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Professional pARDs,
n'IAL ifc NUNNAIjLY, Attorneys at
1.-iw. Onlfln. Ga. Will practice in all the coun
-1 > cmiiprisinc ihe Flint Judicial Circuit, and in the
omndfiof Metiwetker, Olaytou, Fayette and Coweta.
practice in the Supreme Cnttrt-of (Georgia, and tlm
v -, P ctl " ,irl ol the United states tor tlie Northern and
W'u's ern Districts of Georgia
* " WNXAI.I.Y. [iiplls Iv] L. T. nOTAU
J Ia LLRX. Ariur ev nt Lw. 'l'hnm
* ° a - " practice in the counties com
v i'.’ the Hint Judicial Circuit., and elsewhere by
"V All business promptly attended to.
••"•in Cheney’s brick building. • * inchll-ly
IV' R KKNhALI; "flFers his pn>f*>B
- j”'' ’“•rvlco.s tc the citizens of I homaston and
p n ., lr ' z i Co4intr y. May be (bund dnrin-; the day at
ic c feT ‘T ;l ' s ' flight at the former tesi
,lf' h-'Hes Wilson. jan 14 ly.
j I UKOI>I NO, Atiornov at Li\v,
fA ".' rn, 'svil c, l*ike co. (}a. Will practice in the
-1' Jr ‘’’’"'prising the Flint Jbdiatal Cir-ult, and
iiioj, I. i**, T special ontract Al business promptly
Tin si'Je " lce ln Eider's building, over Chamber’s
augd- y
I BKALL. Artornov at L-uv,
ffeit anit'JlT'?''Fill practice in the Flint Cir*
-Vt a.uMseMrerebv special contract aog27-1y
U.r! HT/lV’Klt Attornpy at Law.
Courts of fiv practice in all the
tuntr n t le C ircuit, and elscwltero by special
1 tune2.S-ly
R H ALL. Attorney and o*»unsell->r
ll.c K it'r- l in the counties composing
*».' n e , lrr,l ‘ t - in the Supreme Court, of i.eorjia,
y uc District c ( ,urt of the United States for the
TANARUS, rrri *n«i Southern Districts of Georgia.
• u "in.iston, (Is., June lsth. IST"-Iy.
T IN M’H H. SMITH. Attorney and
j. 1 ounsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and
,‘"" s ’heels 'tl ima, ()*. Will practice n u«e Su-
T T ur,s <*f Cowi ta and Flint Circuits, the Su
, “"t (’ourt of the State, nod the United States* I»is-
V' 1 n " r V All com : uuicati<*ns addressed to it ini at
■ «tti will reeeive prompt attention. apriltl-ly
A McCALLA. Attorneys
Ur,, l-i Covington, Ccrgia. Will attend Tegu
efftmti.. r'T a,-tlce ' n tl '* Superior Camrts of the
I'ewimq Rutu, ii nry, Spalding Fike.
per. ' l’ v '®'Morgan, DeKalb. Gwiuuetle and das
. dec 0-1 y
fl MATHEW S. Attorney at
n ’ '"(•'’JinAi) 1 “r! *’* • w iH practice all the counties
• *cu; cuter '*., 11111 ahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
—declo.lv
\\ Tdb!tLw Attorneys at Law
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declo-ly
H FurlnV Attortiev at Law
4 ! !«thii'rr,,'. A*. W’lll practice iu the State Cour«s
u District Court at Atlanta and
" J‘ ’ dec 0-ly
f I• L Attorney at Law, Barnesu
lo * Flint t irciih 'V! 1 P rac ßce in all the counties of—
"r,,‘ Supreme Court of tb» State.
M RFI’UONE, Artornev at
i? ,Ul fiej of thJ ru ton 'practice in all the
er riw^ t v ' nuttahooehee Circuit, aud Upson and
deciS-ly
will continue the practice
■ ir e 1 ioe. Office at B. T>. ITardiway’s T>rug
i . - decl^-ly
1 v notify t w‘,!,• is pleased to
I nt w* *f n . s, lf^P' v »n that he will c<*ntintie
f (j. ‘' lc,llc ‘ ae In its various branches at
f fS- dec 18-1 y
Attorney at Law
‘ndin th. V l l p; ac 'ice In Circuit Courts o
*BL. ly l in tire Ltuted Mates District Court*.
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heaw sensation considerable loss of memorr neJim
punied with painful sensation of - having left
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THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1871.
jVIISCELLANEOUS.
LETTER FROM SERGEANT BATES.
Ilia March from Vicksburg to Washing
ton—the “League” and the “Flag’ 1 —
Holden's OlTcr of *IO,OOO If the Sergeant
■will Abandon the Marcb in “Dis"nxt”
—Bribery und Threat* of Assassination.
Indianapolis, Ixd , March 27, 1871.
Editors Sentinel :
.Dkar Sirs—ln the report of the Senate
Committee, of March 10, on p:»!it ct»l out
rapes, they in regard to the Union
League at the Sou h, that “its purposes
were publicly avowed, that it held public
meetinog and processions, in which its
members appeared aud acknowledged their
connection with it; that no violence was
edher diixcted or countenanced, by the
League.
Allow me to give y. u pome fucts in re
gard to the Union League South, in con
nection with my tour with the United States
flag through the late Confederacy Not
wishing to trouble you with a very long
communication, i wiil be as brief as possi
b’e.
After I had commenced the march from
\ ieksburjj, and before getting out of Mis
sissippi, l made the du-covery that I was
being luUowed by a respectable and inteli
gent negro. It would extend this commu
nication-too much to explain how I made
the discovery that he was a spy and tool of
the Union League, and was to follow and
act under instructions from the Union
Lea guo in regard to ms—this could do me
no harm, but if rnv object in going through
the South was what the directors of the
League asserted it to be. I was to he asas
sinated, unless I would return to my
Northern home when warned to do so) —or
how and why I made him mv friend, and
i rrariged with him to take charge of my
•baggage, meeting me at such points as
railroad communication would admit of;
how he assisted me to attend three secret
meetings (if the League in disguise and at
the risk of mv life; on two occasions, at
Warrenton and Augusta, Ga , he saved, me
from serious harm, and perhaps death, from
ti e skulking blood hounds of the League.
If this shall meet the eye of any of the
leading citizens of Warrenton it will bring
to mind the unusual excitement among the
negroes on the evening of my arrival in
their town, and their openly expressed
hostility toward me—a feeling c r eated by
the false representations id' the leaders of
the L-ague, the object being to excite the
negroes to inob me. Some of the citizens
will also bring to mind how strongly they
urged me alow them to guard mv hotel
during the night, for the protection of my
self and the flag, and how successfully I
opDosed their wishes in the matter. But
they were not aware that late in the night,
after they had retired to rest, for the pur
pose of gaining information. L disguised
mvself and witli my trusty Friend, stole
quietly from the house aud attended a ne
gro meeting, presided over by two w’hite
men, where I heard myself misrepresented
by the whites and roundly cursed by the
negroes.
While in Selma, Ala., an agent of the
League called on me and requested an
interview, which I granted. Ilis object in
calling was to induce me to become a mem
ber ot the L ague. Ilis argument and the
inducements offered by him I wiil pass over
(for the present.)
While stopping at the Kuropean Hotel,
in Montgomery, Ala., I was one evening
a short time absent from my room ; on
returning to it and entering, I found a
communication which had been thrust un
der the door during my absence, and it was
from the League, who “threatened me with
certain death unless I furled my flag and
returned to.my home, giving up all further
efforts attempt to deceive the people
of the North io regard to the loyalty of the
red-handed traitors of the South,” &c , Ac.
I mentioned the matter to but one person—
Gen. James Clanton, of Montgomery, who
urged me to accept of an escort of ex-Con
fedcratc soldiers, who would see me and the
flag pass safely through Alabama into
Georgia. I refused the escort.
At Greensboro, N. C., I was offered ten
thousand dollars, which I was to receive,
provided I would stop the march and go
!mme, I was to do so apparently in disyust,
and in the interests of the Republican party.
The offer came from Governor W. W. Hol
den, of your State. Although a poor man,
nevertheless neither myself nor the flag I
carried was for sale. On my way through
North Carolina I was informed by numbers
of the League that the organization in that
State was already powerful and was grow
ing more so at a rapid rate ; that Governor
Holden was at the head of the League, and
that they were guided in all political mat'
ters by him.
The above are only a few facts of the
kind. That same Union League of which
the Senate Committee said: “No violence
was either directed or cumtenanced by
them,” made four attempts to bribe me, and
three times threatened me with death while
on my way with a United States flag from
Vicksburg to Washington, it being well
known that I was in the interests of no
party, my only object being to prove that
the peopleof the North and South could and
should be in the bonds of a friendly Union.
Allow me to say that I am opposed to all
secret political organizations of whatever
character, for I believe them unnecessary
and a public evil. I would also say that
I can give you further and more important
information in regard to such organizations,
asserting nothing but whats oan prove, and,
if acceptable, will do so wi! ingly. simply
from the fact that I believe it a duty I owe
to the public to give publicity of informa
tion of the above oharaoter which I am pos
sessed of.
Very respectfully,
Sergkant G. 11. Bates.
The Boston Traveller says that a lady in
that city, having occasion to use a support
fur an ivy plant which she was raising in a
pot, took an old grapevine cane and thrust
it into the earth. Sometime afterward,
wishing to move the ivy, she pulled up the
old cane, and found, to her astonishment,
that it had sent out shoots and was making
vigorous efforts to root itself by the side of
the ivy. .This bit of grapevine had been
used for a long time ns a cane, aud for
years, which no one in the family could
number, had been lying about the house.
Scrap* About Women.
There are 800,000 more women than men
fn England.
In the lowa City Medical College the boys
and girls sla*h away together upon the same
dead hodies. A blush is considered un
professional there.
The child of a womans rights’ advocate
beard o! the Lard’s prayer. “Ma,” said
she, upon coming home—“l d' n’t want to
B>y ‘amen’ at ibe end as the other girUdo.
Why can’t I say a-women ?”
A Chinese maxim says: “We require
four things of woman—that virture dwell
in her heart; that modtsty play on her
brow; that sweetness flow From her lips J
that industry occupy her hands.”
Sb'.’idfln said beautifully, “Women gov
ern’" ns; let- us render them perfect; the
more thav are enlightened, so much the
more shall we be. .On the cultivation of
their minds depends the wisdom of men.”
1 he Evening Post tells of a little hoy who
nskod : —“Mamma, is a fortress a she fort ?”
This is equal to the literalist who said that
a woman was sometim.es called a miss'rcss
to put a stress on what had been a -miss.
An acquaintance of ours who was com
plaining to some of his friends of the* diffi
00l ies that beset him in trying 'o solve the
problem of life, was gravely assured by one
of them that it was all “because he had
taken no woman into the neenut.”
As women love most passionately, so they
can bate “some” when they try. The very
keenness of sensibility, which makes .them
the quintescence of honey- to one who re
turns their love, turns them into double
distilled gall arid wormwood, when their
affection is despised. It’s a way they’ve got.
It was Cobbett who said, (and he told the
truth too) “that, women were never so ami
able as when they were useful ; and as for
beauty, though men may fall in I >ve with
girls at play, there is nothing to make them
stand to their love like seeing them at
wo:k.”
Pride in woman destroys all symmetry
and grace; and affectation is a more terrible
to the sac« than the small pox. A vain,
lazy woman h a fit. associate for coxcombs
and fools, the disgust of sensible men, a
burden upon society and the body politic,
and scatters thorns in her own path.
A woman is either worth a good deal or
nothing. If good for nothing, she is not
worth getting jealous for ; if she be a true
woman she will give no cause for jealousy.
A man is a brutp to be jealous of a good
woman —a fool to be jealous of a worthless
one —but a double foil to.cut bis throat for
either of them.
There is something inexpressibly sweet
about little gi»ls. Lovely, pure, innocent,
ingenuous, unsuspecting, full of kindness
to brothers, babies and everything. They
are sweet little human flowers diamond dew
drops in the breath of morn. What a pity
they should ever become women, flirts and
heatless cnquetts.
The best women in the world are those
who stay at home ; such is the universal
opinion ot the best judges, to-wit: their
husbands. The worst those who
have no home, or who love all other places
better ; such is the verdict of those who
meet them abroad. A wife in the house is
as indtspensibie as a steersman at the
helm.
A woman will cling to the chosen object
of heart like a possum to a gum tree, and
you cannot separate her without snapping
strings that no art can mend, and leaving a
portion of her soul on the upper leather of
her affections. She will sometimes see
something to love where others teee nothing
to admire ; and when her fondness is once
fastened to a fellow, it sticks like gluo and
• molasses to a bushy head of hair.
“Woman ! Heaven’s best gift to man :
his Pandora, or casket of jewels; his con
fectionary shop, or stick of rock candy ; his
otto of roses, or sugar coated pill ; her
presence *his best company ; her voice his
sweetest music ; her kiss, the guardian of
his innocence; her arm, the palo of safety ;
her bosom, the softest pillow of hi# cares.”
Girls, d’ye hear that? ilis otto of roses !
0, Moees l
Curious Things to Know.
Besides the fact that ice is lighter than
water, there is another curious thing about
it which persons do not know, perhaps,
namely, its purity. A lump of ice meltfd
will always become pure distilled water.
When the e*arly navigators of the Arctic
seas got out of the water they melted frag
ments of those vast mountains of ice called
icebergs, and were astonished to find that
they yielded only fresh water. They thought
that they were fr-ozmi salt wate.r, not
knowing that they wereformed on the land,
and in some way launched into the sea.
But if they had been right the resuit would
have been all the same, The fuct is, the
water, in freezing, turns opt of it all that is
not water, salt, air, coloring matter, 'and
all impurities. Frozen sea waiter makes
fresh-water ice. If you freeze a basin of
indigo water it will make it as pure as that
made of pure rain water. When the cold
is very sudden these foreign matters have
no time to escape, either by rising or sink
ing, and are thus entangled with tbe ice,
but do not form anv parr of it.
Yesterday naorn about 11 o’clook a seleot
concourse of peopleassembied at the Eighth
Street Synagogue to witness the conversion
of a Christian 1 adj to Judaism. The nxme
of this Jewish neophyte is Mrs. Sarah Van
tTllem, widow of Mr. Charles Van Ullam,
lite tobacconist of this city, but who was
recently drowned while on a fishing excur
sion in Ohio. Mrs. Van U is about tveoty'
fiveyears of age, of prepossessing exterior,
and was attired in Jeep black. She was
accompanied to the synagogue by her aged
mother and father-in law. who, tottering
under the weight of year®, came to witness
the conversion of th°ir daughter-in-law to
the Hebrew faith. As the Israelites seek t o
proselytes, there is no particular religious
formula for conversion other than the gen
eral renunciation of Christ as the Messiah,
and the acceptance of the’“law and the
prophets.”— Pittsburg Post . April 3.
When is a fowl’s neck like a bell ? When
it is rung for diaper.
A Syntfiw of Nat tonal nfilucnt ioit.
O’ all the bills 1 elore tho present Con
gress looking towards the centralization
and consolidation of the United States of
America into a union more closely resemb
ling that of United Germany—the ideal
Government of General Grunt—there is
probably none so bold in its invasion of the
rights of the States and none so subversive
ot the freedom of the Citiißn as that entitled
“An act to estubiish a system of national
education.” In the course of debate, a few
days ago, Mr. Kerr, ot Indiana, showed eo
clearly its scope and intent that it will have
to be laid aside, temporarily at least.
Without any pretence of clear and express
warrant in the Federal Constitution, and
covering its naked deformity with the fig
leaf of preamble “in order to form a more
perfect union,” Mr. Kerr showed that any
interpretation which would give it validity
would also warrant the passage of a law
regulating marriage arid divorce, the regis'
tration of wills, or tbe transfer of real estate.
But, passing from the question of constitu
tional au'hority—a’ subje *t worthy on ! y the
jibes ands eers of the Radical n id- h 1
laid bare the motives which lie behind it.
1. Thirty seven State superintendents,
243 general inspectors. 5,000 local inspec
tors, and an army of 150,0'>0 teachers, all
under the control of and appointed by the
bead of the bureau so established, would
furnish an opportunity for fraud and cor
ruption, for venality aod nepotism, beside
which the pre.-wnt revenue system sinks
into insignificance.
2. The aggregate annual expenditures
would be $00,000,000. This vast sum,
nearly the whole amount of the annual Fed
eral expenditures during the last Democrat
ic administration, tbe bill proposes to share
equally among the several States. This
would burden tbe Siuthern and Western
States most heavily, while the tax <»n ihe
Eastern aud Middlo States would be com
paratively light. I’y the hist census the
aggregate of values in Florida has been re
duced forty-five per cent, below that of
186 ); in Lonisiana forty-six percent.; in
Mississippi seventy-one percent. ; and the
bill imposes the same ta% burdens on the
people of those States as the people of Mas
sachusetts and-Rbode Island would be call
ed upon to bear, whose aggregate of values
has increased over ninety per cent, since
1860. And further to express tho people
of the Southern States, to protect the color
ed man against paying any part of the t;ix,
and to punish the white man of tbe South,
it provides that the homestad shall bo ex
empted from taxation to tho value ot. SSOO.
Is it possible fir the human ingenuity to
devise a more grossly, unjust, unequal, op
pressive, anii ciuel mode of taxation ?
3 It would place in the hands of the Ex
ecutive (and this is the vital point of the
measure) money and patronage inoro-than
sufficient to have turned the scale, in any
Presidential election sinew tho administra
tion of Washington, in favor of the incum
bent of the executive office, or of the man
by him chosen as his successor. The effect
of the bill, if passed, would be to insure
General Grat’s re-election in 1872; and
then, with a corruption fund ofs6o,< 00,000
yearly, aided by the bayonet election laws,
to make him President for life in name— an
emperor in fact.— New York World.
Sut Lovogood at a C'amly Palling.
I hen a heap of trouble last Christmas,
and I’ll tell you how it happened. Dekin
Jones* gave a candy rullin, and I got a
stool, as they say in North Carolina, and
over I goes. Sister Poll and I wertt togeth
er, and when we got to old man Jones’ the
house was chuck full. Dog mi cats es thare
was room to turn round.
Thar was Sur.e Harking* she’s as big as
a skinned horse, and six other Harkins,
and Simmonses, and Pedigrews ; and the
schoolmaster and his gal, besides’the old
Dekin and the Dekeness, and enough little
Dikenpgses to set up half dozen young folks
in the family bianess.
Well bine by the pot begun to bile, and
the fun begun. We all got our plates readv,
and pot fl ur on our hands to keep the
candy from stieken, and then we pitched
into pullin’. Wazn’t it fun ? I never saw
Bich laffiu and cutting up in all my burn
daze.
I made a candy bird for Em. Simmons.
Her sod me expecks to. trot in *mblc har
ness one of these disc, She made a candy
goose for me.
Then we got throwiu’ candy balls intu
one another’s hair, and a running from one
side of the hous to tuther. and out intu the
kitchen, till everything on'the place was all
over gommed with candy. 1 got a pine
bench, and Em Simmons sot close to me.
Suze Harkins, confound her pictur, throw’d
a candy ball sock intu (Tne of mi ize. I
made a bulge to run after and heard
something rip. My stars alive ! Wazri’t I
pickeled? I looked around, and thar was
tbe gable "end of ray bran new britches a
sricXen t£> the pine bench. I backed up agin
the wall sorter crawfish-like and grinned.
“but,” said sister Poll, “what’s the mat
ter ?”
“Shut up f” grz I.
“Sut,” sevs Em,, “come away from that
waP, you’ll get all over greasy/’
“Let her grease !” Bez I, and sot down on
a wash-board that was lying across a tub.
fueling worse than an old made at a wed
din’. . Purty eoon J felt something hurt,
and purty eoon it hurt agin. Ice—whis—
I jurapt ten feet hi, kicked over the tub, out
flew old Joneses Chrismas turkey, and juu
ought to seen me git.
I cut for tall timber now, jumpt staked
and rider ftlhces, and mashed down brush
like a runaway herikart till I got home, and
went to bed and staid there two daze.
Es old Joneses barn burns down next
winter, and I am arrested for it, aod if
en ay bod y peer* as a witnp«s «gin me, I’ll
burst his doggon’d bed! Them’s my senti
ments.
The Constitutionalist, referring to the
probable stand of the Democracy of tho
South in tlm next National Convention
says:
“But they should not, and they will not,
tjlve their assent to the preposition that any
usurpation is irreversible—and admitted
wrong is forever settled in favor of the •
wrong done Usurpation and wrong doing
can never, in a representative government,
be sanc.fied by time and become dead
issues.”
Kales fur Table litiq uettc.
1 Knowledge in power. It is the duty of
I evei J tax-payer who bus more know, edge
i than he requires fo* hte own domestic pur-*
; pr.ee, to impart; that knotfirdgc to ctheii.
j I hare derived so much instruction fr m
writers on ettiqueite in the weekly news*
papers, and my manners have been so vas
tly improved tfaeK'by that it would be crim
! i n «> 10 withhold tfhnt I know about table
etiquette. Although the reasons may net
; be obvious at first eight, they exist aud will
! be appareut on careful consideration. For
j instance :
1. Do not comment** eating before your
| b(JBt through with his grace. I hint
I known some men to bite a biscuit as largo
us a blacking box into a halfmoon. and have to
hold it between their teeth, under a suspen
eion of the rules, during the blessing. This
is disgraceful.
2. l)o not sup soup with a fork. Your
! soup will always have you at a disadvau
: tnge with such odds. Besides, it is ‘aoup
erfluous/
3. In passing your plate to bo rehelpod,
retain your knilu uuti fork in your vest
pocket.
4 When a*ked foi* a dish, do cut propel
it across the surface of the tablo after the
manner us a game of shoVel-board always
pitch it gracefully, after the Manner of
<|u its. this will be quoit sufficient.
5. Never try to eat fish with a salt'cel
lar.
6. While drinking, be careful not to
empty hot coffee, or anything of that sort,
jnto y >ur neighbor’s paper Collar.
7 lb) not eat tco fast. You will not ‘get
left,’ it you make up in heroic doses for fast
time.
8. If you fiul anything suspicious in
.your hash, don’t eat any more hash, and if
there is anything wrong with your Latter,
propose n toast, or tell ard anecdote.
9. When you burn your mouth with a
cold potato, don’t whistle or make laces at
toe company, but shed tears in silence.
10. Never leavd the tuble without asking
the lady of the house to be excused ; but if
you Imppen to bo at a barbacue or a free
lunch don’t leuvo it at all as long as there
is a bone or a crumb iu sight.
If you will studiously observe these liflle
rules and don’t appropriate your table
napkin under tho contemtible pretense that
you thought it was your pocket-Jianker
chief, you will succeed admirably.
The Oontcst Between Bowen mm De
Large.
The contest between G. C. Bowen and R.
C. DeLirge of South Carolina, for the
honor of a seat in tho forty-second Con
gress, has been virtually decided in favor
of the former. The Commissioners of
Election of Beaufort county (in De Large’s
district) were arraigned and tried la-it week
in the U. S. Circuit Court at Charleston,
upon an indictment setting forth that Wil
liams, Langley, and Cleaves, the aforesaid
Commissioners, had, while acting in that
capacity at the last olection, stuffed the
ballot-boxes, falsified the election record,
made false returns of the number of votes
cast, and committed divers other acts in
violation of the United States Enforcement
law. The jury found the prisoners guilty,
and Judge Bond sentenced them each to
two years’ imprisonment in the peniten
tiary.
The Court having thus siißtained Mr.
Bowen’s charges of fraud in that district, it
is more than likely that Mr. De Large will
be compelled to retire and give place to his
contestant.— N. Y Sun. ,
, True Religion.
Pray, remember that religious services
are not religion. There is a great mistake
current nmoDg religious people that going
to church is religion. Religion is a pervad
ing, abiding sense of duty to God ; and the
pointsman, tho porter, the stoker, the engine
driver who docs his duty to his employers
and to the public, and duty to his family,
may have rare and infrequent opportunities
of attend ng church, but if he carries along
with him into all his works a sense of duty
td a higher than an earthly power, that
man’s sense of duty May make up for the
infrequency of his attendance at public
worship. Be honest, be pure, be temperate,
be truthful, be gentle, be unselfish, and
ready to bear each other’s burden*, and
whether you attend church or not, you will
have a right to believe you are trying to
live, according to jour opportunity, religi
ous lives.
Dead Letters'.
The Dead Letter Office is one of the most
curiouusly interesting branches of the gov
ernment, and the Cause of it, or the neeeei
ty of such an institution, is a mystery. It
is impossible almost to Conceive of tho care
lessness, stupidity and ignorance by which
more than fourteen millions of letter were
entrusted to the postoffice in a single year,
for which no designation could be found, in
consequence of inaccuracies, imperfection*
and fatal omission in direction—upwards of
3.000 having no address whatever. And
the mystery is more remarkable when it is
considered that these letters contained mon
ey the amount of at least SIOO,OOO, in small
s’-ims generally, and cheecks, drafts, etc, to
the amount of |3,01‘0,000 more ! This prop
erty was of course returned, or most of it,
upon information obtained by openioe and
examining the letters at the Dead Letter
Office.
Catting off the Wrong Head.
An old farmer was out one fine day lock
ing over his broad acres, with an ex on
his shoulder, and a small dog at his heels.
They espied a wookohuck. Tho doc gave
chase.and drove him into a stone wall,
"’here section immediately commenced.
The dog would draw the woodchuck partly
out from the wall, and the woodchuck
would take the dog back. The old gentle
man’s sympathy getting high on the side
of the dog. thought he would be'p him. Bo
putting himself in position with ax above
the dog, he waited for the extrication of the
woodchuck gathered up at the same, time,
took the dog io enough to receive the blow,
ar and the and g was killed on the spot. For
years after the old gentleman in relating
the story would always add ;—“And that
dog don’t know to this day but what the
woodchuck killed him ”
There are iu the world about 120.000
miles us railway, that have cost SIO,OJO
-000,000, and give employment to over
1,000,000 persons.
NO. 21.