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Newspaper Page TextNUMBER 51 VO LIME X.LII.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 17, 1872. ^ j; c Jf t b c r a I S ition, IN PUUL1SHEIJ WEEKLY MILLEDGEVILLE. GA., HOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE, (Corut ot Hancock and Wilkinson Streets,) At $2 ia Advance, or $3 at end of the year. S. N. BOCGHTON, Editor. ADVERTISING. Trass! knt.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for £. tiuscrlion,and stveutj’-five ceutsfor each sabse ( en t continuance. ’ tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit- rt exceeding .mx lines, Nominations for office,Com- icauons or Editorial notices for individual benefit, ' ^ L .j a3 transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING." Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of teu lines, or less,....$2 50 Mortgage li 1a sales, per square, 5 011 fuatious lot Eettei% of Adniiuistiatiou 3 00 *• Guardianship, 3 00 Application for dismission trout Administration, 3 00 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore. Baltimore, July 9.—Last evening was devoted to meetings of the delega tions, for organization, and speech making took {dace in several places in the city. The principal hotels .are densely packed, and private houses are open to personal friends. The sit uation at midnight was unchanged. 1 here was evidently a large majority in favor of a nomination, though it was still the paramount theme. Mr. Sambold, of Louisiana, with^ix friends, bolted the bolter’s meeting yesterday. Louisiana, California, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey and Oregon were not represented ia the meeting of the Guardianship, 3 00 f,.r iiomc^ad". I ^ and ’1 ‘‘ ‘" 17“ j National Committee yesterday y.oceto licbtunj and Creditors V ,-s ut Land. Ac., per square,. 0 .. perisiiahle property, 10 d^y jg.ay .Notices, 3U day , per square,.. 3 00 5 00 I 50 3 00 ,,,-iire ot M01 tguge, per sq., each time 100 j,p.nations for Homesteads, (two weeks,).... I 75 ■ Pit move unanimous.’ to The Pennsylvania delegation com- ! promised on the following resolution : j “ Resolved, That the Chairman be instructed to cast the vote of this dele- 1TlVMTI , r „ m ™ Igation for candidates for President and j Vice-P.«ide„t „ *1 delegate shall w ,;.mriiiaiis, are required bylaw to be held on the : direct, and that lie be authorized when . fuesday intlic mouth, between the hours of 10 two thirrle of elio r*00,1 11 intlic lereiioou and 3 iD tile afternoon, at the Court j tWO-ttlirnS Of tile Convention shall Hn - in the County in which the property is situated, have voted for a candidate, in the name ' • •• ot these sales must be given 111 a public ga ! ..f suJ 1 .• . lavs previous to the day of sale. j nf the united delegation to 1 t“ r tlu! * al ?„°f P el ' sol|tl properly must be make such nomination r vn; in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. ro, r, ' ■ 1 , ,. N : ices to the debtors and creditors of an estate ' the Georgia delegation is UllUni- ^i.db^thaui'pphcatioii wiU*be made to the Court of "?° US for Greeley with Some modifica- O'.imsry fur leave to sell Land, &.c., must be publish- tions and additions to the Cincinnati fd'nrtivo months nla+fnrm Citations for letters of Administration, Guardiansliip, 1 1 ul * & must be published 3odays— for dismission from The Louisiana delegation has but 1; jiiai-tratiou monthly three moDths—fordismission , (i iur.iiini--i.ip, do days. one straight out nomination man, but km-fur lore,!.sure of Mortgage must be publish- he will support Greelev if the Con- ed :ii«*ntlily lorlour months—for establishing lo«t pa- ,• r . . . J per-tor the lull space of three months—for compell- VGntlOD nonilDtltGS rllT). The Alissis- lies from Executes or Administrators, where s j n i delegation resolved to Coincide inclines 1 ‘'*111 uirvumiB in a'lminisiraiorR, wnere omi bond li*» been given by the deceased, the full spaceot * , ntiis. with the majority of the Convention Publications will always be continued according to uhntpvpr its ooticr. mo,- r»„l„ t iese. tlie legal requireine.'ts, u 11 less other wise ordered WnateVer 1Cs ACtlOn maj be. Dela- —— . ware will vote from first to last for a Hook and Job Work) Ol all kinds) Straight Democratic nomination. PiiOMi’TLY and neatly executed j In calling the Convention to order, at Tins office. Mr. Belmont addressed the Convention Agents for Federal Union in New York City as follows : (lE‘h 1* HOWELL Sc CO., No. 40 Park How, S. M. PETTING ILL S, CO., 37 Park How. [^Messrs. Griffin &, Hoffman. Newnpaper Baltimore, Md., j again my privilege to welcome SPEECH OF MR. BELMONT. Gentlemen of the Convention- It is the Using Agents. No. 4 South St y authorized to contract for adveit'senients at i , . , , , » T . ■ Advertisers in that City are request- | delegates ot the National Democracy 1 who have met in order to present to the American people the candidates for President and Vice President, for whom they solicit the suffrages cf the Democratic and Conservative votes of Should you, therefore, in your wis dom, decide to pronounce in favor of the Cincinnati candidates I shall, for one, most cheerfully bury all past dif ferences and vote and labor for their election with the same zeal and energy with which I have supported hereto fore, and mean ever to support the candidates of the Democratic party. The American people look with deep solicitude to your deliberations It is for you to devise means by which to free them from the evils under which they are suffering ; but in order to ob tain that, you are called upon to make every sacrifice of party preferences, However much you might desire to fight the coming battle for our rights and liberties under one of the trusted leaders of the Democratic party, it will become your duty to discard all con siderations of party tradition, if the selection ot a. good and wise man out- ide of our own ranks offers better chances of success. cl tu leave their favors with this bouse.’ Situ J) i r t t \ o r Ran. eoasj tisss table. Arival and Departure of Trams at Milledgeville. MACON & AUGUSTA RAILROAD. I*ny Train. IWiTruin to Augusta arrive* ar Milledgev., S.17 a m. Ip Train to Macou arrives at Milledgeville, 5 24 p.m. Nigin Train. Arrives from Augusta at 12:20 a in. “ “ M.icou at 12:15 a in. EATOXTON & GORDON RAILROAD. rp.Ti.-in to Eatouton arrives at Milledgev., 8.45 p. m DowoXmiu to Gordon arrives “ 2.35 p. m Post Office Hotice. Mili.eixjeville. Jan. 18, 1872. F'-m and alter tl^nduie mails will -‘lose as follows : Mails fur Atlanta aSt! Augusta and points beyond go, gnotth and east, will close at So’cloek A- M. .Mails lor Mac-in. Sour liwesieru Hoad, and points bey-t ii, gnii-g south-west, will close at 5 P. M. Alai s lor Savannah ami Florida elose at 2:15 P. M. II. 11> lur Eatouton and Monticello closes atS:45. P M. Office hours from 7 A. M until (>:30 P. M. Office open on Sundays from 8 to 2 12 A. M. Muney Orders obtained from 7 A. M. until 5 P. M. JOSIAS MARSHALL, P. M. Church Directory. BAPTIST CHURCH. Servic-s 1st and 3d Sundays iu each month, at 11 o'clock a m and 7 pm. Sabbath School at 2 l-2o’eloek. a m- S N Boughton, Supt. Rev. D E BUTLER, Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH. Il'-nrs ot service on Sunday: 11 o’clock, am ace 7 p m. Sunday School 3 o’clock p m.—W E Frankland, Superintendent. Friends of the Sabbatli School are invited to visit it. S S Missinnaiy Society, monthly, 4th Sunday at 2 p m Prayer mtetiug every Wednesday 7 o’clock p m- Kev A J JARRELL, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Services every Sabbatb (except the 2d in each ino) •* 1 * o’clock a in. and 7 p m. Sabbuih School at 9 1-2 a in. TT Wiudsor. Supt. Era yer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock, p in. Rev C VV LANE, Pastor. this great Republic. At our last National Convention, on the 4th July, 1S6S, I predicted that the election of Gen. Grant would re sult in the gradual usurpation of every function of the Government by the Executive and by Congress, to be en forced by the Executive aud by Con gress, to be enforced by the bayonets of a military despotism. The vast majority of the people of the United States have witnessed with grief and sorrow the correctness of that predic tion, and they look forward with fear and apprehension to the dangers which are threatened us. if by the re-election of Grant the policy thus iar pursued You must remember that you are here not only as Democrats, but as citizens of our common country, and that no sacrifice can be made too great which she demands at your hands. Mr. Belmont, after some personal remarks, nominated as temporary pre siding officer Thomas Jefferson" Ran dolph, of Virginia, saying: It is an auspicious omen, that a scion of thi author of the Declaration of Independ ence is to inaugurate the struggle of the Democracy for freedom and equal ity for every American citizen, and against oppression and tyranny in our fair land. SPEECH OF MR. RANDOLPH. Mr. Randolph was elected by accla mation, and assuming the chair said: I am aware that the very great honor conferred upon me by this body is due to no personal merit of my own, but is a token of respect to the State from which I come, and is a recognition ot other circumstances possibly adventi tious. I am. perhaps, the oldest mem ber of this body, and a life of SO years with the Democratic Republican [tar ty constitutes me a senior member. I remember freshly every President ial centest from the first election of Jefferson to the present time, and I can say with truth that I remember none which involved higher questions of personal liberty,local self-government, honest administration and constitution al freedom than the present; or one which demands from us a more hearty, and from our people a calmer or more earnest, recourse to prudeDtial princi ples. It strikes me as the duty of this body and of this hour to wrest the Government from the hands of its present despotic and corrupt holders nnJ to place it in honest hands—to re store to the citizen everywhere the proud consciousness of personal rights, and to all the States perfect integrity by the Radical party, shall be contiu- of local self-government, ued. * i This, with the recognition of the supremacy of the constitution and the EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Without a Pastor at present. Sunday School at 9 o’clock, a in. Ziodges. I. o. G. T The thinking men of both parties have become alive to the fact that we are now living under a military des potism overriding the civil authority in many States ot the Union. That by the enactment of arbitrary and uncon stitutional laws through a depraved majority in Congress, the rights of the States are infringed and trampled up on, and that Caesarism and centraliza tion are undermining the very founda tions of our federal system, and are sweeping away the constitutional bul warks erected by the wisdom of the fathers of the republic. aws, will, in my judgment, discharge all our present duty. [Concluded on second page.] The Reign of the Old White Hat. — Stanton was right. This soldier man of America will not do for Pres- dent ; so the people are now going to try one of the best workingmen of America, and a man who has never made a single failure in his life except one, and that was when he tried to make a Republican President out of a pig headed soldier. The supremacy These abuses have been so glaring I ? f the civil over the military authority that the wisest and best men of the 13 a P lank ,n * he Ll _ beral platform— Republican party have severed them selves from the Radical wing which is trying to fasten upon the country an Tlillrdgrville l.oilj-c No 115 meets in the Senate Other foUT yetir8 TCIgO Ot Corruption, ,'" e s,a, 'U H ?““,." U M.w , X,S. n x27#?m <f “* usurpation and despotism ; and what- Cliauitiet ut tne Stale House on every Friday e’ ke Ht 7 O’clock. C P CRAWFORD, W C ' E P Lane, Sec’y. Cold Water Templars meet at flie State House eve- 7 Saturday afternoon at 3 o'cluck. MASONIC. No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d ; to Gen. Grant, there cannot be any doubt of the patriotic impulses which dictated their action. Nor can any fault be found with the : platform of principles upon which they have placed their candidates. The resolutions of the Cincinnati Conven tion are what the country require, and I they must command the hearty sup- i port of every patriot throughout the vast extent of our land. In the struggle which is before us, i we must look to principles and not ' men, and I trust that no personal pre dilections or prejudices will deter us from doing our duty to the American people. I Gen. Grant has been a good and faithful soldier. During our civil war, ; his stubborn and indomitable courage j has helped to crown the Union with victory, and the American people have ! rewarded his services with the most ' unbounded generosity. I am willing | to concede that his intentions, on tak- | ing the Presidential chair, were good ; but he has most signally and badly failed in the discharge of the high trust MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA. ! i-yi-*** "P»" «•» Dr -G.I) Cask Dean. Dr. S. G. WHITE, Prea’dt of a grateful people. He IS, at this keguiar meetii.fr tirBt M.mday in December. moment, the very personification of state lunatic asylum. the misrule which is opposed to US, ^ Dr thos f green, Superintendent. a nd his re-election is fraught with most R Bell,Tr.&.steward. 1 deplorable consequences for the wel fare of the republic and endangers the liberties of our people. On the other hand, Mr. Greeley has been heretofore a bitter opponent of the Democratic party, and the vio lence of his attacks agaiDSt myself in dividually, which have, from time to time, appeared in his journal, certain- OA. not eotit l e him to any sympathy and preference at my hands. But Mr. Greeley represents the national add constitutional principles of the Cincinnati platform, and by his ad mirable and manly letter of accept ance he has shown that he is fully alive to their spirit, and that, if elected be means to carry them out honestly and faithfully Rrm-rolrnt _ G- :rilay nigljia of t-aeli month at Masonic Hall. G D Case, Sco’y. I 11 HOWARD, W. M. Tc,i,i,i e Chapter meets the second and fourth Sat- f l,ig111s in each mouth. G b C’A.-E, Sec’y. S G WHITE, H P. ^lillrHgrTille Lodge of Perfection A.\& A. - . “ E.‘. meets evt-rv Monday night. SAM’L G WHITE, T.-. P. -G.’.M.’. Gto. D.^Cask, Exc Grand Sec’y. CITY GOVERNMENT. Mjyor—Samuel Walker. _ _ . 8-uni (l f Aldermen.—1. F B Mftpp; 2 E Trice; ^ A Caraker; 4 Jacob Caraker; 5 J H MeComb; : ® Hci.ry Temples. * erk and 11 .-usurer—Peter Fair. -Mar.hal—J B Fair. Policeman—T Tutfle. n puty Marshal and Street Overseer—Peler Ferrell. Sexton— K Beeland City Surveyor—C T Bayne. City Auctioneer—SJ Kidd. Finance Committee—T A Caraker,Temples. Mapp. Street “ J Caraker, Trice. MeComb band “ MeComb, J Caraker, Trice. Cemetery <( Templet*, Mapp, T A Caraker. board meets 1st and 3d Wednesday nights in each mouh. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ju ige M. r Bell, Ordinary—office in Masonic Hall. J 1 E Fair, Clerk Sup’r Court, “ Gltadiali Arnold Sheriff, G 1* Bonner. Dcp’ty Sheriff, lives in the country. Judas Marshall K. c’r Tax Returns—at Post Office, j- ^ *• hliawav. Tax Collector, office at his ntore. Temples. County Tieasurer, office at his store, yuo dualling, Coronor, residence on Wilkinson st. John Gentry, Constable, residence on Wayne st, near the Factoiy. There is a sad significance in the fact that this plank has to be inserted in a Republican platform at this time ; but wl at is worse, it has to be re-estab lished as a living principle in America, ever SS ^ ; Four years more of U. S Grant trill tain as to the choice of the candidates i establish the supremacy of the mihta- whom they have selected in opposition ry over the civ. authority as a per- - manent principle in this country.— The Government just now is an anom- oly, or, as a friend of mine says, a pro miscuous Government. It is a half shoddy, half military—a cross between the swindler and the trooper. Since the day of “Old King Cole, that mer ry old soul,” there has been no such burlesque regal household as the one in Washington cow, West Point ca dets, with commissions in their pock et, are Presidential lackeys, and Gen erals of the United States army -re gentlemen ushers to wait upon the orders of the late Galena tanner. This royal menagerie will all disappear when Greeley comes. The sight of the oi l white hat quietly crossing the threshold will put the whole military array to instant flight. The White House will resume again its old time character, and become the dignified residence of a plain Republican Presi dent and his modest household. Hor ace Greeley will send the soldiers to do soldiers’ work and not the work of lackies and ushers in Washington, and bailiffs and detectives in the South.— The bayonets will be delegated to the Rocky Mountains to watch Indians and protect settlers, instead of watch ing Southern Democrats and protec ting carpet-baggers.—Gen. Jas, Shields at a Greeley Meeting in Kansas City, Mo. FIRE DEPARTMENT. D B Sanford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief. *»e M & M Fire Co. meet* at the Court Room on Lfe fir8t ami third Tuesday nights in each month. PLANTERS’ HOTEL, AUGUSTA, , Jeleprap), offipe and n a il roa( i Ticket office connec w 'lb the Hotel. - JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Proprietor. kptM, 1871. 9 tf COR. No A gar load of corn just beceived *ndfor sale VERY CHEAP by MOOBE tc BcCOOK. The St. Louis Democrat publishes a long and elaborate review of the wheat crop. Its sum and substance is that the present crop is a very large one, and that flour will necessarily be cheap. It advises holders of wheat not to re ly on an increase in prices. Dexter’s Time Beaten.—Dexter is no longer the king of trotters. On Saturday last Joe Elliott, aged eight years, and owned by Mr. Bonner, trot ted at Boston, one mile in two minutes, filteen one and one half seconds. He had been in training four weeks. One year ago his owner diove him half a mile ia one minute and six seconds. Corraipoadence of the Telegraph and Messenger • A*!’ TENNESSEE LETTER. Knoxville, Tenn., July 2d 1S72. We came hither a fortnight ago, and have visited various localities in Past ern Tennessee. The commencement exercises of East Tennessee University came off soon after our ai rival, but we were unfortunate in being unable to be present. The institution is now one of the very best, and certainly one of the least expensive, in the Uni ted States. Early in the present cen tury large endowments were provided for founding and maintaining three State Universities of the best grade— one at Knoxville, another at Nash ville, and a third at Jackson. Exten sive buildings were erected in each of these localities, and flourishing institu tions have been in progress ever since. Soon after the close of the “war be tween the States” the State of Ten nessee realized the proceeds of the lands donated by the Federal Govern ment for the supppoi t of an Agricul tural, Mechanical and Military College; and this institution has been conjoined with East Tennessee University at this place. Already the institution is in such flourishing condition that ad ditions are in active progress, during the present vacation, to the extensive buildings. The exercises will be re newed very early in September. VV'e learn that most of the States south of Tennessee have been represented in this University, Georgia, however, having hut two students—Messrs. R. G. McDonald and W. B. Harper, of Milledgeville. The location of the University is re markably fine, in the suburbs of the city, commanding an extensive view of river and mountain. It has been put on canvas in all of its exquisite beauty by Mr. Fisher, of Knoxville, the fine landscape painter who is now engaged in making the great histori cal painting of Gen. R E. Lee at his father’s tomb on his last visit thither on Cumberland Island, Georgia, in 1S70. The military feature of East Ten nessee University is a prominent one, and is uuder the supervision of a grad uate of West Point Military Academy The handsome uniform of the stu dents is of Confederate gray, and is very similar to that of the military institute of Virginia. The most charming fea ture of this institution. (E. T. Univer sity,) is its inexpensiveness. Tuition costs per annum less than $35 ; and good boarding can be had for less than $10 per month. Two hundred and fifty Hollars will be ample to cover the en tire expenses of an economical student for a whole year, including clothing and everything. About five yeais are required for thorough mastering ot the whole course, and we understand a large number of young men are pur suing that line of study. The Presi dent of the University is Rev. Thos. W. Humes, an Episcopal clergymau of great worth and learning. A Dog Which Does Not Forget an Injury.—There is a large New foundland dog in this city, about ten years old, which is doubtless one of the most knowing specimens of the canine family living. When it was about six months of age, a couple of young men, in order to have a little fun, tied a tin-kettle to its tail and sent it running through the streets. It was sport for the boys, but the act was never forgotten by the dog. Till this day it shows signs of displeasure at the sight of either of those young men. One of them removed from the place, and several years after the tin- kettle affair he was visiting in the city and called at the residence of the dog’s owner. The dog hearing the voice ot the young man inside the house re sorted to a number of devices to gain admission. Upon being admitted it sprang for the throat of the visitor with jaws extended. The family in- terferred, of course, and the dog was removed from the house. From that day (when the kettle was tied to his tail) to this, neither of those young men can enter the gate leading to the house if the dog is at home. On one occasion a beggar called at the back door for something to eat, and was plentifully supplied by the good lady of the house. While passing out through the yard the beggar threw away some of the food, the dog saw it, and, taking the unthankful solicitor of alms by the leg of his pantaloons, walk ed him hurriedly out through the gate. No beggar is permitted by that dog to enter the gate since. A negro once kicked this dog, and he has had such a dislike for all persons of color since, that not one, with its permis sion, is allowed on the premises. A few years since the owner of the dog was taken sick and died. The dog was most deeply affected by the event, and refused to be comforted for many days and weeks thereafter. When the bell was tolling for the funeral the dog seemed to understand its mournful import, and from that day to this the tolling of the bell causes the dog to break forth in most dismal wailings.— Bridgeport ( Conn.) Standard. Crickets and Grasshoppers.—The chirping and 6inging of the cricket and grasshopper are frequently spoken of; but they do not sing—they fiddle.— By rubbing wings aud legs together— each in a manner peculiar to the spe cies—these insects produce the sounds which characterize them. Perhaps our best instrumental performer is the “ katy-did.” Each wing contains a little tamborine, and by the opening and shutting of the wings these are rubbed against each other, and produce the sound of “ katy-did-she-did,” which can be heard a longdistance, and gives the insect its name. Florida has some ten or a dozen candidates for governor nominated al ready, and there are several counties yet to be beard from. How I Make Guano.—For several years past I have had what bones were obtained on the farm manufactured into guano in the following manner: From time to time as there are any bones to dispose of, I take them to my hen house, lay them on a flat stone, and with an old axe break them up fine and let the hens eat them. This is all the labor that is required, and the bones with the other articles of food which the hens eat are digested and made into as good guano or man ure as I have ever used for any pur pose. It is not necessary to wait year for guano made in this way, for it is ready to use at any time that it is wanted. My method of saving and preparing the droppings of my hens is as follows In the hen house under the roost there is a tight floor, and over this floor I spread dry, fine earth or muck, and occasionally as the manure accumu lates, more earth is spread over it.— When 1 wish to clean out the manure, the contents are shoveled over and mixed together, and it is then in a shape that it can be used at any time or place. My practice is to clean out spring and Fall, and by having a sup ply of dirt to use when wanted, 1 manufacture and save, with very little labor or expense, a very valuable fer tilizer—the quantity depending on the number of hens kept; but the amount of manure which can be made from hens in this way is much larger than one would suppose who has never practiced it, and the value of it when carefully saved and applied to the cul tivation of crops is probably more in proportion to the cost of keeping than that of any other kind of stock kept on the farm.—Correspondence German town Telegraph. Adventures cf a Cordovo Colonist. Among the Quixotic emigration schemes certain of our unfortunate Southrons engaged in after the down fall of our Confederacy, less perhaps is generally known of that undertaken under the auspices of Gen. Sterling Price of Missouri, and Ex-Governor I. G. Harris of Tennessee to Cordovo in Mexico than of any other. The emi grants in considerable number went hither, most of them in 1SG5, under an arrangement affected for them with the Emperor Maximilian. The colony located in the Cordovo valley, a beautiful and secluded region Westward from Vera Cruz, and in the vicinity of the famed Peak of Orizova, whose summit, 1S000 feet above the level of the sea, is covered even in that tropical clime, with perpetual snow. There they began to restore old plant ations of sugar, coffee, and other trop ical productions, to the production of which that fertile region is admirably adapted. But the dream of happiness soon ended. The civil war came which closed by Maximilian’s death. In May, 1S66, the American “set tlers” at Cordovo were seized by the forces of Juarez and borne Southward. The story is well told by Mr. Tom J. Russell, one ot those unfortunates, in the Southern Magazine for July, 1S72. This Magazine is published monthly at $4 per annum at JGG Baltimore St., Baltimore, by Murdock, Hill & Brown. The Adventures of Cordovo colonists are to be continued ; and the narrative is extremely interesting and instruc tive. The writer hereof can speak with a personal knowledge of the Mexican population and country in saying that the portraiture of that peo ple and country is well drawn. The other contents of the July Southern Magazine are as interesting as usual. The unfailing verse of Mrs. Margaret J. Preston flows through its accustom ed columns ; and the regular contribu tors appear, as usual, quite clever. The Alps of the New World— Prof Agassiz’s Discoveries.—Prof. Agassiz has written a long letter in the nature of a report to Prof. Pierce, Su perintendent of the United States Coast survey, which is published. In his expedition to South America the great scientist seems to have found abundant confirmation of his glacial theories, which besides being satisfac tory to himself and his admirers on that account, will doubtless prove of the greatest value to geological sci ence. It is not too much, remarks the New York Tribune, to say that he has found the Alps of the New World, lor in the close likeness between the moun tain scenery of Patagonia and that of Switzerland, which he glowingly de picts he has recognized something more than a mere similarity of ap pearances, and shown that the same great agency which gave peculiari ties of shape and characteristics of surface to the mountains of the old world has left equal imprints at the extremity of our continent. Longevity of Birds. Among the feathered creation the eagle and raven, the swan and parrot are each centenarians. An eagle kept in Vienna died after a confinement of one hundred and fourteen years, and on an ancient oak iu Selborne, still known as the “raven tree,” the same pair of ravens are believed to have fixed their residence for a series of more than ninety years. Swans upon the river Thames, about whose age there can be no mistake, since they are annually nicked by the Vint ners’ Company, under whose keeping they have been for five centuries, have been known to survive one hundred and fifty years and more. The melody of the dying swan is entirely mytholo gical. Upon approach of death the bird quits the water, sits down upon the bank, lays its head upon the ground, its wings a trifle and expires, uttering no sound. The extreme longevity of the par rot is equally authentic. In the Zoo logical Gardens of London there is a macaw that was admitted to the Tow er iu the year 1764. At Versailles, 'during the reign of Charles X., there was always hanging a cage in the J Oeilde-bceug which contained a parrot | purchased by the Regent Orleans for | the Duchess de Berri. There is not a collection of birds in any of the royal aviaries of Europe that has not its an cient parrot. The writer purchased a gray African parrot in 1S-56 whose residence in Wales was authenticated for seventy-seven years. The bird, more wonderful for variety of speech than for her age, learning every-thiLg and forgetting nothing, accomplished alike in the Welsh tongue and the Eng lish, boru in Africa, living more than three quarters of a century in Europe, and dying in America, might have been alive now but for heedlessness. In l^G7she had certainly approached, if she had not reached and passed her one hundredth year. Upon a severely cold night in December of that year she was sent from New York to Wash ington, and perished by the way. She was in perfect health, had never known a day of sickness, shovvd no decrepi tude, enjoyed life to the utmost, de manded no allowances or concessions on the score of advanced years, and might but for an exposure to the rigor of an unaccustomed climate, have been alive to-day. Adulteration of Lard.—A writer in the Pharmaceutical Journal says that he lately obtained a quantity of lard from >a respectable pork dealer. It was beautifully white; indeed he had never seen an article that looked bet ter. His first trial of it was in pre paring ointment of nitrate of mercury. The color, when the mercurial solu tion was added, was the reverse of citrine, indeed it is decidedly satur nine, developing in a short time to a full slate color. Surprised at this un precedented result, the usual precau tions having been tuken as to tempera ture, &c., the lard was suspected, and on examination was found to contain large proportion of lime. Some time after being in conversation with a lard Tenderer, a hint was dropped a* to the relation of lime to color, when the information was confidentially im parted that a common practice among lard dealers was to mix from two to five percent, of milk of lime with the melted lard. A saponaceous compound is formed, which is not only pearly white, but will allow the stirring in during cooling, of twenty-five per cent, of water. So much for appear ances. Far theFe!®nl Union. WORTHY OF tOUHE^DATVOX An indefatigable minister of the Gospel of the Presbyterian Church who went into the highways and by ways of the city of Augusta to impart bodily as well as spiritual comfort to the poor, was, though unostentatious in his labors obscured by members of his congregration and presented with a horse and buggy, with the keep of his horse at a Livery Stable, that his toil at least of body might be lessened and the opportunity of doing good increas ed. VV'e commend highly the zeal of the minister and the thoughtful and Christian kindness of his flock. S. Potash from Corn Cobs. The Boston “Journal of Chemistry” has given many valuable suggestions aris ing from the application of chemical science to farming subjects. But the subjoined proposition to extract potash Irom corn fields by the Million pounds per annum, and export the precious alkali, strikes us as being about the greatest blunder any in telligent writer on agriculture could make : “The corn crop of the whole country for 1S71 was one billion one hundred mill ion bushels, which, at fourteen pounds of cobs to the bushel, will yield seven mill ion four hundred thousand tons of cobs, containing three-fourths per cent, of car bonate, of potash. VVe have the enor mous quantity of one hundred and fifteen million five hundred thousand ponnds of that alkali lost to commerce annually, which, if thrown into trade, would add largely to the general resources of the country.” There is no doudt that corn cobs con tain as much potash as above stated, nor of its value in making corn, wheat and cotton, as well as soap. But in place ot selling this alkaii off the farm, or what is worse, wasting corn cobs by feeding hogs and fattening them where the cobs are not saved as manure, sound husbandry demands that every cob go back to the depleted earth that produced it, or to some other soil that needs potash quite as much Not one corn field in a thousand has any potash to spare, and to sell it is like killing a goose because she lays eggs of gold. „ The corn cob manure that mado a bush el of corn last year will make just as much this year, and in all the years to come, if properly husbanded. All mat ter is indestructible, and no old element is created anew for man. Hence, the farm er must husband every thiDg that fertili zes the soil, and make himseifin truth a husbandman. D. L. Everlasting Pence Posts. There is a peculiar satisfaction in listen ing to the conversation or in reading the wri tings of positive men,—of those who deal only with facts, aud with such fdets as have but one side and no exceptions. Such a man tells us, in the Western Rural, how to preserve posts for fences, &e. He says;—“I discovered many years ago that wood could be made to lant longer than iron in the ground but thought the process so simple and inexpensive that it was not wortli while making any stir about it. I would as soou have poplar, basswood or quaking ash, as any other kind of timber tor fence posts. I have taken out basswood posts after having been set seven years, that were as sound when taken up as when first put into the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect on them. The posts can be prepared for less than two cents apiece. For the benefit of others I will give the the recipe. Take boiled linseed oil, stir in pulverized charcoal to the consistency of a paint. Put a coat of this over the limber, and there is not a man that will live long enough to see it rotten.” A rose has been temporarily trans planted from this city to Jacksonville, but it will not remain. It was our genial friend, Wm. Rose, steamboat inspector, whose smiling countenance will soon again illuminate the Forest City. ^he railroad war still continues, but it is in such a fearful muddle that it would take the combined efforts of a dozen Philadelphia lawyers, aided by their father, the devil, to unravel it.— Anyway, the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile road is a bad way. Roasted Alive—Buffalo, July 1.— Jacob Dood’s pork establishment was burned this morning—loss seventy- five thousand dollars. The hogs on the upper floors were roasted alive. The Cotton Claims.—The exact status of the bill to refund the inter nal revenue tax on cotton is the subject of general inquiry from parties North and South who are interested in its passage. The bill is still pend ing action by the Ways and Means Committee of the House, aud will be reported by them early in the Decem ber session. Both Houses have been committed in a direct manner to the passage, and particularly to the un constitutionally of the tax. The de feat of the Morrill amendment to the Deficiency bill, was the first indica tion of the feeling in favor of the pro position to refund. The great bulk of the cases brought before the Court of Claims are the cotton claims, and the fight against the amendment wa3 made in the interest of the cotton-produc ing class. The next or second and most conclusive evidence of the feeling in the premises is to be found in the fact that the amendment to the Omni bus bill prohibiting the Treasury lrom collating the two cents per pound tax on cotton judgments obtained be fore the Court of Claims, was passed by the almost unanimous vote of the House, both political parties accept ing and committing themselves to the position originally taken by Mr. Dawes and others when the tax was first im posed, that it was unconstitutional. [ The South. A German Governor.—The Grant par ty are terribly alarmed at the vast and growing strength of the Liberal coalition in Illinois. The nominee for Governor on the Liberel ticket is a verry remarka ble man, and greatly beloved by the Ger mans. If successful in the present contest, Gustavns Koerner will be the first Ger man ever elected to the executive chair of an American State. The volcano of Colimo, in the State and near the city of that name, in Mexico, is in a state of active erup tion. New craters have opened on its airioa, and fiery torreuts of lava have flowed down the mountain to the val ley, presenting a magnificent specta cle. If we had a railway from the United States to Mexico, travelers who are curious to behold such a si iht might treat themselves to one of the finest of its kind without crossing the Atlantic. Poison of Lead Pipes.—Scientific research has at length determined the following practical tacts: First. For at least one month after the pipes are laid, no water from them should be used for purposes of drink ing or cooking. Second. If the water contains lime (carbonate) to the extent of four grains in a gallon, the pipes are not acted upon by water passing through lead pipes* To know the quantity of lime con tained in water, boil a gallon until it has disappeared, and weigh the rem nant. If you blow through a quill or rye straw into a glass of water, it be comes of a milky color if there is lime in it. If the water is soft, it forms on the inside of lead pipes a coating, called the oxide of lead, which coating more effectually prevents the decomposition of the lead beyond it than a coating of tin or zink, and costs nothing.—Hall’s Journal of Health. Light as well as fresh air is needed in a sick room. All know that plants wi:l not thrive in a dark room. The sick, es pecially during convalescence, require light as much as plants; not only light, but direct sunlight. Its warmth is pleas, ant, its associations are pleasant; but it has other influences we cannot explain. It aids ventilation, it warms and dircs the room and renders healthful what is other wise poisonous. The pale weak and bloodless, under the direct influence of a “sun bath” gain color, strength aud health. Not that all are to be exposed to it un der all circumstances, but let the room have a sunny aspect.—Prize Essay Mass. Med. Society. Two Hibernians were passing a stable which had a rooster on it for a weather- vane, wheD one addressed the other thus: “Pat what’s the rason they dont put a hin up there instead of a rooster V' “An’ sore,” replied Pat, “that's asy enough : don’t ye see it .would be unconvauieut to go for the eggs?” Lice on Cattle.—Lice may be remov ed from cattle by ponriug a small quanti ty of kerosene on the card with which they are carded. The application should be frequent though in small quantity, till the lice all disappear. The lousiest herd I ever saw was completely relieved of them in ten days by this application alone. One man in Jacksonville has ship ped fifteen hundred alligator hides to Boston within the past five months. Another severe cutting affair near Monticello, growing out of an old feud between the regulators and modera tors, in which Wm. Shackelford per formed a bad carving operation on Bryant Kinsey. Gainesville complain 8 bea ^ and also hints at the unpleasant sani tary condition of the town caused by the rays of the sun cooking dead rats, cats, hogs aud dogs, and a variety of filth lying about the streets.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1865-1872, July 17, 1872, Image 1