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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISES. BRUNSWICK, . , GEORGIA. PROM ALL SOURCES. A lady will do many things which a gentleman could not bring himself to do. There is no gentlemen in Springfield, for in stance, who could walk through Main street draiiins part of his raiment- on the ground after him Any gentleman would consider himself defiled* by such a performance. No gentleman wouid care to parade the street in such attire that one hand was constantly occupied in reefing the slack of his breeches, after the manner of holding up shirts at the present time. American gentlemen attach the character of gambler oil a man who wears many jewels and rings, and recognize a cognate vulgarity in the lady who similarly -over-pads herself on occasions when personal adornment is not in keeping. What we mean is that there is a modesty and sobriety of attire and even of bearing among recog nized gentlemen which the recognized lady has not yet attained.—Springfield, Republican. It is probable that the project of constructing a ship canal across the isthmus of Darien will ere long assume tangible shape. A large amount of money has been expended by the United States government in surveys mu! voluminous reports, and, in fact, so far has this country gone in the matter that it will not look well to abandon the enterprise to foreign powers, who will surely obtain the honor which the construction of such a valu able world’s highway will give them if the United States does not act. A commission of engineers will meet in Washington next month to take into consideration the various routes which have been surveyed, and they will then make a report in January as to the feasibility of the project. The Colombian government lias made an appropriation for surveys, and has expressed its willingness to co-operate with the United States government in the prosecution of this great work, which is of equal importance with the Suez Canal. Ill the long run the most comfort able people are the most moral. Those who live in good houses and are well fed are they who most obey the decalogue. It has been no ticed in New York, as well as in London, Petkin, and other large cities, that over crowding produces moral degeneracy. Ten years ago Glasgow, Scotland, suddenly awoke to the fact that the criminals in densely pop ulated districts were peculiarly reckless and ferocious; whereupon the city authorities ordered tire destruction of those neighbor hoods and a redistribution of population. In five years four thousand rookeries were condemned and removed, and during the next three years the crimes fell off from 10,- 89.0 to 7,86!)j those who removed to comfort able houses giving up their vicious habits. There seems to be as much science in the | history of crime as in the perturbation of the stars. A raspy Cincinnati woman thus speaks her mind, after a ride on the railroad: “ We have seen the married man, after seat ing Ids wife, leave her and go into the smok ing car, which is prima facie evidence that his love for tohaceo predominates over the •entertainment afforded by his traveling com panion. We have also observed a married man comfortably seat himself alongside an other masculine, while his wife, for the waut of a seat, was left to lean on the arm of the •chair. We have noticed married men, when accompanied by their wives on tire train, occupy their time by reading, or looking vacantly out of the window, instead cf con versing' with their wives ; white at other times, and in company with other ladies, their merry laugh ami repartee could be heard over the shrill whistle of the locomo tive.” The difficulty between England and 'China, which seriously threatened at one time to lead to war, has been adjusted. The Chinese government, yielding to the demands of the British embassador, consents to send a political mission to England, charged with the delivery of a letter to Queen Victoria containing a public and full apology for the past; a commission of inquiry is to he dis patched from Pekin to inquire into the cir cumstances of Mr. Margarv’s murder; this commission is to lie composed of high rank ...■ a of cominnnicaticnbetween Hin-.loosthn. Birmah and China is to he open ed; and foreigners and the foreign trade in China are ut ne tieated hciicefurih m « just and liberal spirit. These are very large con cessions, and denote the conviction'on the part of the Chinese government that “out side barbarians" can no longer be treated with contumely and injustice. The recent attempt of the Turkish government to extricate itself from financial embarrassment by an act of repudiation has stirred up the creditors to such an extent that if the Porte holds to the plan of sup pressing half the interest on the debt of one thousand millions and giving the bondhold ers bonds at five per cent, at par, in lieu thereof, it is very likely that the governments who hare been furnishing the Sultan money lor his harems and summer palaces will come to the conclusion that it does not pay to uphold a rotten, Asiastic government in Europe. Turkish five per cents, are now down to 29, and holders of those securities who take 2 X A per cent, in each and 2M in bonds will naturally suffer very materially It will be hard for Turkey to obtain a new loan. The birth of a daughter to the duchess of Edinburgh increases the tally of the queen’s grandchildren to twenty-seven, twenty-four of whom are still alive, and that of her total living progeny to thirty-three, including three unmarried children and the Princess Louise, who is married but without family. The duke and duchess of Edinburgh were married at St. Petersburg, January 23, 1874, and the first child, a son, was horn to them upon the 15th of the following October. Tiie cost of maintaining a limited monarchy in England is apparently increasing at an alarming ratio. The expenditures of the postoffice is a subject of much concern to the postmaster general, and it does not seem to be easy to reduce the annual charge of $8,000,000 upon the treasury. The increase of postage re ceipts, instead of being 5 per cent, as used to be customary, has' fallen to \\i per cent. This is largely attributed to a decrease of letter postage consequent upon the depres sion in business, hut is partly attributable to the loss to the revenue by franking the coun try newspapers. Prof. R. W. Raymond, the mining commissioner, sets the yield of gold and silver for four years, from all of our territo ries as follows: 1860 $61,600,000 I 1871 $66,663,000 1870 66,000,000 | 1872 63,943,857 Since then the yield has been about an average of these four years, until this year, when it was believed that it would be in creased to nearly $100,000,000. To what ex tent the fire at Virginia City will influence the product can not yet be determined. Some light is wanted in Porto Rico. The authorities do not like Freemasonry. La Monde Macconnique states that fourteen persons have been convicted of violating the ordinances-of religion promulgated from the Vatican by being Free Masons, and have been variously stntenced to four and two yens’ imprisonment. High-stepping goals for initiation purposes are evidently not wanted down that way. Also, greasy poles. It must be delightful to live in Nica ragua. The whole country is overrun with robbers who quietly select their plunder, place it in boats and vehicles, and his them away to new fields. Last mouth a party of them entered the town of San Jan del Norte, perforated the governor with -bullets, whipped the police, and broke down the jail doors and liberated all the prisoners. If Senor Soto intends to take Nicaragua into his new Central American republic, there will have to be some heavy reconstruction done to make the companionship safe. The steady and rapid growth of the wealth of New Yerk has scarcely any par allel in the history of commerce. We hold the commercial sceptre over 40,000,000 peo ple. We are the principal factor of a coun try which grows 4,000,000 bales of cotton, and the quantity is constantly increasing. It is to a certain extent a national monopoly. Without it the manufacturing wealth of England would languish and gradually be- become almost extinct.—New York World. It is said that in Cochin China the men’s and women’s dresses are so much alike that it is almost impossible to say wliieh is which, and that lately several French officers having proposed for the hand and fortune of natives, discovered that they had proposed for the hand of the sterner sex. For the future, therefore, the men are to have their hair tied with a different colored ribbon from that of the ladies. The impression prevails in some parts of the country that the printing of actional currency 1ms been discontinued especially as to the denominations of ten and fifty cents. There lias been a delay in printing a new plate of the fiftv-cent notes necessary on account of counterfeits, hut the printing of all other issues, according to n Washington telegram, is proceeding as usual. It is impossible for Moody and San key to accept the pressing invitations that reach them from almost every city in the United States. The pressure upon them is tremen dous. Every city, east and west, thinks that it has the most urgent necessity for them, that it is the very best place for tnem to work in, and is sure to reward them with signal success. The Temecula Indians are all right now. Commissioner Smith has authorized the expenditure of $500 to relieve them. This is about seventeen cents and a fraction apiece. It is to be hoped that they won't spend the money in reckless extravagance and riotous debauchery. Iu order to evade the Maine liquor law an ingenious contrivance has been in vented at Bangor. It consists of a barrel within a barrel, furnished with a faucet, which, when turned one way supplies sweet eider, and when turned in another supplies lager beer. BIGOTRYm TRADE. TUe Commercial Standing of the Hebrew Race. A weekly contemporary sees fit to make recent failures in the dry goods market the text for a homily on the trade morals of Hebrew merchants. For our own part, we are unable to see the sense of classifying merchants, or judging their honesty, by their religious creeds. Experience does not warrant the conclusion that trade honor has any very direct dependence on private be liefs ; and it is therefore as gratuitous as it is invidious to charge that failures and bad settlements belong to one class or sect more than another. When in sinuations of this kind are made, the insinuators need to institute a little self investigation; for there is reason enough to suspect that religious bigotry—the most petty and ungenerous of all sins— has got the better of them. The truth is that the worst of recent failures must be sought outside the class thus stig matized. The Hebrews, we presume, make as many bad failures as any other class; but, if for this they are to be held up for exclusive censure, it would seem to imply that they are to be judged by a higher moral standard than others; to which we must demur. If, however, the Jewish religion alone must be held responsible for the trade sins of its disciples, in all fairness let it have the credit of the large majority who are innocent of such transgressions. Our merchants do not need to be told that, among the merchants and bankers of this city, Hebrews occupy no sec ondary position for honor and probity. Indeed, if among so much false bigotry the truth may be spoken, in proportion to their numerical standing the world over, there is no other class that ap proaches this in its wealth and its com mercial and financial power. Provi dence has taken care that this sort of success shall not come of dishonesty; and with such an implied endorsement, the Hebrews may afford to feel indiffer ent to the sort of flings in which our contemporary indulges. —New York Bididin. Prosperity in France. Work, work, work, is the order of the day in France. You see it in Paris, you see it in the provinces, imprinted in every face, and on every feature of the country. “Labor, improbus la bor,” is the all-powerful impulse which predominates over and occupies the population at the present moment; emancipated as it is from, and, as I have said, disgusted with, for the nonce at least, the troubles and tur moils of glory abroad or sedition at home. Providence, too, fortunately, has come in aid of these better and repentant feelings and efforts, and has crowned them and the year with an abundant harvest, an increased fruit crop and a splendid vintage. The consequences of this happy combination of national industry and fruitful sea sons are becoming everywhere con spicuous. Capital abounds and money is to be had almost for the asking. I cited last week two or three examples of the way in which public subscrip tions are filled in a few hours. The other day it was a sight to see the crowds of blouses and bonnets, men and women of the working classes, thronging the Bureaux to invest their savings in the new lines of Paris tram ways, which they regard, of course, as peculiarly theirown affair, and intended specially for their convenience. Build ing operations, too, have burst forth again almost with fnreur, stimulated by high prices and the rise in rentals, which, high as they were before, have just made another decided step in ad vance. I have mentioned before the large increase in the Paris octroi, which, levied as it mainly is, upon the neces saries and comforts rather than the luxuries of life, shows increased means and consumption on the part of the industrious classes. The payment in advance of direct taxation is larger than it has ever been before; and the returns up to the present month of the general revenue of the country display an excess of little less than one hundred millions over the preceding year. What a pity it is, one feels almost tempted to exclaim, that the French people can not be persuaded to let “ war and politics ” alone, not for “ a time ” only, but for “ all time!”—Paris Cor. of Phil adelphia Press. England and the Eastern Question. John Lemoinne, writing in the Journal des Debats, says: Every one must have been struck by the rapidity and facility with which England has thrown her traditional Eastern policy overboard, and the public has seen the country for which the integrity of the Ottoman Empire had so long been a dogma become suddenly the first to call for the dismantling of the crumbling edifice. There are several reasons for this sudden change. In the first place, the English, who are a positive people, do as the rats do which forsake a falling house; in the second place, they calcu late that if they still wanted to save the integrity of Turkey they would he obliged to do so alone. Hence they are ready to give up portions of the Ottoman Empire that some part of it may remain, and to make every kind of sacrifice in order that the eternal East ern question may not crop up while they are isolated. The war of 1854 and 1855, the Crimean expedition, and the siege of Sebastapol were episodes of the personal policy of Napoleon IID From a dynastic point of view, in an interest absolutely distinct from that of France, it was a rather clevercowp, for it was tantamount to the dissolution of the old coalition of Europe against the Empire. It was, in fact, the price )aid for the English alliance. The Smperor of Russia did not believe,nor would he ever believe, that England could become the active ally of a Napoleon. He refused to believe it up to the Inst moment, and hurried on the war. That blunder, dearly paid for, has since been repaired in the dis asters of France, and England, left alone, has seen the treaty of Paris torn to shreds and seen Russia retake jossession of the Black Sea. Now, if at the present time the integrity of the Ottoman Empire was menaced, France would not have the same mo tives for recommending the Eastern campaign, We have something else to do, and England would have to un dertake the job single-handed. It is clear she is not disposed to undertake it, and that explains the change in her attitude and language. The Home Doctor. One ounce alcohol, two drachms cayenne pepper, one ounce kerosene oil; let it stand twenty-four hours after mixing. It cures the worst toothache ever known. Depression of Spirits.—Sal Vol atile, combined with camphor, is more efficacious than most remedies in affording relief in depression of spirits, heartburn, spasms, palpitations, etc. A simple remedy for neuralgia is hoi’seradish. Grate and mix it in vin egar, the same as for table purposes, and apply to the temple when the face or head is affected, or the wrist when the pain is in the arm or shoulder. A French physician expresses his preference for lemon juice, as a local application in uiptheiia, to chlorate of potash, nitrate of silver, perehloride of lime water. He uses it by dipping a little plug of cottonwood, twisted around a wire, in the juice, and press ing it against the diseased surface four or five times daily. A wit once asked a peasant what part he performed in the great drama of life, “I mind my own business,” was the reply. It is computed that 18,000,000 hogs will go into the pork barrels of the United States before January 1st.