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Far away from the hiunts of men,
Where human footsb ps ne’er have been ;
Where the soil is never trod,
Save by deer in wildest m >od,
J sit me down amid-t the scene,
Bathed in richest summer eheen,
And mark the rich profusion there,
Os beauties which are sweet and rare.
11.
Before me rises the mountain wild,
With its steep and rocky sides ;
Amid those rocks where sun ne’er smiled
The rattlesnake abides.
And trees there are of hardy growth,
Which, rising from the sod,
Seem all companionship to loathe,
As they lift their heads to God.
nr.
And at my feet a babbling brook
Goes flowing to the sea,
Singing through many a winding nook
Its sweetest minstrelsy.
And it speaks to «ny heart as it flowelh on
In its rippling, dancing glee,
Through summer sun and winter storm,
And its story I’ll tell to thee:
IV.
I know not how the story it knew,
Which it tells in its sparkling joy,
Os one who, when lie to manhood grew,
Became once more a hoy.
V.
But every ripple’s a gem of truth,
And every shadow’s a thro a of pain ;
Every sparkle’s the glow of youth,
And every bubble’s Hope’s broken chain.
With ripple an 1 shadow, sparkle and bubble,
The story it sings to me—
Os brightness and darkness, pleasure and trouble,
All of Fate’s decree.
SO N G:
Bright as the sun at mid-day,
Smiling as roseate morn,
Filling all hearts with gladness,
Sweet as first love’s dawn.
Never oppressed by sorrow,
But living in to-day ;
Trusting to God the morrow,
Willing Him to obey.
With eyes like azure heaven,
And lips that shame the rose—
Lips whose smile is given
To banish human woes;
With footstep light and springing,
The embodiment of joy,
Is the maid, whose laughter ringing,
Made this man once more a boy.
VI.
Dark and sombre was his spirit,
Sunshine never cheered his heart;
Feeling life was void of merit,
Stung by disappointment’s dart;
Shunning oft the happy circle,
Since ho found no fellow there ;
Thinking only how to shackle
Every rising joy with care;
VII.
Wishing that the bonds which bound him
Might he made of triple steel,
So that when the morrow found him,
He would more their cutting feel;
Clinging to the midnight darkness,
That his lite might, sterner be
Full of fact and rigid harshness,
Which no change should ever see;
VIII.
Clinging as the drunkard clingeth
To the poison in the bowl:
To the very life which bringeth
Desolation to the soul;
Doubting all, and trusting never,
And, like Tantalus of old,
Buffering pain which coineth ever
When the prize slips from the hold.
IX
Now ns fowler o’er “ the cliff,”
A frail rope his only stay ;
Or as one in a fragile skiff,
Embarks upon the treacherous sea ;
X.
His heart is caught and the prayer ia given,
That his sonl may now be saved to heaven ;
But the rope was snapped and the skiff wag lost,
And the smil was back to its darkness tost.
’Twas the lightning’s flash that too plainly shows
How desolate is the storm that blows.
So, cursing fate and fellow men,
He turns life’s darkest page again.
XI.
But at last, for God is kind,
Light upon bis soul is cast —
Light that’s pure and thrice refined,
And which e’en to death will last.
Happy soul, from bondage freed,
Joyful heart to sunlight given;
Restored at once to all thy need,
To make this earth a heaven.
XII.
Restored at once by singing laugh,
By happy smile and spirits gay—
To joys which como whene’er we quaff
To loved ones who’ve been far away.
XIII.
Pun and frolic, mirth and glee,
t In the woods re-echoing ring ;
And in his happy heart we see
Return of brightest spring.
With hands that tremble, holding joy,
And lips that laugh while tasting mirth,
W e miss the man, but find the boy,
Rejoicing in his birth.
This is the story told to me
By that babbling, singing brook,
A* it flowed in revelry,
Through many a quiet nook.
8.
A Seasonabi.e Lyric.—The following is a
verse of a popular ditty at this season ot the
year :
Oh. the hills, those New Year bills I
What a world of misery
Their coming inst ils!
As the merchants with their quills,
Stuck behind their “ ears polite,”
So carelessly invite
Your kind and “ prompt attention ”
To their bills I
How they dun, dun, dun,
As they kindly urge upon
Your earliest attention, their blessed little bills.
[From the London Spectator, December 14.
A Formidable Indictment.
ENGLAND A NATION OF THIEVES.
One of the ablest moralists we ever knew,
a man much sterner to himself than to the
world around him, used to say that of all
crimes theft was the one which showed the
basest heart. It was absolutely selfish, it
never excused itself by momentary passion,
and it required, nine times out of ten, the
coolest calculation and foresight. There is
no provocation to forgery, as there may be
to murder; no sudden, overmastering tempt
ation to swindle, as there may be to many
other equally evil acts. If that is true, and
it is at all events only an exaggerated truth,
the state of England is a bad one; for there
cannot be a doubt that the master vice of
the middle class, we had almost written
their master passion, is thieving. We doubt
if a race ever existed among whom pecuniary
dishonesty teas so general or ho deeply affected
the structure of society. We consider our
selves a virtuous people, the salt of the
earth, and it is not too much to sav that at
this moment the basis ot half our laws, the
cause of half or more than half our admin
istrative weakness, the root of three-fourths
of our commercial difficulties, is the well
founded belief that a middle class Englishman,
if h ( ‘ Qtte anything like a chance, will thieve,
will expend his brain, his time, and his en
ergies in able efforts to steal money which
is not his. What is the dry rot which is
destroying English administration, its di
rectness, its simplicity, and its force, but
the certainty of the nation that every offi
cial, if left to himself and umvatched, will
steal ? Our departments are hampered and
shackled with checks till they can hardly
work, till individual nower, and, therefore,
individual genius, are suppressed ; and the
object of all the checks is not to prevent in
efficiency—that in England is not a crime,
t hough elsewhere it is among the greatest—
or to obviate the chance of oppression, but
to prevent direct fraud, assaults of the vul
garest kind on the national till. We cannot
get a navy, because it is understood that in
great establishments like dockyards every
body not specially selected for honesty will
thieve. Our army arrangements break
down incessantly, because contractors, sub
contractors, and purveyors generally, are
supposed to be steeped to the lips in fraud.
There is not a contract given in a govern
ment oilice in which someone has not
secured a “ perquisite,” or an “ advantage,”
or a “ profit,” of which he would not, for
the world, have his employers formally con
scious ; which has not, in fact given some
one usually a gentleman, the opportunity
of thieving. Our whole system of provid
ing for State needs by “open tender,” the
stupidest ot all conceivable systems—for its
theory is that Jones is Robinson’s equal as
a manufacturer, which Jones is not —is
openly based on the assumption,an assump
tion perfectly true that without open tender
the department will sell the contract, will,
in fact, steal a large sum out of the Na
tional Treasury. Our municipal difficulty is
jobbery, that is, theft, —the practice every
municipality is certain unless watched to
indulge in, of robbing, the citizens to en
rich its own members or other favored in
dividuals. Even Parliament, even the
Cabinet, the flower, or supposed flower, of
Parliamentary life, is not beyond the same
suspicion. We dare not let the Chiefs of
Departments act tor themselves in a most
important function, that of making the
great contracts, choosing, in fact, the
agents they think ablest, because we are
certain that they will thieve, not indeed for
themselves, but for their party. They will
give Jones £1,000,000 to do what Robinson
would do for £750,000, because Jones votes
for them—that is, they will misappropriate |
£250,000 of the money for which they are
trustees. Look at our railway system. It is j
the greatest and most important business or- j
ganlzations ever devised by a nation, and it is j
breaking down under habitual theft. Direc
tors, animated by the hope of “ high quota
tions for shares”—that is, of robbing buyers,
by selling plated goods for silver—are de- ;
daring in all directions fictitious dividends; j
shareholders, animated by the same thirst
for plunder, are winking at directors’
acts ; contractors arc sending in fictitious
tenders at absurd prices; lawyers selling
the companies, their own clients, to the
vermin who eat their capital up; traffic
managers making preferential, that is,
fraudulent, bargains for carriage; every
petty official taking bribes to grant privi
leges his employers have not sold. Look at
our commerce, shattered at this moment by
every variety of elaborate and carefully
devised plunder; by companies whose pros
pectuses are drawn up with the intention
of robbing the ignorant; by banks which
make over shareholders’ money to directors;
by manufacturers who will sell shoddy for
cloth ; by tradesmen who cannot be trusted
to avoid actual stealing of pennies from |
women and children, actual theft of cop- j
pers out of a blind mail’s tray; by false j
weights and measures. Is there a trade |
left in which half the tradesmen do not live j
by petty imposition, that is, theft, by sell- j
ing goods as bargains which are really
dear, by enormous adulterations —by. in,
fact, direct robberies of one kind or another? !
Agriculture is the most honest; and ask a |
really God-fearing dealer of Mark lane what I
he thinks of the morals of his trade, j
whether he could remit his watchfulness j
for an instant, a watchfulness directed !
wholly against theft, without being ruined. I
What is a Bear’s combination t<T unduly ,
depress the price of goods but an elaborate
theft? lie cannot, in London, send goods to j
auction without a certainty of robbery, and j
we are bitter, all of us, against “ knock- j
outs ;” who whips the worst form of knock-;
outs, the circulation of rumors intended to
make worthless shares seem valuable, so
that their holders may plunder the unwary?
When Bears run down shares there is in
deed an outcry, but when they run them
up, who cares for the plundered public?
The very dislike of theft, unless commit
ted by violence, seems to have died out of j
the national mind. City editors denounce j
search into robberies as a “ vindictive pro- j
eeediug,” and advise compromise as the
only mode by which anything can be saved.
Transactions which are thefts of the most
unblushing kind bring to their perpetrators
no rebuke, to the sufferers no sympathy.—
If a man stands on London Bridge selling
brass rings for gold, the police ultimately,
and as an extreme measure, make him walk
on ; but if he robs a thousand tcidoics success
fully, by a prospectus deliberately framed to de
ceive. he goes at once into Parliament. That,
we shall be told, has always been so ; but
the new evil is, that we are becoming con
scious of such things, and still permit them
and waste half our national energy in eu
AUGU- PA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1863,
| deavors not to put them down, but to pre
vent their occurring on too broad a scale.
| Every organization we contrive is cum
| bruous to decrepitude, and the reason is
that we dare trust no one ; that we know
j if the workhouse master is left absolute he
will thieve ; if he is only inspected, the in
spector will be “made pleasant;" if the
Department is left to look after the inspect
or, it will sell him immunity, not, indeed,
I for cash, but for political support. There
: is not a department in England in which one
third of the expense might not be saved if men
could be assumed to be barely “ law-honest ,” or
in which, if we did assume it, the nation
would not lose twice as much as it does.—
There is not a great shop in London whose
proprietor ■ is not paying a third of his gross ag
gregate of salaries to persons whose real work
is to prerent plunder —a plunder now so
dreaded from its universality, that immense
brain has been exerted, and is being exert
! el. to prevent salesmen ever touching cash
j at all—to enable children to do that part of
; the work, as they do in managing lot
teries. Every public amusement is becoming
an organized arrangement for plunder
every invention of science, from the
telegraph to the patent office, is a
j ‘twice to aid the quiet garroter, every need of
| humanity is anew help to the dishonest to grow
rich. Apart altogether from the injury to
tiie national morals, the waste of all this is
becoming prodigious, and will ultimately
become unbearable; will either produce a
cure, or, by engaging half society to watch
the other half, will paralyze it for progress,
and even lor exertion. At this moment,
the country, as a whole,is paying, or rather
beginning to pay, a sum in one department
ol work alone which would ruin any other
land. We do not hesitate to say that the t
habitual dishonesty of the English middle class,
their habit of thieving whenever they get the
I chance without actually taking silver spoons ,
I will cost England one-half of the four or
: five hundred millions it lias expended on
the railway system ; that the country is
now paying millions a year in the mere ef
fort—a resultless effort—to check official
corruption; that it is losing stuns to which
even these are trifles, because great im
provements cannot be made for tear of uni
versal plunder. If Parliament but knew
where to find decently honest agents it
could rebuild our cities, rearrange our ten
ures, suppress pauperism by insurances,
pay half the national debt by absorbing the
nearly ruined railway system. What stops,
to take a single example, a State manage
ment ot the railways, which, by halving
the gross cost of communication, might
double the national power ? Simply the
openly expressed conviction of men’s minds
that if the State ftiacl the railways, Mr.
Gladstone is the only man who could be
trusted not to “job” them, that is, to
thieve; and the still frightfuller latent
thought that Mr. Gladstone shows weak
ness, “ puerism ” in being so absolutely be
yond suspicion.
The worst of all this is, that ice see no cure
for it. Every nations suffers from periods
ot violence, or of licentiousness, or of
bigotry, or of apparent weakness, and after
a time they pass away, to reaopear at more
and more distant intervals; but the habit
of theft is in its nature chronic. The de
sire for “comfort” without work, which is
its root, is one which civilization every
year intensifies, and there are no barbarians
left to bid civilization halt for centuries,
that its poisonous vapors may have time to
blow off from the face of the world. Pun
ishment docs little, as we see, for we al
ready punish offenses against property
more than offenses against life, and the
only effect is to change burglarly for swin
dling, robbery for forgery, “dacoity” by
professional ruffians for “ dacoity ” by
smooth respectables banded together to rob
the ignorant by plausible prospectuses. If
Claude Duval were alive now he would not be
fool enough to rob coaches. De would get up a
tea company. The single remedy, wfe fear,
is national poverty, which, by making all
men watchmen, prevents the very inception
of crime; and, as retribution comes for all
things evil, we may rely on it that sooner
or later, if this utter demoralization lasts,
poverty will be the national portion. One
grand evil of our villages is larceny—an
evil so widespread that it seems beyond the
correction of those who suffer; but let a
thief go into a poor country—Bengal or
Berne—and try to steal the husk of the rice
or the fallen grapes, and he will learn once
for all that there is one and a bitter preven
tive for habitual theft, the conversion of
every man with a shilling into a savage
watchdog over his pennies. It is poverty
through loss of trade and over taxation,
which, if this contemptible crime spreads
further, will be upon us; and when it comes
we warn officials, contractors, directors,
and the like, they will have a bad quarter
of an hour. When the con vention sent away
contractors by the dozen to the guillotine, sol
diers' shoes ceased to be made of brown paper,
The Bankrupt Law—A Mooted Qustion.
There is said to be diversity of opinion
among lawyers and commissioners in bank
ruptcy as to when the fifty per cent, clause of
the bankrupt law went or will go into effect,
and adds that the question will probably be
submitted to Chief Justice Chase for decision.
A glance at the law itself will show that there
is no ground upon which to base such a doubt.
In section 33 it is provided :
“And in all proceedings in bankruptcy com
menced one year from the time this a *t shall
go into operation, no discharge shall be grant
ed to a debtor whose assets do not pay fifty
per centnm of the claims against his estate,
unless the assent, in writing, of a majority in
number and value of his creditors who have
proved their claims is filed in the case at or be
fore the time of application for discharge.”
The act went into operation June 1, 1867.
Gen. George G. Meade and Staff. —Major
General George G. Meade arrived in Atlanta on
Sunday morning, about 2 o’clock, accompanied
by Brevet Brio:. Gen. R. J. Drum, Cols. Meade
aud Emory, who compose the General’s per
sonal staff
General Drum, we are informed, is the Adju
tant General of this Department.
The distinguished party have taken rooms at
the National Hotel.
On yesterday Gen. Meade held a reception at
the headquarters on Marietta street, at which
all the officers of the post attended in full uni
form. Last night the General was serenaded at
his hotel. Quite a crowd collected on the occa
sion, and as we strolled through it— in cog— we
were pleased to perceive that bnt one sentiment
prevailed—a feeling of gratification that the
Government authorities had removed the old
and substituted the new commander for the
people of Georgia.
We sincerely trust that the present hopeful
ness of th£ people ot Atlanta may he more than
realized.— Atlanta Opinion, Monday.
[Naples Correspondence London Times.
Vesuvius.
THE ERUPTIONS “ A SPECTACLE GRAND
BEYOND ALL POWER OF DESCRIPTION.”
Vesuvius, the eruptions of which have
been hitherto a source of amusement, has
fhis week awakened considerable appre
hension. Every Gay almost it has present
ed a different appearance. On Monday it
was covered with a mantle of snow, which
was striped at intervals with broad stripes
of lava, and the explosive force of the moun
tain began again to increase, throwing out
smoke and dark colored sand, with slight
detonations. “ The smoke holes,” said Pro
fessor Palmieri, “werecovered with subli
mates of sa [marine and metallic chlorures ;
the smoke issued, too, not only from the
cone on the summit, but from another la
teral hole which, from the great deposit of
material around it, lias grown into the
dignity ot a cone. On Tuesday night the
spectacle was grand beyond all power of
description. Large masses of lava were
shot unto a great height, one of which,
even from the city, was seen to fall like a
mighty rock, and roll down the sides of the
great cone. Streams of red hot lava were
flowing over, the crater, and bathing the
whole of the upper part of the mountain
while flery lava, ashes and sand were sent
up with an immense impetus, irradiating
the sky far and near. At intervals during
the whole of the night there was a loud and
continued cannonade as of artillery which
was heard in the most distant parts of
Naples. Clouds and darkness hid the
mountain from us for two days, and what
was going on under their mysterious veil it
was impossible to say ; but a north wind
swept them all away, and then Vesuvius
was again revealed in all its magnificence,
and one may almQst add in all its terrors.
“ The eruption of Thursday,” to quote
Palmieri:
“Was at its greatest intensity. Enor
mous, masses of solid lava were launched
to a fear!ul height, falling and rolling down
in every direction, thus rendering the as
cent of the mountain j T et more dangerous.
1 he detonations were very frequent and so
violent as to cause the walls of the Obser
vatory to rock backwards ami forwards.”
It was necessary to detach the scientific
instruments from the walls and place them
on the ground in order to preserve them
from the strong unduiatory shocks. Per
sons who were present at the time compare
their sensations with those which they have
felt on board a vessel when rocked by the
waves. On the same day the inhabitants of
Torre del Greco were again in so much ap
prehension of another disaster that Palmi
eri went over to examine the extinct holes
which in 1861 spread devastation over the
city. He so far satisfied them by reporting
that “there was no imminent danger,” and
thus tranqullizing the population, a great
proportion of whom were making arrange
ments to leave. As I write, the eruption
continues with equal violence, and dense
masses oi dark smoke beaten down bv a
bitter northeaster are 'sweeping over the
sea.
Crowds of visitors have come in to see
this wondrous spectacle, and among others,
some of the members of the Turin Alpine
Club.
Crimes Committed on New Year’s Day.
drunken policeman, let loose in the
Seventeenth Precinct, ran up and down the
street like a wild man, clubbing every citi
zen he met, and shooting an inoffensive
German, who is likely to die from his
wound. This Metropolitan maniac was
finally caught and caged. A man was
stabbed by a highway robber in Rivingtou
street. There was another stabbing affray
in the Eighteenth Ward. A woman, aban
doned by her husband who is in New
Orleans, committed suicide by taking
opium, in the Wetrnore House; and on New
Years night, two brothers residing in
Fourth street, returning home at a late
hour, were assaulted by ruffians with brass
knuckles and slung shots, their skulls frac
tured, and last night both of the men were
dying. In this case there were no arrests,
though the day before it was publicly an
nounced that the entire police force would
be on duty, with the reserves in readiness
for any sudden call. It is a shocking show
ing of crime for a single day, and that day
a general, genial holiday, when even crime
might be expected to slink away out of
sight in the slums of the Five Point’s neigh
borhood. Instead of this, ruffianism ran
riot, and the record presents a striking con
trast with the comparative absence of crime
in the city on Christmas Day.
\_Xeic York World.
Old Man Grant Sounds llis Boy
"Llyss.” —The General’s father came to
town the other day, and stopped with
" Llyss,” as he calls his boy, whom he
found seated at his fireside, smoking, of
course, and surrounded by members of his
private and military family. About the
first thing the old gentleman did after shed
ding his over coat, was to eorne at his un
pumpable offspring with “ Ulyss, are you
in favor of nigger suffrage ?” [No response,
only vigorous puffs.J “I say, Ulyss, are
you iii favor of nigger suffrage?” “What
clo you think of it ?” inquired the General,
with Yankee shrewdness. The old one
states his position—he's for an intelligence
qualification, and so on. “ Well, now,
Llyss, Ive answered your question, I want
you to answer mine: Are you in favor of
nigger suffrage ? If you are, you’ll get
beat all hollow, with all your popularity,
lor Ohio went fifty thousand against it, and
if she was to vote again on it to-morrow,
she and go a hundred thousand the same way.”
" havn’t talked politics much for the last
five or six years,” was the reply of Ulysses,
*• the Silent.” At last accounts the old
gentleman was in doubt as to the position
ot “ L lyss ” on negro suffrage.
The Mum Ultsses.— Nashville, Dec. 31,
IS67.—A war-worn veteran of the Union army
gets off the following on Gen. U. S. Grant:
Grant is in the condition of a boy who was
about to start out in the world, and as he was a
great favorite with his mother, though a com
plete simpleton, she gave him this piece of ad
vice : “ Now, Tom, just keep your mouth shut
and people will not know you are a fool.'' —
Tom, a dutiful boy, remembered the maternal
advice. He had been from home, however,
only a little while when an inquisitive old Yan
kee commenced asking some questions, and,
upon his obstinate silence, turned away in dis
gust, exclaiming, “ Bah ! he’s a fool.” Tom
went back to his mother, and his first word
was, “mother, I kept my mouth shut, but they
found me out." Anti-Reticence.
Are the National Banks a Benefit to the
Country-
To the Editor of the X. Y. Herald :
In looking over the working of our na
tional banking system I am led to believe
tii it the contract is one-sided and, as a gen
eral rule, those that should be aided are left
out in the cold. The great objection, to
my mind, is its perfect independence of all
commerce and trade. If we had only $400,-
000,000 of Government loans the custom
might do. with some alteration ; but now
they can buy and loan on those securities to
an amount without limit, and 1 am told a
large number of the banks do so to the
exclusion of all other business. Many ask
why it is that Government securities are so
well sustained, while all others are receding
to a point that does not in any case justify
the fall, and make bankrupts of many ; for
they cannot understand, with the large in
crease in bank, that it should be so." Per
haps a reply may be given that will answer
for the present. For instance, a man with
$500,000 in securities, as follows : SIOO,-
000 in Government and $400,000 in promis
cuous securities—if he wished to borrow
$300,000, he would have no difficulty in
borrowing SIOO,OOO on his Governments ;
but in nine cases out often it would puzzle
him to obtain the $200,000 on his other se
curities ; not that the securities would not
be ample, but he w T ould have to come into
competition with those who borrowed on
Government bonds or were so rich in bank
facilities they would have a preference.
Now, this state of things cannot con
tinue without bringing distress upon all;
for even those who have largely invested in
governments must feel the decliue in other
securities. It would be useless to enter
into a discussion about the soundness of
the banks and t.ieir usefulness ; a few of the
banks do all their power to carry out the
true principle of banking; but 1 think it
will be found that the greater number arc
not doing so, and that their enormous gains
are eating up the commercial community.
If I am satisfied to invest in Government
bonds, which cost from five to ten percent,
premium, the banks should be good, with a
bonus of ninety per cent, allowed them in
currency. In fact, they have for an invest
ment of SIOO,OOO interest on $190,000, while
others have to be satisfied with interest on
SIOO,OOO, and out of that amount to be tax
ed to support the banks, though we may
not have one share of stock in them. As
constituted the system is an evil, with so
much power that it will control all our
political and financial future; for no one
believes that it will yield a point so long so
long as the present profits are realized, and
that without risk, for it is independent of
all commerce, by investing in governments.
Another Ocean Cable.— A company is
being organized in England to submerge a
fourth cable across the Atlantic, of which
Brest, France and New York will be the
termini. This company is called the
“ Franco-American Submarine Cable Com
pany,” and will organize with a capital
stock of £900,000 sterli.jg. One-third of
the stock and directors will be given to
England, one-third to France, and one
third to the United States. The books
have been opened in England, and its share
of the stock subscribed. The French bank
ers, it is said, have guaranteed the sub
scription of another third. A contract
has already been made with the India Rub
ber and Gutta Percha Telegraph Company
of Silvertown, London, for the manufacture
of 3,700 miles’ of cable, which will support
itself in water a distance of thirty miles.—
The contractors have taken the English
subscription as an advanced payment, and
will at once proceed with the manufacture
of the cable, which will probably be laid
next summer.
This new company have received valua
ble concessions already, including one from
the French Government, giving them, for
five years, all trans-Atlantic business corn
ing this way that touches French wires,
and one from the Submarine Telegraph
Company across the English Channel, who
agree to give them all the messages that
touch their wires en route to Brest.
But the great advantage claimed by this
company for the public is expedition and
cheapness in the transmission of dispatches.
Having a direct line of submarine cable,
the time consumed in repeating messages
between New Y'ork aud* Heart’s Content
will be saved, and it is understood that the
tariff will be but one shilling sterling per
word. It is expected that at this rate the
company will secure sufficient business to
occupy the cable twelve hours of the twen
ty-four. A good operator will send or re
ceive fifteen hundred words per hour, yield
ing a revenue of nine hundred pounds per
day, or two hundred and seventy thousand
pounds per year. It is estimated that the
expenses of running the line will be about
seventy thousand pounds per year, leaving
net profits two hundred thousand pounds,
or twenty-two percent, of the capital stock.
[7Y. Y. Herald.
An Angola Prophet. —The death of Mr.
Van Bureu, President of the Albany Young
Men’s Christian Association, by the accident
on the Lake Shore Railroad last Wednesday is
confirmed. His trunk has been found at
Buffalo, and the corresponding check among
the charred remains gathered up from the
debris of the burned car. The remains were so
fearfully burned as to be unrecognizable. Last
Sabbath week he spoke, as usual, at one of the
mission stations of the Association. In the
course of his remarks he expressed the fear
that he would not be again permitted to address
those who heard him, as he had a premonition
that his contemplated journey would be his
last. How truthfully was bis end foreshad
owed to him. Although in very moderate cir
cumstances, he had a life policy of $5,000, and,
we are told, an accident policy of the same
amount—the latter renewed at Cleveland on
the day of his death.
Killed by a Train.— While the down West
Point freight train was at LaGrange, on Thurs
day, a lad about sixteen years of age, named
Harrison Sloper, Stepped upon the engine to
sell apples; as the train started he endeavored
to step off, but fell between the engine and
tender, the wheels of the latter passing over
and dreadfully mangling his bodv. He lived
in great agony until about five o’clock the
next morning, when he expired. We under
stand his family was on the eve of moving to
Atlanta.— Atlanta Era.
Where one person possessing genius is nipped
in the bad by lack of appreciation, two are
slaughtered by too sudden recognition and
over-appreciation. As an English magazine
writer 6aid of Professor Aytoun, “The laurel
he got was too big for him ; he 6taggered un
der it.”
VOL. 27. NO. 3
It is no longer a secret of the chemist’s labor
atory that clear, golden syrups can be made
from stiichand sulphuric acid; that delicious
w ines and brandies can be made from beet root
with ethers (or flavor; that a barrel of peanuts
( in be transformed into excellent coflee; that
lard can absorb an enormous quantity of water
in cert..in conditions ; that in tact there seetnS
no limit to the adulterations that an intelligent
and dishonest chemist cannot practice upon his
fellow-men. All these marvels of chemical
science have in these latter days become de
graded into mere tricks ol trade, and their chief
beauty is in their capacity to enable unscrupu
lous dealers to lighten the pockets and destroy
the stomachs of the confiding and consuming
public. Concerning the article of champagne,
a writer in the Portland Star tells us that it is
now made from a thousand different substances,
even refined petroleum. Yes; from the fiery
benzoles a sparkling, bubbling, foaming cham
pagne can be produced which will delight the
eye, tickle the palate, gladden the heart mo
mentarily—but quicken our paces toward the
graveyard. This is anew use for petroleum,
which those who have been experimenting with
it as an agency for generating steam have little
dreamed of. Who can say that our Pennsylva
nia oil territory, now considered mostly worth
less, may not some day be regenerated into the
great champagne-producing country of the
world ?—Philadelphia Star.
The Adulteration of Women.—A spicy
correspondent of the Louisville Courier relates
the matrimonial experience of one Verdant
Green, a friend of his :
“Verdant had lived an unsophisticated life
until he had reached the ripe nge of twenty
one. About that time a neighbor of V.’s father
employed a governess from New York. V. met
her at a pic-nic, and as she was (he first lady he
bad over met that could make him feci at case
in her society, he fell violently in love with her.
His bashfulness, under the skilful tutelage of
the governess, wore rapidly away, and ere long
he had consented to become her bridegroom.—
The bridal party stopped at a Cincinnati hotel,
and, after many a weary hour, the most mo
mentous moment in a man’s whole life, arrived
for Verdant. On two chairs ware piled a pyra
mid of skirts, &c., and on a table near the
bead of the bed the astonished eye of Verdant
beheld a sight which froze him with horror.—
fhere were false calves, false hips, false palpi
tations, false hair. In one tumbler of water
was a full set of false teeth, from another a
glass eye stared at the bewildered bridegroom.
How long he stood, Verdant knoweth not, but
after a while a hollow and strange voice from
under the bedclothes addressed him thus :
“ ‘Why don’t you come to bed, dear ?’
“‘So I would, but by , I don’t know
whether to get into bed or on the table.’”
How to Prevent Wet Feet.—A lady sends
us the following, copied from an old receipt
book. We shall give it a trial, and hope any of
readers will report their experience alter giving
it a fair trial:
“I have had three pair of boots for the last
six years, (no shoes,) and 1 thick I shall not
require any more for the next six years to come.
The reason is that I treat them in the following
manner: I put a pound of tallow and a half
pound ol rosin in a pot on the fire ; when melt
ed and mixed, I warm the hoots and apply the
hot stud with a painter’s brush until neither
the sole nor upper leather will suck any more.
If it is desired that the boots should imme
diately take a polish, dissolve an ounce of wax
in a teaspconlul of lamp black, a day after the
boots have been treated with the tallow and
rosin, rub over them this wax in turpentine,
but not before the tire. Thus the exterior will
have a coat of wax alone, and shine like a mir
ror. Tallow or other grease, becomes rancid,
and rots the stitching as well as leather; but
the rosin gives it an antiseptic quality which
preserves the whole. Boots and shoes should
be so large as to admit of wearing cork soles.
Cork is so bad a conductor ot heat that with it
in boots the feet are always warm on the cold
est stone floor.” —American Farmer.
—
Love’s Labor Lost.— We should think that
Ur. Homer Virgil Milton Miller would feel
rather flat, after expending so much gas on
Cem Pope, to find that his hero was not ap
preciated at headquarters. All of his boot
licking has been lost; all of his flattery has
been wasted. The image which he set up for
men to worship Ims been hurled from its pedes
tul, and Miller is lett alone to mourn over its
fall. The people of Georgia have learned to
place a proper estimate on Dr. Miller. He has
been called an orator, but he is found to be
only a bag of wind —Federal Union.
Deaths--Information has come to us
through private letters, of the death of Mrs. F.
G. Wingfield. This sad event, which will be
deplored by many, took place early in Decem
ber, at her home in Mississippi.
Also, died on the 23d lilt., in Liberty county,
Georgia, Ida C., wile of Charles A. Alexander,
formerly of this place.
Also, died in this place, on Wednesday, the
Ist inst., Mrs. James Cull, after many years of
illness and suffering, and at a very advanced
a gG- Washington (Ga ) Gazette.
The African Convulsionaries, of the tribe of
Aissa Houha, must be very extraordinary peo
ple. Their advertisement in a London paper
tells us that before mixed audiences of ladies
and gentlemen they charm serpents, eat fire,
bear a red hot shovel on their tongue wiih de
light, stamp out an intense fire with bare feet,
eat prickly cactus, walk upon the keen edge of
a sword, and perform other agreeable feats.—
But they do more than all this. They have
special extraordinary morning performances,
to which gentlemen only are admitted ; and
what they do on these occasions the Barnum
who exhibits them leaves to the imagination of
the curious.
A Sudden Death.— Mrs. M. V. Hicks
(widow of YV. B. Hicks, who was killed by
YY m. D. Morris, several years ago,) died very
suddenly Tuesday last, and under peculiar eir
cumstances. Coroner Thomas P. Walker was
notified of the matter, and after obtaining the
particulars of the affair, summoned a jury of
inquest. One of the witnesses testified that on
Tuesday morning the deceased complained of
severe pains in the back of the head, and about
the heart and otomacb, and partook of some
spirits, in order to relieve this excruciating
pam. As she rapidly grew worse, a physician
was called, who prescribed for her, but death
eusued a 6hort time after. By direction of the
jury of inquest, a post mortem examination of
the body was made by Dr. YV. P. Geiger, as
sisted by Dr. John Lynch, who reported that
“her death was caused from an inordinate col
lection of gall-stones in the gall-bladder, which
produced congestion of the liver and adjacent
parts.” *
1 wenty-(wo gall-stones, each about an inch
in circumference, encased in a sort of bag, were
taken from the pit of the stomach of the unfor
tunate woman. —Columbia Phoenix.
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Patrick Kennedy has recovered $lB5 in an ac
tion against seven citizens of Wrentbam, for
riding him on a rail in the spring of 1565, for
having expressed joy at the deatn of President
Lincoln.
The Savannah National Bank.— This hank
has declared a dividend of thirty-seven and one
half per cent., payable on demand. A satisfac
tory showing for shareholders.
