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Advertisements discontinued from any cause before expiration of time specified, will be charged only for j it , Dll WltjhPH* Liberal deductions will be made when cash is paid in tfif&nCA. Professional cards one square SIO.OO a year. Marriage Notices $1.50. Obituaries $1 per square. Nntires of a personal or private character, intended to promote any private enterprise or interest, will be timed as other advertisements Advertisers are reque-ted to hand in their favors as e A rlv in the week as possible Ikm'ove te ms will b* strictly adhered to. LEGAL ADVERTISING. tsheretofore,• since the war, the following are the pricse for notices ofOrdinaries, Ac.—to be paid in ad vance : Thirty Davs' Notices •■ $ 5 00 forty Days’ Notices ’8 25 Sties of Lands. <fec pr. sqr of ten Lines 6 00 Sixty I'avs’Notices 7 00 Six Months’ Notices 10 00 Ti-n Day>’ Notices of Sales pr sqr 2 00 Shkkifbt’ Salks—for these Sales, for ev«y fi fa p no. Mortgage Sales, per square. $5 00 “Let aside a liberal per cent.age for advertising. Keep yourself unceasingly before the public; and it matters not what business you are engaged in, for, if intelligently and industriously pursued, a fortune will be the resuh Hunt a Merchants’ Magazine. “ \fter i hviMi to advertise my Ironware freely, busini'ss increased with amazing rapidity. For ten yearn past I have spent £3H,000 yearlv to keep my superior wares bcfnre the public, ilad 1 been timid in advertising, I never should have possessed my fortune of £-3511,000”. — McLeod Helton, Birmingham. “Advertising like Midas’ touch, turns everything to gold Hv it, your daring men draw millions to their coffers’’—Stuart Clay •" hat audacity is to love, and boldness to war, the skillful use of printer’s ink, is to success In b tastiness.” — Beecher. “The newspapers made Fisk. - —J. Fisk, dr. Without the aid of advertisements I could have done nothin" in my -peculations. I have the most complete fii h In “printers’ink.” Advertising is bhe “royal road to business ”—Barnntn. Professional Pards. DR T R KENDALL offers his profes sional services tc. the citirens of Thomaston and iwronnding country. May be found during the day at ‘ D. Hardaway’s itore, at night at the former resi dence of Charles Wilson. jan 14 ly K REPDINd, Attorney at Law, M • Barnesvtl'o, Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the " unties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and i -ewhere by special ontract AH business promptly fended to. Office in Eider's building, over Chamber’s ? is Store. aug*. y . rriOMAS BEALL. Attorney at Law, 4- Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir ■ »nd elsewhere by special contract aug27-ly Y\ I\ WEAVER. Attorney at Law, « ; • Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in all the " r, sos the Flint Circuit, and elsewhere by special M!Uract - ] U ne2s-ly JOHN I. HALL, Attorney and Counsellor [Y r, kaw Will practice in the counties composing _ mt (irenit. in the Supreme Court of Georgia, .-"‘he District Court of the United States for the T L lern *nd Southern Districts of Georgia, i thomaston, Ga., June 18th, IS7O-ly. JOSEPFI H. SMITH. Attorney and .Counsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and , ' * streets Atbm'a, Ga. Will practice *n 'he Su- Courts of Coweta and Flint, Circuits, the Su otirtof the State, and the United States 1 Fds i; . n,n ! , 1 All corn l unlcations addressed to him at 1 will receive prompt attention. april9-ly A PERSON & McCALL A. Attorneys P'A at Law, Covington, Georgia. Will attend retru &n'i l‘ra< tice in the Superior Courts of the »p"" (*f Newton, Butts, IB rtry, Spalding. Pike, m °e* Upsum IMorgan, DeKalb, Gwinnotte and Jas- ' declO-ly J'MES M. MATHEWS, Attorney at . Laws, Talbotton, Ga.. will practice all the counties Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by a| contract. declO-ly U lEUS & WILLIS, Attorneys at Law k bilbott.on, Ga. Prompt attention given to placed in our hands. decl(t-ly PoiKar' P. TRIPPE, Attorney at Law t , Ga. Will practice in the State Courts l»r« nn T united States’ District Court at Atlanta and dec 0-ly •I* Attorney at Law, Barnes^ Flint of G& practice in all the counties of urcuit and Supreme Court of the State. UARION BETHUNE, Attorney at Talboton,' Ga. Will practice in all the *",k tlle Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and ‘her counties. declß-ly JyuooEßs" will continue the practice s bre. ‘ Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug '— dectß-1y . T. Hannah, is pleased to n Pticticp of Upson that he will continue l “°iDa s t<,n n Medicine in its various branches at dec 18-1 y jf S ; WALKER. Attorney at Law ***State." nv*' r ' a ; w fll practice in Cireutt Courts o v ,Q United states District Courts. iJ 1 have moved up to n's ar n T V ssrß Cheney and Allen’s new tnrfld pf'-na,- 5 h J 7 en 2 a ged in the practfce of rnedl if | to go at any time. Persons wishing i at in ra y office, can call on Messrs. ■.' ca r^ w !‘ ssa d Sawyer’s and obtain informa- dfliy^j 8 me, * a 8 e there, which will DR. J. O. HUNT. The systems of liver Cl I II Iff A V fl ql complaint are uneasiness ■ the Shoulder, and is nd*. The stomach 7rSaJdT!?h .01 Y henm *tiara. Ts- i “J, with lax. The head is troubles with pain amt sensation considerable loss of memore * ' pamed wah painful "sensation of hav?n™left .nT* something which ought to bav e been done Of>l 6 pL.»mng..t weakness, d.-bilitv. and low> spinS Some- times, some of the above I I If II |*ymptom* attend thetlfcu Ii I V til H | at other times 11 1 * Li II | very few of them; b n t B Un ‘ Liver is generally the C "ret he Li veT^'-h" 1 ' "" ° rgan m 0 8 1 involved. DR. SIMMONS’ Liver Regulator, Tv r d h r- w *™« *>»«***. iy x ecetame, and mn do no injury to acynns It, has >een used hv httru'-v’ snd . 35 years as one of the most reliable, efficacious JJS harmless preparations ever offered to the suffering Jf !■ is sure to cure ? ‘ I-™ Dyspepsia, headache, UWUTttJKera* bladder, camp dysentery WWWSllHUSfcfcin.'jijiwJlMJjqHWll affections of the kidiiev»’ c .v r ' rv< > usnc ; ss ’ chll,s . diseases of the skin. Impurity of the blood, melancholy, or depression oT spirits, heart burn, nolle, or pains in the Weis, pain in the head fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain in back and limbs asthma erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis eases generally. Prepared only bv J. 13. ZEILIV & CO., Trice «1: by mail $1.85. Druggists, Macon, fin. 1 he following highly respectable persons can fnllv at i/ent. to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to whom we most respectfully refer 1 D <Jen r W S. Holt, President S. W. R. R. Company; R‘v • . holder Perry, Qa.; Col E. K Sparks, Albany <ta.; George • I Lunsford. Esq., Conductor 8 W R R- C Masterson. Esq. Sh-riff Bibb county; j' A. Bntta Rainbridge, Ga ; Dykes * Snarhawk. Editors Floridian’ lallahassee; Rev. .1 W. Burke. Macon, Ga- ViMl Powers Esq , Supertntend«nt S. W. R. R ; Daniel Rul laril, Bollard s Station, Macon and Brunswick R R Twiggs county, Ga.; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory’ Macon, Ga ; Rev. E F. Easterlinn, P. E. Florida Con ference; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor Macon Telegraph. For sale by John F Henry, New York, Jno D. Park. Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, - New Orleans, and all Drtm- S lsts apl2-ly SIXTY-FIVE FIRST PRIZE MEDALS AWARDEIX —THE great Southern Piano -cj fWfINUFfICTORY. ATKINA. KNABE Sc CO., MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOFORTES, BALTIMORE, MD. THESE Instruments have been before the 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. 11ST AA7 OEITS:NT^AISrSTTIT» 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, .fee,, on hand. 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 MELODKONS, which we offer, Wholesale and Retail, at Lowest Factory Piices. WM. KNA.BE & CO. septl7-Gm Baltimore, Md. «OUR FATHER’S HOUSE;” or, THE UNWRITTEN WORD. By Daniel March. D. D., Author of the popular “ Night Scenes.” THIS master in thought and lancruaffe shows us untold riches and beauties in the Great House, with its Blooming flowers. Singing 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 binding. “Rich and varied in thought.” ‘H 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, flue 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 us in every township, and we will pay liberally. No intelligent man or woman need be without a paying business. Bend for circular, full description, and terms. Address ZIEGLER A McCURDY, 16 S. Bixth street, Philadelphia Pa. 189 Race street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 69 Monroe street, Chicago, 111.. 503 N. Bixth street, Bt Louis, Mo. seplo-4m or, 102 Main street, Springfield, Mass. “THE MONROE ADVERTISER? YTOILXTTvdIE FIFTEEN. A Rrst-Class Democratic Newspaper! r- TMIE Crtmpaijrn which will soon be innu- L gurated, and whi;h will culminate in the election of Congtessional and Legislative Representatives in November, promises tube one of the most important and interesting epochs in the history of tjie State. In view of this fact, it is the duty of every person to sub scribe for some available newspaper. To the people of this section, Tiif. Monroe Advertiser presents superior claims. , , _ No pains will be spared to render the Tiie Advertiser a reliable and efficient newspaper, and each issue will embrace a fair epitome ol the week’s news, both foreign and domestic. .... ~, ~.. _ As heretofore, the local new6 of ibis and the adjoining counties will be made a specialty. TnE 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 inducement for reaching a large, intelligent and prosperous class ot peopie. terms of idventoiDg ‘•^E^^HARIUSON. geptl7-tf Dox 79, Forsyth. Ga. TWO GOOD BOOKS- Should be Had in every Family. DEVOTIONAL and practical Polyglott FAMILY BIBLE, containing a copious index, furnished in thrpe styles of , TT . * i ans BUSINESS for all the States tu tne union. L L I. Thi. v»tam.<».uin S }on„ s for men of every tr.de or X!«m!«'. fr d“ I ‘io e ‘L';bKSei by £be f '*“ or » l P “ b ' ’cOCHKAN b»e t.ken the Agency for tCi ind rai conn".., and wld Mil npon the s|o ? lo With tbrM invaluable books immediately. nov-o tr TIIOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1871. pOET^Y. THE WHOLE STORY. From Hearth and Home.] Oh ! yes—l’ll tell you the story, The Very words that Were said. T ou see the supper was cooking, And I was slicing some bread. And Richard came into the pantry, Ills face was exceedingly red. And he opened his half-shut fingers, And gave me a glimpse of a ring; And then—oh! yes, I remember, The kettle began to sing, And Fanny came in with her baby, The cunningest bunch of a things And the biscuits were out in a minute— Weil, what came next! Let me see— Oh! Fanny wu" there with her baby, .And we alt sat down to tea; And Grandma looked over her glasses So queer at Richard and me ! 1 But it wasn’t till after milking That he said what he had to say. How was it? Oh! Fanny had taken The baby and gone away— The funniest rogue -f a fellow He had anew tooth that day. We were standing under the plum-tree, And Richard said something low, But I was tired and flustered, Anxl trembled, I almost know; For old Red is the hardest of milkers, And Brindle so horribly slow. And then—let me see—where was I? Oh ! the stars grew thick overhead, And we two stood under the plum-tree TiJl the chickens flew up to bed. Well, he loves me,and we’re to be married, And that is— about w’hat he said ! jVIISCELLANEOUS. Odds and Ends. The Pope is said to bs an excellent bil liard player. The leading paper of Aberdeen, Scotland, is un ier the control of an American. A Masonic Lodge has been established in New Zealand. Washington oysters are termed “epigas tric ecstasy.” The “one flesh” that an Indiana couple were recently made, weighed 1000 pounds. A Chicago sausage-maker with unusual candor advertises his wares as “dog cheap.” Baron von Beust, the Austrian Premier, smokes forty cigars a day. A learned physicist announces that this globe will support life for 26,000,000 years longer. A Colorado editor avenges himself on a rival by publishing his marriage under the head of “Crimes and Casualties.” S.im Houston, eldest son of the old hero of San Jscinto, is editor of the Georgetown (Texas) Watchman. Horse-traders of Missouri put a little oil of vitriol on the animal’s hoof to make him show off his uncontrollable spirit. Cut-Throat Depot is the cheerful and at tractive name of a town in Southern Califor nia. Bristol, a town which is partly in Tenn essee and partly in Virginia, has one repre* seutative in the at Nsshville and another in Richmond. The London Times remarks that there are not ten Irishmen in Ireland who do not think of coming to America some time or other. Rothermel’s immense picture of the bat tle of Gettysburg will be unveiled at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on Monday. It covers 512 square feet of canvass. The Supreme Court of lowa has decided that if a juryman drinks intoxicating liquors during a trial, the verdict may be set aside and anew trial ordered. -# A lady aged 61, in England, finding her self in the wrong railway train, leaped from it when it was running at a speed of 40 miles an hour, and escaped without any in jury- A gentleman at Fremont, Ohio, had a reception at his house the other evening, and when the guests went away, it took the host all night to wash the tar and pick the feathers off his person. Mrs. Myra Bradwell, the femalo lawyer of Chicago, says she “does not believe in divorcing till God divorces,” and conse quently will not consent to act as counsel in a divorce case. The Canadians are having their usual winter snow-shoes races, and are getting both health and recreation from them. They prefer this exercise to skating, of which they have also an abundance. An Indiana sheriff, taking a horse thief to the State prison, fell asleep in the railroad car, and when he woke up the prisoner was gone. He thinks he must have got off at a station for a drink, and got left. One Youssee, at Montieello, lowa, gives everybody notice that he has made his wife a “free gift of $5,000,” and nobody need send him any of her bills, for he won’t pay them. An Arkansas editor lately issued his pa per without editorial matter, but with a paragraph at the head of the leading column in which he declared that the wives of his subscribers had so occupied his attention in calling to show their babies that he had no time to attend to anything else. A man in Fort M ayne, Ind., lost his wife, and" had a stone ereetel over her grave. He manned a seemd wife, and when she died he bad the gravestone split, and it then served for the two departed. He proposed to the third yesterday, and the lady quaint ly remarked. “I do not believe that stone will split again.” Edwin Forrest recently acted in Chatta nooga, and an envious Knoxville paper in sists that when he appeared on the stage, and many of the audience saw that he upon whom they looked was not the cavalry leader Gen. N. B. Forrest, the only great man of that name of whom they had ever beard, they jumped to their feet and declar ed they had been Bold. - Risraclt as a “Swell. M • ihs impression five and twenty years ago that a stranger, looking down from the Speaker’s gallery, gained of Mr. fiUraeli, from his showy dress, jeweled lesp iinen, and longibtkes of curling, black hair, was that of emasculated affectation. Pride is generally associated with lofty bearing. He is produced by a totally oppo site appearance, lie stoops. His gait is unsteady. There were never movements as noiseless. He sits with his head rigid, body contracted, arms pinned to nis side, and’ whole appearance as quiescent as a store figure of aneieDt Egypt. There is no gazing around, no rolling in his seat. No body converses with him. Isolation and self-absorption are the ideas the observer gains of him so long as he occupies his seat. He to live iu a world of his own, and to f« a the appetite for association which is natural to man with the fruit of his own thoughts. When he rises to speak it is scarcely different. There is intellectual power in his aspect, but it seems almost fat uous. Like Shyloek, in the judgment scene, he stoops, almost crouches, darts furtive glances from eyes that flash some concealed purpose. The forehead, eyes, mouth, and chin, hang. The head hang? on the breast, the shoulders on the body. If men carry a table of contents in their external aspect, that of Mr. Disraeli, when he rises to address the House, is that of a blank leaf. But when he makes his points the manner change*. lie becomes anima ted. The thumbs are removed from the arm-holes of the y a st-con*. The m st del icate inflexions of his voice can be detected. They are managed with exquisite art to give effect to the irony of the moment. An almost imperceptible motion of the body and hands grows in subtle harmony with the tones. He convulses his hearers with merriment without a smile on his face. 11 is shaft is aimed with deadly precision, while himself is imderturbnbly cool. The pr tcess by . which he deliberately tortures his antagonist is feiine. But he can be argumentative as wcJL In the accepted sense he is not an orator, lie never rises into the eloquence of the stump speaker. But on abstract subjects —when the theme is literature, or science, or philosophy—he attains a loftiness of thought equal to the occasion.— lndependent . Extravagance Among Business Men. Extragance in living is rapidly becoming the besetting sin of all our large cities.* In fact is getting to be one of our national characteristics, and even foreigners who visit us, and who are familiar with the luxurious habits of the upper classes of European society, are astonished at the recklessness with which Americans now a-days spend their money. In this respect, things are different with us from what they were in former times. The days of Republican simplicity and frugality, when our fathers were content with the gains of legitimate business, and honesty among the commercial classes was the rule rather than the exception, having given place to ao era of fast living, as well as acquiring wealth. But the great trouble with us is, that the personal and familv expenses of a large portion of our business men during the last few years, have in creased much faster in proportion than their means of indulgence. Formerly, the partners of every well-to do mercantile firm were in the habit of allowing a large portion of tbeir annual profits to be re-invested as additional capi tal in their business, and of living plainly and economically upon the balance until able to retire upon a competency. Now, every young man, as soon as he becomes established in business, in order to secuie his entree into society, must affect a prince ly style of living, which compels him to spend all his income, and sometimes to en croach upon his capital. It is a notorious fact, since the close of the war, with the great falling off in busi ness profits consequent upon the general shrinkage of value, a great many merchants and manufacturers have been living beyond their incomes. They know very well if they continue to go on in this way they will soon have ruin and bankruptcy star ing them in the face, But they prefer to run the risk, and trust to better times, or in some lucky stroke of speculation to re trieve their fortunes rather than retrench. They are men of the world, courting popu larity and influence, whose wives and daughters move in the charmed circle of fashionable society, and they cannot bear to give up any portion, however trifling, of their outward display of opulence, for fear of losing caste. International Chess Congress. It is proposed to hold a graud interna tional chess congress next summer, and the following circular has bepn issued to the chess clubs of the United States by the Brooklyn Club : “At a recent meeting of Chess Club, it was resolved that in conse quence of the increasing popularity of chess throughout the country, measures should be taken for the purpose of inaugurating a Giand International Chess Congress, to be held in the city of New York during the coming year ; and a committee was subse quently appointed to communicate with other chess clubo in the United States, re questing their aid and assistance in the furtherance of the scheme. It has been estimated that a sum of from four to five thousand dollars will be amply sufficient to cover all expenses. We therefore take the liberty of addressing you, with the hope that you will bring tha subject to the con sideration of the various members of your clubs.” XYliat is Home I “Home,” says Robertson, in his sermons, “is the place in all this world where hearts are sure of each otaer. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear ofl - that mask of guarded and- suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defence, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of lull and con fiding hearts. It is the spot where expres sions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness, and without any dread of ridicule. Let a man travel where be will, home is the piece to which ‘his heart untravelled fondly turns,’ He is to double all pleasure there. He is to divide all pain. A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man as upon this earth fe r the cultivation of hia noblest sensibilities.” Engla iKlVTrntpfr. England is arming. But the Times insists j on peace. Perhaps this may be be because the Thunderer has been looking over the j master rolls of the Czar. These show a total of regular and local troops equal to ! 1,169,230. In addition the Cossacks and j irregular forces are put down at 188.427, making a grand aggregate of 1,357.657. It is now affirmed that 800,000 men of all afms are Under orders, or actaally in motion toward? the coast? of the Euxine, and the* waters of that sea are to be whitened with the sails of a Russian fleet. Under these circumstances we are not surprised that England is anxious to adjust all unsettled questions with the United States, fob this country has a power in its position, it? nat ural resources, and the martial temper of its masses, which commands, especially at this time, the profound r©-*»nect of John Bull. With this fact before them, we trust General Grant, and his new Minister will utterly repudiate the cruel policy which has been suggested by Dr. Butler, and proceed, in a spirit of wise humanity, to secure all that this country can fairly claim, and at once remove any cause of irritation between the two nations. We have had enough of war. About Noses. Washington’s nose was 2js inches ; but the Presidential average has. so far, been what we have stated above—Jefferson, for example, representing the longs, ynd Fill more the shorts. Wellington and Napoleon differ only the sixteenth of an inch, both being above the average; Lord Brougham, who is an enclycoptedia of general informa tion, follows a feature three inches in length ; the average nose of the Century Club is 2 9-16; Thackeray’s nose is 2$ precisely the length of the nose of the ‘Father of his country.’ President John son’s is 2 2-16 ; Irving’s, 2 7-12 ; Brvant’s, 2 6-11; Dicken’s, 2f ; Durand’s, 2 7-13 ; General Scott’s, 2 5-10; Longfellow’s 2 6- General Sherman’s, 2J ; Macau ley’s, 2 5-9 ; Farragut’s, 2|; Commodore Wise’s, 1 7-12; Tennyson’s, 2 4-7; Hoffman’s, 2 7- : the average magazine nose of this city is If : in Philadelphia, If; McClel lan’s is 2 8-12 ; Yerplank’s, 2f ; Bayard Taylor’s, 2 6-11; we shall have Fredrika Bremer’s by next steamer ; the nose of the Academy of Design, 2 5-9; Browning’s, 2 5-9; M iss Murlock has a very respeeta- I ble feature for a woman, being 2f ; Jean Inglow, 2f ; Bonner’s 2| ; Seward’s, nearly 3 inches, and our own a snub.” A B«*u mt i fu l Theory. Music is tbe most beautiful language in the world, and the mind that thinks in mel ody must be the pleasantest place on earth. There is a beautiful theory that musical sounds never die ; that when once tlie har monious waves and echoes of music are gathered up they swell immortal in the great orchestra of Heaven. This world of ours is full of melody if we had only souls to hear and appreciate ; the calmest noon, and the night that lies breath less under the throbbing stars, the loneli est cape of the green, and the boldest promontory jutting out from the heaven, have their trobadours and their minstrelsy ; bugles are blown from among the summer leaves ; trumpets are sounded from fallen trees; love-making goes on in the grass at our feet; bridal bolls ring in the air over our heads; and accents of war come to us . from some tiny “Redan” of moss, or some little “Malakoff” of a hillock. Capt. Hall’s Arctic Expedition. Capt. Ilall, the Artie explorer, in his lecture at Brooklyn, said he should start on his third trip about the first of May, and will never cease his labors until he has put his foot upon the 90th paralell of north latitude. lie will go fir?t to Newfoundland and stay for about a week to obtain some sealers to make up his party; from thence he will proceed to the western coast of Greenland to procure some skins and a supply of stock fish. From Greenland he will cross Davis’s Straits and obtain dogs from the Esquimaux, then cross Baffin’s Bay to Smith’s Island, thence westward through Jones’ Sound, and go to the north as far as possible before the winter sets in. Ilis sailing-master has spent twenty years in the Artie regions and his first and sec ond officers ten years. If he cannot reach the North Pole in 1872, he will stay another : year, or, if necessary, five years. A Religious Amendment to tlic Constitu tion. Avery determined effort is making to secure embodiment in the constitution of the United States of some verbal recogni tion of God and Christianity. The national association to further this object of which Judge Strong, of the Supreme Court, is president, has issued a call for a national convention, which is signed by manv prominent persons of all shades of belief throughout the country. Among them we notice Bishop Simpson, Methodist Episcopal Church ; Bishop Hurrtingdon, of Central N. Y., ; Bishop Eastburn, Massachusetts ; Bishop Mellvaine, of Newark ; Rev. Dr. Miner, of Boston, President o’Tufts (TJni versalist) College; Geo. A. Stuart, E?q.. and Jay Cooke, Esq., of Philadelphia-; Cov. Geary, Gov. McClurg, etc. The convention is to meet in New York on the 13th inst. The Way It Was Done. This was the way in Britain, in the latter part of the sixteenth century, whereby “A i Maid could surely telle who was to be her j Ilusdande ;” “Take a St. Thomas onion i and lay it on a clean handkerchief under I your pilUw ; put on a clean em ck ; and ! as you lie down, lay your arms abroad, and I say these words *. “‘Good St. Thomas, do mo rLht, Aud bring me to nay love this night, That I may view him in the face, And ia my arms may him embrace “Then, lying on your back, with your arras abroad, go to sleep as soon as you } can ; ar.d in your first sleep you shall dream of him who is to be your husband ; and he j will come and offer to kis? you: do not l hinder him, but catch him in your arms, and strive to hold him, for that is he. This I have tried, and it was proved true.” Too High l Too High ! A jury has fixed the price of “kissing ladies for fun” at $150! They deoide that it is apt to raise hopes of marriage, and make a breach of promise good. Intquthe RowrN of tl»e R«rth> One? grandest triumphs of moderti engineering skill has just been Accomplish ed. The tunnel under Mount Cenis—more than seven and a half miles—was virtually completed two days ago. This tunnel, cut through the mountain from St. Michel to Susa, by means of diamond-pointed drills, worked with compressed ndl cnlt the difficult, and at times tWagercus pas sage over the Alps, but shortens the dis tance between the two points mentioned by nearly ferty-three miles. As soon as the railway is laid through the tunnel, to con nect with that at Susa, on the eastern slopo of the Alps, passengers and traffic will take thir route to Italy in preference to any other. The comnlerfcial advantage iVhich the tunnel will give to France over Germany will also be very great. It is estimated that the cost of the tunnel, when entirely completed and ready for business, will not be less than twenty millions of dollars. “1 Knows It.” According to medical authority, about the roost useful part of the human face is the nose. One writer compares it to a custom house officer—it detects at once all attempts to introduce contraband goods into the system, because it is highly sensitive to the odor of the most poisonous substances. It readily detects hemlock, henbane, monk’s hood, and the plants containing prussic acid ; it recognizes the fetid smells of drains, and warns us not to smell tho pol luted air. The nose is so sensitive that it distinguishes air containing the 200,000 th part of a grain of musk. It tells us in the morning that our bedrooms are impure, and oatches the fragrance of the morning air, and conveys to us the invitation of the flowers to go forth into the fie'ds and inhale their sweet breath. To billed by the nose has hitherto been used as a phrase of re proach ; but to have a good nose, and to follow its guidance, is one of the safest and shortest ways to the enjoyment of health. Voting Away tlie Acres. From a statement compiled by the lion. Geo. W. Julian, it appears that during the present Congress the Senate has passed twenty-three bills granting 75,000,320 acres of land to railroads. Os these the House has as yet approved but two—one making a supplementary gift of 1,000,000 acres to the Northern Pacific railroad, tho other giving the Oregon Branch Pacific railroad 4,760,< 00 acres. There are still awaiting the Senate’s action thirty-two other b ile, calling for 114,218,600 acres more, making an agregate of 180,224,020 acres, or six times the area of Pennsylvania, proposed to be given away by the Forty- First Congress alone. A Change of Lurk. The once formidable Uhlans of the Ger man ajmies, from being the hunters are now the hunted. A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, Who is attached to the Uhlans, writes to that paper that they are now continually harrassed by Franc-tireurs, and Mobiles, w T ho shoot them dow r n from every bush, every tree and every ditch. They are constantly marching and con stantly losing men. The Bavarians, says the correspondent, and all the Uhlans are lustily praying for peace and the capitulation of Paris. Busiiiegg i* Bu»int-*K. A Chicago lawyer ha& a model form for divorce bills printed, leaving blanks for names and dates, and including all the causes for divorce known to the Illinois laws. When he classes down a client, he fills up his printed form with the parties’ names, date and place of marriage, and cause of action, erasing those counts which are not needed ; and with a few scratches of the pen he has a bill ready co be filed in proper form. In this way ho has been known to prepare and tile as many as thirty to forty divorce bills in one afternlhn. A Home for tile Pope. The rumors that King William, of Prus sia has offered an asylum to the Pope are confirmed. He has placed at the disposal of his Holiness, in case he should decide to abandon Rome, either of two cities— Cologne or Fulda. Both of these cities are famous in the annals of the Church. At . the former, is one of the grandest and most ancient cathedrals in Europe, and the latter contains a venerable Episcopal palace. But it is doubtful if the Pope will ever consent to leave Rome, peculiar as is his situation in that city at present. A Tickle. Tn an after-dinner speech at Atlanta, the other day, Judge McCay said : “Georgians are pretty smart. [Ap plause.] An old Dutchman once camfe down here who had lived in Switzerland. He said the people there had a proverb that it took ten Swiss to cheat a Jew. When he came to New York they had a proverb there that it took ten Jews to cheat a Yankee, and noyr be had come to Georgia, and he believed that it would take fen Yankees to cheat a Georgian.” [Applause and laughter ] The Barber’s Pole, Hundreds of people there are who do not understand why the barber uses the red striped pole. It originated from the fact that, some centuries ago, it was customary for barbers to bleed people, and the pole, with alternate winding stripes of white and red, represented the bandage of the phle botomized victim. In the course of time the apothecary excelled the barber as a bb6l-letter; but the old sign of tbe craft was retained by tbe latter after the function which gave it significance had ceased. A oi r lnsanity. Til £ Berliner Bocrsoo Courier writes that a sort of insanity is very prevalent in the hospitals around Versailles It is caused by the positions the extreme Outposts of the German army have to occupy aronnd Paris. Lying fiat on their belly, concealed behind some long or stODe, the men have to be perfectly still, keeping their bead motion less, and gaze steadfastly at she hostile lines. This exceedingly wearisome position, in a good many cases, produced insanity. One Kind of Sport. Xenia, O, girls have a picesing habit of kissing strangers in she street, and then wildly screaming, “Oh, my ! I thought it was cousin Cnariie !” NO. 8.-