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you ir * THETHOMASTON herald, PUBLISHED BY , rvS . ii. iiKAKCE, ( ’ gf|R r SATURDAY MO.'iN'IW, : term& put V-» r v y.Y.’.V. 1 50 511 : Into INV ART ABLY IN ADVANCE. A n ',VV vr I»t no name will be pnt upon the suh *"-'H , k(1 unless payment is made in advance ,• •— n will T.e stopped at the expiration of the T•’ "! p y lir ,iero subscription is previous renewed. g „f a subscriber is to be changed, we ' () l(l address as Well as the ne w one, to p i*t h» v * ,n , _ ViSpii-'n received for a leas period than three and ~ „ carrier in town without extra charge. ' rv ''‘ ,i n n aid to anonymous communications, as asiU- for every tiring entering oar columns. ; 15 the names of three new snbscrib w«irf? tbo H kkai.d one year m , r |. R fter subscribers name indicates that the irf subscription is out. ADVERTISING LA IKS. r *!mc°Jf."r S l l <rvcrt e isinL! S or° whcie advertisements V for ' mh! 5b cents for each subsequent insertion. i 1 M.|BM'|6M.|l2 M ~ I if; 1 00 $2 50 $ 7 00, $lO 0 • ! sls 00 1 , 2 0() 5 (M , jo ()0i 15 001 25 00 1 • | l TllvH sOO 700 15 lb) 20 00j 80 00 'i'' in ; s 4 on! 10 oo 20 no' 80 00 | 40 00 1 ' 1‘ ‘ ■" 1 5 01) !2 00 30 01) 40 00 50 00 „ j 15 oo 25 00 40 00 TO oo 130 M 0 I (allium 1 , , , av , P 4 Advertisements will be cnarged according ' n \r,r thev occupy. ’ , vivcrtisements should be marked for a specified ' rwixe they wdl be continued and charged tor 1 . .’nu'nts inserted at intervals tube charged " i ' vrrt'isements to rrn for a longer period than three , nths flre due and will be collected at the beginning must be paid for in advance. I„h work mast be paid for on delivery. A,!.erfisements discontinued from nny cause before xpirition us time specified, will be charged only for »w, jjjug published. ! lh ,. ra i deductions will be made when cash is paid in * i'. ~,ional cards one square SIO,OO a year. Mi ir i;t"n Notices $1.50. Obituaries $1 per square. No*ices of a personal or private character, intended Mints any private enterprise or interest, will be coareed as other advertisements \dvertisers are roque ted to hand in their favors as eirlvin the wse« as possible /',«a ore Umn will he, xtnrtly adhered to. LEGAL ADVERTISING. As heretofore, since the war, the following are the I 'ie fur notices of Ordinaries, Ac.—to ue paik in AD VOCE! T'irty Days' Notices 5 00 Furh’bays’Notices 8 25 - -f LinAc pr. sqr of tea Lines 6 00 tiny Days’ Notices 7 00 six Months’ Notices 10 00 T n Day'’ Notices of Sales pr sqr ... 200 'itranr' Salks —for these Sales, for every fl fa I Mortgage Sales, per square. $5 00 "Let asitb a liberal per centage for advertising Ke" you self unceasingly before the public; and it 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 mo “ ER. SIMMONS’ Liver Regulator, ly veTeTabie "amfcfn doro ** ' tr,ot * It has been used by hundreds, and known for the las* ? ’ e ; irs as “ne Os the most reliable, efficaebm, Irtr in less preparations ever offered to the suffering Jf and p.'rslsten*| v p ls fiure to cur /' Dyspepsia, headache, I \\ jj] I] f IJTftR I n Pc''?! i arr k 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 J. SI. ZEILIIV & CO., 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- « L " tß apl2-ly SIXTY-FIVE FIRST PRIZE MEDALS AWARDED^ the great Southern Piano IVIANUFACTORY. AATIS/T. IS! IST ABE <Sc CO., M ANTFACTt-TRERS OF grand, square and upright PIANOFORTES, BALTIMORE, MD. r II ESE Instruments have been before the ft 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 the entire scale. Their TOUCH is pliant and elastic and entirely free from the stiffness found in so many Pianos. IN 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 an immense stock of lumber. &e„ on band. All our Square Pianos have our New Improved Over strung Scolc and the Agraffe Treble. We would call special attention to our late improve ments in GRAND PIANOS AND SQUARE GRANDS, Patented August 14,*1866. 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 MELODEONS, which we offer, Wholesale and Retail, at Lowest Factory lb ices WM. KNABE & CO. septl7-Gm Baltimore, Md. “ OUR FATHER’S HOUSE;” 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 in each the Unwritten World, Rose-tinted paper, or nate engravings and superb bindi"g. “Rich and varied in thought,.’ ‘ t 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, 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, 16 8. Sixth street, Philadelphia. Pa. 180 Race street,, Cincinnati, Ohio, 60 Monroe street, Chicago, 111., 508 N. Sixth street, St Louis, Mo. seplo-4m or, 102 Main street, Springfield, Mass. “ 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. NO. 0.