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lI FE in LIBERIA. , formation from the Ooneul GeneraJ of the Colored Bepublic. , 1QC „| 0 a»l F.ellH**.—Thon.and. of A „nllM»<»-*"° Chmnse or CII- m.M-Beletlone to the No. Ilv ct—Work—Wnsco. ■...-■M-fton Cor. Cincinnati Timea-Stor.J « r William Copplngcr, consul general Li Iberia anil secretary of the tolonl- K, society, leaves here In a day or two P \e« Vork to superintend the work of to Liberia the regular semi-annual K„,i'nf CJlored people. Every spring * .. t..M tiila artpiotv formed over -There la great unrest among Ibo l„,.‘n neop.a of this country," said Mr. * Seer t.t he sat in the rooms or the 1 Here. In the closets with which room was lined were samples of coffee r j .,„ tu ra and other articles of a similar |s lie production of the colonists in JUkria On 8 mantel, just opposite him, Cood photographs^ lislature Washtucton’a Dinner I'ait;. A writer in The Magazine of American llistoiy for September gives the following “2* r from Washington, at West Point in 17<9, to Dr. John Cochran, describing a dinner party which the commander in- 1 tended to give: West Point, Aug. 16, 1779.--Df.ah ■ Doctor: I have asked Mrs. Cochran and Mrs. Livingstone to dine with mo to-mor row; but ought I not to apprise you of their faro? . As I hate deception, even • when imagination is concerned, I will. \ u It is needless to promise that uiy table is i large enough to hold the ladies—of this they had ocular demonstration yesterday. lo say hoAv it is usually covered 5s rather But it fell in an evening windy-wet. more essential, and this shall be the pur- i (Hauberk, ami helmet, aud baieinot), pot t of my letter. A knight drew rein'math the castle wall; \ THE RIME OP SIR LTONNR [Chamber’s Journal. In the days of old. as rim esters tell. (Culvert, and jtetrel, and mangonel). A inaidon dwelt in a castle stout, Guarded and walled, within, without, And ever defeat and direful rout To all her castle's liesiegers fell. No suitor the maid's proud heart could win, (Piko and halberd, and eulverin); She recked not of love-kiss, ne vow, n« , sigh, But her song had the ring of a battle-cry; 1 “Oh, strong is my fortress—u maid am I-* ; And never a foenmn shall enter in.” leg antf supreme court of ■liberm “II Iheir members black Itiio portrait of the present president l/howcu the fact: of an apparently bright liM.l intelligent black man. He is ■ L.,.f i.jlieria. ” said Mr. Copplngcr. “ born , re of parents who were slaves in this Icouutrv; he is a man of marked ability Lncl a successful president. This is Rev. Id . Llvdcn, ” he said, pointing to the Inhotomph of a full-blooded negro. ** He |u the president of our college there, you |L oW| a mini of thorough education and ■•^eu have some educational facilities in Liberia then. -oh, vcs. very good ones. There ore irtuMic schools, and by the laws of the re public all children of certain age nfe P ired to attend school a given lime in venr. Education is compulsory. t . ;1 {| lv .re are higher grades of sehoois. lacti the college, which cost $30,000, and |i> well-equipped and well patronized. The IpeoDle who go there appreciate very llboroughly the value of education. In Jliu i. we do not take any now who arc not |of this class. The number of applications o great that we have opportunity to I select our people pretty carefully. -Are your applications for opportunity . go to 1 -ibevia numerous, theu ? ” "Numerous?” he said with a smile, I dancing at a pile of papers before him. I “I .liould say they were. The desire lot I removal to a new'country where men and n of color may be on an equality- in ■ every sense with the other men and 1 ,-ouien of that country seems to be on the crease. Wc get thousands of npplica- ons from every direction, and thousands note than we can meet with the limited ...leans at the disposal of the society, I which, of course, is maintained by con- I tributious. 1 believe that if we hud ships mil moans to help all applicants get a start | there as wc do with those whom we do sei.d, there would be a half-million of the colored people of this country ready to go at once. ” “How many have you sent in all since the society was formed?” “About 16,000, who were residents of this country. Then there arc about o.Oibl more natives of Africa who were enptun d on board vessels which were bringing them to this country to sell them ns slaves. They were, as a rule, sent to Liberia, “o there have been over 30,000 persons landed there to make homes in that country sii.ee our society began its work sixty-three "How does the change in clintnle serm to affect their health and constitutions?” Not unfavorably. They are, as a rule, very healthy, and the percentage of mor- small.” lint arc the relations of tho°e who go there to the natives by whom they must be surrounded?” “Very satisfactory. Liberia, you must know, extends up aud down the coast for a distance of 000 miles, and stretches back into the interior almost indefinitely, so that the pvuple who go there, and who have gone, an brought into contact with a very \ large number of the natives. The result ! ha" been u gradual assimilation of the j natives with the civilized element. They j have gradually come to see the advantage? i °f civilization, ns it shown by the fact J that within the past year two of the native i kings have come into the Litieriau couu- I try to remain, expressing u desire to adopt tlie habits of civilization. Some of these kings and others of the natives have f< r a considerable time liecn sending thidr children to the schools of Lilieriu. The influence of the colony is so marked that ; it is now possible for one familiar will; °nlv tlie English tongue to make himself | understood all along thut section. A very j large percentage of the natives in the Liberian country speak English and under- j stand it readily.’” “And what does your association do for ! tho-e whom it sends abroad?” "It gives them passage to Liberia fr >m the port of New Vork only, req’jiri-.g theta to furnish their own transportation j to that point On their arrival flier - * it, pvestheni ten acre, of land, a town lot if they prefer it, and in some eases whom there is a family of considerable »i/.e it twenty-live acres. This seems iik- a small amount of land, hut, in fact, it will produce as much there as 10 ) acret will , her*. It „| So allows them $50 for rations and shelter after reaching there. Toward this each emigrant is expected to subscribe ; at jeast $*>5 before lr-.t v ‘tig home. ” | “And what are the opportunities for I le iJ u W )ort there?” "The same as here. The men who have i trades are in demand, and at good wages, I 15 are also teachers, clerks, and account-j 5° ts - As to farming, a colored man who -w been there a number of years writes us ^ thirds of the labor that it would take w support a man In the U nited Slates will the wotkman thirty, sixty, u liun-, Jncc rav arrival at this happy spot, we have had a ham, sometimes a shoulder of bacon, to grace the head of the table. A piece of roast beef adorns the foot, and a snmll dish of green beans—airna-t iii.oor eeptilde—decorates the center. When the cock has a mind to cut a figure, and this I E resume he will attempt to-morrow, we live two beefsteak-pies, or dishes of crabs in addition, one on each side of the cen ter-dish, dividing the space, and reducing the distance between dish and dish to about six feet, which, without them, would be nearly twelve apart. Of laic he lias had the surprising luck to disco vet that apples will make pies; aud it is a question if, amidst the violence of his ef forts, we do not get one of apples instead of having both of beef. “If the ladies can put up with such eo tertainnient. and submit to partake of i» ou plates once tin, but now iron, not be come so by the labors of hard scouring, l shall be happy to see them. Dear sir, yours, George Washington'. ” Uses or Arctic Exploration. [Harper's Magazine ] In 800 years tliero have been some 200 arctic*voyages, for various purposes and with various fates. The Greely expedi tion v..is but one of thirteen expedi tions. Five hundred men passed two win ters within the polar circle, and nineteen of them only were lost. And Lieut. Hay says that the result of the observations of all these expeditions will lie the doubling of tlie world’s knowledge of the magnetic forces. That is to say. us the Kev. Brooke Iferford states in his ndmirnble sermon upon this subject, “Not one of ull the thousand and ten thousand craft sailing to and fro among the many lands of earth but will be a little surer of its compass, t little closer in. its reckoning, a little safer, than it ever was before. 1 Is this worth nothing? Is not the risk, the loss even, amply recompensed? But also, ns Mr. Hcrforu points out, the moral qualities, the patience, the courage, the self-denial, the fuilli, the endurance, developed by these northern researches, are incomparable. “There is simply no other chapter in the history of human doings to be compured with it. Beside it the adventures of commerce and conquest i look greedy and base, the stories of I chivalry are mere tinsel, the long heroism I of the crusades seems a fevered frenzy? ! C’ui liono? is not an argument to disccur- ' age the restless soul, which the prospect of peril inspires, nor will the pathetic story of the patient and generous endurance, amid apparentlv remediless suffering, which the r. cord tf the Greely expedition discloses, dismay or deter other Greelys from durinp the same dangers. v Tlie Cleanliness of Pompeii. j A writer who has visited that ancient city of southern Italy, whose ♦marvels seem to be unlimited ns excavations pro ceed, thus describes his impressions: “Another striking tidng is the absolute cleanliness. You may say that the dirt has all been taken away by the Italian government. That is true, but it is quite evident that in the old times it never was there. Our modern houses are not made to be clean, ns were the Pompeian real- deuces. The walls, the floors, every corner of their homes, were finished with the most admirable workmanship. In their rooms no piaster ever fell, for it was of such excellent material, and so well put on, that it soon became like marble. They had no wooden walls, no cracks where dust could penetrate. Water for clcansin, * ’tf was found m every port of the house, und ran off through perfect drains. “All the tables and ln-dsteads were of marble or bronze; even the well-curbs and the Itorders of the flower-beds were of hewn stqne. Hygiene must have come naturally to the olu Pompeian; he evidently hud no chance to get a typhoid attack; the only class of diseases he could not provide against were the eruptive, and one of these carried hint off at last ” fold; the profits will sweeten the toil. ; **offee-tree planted and raised will in .7* y«ars yield its increase, two crops a •J* °f "bat many pronounce the best, ' ufe grown iu the world. Arrowroot, j •Wcr, lemons, oranges, yarns, potatoes, J*< beans, and a hundred others articles ‘'**1 and commerce, put them in the “Qd &ey are as sure to pro luce as m of nature is to bring the seasons. ” . The First Negro Song. T . . [Exchange.] j tn j. negro song ever sung before J *r^.. c0 to a theatre was by an actor , 2*^^-Herbert. He had been a cook in ' ri )‘ life, and was famous for his pot- »t? : . therefore he was familiarly called -Tk Herbert. The song was eutltled m.a . of Plattsburg. ” Herbert 5^* his first effort in Albany, S. Y. It wD-^tbe year 1815. He painted his face bet?™ v v P* 1 ®** the use of burnt cork Tlie Wines of Chill* [Fortnightly Review. 1 In nothing is the progress of Chili more strikingly displayed than in the advance which has been mode by the wine industry, Ten years ago hardly any native wine was drunk by the wealthier classes; now it is drunk by nil classes. At present the wine production has not overtaken the sumption in Chili itself; but the enormous extension of vineyam planting throughout the country, prices of wines will certainly fall before long to a level that will enab’o profitable ship ments abroad to be mu Je. Large sums of money are now being invested by the wealthy land owners in vineyard planting and wiue-making apparatus. Freuehmen ut high salaries are being brought to the country from the claret producing districts of France, and no pains are bung spared to make the business of vine-growing suc ceed. Those with whom I have con versed. who have studied the subject, are of opinion that in another two years the export of wine may be expected to take place. Injarloua to Vision. [American Queen.] Railroad traveling is said to l»e injurious to vision ou account of the vibration, which makes print dance lie fore the eyes, and induces such intent observation as to produce fatigue. It is curious to note the eyes of one’s fellow-travelers who are looking out of the window during a rapid railway journey. l%ie ever-changing land scape induces an oscillation of tlie visual organs so incessant and continuous ns to be perfectly a> finishing. The effect of this exaggerated activity and restlessness may be. perhaps, more fatiguing than the steady perusal of well-printed type. It Is curious to rote how some eyes engaged in looking upon this constantly-shifting scene have momentary pauaes in their labor, and become motionless, as if staring into vacuity, nature thus snatching a few •econds or much-needed rest, both for brain and eye. \t'bat the Orator Need** [Church Union.] A good speaker should have the posi tion. the pose of a singing bird, bis ges lures follow the curve cut by a flying swallow, bis tone* and emphasis should be such as o pleading child uses or a morning wind; his carriage, that of nu IiuUan walk ing in the forest. Nature, by the sound- Proud was his |*ort, bis stature tall. His face held the gazer’s eye in thrall, And a lion of gold on his casque was set He winded a bugle silver-clear, (Mace, and arblast, and bandoleer), Singing: “Yield up thy castle, fair May, to Or I take thoe by prowess of bow and spear!” In the pale, palo light of a crescent moon, (Spear an I corselet, and musketoon), She saw him there by the castle wall, And shrilled n the warder a careless call: “Ho!—Ie: (Kntcullis and drawbridge fall; We would .-ee this hold knight of a braggart And oh! but the wind had changed, I trow, (Falc hion, and gauntlet, and good cross-bow), When, an eve from thence, in a fading light, On the bastion-keen stood a maid and knight, And, while to her heart he clasped her tight, “Thou host conquered, Sir Lionne!” she mur mured low. “I had vowed that no knight beneath the sun, (Detni-pique, helm, and habergeon), Beneath the sunlight, or moonbeam shine, Should be lord of this castle aud heart of How Language Grow* from Slang. [St. Nicholas.] Slang has this value, that it shows how language grows. The English tongue is 6o vigorous that it seizes whatever it needs for growth, just as it did in its infancy. At that period direct imitation of sounds were constantly made words, as the young vandals of today use “chink” for “money. ” Further on in the growth cf. t he tongue, it took from ordinary speech the imitative words, and converted theta to new uses, just as you say “ticker” for “watch” and “puff” for “advertisement.” The contraction of words is another stage, ns “mob, ” now perfectly English, was a’ first merely slang for the Lutin mobile, the tickle crowd, as “cab” for “cabriolet, “ and “furlong” for “furrowlong, ” tl length of a furrow-, and as “nob" is slang for nobility. We make words from men’s names in the same way. I suppose “boycotting” may be good English soon. “Martinet,” now indispensibic, was the name of a historic general overstrict in discipline. “ Derrick ” was a famous hangman of the seventeenth century, in honor of whom the roughs nicknamed the gallows-like hoistingappar atus; and these are two only out of scores of cases. Many of the words that are now respectabilities of conversation were once gutter children. “ Drag, ’* for instunce. was a thieves’ word for carriage, and “drags- men” the particular variety of the thieves who followed the carriage to cut away the luggage front the rack behind. But “drug” is good English now for private coach. “Kidnap” was thieves’slang fc child stealing: that is, to “nab a kid. “Tie, ” for cravat, w-as as much the slaug of low’life as “choker” is now’. “Conun drum” and “donkey” aud “fun” were all slang words, though, perhaps, not so low. "Bore” was slang, and so were "waddle’' and “ bother. ” Sidewalk Partnerships. [New York Sun.} “ Do you want to go into partnership with me?” a little, red-haired bootblack asked of a reporter in front of The Sun ollice the other day. “I will supply the experience and you the cash. I nave had bad luck, and have lost my outlit, and want to get another start. We will run the business on a business basis, your share to be one shine a day, which will save you 5 cents, until after you arc satis fied that the debt is paid, or I cun hand over the cash. ” The offer was accepted, and within one hour after the boy received the acquired $1.50 he returned to give his partner the tlrst shine. With good luck the boy will be able to buy out the Arm in a few days. The reporter learned that muny business men help boys in this way, sometimes in order to test their honesty aud business qualities. In many cases the boys are re quired to make daily reports of their re ceipts and expenses. In u case like this g certain amount is turned over to the boy’s assistant until the debt is paid. A broker down town said that several but with years ago he got acquainted with a boot- black by employing him for a long time, uud when the boy fell into bad luck he loaned him money to pull him through. He found the boy bright and quick and gave him employment, and he is now one of his I est clerks. The broker said he knew c I several similar cases, Autumn Kcvcrle, [Detroit Fro - lYoas.] They eat in the gloaming. She was thinking that it was about the time o’ year to make soft soap, and lie was figuring on whether he could afford to buy a forty- acre tract of land in the suburbs. When he had decided that he could he kiudiy said; ” 31 v little rosebud, won’t you get me that old trunk which one of the’hired girls left In the attic a year ago?” * Not this eve, ” she sweetly replied. “I gave that to a man two weeks ago for hauling away those ashes. ” "Ashes! Gone! Two weeks!”he whis pered. while every button on his vest d meed a jig under the 'Uppre**ed excite- neat. "You bet!” “Friendless! Fooles-! You have knocked me into the middle of thirty years ago! That trunk contained all my small change, amounting to *omc $50,000, and utter poverty ami deso'ate ruin stares us iu the face! Here—we will both drink of the poisoned elml'cc ami die together. And they died. Not .tint'll or m Kemedjr* [T xas Hitting,.] “How can 1 get rid of this dyspepsia?" asked an Austin invalid of hi* physician. “Have you tried pr« pared chalk?” “Yes, fve Ison getting my udik from a milkman for the last six years. The doctor says that's what gave me the dys pepsia. ” By examining the tongue of the patient, physician " may lind out the disease of the l»ody—philosophers, of the miad. HOST <i«Ki • • CALVIN CARTER & SON For BOOTS Aim SKOSS, Public Square, . . Americus, Ga, BEST GOODS FOR LEAST HONEY I New Store AND* New Goods. R. T. BYRD, INSURANCE AGENT, OFFICE IN COMMERCIAL HOTEL BLOCK. Forsyth Street, Amerious, Ga AGENT FOR THE LEADING ALSO AGEJJT FO] GULLET andLUMMES COTTON GIN?, Tlxo SostlOlna XUtedoi! CALL AND SEE ME, WHEN IN WANT OF INSURANCE OR BINS. 6cpU8m3 R. T. NEW ADVERTISEMENT. Jas.Fricker&Bro. AMERICUS. GA. About September first we shall move into our new store, at the old stand, Barlow Block, Public Square, where we shall open the most elegant assortment of goods in our line ever brought to Southwest Georgia. At our pres ent store on Cotton Avenue, we have a large stock of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, Solid Silver and Plated Ware, Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines, and everything else usually iept in a Jewelry and Music Store, that must [>e reduced to save moving and make room for new goods. Therefore, for the next Twenty Days, or until we move, will sell any thing we have in stock at prices lower than have ever been reached before iar*CAPlTAL PRIZE •15,000,OSk TiekctsonljrfS. Shares in proportion Louisiana State Lottery Co. “ We do hereby certify that m supervise the arrangements for all the Monthly and Semi-Annual Dramngs of The Louisiana State Lottery Company,and inperson man age and control the Drainings themselves, and that the same are conducted with hon esty, fairness, and in good faith toward all parties, and we authorise the Company to use this certificate, with facsimiles of our signatures attached, in its advertisements.” ££4| Commliilomri. Incorporated in 1888 for S6 veara bv the Legisla ture for Educational and Charitable purpose*— with a capital of |t,000,000-to which a reserve fund of over #560.000 has since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise wse made a part of the ptesent State Constitution adopted December 2d, A. D., 187t. The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed by the people qf any Stale. It never teales or pottponet. Ils Grand Single Number Drawings tabs place monthly* A SPLKNDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE* KLKVKNTII GRAND DRAWING, CLASS I*. IN THE ACADEMY OP MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, 'I UKHDAT, November 11,1884 lT4th Monthly Draw- to*. CAPITAL PRIZE, $70,000. 100,0001 lekets at Fire Dollar, Eacb. Fractions, In Fifths, In Proportion. Lf8T OF PRIZES:, 1 CAPITAL PRIZE #76.000 • J - .... M,or do . 10,000 2 PRIZES OP #8.000 18,000 6 do 2,000, 10,€00 10 do 1,000, 10,000 80 do 600, 10,000 100 do 800, 80,000 loo do 100, 30,000 M0 do 60, 86,000 W0 do 26, 8A,000 9 Approximation Prizes of #760 18,760 9 " “ 600 4,500 9 “ •• 280 2.260 1,907 Prizes, amounting to ....f266,600 Application for niton to clubs should bo made ily to the ollice of tho Company in New Orleans, For further Information writo Hcnily, giving frill address. POSTAL NOTES, Express Konev Orders, or New York Exchange in ordi* n«ry letter. Currency by Express (all sums of •5 und upward by Express ut our expense) ad- r M. A. DAUPHIN, 007 Seventh St., Washington, D. O* Make P. O. Money Orders pnyaole and address RegUtcred Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK New Orleans, La. All School Ms, 5 AT iae ill. taught the’Greek eloquence, end I The interior of » Fentuylvuda eotl min* iath, jjSSS all arc included in -water ^ hju^htea^.uccexful ly pboW«nph*d by Come and examine our stock, get our prices, and we will guarantee that you will be convinced that we mean what we say Remember we have great bargains to offer for CASH and the time in which to secure them is limited. Come one, come all, and don’t fail to come early. JAS. FRICKER & BRO. Americus, Ga., Aug. 13,1884. MRS. FRED LEWIS’. Amoriou,. Go., Aug. 24,1884. tf Tie Lost is Foil. AND CAN BE FOUND;AT BUG CHAPMAN’S Bar soil Restaurant. EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY, and sleep renovated wine cellar free bed. Everything'has’bets renovated asd is ewcet and dean. I had In Bug's Liquors from 8 to 13 Years Old I Call and petyonr share of the best Bacchus tbs Second in dnitkx, a rival or Delmonico In good rating. Cali early ami secure >nnr beds and something to eat und drink. Words cannot ex it ENRY C. JOHNSON. W. J. PHILLIPS. JOHN 8. MIKR8. ★ BAKERY, Cotton Arenne. We call the attention of the publle to tbs hel that wo are prepared to All ull order* for Fresh Bread, Cukes, Candy, Kte., of oar own muke— food und pure. We keep u’so Confections und Groceries, which we soli ut the ruling prices Bay and sell Country Produce. Give us a rail. IF. J. PHILLIPS Hi CO. Jnijutf Copartnership Nolice. I have this day esrociatol with me in my Uid* od Commfft-lon businra* Mr. C. A. BELL to bet* Ur carry on the »ume, at my old stand oo Cotton Aveiiv**, under the Arm name and ftyle of B. If. COHEN*CO. „ C0HKf Thanking the pnbiic for the liberal patronage and confidence put >n me while conducting this business, I he»p«ak for the new firm a contlnn- gr.ee cf the seme. Mr. Beil alone will attend to the purchase of any and nil CoeftHT Produce, and Luni 'r£W£M m i n b£ u