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YOL. VI. Bthe southern sun. Published Weekly by tTOtfN R H A JS », Proprietor. (terms ot Subscription. I Copy* ofl® year $2 60 |o»*C rt fW- six ■ One ;opy, tlree months..... 1 00 Idvertlaoinellts. ( Will he Inserted fit one dollar per sa.iare sot ths [ frft insertion. Liberal deductions wli be made on contract*. Obituaries aod marriages will be 6hnigod [ tiie Mine as other advertisements. RATES OF ADVERTISING. yn Squares. 1 Mo. 2 M»-a 3 "MaS> 6 ftfoa 12 Mos I Hfjuare ft on! s7oo| f9?k)|u 00 if 20 06 < squares 800 11 00 14 00j20 00 30.00; Squares 12 00 16 001 20 00126 00 40 00 4 squares 1G 00 20 00{ 26 00183 00 fiO 00 5 squares 20 00 25 yOj 82 00J40 0 > 60 00 6 squares 24 00 Si 00 88 00;48 t>o 7u (*0 7 squares 28 00 37 Oo! 46 00158 o© 80 00 8 squares 82 00 43 00 62 00j64 00 90 00 ! 9 squares 86 00 49 Oq Oo 00172 00 100 00 ! IQ squares 40 00 85 00 68 Uo|Bo 00 110 Oo j \ column 44 00 62 00 74 C>oiß9 OO t2O 00 PROFESSION A L C A &&S ~ i. *. tOWM a. O BOWES bower a Sower. ATTORNEYS AT LAW BAINBRIDGE, GA. orriCE in the court souse. March 28. 1871. 44-ly ft. W. DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BAINBRIDGE, GA. mr Oftce over Patterson A MeNalr’s Store. efISSLEs a. CAMrBELL h. t. braAov. CAMPBELL & SHARON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BAIN BRIDGE. GA All business entrusted to their care, promptly at tended to. Ofltee in Court House. [July 13, ly DrTeTJ MORGAN. OFFICE on South Broad, over J. W. Dennard* store. Resi'ieuce on Went Street. March 80-ly BAINBRIDGE, GA. MISCELLANEOUS TH E SHARON HOUSE, JOHN SHARON, Proprietor Bainbridge Georgia. TRANSIENT BOARD $8 PER DAY. THE travetfng public are hereby notified that this house has been thoroughly repaired ani teflted, as well as refurnished throughout, andien dered one of the most desirable and agreeable hotels In the State worthy the liberal patron* e it has heretofore r ceived from the passenger* on the river and railroad. No pains or expenses will be spared to make the SHARON HOtISE all that any one could desire. Call and test its merits. JjjfTn connection with the Hotel is an elegaiu SALOON where the finest of liquor# are kept. C. Hates, . Beh. J. Lester Richmond, Ya Savannah. Ga shc firgima WtotowU Tobacco, Liquor, and Commission House Win. C. HAYES & Cos. 141 Bay Street, Savannah. Georgia. OBTER special and particular inducements to the merchants and planters of Georgia and b la. «T Hides, Cotton and general exchange, and on consiminienL With libe ai aa ranees, quick sales, and small commission#-** hope to share a liberal patronage from trade generally. ______ THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. Sue fllvertfool & Fire Insurance Co s over $20,000,000 in Gold. Over $8 000,000 Pays losses immediately after adjustment. Ike New York Life Insarasee Corcip’y Assets $16,000,000. J. E JOHNSTON St CO , General Agents. T. B. HUN NEWELL & CO., Agents. Bainbridge, Ga. tTijiSSssi ayas K£C«rSB Facilities MEINHARD, iiBO& * CO. Wholesale Dealers iu BOOTS SHO3KS. HATS, Beady Made Clothing CntUfmtn’s |n»aJ*M»9 111 Bouftkicn St. SAV AN N AH, G BORGIA. Ornoa lllf.lnb.rd, I so*« WHIT* a M.labard, 1 Stw tort l B - Correspondence of the Chicago Times, t A Palace Car Episode—A ft ride’s Toilet on the Plain* • • • When mo>ning came with Wednesday, w* had left ci behind as. We were nulling along the Valley of the Matte, and one'l her side, as far a-i the eye could teach, there ex tended a grey and melancholly ocean. All that day we tore along, ourselves the only Human oc cupants save at the stations, wht-re we stopped a moment to water, and then tore on again; On the Wednesday morning I had interrogated the plains at first dawn, but repelled hr ♦■*»» m “" t ia< uotony, 1 telT back in my bir t h disappointed. Sunrise came, and I still lay there dreaming and waiting, when my fctie&tion was att>amed toward A stateroom which was just bdtbnd me oh the op posite side 'llhe door was slightly open, and ac* cident or the wind had so di .-placed a curtain that I oould not but ree the whole of the interior I blush as I write it, but I saw, I dcrfild no* help seeing, and my sensations were so carious that I cannot resist a< tempting a description of BKAttrt' a&d rrs toilst. It was she—the slender, spirited bride. Ihe fond husband was lathering himself before the mirror in the wash-room—and she availed her self of his absence to resume the proper garni ture of day. She sat so that I had a thfee qtiafter view of her back. She sat on her birth, with her eyes Bxed on the mirror in »he wall. Her alabaster shoulders were bare, and a naked foot with rosy toes peeped out from the mass of white upon Which she was seated. —Her arms were bare to the shoulders, save a narrow bridge of white ; and tht-se white and slender arms went wildeiing ly around in all kinds of mazy twinings and in tertwining#, as their fair owner Arranged her beauteous locks. Many of thdsd curly nests of attraction which I noticed upon her head the day befote were taken from a box, where all the night they had had the supreme pldturaie of resting by the tfxft of tbeix ehauning mistress. How those lock# grew from their nothingness into a iriazy coitfuie tb.U was as artistio an it was entrancing ! And now the happy corset enclasped the Blen der waist, and long fingers came fhound behind and deftly wove up the raveled woof, whose com pletion was a close and envied embrace. Then a critical glance into the mirror, as the head turned from side to hide, and the slender fingers moved here a curl and there a frizz, whose change made the tout ensemble the more ooquettish and oharm • ing And then the long, shapely hands went down into the box and fished forth a twin commnatioo of unknown character. 'lhey were grayish in color, and looked like an immense pair of goggles, save that their converse surfaces were accurately rounded like an exterior of a hemisphere. The twin combination she placed carefully within her o<-rset, at the upper edge, in front, and then she glanced into the mirror and regarded the blissful twin eoncavo-convexities with approval. Just here I blushed at discovering what I was doing, and at once withdrew my eyes. What! gaze thus upon an innocent, beautiful creature as she puts on the armor of her charms! Never iVill I be guilty of a clandestine operation of such a na ture. And I persistently looked out of the win dow upoa the sad wastes of the plaids. Yhe Three Million Bales Humbug The New Orleans Picayune has been informed by a gentleman who has jest returned from Sri extended tour in every Southern State east of the Mississippi river, that this is one of the worst years for etton he has ever known. In some places it is so stunted one must go down on his knees to pick it. The crop along the Alabama river—and he has seen the country <>n both sides —he pronounces miserably poor; and his general conclusion is that eVvh had their been no floods tto Worms, nor devastating storms this season, the cotton would still fall very far below the average yield. He estimates the coming crop at about 2, - 250,000 bales. The PieayuneV informant is neither buyer, seller nor planter. In corroboration of which the Montgomery Ad vertises of Friday p>ints the following letter writ ten from New Orleans on the 2* th, by one of the largest and best known cotton factors in the Uni ted Mates: “The worms have commenced work in earnest on a la'ge majority of the plantations below Natchez, both on the liter and hills, and a gen eral destruction erf the crop seems inevitable. Red River lands appear equally nnfoi tunate W e have letters from a planter on Red River, some hundred miles above Alexandria, saying that un til the last two weeks his crop teas thS best he ever saw, but now was without a leaf or young boll to be found. In view of these facts it would seem impossible for the crop to reach 3,oo‘,<XK> bales, and msy fall greatly short of that point. It will be remembered that the bears have all been swearing that the Red River count.y ■was making an immense crop, which bn eis effectually pricked as above. The crop every where seems to have met with disaster. -*av. News/ There are some newspaper verses begin ning : ‘Last night I drew from off my sleeve a little golden hair/ Lucky for you j our wife didn't find it before you did. The crime of jerking the hair out of yotrr wife's head is not so sinful as it for merly was. It is just as ungentlemanly as ever, but it dosen't hart as it used to. Trying to do business without advert tising is like winking at a girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what yon are doing but nobody etea does. If yon wish success »« W**» ma^e P erß ' verence yoor bosom friend, experience your elder brother, and hope your guardi an genios. Independent J" ournal — Devoted, to tJa.& Interests or Georgia. BAINBRIDGE, GA .* TdURSDAH OCTOBER 12, 1871. idites Tb Kat«f. , m There's something iu the name of Kata Winch many will condemn ; Bat listen no# while I relate The trait# of some of them. «|vo JKte, -* ofearraingmiaS; Could you her hand obtain, Sfce’ll lead you in the path of bliss. Nor plead your cattse in vain. J There’s deli-Rate, a modest dame. And worthy of your love; She’d nice add beautiful in frame, As gentle as a dove, Commuhi-Satfe’s intelligent, As we may well suppose ; Her fruitful nrnd is ever bent Dn telling what 4he knows. There’s intri Kate; she's so obscure, ’Tis hard to find her out, For she is often very tuffi To put your wits to rout. PreVari-Kata’s a stubborn mind, She's sure to have tier way ; The cavilling contrary jade Objects to all you Bay. There’s alter-Kate, a perfect peat, Much given to dispute, Her prating tongue can never rest, You cannot her refute. There’s dislo-Kate. quite In a fret, Who fails to gain her pointy Her case is quite unfctftn&ife, And sorely out of joint. Equivo-Kate, no one will wod, The thing would be absurd ; She is so faithless And untrne, i You cannot take her word. There's vindi-Eate, she’s good and true, And strives with all her might Her duty faithfully to' do, And battles for the right.- There’4 rusti-Kate, a Eoddtty laid,' Quite foudof rural scenes; She likes to ramble in the grass. And through the evetgreens* Os atl lire maiden* you can nnd, *- There's none like edu^Kate, Because she elevates the mind, And aims for something great. Tie English Language.— Mr. James Brooks writes from abroad : ‘The En g list) language, I see—is becoming the Universal language of the educated world. Twenty or twenty-five years ago, or less, only French would carry you through the world ; but now it is impossible to go any where from the pyramids of Egypt to the mountains of Japan, that English will pretty well cany Jrou along. Chinese house-servants, more or less; speak En glish—‘pigeon English as it is called—but, nevertheless, comprehensible English ; and go where you will, in whatever society, English seems no# to be the tongue.* A Saratoga belle is described by Jno.G- Saxe, in a letter to the Albany Journal, as a poetical selection : 'Hark to the music of her borrowed tone ; Observe the blush that purchase makes her own ; See the sweet smile that sheds its beam ing rays ; False as the bloom where bsr diamonds blaze.* Founder in Horses. — The following is a sure cure for founder in horses j Take clean ssssafi as bark taken from the 10 »t, tie around the bridal bit as much as vou could well put in a horse’s mouth, and put the bridle on in the evening, leaving it on all night. The result will be an effect ual curediy two applications, for either corn or water founder. ■■ i ■ ■■ ■ A great increase in the order of Free Masons has beea shown lately in this coun try, bv the multiplication of lodges and the erection of new Masonic tuildings. A census of the order, just taken, shows that this increase is a real one. Over 40,000 new members have been initiated during the past rear, the entire number now reaching nearly 500,000. The reason of this prosperity lies probably, as much as anything else, in the social attractions of Masonry. The lodge supplies the place of a club to its members,and the entertain ment it affords is an acceptable relief to anv wearied with the care of business. To this are added the more substantial benefits of tnatna 1 assistance in distress for which the order is celebrated, so that the wonder is rather that it does not increase faster than it dw*« A targe number of New York port office employes were discharged on Saturday, <s fe alleged, for political reason*- A Herald Reporter Interviews Gen Hancock— What He Says About Be ing g Preridential Candidate. A Hut aid reporter has recently iuter- Hancock at Brainard, Min*. ncßßota*»t which point are located, we the headquarters of the depart ment Qef. H i Commands. He has this to Say of tfve General** persona! appearance, at days of 4 84< when active service and daily firiillferj and iufantiy drills gave ns but little opportunity to add to our avoirda' pois. The respite from constant anxiety and incessant toil iu the tented field has told with good effect in the person of Gen*, eral Hancock, and to day he present* every evidence of sound health and a con tended spirit. Lliscipliue, 1 bcliete, will uot allow of discontent, aud soldiers must, perforce, be contended whether they will or not. The jaunty goatee and mustache of olden days—slightly frosted now—still adoffl that rather heavy face, and he re mind* one more of the Third Napoleou— minus the French cunning and dull, treach erous eye—than any roan of efftiueuCe that I can call to mind. I judge his ago to be fifty, possibly fifty two, aud his weight above two hundred. Upon the point of being a candidate for President, he delivered himself as follows : Reporter—You are, of course, aware that your name has been freely mentioned as candidale for the Presidency. Genera! Hancock—Yes ; lam atire to what is transpiring around me ; but,• to be frank; it does nut possess that interest that people probably suppose. My position in the army is assured. I can confidently look to the future, I think, for further hoc* or*; for it is possible that in the due course of events my tnru will come. I have been in the army thirty years, and at my time of life it is a little late to seek a new field of action. To be sure I would be complimented by any evideuce of partiality on the part us Pennsylvania ; it is my ns* tive State, and I am triad to be honored at her Ir&ftffs } ft ITumatter of State pride. I would deem it a cotupHinet—nothiug more. Reporter—Am I wrong, then, iu suppos ing you have no aspirations with regard to the Presicleucy f General Hancock —Well, I think that there is no man in the couutry to*day that can afford to ignore such a gift, coming from the people. Reporter —You have, I believe, express ed your political views on different occa sions ? General Haucock—Yea, I have j but not because I had any desire to mingle in pol. itica or be thought a politician. What ever views I may have expressed were my sentiments with regard to the situa> lion ; I was a war democrat j I am now a conservative. I was auxious to retain ti e esteem of the republican*—radical*—but my course in New Orleans, unfortunately, made me loose it* I was forced into a po sition there iu which 1 had to assume a cotirse of action that was bound to Make roe sacrifice the esteem of either party. I did not succeed iu pleasing the radicals. A novel wedcing took place a few days ago in a shoe manufactory in Cleveland Two of the employees were placed cn an elevator, and wefe married by the Rev* D. C. Osborne.—This over, a spring was touched, and the couple ascended to the fourth story. Returning in a few mo ments, Mr. Osborne congratulated them on their happy bridal tonr. Cake was tbeu served on large sole leather plates. A householder !n Florida, in filling up his ceusus schedule, under the beading 'where boro' described one of his children •s ‘born in the parlor,* and the other 'up stairs.' A strict return. Justice* —Our conns, isl these latter days of Radical moral progress, commit grater crimes thau they punish. Yes, courts are venerable institutions, and they most not be told so. Iniquities and vices may be punished and corrected like children white they are little and impotent, but when greataud grown they become incorrigible and proof against anthority andJ QS, ' ce ’, We are led into this train cf thought by reading in the “Long Pery' some apology for Judge Watt's light sentence oh the fellou Stanly. in Jihn.ton dounty. Stanly we .re teld, ha. robbed (be Untied Stolen mail on two oSeanbme. He murdered a m„„ ,n Jol.neton and 8"d to Georgia, where be re tried and coneieted. and aenteuced to months imprisonment. Hia great »tr. is, that he i. a Radical, and that cor e„ not only a ‘multitude of ain»‘ but as many b>gb crimen.— Riletge Sentinel. THINGS WORTH KNOWING. A Substitute for Mllk or Cream.*— Beat up the whole of a fresh egg in m ba sin, and then pour boiling tea over it gradually, to prevent its curdling. It is difficult from the taste to distinguish the Composition from rich ereaih. Soft Cheese. —Take sulk just *6 it JMtiWfc* tom Star; Jtaur over Itr «bcu* one-fourth its bulk of scalding water, beat ing the milk with a spoon, at the same time to cause the whey to separate. Then strain off as much of the liquid as possi ble, finally washing the curd wiih clean water. Add a little salt, and you have A palatable and very nutritious article of food. Mock Venison of Corned Beef.— Cut the beef in thin slices, and freshen by Soaking for throe or four hours in tepid water. When sufficiently fresh, lay the slices on a gridiron, and heat through quickly. Make a gravy of drawn butter ; add a little pepper, and the yolh of an egg chopped fine and pour over the meat; or butter; pepper, and salt, like beefsteak. This will be found a savory dish when only salt meat CAii be procured, but it is better with fresh beef. Tare ENdtoH Sleep.—The time ‘sav ed ' from necessary sleep is infallibly des tructive of mind, body and estate. Give yourself, yotir children, your servants, give all that are under you, the fullest amount Os sleep they Will take, by compelling them to go to bed at some regular, early hour, find to rise in the morning the moment they wake ; and Vrithin a fortnight, nature with aliriost the regularity of the rising sun, will loose the bonds of sleep the mo ment enough sleep has been secured for the wants of the system. This is the only safe and efficient rule ; and as to the ques tion how much sleep aiiy one requires, each must be a rule for himself—great na ture will never fall to write it out to thd observer under the regulation just given. * UllajxsiJNu Tmrrtwswrt r> t. fact illustrating the necessity of cleanli ness, and of keeping the pores of the skin open, that if a coat of varnish or other substance impervious to moisture be ap plied to the exterior of the body, death will ensue in about six hours. The exper iment Was once tried on a child at Flor ence. On the occasion of Pope Leo the Tenth’s accession to the Papal chair, it Was- desired to have a living figure to rep resent the Golden Age, and so a child was gilded all over with varnish and gold leaf. The child died in a few hours. If the fur of a rabbit or the skin of a pig be covered with a solution of India rubber In naptha, the animal ceases to breathe in a couple of hours. A Few French chemist as serts that if tea be ground like coffee be fore hot water is poured upon it, it will yield nearly double the amount of its ex hilerating qualities. Another writer says, if you put a piece of lump sugar, the size of a walnut, into, a teapot, you will make the tea infuse in half the time. Wire clothes lines are getting to be used by all persons who have found out how much superior they are to common rope. We have had one in use for more than a year. It is never removed, and if the supporting posts are firm there is no sagging. Os course, it must be galvanized wire, about the thickness of that used for telegraphs/ Borax is said to be superior to every thing else forexterminating the cockroach. The smell or touch of borax, it is said, is certain death to them. To color a floor—to a strong lye of wood ashes, add enough copperas for the re quired oak shade/ Put this on with a mop, and varnish afterwards. The French have discovered that the white of an egg, given in sweetened water, is a sure cure for croup. The remedy is to be repeated until a cure is effected. Grease can be removed as follows i Put on powder of French chalk, and place a piece of blotting paper over it: then pass a hot iron over the blotting paper. The heat liquifies the grease, the chalk absorbs H, and the excess of grease is absorbed by. the Hotting paper. Corn-starch makes the best paste for scrap-books. Dissolve a small quantity-ia. cold water, then cook it thoroughly. Be careful and not get it too thick. When cold it should be thiri enough to apply with a brush. It will not mould nor stain the paper. It is the kind used by photo graphists on ‘gem’ pictures. , GENERAL KfiWa There were five doatiu frcha yellow fe nr ia Qurlwtoa yesterday. •>,< ? The boiler of fee Westboro, Mass./ :■{ cheese factory exploded Nobody wifl hurt. « The Danish hhhttf of Finance propcM see io meet a deficit by raising a loan and increasing the income tadb TMlargew»c«a*rngf* Wi*?. Render* son, near Philadelphia, Win burned last evening. Loss Heady; Judge McKcnny of Dayton, Ohio, grant* ed the convicted murderer, Tho&as Mo- Gehan, a neW trial on the ground Os the ground of the incompetency of one juror. A fire at Houston, Texas, yesterday, on the corner Os Gratis and Preston art*., de stroyed six stores and one dwelling houses Twenty-three thousand 'persona visited the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition on Saturday, making 122/000 during the week. Most of the business houses were insured* All the persons injured by the fire in San Fransisco on Saturday 1 bight are do- 1 ing woll. Phillip Wilkes, keeper of a lager beef saloon, stabbed and killed Randolph Win terer in a saloon in New York. Wilkerf fcaS been atrestedi flic increase Os Otcfland freights will stop the shipment of large quantities o t grapes from California arranged for in the early part of the season.- A girl named Weaver, aged about four years,Twas burned to death recently at Reading by the explosion of a coal oil lamp which she accidentally upset On thO floor,. The people of Monticcllo, Arkansas, ard greatly excited ofer a report of the die* covery of a gold iriine four ifiiles from that town. Two similar reports com® front Dallas, Polk county. ■ .. I ■')! '♦♦■'■■'■■l* '» '< >■« > Ho# KtJOBNia Loons akp bow Sin Data** BE3 ix Exils.—-Casell’a Magazine, last issne, contains an article written by a lady who baa recently fliakad and ecmverge and WIITI As to bow she looks and dresses in exile the writer says} Sho looks what. Teonfsntii calls *dfw vinely fair/ bnt as one who han suffered much. Thpro was a worn, weary loofc inexpressibly pathetic in her eyes just touched or**r the lower lids with blacky her cheeks were thin and very pale, her fair hair simply arranged low on the neck be—» hind, drawn back at tho aides, and with curls on the forehead, and it was her own hair—distinctly atld palbaly her own. Her dress was of black paramatta, self*- trimmed, with a small tunic, and g gener al look of scantiness about it. She word a little white shirt collar and cuffs, and not a single jewel/Save one diamond star that held the little collar. Her manner suits her imperial presence—simple, cour*» teous, earnest. His as of a leady-witted woman, Sweet tempered,full of human in* tcrests and feelings, impressionable, mo* bile, fascinating \ emphasizing all abe says with her grandly cat Bpanieb eyes* that might almost iudeed slaud her in lieu of speech, so eloquently do they converse. American Womdeis.—The greatest river in the known woild is the Mississippi* 4,000 miles long. The greatest efty park In the world is in Philadelphia. It contains over two tfaoth sand acres. The best specimen of Grecian archie tecta re in the world .is the Gifsrd College Philadelphia. The greateat cave in the world id th« mamotb Cate of Kentucky, where one caw make a voyage on a subterranean river, and catch fish without syes. The largest valley In the world is the Valley of the Missieeippl* It contains five hundred thousand square miles md iW one of the most fertile regions on tbs globe. The largest lake Id the World, Lake Su perior, which is trnly an islaud sea, being four hondred and thirty miles bog a«d ons thousand feet deep. : *■>•> The greatest fttttfral bridge in the world Is the natural bridge over Cedsr creek in Viginia. It extends oter a chasm eighty feet in width and fifty in depth, and at the botom of which the creek flows* The greatest cataraot is the world is the falls of Niagara, where the water* ffom the groat oper lakes form a river three forth* of a mile in width, and taen being, ends denly contracted, plunges over the foCktf in columns to the depth of feet* M. 20