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_ jftfkly wcmuuiu. *3 K.IIIOI *n.l Prop’r 4 ^fegrrT0Cr0BKR 19.1882. ^^ofsl-bscriptiov f» RV $200 jit** * 1 00 10 rrRT[ s!NT, RATES AND RULES. I • in‘ertP‘1 at $2 per square rwwti* 11 ’ *“' J f 1 t0r each SUbSe ' { .j.bt solid lines of Ibis type. J*! -1 !. **de with contract advem- n! tc r ® , t .dices of eight lines are f 15 per h « w inm,m - Local , . no , T ■ahcSB^lhrai months are subject to if,t r *»d«erli*e rs who desire their ad. changed, musi give us two mm ^ H m- "«» advertisements, unless othcr- ■ 0 ■£j’p 0 WeJ in contract, will be changed » OM?-«*«r D dXu P ary notices, tributes of ^ other kindred notices, charged ,0 ‘ ^^'Xments'mnst taVe the run of the l4 'u « do not contract to keep them « W| , ;,Xoe"ts P fb r candidates are $10, if one insertion IN'h. ... due upon the appearance of the *" „ B ent sod the money wilt be col- _ I a, needed bv the proprietot. 1 , ,|I,.I!,ere strictly to the obover.iles, 1 itfl * ndepart from them under nocircum- n. JMai ’ I tuuilj I F ure evci "trli t< if si| s T Led he* professional (Cards. medical card. |p r m. J. Nicholson, n« removed to Twilight, Miller conn- ■h Ovorria Otlice in J. S. Chiton’s ■•’■ Utors feb.9,’82. tmta nesa < AI.uk . Nerl " Mwl il-pvj| •») . A Eli Ci reel i is I mi hif SURVEYING. I respectfully offer my services to all who |n>y de*> ;e surTe J‘ n 8 done. All calls IrW—“• D. McL.acm.ii,, ill 30. '82. Surveyor, CHARLES C. BUSH, [Attorney at Law COLQUITT, GA. Prempt attention given to all business en- I trailed to me. | i scotu., M - o’nkal McGILL & O’NEAL. [Attorneys at Law. BA1NBKIDGE, GA. Their office will be found over the post of- I lei. MEDICAL CARD. Or. E. J. Morgan Hmremoved his office to the drug store, firmed J occupied by Dr. Harrell. Resi dence on IVeit street, south of ishotwell, wkericalle at night will reach him. DENTISTRY. J. C. Curry, D. D. S., C*n be found daily at his office on South Brand I'ree'. up stairs, in E. Johnson’s bai!din|, where he is ready to attend to the trims of the public at reasonable rates. dec-5-78 DOCTOR M. L. B ATT L E, Dentist. Office over Hinds Store, West side ceert house. Has tine dental engine, and will have everything to make his office Jot-class. Terms cash. Office hours 9 •. rftodp. m. jan.l3tf i*». «. Dos *t,SOW BYRON B. BOWER. BOWER & DONALSON, Attorneys and Counsellers at Law. Office in the court house. Will practice ■ Decatur and adjoining counties, and •eihere by special contract. a-25 7 DR. L. H. PEACOCK, Respect fully tenders his professional serv ices to the people of Huinbridge and vicini- Office over store of J. D. Ilarrell A: Bro Residence on West end of Broughton street, where he can be found at night. April 6,1881— dnr. D. T.Al.BF.RT. WE. II. HARREI.L. TALBERT & HARRELL. Attorneys and Councelers at Law, BAINBRIDGE, GA. The above have formed a copartnership soder the firm name of Talbert & Harrpll u i’ ra( ’ , ' c, ‘ of I#w. Will practice in ■II the courts of t lie Albany Circuit. Office over Harnett's store. August 14,1882. ALBERT WINTER, ne?l Estate and Collecting Agent. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. J he glad to receive the patronage of ,, w " 0 have property to sell or rent, or rn..feting to make. All business placed in ®y hands will receive prompt attention. I look after wild lands, investigate titles, taxes and protect from tresspassers. 1 propose to make the collection of bad ■aims a specialty. The worse the claim ‘•te more attention I will give it. Correspondence solicited. Aug.1, 1882. B. F. COLBERT. -HfiAKER AID JEWELER. 0FflCE a T J. A. DONALSON’S STORE. Cambridge, - - - Ga. a nd repairing watches, iewott’ f ' c ' vlu S' ma nhines and all kiuds of -■0. done with neatness and dispatch. r.: .vSfAU work warranted.”® “““bridge, Ga., Angus* 4, 1874.- The Bainbridge Democrat. BY BEN. E. RUSSELL. BAINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1882. BITS OF AIAVS Waynesboro True Citizen: It ia estimated that there are one hundred case* of sickneaa ia Waynesboro at this time. The Montezuma Weekly says Mr. M. P. Maxwell was bitten on a finger by an enormous sipider one day last week, and he has not been able to use his arm since.” Macon county, Ga., has a citizen who has buried six wives, and is now living with the. seventh. He has been kept so busy getting married and attending funerals that he only weighs ninety pounds. Griffin News : Over a thousand bar rels of dried fruit ffcve already been shipped from Griffin. The season will close about September first, when we will give the statistics of the eropa so far as they can be gathered. Athens Banner Watchman; Geo. Hodge, a negro blacksmith, doing busi ness near Winterville, was immersed by a negro Baptist preacher last Sunday. This old man has about attained his b^dredth year and is perhaps the most profane man in the land. On Saturday last Marsha] Graves, of Fort Valley, discovered in company with soma traveling peddlers, a litt/e boy who it is charged, was kidnapped in Columbus. The men claim that the little boy's mother consented to let him come with them. He was returned to Columbus od Saturday night. Jim Griswold was taken to Eastman Inst Thursday, and lodged in jail, to await trial for the murder of young Harvard. It seems that Jim was the one that fired the fatal shot. The proof against him in the case which he now stands charged is so plain that he will certainly hang. Charles Smith, who broke into a church near Raleigh, N. O.,and stole the Bible from the pulpit, and was sentenced to the penitentiary, but escaped, was recognized by hands on the Georgia Pacific Railroad and taken up by the sheriff of Carroll county. He was returned to the North Carolina peniten'iary on Monday. He had been out a year, less sixteen days. Savannah* News : The steamtug Eureka, which was sunk in the Ogee- chee river, at Cherry Hill, daring the fearful storm last Angust, was success fully raised on Saturday by Mr. James Duffy, assisted by Winn, the diver. The steamer is said to be but slightly damaged, although she has been uoder water for a year. Macon Sunday Graphic. On Tues day a laborer in the gaug employed in laying the new sewer across Mulberry street threw up an old 'ime piece, an open faceed gold watch, which had pro bably lain in some drain for twenty years or more. The case was encrusted, but well preserved, but the ruunning gear was ruined end almost destroyed by the action of rust and water. The case is worth, probably $10. which paid the poor fellow who unearthed it a big compensation *or his day’s labor. Americas Republican: A farmer living not far from Americus is responsible for the following: “About three weeks ago he found a hen’s nvst in a field near his house which contained five eggs. Time passed and they were forgotten until one day when on going to the nest be found that three of the five had dis»ppoared Last week he was in the same field and came suddenly upon a large black snake. He had a hoe in his hand, which he used in making two parts of the creeping reptile. This had hardly been done wheu three lit tle chickens made their appealance from one of the wriggling parts of the snake, and one from the other part. The eggs had been swallowed and hatched.” Fatal Runaway in Nashville- New VtfftK. Oct. 5.—A Nashville speci al to the Times says : At 3 o'clock on Wednesday evening, while Charles B. Por ter, son of ex-Gov. Porter, Miss Alice Raines, daughter of Felix R. Raines, George B. Burton and Miss Laura Easley were driving in East Nashville, the horses attached to the drag in which they were seated became frightened, and Miss Easley leaped from the vehicle and fell on her head, and Mr. . urton jumped out fifty yards beyond and lauded oa his right foot. Mr. Porter and Miss Rames remaiued in the drag, and succeeded in stopping the horses after they bad proceeded a mile. Miss Easley was conveyed to a neignboring hooseinan unconscious condition, in which shu remained till 8 o'clock,, when she died. She was the only daughter of Enoch Easley one of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Memphis. Making a Farm. In the early days of agriculture in New England and New York there was a class of farmers whose prototypes still exist in many sections of the West, who made a practice of taking a piece of new, raw land, breaking it up, erect ing a few cheap buildings, and then selling the farm for the value #f the improvement. This practice is not one to be commended. Farmers working under such faulty methods take all the roughest, hardest work, and suffer moat of the privations of pioneer farming, only to go to the same round of experi ence over again through the the re mainder of their lives. The money value of an improved farm may often be as much as it costs to improve it; but such a farm will rarely sell for as much as it is worth to bold. The fact that a man has only one life to live makes it worth his while, aa far as possible, for him to spend it aa pleasantly as pos sible. If a man sets out to be a farmer it makes ail the difference in the world whether he farms it with con venient and pleasant surroundings and amid the comforts of civilization, or roughs it on the frontier, beginning to enjoy the comforts of this world only as he is about to leave it. This is the strong argument for for making homes in the other States. The same reasoning is. however, quite as c inclusive in any locality for pur chasing the most highly improved land, which for homo purposes, is always most valuable in proportion to its cost. Whatever improvement has been made upon a given farm, still a good farmer will always find room for more. Usually the improvements made after the first clearing of land pay better than those which through necessity everybody is forced to make. No farmer will leave bis land in an un changed condition after occupying it a few years ; while a good farmer will always leave it in better shape. How it shall be improved must depend some what on his available capital, as well as on his natural skill and aptitude. With good management, the improvements that add most to the value of a ferm need not be very expensive. Granting that the farm will pay its own expen ses and provide support for the farmer and his family, ho can do much of the work of improvement himself. An example from real life illustrates the manner in which this may be ac complished. A young man just twen ty-one years of age purchased a farm, paying therefor SCO per acre. His first woik of improvement was to plant 150 peach tree*, occupying about an acre of ground. The third year after planting he so!d from this acre 100 bushels of peaches for as many dollars. In the five years succeeding, he sold from this same orchard upwards of $1,500 worth of fruit. This encouraged him, and he made a second peach orchard of aix actes, besides planting an apfffe orchard of 30 acres, 5 acres of quince trees, and 4 of pears of different varieties. Hie rale was to make the farm crops pay all expenses and invest bis fruit money in more orchards. When be bad the farm eighteen years be had an assured incomo of $2,000 to $5,000 a year from fruit alone. Then he had an offer, which ho regarded as a good one, re ceiving $210 an acre for his improved lartn. The large part of this advance in value he had earned by improving his farm. His reason for selling was that the farm was larger than he wished to care for, and he regarded some of his selections of frnit unfortunate. He now bas a place of less than fifty acres, of which ten acres are in Duchess pesrs, seven acres in quinces, twelve in peacbes, nearly all early and late Crawfords. The trees have only been set seven years, but the farm would now readily sell for $300 per acre, yet its owner regards it as worth more to hold. Many other arguments will be sug gested to the casual reader in favor of making & farm, in a neighborhood ad- jaoent to good local markets, accessible to manufacturing centres, where a daily demand exists for milk, fresh butter, vegetables, fruits and similar farm pro ducts, from which the husbandman can extract a profit far beyond that which attends the growing of the coarse grains and live stock on the Western praries. Good roads, fine educational privileges, established neighborhoods, opportunities r or social and friendly in<- tercourse. proximity te kindred and early friends are all strong arguments in favor of making a farm by improv ing the paternal acres or these in close vicinity, instead of sacrificing the best years of one's life to the vain attempt of securing double the area of land and double the happiness in some distant seotion of the country.—American Cul tivator. WAATtU SPIRITUAL AID. A MAN WHO PRATED FOR STRENGTH ENOUGH TO WHIP A “NIGGER.” The Rev. Mr. Eagle sat in his study preparing a sermon on the “Divine Mission of Moses,” when Bill Blake entered without eeremony. Blnke’s face did not wear a happy expression. “How do you d«, air,” said the min ister arising. “What is your name, please ?” “I am Bill Bluke, the boxer of Dry Fork. I don’t reckon you recollect me 7” “No, I don’t think that I ever had the pleasure of meeting you before.” “Some time ago,” said the visitor, seating himself and wiping hia face with a tidy cat design, worked by a young lady and presented to the rever end gentleman, “you come out to Dry Fork and got up a revival” “Yes, I remember.” “Yes, I reckon so. You persusded ms to come up to the bench, and I staid till you pulled me through. I shouted as loud as anybody aud done everything I could for the coneern.” “Oh, yes, I remember now ; it was a bright conversion.” “And when I jined the church you talked to me a loDg time about the wickedness of the world. You said that whenever I was weak, to pray and I would receive strength. Well, the other day I had occasion to fight a nig ger. He was too strong for me, and beat me up pretty bad. Remembering what you said, I went off and prayed for more strength. Then I taekledthe nigger agin, but he whipped me. Then, thinkin' that I hadn’t prayed with enough heat, I prayed agin, and agin tackled the Digger, but he got away with me. Then 1 found out that the nigger bad been prayin’, too. Now sir, I want to know if a nigger is to have more influence that I’ve got. I know that he got strength, for each time he hit me harder. It struck me that I didn’t git the right kind of religion, and as my reputation as a boxer depends on whuppin’ that nigger, I thought I’d come ia and git you to pray for me. Wish you’d represent hew important it is for me to vrhup the fellow. Throw, in a few words about my standin’ among the neighbors, and I don’t mind if you say that I’ve al’ers voted the straight ticket.” “I cannot grant your absurd request my friend,” exclaimed the minister. “Such a thing is unheard of among civilized people. “You don’t seem to get at the spirit of the thing,” said the visitor, leaning over and spitting on the floor. “But can’t you write me a pra’r 7 Just say hiw important it is for me to get away with the nigger. Throw in something about pood crops and thankfulness, and many blessings, and wind np by request ing strength enough to lay the nigger out.” “You shock me, sir, and I greatly desire to be left alone.” “Wall, parson, I’ll have to try my hand on you, 1 reckon. Git down and pray for me, or I'll have to mix with yon. You led me into this thing and you’ve got to help me out. Git down now and send np a few petition!.” “You are blasphemdRs, sir. Leave my presence.” “I’ll have to jump on jou, captain.’' “Are yon going 7” “I say I’ll kave to mingle with you.” “All right,” exclaimed the minister, and pulling out a drawer he seized a pisnel. Don’t be in a harry,” remarked the preacher, cocking the weapon. “Yas, I’ve got to go. Reckon I’ll have to take out license to preach be fore I can get away with the nigger. Good day.” and the minister was alone. Smiling blandly, he returned the pistol and resumed his sermon. Fhe Mexican veterans, in session at Nashville, 7eno.. last week marched in a body to the residence of Mrs. James K* Polk, and paid their respects to that ven erabielady. Mrs Polk was attired in a handsome black silk drees, and held in her band an old-fashioned feathered fan She woro an appropriate head-dress, and at her throat a likeness of her illustrious husband. Many of the veterans were accompained by their wi ves and daughter*. If those who are euemies of inno cent amusement bad the direction of the world, they wonld take away the spring and youth, the former from the year and the latter from human life. Cattaa PlcUlaR. Jast now, many of the leading fami lies are in a dreadful fix. Nearly all the “colored wash and oook ladies,” they call themselves, have quit work and have gooe oat eotton picking, which is, temporarily, more remuner ative. An industrious eotton picker! can scoop in between three and foui hundred pounds of fleecy staple of the sunny south in one day, which at reventy-fivs cento a hundred ia pretty good wages. The colored “oook lady” is always mere or lass sassy,” but as the cotton picking season approaches she becomes also laterly sublime in her impudenee, and this is, also, ap plicable to the colored gentleman who has se far forgotten himself as to become a menial for high wages. As the cottoi picking season advances, the pay fo; the eotton also climbs up like the ther mometer on a hot dry. Farmers com to the cities and hire their eotton! picking force. We heard a good story of how a farmer got even with a lot city darkeys, who were disposed take advantage of him. He had en gaged them to pick cotton at fifty cents per hundred, and when he esme for them with hia wagon they notified him that they would not go +or less than sixty cents. He finally yieded, and told them to be ready, as he would be back in a few minutes. When he got back they raised oa him again. They kept this up until they asked a dollar a hundred. He reflected a few moments, and then said: “Very well, I’ll pay what you ask. Now jump into my wa gon, aud I’ll take you oat to my farm.” They piled into the wagon in high spir its at having e^rried their point. The farmer also seemed to be very cheerful, and whistled a merry roun delay. '.Boss ain’t we nebber gwine to come to dat eotton pateh 7” asked one of the darkeys after they had driven about fifteen miles.” “We will be there pretty soon; now. Finally the wagon halted. The far mer got out, and drawing a pistol. “Now you all pilo out of that wagon and foot it back to Austin,” and he drove off, leaviug the ambitioua cotton pickers in the middle of a ten mile prairie, seventeen miles from town. The Beautiful Comet in the East. A man wt.o remembers the great comet of 1858 declared yesterday that the comet now visible in the morning sky is more beaatifol than its famous predecessor. It is not so long, but it is brighter. But for the presence of the aeon the tail weald probably appear considerably longer, aa well as more brilliant. A remarkable feat ure of the tail, which was clearly seen yes terday morning, ia a narrow, dark rift run oir*g through its entire length.* With a telescope this dark channel can be traced close up te the bright, planetary head. The chaoge in color which the comet un dergoes as it rises is very interesting. When its hand is just clear af the horizon ita*iines with a reddish, flickering light, tha upper dart of the tail being light yel low. As the morning twilight begins to appear and the comet gets above the mists, all trace of redness disappears aud the head exhibits a clear whila fight, while the tail assumes a silvery hue. Th* remarkably sharp outliues of the tail, especially on the southern side, attract the attention ot all observers. Tha southern or lower edge of the tail is brighter than the other edge towards which it fadea off, thus giving it the'appearance of a gigantic feather. At times bright flashes seam to extend for some distance toward the end of the tail. The telescope shows a mass of nebulous matter surrounding the head, appearing to be banked ap in front sad parting and flowing back on each side to farm the tail aa if the comet were ploughing its way through a luminous aea, leaving a great wake of light behind it. But in fact it is moving away from the snu, tail first, and this makes it clear that the tail ia tha re sult of some repulsive force exerted by the sun,which drives the material ot the tail abend of the solid nucleus, jnat asastrong wind drives the smoke of a steamship ahead of the vessel. The comet will probably be well seen during all of this week. It ia ao interest ing and beautiful that if aa enterprising showman could only build a fence around it, and so shut it out from the sight of those who did not pay to see it, he would unquestionably make a fortaue out of the gate money, even though his patrons bad to rise an hour before the sun. But it doesn’t cost a cant to behold this marvel- oas wanderer of the skies, which may have come uncounted billions of miles te pay •ur solar system a visit. VOL. 12.—NO. 2. Dr. Dosem, an Austin physical, was called on to attend old Uncle Mose, Who drives a dray. “Yon have been gorging yourself with green watermelons for dinner,” said the physidau, feeling the patient's pulse. “Hew de debbel did yer find dat out —by feelin’ my pulseses T” “No, but by seeing the watermelon rinds under the bed.” “For God’s sake," said the old man raising himself np in bed. “you am de know- inist man in Austin. Heah old ’oman, take dat ole harness from under de bed, or die beah medicinal gemman am gwir.e ter treat me fer eatin’ a mule for dessert to settle my stomach. I ain’t teched a watermelon in foah weeks. Hit’s rheiima- tiz what ails me. I’se de most rheuma- tickv ole niggah in Texas at nis season ob de yeah.”—Texas Siftings. A llard Com. If True. A colored Georgia convict tells this story; “1 worked in a barber shop in Gainesville, and one day a negro cam* in aud wanted a shave and hair cut. He lacked five cent; of having the money with which to pay me and pawned with me a ring that I took to be brass. A man who keeps a confectionary in Gainesville saw me with the ring and said that it wad his wife’s. It turned out that somebody had broken into the shop and stolen the riug, and as I had it in my possession and conld not show ap the man that I got it from, I was convicted and sentenced to one year. The was worth about $4. I shall go ou to the penitentiary, and I expect by good behav ior to come out before the 12 months ex pire." —» — “Chet” Crosses the Jane- Philadelphia Record. President Arthur is believed to be the first President of the United States who entered the limits of* foreign country dur ing his term of office. It is understood that bis yacht crossed the dividing line in to Canada last waeek through an ominous passage known as Lost Channel. Senator David Davis will be entitled hereafter to be known as ex-President Davis, since dur ing President Arthur's absence ia foreign waters, Senator Davis was the de jure President. Billie Chandler's Chums. Sere Torlc Am. It is understood that the chams are ‘di vided up into First Chum, second Chum. Third Chum, and so on; and the Deputy Chums and the Sub Chums are to be simi larly vivided, though concerning this Chan dler is understood to be cogitating. One idea keeper of the President's flag. At present it is understood to be in Commo dore Walkers possession. The importance of providing a permanent custodian for the thing is generally felt, and decidedly in sisted on by Walker, its author sod inven tor. The future for the South ia unde niably bright. Everywhere, on every hand, in everything that tells of the tide in iudnatrial affairs there are signs of a vigorous, pulsating prosperity not to be mistaken. Of course there are hundreds of thousands of people in the South who have not yet perceptibly felt the renascent influence that is showiog itself mostly in thu cities and towns along the the lines of the rail road, and in the mining and manu facturing districts. Bat the time is coming, and it is not distant either, when the humblest household of the poorest surviving soldier in this south ern land will be visited by a glow of sunshine, to ehase away the shadows that have been darkening the doorwmy to his hearth as well as hia heart so long. In the name of heaven, and of humanity, no mote it be—Southern Cultivator. WIT AMD WISDOM. How n carrier, in throwing a newspaper over a transom, can always manage to make it fall in of water, is something that cannot be explained by modern phil osophers. Mr. Vanderbilt is ironbled just at pres ent wi|b fears that upon getting into the other world be will neither be able to bay dp the furnace nor bribe the present pro prietor. He camu home the other night in the .drizzlingrain, soaked iosideas well as oat. ‘What excuse hare you te offer,” said his better half, “for earning home in such a beery condition T” “None, my dear," waa hia answer, “ ’cept ’twas a very muggy day.” A Tittle girl read a composition before the minister. The subject was “A Cow.” She wove in this complimentary sentence:* “A cow is the most useful aDimal in the world except religion.” The mistress gently reprimanded her maid for oversleeping herself in the morn ing. “Yon see, ma’am,” explained the rvant, “I sleep very slowly, and so you see it takes me much longer to get my fall sleep than it does others, you see, ma’am.” De hardest nut ter crack has de sweetest kerfial. Between de fear ob de debil an’ de joy ob redemption de ignorant nigger loan know which way to turn. Howeber,- de chickin: ain’t.altergedder safe. A preacher aud a merchant swapped ws last Saturday. Both of them think they know a good piece of cow flesh when they see it, and each one boasted to his friends what a good trade he had made; but when milking time came, they changed their tone. The preacher’s new cow kicked the shingles off of the stable, and the merchant’s cow tore down bis lot fence running from the milker. They arc both anxious to dis-Spcnce with the trade. Cattle Raining ia Texas. To illustrate the profits of eattle raising in Texas, we take the liberty ef publish^, ing a brief estimate of the success attained by a friend of ours during the past eight years. In 1873, the gentleman referred to owned about 3,000 cattle which he off ered with his horses, ranche.etc., for $25,- 000, but could find no purchaser, and was forced to hold on to his cattle. I.aft year hesold from this Barae stock $100,000 worth of beef, and th>s year has contract ed to one party over $100,000 worth of beevrs. In addition, be expected to sell and ship this season $50,000 worth of beef out of the stock, making his sales this year over $160,000, and still has left oa his range 30,000 head ef cattle, 400 head uf horses, outfits, etc., amounting to ever $400,000. $400,000 worth of stock and probably half that amount in cash from a $25,000 stock in eight years is convincing evidence that there is money in cattle busi ness in Texas. These figures are not ex* aggerations, but are gives from facts; snd of our knowledge no part of this remark able success has been due to speculation, but to the simple legitimate increase of of this stock the plan pursued during these eight years being to sell annaafiy s lot of beeves and at once re-invest the money thus received in young cattle. The estitimates in cattle raising which wa have published from time to time are eclipsed by the above actual experience. It should be borne in miod that the result ef $650,- 000 from an investment of $55,000, is ah' taioed by the yearly re-investment of espi' tal.—Texas Live Stock Journal. The Hood Children. Mr Burns, secretary of Hood’s brigade association, is in receipt of the following letter giving an account of the Hood chil dren : Westchester, N.Y., Sept. 20,1881 Robert Burns, Esq., Secretary Hood’s T exas. Bri gade, Houston, Texas : Dear Sir.—I write in behalf of my brother-in-law, John A. Morns whose her 1th for some'months past has been so uncertain as to interfere very materially with hia coireapdud«fle«^-H^de»iroe me to acknowledge the receipt ofyHUF Jettef— of the 28th of April last, and to give yov, aa you request, some information regarding the children of the late Gen. Hood. These are all, I am happy to say, exceedingly weil placed. The eldest, Iwin girls of twelve years of age. are being educated by Mr. Morris himself in Hanover, Germany, whence bis own children have returned after a sojourn there of several years. John Bell, the eldest boy, ten years old. has been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Russell, of Mississippi, and we frequently receive the best account, of his health and happiness. Duncan iZobert, aged nine years, is now at school near Saratoga, New York, where his expenses are defrayed by Miss Furniss, a wealthy maiden lady of New York, with whom he spends his vacations at her beau tiful summer home in Lennox, Massachus etts Lillian and Marian, twin girls of eight years, are the adopted and beloved chil dren of Mr. and Mrs Thatcher Adams, of New York city .Mind Odile aud Ida, aged six years, also twins, have been taken by Mr. aud Mrs. McGee, of Woodville. Mss- sachesetts, where they have a very lotely and happy borne. Oswald, the next in or der, a boy of nearly five years, bas been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Harney, of New York who last summer took the child to visit all hiB father’s relatives in Kentncky, and who are devotedly attached to their youngebarge. Anna Gertrude, the youDg- eat. after haviog been taken by Mrs. Josephs, of Georgia, died two years since from teeth; ug, at the age of oneyear. All of those who have adopted these children are tbemselvea childless, save only Mr. and Mrs. Morris, and thus the little bovs and;giris have the undivided love and de votion of their new parents. They are each and every one fine children, handsome intelligent and fall of character, and there is every reason to hope that they will do honor to their blood and make fine men and women. I remain, dear sir. 7erj truly yonrs, Eva Hesses Hard iso.