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JNoftl) PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —AT— BKLLTON, GA. By JOHN T. WILSON Jr, Tium— *l.oo per an sum SO ce«U for v> oaonthi; 25 cents forihree months. Parties away from Bellton are requested to send their names with inch amounts of money a. they can pare, 'rom 2cc. to *1 NEWS GLEANINGS. Geneva. Ala., has four bar rooms and is without a church. Last year North Carolina spent $337,- 000 for education. Some $273,000 worth of liens have been filed in Spartanburg county, S. C. The Sewanee coal mines, in Gr undy county, Tenn., have been sold for $525, 000. The net earnings of the South Carolina railroad so far in 1881, exceed those of 1880 by $50,000. Mississippi is premised a larger crop than she has ever had. North Carolina has 1,759 bat-keepers and 1,275 preachers. Two thousand men annually fall ink drunkards’ graves in North Carolina. The fire in the ovens at the Selma gas works has been constantly burningsince 1855. Os 125 newspapers in North Carolina only five oppose the prohibition move ment. Florida will raise eight million water melons this year. The wine crop of Georgia last year was 903,244 gallons, worth $1,325,521.03. Virginia mockingbirds are getting scarcer every year, as the sportsmen kill them, wantonly. Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Maryland and West Virginia produced in 1880 no less than 335,950, 765 pounds es tobacco. A large force is at work on the Nat ural Bridge, Virginia, improving tin grounds and enlarging the hotel. Larger than the State of Rhodi Island, yet Baldwin county, Ala., wit! a population of 9,000, has not a resident lawyer and but one physician. The Willimantic Spool-cotton Com pany will bring seventy live to one hundred girls to the Atlanta Cotton Exposition. The new mineral spring is attracting considerable attention at Athens. All who have drank of the water pronounce it excellent—much better than the old one. It is bold and cold. The old sea-wall, erected at St. Au gustine in 1835, to protect that city against inundation, is fast yielding to the dashing waves, and, unless soon repaired, may be swept away at any time by a gale. The whole stock of the Charleston, S. C., manufacturing company, being half a million dollars, has already been sub scribed, and the books are closed. In two years New Orleans has realized over one million dollars from the sale of street railroad franchises, and the money is being used to extinguish the city debt. DIXIE FUN. Worms make a fine fish dinner, you bait. The next comet that comes should have an owner. Reversible cufFs—Boxing one ear and turning the other also. This is rather warm work, as the thermometer remarked t» the comet. It a man has a shot gun, he is wast ing time trying to kill two birds with one stone. The stage robbers out West seem to have given up their attempt to ferret out the authorities. Vulgar peogle who become rich like to go to Europe and stay where they can forget themselves. A Texas paper says: “There will soon be another paper in town to divide our poverty with.” A ten-pound lump of ice is smaller now than at any other season of the year. It is just big enough to run away if left on the sidewalk. In North Caroline it is feared the lo custs will not be able to harvest the crop, it is so large. Tho attention ot Mr. Bergh has been called to the out rage. An Austin doctor met old Uncle Mose on Austin avenue, and said pleasantly: ‘ How do you feel to day, Uncle Mose.”’ “I ain’t gwine ter tell yer until I knows how much you am going to charge me.” An Austin boy came home from school uery much excited, and told his father that he believed all human beings were descended from apes, which made the old man so mad that he replied angrily “ That may be the ca-e with you, hut it ain’t with me; I can tell you that, now.” The North Georgian. VOL. IV. OUR COUNTRY I.X( HANOI'S. [Address read by President 11. G. Ba ketle, before tin- Tennessee Press Assoeis tion at Chattanooga, .luue 1 Tne mute inglorious journalists, who lack only the opportunity of startling the world, appear to be numberless. In every community there are scores of people who, having no conception of the scope and aim of journalism, and hav ing no proper notion of tile duties, re sponsibilities and labors of the journal ist, seem profoundly impressed with the belief that they could step at once into the editorial harness and conduct a news paper with notable ability and. success. Certainly there are net a tow in every town, city and country who. however modest they may be in estimating their own abilities, are ready to tell you ex actly how a paper should be managed. Indeed, it is often the case that men whose self-conceit and assurance are only exceeded by their ignorance, are instant and active in obtruding their crude and unwelcome suggestions upon the attention of the painstaking editor who is endeavoring to supply the de mands of the news-mongers and cater to the intellectual wants of tae community, rhe opinion seems to prevail among a certain class, that all that is necessary for the making of .1 newspaper is a print ing presy and suitable material, a suf ficient number of intelligent composi tors, and for an editor—any man who can handle a pair of scissors and write a passable paragraph. Too many forget, or do not know, that in the profession of journalism, as in other professions, a special talent and a special preparation are required. It is generally conceded, that, to become a lawyer of worth, one must not only possess certain mental endowments, but must also understand the principles and be familiar, to a de gree, with the myriad precedents of the law. It is agreed that to he a physician, able to heal diseases, and to invest death with a scientific interest, one must by diligent study acquire a knowledge of the several sciences which make up the science of medicine, to which knowledge must be added the wisdom gained by the intelligent application of these principles in the practice of the healing art. It is generally admitted that the clergyman, whose methods and labors, like those of the editor, are con stantly subjected to captious and carp ing criticisms, is, if he be worthy of his high office, better prepared than the majority of his critics to address him self to the difficulties of his position and deal with the many ponderous and nndemonstrable theorems of his theolo gy. Y’et, strangely enough, it is hard to convince some people that the com petent journalist knows more about his own business than the average relider of a newspaper. They cannot understand that tne editor must not only have a peculiar talent and aptitude for his work, but he must also undergo a spec ial training if not in a college, of jour- nalism, in the dearer and harder and better school of experience. There may be rare geniuses that have stepped into journalistic distinction without having served a severe apprenticeship, hut it must be borne in mind that many a brilliant editorial writer is simply a writer, and not properly an editor, and is only a journalist in so far as he writes fora journal. There lie men who well deserved reputation as writers upon leading metropolitan dailies, who it given charge of a country newspaper would, in all probability, make an utter and inglorious failure. It must l>e noted, however, ami emphasized, that many of the ablest and bnlliantest journalists of our day have been first educated in the school of country journalism. Upon the other hand, it is also true that many a capable and promising country editor has been hidden out of sight under the veil of impersonality, and lost to the world, and forgot, by being merged into the editorial corps of the city daily. I am prepared to assert that the man who ably and properly conducts a coun try newspaper, keeping it at its truest and highest standard of excellency, must possess a rarer combination and versa tility of talents, and have a more varied fund of resources at his command, than is required in any other position he may hold in the field of journalism. The country weekly should be in every whit the equal of the best city paper, so far as the quality of the work is concerned. I can admit of no lower standard. In this competition the daily paper has a decided advantage. By a well regulated and necessary system of division and sub-division of labor each separate de partment of a daily paper is entrusted tn special workers, who have been .«• lected with regard to their peculiar fit ness and qualification for the work assigned, and who are responsible only within their particular spheres. The country journal, with all of its depart ments, is generally in charge of one editor, who must perform a distracting variety of work, which does not often admit of well sustained efforts in any I given direction. We often find a man j who is proprietor, editor, reporter, busi ness manager, solicitor and compositor. ! ft is not unfrequently the case that to I this manifold function are added the 1 offices of printer’s devil and office boy. Indeed, instances might be cited, where, . in addition to this curious conglomerate, I the able editor constitutes a large put of his own subscription list. Many country editors, in older to keep the wolf from the door, are compelled to engage in other employments, which take much of their time and attention from thru putiuals. these facts may serve to explain tn a measure why a greater number of weekly newspaper.: BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA.. JULY 21. 1881. do not attain to a high standard. Any one familiar with newspaper work can readily apprei iate the ditlieulties to which 1 have barely alluded. If any embryo journalist is inclined to be skeptical he can have his doubts elfi-et ually removed by a trial. Let him undertake some day to indite a few thoughtful articles on grave ami im portant subjects, turn a number es pungent paragraphs, pencil oil a eoluiuh of local news items, condense another column if telegraphic news, boil down several badly written and fearfutfv constructed contributions from rm‘,| ■correspondents, write a sly'ish marriage notice, and tearful obituary of a prom ’ineni citizen, furnish a report of court proceedings, mid a detailed account '.of commencement exercises, make a person al mention of distinguished arrivals, cor rect market quotations, dash oil a lotpf notices of new advertisements, answer the numerous vexatious calls made u|rtn him, entertain esteemed subscribers who come to complain or congratulate, ntul his letters and papers, keep his eye in th<' exchange fiend, and be in and oilt if office, anywhere and everywhere at the samemoment of time: let oiirskepticsl friend attempt this, and if at the close of the day he is not conscious of a heavy drain upon his nervous energies, he m:i v consider himself engaged. Ile is wanted. Even when relieved of the biisim* management of the paper, the time »>f the editor can be fully occupied, if l\ ■ be painstaking and thorough. Os courA I refer to journals that ate edited. Th< editor! I work on some weekly exchanges could be done in an hour. When :• paper has several editors, the labor i. divided, ami we have, a right to expect better results, although we do not alwayt find them. We are .all disposed at times t« slight work, especially when we s< that our best eflorts are not properly appreciated. It is easy to get into a careless habit, ami in no department of activity is carelessness nioie sensibly felt. Idleness in a newspaper office i j absolutely inexcusable. Incapacity i. 4 even more tolerable. Either or both will make a newspaper of no account. As in other professions, there are many incompetent iflen in ottrs. 'There are lawyers who aspire to be ornaments to the bar, who would better adorn a hoe handle. There are doctors who would make better pile drivers than pill driv ers. Many a preacher lias inist-'kei. a call to the cotton-field or the brick yard for a call to the ministry. So it is that there are men connected with the mess who would better fill their mission in life if they were pegging shoes, measur ing tape, or engaged in some other equally honorable employment which makes fewer demands upon the brain. The proportion of really imeompetent journalists, however, is not as great as many suppose, and in Tennessee it may bs- said with pride ami pleasure that there is a wealth of journalistic talent, ami that there are very many excellent journals that would do honor to tiny State of any country. No pleasanter duty devolves upon the editor than that of looking through his exchanges. Os course the daily papers with their well filled columns of telegraphic news, ami their generally well considered editorial comments upon current events, stand first in his estimation. These are abso lately indispensable. Through them the country editor keeps himself in formed of what is going on in the world, ami it is the first duty of the journalist to keep informed. Yet his country ex changes are no less acceptable and nec essary. Aside from the information he gleans from them ami the practical in formation they afford him, he enjoys a peculiar personal satisfaction iu receiv ing these weekly visits from his esteemed rural contemporaries. As they are laid on his table, a new interest is given to his labors, and the monotony of the sanctum is broken for a time. They are familiar and constant, visitors and he can name each one of them at a glance be fore the wrappers are removed. Os course he has his favorites. These he opens with pleasurable anticipations that are rarely disappointed. Others he glances over more hastily, and a few, it must lie confessed, he sometimes allows to remain unopened. It would be difficult to properly clas sify and discuss our country exchanges within the limits of this paper. I can therefore only refer briefly to a few characteristics which attract my atten tion at a casual glance, one or more of which may apply in a greater or less degree to this or that contemporary. Here, for instance, is a valued ex change whose able editor exalts and mag iiifies his editorial page, almost to the exclusion of other mailers. His pon derous leaders stretch from column to column, dreary lengths of logic, cheer less deserts of dialectics. He grapples with great problems, wrestles with mighty mysteries. He goes deep into the philosophy of things, and settle.- questions for all time to come, 'flu slightest, political movement draws from his pen an exhaustive dissertation upon the policies of parties. He even writes his editorials a.s serials, ‘‘to be contitim-d in our next.” They are well written and contain a world of information What a pity that they are not read 1 , Here is a journal which furni.-hes ti an illustration of the other extreme The editor is a paragrapher. Ile eschew long articles. If he were to write -: history of the late war, he would put it in a ten or twenty-line paragraph. IL changes his subject as often as a dic tionary. It matters not what the t >p:e may be, it is never too momentous nor too trivial for him. Indeed the raison d'etre of -,omeot In. paim-1 iph.s i- ■ ome times too obscure for any felloiv to find out. He is generally sparkling and witty, and makes capital hits; only occasionally you find yourself dropping a tear over one of his choice bits of humor. Then them is the journal with a hob by. Probably the hobby is the State debt question. For the past ten years its editor has scarcely missed an issue in presenting his views on this novel and captivating subject. He has discussed it in every possible phase, week in and week out, but he has presented thesame idea every time. He might save himself some labor if ho would clip out his last year’s editorials and republish them in the regular order, lie never gets tired of the subject. It has an indescribable and irresistible charm for him. When ie puts his pan to paper he may fall asleep in liis easy chair, and the dutiful pen, out of sheer foiee of habit, will splutter oil'like I 1 lanehette and write an article on the State debt question. Men may come and men may go, but his con stantly recurring platitudeswill g - on for 99 years, or until he pays the debt of nature and gels hold of a new idea in another World. Here isoilr pessimistic friend. Every thing goes wrong in the world, and he takes infinite pains to let the world know that lie is not pleased. Dismission is to reconstruct things, and as he meets with limited success, he grumbles at fate, and makes awful predictions of impending ruin. Strangely enough, however, the sun continues to shine, the stars look down as calmly as evert 'lie seasons come and go, mid the 00-tinate -tinate world persists in wageing on. Several of mv esteemed conteiupora fies have an easy way of writing edi torials. They write with the scissors, which they esteem as mightier than the pen. They give their readers the opin ions of other men and none of their own. This may be a judicious plan, but it would be interesting to have an occa sional opinion from them. It is pleas ant I > note, however, that they generally give the proper credit. I take up from my table a trimmer fur there are trimmers among news papers as there are among politicians. The editor of this paper neverexpresse; mi opinion until he is satisfied that is will be popular. When a question of public importance: is presented lie touch es it in a cautious, evasive way, if he speak of it at all, until he finds out wi-.at the miiißKiliil v will think of it. If a majority regard a proposition fa vorably, he becomes eloquent in itssup po t ; if the indications are clear that a majority condemn it or consider it with disfavor be comes down on it, like a thousand bricks. What the people want lie wants, what the popular mind re jects he rejects without, hesitation. He itoes with the tide and is the only true, genuine, unadulterated and disinterested I iend of the party. Patent applied for. I lore i; a familiar old friend. Itisan organ, a parly organ. It goes for the party right or wrong. It lives lor and on the party ; it would probably die for the party. Whatever the party does is right. Everything in the party is sym metrical and beautiful. The party can didates are gentlemen of extraordinary ability, and of unexampled integrity of character. The opposing candidates are wily demagogues, idiotic numskulls, or designing conspirators, whose sole aim in polities is to undermine the republic, ruin and impoverish the country and wantonly destroy the happiness of the people. Il never publishes an extract from an opposing journal, nor any news item that in any possible way could re flect credit upon the opposing party. Il furnishes its readers with entirely ortho dox matter, which praises its own party leaders and glorifies the party methods. Whatever the party managers dictate the party organ proclaims and supports. J must say that whatever may be its merits, ami” the organ is often very ably conducted, I do not admire its methods. If a country paper must bean organ, it should be the organ of its editor. Be there never so earnest an advocate ol partv principles, he should have inde pendence enough to condemn when cen sure is needed, and be liberal ami char itable enough to commend what is worlhvof commendation, even though it be found in the conduct and purposes of the opposition. I lie power and in fluence of a newspaper depend upon the power mid adaptability of the intellect, which controls it, and to carefully and conscientiously weigh the grave ques tions which tilled lite public interests, ami then to impress his own convictions upon the public mind, directing, mould ing and unifying the public thought, constitute the highest duty and prero gative of the journalist. Os course, in this work there should be no exclusion of the views of others. He should in vite criticism, encourage the. pioper presentation of contrary viewt, and make his paper the free medium for the communication of ideas, and the intel ligent discussion of matters of general interest. By this comparison of views his own opinions, if they be valuable, arc more forcibly impressed upon the public mind, and bis influence and usefulness a- .1 journalist are enhanced. The journal-', upon my exchange list which are avowedly independent of par ties can be counted on one or two fingers. While I think the idea of absolute in dependence is essentially Utopian, there is a degree of independence to be reached which may be very exasperating Io the or cins. The t'-iie idea of independence is to be free to choose between parties, for so long as political parties exist there must be journals to uphold and maintain partv principle-. The inde pendent journal, if it deal with public qtie-limi- it all. mud make a choice, even though it bea choice between evils. When the choice is made, for the time at least, the quality of its independence is decidedly strained. An armed and bristling neutrality falls short of my idea of independent journalism. tu a large majority of country papers the local department is made the leading feature. This is as it should be. The country weekly is essentially a local paper. 11 should give especial attention to home affairs, encourage in every legit imate way the development of home resources, foster home enterprises, and furnish all information of a local char acter that may be of interest to its read ers. How well this function of the paper is utilized is evidenced by the many sprightly, newsy exchanges that come omy table. But this can be carried to extremes, and local journalism presents some curious eccentricities. (tne editor will devote almost his exclusive atten tion to local paragraphs. Hehasacer tain amount of space which must be filled up with strictly local news, whether there is any news or not. No matter how insignificant an occurrence may be, it is sufficient to point a para graph. He pounces on tne trivialest happenings liken duck upon a jnue bug. A runaway horse elicits a feeling of grateful appreciation. A dog light is a bonanza. If an esteemed citizen fall and break his neck the grief of the enterprisintreditor, though profound and heartfelt, does not exclude n bland satisfaction as he rounds off a graphic ami sympathetic description of the occurrence. Business is business, you know. If lie hasn’t anything to tell, he tells it. anyhow, if the times are distressingly dull and things move on so lazily or so harmoniously that nothing will happen to break (lie monotony, he rises equal to the occasion. He manu factures news something after the man tier of making cannon as described by Um Irishman. Said the Irishman. ‘'They take a hole and pour melted iron around it.” So, this editor takes any airy nothing and gives it a living, aggressive substantiality a local habitation and a name. He is sometimes not averse Io making a statement which is in the highest degree improbable. A correction will afford him a paragraph for his next issue. He cares little for the outside world. The historic Isle of Scio may be convulsed by an earthquake and limits amis of ill-fated inhabitants buried under the ruins of their homes, but a notice of the occurrence is crowded out to give place to report of a street squab ble. A revolution might shake Europe to its centre, but it. will receive less attention than farmer Jones’ three legged chicken. Another conteinpo ary lia.-a penchant for personals. He publishes every ar rival and departure, and then to be im partial mentions everybody else, for the, use of whose name he can frame the slightest excuse. If you salute him on the street you get your name in the paper. One might have reason to sus pect that the name of “Col. Blankety Blank, our popular and much esteemed townsman,” and “the beautiful and ac complished Miss So and So” are stereo typed and thrown into the forms when ever there is a Lack of other matter. It cannot be denied that the majority of people like to see their names in the paper. They may deny the soft im peach incut or even express a disgust at such publicity, but in 99 cases out of 100 such denial is sheer affectation. When, however, personal mention be comes so cheap that anybody and every body ■■■ets a benefit, they certainly should, if they do not. be greatly lowered in the public estimation. The personal column is a legitimate and useful feature of a newspaper, but we must all admit tfiat ills unconscionably abused. Some country journals depend almost entirely upon their rural correspondents for local news, and they get it with n vengeance. Time will not permit me to do the average rural correspondent jus tice. He is unique in his methods, in defatigable in his labors, terrible in his importunity. He only needs encourage ment. to be always on hand. I pass him by, for he deserves to be made the special subject of a paper. There is a class of papers which are in one respect identical. I refer to the “patent outside” or “inside,” as the ease may lie. I am not going to inveigh against these papers. Some of them arc among my best, exchanges. I have this to say, however: I think the system a bad one. I think its tendency is not. to elevate journalism. The demand for patent outsides is based upon a wrong idea. 1 hail infinitely rather edit a five col umn |>aper than to edit half of a ten column paper. It is a mistake to sup pose that a large paper is essential to marked success. Some of the very best papers I get are small papers. A few ol them are model country newspapers, ami each one contains more good and well digested matter than two or three of other journals I might name that are twice as large. If I were called upon to start a new paper in a town, upon limit ed means, I would print all of my paper at home, even though it were small, no matter what the competition might be, I would endeavor to the best of my poor ability to pit quality against quantity, knowing that it I fell in the struggle it would only be because I could not fur nish the qunlity of work that is essential to well deserved success, ami not bi eause quality will not win in the long run. Some journals, aud excellent journals, too, have a strange and altogether un necessary practice of sandwiching read ing advertisements with their local new items, and even in some instances with tlufir editorial paragraphs. What can be gained by this I am unable to see |t \Wth Gfeofgfiaii, Published Every Thursday at BELLTON, GEORGIA. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year (52 numbers), $1.00; nix months l°6 numbers) 50 cents; three months (13 numbers), 25 cents. Office in the Carter bttilf hi I, wwit ot th depot. M). 29 is only demanded by advertisers when they have been taught to expect it. It certainly disfigures a paper, and compels the reader to fish industriously for his local news. I don’t think it. is best for the advertisers, it certainly is not for the readers. The reader should be aflbrd ed every facility for getting at the mat ter he wants to read. The classification of matter is the best and only means to this end. 1 like to read advertisements. They are very interesting and profitable reading. But when I want to read news 1 don’t like to be beguiled into reading about Mr. Smith’s ribbons, or the re duced price of Mr. Jones’ cabbage seed. In this connection let me mention a class of advertisements that have became common, ami which are nuisances. I refer to the reading notices of patent medicines, etc., which must, in accord ance with the contract, be made to fol low regular reading matter. Many of these notices have attractive heads, which delude you into the belief that they are readable news items. You think you are reading a choice para graph, only to find at the close that. Hr. Somebody’s cure-all is just Hie thing foi lin'itch. You naturally feel that it is an imposition, mid that you have been treated badly. When I buy any patent medicine I will buy from the man who odvertises in the regular way. The man who tricks me into reading his notice, shall not have a chance to trick mo with his medicine. <lf course I do not mean to imply that every one who adopts this style of advertising is a trickster; far from it. I only say that I condemn the method, and I don't cure how soon the public rebel against it. In this rambling, hastily prepared pa per 1 have dealt chielly with the editor, and have not referred at length to the business man of the paper, a most im portant personage, upon whom the suc cess of the paper largely depends. Whether be bo editor or not, his work demands a thorough practical knowledge and skill. The best edited paper will be of little value without typographical neatness. Many mi editor lias seen his work waste 1 on a badly printed paper. Without skillful management, which brings the money, the editor’s occupation is gone. In throwing out these observations I trust J may not be misunderstood. If I have indulged in some criticisms and pleasant exaggerations of wlia. maybe regarded as some of the faultsand foildes <>f journalists, it is notbecniv*- 1 am silty enough to affect any superior knowledge, or ability, nor (hat I desire to assume the office of censor. Indeed it is not im probable that, I have hoist myself with some of my own petards. 1 owe too much to my contemporaries, and am too sincere an admirer of their excellencies to be guilty of any such folly. Ever since 1 entered the profession of journal ism I have been an earnest and faithful .student, though perhaps a slow learner, and the best teachers I have had and those most valued and esteemed have been my bright faced, ever welcome country exchanges. Timber Planting. To make timber plentiful and to render our climate more genial we must reclothe all rugged, broken land and rocky crests, in fact, every acre that is not cultivated or is cultivated at a loss, with valuable forest trees. First—All ravines and steep hill-sides, all land too rocky to bo thoroughly cleared of stone aud plowed, should be devoted to trees. Second—Protecting belts of timber should be planted wherever buildings, orchards, gardens, etc., are exposed to cold, sweeping winds. Third -The banks of streams, ponds, open ditches, etc., should be so planted with trees that/ they will be protected from abrasion by floods and rapid cur rents. Fourth All public roads should be belted by graceful, stately trees. We should preserve, improve and extend our existing forests by keeping up a constant succession of young grow ing trees of the best varieties. To do this it is necessary: First—To allow no stock to run in wood lots for the purpose of forage. This should be a rule inflexible and relent uess. Second Young growth in forests should be thinned moderately and judi ciously. Worthless varieties should be ent out ami the valuable sorts should ba trimmed up so that they will grow tall, forming trunk rather than branches. Third— Timber should be cut with intelligent reference to future growth. Valuable trees that you wish to propa gate should be cut in the spring. Those that you wish to exterminate should be cut in August.— Profennor Lastenby. Cornell University. A Paris Fancy. A peasant ball is one of the fancies of fashionable Faris. No expenseis spared to give it the proper rustic coloring. All the elegant Parisian furniture is cleared away to give place to deal benches, three-legged stools, and the lik<-; the walls are hung with evergreen garlands and streamers, and in the center the hostess, in all her village bravery, stands receiving her guests, supported by a knot of country officials the Mayor and Municipal Council. Every thing is in keeping; even the beer mid cider which hide the champagne on the rustic rehesliment stull, ami tiie accessories of the inevitable cotillion. After the dance there is a supper, at which distinguished poets, artists, dramatists, and civilians me gathered together, and make brief amt fumiy spe.-ehes. The hoaltli ot the hostess is duly proposed, ami she returns thanks iu the traditional style.