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The Cartersville Semi-Weekly Express.
Published on every Tuesday and Friday Mornings
VOLUME X
The Cartersville Express
la puUlinhfl S#mi-Weekly ou every TUES
-I)AY ANO HMOAF, by
S. H. SMITH & Cos., Editors and Prop’rs.
In the town of < 'niti-i svillc, Bartow County, Ga.
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John W. WoJTord,
ATTORNEY M UW.
CARTEUSVILLE GEORGIA.
OUiceover Pinkorlon’s Drug Store. Oct. 17.
W. T. WOKFOR.I, A. T\ WOFFORD.
WoliiMrd & Wolford,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OART EI iS VI Ll i'C, GEORGIA.
June 23,1870.
K. W- Murphey,
ATTTORNEY AT LAW.
OA itTEUSVII.I.K, QEOItGI A.
Will practice in tho courts of the Cherokee
Circuit. Pailicular attention frivon to the col
lection of claims. Oflico with Col. Abda John
son. . ■ Cct. 1-
John •!. Jones,
ATTORNEY AT LAW & REAL ESTATE AGENT.
CARTERSVTM.E GEORGIA.
Will attend promptly to all professional busi
nos-- entrusted to l»is c.aro; also, to the buying
aiul‘soiling of Real Estate. .Tan 1.
Jcrc. A. Howard,
Ordinary of Bartow County.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jnn 1,1870.
A. M. Foute,
<r ATTORNEY AT LAW.
A IIT E USVILL E, GEORGIA.
( With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Jnoyq, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad
joining counties. * March 80.
T. W. MILNER, 0. H, MILNER.
Milner «fc Milner,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
CARTERSVILLE,. GEORGIA
Will attend promptly to business entrusted to
their care. ’ Jan. 15.
Warren Alcin,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CARTEUSVD LE, GEORGIA.
Will practice in all tho courts of the State.
Nam. 11. Palillo,
Fashionable Tailor and Agent
for Sewing Machines,
WILT, attend promptly to tin? Cutting, Re
pairing, and Making Boys’ and Mens’
Clothing; also, Agent for the sale of the cele
brated Grover & Baker Sewing Machines. Of
lico over Stokely & Williams Store. Entrance
from the rear. feb 17.
W. It. Moifititcastlc,
Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
CAIiTEKSVILTK, DEOItOTA.
Office in irout us A. A. Skinner & Co’s Store.
Kenneaaw House,
MARIETTA,... GEORGIA.
I S still open to the traveling public ns well as
sufewer visitors? Parties desiring to make
arrangements for the season can be accommo
dated. Rooms neat and clean and especially
adapted for families. A line large piazza lias
been recently added to the comforts of the estab
lishment. FLETCHER & FJtEVER,
iunclsw if Proprietors.
S. O’SHIELDS,
Fashionable Tailor ,
Cartersville, Georgia.
HAVE just received the latest European and
American styles of Mens’ and Roys’ Cloth
ing, and is prepared to Cut and Making to or
der. Ollice upstairs in Liebman’s store, East
side of the Railroad. sept. 20.
l>r. J. A. Jackson,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
OFFICE IN THE ME \V DR UG STORE.
CARTERSVILLE, - GEORGIA.
Jan 4th, 1871.
WM, o. bowIerT
MANUFACTURER OF,
DEALERI IfN f
• SINULE AND DOUBLE
HARNESS,
Saddles,
COLLARS, LEATHER, &C.
KKI'AIRIWi l*o\i:
With «jm and dLispaluh.
JB&sy* , Shop ( n West Main Street, near the old
Market Upuso, CAKTERSVI LIE, GA.
feb £l-Wly Wlr.lO ROM LER.
CART iIRHVILLE, GA.
/j. M/NUFAOTCEBH OF HiinieSS,
dlvs, Gear, etc., and Dealer in
X . , S’Rldleis, Leather.
Repairtng done on short notice. Work war
ranted to stand the test. Hides Wanted,
jan. 24,1871.-swly
j—~4~t < ) -- , - .
_-A<j , ;«v I>l *- F. 3X.
mr- . vj2*% * Cxis
* v DENTIST.
' ft ■ barter grille, Ga.
Teeth drawn without pain, by the uscot nar
cotic spray. mch 9.
J. T. OWEN,
JEWELER,
Main .Street, Cartersville, ha..
ill furnish anything in his line as cheap, as
1 '' in iHijhought any wluero.
He is always at his post, ready to serve his
customers.
Everything waraated to give satisfaction.
m. bi_a m
IT is well known to
Doctors and to Ladies
that Women are subject
U> numerous diseases pe- Ap*
miliar to their sex—such' ** dc T. '£ A ' ’J.
as Mtpprc-sjon of the /vTAaf Jf ■ 'id.if. "a,
Mei.ses“White-, Tainfol % %
M’nthly ‘Perio*U,' ltheu- \ tChi.iL
matfstn of the Back and " ’ % j|
Wouib, Irregular Men- C .A *Sj
lfeinonbage.
or Excessive ‘Flow,’ and
Prolansus Uterior Fall- <k
ing of the Womb. 1
These disease.-, have sel
dom been treated successfully. The profession
hits sought dilligently for some remedy that wo’ld
enable them to treat these diseases with success.
At last, that remedy has been discovered by
one of the most skilful physicians iu thcStatc of
Georgia. The remedy is
Bradfield’s Female Ecgulator.
It is purely vegetable, and is put lip in Atlan
ta, by BRADFIELI) & CO.
It will purify the blood and strengthen the
system, relieve irritation of the kidneys, and is
a perfect specific for all the above diseased; as
certain a cure as Quinine is in < hills and Fevers.
For a history of discuses, and certificates of its
wordorful cures, the reader is referred to the
wrapper around the bottle. Every bottle war
ranted to give satisfaction or money refunded.
LaGranok, Ga.. March 23,1870.
BRADFTELD & CO., ATLANTA, GA.:
Dear Sirs: I take pleasure in stating that 1
have used, for the last twenty years, the medi
cine von are putting tip, known as DR. J. Bit VD
FIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR, and con
sider it the best combination ever gotten to
gether for the diseases for which it is recom
mended. r have been familiar with the pre
scription both as a practitioner of medicine and
in domestic practice, and can honestly say that
I consider it a boon to suffering females, and
can but hope that every lady in our whole land,
who may be suffering in any way peculiar to
their sex, may be able-to procure a bottle, that
their sufferings may not only be relieved, but
that they may be restored to health & strength.
With my kindest regards, Tam, respectfully,
W. B. FERRELL, D.
We, the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure
in commending to the trade. Dr. J. Bradflcld’s
Female Regulator—believing it to be a good ami
reliable remedy for the diseases for which he
recommends it, W. A. LANS DELL,
PEMBERTON. WILSON, TAYLOR & CO.
RED WINK * FOX,
W. C. LAWSItE, Atlanta, Ga.
W. ROOT & SON, Marietta, Ga.
\ CTS with gentleness and thoroughness
/. K. u l*on the Liver and General Circnla
-1 T )S the Bowels in Natural Motion
and Cleanses the System from all impuri-
Y/lEl' °’ S-Pwphlttf^gu-i-o.
inent, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Loss of Ap
petite, Nausea, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn.
Debility, Low Spirits, Cold I'eet and Hands,
Costiveness, Listlessness, Colic, Chronic
Diarrhea, and Chronic Chills and Fever.
i ( ompouned in strict accordance with
skillful chemistry and scientific pharmacy, this
purely veg-t ZZSZZZZZI Iu t able
Compound 1 | (has. after
h ‘; sovere-I I CELEBRATED 1 lost test, of
i 'V cut y| | ; (years in
cessant use,| styl
ed the Great Rertor ative and Reouperant
by the enlightened testimony of thousands us
ing it; so harmoniously adjusted that it keeps
the Liver iu healthful action; and when the
directions are observed the process of waste
ami replenishment in the human svstem con
tinues uninterruptedly to a ripe old age, and
man, like the patriarchs of old, drops into the
grave full of years, and without a strm-u-le.
whenever: jETIIZIZriSSZC:m ?» «A th
claims his . nr 1* • I-preroga
tive. Ada-iiJLivcr Medicine.iiptedto
tki'nn.stl | | Idclica t e
robust constitution, it c an’f ic* gfv"c rTwTfch equal
safety and success to the young child, invalid
lady or strong man.
jimc 2,1871.'
IfII. O. S. I*IZOI*IIITT’S
Anodyne X*alii Kill it.
NEVER FAILING!
KILLS IMI\ T I\ T EVERY FORM.
CUIIES Pain* in the Pack, Chest, /Lips or
lambs, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Coughs,
voKls, Bronchial Affections, Kidney Diseases Jh/s-
Liver Complaint ; Colic, Cholera. Cholera
Morbus, J leurisy, Asthma , Heart Burn. Tooth
Y/ . * 'W l *> Ache, Ear Ache, Head Ache , Spruiins.
Bruises, Cuts, Contusions, Sores, Lacerated
Hounds, Scalds, Hums, Chill Plains, Frost Hites,
I o/som, of all kinds,'vegetable or animal. Ofali
KILL ITIJI
s—
the Remedies ever discovered for tlie relief of
Suffering humanity, this is the best Pain Medita
tor known to Medical Science. The cure is speedy
jinn permanent in the most inveterate diseases.
I Ins is no humbug, but a grand medical, discovery.
A Pain Kieler containing no poison toinflame.
para]izo or drive the inflammation upon an in
ternal organ. Its ellieiency is truly wonderful
—Relief - m Instantaneous. It is destined to
banish pains and aches, wounds and bruises,
from the face of the earth,
may 6, 1871.
CERTIFICATES:
We, the undersigned, haved used L)r. l’roph
ltt’s Prcjiaartions, and take pleasure in recom
mending them to the public, as being all lie
claims for them:
Cob R J Henderson, Covington, Ga.; O T Rog
?, rs ’L < i v l n ’ ton i Ga.; O S Porter, Covington, Ga.;
1 rof. J L Jones, Covington, Ga,; Rev. M W Ar
nold, Georgia Conference; Rev. W W Oslin, Ga.
Contercnce; F M .Swanson, Monticclio, Ga.; lto
bert Larues, Jasner County, Ga.; A M Robinson,
Monticclio, Ga.; James Wright, Putnamcounty,
V-'i- ” ostbrook, Putnam eotintv, Ga.; Judge
J.l Movd, Covington, Ga.; W L llobee, “Cov
ington Enterprise,”; A H Zaolirv, Conyers, Ga;
George Wallace, Atlanta, Ga.;‘l)ick Lockett,
avis county, Texas; W Hawk Whatlev, Cus
set;h lexas; W C Roberts, Linden count’,', Tex-
Tommy A Stewart, Atlanta, Ga; W A Lans
< ell. Druggist, Atlanta, Ga; R F Maddox & Cos.;
Atlaftta, Ga.; L nah Stephens, Cartersville, Ga.;
A A Louis, Lowndes county, Ga.; Joseph Land,
Lowndes county, Ga.; Jas. Jefferson. Carters
ville, Ga., WL Ellis, Dooly countv, Ga.; W A
Forehand, Dooly county, Ga.;John B. Davis
Newton 1 actory, Ga.; 15 F Bass, Low mines eo.
GOWER, JONES & CO,
MANUFACTURERS OF
And Dealers in
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,
AND
1, 2 & 4 Horse Wagons.
MATERIALS, &C.
REPAIRING, of all kinds, DONE
WITH NEATNESS and DIE ABILI
TY.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
teb. 7, 187].wly
Suits of Clothes from $2,00 to
$4,00 at
Satteufeild, Pylon & Co’s.
Bridles,
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA, AUGUST 18 1871.
Schedule oftho
CARTERSVILLE & YAN AVERT R. R.
ON and after January 20th, 1871, the trains
will
Leave TAYLORSVILLE, at 0.30, \. M.
” BTILKSRORO’. at 10, A. M.
“ FORREST HILL, at 10.25. A. M
Arriving at CARTERSVILLE, at 10.50. AM
Leave CA RTERSVILLE. at 1, P. M.
Arrive at TAYLORSVILLE, at 3, P. M.
A Hack will soon be running from Cedartown
to Taylorsville via. Van Wort, connecting with
the trains.
An Extra train will be run to Cartersville and
Return to Taylorsville, every Friday evening.
By order of the President.*
D. AY. K. PEACOCK, Sec’y.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE^
WESTERN £ ATLANTIC R. R. CO
NIGHT PASSENGERTRAIN-Outward.
Leaves Atlanta, io 30, r. M.
Arrives at Chattanooga, 6 18, a. it
Day passenger train—outward.
Leaves Atlanta, 8 15, a. sr.
Arrives at Chattanooga 4 25, p. m.
FAST LINE TO NEW YORK-OUTWARD.
Leaves Atlanta 2 45, p. m.
Arrrivcs at Dalton 7 53, p. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAlN—lnward.
Leaves Chattanooga 5 20, p. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 1 42, A. M.
DAY PASSENGER TRAlN—lnward,
Leaves Chattanooga 5 30, a. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 2 20, f. m.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN-INWARD.
Leaves Dalton 2 25, A. M.
Arrives at Atlanta.. 9 10, a. m.
E. B. WALKER,
may .25,1571. Master of Transportation.
Lawslie & Haynes,
Have on hand and are receiving
the finest stock of the
Yery Latest Styles
of Diamond and Gold
JEWELRY,
in upper Georgia, selected, with eat care for
the
Fall and Winter Trade.
Watches,
Os tho BEST MAKERS, of both Europe and A
merica;
American and French Ciocks;
Sterling and Coin Sliveir Ware;
and the best quality of
Silver Plated Goods,
at prices to suit the times;
Gold, Silver and Steel
Spectacles,
to suit all ages.
Watclies fin<l Jewelry
Kepairsd by Competent Workmen;
Also Clock and Watch Makers
Tools and Materials.
sept 13,-swly .ATLANTA, GA.
W. n. GILBERT. A. BAXTER, T. W. BAXTER, Jr.
GILBEBT&BAXm,
(SUCCESSORS TO W. 11. GILBERT & C 0.,)
Dealers In
IIARDWYKE,
inour, STEEL, JXAILS,
CLOVER & GRASS SEED.
AGENTS FOR SALE OF
COAL CREEK COAL.
Peruvian Guano.
And Other Fertilizers.
Agricultural Implements,
Agricultural and Mill Machinery,
ALSO
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS
For sale and Purchase of
COTTON, WHEAT, CORN.
And all other
Country Produce, Cotton, Hay
AND OTHER PRODUCE SHIPPED ON
LIREStAL TERMS.
GILBERT & BAXTER,
Cartersville Ga.
Jan. 19, 1871—ly.
JAS. W. STRARGE,
Dealer In, and Manufacturer Os
TOT WAKE, ANI>
House-Fiti*iiisliu!”- Goods,
ARSO DEALER IN
First-Class Stoves At
The JLo'west Cash Prices .
WILL BARTER
FOIt COUNTRY PRODUCE, RAGS,&C.
Cartersville, Jan. 20th, ’7l-ly.
S. 11. IMTTILLO, Agent
GROVER & BAKER’S CELEBRATED
- ffiwiK mmm.
BOTH THE
ELASTIC A^ r l> SHUTTLE
OR
LOCK'STITON.
SUITABLE FOR ANY KIND OF FAMI
LY SEWING- JNONE BETTER-
Men and Roys’ Clothing
Made on the Most Reasonable Terms.
In fact, almost any description of
SEWING done
As Cheap as the Cheapest!
AND
IUfTISEKEST STYLE.
' Brisk unfit
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
If prepared to do any of the above work
upon short notice and at low figuers
ATLANTA SACK FACTORY.
WE are prepared, at all seasons, to till or
ders for Grain and Flour Sacks, of any
size, quality, or quantity at our factory in At
lanta. Ga. * W. A. MITCHELL & CO*
sept 20,18*70. wly
“Onward and Upward
SHARP &FLOYD,
Successors to Geo. SHARP, Jr.,
ATLANTA, GAI„
| Wholesale And Betail Jewelers.
We Keep a Large and Varied Assortment of
FIXE WATCHES, CLOCKS,
DIAMONDS, JEWfXRY,
AND
SPE( TACLES.
edm® mm mm,
A SPECIALTY.
AVe Mannfactnae Tea Sets, Forks, Simons,
Goblets, Cups, Knives, etc.
Jf 01 ! Agricultural
AVe are prepared to fill any order for Fairs at
short notice; also to give any information in
regard to Premiums.
Orders by mail or in person, will receive
prompt and careful attention. AVe aik a com
parison of Stock, Prices and Workmanship with
any house in the State.
Watches and Jewelry carefully Repaired
and AVarrantcd. Masonic Badges and Sunday
School Badges made to order.
All Work Guaranteed.
ENG 11A VING FREE OF CHARGE.
SHARP & FLOYD.
May 23, swly.
CONSUMPTION,
Its Cure rim! Its Preventive
BY J. H. SCHENOK, M. D
MANY a human being has passed away,
for whose death there was no other roaso'n
than the neglect of known and indisputably
proven means of cure. Those near and dear to
family and friends arc sleeping the dreamless
slumber into which, had they calmly adopted
Dlt. JOSEPH H. SCKENCK’S SIMPLE
TREATMENT.
and availed themselves of his wonderful effica
cious medicines, they would not have fallen.
Dr. Schenok has in his own case proved that
wherever sulficient vitality remains, that vital
ity,. by his medicines and his directions for
their use, is quickened into healthful vigor.
In this statement there is nothing piesump
tuous. To the faith of the invalid is made no
representation that is not a thousand times
substantiated by living and visible works. The
theory of the cure by Dr. Scheftck’s medicines
is as simple as it is ur.failing. Its philosophy
requires no argument. It is self-assuring, sclf
convincing. %
The Seaweed Tonic and Mandrake Pills are
the first two weapons with which the citadel
of tho malady is assailed. Two-thirds of the
cases of consumption originate in dyspepsia
and a functionally disordered livei. AVith this
condition the bronchial tulies “ sympathize”
with the stomach. They respond to the morbific
action of the liver. Here then comes thi cul
minating result, and the setting in, with all its
distressing symptoms, of
CONSUMPTION.
The Mandrake Pills are composed of one of
Nature’s noblest gifts—the Podopliilium I’clta
tum. They possess all the blood-seartflung,
alterative properties of calomel.
But unlike calomel, they
“LEAVE NO STING BEHIND,”
The work of cure is now beginning. The
vitiated and mucous deposits in the bowels and
in the alimentary canal are ejected. The liver,
like a clock, is wound up. It arouses from its
torpidity. The stomach acts responsively, and
the patient begins to feel that he is getting, at
last,
A SUPPLY OF GOOD BLOOD.
The Seaweed Tonic, in conjunction with the
Pills, permeates and assimilates with the food.
Chyliflcation is noiv progressing without its
previous tortures. Digestion becomes painless,
and the euro is seen to bo at hand. There is no
more flatulence, no exacerbation of the stomach
An appetite sets in.
Now comes the greatest Blood Purifier ever
yet given by an indulgent father to suffering
man. Sehcnck’s Pulmonic Syrup comes in to
perform its functions and to hasten and com
plete the cure. It enters at once upon its work.
Nature cannot be cheated. It collects and
ripens the impaired portions of the lungs. In
the form of gatherings, it prepares them for
expectoration, and lo ! in a very short time the
malady is vanquished, the rotten throne that
it occupied is renovated and made new, and the
patient, in all the dignity of regained vigoi - ,
steps forth to enjoy the manhood or the woman
hood that was
GIVEN UP AS LOST.
The second thins is, the patients must stav in
a warm room until they get well ; it is almost
impossible to prevent taking cold when tlio
lungs are diseased, but it must be prevented or
a cure cannot be effected. Fresh air and riding
out, especially in this section of the country in
the winter season, are all wrong. Physicians
who recommend that course lose patients, if
their lungs are badly diseased, ami yet because
they are m the house they must not sit down
quiet; they must walk about the room as much
and as fast as the strength will bear, to get up a
good circulation of blood. The patients must
keep in good spirits—be determined to get well.
This has a great deal to do with the appetite,
and is the great point to gain.
To despair of cure after such evidence of its
possibility in the worst cases, and moral cer
tainty in all others, is sinful. Dr. Sclienek’s
personal statement to the Faculty of his own
cure was in these modest words :
Many years ago 1 was in. the last stages of
consumption ; confined to my bed, and at one
time my physicians thought that 1 could not
live a week; then, like a drowning man catch
ing at straws, I heard of ami obtained the pre
parations which I now offer to the public, and
they made a perfect cure of me. It seemed to
me that T could feel them penetrate my whole
system. They soon ripened the matter in jnv
lungs, and I would spit up more than a pint of4
offensive yellow matter every morning for a
long time.
As soon as that began to subside my cough,
fovei. pain and night sweats all began to leave
me,, and my appetite became so great that it
was with difficulty that T could keep from
eating too much. 1 soon gained my strength,
and have grown in flesh ever since.”'
•‘I was weighed shortly after mv recoverr,”
added the Doctor, “then looking like a mere
skeleton; my weight was onlv ninety-seven
pounds ; my present weight is two hundred am '8
twenty-five pounds, and for years I have
“ ENJOYED GOOD HEAT.TH.”
Dr. Sobcnok has discontinued his professional
visit to New York and Boston, lie'or his Son,
Dr. J 11. Sehonok, dr., still continue to see
patients at their office, No. 15 North Sixth street,
Philadelphia, every Saturday from 9 a. m., to 3
p. m. Those who wish a thorough exrttni nation
with the Hespirosneter will lie charged five
dollars. The Kespironioter declares the exact
condition of the lungs, and patients can readily
learn whether they are curable nr not.
The directions for taking the medicine' arc
adapted to the intelligence even of a child
Follow these directors, ami kind mvtuce will do
the rest, excepting that in some cases the Man
drake Pills are to be taken in increased doses ;
the three medicines need no other accompani
ments than the amide instructions ; that do
accompany them- First create appetite. Os
returning health hunger is the most Welcome
symptom. When it comes, as it will coin*;, let
the despairing be of good cheer. Good blood at
once follows, the cough loosens, the night sweat
is abated. In a short time both of these morbid
symptoms are gone forever.
’ Dr. Scheuek’s medicines are-constantly If dpt
in tens of tivousands of families. Asa laxative,
or purgative, the Mandrake Pills lire a standard
preparation; while the Pulmonic Syrup, as a
curer of coughs and colds, may be regarded as a
prop'hylacteric against consumption in any of
its forms, .
Price of the Pulmonic Svrup and Seaweed
Tonic. $1.50 a bottle, or $7.5,'} a half dozen. Man
drake Pills, 25 cent:, a box. For sale by all
druggists and dealers.
° JOHN F. IIENRY,
EIGHT College Place, New York.
WHOLESALE AGENT.
Flew Beef market.
A G. u. VANjPIVKKB hys opened anew
a Beef Market, in the house formerly oc
cupied by W. -I- Malias a Workshop, on West
Main Street, ! .Carters vjUe, and' two doors West
of Mr. PiekrciPs Furniture store, whore he will
sup pH the public with Iresh meats at any time
from daylight to 9 o’clock, P. M. Il e w jft j^o
pay the best prices tor beel tattle aud Hides,
mar ltS-wihn
The Bible Its oun Witucss.
The Bible is Ls ow:i witness. It is
the oldest boob in the world. Os all
; the relies el antiquity that have come
! to us, some ancient writings of the Bi
i ble are the most ancient. Westminis
ter Abbey, gray with lapse of ages,
where men with immortal names lie in
their silent tombs, is comparatively
modern. Home is enriched with ruin
ed buildings which stood in their pride
i and glory about 1,000 years beforo the
first stone of Westminister Abbey was
laid; and yet they may be called mod
ern. Go to the bank of the Nile;
there are pyramids that wore stand
ing as they now are many centuries
before the city of Homo was built on
tho banks of the Tiber, and they too
are modern. Go to the banks of the
Euphrates; there lie, in fragments of
masonry, remains of tho city of Baby
lon—perhaps vitrified fragments of tho
Tower of Babel itself. These are spec
imens of antiquity, worn and mutila
ted by the lapse of time. All that was
once connected with them is gone.—
Tho hands that built them, tho pride
and beauty of their city, the crowds
that thronged their streets, the tombs
where they lay, aro all gone! But tho
Bible is far more ancient than those
crumbling monuments. When tho
pyramids were gazed upon as new
buildings, Moses penned his Penta
teuch. David wrote his Pslams prob
ably two centuries before Homer wrote
his Iliad. When Homo was but rising
as a village, Isaiah was denouncing the
corruptions of the Jewish kings and
predicting their downfall; when Alex
ander the Great set out for Eastern
conquests, the Jewish nation had ex
isted for 1,000 years; when ho entered
Jerusalem, the Jews had in the sacred
archives all tho books of the Old Tes
tament which wo read now; and Jose
phus tells us that the High Priest even
showed to Alexander Daniel’s prophe
cy respecting himself. God made the
Jewish nation his librarian; and with
rigorous fidelity did they preserve ev
ery book, every psalm, every prophecy,
scrupuously guarding even the letters
from corruption. Thus the Bible is
its own witness; it is tho oldest and
most venerable monument of antiqui
ty; it is minutely inter-woven with tho
great events of the world's history; the
more it is examined, the more exactly it
is found to agree with facts at the time
when it professes to have been written.
No book has ever endured such as
saults as tho Bible. Some people
write and argue as if the skeptics of
our day were the first who over ques
tioned tho authority of the Scripture.
But the Bible has always been the ob
jects of assault. Men withstood tho
works of the Lord himself, and then
every where contradicted the Appos
tles. The early Christians lived and
suffered and held fast their faith amid
fierce and incessant conflicts. When
tho Bible lay for ages unread by the
people, infidelity was silent; but when
learning revived, infidelity sprang up
again. Many of the leading writers
of the last century in England and
France were infidels. It was the age
of infidelity. They boasted that Chris
tian faith should be swept clean from
the earth. A firery furnace was kin
dled and the Holy Bible submitted to
the torture. Sceptics have ever sought
to disprove its facts, and ridicule its
characters. Men of science alleged
that its statemeuts were contradicted
by their discoveries; philosophers have
found fault with its moral, and argued
against all belief in its miracles, as a
thing simply incredible; kings have
forbidden it to bo read; popes have
put it under their curse; generals have
drawn the sword against it; grave
and venerable councils decreed tnat it
is a dangerous book, not to be pos
sessed; houses have beeu ransacked to
destroy it; learning perverted to mis
interpret it; all the charities of life sac
rificed in hot zeal for ifs extermina
tion; and yet in tho face of tempests
and universal uproar, the Bible stands
Like tnc cciulcan arcli that spans tlic sky,
Majestic in its own.simplicity.”
No fragment of any army ever sur
vived so many battles as the Bible; no
citadel over witnessed so many sieves;
no rock was ever battered by so many
hurricanes, and swept by storms. And
' and stands. It has seen the rise and
! downfall of Daniel’s four empires.
Assyria bequeathes a few mutilated
fagures to the nitches of our national
museum. Media and Persia, like Bab
ylon, which they conquered, have been
weighed in the balance and long ago
found wanting. Greece faintly sur
vives its historic fame: “’Tis living
Greece no more;” and the iron Borne
of the Caesars is held in precarious oc
cupation by a feeble hand. And yet
l the Book that foretells this still sur
| vives. What nations, kings, philoso
j phors, systems, institutions have died
away, the Bible now engages men’s
deepest thoughts, is examined by the
keenests intellects* stands revered be
fore the highest tribunals, is more read
and sifted and debated, more devout
edly loved, and more vehemently as
sailed, more, defended and more de
nied, more industriously translated
and freely given to the \vorld, more
honored and more abused than any
other book the world ever saw:
“Strange words fulfilled, and mighty words
achieved,
And truth in all the .world both hated and
Grieved.” •
It survives till changes, itself un
changed; it moves all minds, yet is
moved by none; ail things de
cay, itself incorruptible; it sees myr
iads of other books engulfed ill tin
stream of time, yet is borne Irinmpaut
ly on tlie wave; and will be, burnt
along, till the mystic angel sliail plant
his foot on the sea, and swear by Him
that liveth for ever and ever, that time
shall be no longer. “For all flesh
is as grass, and all the glory of man as
tho flower of grass. The grass wither
eth, and the floAver thereof falleth
away; but the Word of tho Lord en-
Uureth forever.” —Christian Observer.
The Collosi* IVoNfrcct.
A few weeks ago tlicro was groat ex
citement in tho cotton market, atten
ded by an advance in price of six cents
per pound. A great part of tho ad
vance then and all of the excitement
•were duo to tho reports of reduced
planting and injury to tho crops by
protracted bad weather. Every point
unfavorable to future supply from tho
crop of 1871 was grossly exonerated.
Speculative opinions and rash state
ments of individuals wero doubly for
titied and supported by unwarranted
and absurd statesments from tho agri
cultural Bureau at Washisnton, which
in England wero ignorently supposed
to have some value.
One month of warm, dry, favorable
weather has passed, and, behold, what
a chance ! “Cotton has no friends,”
is the oxpressivo phrase in market.—
prices have fallen about two cents,
without reviving faith; tho declino has
rather increased the tendency to fur
ther depression. The crop story from
every quarter comes bettor, and better,
as if the writers, repentant of folly,
would causo its expression to be for
gottou. Loav estimates of tho crop
appear no more, and the making of
estimates has ceased, as if everybody
at last has come to see that they servo *
no other purpose but to exhibit the fa
tuity of their makers. Yet there are
some opposite facts of the past and
present that may be usefully consider
ed. The cotton crop of 1870 was very
large, unexpectedly so to the extent
of 500,000 to 700,000 bales, because of
tho unparalelled maturing season.—
The production of other countries was
up to its usual average. The great
sudden excoss in supply depressed the
market value of cotton in the spring
to a range only about 8 per cent, high
er in gold than the average price at
the same period in tho three years
preceding tho Avar. All ofclior articles
of trade and mauufauture (except wool,
a kindred article) bore values 15 to 1G
per cent, higher than in 1858-60. Cot
ton had fallen too low. It was fairly
entitled to an advance of lid., or 3
cents in gold, to place it upon a level
with other commodities, irrespective
of any reduction of supply or any fur
ther increase of consumption, as com
pared with the quanitios of 1870-I.
About onc-kalf the advance in May
and June was then legitimate (only
too early and too rapid), even with a
favorable report of the growing crop.
England has liadone year of remark
ably good busiues in all branches of
her cotton trade. It Ims been good
enough to start new spindles for the
ensuing year. England does not set
up new spindles, except to replace old
ones, in years of unprofitable and “dis
astrous” business like that which mar
ked tho years 18G4 to 18G0, arid they
are not well informed who talk and
w 7 rite of tiro great increase in British
cotton spindles in those bad years. —
Now it is changed. The impetus of
profit is given as in 1857 to 18G1, and
the increase for the work of 1871-2
may well bo large. On the Continent
the restraint of war is ended. Spindles
lately idle are in motion again, and
new ones are building, under the pow
erful incentive of profits, which, good
when cotton was worth 12d., have be
come very good with cotton at Bd.;
and the reduction in price of cotton,
shared in tho reduction price of cotton
goods, has enlarged the market de
mand for those goods.
There is ample reason to suppose
that in the avorago of twelve monlis
from tho Ist of October next there will
be three and one-half to four millions
more spindles in running order than
in twelve months preceding. The
question will arise, will tradoand con
sumption take off all the production of
the spinning power so enlarged ? And
most men, looking at the abundance
and cheapness of money arid ever ex
tending areas of trade, will answer,
Yes, if not prevented by enhanced pri
ces.
If so much be true; then the world
wants for the next year four hunured
thousand bales of cotton more than
was requird for the current year.
Whence is it to come? Should the
rest of the world keep its supply up to.
that of 1870-1 our crop would need to
be not only 4,300,000 bales agam,
but as much more as the increase in
consumption, or else the surplus at‘the
end of next year must be induced by
whatever our crops fails of that in
crease. We hazard no estimates of
growing crops, but we remeikber that
the extraordinary yield from the large !
planting of 1870 was, to the extent of
half a million bales at least, duo to such
a season as may not be repeated for
many years. We know that the earl} 7
start of this crop was under conditions,
which, though grossly exagerated, were
yet unfavorable,. It is for every one to
discount from last year’s production
so much as to him seems good in ar
riving at a probability for this year.—
If the crop falls off GUO 000 bales—that
is, if it turns out to be 3,700,000 bales
—and the consumption in the world
shall be 500,000 bales more than this
S. H. Smith S' Cos., 7'ropn e f t ; . s 7
year’s, then it follows surly that, ti
surplus at tho end of this year *;u j
reduced by 1,100,000 tales at ttio onj
of next year. How much woukl that
leave to go into the next year witU‘>
Os course aay statistical problcr-, 0 f
this sort ia-Subject to the perturb -.
tii>us of prion of cotton and es good*
stiimduimg or restraining action,
therefore the end must bo iudofiaiUj
But to mwcliauts and in mufacturers
there is matter worth thinking 0 f i u
the important facts that wo present
and the suggestions Unit they carry
New York World .
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'I lil' Jodi Billirg*
“wif.lT I KNO ADOUT llUliMiM
What I know about pharming iz
bussed little. Mi buzzum friend,
Horace Greely, bi'Z rit ft. book with the
abuv name, allho I haveut h;ul time
to peroose it, yet don’t hesitate to pro
nounce it bully.
riiarmm (now daao) is pretty much
all theory, and therefore it is.ustoiish
iug that a man kan live in N6wr York
and be a good chancery lawyer, and
also kuo all about pharmin.
A pharrn (now daze) bf one hundred
akers will produce more buck wheat
aud pumpkins, run on theory than ik
would sixty years ago, run ou manure
and hard knoks.
There is nothing like Look learning,-,
and tho time will eventually come,
wheu a man would hav too hnv only
one of “Josh Billings Farmers’ Al
mannx,” to run a pharm, or a karnp
meeting with.
Even now it ain’t unkommon, tew
see three or four hired men, on a
pharrn, with three or four spans of
oxen, all standing still, while the boss
goes into the library, and reads liiar-.-
self for tho day’s plowing.
If I was runing a pharm (now daze) *
I suppose I would rather buv 3G busb
ols ov sum new breed ov potatoes razed
on theory, 1 hen tow hav 81 bushels got
in the mean, beknighted aud under
hand way ov our late lamented -grand
parents.
* Blnw'imn, after all, is a good deal
like the tavern bizziuess, enny hotly'
thinks they kan keep a hotel, (now
daze,) and enny body thinks, Uiey-kau
pharm it (now daze,) and they kan , but
this is the way that pour hotels cum
to be so plenty, and this is like-wise
wnat makes pharmin such easy and
profitable bnzziness.
Just take the theory outof phariniu,,
and there ain t fc nothin’ left, but hard
work, aud all di ed little krops.
When I see so much pholks rushing
into theory 7 pliarmiiig, as there is (now
daze,) and so rnenny ov them rushing
out agiu, i think ov that reniarkablo
piecce of scriptur, which remarks,
“menny are called, but few arc cho
sen.
I onst took a pharm on shares mi
self, and run heron some theories, and
the thing figured up this way, i duu ad
the work, phurnished all the seed and
manure, had ague 0 months out ov l‘*2,
for mi share ov the profits, and too
other phellow paid the taxas' on the
pharm for his share.
By mutual kousent i quit tho pharm
at the end ov the your.
What 1 kilo about pharmin ain’t
wuth bragging about, and i fob! lhy
duty to state, for the benefit ov my
kreditOrs, that if they ever expekt me
to pay five ceuts on a dollar they
museu’t start me in tho throeretikul
pharmin employ.
If a man really is anions tew make
ipunny on a pharm, the less theory he
lays in the better, and he must do
pretty much all tho work hisstJf, afid
support his family on what he kant,
sell and go ragged euuff all the time ,
tew hunt bees.
I kno of menriy farmers who arc so*
afflicted with enperstision that they
won’t plant a single bean only in the
last quarter ov the moon, and i kno
others so pregnant, with sioiicq that,
they wont set a gate post until ‘s,hey
have had the ground ah allzed bi sum
prefessor of anatomy tew see if the
earth h;iz got the right kind of iugro
dience for post holes.
Thisiz what icall running science
into the ground. *
The fact 6v it tz that theories of fill
kinds work well eicr-pt in praktiss
they are too often designed to do tho
work ol practise.
They ain’t no theory in breaking a
mule only tew go Minin With a Club
in your hand and sin r blood in your
eyh, and brake him, just as you Woukl
split a log.
What i kno about pharmin ain’t
wuth much enny how, but i undertook
to brake a kinckmg heifer once.
I rend-a trehtisson the
phollowed the direckshuns cluss and I
got kuokt eud waze in about 5 rninits.
I then set down and thought the thing
over.
I made up my min 1 that the phel -
low who wrote the troatiss was uhkx*
in the treutiss brizsiiuess than he was
ru the kicking heifer trade.
I come to the kohklusmn that what
he kuu about milking kicking hcifeiw
he had learnt bi leanin over 7 a barn
yard fence, and writing the thing
up.
I got up from my refieckshuns
strengthened* and went for that heif
er.
I will draw- avail-over the lungrmgo
I usod. ami the things, I did, hut I
went in tp win, ami won!
“Tlpd heifer never beku.ui a cow.
This is one way to kfake a kicking
heifer, after a man has studyed all the
boi k , iu k reash tin on the subject; and >
mmii tin