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voi* K* THETHOMASTON herald, jtbldgieo rv McMICHAEL & OABANISS, TERMS. |2 00 On* ' , ** r l “ 160 ill V ' nn -;,. nU INVARIABLY in ADVANCE pS (Vt''.)»*r Ist no mtnr nil! he put upon the snb- Nk? unless payment Is made in advance • er '' ,,i * n ,'lr will he stopped at the expiration of the IV giibscriplioti is previous renewed. <irnf t" vl'lre-i of a suhsoriher is to he changed, we IW”: l)lf o ld address as well as the new one, to ojM*t ' pr Vo*»iil«riP ti ' ,n reCl ‘ iv “ l fur a ,eBS P crloii tl):in tl,ree 9 r,;l,v , ()T (s„ rr ier in town without extia charee. ClTueatlon paid to anonymous cnmmnni satioiw. as r*e rx-sp'-riMblss for everything entering our columns. I ‘T uVthe name* of three new snhserth w.th |6.UO, we will send the llkuald one year f RKIv mark after subscribers name indicates that the iruJ'of is out. ADVERTISING RATES. The so lowing are the rates to which we adhere, in ° f ( ,r advertisinc, or whet® advertisements *"Tided in without instructions. * T I r „ ,en lines or less (Nonpariel type). *1 for •to first and 36 cents for each subsequent insertion. -^7 ! l m - 8M | 6 M -‘p* M TZUT St «0 *2 60 * 7 00 $lO 0 >j slft 00 1 -I",, 2 00j -S 00 10 0(11 t© 00 25 00 ! q r . . s 001 700 1 5 001 20 Ot) so 00 3 "‘I® 1 4«» 10 00 20 00 80 00 40 00 K * i f><KV 200 . 80 001 40 0(1 50 00 * 10 00 20 00i 85 00 65 0o! 80 00 J* ( Ti"mn'.‘. I |r )00 25 uO- 40 (JOI 70 00j ISO 00 Pi-phytd Adrert/sewents will hecnatgcd attlovdina: to the *r*t* ,f,er occopv. Ml advertisements should he marked f«»r a specified lime, otlr nriee they will be continued ami charged for unt'l ordered out. Advertisement! inserted at intervals to be charged ~ new ench insertion. Advertisement to run for a longer period th in three months me dua and will he collected at lh« b«W?nnln^ ofcneh quarter Transient advertisements must be paid for tn advance. ,loh work must be pant for on delivery. t.l/ertiseinent« discontinued from any cause before expiration <>t time specified, will be charged only fur thii time published. Liberal deductions will be made when cash is paid in i4w.ee. Prulei-sional cards one square $lO 00 a year. Msrri ije Notices $1.50. Obituaries $1 per square. Nmire.s of a personal or private character, intended tn promote any private enterprise or interest, will be ciisrged as other advertisements Advertisers are requested to hand in their favors as eirlv in the wee' as possible Ikia vu t* in* irill he *tri'tly adhered to. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Anhetetnfore, since the war, the following are the prune fur notices of Ordinaries, Ac.—to ks: p\ii> in ad tuck : Thirty Dhvs' Notices • $ 5 (>0 furty [lavs' Notices 6 25 Slid of Lands. Ac pr. sqr of ten Lines 6 00 Kiity 0» vs’ Not ces .... . 700 .j; Uout hi’ Notices ... ... ........... 1(’ 00 T-n Day.’Notices of Sales pr sqr.. ... ... 200 •MOv.!to r' 8 vt.r.s —for these S.dea, for every fl fa | l uO. Mortgage halt's, per square. $5 W) "!.*t will" a liberal per centage for advertising Reri you self oaceusinglv before the public: and it mutters nnt what iuisi >ess you are engaged in, for, if intelligently and industriously pursued, a fortune will bsiheremth Hunt s MereUqjits’ Magazine. '■ Attrr I t>egan to advertise my Ironware freely, Winoi increased with itutaantg rapidl'ty. For ten jvjt* nast I have spent JE-SO.Ofit) yeSrlv to keep my npetf'ir wares hes re the public Ifad I been timid in »|vrrhsing. \ ni'wshould have po-sessed iny fortune if £ tvmmu". Met,cod Briton, Birmingham. “ tdvertising like Midas’ touch, tuntu *»verythin<r to cold !t> it, your daring men draw millions to their coffers " —Stuart * day hit iiuil.aeity is to love, and boldness to war, the Oil'Ll use of printei’s i it, is to sucee.-.s in business.*’— lie dter "The newspapers made Fisk.'* —J Fisk, dr. "iiha.t the dd of advertisements 1 > ouul have done tfiilvn;'imny p ciilaiions. I have the most complete fd K in-printers’ink.” Adve. tiaiug is the “royal road t" hamine's ” H.arnum. 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 Lsincji, ton * <U Prompt attention given to 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*. The aystoms of liver SIMMONS’SEI.SH 'he Shoulder, end U mi»- The stomach i« affi cted ith lo ß Jof ..^peti'teTnT'hT?- ness. bowels in general costive, sometimes altem with lax The head is tnurfdod whh « nd i heaw sensation considerable loss of memorr neJim punied with painful sensation of - having left something which ought to have been doh| .Soli Bmos, some of the above F F FI lf> Ik i s .vmptom< attend the dis j I 1 I’ KI | ‘‘««b an *i at other times li I I Li II I very few 0 f them; but I <he Liver is trvnendl v the ii’i’wuiuvnnMMHai organ most intnolvwl. (mre the ldver with DR. SIMMONS' Liver Regulator, A psefrafMlon of roots and hevhs, warranted to be strict ly Vegetable, and can do no injury to anyone It has been need bv hundred*, and knbwn for the last 3.» years as .-ne of the most, reliable, efficacious and harmless preparations ever offered to the suffering If i | 5 sure to cure.* I saiEßaaß!s ® E3 *®B®BW" Dyspepsia, headache, RBCBUTOR.|S?SS?S P bladder. Camp dysentery, fever, ftervmtwmse. chills, disease* of the -kin. Impurity ot the blood, i»r depression of spirits, heart hurnyndic, or pains in the bowels, pain in the hqml fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain 'n b&ek and limbs, asthma erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis eases generally. Prepared only bv .1. SI. ZUILIX & CO., Price *1: by mail $1.85. Druggists, Macon, Oa. 1 he foil-owing highly respectable persons can fully at test tn the virtues of this valuable lredieihe, and to Whom we most, respeetlnliy refer: Gen. W. s. Holt, President 8. W. 11. R. Company; H>v and. Felder, Perry, Ga.; C’ol E. E Sparks, Albany, Ga.; George and Lunsford. Esq., Conductor 8, W 11. If.; C Masterson. Esq .'Sheriff Uibb county; J A. Butts' F.alnhridge, Ga ; Dykes ,t Sparhawk. Editors Floridian, TaUahas-ee; Rev. -f W. Burke. Macon, Ga.; Virgil Powers Esq.. Su» erlntendssnt 8. M'. M. U : Dame! Bui lard, Bu!lant''B Station. Macon and Brunswick U. R., Twiggs County, Ga; Grenville Wood. Wood’s Factory, Macon. Ga: U>v. E P Easterlinn, P. E Florida Con ferei re: Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor Mat n iidegrapb. For sab- by John F FTenry, New York, dno D. Park, Cincinnati, Jtt-a. Hcutmlng, New Orleans, and all Drug «i.-hs SIXTY-FIVE FIRST PRIZE MEDALS AWARDED. THE GREAT * Southern Piano • MANUFACTORV. WM. K:TSr.A.3BB <sc CO., I*AN*WA»'TKRKfIS OK GRAND. SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOFORTES, BALTIMORE, MD. r I'HfRSL Tnsfrumonts have boon boforo fbo 1 Public fur nearly Thirty Years, and upon their excellence alone attained an unpnrchased pre etni-uence, which Renounces them unjqu died. Their TONE combines great power, sweetness and fine singing quali ty, as well as great purit.v 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. XHT -WORKMAISrSHriP they are unequalled using none but. the very best seas oned material, tbie large capita? employed In our busi ness enabling us to keep continually an.lmmense stock of lumber. Ac., on band. All our Square Pianos have our New Improved Over strung Scob- 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 Pi ices. WM. KNABE & CO. sepM7-m Baltimore, Md. “OUR FATHER’S HUSE or, THE UNWRITTEN WORD. By Danikl March. D. D., Author of the popular “ Night Scenes.” r |UTTS master in thought-and lnnwuaire I shows us untold riche* and beauties in the Great House, with its Blooming flowers. Si- ging birds. Waving palms. Polling clouds. Beautiful bows Sacred mountains, Delightful rivers, Mighty oceans. Thunder ing voices. Blazing heavens and vast universe with eountlesss beings in millions of worlds, and reads to us it: each the Unwritten World, Rose-tinted paper, or note engravings and supeib bindi g. ‘Rich and varied iu thought.’’ ‘‘( haste.” “Fasy and graceful in stvle.” “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 *he reMgious and secular press all over the country. Its freshness, purity of language, with el ear, open type, flue -teel en gravings. substantial binding, and low price, make it. the book tor the masses. Agent* 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 iiuelligent man or woman need be without a paying business. Send for circular, full description, and terms. Address ZIEGLER A MoCURDY, 16 S. Sixth stn et. Philadelphia Pa. 1,89 Race street, Cincinnati, Ohio, ♦•9 Monroe street, Chicago, 111.. 503 N. Sixth street, St Louis. Mo. seplO-m or, 102 Main street, Spri- gfield, Mass. FOUR GOOD BOOKS. Should be Had in every Family. DEVOTIONAL ond Practical P«>lvsrlott FAMILY BIBLE, containing a copious index, Concordance Dictionary of Biblical Terms, Geograph ical and Historical Index, <fec Fourteen hundred pages furnished in three styles of binding LA WS of BUSINESS for all the States in the Union. By Theophilns Parsons, L L D This volume contains forms for men of every trade or profession, mortgages, biHs of sale, leasts, band, articles of copartntr ship, will, awards. Ac Published by the National Pub lishing Cos., Nemphls, Tenn. THE LIFE OF GEN. R. E LEE, by das. D. McCabe, author of a life of Stonewall Jackson. TbDbook should find its -way into every f.imlly as it is one of the best written accounts of the heroic doeds of the Great Vir ginian yet pobliehed LIGHT IN TIIE EAST, bjf the well-known writer, Fleetwood. Mr. JOHN A. COCTIRAN has taken th» Agency for Upson and Pike counties, and wi 1 call upon the people with these invaluable books immediately aprlll-Bi. STEREOSCOPES, VIEWS, albums, CHROMO?, FRAMES. E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., SDI BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Invite the attention of the Trade to their extensive flssortniept of tips above goods, of th*ir own publica tion, manufacture and importation. Also, riIOTO LANTERN SLlDfcs abd GRAPIIOSCOPES. NEW VIEWS OF YOSEMITE, E. & H» T. ANTHONY A COq 591 BeoadWav, New Yoblt, Opposite Metropolitan Hotel. Importers and Manufacturers of Photographic Plater lals. mehls-10m 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.