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01(1 Ladies and Dress.—It is a greatly-mis
taken idea that when a person grows old, they
1 should cease to pay attention to dress. As well
say they should cease to attempt to please their
friends, for no one will deny that dress plays an
i important part in the art of pleasing. The young
j can afford to be careless: youth will compensate
in a great measure for - deficiencies in taste and
finish: but an elderly woman must be scrupu
lous. She should study the artistic relations of
dress, the harmony of well-chosen, low-toned
tints; the softening effect of delicate lace; the ordered beauty of type, seems to have secured
brightening influence of an occasional dash of general recognition as an authority and its in
color on a sober back-ground. The French troduction as a text-book into many of the best
I , . , ,, . .. .. . , ... , literary institutions. But it was not a book
woman understands this perfectly-intuitively, with w J hich to begin the studv of Lfttin , ^ no
we cannot help deciding. The old French ladies companion books moulded by the same author,
are charming. Without being artificial, in the and thus harmonizing in spirit and method with
the grammar best adapted to elementary study,
Ci.b R.fs—ci.b. Of 4 and .pw.rd. can the mountain’s foot, and gushing from beneath
receive the paper at $2.50 each. a boulder of messy rock.
For a Club ot 5 at S3.0« each, or a Clnb of Ascending the path, which was now of solid,
10 at $2.30, we will send an extra copy one , glittering stone, now of broken rocky steps,
| worn bare of its crusting mosses by the tread of
many feet, we rambled leisurely through the
j belt of grand woods that girdles the mountain's
j waist with its dark green, now aflame with the
fiery splendors of autumn.
A Snnday Upon Stone Mountain.—Last Sun
day was such a delicious, golden day—surely
the loveliest of the Indian summer. Of course,
we ought to have gone to church in our best
bonnet and newest pin-back, but the day was
so holy in its beauty and serenity, that we longed
to spend it face to face with God and nature,
in a temple built by His own hands. And
where could be found a grander temple than
Stone Mountain ?—that mighty, granite isolation,
lifting against the sky its bald forehead seamed
by storm and scarred by lightning, in dumb,
pathetic loneliness and Sphinx-like mystery.
With a flock of happy children and two or three
child-hearted elders, we climbed the mountain
while the dew yet glistened on the ferns and
cedars; after drinking full draughts of delicious
water from the spring hid in a chestnut grove at ; sense of such coarse adjuncts as rouge, enamel,
“ plumpers,” etc., their dress yet exhibits the per
fection of art. The delicate gray hair is puffed
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For some years. Professor Gildersleeve’s Latin
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of brilliant attainments. The first edition showed
the quality of his book; but the revised edition
of 1872, in an entirely new typographical dress,
at once pleasing to the eye and greatly facili
tating the convenience of the learner by its well
[For The Sunny South.)
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
The Marine Band—The White Hou*e—Who
Will he the Sext President !-Ex-Governor
•Joseph E. Brown—Public Schools—Colum
bian University, etc.
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See the announcement of new stories, in the
last column of the eighth page. They will be the
most thrilling and instructive of any romances
yet published in an American journal.
Mrs. Bryan begins this week her brilliant soci
ety novel, entitled “Fighting Against Fate, or
Alone in the World.” It will be something of
a sequel to her “Haywood Lodge,” published
with such fine effect a few years since, but wholly
independent and complete within itself.
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A Slight Inconsistency.—Mr. Par ton, in one
of the suggestive papers he is now writing for
the Illustrated Weekly, asserts that “our great
republican government ” exhibits a lamentable
decadence — a corruption and laxity which is
wholly due to over-growth.
The Galaxy for September, in its “Nebulous”
pages, echoes Mr. Parton—admits the fact of a
“fearful decadence,” and declares that it is not
the legitimate result of a republican form of
government, but the consequence of too great
and too rapid aggrandizement.
It seems that in her greed of wealth and pow
er, the republic, like a voracious boa constrictor,
has swallowed more food than it can assimilate;
that it has increased in territory and population
at a rate altogether beyond its ability to bear,
and consequently there is “rottenness in Den
mark.” It is true that hundreds of thousands
of emigrants have poured in upon the republic
during the last forty years, and that half a con
tinent has been added to its territory when there
seemed to be already more land and population
than could be properly governed. To this enor
mously rapid increase, it is claimed, is due the
unsoundness which is deplored. It is owing to
this, according to the Galaxy, that there has been
suoh a “loosening of the bonds of government
and of society as never took place before in a
whole people and within such a period,” until
“ subordination of all kinds is swept away,
money is made the measure of everything, poli
tics has become a mere money-making business,
and the people are given up a prey to political
sharpers and unprincipled mediocrities.”
All of these evils, we are told, are to be ascribed
to the over-grown state of the republic, which
has “sprawled and weakened;” but we hear no
hint of any admission that the South acted with
wisdom and forethought when she sought to
withdraw herself from this over-grown body pol
itic and set up a tight little republic of her own.
We hear no intimation that such a course might
have been better for both sides, although it is
plainly asserted, that if the republic were smaller
in territory and population, it would be sounder
and more compact, morally and materially.
What, then, was the great wrong in our little
attempt at making it smaller? And why the re
cent ebullition of bitterness against the “arch
rebel ” who, it is said, concocted the diabolical
scheme of seceding—of lopping off a portion of
the “over-grown ” government,—doing, in fact,
the very thing that is now admitted would have
been better for the country ? *
Tyrfinfs.—Apropos of Mr. Davis, an Indiana
exchange, indulging in a string of vituperation
concerning the ex-chief, winds up by calling him
a “born tyrant,” who would have “exercised an
iron rule over the South if he could have suc
ceeded in wresting it from the government.”
We are not so sure that “tyrant” is the ugliest
name the writer could have applied to Mr. Davis.
The tyrant is sometimes a public benefactor. A
little sagacious tyranny of the Bismarck, or even
of the Fmncia type, might have been very whole
some for the projected Southern Confederacy,
as it might possibly be for the present nonde
script government. It requires the tyranny of
able, far-seeing, administrative ability, or rather
genhis, to mould the discordant elements of a
people into shape—to organize or reconstruct a
government. Such was the genius of Pisistra-
tus, of Francia, of Bismarck—tyrants all. Such
a tyrant the country needs at present—inspired
by high ambition rather than lust of money—too
Far up the mountain-side, and just below the
bleak and bald summit, there smiles a green
! oasis in the desert of rook—a fertile nook, bor
dered with lush mosses, shaded by cedar trees
and swinging grapevines, and carpeted with
grass.
Here, the youngest of our troop—a two years’
old urchin, whose sturdy legs had carried him
bravely all the way, with an occasional lift from
our merry-hearted guide—dropped to sleep with
his little hands full of berry branches; and an
impromptu bed was made for him of a bright-
colored shawl, spread on the abundant grass, and
an armful of odorous pine-tops put beneath it
for a pillow. The others w andered off, and we
were left to keep watch over the little sleeper,
and to enjoy to the full the glorious view spread
below us, and the magical calm and dreamy soft
ness of the hour.
It was the culminating charm of the day to
lie upon the soft sward in this green, silent spot,
far up on the mountain-side, and send thought
and sight out over the grand prospect of billowy
hills and wooded valleys and green plains, that
stretch away to the blue distance; w’here the far-
off mountain-peaks are outlined against the opa
line sky, and a faint line, like a slender finger
against the horizon, marks the loftiest spire of
busy Atlanta. At the mountain’s foot, nestles
the little village (its namesake) asleep, it seems,
in the afternoon sun, for not one of its sounds
of life floats up to this calm height;—yes, there
is a sound, the deep, solemn note of a bell
single toll comes up through the profound hush;
another, and another; and now we see a funeral
procession (dwarfed to insect dimensions by the
distance) wind out from the village, and enter
in at the white gate set in the green of the burial-
ground. The fever and fret of life is over to
some poor mortal, and he goes to sleep in the
bosom of the earth that seems to-day so calm
and beautiful a resting-place.
How small seems life, its cares and triumphs,
when contemplated in the face of this grand,
eternal nature—of these sublime heights, these
heaped-up, rocky masses, that might serve as
the cenotaph of dead Titans! When Jesus of
Nazareth spoke to the multitude of the vanity of
earthly things, no marvel that he chose the
Mount of Olives as his sanctuary. Nature sup
plemented even his words, “who spake as never
man spake.” And when the great Hebrew
prophet yielded up a life that an Egyptian prin
cess had nourished—when Moses, the statesman,
the poet, the inspired leader who had sacrificed
princely rank to be the deliverer of his enslaved
people—when he succumbed to death, was it not
fitting that it should be upon Nebo’s lonely
heights, with no eye but God’s to behold him?
“And was it not high^lonor,
The mountain side his pall,
The gray old rocks his mourners.
The stars his tapers tall,
And God’s own hand in that lonely land
To lay him in the tomb ?”
We descended the mountain as the sun sank
in gold and purple splendors, flooding the
mountain’s summit with rosy light. “You did
not go to church,” said a friend, reproachfully;
“you did not hear Dr. Stone’s good sermon.”
No, we did not; yet we felt that we had that day
listened to an impressive “sermon upon the
mount,” *
into “feathery curls; cascades of lace hide the
hollows and repair the ravages of time; tender
shades approach the cheek.without outraging it. ”
English elderly ladies, wa are told, follow with
more or less success in the same train; but the
For the Latin Exercise Book was not regarded
as a convenient and sufficient first book, but as
an admirable collateral book of Latin composi
tion, suited to the different stages of advance
ment of pupils who had taken their first steps.
An attempt has now been made by the author
to furnish just the guidance beginners need.
His two new books have come to our table. We
“German woman shows her bald patches, her " e & la(1 ‘° see t that tbe J" ■» b ?‘ b sma11 and
1 ’ -1 cheap, eacn containing less than 200 pages,
unattractive throat, her awkward figure without -
disguise and without remorse. No cap covers
the wisp of hair, which is all that usually remains
to her out of an abundant chehelure; there is nei
ther grace nor dignity in her gown; coarse collars
and crochet frills tumble helplessly on her elderly
shoulders. ‘What does it matter?’ is plainly
written in the general neglect, which strikes one
The Latin Primer has been constructed, the
author tells us in his preface, in accordance with
principles believed to be of first importance in
elementary Latin classes: Maximum of forms,
minimum of syntax, and early contact with the
language in mass. In the first part, the pupil
learns the ordinary forms of declension of nouns
and adjectives, together with the indicative
mood of sum and the active voice of the four
conjugations, aided by skillfully prepared exer-
less as an absence of vanity than as a want of cises by which the learner applies and fixes in
self-respect.” mind his knowledge of the forms. We notice
—* T , . ... ., , , i that the words and subjects of these exercises
^e have now in our mind s eye, an old lady are furnished by the sto J ries and fables which a
whose dress was always the perfection of sim- little later are presented to the pupil, and thus
plicity, which is also the perfection of art. A
sweet freshness and harmony always reigned all
through her attire. The drabs and silver-grays
were relieved by the soft, semi-transparent frills
of lace or muslin at throat and wrists, and the
beautiful, undyed, gray hair was half covered by
a cap of real black lace. The materials of her
dress were always well-chosen—soft and yield-,
ing, such as would fall in folds of dignity and
grace.
“It is sweet,” says a pleasant writer, “to see
that a woman is careful for others long after per
sonal vanity is extinct- that she arranges her
prapeau de vielle femme gracefully, and still
adorns the world (with which she is almost
done) by a gracious presence.
he is prepared for an easy and more interesting
reading of them as he finds them further on.
These exercises seem to begin in a simple form
and to be well graduated. The distinction of
the declensions by stern characteristics, rather
than simply by the termination of the genitive,
may not at first impress favorably the teacher
accustomed to the old method only; but we have
noticed that it is the method of all the new gram
mars, and is undoubtedly the true and scientific
method. ~ When 'studied "and understood by the
teacher, its apparent difficulties largely disap
pear. The four or five interlinear tables found
near the beginning of the book, render material
aid in interesting young pupils and familiariz
ing them with Latin words in association with
their corresponding English equivalents.
The second part of the Primer, continuing
and completing the study of the regular forms
of inflections of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and
| verbs, with illustrative exercises, introduces the
,, . ... j T j - „ « m | more common syntactical rules, and, also, with
Lamest llle anil the Grand Lodge, I.O.L.T. i each chapter, a fable or story in a complete form,
The recent session of the Grand Lodge of j with references to notes at the end. Special
Good Templars in the thriving little city of alphabetically arranged vocabularies accompany
Gainesville was perhaps the most marked and
pleasant ever held in the State. The citizens
manifested great hospitality in entertaining the
delegates, and succeeded in making every one
enjoy the visit. We -were surprised and de
lighted at the evidences of thrift and general
the exercises; and at the end of the book are
complete general Latin English and English
Latin vocabularies. A careful review of the book
seems to us to reveal a very simple, interesting,
naturally developed, practical course for begin
ners, which will solidly ground well-taught pu
pils in the rudiments of Latin, and prepare them
for subsequent rapid and intelligent progress.
I despatch you these dots from the Secretary’s
room in the Executive Mansion, where a number
of ladies and gentlemen have assembled, by in
vitation. to hear the m usic of the Marine Band,
which is now pouring its enchanting strains into
the ear of the enthusiastic thousands who cover
the green on the south side of the White House.
This national band is composed of seventy-five
members, whose official costume consists of
blue caps, red coats, and white pants during the
summer season. It is supported by the govem-
i ment, and is brought into service on all state
occasions. But on every Saturday evening, in
the hot months, it discourses on the Executive
grounds for the free entertainment of the public.
Accordingly, the people of Washington account
it a choice privilege to be present at one of these
brilliant performances. This is, by common
consent, the best national band, but not the best
band in the nation. Here is the programme cf
the evening:
1. National air; 2. March—Brizzi; 3. Over
ture-Poet and Peasant—Suppe; 4. Soubrette—
Mazurka — Corradi; 5. Prelude — Rigoletto —
Verdi; 6. Grand Waltz—Kiler Bela; 7. Fantasia,
from Huguenots — Meyerbeer; 8. Serio-comic
Fantasia — Ringleben; 9. Le Redezvoue de
Chasse—Rossini; 10. National air.
The White House now wears an air of solitude
and gloom. The President and family have
been absent since the tenth of June, and the
whole building is undergoing a process of reno
vation. The rooms are stripped of their rich
and costly carpets and curtains, the handsome
walnuts and mahoganies are removed for safe
keeping, and the magnificent chandeliers are all
covered from sight, and washing, painting and
papering are the order of the hour. You are
aware that there is a project on foot to erect a
Presidential mansion of more modern style on
one of the suburban eminences of the city, and
to use the present edifice solely for business pur
poses. The execution of this conception would
prove an ornament to the country. The old
White House, as a piece of architecture, is sadly
out of taste; and then, it affords inadequate ac
commodations for the President’s family. Apart
from that portion of the building which is used
for State occasions, cabinet meetings, secretaries’
and clerks’ offices, there are about ten rooms
left for the use of the household of the Execu
tive. We are told that when Mrs. Sartoris and
Fred are here with their families, it taxes the in
genuity and taste of Mrs. G. to provide suitable
quarters.
Will the next President of the United States be
a Democrat or a Republican ? This is becoming
an exciting topic in the political and social cir
cles of Washington, and the wiseacres say that
the solution of this problem depends largely
upon the conduct of the Democracy in the next
Congress. If wisdom and prudence mark their
councils, certain victory is before them; but if
they should abandon themselves to rashness and
folly, they may lose the golden prize of 1878.
The Republicans will make a death-struggle to
retain their rule, and it behooves the Democrats
to wake up and work unitedly and vigorously in
the approaching Presidential canvass. God give
them a safe and speedy deliverance.
Speculations are rife to-day as to who will be
the successor of Secretary Delano. Twenty
names are mentioned, but the “coming man”
city among the hills. Within two years its taxa- be abundantly prepared to use the Giam
ble property has increased from $86,000 to $880,- mar anc * ® eader-
bales to 5,000, and the population from 350 to
2,500. During the past summer, there were from
700 to 800 visitors there at one time.
this appointment upon him. It is my fixed pur
pose not to participate in political scrambles
here, but I believe it would be doing a good ser
vice to the whole country if a gentleman of such
comprehensive intellect and pure patriotism was
connected with the Cabinet. Such an appoint-
Tlieatrlcals — Templeton.—On last evening,
we had the pleasure, for the first time, of seeing
that remarkable child, little Fay Templeton, and
have only time and space to say that she is cer
tainly a prodigy on the stage. In all her songs,
dances, medleys, duos, imitations, etc., it is hard
to realize that she is only a child. Her move
ments are remarkably graceful, and we have
only to fear that she may indulge too frequently
in the cafe chantant style. But she pleases every
body, and is peculiarly fascinating in all her
many roles.
The entertainments given by this troupe are
not only excellent, but new and charming. We
hope they may soon revisit Atlanta, when we
shall take pleasure in speaking of the special
and distinctive merits of each leading character.
Until then, we shall preserve the photographs of
little Fay and her most pleasant mother upon
our mantle, to remind us of a most charming
evening spent in witnessing one of their artistic
and deeply interesting entertainments.
prosperity everywhere in this wide-awake little A pupil who has studied the Primer thoroughly I |? t y et revealed. My choice is Governor Jos.
° 1 E. Brown, Atlanta, and if the matter is not de
cided before the President returns from the
, The Latin Reader contains fables, after £s<ip, ' \ Vest > 1 wiU take ^e responsibility oppressing
000, and its trade from $30,000 annually to $600,- j and of the heroic age. Stories, De Gestis Alex-
000. Its cotton receipts have increased from 8 | andria (from Curtis), and the Fifth Book of Cae
sar’s Gallic Wat. References to the grammar
are found everywhere, and the Fifth Book of Cae
sar has a very full syntactical commentary on
same page with the text, furnishing an admir- . , „
The session of the Grand Lodge was a marked a . ble drill in Latin syntax for pupils who, by the “ el ^ would l ,r ° ve a P eace measure between the
success in every particular. The character of foTufprotitabie‘SL^ThTro are^to * The public schools here are now infull blast,
the representations from the different lodges was a ma p Q f Gallia Septentrionalis, notes and a full a , tbe supply of schools unequal to the demand,
remarkably good. Many of the best men of the ! vocabulary. Congress pays part of the expenses involved in
We need attempt no description of the gram- i _ e * r support, and the district the residue.
.a™ a _n e i a ■ mar whose excellencies have been tested in nu-
among them, and all seemed to feel a deep in-
. 1 merous class-rooms,
terest in the objects which brought them to- We have thought we could not do our readers
gether A finer-looking and more intelligent who are interested in classical teaching a better
gathering of Georgians has not been seen in i service than by giving them the leading points
m Professor Gildersleeve s new books, whose
many days. A condensed report of the proceed
ings will appear next week.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The ticket agents have made a small reduction
upon railroad fares.
That was a singular phenomenon at Los
Cances of a water-spout destroying the town.
Mr. Thwaite was elected to fill the vacancy
in the Parliament caused by the death of Henry
M, Fielder.
The Massachusetts Democrats, asembled in
convention at Worcester, re-nominated the Hon.
Wm. Gaston for Governor.
The Massachusetts Republicans, in Worcester,
the 29th of September, declared for a return to
specie payments, and against a third term.
The Canadian fisheries commission have fig
ures proving that Canada’s claim from the
United States is at least $7,000,000 per annum.
The cap of General Cleburne, who fell at the
battle of Franklin, Tenn., has been presented to
the Tennessee Historical Society by Col. John
McGavock.
A St. Paul alderman has been ignominiously
expelled from his seat for accepting ten dollars
for his influence in getting a man appointed
watchman.
Shawls which sold last year for $1,000 have
been marked down to $600, but there are hun
dreds of women who, regardless of this reduc
tion, will suffer from the cold this coming winter.
Mr. Wade, the British Minister, has intima
ted to the Chinese Government that if his de-
marked excellencies must soon secure for them
a wide introduction into schools that can appre
ciate good books.
It may be of interest to some who have not
a personal knowledge of the author’s qualifica-
: tions for the work he has done in these books,
to add that he bears an exalted reputation among
American scholars, having been graduated with
honors in 1849, at Princeton College, New Jersey,
and subsequently devoting years to the study of
the ancient languages in the Universities of Ger
many, and taking in 1853 the degree of Ph. D.,
at Gottingin, with highest honors; and now,
: having been for nearly twenty years brought in
j contact with other minds, as an educator occupy-
j ing the chair of Greek and Latin in the Univer
sity of Virginia.
It is gratifying to find a man willing and able
to come down to the needs of young students,
and from his ample stores arrange so skilfully ;
and attractively helps to elementary study. We j
believe it is some ten years since he began work j
on his grammar, and this last little work, the
Latin Primer, the most difficult to make well, is
the ripest fruit of these years of study, experi
ence in teaching, and practice in book-making.
Latin and Greek are not taught, and the reading
of the Bible and prayer constitute the introduc
tory services of each day. The Protestants de
mand such devotional exercises.
The Columbian University is also in session,
with rather flattering prospects. It has recently
received an endowment of several hundred
thousand dollars, which will give it a new impe
tus. Mr. Corconan, our wealthy banker, during
the past year, made it a donation of one hundred
thousand dollars.
Washingtonians are returning rapidly from
their summer retreats, and the churches are fill
ing up with hearers aglow with life and health,
and the streets are once more ablaze with the
glitter of wheels. Most of the heads of depart
ments and foreign ministers are now resuming
their duties, and are preparing for the brilliant
entertainments of the winter. The President
and family are expected back about the middle
of next month.
Push on The Sunny Soutth till its radiant
beams illuminate the firmament of letters.
David Wills.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 25, 1875.
Parental Love.
Scientific Agriculture. By E. M. Pendleton, M. D.,
Professor of Agriculture and Horticulture in the Uni
versity of Georgia. A. S. Barnes & Co., Publishers.
Every farmer in the land should have this
book. Its practical deductions are excellent,
and the demand of the age is scientific farmers.
The book is divided into eight parts, covering,
in an exhaustive manner, the anatomy and phys
iology of plants, agricultural meteorology, chem
istry of soils, fertilizers and natural manures,
etc. We are gratified to know that it has been
No love is so tender and true as the love our
parents give us, and for none are we so ungrate
ful. We tako it as a matter of course, as some
thing we deserve. Especially may our mothers
toil and deny themselves, think all night and
labor all day, without receiving any thanks what
ever. From the time she walks all nights with us,
while we cry, to the day that she helps us to make
our wedding dress and gives us those cherished
pearls she wore in her girlhood, we do not half
recognize her love for us. Never until we are
parents ourselves do w r e quite comprehend; yet,
is there anything like it ? The lover may desert
us for some brighter beauty; the husband grow
indifferent when we have been his a little while;
the friend be only a summer friend, and fly when
riches vanish, or when we are too sad to amuse;
len to me uninese vroveriimein mat, n ins u - adopted as a text-book at Amherst, Massachu- V>ut our Barentslove us best in our sorrow and
mands are not complied with at once, he will sett £ the leadin „ agricultural college of the ? arentf V° Ve _ us beat ' ln “5
. ,, , . . j- - setts, the leading agricultural college of the
leave Pekin. The prospects for war are increas- North . also by the Universities of Mississippi
“g- and Georgia.
Next week Hon. John C. New will forward 1 President Robinson, of Brown University, R.
four millions of currency to California. This L, says of this book: “It is scientific in method
hold ns dearer for any change or disfigurement.
There isn’t much of "heaven here on earth, but
what there is of it is chiefly given in a parent’s
love.
Brilliant Letters.—Don’t fail to read the
i tally excellent letters of this issue. Our special
proud to be flattered by sycophants, too strong New York correspondent. Mrs. Mel. R. Colquitt, and arelikelyroremaTn'so foVsomeTime.
1 looks as if the gold basis, to which California
has so obstinately adhered, were about to be
abandoned.
The testimonial funeral of ex-President John
son took place at Nashville on the 2d instant.
It was grand and imposing. After all, this
shows that the bitter enmity against him in life
was only superficial.
After a loss of nearly forty day's time, the
working men and women at Fall River have
proposed to work at the company’s terms. One
or two mills have started, but the most are idle,
as well as in manner, comprehensive in plan,
natural and logical in manner, compact and lucid
in its statements. It must be useful both as a
text-book in agricultural colleges, and as a hand
book for intelligent planters and farmers.”
Professor Buckham, of the University of Ver
mont (Department of Chemistry), says: “I am
A telegram from Erie, Pa., says: “Great ex
citement still prevails here over the raising of
Commodore Perry’s flagship, the frigate Law
rence, and crowds of people still visit the old
ship. Workmen are engaged in cleaning her,
preparatory to taking her to Philadelphia. Nu
merous relics are hourly being discovered on
to be led by intriguers, great enough to compre
hend the animus of the nation us a whole—to un
derstand its needs and its tendencies, with room j
enough in his brain for but one great plan and !
purpose—that of conserving the strength of the ;
nation in every part, and constructing a govern- |
ment that should fill the requirements of the j
hour. Such a “tyrant ” we need now fora polit- j
pical savior. Where is he to be found? Echo j
J answers, where?
is writing us some of the very best letters from
the n:< tropolis we have ever seen in any journal.
Our Louisville correspondent is also exceedingly
happy in all her communications.
Rev. David Wills, D. D.—We invite special
attention to the interesting letter of our “Wash
ington City Editor,” Dr. Wills. He is urging
ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, for a position
in the Cabinet.
Mr. John Feiten, in Ohio, a few days ago
broke his son-in-law’s back in the effort to con
vince him that he must stop drinking. The son-
in-law died the next day, and now Mr. Feiten
regrets the force of his argument.
The Turks and the insurgents are getting
down to hard blows of war. The black flag has
been raised from the beginning. The fanatical
Moslem has seldom fought under any other. In a
recent fight, the insurgents captured sixty pris-
greatly pleased with the method and matter of board, among which is a pair of scales used in
this volume, and unhesitatingly commend its weighing out rations to the sailors; a cane, pos-
use to teachers and students of agriculture. To itively identified by some of the oldest citizens
the intelligent agriculturalist also it will prove a as belonging to Commodore Perry; a fife, appa-
valuable work of reference, for many parts bear- rently in a good state of preservation, but which
ing upon his occupation, which have been very crumbled to pieces on being exposed to the air;
judiciously collected and arranged by one who a pair of sleeve-buttons, which probably belonged
well understood what was wanted and where it to some officer; an oak drum-stick, in a fine state
could be found.”
Professor Stoekbridge, of Amherst, Massachu
setts, says: “The work I think a good one, and
as a compilation of nearly all which is now
known on the subject, and in a succinct form is
so valuable it should be in the library of every
agriculturalist. ”
For sale by Burke & Hancock, Atlanta, Ga
Persons at a distance can obtain a copy by en-
of preservation; several ramrods, locks of mus
kets containing the flint, a hatchet, together with
the handle, made in the primitive style; about a
peck of bullets and grape-shot, and a lot of
knives, fo*ks and spoons, all of which will be
exhibited at the centennial exposition next year.”
The organization of an active militia in Mis
sissippi has been check-mated, by Chief Justice
oners and immediately beheaded the last one of j closing $2.25 by money order or registered letter Peyton granting an injunction against the draw-
them. to Dr. E. M. Pendleton, Athens, Ga. . ing of public funds for its support.