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I <u»tt»r» not what bu*l ress yon are engaged in, for, if
f intcltlgrttlv and industriously pursued, a fortune will
he r hr rmi 1 Hunt a Merchants’ Magazine.
' thrr [ began to advertise mv Ironware freely,
i."i.«inistt inrreaaed with amazing rapidity. For ten
ve»« p»*t I have spent. £BO.OOO yearlv to keep my
superior ware* before the public. Had 1 been timid in
•dvrrtWng, I never should have possessed my fortune
nf|£hs",(l<Hi‘’,_McLeod Belton, Birmingham.
1 Advertising line Midas' touch, turns everything to
r " 1 ft' h, your daring men craw millions to their
roffrri —fltnart Clay
'' ' |,lf audacity is to love, and boldness to war, the
1 >i fi. use of printer's I ik, is to success In business.*’—
iw oher.
“'Hie newspapers mode Fisk.”—T. Fisk, Jr.
-bo.it the aid of advertisements I could have done
f li njin my .peculations. 1 have the most Complete
a. 10 “printers’ink.” Advertising is the “royal road
t'ouilnsst —Barnntn.
Professional Carts.
f REDDING, Attorn ev at. Luw,
y * Barnesvire, pike c.o, Ga. Will practice in the
comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
, ''cby special on tract Al. tiusiness promptly
I . S[ " to - Ihhce in Elder's building, over Chamber’s
1 ‘ lire - aug6- y.
I ij'DIAS BEALL. Attorney at Law,
y TwmMton, (la. Will practice in the Flint Ctr*
‘»nd elsewhere by special contract. aug27-ly
\\ L WEAVER. Attorney at Law,
r * I’humtgton, Ga. Will practice in all the
’ 'of the Flint Circuit, and elsewhere bv special
ntr *t )une2s-ly
JOHN I. HALL. Attorney ami Counsellor
> r , !!• w „ practice iu the counties composing
... 1 . ‘ ireuit.. in the Supreme Court of (Georgia,
v te District Court of the United States for the
‘ TANARUS) ?rn tnd Sinvbem Districts of (Georgia.
‘oontnaton. C, a „ June 13th. 187<»-1y.
*1 • ' n 'niMAN. Attorney at Law.
th,. wn'T"?"*- r,a Will Practice in the Courts of
Pr-MmA F ' UeMhe - le hjr Special Contract.
jiin-M iv ** ven to all collection of claims.
SMITH. Attorney and
ftftprs hOoV r fDflSce Corner Whitehall and
T'crior r n „l,' s Ga. Will practice in the Sll
- r °wcta and Flint. Circuits, the Su-
Irift t’nn', ( ! p iV fate, and the United States' Dis
''''Y 0 ”! 1 unicatlons addressed to him at
1 ■ receive prompt attention. april9-ly
A PERSON & McCALLA. Attorneys
h- v *‘ , *’• tWington, Ceorgla. Will attend regu
e».unji 1 ' ractice in the Superior Courts of the
M n . 0 ’ .. Newton. RutU. Henry, Spalding. Pike.
j, fr '*• Psnn. Morgan, DeKalb. Gwinnette and Jas
dec•o-lj
m - MATIIEWS. Attorney at
*" m P'winr P r Mtlceall the counties
•>«»', " , DbtUahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
declO-ly 1
\\ WILLIS, Attorneys at Law
'M 0 , 1 ' Ga. Prompt attention given to
- * ' t our hands. declO-ly
f'TsvV oV DDE, Attorney at Law
e, in United’*l* P r »«tice in the State Courts
"* rafl nali, o*, Stßt « District Court at Atlanta and
dec 0-ljr
JA HB\T a ’
* Ti U<\ <;» ttorn °y at Law. Barnes*
Circuit .« 1 i 1 P ra <?tice in all the counties of
'' ‘‘ M<l 8u Preme Court of the State.
Attorney at
u„ flt i** **f the Ch.vo' practice In all the
ri Wether Sotmt| es ftboacbe ® trcalt « an d Upson and
- '■ decl3-ly
R Rogers ■*
#f R«dici«^ V 1 continue the practice
- »t B. D. Hardaway*. Drug
t) dectS-ly
1/notify thl’ni’ MaNNAII, is pleased to
v P r »ctiee 0 t \r<.of °T Upson that he will centinne
0 4 ‘ C!ne ltt Ito Variotu branches at
decl3-ly
i!^‘ G ER. Attorney at Law
United suum District'Courta!^ - °
SSU mIL™ 1 Ch« I have moved up to
V< lrn r ®lfulariv mi y' Al^a’inewbulld-
P r 'pared trf • ,n the P r *<?tle« ©f medl*
N?^«fPSrJJtTn2.“fc ttu,e ’ I>CTM ™ Wtahlng
at Uwu ‘ , r%n ca,! «> M-^r.
can ateo Baw Ker’a and obtain InfoTtna
there, which wtli
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shoulder, and Is mts-
The stomach Is affected with
ness, bowels in general costive, sometimes alt«.« IKS
with lax. The hea-1 N with nafft afd ®
heavy sensation considerable lots of memory
pamed with painful sensation Os bavins left 2.
something Which ought to have been done.
and low spirits. Bome
times, some of the shove
I f 1 IT n n I symptoms attend the dis-
I I; I l H! K I eftß *‘ aDd st oth ®r limes
tl 1 I u II I very few of them; but
- | th * Liver b generally the
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Hen. W. 8. Holt, President 8. W. tl. R. Cothpany:
R>iy J. Felder, Perry, Ga.: Col E. K Sparks, Albany,
Ga.; George J Lunsford. Esq.. Conductor S. W R 11*
C Masterson, Esq., Sheriff Bibb county; J A. Biitfi’
P.ainhridge, Ga ; Dykes At Snarhawk. Editors FYoridian!
Tallahassee; Rev. J. W. Burke, Macon, Ga.; Virgil
Powers Esq., Superintendent 8. W. R. It.; Dame! Bul
lard, Bullard's Station. Macon and Brunswick R. R
Twiggs county, Ga ; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory,
Macon, Ga ; Rev. K F. Easterllnn, P. E. Florida Con
ference; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
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Every Piano fully warranted 5 Years
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“OUR FATHER’S HOUSE;”
or, THE UNWRITTEN WORD.
By Damf.l Marcii, D. D., Author of the popular
“ Night Scenes.**
r IUIIS master in thought and language
I sh<*ws tis tlntold riches and beauties iu the
Great House, with its Blooming flowers. Singing birds,
Waving palms. Rolling clouds, Beautiful hows 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.’’ ‘ ('haste.” “Easy 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 tor 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
tis in every township, and we will pay liberally. No
intelligent manor wotnati need b« without a paying
business, bend for circular, full description, and terms.
Address ZIEGLER A McCURDY,
16S. Sixth street, Philadelphia Pa.
133 Race street, Cincinnati. Ohio,
69 Monroe street, Chicago, 111..
503 N. Sixth street., St. Louis, Mo.
»eplo-4m or, 102 Main street, Springfield, Mass.
“THE MONROEADVERTISER?
'VOX-.TTIMIE FIFTEEN.
A First-Class Democratic Newspaper!
THE Campaign which will soon be inau
gurated, and which will culminate in the election
of Congiessiona! 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. Tiir Monkok Advertiser presents superior
claims. <
No pains will be spared to render the Thx ABVKBTiarB
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 loeal news of thii and the adjoining
counties will be made a specialty.
Tim Advertiser is published in a very popnlons 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.
DENTTISTIIYr
npilE umlersiened being permanently
X located in Thomston, still tenders thier professional
services in the practice of Dentistry to the ritixens of
Upson and adjoining counties. Teeth inserted on g .ld
silver, adamantine or rubber. All work warranted and
a gn*.d fit guaranteed. Office up stairs oter WILSON
SAWYER’S stare. .
deef) ft BRYAtf M SAWYER.
The Southern Farm and Home.
A FIRST CLASS AORICtrtTtrHAL HORTHLT.
GEN. W. NX. BROWNE,
SIMTOI,
At $9 OO p«r Ycsr lit Advance*
THE Second Volume commences with
November number. Now Is the tine to sub
•cribe. Address, J. W. BURKE, A 00,
«Ats Uncna, Ga.
THOM ASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1870.
NEWS ITEMS.
A New York poodle sold for S9O.
The marrying mania in Gotham has met
a checkt
Altogether We Use one million postage
stamps a day.
And now a national donVentldn of laW*
yers is proposed. What next?
Rock Island, 111., is having infants ieft
around on the European plan.
Ap loWa genius has trained a sheep to
participate in deg-fights.
Beads, high-heeled shoes and things, are
fast turning American women into cripples.
The most popular physician at St. Peters
burg is a woman—Madam SualofF.
A Cincinnati dancing club claims the
appellation of “Sorrowful Old Maids.”
Eastern bridal parties now go West, and
Western ditto go East for the bridal trip.
An Ohio girl wouldn’t marry a man
Until he changed his name from Smith to
De Forest Montpenlove.
The best barbers in the World, according
toEu-opean tourists, ate to be found in the
United Staten.
A lady at the Kankakee (Til.) fair, made
a shirt complete in an hour and forty min
utes oh a sewing machine.
A Connecticut girl let a horse take an
apple from her mouth, and bst her nose.
She did hot blame the horse.
_ The cotton crop of last year Was the
sixth largest which has ever been made in
the United States.
Apron festivals are the latest appfobed
arrangement for raising money for charita
ble and religious purposes.
In Los Angelos a China woman who had
committed a petty robbery among her people
was burned at the stake by them.
A lady of Morgan county, Indiana, who
had occasion to discharge her husband,
presented him with SSO, and told him to
“git,” lie got.
Greeley favors Fall pruning for the
bologna-sausage vine, and laying it down
with a covering of mulch during the cold
est weather.
At Terre Haute, Ind., a man recently
repulsed three highway robbers, because he
“had only thirty cents, and would be dref
fle dry in the morning.”
Two old buffers in Joliet have played
10,800 games of seven-up in six months,
and the best man has only four games
ahead.
A lady in Detroit lately took arsenic to
make her complexion white. She succeed
ed end now sleeps in the northeast corner
of a graveyard.
A Louisville itiillenPT attracts attention
to her store nv placing a real, live baby, in
the show window. Crowds collect around
it, wondering what it is.
A Tennessee farmer paid $94, C. 0. D. f
on four “gold watches,’* lately, and on
opening the box found some pieces of cast
iron.
In St. Joseph, Mo., the other day, two
twin sisiers played a game of “seven-up”
for the hand of a young farmer, and the
winner married the man within a week.
From a certain hill-top in the southern
part of Tazewell county, 111., where the
vision extends for twenty miles, nothing
can be seen but corn.
A colony of Minnesota farmers have re
cently settled on firms near Madison, Ga. f
and will go into the business of raising
sheep and wool-growing.
In New York, a man kissed a woman
* for fun.” The jury of a court in which
suit was brought mulcted him in $l5O
damages, on the ground that it raised
“hopes of marriage.”
A Norwich, Conn., lottery brags of the
biggest prize cake ever made in this coun
try. It was moulded in a gas tank, baked
in a forest conflagration and frosted with a
whole cargo of sugar.
A company has been formed at New
York, with a Capital of one million dollars,
to make a canal across the Florida Penin
sula, from Jacksonville to Key West, a dis
tance of twenty miles.
An lowa bride, according to a journal of
that State, “is a merry, warm-hearted,
level-beaded, truthful little angle, manu
factured expressly for the chap Who got
her.”
Military men have discovered anew
remedy for intoxication. It is nothing
more than raw potatoes, which are cut up
in slices and eaten without salt. An ordi
nary “murphy,” it is said, will cure the
most obstinate case in half an hour.
A Montreal gentleman has received a
just punishment for breaking his engage
ment with a young lady, because she dislo
cated her ankle, in learning that she has
succeeded to a large property in her own
right.
The new winter muffs have small look
ing-glasses inserted in the under side,
which makes them very convenient, and In
the next edition of the ptyle we shall have
apartments for the rouge and lily-white,
with an automatic hair-brush attached.
A Mr. Munn, of Philadelphia, was so
overjoyed at the prospect of being relieved
of the care of a grown up daughter, who
was to have been married on Thanksgiving
Day, that he gave her SIOO,OOO. llow
little it takes to please some men I
The big grape vine at Santa Barbara,
Cal,, is five feet two rtiehes in circumference
where the main trunk branches, and the
arbor which it covers is feet by 63. At
these limits the branches are three inches
in diameter and are kept trimmed to pre
vent its spreading oter more groud.
An Indiana constable was sent to arrest
a woman the other day. She seemed per
fectly willing to go to jail, but deeired the
offic et to hold the baby while she went into
an adjoining room to dress. The soft
hearted official has been waiting for the
return of hie prisoner ever since.
THE U ELECTION” IN SOUTH CARO
LINA.
A radical exchange seems to doubt the
truth of an item in the Standard of last
week in reference to the recent farce in
South Carolina, called an election. Per
haps the Following letter from a gentleman
of prominence, residing at Columbia in
that State, who is exceedingly well informed
as to events there transpiring, may shed
some light upon this farce abd vindicate the
justness of our strictures upon the outrage
perpetrated upon the honest citizens of the
Palmetto State by their despicable foes—
the carpet-baggers, negroes and scallawags.
We repeat what we then said that we have
no doubt that the ptnple of South Carolina,
by a large majority, desired the ovefthlow
of Got. Scott and his party, but were either
prevented from eipressing their wishes or
weto cht -ted out of the force and utility of
that * fission, after it was made, by the
rascality of the leading radicals The letter
referred to is dated October 24, and we
commend its perusal, not only to democrats,
who severely condemn and denounce such
outrages, but also to those Fepublicane who
support the administration in sending
troops north to make war upon sovereign
States and intimidate and hinder the people
in their free exercise of the right of suffrage,
under the pretense of upholding the ‘purity’
of the ballot:”
“The election in this State is over. The
result is the actual subversion and destruc
tion of the franchise in South Carolina.
On the seaboard and islands, the negroes
in savage crowds held the ballot-boxes and
crammed them with all the radical tickets
sent to them. Thi3 negro woolen were even
more violent than the men * and, with arms
in hand, these brUtal mobs attacked, beat
and drove off every man, white or black,
who showed or tried to vote the reform
ticket. In the middle countries the negro
militia did the eame service, and although
negro boys of fifteen to twenty years of age
were seen to vote, no white man ventured
to challenge them. Not only minors, but
Lions, well-known convicts for burglary,
grand larceny. &c., voted and repeated
often enough to count from five to ten votes
each.
The conservative tiegroes otily exhibited
their Sentiments passively, by staying away
from the polls. In the upper countiep,
where thb White population is in the as
cendancy, the people were overawed by
Grant’s troops in addition to Scott’s negro
militia. The law of violence and intimida
tion controlled everywhere ; savage negro
mobs on the seaboard, negro militia and
United States troops in the up country. It
is ridiculous to call this an election.
Besides all this, the present infamous
election law, passed by Scott’s Legislature,
keeps the whole matter, as it was designed
to do, in the hands of the robber cfew.
Three commissioners are appointed by ScCtt
to e«»j?h coanty, who have the entire contfol
of thv eleUion. Those, in every instance,
are Scott’s tools. Theyj In tUi*h, appoint
their creatures managers at the different
boxes, and when the polls close the boxes
are all placed in the private custody of the
three commissioners and kept by them for
ten days, during which time they count
the votes privately and declare the result.
Nearly all these commissioners and mana
gers were candidates on the Radical ticket
in the late election. Hence very little in
terest is felt as to what their returns will
be. It is taken for granted they will report
heavy Radical majorities every where, except
where the fraud would be too transparent,
where the white population is vastly in ex
cess. This is the whole history in a feVT
words.*’ —Maine Standard.
A Mean War Tr ck. —It is no small
privilege to hear Virgil Delphlni Taris
talk. He was one of the most prominent
politicians of Maine In its palmy days of
Democratic rule. I had the pleasure of
listening to him the other day, and will try
to tell two of hia stories. I think the corn-*
pany were talking about great facts of eat
ing, when V. D. P. struck in.
“Ah,” said he, plaintively, “how great
injustice has been done by the historians
of the late war I How unfair has been the
distribution of honors and the awards of
credit for its successful termination. It is
recorded that hard fighting and good gen
eralship brought about the consummation,
and soldiers have been rewarded, in ac
knowledgment of their military services.
But what is the truth about this matter?
The (act is, no credit belonged to Grant or
Sherman for puttiug an end to the war. I
happen to know how it was done, and that
the honors should be paid to twd humble
Oxford county boys, whose names are hard
ly known outside of their own county. It
was during the last weeks of the struggle,
tfhen the Union array was encircling Rich
mond. The Confederates were known to
be desperately short of supplies—the men
Bursting on one half a pint of dry corn
per day. Intelligence of their position was
brought to General Grant. He smoked a
dozen cigarsj while ruminating on the
probabilities it suggested. Finally he took
a resolution. Calling upon the commander
of one of the Maine regiments, he ordered
two men—Sam Damon and Almon Wash,
burn—to be detailed for special service.
He dispatched them beyond his lines, ex
pecting them to be taken prisoners. His
expectations were realized, and bis strategy
was sdcceseful. The Confederate army was
burdened with the subsistence of two mSn
whose places were never filled. Gen. Grant
took a bunch of cigars and sat down, con
fident of speedy results. He was not mis
taken. In a very few days the two prisoners
bad exhausted the rebel commissary de
partment ; surrender was inevitable.”
A rtw years ago one Dr. Elder Wrote a
pamphlet to establish the fact that “a pub
lic debt is a public blessing/’ and when
Jay Cooke was selling the bonds of the
United States, he printed and scattered the
pamphlet broadcast over the land. It now
happens that Mr. Boutwell wishes to keep
up the high rate of taxation wbieb has re
sulted from th*B “pnblic blessing,” to the
end that be may have a surplus in the
treasury to apply to its extinguishment;
and he avers most solemnly that “whatever
arguments may be adduced, or whatever
theories may be advanced, tne fact must
ever remain that a public debt is a public
evil/’
How to punish a hungry man—Drive a
steak into him*
Passlno AWaV.—A Ptnsylvania contem
porary very tersely expresses its conviction
that the republican party is in a “bad way.”
The late elections have caused ftiCkfening
sensations to pass through every Hbfe of
the organization. A g-eat many men of
character and solidity of intellect have left
the party since the close of the wkr, so that
to-day its leaders comprise but few of the
leading men in its formation, and of those
who can lay any claim to its leadership,
there are but feW who sympathize with
each other’s sentiments. They see columns
of the “Grand Army of the Republic”
wavering, and each has a specific for hold
ing them from breaking. Grant sends soL
diers, and he watches the elections by the
aid of unconstitutional laws backed by the
bayonet. That has tailed. Some thought
the enfranchisement of the negroes would
hold the party. Sambo went promptly to
the polls and supported the party of frauds,
of malice, and revenge, but still the columns
faltered, and the negro vote has proved an
element of weakness rather than strength.
Greely, foreseeing the tfoilblc ahead, re*
vived his pet theory of protection to Amer
ican manufacturers to the detriment of the
consumer. A ffew Wiser than Greeley be
gin to discover that protection will not
answer. People want cheap goods, that is,
the privilege of purchasing their commodi
ties of those they can buy the cheapest.
Consequently the New York Tribune and
the Chicago Tribune—the East and West—
are at loggerheads on the question of tariff.
Such a feeling is engendered by the advoca
cy of protection that it is probable that
several low tariff Repuolican members of
Congress will coalesce with the Democrats
on the tariff question and thus defeat the
protectionists, and likewise the only live
Republican issue.
The Bepublican party is like a camel
which survives a long time without food
and drink, having the faculty of drawing
dn the hump or excrescence on the back fur
nourishment, when all other resources are
withheld. The Republican party took a
good-sized hump on its back when it elected
Grant. Since that time it has traveled
over a deseft Waste, fioding nothing green
to eat, brackish waters to drink, and blast
ing winds filled with blinding dust. The
negro even is less sweet to Republican
senses. And as we have said, the party
feels sick, a sort of goneness ; and were it
not for the excrescence on the back of the
party, the Administration, from which to
draw temorary supplies by absorption—by
absorbing a part of themselves, the party
would expire at once, “as bubbles do when
they burst.”
Important Decision in tite United
States Circuit Court.— ln the case of
George W. Hatch vs. William 11. Bur
roughs, Judge Wood in Savannah, Tuesday
morning, delivered ah able ahd lengthly
opinion upon the demurier of plaintiff to
various pleafc of defendant. This was a
suit by the plaintiff, who was a holder of
the bills of the Merchants’ and Planters’
Bank, against Burroughs, a stockholder
thereof. It is unnecessary to notice the
pleas in detail and at length. The three
main points embraced in the deeision were:
Ist, That under the charter of the Mer
chants’ and Planters’ Bank* the stockholders
by the terms of the charted Were not sure
ties and only ultimately liable, but that
they were primary debtors with the bank,
and primarily liable to the holders.
2d. That although the bills sued on may
have been issued during the war for the
purpose of aiding the rebellion, and actually
used for that purpose, and on that account
illegal, still, in the hands of a bona fide
purchaser for value without notice, they
would be upheld and tbe holder would be
entitled to recover on them.
3d. That it does not matter *hat the
holders of the bills paid for them ; they will
not be restricted in their recovery to that
price, but would be entitled to recover tbe
full amount expressed upon the face of the
bills } that the price paid for the bills could
by no means effect the recovery, and the
mere fact that tbe bills in this case were
bought at fifteen cents on the dollar would
have no other effect than probably that of
suggesting to a prudent man that the Bank
has suspended and was insolvent.
The McClurg-BroWn fight in Missouri, is
bringing to the surface some strange facts
in relation to the previous position of the
parties on the slavery question. It appears
that Mr. Brown and most ot his party who
stood by him in the late contest, were eman
cipationists when Missouri was a slave
State, and when Drake and other leaders of
the McClurg faction were pro-slavery men.
The latter, as Radicals, stood out against
negro enfranchisement long after the senti
ment of the party elsewhere sanctioned it,
and they deprived the negro of suffrage* and
kept him so deprived in Missouri until the
Fifteenth Amendment took the question out
of their hands, just as they had been pro
slave.y till others treed the slaves. But no
sooner was the negro armed with the ballot
and made a political power in the State,
than McClurg swung round on his side, be.
came a double-dyed Radical, and opposed to
the enfranchisement of white men. And the
negroes acted with McClurg and bis party
of hypocrites ; voted for the frten who had
been their enemies in the Radical party,
and thus disgusted intelligent men in all
organizations. This feature in the Missouri
contest has produced an altered state of
feeling among those who have heretofore
been the strongest advocates of negro suf
frage, and the St. Louis Republican re
marks that the Democracy in Missouri is so
strong and Degro suffrage is so weak, that,
if a suggestion shall ever be made to take
from colored voters the weapon they have
handled so awkwardly, it will come from
another source than the Democratic party.
B bow v and Adams —The Urbana (Ohio)
Union hoists a ticket consisting of B. Grata
Brown for President and John Quincy
Adams for Yice President in 1872. Not to
be behindhand, the Uniotr also ftrrtiishes a
platform sos thS candidates* as follows t
I. The jurisdiction of tbs National Qot
ernment supreme and exclusive in national
affairs. The jurisdiction es the State gov
ernment supreme and exclusive in local and
personal affairs.
11. Defense reform.
111. Reform in the civil sertice.
IV. Restoration of lawful money.
V* Universal amnesty and onrrenal
suffrage.
FUN.
The followih|( reported afl an authentic
•®}*£ ** n 'j ▼ouch for its truth t
Warned at Flintatone. by the Rev. Mr.
Wind stone, Mr. Neheraiah Sandstone to
Mim Wilhelmina Whetatone, both of Lime
6<.jd6. Look out for Brimstone next.
At Lynn. Mass., a school teacher aeked
a little girl who the first man was. She
answered that she did not know. The
question ♦as then ptit to the next, an Irish
child, who answered loudly, “Adam, sir "
with apparent eatisfadtioti. *‘Lawl" said
the first scholar, “you needn't feel so proud
about it; he wan't an Irishman I”
Cutting. —A young lady, possessing
more vanity than pefsonal charms, remark
ed, itt a jesting tone, but with an earnest
glance, that “she traveled on her good
looks." A rejected lover being present,
remarked, he “oould now account for the
young lady’s never bating been far fYoni
home;"
A man at Oshkosih, Wisconsin, has in»
vented a parlor gindstone that will have an
extensive run. lie places a small grind*
stone on a parlor table, hitches a belt to his
wife’s jaw, and while she is sodding, as the
case may be, he does up the family grind
mg. of knives and things just as easy as
rolling off* a log. A large grindstone, run
by about one sewing society power, would
be an improvement on that, for heavy
grinding.
Mortifying. —A young man who had
just begun to shave for a beard, stepped
into a barber-shop, and with a grand swag*
ger desired to be shaved. The barber went
through the usual movements, and the
sprig jumped up with a flourish, exclaim*
ing: “Mvfoin fellow, what is the charge?"
“Ob, no charge," replied the barber. “No
charge I How's that ?"
“Why, I'm always thankful when I can
get a soft oalf-skiu to sharpen my razor
on."
A Gallant Mator. —ln Louisville, Ken
tucky, a few weeks ago, an ordinance was
passed by the Council to protect ladies
from the insults of street-corner loafers.
After deliberating over the matter for a
considerable time, the Mayor has vetoed
the ordinance for the following reasons :
If this ordinance were to be strictly en
forced, all our adult male population would
be liable to be sent to jail, and I am afraid
not a few would have to be fined, while it
is even possible that some of your honorable
selves might be surprised to find yourselves
victims to its sweeping prohibitions. *
* * It is not even unlikely that the
ladies are not displeased at being observed
by the gentlemen, though I would not have
your honorable body understand me as
confidently asserting this of our fair friends.
For my part, I think there is nothing on
earth more pleasing than a handsome, well
behaved woman, and the man that cannot
appreciate and be greatful for such ought
to be fined, but to fine a man for looking
with admiration on the ladies is something
I cannot approve of.
The heads of Bureaus in Washington
have made their annual movement for an
increase of salaries. They are paid only
three thousand dollars A year for a service
which they contrive to render very light—
the real burdens of their offices being
tained by more competent and comparative
ly poorly-paid subordinates. They are
always crying for more compensation, and
yet never onS of theft! was ever heard to say
practically that he had not enough when
ever it was suggested that he might be re
lieved from his ill-requited cares. They
are proverbially a body of political paupers,
who are indomitably tenacious of office upon
any terms of compensation. They are for
the most part men who have been members
of Congress and, being repudiated by their
constituents, fasten themselves upon the
Government, where, for a nominal service,
they are richly rewarded for their pulitical
disappointments.
Or the localities in this country in which
tea culture has been attempted, the Tennes
see mountain region seems most assimilated,
in climated characters, to the Asiatic tea
countries. Tne climates of Florida and of
California, with their wonderful equability,
seem to vary at the greatest possible angle
of difference from those of China and Assam.
If these differences of climate shall be
found as unimportant as the differences of
soil are in China, it will be impossible to
theorize upon the question from any known
facts, and the practicability of tea culture
in this country must be settled by experi
ment alone.
i At a club of which Jerrold was a mem
ber, a fierce Jacobite and a friend as fierce
of the cause of William 111. were arguing
ntfis#ly, and disturbing less excitable con
versationalists. At length, the Jacobite, a
brawny Scot, brought h.s fist down heavily
upon the table, and roared at his adversary,
“I tell you what it is,*sir, I spit upon your
King William.” The friend of the Prince
of Orange Was not to be out-mastered by
merd lungs. He rose, and roared back to
the Jacobite. “And I, sir, spit upon
ing to the uproar in silence, hereupon
rang the bell, and shouted—“ Waiter, wait
er, spittoons for two.”
—■
Mixed. —ANew-Bedford paper
B«ys that one Saturday evening recently, a
lady who lives near a church in that city,
was sitting by the window listening to the
crickets, which wsre loudly chirping, the
music from the choir rehearsal being faintly
audible, when a gentleman dropped in
famMiary Who had just passed the church
add had the music full in his mind.
“What a noise they are making to-night !"
Said be.
“Tes,” replied the lady, “and ita said
(hey do it with their hind legs 1”
Burnt Bonds Rbdiemec One of the
lady clerks of the redemption division es the
Treasury Department has been for about
three weeks engaged in assorting and recog
nizing abont tmOOO worth of bonds, which
Were recently burned, the charred remnants
being #ent by the owner to the Treasury
department for redemption. After consid
erabl# labor, t he fall tasqgt has bees
recognised.
NO. 3.