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&I)C JRcDuffie Journal. A Beal Live Country Paper. Published Every Wednesday Morning, by WHIXK & COMBS. Terms of Subscription. One copy, one year *2.oe One copy, sin months 1.00 Ten copies, in dubs, one year, each.... 1.30 (single copies..., „ acts. Sir All mbs. *ipPo £im ribh in advance BUSINESS CARDS. H C RONEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, THOMSON,' GA. Will practice in the Augusta, North #rn and Middle Circuits. nolyl It, W. H. NEAL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, THOMSON, GA. PAUL G. HUDSON, AITOItXEY AT LA W, Thomson, Gu. Will practice m the Superior Courts of the Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits, and in the Supreme Court, and •will attention to all cases in Bankruptcy. m Aug, a". 1&74. ts Central fjotel BY MRS. W. M. THOMAS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Beplltf C. S. »OI>D. H. 1». MEALING. C. E, DODD & CO., HAVE REMOVED TO 219 BROAD ST., Opposite the Central Hotel, AUGUSTA, GA. Call and sec our Styles of MEN’S BOY’S AND CHILDREN’S HAT. Novembei 5, 187JL (Jin TO YOUNG MEN. J OR the developement of Business talents and character, unit the preparation of yonnq and middle aged men for the counting hour.e ami business pursuits, the best facili ties are offered at M )( H 'd’S Southern Business UDiversity, Atlanta. Ga. The largest, and best Practi cal Business School in the South, Students received at any time. *ciT Send for a Catalogue. June IG, 1874. ly Thomson High School FOR ii p Y Sis Ain o Ci iit c. . T L HR Spring Session of this Institution will open on Monday, January 13th, 1875, and will continue six vsholastu* months. Kates of tuition f.»r the term, li% 18. 24 and 2,0 dollars, according to class. The course of study embraces all th* brunches usually taught in schools of high grade, including FRENCH, GERMAN* and SPANISH. Students will Im> charged from time of entrance until clove of term. Deductions made for absence from Providential causes. Board in private families can be obtained at reasonable rates. Competent assistance has been secured. For Circulars apply to N. A. LEWIS, Prill., nov2ltdee27>lß7s "of i u mT *] \lt. COLLINS’ PAINLESS OPIUM AN -1 / TIDOTK cures without pnin ormater i«l inconvenience ! •‘Theriaka,’’ an interesting quarterly magazine of about, 100 pages, with .50 pages of testimonials, devoted to the interest of the opium afflicted, and all necessary parti culars, sent pure on application. Address B. M. WOOLLEY, Agent. Atlanta, Ga. «MT Office in Park Medical Institute, corner j Broad and Mitchell Streets (upstair-;. Atlanta. Ga. 81-U ! DARtVIS (i. JONES’ SMMfSiili, 31 Bboad Street, Atlanta, Ga. BITE VINE mm, CIDER VINEGAR, And Sweet Cider. 82-b* JOB PRINTING, BOOK BINDING, AND BLANK BOOK MIIIFT, BY Ja§« Li« flowt Augusta, Ga. t.-dT Orders from the country promptly filled end satisfaction guaranteed. Maga zines and papers bound, and old books rebound at short notice and moderate prices. 82-c* BRICK. JItWATS on hand a large stock of best Brick, for sale at the lowest market r rice. •T. P. BONDUftAN'T A 00. July i, 1874 ts Augusta, Ga. |tUJ!uf|te ttElcclilir journal. VOL. V. TH E SUN. Weekly and Daily for 1875, j The approach of the Presidential election I gives unusual importance to the events one i developments of 1875. We shall endeavoi ' to describe them fully, faithfully, and fear lesc.lv. j THE WEEKLY SUN has now attained a | circulation of over seventy thousand copies. | Its readers are found in every State auid j Territory, and its quality is well known t«i I the public. We shall not only endeavor to keep it fully up to the oid standard, but to improve an<l add to its variety and power. I HE WEEKLY' SUN will continue to be a thorough newspaper. All the news of the | day will be found in it. condensed when j unimportant, at full length when of mo- Iment, and always, wo trust, treated in & clear interesting and instructive manner. It is onr aim to make the weekly Sun t’*e ! best family newspaper in the world. It will j be full of cutert iini' g and appropriate read | ing of every sort, but will print nothing tr i offend the most scrupulous and delicate taste. It will always contain the most in I teresting stories and romances of the da}', j carefully selected and legibly printed. ! The Agricultural Department i\n promi | nent feature in the weekly Sun, and its ar j tides will always be found fresh and useful i to tiio farmer. j The number of men independent in poll. ties is increasing, and the weekly Sun h ! their paper especially. It belongs to nc | party, and obeys no dictation, contending for principle, and for the election of the • best men. It exposes the corruption that j disgraces the country and threatens tin j overthrow of republican institutions. Tl I has no fear of knaves, and seeks no favor.- j from their supporters. j The markets of every' kind and the fash ions are regularly reported in its columns. The price of the * eddy SUN is one dollat I a year for a sheet of eight pages, and fifty- I six columns. As this barely pays the ex j puses of puper and printing, wo are not , able to make, any discount or allow any pre | miurn to friends who may make special | efforts to extend it- circulation. Under the 1 new lew, which requires payment of postage ■»n advance, one dollar a year, with twenty cents the cost of prepaid postage added, is j the rate of subscription. It is not neccssa i rv U> get up a club in order to have the ; weekly SUN at this rate. Any on l who sends one dollar and twenty cents will get the paper post-paid for a year. ’ THE WEEIvLY SI IN. - Eight pages, fifty ! six columns. Only #1.20 a year, postage : prepaid. No discount from this rate, j THE DAILY SUN. - A large four-page j newspaper of twenty-eight columns. Daily j circulation over 120,IV»0. All the nows for I 2 cents. Subscription, postage pre-paid .V. cents a month, or sUkotl a yonr. To clubs of lt> or over, a discount of 20 per cent. Address, “THE SUN,’’ New York City. oct2lt(i Notice of Dismission. GEORGIA —McDtirris County. | O* R. WETHERS. Administrator of Denis j Paschal, colored, deceased, applied to the j undersigned for Letters Djamiusiuy from ; his adaoinairatorship: Therefore, all per i kukh Concerned are hereby required to show ! carise, if any they have, within the time I prescribed by law, why said Administrator [ should not bo discharged. A. B. THRASHER, Jan. 18, 187.“,. Uni. Ordinary. B >entisl r # v. i I)U. ALBERT HAVE offers bis profes sional services to the citizens of Thomson : mid vicinity. His office for the present will ibo at the residence of ,M It. '*'. E. Sl’lElt. | whore he may be f.und from the Ist to the loth of each month. •Inly 8, 1874. ts Citation- GF.OUGIA McDctfie (to nty. \ \ HEitEAS, A. L. Veanv, Administrator, YV lie bonut turn of Jno. IJ. AViley, re presents to the Court in his petition." duly fil' and and entered on record, that ho bus tally a-1 ministered Jno. H. Wiley’s estate: This is, therefore, to cite all persons con cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why snid administrator should not be discharged from his adminis tration. and receive letters of dismission, on the first Monday in December. 1874 A. B. THRASHER, Ordinary. Sept. 0, 1874- 3 m For Bale r|’HE large building, on Main street, in I Thoms. to. occupied at present by Sutton i it Hamlet. Dr. Jas. S. Jones and Mrs. I. C ! Richards. The house is well arranged, and finished throughout; with one large sto*-e room and office below, and five rooms above; and with a kitchen and well of gopd wutcr on the premises. ALSO, the house, on Main street, now occupied by Jerre F. Jones, us a store house For terms apply to JNO. L. HOLZENDOKF, Nov3tf Thomson, Ga. SSOOO REWARD. ’ ON the night of the 15th Dec. last, one Allen Creed set tire to and burned up mv Bara and Stables, and Blacksmith shop, Ac. f Said Allan has fled from justice. He is |of brown complexion, stutters very badly, i and cannot talk without jumping up. The I above reward will be paid for the delivery of said Allen Creed to any officer of the State, and for his safe-keeping* until he can be delivered to the Sheriff of McDuffie Cos. C. H. BUSSEY. JanG*7stf. Thomson, Ga. Notice of Dissolution. r ] HIE firm of JOHN M. CURTIS A BRO- X THER is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All who are indebted to said firm must make settlement on or before the first day of April next, or their claims will be placed in the hands of an Attorney for collection. Either partner is authorized to settle the business of the firm. The business will be continued by John M. Curtis, at the old stand. JOHN M. CTTRTJS, Thomson, Ga. T. D. CUR I IS. Feb. 20, 187-1 4t. Agents Wanted- WE want two responsible and energetic young men to represent our machine in Taliaferro, Greene and Warren counties. Address, with refereijees, The Howe Machine Cos. J. YV. WILLINGHAM. Agent. ClO-cf Thomson, Ga. *!•«. I'urticulaiß LcII A Au'JmU. biiiwlm * Cu!)i’wi t Und, lin. u*j. POETIC A L. Beautiful Spring. Beautiful Spring! Beautiful Spring! Coming again on thy wandering wing. unshine and beauty and pleasure to bring; Gladly we welcome thee, beautiful Spring ! Robed with a mantle of gorgeous array, Girded with tendril Is of amaranths gay, Gcmin’d with flowrets of every hue. Fresco'd with sunbeams and spangled with dew. Ilollow-cheek’d Sorrow’ and Sadness and Gloom Y r anish away to their wintry tomb: j Grief bows her fennel-crowned head to the sway, Time, like a phantom, glides swiftly away. i .Genial laughter raid frolicsome mirth : Herald thy coming again upon earth, i Welcome thee back to thy throne in our bowers. Queen of the empire of beauty and flowers. , Everything beautiful, noble, or grand, Wakes into life at the wave of thy wand ; Earth dons her mantle of radiant sheen, i Azure, and purple, and scarlet, ami green. Hedgerows and forests burst out into bloom, i Flowers exhale a delicious perfume ; A bids hail thy coming with boist’rons cheers, ! Clouds in their gladness gush out into tears. I Brads sing thy praise with a sonorus voice. | I roes clap their broad waving hands and rejoice, Lambkins aud fledglings the chorus prolong. Streamlets gusli out into rapturous song. Everything beautiful, noble or bright. Hails thy approach with a shout of delight. Welcomes thee back with a jubilant ring, I Radiant, sunny-eyed, beautiful Spring! THE HOLLOW OAK. A STIIANCIE STORY. I used to think there was nothing else in the world so absurd or nonsensical «s a ghost story, be cause 1 had not the slightest belief in ghosts or apparitions, f think ail of us change more or less in our views and belief as we go on in life, ! and many things which we scoff at in early days we learn to think more seri- I ously about as we grow older, and begin to doubt the wisdom of our earlier and j rasher judgment. | Perhaps there are no such things as | ghosts. lam not prepared to say that there are, and I cannot say that there are j not. Let me tell you my story. Then ' you can tell for yourself whether I had | good reason for revoking my early decis- j | ion regarding the utter aud downright absurdity of ghosts. I was in Jtome. I had been in Europe, a year. I bad visited all places of inter ; esfc, and in a few weeks more would start for America. i It was one of the most beautiful even l ings T ever knew. The sky was beauti fully clear and hi no. The moon shone | with a silver glow over the quiet city, j and touched the hills lying outside the J walls with a white aud lovely radian " ' i that made them seem like a glimpse of ! some enchanted land. Below me and around me the housed had a strangely quiet air about them as if they had stld ; deirly gone to sleep. i I was sitting in one of those little pro i jeeting windows which one so often sees : in houses in Koine and other Italian cit i ins. A net-work of vines clambered about it. Before me all was bright and ! radiant. The hour was quite late, I had j stayed up to smoke a cigar or two before going to lied, and the honest itomans ! were, at that moment, most likely sleep j ing the sleep of the just. At any rate, ! no sound of life came floating up to my | ears from any part of the old city. | Suddenly I thought of Boy Grayle. | Roy and myself had been the host of t friends in gone by days. We hail been [ students together, and in after life we 1 ' had kept up the friendship which school j life begun. Os all my friends, I counted ’ Boy first. We had kept up a corrospon- : deuce during my tour on the continent, i and I looked forward to my meeting him I as one of the pleasantest events of my return. At thought of him a strange sensation ' flashed over me. It was much the same kind of feeling that someone is looking at usearnestiy, and we look up to meet the eyes of some person fixed steadily upon us. It seemed to me that Boy was near me ; I could feel his presence. Suddenly the houses faded out of sight; the hills were lost in the white glory of the moonlight. Before me drifted a vapor that was strangely lumi nous ; it floated about my window, aud j gradually a shape grew out of it. It was like a shadow growing out of a shad ow. I can think of no other way of de scribing the strange something that took shape before me, and assumed the like ness of a man. For a moment I shut my eyes, half frightened, but as if fasci- i mi ted by what 1 had seen I opened them | again, and there before me stood Boy j Grayle. His features had ail the dis tinctness of life. I saw that there were j traces of pain in the pale aud ghastly i face. ‘Roy!’ I cried. ‘Yes, I am Boy,’ lie answered, and his voice had a strange, far-off sound in it. ‘I am here to tell you to look iu the hol low oak at Densmere. There you will find proof of what has done this’, and as he spoke he lifted his hand and pointed to what I bad not seen before, a gaping, bleeding wound iu the breast. And then there came a sound like the rustling of a mighty wind, and the figure grew dim and dimmer, and soon was gone. Had I been dreaming ? 1 shook my THOMSON, GrA', v UM>M 24,1875. self. I got up and tvaVkofibout. X was wide awake as ever I was k. ruv life. If I had not been what was it I had seen ? A mouth later I "StfllWl for America. Two weeks of uleafaut sailing brought me iu sight of the »bores of my native land. The first person! I met as I stepped ashore, was Carl I He gave me a cordial calling a ft - .. town. HR !.ca»^^^Hte<r»hlc . heard of it.’ RH|| I -trange, ic> , ‘I will up to yon to . an-a 1 : : o.v this ghostly you ho nmoli iv. .m o to in thai portion of the strainfc s”ry, aa j u any other ? ‘All right; «e will gtj,' jt answered. And on the morrow ■*,- went up to Densmere, whore Kciy i. tfyle had been spending the slimmer wl It he was mur dered by some person o', wiimn no clue !>v! ever i: oi tab ' jphg,vad occur rence had broken up tflrj-'mpuny that had gathered there, aud vihad scattered to the four winds of flstoitfi. Wo went up |p and Mr. Grosvenor gave us a .SktmA When l told him ray iUitff igil why we had determined to visit .•o-iueto, his face wore a puzzled| Lask. iuei -.lulous expression. K ‘I don't understaufl it,'*e wiii 'i l has too miicli of the sUptSß'vttnai a ut it for mo to comprehend tt.iv. ;!;. How ever, we call look fir i* oak’ you speak about. 1 at.i lid uv.iivi;. t,, *. there is an oak tree otj - .he iijwuitsc ITiei e may be, however..dt iliirii but lit l " mi'S m Minting : 11 übably iieenuse I have no l'a; q.yy kind of ghost stories aud ••;>•.. n7.:" in.iuifesta tions.' We sot out in beeches grew thick aud tall, <>u all sides, but no trees. ‘I am afraid that your ghost was draw ing on his imagination when be spoke of an oak tree,’ said Mr. Grosvenor. ‘lsn’t that an oak-leaf V cried I’crci val, stooping and picking it up. Ware enough it was. Looking up, we saw a gnarled, ciooked limb projecting over onr heads from a thicket of young beeches. The top of the aged oak had been broken off years before, and only this one branch re mained. I dashed into the thicket. There was the body of a great oak tree, and about four feet from its roots, was a hollow large enough for the insertion of a man’s arm. ' I never.was more excited in my life, and yet outwardly, 1 was cool aud com posed. I thrust my arm into the aper ture, and drew out a knife and piece of paper. 1. opened the paper and read : ‘Boy Giiayue, Esq, Dear sir—Hearing that you were slop ping at Densmere, [ take the liberty of I addressing you, and asking if u person J calling himself Marmot Garcia, and ! claiming to be a 'Garcia of the B w or i leans family of that name, is stopping ! there. If lie is, beware of him. He is ! an imposter, a gambler, and a villain that would not for a moment be tolerated in the society in which lie liuh thrust himself. If you have any doubts of the truth of my story, write to Sebastian Garcia, 27 Rue do Aunuiicion, New Or leans, and lie will tell you that the man who has borrowed a.v old and honorable name is a liar and a villain, who would no sooner show his face irTsew Orleans than he would dare enter a lion's den. The latter place would be the safer ot the two. I have kept up with this man whose name is Gonzales Dupres, for years, and ho cannot hide himself away iroin me under the cloak of a false name. Ask him if lie remembers Marie Ht. Ma ry, and thou call him Duprez and see if lie will not turn pule with guilt and fear.’ ‘I see how it must have been,’ said Grosvenor, after I had read the letter to them, ‘liny Grayle had been to the vil lage for letters, and was returning whan he was murdered. That much we know. He must have received this letter. Prob ably he met tiio mail who had foisted himself off upon us as Manuel Garcia, and charged him with being an impos ter. To save himself from detection and exposure, Garcia killed him, secured the letter, and concealed it with the knife with which he stabbed his victim. It is strange, but not one of us ever sus pected Garcia of the murder. Not so strange either, for we knew of no quar rel between him and Boy Grayle. They had always seemed on very good terms.’ Two days after that we started for the X>iace where we heard Garcia alias Du prez was staying, taking an officer with us. We found him lounging oil the steps of the hotel. | ‘Manuel Garcia, otiierwise Gonzales j Duprez, T arrest you for the murder of Roy Grayle,’ said the officer, going di rectly up to him, and putting his hand on Gareier’s shoulder. ‘You are my prisoner. ’ Garcia turned deadly pale. He tried to speak, but fear seemed to paralyze his tongue. ‘Don’t deny it,’ said the officer. ‘We have the proofs. We found them in the hollow oak.’ Garcia made a full confession of this awful crime when he learned how he had been brought to justioe. His Spanish superstition was very strong indeed, and the idea of a ghostly witness against him served to frighten the truth out of him. We ask, if it was not a ghost what was it - ? Cooley’s Hen. —Observations by Mux Adler : Cooley has had some trouble with one of his liens. Bhe wanted to set, and he didn’t want her to. He put her under a barrel, ducked her at the pump, threw her into the air, and rea soned with her, but she would persist in going back to her nest. Finally he put a hot porcelain egg under her ; but she skipped about until it cooled, mid then she returned and sat on the egg with the air of having ’resolutely determined to hatch a set of crockery and a couple of Hour pots out of the porcelain delusion. Thou Cooley resqjved to blow her off. He placed half a pound of gunpowder under tho nest, and laid a slow match out into the yard. As soon as he saw the lien safely seated, he went into the kitchen to gc.t a light. Meantime, Mrs. Cooley entered the hen-house to hunt for eggs, and to ascertain if that idiotic chicken was sitting yet. Then Gooley came out and fired the train. In a couple of minutes there was a fearful emerged precipitately froth the door with ; her mouth full of feathers, her hair full iof bihqdng straw and warm blood, and an iisk uinu'et of drumsticks, gizzards, :ud ■ • v . -. hsU-ihokd nrouu. 1 he** "dress. the result was Ido not know. But i :if < ' him on t|ie following Tuesday with ■ court plaster on his nose and a look of j subjectiou 'in his eye and he informed line confidentially that the next hen of j his that wanted to, might set in peace tbt'iui.'hou't the ages of time and ail j through the unending cycles of eternity Imfore lie would bother himself about her. Giants of the Olden Time. —A giant, exhibited in Rouen, iu 1830, measured nearly eighteen feet. The Chevalier Scrog, in his voyage to the Peak Teue lifl'e, found in one of the caverns of that mountain the head of tho Gunieh, who hud sixty teeth, and was not less than fifteen feet high. Gorapius saw a giant that was ten feet high. The giant Gul abra, brought from Arabia to Rome, un der Claudius Caesar, was ten feet high. Famiuin, who lived in the time of Eu gene If., measured eleven and a half feet. Near the castle in Dauphiiie, in 1032, a tomb was found thirty feet long, sixteen wide and eight high, on which was cut in gray stone these words “Ke toloclius Rex." The skeleton was found entire, twenty-five and a fourth feet long, ten feet across the shoulders, and five feet from the breast hone to the back. Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1516, was found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high, aud in 1559 another forty-four feet high. Near Maxrino, in Sicily, iu 1816, j was found the skeleton of a giant thirty ! feet high, the head was ns large, as a | hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed I five ounces. The giant Farragus, slain i by Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne, < was twenty-eight feet high. In 1814, j near Bt. German, was found the tomb of | the giant Isorent, who was not less than thirty feet high. In 1599, near Rouen, was found a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn, and who was nineteen feet high. The giant Bueart was twen ty-two feet high ; his thigh bones were found in 1703, near the river Modern And not only were the past ages distin guished for the prolific proportions of these monsters, but their history is not more, remarkable than that of dwarfs, several of whom were even smaller than the Thumbs and Nutts of onr own time. Honor the Scissors. —The Guelph “Mercury” says : “Some people, iguo rant of what good editing is, imagine the getting up of selected matter to he the easiest thing in the world to do, whereas it is the nicest work that is done on a paper. If they find the editor with scissors in hand, they are sure to say. ‘Eh ! Halt's the way yon get up original matter, eh ?’ accompanying their new and witty questions with rui idiotic wink or smile. The facts are, that the inter est, the morality, the variety aud use fulness of a paper depend in no small degree upon selected matter, and few men are capable of the position who would not themselves be able to write many of the articles they select. A sen sible editor desires considerable selected matter, because lie knows that one mind cannot make so good a paper as five or six. ” T. J. Smith, Master of the State Grange, expects to visit every county in ' the State this year. Colonel T. Harde- ! man will accompany him. NO. 12. Prepared Expressly for the Journal.] I THE INFINITY OF SUNS AND WORLDS. j The earth, upon which we live, is like a grain of sand upon the sea shore amidst i the innumerable quadrillions of other suus ami worlds which stand on nothing, I and whirl in their mysterious rounds in i the Sahara's of space. Telescopic vision reveals to us the pageant splendors of Jupiter, Saturn and | other planets of our solar system. Some i of them are more than a thousand times las large as ours. They, like the earth, ; move iu their stupendous orbits aroirud ; the solar kiug from whom they receive j their daily light. The sublimity of this ! machinery of may be. imagined : only, Tor it mocks the grasp of human comprehension. Thought may wing its flight to Jupiter four hundred and ninety j millions of miles from the suu, hut it S cannot grasp the distance, or the move ment of that monster planet iu its orbit around the sun, which requires eleven | years, three hundred and fifteen days, aud some hours to complete its revolution, j The difficulty become* immensely greater ; in contemplating the distance of Neptune l , the most remote of all the known planets which astronomers assert, is three thou sand millions of miles from the great : central orb. This is the distance from a ' single sun to its outer-most satellite. Next, let the mind contemplate the distance from our sun to Syrius or the | Dog “tar, as it is vulgar lycidiod, the next j nearest sun. That space is calculated at I more than twenty trillions of miles. It j was necessary to place it thus far to keep their respective planets out of the reach ;of each sun s attraction. The immensity ■ of space becomes the more overpowering when it had been ascertain. oniers that four hundred aud fifty mil : lions of suns have been discovered bv . the naked eye, and the aid of telescopes. Hersehel, according-to his own statement, | discovered fifty thousand in only six degrees of the galaxy, commonly called ..«*•» wav.'' Doubtless they. ■ .ituoui.' |hole oirofi -1 ; many millions which exist- iii spsotvffan either side of thnt luminous track which*' i seems to encompass the illimitable bea j Vf'Us. All astronomers deem the fixed s-‘.:iK) to W sups. Our suu aud »U its ! planets are under the magnifying power of telescopes. Those instvnni nils go | enlarge the planets as to make the four | lrfoous of Jupiter, the seven of Saturn, . aud the six of Hersehel visible to the eye. j Every scholar, who has had the advantage jof high instruction, lias seen them, flu; the telescope has but little power over the i fixed stars. Such is their distance that they look pearly as large to the naked eye as when seen through the powerful reflectors of Hersehel, Itoss, and others of more recent construction. This shows that they shine by their own and not borrowed light. They are suns, the centres of other stysems. The light of very remote stars suppos | ed to be nebulous clusters according to some astronomers, has been progressing to us for forty-eight thousand years, with a velocity of a million of miles in five seconds. Far beyond them all iu the never end ng stretches of space, are voids and caves of darkness to our natural or artificial sight. Yet they are decked with suns ami stars which we will never see. According to Sir Isaac Newton, the comet, of 1080, whose orbit is iu our solar system, approached within fifty thousand miles of the suu, and moved with a velocity of eight hundred aud eighty thousand miles per hour. Could that comet have been exempted from attractive power, and moved on with that velocity forever, it probably would never have encountered the boundaries of space. if we have our wonders on this earth, its winds and storms, earthquakes and lightnings, volcanoes aud Northern lights, and in our system several hundred fiery comets, with luminous trains mure than a hundred millions of miles in length, pursuing their eccentric courses at the rate of a million of miles per hour, what must be the mysterious wonders shut from our sight in the mute, dark, abys mal heights aud depths of unending space, What lightnings, like serial fiends, shoot athwart those voids ? YVliat thun ders rock those unseen planets ? What volcanoes belch their terrific lavas? What oceans toss aud roar upon their rock bound coasts, where suns, a hundred times as large and hot as ours, give fury to their terrific heats, and maddened winds and storms ? The stui is the centre of onr solar sys tem ; but where is the centre of the uni verse ? A thousand fancies steal over the mind from the mystic lights of the star-decked heavens. One idea bolder than another travels from system to sys tem to see if there is not a grand imperi al union of these mighty celestial powers. Perhaps, it was this thought that first suggested a cluster of systems., with all their suus aud satellites revolving around some still greater monarch of fight aud power, aud finally millions of clusters moving around the last aud greatest of all the suns. Aud what a sun ! No hu man figures or thought could estimate its size and splendor. Man’s mind cannot reach the centre of the great deep of this mysterious space. Adi ertixlng Italem. One square, first insertion... l OU Each subsequent insertion 75 One square three metitlii... ... 10 0U Due square six months... ...... Iu OU One square twelve mouths,,.,,, 20 (kj Quarter column twelve mouths 40 OU Half column six months GO Oil Half column twelve m0nth5.......... 76 OU One column twelve months 125 0U ’O' Ten lira's or less considered a square, All fractions of squares are counted as full squares. - * • | No dark priest of nature could fill it With, these wondrous suns and worlds, which move with mathematical preoision, and can move eternally without collision, Jehovah is the eternal Mysteriarch who created them all. His finger pointed their ways, and that was enough. He, has made the space for their orbits, as illimitable as his power is omnipotent. Changes op a Century.—The nine teenth century has witnessed ' many and great discoveries. Iu 3 809 Fulton took out the first pat % ant for the invention of the steamboat. The first steamboats which made reg ular trips across the Atlantic Ocean were the Sirus and the Great Western, in 1830. The first public application to practice the use of gas for illumination was mm lo in 1802. In 1813 ths streets of Xtcmdon were- for the first, time lighted with gas. In 1813 there was built at Waltham, • Mass., a mill, believed to have been tlie first in the world, which com billed all the requirements for making finished cloth, from raw cotton. In 1790 there were only twenty-five postoffices in the whole oountry, and up, to 1837 the rates of postage wore twenty five cents for a letter sent jver one hun dred miles. In 1807 wooden clocks commenced toi be made by machinery. This ushered in the era of cheap clocks. About the year 1833 the first railroad of considerable length in tlie United States was constructed. In 1810 the first express business was. established. Tlie anthracite evil business may bo said to have begun in 1820. Xu 1830 the first; patent for the, inven tion of matches was granted. Steel pens wero introduced for ift# In 1830. The first successful reaper wus cou sin luted in 1833. A Forgotten Cm.-—The late Lieut, < burlier dit ;ovgred las* year . in Combo-, dm the ruins of aueietg mtv. An.. ge«r. These ruius are of extraordinary " uigu ificeiiee, boMj|]jii partite ofcgnxfeul - hi 4 ar'-liite.-turursphsuo;.!;;'- side ! ferenoe, -f iL. uenjjUM qf^^^^isa | rbails buried in the foreJt «;iti j j contain ; fivTurumSfet; ... h if possible, ill.-,- • a-f : the preceding. ” The architecture and ' sculpture of this forgotten city ex’ ibit a very advanced knowledge of the arts, and the great temple is described as the masterpiece of some unknown Miches! Angelo. Angeor must bate been one at tlie greatest citiest on,the globe, and yet of its history no account remains. Noth ing is known of its past save that a Chi nese traveler, in the year 1202,, men-. Honed its splendor, and that after 300 years it was referred to by liiboudoneyra as an ancient ruin. A Bin Country.— The total area of British India is officially stated at 950,-. 319 square miles. Under the adminis tration of tlie governor-general of India there are Ajmere, containing 2,672 Rquare mi lex ; Coorg, 2,0fi0; Berar, 16,-. 900, and Mysore, 27,077. Under gover-. nors there are Madras, with 141,746 square miles, aud Bombay, with 127,-. 533 square miles. Under lieutenant-. governors, Bengal, with 248,331 square miles ; the Northwest provinces, with 80,901 ; and the Punish, with 102,001, Under chief commissioners, Oude, with 23,073 square miles ; and British Bur ma!), with 93,663 square miles. All this great region is under British administra-. tion or government, and is exclusive of native states. It has a population equal to an average of 201 per square mile. While cutting down a tree in Rockdale, county, in this State, recently, the axe man cut into a hollow filled with gold pieces, each amounting to about s.\o - are supposed to have been hidden there by some of the followers of De- Soto, as they were Spanish coins, and on tlie line of march supposed to have been taken by him, when he discovered the. .Mississippi They were embedded six. inches beneath tlie bark. A French naturalist hollowed out a 'urge stone and cemented a toad in it. At the end of five years the anjrnal was, taken out alive, but in a torpid state. This fully corroborates tlie New Canaan story. A large grindstone in Brown’s axe factory burst while revolviug at great -peed, and threw out a couple of yellow lizards. Scientific men assert that the lizards have been entombed fpr at least ninety centuries. Mrs. Mapuiug, of South Carolina, who, recently died, was connected by blood with four Governors of the State. Gov. James B. Richardson was her uuole, Gov. John P. Richardson her brother, Gov. Richard I. Manning her husband,, aud Gov. John L. Manning her son., This is certainly a brilliant record. The deepest well that lias ever been sunk is in Prussia. It is 4,194 feet deep, and they are still a digging. If it had been in Massachusetts they would have struck hell long ago. The regular Baptists of the United. States report an increase of 127,000 members during tlie past year,