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The Gainesville Eagle. J'uhliKlicri Kvery Friday Mominx OAREY W. STYLES. Editor and Proprietor. Terms Two Dollars a Year, in Advance. OFFICE ' p->ila!r in Candler Hull Huilitiiig, Northwest Corner of Public Square. tear The Official Orau of Hall, Banka, White. Towns, ITnion and Dawson counties, and the city of Oatuesville. Has a lar>e general clrcula'ion in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two coun ties in Western North Carolina. linteN of Advertisiujf. One dollar per square for flrt 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, nudor a genuim signature respectfully solicited from any source. Kates of hcgal Advertising. Sheriff’s sales for each levy often lines or loss $2 50 Each subsequent ten lines or less . - '2 50 Mortgage sales (fie days) per square - - 5 Of) tlich subsequent ten lines or less - 500 Adm'r’s, Ex’r’s or Guard’n’s sales, (40 days) pr sq 5 00 Notice to debtors and creditors - - 5 00 Citat's for let’rs of adm’n or guard’ns’p (4 wks) 400 Leave to sell real estate - - - 5 00 Let’rs of dism’n of adm’n or guard'n (3 mo.) fi 00 Estray notices -3 00 Citations (unrepresentedestates) - - 400 Rule nisi in divorce cases - - - GOO Fractions of a square (or inch) are charged in all cases as full squares or inches, 'it# Notices of tmilitaries calling attention of adminis trators, executors and guardians to making thir an nual returns; and of Hhoriffs in regard to provisions sections 304!), of the Code, pdulishkd rniv. tot the Sheriffs and Ordinaries who patronize the Kaole. Advertisers who desire a specified space for 3, C or 12 mouths will receive a liberal deduction from our regular rates. g*r All hills due after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made. <i i: \eh a e mit ector y. Hon, George D. Rico, Judge 8. 0. Western Circuit. A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. 15. M. Winburn, Ordinary. John L. Gaines, sheriff. J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff. J. J. Mayue, Clerk Superior Court. N. li. Clark, Tax Collector. J. It. H. Luck, Tax Receiver. Gideon Harrison, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Corouer. It. C. Young, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. ITtusityrEitiAPt Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pas tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night, except the second Sabbath. Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock. Methodist Church Rev. I). D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at :t a. m. l’rayor meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Church Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 9 a. m. prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o’clock. YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. A. 11. Jackson, Preuideut. R. C. Maddox, Vico President. W. li. Clements, Secretary. Regular services every Sabbath evening at one of the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every Tues day night in “Old Town,” and Friday night near the depot. FRATERNAL RECORD. Flowery llsanch Lodoe No. 79. I. O. O. TANARUS., meets every Monday night, Joel Laseter, N. G. Ji. F. Stidham, Hoc. Alleuiunv Hi it At, Arcic Chapter meets on the See on.l and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. W. At. Puckett, Sec’y. A. w. Caldwkll, H. P. Gainesville Lodoe, No. 219. A.-. I’.-. M.\, meets on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the month R. Palmour, Soo’y. It. E Green, W. M. Air-Link Lodui. No. 61 J. <). t). K., meets every Friday evening. •!. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G. Mormnu Star Lodge, No. 313, 1, 0. G.T., meets ev ery Thursday evening. Claud Estes, VV. S. J. P. Caldwell, W. 0. T. Nortli-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., moots every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. V. S. Hudson, W. C. T. JI. W. Rhodes, Secretary. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following will lie the schedule from date; Mail fro a Atlanta [fast] fi.24 p. m. Mail for Atlanta [fasti 5.43 a. m. otfico hours: From 7 a. in. to 12 m., and from 1 p. tn. to 7p. m. General delivery open on Sundays from 8)4 to 9>L Departure of malls from this office: Dahlouega and Gilmer county, daily B>i . m Dahlouega, via Wahoo and Ethel. Saturday 8X a. in Jefferson A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday 7 a. m Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Ilayos ville, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. in Dawsonville and Dawson county, Saturday 8 a. m Homer, Banks county, Saturday I p. in Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday... .1 p. in M. R. ARCHER, P.AI. Professional and Business Cards. mam hotel, GREENVILLE, 8. C. * A. M. SL*KI(iHTS, Proprietor. New Management, New Building, New Furniture. Take Curs. apr‘27- tf .7. L. PEERS A. A. CAMPBELL PEERS & CAMPBELL, COMMISSION MERCHANTS Nos. 7 mid 10 Marietta Street, At Inn(n, Gii. Ueforeiii'ca—Win. It. J. Lowry, J. K. Wiley, J. C. Carter, Stephens k Flynn. apr27-3i A. .1. WIIAFFEK, M I>., Physician and Surgeon. Special 1 Attention Given to Oistaus (’oiniitoii to Woinrii. - Oilin' near Northeast corner I’ublic Square. Always in office when not professionally engaged. Gainesville, Ga., May 25, 1877. ly MARKHAM HOUSE, itv .j. i<:. ow 10inw, At the Hast End of the Union Depot, A.tlantA, Gra. Attention by W. 1). WILEY and T. A. HAMMOND, inayll-tf A. C. MOSS. Attorney at Law, Homer, Banks County, Georgia. VTTILL ATTEND PROMPTLY to all busi ness intrusted to his care. mart! ly M Vlt LF. l( A PEItRY. x TTOKNEYS AT LAW, GAINESVILLE, GA, J\_ Oflice in the Court House. Ouo or the other of the firm always present. Will practice iu Hall and adjoining counties. aua'2s-ly I) 11. R. B. A D AIR, DENTIST, Gainesville, Ga. janlt ly MAKSII Ala 1.. SMITH, VTTORNRY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Piiiosonoitle, Ihiwson county, (ia . idiiU tf JOHN 11. I'.SIT.S, VTTOKNKY-AT-LAW, Uainoßvilie, Hall county, Georgia. J. WELLBORN, V ITOKNKY.aT-IAW, Ulairavillo, Union county, Georgia. SAMUEL < . I)t NLAF, \ TTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville , Ga. Ortiee m tin l Oanillar building, in the room occupied by tho Eagle iu 1875. aprstf. VVIER BOY D, A TToKNEI IT LAW. Hahloneija, Ga. J\. I will Practice in (lie counties of Lumpkin, Dawson. Gilmer. Fannin, Union and Townseounties u the Blue Ridge Circuit; and Hail, White and Rabun in tho Western Circuit. May 1, 1874-tf. M. W. RIDEN, 4 TTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville , Georgia. Jail 1,1876-ly .1. T. TURNBULL, A TTORNEY AT LAW’, Homer. Ga. —Will practice xlin all the counties composing the Western Cir cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted to his care. lan. 1. 1875-Iy. JAMES A. BUTT, Attorney at law a land agent, Btairsvuu Ga. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. iune 2,1871-tt The Gainesville Eagle. Devoted to Politic**, New* of tlte I>v, The F.m(lntere%t*, Home Matters, and Cl.oiee Mhwellany. VOL. XI. VEGETINE Purifies the Blood, Reno vates and Invigorates the Whole System. ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE Alterative, Tonic, Solvent AND DIURETIC. Reliable Evidence. > egetine j ~ j Mr. H. K. Stevens: V egetilie ! Dear Sir--1 will most cheerfully j add my testimony to the great VomHimn number you have already received it(,Clßlt j„ f avor 4> f your great anil good ! medicine, Vkoetini:, for i do not VCKetillO enough can be said in its ° ; praise, for i was troubled over V0,.0f;,.,, 1 u,irl y Willi that dreadfHl vegeilllc disease, Outarrli.aiul had such had j coughing spells thal it would seem Vpimlim, as though I never could breathe ie s t!llllb' uy more, and Vkgetine lias . I cured me; and 1 do feel to thank Yegetilie God all the time that there is so : good a medicine as Vecjetine, Vntmiino and i also think it one of the best medicines for coughs and weak, j sinking feelings at the stomach, Ve f -etilie and advise everybody to take the n i Vegetixk, for I can assure them \r „ it is one of the best medicines egetilie that ever was. Mrs. L. GORE, Vmrni ino For. Magazine and Walnut sts., ibfcbliue Cambridge, Mass. Yegetine GIV K S Yegetine Health, Strength Yegetine AND APPETITE. Yegetine My daughter has received great benefit from the use of Yegetine. Her declining health was a source t UfcjGLiiiD „f great anxiety to all her friends. A few bottles of Vkgetine re- T Cgetilie stored Iter health, strength and appetite. Vmraiiim N. 11. TILDEN, * UgtJllllO Insurance and Real Estate Agt., No. 49 Sears’ Building, Yegetine _ Boston, Mass. Vegetine cannot be v , ~ EXCELLED, Vegetine • _ Charlestown, Mar. 19, 1869. Vegetine h.r. Stevens: Dear Sir—This is to certify that VfiffefillA I have used your “Blood I’rcpara- M D tion” in my family for several -.r ■ ~ years, and think that, for Scrofu- V egetilie la or Cankerous Humors or Rheu matic affections, it cannot be ex- Vmrpfiinr celled; and as a blood purifier or * si>ring medicine, it is the best 1r thing I have ever used, and i have Vegetine " 8<:<1 almost everything. 1 can cheerfully recommend it to any Vmntinn 0,19 in H ee<l of such a medicine. egeillie Yours respectfully, M its. A. -A. DIN,SMOKE, Vegetine No ’ l9 Busseii street. Vegetine recommend it Vegetine Iteartily, Yegetine South Boston, Feb. 7, 1870. ° Mr. Stevens: \Tntrai It!,, , V 9ar Sir—l have taken several t exeunt, bottles of your Vegetine, and am b convinced it is a valuable remedy VoiTotillo for -Dyspepsia, Kidney Complaint ° and general debility of the system. I can heartily recommend it to f CJSGIIIIO all suffering from the above com plaints. Yours respectfully, VfllTPltillA Mks * MUNKOE PARKER, f GfeUMUe 86 Athens street. PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS. Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists. YUTPSJILLS A Noted Divine says They are worth their weight in gold . READ WHAT HE SAYS: Dr. Tutt:—Dear Sir: For ten years I have been a martyr to Dyspepsia, Constipation, and Piles. Last spring your pills were recommended to me ; i used them (but with little faith). lam now a well man, have good appetite, digestion perfect, regularstools, piles gone, and I have gained forty pounds solid flesh. They are worth their weight in gold. Rev. R. L. SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky. l)r. Tutt has been en gaged in the practice of medicine thirty years, and for a long time was demon* strator of anatomy in the Medical College of Geor gia, hence persons using his Pills have the guaran tee that they are prepared on scientific principles, ami arc free from all quackery. lie has succeeded in combining in them the licrelolore antagonistic qualities of a strengthen- anaa fur if yntg tonic. Their first apparent ef fect is to increase the ap petite by causing the food to properly assimilate. Thus the system is nour ished, and by their tonic action on the digestive or gans, regular and healthy evacuations arc produced. The rapidity with which persons take on flesh, w liile under the influence of these pills, of itself in dicates their adaptability to nourish the body, and hence their efficacy in cur ing nervous debility,mel ancholy, dyspepsia, wast ing of the muscles, slug gishness of the liver, chronic constipation, and TUTTS PILLS CURE SICK HEAD ACHE. TUTPSIILLS CURE DYSPEPSIA. TUTUS - 'ILLS CURE CONSTIPATION tutpsTills CURE PILES. TUTfs“P!LLS CURE FEVER AND AGUE. TUTPSIILLS CURE BILIOUS COLIC tutpsT ills CURE KIDNEY COM PLAINT. TUTPS“ILLS CURE TORPID LIVER imparting health and strength to the system. Sold everywhere. Office, 35 Murray Street, New York. ITmumph" OF SCIENCE. I Gray Hair can be changed to a H glossy black by a single application of H Dr.TuTT’sHairDye. it acts like magic, H and is warranted as harmless as water. H Price li.oo. Office 35 Murray St., N. Y. J What is Queen’s Delight? Read the Answer It is a plant that grows in the South, and is spe cially adapted to the cure of diseases of that climate. NATURE’S OWN REMEDY, Entering at once into the blood, expelling all scrof ulous, syphilitic, and rheumatic affections. Alone, it it a searching alterative, but when combined with Sarsaparilla, Yellow Dock, and other herbs, it forms Sr. Tutt’s Sarsaparilla and Queen’s Delight, The most powerful blood purifier known to medical science for the cure of old ulcers, diseased joints, foul discharges from the ears and nostrils, abscesses, skin diseases, dropsy, kidney complaint, evil effects of secret disordered liver and spleen. Its use strengthens the nervous system, imparts a lair com plexion, and builds up the body with HEALTHY, SOLID FLESH. As an antidote to syphilitic poison it is strongly recommended. Hundreds of cases of the worst type have been radically cured by it. Being purely veg etable its continued use will do no harm. The best time to take it is during the summer and fall; and instead of debility, headache, fever and ague, you will enjoy robust health. Sold by all druggists. Price, SI.OO. Office, 35 Murray Street, New York. Southern Mail. /’TONTRACTQItS who carried the Mail in 1859, 1800 and 1801, can now get their pay without proof ot loyalty. Address, M. W. KIDEX, mar 23 Claim Agent, Gainesville, Ga. Notice ] Notice ! ! A LL PARTIES WANTING FIRST-CLaSS LUMBER /V at low houses, will call on Pernio G. Boone, who ia our only agent. Lumber warranted first-class. septß-tf CAMP & BAIiRETT. A MAX WITH AN AIM. Give me a man with au aim, Whatever that aim may be, . Whether it’s wealth or whether it’s fame, It matters not to me. Let him walk in the path of right, And keep his aim in sight, And work and pray in faith away, With his eye on the glittering height. Give me a man who says, “I will do something well, And make the fleeting days A story of labor tell.” Though the aim he has be small, It is better than none all; With something to do the whole year through, He will not stumble or fall. But Satan weaves a snare For the feet of those who stray, With never a thought or a care . Where the path may lead away. The man who hath no aim Not only leaves no name When this life’s done, but ten to one He leaves a record of shame. Give me a man whose heart Is filled with ambition’s fire; Who sets his mark in the start, And moves it higher and higher. Better to die in the strife, The hands with labor rife, Than to glide with the stream in an idle dream, And live a purposeless life. LETTER FROM CARXESVILLE. Religious Matters. Carnesville, June 18, 1877. Editor Eagle: Doubtless you will be somewhat surprised upon receiving a communication from our little town; but as we do not propose to have a word to say in this letter expressive of our views, either politically or conven tionally, we trust that you will give your subscribers in this section a short space in your valuable paper, to say something of our people from a relig ious standpoint, including the progress of the Young Mens’ Christian Associa tion in our town. One year ago there was organized here, by a little band of the devoted followers of the ‘meek and lowly Nazarine,’ a Y. M. C. A., and its course during that period has been slowly but steadily upon the increase, though met oftentimes by seemingly formidable opposition. The aurora of the IGth inst. ushered in its natal day, and proclaiming its anniversary, which I trust may prove of lasting benefit to the entire community. The exercises of the day were opened at U a. m. Here we met Rev. W. P. Smith, of Harwell, and Rev. W. C. Wilkes, of Gainesville. After friendly greetings the exercises began. They were conducted by Vice President B. E. Camp, Esq.; after which an election of officers for the ensuing quarter was had, the result of which was as follows: President, J. C. Legrand. Vice President, Rev. J. R. Ivie. Secretary, T. W. Ayers. Treasurer, B. F. Camp. After an intermission of half an hour, the Association, with many of its friends, returned to listen to the anni versary address by Rev. W. P. Smith. To say that the address was good, well timed and abounded with appropriate admonitions to young men, would be but faint praise. To sum it up, it ought to be heard to be appreciated. After dinner a meeting of inquiry was held, in which some of the active and associate members participated. I trust that the resolutions there formed will grow and ripen until the ‘full corn’ in the ear is harvested. Now, it only remaius for me, Mr. Editor, to speak of the discourses of our dear brother Wilkes. And how shall I speak of the man and his ‘words ol wisdom.’ Never before have wo listened to such thrilling, eloquent, soul-searching discourses. His dis c >urse on Saturday evening was full of thought, and genuine love for God and his fellow man. Early on Sabbath morning, as little groups would form themselves around the square, as it is their wont t.o do, the preacher and his discourse was tho all-absorbing topic; and at an early hour tho citizens from the adjacent country could be seen wending their way to the church to catch a word from this man of God. And, oh ! what a sermon! The groups of young meu and ladies that crowded the front seats, and the shouts of the continued saint, plainly showed that God was present. But I will not weary your readers further, for language would fail me to tell you of the impression made upon our entire citizenship by the preaching of brother Wilkes. We could listen to his admonitions and counsels for days, but as we are d-bared from this happy privilege, we trust that the good he has done our community, by his recent visit, may be ‘like bread cast upon the waters.’ J. C. Leg rand. If you have something to attend to, go about it coolly and thoughtfully, and do it just as well as you can. Do it as though it were the only thing you had ever to do iu your life, and as if every thiug depended upon it. Then your work will be well done, and it wdl afford you genuine satisfaction. Often much more does depends upon the manner in which things, seemingly trivial, are performed than one would suppose, or than it is possible to fore see. Do everything well, and you will find it conducive to your happiness, and that of those with whom you come in contact. True meu make more opportunities than they find. Zeal without knowledge is lire with out light. The boughs that bear most hang lowest. \ irtue and happiness are near kin. j You never lose by doing a good turn. GAINESVILLE, GrA., FKLDJY MOBKLNXx, JUNE 29, 1877. COLO KAVO—KANSAS--TEXAS. Georgia Bitter than All—Stay at Home. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Having just returned from a somewhat extended trip through some of the Southwestern and Western States, and thinking that a few items regarding crops, and the condition of affairs generally, might not prove uninterest ing to the people of Central Georgia, and believing your paper the best medium through which to give them, I have concluded to address them to you. April Ist, I left Atlanta via Nash ville, Louisville, Indianapolis and St. Louis for Colorado. The first damper cast over my cheerful spirits was given at St. Louis, where I heard that the immortal Butler (he of spoon fame) contemplated making his home in that youthful State. However, I continued westward until I reached Topeka, Kan sas. There, all the brilliant dreams of future joys and greatness were dis pelled. There I met some of the warm- est friends of boyhood man hood’s days, citizens of Colorado, and all joined in one chorus, “Go back to Georgia.’’ With one-half the ener gy there that you will be compelled to apply here, or in Colorado, you can make yourself happy and independent. There you have land, climate, society and morals. Go back to Georgia. “But have you'not th se in Colorado?” I asked. “We have land, such as it is; we have a climate, though unhealthy, that gives us nine months winter and three months cold weather each year; we have a cosmopolitan society—every thing is represented from the elegant and eloquent divine, down to the fifth rate gambler and dingy courtesan, all mixed. You can guess the state of morals there. For God’s sake, and for the sake of your wife and children, stay in Georgia. You can travel from the gulf to the Canadas, and you will find no country equal to that.” To another inquiry, one said: “I stay West because, for the present, lam compelled to. I came here with some capital; I invested it and I am com pelled to remain until I can put it in shape to leave with it. I tell you, sir, you may travel through Texas, Kansas, and all this Western and Southwestern section, and bad as you think Georgia is, you will find this worse.” Well, such a pressure was brought to bear upon me, that I abandoned all idea of going to Colorado. I visited several points in Kansas, and found affairs much as my friends had said The towns were full to overflowing with men of every avocation, all anxious for employment; and many were more than anxious to return to their former homes, but unable to do so. Farmers were daily plagued with applicants for employment. Tramps were thick worthy and unworthy. Ail in all, i concluded that Kansas was not the State for me, at least, for the present. I next turned my steps Texasward. I visited Sherman, Bonham, Paris, McKinney, Waco, Waxahatchie, Dal las, Weatherford, Bellton, Cleburne, and several other places, all of which were highly recommended. In the towns I found everything crowded. There are lawyers, doctors, mechanics, of different kinds, and general laboring men, unemployed, in Texas and Kansas, sufficient to wipe out the royal forces in Cuba within ninety days. Some towns have grown into mam moth proportions rapidly sprung from hamlets to cities with' mushroom growth. And hence the stagnancy of business now. The extension of rail roads carried out people and capital; the old settlers—those who owned the land—made money. They sold town lots at fabulous prices; and lots that, three years ago, commanded SI,OOO to $2,000, can now be bought, together with improvements thereon, at a slight advance upon the same price. The fact is, people spent all their surplus upon arrival, and, as is the case in Georgia, they find that there is “no ex cellence without labor,” and that the land does not “flow with milk and honey,’ nor money grow upon trees. Leaving Texas, I wended my way to Arkansas. I stopped at Arkadelphia; went to Camden, Calhoun, Monti cello, Pine Bluff, Little Rock, Russell ville, Clarksville, Ozark, Yau Buren, Fort Smith, thence back to the ‘City Roses,’ as Little Rock is sometimes called At all the towns enumerated, I found bus ness much as it is in our own State. Notwithstanding the im mense influx of people into the vicinity of some of them, general business was not in the least affected. The truth is, they had no money to spend; nor will they have any surplus soon. Little Rock is a beautiful city, and being the capital, and a changing point on the route to Hot Springs, Texas, etc., it necessarily exhibits greater evidence of life and financial prosperity. But leading business men informed me that at was ‘dull, very dull.’ As else where, the trades and professions are crowded, and many are suffering for want of employment. I paid a flying visit to Searcy, Jack sonport, Newport, Batesville, Cornell and Pocahontas, but finding nothiug to entice me, returned to Little Ilockq where I spent another week ‘looking around.’ And after a calm delibera tion, I concluded that the best thing I could do would be to follow the advice of my friend and return to the good old Empire State of the South. Every section visited promised fair crops. The acreage planted is greater than any previous year. The seasons have been very favorable for the most part, though in Arkansas the weather has been cool and dry. From a careful observation, togeth er with urgent inquiry into affairs, and future prospects, in the portions of country visited, I am led to the conclu sion that it is best to “let well enough alone,” and advise all sober and indus trious men in Georgia to remain where they are. All others can be spared, and it makes but little difference where they go. They won’t prosper much, anywhere. Taking advantage of climate, general healthfulness—of Boil, advancement in Se-vi [national and manufacturing facili jjj | Georgia is far in the advance. Tl le, some of the land is worn and but, in the language of my Colo friend, “with one-half the energy people are compelled to exert in Zest and Southwest, in Georgia, e can be happy and independent.” lands can not be purchased for eg” in the West any more than in jGeorgia, and speculators have graphed them all up. Besides, where the|jest lands are, there also is siek nasi in abundance. And when the crojf is sold and current expenses, to gether with physic and physician’s bills-, are paid, there is but little left to laiLli over. The school systems are, fef the most part, a farce, and general intelligence is at a discount in the rim) districts. Leaving Little Rock, I stopped at Dua ill’s Bluff, a town situated on the Mon,phis & Little Rock Railroad and c‘ "At* o- bank of White river. Seven a go I was at the same place. Tbeii everything appeared to promise a -.arge and flourishing commercial point; then there were 2,500 inhabi tants, Now, it is a little, dingy, dried up nothing, with scarcely three hun dred souls, white and black. In its palmiest days but little could be said for its morals, as it had but one church (and that but seldom used), no school, and Some twenty rum mills, an 1 gam bling was openly and notoriously prac ticed, I next stopped at Lonoke, a pretty’*, village. Thence I went to Forrest City, where I found business much as at Lonoke. In both places looked “blue.” My next move was to Mempkis, which point I reached just in time io avoid detention in Ar kansas by high water. And I passed over the Memphis & Charleston Rail road in time to avoid the flood men tioned in the /Associated Press dis patches. On the M. and C. train I witnessed the death of one whom I am told was a truly good man, and an able and zealous worker in Christian Kingdoms, the Rev. J. S. Ewell, D. D. He was a Presbyterian minister, and a resident of Middle Tennessee, but had been on a visit to friends in the West, hoping thereby tp recruit his shattered health. I occupied a section of sleeping coach with him*, and found him to be a pleasant genteman and one of rare erudition. He died suddenly, of an affection of the heart, with which, he previously informed me he had been troubled for years. Evidently be was a man of rare parts, and of deep affec tion: and feelings. In conversation be informed me that he had just paid a visit to the grave of a beloved daugh ter, (the wife of an editor), who died of yellow fever, in 1873. When speak ing of her, his emotions were great and to me painful. He spoke of his son in V'SiA'S oae possessing all the traits oilwtK•.'.ff.nhood, and IWug pJI that a husband ought to be, but seemed to feel that he (himself) had grievously qrred in permitting his darling to be tsken to a section subject to such fear ful epidemics. He was feeble, and be wept bitterly when speaking of her whose memory he adored; and I wept with him. His remains were enclosed in a splendid case at Courtland, Ala bama, and forwarded to his late home in Tennessee. From all that I was able to glean from conversation with himself, and from others, he was a pure and noble man, and doubtless has received the reward of the righteous. But I fear I will weary your patience, so I will bring this to a close. And I will repeat the advice already given. Let all Georgians remain in Georgia, and strive to build her up. Let them encourage immigration from other States to fill up her waste places, build up her agricultural and mechani cal and manufacturing interests, and they will have the greatest State in the Union. Her soil, climate, and general facilities for advancement are not surpassed anywhere. And this is the opinion of hundreds of Georgians who have sought homes, wealth and happiness in the Eldorades of the west. More too, many of whom I met requested me to exert any influence in my power to prevent further emigra tion in that direction. Men from Bibb, Monroe, Crawford, Upson, Spal ding, and neighboring couuties, re quested me to impress upon others the beauties of their ‘native heath,’ and with the fallacy of the idea of better ing themselves, financially or other wise, in the greatly overrated west. In the language of them all: “Geor gia is good enough for any man to live in; and he that can not do well there, cannot anywhere.” Georgian. Fulton County, Ga., June li. Don’t.— Don’t sit on the fence and whittle the hours away while you pass through life. Shavings bring but little profit here and probably will not be needed to light the lire where you go to. Don’t cavort and turn a back som ersault because your industrious chick ens scratch up your squashes. They have as much right to the bugs as you to the squashes. Don’t leave your gates open and then blame your pigs for rooting in the garden. They have a perfect right to go through where they can, and to root is their nature. Don’t loaf time away and ex pect the grass to quit growing while you are loafing. Grass don’t like loaf ers well enough for that. Don’t expect your plants to thrive if you starve them to death. Plants that are not fed will not feed you. Don’t starve and rob tho land you live on, if you do in tho long * run it will show its appreciation by starving you. Don’t expect water to run up hill to get out of your lands after you have filled the ditches with rubbish. Water is lazy and would rather stay any where than climb a hill. I have known folks who have never committed a blunder whose hearts are , as dry as dust; and others, who have constantly transgressed, whose sympa thies are as warm and quick as an I angeL—Celia Burleigh. HIE METALLURGY OF GOLD. [Written for the Atlanta Independent.) What is metallurgy ? It is the science of separating metals from their mattrix and gangue, and must combine a knowledge of chemistry, mineralogy and mechanics. The process of sep aration is chemical and mechanical, and, as all ores are minerals, a knowl edge of mineralogy is necessary, as the character of the mineral must be known to the metallurgist before he can know how to treat it chemically. Be he ever so good a chemist, and no mechanic, he will make a failure in producing the separation of the ore, because a part of the work is necessar ily mechanical, and the condition of the ores not always being the same, the mechanical treatment cannot al ways be the same, and to make the proper changes to suit the altered con dition of the ore, mechanical skill must be employed. A man may be a chemist, mineralo gist and geologist, and know nothing of metallurgy. He may be able to an alyze a piece of quartz, and tell all about it, but that does not make him a metallurgist, or prove that he is com petent to superintend the working of a gold, silver or copper mine. Gold is a subtile metal, as the reader may have guessed from the fact that it was hard to get and hard to keep. You may judge of the fineness of gold, and the smallness of a single atom, when you remember the fact of its being beaten out so very t.iin that 200,000 leaves laid on top of each other, will not make a pile an inch high. An ounce of gold may be spread over a surface of one hundred square feet. Iu the manufacture of gold lace, tho division of gold is car ried still farther, as you can see by looking in any hand-book of chem istry. A silver wire is covered with gold to the amount of one sixtieth of its weight; it is then drawn through holes in iron plates till it is reduced to a wire as thin as a hair. Six ounces of gold in this way will extend over a wire above two hundred miles in length, and yet if this be dipped in nitric acid, the silver is dissolved out, and a hollow cylinder of gold remains. Gold is so fine that it takes thousands of single atoms of it to make one par ticle large enough to be seen with the naked eye. It is easily carried off in the smoke of a chimney where the ore is being roasted. A few years ago the superintendent of the mint in San Francisco was ar rested on a charge of stealing the gold, which was afterwards proved to have been stolen by the draft of the smoke stack, and found on the roofs of the building and in the brick. Gold will hide itseLf in the bricks of a furnace where it is being roasted, and where copper plates are used to save it, gold ,is found all through the plates. I have stated the above facts, well known to every student of chemistry, that the people may better understand why a great many gold mines have failed to pay, where assay has proved the ore to be rick. Water is the greut thief of gold in Georgia, where only the free ores are worked. The richest ores contain sulphur, and are not worked here for want of skill and capital. Ores are roasted in piles to desulphurize them, but it is only imperfectly done, as heat alone will not accomplish the desired effect. To get rid of the sulphur, it must be changed into a sulphurous acid gas, which can be done only by bringing it in contact with hcaf and oxygen. To do this the ore must be first pul verized, or the oxygen cannot reach it. The ore may be melted into a liquid and not be desulphurized. The ore must be reduced to a powder, and then, by roasting it in suspension, the sulphur readily passes off in shape of a sulphurous acid gas. The conditions necessary for the chemical change complied with, the change is instanta neous. The difficulty Ims heretofore been in getting the ore sized, so that it would all receive just the necessary amount of heat, and no more. A recent me chanical invention, I believe, accom plishes this, or, rather, produces the desired result, by passing the sand through a flame in such a way that the large particles remain under the influence of the heat the longest, and become as thoroughly desulphurized as the finest dust. But any particle of sand as large as a grain of wheat will not be freed from sulphur, and a per fect desulphurization is absolutely necessary for the saving of the gold. By the above means of roasting, the antimoy and bismuth pass off with the sulphurous acid gas, leaving the ores free for amalgamation. In Georgia, copper plates are used almost exclusively, and, as a conse quence, the amalgamation is far from being perfect. Too much water, or too little, is always the mfllman’s trouble: too little water, and the plates do not clear themselves, and the sand banks up on I hem; too much water, and the gold and amalgum go over with it, and all the devices for saving fail to prevent a groat loss. A thorough amalgamation can only be accomplished by bringing every particle of the sand, or pulp, in direct contact with the mercury. This can not be done by any rapid process, but must necessarily be slow to be perfect. Two hundred pounds an hour for each large amalgama'or would be about the full capacity. Two amalgamators to each battery of five heavy stamps would make very perfect work, and would save within five per cent, of the fire assay value of the ore, if it was free from sulphur. Millmen often flatter - themselves that they have saved nearly all the gold, because they can not find much, if any, in the tailings from free ores. But they can never account for the difference between the assay value of the ores and the result from working. Because gold has a specific gravity nineteen times greater than water, they presume that it must settle instantly. But "the fact is, the millmau gets none, or hardly any, of the fine gold; for, notwithstanding its { density, the most of it is a very line dust, and is carried in suspension in the water just as far as you see the water the least muddy. The water used iu a battery should not be al lowed to run oft' at all but be used over and over again. The pulps should be run into setting tanks, and the water pumped back into a reservoir,to be used iu the battery again as re quired. By this means the water is prevented from stealing the gold, and can he used more liberally. Mill men have always endeavored to make sepa rating apparatus come up to the capacity of the mill, and believed that they had a surplus of copper plates, because there was only a narrow streak of gold at the head, and all the rest covered with a green deposit, that effectually prevented any gold or amalgam sticking to it. But the truth is, that the whole system was defec tive, and the gold stuck to the head of the plate because it struck there with sufficient force to break through the coating and form an amalgam with the amalgamated plate. This is why some mill men fix their copper plates in a series of steps, so that t he pulp falling from one to the other, will cut awav the coating and stick to the copper plates. But if the copper plates were a mile long, with a continuous succes sion of steps, it would not save the gold. The machinery for the amalgama tion of gold is inexpensive, and will save more than its entire cost in one month. By using- the amalgamator, mines can be worked which without them must lie forever idle. Mines that now do not pay for working, would be made profitable to the owner and lessee. In many cases, mills that are now paying one dvvt. to the ton would pay ten dwts. In the use of the amalga mator, there is no loss of quicksilver, and although a liberal supply should be used at first, it will not need to be often replenished. At this time, when iron is very cheap, and iu this country, where it is plenty, there is no excuse for not using the amalgamator. A mixture of hydrochloric acid and biuoxide of manganese (aqua regia) will dissolve gold into the form of chloride. It is converted into a vapor when held in the focus of a powerful burning glass, or iu the oxyhydrogen blowpipe flame, or placed betweeu the charcoal points of a galvanic battery. A. H M. FLOUWINU IjTpUBLIU SCHOOLS. The question of corporal punish ment iu the public schools has lately been revived iu New York. It seems that there is a law in that State pro hibiting such punishment, providing for expulsion instead, and, since its adoption, the youthful culprit, freed from fear of birch to back or rule to hand, has be. ome so incorrigible as to be well nigli unbearable. Hence, a party has beeu formed favoring the adoption of the old-time system of flagellation, and the matter was refer red by the Board of Education to a commission to consider and report upon. This was done, and the report submitted brought no solace to the youthful miud. It strongly advocated a repeal of the law, and a readoption of the flogging system. It claimed that statistics show that where flog ging is inflicted, discipline is better kept up, the attendance of pupils is much more regular, and, in every way, better results have been attained. Moreover, the commissioners claim that legislation of the nature com plained of is illegal; that no Superin tendent has a right to expel a child from a public school, to the privileges of which every one is entitled, and, further, that every teacher stands to wards the pupils, in loco parentis, -and possesses the inherent legal right to whip just as much as he or she pleases. All which goes to prove that Solomon was a very wise man, and was perfectly correct iu his views re garding the sparing of the rod, as also in his assertion that “there is nothing now under the sun.”—Savannah News. “There is but one thing to do with greenbacks. They represent a current debt. Pay the debt.”—Republican Exchange. One of the objects in extinguishing a debt is to avoid the payment of in terest, which is an annual drain which has dragged down many a merchant and business man to financial ruin. We are paying about one hundred millions a year as interest. It is a heavy, ceaseless draft upon our tax payers. Will our Republican friend who is in such a deuce of a hurry to “pay the debt” inquire among the holders of the greenbacks, who are very numerous, whether or not they would like to have that portion of the public debt which they hold paid that is, redeemed and burned- before that portion of tne debt that bears in terest is paid. (Bet, a little vote be taken. The bond is a leech, suckiug the blood of the merchant, the farmer, the manufacturer, the miner—of all tax-payers. The greenback is the ma chinery of commerce, the mechanism of enterprise, the reward of industry. It enables the mills to run, the mines to be musical, the furnaces to glow,the merchant to trade, the laborer to re ceive his hire, the farmer to plow and reap, and, unlike the bonds, which cost $100,000,000 a year, they do not cost the people one cent. Let the people vote whether they would have the greenback burned or retained. Burn the greenback and you cripple, if you do not destroy, the ability of the people to pay the bonds.—Cincin nati Enquirer. Unto the good little boy shall be given the picnic ticket, but the wicked son shall recliuo on his mother’s knee. Verily, in the day when she waxeth it to him with her slipper, his heart will be full of repentance, and his howling shall disturb the neighbors.— Rome Sentinel. About 700,000 of Bessemer steel were made in England last year, and about 525,000 tons were made in the i United States in the same period. Till’ TUKK AN INVERTED FREAK OF NATURE. His Frogonitor (Jot Up on the First Morning Wrong End Foremost. A “({near Fish" and an “Intruder in Europe.” ‘<V A. CV a remarkably well informed and ffighly cultivated war correspon dent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, in a letter from Constantinople, gives us au interesting account of the habits, customs, official follies and vain h:.pes of the Turk, from which we extract the following pen picture: “The Turk in his natural state is a queer fish to contemplate. An in truder in Europe, he buries his dead in Asia, rearing there cities of crumb ling tomb-stones more silent than those in which he lives, for there the voice of the street vender is never heard. His religion is not an effort to suppress nature, but a move in the di rection of toning it down. Instead of removing liis hat when he enters a house he keeps on his head-covering and takes off his shoes. He washes his hands after eating and not before, and when he sleeps he covers his head NO. 26 and leaves his feet exposed to the at mosphere. He begins his day at. sun set instead of daylight. He goes to bis affairs with slow and measured tread, and hurries his dead to the cemetery at a double-quick upon the theory that every moment spent out side the grave after death is a moment of extreme torture. Where other races bedeck their women and send them forth to be admired of men, he covers bis jewel with a repulsive ferjee and bides her face iu a yashmac. His life is sensual, but bis religion denies him that luxury of most abstemious nations, generous wine. His religion is one of bigotry, and yet the Jew and the Gentile, the giaour and tbe hooded monk jostle the faithful in his narrow streets. The land which he inhabits is fertile, and yet it gives forth no ade quate increase. He curls up and sleeps amid the riches of his bazaars and only seems disturbed when men come to traffic. His capital sits upon the ruin of Roman Empire, in the most beauti ful spot of all tbe world, and it is beau tiful in spite of his efforts to render re pulsive. He has no eye for the ass thetic, lie enriches no canvas, and yet he lies along tho hills of the Bosphorus in artistic rapture, smoking his norghili while contemplating the beauties of blue waters and still bluer mountains. He is cruel at times, but never treach erous; he is insolent, because he feels his power, but seldom inhospitable. His government is weak and selfish and oppressive, because his religion and customs breed for ruler-s sensual ists and weaklings instead of men. Because he has declined to carry out “reforms” which his nature and bis inbred beliefs prohibit, he finds himself at war to-day with a nation which sets at defiance every natural right of man; which suppresses intelligence; which sends men of spirit in exile to Siberia, and sets up the knout-post iu tho pub lic place. Russia, a nation of semi barbarians, with a King absolute at the head of its church, has essayed the task of upholding the banner of Chris tianity and chastising tbe Moslem, whoso chief fault is that he lies at the water gateway of this most brutal and debasing of nations. The Turk, secure in the belief that England, with her great navy, stands at his back, has welcomed the war as a bride might welcome a groom. He will set down and cast up hia accounts ruefully at the end of the game. He will find that his population has been materially decreased, his glory tarnished and his debt quadrupled, while bis esteemed friend from the Britannic Isles will own the Suez Canal and a couple of fine forts at each eud of the classic Hellespont. In another half century he may be sent to join his dead on the Asiatic side, for fate has decreed that the pale light of the Crescent can nev er make headway against the robust, religious pole-star of Europe. The banner of the Osmanli waved once under the walls of Vienna, but from the day that Sobieski was proclaimed victor it “has been slowly, but none the less surely, retreating toward the tomb of the Prophet. Christian reid. [Wasbingt n Cor. of Cincinnati Commercial.] Let me sketch for you the pretty face of Christian Reid, whose pleasant books ‘Valerie Aylmer,’ ‘Morton House,’ and her last novel, ‘After Many Days,’ are well known to you. I saw r her at the race in Baltimore, and afterwards had the pleasure of dining with her. She is Miss Fisher, of North Carolina, and spends her winter in Baltimore with her aunt and uncle, Judge and Mrs. Hairstone, who before the war, were reckoned the richest people in the Tar State, and even now enjoy the income from a million. Miss Fisher is poor, and deserves more credit and praise than my pen can carry. She aids in every way her father’s family, which is large. In deed, I understand she is their main stay. She is about twenty-two, medi um height, with a slight, graceful figure, which she dresses with exquisite taste. Her small.shapely head is cov ered by a profusion of wavy, rippling brown hair, done up after a carelessly artistic fashion. Her features are regular, small and very pretty. Her eyes are large, lustrous and of a very uncertain color. At the race when I saw her in the stables and watched her as with her uncle she passed among the horses, caressing and patting them, her eyes looked of a lustrous black. At dinner she was talking with a well meaning but silly man, and her eyes were of a dead gray. Later on she found a congenial spirit and her eyes were of the most tender blue. She is gentle, extremely graceful and very shy; cannot bear the least reference to her writings, on which subject she is painfully sensitive. Her voice is like that of all Southern women low toned and musical. She talks well and when warmed up to her subject, grows posi tively eloquent. She makes but little from her books. There is quite'a de mand for them, but a friend told me the Apple-tons bought out the copy right of each for a low figure, and that was the end of it. She spends her' summers at home and her winters with her uncle aud aunt, who are devoted to her new book, which is spoken of as the happiest of all her efforts, and I am told the first edition is already ex hausted. God speed this brave woman, and grant her every success. Victor Emanuel now receives a sala ry of $2,850,000. The Parliament had to raise it in order to pay off his debts.