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VOLUME XLII.j MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 15,1871. NUMBER 16. t $ t fa e r a 1 Snioit, IN 18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE, (Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson Streets,) At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year. S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for firstinsertion, and seventy-five cents for each subse quent continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit uaries exceeding six lines, Nominations for office,Com munications or Editorial notices for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $2 50 “ Mortgage fi fa sales, per squ ire, 5 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 Guardianship, 3 00 Application for dismission from Administration, 3 00 “ “. “ “ Guardianship. 3 00 “ “ leave to sell Land, 5 00 “ for Homesteads, 1 75 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, ........... 3 00 Sales of Land, &.C., per square, 5 00 “ perishable property, 10 duys, per square,.. 150 Estray Notices, 30 days, 3 00 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per sq., each time,. 1 00 Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,) 1 75 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land, Ac., by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required bylaw to be held on the first Tuesday inthe month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga zette 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 debtors and creditors of an estate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, &c., must be publish ed for two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, &e., must be published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly three months—fordismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for four months—for establishing lost pa pers tor the full space of three months—for compell ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond has been given by thedeceased, the full spaceof three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, uniessotherwise ordered. Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIN OFFIfE. MACON CARDS. HARNESS & SADDLERY. SMITH, WESTC0TT & CO., 102 Cherry St., Macon, 6a: Manufacturers and Dealers in SADDL28 AWD HARNESS, Carriage Material, Shoe Findings, Trunks, Valises and Satchels, Leather of all kinds. GIN BANDS, LEATHER AND RUBBER BELTING, Saddle, Harness & Carriage Hardware CXZXZiBRUItf’S CARRIA6ES, Id Great Variety, from $8 00 to $50 00. Macon, Oct. 17, 1871. 12 3m From the Banner of the South and Planter’s Journal. LIFE, DIXIE WODIiS. X&ACON, GA. Guernsey, Bartrum & Hendrix, Proprietors Dealers in Boors, Sash, Blinds, Brackets, Mantels, Windows and Door Flames. WHITE PINE W ORE Scroll Work, and all sorts of Turning done to order. Ready Dressed Flooring, Ceiling, Rough Lumber and Lathes in any quantity always on hand. Orders solicited and promptly filled. Oct. 15. 1 F*71. 12 3m' MIX & K1RTLAND, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in SAVANNAH CARDS. HiB m Leather Findings, Lasts, &c., No. 3 COTTON AVENUE, and 66 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA. Oct. 17,1871. 12 3m BEHIND BROTHERS, 64 Third St., BSacon, 6a., MANUFACTURERS OF Saddles, Harness and Collars. AND DEALER8 IN. SADDLERY HARDWARE, Saddle, Harness and Shoe Leather. BUY HIDES, WOOL AND WAX. Sept 2, 1871.6 3m C AltPETS, Oil Cloths, Mattings, Window Shades, LACE, REP & DAMASK CURTAINS. Diminsions being given, no charge for catting or fitting. LATHROP & CO., Corner of Congress & Whitaker Sts., SAVANNAH, GA. 12 3m Oct 17, 1871. L. J. GUILMARTIN. JOHN FLANNERY' L. J. GUILMARTIN & CO., COTTON FACTORS AND General Commission Merchants, Bay Street, SAVANNAH, Ga. Agents for Bradley’s Super Phosphate of Lime, Jewell’s Mills Yarns, Domestics, Ac., &c. Bnfiging, Rope A; Iron Tici, nlivnyeou hand. nr Usual Facilities Extended to Customers. Aug 15, 1871. 3 6m WM. II- STARK, H. P. RICHMOND. WM. H. STARK & CO., Wholesale Grocers, Cotton Factors, AND General Commission Merchants SAVAtfSTAK, GA. Carefnl attention given to Sales or Shipment of Cotton and all kinds of produce. Liberal Advances made on consignments. ARROW and EUREKA TIES at Lowest Agents Prices. Keep constantly on hand a large stock of all kinds of BAGGING. Agents for E. F. COE’S SU PERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. August29, 1871. 5 6m COTTON Our Experience as Cotton Seller Warren In us iu Nolicitiug Consignment*. Liberal advauces on produce sent us, and remit tances promptly made. W. F. SIMS & CO., Savannah, Ga. August 29, 1871. 5 Cm 1NOKRSOLL WASHBURN, l&to with Lamar Al King. E. A. SILVA, late with Bryan Sl Hunter. WASHBURN & SILVA, 99 BAIT STREET, GrA. Stock and Bond Brokers, AND DEALERS IN REAL ESTATE. Correspondence invited- August 23,1871. 4 3m CLAGHORBi & CUNNINGHAM, Wholesale and Retail 880I1IS; and Dealers in Fine YVines, Liquors and Segars, SAVANNAH, GA. Sept 6,1871. 6 6 m J. W. LATHROP. J. L. WARREN. J. W. LATHROP, JR. J. W. LATHROP & CO., COTTON FACTORS —AND— Commission Merchants, 98 Bay St., Sept 2. 1871. TRUMAN A GREEN, v \vV.Uf/A.s Sole Agents, Sept 2, 1871. MACON, GA. 6 2m E. J. JOHNSTON, Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, SILVERWARE, FANCY GOODS, CUTLERY, &c. Particular attention given to repairs on Fine and Difficult Watches. JEWKLRY REPAIRED. Corner Mulberry and i 2d Streets, opposite [ MACON, GEORGIA, new Court House. ) Sept 2, 1871. 6 6m AGENCY Savannah Bank and Trust Co., rvSAcosx. CAPITAL ONE MILLION DOLLARS, ALL PAID IN ADVANCES MADE ON COTTON, Exchange Bought nml auiil. Deposits received, on which Interest will be allowed as agreed upon. I. C. PLANT & SON, Agents. Investments made for parties in Bonds. SiooUs. &c., for a small commission, by I C. PLANT & SON, Sept 2, 1871. 6 3in' \V. R. SINGLETON. W. C. SINGLETON. T. J. HUNT. SINGLE TON, HUNT & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Boots, Shoes, Hats, Trunks VALISES, UMBRELLAS,‘Ac., 49 Second Street A and [ MACON, GEORGIA. 2S Cotton Avenue ) Sept 2, 1871. 6 3m Sailing o’er life’s troubled ocean In our frail and battered bark, Heedless of its giddy motion— Sailing without guide or mark— Dreaming, but of present pleasure; Floating onward, careless, gay, Seeking for no higher treasure, Though we’ve dying day by day ; Drifting onward—drifting over, To the gaol whence none return ; Hoping ever—looking never. Far beyond our earthly bourne. With the pretty bubbles playing, As they swiftly pass us by. Emblems of our owngdecaying, As we quickly lade and die. Heeding not the beckoning fingers Pointing out our dangeious way— Nor the warniug voice that lingers In our hearts so light and gay. We live to day—we die to-morrow— Seldom do we think of this. And each heart must feel it’s sorrow E’er it tastes of heavenly bliss. Soon will onr mortal tide ebb low— Soon will our bark be on the strand— Soon will our life-stream cease to flow— Soon will we reach that other land. Standing Committed) of tlic Georgia State Senate. Judiciary—Reese, Chairman ; Brown. Candler, Wellborn, Nuunally, Hiilyer, Nichols, Hoyle, Brock. Finance—Simmons, Chaiman; Hinton, Can dler. Burns, Hiliyer, Lester, Heard, Nichols, Bruton. Enrollment—Hoyle, Chairman ; Welborn, Hili yer, Peddy, Brown, Kibbee, Welch. The State of the Republic—Wellborn, Chair man ; Reese, Hiliyer, Brown, Kibbee, Hinton, Brock. Education—Nichols, Chairman ; Kibbee, Jervis, Reese, Lester, Clark, Campbell. Internal Improvements—Nunnally, Chairman ; Burns, Bruton, Erwin, Black, Hinton, Jervis. Banks—Lester, Chairman; Hiliyer, Simmons, Burns, Erwin, Welch, Steadman. Privileges and Elections—Brown, Chairman ; Heard, Griffin, Kirkland, Kibbee, Hicks, Esteo. Petitions—Estes, Chairman ; Hoyle, Black, Cone, Cameion. Column. Public Buildings—Erwin, Chairman : Kirkland, Lester, Black, Burns, Bruton, Cone. The Penitentiary—Kibbee, Chairman ; Nichols, Jones, Cone, Candler, McWhorter, Wallace. Lunatic Asylum—Hinton, Chairman ; Simmons, Erwin. Smith, Kibbee, Mattiiews, Welch. Military—Jervis, Chairman; Kirkland, Cone, Erwin, Brock. Estes, Deveaux. Printing—Hiliyer, Chairman; Candler, Sim mons. Hinton, Wellborn, Richardson. Clark. Deaf and Dumb Asylum—Burns, Chairman ; Jones, Black, Richardson, Hiliyer, McWhorter, Jervis. The Institution of the Blind—Jones, Chairman ; Simmons, Hoyle, Cone, lUnry, Kirkland, Mc Whorter. Agriculture and Manufactures—Steadman, Chairman; Jones, Matthews, Jordan, Erwin McWhorter, Anderson. Auditiug—Candler; Chairman; Bruton, Nich ols, Peddy, Heard, Kibbee, Wallace. Engrossing—Jordan, Chairman; Hiliyer, Cam eron, Ilicks, Cone, Black, Brock. Journals—Cone, Chairman ; Cameron, Hicks, Matthews, Welch, Bruton, Wallace. State Library—Heard, Chairman ; Biack, Estes, Jervis, Welch, Coiman, Wallace. New Counties and County Lines—McWhorter, Chairman; Kirkland, Jordan, Anderson, Smith, Cone, Crayton. Miami! ng Committers of the Keprescnluti tea. House ot From the Constitution. Our State Currcuej Bonds. The following letter has been received by the State Treasurer : “Fulton Bank of Brooklyn, Alex. G. Johns, President; Daniel McCabe Vice President; John A. Nixon Cashier Brooklyn, Nov. 3, 1871.—N. L. Angier, Esq• —Sir: This bank loaned II. I. Kimball &, Co.’ in June, $35,000 on $50,000 Georgia 7 per cent- currency bonds, issued under act of August 27th. 1870, said to be temporary issues, to have gold bonds substituted for them instead. We under stand that the lo; n was made for account of the State of Georgia. The loan was not paid at ma turity, October 27th. Will you inform me if the State will give us instead gold bonds, and how the exchange can be made. J. A. Nixon, Cashier. In addition, the Secretary of State has received a letter on the same subject, from which we ex tract the following paragraph: “ I understand from Mr. Henry Clews that these bonds were issued temporary, to be substituted by gold bonds. That nearly a’i except $50,000 hail been withdrawn and gold bonds issued instead. That this loan was made by II. I Kimball Or Co., in behalf of the State of Georgia, and that the proceeds of said loan did or should have gone into the Treasury of the State.” We have time and again called attention to the fact that a million and a half of currency bonds authorized by the last Legislature to be issued for hypothecation to borrow money to pay that body, and issued without registry in any office at the Legislatme has been paid, and gold bonds to tbe amount of three millions have been since issued by Gov. Bullock to pay such money aud all other money due by the State, tbe fact that these cur rency bonds are still out, and the refusal of Bullock to enlighten anybody about them, has created the belief that tiiey were being used for private in terests. Exclusive of the million and a half of currency bonds still out, there were six hundred thousand dollars of tbe same bonds returutd and cancelled to the Treasurer’s office. The above letters throw some light on the sub ject, and confirm tbe suspicion that Guv. Bullock has been using these cuirency bonds for private purposes. Gradually facts are coming to light that may show up the whole matter. Kimball & Co the agents of Gov. BullocK, obtained a loan of thirty-five thousand dollars in June last on fifty thousand dollars currency bonds for the State Treasurer Augier knows nothing of this money. If Gov. Bullock received the money for the State, where is it ? While North in August the editor called on Mr Clews, who seems to have known enough of these currency bonds to post the Brooklyn Bank about them. Mr. Clews professed absolute ignorance of those bonds to the editor. There has certainly been some most rascally juggling in the city ef New York with our State securities during the last year, and we trust that the Legislature will put some sharp men on the track with ample power over persons and pa pers. We asked Mr. Clews if it was not possible tor a confederate of Bullock in New York to borrow money on this million and a half ot currency bonds and use it until tho bonds must be forthcoming at thedemanJ of an honest Legislature, when the money could be repaid, the bonds taken up and returned, and the profits divided. And it would be difficult to show that our securities had been used for such private speculation. In other words, by collusion with Bullock, large capital could be gotten with the State bonds for temporary use. Mr. Clews admitt d this to be a possibility, but denied tlmt it would be done, at tbe same time, also oenying knowledge of tho currency bonds that could be so used. The statements of Mr. Clews to the Broolyn Bank show that he did know something about them. There are some curious features of this matter. We shall allude to it again. From the New York World. THE BURNING WOODS. Thrilling Narrative of a Wisconsin gee. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE THROUGH A FLAMING FOREST—DEATH STRUGGLE WITH A MANIAC—A RAIN OF FIRE—THE RES CUE. LANIER DOUSE. N. BINSWANGER, Proprietor. Mulberry Street, - Macon, Georgia. The above named Hotel has been recently refur nished and fitted up for the accommodation of tran sient as well as permanent Boarders. Persons will find it to their interest to stop at this House, as its central location makes it a very desirable place for merchants and families coining to the city for business, or l.>r a sojourn ot pleasure. An ELEGANT SAM PLK ROOM has been fitted up for the special use of commercial travelers. The table always supplied with all the luxuries of the season, from Urst markets, and can be surpassed by none iu the South* Omnibus to convey passengers to and from the Hotel aud all trains, free of charge. N BINSWANGER, Proprietor. October 18.1870. 12 t>m Savannah, da. 6 3m* A. M. SLOAN- J. H.SLOAN. A H. SLOAN & CO., COTTON FACTORS AND Commission Merchants, Claghorn and Cuiininghain’a Range, BAY ST., SAVANNAH, GA. Liberal Cosh Advances made on Cotton. Bagging aud Ties at Lowest Cash Prices. Sept l, 1871. 6 3m JOHN H: COOPER & CO., SAVANNAH, GA. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Books and Stationery of all kinds, .New* and Book Printing Paper and Ink, SCHOOL FURNITURE, AND SCHOOL MATERIAL, Furnished at Manufacturer's Prices. Send for Catalogues. JOHN M. COOPER, GEO T. QUANTOCK, S. S. F. LANCASTER. August 29, 1871. 5 3m* JAMES R. SHELDON, Genl Commission Merchant, 144 Bay St. Savannah, Ga. Liberal Advances made on Consignments. Bag- Ring and Iron Ties Furnished. Consignments re spectfully solicited. Oct 4,1871. 10 3m DAVANT, WAPLES & CO., FACTORS AND Commission Merchants U, J - Havant, Jr., ) W.D Waple., t SAVANNAH, OA. wuiiiia Meyer. j fl»V.30, 1871. 14 8t* Judiciary—Hoge of Fulton, Chairman ; Win. D Andersou of Cobb, Phillips of Echols, Graham of Dade, Bacon of Bibb, Snead of Richmond, Sim mons of Gwinnett, Murphy of Harris, l’ou of Muscogee, Scoit of Floyd. Edwards of Elbert, Peeples of Berrien, Dell of Screven, Hunter of Brooks. Finance—Rawles, of Effingham, Chairman ; Cumming of Richmond, -Crittenden of Randolph, Netherland of Rabun, Barksdale ef Warreu, How ell of Milton, Jackson of Fulton, Nutting of Bibb, Cato of Troup, Gray of Bartow, Butts of Hancock, Ormond of Houston, Hunter of Brooks. State of tbe Republic—J. W. Wofford of Bartow Chairman; Clark of Troup, Jones of Terrell, Hall of Upson, Goldsmith of DeKalb, Bush of Miller, j Hoge of Fulton, Goodman of Campbell, Wofford of Banks, Lang of Lincoln, Johnson ot Jefferson, Guyton of Laurens. McWhorter of Green. Military Affairs—Baker of Pike, chairman; Watters of Jasper, Chaucey of Early. Paxton of Charlton, Mattox of Clinch, C-irltou of Colquitt, Sargent of Coweta, Reid of Union, Renfroe of Washington, Bell of Webster, Jenkins of Worth. Banks—Cumming of Richmond, chairman; Scott of Floyd, llarvey of Marion, Bowie of Wal ton, Wynn of Wilkes, Morris of Talbot, West of White, Trammell of Paulding, Griffin of Twiggs, Beaseley of Jefferson, Clark of Richmond, Booth of Pulaski, Paulk of Irwin. Privileges and Elections—Phillips of Echols, chairman ; Pierce of Hancock, Russell of Chat ham, Rutherford of Crawford, Sellers of Appling, Allred ot Pickens, Floyd of Morgan, Williams of Decatur, Smith of Oglethorpe, Fiynt of Taliaferro, Slaton of Wilkes, Heard of Haralson, Colby of Greene. luternal Improvements—Hall of Upson, chair man ; Woodall of Ta bot, Wood of Walker, Sum A Prophecy Fulfilled.—A short time ago (says the Knoxville Press and Herald,) a remarkable verification of one ot Horace Greeley’s prophecies, twenty years ago, was noticed by the press throughout the country. Gree ley may not be a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but still another predic tion of the Tribune, more than eight een months ago, is being so accurately fulfilled in each Southern State in suc cession, that it deserves attention. In June, 1S70, one of the editors of the Tribune—probably Greeley him self—sent from Washington, the fol lowing, which was published at that time iu the Tribune : “The manner in which partisan tel egrams from the South have been manufactured and published in the North, to further the personal designs of unscrupulous and ambitious men was well shown up on the develop ments brought out in reference to the Washington Chronicle during the pro gress of the recent Georgia investiga tion. The same game is now going on in connection with the internal af fairs of other Southern States. It is believed that the ensuing elections in tho South will result, in some instan ces, not perhaps in the defeat of the Republican party, but in the defeat of certain individuals who are and mers of Newton, Heidt of Chatham, Richards of j i iave been using that party as a means Cherokee, Woodward of Dooly, Rountree ot , , . “ . v Emanuel, Barron of Jones, Pentecost of Canol Riley of Lumpkin, Hudson of Schley, Jones ot Hart. Agriculture and Manufactures—Davis of New- tou, chairman ; Buun of Polk. Andersou of Cobb, Biyant of Henry, Jones of Gwinnett, Cox of Burke. Davenport of Oglethorpe, Johnson of Clay, Murphy of Burke, Brady of Sumter, Brad only to their own selfish advancement. Forseeiug this, the effort is to get up an excuse to declare martial law, and local newspapers in the interest of the men alluded to are teeming with ac counts of‘outrages.’ This is particu F. REICHERT, Manufacturer and Dealer in FURNITURE, CARPETS, MATTRESSES, &C. Paper Hangings, Window Shades AND CORNICES, GOLD AND BLACK WALNUT l£OTJLDIHG% Fall •assortment of Metalic Burial Cases and Caskets. Also Coffins in Rosewood. Mahogany & Walnut. [y All orders filled with dispatch and at the lowest prices. 39 Third Street, MACON, Ga. Jan. 14, 1871. ^ dry of Glasscock, Handley of Pulaski, Putney of, larly the case in North Carolina, and no surprise need be felt at a daily dish of horrors from that State, served up in the Chronicle ; ‘for,’ said one of the North Carolina senators, ‘we in tend to use the military, and ^justi fication, we must get these statements disseminated through the North.’ ” DENTSE’S CHERRY’STREET, Opposite Carhart &. Curd, Macon, - - Georgia. B. F. DENSE, Proprietor- March 21,1871- a4 CUBBEDGE & HAZLEHURST, BANKERS & BROKERS, MACON, GEORGIA. R eceive deposits, buy and sell ex- change, gold, silver, stocks, BONDS, and Uucurrent Funds. C*lleclira. Hade on All Accessible Points. Office open at all hours of the day. March 31,1871. 31 Gl Dougherty Public Expenditures—C- A Nutting of Bibb, chairman ; Kelly of Chatham. Hammond of Butts, Tarver of Baker, McMillan of Habersham, McNeil of Randolph. Pou of Muscogee, Griffin of Houston, Snead of Richmond, Wilson of Fulton. Ballon- ger of Floyd, Ross of Bibb, Mansfield of Stewart. Education—Jackson of Fulton, chairman ; Ba con of Bibb, Wofford of Bartow, Cody of Chatta hoochee, David of Newton, Simmons of Gwinnett, Joiner of Dougherty, Etheridge of Putnam, Mc- Neal of Randolph Bryan of Henry, Morrison of Ware. Guerry of Quitman, Berrien of Burke. Committee on Enrollment—McMillan ot Hab ersham, chairman : Converse ot Lowndes, Craig of Telfair, Dell of Screven, Cleghorn of Chattoo ga. Baker of Bryan, Ba'eraan of Taylor, Spence of Coffee, Stovall of Columbia, Hiliyer of Camden, Palmer of Dawson. Journals—Bush of Miller, chairman : Killian of Towns, Cloud of Warren, Emerson of Wnitfield, Kennedy of Bulloch, McConnell of Clayton Payne of Catoosa, Know.es of Pierce, Moreland of Merriwether, Glover of Sumter, Fields of Mur ray. Penitentiary—Goldsmith of DeKalb chairman ; Baker of Pike, Morris of Talbot, Harvey of Mari on, Rutherford of Crawford, Dukes of Morgan, Davenpor of Oglethorpe, Jones of Hart, Brown of Monroe. Lunatic Asylnm—Etheridge of Putnam, chair man; Hughes of Forsyth, Johnson of Jefferson, Lipsey of Lee, Battle i t Th mas, Joues of Terrell, Mc-Neal of Randolph, O’Neal ot Baldwin, Cloud of Warren, Clements of Montgomery, Whatley of Fayette, Lamkin of Columbia, Chastain of Gil mer. Deaf and Dumb Asylum—Bunn of Polk, chair man; Simmons of Hall, Lipsey of Lee, Gray of Bartow, Brawner of Franklin, Farmer of Liber ty, Br- wton of Tatnall, Mann, of Wilcox, Martin of Johnson, Meadows of Madison, Howell of Milton, Wilson of Fulton, Balieiiger of Floyd. Blind Asylum—Patillo of Harris, chairman ; Collius of Mitchell, Taylor of Washington, Em r- son of Whitfield, Jones of Macon, Pierce of Han cock, Hancock of Juckson, Hooks of Wilkinson, Richards of Cherokee, Goodman of Campbell, Fra’nklin of Fannin. New Counties and Caunty Lines- Fain of Gor< don, chairman; Guyton of Lauiens, Clark of Troup, Jones of Gwinnett Hendley of Puiaski, Converse of Lowndes, Meadows of Madison, Woodall of Talbot, Clower of Monroe, Braddy ot Glasscock, Patillo of Harris. Public Printing—Wn;. D. Andersou of Cobb, chairman : Heidt of Chatham, Carlton of Colquitt, Cato of Troup, Chastain of Gilmer, Netherland of Rabun, Richardson of Clark, Johnson of Spald» ing, McWhorter of Greene. Auditing- -Craig of Telfair, chairman ; Riley of Lumpkin, Rouatree of EmauueJ, Franklin ei Fannin, Atkinson of Thomas. A good newspaper does more towards building up a town aud country than any other public in stitution, and gets less for it. Keep the Heart Alive.—The lon ger I live the more expedient I find to endeavor more and more to extend my sympathies and affections. The nat ural tendency of advancing years is to narrow and contract these feelings. I do not mean that I wish to form a new and sworn friendship every day, to in crease my circle of intimates ; these are very different affairs. But I find it conduces to ’my mental health and happiness to find out all I can which is amiable and lovable iu those I come in contact with, and to make the most of it. It may fall very far short of what I was wont to dream of ; it may not supply the place of what I have known, felt and tasted ; but it is bet ter than nothing. It seems to keep) the feelings and affections in exercise; it keeps the heart alive in its humani ty ; and, till we shall be all spiritual, this is alike our duty and our interests. Bernard. Barton. A Remarkable Family.—There is a family in Calhoun county, Ga., con sisting of a husband, wife and five children. The husband never wore a suit of “ store clothes,” never took a dose of medicine, never drank a drop of liquor, never ate a meals victuals at his own house cooked by a negro, and never took but one chew of tobacco. The wile has never worn any other than a home woven dress, except on Sundays, and has never taken any medicine. The same fact relates to the children as to tbe parents. Green Bay, Wis., Oct. 14. In company with other people who had been driven from their homes in the interior of the State by the dread ful fires of the preceding week aud more, I reached this city last Wednes day. hoping to find my husband, from whom 1 had become separated in the woods when the smoke was so thick that it was impossible for us to see each other when a few feet apart. * It seems strange to me now, that I can recall so vividly all that passed during that frightful afternoon and the night which followed it, and yet it is all im pressed on my mind in colors which can ne.vfir he obliterated. But per haps I am beginning at the wrong end of my story, which you must not ex pect to find at all artistic or elaborate. Indeed, I would not have written at all had not Mr. Wilson, who has so kindly cared for me since my arrival at Green Bay, told me that I ought to let the people know what hardships hundreds and, as I hear, thousands of men and women and even poor little innocent children have un dergone up here in the Northwest, for both he and I believe that, in some respects, my misery was paralleled by that of others. On the morning of the 11th of this month, just as we were sitting down to take breakfast, Mr. Richardson a neighbor of ours, came running into the house and told Mr. Mechand that he must come out immediately and see what could be done. During the night the wind had risen, but not so greatly as to amount to anything like a gale, but rather did it resemble the ordinary fall wind. Mr. Mechand did not seem at all uneasy, and leisurely swallowed his breakfast before follow ing Mr. Richardson, who had disap peared as soon as he had stuck his head into the room and called my husband. Mr. Mechand went into the woods and stayed till about noon, when he came running back and said that he had climbed up to the top of Brown’s Hill, where the wind was blowing a gale, and from there he had seen the fire which was coming towards us at a tremendous pace. Indeed I had fear ed as much and had been exceedingly uneasy all the morning, for the smoke which for days had been in the valley where we lived had become more and more dense, and occasionally hot puffs of wind had blown over the hills, driving the smoke in a dense cloud be fore it. I asked my husband if he thought there was any danger to be feared ; he shook his head and answer ed “No,” yet I knew by his face that he was far from being devoid of fear. He ate his pinner hastily, and then ran out again, and was met at the door by a neighbor who said that the fire was advancing with frightful speed. Indeed, the air had now become sultry as it never had been before except on some hot days in summer immediately before the coming of a thunder storm. The air was stifling, and the smoke got into oue’s lungs and nostrils in such a way as to render it exceedingly unpleasant. Mother sat in a corner holding little Louis in her lap, and I noticed that she seemed restless, and that her eyes shone with a light such as I have sometimes seen in the eyes of a wild beast, and had only seen in hers in the old days when she was about to have an outburst ot fury. I was frightened and figety, and didn’t do anything in the right way. I went and took the boy away from mother, who relinquished him readily ; and then, as I had afterwards {terrible rea son to remember, although I hardly noticed it at the time, she went to the cupboard and secreted something in the bosom of her dress. Mr. Mechand stood at the door speaking hurriedly with the man whom he had met, when a burning branch of pine fell at his feet. Instantly the air darkened, a vi olent puff of wind rushed upon us, and smoke poured in volumes about the house. Then, following the gust, a bright sheet, or rather wall of fire, seemed to be pushed down almost up on us, and instantly everything was in flames. Mr. Mechand cried out to me to bring Louis with me, and seized mother by the hand, and we all four ran in terror out into the woods ahead of us. I ran on blinded and choked by the smoke, and carrying Louis in my arms. He was pale with terror, and did not utter a single cry, but clung to my neck as I hurried on stumbling and tripping almost at ev ery step. So sudden had been the rush of the fire that we had no chance of saving anything but our lives, even if we had cared to do so. I kept call ing to my husband to keep in sight, but, poor fellow, there was no need of doing so, for I could see that mother was a great worry to him, and that he had almost to drag h*r along. She kept looking from side to side, and trying to break away from him ; even then I thought how terrible it would be if she should become furious again. What on earth could we do with her? We must have gone on in this way for at least three miles, and I was al most exhausted, for Louis was a boy six years old and large for his age, and I had been carrying him all the way. The trees were compact, and in some places the undergrowth was close and stiff as wire. Mother kept getting worse, and Mr. Mechand, who was a short distance ahead of Louis and me, had the greatest difficulty to make her obey him, presently he stop ped, and evidently was waiting for me to come up. I put Louis down and told him to keep alongside of me, at the same time taking him firmly by the hand. The fire had come much slower than we, and I believe we must have been at least two miles ahead of it, although there was no telling, for I could see nothing behind or far be fore me but smoke curling like a mist in and out of the trees. Behind us, indeed, it was heavier, and looked a sullen, dirty white. We could not have been six feet from my husband when mother broke away from him, and with a loud cry darted off into the woods, and then I knew that what I had dreaded had in deed come to pass, and that excitement and danger had brought back an old sickness upon her. She was a mani ac. Mr. Mechand darted after her, and in the terror of the moment I for got all else and followed him, leaving poor little Louis behind. I must have been crazy to do so, but on I rushed, and soon saw that mother was cunning enough to try to escape by doubling on her tracks, for I saw her dress dart past the bushes at my side as she ran “"'o' 7 ’-"* 11 .; - .. ...y -fiwm jnfi. I snrn.no’ after her, and after running for about five minutes, found to my horror that I had not only lost her, but Louis and his father. Madly I tried to retrace my steps, but there was nothing to guide me—no path, no blazes on the trees. The wind shook the trees and almost bent them double ; the sultry air filled with smoke, and all the hor rors of my terrible condition made me frantic. I rushed about helplessly, crying and screaming, “Louis! Louis ! Father!” But that last word made me calm for an instant, and I felt that I was not alone—not utterly lost in the burning woods, for the spirit of my dead father w 7 as near and there were guardian angels. I knelt on the ground, took my crucifix from my t.eck and prayed. In kneeling down I found to my great joy that my dress was wet. I had knelt near aspring. I bathed my face and hands, and soak ed my hair and the upper part of my dress. But my boy— my little Lou is ! I sprang to my feet, and calling on the Virgin to direct me, dashed on in the direction of the fire. I had not gone more than a quarter of a mile when I found my darling standing with head erect, and flashing eyes fill ed with angry tears, trying to beat away some wolves, which, hungry though they were, seem bent only on flight. I cried, “Louis, Louis ! e'est moi, la mere /” and clasped him to my heart. It was my boy, and he was saved. He had not seen his father, though once he had heard a man’s voice calling, but the voice seemed to have come from an immense distance. “O, Louis,” said I, “we are lost unless we find him. We must run for our lives.” The boy began to cry, and then I was ashamed of what I had said, and tried to cheer him up. The fire must have been very near us then, for I could not only feel its heated breath, but above my head, among the tree-tops, sparks and fire-brands were whirling in the air. I took Louis in my arms, determined that never again should he be separated from me, and pressed onward with some vague idea that I should soon reach Wolf River. Night was coming on, and since noon we had had nothing to eat. I did not feel hungry, but was tormen ted with thoughts of what might hap pen if we should not reach a place of safety, for I feared that Louis would give out. arid that was one of the rea sons which made me carry him. My arms ached, and my limbs were scratched, bruised and bleeding. Still I made “ood headway, and soon came to a natural clearing, on the thither side of which we sat down to rest. By this time night had come on, and what a night ! No moon, no stars, but the cloudy heavens lighted up afar with the horrible fires of the burning woods. The clearing in which we sat was the dried up bed of a stream which, for some unaccountable reason* had not thickly-wooded shores, and we were at least two hundred feet from the edge of the forest in flames. All this time Louis, manly little fellow that he was, had not even asked for food, nor had he cried since I myself fool ishly frightened him. We sat there a long time while I was trying to think where we were, but I could come to no conclusion. I had heard my husband speak of a stream which had run dry, but that was in a northeasterly direction from our house, and notwithstanding the fact that I was lost, yet I had a gen eral notion that I was approaching the Wolf river. The stars could give me no information,^for I could not see them. What to do I scarcely knew, but when the heat of the fire became such that I could not doubt that it was near, I determined to press on away from it, and taking Louis’ band I set out. On ordinary nights it should now have been dark, but there was a nameless glare, yet not a glare, a horrible rejiet which came down from the sky and mingled with the smoke. Hardly had I risen from the ground, when in the direction of the woods on the other side of the clear ing, I heard a clashing noise, a min gled gnashing and hoarse barking which I instantly recognized as that of wolves, and I scarcely had time to snatch up Louis and run behind a magnificent pine tree whose trunk was at least six feet in diameter, be fore I heard them scrambling up the side of the hill, and felt them rush by me. I looked out and could see their eyes coming towards me like the wind. They did not stop for an instant, and when they passed there came in their track a herd of deer, uttering cries that seemed almost human in their in tense agony. They ran blindly, for something more terrible than wolves was behind them ; they struck the tree and were hurled back: by the shock, some of them falling back upon those below. Tbe stampede seemed to last for full ten minutes, and when it was over, and 1, trembling with fear, dared once more to emerge from my refuge and look across the clearing, I saw the woods at its edge already- burning—saw it lurid through the smoke, and felt its terrible heat upon mv face. I turned and fled, in the wake of the deer and wolves. My s loes were stripped from my feet, and my ankles were torn and bloody. Fallen trees lay in my way, but I clambered over and crawled under them in my desperate flight. I was agonized with terror and despair, and finally sank to the ground with my boy in my arms. I must have fainted, for I knew nothing of what passed till I was rude ly shaken by the shou.der and heard a wild, glibbering laugh. I [opened my eyes, and above me stood my mother with a drawn knife in her hand. The woods seemed all ablaze, although the air was not so intolerably hot as it had been. The forest beyond the clearing must have been burning at its edge and the strong wind carrying the smoke upwarcT ancr over crur ueauo.— My mother looked down upon me with eyes blazing with that bated light of insanity. Ho, ho !” said she, “fine time of night for a mother and child to be running through the woods ! Fine night this ! Night—it is day ! Look at the red light—’tis the light of dawn! Le jour ! lejour Ju judgement est arrive! And the rocks are burning ! Call upon them to fall upon you ! The clouds of thunder and the day of doom ! The Lord is coming, and the wheels of his charriot burn with his mighty driving. Let us go up to meet him in mid-air ? Let us ride on the smoke and thunder aud sweep the stars from the heavens! Come, you shall go with me !” And she seized Louis who had thrown him self upon me and was clinging in ter ror to my breast. I sprang to my feet arid cried, “Mother, mother ! what would you do—would you kill me and Louis ?” “Kill you! yes! why wait? The Lord calls arid the devil drives. He has let loose his imps against the world. The trees fall crashing in the forest; for all hell’s demons pull them down with hooks of fire. I have seen them as I followed you. I have seen them all the way. I rode over on a wolf; ’twas a loupgarou, an old friend of mine brought me over safely, and kept me from the deer. I will kill you ; would you burn to death? You burn to death ? You shall go up—up higher than the moon, and beyond the fire. Come let us go!” Again she seized Louis, while the knife gleamed in the air. I sprang at her, and with all the strength of ten mothers in my arms I struggled with her. Torn, worn and bleeding, as I was, the thought of my childand husband gave me the strength of a giant. I overpowered the mad woman, and forgetting that she was ray mother—that she was anything but the would-be murderess of my boy—I seized her by the throat when she was down rolling on the ground, and I would have strangled her. Her insanity had almost made me mad. I I felt then what a murderess maniac feels. But then I thought my mother was lying almost dead, and powerless, and the fire would soon advance and per haps overwhelm us all. My hand was stayed, and when my mother rose to her feet all her wildness was gone, and in its place had returned that calm ness—almost imbecility—which had characterized her for the last few years. She was ready and willing to do every thing that I told her, but I kept that knife fast in my hand. The wind had fallen, anda slight rain was dropping among the leaves over head as we went on for an hour or two longer, and then, overpowered with exhaustion, and nolongergreatly dread ing the fire, we lay down in a hollow and fell asleep When we awoke it was morning. I was sick and completely exhausted, and hardly knew that there were inen around us. Yet there were, and good kind men, too, who gave us food and drove us to a place of shelter, whence, as soon as we were able, we went to Green Bay, where I soon re covered from the sickness and terror of that dreadful night. My mother con tinues in that same imbecility, which the doctors say will soon become com plete dementia. Louis w r as not long in recovering, but as yet I have heard nothing from my husband. Lucile Mechand. “Manners,” says the eloquent Ed mund Burke, “are of more impor tance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex, or soothe, exalt or debase, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and color to our lives. According to their qual ity they aid morals ; they supply them, or they totally destroy them.” FOR SALE. 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