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VOLUME 2.} THE CHATTC'OGA ADVERTISER PUBLISHED A i SUMMERVILLE, GA., EVERY PR [DAY MORNING. JIATESOF ~S UP, SC RIP T 1 i> X. One Copy One V ar :::::::: #2 00 One Copy Six 51 ntlis :::::::$! (X* No Subscription will be taken for a less lime than six mo chs. OUR AD VE .7 TISINGRA TES. 3moi .lis C months 12 mon’s . 1 square $ 4 ! [OO $ 7 00 $lO 00 2 squares $ 6 00 flO 00 sls 00 3 squares $B l 00 sl4 00 S2O (Xl 1 column sl2 100 S2O 00 S3O 00 i column S2O 100 $35 00 SSO 00 1 column S4O !00 $75 00 100 (X) 17 A T I HOADS. Western & Atlantic R. R. Change of* (Soiledtile., On and after Funday ; February 12,1871, the Passenger tra’ns w ill run on the Western and Atlantic Rail Road AS FOLLOWS : NIGHT PABSENGER TRAIN. STATION*. —o TIME TABLE. Leave Atlanta. 10:15 P. M. Arrive at Kingjt n, 1 11 a. m. Arrive at Tlalton. 3:20 a. m. Arrive at Cliatta mog, 5:40 A. M. Leave Chattanoo ,a, 5:20 r. m. Arrive at Dalton, 11:11 P. M. Arrive at Kingst >n, 1:51 a. m Arrive at Atlanta, 1:42a.m. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Atlanta, 8:15 A. M Arrive at Kings! >n, 11:45 A. M Arrive at Dalton 2:13 I’. M j Arrive at Chattanooga, 4:25 r. M Leave Chattanon <a, 5:50 A. M. ! Arrive at Dalton. 8:10 A. M. j Arrive at Kingst >n, 10:30 A. M. 1 Arrive at Atlanta, 2:(X) r. >1- j V, R. WALKER, *pril6tf. blaster Transportation. Quickest and Best Route TO THE NORTH. EAST&WEST is THREE Dai! Express Trains running | through from N htillc to Louisville. mak ing close connect m- with Trains and heats for the NORT/, EAST AND WEST. !N'o Cltnngt' of Ciit’N F KX>n 1.08 ISVIIiIiETO St. Low'*, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, Cleveland , Pitts burg, Philadelphia •ana New York. ONLY ONE CHANGE TO BALTIMORE W \SIU\GTOX & BOSTON Quicker time by this route, and better ! accommodation), than by any otle r- Se- j cure speed and comfort when traveling, by asking for Tieke s By the Wav of Louisville. Ky. Through Tick ts and Baggage Checks may be procured at the office of the Nash.' villc and Chatta ooga Railroad at Cliatta nooca. and at all Picket Offices throughout the South. ALBERT FINK, W. H. KING, Gen’l. Sup't Gen'l. Passcn er Apt. Juneß. Saint Lo lis, Memphis,! NASHVILLE & CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD LIAE. CENTRAL SHORT ROUTE!! —o — Without Change of Cars to Nashville. Mc- Kenste, TJni n City. Hickman, Co lumbus. Humboldt, Browns ville, and Memphis. ——~o— Only Ones Changt* j To .lackson, Tenn., Paducah, Ky., Little Rock, Cairo, and St. Louis, Mo. Mi HiE '1 11 AN 1 .*<> Hilt 1 * (shorter to Saint Loitis Than via Memphis nr Louisville, and from 8 TO 15 HOURS QUICKER!! Than via Cos inth or Grand Junction. ASK FOR TICKETS TO MEMPHIS AND THE SOUTH WEST VIA CHATTANOOGA and McKenzie'!! AND TO St. Lonin and the Northwest via Nashville and Colmnhus —all Rail; or Nash ville ail Hickman —Hail and Itiver. the lowest special rates FOR LUIGI! \NTS. WITH MORE ADVAN TA(.i i S. QUICKER time: and fewer CHANGES OF CARS effi-TIIAN A NY OTHER ROUTE.-©* Tickets for ale at all Principal Ticket Offices in the South. J. W. THOMAS, Gen’l. Supt. W. L. HANLEY, G. P. & T. Agent. Marcb23,tf. Nashville, Tenn. BXJL K MEATS titles!. Sh udders and Hams l x Quantify at DA 'OPR.NET T >j- SONS Rome Railroad Company Change ol'Scltedule. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Rome 8:40 a tn Arrive at Kingston * 10:30 a m Leave Kingston 11:4s a m Arrive at Rome 1:00 p m NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Rome 8:40 p nt Arrive at Kingston 12:40 a m Leave Kingston 1:18 am Arrive at Rome 11:2l) m BSft Connecting with trains on the Wes tern k Atlantic Railroad at Kingston, and on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad at Rome. C M. PENNINGTON, Eng. and Sup’t. AIISC'ELLANEOUS THEPLUNDEROFELEVENSTATES BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY- Speech of Hon. Daniel W. Vorhees, of Indiana. Delivered in the H-uise of Representatives, March 23, 1872. GEORGIA. Let the great State of Georgia speak first. The preparations which she un derwent were prolonged, elaborate and complete. The work of her purifica tion was repeated at stated intervals until she was radiant and spotless in your eyes. One reconstruction did not suffice. You permitted her to stand up and start in her now career, but seeing some flaw in your own han diwork, you again destroyed and again reconstructed her State government. You clung to her throat, you battered her features out of shape and recog nition, determined that your party should have undisputed possession and enjoyment of her offices, her honors, and her substance. Y our success was complete. When did the armed con queror ever fail when his foe was pros trate and unarmed? The victim in this instance was worthy of the con test by which she was handed over bound hand and foot to the rapacity of robbers. Sho was one of the iin» mortal thirteen. Her soil had been made red and wet with the blood of the revolution. Hut she contained what vas far dearer to her d“spoilers than the relics of her fame. Ibr pro lific and unbounded resources inflamed their desires. Nature designed Geor gia for the wealthiest State in this Union. She embraces four degrees of latitude, abounding with every va riety of production known to the earth. Her,borders contain fifty-eight thous and square miles; eleven thousand more than the State of New York, and twelve thousand more than the State of Pennsylvania. She has one hundred and thirty-seven counties.— The ocean washes a hundred miles of her coast provided with harbors for the commerce of the world. Ilivers mark her surface, and irrigate her fruitful valleys from the boundaries of Tennessee and North Carolina to the borders of Florida and the waves of the Atlantic. All this vast region is stored with the richest and choicest gifts of physical creation. The corn and the cotton reward the tiller of the soil, and coal and iron, tin, copper, and lead, and even the precious metals, gold and silver, in paying quantities, await the skill and the industry of the miner. This is not a picture of fancy. The statistics of her products even heighten the colors in which I have drawn it. Georgia was tlfo fairest and most fertile field that ever excited the hungry cupidity of the political pirate and the official plunderer. She was full of those mighty substances out of which the taxes of a laboring people are always wrung by the grasping hand of licentious power. She was the most splendid quarry in all history for the vultures, the kites, and tits carrion-crows that darken the air at the close of a terrible civil war, and whet their filthy beaks over the fallen; and they speedily settled down upon her in devouring flocks and droves. Sir, let us refresh ourselves at this point with some reminiscences of the former history of Georgia, and in that way fix a basis for comparisons bet tween her condition in the past and the present deplorable state of her af fairs. When the calamities of war broke upon the country in 1861 she was free from debt. If sho had any outstanding obligations at all, they were for merely nominal amounts.— Her people felt none of the burdens of taxation. The expenses of her State government were almost wholly paid by the revenues of a railroad be tween Chattanooga and Atlanta, which was constructed and owned by the State. Taxes throughout all her wide spread borders were trifles light as air. The burdens of government were easy upon her citizens. Her credit stood high wherever her name was men tioned; and when the'war closed she was still free from indebtedness. If she had incurred any during the four years of strife, she was required by the Federal Government to repudiate it upon the advent of peace. Now look at her to-day, after six years and a half of supreme control by the Re- SUMMERVILLE, GA. APRIL 20, 1872. publican party. She had been a mem ber of this Union more than seventy years when the war came, and found that she owed no man anything. Her rulers in the olden times doubtless had faults in common with the imperfect race to which we belong, but larceny of the public money was not among them. You took her destiny into your hand, a few brief years ago, in cumbered by no liabilYns, and you now presput her, to the amazement and horror of the world, loaded with debts which reach the appalling sum of at least $<">0,000,000. A large portion of these debts are officially ascertained and stated, and the re mainder arc sufficiently well known to warrant the statement 1 make. The mind recoils, filled with wonder and indignation, in contemplating this fear ful and gigantic crime. It had no parallel in the annals of all the na tions and the ages of mankind until the ascendency of the Republican par ty and its inauguration of State gov ernments in the South. Now all the seven vials of the Apocalypse have been opened on that great and beau tiful, but unhappy region; and the crime against Georgia is hut one of many otlieis of kindred magnitude inflicted by the same party on other States. The authors of this stupendous bun den, however, arc not even entitled to the benefit of the full time since the incoming of peace for its creation.— It was mainly the work of only about three years. In 1868—a year wore fatal to the interests of the peopde of that State than the scourge of pesti lence, war. or famine—the most venal and abandoned body of men ever known outside of the boundaries of penal colonies, State prisons, or South ern reconstruction, chosen as the Leg islature of Georgia; not by the peo ple, but by virtue of the system which you enacted and put in force. It con tained a large majority of your po litical adherents, men who vote your ticket, support your candidates, and with whom you embrace and affiliate on all political occasions. They were the leaders and the representatives of the Republican party. \\ itL thorn, too, came into oftiee one who speedily secured a national repu tation, and became a controlling power in your national councils. At one time Rufus R. Bullock dictated the legislation of Congress and the ac tions of the Executive in regard to the gee it and ancient Com .ion vealtii that w; ■ cursed by hie presence. It was Iris potent finger that pointed out the pathway which led to your second assault upon her State government; and it was his voice and his presence in and about these Halls that com manded and cheered you on to the breach, lie was mentioned in many quarters as the probable candidate of his party for that exaltod place now held by a distinguished citizen of my own State, the second highest in the gift of the American people. He was a successful, conspicuous, and brilliant specimen of your system. His ad vent into Georgia was as the agent of some express company. He had no permanent interest there. I have been reliably informed that his poll was his entire tax when he was elected Gov ernor. He neither knew nor cared for the people or their wants. He was there as an alien and a stranger, spying out the possessions of a land that was at his mercy, and embracing every opportunity .to seize them. He is now a fugitive from justice, a pro claimed and confessed criminal, with stolen millions in his hands. He went into the South on that wave of recon struction which bore so many eager, hungry, and inhuman sharks in quest of prey; and, having in a few years glutted his savage and ravenous utaw, he now retires into the deep waters cf the North to escape punishment on the or.e hand, and to enjoy the com forts of his plunder on the other. With such a Governor and such a Legislature in full and perfect sympa thy and harmony with other, morally and carc-cr cf villainy at once opened on the soil of Georgia which will go down to pos terity without a peer or a rival in the evil and infamous administrations of the world. The official existence of the Legis lature lasted two years, commencing in November of 1868. The Governor was elected for a term of four years, and served three before be absconded with his guilty gains. Pirates have been known to land upon beautiful is lands of the sea, and with cutlass, dirk, and pistol proclaim a govern ment, pillage and murder their inhab itants, and from the shelter of their harbors sally forth on all the unarmed commerce that the winds and the waves brought near them. Bandits have been known to rule over the secluded wilds and fastnesses of mountain ran ges, and with bloody hands extort e norinous ransoms for their prisoners; but the pirate and the bandit have not been worse or blacker in their spheres than the Republican Legislature and the Republican Governor of whom 1 am speaking were in theirs. Sir, 1 hold in my hand the official statistics on which I make this charge. The reports of the Comptrollers Gen eral of Georgia show that for eight years, commencing with 1855 and ending with 1862, there was expended for the pay of members and officers of all her Legislatures during that entire period the sum of $866,385 53. This is the record of her administration under the management of her own cit’ izens. During the two years’ exist ence of the Republican Legislature elected in 1868 the report of the Comp troller General shows that there was expended for the pay of its members and officers the startling sum of $979,• 055, only a fraction less than $1,000,- 000. One Legislature is thus discov ered to hat e cost $112,669 47 more than (lie Legislatures of eight previ ous years in the single matter of its own expenses. There has been no increase in the number of members. On the contrary, there are fewer now than under the former apportionment. In earlier times the clerk hire of the Legislature of that State did not average over SIO,OOO per annum.— That item alone reached the sum of $125,000 for the one Legislature whose conduct 1 am discussing, more than equal to the expenditures on that account of any ten years of the pre vious history of Georgia. Iler Gen eral Assembly consists of one hundred and seventy-five representatives and forty-four senators, making two hun dred and nineteen, taking both branch es together. The record discloses one hundred atul four clerks in the employ of this body while the Repub lican party had the a> tendency there. One clerk for every two legislators is a spectacle which I commend to the consideration of iho American tax payer and voter everywhere. IFho can doubt that shell a body was or ganized for the purposes of robbery and extortiin ? Thci eis another high handed outrage, however, in cornice •iion with the payment of its members ar.d officers which surpasses H-.c deed< of wen x~ ■ f .. | vyn.-n. The children f thnV-t-'.e 76.1 -|->t cape, i'y the r. nstiurion of Geor gia the f oil to : of its pent !•• is made a port rfi I '. o t o m,n oriit.ol fund, and set a. id* tut r-d to the cat’..-'' of education. T.vo i,- mired and fifty th ills..mi doll had .:•• re; and from this o x- when Etc ijl-ou.-jiird Le- ;;!:)- two <>i l;v(>8 convened. Before it ii ually adjourned this whole amount provided for the cause of learning and human progress was swept away.— N;t p. single dollar was left. An ap propriation for their own expenses placed it all in the pockets of the menu hers, clerks, and other officials. They took this money, belonging to children white and black, as pay for their own base services in the cause of universal destruction, bankruptcy, and misery. They robbed the riiing generations of both races, deprived them of school houses and seminaries, and left them to grope their own unaided way out of the realms of ignorance. Tha hand of the spoliator at times in the history of the world has taken consecrated vessels from the altar and plundered the sanctuary of God.— Even the hallowed precincts of the grave have sometimes been invaded and the coffin rifled of its contents; hut human villainy has sounded no lower depth than was here fathomed, in stealing the very books of knowl edge from the youth of the land. Having given these evidences of in herent depravity, this most memora ble Legislature proceeded naturally to its work of more gigantic peculation, fraud ami corruption. The limits of tny time on this floor will permit me to bring forward only a few of its deeds, but lile the specimen ore of the minor, they will satisfy the ex plorer that strata, veins, lodes, and layers of rascality lie under the sur face beyond. The Treasurer of Geor- gia, in his recent report, informs the public that prior to the year 1808, and since reconstruction commenced, there were issued in State bonds $5,- 9 J 2,500. He further states that he has ascertained the amount of $13,- 756,000 to have been issued since the year 1868, ar.d then proceeds to say: “Governor Bullock had other largo amounts under the same-act engrossed and sent him. But this officer does not know what has become of them.” The Treasurer lias pushed his dis coveries to nearly twenty millions, and then finds that large amounts of other bonds Lave been issued which are not registered, and whjph are now in un known hands. The extent of these floating, vagrant liabilities may fairly be estimated by the character and con duct of .those who created them. Let us, however, examine one transaction which key to the whole history of thatiXcgisJature. A char ter was granted to construct what was to he known as the Albany and Bruns wick Railroad, a distance cf two hun dred and forty-five miles. For this work the Governor was authorized to issue the bonds of the State to the extent of $23,000 per mile, making a subsidy in money to one railroad cor j ppration of $5,639,000. The bonds j have been issued, put upon the mar ■ ket, the money realized for them, and | their redemption will fall upon the tax ; payers of the State. In the mean j time, the road has not been built, and the proceeds of these bonds have gone into the coffers of private individuals. This fact is not disputed; it stands confessed; and no words of mine can darken the hues of its infamy or in crease the horror and indignation with which it will be regarded by the Ameri can people. Other railroad schemes followed in rapid succession as the easiest method of plunder. The Macon and Bruns wick .Railroad, tlic South Georgia and Florida Railroad, the Cartcrsville and Van Wert Railroad, the Georgia Ait- Line Railroad, the Cherokee Railroad and many others, were all made the recipients of subsidies from the State, by which unaccounted millions were stolen from the tax payers. The tra ces of vast sums of squandered money can be found on every hand, except upon the railroad lines themselves, in whose names the work of fraud and plunder was conducted. Hut while the Legislature of Geor gia was thus engaged in its unparall eled career of crime, the Governor in his sphere was also busy, and by bis individual deeds proclaimed to the world that a perfect harmony, not only of political faith but of official prac tices, prevailed between the Executive and Legislative branches of the Stale government. He ranged in his pecu lations from the smallest to the great est objects and amounts; from the petit to tile grand larcenies of this now era of Monies. From a bill of $76,132 Ho paid for extra printing to partisan newspapers without warrant of law and without consideration in work actually performed, up to the lVaiiduLiit issue of State bonds by the million, nothing seems to have been too s'-: -ill or too great to escape his eager eye or hi; rapacious hand. He h. ' lilt »’ e i:i:pr-.-s8 of Itis grasp ovc ryv! . . . Hut Ids exploits in connec i’on wiil, t: c !‘t;-.te Railroad will more ;':q ,-oially be remembered by the peo ple o'' Georgia. This road, as.l have ' ctctofore stated, tvaa built by the State of Georgia nearly twenty years ago, man the city of Atlanta to Chat t uionga. It connects the regions of ihe Tcani-f: c-c river anil the lines of travel descending through them from the North with the cotton belt of the South, and with hive railroad routes which come up through it and com centnite at Atlanta. It is one hun dred and thirty-seven miles long, and there is not a road of equal length on this continent which is more important in its trade and connections, or which is more valuable to its owners under an honest and competent management. We have seen that before the war its proceeds paid into the Treasury al most defrayed the entire expenses of the State government, and in an offi cial report made July 1, 1867, Colo nel Jones, the Treasurer of the State, and who had for eight years received the earnings of this noble public work, estimated its net products for tho fol lowing year at $600,000. In February, 1870, Governor Bul lock appointed one Foster Blodgett, recently a claimant for a seat in the United States Senate, superintendent of this road. He held that position eleven months. During the entire term of his superintendency he paid into the State Treasury only the sum of $15,000; less than the net pro ceeds of one month before he took the place. The repairs which the rava ges of war had made necessary had been completed at a heavy expense under the administration of Governor I Jenkins. The road was in good con dition, and but few expenditures out side of the regular course of business were needed when Blodgett assumed his ruinous control. Its freight and travel were greater than ever before, yet its earnings, as accounted for, were comparatively nothing. In 1867 we find it paying all expenses and yielding besides $50,000 per month. At the same rate there are $500,000 now regained in the hands of Blodgett and his accomplices. B liat answer can he made to this? Will any one pretend that such a vast sum was prop erly expended in equipping a road al ready equipped, in repairing a road already repaired, in stocking a road already stocked? I find one item of expense which may, however, indicate the character of them all. Twenty one thoutand dollars were paid as law yers’ foes to partisan favorites for al leged legal services in behalf of this peaceable corporation during these disastrous eleven months of it3 exist ence. It might, perhaps, more prop erly be said that there was a division of a general plunder under the head of expenses incurred. But the work of spoliation did not stop with the close of Blodgett’s management. A law was obtained from the Legislature ‘ of which I have spoken, authorizing the road to be leased in tho interest of Bullock anti his friends. Under that law it has been leased for $25,- 000 per month, about one-half of its real value. One of the lessees under this most valuable contract is a mem ber of tho present Cabinet, and was so when the lease was made; and an other is a distinguished Republican member of the other branch of Con. gross. Sir, there was but one thing more to be done by this shameless adven turer whom your policy had made Governor of Georgia against the con sent of her people. lie completed his record and finished his Work by corrupting the channels of justice.— Ho rendered the Courts powerless to enforce the laws and punish criminals. The emissaries of convicted felons crowded his ante-ehambers and traf ficked- with him for his pardoning' power. The record shows that the verdicts of juries wore thus wiped out, .the doors of the prisons opened, and the guilty turned loose to prey again upon the peace of society to an ex tent never before known in American history. lie pardoned three hundred and forty-six offenders against the law out of four hundred and twenty, six who made application to him! His amnesty for crime was almost universal. Indeed, his zeal in behalf of those under indictment was so great that his grace and clemency was often interposed before the trial .of the culprit. lie granted seven pardons in advance of trial to one man in the county of Warren who pleaded them to seven separate indictments when he was arrested and brought into court. This special object of favor is one J. G. Norris, who haunts committee rooms and swears on all occasions to fabulous outrages and the imperfect administration of the law in the South. Asa spared monument of Bullock's mercy, with manifold villainies un atoned for, he is always to be seen lurking around investigating commit tees, and pouring into their ears tho black and concentrated malice of an apostate against a people whom lie hates because he has betrayed. Other instances like this might he cited, hut onough is here shown to ac count for even greater disturbances than any that have taken place in Georgia. The confidence of all classes in tho supremacy of the law was de stroyed. They saw the will of one unscrupulous man supplant all its au thority. It afforded them no security for life or property when its most sol emn decisions were set aside everyday in the year. Its uplifted hand was arrested in the court room before their indignant gaze, and the judicial blow was averted from the guilty head of the law-breaker at the bar. If the violence of the mob thereupon ensued, the curse came from those who wero charged with the execution of the laws, and who, instead of doing their duty, interposed to shield villians both be fore and after their conviction. If this is not the true philosophy of man' kind, 1 have studied its motives and its conduct ail in vain. And now, Mr. Speaker, at this point I must take leave of the State of Georgia, her plundered treasury, her oppressed tax,payers, her rail road schemes of robbery, her squan-. dered school funds, and her mocked, insulted, and baffled courts of justice. Others impoverished fields cry to us in piteous tones for redress, and have long cried in vain. Teach Your Children Music.— You will stare at a strango notion of mine; if it appears even a mad one, do not wonder. Had I children, my utmost < iinenvors should be to make them inusica-.is. Considering 1 have no car, ncr even thought of music, the preference seems old, and yet it is embraced on frequent recolletions.— In short, as my aim would be to make them happy, I think it the most prob able method. It is a resource which will last them their lives, unless they srow deaf; it depends upon them selves, not on others; and of all fash ionable pleasures, is the cheapest.— It is capable of fame without tiiuilan ger of criticism—is susceptible of en thusiasm without being priest-ridden, unlike mortal passions, is sure of being gratified in lleaven. —Horace Wal pole. Enlarged Spheres for Women- Tt is wonderful how much the field of feminine labor and usefulness has been widened within tho past decade, and it is encouraging to know that tho process is still goingon. Several of the great banking and insurance com panies in England havs entered upon the employment of a special cla»3 of lady clerks. The Prudential Assur ance Company, which has the largest stafl of clerks of any London office, has created a department of famale serv ice, for which only the daughters and widows of professional men, merchants and gentlemen engaged in public offices I NO. 16 are eligible. The restriction is made with a view to securing ladies of first class education who, without inc'-in-*- tion and particular qualifications for teaching, are compelled by sheer neces sity to offer themselves for ati employ ment which, above all others, requires the entire devotion of the heart as well as the head. In France ladv clerks are very generally employed in batiks and other places of buisness, particu larly in the great Parisian shops. In London, within the last two or three years, the employment of women as clerks in the telegraph and post offices lias become general, and so far the re sult has been satisfactory. They have been found prompt, reliable, and effi cient. In journalism they have been eminently successful; indeed, so useful have they been found that all the prom inent Eastern papers have from one to five women regularly employed. May the good work go on. —Pittsbnrg Dis patch. The Bible Grows With One. If you come to the Holy Scriptures with growth in grace, and with aspira tions for yet higher attainments the book grows with you. grows upon you. It is ever beyond you and cheerily cries: ‘Higher yet; Excelsior!’ Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me; 1 read them years ago with considerable pleasure; I have read them since with disappointment. I shall never read them again, for they are of no service to me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothesl wore wlion I was ten years o rl; but I have outgrown them—l know more than these books know, and i know wherein they are faulty. No body outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years. It is true, it cannot really grow, for it is perfect; but it does so to our ap prehension. The deeper you dig int-i Scripture, the more you will find that it is a great abyss of truth. The be ginner learns four or five points o 1 orthodoxy, and says: 6 I understand the Bible; I liavegraaped all the Bible.’ Wait a bit, and when his soul grow and knows more of Christ, he will confess: Thy commandment is exceed ing broad’—‘l have only begun to undererstand it.’-— Spurgeon. Hog Cholera. Preventive. —A correspondent of the Department of Agriculture, in Dooly county, Georgia, where hog cholera has prevailed, and no remedy has been found, writes: “We believe that it is contagious; nnd the best preventive I have found is the free use of spirits of turpen tine, mixed with tar and a small quan titity of camphor. It can he used either externally or internally. I pre fer the latter, by soaking corn in it for ten or twelve hours. I have never failed in arresting the disease. Remedy. —R. H. Worthington says: “Take ten grains of calomel and ten grains of tartar emetic, and make them into a pill. As soon as it is known that the hog is sick give the pill. If there is no change for the hetter by the next day, or within twenty-four hours, repeat the dose.” Mr. Worthington says he his never known a second dose of the medicine fail to effect a perfect cure and restore the hog to health. Mr. Worthington himself has cured more than one hum dred hogs which have been afflicted with cholera, by this medicine. — -Ru* ral Southerner. An Irishman who hail boon employ ed in the Federal Cemetery at Cub peper Courthouse Y u., wont to Wash ington city to draw his wages. He called on tho payuffister and received his money and was about leaving, when observing a sabre cut across his face the paymaster asked him to “whose command he belonged during tho war?’ “Fitz Lee’s,’ was tho reply. “Then why in the d—l are you employed at a Federal Cemetery?” “I helped to kiil ’em,” replied Pat, “and 1 thought it right to helji bury ’em.” Two men hawing arranged to fight a duel in Rhode Island, tbe Govenor issue la proclimation forbiding it, whereupon one of the parties sent him a note saying that one of them would stand in Connecticut and the other in Massachusetts, and shoot over his miserable little State. The lawyers fees in tho notorious Tichbornc case amount to $600,006. The jurymen were paid five dollars a day, aid for the one hundred and three days during which the trial last ed, received $6,180. A sensible shoemaker, who made a princely fortune by the sale of an ex tensively advertised shoestring of his own invention, wrote this stanza, which now adorns Ids crest: “If you are wise and wish to rise, Then pitch right in and a l .c. tiso; t If you are nm, then sit down sot, And let your business go to pot ”