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The Gainesville Eagle. PUBEISHEDEVKRY FRIDAY MORNING. J~ - 2H . RED W IN E, Kditor and Proprietor. 1 I'.K.MS : $2 A-Yeur, in Advance. OFFICE Up stairs in Candler Hall building, north-west corner Public Square. Agents for The Eagle. J. M. Rich, Rlairsvillc, (.a ;J. D. Howard, Hiwas see, Ga.; W. M. Sanderson, Haysville, N. C.; Da. N. C, Osborn, liutord, Ga. The above named gentlemen are authorized to make collections, receive and receipt for subscription to The Eagle office. *s# lets oi* Aflvertiwing, One dollar per square for first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six linos will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be Inserted at any price. Communications of general or local interest, nnder a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any source. Rates of hcgal Advertising. Sheriff’s sales for each levy often lines or less $2 50 Each subsequent ten linos or less - - 260 Mortgage sales (6o days) per square - - 500 Eioli subsequent ten lines or less - - 5 00 Adm’r’s, Ex’r’s or Guard’n’s Rales, (todays) pr sq 5 (X) Notice to debtors and creditors - - 5 00 Citat's for let’rs of adru’n or guurd’us’p (t wits) 400 Leave to sell real estate - - - 5 00 Let’rs of dism’n of adm’n or gu&rd’n (3 mo.) 6 00 Estray notices - - - - - - - 300 Citations (unrepresented estates) - 4 oO Rule nisi in divorce cases - - - 6 00 K6#~ Fractions of a square (or inch) are charged in all c ases as Jull squares or inches. -<& Notices of Ordinaries calling attention of adminis trators, executors and guardians to making their an nual returns; and of Sheriffs in regard to provisioi s sections 3619, of the Code, published free for the Sheriffs and Ordinaries who patronize the Eagle. Advertisers who dosire a specified space for 3, 6 or 12 months will receivo a liberal deduction from our regular rates. if AT All bills due after first insertion, unless sjiecial contract to the contrary be made. (.ENERAL DIRECTORY. Hon. George D. Rice, Judge S. O. Western Circuit. A. L. Mitciiel, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. B. M. Winburn, Ordinary. Jolin L. Gaines, Sheriff. J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff. J. .1. Mayue, Clerk Superior Court. N. B. Clark, Tax Collector. J. R. H. Luck, Tax Receiver. Gideon Harrison, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner. K. 0. Young, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Presbyterian Church—Uov. T. P. Cleveland. Pas tor. Preaching every Sabbath —morning and uight, except the second Sabbath. Su day School at 9a. in. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock. Methodist Church Rev. l>. D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at 9a. in. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Chuuoh Rov. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Buuday JSchool at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o’clock. YOUNG MEN’S CIIBIBTUN ASSOCIATION. A. M. Jackson, President, li. C. Maddox, Vico President. W. B. Clements, Secretary. Regular services every Sabbath evening at one of the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every Tues day uight in “Old Town," and Friday night near the depot. FRATERNAL RECORD. Flowery Huanch Lodge No. 79, I. 0. 0. TANARUS., meets every Monday uight, Joel Laseteb, N. G. D. F. Stedham, Sec. Am.*uanv Roval Arcu Chapter meets on the See ond ami Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. W. M. Puckett, See’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P. Gainesville Lodge, No. ’219 A.-. F.\ M.\, meets on the First and Third Tuesday eveuing in the mouth R. Palmoub, Sec’y. R. E Ghekn, W. M. Air-Line Lodoi, No. 61, I. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. C. A. Lille, Sec. TV. H. Harkison, N. G. Mornino Star Lodge, No. 313, I. O. G.T., meets ev ery Thursday evening. Claud Estes, W. S. J. P. Caldwell, W. C. T. North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 335 I. O. G. TANARUS., moots every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Autioch Church. F. 8. Hudson, W. C. T. H. W. Rhodes, Secretary. GAINESYILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent cbango of schedule on the Atlanta ami Richmond Air Line ltailrood, the following will be the schedule from date: Mail fro n Atlanta [fast] 3.11 p. m. Mail for Atlanta [lastl 11.20 a. m. Office hours: From 7 a. m. to 12 m., and from I>4 p. m. to 7 p. in. No offioo hours on Sunday for general delivery window. All cross mails lcavo as heretofore. mails close: Dalilonega (Stage, Daily) - - 8:30 a.m. j Jefferson, (Stage, Wednesday and Saturday) 9:00 p. in. Cleveland, (Stago, Monday and Friday) 8:00 a. m. I ff'Uuor, (Horse, Friday) 12:80o.i r.i. i Ai am.u '■ •• - - . 6:00 a’in. Dawsonvllle, (Horse, Saturday) - 7 30 “ mails arrive: Dahlanega 3:00 p.m. Jefferson (Wednesday and Saturday) 6:00 p. in. Cleveland, (Monday and Thursday) - 6:00 “ Homer, (Friday) - - 12:00 m. Wahoo “ 6:00 a.m. Dawsonvillo, (Friday) - - 6:00 p.m. M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Professional and Business Cards, MAHIiEU. Ac PERRY. Attorneys at law, Gainesville, ga, Office in the Court House. One or tlio other of the firm always present. Will praetico in Hall and adjoining counties. auf>2s-ly A. .T. SIIAFF ER, r*HYSICIA.]Nr AND SURGED X, Gainesville, Ga, Office and Rooms at Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga. jau2l-ly INFI HM ARY, FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN, AND OPERATIVE SURGERY, At the Gaines’ Hotel, Aainosvillo, Ga, by ,jau2B tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D. V. I). LOCKH ART, M. I)., Polkville, Ga., WILL PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its branches. Spocial attention given to Chronic Diseases of j women aud children. feblß-6m DU. R. IS. ADAIII, DENTIST, Gainesville, On. janli ly MARSHAL L. SMITH, A TTORNRV AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, J\_ Dawsonvllle, Dawson county, Ga. janli tf JOHN B. ESTES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county, Georgia. c. ,i. \vkllb6rx~ 4 TTOKNKY-AT-TvA.W, Blairsville, Uuioii county, Georgia. SAMUEL C. DUNLAP, A TTORNKY AT LAW, Gainesville, Ga. X\. Office in the Candler building, in the room occupied by the Eagle in 1875. *}>rstf. W. K. WILLIAMS, A TTORNKY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, * V Cleveland , White Cos., Ga., will practice iu the Courts of tlio Western Circuit, aud give prompt atteu tiou to all busiuess entrusted to his care. June 12, 1874-tf WIER BOYD, A TTORNKY AT LAW, Dahloncya. Ga. x\. 1 will Practice in (he counties of Lumpkin, Dawson, Gilmer. Fannin, Union and Towns counties n the Blue Ridge Circuit ; aud Hall, White aud Rabun in the Western Circuit- May 1, 1874-tf. HEY', A. MARTIN, A TTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega, Ga. A ju1y21,1871-tf S. K. CHRISTOPHER, A TTOHN EY AT LAW, Hiwassee, Ga. J\. Will execute promptly all biieiueee entrusted to I liis care. uovltitf j THOMAS F. GREEK, A TTORNEY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN Xll. Equity aiul Bankruptcy, EUijay, Ga. Will urac tiee in the State Courts, atul in the District and Cir e uit Courts of the IT. S., iu Atlanta, Ga. June 20,1873-tf M. YV. KIDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia. Jan. 1, 1876-1 y ” JAMES M. TOWERY, Attorney at law, Gainesville, G... J. J. turnbul,!^ ATTORNEY 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,J.87C>-Ijg JAMES A. BUTT, Attorney at law a land agent, Wairwiiie Ga. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. june 2,1871-tl The Gainesville Eagle. Devoted to I*oliti<-, News of the Day, The Farm Interests, Home Matters, and Clioiee Miseellany. VOL, XI. [Published by Request.] THE CHRISTIAN TRAVELER. Aib— "Fulfillment," “Christian Harmony," I mn a poor way faring stranger— : I’m traveling through this world of woe, ; Hut there’s no sickness, toil nor danger ! In that good world to whence I go. I’m going there to see my mother— She said she’d meet me when I come. Chorus— l’m just a goiug over Jordan, I'm just a going over home. I know dark clouds will gather round me, I know my way ii rough aud steep, Unt beauteous fields lie just before me— God’s redeem-ed vigils keep. I’m going there to seo my children; I hoy ro near my Heavenly Father’s throne. Chorus. I ieel my sins arc all forgiven— My hope is placed on things above— I want to dwell in yon bright Heaven, Where all is peace and joy aud love. I want to go to meet my class-mates— I know they’re gone there one by one. Chorus. I want to wear a crown of glory When I get home to that good land; 1 want to sing salvation’s story In concert with that blood-washed baud. I'm going there to meet my Father, I’m goiug there no more to roam. Chorus. I’ll soon be freed from every trial— My body’li sleep in the old ohurch yard— I’ll drop the cross of self-denial And enter on my great reward. I’m going there to see my Saviour, He’s sitting on His great white throne. Chorus. PREREQUISITES OF SUCCESS. Integrity of character and truth in the inner man are the prerequisites of success in any calling, and especially so in that of the merchant. These are attributes which never fail to com mand respect and win admiration. No one fails to appreciate them, and if they “do not pay”„in the vulgar sense of tne phrase, they;bring an amount of satisfaction and peace to the owner that all the wealth of Croesus could not yield. There is no better stock in trade than these principles; no capital goes so far or pays so well, cr is so exempt from bankruptcy and loss. When known, they give credit and confidence, and in the hardest of times will honor your paper in bank. They give you an unlimited capital to do buisness upon, and everybody will endorse your paper, and the general faith of man kind will be your guaranty that you will n*;t fail. Let every youoig man, upon commencing buisness, look well to these indispensable elements of suc cess, and defend them as he would the apple of his eye. If inattentive and reck less here, he will imperil everything. Bankruptcy in character is seldom re paired in an ordinary lifetime. A man may sutler in reputation and recover; not so the man who suffers in charac ter. Be just and truthful. Let these be the ruling and predominating princi ples of your life and the reward will be certain, either in the happiness they bring to your own bosom, or the suc cess which will attend upon all your busiuess operations in life, or both. Sleepless people—and there are many in America—should court the sun. The very worst soporific is lauda num, the very best is sunshine. There fore it is very plain that poor sleepers should pass as many hours of the day as possible in the sunshine, and few as possible in the shade. Many women are martyrs, aud do not know it. They shut the sunshine out of their houses aud their hearts; they wear veils, they carry parasols; they do all that is pos sible to keep off the subtlest and yet the most potent influence which is in tended to give them strength and beauty aud cheerfulness. Is it not time to change all this, and so get roses and color in our pale cheeks, strength in our backs and courage in our weak souls V The women of America are pale and delicate. They may be blooming and strong, and the sunlight will be a potent influence in , this transformation. All wealth, properly so called, is the product of intelligent labor, and comes, for the most part, out of the ground. While a nation of shopkeepers, of brok ers and bankers, or of manufacturers, would surely and slowly starve a nation of farmers would continue to live and thrive, prosper and be happy. It is true, the grocer and the banker give to the farmer some luxuries and con veniences which he would be obliged to dispense with, were these men ab sent from the body politic, but still each ana all of them could be spared better than he. National Agriculture, then, is the basis of national glory and prosperity. He who helps and encour ages the farmer, helps the whole na tional commonwealth iu all of its vital and essential economic relations.— Southern Live Stock Journal. A late issue of the Houston Texas Age says there are ten thousand men in Texas out of employment. This is rather poor encouragement to those who, because they have no money j here, think they can tiy to Texas and pick it off the trees. They had better remain here and try to make the best | of the situation. MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA. A correspondent upon a kind of rambling visit to Georgia, thus writes to the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Union-Argus. Well do the people of Georgia remem ber Sherman’s thievish and un warlike, and we may say infamous march. Had he and bis Generals but observed the usages of war, there would be no cause for the bitter rankling hatred engen dered. The insults to our wives and daughters will never be forgiven while a Southern man honors woman. But to the correspondence: Covington, Newton County, Ga., March 10.—The section of country where your correspondent is now resid ing was the scene of Gen. Sherman’s route to the sea. Some weeks bofore this march commenced quite a body of spies were sent forward over the route, dressed in rebel gray, and pretending to be Wheeler’s men inquiring for sup plies for the Confederate army; thus Sherman, when he commenced his march, not only had the way well marked out, but he really knew the amount of supplies, as well as the per feet safety of the march. On the arrival of the main army to this country orders were given to sup ply the army by foraging on the ene my, and all supplies to our army were stopped from the commissary, except sugar and coffee. An army of foragers preceded the main army, and for a dis tance of four or five miles on each side of the track everything was seized that could give sustenance to the soldiers and the horses; all the corn, fodder, potatoes, chickens; all the cattle—hor ses, mules, hogs and sheep—in fact everything eatable that would iu any way serve to sustain them in their march. But the soldiers did not stop here. They destroyed everything that came in their way that was valuable. If they found a house deserted by its inhabitants they took it as evidence that they were in the army of the Con federacy, and destroyed the house and its contents that did not serve them. They took with them all the able bodied colored men, and thus the whole land was unprotected and made desolate. The cotton was generally protected and saved, as it was consid ered captured property and belonging to the United States. After these for agers followed the main army, so if there was anything left by them it was immediately confiscated. During the whole year previous to this grand march the poor Confederate planters had been sponged of everything they were willing to sell, for the support of their own army, for which they re ceived a liberal amount of bonds and scrip, that had then depreciated two or three hundred per cent. As there were only old men and de fenceless women in the route of this army, General Sherman had properly given orders to protect all who desired a guard, so that their persons should be secure from all injury during the passage of the army, and no harm was allowed to any one unless he attempt ed resistance. A few gin houses and dwellings were destroyed, where any opposition was made to the passage of the army, or where they were found deserted. But there were compara tively few dwellings burned in the State. The greatest loss to the inhab itants was in the horses, mules, cattle, sheep aud hogs, and productions of the soil; and when the horses were taken, the carriages and wagons were taken also, and well loaded with pro visions for the army. You can thus imagine the destitution that followed in the track of this army. It is amus ing to hear those who witnessed this march describe its appearance as it ‘went marching along.’ All kinds and classes of vehicles, a conglomeration of horses, mules, oxen, sheep aud hogs, and all heavily loaded with everything that had been plundered from the houses; all kinds of furniture aud household stuff’, everything eatable, 6uch as ham-quarters of meat, of sheep and cattle and hogs; bags of potatoes, and all kinds of fruit aud garden sauce; chickeus and other fowls, dead and alive; baby caniages loaded with plun der; one soldier with a live goat on his shoulders, balling as he marched along; others with a chicken or turkey on the point of their bavonots; in fine, everything took the fancy of the for agers. In this way the Yankee soldiers marched to the sea. The track of this motley army was marked everywhere by the castaway and broken vehicles, dead horses, cattle and hogs, and the debris of a desolating army. While strict orders were given to the soldiers not to molest private houses or to des troy anything that could not be of ser vice to the army, yet there was a most wanton devastation of private property that could not probably be prevented. The soldiers would sneak around into the smoke-houses and destroy what they could not carry off, such as mo lasses, vinegar, crockery, preserves; in tine, everything that came in their way. If any remonstrance was made by the GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1877. inhabitants the reply was, ‘We came to destroy.’ A great number of the inhabitants hurriedly buried in the ground their money and articles of value, but they say our soldiers were remarkably sa gacious in finding these buried treas ures. The people remarked that the Yankees could smell out the location of hidden goods like bloodhounds; that they were sure to push their bayonets or swords into the very spot where the precious articles were buried. The army encamped for one uight on the plantation where your corres pondent is now staying, and the widow who was residing here at the time gives us a most woeful account of the destruction made by the army. They burned her fences, tore every door off the hinges from all the cabins and houses on the place, marched through her field and trod down everything growing, killed her hogs and sheep, took all her mules and horses, robbed her of all her corn and grain, every chicken was captured, all her bacon was taken, a barrel of syrup was turn ed out upon the ground and mixed up with a box of old letters and papers, her vinegar barrel was emptied upon the ground; they even invaded the baby house of the children and carried off the toys found there. Such are some of the incidents that may occur iu the track of an invading army even in a civilized nation. I. M. C. JOE JOHNSTON. It was hardly to be expected that Gen. Joe Johnston should be selected for a cabinet position, having been so prominent a Confederate commander. But this is the only charge which can lie against him; in his private life and strict honesty, as a man of truth aud exalted character, no man North or South, is more deserving the public confidence. Asa man of military genius, the history of the war bears ample testimony. His arrival on the field changed the battle of Bull Run from a glorious victory for our arms into a complete rout, for the Confed erates were retreating when he came up. Though he was badly wounded before Richmond, it was not until Mc- Clellan’s army had been forced tc abandfc)2*4t& olwusL w*4lv a defensive’ campaign. Disabled from service for a long time, he was called to take com mand of Bragg’s army after its defeat at Mission Ridge. To him belongs the credit of the Confederate arms during Sherman’s march to Atlanta. Our im mense army under Sherman, consist ing of Thomas’ army, Grant’s old army, commenced its advance early in April, and until the middle of July, was occu pied iu advancing only one hundred miles. Nearly four months were con sumed in a march which, without re sistance, might have been accomplished in a week. Johnston realized the axiom of Frederick the Great that a defensive army ought to fight as often as there were good positions, and that such usually occurred every five miles. Ia no case of the many contests did Gen. Johnston allow his army to be com promised by a general engagement with his gigantic opponents. The news of his removal by Jeff Davis, Ire cause he would not risk a general bat tle with a certainty of defeat, but pre ferred to fall back from Atlanta to Macon, and thus gather bis strength while weakening his opponent, was considered at our headquarters as the presage of victory for our arms. Had Johnston been allowed to carry out his plan, it is very doubtful whether the ‘march to the sea’ could have been accomplished, and the war brought thereby to a close. We cau well un derstand the magnanimous conduct of Gen. Sherman iu styling Joe Johnston the ablest General of the Southern army. But what can we say of that proscribed Confederate General, polit ically disabled from holding any office iu the United States, when he declined the tempting offer of the Khedive, of the command of the Lg.Vj tian army, on a salary of i.50,000 a year'—a re fusal based ou his determination to live an Americau citizen ? The flesh pots of Egypt, full of gold, were refused for a salary as agent of a life iusura l ce company, because he est emetl simple Americau citizenship, even under po litical disability, preferable to oriental wealth and power.—Boston Herald. A prominent and experienced agri culturist says that frogs me ixcctd iugly valuable iu fields and gardens, for the destruction of insects, and ie commends their untiliziliou for this purpose. He suggests that two or three be placed iu each garden whole, if provided with a damp locality in the day time, they will remain contented, doing the needed labor of destroying inects of many years. They come out from their hiding place iu the cool of the eveing, and do there service rap idly and successfully. The Bostou reporters steal into Hr. Moody’s inquiry meeting iu the dis guise of sinners, aud the good man doesn’s discover the deception. HUMAN DESTINY. b arewitted labor and uuceasing vigilance are the lowest prices at which man, in this world, can obtain happiness and safety. The primeval curse, ‘lu the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,’ includes within its scope not only the bodily, but the mental and moralppo r ers of man; and reason and philosophy not less than revelation, clearly demonstrate that all nature, both vvithiu us and with out, is l j formed aud constituted as to enforce this destiny. Not only does this uncultivated earth bi -.a forth thorns and thistles rather pi fruit, but its tempting fruits, un le: s discriminated, may poison us; and the air we breathe, the fire that warms us and the innumerable other objects which are essential to our existence or enjoyment, must be for the most part laboriously sought, and must all be cautiously distinguished and appro priated, and used, if we would secure benefits and escape the mischiefs which in some form, each has the power to occasion. And if we seek for happiness in the exercise of the menial and moral powers, the same toil and danger await us. Tho temple of science stands at the summit of an almost in aectiisible mountain. ‘Truth lies at the bottom of a well.’ Moral rectitude is a critical medium, the two extremes fi om which are vices. And even the P;‘th to heaven, as we are instructed bom the sacred desk is narrow and difficult, with a broad road leading from it to perdition; so that earth and beaveu are legibly inscribed by the finger of the Creator with the sub lunary doom of man—toil and watch fulness. And yet, such is the intrinsic con stitution of human nature, that this apparently severe destiny is the cause of its highest dignity and happiness. Perils and impediments in our path prompts us to vigilant and energetic action. Our chief happiness consists ia successful effort—in acquiring the desirable objects around us, not in their supine enjoyment—in eluding or grappling with and overcoming dan icr r *‘ n °t in a quiet, lifeless exemption from it- They haul * tough subject in the in quir • room last week. Moody wrestled with him and Sankey sang with him, but the man seemed to despair of for giveness. Finally, Moody asked him what heavy sin burdened his mind, and he confessed to having beat a newspaper publisher out of four years subscription. The evangelist informed him that they did not profess to per form miracles, but if he would settle up his dues, with compound interest, and pay for four years more in ad vance, although they could not open the doors of the church to him, per haps he might be snaked in under the canvass.—Boston Bulletin. A correspondent relates in the Star, of St. Helena, California, a story of a wonderful dog iu Pope valley. The owner kept sheep and the dog herded them. Finally the sheep were sold to a Berryessa man (an adjacent valley some ten miles away.) The owner and the dog delivered the sheep and returned home. Soon after the man missed his dog and searched for him in vain. He was a valuable dog, and his loss was mourned for a couple of days, when, behold, up ho came from Berryessa with the whole ilock of sheep, which he had brought safely home again. A writer in a Boston paper says that closets in a house are a great nuisance. From which it may be inferred that the writer aforesaid is an old bachelor, has only one suit of clothos, and is com pelled to lie in bed when his shirt is washed. Should he ever get a wife, and see a frock on one chair, and her peti-what-you-call-it on another, aud other feminine fixtures on the tables, sofas, beds and other articles of furni ture, he will soon conclude that it is much more convenient, if not healthy, to have a house four-fifths clossets. It is singular fact that the first daily newspaper in the English language was founded by a woman—Elizabeth Mal let, of London. It was called the Dally Courant, and appeared March, 1702, during the regin of Queen Anne. It was not devoted to woman’s rights or wrongs, but was as much for man’s relief as anybody’s; for it was printed, as its frank and fair proprietor stated, ‘to spare the public at least half the impertinences which the ordinary pa pers coniain.’ A book agent, who has retired from active labor upon the hard earned ac cumulations of a life of industrious cheek, says that the great secret of his success was that when he went to a house where the female head of the family presented herself, he always opened by saying: ‘I beg your pardon, miss; but it was your mother I wanted to see.’ ‘That always used to get ’em. They not only subscribed for my books themselves, but told me where 1 could find more customers.’ PINCHBACK ON LOUISIANA. Pinchback, when questioned by the Times’ reporter as to whether he had any news from Louisiana, replied; “I have no news, and that is good news. I am never uneasy about Louisiana until I see telegrams beginning to come. Then I know it’s getting too warm to be healthy. These Packard fellows think they are very smart,” continued the natty quadroon. “They have been going to Hayes with a story that I have just taken the trouble to upset They say that if the President will only give them the moral recogni tion of the government, they will not need any troops. That’s bright, ain’t it ? Why, the Nicholls government would snuff them out iu five minutes if the President took the troops off. If he set ’em up again, the Nicholls folks would tumble ’em down again and again and again twenty times a week if necessary. Why, the Nicholls people say openly that they would prefer a military governor to Packard. If the President recognizes Packard, he may just propose to either back down from his recognition or to keep about half of the regular army iu Louisiana as long as he prepares to make his recognition good; and the other half, I think, would be needed in South Carolina. Why, sir, there are G,OOO of the best troops in America iu New Orleans to-day ready to do what Nicholls tells them, and they can be brought together by twenty-one taps of the fire bells quicker than a regi ment lying on its arms could get into ranks.” No man has studied the Southern question more intelligently than Mr. Redfield, and his views are well worthy of consideration. In a letter to the Cincinnati Commercial, he says: “The Southern negro makes a good servant and laborer, but the attempt to crowd him forward as a statesman is a ridicul ous failure. The problem we have got into and got him into is a solemn one. The road which led to the present con dition of things is plain enough look ing back, but forward we cannot see out. I often think of what the foreign student said, after spending a time studying our peculiar institutions, namely, that by looking to America the world could see the strauge spectacle of a proud and intelligent people in danger of losing their own liberty while squabbling over that of the negro’s. Something in it, for every time we have seemed about to go to pieces upon the breakers, the colored question, in one shape or an other, has been tho trouble. And to day that question in our politics over shadows all others a thousandfold; and so far from its being nearly settled, we are just now getting into the merits of it.” WOMAN’S RIGHTS. The rights of husbands aud wives to property which they respectively bring into the family have been further de fined and limited by a bill which has just passed both houses of the Connec ticut Legislature. It provides that husband and wife shall not acquire by marriage any right to each other’s property; that the husband shall be liable for all debts incurred for the joint maintenance of husband, wife and children; that the separate earnings of the wife shall be her own property; that the wife may make contracts or sell her real or personal property; that all her property shall be liable for her debts; that the husband shall be liable for none of her debts contracted be fore marriage nor fur those contracted after marriage, except for articles for the support of the family, or for the joint benefit of both; aud that the husband aud wife respectively, upon the death of the other, sha'l each in herit during the remainder of life the use of one-third of the other’s property. That a great English-speaking em pire is fast growing up in the Austra lias is apparent from the marvelous showing those colonies already make. Their total amount of trade is $450,- 000,000, dug from the bowels of the earth or gathered from its surface.— Of that total one-half, or $225,000,000, consists of the precious metals. There are gold, copper, tin and iron in all the colonies, and silver in New Zeal and. In miscellaneous products they have wool, tallow, sugar, hides, pre served meats and wine. In all the colonies there were last year 05,000,- 000 sheep and 7,000,000 cattle. The population of Australia and Tasmania numbers 2,000,000, and New Zealand 400,000. The public revenue of the whole group is $05,000,000 annually. An Irish review says that in Dublin society the professional classes are everything and the commercial classes nothing; that wealthy tradespeople are always persistently endeavoing to gain a social footing in Dublin, but are sternly resisted by the ‘professionotra cy,’ that no seamstress works so hard as the wives of rich Dublin traders trying to tight their way into the charmed ring of lawyers and doctors. LAYING FOR HIM. It haviug come to the ears of the United States officials at this point that Big English, the hook black, had a handful of lead nickels in his posses sion, the bov was yesterday interview ed on the subject. ‘Yes; I’ve got nineteen bad nickels in my towsers pocket,’ was his prompt reply. ‘And what are you doing with them?’ ‘Holding right to ’em. You needn’t think you’ve got a case again me, for you haven’t. ‘How did you get those bad pieces?’ ‘Rich man, who shall be nameless— black his boots every morning—hands me out a lead uiukel—thinks he’s got a soft thing on me, but I’m layin’ for him !’ ‘How ?’ ‘Why, lie’s got a daughter 'bout my age. I’ll bo thinking of marrying in two or three years more, and I’ll shoulder a bag of his nickles, walk into the parlor, gently say: ‘Mister man, I love thy fair daughter, and I demand her hand in marriage. Behold the proofs of your vile perfidy, ami come up to the rack or go the jug!’ You just keep still and let him shower out his bogus coins. I ain’t handsome but I’m a terror to plan!’—Detroit Free Press. A HIGH SENSE OF HONOR. The Duke of Wellington had a sense of honor in all money dealings, and would sutler none of his agents to do a mean thing in his name. His stew art once bought some land adjoining his country estate, and was boasting of having made a very tine bargain, from the seller being in straitened cir cumstances. ‘What did you pay for it?’ asked the Duke. ‘Eight huudred pounds,’ was the answer. ‘And how much was it worth ?’ ‘Eleven hundred pounds,’ said the stewurd, nibbing his h inds in glee at the thought of the good bargain. ‘Then take three hundred pounds and carry them to the seller, with my compliments, and don’t ever ven ture to talk to me of cheap land again.’ The steward was confounded and COUkl Miui ucij orodifi liiw oivii oaiv. The idea that any one could refuse to profit by a sharp bargain, and throw money away in paying more than was agreed on, was hard for him to com prehend. SEVERE REPRIMAND. Chief Justice Marshall was in tlie habit of going to market himself, and carrying home his purchases. Fre quently he would be seen returning at sunrise, with poultry in one hand and vegetables in the other. On one of these occasions, a fashionable young man who had recently removed to Richmond, was swearing violently be cause be could find no oue to cany home his turkey. Marshall stepped up and asking him where he lived, ‘That is my way and I will take it for you.’ When they came to the house the young man inquired, ‘What shall I pay you V’ ‘Oh, nothing’ said the Chief Justice, ‘you are welcome, it was my way and no trouble.’ ‘Who’s that old man, who brought home my turkey for me ?’ inquired the young man of a bystander. ‘That,’ replied he, ‘is Mr. Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.’ ‘Why did he bring home my turkey V’ ‘To give you a severe reprimand,and teach you to attend to your own bus iness,’ was the reply. A DONKEY RACK. The officers of a cavalry regiment stationed at a dull English garrison town, lately got up a donkey race for their amusement, and very amusing it proved to be. One donkey took the lead from the start and rapidly neared the goal amid the wildest shouting. When within a few feet of the winning post his rider thought to pur on a tine spurt, and so gave the beast the spur, but with disastrous effect. The brute put his head down, kicked furiously, stopped dead short and would not budge an inch ! Those who were run ning second aud third siw their com rade’s difficulty, and redoubled their efforts. Slowly but surely they came along, every stride bringing them neartr the goal'? At last the rider of donkey number one came to the con clusion that some action ought to be taken, aud that at one?. Should he let the prize slip from his hand’s grasp ? He sprang to the ground without a moment’s hesitation, and, seizing his steed’s tail, put it over his shoulder aud dragged him past ihe post. An objection was lodged but the decision was given in favor of the winner. He, and he only, is safe from a drunkard’s death who never tastes a 1 drop of anything that can intoxicate. P E A T 11 BUS. He has hard work who has nothing to do. Rhode Island’s election occurs on Wednesday, April 4. The cradle is the first rock we strike in the voyage of life. Lawyers should sleep well. It is im material on which side they lie. The ladies, heaven bless ’em, fairly revel in the ‘sweet buy and buy.’ The oldest rose tree in St. Augustine, Fla., has just died, aged two hundred years. Those whose business it is to deal with men in the aggregate are apt to lack individual sympathy. Of cane sugar, the world produced last year 2,140,000 tons, and of molas ses about 140.000,000 gallons. The Archbishop of York says then, is enough spent for intoxicating drinks to lay $l5O on every letter in the Bible. A pliable fabric cf fine-spun glass is coming into use among chemists, to aid in the filtration of liquids in labora tories. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of appli tion, rather than of means, that men fail of success. A man might just as well attempt to swallow his Adam’s apple as to do a rneau thing under the impression that he will escape punishment. 11 you are troubled with dyspepsia eat a peeled applo every night before going to bed. Should that fail to cure try chopping wood by moonlight. An Irish crier, being ordered to clear the court room, did so by announcing: ‘Now, all you blackguards that are not lawyers leave the court room at once.’ They tell the story in New York that a mau dressed in female clothes had his secret discovered because he thanked a gentleman who offered him a seat. The greatest statemen are those who not only develop national resources favorable to the material interest of a people, but also promote virtue, en lightenment and patriotism. Laziness grows on people. It begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more business a man Las to do the more ho is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time. NO. 13 Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of suc cess. Louisiana has 76,300 horses, 79,900 mules. 89,600 o milch cows, 171,900 oxen and other cattle, 68,800 sheep and 222,600 hogs. All these are less than is possessed by any State South, save South Carolina and Florida. If you cannot speak well or your' neighbors, do not speak of them at all. A cross neighbor may become a kind one b3 7 kind treatment.. The true way to be happy is to make others happy. To be good is a luxury. Thos. M. Butler, of Freedonia, Ky., has a spring of water fifteen feet in diameter, whose bottom has never been reached, although weights with ropes three hundred feet long have been lowered into it. A young American piima donna, who took lessons in Milan a few years ago, and returned to this country dis gusted with the tyranny of Italian music teachers, has beeu engaged as a substitute for a steam-whistle in a Massachusetts boot factory. We never heard man or woman much abused that we were not inclined to think the better of them, and to trans fer any suspicion or dislike to the per son who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow creature. The Japanese Minister in Washing ton is described as looking not over twenty years old, and about the size of an American boy of fourteen. He wears cream colored trousers, seamed with cold, and a black coat with a gold collar. The P. I. man of the New York Herald must have been disappointed with Texas when he was there, or he wouldn’t have written this: “Scene in Texas. Hotel table- ‘Good morning, stranger; it looks like rain.’ Stranger— ‘l think not.’ A shot is heard, and the stranger is rolled out of the back door. Moral—Texas is a fine graziog coun try.” ‘lf I was a horse now,’ mused a big boy as he struggled up a Detroit street, ‘l’d be stabled, rubbed down and fed; but I’m a boy and I’ve got io go home, clean off the snow, bring in wood, tote water aud rock the baby for an hour or two.’ There never was any heart truly great, and generous that was not also tender and compassionate. It is this noble quality that makes all men to be of one kind; for every man would be a distinct species to himself, were there no sympathy among individuals. A worthy Quaker thus wrote: ‘I ex pect to pass through this world but once; if, therefore, there be any kind ness I can show, or any good thing I can do any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neg lect it, for I ahull not pass this way again.’ Eminent Georgia statisticians have calculated that the amount of ingenui ty and labor expended by impecunious topers in getting free drinks would, if devoted to any honorable and useful pursuit, pay off the State debt in little less than six years and eight months.