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VOL D* fHETHOMASTON HERALD, PUBLISHED BT nA S. G. BUABCE, 1 kyERY satuudat morning. TERMS. o neVe»r • Hy,];///.: 180 61* Mo 'u invariably IN ADVANCE. I'Hf h “ i. t no name will be put upon the sub- Aft- r ttgVnfew payment is made in advance • icnp!"" 1 b r k wUl be stopped at the expiration of the T-« j.%. unless subscription is previous renewed. Mf 11 ' I, o f a subscriber is to be changed, we , )ld address as well as the new one, to must nu'“ ' P yo t “S'ptiou received for a less period than three iQonibs. 5n t, o wn without extra charge. 6« rV * and "Ln nald to anonymous communications, as B*“i'S- ra’lke •»■»« ° f lhre « n<-w ■',bs'r,h --»w« «»« “>• Fl'>-‘L k ftfter subscribers name indicates that the iiiue of subscription is out advertising ra lEb. . Th ;J:X!!r Z advertisements type). $1 for JSrtUdso cents for each subsequent insertion. M | C M. |V»~m: it uo $2 50 *7 00 sloon|sl6 00 1 Sqnars 5 oul 10 00 15 001 25 00 •I Squares w 7 001 15 00 20 00 \ 80 00 8 ND*' , » 8 | . w pi 00 20 00 80 00 40 00 4 I fl „,| >2 00 80 00 40 00 50 00 Column , 2,)00 85 00 65 00, 80 00 >; i 5 00 25 Oo| 40 00 70 00 180 90 j,i.plave<* Advertisements will be cnarged according t 0 | j, e B K dv ( 7tiicments should be marked for a specified thm*. etle raise they will be continued and charged tor Unt \!|vertisernents inserted at intervals to be charged now fftfh insertion. Advertisement* to run for a longer period tnnn three mnl itbs are due and will be collected at the beginning advertisements must be paid for in advance. ,l o h work must be paid for on delivery. Mvertiuements discontinued from any cause bef.»ro expiration of time specified, will be charged only for tiw time published. Liberal deductions will be made when cash is paid in ldvnr.ee. Professional cards one square SIO.OO a year. Marriage Notices $1.50. Obituaries $1 per square. Notices of a personal or private character, intended tn promote any private enterprise or interest, will be chanted as other advertisements Advertisers are requested to hand In their favors as nrlv in the week as p.-ssihle. 'lht a'oif tenn* will 5« Ktrirtly met her* a, to. LEGAL ADVERTISING. A.heretofore, since the war, the following are the pricse for notices of Ordinaries, Ac.—to be paid in ad viNCv: . Thirty Days’ Notices •• J “ 00 Forty Days’ Notices 6 25 Sales of Linds, Ac. pr. sqr of tea Lines 6 0® Sixty Da) s’ Notices 7 DO Six Months’ Notices ID DO T n Day-’ Notices of Stiles pr sqr 2 00 SiiF.Rirrr’ Bales —for these Bales, for every fi fa |R on. Mortgage Sales, per square. $5 00 “Let usid* a liberal per rentage for advertising. Keep yourself unceasingly before the public; and it matters not what business you are engaged in, for, if intelligently and industriously pursued, a fortune will be tin* rmuh— Hunts Merchants’ Magazine. “Alter I began to advertise my ironware freely, hitniriijs Increased with amazing rapidity. For ten years naat 1 have spent £30.000 yearly to keep my superior wares before the public. Had 1 been timid in advertising, I never should have possessed tuy fortune «f £l.Vi,oUfl".—McLeod Belton, Birmingham. “ Advertising, like Midas’ touch, turns everything to gold Bv it, your daring men draw millions to their coffers ’’—Stuart Cloy ‘D I hat audacity is to love, and boldness to war, the skillful use of printer’s i ih,is to success in business.” — lici-rher. "The newspapers made Fisk. - —J. Fisk, -Tr. Without the aid of advertisements I could have done nothing in my -peculations. I have the most complete fai li in “printers’ink.” Advertising is the “royal road to business Barnum. Professional Cariis. T F. RERDTNG, Attorney at LaW, tl • Baraesville, Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the ciuinties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and fl-ewhere by special ontract AH business promptly ?"*ndwl to. Othce in Elder's building, over Chamber’s I in Store. aug(s- y. ’THOMAS BEALL, Attorney at Law, l Thoinaston, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir mit, aud elsewhere by special contract aug27-ly \\T T. WEAVER, Attorney at Law, ' t • Thom as toll, Ga. Will practice in all the f 'urts of the Flint Circuit, and ekewhere by special Contract. juno.2s-ly [OIIN I. HALL, Attorney and Counsellor f J »tL*w Will practice In the counties composing 'w Flint Cirmit. In the Supreme Court of Georgia, 'n the District Court of the United States for the e«rthern ami Son'hern Districts of Georgia. ihom:ißton, Ga., June 18th, 187P-ly. \ W. THURMAN, Attorney at Law, Ti * Fv.irneavUle, Cl a. Will Practice in the Courts of Hint t'ircuit,and lilseMlnue by Special Contract, ouupt attention given to all collection of claims, J'tne4-ly TOSEPH H. SMITH, Attorney and < onnsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and Uliin, a, Ga. Will practice in ihe Su mmer ° Urts of Coweta and Flint Circuits, the Su- L 1 °I lrt of the State, and the United States’ Din- Ati "»* communications addressed to him at 'rill receive prompt attention. spri!9-ly A M>ERSON &, McCALLA. Attorneys | : , r j lt haw, Covington, Georgia. Will attend regu fl an, ‘ ’’factice in the Superior Courts of the y „ 1 ij l * Newton, Butts, Henry, Spalding Pike, VI ne » opson, Morgan, DeKalb, Gwinnette and ,las dec O-lj TAMES M. MATIIEWS, Attorney at Du W *’ Tslbotton, Ga.. will practice all the counties 2 Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by contract. declO-ly \\ & WILLIS, Attorneys at Law Prompt attention given to ' P'wed i n our declO-ly TRIPPE, Attorney at Law * lll in the UnltA'a P rao, l c © in the State Courts Savannah, (j, 0(1 District Court at Atlanta and —— — _ ’ dec 0-ly »T# Attorney at Law, Barness Flint Ci’rc'u Practice in all the counties of — — Btu * Supreme Court of the State. 3[ BEt HUNE, Attorney at u nati « of tv,.?,? 10 "’ Ga - Will practice In all the * rr i»ether h . atta hoocheo Circuit, and Upson and declS-ly P«SS. ERS will continue the practice Ftore. a clß ®* Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug —_______ declß-ly J ) notify t ?/.}• HANNAH, is pleased to nos Upson that he ▼ill continue h,!n »Jtoa (jo in Its various branches at ' declß-ly .J Uc r » n L l ALKER, Attorney at Law unT y* ll P rß ctlce In Circuit Courts o d «el0.i y " the United States District Courts. J oy^ B I have moved up to V! &n, l am re.ri,u,? SSrs G^ene y and Allen's new huild- JNd pr-pareu tlf f®*?** 1 in the Praetrce of medi if 1 atn ut an y time. Persons- wishing C'^atLewr. l W* C «' can cal! on Messrs. L ' can a’,*, i Saw y er ’ s and obtain informa delivered.® m< ** ug9 tlk ‘ re ’ wbich win X>K J. 0. BUNT. The systoms of liver ri I Iff Iff a RT ft II complaint are uneasiness VI M MOMS "| and Pain in the side. M 1 ill ill V ill) I Sometimes the pain is in ■ the shoulder, and is mis ■■■■■■BaaiHßßaaHaHpa taken for rheumatism. The stomach is affected w ith loss of appeUte and sick ness, bowels in general Costive, sometimes alternating with lax. The head is troubled with pain, and dull heavy sensation considerable loss of memory accom panied with painful sensation of having left undone something which onght to have been done. Often cora- and low spirits. Some- | B ““ B,fT ' ll " ,r 1 times, some of the above i ' ■■ » ¥t ■■■» I symptorAs attend the dis- I I li L' If I ease, and at other times I 11 I I il 11 I very few of them; but I | the Liver is generally the MHaaaiBvnHBHPHHHMi organ most involved. Cure the Liver with DR. SIMMONS’ Liver Regulator, A preparation of roots and herbs, warranted to be strict ly vegetable, and can do no injury to anyone. It has been used by hundreds, and kno'wn for the last 35 year3 as one of the most reliable, efficacious and harmless preparations ever offered to the suffering. If taken regularly and persistently, ii is sure to cure. ," .■ ■ .vo.nil.im yn| Dyspepsia, headache, inn ri (TT a rn rw n ■jaundice, costiveness.sick I II jt<T | I IT|] || B headache, chronic diarr- H Illill jJILI 1 U Il#B hcea, affections of the H I bladder, camp dysentery, affections of the kidneys, fever, nervousness. chills, diseases of the skin, impurity of the blood, melancholy, or depression of spirits, heart burn, colic, or pains in the bowels, pain in the head, fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain in back and limbs, asthma, erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis eases generally. Prepared only by J. 11. ZEILIIV & CO., Trice *1: by mail $1.85. Druggists, Macon, Ga. The following highly respectable persons can fully at test to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to whom we most respectfully refer: Gen. W. S. Holt, President S. W. R. R. Company; R *v -T. Felder, Perry, Ga.; Col E. K Sparks, Albany, Ga.; George J Lunsford, Esq., Conductor 8. W. It. R.; C Masterson, Esq, Sheriff Bibb county; J A. Butts, Bainbridge, Ga ; Dykes «fe Sparhawk, Editors Floridian, Tallahassee; Rev. J. W. Burke. Macon, Ga.; Virgil Powers Esq., Superintendent S. W. R. li.; Daniel Bui lard, Bullard's Station, Macon and Brunswick R. R., Twiggs county, Ga.; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory, Macon, Ga.; Rev. K F. Easterlinn, P. E. Florida Con ference; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor Macon Telegraph. For sale bv John F Henry, New York, Jno D. Park, Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, New Orleans, and all Drug gists. apl2-ly SIXTY-FIVE FIRST PRIZE MEDALS AWARDED. THE GREAT Southern Piano : J ~ v MANUFACTORY. "WIVE. Sc OCX, MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND. SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOFORTES, BALTIMORE, MD. r IMIESE Instruments have been before the 1 Public for nearly Thirty Years, and upon their excellence alone attained an unpurchased pre-eminence, which pronounces them unequalled. Their TONE combines great power, sweetness and fine singing quali ty, as well as great purity of Intonation and Sweetness throughout tho entire scale. Their TOUCH is pliant and elastic, and entirely free from the stiffness found in so many Pianos. IdXT WORKMANSHIP they are unequalled using none but the very best seas oned material, the large capital employed in our busi ness enabling us to keep continually au immense stock of lumber, .fee., on hand. All our Square Pianos have our New Improved Over strung Seole and the Agraffe Treble. We would call special attention to our late improve ments in GRAND PIANOS AND SQUARE GRANDS, Patented*August 14, 1566, which bring the Piano nearer perfection than has yet been attained. Every Piano fully warranted 5 Years We have made arrangements for the Sole Wholesale Agency for the most celebrated PARLOR ORGANS AND MELODKONS, which we offer, Wholesale and Retail, at Lowest Factory Pi ices. WM. KNABE & CO. septl7-6m Baltimore, Md. “OUR FATHER’S HOUSE;” or, THE UNWRITTEN WORD. By Daniel March, D. D., Author of the popular “ Night Scenes.” r IUITS master in thought and language I shows us untold riches and beauties in the Great. House, with its Blooming flowers. Singing birds, Waving palms. Polling clouds, Beautiful bows. Sacred mountains, Delightful rivers, Mighty oceans. Thunder ing voices. Blazing heavens and vast universe with countlesss beings in millions of worlds, and reads to us in each the Unwritten World, Rose-tinted paper, or nate engravings and superb binding. “Rich and varied in thought.’’ “C haste.” “Kasy and graceful in style.” “Correct, pure and elevating in its tendency.” “Beau tiful and good.” “A household treasure.” Commenda tions like the above from College Presidents and Pro fessor, ministers of all denominations, and the religious and secular press all over the country. Its freshness, purity of language, with clear, open type, fine steel en gravings, substantial binding, and low price, make it the book for the masses. Agents are selling from 50 to 150 per week. We want Clergymen, School Teachers, smart young men and ladies to introduce the work for us in every township, and we will pay liberally. No intelligent manor woman need be without a paying business. Send for circular, full description, and terms. Address ZIEGLER .fe McCURDY, 16 S. Sixth street, Philadelphia Pa. 139 Race street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 69 Monroe street, Chicago, 111., 503 N. Sixth street, St Louis, Mo. seplo-4m or, 102 Main street, Springfield, Mass. “THE MONROE ADVERTISER? VOLUME FIFTEEN. A First-Class Democratic Newspaper! Campaign which will sonn be innu- I gurated, and ivhich will culminate in the election of Congressional and Legislative Representatives in November, promises to be one of the most important and interesting epochs in the history of the State. In view of this fact., it is the duty of every person te sub scribe for some available newspaper. To the people of this section, Tine Monrok Advertiser presents superior claims. No pains will be spared to render the The Advertiser a reliable and efficient newspaper, and each issue will embrace a fair epitome of the week’s news, both foreign and domestic. As heretofore, the local news of this and the adjoining counties will be made a specialty. The Advertiser is published in a very populous and wealthy section, and is one of the most available ADVERTISING MEDIUMS in Middle Georgia. To the merchants of Macon and Atlanta, it offers superior inducements for reaching a large, intelligent and prosperous class of people. Terms of advertising liberal. Address, JAMES P. HARRISON, septl7-tf Box 79, Forsyth, Ga. DENTISTRY. r |MIE undersigned being permanently I located inThomston, still tenders thier professional services in the practice of Dentistry to the citizens of Upson and adjoining counties. Teeth inserted on gold silver, adamantine or rubber. All work warranted and a good fit guaranteed. Office up stairs over WILSON SAWYER’S store. _ deoo-ft BRYAN A SAWYF.B. The Southern Farm and Home, A. FIRST CLASS AGRICULTURAL MONTHLY. GEN. W. M. BROWNE, EDITOR, At OO per Year in Advance. THE Second Volume commences with November number. Now is the time to sutb scribe. Address, J. W. BURKE, A CD., octS-tf Macon, Ga. THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1870. NEWS. T ermont has a man with a beard seven feet long. A Chippewa Indian is preaching Sunday sermons in Troy, N. Y. Wisconsin farmers use dog power for their cider eider mills. Boston imports $5,000 worth of false hair every week. Sweet potato juice is the Jersey cosmetic for clear coinplections. A piece of calico a mile long has been manufactured in New England. sporting club, with fifty members, hunted all one day to kill a quail. Don Pedro, King of Brazil, it is said, intends to come to the United States soon. Virginia has voted to furnish wooden legs to maimed Confederate soldiers. The popular colored ink for writing love letters now is violet, because it fades so soon. The ship Goleonda takes out 300 negro emigrants from Norfolk, Va., to Liberia, Africa. Western corn husks have given large numbers of hogs a disease called the “mad itch.” The tooth of a mastodon, weighing two pounds, was recently found by a child at Mill Creek, Ind. Denver has five shade trees to every in habitant, which is to avoid exigencies in case of hanging. New Yotk young ladies are forming “walking clubs” for the purpose of walking eight or ten miles a day. It is calculated that tight lacing saves this country $2,000,000 in board alone every year. A Louisville paper, six months establish ed, has had four libel suits and a duel, so far. The female school teachers of Crawford county, Indiana, have pledged themselves not to wear corsets. Anew style of cards for the list of dances at balls and parties is white, made in the shape of a fan, with a pencil for a handle. A young physician of Clinton, lowa, ex ercises himself in a novel manner. He climbs up a smoke stack 150 feet high, six times a day. A Kentuckian wants SIO,OOO damages from a newspaper which published a first rate obituary notice of him before he was dead. A census taker in. Missouri has found one unmarried woman who acknowledged to the age of Thirty. He wrote “heroine” opposite her name. Later—lt is since as certained that she is a widow. October the 29th, a pair of San Jose lovers, both under age, came to San Fran cisco, hired a steam tug, proceeded a marine league from the shore, and were duly mar ried. A fossil feather has been found by Dr. Hayden, Wyoming Territory, and it is said to be the first specimen on record. Scien tific men have not decided whether it be longs to a real bird, or to some link between bird and reptile. The New Hampshire Telegraph relates that seven sportsmen armed with double barreled guns, surrounded a squirrel in a tree, or a tree with a sqirrel “into” it, in the woods of Hollis, and as the squirrel jumped, bang went the whole lot, and— “the squirrel got away.” Mud-turtle catching is said to be a re munerative business at Richmond, Indiana. One sportsman captured 775, weighing a ton and a half. They sell for five cents per pound live weight. The citizens of Richmond must be surfeited with mud turtle soup. A pine tree was recently cut in Hebron township, Potter county, Pa., which show ed the marks of a sharp instrument at the heart. On counting the concentric circles it was found to have been thirty-nine years old when the cutting was done, and when finally cut down two hundred and seventy six years old. An eccentric individual at Cambridge, Mass., receutly procured three marriage licenses on different days from the City Clerk, with his own name inserted in each. In reply to the inquiry of one of the officials, he said that two of the women had refused to marry him beoause be had not asked them before procuring the license. A man in New Hamsbire has a pair of boots that were made for him when he was married—thirty years ago. He has only used them for wedding-boots since; but he has lost many wives, and wedded so much, that they are badly worn. He says they can’t stand more than three more weddings, nor he either. A foot-ball manufacturer, casting about for a light and permanently elastic stuffing for his balls, hit upon sponge cut into small pieces and treated with glycerine. The material proved so decided a success that he patented the idea, and sold his pa’ent to be applied to upho stery purposes for $75,000. A wealthy lady of New York recently went through an extraordinary perform ance. She gave out her engagement to a gentleman in Washington, had the cards sent out, the guests came in numbers, many presents were sent in, the clergyman was ready, the bride waiting, but the groom came not. On an explanation being de manded of the astonished gentleman, it appeared that the whole thing was a delu sion or an invention of the lady’s, without the slightest knowledge on his part. It was a sad case of “marriage on the brain.” Prof. Cocker, of Michigan University, an Englishman himself, spent the summer in the “old country,” and tells the story that one well- informed person demonstrated to him the impossibility of America’s becom ing a great nation, because she had no coal, and expressed a commendable degree of surprise when he learned that when we had scooped all the coal out of some of oar districYsr, their little island could be dropped clear out of sight in the hole. RELIGIOUS NOTES. New Yoak preachers get from $5 to SSOO for tying the knot. The Archbishop of Paris has given per- | mission to use horse flesh on fast days. Bishop Simp3on has declared in favor of woman suffrage. A Baptist Church in New Orleans was recently offered the benefit of a horse race to cancel its debts. The Church of the Immaculate Concep tion, in Washington City, was dedicated last Sunday. A Hindoo widow has donated $2,500 to enlarge a school of the London Missionary Society at Burhampore, India. Indianapolis is about to establish a Sun day school especially for newsboys and bootblacks. The Lutheran Synod of Northern Indi ana elected, as a life director of its mission ary society, &ing William of Prussia. Father Benson and thirty of the “breth ren” have sailed from Europe to found a monastry in this country. The General Council of the Lutheran Church of North America assembled at Lancaster, Ohio, on the 3d inst. By order of the Pope, all the churches will be closed during King Victor Emanuels presence in the City of Rome. The Catholic cathedral at lowa City having been built on au insecure foundation, is expected to fall at any moment. It cost SBO,OOO. A layman of New York offers to maintain for a year a Methodist Minister at Havana, Cuba, to preach in English and study the language of the people. A spiritual strike is recorded in Elko, Cal. By digging where a medium indicat ed some believers uncovered a ledge which panned out as high as $15,000 per ton. Tho Greek Church is about to open a‘ chapel in London, one in New York, one in New Orleans, while San Francisco has become the See of a Greek Archbishop. Ten or twelve full-blooded Indians desire to become students in Highland University, Kansas, with a view to enter the ministry in the Presbyterian Church. The Ladies’ Missionary Association, of Hartford, Connecticut, have a mission in Mexico, which numbers eight churches and 300 Mexican converts. The opponents of Freemasonry have been holding a convention at West Union, lowa. Dr. Blanchurd, of Wheaton Collegej Illinois, talked for three hours to prove that Mason ry is the identical “harlot of Babylon.” The Bishop of Calcutta has been visiting Bu. rintih, but failed to obtain an interview with the King, because Ilis majesty insist ed that the right reverend gentleman should squat cross- legged on a piece of carpet. Pere Hyacinthe is going to marry that American lady whom he converted to Cath olicism, and who has lately modeled a striking medallion of his handsome, stolid face. A Swedish preacher, who studied thirteen years at three different colleges, is serving a congregation at $350 a 3’ear. He says his wife can earn twice as much by sewing as he can by preaching. Miss Marianna Thompson, a young lady who has just completed a three years’ course of study in a theological school, and graduated, is now preaching at Grand Rapids, Michigan, to a large and influen tial congregation. The Central Advocate urges the appoint ment of a dozen new Methodist Bishops, who shall have restricted fields of labor and be made dependent on their dioceses, and not upon the Book Concern, for their sup port. The New York Sun chronicles the arriv al there of Bishop Paulus, of the Oriental Church, for the purpose of establishing a Greek Chapel in that city. There are many Greek and Russian merchants in New York, it is said, who will be served by this Church. There is a town in northeastern Vermont of nine hundred inhabitants. They do tot maintain a church except by the help of the Home Mission Society. The sum an nually spent in the town for tobacco exceeds five thousand dollars—more than the high way, school and minister tax combined. The Reveil recommends the clergy to warn the people that if they die when fight ing against the Prussians* they will go straight to heaven without any purgatorial difficulty or delay ; but that, if they keep aloof from tho ramparts of France, they will go with terrible swiftness to a very different place. The wife of Rev. C. G. Ames, Unitarian minister of San Jose, Calforr.ia, supplies his pal pit during his vacation absence. Last Sabbath she prepared breakfast, dress ed the children for morning Sunday school, gave the baby over to the care of the grand mother, went to church and preached to the entire satisfaction of the large and crit ical audience. Mr. Spurgeon is about thirty-six years old, and preached one thousand sermons before he was twenty-one. For the last five years 25,0(0 copies a week of his ser mons have been sold. Not less than 14, 000,000 copies bava been sold in England, besides 300,000 in America. From one to threeyolumes have been]published in Welsh, German, Swedish, Dutch and Italian, be sides several sermons in Gaelic, Tamil and the Maori language of New Zealand. One after another, the religious papers are giving their testimony against putting on black as a sign of mourning. The Pitts burg United Presbyterian says : “A fami ly will shroud itself in black for years, as an expression of sorrow for one of its dead. That one may be in heaven, rejoicing with joy unspeakable, while relatives on earth are moving about in heavy and sombre garments, making their lives as gloomy as they can. There is no fitness in the thing. It is often a mere mockery of sorrow.” It also objects to the practice on the ground of its expense to the poor. A Darkey Puzzled. —The New Orleans Picayune tells the following; The partiality of the darkey for the sun is proverbial. At noonday, with the fierce rays shining down on his bare head, the mosquitoes singing around him, and the ffies making amorous dalliance with his nose and lips, he sleeps and dreams. One old darkey in the Fourth district has daily, for months past, selected the door-step of a prominent residence for his noonday nap. Being driven off one day he comes the next. With his head thrown back and his mouth wide open, he snores away to the exceeding discomfiture of the inmates. Called to thu door by this disagreeable diapason a few days since, the lady of the house concluded she would try an experiment. For this purpose she procured a small piece of ice and dropped it into the huge orifice that served as Sambo’s mouth. It disappeared like a shot, and with a cough and a snort, Sambo started to his feet. “Ugh 1” he cried, as the ice sent violent thrills through his stomach. “What dis!” and his fingers clutched nervously the afflicted parts. Just then someone in the house cried out that a big rat had run down “Uncle Sam’s’ throat. This added terror to his pain. Lie rolled on tho parquette. and cried lustily for help. “’Fore God, Missus, he gnawing out’n me, I feels him. Oh, golly, he’s kill’n me,” and the whites of the darkey’s eyes protruded like saucers, and the convulsed and an guished face showed that real pain was strongly enhanced by his imaginary terror. ‘Oh, golly, how he do jump and kick about,’ and Sambo gave himself up to a paroxism of lamentation. “Drink warm water, Uncle Sam, and drown him,” the lady suggested. Without a moment’s hesitation Sam started for the water plug. He turned on the crank aud the water started. Sam glued nis lips to the nozzle until his sides were puffed out like an inflated balloon. “How do you feel now, Uncle Sam ?” inquired the lady, as Sam staggered back to his seat. “I guess he’s drowned, Missus, but here’s what troubling'dis chile : How's that rat gwine to get out’n there” When Shall the New Congress Meet? —The general impression seems to be that at the next session of Congress, winch be gins the first Monday in December, the act compelling each new Congress to organize on the 4tb of March, instead of the first Monday in December, will be repealed. There is a difficulty in the way of the proper organization of the House of Representa tives, from the fact that several of the States do not hold elections for Congress until early in the spring. Os course these States are unrepresented in the new House; that is, in case the organization is effected on the 4th of March instead of the first Monday in December following. The Philadelphia Press, one of Forney’s “two papers, poth daily” gives this reason for the proposed action: “There seems to be a general disposition to repeal the act of Congress which provides for the organization of the new House of Representatives immediately after the ad journment of the old one. It was passed to anticipate and correct some of Andrew Johnson’s aggressions, and as several States will have to vote in the spring and autumn before the new House is full, the older order of things had better be restored.”—Chron icle and Sentinel. Strange History of a Bank Check.— A bank check just received at the Sub- Treasury at New York has a strange histo ry. It was originally issued to one Quar termaster and made payable to another serving among the Indians. The latter paid it to a contractor who, in turn, passed it to certain drovers from Texas. Many months afterward, among the inclosures to a report received at military headquarters from an officer who had been on a peace mission to certain friendly Indians, was a dirty piece of paper, unmistakably the half of a bank check, but not the half which bore the date and signature. The report showed it to have been found in the camp of these Indians. A subsequent report from another officer engaged on an other friendly mission to another band of Indians in a different section of the country, inclosed with other vouches of the satisfac tory result of the conference, the missing half of this very check. The mystery of the first half was solved. The unfortunate drovers had been attacked and killed by Indians belonging to two different bands, and in accordance with custom, the spoils had been equally divided between the two bands down to the minutest articles. There is a frog out in Fond-du-Lac, W s., if the circumstantial narrative of the local chronicler is to be believed, who may fairly take his place among the frogs of history. He lives, to be particular, at the Patty House, in Fond-du-Lac, in a glass jar filled with water. A diminutive ladder runs from the bottom of the vessel to the top. and just above the water-line is a plat form, on which his frogship is to be seen in fine weather sitting perfectly motionless as long as the dry eeason lasts. On the slight est indication of a change in the atmosphere he quits his perch and takes to the water, returning only at long intervals to feed upon the flies which are thrown to him. As he detects the approach of rain long before the most experienced human observer, his first dive is always the signal for taking in the clothes from the lines, and for getting out the umbrellas and goloeshoes. Such a batra cbian as that ia at once a natural phenome non, a valuable domestic appendage, and, in the words of Artemus Ward, an “amuosin little cuss.” Cotton Manufactures in France. —A correspondennt of the Manchester Exami ner says : “Before the war commenced, the weekly consumption of cotton in France amounted, according to several authorities, to about 13.000 bales, averaging English, 4 O' lbs. each, of which about 4,000 b «leS were con sumed bv the mills in Alsatia. Since Oc tober I3th, some further reduction may have taken place, but it cannot be of much moment, and France is, therelore, probably still consuming cotton at the rate of 6,00 u or 7,000 bales per week. In other words, one-haif of her 6,750,000 cotton spindles existing before the wtrr, according to the best information, are still working full time. A veneuadle couple, aged respectively sixteen and fourteen, were maraied in Whitley county, Ind., last Sunday. Russia’s Grievance —The Treaty or 1856.—The treaty of Paris of 1856, by which the Crimean war was legally terminated, contains many regulations concerning the ndl>|6oC the seas in general, some stipula tions which especially refer to the Black seay and which are avowedly made to securo tin? dominions of the Sultan against sudden attack from other maritime Dowers. Sec tion 11 stipulates that henceforth the Biack seals to be neutral, whilst the merchant vessels of every nation are permitted to trade and navigate upon it, its waters are closed forever to the war vessels of the bordering States not less than those of all the others. Section 13 forbids Russia as well as Turkey to establish any arsenals or war depots on the coast of the Black sea. A few months afterwards, it was stipulated by the various signers of this treaty, that Russia as well as Turkey should be permitted to keep ten small war vessels each, on the Black sea, in order to maintain in common the police in those waters. These are the articles which Russia now declares to be abolished, and eventually disregarded by her. Bristol Courier. Stamp Duties. —There seems to be some misundeistanding among business men gen erally as to the construction of that part of the act of July 14, 1870, which exempts “promissory notes for a less sum than one hundred dollars from stamp duty. The law as it now stands, divested of its verbiage, is as follows: The tax on checks, drafts or orders drawn for any sum what,evever upon any bank or trust company, and a like amount when drawn “for any sum exceed ing ten dollars, upon any other person or persons, companies or corporations-” Bills of Exchange (inland), draft or order, for the payment of any sum of money not exceed ing one hundred dollars, otherwise than at sight or on demand, or any promissory noto (for a less sum than one hundred dollars), are exempt from stamp duty on and after tho 181 of Oct. 1870. Evidences of debt such as “I. 0. U. $100,” “due you $100,” usually called “due bills,” or promissory notes to “pay at sight,” are liable (as in the first paragraph above) to the two cent stamp duty. A Suggestion for a Fair Election. — The lion. E. G. Cabaniss makes a suggest tion concerning the method of getting a fair election, so much desired by the Radi cals. Judge Cabaniss says: Let somo reliable person in each district of each county take a list of all the voters in hia district. Then let the names bo brought together and arranged in alphabetical order. If this paper, containing the names of all the voters thus arranged were placed in the hands of the managers, or any of them, it would be easy to detect a fraudulent vote. Or, if any one would vote in a dif ferent county, his name would not be re corded and the fraud Tho managers have a right to challenge voters, if thoy think proper and desire to secure a fair election. The Democrats all desire a fair election, and it is worth while to take all possible pains to secure it. We hope something of the sort \*ill be dortea Who wishes to live in the predicament of the people of South Carolina ? Mr. Boutwell’s Progress. —Under the provisions of the Act of Congress providing for a redistribution of the Currency, which passed last July, it is ascertained at tho Treasury Department that of the $54,000,- 000 allowed to the West and South, with $25,000,000 contingent, there have thus far been but $4,000,600 called sos, and thus far but two gold banks have been established —one in Boston and the other in San Fran cisco. As yet, capitalists have failed to discern the advantage of exchanging six per cents for four or five per cents to bank on. We are under the impression that be fore the lion. Secretary can effect a very marked change in the disposition of bond holders and benkers. additional legislation will bo required. A Speck of War. —Governor Vaughn, of Utah, yesterday ordered the arrest of sev eral officers of the Mormon militia for arming and drilling in violation of the late Governor Shaeffer’C proclamation and en gaging in rebellion against the United States under the act of Congress of 1861. The saints contend the constitution of the United States guarantees the right of the people to bear arms, and that the action of the Fed eral officials in endeavoring to destroy tho Mormon militia organization is consequent ly both illegal and unjustifiable.— Kcio York lterald. The U. S. Supreme Court has refused to restore to the docket the case of Deming vs. the United States, involving the legal fei der question, whi£h leaves the decision of last winter to stand as the law of the land. That decision; it will be recollected, dec'ar ed that greenbacks, issued by authority of the Congressional act of 1862, were not a good tender in satisfaction of contracts ex isting prior to the passage of said act. Alt. the Congressmen who arrive in Washington immediately rush to the Whito House. It is presumed that they do not forget to take their little offerings with them. A perfect petrified seal was exhumed lately from a mine near Wadsworth, Nevada, at a point five thousand feet above the level of the Pacific. Jefferson Davis and lady are now in Mississippi, and, it is said, intend to pay a visit to the old Davis estate now in tho posseession of an ex-slave of the family. The latest dodge in ballots is to cross out the names of candidates in invisil la ink, which becomes black by the time the votes are counted. BctPler says he will take a “decided stand” about war with Great Britain. In our war he always took a decided run.— Chicago Times. A Ohio girl has laid by the sum of six hundred dollars, all gained by making corn husk door-mats at ten cents each. It has been discovered that ex-Seeretary Cox cannot be President of the United States, having been born in Canada. NO. 1.