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VOLUME XLII.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 30,1871.
NUMBERS.
ibt Jftitral ihiion,
Id PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IX MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. ;
BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE,
(Corner of Hancock ami Wilkinson Streets,)
At £2 is Advance, or $3 at end of the year.
S. N. EOUGIITON, Editor.
ADVERTISING.
Transient.—One Dollar persquare of ten lines for
£r?tinsertion, and seventy-five cents fjr each subse-
,, i, nt continuance.
Tributes of respect, Resolution by Societies,Obit-
eyries eiceeding six tines, NomiiUt ions for office, Com-
i .unications or Editorial notices for individual benefit,
i-aarged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
>.-riff’s Sales, per levy of ten Iiue6, or less, §2 50
.Mortgage fi 1'a sales, per square, 5 00
Citations for Letters of Administialion, 3 00
“ Guardianship, 3 00
Application lor dismission from Administration, 3 00
" Guardianship, 3 00
“ “ leave to sell Land 5 00
“ for Homesteads, 1 75
Notice to Debtors ami Creditors, 3 00
js„;es oi Lund, &c., per square, 5 00
*• perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 150
K-tray Notices, 30 days, 3 00
F reclosure of Mortgage, per sq-, each time, 100
Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,). 1 75
A QlIKT HOIK
T.ONGF EL LOW'S SEW POEM.
Tiie sunlight is past and tlie dusty air
That filled the day in its prime ;
Of all the hours there is none so fair
As the dim white even time.
The wind, that blew like a breath of heat,
Is cooler and freshei now ;
Of all the winds there is noue so sweet,
Soft evening winds as thou.
An hour like this is soon forgot,
And never recalled again ;
The peace and rest we remember not,
Only the joy and the pain.
Were we content with such pleasures as this,
We might be happy in rest;
But in the pursuit oi more difficult bliss,
W e scum to be easily bleat-
C A N NIBALISM.
Not many years since, the Christian
world was filled with unspeakable
horror at the feast which the newspa
pers informed us the savages of New
.Zealand made of the roasted body of
a fine fat missionary who thus devoted
his life to their good. Among the
horrors of the recent war in France,
rumors reached us of a child devoured
by the starving household: a child
smitten by the fragment of a shell,
slain: the seige merci
lessly pressed and protracted : and fam
ine sapping the lives of all survivors
within the fated walls. A circum
stance this, full of horrors, but not so
overflowing with them as that related
by Josephus of the mother who, in
the siege preceding the destruction of
Jerusalem, slew, roasted and ate her
own infant.
We have had these horrible instances
freshly brought to
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Pales of Land, dte., by Administrators, Executors j
or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the |
tiiA Tuesday inthe month, between the hours of lb j
in tiie forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court and Suddenly
House iu the County in which the property is situated
Notice of these sales must be given m a public ga-
z---t 40 days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for the sale of personal property must be
given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notices to the debtois and creditors of anestate
u;ii-t also be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of
0:.ii::ary for leave to sell Land, &e.,must be publish-
tor two months.
Citations for letters of Administration. Guardianship,
A , must be published 30 days—for dismission from
A i nmistratiou monthly three mouths—for dismission
f,,,m Guardianship, -111 days.
Ru les for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish- i
,.,i monthly for four months—for establishing lost pa- 1
p. is to- the full space of !lirye months—for compell- j
ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where ]
bond has been given by tliedeeeased, the full spaceof !
three months. of cannibalism
Publications will always be continued according to I . . .
j!,-- -the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered, mind L>V the leading article 111 tilG All*
gust number of “ The Atlantic Month
ly” entitled Werewolves and Swan-
\ Maidens. The whole article is one of
intense novelty and interest, and
freighted with the treasures of im
mense research worthy of that most
profound and graceful of the Ameri
can monthlies in wdiich it appears.
After curious investigations into the
origin of the names by which the con
stellation Ursa Major is known to as
tronomers, another phase of the sub
ject leads to the topic of cannibalism.
Striking instances of cannibalism in
Modern Europe are brought to light.
Among these we may mention Mare-
chal de Retz in 1440—Elizabeth, a
Hungarian Countess in the 17th cen
tury (who was said to have murdered
650 children) a Tailor of Chalons who
also, in the 10th century, killed and
ate an incredible number of children
before detection and punishment—and
the Galician Cannibal who, in 18-50,
was discovered to have killed and
eaten fourteen fat and juicy little chil
dren. To this list are added others j
not less remarkable: Jean Grenier and
Jaques Roulet.
This feature’ of the able article
alluded to does not constitute its
main interest; and the entire portion
of it, left untouched in this notice, un
der the head of Swan-Maidens, will he
found full of interest and free from hor-
Book and Job Yfork, of' all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT T5I3S OFFICUR.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
A ViUABI.H TABI.E.
The following table, never before published, con-
tnins tiie population of each of tiie 131 largest cities in
the United States. It shows all the cities, having a
papula;ion of It),000and upward :
CITIES. STATES. POPULATION.
l.-New York -
New York
.942,292
2..Philadelphia
.674,029
X. Brooklyn
.. .New Yoik
. 396,099
5.. Chicago
Illinois
.298,977
U.. Baltimore
.267,354
7.. Boston
Massachusetts....
. 2505,26
S.A iucinuati
.216,239
9..New Oilcans
Louisiana
..191,418
li)..San Francisco...
... .California .
.149.473
11 ..Buffalo ..
New York
-117,714
12.. Washington
District Columbia.
.109,199
13—Newark
New Jersey
. 105.059
! 4.. Louisville
.... Kentucky.
. 100,753
1/.. Cleveland
Ohio
...82,929
j<).. Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
..86,076
li —Jersey City
New Jersey'
. .82,516
1I)etroit
Michigan
-. 7^,577
19— Milivaukie
Wisconsin
-71.440
20.. Albany
New York
-.69,422
'-A... Providence
lihode Liana
.. 58,904
22—Rochester
New York
-62,386
'dS.. Alleghany
Pennsylvania
-53,130
24.. Richmond
Virgini,,
-51,038
25—New Haven
. ...Connecticut
...50,840
26.-Charleston
... .South Carolina....
.. 48,966
27.. Indianapolis
Indiana
-48,244
New York
.. 46,465
L N J.. Syracuse
New Yoik
-43,051
30.. Worcester
Massachusetts ....
..41,105
31..Lowell
Massachusetts
-40.928
32.. Memphis
... .Tennessee
..40 236
33„ Cambridge
Massachusetts
-39,634
34 —Hartford
.. .Connecticut
-37,180
30.. S.crauton
. ..Pennsylvania
„35 002
-I..Reading Pennsyl
37.. Paterson New Jersey 33,579
33.. Kansas City ..Missouri ........32,2h0
33.. Mobile
4tl..Toledo.
4S ..Portland
42.. Columbus
43.. Wilmington.
44.. Dayton
45.. Lawrence...
4b.. Utica
...Alabama 32,034
Ohio ..31,584
Maine 31,413
Ohio 31,274
Delaware 30,841
Ohio 30,472
Massachusetts 28,921
New York.... 28,8 4
47.. Charlestown Massachusetts • • • -28.323
4“.. Savannah Georgia 28,2.45
I.'.. Lynd Massachusetts ....28,233
5u..Fall River Massachusetts 2ti,71i8
51 ..Springfield Massachusetts. ...26,703
52.. Nashville Tennessee 25,855
55.. Covington Kentucky 24,505
54.. Quincy Illinois 24,052
55.. Manchester New Hampshire..23,036
..23,104
.. 22.849
..21,830
50.. Harrisburg
57.. Peoria —
... Illinois..
5' Evansville
...Indiana
59. .Atlanta
...Georgia
00.. Lancaster
...Pennsylvania -
61 ...Oswego
. .New York —. .
02 ..Elizabeth
...New Jersey
63.. .Hoboken
. ..New Jersey ...
04 ..Poughkeepsie...
...New York
C.i...Davenpoit
Iowa • •
66 ..St. Paul
... Minnesota.
67 .Erie
... Pennsylvania -
0-...St Joseph
...Miss- uri ••**..
09:. Wheeling ......
70,..Norfolk •.
...Virginia
71...Bridgeport
...Connecticut —
72. Petersburg
Virginia
73 ..Chelsea
... Massachusetts.
74 ..Dubuque..-....
75 ..Bangor
Maine
70 . Leavenwoith —
...Kansas
77...Fort Wayne
Indiana
78. .Sprirgtield
. ..Illinois
71). .Auburn
New York
r !'...Newbum
,... New \ ork.....
si ..Norwich
Connecticut...
'2 ...Grand Rapids.. -
Michigan
S3..Sacramento
. ..California
s4 .Terra Haute - ...
... .Indiana
So.Omeba
Nebraska
SO. Williamsport..
.... Pennsylvania •
S7.. Elmira
New York ...
Si..New Albany
Indiana
s.h.Augus’a
Georgia
New Yotk ..
91..Newport
.... Kentucky
rors.
Osgood & Co.,
Boston.
124: Tremont St.,
W. G. M.
92. Burlington
93 .Hexington...
94.. Burlington .
95.. Galveston ...
96.. Lewiston ...
97 .Alexandria.
9-! .Lafayette...
9Wilmington
l'Hi.. Haverhill
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN.
We have been exceedingly interest
ed by the perusal of an illustrated ar
ticle on Lookout Mountain in the last,
number of that elegant weekly, Ap
pleton's Journal.
Lookout Mountain, situated just
over the border of Georgia on the soil
of Tennessee, but easily accessible by
the railway system which centres at
Chattanooga, is perhaps the most de
lightful of all the summer resorts of
the South. Its summit, occupying a
plateau 2600 leet above the Tennessee
River at the base, and nearly 4000 feet
above the level of the sea, comprising
several square miles of surface, is cov
ered with picturesque cottages, arid has
ample and elegant hotel accommoda
tion:- for all the wearied and heat-
stricken pilgrims of the South who
j ascend thither.
On the Mountain’s summit is a point
named “The Point,” commanding a
sublime view of distant mountains in
—15,863 Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, North
"'.15 357 I Carolina, and Alabama—five States!
| And nearer, the thrifty young city of
I Chattanooga, the thread-like lines of
I railways, the silvery stream of Ten-
! nessee" River, the Missionary Ridge,
I and the bloodier hills of Chicamauga,
greet the gaze of the
..20,832
...20,297
...20,038
...18,229 I
..13,9-19 j
...18,850 i
...18,547 !
...18,434
... 18,289
...17,873
...17,726
...17,364
. ..17,225
... 17,014
...16,653
16,103
-16,030
...15,663
MASHA GREELEY ON FEMALE SIT.
EKAGE. ETC—HE REFUMKM TO RE
TIIE CANDIDATE OF THE CROWING
HENS.
This venerable farmer has recently
(addressed a letter to Theodore Tilton,
editor of the Golden Age, on divorce,
remarriage, woman suffrage, and more
especially the difficulties that lie in
the way of his becoming the candidate
of the crowing hens for President.—
He says that while he does not deny
that persistent, flagitious adultery of
the husband or wife affords good
ground for divorce, transient infidelity
to marriage vows under the influence
of passions inflamed by wine or other
unnatural excitement should not, if re
pented, be adequate reason*for divorce.
The doctrine of remarriage of those
widowed by death should be govern
ed by circumstances. In most cases
where couples are happily united it
will he better in higher life if neither
were married a second time on this
planet.
His letter concludes as follows, and
if anybody has ever had any doubt as
to the real meaning of the word “sock
dolager,” let him or her read the last
paragraph of the extract and he fully
enlightened :
“1 have but two left of seven cliil-
dien, and these are both daughters.—
I would gladly fit them for livet of use
fulness and honor, as beloved and lov
ing wives of virtuous, upright, noble
men, and mothers, if it shall please
God, of good, healthy, happy, children,
if it be decreed that they are to be not
such women as those I have most ad
mired and reverenced, but men with
a female physique—powerful in ward
caucusses and nominating conventions,
vehement in senate and on the stump,
and effective before juries in the trial
of actions tor crim. con.—I pray that
my career on this globe shall close be
fore theirs is fairly begun. When and
where they shall thus shine, it will
not be pleasant for me to stay.
Mr. Editor, I believe our country
men are indebted to you for having
discovered (perhaps I should say in
vented) me as a possible (though most
improbable) candidate for the Presi
dency. Allow me, then, to thank
you for your early and frar.k demon
stration, and to say that I can in no
contingency be counted on or hoped
for as a woman sull’rage candidate.—
As you forcibly and justly say, there
is not even a remote possibility of my
ultimately adapting myself to the end.
My difference with your crowd is too
vital, too radical, to permit the most
sanguine dreamer to hope for my con
version. I am growing old ; my
opinions are tolerably firm, and the
advanced female of the Laura Fair
type, who kills the paramour of whom
she claims to be the rightful affinity,and
gives the lie in open court to the wile
she has double widowed, is my pet
aversion.
But why should any man he the
candidate tor President of the Woman
Suffragists 'l Logically and consist
ently, I feel that their candidate should
he a woman. She ought, moreover,
to be one thoroughly emancipated
from the “absurdity and folly,” the
narrowness,” and the “baleful conser
vatism,” which I am now too old to
outgrow. Could you not find one
who illustrates in her own person and
history what you so felicitously term
“the liberal thought of an enlighten
ed age ?” Let her be one who has
two Husbands after a sort, and live in
the same house with them both, shar
ing the couch of one, but bearing the
name of the other (to indicate her im
partiality perhaps,) and cause and can
didate will be so fitly mated that
there will be no occasion, even under
the most liberal, progressive, enlight
ened regime, to sue for their livorce.
Could not one of this class be persua
ded to overbear her shrinking modesty
and nominate herself?
In a spirit of hearty hatred for Free
Love and all its internal delusions,
I remain yours,
Horace Greeley.
Tribune Office, August 7, 1871.
MARK TWAIN IN A BARBER SHOP.
...15,087
... 14,930
.. .14,801
... 13.387
13,818
...13,570
13,570
...Kentucky
Vermont
. ..Texas
... Maine ...
...Virginia ,
...Indiana 13,5o6 ] famed in history
...North Carolina,...13,416
.. Massachusetts..... 13,092
beholder.
iiii-.Mmeapolis Minnesota....-".‘Mice j Appleton^ Journal contains exqui-
102 Sandusky Ohio l.t.ouo j 8 ite engravings on wood of two ot
M3 .Salt Lake Utah •J-'iSf. these sublime views:“ The Point,”
I0o. Fon^du Lac Wisconsin ,12,764 and “Cliffs Last of the Point. In
no. Binghampton New York. 1 ‘ 2 ’ 1 the latter, Chattanooga flashes like a
«t«.ur of jewels m the distance.
io9..San Antouia Texas ......12,256 From several visits to Lookout
iii the years of
the past,
there is
. New Hampshire...12,241 i -
..12,035 1 Mountain
Michigan. 11,447 vve can say that the climate
...DistrictColumbia..11,384 never oppressed with the enervating
'"ohio°. ! !.V.Y.'/..'"i 113)81 heats so harmful to health in regions
;;;Illinois ....• n,049 nearer the sea-level. We are'pleased
York 11,026'
York ll oott ; to see Appleton's Journal take up the
110 .Concord..
111. Dos Moines/ Iowa
113.. Jackson
113.. Georget0'\ n .
114.. Aurora
115 .Hamilton ...
116 .Stuckloid ...
117.. 5.henectady New
ID. Rome New
119.. Waterbury Connecticut...... 10,826 subject.
120.. Macon Georgia 10810 j earu at $ome period in the future, that
l<G..Madi80Q Indiana .... 10,1 u.) 1 , , 1 1 l . 1 l;
122.. Altoona Pennsylvania 10,600
123.. Portsmouth Ohio 10,592
124 .Montgomery Alabama -...,10,588
125.. Nasbau New Hampshire....l0,543
126. Oakland California 10 500
1'27 .Portsmouth ...... Virginia .10,493
12' Biddeford Maine ......10,282
124.. Hannibal Missouri... 10,125
1-juTOgdeusburg New York 10,076
S:cS" 1 ^;::£iffl.K.Dlh.xlBg . negro named George
Jttk.Zauesvilie Ohio lo.oii Wright, near Cartersville, last June,
Kl4 ” Akon Qbi0 - J0 ’ 0 " (i | have just been tried and convicted of
~ - murder in Bartow Superior Court.
Col. D. E. Butler stated in Ins speech ,pj ie • recommended that they he
10 * he Rome Convention there were con fi r , e d for life in the Penitentiary, and
in Georgia, in 18/0, nearly 100,- ^ e - were accordingly sentenced.
UOO tons ol commercial fertilizers—
value $3,000,000, which is about one-
fourth of the value of the cotton crop j There are 02 public schools, witp
of last year. ~ 139 teachers jn Hall county.
We Southern people will
we need not travel beyond the limits
of our own “sunny South” for health
and comfort in the heated term.
D Appleton & Co., 651 Broadway,
N> Y . W. G. M.
The three white men charged with
In the August number of the Gal
axy Mark Twain gives his experience
in the matter of enjoying a shave at
the hands of a journeyman barber as
follows :
At last my turn came. The voice
“next!” and I surrendered to—No. 2
ot course. It always happens so. I
said meekly that I was in a hurry,and
it affected him as strongly as if he had
never heard it. He shoved up my
head and put a napkin under it. He
ploughed his fingers into my collar and
fixed a towel there. He explored my
hair with his claws and suggested that
it needed trimming. I said I did not
want it trimmed. He explored again
and said it was pretty long for the
present style—better have a little ta
ken oft ; it needed it behind especial
ly. I said I had it cut only a week
ago. He yearned over it reflectively
a moment, and then asked with a dis
paraging manner who cut it. I came
back to him promptly with a “You
did ?” I had him there. Then he
fell to stirring up his lather, and re
garding himself in the glass, stopping
now and then to get close and examine
his chin critically or torture a pimple.
Then h^lathered one side of my face
thoroughly, and was about to lather
the other, when a dog fight attracted
his attention, and he ran to the win
dow and stayed and saw it out, loos
ing two shillings on the result in bets
with the other barbers, a thing which
gave me great satisfaction. He finish*
ed lathering, meantime getting the
brush into my mouth only twice, and
then began to rub in the suds with his
hand ; and as he now had his head
turned, discussing the dog fight with
the other barbers, he naturally shov
eled considerable lather into my mouth
without knowing it, bift I did. He
now began to sharpen, his razor on aD
old suspender, and was delayed a good
deal on account of a controversy about
a cheap masquerade ball he had figur
ed at the night before, in red cambric
and bogus ermine as some kind of a
king. He was so gratified with being
chaffed about some damsel whom he
had smitten with his charms that he
used every means to continue the con
troversy hv pretending to be annoyed
at the chattings of his fellows. This
matter begot more surveyings of him
self in the glass, and he put down his
razor and brushed his hair with elab
orate care, plastering an inverted arch
of it down on his forehead, accom
plishing an accuiate “part” behind,
and brushing the two wings forward
over his ears w ith nice exactness. In
the meantime the lather was drying
on iny (ace, and apparently eating into
my vitals. Now he began to shave,
digging his fingers into my counte
nance to stretch the skin, making a
handle of my nose now and then,
bundling and tumbling my head this
way and that, as convenience in shav
ing demanded, and “hawking” and ex
pectorating pleasantly all the while.
As long as he was on the tough side
of my lace, I did not suffer ; hut when
he began to rake, and rip, and tug at
my chin the tears came. I did not
mind his getting so close down to me;
I did not mind his garlic, because all
barbers eat garlic I suppose ; hut there
w’as an added something that made
me fear that he was decaying inward
ly while still alive, and this gave me
much concern. He now put his lin
ger into my mouth to assist him in
shaving the corners of my upper lip,
and it was by this bit of circumstan
tial evidence that I was enabled to dis
cover that a part of his duties in the
shop was to clean the kerosene lamps.
1 had often wondered in an indolent
way whether the barber did that, or
whether it was the boss. About this
time I was amusing myself trying to
guess w here he would be most likely
to cut me this time, but he got ahead
of me and sliced me on the end of the
chin before I had got my mind made
up. He immediately sharpened his
razor, he might have done it before.—
I do not like a close shave, and I
would not let him go over me a sec
ond time. I tried to get him to put-
up his razor, dreading that he would
make for the side of my chin, my pet
tender spot, a “place wdiich a razor
cannot touch twice without making
trouble. But he said lie only w r anted
to smooth off one little roughness,
and in that same moment he slipped
Ills razor along the forbidden ground,
and the dreaded pimple signs of a
close shave rose up smarting and an
swered to the call. Now he soaked i
his towel in bay rum, and slapped it |
all over my face nastily ; slapped it
over as it a human being ever yet
washed his face in that way. Tiien
he dried it by slapping with the dry
part of the towei, as if a human being
ever dried his face in such a fashion ;
but the barber seldom rubis you like
a Christian. Next he poked hay rum
into the cut place with his towel,
then choked the wound with powder-
ed starch, then soaked it with bay
rum again, and would have gone on
soaking and powdering it for evermore
no doubt, if I had not rebelled and
begged off.
Elections this Fall.—Elections
are to be held this fail in the States
of California, Maine, Texas, Pennsylva
nia, Ohio, Iowa, Maryland, Massachu
setts, Mississippi, Minnesota, New
York, New T Jersey and Wisconsin, and
in the Territories of New’ Mexico and
Wyoming. California votes on the
6th of September for Governor, State
officers and three members of Con
gress. The canvass is very animated,
and the contest will be close, with no
very large majority on either side.—
Gov. Haight is the Democratic candi
date for Governor, and Newton Booth
the Republican candidate. Wyoming
elects a Legislature September 5. The
Maine election for Governor and Leg
islature takes place September 11.—
Perham, the present Governor, is the
Republican candidate for Governor,
and C. P. Kimball is his Democratic
competitor. The election in New
Mexico, for delegates in Congress,
September 11. Texas votes for four
members of Congress October 4. The
Democratic candidates are : In the
First District, W. S. Herndon ; Sec
ond District, J. C. Connor ; Third
District, D. C. Giddings .* Fourth Dis
trict, John Hancock. The Republi
can candidates are not yet nominated.
Pennsylvania elects an Auditor, Survey
or General and members of the Legis
lature, October 10 ; on the same day,
Ohio elects a Governor, State officers
and members of the Legislature ; and
on the same day Iowa chooses State
officers and a Legislature. Maryland
elects State officers and a Legislature
November 7 ; on the same day Mas
sachusetts elects a Governor, State
officers and Legislature; also, Missis
sippi elects a Legislature ; Minnesota
eiects a Governor, State officers and a
Legislature ; and Illinois elects a
member of Congress at large.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND LOVE.
The first entrance of young people
into what is called “ society’’ marks a
most critical epoch in their lives. Their
tastes are generally unformed—their
preferences undecided—their manners
more or less crude, according to the
domestic atmosphere in which they
have been reared ; and yet they are ex
pected to acquit themselves creditably
in every emergency that may arise. Is
it singular that they become a little
bewildered in the novel situation, and
occasionally say and do very foolish
things. “ Young folks Aren’t as sensi
ble as they were in mv time,” says the
grumbling elder. Perhaps not—but
who is to blame? Parents should be
at hand to guide and direct their chil
dren at this important season—to sug
gest a thousand little things—to give
an aimost imperceptible check to al
most imperceptible faults and tenden
cies, and to lead conversation into a
refining and elevating channel instead
of allowing it to degenerate into mere
gossip. Share their talk, their sympa
thies, their pleasures. Never let them
suppose for a moment that you are
too old or too wise to be interested in
what interests them. “Don’t- talk so
much about the gentlemen, my dear—
it don’t sound well,” is Mrs. Brown’s
caution to her impulsive little daugh
ter, and the consequence is that the
girl’s sympathies are sealed at once,
and Mrs. Brown, months afterward,
wonders “ why Mary Ann don’t con
fide in her a little more.” Let little
Mary Ann talk ; as long she t Jks free
ly to her mother there is no great harm
in tier selection of a subject. Mr.
Smith considersit a witty thing to ral
ly Tom unmercifully the moment he
discovers Tom’s shy partiality for the
blue-eyed damsel who lives across the
street. Tom is hut mortal, and nat
urally Tom feels hurt, and would cut
out his tongue sooner than betray his
inward sensation to the sarcastic pat
erfamilias. Oh, the folly of parents
in some things? The nonsense of six
ty is the sweetest kind of sense to six
teen ; and the father and mother who
renew their own youths in that of their
children, may be said to experience a
second blossoming of their lives. Teach
them to talk to you of their friends and
companions. Let the girls talk freely
about the gentlemen if they wish. It
is far better to control the subject than
to forbid it. Don’t make fun of your
hoy’s shamefaced first love, hut help
him to judge the article properly. Y"ou
would hardly send him by himself to
ooluot « oont vl£ U lial lii.o lie licit t-cju&l
need of your counsel and assistance in
selecting that much more uncertain
piece ot goods, a sweetheart ?
There is a great deal of popular non
sense talked and written about the fol
ly of our girls contracting early mar
riages. It is not the early marriage
that is in fault, it is the premature
choice of a husband. Only take time
enough about selecting the proper per
son, and it is not of much consequence
how soon the minister is called in.—
Keep him on trial a little while, girls ;
look at him from every possible point
of view, domestic or foreign. Don’t
be deluded by the hollow glitter of
handsome features and prepossessing
manners.
Milledgeville vs - Athens.—The
advantages offered by these two points
to secure the location of the State Ag
ricultural, Military and Mechanical
College, are simply as follows : Athens
offers an association with the State
University astheadvantage, and wants
the 270,000 acres of land donated by
Congress as the bonus to the Universi
ty. In opposition to this the city of
Milledgeville, and the Farmers’ Club
of Bald win county sent to the Conven
tion at Rome fifteen delegates, to urge
the propriety of Georgia establishing
the Military, Agricultural and Mechan
ical College at MiUedgeri/le, in the Pub
lic Buildings there, viz: the old btate
House, Governor’s House and Peniten
tiary Square, ’which cost the State
over $500,000, and are now worth
$1,000,000 ; but are standing vacant
and idle. They are well suited for the
business of an Agricultural College,
and are ready lor use with no expense
to the State/ In addition to which the
City Council of Milledgeville, which
owns a large common of rich Oconee
land, close to the State House, is ready
to give the State a first quality farm
^>f any size desired—fifty acres, or a
thousand acres, for the use of the Agri
cultural College; and the Presbyterian
Church of Milledgeville—present own
ers of the old Oglethorpe College, on
Midway Ridge, offer to give them to
the State for the use of the new Agri
cultural College. This offer is equal
to $200,000 more.
It seems to us there should be no
hesitation on the part of the Agricul
tural Society in coming to a decision in
favor of Milledgeville, and wepresume
there will not be.—Monroe Advertiser.
Storm in Charleston.—The News
says:
This city has been visited during the
past forty-eight hours with the most
violent storm that is recorded in the
history of many years. It is believed
that at no time since the tempest of
1S54, that drove the waters of the
harbor over the Battery wall, submerg
ing East Bay and almost obliterating
many of the smaller islands, has a such
a volume of water been poured down
upon the city.
The storm was a steady, persistent
torrent for thirty-six hours, and there
was hardly a roof in the city that did
not betray its trust and admit a drip
ping sprinkle of rain, and hardly a cel
lar that did not contain at the end of
the torrent some inches of water.—
In some portions of the city there were
littie floods, causing no little incon-
l Clliciil/t, tvi Uib of lower
floors, and no small annoyance to the
pedestrian. In Concord street, in Rot-
tenboro’, the mud and rain was almost
knee-deep, aud in Duncan street where
there is a little declivity, terminating
iu a hole, quite an inundation was
caused.
In a hygienic point of view, the rain
and the gale were probably the best
things that could have happened to the
city. The former washed aud drench
ed the streets of the rottening filth that
the criminally careless street cleaners
had left to fester in the sun, and the
wind sweeping through the city disin
fected its streets and alleys as no pre-
^ cautions of the health authorities could
A Greek nose or a graceful have done, dispelling the mephitic va-
bow will not insure conjugal happiness j pors and enforcing a compulsory vend
by any means. A husband ought to be ] lation '
ike a water-tight roof, equally ser
viceable in sunny or rainy weather.—
And hear in mind that a charming lov
er does not necessarily make a good hus
band.
Moreover, it is no£ best to lose sight
of the fact that mere passing fancy is
not love. It is easy to imagine one’s
self captivated by a pleasant face, a
winning tongue, or a fascinating man- i
ner—to tall unconsciously into a day- j
dream in which the centre piece is one. j
figure. Nearly every woman has hlaf ;
a dozen i
the genuine, all-absorbing experience
comes, and nearly every man can count
them by the dozen. The greater error
lies in misconstruction ; in taking it
for granted that the transient sparkle
is the real steady llarne. Society is an
indefinite benefit in such cases as these.
Very few who have reaped the advan
tage of extended social intercourse are
in shanties and rookeries, to
which such sanitary precautions had
long been strangers.
The storm crept gradually up the
South Atlantic coast, and broke in all
its fury upon Charleston Friday after
noon.
President’s Grant’s Farm.—A
correspondent of the Central Baptist,
after visiting President Grant’s farm, a
few miles from St. Louis, Mo., says he
was “ received by Mr. Lldrod, a rela-
who is intrusted
mre. (Nearly every woman nas mat tive of the President,
dozen such little life-episodes before j by him with the superintendence o f
1 property valued at not less than $-300,-
000. The farm includes with recent
purchases, 869 acres, mostly rolling
land. After the brilliant descriptions
that have been recently published ol
Mr. Tweed’s Connecticut palace and
the island homes of Messrs. Garvey,
Ligersoll, Keyser, and the other mag
nates of the Republican Democratic
New York Court House ring, the en-
Safety of Railroad Travel.—
That railroad accidents are far too
frequent is an undeniable proposition ;
and it is equally true that the usually
horrible nature ot these accidents,
their Conspicuous character, and the
sensitiveness of a public, every mem
ber of which travels more or less con
stantly, to the subject, combine, with
the sensational exigencies of the press,
to make them seem yet more frequent
than they are. It is a favorite cry
of the old fogies, “Ah! there was
none of this in the good old days of
sloop and stage-coach !” Y T et, the sta
tistics are on hand to prove that there
were t>n accidents iu stage-coach tio»es
to one in railroad times, in proportion
to the amount of travel under the re
spective systems. In a recent report
of the State Engineer of New York,
in whose charge are the supposed ill-
starred Krie, Hudson River, and Har
lem l oads, vve find some curious figures,
which must act like balin upon the dis
turbed nerves of the fogies who make
their wills before going on a journey,
and the ancient maidens who take sol
emn leave ot all their connections
whenever called up to the city to do
a day’s shopping.
These statistics show that only one
person in 1,636,717 is killed by a rail
road accident, and as the average of
travellers to a train is just 65, it fol
lows that our nervous friends will have
to make 25.180 trips to the cars, and
to travel 660,841 miles, before, they
have a right to be killed, or 14,486
miles before they have a right to be
wounded, even ever so slightly. In
other words, our fouy and spinster,
travelling at tiie rate of 300 miles a
a day, and endowed with average good
luck, might go on for 2,202 days con
tinuously before being pulled up by
the check-rein of death. In this time
they would be able to circumnavigate
the earth some twenty-six times, pro
vided there were a Pacific railroad
drawn round it, and the six years they
would thus consume in seeking “ death
on the rail” would bring them far in
to the happy term ot peace and plen
ty, good feeling, and re-established
law, consequent upon the renewed
election of a Democratic President.
We Do Live Under a Despotism.
—A correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch relates the following sugges
tive conversation which recently took
place between an eminent lawyer of
North Carolina, and Judge Rodman, of
the Supreme Court of that State :
Said the lawyer—‘‘Our people be
came needlessly alarmed voted
against Convention.”
Rodman—“ Do you say ‘needlessly
alarmed ?’ I do not agree with you.—
There was very good reason for their
lears, for it is pretty certain the Uni
ted States Government would have in
terfered and forbidden any changes to
he made.”
Lawyer—“What right has the Gov
ernment to interfere with our affairs ?
North Carolina has the right to alter
her Constitution, and the-General Gov
ernment has no more right to interfere
with our matters than it has with the
people of New York.”
Rodman—“Why, , I thought
you were a mau of more intelligence
than to talk of right. Do you not know
that might makes right ?"
Lawyer—“Ah, well, if you set up
that plea, then liberty" is gone, consti
tutional rights are gone, and we live
under a despotism.”
Rodman—“You are right; we live
under a despotism."
Judge Rodman is a man of ability
and a Radical. He has spoke the truth.
apt to make this very serious mistake, -- . - nf
b ■ - j u „_ thusiasm of the Baptist s description ot
whereas the reserved student, an
sophisticated country girl, too often
find their happiness wrecked on no
more formidable rock than a passing
fancy. Change of air is frequeuily
prescribed to sufferers from physical
ailments, and change of beaux and
belies will he found quite as benficial
to those who are sighing under the in
the President's blooded stock, luxuri
ant arboriculture, and other items
which make up the $300,000 read quite
natural.
President Grant went into the army
not worth a cent, and has lived quite
freely ever since. His horses, equip
ages, &c., are the theme of admiring
fluence of the little-blind god! There descriptions from correspoDdents not
is u good deal of the caoutchouc ele- ; only at Washingtonbut at Long Branch
ment about these human hearts of ours, j and wherever else he takes up his tem-
if we only knew it !
porary abode. It ia therefore quite
consolatory to find that out of his not
excessive salary, first as General and
now as President, he is able to keep
$300,000 ot blooded stock and such
Out of Place—The temperance
men in Pennsylvania have entered the
political arena, and in State Convention . property idle on a Missouri farm,
nominated a full State ticket to pis- Politics appears to pay much the same
sent to the people at the next October j u t j ie White House at Washington as
election. That there is no prospect - n the nevv Court House of New York,
of their success we do not doubt. The politician is evidently bound
Jacob Vanderbilt, President of the
Staten Island Ferry Company; Wm.
Braisted, Superintendent, and Henry
Robinson, engineer, against whom the
coroner’s jury returned a verdict of
criminal negligence in connection with
the Westfield disaster, were brought
up before the Coroner of New York on
the 17th, and committed to the Tombs
prison, the coroner refusing to accept
bail. The action of the Coroner caused
surprise, as bail to any amount was
offered and could have been given.—
Judge Smith, however admitted the
prisoners to bail. Vanderbilt, Presi
dent, in the sum of $25,0.00, Braisted,
Superintendent, and Rqbinson, eugin
eer, $10,000 each. George Law is a
bondsman.
history of politics teaches that a one
idea platform, such as an organization
of this kind only can present, can nev
er allure adherents enough to its sup
port to make it at all a formidable ele
ment in any important political
struggle. So in Pennsylvania the tem
perance movement will prove a fiasco,
so far as that party obtaining power
is concerned ; and the only result will
he to decrease the vote of the two
great parties very slightly, without
perhaps materially changing the rela
tive strength of both. We deprecate
the prostitution of a good cause in this
manner, at any time, or for any pur
pose.
Western journals report that twen-
tv-three persons in the State of Iowa
alone have suffered an involuntary am
putation of their limbs this season in
[using reaping machines.
The following total, compiled from
official sources, shows the amount of
land granted to railroads between
March 4, 1S60, and July, 1870 : Pre
vious to this the Union Pacific had re
ceived in aggregate 82,000,000 acres.
Other railroads have received a to
tal of 70,9S4,940 acres which with
the above 82,000,000 make a grand
total of nearly 162,000,000 acres,
more than five times the area of the
entire State of New York.
About one huudred warrants unac
counted for were drawn by Francis
L. Spinner, while United States Treas
urer. The warrants amount to $3,-
103,057,063. Secretary Boutwell
transmitted to Congress, recently, “a
statement of balance due from United
States Collectors who were out of of
fice the 30th of June, 1870,” which
amounted to $20,700,983 33.
More than one hundred and fifty
millions have been taken from the
people of the Southern States illegal
ly to fill the pockets of ‘ carpet
baggers” and “scalawags.”
The unnecessary offices in this
couutry cost fifty million dollars a
year.
From these sources alone one bil
lion of dollars or nearly one-half the
national debt has been filched lrom the
pockets of the people with no consid
eration to account for it.—Pharos.
to be the millionaire of the period.—
He has found the secret hinted at in
the Scripture passage, “ There is that
scattereth and yet increaseth.” These
boss politicians, whether called Super
visors or Presidents, contrive to live at
the highest point of luxury, and on
moderate salaries, and yet to roll up
riches.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Can’t Intermarry.—In one of the
miscegenation cases in Atlanta brought
before Judge Erskine of the United
States District Court, the Judge de
cided on Friday that the 1707th sec
tion of the Georgia Code, forbidding
whites and negroes to intermarry, is
not repugnant to the XIVth Article
of the Constitution of the United
States, or the Civil Rights Bill. The
parties were therefore remanded to
the custody of the jailor of Fulton
county.
When a President surrounds politi
cal conventions with soldiers in order
to exclude from them those citizens
who are opposed to his renomination,
the liberties of the people are in dan
ger.—N. Y. Sun (Rad.)
The Sun is beginning to believe
that the gleam of bayonets in the
foreground is an advance movement.
It is not a new departure, but a steady
movement forward of a bayonet pow
er introduced under sham Republican
rule- It was ostensibly established
for the protection of the ballot ; now
we see it applied to political conven
tions to exclude therefrom, those citi
zens who are opposed to the Presi
dent’s renomination. It will next be
anplied to the exclusion of any one
from the White House who may claim
to have the right to enter by virtue
-of the people’s votes. The steps anj
regular .—Cincinnati Enquirer,
