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JOH!V' H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor. MRS. MARY E. BRVAS (*) Associate Editor. ATLANTA, GA*, SATURDAY, OCT. 9, 1875. The mooey must accompany all orders for this paper, and it will be discontinued at the expiration of the time, nnless renewed. The Richmond Office of The Sonny Sooth is at No. 4 South Twelfth street. R. G. Agee. Esq., a most reliable and courteous gentleman. iB in full charge and duly authoriied to transact any business connected with the paper. 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 BOOKS AND PERIODICALS. Gildersleeve's Latin Series Latin Primer. 11*0 pages. !X> cents: Latin Grammar. 3S4 pages, $1.50; Latin Reader. 11*0 pages, $1.00; Latin Exercise Book, 184 pages. $1.00. University Publishing Company, N. Y. Capt. W. B. Kendrick, Atlanta, Ga., General Agent. For some years. Professor Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar has been known to progressive clas sical teachers as the work of a genuine scholar 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. year, free. A AAO I N CEMENTS. THRILLING NEW STORIES, THRILLING NEW STORIES, THRILLING NEW STORIES, BY BRILLIANT WRITERS. BY BRILLIANT WRITERS. BY BRILLIANT WRITERS. 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. SPECIMENS FREE. Send in the names and post-offices of your friends, and We will mail them specimen copies of the paper free of any charge. Make up clubs of subscribers; don’t wait for agents. See club rates. 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.