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dijUSTO!* HOHE JOURNAL *i, ATKZ> £ST> PUBLISHED »Y j. T. WATERMAN, FVERY THURSDAY MORNING, AT PERRY. GA. CASHA T & CUr?e, EDWiN M. BROWN, Attorney at Xiaw, FORT VALLEY, GA., Si’EE H OF 1105. J. M. SMITH, ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION TOE eyeful mi'll iiiiil with their friends. GOVEENOE. DEALHS IN Hardware, Iron & SteeL PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, Cotton aud Oom Straps, Macon, junao-3*« Copal and Japan -cr^k.3=t3srx33^. AT J. C. GILBERT'S DRUG STORE, dsc 28-tf. Will practise in all the Courts of the Ma con Gin-nit, and in other-; by special ex tract. ' janlP-tf of the H. M. HOLTZCLAW, ATTORNEY AT LAW. PERRY,-. GEORGIA. BUFORD M. DAVIS, Attorney ait Zjsiw, PERRY, GEORGIA, * Will practise in nil the Courts of the Ma con Circuit, and in others by special con tract. jan26 Mr. President, and Gentlemen Democratic Convention: It will hardly he expected upon this occasion that I shall say much move than to return my thanks, for the honor you have conferred upon me. If, at the approaching election, the people of the State of Georgia shall see fit to ratify yonr action of, to-day, I shall enter upon the duties of the high trust which will be im posed upon me, with a profound dis trust of my own ability for the full and faithful discharge of the safne.— But, fellow-citizens, I trust I shall not t :rs of myself, how could I feel than redistribute it, international arrange- rrateful ? I strike hands with those j ments would he necessary to the ex- I son! change of reports, and a vast but sub- s ire that my honored friend, General 1 tie and silent machinery, set in mo ll offer:!, nil unite with -me in d> iag J tibn all over the world gathering and Slorits. Noticing the departure from San Francisco for Levuka of a brig of one This important matter is now before onr Legislature, and we have come in possession of a few facts the consider- oll that can he done to promote the i disseminating knowledge on impor- hundred tons burden, owned by H. S. atiou of which we commend to onr welfare of the State, to secure protec-; hint variations of the weather and the tiorf to her citizens, and to place the • condition o the growing or garner d old Common wealth in the same high\ crops. The scheme is beneficent as it position she formerly occupied when j is vast, and is worthy of the age that men were elected to positions of infln- ! tunnels mountain ranges, spans conti- enee because they were honest men, j nents. with iron roads, and lays tele- and werenot chosen because they were i {pwpli lines through the depths of the rogues. I tell these gentlemen I want to strike hands with them and march’ fovwad to the emancipation of our State from the impositions, from the frauds, and from the. villainies which have been practiced upon her. And if the distinguished gentleman will do sea.—JV, T. World be charged with egotism when I Sfri, 1 liis duty now, as he has done in other '■'If, A AT? A' -r- C. C. DUNCAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, PERRY, GEORGIA. DRUGS. DRUGS I C. GILBERT S OAWXrSSVILLE. He will spend the first half oi rseli month in liis office in Perry over the sild Drug Store, and one fourth, or the. latter half of each month will be given to lii-* practice n Hawkimmiie si Sirs. Hudspeths. PLANTERS’ BANK, fort VALLEY. GA . '-‘ie place to buv riURi liERATELi Hisi and bis ADC; -'Tr'ET.S As fsACOS i'T-i.r Aat'io issed fiapi'.al, - - * $200, **00 ; ks=s esters rr.ow thk Kceeives Deposita, discounts Papca,.Iray, and sells Exchange, also Sold and Stiver. Collections made at all accessible point.E W. J. Anderson. W. E. Brown. - . - - - Prcridc.r.i - - - - - Cashier. - DiKr.croKF; W. 3. Anderson, Col. Hugh L. Bonnard. AVm. It. Brovin, Dr. Win. A. iSslhev-v Dr. W. H. Hoiiingsliead. • jnl20 9m WING & SOLOMON MACON, CA., JEWELERS, ■WATCHWORK, Ml * GR0SIE1 FORT VALLEY, GA., H-.vlnn .PUtfiTCBS' .WA»E«OOSS A Fire-proof Erich Building, will ilo a GENERAL Liberal adveneefi will be inndo bn Cotton, and all protinee iu store. They are also -rc-pored id -till orders icr tug Iks: brands ot H3 ii.s-ar^aTT' ins- F u M WI THOMAS WOOD, Next to Lanier House, MACON, GA. CARPETS, MATTING, WINDOW SHADES, WALL PAPER, MATTRESSES, FEATHERS, SOFAS, SETTEES, WARDROBES, BUREAUS, Etc. Warehouse aial Commission Business. C3r- TJL &L fO. <3 , it short notice. MIX &• KSItTLAND, Wis.ictj^e and SeUtl lioolere in Boots and Shoes. No 3, Cotton Avenue, and06 Third,St. MAOON, GEORGIA: A large Stock of PASIOS AND BEBS.O0M SUITES, For salo low for Cash. From k.00 to. *10.00. FlgKAS PA 1 ENT METALLIC BURIAL 0A3S3-& CAS^S Tha best •'articles in tlie -market, atm* prioaa. Also Coffins-in mahogany, w;uaat. rosewood, eedr.r. and imiraiiona. nl6-3n. ( 1 EOilGIA, HOUSTON COUSTY--- J Joseph W. Wimberly and Roovri f- iirvan. Excutors oi i)cmiiscy Brown,;, ae cojised, having petitioned to the Court tor letlera ol dismission from their said trust; these are theratore to rite all persona con cerned, to be and appear wt iny office, on or lieiore the regular t-irm of this Cotirt m Jftnmir\ nexe, V JS7'J. *x jui\ uxisLs, way stiid petitioners should not tie dismissed from their. s;ud trust. Hept. 28, 1871. W. T. SWlF.i, 3m Ortiuiary. Notice io Debtors ash Creditors. All persons indebted to tne estate ol i)r, J. C: Harvey, Bile ot Houston county, de ceased, are requested io make immediate pat-men:, an,, tn-./se navmg deinaudsag.nmt \ ~ - .. ... TllS.fll 111 __ Nov. 16, 1871- JOHN H. LOW, Executor. ■ Lx. cctor’s Sadr, Will b. said on t.:- nrst I'nCBdar m Jsnnory, tne piAiitutioH ol the late* IE L'. White, oein^ parti of lots ox land uiunoer 121,140 and 114 iu fcixa Upper i'iltli District of Houston county, oe- iag the pJace on which t^aid White lived aud died, and coiitaiHiDH about one hundred and fortj acieF Aldo one hundred uad litty acres of- lot number UH, m tne Lower Euth District of nasd county, whHreou J- T. Kevnoida mny livcB. bold usirterau Older from the Court of Ordinary of w^d county. Terms canu. E- ii. ^vLEX.vhl r—a. ^t^tqULD Inform their frirndB^and all iD of Boot* and Shoes of any kind, that thev have on baud one of the large** and boat Tucut* to be found in Hie *tate. ^Thcy cordially mvite their oia customer*, aud aU otaqr* m wegi „f anvthinK in their line, usually kept in a first- idans ‘etoro, to call and examine. They pledge ti;eui*eivcH to sell at the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES, Ktfc-r «t tbeir old utend. So. 3 Cotton Awme.’ or Sbeir ,tore. 8S Taird At. uov.C^oci -7.4;A SOUTHERN ENTES-PllIt&R ArA-ckise V sircied ^MBl Magaunf. lOUTHEflli FARi Be HUME, A^Cagrjdne of Agrissiture, Maimfaciurea, and. Bo- laestie Economy. G*Jt. WM. H- BROWSE. Editor. j. \e. BCKKE A CO., Publisher*. TERMS: Single Copy—oneyearf......; r .....2 00 T-6u Three Copies—one year,. rvqueririi io pr««u ««« » M> that however limited I may consider my own capacity, I have an abiding faith in the omnipotence of honesty.— [Applause.] That is what we need to-day more than anything else. [Ap plause.] Wh^tis the condition of onr State? In the remarks that I m:ike I -shall confine myself to the affairs of the State of Georgia alone, and I shall be very brief. There is a work for every Georgian to do, and there is an ob ject- for the exercise of the greatest patriotism. What have we. to dp?— We all know that the financial affairs of SB State d - n j--- xtri!-abie eonfusiou. We do not hr: w h- w m -.ny bonds have been famed. We d-> not know what the legal iud boaluess of the Si ate is. We do pet know how these bonds were put out, but wo have c HUsV'icion as to the on>- who put them out-and that is about ell. it. will be expected that tlm person who shall be elected to fill the position of Govor; - or, for the next twelve mouths, shah so udminh-ter the government of the State of Georgia as that the people shell know what their honest debts are, and what is expected of them.— [Applause.] He will need honesty more than brains. [Applause.] It elll be difficult to g-'-t the frauds that i;;ve been practiced, upon ns. It will - qjjire a firm will and an honest heart to g(-t at and expose them ; but; reiitlcmf.n of the Convention, penult v.K- to say that, as Goil .is my. Judge e-.'lr v. if.I have the h(mor to be select ed by the people of Georgia to fill the position of Geveruor, I shall endeavor to get at the bottom of these things. I shall a| least give a very large por- ion of my attention to the task of de termining how much we really ow--, aud how much is claimed of us. It is of paramount- importance that lop’ular confidence shdr-ld'be restored iu the.-administration of public affairs m this State. Unfortunately, since the war or within the last three or four years, we hav.- been placed in it con dition where the people, by reason of llie many impositions and the many frauds which have been practiced upon them, have -lost confidence in those who have been ’ selected to fill the prominent positions under our State government. How long has it- been since it was considered that the name of the Governor of Georgia was hardly a synonym for honesty ? I do not make those remarks in any improper spirit, but for the purpose of calling your attention to the fact tiiat I feel in its full measure the great responsi bility that will. devolve upon me in case the people shall ratify your nom ination. „A gentleman remarked as I entered the hall, that your nominee Was a na tive f Georgian. So I am. I know that since the days of reconstruction' it has not been considered altogether honorable for a man to have been born in the South. But I must plead guilty to the charge’. I am a native nnd to the manor born. I look upon Geor gia as my mother. I expect to repose in her bosom at last, and my prayer is that-1 may conduct myself that I may not be censured by tlie friends who have this day, in so marked a degree, manifested their confidence in me, that 1 may'so conduct myself as that no man who has' spoken my name, favorably to-day, will ever have occa sion to regret that he joined the nom ination of James M. Smith, [Ap plause.]. And that when I shall have, run my career, and.wlien my good old mother shall have token me to her bosom, I shall go to my grave iimid the tears and blesrings of those whom' I have helped to eimincipate froin the distress, the suffering and villainy wliich have been brought- upon them. [Great applause.] -But let me pause to -say that the names of other gentlemen have been brought to your attention to-day 'in thi- e-nuection—gentlemen of charac ter, intelligence and great worth; (Messrs. Wofford, Fielder, and Nich olas.) With the name of one of these gentlemen I have long been familiar, arenas—and I know he will—success will crown onr efforts. It is desirable that-the people should have confidence in their Governor. In the event that I shall be chosen to fill that position, it shall be my object to protect the people, so f;ir as may be in my power, not only in their rights of person and property, but iu their pub lic rights as well. [Applause.] And permit me to say further, that in the. discharge of the duties of that high office, I shall, if elected observe no distinction except the distinction be tween rogues end honest man. [Ap plause.] Alerter 'Stuped io us Projcr. [very Stcek-:*>tr . a family Eiioulct .Nov. 6, 1871. Georgia, Houston County:- W. T. Westbrook, guardian of jjg\-. Wegtbrook a lunatic, deceased, acd aiso admiuistiat ji vf Laving fully d.sciiA.-ged uu duticEi a* ■nch ocVa he finarlv dlVltiiltiicdltiltW *1* IHeAV- auch, aska to be flually dismissed; these »i*e fore to cite ail persona interested to be aud appear at my office ou or before tiie liibt aiyuday in rcu- fba. v, i872, to alio*' cause, if auy, way tne peti tion should not be granted. Given under my hand *ud seal sf office, tins October- 30, 18rl. W. T-. HWIfT, O. H- C. Ererv Farmer should take .t! should take it! Every Uau take it! E«b number coutair.a fueit wee of reading mailer, relative to .11 matte:* eounecteu u.m Parimug, c.ardemug. Ifie i>oStrv Bees, etc.,.JS»uu:aet..r,e aud Domeetic Kcouomy, from the l»-'ux of tbe abuet ue.terb, aad ik omliLUirilicd. with Fine Engravings. N^r&tt.ue to mSm ^ niriiit*; to form clubs. Audreys '■ ‘ J. W. BUIUO. fc CO„ ilAC'OS. c.i- 33ROWKTS SOTEXi Opposite Passecgcr Depot, MACON, GA., F, Commodore ^latthew F. Maury, who in the years before the war made a vast survey of the sea, measuring its depths, tracing its currents, nnd gaug ing the winds that sweep over its sur face, and thereby furnishing informa tion that has been of immense value to navigators and consequently to the whole commerce of the world, has now come out with a project for noting llie forces at work on the whole face of the earth, aud distributing the in formation for the benefit of producers and mankind in general, which de serves to rank with the most stupen dous undertaking of this age of won ders; He proposes, with the aid an 1 , co-operation of the various govern ments of the world and the use of all the appliances of steam and electricity, atablish a vast system of weather and crop observations and reports, which shall keep producers in all lands informed of what is going on all over the globe, so that they may know wherewith they are competing and what their prospects are in the mark ets. Now- the smallest farmer on the bleak hills of New England is en gaged in a competition with all the world in grow ing his small crop of wheat or corn, and- yet he hardly knows what is going on beyond the small circle of his own horizon, nor is any one wise enough to toll him until after his crops are sold, and the final reports are made up on the year’s la bor. The value of wheat at Chicago or cotton at New Orleans depends as well on the quantity of those staples grow;, in the. regions of the Baltic ancl Black seRs or on the plains of Hiudos- ton as on that which is gathered in from the prairies and savannas, and yet the growers have to let them go at whatever price the 'buyers may fix, based on ertide estimates of false re ports .of the. coming supply. There is no certainty regarding the quantity of the fruits of the earth which are ripen ing for the gamers of mankind. A blight may fall on the crops of South ern Russia, and nothing is known of it in the Mississippi Valley. The cot ton crop of India may be a failure, and the growth of Alabama goes into the market on the supposition that will be millions of bales from over the Eastern seas seeking purchasers in the same emporiums. Hence the prices are low when ’he grower har vests the results of his labor and high before his products reach the consu mer, and the middle men and the speculators sweep in an enormous' share of the profits. It will be easily seen hr-w vast is the loss to the produ cing dass, springing out of their ig norance, of what the earth is bringing forth, and how utterly powerless they are to help themselves with no means i .r p i!iiUice-i of obtaining the knowl edge Which they need. The scheme of. Professor Maury proposes to supply this great deficien cy. 'He believes that man lias already in' his hands powers and agencies which will enable the grain' grower of the-West and the cotton planter pf the South to-know, as tlie season pro gresses, the probable supply of the staple in which he is interested, in aU quarters of the globe, and when the time of. harvest:-comes -in different climes to be informed with approxi mate precision ihe actual quantities The benefits of i..rani’s Speculating Shuster to Great Britain. The “Emma Silver Mining Compa ny, limited,” the stock of which Min ister. Schenek is bulling in England, base their pretesions upon mi opinion of professor Siilimait, the “Emma vein,’ which passes through this tract, ns a true mineral vein of great pow- r,” yielding both ' silver and lead. Sat in reality ibis speculation does ot differ in its nature from the wild : peculations in gold and silver mines, ; id -dll wells,- which culminated in t lis-conntry about the dose of the -veil-. Not less than two hundred mil lions of dollars were obtained in New iiirk alone by the projectors of these simes. This Emma Silver Mining Company offers for sale “25,000 shines of T20 each,” or §5,000,000 of st-jck, s ud to represent- one-half a |rijA of hind two thousand four hun- drlilfect long at little Cottonwood town, Utah, “about fifteen miles from the|branch of the Pacific Railroad.” E v(|’j t n: must see the character of : lii* speculation at once, and that the pie< ? of land above mentioned can hav no such value as is assigned to it; a id yet, the Minister of the United States is forcing this stock upon the peoile of England by the influence of his i fSeial position. Titisis a monstrous outrage, and yet is reported from Washington that Mr. Sdienck will not he recalled. Mr. CaUuazy, the representative of Russia in this country, was driven from his post oh account of a difficulty with Secretary Fish; and yet- Mr. Schenek is allcfeetl to turn the office of Ameri can Master into that of broker for mining stocks, and still retains his post, put a President who champions such apparent fraud as that in rela tion tojSui Domingo, will not he over elation to the conduct of his ;; iu a, similar line of busi- iing to the Evening Post, the affair provokes much corn- -Washington. The general seafimei Edemands his instant recall But the internment affect to have no official h [rtftedge, and will not act on newspap rauthority, and feels a deli cacy in r iiing inquiries of Sclienck. Schenc is personal friends are de fiant, ancisiy that if any enquiry is sent to lnni he will answer that it is none of flieir business. The same people saw that he only accepted the office for at iliort time—to pay liis ex penses wb|l: ho was in London Ao sell to nse the position of i aid him; that when the enquires about it, he will ;, pocket his profits and n’ate in something else, is spoken of as a “gam- ts high at ppker, and freely associated with the WhiskeS Ring last year in Wash ington. They say- ly, fiendish not exist, sal seapegoal and malice; blood, when boldly into character is a gible, and yet Til-y Say. more sneaking, coward- tkan “They say,” does :t personage isauniver- persoual envy gossip, out form of flesh and ed, and yet stalking community. The ,and yet real; intan- utching its victim with Fuller, her captain, aud S. A. St John, two veteran residents of the Fiji Islands, the Alta says: “Capfc Fuller is the oldest Ameri can settler, having gone there from Sydney ovor twenty years ago. -Here he also conveyed his English wife, and here he lias a large family of children who are truly ‘native and to the ma nor bom.’ Daring, their long resi dence hr these far off isles, the above named enterprising spirits have been actively engaged in both maritime aud agricultural pursuits. They now own adjoining cotton plantations, which are being successfully and prof-; itably cultivated. Their craft just abont to sail is to be employed in this bnsiness, and more particularly iu transporting laborers and others- from distant groups to Levuka, for no woYk can be coaxed or. forced out of the na tive Fijians; who ridicule the idea of one so ddgrding himself as to resort to manual labor. He has his bread fruit, his single and scant garment and his thatched cot, und he is content. The working bees come from Solomon’s Is land and the New Hebrides. The cot ton raised is pronounced iu the Liver pool market superior to the Sen Island, and the last drop shipped amounting to 9,000 bales, commanded §1 per pound. The soil is a sandy loam, and clay sub-soil mixed with lava. The native laborers on the plantations command S20 per month, and there are some 3,000 of them employed on the Islands. Nearly all the foreign ers are English. In Levuka there are 700 inhabitants and Methodist, Epis copal and Catholic Churches, besides a native mission. The religion of the natives is mainly controlled by public policy. Their present chief was for merly a cannibal. When converted he had 11,000 followers. The human flesh-eating chiefs are known ns “Butchers.” Cannibalism still exists to an alarming-extent throughout the interior of Vitclene, an island 90 by 60 miles in extent. Annual feasts are given to such Chiefs as have slain foes iu battle and performed deeds of dar ing. At these disgusting carnivals the bodies of native boys of twelve to four teen years only are eaten. From ear liest childhood these subjects are fat tened for the horrid feast. They art* fed wholly upon fruits and vegetables. When the day of slaughter rolls round, two front teeth are extracted from the mouth of the child. These are inset- ed in a club, with which the murder is committed, the teeth are driven deep into the skull of the helpless victim. The hotly is then dissected, the en trails etc., are are then removed, and afterwards cut into suitably sized steaks. These are rolled up in bread fruit loaves, placed in holes in the earth and baked for the feast. The native boy is suited to the palates of the Chiefs only. That of the write man is considered too salty and smo ky, and is not considered toothsome. Captain Fuller informs us that there art over 100,000 cannibals on the is land, and only last August two Scotch men were killed and eaten by the na tives. There is a prospect of this worse than heathenish custom being in time abolished now that the entering wedge of civilization is forcing the barbarians to respect the white settle ments. ” General Assembly. Tlie State of Iowa leased her lands, and receivc-s thorefrom an annual rental of $36,00 r , and the lands still increasing in value. The State of Michigan located her lands, and hy act of Legislature the minimum price at which they can he sold is S3 per acre. Cornell Univer sity of the State of New York, loca ted a half million of acres, which can now be sold at from §5 to §8 per acre. With these facts before ns, would it not be the most unwise policy to sell those lands donated to Georgia-at this time. We hope the Legislntnre will act with caution in this matter so important to the interest of education in our State. In Ohii we learn, the city of Col- nmbns and the country in which it is located, subscribed $609,000 in order to secure the location of the College of Agriculture. In Illinois, the county of- Champage s ibscribed $100,000 to secure theioca- tion of the Industrial University. These are facts of interest and full of meaning. Carr of the feet.—Concerning this subject the Scientific American very truly says: Many are careless of the feet. If they wash them once a week they think they are doing well. They do not consider that the largest pores of the system are located in the bottom of the feet, and that the most offensive matter is discharged through these pores. They wear stockings from the beginning to the end of the week without change, which are com pletely saturated with this offensive matter. HI health is generated by such treatment of the feet. The pores are not repellants but absorbents, and ?bis fetid matter, to a greater or less extent, is taken back into the system. The feet should be washed every day with pure water only, as well as the armpits, from which an offensive odor is also emitted, unless daily ablution is practiced. Stockings skonld not be worn more than a day or two at a time. They may be worn a day, and then aired and sunned and worn nnotlier clay, if necessary.” _ _ sentr into .-maito^' jGenersl Wofford, j 1 sun- him in Yir- j this scheme are apparent: its piactiea- Laia. He was doing his duty there. | biiity is no more dorbted tliap that of [Applause-]- His attention was not !iu;; iy other great undertakings which particularly directed to me, because 1 Have been carried throngh tarsueeess he was a grade above iue—and he seemed to be when they were o ight to have been a grade above mol j first projected-—The experiment of [Applause.] I saw him in the midst making weather observations which is of smoke fire and bullets, and he was ; j r c ady progressing, gives earnest of doing his duty then. [Applause.] ; the great-things that may be done. And when, on the present occasion; ta remorseless pi from an exhai poisened an' And no mail position or s< is too sacred against its as heart wishes character or always invoke who strikes -in who haunts the er, and tortures deed, an excuse dare not always ings.- With friendship, t- ed shaft as i Be sure', villainous tale is la tor cannot give gible than “They slander is the creal your side; reeking envy aud hatred, wish to have the say” bud into realil rent com in the coi W. BEUWS & t O., I Fkex>. A Kkmaxme, this Convention, where his name was prominently mentioned in connection with the ofliee for which yon have se lected me, his friends—tlie men who know him, and who are capable of appreciating his high character have wived the urging of his name before It is only necessary to enlarge the scale u on which the present work is dime to proportions fitting the mag- niSoient scheme of Professor Maury. Observers and reporters would be e m ployed in different districts, in sill countries the telegraph and postal A rural Englishwon idea when, finding 1 whip her hush son who was come don svstems would be utilized to convey. or else he It is unseen, and ess quiver wings its from day to day. oof; no character, upes; no sanctnary home is-bnlwarked When one base 1 some person’s ves, '“They say,” That is the assassin cloud—the Thug ips of the offend- careless word or .r the stiletto. Men eal their own feel- and pretended int that envenom from “They say.” that when some Id you, and the re- author more tan for it, that the of the heart by the poison of earnest with hood of “They become enr- tff- Poison Ser-.-enis in India. It was stated some time ago by one of the India papers that a great many deaths were occurring in that country from the bites of poisonous serpents; and statistics were given on the sub ject which were discredited by various writers. We learn, however, by offi cial records, that the number of per sons who have died from this cause may be safely estimated at 40,000 per annum. The low condition of the treasnryis given as the reason which prevents the government from renew ing its former offer of reward for kill ing of these serpents. A list of the bounties paid, for destroying this class of noxious animals in a very small dis trict showed that' poisonous serpents were brought in at the rate of 1,200 a day; and in the course of a couple of months the payments, at the rates of from six to twelve cents each, amoun ted to $50,000.—Harpers' Magazine. Ravages of the Small-pox ih the Northers Cities.—The small pox is still fearfully ravaging Philadelphia.— For the week ending last Sunday there were one hundred and fifty-three deaths It is estimated that there are now fully five thousand case3 of this’ dreadful malady under treatment, and the mortality is still increasing. Du ring Sunday ninety-two cases were re ported. The Board of Health is act ing vigorously in the effort to check the spread of the disease. The city provides for. gratuitous vaccination, having appointed eleven physicians, whose- duty it is to vaccinate free all applicants who cannot afford to pay. From this exhibit it would appear that small-pox is taking a firm hold in Philadelphia,’ whence it may—and probably will—radiate in every direc tion Already we hear of its tendency to increased mortality in .New* York, Cincinnati, and elsewhere. A journal of the former city states that the citi zens are becoming very much alarmed and that ten new cases were discovered since Saturday noon, of wJiieh four bad proved mortal in a very short time.-'.It is believed that tlie di-vase came from Philadelphia. In fSnein- A Just Appreciation of the Value of the Coustbt Pbess.—The follow ing testimonial from J. B. Ditif-more, Esq., will ho read with interest, ns based npon a varied experience in ad vertising: “My opinion. of the relative value of city and country, newspapers as ad vertisihg mediums., is decidedly in fa vor of the country papers; price and circulation being eqnnL I should pretar to have my advertise ments inserted in a country paper luiv-ng 500 circulation than to haye it who sows or plant without reasona ble irsuraiica of good crops, annually, nrglit better cam wages of some ca pable neighbor than work for so poor a paymaster as he is certain to prove himself. 2. The good farmer L; proved sneh by the steady appreciation of his crop. Auy one may reap an ample harvest from a fertile virgin soil; tho good farmer alone grows good crops at first, and better and better ever afterwards. 3. It is far easier 'to maintain the productive capacity of a farm than to restore it. To exhaust its fecundity, nnd then attempt its restoration by baying costly commercial fertilizers, is wasteful and irrational. 4. The good former sells mainly suck products as are least exhaustive. Necessity may constrain him, for tho first year or two, to sell grain, or even hay; but ho will soon send off his surplus, mainly in cotton, or wool, or meat, or butter and cheese, or some thing else'that returns to the soil near ly alt that is taken from it A bank account daily drawn upon, while noth ing is deposited to its credit, most soon respond “ no funds.” So with • farm similarly tre; e '. 5. Rotation is at least negative fer tilization. It may not positively enrich a form ; it will at le:ist retard andpost- pone its impoverishment. He who grows wheat after wheat, corn after com, for twenty years, will need to- emigrate before that term is fulfilled. Tiie same form cannot support (or endure) him longer than that. Ail onr great wheat growing suctions of fifty years ago arc wheat growing no • longer, while England grows larger crop3 thereof on the very fields that f. d the armies of Saxon Harold and Wil liam the Conqueror. Rotation ha* preserved these as the lack of it ha* ruined those. 6. Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine. I have known formers who toiled constantly from daybreak to dark yet died poor, be cause, through ignorance, they wrought to disadvantage. If every former would devote two hours of each day to reading nnd reflection, there would lie fewer failures in form ing than there is at present. 7. The best investment a former can make for his children is that which surrounds tneir vonth with the ration al delights of a leinteoLS, att-active home. The dwelling may lie small and rtule, yet a few flowers will enrich and gladden it; while grass and shade are within reach of tlie humblest. Hardly any labor done on a farm is so _ profitable as that which makes ths wife and children fond and proud of their home. 8. A good, practical education, iny; eluding a good trade, is a better outfit- tor a youth than a grand estate, with the drawback of an empty mind. Many parents have slaved and pinched to leave their children rich,, when half the sum tans lavished wonld have profited them for more had it bec-n de voted to the education of their minds, the enlargement of their capacity to think, observe and work. The one structure that no neighborhood can afford to do' without is the aclroul- hon3c. 9. A small library of well solectod books iu his home has saved many a youth from wandering into the bane ful ways of the prodigal son. Where parental strictness and severity would have bred nothing hut dislike and a- fixed resolution to abscond the first opportunity, good hooks and pleasant snrroundings have weaned many a youth f;om his first wild impnlse to go to sea or cross the continent, and made him a docile, contented, obedi ent, happy lingerer hy the parental fireside. In a family, however rich or poor, no other good is so cheap or so precious as thoughtful, watchful love. 10. Most men are bom poor, but no man, who has average capacities and .VriSwjjaBBj An attorney, in parry,- once asked the devil aid tho pa gate a cause, which would gain it ? ” doubt,” replied Mr. would have all side.” Beecher’s com- ‘ snpposo that i should liti- r do yon think re devil-, no teller; “as he [ lawyers on his The Ku-Klttx Cabinet meeting, Akerman reported thousand weeks, the St, Louis Republican thinks, is a id shows an evil condition of society, or very des- more leisure, and consequently read their papers more thoroughly and take better care, of them, while a daily pa per after being glanced at is thought no more of than a Lost year’s almanac. My opinion is based upon twelve years’ study and experience in the bus iness. A Glorious Young Woman.—II long hair be the glory of woman, then there is a glorious young lady in Bos ton. She was persuaded the other duv to give a private exhibition of her beautiful head of long and heavy black hair. Ili-r height is five feet three inches, and when she is standing erect her hair fulls to her feet, and trails a quarter of a Yard on the floor. in 500 copies of a daily paper. The country readers have less papers and tolerable luck, need remain sc. And the farmer’s calling, though proffering no sudden leaps, no ready short enta to opnlc-nce, is the surest of all ways from poverty and want to comfort and independence. Other men mnstdimb; the temperate, frugal, diligent, provi dent fanner may grow into competen cy and every accessory to eternal h*j - piness. Each year of his devotion to his homest ead may find it more vain li able, more attractive than the foot, and leaves it better still. ForneyV Press says: - “With. Tammany, of course, ought- to go all its dependencies and unclean creatures.” Why not, asks the Age, inelnde such “unclean creator**” as take presents, uml then appoint the nati last week there were sixteen fatal It is 75 iuchc-s in length. Here is in-j donors to office; Ministers to foreign deed, a favored young person i No j countries who act as agents for selling need has she of chignons, nor of braids, ; uniting stocks, and the whole batch of front, nor of trieopherous con - such men as form the ~- -.; ancl Eve herself, the primal j c « tho Radical govern nobly planned, had probably , country? Let ali unc ter wealth of tangled charms, beacoieised. Discarding all moral principle, we are tempted to lapse into the meanest kind of pun, arid to pronounce this Boston beauty the greatest halress in America. xiiG Age would have* tL_ __ party commit luirikari. If the clean spirits were ail hung there wo not tie enough left for a respectable: funeral. i had the right f unable to hauted to her bed, “Bill lip thy feyther, 5 whole veu iuc — “j"”- - . „ j ; fee body, and tbea»-«to« the no-nina- information to-eraunescW centr.-e ai d hmwe. : ■ --y : ; ~V-: ; : At a late concert a tostv fellow much »nnow,ii-« " old gentleman of seventy six j tied to be married to a girl of sc-v- who had suffered One day a friend surprised ■ from the incessant coughing of his ticrly embracing his intend- j neighbor behindhim turned around ,not ‘ ed. “I don't wonder at yonr aston- \ with, «Tbafs a very bad cold you’ve is iu ' ishment." said the young lady. Y<m ; got sir;” which met with this gentle ilina in don’t generally expect to find old-reply: “I am sorry for it, sir, bat it on young shoulders. ; 13 toe best I have.