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About The Washington gazette. (Washington, Ga.) 1866-1904 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1873)
BY ANDREWS & COLLEY. RESTAURANT! —"— AuntNance’sHouss, sap* , Ikn, U .. : ,'k NEWLY FITTED UP FOH THE FALLSEASON Boabd Pek Month, $15,00. Board Per Dat, $1,50. •Wll! •«!*•» <m hand a getter*} of Family . St^plies, Confectioneries, *'' Fruits, Etc., DURING THE SEASON. eepts~om New Spring* Goods. JAS. G. BAILIE & BRO Respectfully ask your attention ■ to the following Desirable GOODS offered by them for sale: KnglUli and American FLOOR oil. cloths 24 feet wide, and ot the beat quality ot goods manufactured. Do you want a real rd Oil Cloth? If so, come now and get very best. Oil Cloths cut any sizeand laid promptly A full line of cheap floor Oil Cloths from 60c. a yard up. Table Oil Cloths, all widths and colors. tilll'ETS Brussels Threcply and Ingrain Carpets of new designs. A full stock of low-priced Carpets from 30c. a yard up. Carpets measured for, made and laid with dispatch. L If E Ci'kTAl \'S. French Tamboured Lace. Exquisits. Nottingham Lace, Beautiful. Tamboured Mpdin, durable and clicjyi, from #2,50 a pair upwards. concu rs usi<i msns. Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and Gilt Cornices, with or without centres Curtain Bands, Pins and Loops. Cornices cut and made to lit windows and.put up. WIYROAV SHADES. 1,000 New Window Shades in all the tew tints of color. Beautitul gold Band Shades, #1,50 with all trimmings. Beautiful SUaJesSOe. each. Store Window Shades, any color and size. Window Shades squared and put up promptly. Walnut and Painted Wood Shades. BI CS aii«Ti>OOK II ATS. New and beautiful Hugs.' Door Mats from 50c. up to the last Jsngl ish Cocoa, that wear three years. 100 sets Table Mats, assorted. M ATT I AGS. New Mattings, plain and fancy, iu all the different widths made. Mattings laid with dispatch. W ALL pVpKKS umi BOBDiIRS 8,500 rolls Wall Papers and Borders in new patterns, in gold, pounds, hall, oaks, marbles, chintzes, Ac., in every variety ot color—beautiful, good and cheap. Paper hung it desired. HAIR CLOTHS In all widths required for Upholstering. Buttons, Gimps and Tucks for same. CURTAIC DAM ASKS. Plain and striped French Terrys for Cur tains and upholstering purposes. Gimps, Fringe, Tassels, Loops & Buttons. Moreens and Table Damasks. Curtains A Lambraquins made & put up taTii.e covers. English Embroidered Cloth Piano anti Table Covers. Embossed Felt Piano and Table Covers Plain & gold band flocked Piano Covers German Fringed Table Covers. Crumb {Hollis and Druggets. New patterns ii any size or width wanted. To all of which we ask your attention. AH work done well and in season, by James G. Bailie & Brother. april4-ly REMOVAL. THE undersigned has removed his Blacksmith Shop from his old stand to the new building on Majn Street, situ ated between the residences of Mr. Win, A- Pope and Dr. John W. Heard. All kinds of Blacksmith Work done in the best and neatest style. Horsts Shod in the very best manner, and Pick oon Sweeps a speciality. mh2B-6m JOHN T. MEANS. G. W. TERRY, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT, WASHINGTON, GA. Insures Gin Houses and Cotton. Nov. 1,1872-ly BLANKS Os all descriptions neatly executed a this office, V CHANGE OF SCIIE Superintendents OSfce, Georgia and Macon ami AugUstajpSft., On andiiftpr. Sunday, May ihtlAi 1872 the Passenger Trains on the GoorML and Macon and Augusta Knit roads wilt#An as feUoivs; V GEORGIA R4»i:OAD. PAY I’ASSEPOKII TUAIK win. LeavifrAtigast* at - - - 8.0% a. m. Leave Atlanta at - - - 10.15, a. m. A rrire -! Augusti - - 7;>u, p. rn. Arrive at Attains - - - 6.(0 p. m. * % « EIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Ldwc Augusta at - - - 8.15, ]. m. > Leave-Aiiaota at a- B.WK n«w(i. «*■ A. ill'.- Arrive at Atlanta MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. DAT PASSESQEB TItAIK. Leave ,1 ngusta a: - - 11.00, a. m. Leave Macon at - - - R So, a. in. Ariiveat Augusta - - - 245, p. to. Arrive hi Macon at - - - 9.80, p. m. RIGHT PABSENGKIt TRAIN, la'avo Augusta - - - 8.15, p. m. Leave Macon at - - - 10.0<}, p. ro. Ar ivein Augusta at - - o.oo' n, in. Arrive in Macon at - - 4,15. *. In. Passengers from Athens, Washington, Atlanta, or any point on the Georgia Hail road and Branches, by taking the Day Passenger Train, will make connection a Caraak with trains for Macon. SIT I’A LACE Sleeping Cats on all Night Train*. S. IC. JOHNSTON, Superintendent* r ''4~w^ THE KEY.YES AW ROUTE. Western & Atlantic R. R.& Connections SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAT 25th, 1878. NORTHWAHD. .Vo. 1 1 Vo. .1 Vo. 1 Eeavp Atlanta 5:00 pm. ft:;to am. lftr -o pm. Arrive Carterevllle, 8:15 ji m. inert h m.. am. “ Kins.,ton, S:4:lp in. luuam. l:(i:iu«v< “ Dalton, 10:90 pm. 'J:ul pm. 3:00 a to. “ Cbattaunoosa 4rJ« p in. 5:00 at::. SOUTHWAUD. ivo. a. Vo. l. Arrive Atlanta. 10:00 a. m. 1:45 p.m. “ t’artersville, 8:10 p. M. 10:51 A. M. “ Kingston, 7.14 t*. M. 10:12 a. m “ Dalton 5:35 r. M. 8:00 a. m. Leave Chattanooga, 3:45 r. M. 5:45 a. m. Pullman Palace Cars on Trains Nos. 11 and 2—to Lynchburg and New Orleans. Pullman Palace Cars on Trains 1 A 2 for Atlanta and ChnHan,«Jg»> .vo cu ts(ii; New Orleans to Lynchburg—via Mont gomery, Atlanta, and Dalton. o vs ( 7/ t.voj; Atlanta to St. Louis—via Chattanooga. Tilt j'-two Miles Sht iter NEW YORK AND EASTERN CITIES Than any other Route from Atlanta. 24 Hours Quicker to the Virginia Springs than any other line from Atlanta, avoiding au Expensive Delay and Transfer in Richmond. Passengers leaving Atlanta by Lightning Express, at (i p. m. arrive in New York at 4:44 p. m. the Second Afternoon thereafter—l3 hours 35 mi tulos earlier than Passengers by any other route Passengers leaving Atlanta at 10 p. m. by this Route arrive in New York at the same time as passengers who left at 0 p. m. by opposition lines. Parties desiring a Whole Car through to the Virginia Springs or to Lynchburg should address the undersigned. Parties contemplating traveling should eepd for Map, Schedule, etc. Quick Time and Close Connections is our motto. Ask lor tickets via “The Kcnnesaw Route” B. W. WRENN, General Passenger and Ticket Agt. juned Atlanta, Ga. which docs/iot dry up a coufrii nn«l leave the cau&o Ijehind. bntloosens It, cleanses tho lnngi and albya irritation, tHus rt moving the cause of the Complaint. CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED by a timely resort to this Btandani remedy, m is proved by hundreds <if te-sthnonbls it lias received. Tire genuine is signed *•/. JhUte" on tlio wrapper, SETH V.', FOWLK *fc SOProprietors. llos*- TON, Mass. Sold by dealers generally. FAMILY” GEOCEHIES. consisting of Meat Sugars, Lard, Coffee, Syrnp, Floor, Molasses, Meal, Rice, Salt, Crackers, <fcc. Dry Goods HATS, BOOTS & SHOES, IST O TIONS, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff, Pipes, &c. &c. &c. at lowest cash prices. J. R. & C. H. SMITH, South East corner of Public Square dec2o-ly WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1873. - §x»oLj.{r2A State Lottery FOIjrTHE 111,XEFIT OF Till? Orphans’ Home ami Fret SCHOOL. Capital Prize $7,000 iron AUttirsT,-- Drawings Daily at 5 J?. ' . '30,316 Prizes amor‘it' ,Tl ' l j Tlrltels spares ir ' 1 | N tth*£aboY» echcm+j formed by liio t<uuary J J nation otf 78 i;umber.s Linking 76,(576 ticket#, ami the drawing of 12 ballot*, there will bo ‘420 prires, each having three of the drawn numbers on it; 4,356 each havift?; two of- them on; *25,740 each having one of them on; ami ai*o 45,760 ticket»i with neither of the | drawn numbers on them, Iwing blanks. I To determine the fate of these prizes and blanks, 78 number*, from 1 to 78 inclusive, will be severally placed in a wheel on the day of the drawing, and I‘2 of them drawn out at random: and that ticket having for its combination the Ist, ‘2nd, and ftrd drawn numbers will be entitled to the capital prize of $7,000 00 That ticket haring on it the 4th, 6th and oth flrawn numbers, to 630 00 That ticket having on it the 7th, Bth and Otli drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the loth, llth and 12th drawn numbers, t 0.., GSO 00 Tlyit ticket having on it the 2nd, 3rd and 4th drawn numbers, to 6*50 00 That ticket having on it the 3d, 4th, and sth drawn numbers, to 630 00 That ticket having on it the sth, CtU and Ttli drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the 6th, 7th aud Bth drawn numbers, to. 630 00 That ticket having on it the Bth, 9th aud 10th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it tho 9th, 10th aud llth drawn number*, to 650-00 That ticket having on it the lht, 2nd and 4th drawn numbers, to 650 00 That ticket having on it the Ist, ‘2nd and Bth drawn numbers, to 217 00 That ticket having on it the Ist, 2nd and Cth drawn numbers, t 0....; 217 00 All other tickets (being 207) with three of the drawu umnbers on. each 20 00 Thfwe 66 ti« kcls having on them the Ist and 2nd drawn number*, each 10 00 Those tvd tickets havbig on them the 3rd and 4th drawn numbers, each 0 00 All other tickets (being 4,224) with two of tho drawn number* on, each 2 00 And all those ticket* (being 35,740) with one only of tbc drawn numbers, each 1 00 On Mondays capital will be $7,000 0i) On Tucsflttys i*pd Krj-'ays capital will bo 4,**00 (Mi On Wednesdays capitui will be 6.500 00 On Thursdays aud Saturdays capital will lie $6,000 (8) F<>r further jwr'lculsrs send for Schemes. No ticket which shell have drawn it priro of a supe rior don* Dili nation can bo entitled toan interior prize. Prize* pavat»Te forty (40\ dm* «ftr. r the drawing, and subject to the usual deduct inn of 15 per rsfet. All prizes of SJO an l under will be pHi<l immediate ly after the drawing. :£f“Prizce ear.lu and at tbri rihee. CJOWAfSW <‘o., Managcrr, mU2B-6tn Atlanta, Go. 187f3._18^3. A FTER a long experience a.? BKED -I\. MEN, It ii with great conftitonce tlmr w(< Tnvire the atfrmion Nit PianLiK anil Gardeners to tlie present supply of biBSH' PLUMB&LEITNER AUGUSTA, GA. We fear no l ompetition as to comple teness of assortment, quality of Seeds, or in our prices. Special inducements to dealers. Send for Catalogue, and send in your orders early. PLUMB & LEITNKR, decl- Druggists, Augusta, Ga. QUOT & PENDLETON, (Successors (o D. Quinn.) Bookseller*, Stationers JWnslc and Periodical Deafer*. I*l BROAD ST., AVGUSTA, GA. 1I EG to announce to Dealers, Teachers ) and the public geuerallv, that owing to their increased capital and long expe rience in business, they are now prepared to transact a first-class business intelli gently, They will guarantee to all cus tomers promptness and dispatch in all business engagements, and solicit a lib eral patronage. They keep everything to be lmd at a first-class bookstore. Below they give a partial list of the same: Blank books, all sizes and styles; pass books, memoranda books, pens, inks, mu cilage, envelopes, note letter and foolscap paper, photograph albums, Bibles, Testa ments, Catholic and Episcopal prayer books. Methodist, Baptist and Presbyte rian hymn books, and a full line of the American Sunday School Union publica tions. Akto, all of the ~iincipat Sunday school and church music books. They desire the name and address of all school officers in the State, including day schools, Sunday schools and music teach ers. Correspondence earnestly solicited, and information in regard to proposed changes in text books, etc., gjadly re ceived. july2s~3m Georgia Colton Press rpms press has been in use L four yea lie, and has given good sat isfaction. It is the Most Simply Constructed —ANp— Durable Press in the Market, and from the favorable rccommenda'ions given by all who have used it, we firmly believe that it will give better satisfaction than any other Press or Screw now in use. We offer it this season improved. Price, complete, $125.00. Send for circular. G-IN LEAKING, All sizes, runs light, and is strong. There is none better made. Also,'Mill Work Casting and Machinery iurnisliod promptly. PENDLETON & BOARDMAN, Foundry and Machine Works. Bollock st., Augusta, Ga. jtily 18-till Ist nov WaoHutflton fiMurttr. Ojjlcr tip (Utkin, me rent O/iUr- PUKHSItEI) KVKKY FRIDAY lIY AND’kKWS & COLI.KV. TEfIMS: • One Year S£ 00 Si* Months 1 00 Thr«.^Months, 0 „ : ,v. .5 .., 50 AiLrpbt.'.ripti ‘*l must bo paid invjuia- m discrimination in favor ' * Am* A, .’ - *[ 'T - jmper will bo stopped in all m- I stance,, t the expiration of the time paid ■ ■ ■ vie,u-!\ a ! Advert 1 ft.OO pdrvniars —one inch—for , tion, arid ; A cents for each subsequeimij ! sort ion. ««. I All-advertisements should. be mark Ad for a specified time, otherwise they n.. I 1 Ik: charged under thy rule of so much fov the first insertion, and so much ior each i subsequent insertion. | Obituaries *nd Tributes of Respect wh%> 1 exceeding ten lines will be charged same 1 rates as ordinary advertisements. *! J-jf A liberal discount will be allowed merchants for yearly advertisements. When lillls arc Slue. i | All bills for advertising in this paper are due on tho first appearance of the ad vertisement, except when otherwise nr i ranged by contract, and will lie j when the money is needed. i *- * j HUMOUS OF Tilt: CHANGE. I The swiftly increasing numerical | strength of the fanners’ “Granges,” or anti-monopoly associations of tho “Pa trons of Husbandry,” in tho West, has ' made it incumbent upon the average poli i tician of that section to assume agricultural ! pretensions ns rapidly as possible “Hay seed in the hair and blue drilling over ! alls,” says the Indianapolis Sentinel, “nro ; now the fashionable affectation of him who craves the ballot of rural electors.” The lijimor ot this style of.time-serving is obvious, and an occidental bard turns it to satirical account, lor the Atchison Champion, in the following supposititious, “Serenade of a Modern Politician to his Love:” The moon is shining on the graflge, The winds are hushed, the leaves are ! still, | Tiic pntig: * stars Look softly down T Upon my cot at Slindtmn Hill. Then come, my horny handed love. And wander through the dell with me, And gaze upon the Durham bull And listen to his pedigree. Once 1 was in the railroad ring, But now my hands are haul with toil; I’ve scattered hay-seed in my hair And blacked my boots with harness oil. Mv city cows have all gone dry, J am no longer in my prime; My day is drawing to its close And it will soon be milking-time. I think I know anew milcli cow That’s just exactly what I need t * She’s thin from running out to grass, » But only wants a change of feed. I'll mix a mash of free-trade bran, Swindles, high taxes, and back pay, And coax her to the ballot-box And feed her till election day. With one to grasp her by the horn ! And one to hold her by the tail! ( Oh, let. me safely sit between, And calmly fill my nuiking-pail; And when November’s breezes show 'Tm time my Berkshire hogs to kill, I’ll move hack into town again, And sigh no more ior Shannon Hill! COOKERY. The BatiiiK nml Drinking oi Purls with a Comparison »t French and American Vlct ««|s. From Henry Watterson’H Correspondence '.mu Lou isville Courier-Journal.] I went with a friend the other day to Perc la Chaise, where they were laying away the body of a favorite French ac tress, - who had died at the ageof twenty three,'' victim to late suppers. There is but (<).v plate in Paris where you are not oitt.eeted to pay a “qourboiie,” and that is Oj funeral. The circumstance lias a ten len.y to popularize funerals with AijiiiVi'jSns, and consequently quite a num ber of these tollnwed the unhappy girl to .her grave. Yet nothing was said ot the canoes winch had produced sit pre mature a decline and death, and tho com pany came back to dine as luxuriously as ever. There are no railings around the tombs in Fere !a Chaise. The French conclude, I suppose, that, as no one was ever known to get out, nor any one to want to get in, they may as well save the expense of inclosurcs. In like manner the kitchens of Paris are open to all. You pay your money and you may take your choice, Whenever you wander through j the town yon catch the odor of cooking. The air is redolent with truffles, From morn to noon, from noon to dewy eve, it is one constant gobble and guzzle. No, at the end of the year, the unfcnced churchyards have decidedly the best of i;. The whole of which goes to prove that people do sometimes die here of eat ing and drinking. There has long been a popular belief in America that does not. There has long been an impression that the eating and drinking of Paris is the best in the world. Anywhere in Fifth avenue, front Madison square to the park, a French cook is re garded very much as the Hindoos regard a white bull, that is a sacred animal; and there have been instanccsof middle aged ladies marrying their Mirobolant, because his professional skill had become indispensable to their happy and health ful existence. The French, from the first both pleased and flattered by the conceit, gave it currency and vogue. “In America,” said their xvits, “they have fifty religions and only one soup;” where as, they might have added, there are in France fifty soups and uo religion at all. The cook in Moliere’s play who could serve a dozen different dishes off one joint of beef is referred to with pride at all the Parisian restaurants as a typical Frenchman. There was a time when the famous Three Brothers of Provence were little less esteemed than the three most honored members of the Academy. 'Philips is said to have bad great influence at couit in the days of the Empire, being tho only man in Paris who could prepare a mavonaise to suit Napoleon’s peculiar ly delicate and fastidious palate. Gouty, old English swells come over here as the pilgrims used to go to Jerusalem; end I am myselt personally acquainted *vith a gentleman who believes that ono day a great truffle-bed uill be discover ed near Sim’s Hole or the Mammoth Gave, and who, during periods of unusual de pression, hugs this whimsical - notion to his bosom us a never failing source ot consolation. A 1 certainly do not mfen to quarrel with this or any part of it, and you will please not consider mo as placing, myself across the pathway of tho progress of truffles. We have as many pigs in Kentucky as they have in Pcrrigord, and I see no good reason why truffles should be limited to that particular nrovincc. Indeed, 1 have stuck my legs under too many Paris ta bles, and have sopped the gravy out of too many French dishes to go back on them at this late day, albeit, lam coining to the conclusion that I prefer to dine at riidme, w here, if the cooking lie not as ar tistic as at Yoisin’s, the original fabrics | whiijli enter into the least are a great deal | better, 1 heard Edmund Yates say last 'winter—and whatever you may think of Edmund's novels, if you had ever met, him you Would allow that he has a belly of Unqualified culture and genius—l heard Edmund Yates say last winter that tho Brcyoort House, meaning, of course, the kitdien. is the best hotel in the world, lie spoke words of sweetness from cavor nousydepths, unsounded by culinary cc ccntyieitics. Dclmonico's is also the first restaurant in Christendom, and for the same reason ; that is, it applies the art of Franco to American food, which is in all respects, in quality, in flavor, iu abun dance and in variety, superior to the food of Europe. Everything goes by comparison. The ltmie of the French restaurants was marie by ihe comparison they offered to the English restaurants. The English arc a gross, material people. They live on the Coarsest food. They are an obstinate people, and steadily pursue their bent. Happy in themselves and in their igno rance, they do not wish to learn, because they believe, and are right in believing, that joy does not como with wisdom. So the French have had no competition ns • corks, and have been cried up to the skies by the travelers of every nation. In the same way Uiesifn ot Italy, which is no brighter than our sun of America, frier 1 made out a very miracle ot ; nd beauty by the old. English poets, whose eyes 1va(1 only ’’gazed -upon the dull Chinese lantern that passes for a sun in their country. It,.stakes me that I have said some thing life this before. Hut the truth will lose nothing by the repetition. I bold that every man, being an animal that hns to eat and drink to live, is interested in Ids victuals. I hold that if he is not he ought to be made to be. Women and dyspeptics are wont to pretend a certain ethereal horror and disgust at what they describe as the pleasure ot the table, just as though they were illicit pleasures; just as though Hod, in His infinite good fiess and mercy, luid not given his favor led people sound digestions, and genial, nmnloving points of character and inter course, in order that they might propa gate this absolute lesson in life, that the man who enjoys his food is likelier to keep his conscience clean—that he will approach nearer the golden lule—than the man who does not; that the man who gulps it down as fast as he is able, not thinking of it at all. in order that he may return the specdiei to women and cards, the sources of all mischiefs, ofalltreach eiies, of all intrigues, of all violations ot that commandment which, coming after the commandment directing the love of the Creator —a commandment that should not need much enforcing—bids us love our neighbor as ourself; to do no harm to himoriiis; to judge fairly, audio act generously by each and every one of our fellows. Well, then, I say if a man sticks by this commandment, be will do no great harm in the world; he will seduce no woman and swindle no man ; lie will peipetrate neither treason, stratagem nor spoil. Fur thermore, I declare ns the result of some observations in a desultory way, that these citing chaps—these chans who sit long at table—who use their fork instead of their knife in picking their way through the world---wlio eat slowly nil d masticate their food—do not compose the class from wAieb the universal New gate lias taken is -iissassjns, its conspira tors or its thieves. We do not need to be fold of and hungry Cassius?’ (the rogue had a worm mid no honest stomach at ull!) to lie convinced that the ideal enemy of man, from Mephiatopheles down, is a slender vniL-t, with sunken cheek, whf> cat:, and drinks stealthily, and not the goumnee or gourmand who, when he goes after his dinner, would not turn out of his course fora woman or an empire. Blessed be victuals! The man has hope in this world who can say that he has always had a good appetite and a good conscience, to say nothing of the undivided dividends he is sure to have laid by for him in the world to come. Hpt I wander away from my test, which was the “living” in Paris. Let us return to our mutton, for it is, with beef, about the best we shall get. The two staples from the basis of everything. By the aid of truffles, mushrooms and olives, they arc tortured into a thousand forms; auo, to this extent, one has no right to complain. He cannot complain of good beef. He cannot complain of good mut ton. He is an ass if he complains of truf fles, mushrooms and olives. But, in the long run, a man grows tired of e’en these luxuries and begins to “lioan” after some thing plain and simple, after something ur.nntunil, such as a bit of stewed terra pin, or a crisp soft-shell crab, or a canvas back duck, or a plump, fresh partridge, or a young, contraband prairie hen, or even a broiled chicken. He can get none of these in Paris. Their game is nearly always foul. If you get it pure and sweet it is by chance. In cities ot such magni tude as llijs the keeping of game is a sort of necessity. This being the iaet, the Palis caterers long ago got out the no tiou that game is better tho longer it is kept—a rank and poisonous lie. But it has got to be the fashion, and Hie poor devil who has lived alibis life under it? baleful influences gobbles down tainted pheasants and decayed hares with the gusto of the devoted Brahmin, who con siders himself blessed in being permitted to walk into the grave of his deceased wife and be buried alive and kicking, with her inodorous remains. I am in debted to John Churchill for the practi cal and conclusive lesson that the soon er a bird or a fish is cooked after it is taken, the better it is at table, and i be lieve this applies to every species of del icate animal food. Nor is this all. Game is prized for its game flavor, and whenever it is smothered by extranous appliances it is spoiled. A partridge, (at and ten der, is as gcod as a mushroom. Traffics do not impiCvo woodcocks. The birds can afford to go it on their own honk without any assistance whatever. No with such fish ns pompano, the mountain trout, the jack salmon and Hie shad. They are able to stand alone. Over here they don’t stand at all. Their best shell fish are tho crawfish and the snail, tor tlie lobster is indigenous everywhere, mid is not to be counted in the list. They know nothing ot the soft-shell crab, of the terrapin or ot the oyster as a cnoka blo viand. Their turbot will not com pare with our halibut, nor their sole with our shad. The English white-bait is sim ply a minnow, and only a trifle better than tho smelt. In soups, which is a thing of condiments, they do excel us. Asa general rule their service is neater than ours. But you can give, on a few hours’ notice, a better dinner at the St. Nicholas in Cincinnati, or at Ruler’s in Louisville, wines included, than you can give in Paris at the Case Anglais, nr in London at the Burlington. The Ameri can prices will range somewhat higher, certainly. But we pay high duties on wine, and it is there that the figures will chiefly tell in the bill. Not very much difference will be found as to the dishes. SAVAGE EIFE IY AFRICA. 11 unlit is Saca-ifiCDM anil tlie Amazons in Dalionicy. An Englishman, Mr. .T. A. Skctchly, has just returned front Dahomey, on the west coast of Africa, and is now furnishing some interesting illustrations from his sketh book to the Illustrated London News. For six months Mr. Sketchly was the guest of the King, by whom he was very hospitably treated. lie is the only white man that has been admitted into the private apartments of the King. There is ho town of Dahomey. The cap ital is merely one of the royal palaces, with official residences for the high officers and the servants, while the Amazojis re side within tlie palace in long, barn-like buildings immediately outside ondAuv tomiding the King's private nparriniMplk At tiieh of his nine' palaces there afai 4,000 cf tliese Aifmzons. V Before Mr. Skctchly was achnifted to the palace lie went through ceremonials lasting three days, during which he was created a prince of the royal blood, a duke, and a general in the army, but not ot the Amazons, lie was then permitted to see the various customs, lie was an eye-witness to tho grand annual ceremo nial when the principal human sacrifices takes place. For the sacrifice called tho Men-hoo who, the King reclines on a wicker-work lounge in his palace. He wears only a blue cotton robe, as he considers his dig nity so great that he can afford to dress in ordinary clothing. Neither the King nor the members of the royal family ever dress in gaudy attire. Above the King’s head an umbrella is extended, and this is gorgeous with scar let, blue and yellow figures, cut out with a knife from velvet, silk and damask. The Amazons sew the pieces together so as to form emblematic devices. The bird is indicative ot royalty. None but the princes of Dahomey arc allowed to adopt it. The top.of the umbrella is surmount ed by a wooden ornament, representing a man with a bird in his hand. The Amazons are seated around the King. Between them and the people a number of bamboo rods arc placed iu a line upon the ground. Any man who crosses one of these rods suffers immedi ate death. Soldiers bring in the victims —slaves taken in war, and generally old men. They are gagged by means of a stick with grass rope wrapped around it, which fills up the whole mouth, and is tied at the back of the head. Their hands are fastened together, and they are firm 1 )* hound to baskets w hich are carried on the soldiers’ heads. Their bodies arc entirely naked, save a single cloth aroun I the loins. Conical hats are kept on their heads until just before decapitation. Their prime minister lies prostrate and receives in that position a message from the King to the victims. This message is to he car ried to the father of the present King who died about nine years ago. For their subsistence on the way be gives them each a bottle of nun and a head of cow ries. The men are then taken to a plat form twenty feet high in an adjacent courtyard; there they fire cast headlong still hound to the baskets. The execu tioners then cut off their heads and ex , bibit them to the people, after which they are placed on wooden altars to orna ment the palace gate. Three days after ward the heads are taken within the palace, where they are cleaned by the Amazons, and are then used for Btate drinking cups, ornaments for drums, flag staffs and other purposes. The bodies of the victims are dragged by the crowd through the market place, and are finally thrown into a ditch outside Aboney, where the hyenas soon make short work ot them. Thousands of skeletons are in this ditch, but not a single skull. The men appear to have no fear of death, Mr. Skctchly states that he lias frequently looked into a man's face just at the mo mont when he was about to have his head cutoff, and not a muscle seemed to indi cate either emotion or fear. The present King is more merciful tliun his predecessor*. He is endeavoring to reduce the sacrifices of human life en tailed upon him on his accession to the throne by the customs of the country. lie generously spares the lives of half the number of victims intended for sacri fice. No women are ever killed for sacri fice, although they, like the men, are brought out on the heads of the Amazons, to be carted around the courtyard. VOL. VIII Georgia State Grange. To Merrhanta, Manufacturer», and to uhotmoeter it may concern: By authority* of the State Grange ot Georgia, the fol lowing Circular is issued, and to it your special attention is respectfully invited : There is, in the State of Georgia, op association of Planters, styled “Patrons of Husbandry.” By co-operative associ ations they seek, through any and all leg! itimntc and honorable agencies, mutual protection and mutual benefit. Tlieyuiig not to antagonize the rights of any class of our fellow-citizens; nor will they per mit themselves to wage exacting and ty rannic crusades in their own interests. Hitherto, however, we have committed the management of such of our business interest to our fellow mei. For this, we deem the commission rccfflycA Uisprli portionotc to the service fegoertd. TM necessities ot the timcß demand rigid-re form alike in the varied detail of larm life at home and abroad. Otherwise the gnant form of bankruptcy and dissolu tion will stalk in every rural pathway, dagiierrcotyping woo upon every finaide and Iclmbod be written upon the waffs of our once peaceful and prosperous homes; You concede to agriculture flie posi tion of preeminence, the sub struct me un derlying every material interest. You will tell us you seek and and. rejoice in her prosperity. AVc are before you to day to most respectfully ask of you to verify your assertion, and share with m your commissions, thus making the bene tits resulting from the products of <hi. daily toil tftid care, in summer sun;6hiiK and winter snow, mutual. For this, we think yon have “yafrf p/o ejuo" in the influence of cash patronage tA associated numbers. Be assured we an no mendicants at your doors, pletydigj, gratuitous charities; for were lttheyil ol our Divine Master that we even die oi> poverty, wo would still expect to “dll game!" Wo ask your mutual aid is rendering prosperous that interest upon which you say the prosperity of yours depends. Should you deem it advisable thus t* deal with us, address (granting us the right to reject any offer) giving terms to either— j L. F. Livingston, Covington, Gq, , J. S. Lavender, Barnesville, Ga. V. M. Davis, Morgan. Ga. Ex-Committee, : * or E. T. Tayi-ow, Seely. German Stateoy in Civil, Life—-A. German is of just as hasty a temper, and in Germany will resent in words on insult or implication as soon ns an Amcricui, but will rarely resort to physical Inroe. A Dresden letter gives a good exempli of how disputes are settled with quarfti some persons without resorting to', Idottft, for striking a person means imprisonment and fine, and before proceeding to extrem ity they have to decide which will givt 1} them most, gratification: '■ Waddii the Fourth of July some Americans were ’to meek at a part!iwMo arrange fop, our celebration. One of the party drove there in a drosehke, ho/paid his fare and walked into the garden und joined his friends at a table. Very soon the driver followed ami insultingly demanded puy lor a broken glass, which our American friend denied liavii g been guilty ot. The driver commenced a tirade of abusp w hich would have resulted In a knock down ala Americana, and consequent fine and perhaps imprisonment, bad not Gen. Heine interfered to settfe it ala German, lie rose from his seat, and in doing so ac cidentally brought two hundred and fifty pounds ot bone and muscle to bear sud denly upon the driver’s toes. This caused him hastily to retreat a few steps, und ps the current of his abuse was changed a couple ol steps brought the same weight again oil his tender extremities. Thus the General followed apologetically uniil the driver vacated the garden; durjng this time the hands of both hnngidle, but in passing the gate the driver’s anger got the better of his judgement, when he at tempted to drive the gate against the General’s head. For this he was sent to prison tor five days, as a lesson to keep his temper another tune. This would not be worth mentioning did it not clearly exhibit the German manner of dealing iu such circumstances. . , • ii The Si-andkuoi.s Tonooe.-Tlic tongue of slander is never tired. In one way or another it manages to keep itself in con stant employment. Sometimes it drips honey and sometimes gall. It is bitter now and then sweet, it insinuates or as sails directly, according to the circum stance. it will hide a curse under ft smooth word, ami administer poison in the phrase of love. Like death, it “loves a shinjpg mark.” And il is never so available and eloquent as when it can blight the hopes of the noble minded, soil tile reputation of the pure, break down the character of the brave mid strong. What pleasure man or woman can find in such work, we have never been able to see. And yet there is a pleasure of some sort in it to multitudes, or they would not betake themselves to it. Home pas sions of the soul or lardy must be gratified by it. But no soul in high estate tan take delight in it. They often to polish the slanderous tongue, increase itij tact, and give it suppleness and to do its death work. A mormon Husband - * Mlfte ries. Brother George Q. Cannon says the sis ters have liorne a great deal. So they have, but it they could only stand in shoes of their husbands, who are good, true and faithful, they would know that they are by no means tree from perplexi ties. Just fancy a man with two, three op half a dozen of his beloved wives catch ing him on one side, and before he can take three steps, more catching hint On the other, and “1 want this,” and “I want that,’’ and “This is not right,'/, mid “Tjhflfi is not right,” and so on, their minds just pulled to pieces, I say if the haitiis spared on their heads they may consider that they have got blessed wives. I hltW us many wives as any other matt, and*'!- keep my hair yet. But as to trials,-why,) bless yo'ur hearts, the man or woman wlrp, enjoys the spirit ol our religion has ilo trials, but the man or woman who tries to' live according to the Gospel of the Son of* God, and at the same time clings to the spirit of the world, lias trials and sorrows acute and keen, and that, too, continually from a Hcccnt Sermon of Brigham Young NO. 20.
