we should not be if we laid up treasures in Heaven. lam told that those men who go up in balloons take up sandbags with them, and as they want to go higher they throw out sand. I advise some of these rich men to throw out sand. You have too much sand. Give out your money if you want to be rich toward God, rich eter nally.—Moody. The average price of land in a few counties in Northwest Georgia, where they raise grain and hay, is as follows: Bartow county, per acre, $7.30; Chat tooga S4.GO; Dade $0.25; Floyd $0.92; Polk $0 98. The average price in South west Georgia, the best cotton region in the State: Dooly county, per acre, $2.04; Lee $2.99; Macon $2.87; Ran dolph $2.84. This exhibit shows beyond a doubt that grain culture is more profitable than cotton. HAYES AND HANGMAN’S DAY. One more Friday must be added to the long and really remarkable list of the days of fate which for Returning Board Hayes have fallen on that omin ous ‘hangman’s day.’ We find upon consulting the Republican ‘camgaign biography’ of His Fraudulency (the Cyclopaedia overlooks him entirely) that R. B. H. was ‘born’ on the 4th of October, 1822; and the 4th of October, 1822, was a Friday! These ominous coincidences are really curious. Of course no sensible person believes in signs and omens; but it is the obstinate feeling of all Christen dom—call it superstitious or not— that Friday is a day of ill-omen. It is a sinister day in the calendar’. It bears the reproach of having been the day of the most awful event in Christian annals. It has always been selected for the hangman’s work. It is a sailor’s superstition that a ship launched, or a voyage begun, on Friday, is sure to involve disaster—much after the ex ample of Milton’s ‘perfidious bark’ that wrecked and drowned ‘Lycidas’— “Built in the eclipse, and l'igg’d with curses dark.” It seems that Returning Board Hax es was (1) born on Friday—was (2) first nominated for Governor of Ohio on Friday, and (3) received his second nomination on the same sinister day— that (4) he was also nominated for the Presidency on Friday, and (5) is in debted to the same dark day for the creation of the ‘Electoral Commis sion;’ also that (G) that swindling con trivance declared Florida for Hayes on a Friday, and (7) counted Louisi ana for him on another Friday, anti (8) wriggled around Oregon for him on still another Friday; also (9) that the final declaration of his election to the Presidency was made ou Friday, and (10) that his entrance into Washing ton, immediately thereafter, was made on the same ill-starred day. Perhaps Friday is the right day for ,tWI Penis ■d declaration of a fraudu joars prompts us T hJ-as been a day of l the ration. Our chief Run in successful effort—in acquiri*., arms desirable objects around nfed- (heir supine enjoyment Times, came grappling with and c— nded not in a quiet, lif’it ‘Greeks 1 Mc-| ( rom it„ ’ -"V^ had todgh sut.ject in f u , _ quir • room last week. Mood”” lf with him antlS*" 1 uoC taught ,°° m " but the - ,u6 y vvill scarcely be dilate ' profit by the advice of others. Their most trusted leaders already spout the idea of building up a Republican party at the South to aid in perpetuating the power of the Mor tons, Chandlers and Shermans. But purely visionary as the Hayes ‘South policy,’ as his friends have foreshad owed it, may turn out to be, it would have at least the merit of being less law-defying than that of Grant, and by so much the country would have sea son to be glad of the change. It would be a great mistake, nevertheless, for Mr. Hayes to have any ‘Southern poli cy’ at all, as contra-distiDguished from an Eastern, Northern or Western poli cy. If be will leave all the States free to manage their own affairs and shape their own destiny, favoring no one sec tion at the expense of another, he will have done all that can reasonably be expected of him. The country is get ting heartily tired of so much ‘policy’ and so little real statemanship.—Balti more Sun. A joint stock publishing company has been started in Dundee, Michigan. They propose to publish a newspaper, and advertise for a first-class editor; who can do fine job work; who will take cash, instead of potatoes and wood on subscription; who can’t be bought off with a glass of five cent beer from speaking the truth when a sensational local item appears, and who will work for $8 per week. Here is a chance for someone of the many active and self-denying journalists who so frequently favor us with kind advice how to run a newspaper. Judge Brady, in a recent lecture, told a story of an ambitious Yankee who aspired to the State Senate. Like a certain man we’ve read of, he gave SIOO for the influence of a friend. His hopes were high, and he most willing ly parted with the money. But when the returns came in he found he had but three votes. He at once rushed to his friend. ‘See here, I’ve but three votes!’ Have you?’ was the reply. ‘Let me see—you voted for yourself and I voted for but,-but who, iu thun der, was the other fool ?’ Some of the regulars at the arsenal appear to be among the last to surren der the belief that Tilden is elected and the commandant has had some trouble in maintaining discipline. Some of the soldiers yesterday were very violent in hurrahing for Tilden and proclamiDg that is the lawful President. A skirm ish ensued in consequence, the result of which was that several of the partici pants wore ordered into confinement. —Washington Cor. Baltimore Sun. SUBLIME IMPERTINENCE. Judge Black’s speech before the elec toral tribunal, ostensibly on the South Carolina case, will be memorable as the exhibition of the sublimest imper tinence ever displayed before any dig nified tribunal. He would not venture to make any such reflections before an average alderman or rural justice of the peace, and yet he stood before what should be the most reverenced tribunal ever known under a govern ment and pointed out to it, iu terms which lacked even the pretense of courtesy, how it had given its high sanction to the most shameless fraud and how it had disregarded the vital principles of law in doing so. He stripped from them tho thin guise of technical protection ou which the deci sions were based, and proclaimed to the nation, through the argument before the commission, that it had parleyed only to find excuses for fraud, and had invoked the execrations of the country by a shameless disregard of duty; and it was submitted to in silence. Even Morton bore the keen stripes with sealed lips, and five members of the Supreme Court of tho United States, acting in what Congress meant to be a judicial capacity, had no taste for claiming the protection that was due to their position, to Ihuir duties and to themselves. Indeed fifteen men submitted to it because just fifteen men felt that it was 100 just to be questioned. Eight of the number did not dare to dispute it, for they felt that complaint would only arouse the coun try the more to the examination of their record, and seven doubtless wel comed the merciless castigation. It was a painful exhibition of the cowardice that follows tho dethrone ment of right.—Philadelphia Times. MARRIAGE MAXIMS. A good wife is the greatest earthly blessing. A man is what his wife makes him. Its the mother who moulds the char acter and destiny of the child. Never make a remark at the expense of the other, it is meanness. Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. Besides, it may be that you may never meet again in life. Never both manifest anger ah once. Never speak loud to one another un less the house is on fire. Never reflect on a past action which was done with a good motive and with the best judgment at the time. Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other, which is the mutual cultivation of an absolute un selfishness. Never find fault, unless it is perfect ly certain that a fault has been com mitted, and even then preclude it with a kiss and lovingly. Marry into a different blood and temperament from that of our own. The Lynchburg (Virginia) News says: We are cheerfully sitting on a piece of as good steel-gray cassimere as ever went into pantaloons, spun of Virginia grown wool, and manufactur ed in the town of Charlottesville. It wears well, holds color, is as cheap as any Northern cassimere. This morn ing the proprietor of this paper is ar rayed in a ‘Sunday-go-to-meeting’ suit of navy-blue all-wool cassimere from the same factory, made by a Lynch burg tailor. It will take little enter prise to introduce our own manufac tures into general use. Most of our merchants keep Virginia woolens. Let tnem push them prominently to the front in their advertisements and with their customers. We will guarantee a sale. Let our clothing men have Southern goods manufactured, and let the people know it, and we will insure the people buy them. The people of the South have had their folly flaunted in their faces during the last three months. They are in a proper frame of mind to strike for commercial inde pendence. Ex-Senator Key was born and reared in the old Democratic school, and we doubt if he ever cast a Whig vote in a political contest in his life. He was a Breckinridge elector in 1800 and served as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Confeder ate service. He may serve the Repub licans well as Postmastei’-General— we know he will do it honestly—but the additions he will bring to the stan dard of Hayes, in the shape of Demo cratic voters, may be conveniently counted and remembered without the aid of note-book and pencil. He need not be astonished himself after the fail ure of the little scheme has become sufficiently apparent to Hayes’ disap pointed vision, to find himself uncere moniously whistled down the wiad. When he fails to “draw,” like a played out actor, he must quit the boards. Sic transit!—Knoxville Tribune. A gentleman saw an advertisement that a recipe for the cure of dyspepsia might be had by sending a postage stamp to the advertisers. He sent the stamp, and the answer was—‘dig in your garden and let whisky alone.’ A DESCRIPTION OF DEAD WOOD, ‘Many saloons there ? Saloons all over the place and whisky four bits a drink. They put two barrels up on end, nail a board across for a bar, and deal it out. A miner who wants to treat pours st.me gold dust on tire bar rel head and says, ‘Set ‘t ni up.’ They never weigh the dust. Sometimes a man won’t put down enough dust, but they never say a word, and if he’s a little tight and pours out ten or fifteen dollars’ worth they never mention it. They have three faro bauks running all the while. They don’t use checks for the boys; when they won a pile of checks they threw ’em all over the place, and some were too drunk to handle ’em. So the checks got played out. Now a man puts a little gold dust in a dollar greenback and it goes for two dollars. Ten dollars’ worth of dust in a ten dollar greenback goes for twenty dollars, and so on. They never weigh dust at all, but guess the amount..’ ‘Have you a daily paper?’ ‘Yes, sometimes it’s daily, and then when the compositors get drunk it don’t come out for several days. If a man wants gun wadding he goes and pays four bits for a paper. Whenever they start anew city government they print a lot of ordinances; then there’s a grand rush for the paper. Some times it comes out twice a week and sometimes twice a day.’ ‘Much shoot ing ?’ ‘Oh, yes, the boys are all on the shoot. Every man carries about four teen pounds of firearms hitched to his belt, and they never pass any words. The fellow that gets his gun out. first is the best man, and they lug off the other fellow’s body. Our graveyard is a big institution, and a growing one. Sometimes, however, the place is right quiet. I’ve kuowu times when a man wasn’t killed for twenty-four hours. Then agaiu, perhaps, thej’d lay out five or six a day. When a man gets too handy with his shoutin' irons, and kills five or six, they think he isn’t' safe, and pop him over to lid the place of him. They don’t kill him for what he has done, but for what he’s liable to do. I suppose that the average deaths amount to about 100 a mouth; but the Indians kill some.’—Virginia Enter prise. STRADDLING A BILL. Dialogue between two colored mem bers of the St. Louis Hotel Legisla ture. First member introduces a bill. Second Member—‘Mr. Speakah! Sar I straddle dat bill.’ First Member—‘What do you mean?’ Second Member—‘Mr. Speakah! Sar I’se ’posed to dat bill, and I straddle it right hero ’fore it goes enny ladder.’ First Member—‘Mr. Speakah ! I rise to pint order. De gerameu don't know nut.hiu ’bout parlmenterry obfustica tions, and I move dat de bill pass.’ Second Member—‘Mr. Speakah! Sar I don’t want tu fite dat man, but I’d jist like tu have dis fioor clar, so I could git a good butt at him.’ First Member—‘You spose I’se gwine to adjudercate myself to de unlionor able position of butting my keranium agin dat bullet head o’ yourn ? No, sar.’ Second member violently demon strative, and a posse of other members capture him, conduct his wriggling body down stairs, and bring into re quisition the improved Babcock on the ground floor, to throw water on his aspii'atious, after novel legislative honors.—New Orleans Picayune. THE SAFE SIDE. When the occupant of a business place on Michigan avenue was yester day asked why he didn’t hang out a fiag in memory of Washington, he re plied : ‘What do I know about George Washington ?’ ‘Why, you have read of him, haven’t you T ‘I suppose I have, but you don’t suppose I swallow all I read, do you?’ ‘But everybody knows that Wash ington was a great and good man,’ protested tho first. ‘I don’t know about (hat. I’ve heard a good deal against him since I came to Detroit, and I’m not going to run the risk of offending some of my best customers by waving any fiags around. I’m just starting in here, and I don’t want to make any bad moves.’ ‘But, sir, but. ’ ‘Please go on,’ interrupted the bus iness man. ‘lf people hear you jaw ing around my place they’ll think I’m a politician and keep clear of me. I’m neutral in politics and you can’t force me into the Washington ring—mo sir.’ —Detroit Free Press. The danger of a dictatorship is over. The great crisis lias passed. The third term bugbear no longer disturbs anybody’s dreams. The man on horse back is now afoot. In fact things are beginnig to right themselves. Grant is a private citizen that may molest no one and none make afraid. And Hayes has entered upon the third day of his march from the height of iufamy to the depth of oblivion. The world moves after all.—Raleigh Observer. F EATHERS. Think for yourself—and think much more than you talk. Tennessee furnishes the Key to the post-office department. An eel is not as slippery as a politi cian, but it. cai. live on water longer. Gov. Tilden takes his ordinary tx ercise, and was never more cheerful. Pictures of Hampton sell for $2; pictures of Haves at five cents. About right. A butcher’s sign out West reads as lollows: ‘John Jacobs kills pigs like his father.’ A diamond feather for the hair, at tiffany a, New Aork, is offered at only $15,000. Over 4,000,000 sewing machines have been sold since they were first in troduced in 1853. The composition among the sewing machines is lively, prices have declined fully fifty per cent. Have the courage to own you are poor, aud thus disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Brigham Young grants divorces for $lO per case. A reduction is made to steady customers. A late boak is entiile‘Half Hour i with Insects.’ What a lively half 1 our one can have with a bee! New York city eats 70,000,000 of eggs per year, and several million:, more are used iu ‘morning drinks.’ Among the notable things in tbe ex port liue is the shipment of lumber from Florida to Norway. The late Geo. Dawson, of England, said he hated theology and botany, but loved religion and flowers. NO. 11 Over one and a half million dozen eggs were shipped from Nashville dur ing the month of February. Out of fifty-five samples of so-called wine sent from Hamburg to England, twenty-four proved to be no wine at all. Have the courage to speak to a friend in a ‘seedy’ coat, even though you are iu company with a rich one and richly attired. A beautiful woman is the true glory of angels; but when you step ou her train—but just try it and see how it is yourself. Kerosene keeps dropping lower and lower, and the men who make tomb stones go round with a broad grin on their faces. Labor is the law of the world, and he who lives by other men’s means is of less value to the world than the buz zing, busy insect. \Y eudell Phillips’ club, Boston, is indignant because the Franklin Typo graphical Society, same city, will not admit, gentlemen of color. I here are said to be only twenty ex- Confederates— including Jefferson Da vis and Kobert Toombs—whose disa bilities have not been removed. Well might the sun in darkness hide, and shut his glories in, when Hayes, the President by fraud, was counted in by sin.—Baltimore Gazette. She was telling a female friend how Mary Jane quarreled with her ‘feller,’ and said she, ‘Why, if you heard ’em talk, you’d think they were married.’ The Rochester Democrat says: ‘The sale of Bibles in Chicago is said to be three times as great as it was a year ago. Mr. Moody drew attention to the work and they think it is anew bock.’ The Albany Argus editor is reported to have knocked down a wandering glazier for oftering to put in some missing window panes in the sanct um, and asking if seven to eight would do. ‘Yes,’ remarked a tramp as he quiet ly stretched out to sleep on a seat in the Senate gallery, ‘the glorious palla dium of our liberties must be pre served. We can’t watch these politi cians too closely; in fact, I think I shall stay here all night.’ An experienced lady observes that a good way to pick out a husband is to see how patiently the man waits for dinner when it is behind time. Her husband remarks that a good way to pick out a wife is to see whether the woman has dinner ready in time. Red field writes to the Cincinnati Commercial that of the three hundred members of Cougress there is only about thirty, or say ten per cent, who command the attention of the House and the galleries when they speak. The increase in the supply of gold in the past twenty-eight, years is greater than the increase of the previous one hundred and forty years, which is en couraging as a basis for a substantial circulating medium in this as well as in other countries. ‘I had nine children to support, and it kept me busy,’ said Smith to Jones, as they met, ‘but one of the girls got married, and now I have—’ ‘eight,’ in terrupted Joaes. No, ten-—counting the son-in-law!’ said Smith with a sigh which might have been heard afar off. Two Baltimore men bet SI,OOO on the result of t.hb presidential election, and being unable to amicably agree which bad won, the case was taken into a court. Tnen the district attor ney, under a law, took possession of the stakes and turned the money over to the city treasury. In the United States, where a whisky shop, a blacksmith’s shop, a grocery, and two or three residences, constitute many a city, it is strange to read that ! the English are only now talking of elevating the great port of Liverpool to civic dignity. Yet such is the fact, Liverpool is only a town.