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Dr. E. J. Setze, continuesthe Prac
tice of Medicine in Marietta. Office and Residence
at the house formerly vceupied by the Rev. John F.
Lannean.
MaRrIkTTA. GEO.. Jan, 17 1367,
Dr. W, E. Dunweody, Homao
athist, Officeon Cherokee Street near Public Square.
MARIETTA. Ga., Jan., 18th 1867,
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RESIDENT DENTIST.
THANKFUL TO THE CITIZENS
for a patronage of nearly twenty years
is Letter prepared than ever to pre
serve the natural teeth, or to insert artificial substi
tutes at his office —north-side Public Squars coruer
epposite WM. RooT & SoNs.
{‘lfln.rietta, Ga., Feb. 14, 1868. ¢
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Cherokee Street Marietta Geo-
Grroceries,
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All kinds, Country Produce bought
and sold. jys——6m,
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WHOLESALE aud Retail dealear in
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots, Shoes and Hats,
READY MADE CLOTHING ?
l’ wiLL sell for CASH at ATLANTA PRICES
New Goods constantiy receiving from the largest
and most reliuble houses ot New York City at the
lowest market prices. Call and see before purchasing
your Goods. at the old corner of “Chuck Ander
on's.” jan.3.68.
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A. N. SITMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Marielta, Ga.
PRACT ICES in the State Courts and District
Courts of the United States.
Prosecutes cluims against the Government.
Givesspecial attention to the purchase and sale of
Real Estatein Marietta and surrounding country.—
Any business confided to him will meet prompt at
tention and any enqairies made in regard to Real Es
tate, &c., &c., will be promptly given.
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GRASS SEED!
WE HAVE ON HAND a lot of fresh
Grass Seed. Red Clover, Orchard
Grass, Red Top, Timothy, Lucerne,
Blue Grass. &e.
R. 7. Brumby & Sons.
Marietta, Sept. 13, 1868,
Watchmaker and Jeweler
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Marietta, Greorgia.
T HE undersigned would respectfully inform
his old friends and the rublic generally that he
is prepared to do all work in bis line in the best man
mer, and at moderate prices. Repairing done at
short notice.
Marietta, Nov. 11, ’67. A.D. RUEDE.
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Agricola’s Bakery.
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(Established 1851,) on Cassville Street,
Jourth door from A. N. Simpsons’ Law
office.
lS open again for the pubiic. The following ar
ticles kept for sale: Bread, Cakes, Cr:\c}i:fs-‘.,
Candy, Baloans, different kinds of Fruits, especinily
such for Fruit Cakes—which the undersigned vwiil
make or bake on short notice—also, Family Grocer
jes, Sardines, Cove Oysters, Condiments Cigars,
Tobacco Pipes. &c, A liberal patronage invited
Respectfully,
R.J.T. AGRICOLA.
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Agricultural Implements !!
GRICULTURAL Implements of every de-
A ecription and most improved models will be
fufninhed%y us for casH at the Manufacturer’s lowest
prices cxpenses of transportation only added.
WM. ROOT & SONS.
Yume 2fth, IRGA, |
The Marictta Journal.
DU CHAILLU ON THE AFRICANS AND
l THE GORILLAS.
Du Chaillu addvessed an audienco of
deaf and dumb in New York last Wed
nesday, a report of which we find in the
' Herald :
! M. Du Chaillu was interpreted to the
audience by Professor G. L. Peet, the
principal of the institution. After sta
ting the premptings which first sent him
into the wilds of Equatorial Africa, he
proceeded with an account of the coun
try, the manners and customs of the va
rious tribes of natives, etc. In Equa
torial Africs, he said, the natives make
four kinds of drink from the palm tree.
One is made with honey and water,
ripe bananas, water, etc. The drink
they like the least is that made from the
sugar cane, for it made their heads sick.
Inthat country he had to beware of
everything—the natives as well as the
wild beasts. Snakes of the worst kind
‘were abundant, scorpions and centi
pedes. It was not a nice country to
live in. He left there and travelled for
‘hundreds of miles without meeting a
human being. The forests contained
no game, and he was often days without
food. Population is sparse, and the few
people that are there fight continually
against each other, killing all young
and old indiscriminately.
The people worship idols, and the in
stitutions of the country hinge on slave
ry. . Their wealth consistsin the number
of wives, who are all slaves. Ile got
friendly with King Bangbo, who has
three hundred wives. He inquired how
many children he had, when the King
replied between 600 and 700, the dif
ference being nothing to the King.—
The King died, when they sacrificed
100 victims to attend him. No onei
is supposed to die a natural death. The
person dying is supposed to be bewitch
ed, and of course that somebody killed
him, and a sacrifice is made of numrbers.
He reached arange of mountains (point
ing them out on the map). He found
here a new race of men. When he
reached the place he heard loud shouts
—the natives -erying, “the spirit is
come.” The natives surrounded bim,
armed to the tecth and tatooed. The
people are cannibals, clothed in the skins
of animals.. They carried large battle
axes and ghields made of elepiiant hides.
The whole'place was covered with skulls
crected on poles. He feJt somewhat
afraid. The King did not want to see
him until three days, declaring that he
(DuChailla)had come in a whirlwind, and
that if it touched him he would be swept
away. It was a curious superstition
among the kings of this country that
none of them would see him till he had
been three days in the country. |
The village he now found himself in
was small, with a long street, the house
not over six feet high ; the walls were
made of the bark of trees. The King
came to see him accompanied by his
Queen and a number of warriors. The
King at last said he was not afraid. In
the evening he invited the King to come
and receive presents; gave him beads
and clothes and a looking glass. At
this the King humbled, be made faces,
put out his tongue ;he saw the tongue
come out and he swore the Devil was
there. They soon became great friends
with the King and his people. The can
nibals were brave and great hunters'—
When they kill men in battle they eat
the killed. They explained that the
women were the best eating, that they
were very tender; the girls about eigh
teen being the best. The old men, the
cannibals said, were tough and not much
good. They were the worst kind of
cannibals for they eat the dead.
It was in this country he killed the
first gorilla he ever met. When he
came to New Yoik he had the skins of
twenty gorillas. One day while hunt
ing he heard a great noisc and went in
the direction of the sound. He then
discovered an animal not seen since the
days of Hannibal, the Carthagenian, in
whose day the firsi gorilla that any ac
count has been given of was seen. le
saw the bush move and could hear the
palpitation o his own heart at the hor
rible sound of the unknown animal.—
Suddenly he heard the roar of the goril
la, the king of the Afiican forest, the
animal at the same time showing his ter
rible teeth. His eyes were gray and
deeply sunk, and for a while Lie did not
know but he was face to face with the
Devil. ‘The gorilla did not scem afraid,
but advanced towards him. I thoughu I
must kill him or he would me, and as he
came near I shot him in the chest and
he fell asa man would who had been
similarly shot. He was dead at once.
The gorilla was six feet high; the arms
were nine feet two inches in length, of
great strength and full of hair; the
chest was bare and perfectly black ; the
foot was like that of & giant of great
strength; he never had seen such al
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monster. The males are very fierce,
the females are not fierce ; the male
slecps under the tree where the female
rests with her young, and when the male
‘hears a noise they prepare for the com
‘bat, no matter who may approach. He
’ killed one gorilla so old that it had lost
all its tecth. The female gorilla brings
forth but one young one at a time. lle
‘had several gorillas alive, but he never
succceeded in taming one of them. The
force of a gorilla is prodigious. He was
trees broken in two in their rage. They
go in twos and feed on berries and nuts.
He opened the stomachs of all he had
killed, and never found anything but
vegetable food in the stomach.
The lecturer then described how the
gorilla came nearest to man, the orang
outang, or gibbon, next, and then the
chimpanzee, and pointed out from the
diagrams the peculiar difference in the
length of the arms, the peculiarity in
spinal column, ete. The number of
bones in a manand a gorilla were the
same, the same number of vetebre, etc.
In the gorilla, chimpanzee and all the
ape family the hand was longer than thel
foot, which wasreversed in man. The
gorilla, etc., have the same number of
teeth as man, but there was a great dif
ference in the amount of brain between
tham, ete. The lecturer closed his sub
ject with a brief address to his audience,
the mutes who secemed to pay the great
est attention to the 'interpreter, every
movement of whose firgers and hands
they followed with great earnestness,
displaying on their countenances a con
sciousness and a knowledge of every
word that fell from the lecturer’s lips.
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REPORT Of THE COMMISSIONER OF
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Rather a Bad SBhowing.
WasHingToN, November 18.—The
Commissioner of Indian Affairs has sub
mitted his preliminary annual report to
the Secretary of the Interior, The to
tal population of Indians he puts down
at three hundred thousand, which is
rapidly decreasing, on account of disease
introduced by depraved whites and
whisky. He thinks a large portion of
the Wilder tribes manifest a disposition
to emerge from the savage state. He
urges amelioration of the pitiable condi
tiun of the savages, and thinks they de
scrve more sympathy, and also notes
that there is less interest taken in them
by Christian organizations than in form
er years. e
Many tribes are without schools, and
altogether without religious institutions.
He has information from the Governor
of Idaho that the Indian war is virtually
ended. Our military” operations have
been sucecessful. Many were captured
and the rest compelled to sue for peace.
During the year the Indian Commission
had made a treaty with the Northern
Arapahoes and Cheyennes, Baulls,
Sioux and Ogollola, Navajoe and Shosh
nces. The main features of these treat
ies bind the Indians to keep peace and
provides for them suitable reservations
for education and civilization.
In accordance with the provisions of
the treaty with the Sioux, the military
posts, L. F. Smith, Phil. Kearney and
Reno, in the Pewder river country, have
been abandoned, and on this point the
Indians are satisfied.
The treaties madein 1868, with the
tribes in Kansas have not been ratified,
with the exception of that with the Pot
tawatomies. Others yet await the ac
tion of the President, the concurrence of
the Indians thereto haviog only been
recently received.
"T'he principal feature of the treatics
made by Commisioner Taylor and the
Governor of Colorado with the savages
of that region in theremoval of the latter
from New Mexico and Colorado to a re
servation in the latter country, and the
establishment of agencies there. Some
of the bands have accepted the terms,
and probably all willaceept. In May last
atreaty was made with the Osagelndians
by which that tribe agree to sell about
cight millions of acres of land in Kansas,
for sixteen millions of dollars,to the Leav
‘enworth and Galveston railroad compa
ny, and they agree to remove to the In-|
dian country south of Kansas.
A treaty was made in July at Wash
ington with the Cherokees, supplement
al to that made two years ago, and in|
explanation thereof. It has not yet|
been acted on by the Senate. A treaty |
made lately with the Montana Indians'
provides for the extinguishment of their |
title to a large extent of country, and |
for their location in districts syitable to'
their needs.
The Commisstoner recommends that!
treaties be made with the Stockbridge
Indians in Wisconsin and Ohio, andr
Missourians in Nebraska. DBoth tribes |
are destitute, and occupy valuable lands |
which are of little use to them. By the |
' sale of these lands they can be made com
fortable.
t No report has yet been made by the
‘recent peace commission held at Chica
[ go. Commissioner Taylorof the Bureau
‘should be controlled by the War De
‘purtment. The Commissioner recom
'mends Congress to make liberal provis
jon for destitute Indians. He also Dbe
lieves it a better policy to feed than to
fight them. He entertains the opinion
that the stoppage of supplies to the In
dians, which has been agreed on in the
troaty, was the cause of hosiilities on the
part of the savages in their attacks on
settlers and emigrant trains. |
The responsibilities of these troubles,
he says, does not rest on the Burean,
which has faithfully and earnestly rep
resented to Congress the means to avoid
them. The report also recommends
legislation to protect the people of Tex
as from invasion by Indians north of the
Red river, and eastward, which the
Commissioner thinks can be secured by
the location of several military posts on
the north and west border of the State.
He thinks the section of the law con
cerning the barter, sale, or giving of
spirituous liquors to Indians should be
amended so as to include cider and beer,
in which Indians indulge to a great ex
tent. In some instances breweries have
been located near Indian reservations.
’ {ZS" The London Times, in an article
lon the recent election in this country,
says:
~ “Itisa wonderful result of scicnce
‘and social organization that theepinions
‘of an immense population should be tak
en in a single (fiy over a territory as
large as all Europe, and that in less
‘than twenty-four honrs after the close
of the polls the issue of the centest, with
the approximate number of votes given
in each State, should be known in the
Capitols of the old World. Such a tri
umph of civilization is more impressive
than the event which is thus recorded,
! and it causes to remember how indopen
dent of political action are the forces
! which most impel the human race in the
‘path of progress. 'The result is that the
'Republican candidates have a decisive
‘majority, though, when it is eonsidered
that there are 5,000,000 of voters in the
United States, the preponderance of Re
publican over Democratic votes given
throughout the country will seem by no
means large. The Americans so much en
joy the excitement of electioneering that
there is never likely to be so overpower
ing a preponderance on either sidc as to
make a contest impossible. As boys inl
the play ground will join the weaker
side at any game in order to keep it go- '
ing, so an irrepressible combativeness is
sure to prevent any district in America
from becoming tamely unanimous, The
Democrats have been Leaten, and by
the political machinery of the country
the representation in Congress is castl
largely in favor of their opponents.—
But it is impossible to look at these re-'
turns without seeing that they still re- l
main a very powerful party and must in- |
fluence, in a high degree, the policy of l
the Union. |
The able and gallant soldier who is
now raised to the first place in the Un-}
ion is one whose success no one will be:
disposed to regrot. General Grani has
fairly won his high rank by hard work, |
real devotion to his country, and ser
vices which will live long in its remem
brance. It is in his favor that his repu
tation is almost exclusively professional,
and that he is not and has never been a
party politician. He will take office
with greater freedom of action than if
he were the hero of a hundred platforms,
and had in long canvassing tours taken
all the pledges and uttered all the shib
boleths of his party. He is, in fact, a
man whem his countrymen of all. opin
ions may bring themselves to accept,
simply because he has not indentified
himself so strictly with one faction as is
common with the multitude of candid
ates. A President who is elected by
the Republicans and yet was mot long
ago looked upon as a possible leader by
the Democrats, cannot but have some
advantage in enteriug upon his adin-|
istration. 1
5% The London Times gives as the
result of the election thus far for mem
bers of the new House of Commons:
Liberals, 310; Conservatives, 168.—
Liberal majority 142. The Daily News
claims a Liberal majority of 146, Sev
eral riots in various parts of the King
dom are reported.
Mr. Burlingame and other members
of the Chinese Embassy werc formally
presented to the Queea at Windsor, on
Friday last, by Lord Stanley.
57 A farmer in Eastern Massachu
sctts has made a net profit of #4,000 in
his onisn crep this year,
ALASKA—HER LAND AND WATER
| PRODUCTS.
The scientific expedition organized
under Mr. Seward’s direction for tho ox
ploration of Alaska, has made its report.
‘One of its members has published a pa
per on the newly acquired territory,
which contains rather full details of the
cbaracter of the country. Large and
rich fisheries lie off in the North Pacific,
and were always favorite resorts with
our fishermen. Much inconvenience
was entailed on themn by necessary trips
to San Francisco, not the amallest part
of which was & heavy outlay of capital,
on ocean going craft. Now they can
fish in fifty fathom water in ordinary
open boats. Curing stations can be es
tablished on the coast. Formerly the
importation of codfish from New kEng
land ports to California was a heavy
item. It has been stopped completely
in the acquisition of Alaska. In 1867,
twenty-seven American ‘vessels were
employed among the Sbumanin Islands
on the shores of Southera Alaska. The
average catch was nearly one hundred
tons, which was valued at nine and a
half cents, coin, per pound ; the average
cost of outfit and labor, three thousand
dollars in gold. It is stated that the
castern portion of the Behrings Sea is
extremely rich in cod, and that the area
within the limits of fifty fathoms depth
is eighteen thousand miles in extent.—
The banks along tho shores of Alaska,
south of the Aleutian Islands, are about
four thousand five hundred miles. The
whale fisheries, especially in Archipel
ago Alexander, are well known. The
coast survey has discovered indications
of large beds of anthracito coal. The
warm current from Japan exercises a
beneficial influence on the climate of
Aaska.
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AN BZXAMPLE.
The Macon Jowrnal & Messenger fue
‘nishes the following example to the
t Young men of the Sonth :—
We know a young man, a native of
Mississippi, who was born to affluenze, as
his great grand-father, a Virginia gentle
maa, had been bofere him. He was
about seventeen years old whon the war
ended; up to which time he had lived
in a luxurious home, his father before
the war havinga ycarly income of not
less than thirty thousand dullars in gold,
all of which he spent on his home and its
inmates. His children never had a wish
for anything that money could buy, bnt
it was even anticipated. The war left
the father with nothing but his land ; for
both armies had passed near his planta
tion, and his stock and houschold furni
ture had disappeared— passcd, what was
left, under the auctioncer’s hammer for
Confederate money. Andeven the land
was not hir, for old security debts claimod
and obtained a mortgage on that, - .
What did our young hero, for he is.
worthy of the name, under such circum
stances 1 )
He took his hands out of his pocket
and put them to the plow. By his indi
vidual labor he planted and cultivated
five acres of cotton and fifteen of ecorn,
besides an acre or two in pop corn and
peanuts.,
Wark was hard for hiny at first—verv
hard. Ashe told the writer: *I thoughe
I never woull learn to hoe.. My bands
would painmeso that [ would almost
weep,bat before the suminer was out [
conld hae a row with the best hand in
Mississippi.”
He had good land, Lringing a full bale
of cotton, or thirty to thirty-five bushels
of corn, to the acre, and his year's work
has netted him from eight hundred to a
thousand dollars. He is now going te
school in Virginia on the proceeds.
Were the example of that young man
followed generally by our Southern youth,
how rapidly this country would recuper
ate, and enjoy a material prosperity un
known to it in the past!
[ The following items wo find in
the Atlanta Era. They presoent the
comparative present fortunes of the two
gen. Which will be niost fortunate in
their new positions the future will" de
terniine: i
(Gen. Grant wtll Lkavé control of 53,«
000 offices and officers, whose annual
compensation amounts to thirty miiliens
of dollars. : :
Gen, Robert E. Lec has a Bible class
of onée hundred and fifty members in his
College, at Lexington, Va. i
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" Henry Ward Beccher says thut
the best time for family prayers is im
mediately after broakfast aud immedi.,
ately after supper, for then the children
will be most likely to be quiet, and to
feel that they have some:hinf to be
thankful for. Ne one will be hLungry;
no one will be sleepy.
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