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matters not what business you are engaged in, for, if
gently and industriously pursued, a fortune will
jr ■ ■ resit i —Hunt s Merchants’ Magazine.
"After 1 began to advertise my Ironware freely,
1 •a ss Increased with amazing rapidity. For ten
v rs past I have spent £30.000 yearly to keep my
* :n-ir wares before the public. Had I been timid in
in mining, I never should have po-sessed my fortune
if £l'i i (»ot)”.—McLeod Belton, Birmingham.
' Advertising like Midas’ touch, turns everything to
f l Rv it, your daring men draw millions to their
i offers "—Stuart Clay
that audacity is to love, and boldness to war, the
* ful use of printer’s i it, is to success in business. 1 ’ —
bei-clier.
" The newspapers made Fisk.' I ' —J. Fisk, .Tr.
' "h'l it the aid of advertisements I con'd have done
r - dilations. I have the most comple'e
Li ii in “printers’ ink.” Adveitising is the “royal road
to business Barnum.
frefwjiomrt Carts.
j I REDDING, Attorney at Law,
M ' Rarncsvil e, Pike co, Oa. Will practice in the
c* comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, nnd
•'hereby special ontraet Al business promptly
f i to Office in Elder s building, over Chamber’s
' l,l ure - augfi- y
J nmiAS BEALL. Attorney at Law,
f, "'"Mitxton, (?a. Will practice in the Flint Cir
mn elsewhere by special contract. aug27-ly
Y\ L WEAVER. Attorney at Law,
r, .. * T’homaston, Ha. Will practice in all the
'"t the Hint Circuit, and elsewhere by special
extract, June26-ly
l. HALL, Attorney and Counsellor
•...L ‘ sw ’. "HU practice in the counties composing
i iiircuit. In the Supreme Court of (ieoruia,
W e District Court of the United States for the
imd rn sn, t hern Districts of Georgia.
-Dinaston, Ga., June 18th. IS7"-ly.
T " lIHIRMAN’. Attorney at Law,
■v I*,“ G'a. Will Practice in the Courts of
and Klse«he.ie by Special Contract.
. , '”'‘ nt ' on given to all collection of claims.
JH. SMITH. Attorney and
0 • ’isellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and
’ 'sets Mlanta, Ga. Will practice n 'he Su
-5 olir, s of Coweta and Flint Circuits, the Su
urt of the State, and the United States’ Dis
., All com : unioations addressed to him at
’ receive prompt attention. apriUMy
IVERSON & MoCALLA. A^-rnoys
■A", Covington, Ceorgia. Will attend regu
, 1 ! Brattice in the Superior Courts of the
1 M Newton, Butts, II nrv, Spalding Pike,
■' l P s "n, Morgan, DeKalb, tiwinnette and Jas
dec 0-ly
N M. MATHEWS. At torn oy «t
.Hlbotton, Ga.. will practice all the counties
- 1 ' r hatiahoochee Circuit and cLewln re by
i co »tra c t decfO-ly
\\ it WILLIS, Attorneys at Law
’ t J ,on » Ha Prompt attention given to
‘ l:ace 'l in "Ur hands. declo-ly
It S T . *. TRIPPE. Attorney at Law
1 -. 'itM r t,; r}a ' Practice in the State Courts
~n ile,A States' District Court at Atlanta and
. dec 0-ly
’[* A ,|,.n^Attorney at Law, Barneys
Flint u’ practice in all the counties of
‘ 1 at anq Supreme Court of th« State.
BET MU NR, Attorney at
if ,a Will f>racti>*,e in nil the
w.'tta- ' e Lhattahoocheo Circuit, and Upson and
deciS-ly
°f l EUS will continue the practice
■ •re. 'Do. Office.at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
B, declß-ly
■j ' Hannah. i« pleased to
B\, ;.® f ’Mns of Upson that he will continue
■ Ga in its various branches at
declß-ly
Attorney at Law
■ -TT&ad’.no, rV** Practice in Circuit Oourta o
tne hmted States District Courts.
in have moved np to
H’-nr.i 1 " 1 rfigulari, f ' lenpv an 'l Allen’s new huild
-9 l )r "l>areil m _ en?a ß e in the practice of medi
'J-if I * n ;Z*u> l4l an y tiine Persons wishing
8 LewU « n ca n call on M^aers.
9>r.iJ ’r l *) also U.,,,' Saw yer’s and obtain ir.forma-
I ’ir hv etfd 4 any meß ' a ge there, which will
DP. J. O. HUNT.
I jm ~ *“■■****■■** The systems of liver
fl V IV IV A AT n «a C 0 T p!alntare uneasiness
\ ll t! II \ \ ’i and paln ln the s Ue
Di ill Ml Ull i) I Sometimes the pain i s i n
■ the shoulder, nnd Is mis-
Iwn 111. unuwHHMM taken for rheumatism
stomach m slb-cted with loss of appetitean™ “Ck
ness, owelsjn general costive, sometimes altprn-.tir,-.
»I.L lax. Tlie be.,,1 |, „ mJ.I with STiJ?
I.eavv ,en.,ol«n c.nei.lerable l„„ ~f
ponied w.th painful sensation of having left
which miaht... have Wen, TSS. ‘oC.
g times, some of the above
I f Tr n n I svm Ptom« attend the dis-
I / I 1/ It If I ami at other times
1 * U 11 I very few of them; but
H the Liver is eenerailv the
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ER. SIMMONS’
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ly veTeTabie "amfcfn doro ** ' tr,ot *
It has been used by hundreds, and known for the las*
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Irtr in less preparations ever offered to the suffering Jf
and p.'rslsten*| v p ls fiure to cur /'
Dyspepsia, headache,
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i“I U 14.1 Iv al lima, affections of the
lg bladder, camp dysentery
affections of The kidnev«’
lever, nervousness, chills, diseases of the -kin. impurity
of the blood, melancholy, or depression of sntrits heart
burn, colic, or pains in the bowels, pain In the head
fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain in back nnd limbs
asthma erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis
eases generally. Prepared only bv
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Price :by mail <1.85. Druggists, Macon, Ga.
Ihe following highly respectable persons can f t ,Uy nt
test to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to
whom we most respectfully refer:
Gen. W s. Holt, President R.'w. R. R. Company;
Rw J. I cider. Perry, GaCol E. K Sparks. Albany,
(4a : Lunsford, Ksq., Conductor 8. W R R •
(’ Mnsterson. E«q , Sh'-riff Bibb county; .1 A. Butts’
IRninbriilge, Ga ; Dykes As Snarhawk, Editors Floridian’
rail ah as sec; Rev. J W. Burke Macon, Ga • Virgil
, °''' e L s *!*<\ \ Snreiintendent S. W. R. R; Dame! Bui
lard, Bullard s Station. Macon and Brunswick R R
Twiggs comity, Ga ; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory’
Macon. Ga ; Rev. K F. Easterlinn, P. E Florida Con
ference; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
Mac >n Telegraph.
For sale bv John F Henry, New York, Jno D. Park
Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, New Orleans, and all Drug-
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or, THE UNWRITTEN WORD.
By Daniel March. D. D., Author of the phpular
“ Night Scenes.”
'q'UILS master in thought and language
ft shows us untold riches and beauties Ik the
Great lfmiße, with its Blooming flowers, SUging birds,
Waving palms. Rolling 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
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nate engravings and superb bindi"g. “Rich and varied
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tiful and good.” “A household treasure.” Commenda
tions like the above from College Presidents and Pro
fessor, ministers of all denominations, und 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 lor the masses. Agents are selling from 50 to 150
per week. We want Clergymen, School Teachers,
smart young men and ladies to introduce tlie work for
us In every township, and we will pay liberally. No
intelligent manor woman need be without a paying
business. Bend for circular, full description, and terms.
Address ZIEGLER & MoCURDY,
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180 Race street,, Cincinnati, Ohio,
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“ THE MONROE ADVERTISER?
VOLUME FIFTEEN.
A First-Class Democratic Newspaper-!
npilE Cnmpnigrn which will srinn be Inuti
ft curated, and whbh will culminate in the, election
of Congiessional 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, Tiik Mon roe Adyektiser presents superior
claims. •
No pains will he spared to render the The Advertiser
a reliable nnd efficient newspaper, and each issue will
embrace a fair epitome o 1 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,
JAMIbS F. HARRISON,
sept!7-tf Box 79, Forsyth, Ga.
TWO GOOD BOOKS.
Should be Had in every Family.
DEVOTIONAL and Practical Polyglot-t
FAMILY BIBLE, containing a copious index,
Concordance Dictionary of Biblical! ernis. ideograph
ical and Historical Index, <fce Fourteen hunared pages
furnished in three styles of bi 'ding
LA WS of BUSINESS for all the States in the Union.
By Theophilus Parsons, L L D This volume contains
forms for men of every trade or profession, mortgages,
deeds, bills of sale, leases, bond, articles ol copartner
ship, will, awards. &c Published by the National 1 uo
lishl’ng < ’o. Nemphis, Tenn. . . ,
Sir JOHN A. COCHRAN has taken the Agency for
Upson and Pike counties, and wi.l callnpon the people
with these invaluable books immediately n..•
THOM ASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1871.
Gita.
Three sheep fur a dollar in Detroit.
Young ladies don’t like self-fastin«?
skates.
A Mtss, twelve years old, is a potrait
painter in I »wa City.
Atlanta has gained 70C0 in population
since the war.
A Cincinnati school o;irl h as badly
poisoned by sucking the ink from her pen.
It is fashionable in New York to wipe
the f*et on a hundred-dollar door-mat.
The Mormons predict a civil war between
them and the United States within a year.
Rabbits soil for five cents apiece in Co
lumbus, Ohia_
Lcutner weddings are a Western notion.
Boots and shoes are the principal gifts.
The Ivi ncj of Persia has a collection of
000 eD an( * Ctj^ lia su^ers worth $lO,-
The colored women of Indiana have a
secret order called the “Doves of Perfec
tion.”
“Widows are estimated bv the square
m :; e j n p ' v Hampshire. Twenty to the
ini 1 e is trouble a good ratio.”
Last St. Louis smilingly holds up a 17
pound now born baby to the world’s con
templation.
Cincinnati arms her policemen with
steel nippers for seizing their victims, in
stead of clubs and revolvers.
A student at the Michigan Agricultural
College has realized SIO,OOO from the sale
of a patent latch, invented by himself.
Miss Tod, of Chicago, who advertises her
height as four feet, desires a husband as
near six feet in length as possible.
Wild cuts are so plenty in Alabama that
dogs come home without any hide to sneak
of.
Quincy, 111,, has a lawsuit over two eoon
shins, claimed respectively by the Southern
and Great American Coon Companies.
A New York gentleman’s sole claim to
immortality is bis habit of giving his lady
iriends $10) and SSOO baskets of flowers.
A Vermonter sues a neighbor for $lO.-
000 because he brought malignant small
pox into his family.
An Ohio girl tied up a ea f m,d cut out
its heart which she stuck fall of pins, for a
love charm.
“Mrs. Clark Elwell, of Bay Citv, threw
triplets the other day” is a way they have
of announcing births in Michigan.
The receipts of a minstrel show in Michi
gan one evening were only eight cents,
whereupon the leader killed himself.
The people of Indianapolis have commenc
ed balloting for a $750 carriage, toFe pre
sented to the city pastor receiving the most
votes.
“M utton hams” are among the smoked
luxuries of Georgia, and promise to become,
as articles of food, a source of commercial
revenue to the Sta’e.
The Connecticut State Prison now gives
the convicts hot coffee, so as to get more
work out of them. Next they are to have
truffled turkey.
Queen Victoria wears her hair as she did
25 years ago. Coiffures, waterfalls, chig
nons, curls, and back hair arc naught to
her.
The approaching Seventh Regiment re
ception in New York will introduce the
feature of eight-feet-bigh fountains of Ru
bin’s perfumes.
A colored African in Pennsylvania threw
his first vote the other day, and then went
and drowned himself. lie was 100 years
old, tu'd couldn’t stand it.
A young lady in Troy, who has been
practicing, “Let me kiss him for his moth
er,” reports that the more the tries, the
better she likes it.
A divorce in Ireland has elicited
the fact that the lady was in the habit of
chastising her husband with tlpe furniture,
and on one occasion knocked him down
and sat on his head.
A man in Minnesota who lived twelve
miles from a villiage, got dislocat
ed, and was obliged to walk to at distance
with his mouth involuntarily open before
he could have it set right.
“Can I see you home ?” said a Peoria
chap to a young lady at a party, the other
night. “No, sir,” she replied, and the
laudnum he took kept a stomach pump
going all night.
“Next!” was all Mrs. Earnham, of La
grange. Wis., could say when the dirt was
being covered over the remains of her sixth
husband. She was so overcome with grief
that only one word escaped her lips.
A speaker at a recent Sunday School
Convention at Vincennes, Indiana, related
how a cruel parent forbade his daughter to
go to church, and how he took every bit of
her clothing and locked it up in a trunk;
but she went, neverthe ess.
The son of Rev. Mr. Montague, of White
water, Wis., was delivering a college vale
dictory, when, in pulling out his handker
chief, he pulled out a pack "f cards. “llui>
loa !” he exclaimed, “I’ve got on my fath
er’s coat.” Promising young man.
The poultry show in New York furnish
ed early risers an unwonted sensation in
the stillne«s of Sunday mor ing. the chorus
of double-distilled discordance and stewed
down screeches, from theShanghae Orches
tral Combination, being fearful to relate.
Gamier, the new French billiardist in
New York, makes a nice little shot by plac
ing three ale-glasses one on top of another,
on the table, putting a piece of chalk on the
highest, and a ball on that, and then car
oming on it from a ball on the table, with
out touching the glasses.
Among the claims presented to the Maine
State Agricultural Society for damages by
reason of the fall of the staging erect
ed for the visitors at the fair at Augusta,
was that of a lady for the damage done to
two b< nnets, two parasols, one shoe, and
hair pins. She offered to be satisfied with
SIOO.
The Printer.
lhe following beautiful tribute to the
followers of the “stick and rule,” is from
thf pen *r>f Benjamin F. Taylor, formerly
of the Chicago Journal :
Ghe printer is the adjutant of thought,
and this explains the mystery of the won
derful word that can kindle a hope as no
song cun; that word ‘we’ with a hand-in
hand warmth in it—for the author and
printer are engineers together. Eng neers
i ! When the Corsican bombarded
Cadiz, a*, a distance of five miles, it was
dfPtned the very triumph of engineering.
But whit is the range to this, whereby
tkey bombard the ages to be?
at the ‘caso’ he stands, and
rnardifß into line the forces armed with
fru i. s hed with immortality a'ul Enpr_
lieh. And what can He nobler than the
equipage of \hought in sterling Saxon—
Saxon with a ipear or shield therein and
that commissioned, when we are dead, to
move grandiy on \o ‘the latter syllable of
recorded time.’ This is to win a victory
from death, for this has no dying in it.
“The printer is called a laborer, and the
office he performs i* toil. Oh ! it is not
work, but a sublime life lie is performing,
when he thus ciles the engine that is to
fling a worded treth in grander curve than
missils e’er before described ; fling it into
the bosom of age, He throws off his coat,
indeed, but we wonder the rather he does
not put his shoes from off his feet, for the
place whereon he stands is holy ground.
“A little song was uttered somewhere
long ago ; it wandered through the twilight,
feebler than a star; it died upon the ear.
But the printer tales it up where it was
lying there in silence, like a wounded bird,
he sends it forth from the ark that had
preserved it, arid fl.es on into the future
with tlie olive branch of peace, and around
the world with melody, like the dawning of
a spring m irning.”
Tlie gtnpidity of Afiu-Dluner Hjiterlics.
Many of the failures in after-dinner
speeches arise, says a writer in London
Society, probably from & want of prepara
tion. People go to dinners anticipating to
be called upon to make a speech, and yet
go without a single serite r >ce upon their
lips, without a sing’e thought in their heads.
They trust, like Telemachus at the Spartan
court, to the inspiration of the moment,
and like that interesting youth, wlien the
moment comes they ore as mute as mice.
They rise in a fluster, acknowledge the
cheers which greet Ihern, a ghastly smile,
stammer out a few words, pause, hesitate,
stop, quote poetry, or get on the stilts and
talk hyperbole and nonsense, according to
tlie turn of th*‘ir rtiinds, repeat themselves
two or three times, and sit and >wn in a cold
sweat, p issihly thanking Heaven that they
are not under the table or in a fit of apo
plexy, or perhaps consoling themselves
with the reflection that after all they have
not made greater assses of themselves than
the rest of the guests, and that they can
atone for their failure by adding live guineas
extra to their subscription. We are think
ing now only of the more favorable cases.
Now and then you meet a man who is per
vnr-e and stupid, who does not sit down
when his head is gone, who tmats a cough
with contempt and resents conversation as
an impertinence; a man who simply stands
still his ideas have all vanished, and
who, although conscious that his mind is
an utter blank, nevertheless persists in
keeping on his legs and firing off odd little
sentences that mean nothing, like riflemen
firing off blank cartridge after their shot is
all gone. Most after-dinner speakers are
simply bores. These are a nuisance.
Good Humor.
Everv man should be sober sometimes.
I once knew one so unfortunate as to be
sober all the time, and yet an honest man.
We have known men that never smiled, or
seldom, whose faees were as rigid as an
iron mask, and yet they were kind and
simple arid really reliable. But such are
exceptional ea-es. Uniform sobriety is
presumptively very much against a man.
He who gives no play to the gentler feel
ings has something the matter with him
that should be looked into before one trusts
him.
Mirth itself is not always honest. But it
tends to openness. Mirth has better stuff
in it to make a man of than sobriety has.
It, too is used sometimes a? a mask for
hypocrisy ; hut not half so often as sobriety.
Only consider how many men, quite empty
and worthless, inwardiy neither rich nor
powerful, are kept agoing by the mere trick
of gravity.
When seme men come to you it is like
sunrise. Everything seems to take new
life, and shines. Other men bring night
with them. The chill shadow of their so
briety falls upon every innocent gayety,
and your feelings, like birds at evening,
stop singing and go to roost.
Away with these fellows who go owling
through life—all the while passing for birds
of paradise.
lie that cannot laugh and be gay should
look well to himself He should fast and
pray until his face breaks forth into Tght.
A Project Requiring Brains.
General McClellan has been hired by the
city of New York to construct a system of
docks for the metropolis, aud already has
he entered upon the work. Tne entire city
on its water front is to be surrounded with
a street two hundred and fifty feet wide
upon which will appear, first, a sidewalk,
then a broad wagon way, then an elevated
street road, then the space for a line of
ma?siyo warehouses, then the wharf proper,
the water, outside of which - will be a smooth
sea-wall of c ncrete, faced with granite,
and from this the piers, sixty to eighty feet
wide, with three abutments, will expend
into the rivers and harbor. The project
is both magnificent and costly, but there
will be no want of liberality in carrying it
out. Os all the generals of the last war,
New York fixed upon McClellan to map
out this gigantic public work, whieh shows,
as clearly as anything well could, that in
the estimation of the people he is yet the
greatest engineer in America.
Somebody has recently prepared a ge
nealogical tree of the Grant family, and
sent it to the White House. It is said that
twenty-three of its thirty limbs or branches
exhibit the heaviest crop of brothers-in-law
that ’his country La? ever produced.— Cott- j
rier Journal.
llow a Stone Quarry Run in \\ u«hing
ton.
Outside of Georgetown, on the Potomac,
is a deposit of old red sandstone that has
proved to be an auriferous deposit to certain
officials in and about Washington.
The stranger to the national capital is
struck with the spread of this red stone in
every direction. Acres of it are being laid
down on the terraces of the Capitol, public
cemeteries, devoted to the soldiers who fell
on the fieid of battle or died in hospitals,
are being lined with the red stone. In a
word, said strangers must be struck with
the tremendous supply and use by Govern
ment of this matei ial. Now, if he ventures
to make an inquiry and the truth is told
him, he will find that tlie Quarry belonged
originally tn a olever set of fellows or ,
cession profil'vkws, who dextrousty Tesolvett
themselves into a joint stock company, and
presented Gen. Grant, Surgeon Gen. Barnes,
’Gen. Miehler, and the Lord knows whom
else, shares in this geological deposit. The
consequence is that there is a heavy de
mand on the part of the Government for
this beautiful, valuable, rascally stone.
And now when an official grows sudden
ly rich, his friends look at each other, smile,
and say significantly, “Old Seneca !”
When a significant carriage and horses,
with driver and footman in livery, dash by,
the knowing ones say, “Old Seneca !”
And this phrase comes in as explanatory
of every mysterious change about Wash
ington.— Wash. Cur. X. O. Picayune.
Mothers, Speak. Kindly.
Children catch cross words quicker than
parrots, and it is much more mischievous
habit. When mothers set the example, you
will scarcely hear a pleasant word among
the children in their plays with each other.
Yet the discipline of such a family is alwftys
weak and irregular. The children expect
just so much scolding before they do any
thing they are bid, while in many a home,
where the low, firm toro of the mother or
the decided lank of her steady eye is law,
they never think of disobedience, either in
or out of eight. O, mother, it is worth a
great deal to cultivate that “excellent thing
in woman” a low, sweet voice. If you are
ever so much tried by the mischievous or
wilful pranks of the little ones, speak low.
It will be a great help to you to even try to
be patient and cheerful, if you cannot sue'
ceod. Anger makes you wretched, nnd
your children also. Impatient, angry tones
never did the least good, but plenty of evil.
Read what Solomon says of them, and re
member he wrote with an inspired pen.
You cannot have the excuse for them that
they lighten your burdens any ; they make
them only ten times heavier. For your
own, as well as for your children’s sake,
learn to speak low. They will remember
that tone when your head is under the wib
1 <>wß. So. too, will they remember a harsh
and angry tone. Which legacy will you
leave to your children ?
Fire Escape* to be Placed on Every Hotel
in New York.
The New York Times of Friday snys :
“Orders were issued yesterday by Super
intendent Macgregor, of the Department of
Buildings for the survey of all the hotels in
this city, pieparatory to requiring them to
place fire escapes upon their buildings.
The Grand Central, Fifth Avenue, Hoffman
House, and French’s Hotel, were offered to
be inspected, and the notices will be served
upon them to-day. It may not be generally
known, but for some months past the ques
tion as to whether hotels could be required
under the law to attach fire-escapes has
been in court, upon a suit brought by Mr.
Macgregor against Mr. Hawkes, one of the
St. Nicholas. The suit was brought to test
the question, and owing to the law’s delay
no decision has yet been reached. The
Superintendent has heretofore determined
to take prompt action in the premises, and,
if necessary, let each proprietor test the law
separately. Had the Richmond hotel been
pr ivided with escapes probably no lives
would have been lost, and in order to pre
vent the recurrence of a similar disaster in
this city the above course has been decided
upon by the Building Department.”
A Regular “Bell.”
Did you ever hear of Andrew Wallace
seizing a man that was drunk and putting
him up at auction? I must tell you that ■story
Squire Wallace was a Captain in the mili
tia, and one day, after training was over,
and before the men were dismissed from
parade, he took a guard with him and made
a prisoner of Fat Sweeney, who was a most
powerful drinker—drinks as much at f\time
as a camel, almoy. “Pat.” said he, ‘‘l
seize you in the King’s name!” “Me?”
said Pat, scratching his head and looking
all around bewildered like. “I am not a
smuggler ; touch me if yoa dare !” “I seize
you,” said he, “for violation of the excise
law, for carrying about you more than a
gallon of whiskey without a permit, and
to-m-Trow I shall sell you at auction to
the highest bidder. You are a firfeitpd
article, and I could knock you on the head
and let it out it I liked, and no nonsense,
man !” And he sent him off to jail scream
ing and f-creeching line mad, he was r,o
frightened. The next day Tat was put up
at vendure and knocked down to his wife,
who bid him in for forty shillings. It is
generally considered the greatest ruse ever
taken out of a man in this country.
When a young lady takes up a paper she.
glances first at the marriages and ‘'person
als an old lady at the deaths ; a boy at
the stories ; the average man at the news.
It is only the shrewd young business man,
remembering the adage, “Business before
pleasure,” who commences in the right
wav, by reading the advertint-ments fir«t.
This, indeed, is putting a newspaper to its
best use. A man who so u*es it is sure to
keep “posted”—to know what is going on
in the busy world around him —to know
where he can make bargains, and where
and to whom he can dispose of what he has
to sell. - And there is no fear but what he j
will get all that is valuable in the paper
besides.
Tiie Cincinnati Commercial comes out in
favor of Senator Revels for the Presidency.
It notes £. great many good traits in Revels’
character, which quality him for that exalt
ed place; among others, a contempt of rel
atives, he having been charged witn a total
neglect of hi - own sister, who is an inmate
of a colored poer house !
A mu rat} .
It is considered certain now that general
amnesty is dead, so fir as this session of
Congress is concern* and, and it is not sup
posed that Gen. Butler will shed any to »rs
over the fate of his hill. It is iH>a-*ib’e that
his notion in introducing it was a bit of
political strategy, modelled after the tactics
of the Irishman who told people he wns
driving his pig to Cork, when he was go n r
in prec sly tho opposite direction, in ordtr
that the brute might overhear him, boliev
irg that the natural obstinacy of the animal
would lead him just the way his driver
wanted him to go. Gen. Butler’s chances of
being recognized as the leader of the House
are daily growing less ; yet in this case he
was pretty sure to accomnlsh his ends in
n ,.j *, tv i me amnesty m* uni piuitdca
for WrtS hut a iniro and a sn tka>
its acceptance would hare amounted to
nothing; while its failure carries with it
the failure of all other amnesty projects for
the present, which very likely was the
object that Butler was aiming at all tho
while.
Our National Pliyuioganamy.
Dr. Bellows writes tho L beral Christian
from Florence, as follows:
“Mr. Powers, the sculptor, says the
American face is distinguished from the
English by the little distance between the
brows and the eyes, the openness of the
nostrils, and the thinness of the visage. It
is still more marked, I think, by a mongrel
quality, in which nil nationalities contribute
their portion. The greatest hope of Ameri
ca is its mixed breed of humanity, and
what now makes tho irregularity of the
American face is predestined to make the
versatility and Universality of the American
character. Already, spite of a continental
seclusion, America is the most cosmopoli
tan country of the globe. Providencial or
local as manners or habits may be, ideas
and sympathies in America are world
wide. And there is nowhere a city in
which so many people have tho complete
world under their eyes and in their hearts
and served up in the rooming press with
their breakfast, as New York
'Who Arc tho Eitremi<it!i T
In a recent speech B. Grata Brown, the
Governor elect of Missouri, said :
“Soldiers—Wherever I have gone in tho
canvass of this groat State I havo ever
found that those who bore the brunt of bat
tle were the first to extend the right hand
of reconciliation—[cheers] —prompt to for
get all animosity, and to consign to oblivion
obsolete issues, bygone phraseology, past
nomenclature. It was only those who held
high carnival in the rear that would still
prolong the note of discord, hoping for con
tinued pillage.” [Uheers.]
To be sure. Tae men most clamorous
for the punishment of the rebles are the
stay-at-homes, who during the war, want
to mob printing offices and hang men who
did not think as they did. —Detroit Free
Press.
Somebody Sold. — Secretary Boutwell
received, the other day—from no matter
where in the West—a curious letter. The
writer said he was the father of triplets,
arid somebody had told him that there was
a fund set apart out of which was given a
bounty to parents having such a run of luck.
He said he had two childred besides, and,
as his means were not large, he hoped if
there were such a fund the Socretary would
put him in tho way of receiving the benefit
of it. To confirm and establish the truth
of the story, photographs of the three born
at a birth wore attached to the letter. He
was informed that, although some govern
ments had made such provisions for the
unfortunate, it had thus far escaped the
attention of our law makers.
What we Are — According to a French
statistican, taking the mean of many ac
counts, a man fifty years of age has slept
G OKI days, worked 6,500 days, walked 800
days, amused himself 4 000 days, was eat
ing 1.500 days, was sick 500 days, etc. lie
ate 77.000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds
of meat, 4,000 pounds of vegetables, eggs
and fish, and drank 7,000 gallons of liquid,
namely, water, coffee, tea, beer, wine, etc.,
altogether. This would make a respecta
ble lake of 300 feet surface aod 3 deep, on
which a small steamboat could navigate.
When Congress sat in Philadelphia a
certain senator from New England, not
considered exactly the wisest man in the
chamber, had an inveterate habit of fre
quently shaking his head while another
was speaking. A Virginia Senator having
complained publicly of the affront, a wag
gish member assured the Senate that he
had known the alleged offender long, and
that it was only an ill habit he had got in
to, for, though he would sometimes snake
his head, yet there was nothing in it.
More than half the outrages that sud
denly start into existence about election
time in the Southern States, are instigated
by the Republicans as a pretext for a little
bayonet practice at the polls. It now ap
pears that a North Carolina negro has
given the names of forty members of the
Union League in that State, who were con
cerned in barn burnings and outrages that
occurred a little before last election.
The New York World states that Goo.
Belknap, the Secretary of War, protested
iq the strongest terms, in cabinet meetings,
agiinst the attempt of the President to
overawe tho voters of New York by a dis
play of the regular army.
Another.— Bullock joins the glorious
column of solidly Democratic counties, a
list of which we printed a few days since.
Out of 578 votes polled, there was not one
Radical. Sue evidently is not at all after
the order of her Atlanta namesake.
Unde* an act of Congress, post-office
officials and attaches are forbidden the
delivery of “initial letters.” Persons cor
responding should write out the name if
the letters ere to be delivered through tho
postal agency.
A liberal Republican who conversed
with Butler about his amnesty bill thinks
it should be called a “and nasty bill,”
la Pbiialelphia a whole family Wns
poisor ed from *atug apples stewed in a
bra?* kettle. S;me cf t ieca died.
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