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The Gainesville Eagle. PUBLISHED EVERY FRI DAT MOBS 1S <i. CARET? W. fTYLEe, Editor and Proprietor. 1 I iRMS : S3 A Vear, in Advance. OFFICE Up stairs in Candler Hall building, north-west corner Public Square. Agents for 'flic Eagle. •I. M. Rich, IJlairsville, Oa : .1. D. Howard, Hiwas- S'H, Ga.; W. M. Hanokiis-jn, Haysville, N. C.; Da. N. 0, osuoits, iiulord, Ga. CS - Tbe above named gentlemen are authorized to make collections, roce.ive and receipt for subscription to Thk Eagle 'att itntcs of Advertising. Oae dollar per square for first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six lines will be charged lor 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. (tatesofbegai Advertising. 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Advertisers who desire a specified space for 3, 6 or 12 months will receive a liberal deduction from our regular rates. mr All bills due after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made. (. EN ERAL 1)1 RECTORY. lion. George D. Kice, Judge S. 0. Western Circuit. A. L. Mitchel, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. B. M. Winburn, Ordinary. John L. Gaines, Sheriff. J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff. J. J. hfayno, Clerk Superior Court. N. 1). Clark, Tax Collector. J. It. H. Luck, Tax Receiver. Gideon Harrison, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner, it. r Young, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Pm; ißVfKiu tv Church-Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pas tor. lV -aohlng every Sabbath—morning and niglit, i :.e pi ib. -ccond Sabbath. Sunday School at 1) a. m. Pi *>or meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock. .’,le i hodist Church ltev. 1). D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning andnight. Sunday School at 3a. m. Prayer mooting Wednesday night. uurch —Rev. w. O. Wilkes, Pastor. Proaci i.ig Sunday morning. Sunday School at a. ui. Italy* r meeting Thursday evening at 4 o’clock. YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. A. M. Jaokhon, President, it. C. .Maddox, Vice President. W. B. Clements, Secretary. Regular services every Sabbath eveuing at onb of the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings ovory Tues day night in ‘‘Old Town,” and Friday night near the depot. FRATERNAL RECORD. Flowery Branch Lodge No. 79, I. (). O. TANARUS„ moots every Monday night, Joel Lasethr, N. G. li. F. Steditam, Sec. ali.m'ih.cw Rotai. Arch Chaptkr meets on the Sec ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. W. M. Pi hi TT, S< o’y, A. W. Caldwell, H. P. Gainesville Lodob, No. 219, A.-. F.\ M.-„ meets on tbe First and Third Tuosday eveuing in the month It. Palmoub, Sec’y. R. E Green, W. M. Aiii-Liv l/un, No. 64,1. O. O. F., meets every Friday e\,-ning. C. A- Lilly, Bee. W. H. Harrison, N. G. ,M (iilvinu 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. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., moots every list and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. F. S. Hudson, W. C. T. 11. W. Rhodes, Secretary. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line ltailrood, the following will lie the schedule from date: Mail from Atlanta [fast] 7.59 p. m. Mail for Atlanta [fast] 7.30 a. m. Office hours: From 7 a. in. to 12 m., and from 1 K p. in. to 7 p. m. U< ■ oral delivery open on Sundays from 8>; to 9>j. Dep * rot mails from this office: Osh So. Gilmer county, daily....— Rif* JetTersii lackson county, Tuesday, Tliurs and Saturday 7 a. m Cleveland, White, Union, Towns ami Rabun, Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m Dawsunville and Dawson county, Saturday 8 a. rn Homer, Ranks comity, Saturday 1 p. m Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday .. .1 p. ni M. K. ARCHER, P M. Professional and Business Cards. A. C. MOSS, Attorney at Law, Homer, Banks County, Georgia. TTTI IjL ATTEND PROMPTLY to all busi ness intrusted to liis care. mar9-ly Mzvattaic.lt Ac PERRY i TTuItNKYS AT LAW, GAINESVILLE, GA, }\ Ollico in tlio Court llouso. Ono or the other of tli firm always present. Will practice iu Hall and adjoining counties. au2s-lj A . -I. HSI >V FF M £t, x^'T.xisr^T.oxw.rj' AND S U li G E O IV , Gaiufjsville, Ga, oiVhn’i and Rooms at Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga. jau2l-ly I IN FIRM A It Y, FOR THE TREATMENT OF' DISEASES OF WOMEN, AND OPERATIVE SURGERY, At tho Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by jaiilS tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D. V. IX LOCKHART, M~. D., I’olkt llle, Ga., Wllgfj PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its brauches. Special attention giveu to Chronic Diseases of v, omen and children. feblß-6m 1)11. 11. . ADAIR, i>KiNT.ie r r, Gainesville, Ga. janU ly MARSHAL, L. SMITH, i TTORNUY AND COUNSELLOR AX LAW, 2\. Dawwnoille, Dawson county, Ga. U!1 I \ tf JOHN If. ESTES, TTORN KY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county, j. L Georgia. J. WELLBORN^ 4 TTOKVBY-AT-LAW, Blairsville, Union county, j\. Georgia. SAMUEL C. D( NEAP, 4 TTORNMY AT LAW, GaincsviUe, Ga. f\ Gdii'e u the Handler building, iu tlio room occupiad by the Eagle in 1875, aprstf. W. Iv. WILLIAMS. V TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, V . i/i ’. White Cos., Ga., will practice in the Courts of th*> Western Circuit, and give prompt atten tion to all business entrusted to his care. J une 12, J874-tf WIER BOY D, 4 TTORNKY AT I.AW. PaMonega, Ga. jTjL 1 will Prnotico In (ho oountifs of Lumpkin, Dawson. Gilmer. Fun lin. I'iiion and Townscounties n the Hlue Ridge Circuit; and Hall, White and R*lmn in tl'.‘> Wostora Circuit. May 1, 1574-tf. BEY, A. MARTIN, VTTOI \ XKV AT LAW. Z)aWo tteca, Ga. S. K. CHRISTOPHER, 1 TTORSEY AT LAW, lliuiassee, Ga. . V Will i x-cute promptly ail busiuosa ontrußtrd to his care. novlCtf THOMAS F. GREER, VTTORNEY \T I.A'.V, AND SOLICITOR IN K,|iiiiy (fid Bankrujitoy, Kllijau. Ga. Will prac •- if* in I ho Si, lo Couria, and in the District and Cir r. nit C-MirtH of the IJ. 8., in Atlanta, Ga. •lituc 20,1573-U' ML W. Rll)E\, \TTORNEY AT LAW, QumesvilU, Georgia. . Jnti. 1,1876-ly JAMES >l. TOWER Y, i TTOKXFY AT LAW, XX. QainearUli', G. J. J. TI RMUJCE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Homer , Ga. — Will practice in .ill the counties composing the Western Cir cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted to his caro. fan. 1. XH7ft-ly. JAMES A. BUTT, \ TTORNEY AT LAW* LAND AGENT, Blairsvilte IX 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, a.al Choiee Misoellaixy. VOL XI, ONLY A BOY. ODly a boy, with his noise and fun, The veriest mystery under the sun; As brimful of mischief, and wit and glee, As ever a human frame can be, And as hard to manage as—ah ! ah, me ! ’Tis hard to tell, Yet we love him well. j Only a boy, with his fearful tread, Who cannot be driven, but must be led: Who troubles the neighbors’ dogs and cats, And tears more clothes and spoils more bats, Loses more tops and kites and bats, Thau would stock a store For a year or more. Only a boy, with his wild, strange ways; With his idle hours on busy days; With bis queer remarks and his odd replies, Sometimes foolish and sometimes wise, Often brilliant for one of his size, Asa meteor hurl'd From the pleasant world. Only a boy, who will be a man If Nature goes on with her first great plan— If water, or fire, or some fatal snare, Conspire not to rob us of this our heir. Our blessing, our trouble, our rest, our care, Our torment, our joy, “Only a boy.” AN’ OLD HOUSE. There is something in an old house that there never can be in anew one. The new one may be handsomer, it may have higher ceilings and broader panes of glass, a medieval mantle-piece, ar.d French paper on the walls, and Persian rugs. You may be proud'of it, but you loved the old house—the dear old place, almost as old as the great trees at the door. A tall man could touch the ceilings with his palm, and the great mantel-pieceß were stiff and ugly; but there, in the firelight, used to sit, once upon a time, the old grand-mother with her knitting, while the children climbed her knee and she told them stories of her youth. Out of that window—the little win dow with the diamond panes—she had looked to see her young husband coming home after a long day’s hunt, flushed with exercise, bright and hand some. There lay the great red deer he shot; yonder the dogs were ken nelled—the great, brown-eyed dogs. One of their race, then unborn, some times stands beside her as she tells these tales, old and blind and tooth less, and there are no deer now. Yes, that road she had ridden a gay young bride,’coining for the first time to the husband’s house, full of hope and joy. Thero her babes had been born, grown to men and women, and gone forth. Out of that door went, at last, her husband’s funeral train, and nothing was left her of her life but its memo ries. Thore she sat, thinking and knitting, telling the old stories. How could she be so content V the young people often thought. The tall clock stood in the hall and ticked as it had done for seventy years. In the glass cupboard were stored a sacred tea service with gilt edges, and silver tea-pot that had beon a wedding present. Fox’s Martyrs and the Pilgrim’s Progress were in the book case, and the big Bible on the staud; and there were bright profiles of chokod-look ing gentlemen and ladies, with won derous puff’s on their heads, on the walls; up in the bed-rooms were rag carpets and high-post beds, and chests of drawers, and long presses. How many heads had rested on those pil lows! What happy dreams have been dreamt, what bitter tears shed! And down in the parlor, with its hard upright sofa, guests with strange dullness of which no one ever dreamt, had been entertained; and lovers had wooed and won, and doubtless there had been little tragedies, such as go on between lovers through all the generations. Story after story has told itself in the old house. They are not all happy ones, but they make the old house different, from anew one. Memories lurk in the very walls; aud who shall say that the spirits of those who lie at rest in the old church-yard yonder, under tomb stones on which moss has grown do not sometimes flit through it—unseen but felt—bringing softened emotions and tender recollections as they pass? The very trees in the garden are not as other tre s. They have their stories. Under this a first kiss was taken; under that hands met in an eternal parting. Down in the orchards is a baby’s grave—the baby would be fifty years old if he lived to-day—but only a little while ago his mother sat there and shed a tear over it. The new house is fine, and costly, and modern, but there is no poetry in it, and there will not be until at least two generations have made it an old house, and haunted it with sweet ghosts, as the} did the old one.—Mary Lyle Dallas, in N. Y. Ledger. Owls are of immense service as ver min destroyers. An English game keeper found an owl’s nest with one youDg bird in it. He visited it for thirty consecutive mornings, and in that time removed from it 105 rats, 19 mice, 11 shrew mice, 2 robins, and 1 sparrow. This was, and well it might have been, over and above what the owl’s consumption demanded. ALTITUDE. Ihe Air Line Looks Down Upon the Western ana Atlantic, and Northeast Georgia Smiles Adown the Yales of Atlanta and the Lowlands of Griffin. Interesting Statistics. [From the Homeward Star. The neat volume recently published by Thomas P. Janes, Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Georgia, styled “Hand-book of the State of Georgia,” abounds in interesting mat ter, bat especially will the information it presents concerning the altitude of different localities in the State be found interesting. It presents the al titude of almost every point of interest in Georgia, and from it the following facts are mostly gleaned: The altitude of Savannah, taken at the C. 11. depot, is 32 feet above sea leval, (estimating from high tide,) that of Macon 332 feet, and that of the towns and stations on the Central Railroad,l92 miles long, between those cities is, on an average, 181 feet; that of Griswold being the greatest of any point on the road, it being 404 feet. I ort Gaines, on the Chattahoochee river, is the Southern terminus of the Southwestern Railroad, and is 150 miles from tho city of Macon, and has an altitude of 103 feet. The altitude of the towns and stations on that road, 150 miles long, is, on an average, 360 feet. That of Fort Valley is 528 feet, being the highest point on that road. That of Amaricus is 300 feet only. Taking the Macon and Augusta Road, running across the center of the State, from Macon to Camak, 74 miles, the average altitude is 411 feet, that of Sparta, which is one of the highest points in the line, being 545 feet. Mil- Jedgeville, the former Capitol of the State, is on that road and has an alti tude of only 204 feet. Passing to Atlanta, the Capitol of the State, we find that it rises up to the height of 1050 feet, four times as high as Milledgeville, and higher than Kansas City, Missouri,Omaha, Nebras ka or St. Paul, Minnesota. And then. H rn i£" Ha camtsaTng-ixu Atlanta, we find, on the (veorgia Road, from Atlanta to Augusta, 171 miles, that the average altitude is 624 feet, that of Augusta being only 147 feet. On the Macon and Western Road, from Atlanta to Macon, 103 miles, the aver age is 701 feet, Macon being only 332 feet. (The “Hand-book” puts the Macon depot of the M. & W. R. R. at 414 feet, but by following the original survey of the road, it gave the altitude of the original depot on the bluff, long ago superseded by the present Union depot, the altitude of which is 332 feet.) On the Atlanta and West Point Rail road, 80 miles long, the average is 865 feet. East Point, Fairburn and Pal metto are each over one thousand feet. LaGrange is only 778 feet. There are still two great railways leading from Atlanta, to-wit: The Western and At lantic Road and the Air Line Railway, both penetrating North Georgia, but there is a surprising difference in the altitude of the cities and towns on the two lines. On the Western and Atlan tic Road the average altitude is only 757 feet, which is lower average than that of the Macon and Western or the Atlanta and West Point Road, while that of the Air Line Railway from At lanta, Georgia, to Charlotte, North Carolina, 2G5 miles, (but of which there are only 100 miles in Georgia, and, therefore, we speak only of the 100 miles in Georgia,) has an average alti tude of 1,227 feet; the average on the Air Line being nearly twice that on the Western and Atlantic, Ihere being no point on the latter, possessing an alti tude equal to the average altitude on the former. Marietta has an altitude of 1,132 feet, (82 feet above Atlanta); Cartersville only 771 feet; Kingston only 721 feet; Calhoun only 653 feet; and Chattanooga, Tennessee, only 663 feet, while on the Air Line Road, Nor cross has an altitude of 1,050 feet, (same as Atlanta,) Buford 1,207 feet; Gainesville 1,222 feet; Bellton 1,342; Mount Airy 1,610, and Toccoa 1,040 feet. A railroad train, standing at the depot at Mount Airy, is at an elevation within 76 feet of that of the top of Stone Mountain, which is 1,686 feet high. The altitude of the Okefeenokee Swamp is, on an average, about 125 feet. The general surface of the earth from Augusta across to Columbus has an altitude of about 400 feet. The gen eral surface ou the Chattahoochee ridge across the State, as traversed by the Air Line Railway and the Atlanta and West Point Road from Toccoa to West Point, is 1,050 feet, about the same as that of the city of Atlanta. This ridge, the Chattahoochee ridge, separates the waters of the Chattahoo chee river flowing into the Gulf from the headwaters of the Oconee, Gcmul gee and other streams that flow South through Georgia into the Atlantic. It is the great dividing ridge of the State, and when its altitude becomes gener ally known and properly appreciated GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY I], 1877. in its relations to climate, it will be come the most populous portion of Georgia. The altitude of the Blue Ridge, running through the Northern tier of counties in the Siate, is, on an average, about 3,000 feet, though sev eral peaks rise higher. Enota, in Towns county, is 4,796 feet high; Bald, iu Rabun, is 4,718 feet high; Blood,six miles Northwest of Porter Springs, on the line of Lumpkin and Union coun ties, is 4,670 feet high; Black, three miles Northeast of Porter Springs, on the line of Lumpkin and Union coun ties, is 4,481 feet high; Tray, in Haber sham, is 4,435 feet high, and Yonah, fifteen miles east of Porter Spring, is 3,168 feet high. The altitude of the town of Clarkes ville is about .1,600 feet, that of Dah lonega 2,237 feet, and that of Porter Springs is about 2,800 f6et. The effect upon the climate by latitude and alti tude is easily calculated by the rules laid down by scientific men; a degree of latitude making a difference of two degrees in temperature, and 300 feet of altitude making a difference of one degree in temperatue. Apply this rule to two given points, say Savannah and Porter Springs, and there being a dif ference of four degrees in latitude and 2,800 feet in altitude, the difference in temperature would be seventeen de grees. Therefore the thermometer would stand at 96 degrees in Savan nah while it stood at 80 degrees at Porter Springs. And, in addition to the change in temperature, there is another agency brought into play by altitude, to wit: atmospheric pressure. The weight of the atmosphere at the ordinary surface of the earth, or, as it is termed by Sci entific men, at the sea-leveJ, is equal to fifteen pounds to the square inch. There are about 2,000 square inches of surface on a man of ordinary size, and therefore there is, at the sea-level, an atmospheric pressure of about 30,000 pounds on a common person. And at an elevation of 3,000 feet there are three thousand pounds less of atmos pheric pressure than at the sea-level. Thus a citizen of Charleston, Savan nah, Mobile or New Orleans, on as--, cending to Porter Springs would be —T .... . .... .. \o pounds less than when at home. The great removal of atmospheric pressure by ascending to an altitude of 12,000 feet, gives pain unless a person exer cises very cautiously. That change of atmospheric pressure thought to be most beneficial to health, is accom plished by passing from the sea-level to the mountain regions with an alti tude ranging from two to five thou sand feet. Therefore, considering all the influences on climate caused by the latitude and altitude of the mountains in North Georgia, that portion of our State has bright future ahead of it. THE MAN WHO STOPS HIS PAPER. Phillip Gilbert Hamerton, in his ad mirable papers on ‘lntellectual Life,’ thus talks to the man who ‘stopped his paper:’ “Newspapers are to the civilized world what the daily house talk is to the members of the family—they keep our daily interest in each other; they save us from the evils of isolation. To live as a member of the great white race that has filled Europe and Ameri ca, and colonized or conquered what ever territory it has been pleased to occupy; to share from day to day its thoughts, its cares, its inspirations, it is necessary that every man should read his paper. Why are the French peasants so bewildered and at sea ? It is because they never read a newspaper. And why are the inhabitants of the United States, though scattered over a territory fourteen times the area of France, so much more capable of con cert of action, so much more alive ami modern, so much more interested in new discoveries of all kinds, and more capable of selecting and utilizing the best of them ? It is because the news papers penetrate everywhere, and even the lonely dwelling on the prairie or in the forest is not intellectually isolated from the great currents of public life which flow through telegraph and press.” FEMALE LOVELINESS. Do not think you make a girl lovely if you do not make her happy. There is not one restraint you put on a good girl’s nature—there is not one check you give to her instincts of affection or of effort—which will not be indeli bly written on her features with a hardness which is all the more painful because it takes away the brightness from the eyes of innocence, and the charm from the brow of virtue. The perfect loveliness of a woman’s counte nance can only consist in the majestic peace which is found in the memory of happy and useful years, full of sweet records; and from the joining of this with that yet more majestic childish ness, which is still full of change and promise, opening always, modest at once and bright with hope of better things to be won and to be bestowed. There is no old age where there is still that promise—it is eternal youth. HISTORY OF A LAWSUIT. Involving Part or New Orleans Mrs. Gaines’ $85,000,000. Av A uispatch from New Orleans an nounces that Judge Bi'lings, of the Unit, and States District Court at that placx has rendered a decision in the case ji Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines vs. the rJy of New Orleans and others, in whicji the court sustains the claims of the iaintift, and recognizes the pro the will of Daniel Clark of 1813. x i ’ decree of the court commands to account to a master iu cfpoScry for all the income from this property during their long pos sessfm. They are ousted from their title! and from all the accumulation therprom. This decision involves also heap claims against, the city, which has sold a large amount of the property in question, with a full warranty of title. Thir/ is a phase of one of the longest and most interesting lawsuits in the annuals of American jurisprudence. The history of the case, as stated by tneßaltimore Sun, is briefly as follows: Mvs. Gaines is the widow of Gen. Edixund Pendleton Gaines, and was borij in New Orleans in 1805 Her fathf.r, Daniel Clark, was born in the county Siigo, Ireland, in 17C6, and emi. rating to New Orleans, inherited a considerable property from his uncle in i 1 98. Before the acquisition of Loi* siana he was American consul thei|a and represented the territory in CoY/ress in 1806. In August, 1813,* Dailei Clark died, and his property watl disposed of under a will dated Ma,i 20, 1811, which gave the bulk of his estate to his mother, Mary Clark, whq was then living in Germantown, Pa. He was also supposed to be a bachelor, but was known to have had a litson with a very beautiful Creole, des Granges, and two daugh ter* were born of this connection, one at Philadelphia in April, 1802, and the oth. r, Myra, at New Orleans, in 1805. latter was taken to the house of Cci ( Davis, a friend of Clark’s, nursed by L Mrs. Harper, and grew up in Phladelpliia, where she was known as Mvra Davis. In 1830 Mr. Davis, van;a Legislature, sent home for cer tain papers, and in searching for these Myra discovered some letters which partially revealed the secret of her birth, and laid the foundation of the lawsuit which has since become fa mous. In 1832 she married W. W Whit ney, of New York, who, in following up the discovery made by his wife, secured from Col. Davis an old letter which gave an account of a will made by Clark in 1813, just before his death, giving all his large estate to Myra, and acknowledging her as his legitimate daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney went immediately to Cuba, and there, after a long search, discovered the writer of the letter, and with the aid of evidence given by him, began suit iu New Or leans for the property of Daniel Clark, which had in the meantime become im mensely valuable, and included a great part of the present business quarter of the city. On the trial of this suit the Mrs. Harper above mentioned testified that four weeks before his death Clark showed her the will he had made in favor of Myra, and acknowledged the child’s legitimacy. Baron de Boistontaiue testified that Clark had made the same statements to him. On this and other corrobora tive evidence the lost will was received by the Supreme Court of Louisiana on February 18,1856, as the last will and testament of Daniel Clark, though the document itself could not be found. The objection was then interposed that by the laws of Louisiana a testa tor coujld not make devises to his adul terine Jfiastard. On this point, howev er, two sisters of Myra’s mother testi fied that Zuliine des Granges was pri vately married to Clark in their pres ence in Philadelphia in 1803 by a Catholic priest, it having been learned that Zulime’s reputed husband, Des Granges, had another wife living, and was therefore not legally married. In another suit growing out of this diffi culty the United States Court decided that the marriage and legitimacy of Myra were established. In the meanwhile Mr. Whitney died, and his widow married Gen. Gaines, whom she has also outlived. Assisted by the general, Mrs. Gaines continued her litigation, and in the Supreme Court of the United States, filled a bill in equality to recover valuable real estate then in the possession of the city of New Orleans, and a decision in her favor was rendered in 1867. The value of the property claimed was estimated in 1861, at $35,000,000 of which Mrs. Ganes had obtained possession of some $6,000,000. Numerous actions of ejectment against individual parties have followed, and it is no doubt one of these that Judge Billings has now decided m Mrs. Gaines’ favor. The heroine of this romantic story is a little, black-eyed lady of over seventy, who still retains traces of for mer uncommon beauty. She is well educated, quick and courageous. Her long and varied experience in the law courts has given her a legal education of no mean character. On several oc casions, and notably in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1861, she has pleaded her own cause person ally and with remarkable success. Though at the time of Gen. Gaines’ death a wealthy woman, she has often been in financial straits, for she has spent several large fortunes in prose cuting her claims. The property now known as the Honnos Plantations and belonging to Mr. John Burnside, of New Orleans, was at one tune part of the Gaines estate, and was sold, with the slaves on it, to Gen. Wade Hamp ton, of South Carolina, in 1812, for $500,000. When Mrs. Gaines succeeds in getting possession of the property awarded her she will be the wealthiest person iu New Orleans, and perhaps the richest woman in the world. PUBLIC EDUCATION. The following from a Texas paper, will inform the public as to the provi sions that State has made in behalf of public education: The present permanent public school fund of Texas is about $3,000,000, be sides sales of school lands, which will largely add to the above. Tbe school lands now aggregate about 20,000,000 acres, worth about $30,000,000. The interest on the permanent fund, to gether with one-fourth of the occupa tion and ad valorem taxes assessed since March 30, 1870, exclusive of the cost of collection; one-fourth of all the ad valorem and occupation taxes that may hereafter be collected, exclusive of the cost of collection; all taxes due since March 30, 1870, uncollected and which may be collected, exclusive of the costs of collection; all poll taxes hereafter to be collected, exclusive of the costs of collection; the interest arising on any bonds and funds, and all the interest derivable from the sale of lands herein before set apart, for the permanent school fund, belonging to the permanent school fund, and which now are or may hereafter come into the State Treasury, shall consti x-*- xt-. —x x utK i shall be appropriated for the esiSo lishment, support and maintenance of public free schools, says our latest legislation with regard to the public schools. Iu 1876 the legislative ap propriation for free schools was $550,- 000; for 1877 it is $650,000, and for 1878, $870,000. THE CRY FOR REST. A physician says that the cry for rest has always been louder than the cry for food. Not that it is more im portant, but it is often harder to ob tain. The best rest comes from sound sleep. Of two men or women other wise equal, the one who sleep the bet ter will be the more healthy and effi cient. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of temper, peevishness and uneasiness. It will restore vigor to an overworked brain. It will build up and make strong a weak body. It will cure a headache. It will cure a broken spirit. It will cure sorrow. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervous and other maladies that sleep will cure. The cure of sleeplessness re quires a clean, good bed, sufficient ex ercise to promote weariness, pleasant occupation; good air,and not too warm a room, a clear conscience and avoid ance of stimulants and narcotics. For those who are pverworked, haggard, nervous, who pass sleepless nights, we commend the adoption of such habits as will secure sleep; otherwise life will be short, and what there is of it sadly imperfect. A SCOTCH STORY. A certain minister Laving become addicted to drink, his presbytery had to interfere, and get the minister to sign the temperance pledge. The result was that the sudden reaction was too much for him, he became so ill that the doctor was sent for. The doctor said he must begin to take his toddy again. This the minister said he could not do, as he had taken the pledge. The doctor replied that he might get a bottle or two quietly, and nobody but their own selves and the housekeeper would know it. ‘Man,’ said the minister, ‘my house keeper is worse than all the presbytery put together, so that would not do.’ However, it was arranged that the doctor should bring in the whisky and sugar, and . that the minister was to make up the toddy in the bedroom with the hot water he got for shaving purposes in the morning. The result was the minister got speedily well, and one day on going out, the doctor said to the minister’s house-keeper: ‘Well, Margaret, your minister is quite him self again.’ ‘There’s nae doubt of that, sir,’ she replied, ‘he’s quite well in the body, but there is something gane wrong wi’ his upper story.’ ‘What's there, Margaret 1 ?’ asked the dotor. 1 j ‘Weel, sir, I dinna ken, but be asks for 1 shaviu’ water six or seven times a day.’ LETTER FROM MRS. STONEWALL JACKSON. Charlotte, April 20, 1877. (From tho Southern Home.] Mi/ Dear Sir: About two weeks ago au article appeared in the Atlanta Constitution giving an account of an interview with me, by a reporter of the Philadelphia Times; and the Times itself published a description of the same interview, which was quite differ ent, being considerable modified and in better taste; but both articles were written in a way that was exceedingly mortifying to me, and were full of missepresent'tbon.. So great is my shrinking from publicity, that my first impulse was to let it die a natural death, consoling myself with the thought that those who know me would understand how much of it to believe. But I have since received from friends, letters of advice and kindly warning, saying it is a duty 1 ►'owe to myself to make a candid and firm vindication of these misrepresen tations, specially where I am reported as having made disparaging remarks between my husband and other Con federate officers. A few weeks since the editor of the Philadelphia Times solicited me to write some .-ketches for his paper, whose columns he had thrown open to southern writers, for contributions for ‘annals of the war.’ In view of this liberal offer, and tho advantage the south might gain lor it, some of my friends urged me !o engage in the work. It has long been my in tention to write out my personal re collections of my husband’s life for the sake of his child, and after full con sultation with judicious friends, it was decided that there could be no im propriety in furnishing a suitable sketch to the Times. However, my promise was only a conditional one, that, if 1 succeeded in doing the work satisfactorily to myself and friends, then only, would I consent to the pub lication The Times reporter came unexpect edly to me, sought an interview, and being a southern mail of kind and pleasant manners, and professing to have come for the purpose of encour aging and assisting me in the selection e *t V—- • •• i led into answering too freely the mul titude of questions with which I was plied. I hadn’t the most distant idea that I was talking for the public, al though I must do him the justice to say, he told mo ho intended to publish an account of the interview. Still, his kindness and gentlemanly manners disarmed me of all that fear that I would say anything inappropriate. I told him expressly that I did not in tend to publish a depreciatory word of any other public officer, that my hus band was a model of prudence, and never disparaged those even of whose policy he disapproved, and it would be extremely i indelicate for me to do so. I did say that General Jackson be lieved in bold, swift, untiring action, for he felt that the south could afford no delay, but it was no reflection upon others to say this, and the expression that he wanted to press on, ‘blindly, furiously, madly,’ never came from my lips, and such words are totally at va riance with his clear-sighted, calm,and resolute mode of action. lam also represented as ‘being fully impressed with the belief, that if General Jack son had lived, or if his policy had been vigorously pursued, the war might have had a different end ing.’ Tho gentleman certainly forgot that this expression of opinion came from himself, and my reply was, that the same remark was very frequently made to me by others. No man was ever more free from petty joa'ousy and detraction of Iris fellow officers, or more submissive to superior authority, than Gen. Jackson was, and even a shadow of an imputation of this kind, would bo great to bis unsel fish, patriotic slirit and consistent Christian chancier, and certainly I would be the iasljaperson to make such an impression, oiljdraw an unfavorable comparison between him and our no ble Generals Loefciml Johnson, or any other brave conftflerato oilicer. The discussion* n the article, of my private allairs, r*’eals an indelicacy that is too painful for me to dwell upon, but I would fain throw the veil of charity over the whole publication, which was clothed in language entirely different from my own, believing the reporter’s zeal in the interest of The Times, carried him beyond his own discretion, and even betrayed him to publish, without my knowledge or con sent, a letter to my young daughter, which was shown him simply as a specimen of the impertiuencies of the kind to which she had been subjected. I respectfully request that all those newspapers, which copied the repor ter’s account of his interview with me, will do me the justice to publish mine. Yours truly, M. A nna Jackson. Queen Victoria has issued a procla mation stating she is determined to maintain English neutrality in the war between Russia and Turkey. feathers. Thomasville, Ga., is trying silk cul ture as an experiment. Many a man has ruined his eyesight by sitting in a bar-room looking for work. Governor Nieholls, of Louisiana, lost an arm and a leg in the Confederate service. ‘Mama, what are twins made for?’ Precocious older brother, quickly—‘So that cauuibals may eat philopenas?’ The American navy has cost about NO. 19 five hundred million dollars since the war, and is said to be absolutely worth less. A young lady says that ‘if a cart wheel has nine fellows attached to it, it’s a pitty that a girl like her can’t have one!’ Five thousand Poles of the North west are to emigrate to the South. There are indications that they will settle in Arkansas. The Western confectioner, who, a tew months ago, taught bis parrot to say ‘pretty creature’ to every lady who entered his store, is now a millionaire Any work, no matter how humble, that, a man honors by efficient labor will be found important enough to secure respect for himself and credit for his name. Biographies are delitesome reading. We kumpare all the virtews of the person’s karacter with our own, and all his failing with our nabor,—Josh Billings. Mr. Hayes’ Southern policy has made South Carolina and Louisiana peaceful. Those States are no longer Republican and disorderly; they are Democratic and tranquil. When Chinamen part they say ‘Chin chin,’ which means good bye. That is just the way with our girls—they chin chin about half an hour before they can get apart. Lawyers’ fees have come down in the West. They used to want the whole of an estate for selling it, bur, now they allow the widow enough to cover funeral expenses. Don’t think when you have gone to church ou Sunday that entitles you to do as you please the balance of the week. The upright man lives through the six as he does the seventh day. The good eilect resulting from wind ing up carpet-bag rule in Louisiana is illustrated in the sale of a piece of property on Magazine street for $14,- 000 which was offered at SB,OOO one month ago. The latest sensation ground out in Washington is that Grant is going to Turkey to take command of the Otto man forces. The St. Louis Republi- LtlU tliUihiN LlilO liOVArt i imtjvrgolUJi (jyy good to be true. It is said that the Radicals of Mis sissippi, in most of the counties, will try the strategy in the coming cam paign of running weak-kneed Demo crats for office under the name of independents. Jonesville (N. Y.) has a girl worth courting. She was sitting with her lover when she heard a mysterious noise iu the house, excused herself, found burglars up-stairs, got the old guu and blazed away —and not till then did the lover suspect anything unusual was going on. Small boy, on tip-toe to his compan ions: ‘Stop your noise, all of you!’ Companions: ‘Hallo Tommy; what's the matter?’ Small bo} 7 : ‘We’ve got a new baby; it’s very weak and tired; walked all the way from heaven last night; mustn’t be kicking up a row round here now.’ An old lady once said that her idea of a great man was ‘A man who is keeilni of his clothes, don’t drink spirits, kin read the Bible without spelling the words, and kin eat a cold dinner ou washing day, to save the women folks the trouble oi cooking.’ Mrs. Mary Livermore says that girls are not particular enough about the men they marry; but an exchange tells of a woman who is so particular about the man she married, that she takes her sewing to liis office and sits there all day till he is ready to go home. A St. Louis man set out last week to eat thirty partridges in thirty days on a wager. He ate the first one without any trouble, but the grocer refused to give him any further credit the very next day, and he is hopelessly stuck on the other twenty-nine. ‘Well,’ he complained, pulling off his pants, ‘I shan’t go poking about cold mornings building fires when I die!’ ‘No,’ was her cruel reply from beneath the warm coverlids, ‘for if you get your just deserts you’ll find the fire all burning red hot for you every morning.’ Well may it be called ‘The Christian Gallows.’ Another man who was hung in Georgia yesterday expressed his confidence that he was on the line and was going through to salvation. But it will discourage attendance at hangings if they make a regular prac tice of taking up collections, as he did, for his family.—Cincinnati Enquirer. An old pioneer, who believed ‘that what was to be would be,’ lived in a region infested by Indians. He always took his gun with him; and once, find ing that some of his family had bor rowed it, he would not go out without it. His friends rallied him, saying that there was no danger of the Indians, as anyhow he would not die till his time came. ‘Yes,’ said old Leatherstock ing; but suppose I was to meet an In dian and his time was come, it wouldn’t j do not to have my gun.’