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sWiscrUrtnrouo. BE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. ■ DTAZ’S ROMANTIC KSCAI'K. was a prisoner in his h;m<l~ ■ Maximillian might well hope Lvin him over to his cause, as, cording to the martial l*w uro ki me<l halt' a year before, his life Is forfeited already, and com 'tation to perpetual imprison would be all he had a right Bjmxjl in return for the clem y he himself had shown to pris of war now and then. As S<'e of his inllHence in I\ <r gnverniuehi .1 III him liberty on mJOJKH) pesetas R, m.,-n !11 p : i . ?i /... I 'a court mart ij Km to be "huiigod^^^^M w to make hi in realize i. The sentence was then to be '•warded to the Emperor for ap bvjol, with the knoweldge of l>i tlie overtures for a com pniise t(>be renewo^viH^siich I argument in l'avi ntunee. The mil I Lto he consistence decided ier him the consolations of a ■monk or priest), as is cus n before the infliction of a Hpuilishiuout . ’i'll 111.1 lie I lli - ■was sent to the (juartd do SHjlicinco, an old con vent, do mty as an arsenal and milita poison now. Diaz was walking Krooni, with his arms entwined /t Ik* folds of his old cabolo, and Bopped short at my cut ranee to ■ten to Bazaine’s message, with mock gravity. But when 1 was ilone, he looked at me willi a pe culiar (winkle of his black eyes, nibbed his hands together as though delighted at something. <| u<‘ compassionado ! Bair inc, how kind," he said. You Kkit to hang mo only, and get my Coni taken care of’, la alma do nn ariste here,jo, the soul of a poor heretical creature! I really do kit know how to accept so much ndness. .No, tell his Excellency o Marchal," he added, in a some what altered voice, ‘‘that 1 decline Isven this last proposition. lie Ijnnot get me nearer heaven than lilt* rone of his gallows will take lie. I’m too far gone in wicked ness. 1 appreciate his intention only as an excellent joke." “Pardon me, then, Senor," I hastened to say, “wo were not no quainfed with your peculiar ten ets, and did not intend to mock you. It would be infamous under the circumstances." Diaz changed his tone at once. “That’s all right, sir," he said, ta king hold of my hand ; “but you know, I suppose, you are going to kill me, and if a man sees his end near at hand, he is naturally reli giously disposed, and to my mind there are not two ideas more di tinet than (Sod and the Mexican Church." The Emperor was notified of all this, but before he could take fur thersteps, the prisoner made his escape, the modus operandi of which is as pretty a piece of ro munco in real life as I have often heard of. The Primate of the Mexican Church at the time was tin 1 note rious Lavasteda, Archbishop and Excellency, who had watched the signs of the times with the eyes of a lynx, and thought the oppor tunity favorable to make a move in the interest of “religion." Di az hated him, to be sure; but did he not hate the French more i lie had directed all his energy against them for the last two years, and was now in their power, about to lose his life, or believed so. any hvay. How, if the Church saved Bis life, and made common cause Bitli him against the enemies of Brio republic? The ruin of Maxi Indian was only a question of time fto the sharp eyes of the priest; it [would perhaps involve bloodshed ■ind expenses to declare against Bim openly right now, but if the Science of Diaz could be bought price it would mu U Mr One afternoon the Arch flop had a long conclave with | Zologa, a man of intin and ability, and to ■he padre picked his |k solitary alleys to 1 he ■PA' San Francisco, the pis vigils and intrigues feyar of the good old jWFsoner was permit - Bra>‘ milted a piece of tallow candle that might shorten his long nights ! by half an hour or so, and after] seeing its last flickering die away Diaz had sunk into hi- wooden J chair to watch the glow of the de parted day that still strangely lin gered on the snow peaks of the dis tant Sierra, when he heard a cau tious step approaching his chair and a low voice pronounce his name, “ Diaz, amigo 1” “Qiiien, who the <1 !" Diaz spoke out ; hut a hand seized his arm. “Hindi! Te voy a salvar!” (1 come to save you.) It was the I’adre Zologa. “He came in the name of Christ,” he said. “ Would Diaz consent to serve the Lord and his Church, or, if he preferred at least pledge hiin pclf not to persecute them hence forth ? If lie would promise that, all might be* well yet ; Maximil ian would fall; the Lord had de ■ded against him already; tlie ■ unit ry would he tree, and he, Di- Kz. should regain hi- liberty this ■erv night, hut it must he on the renditions named.” I Diaz arose from his chair to per- I the faint light from his win dow to fall on the face of his visi tor. When he recognized the Pa dre Zologa, he sat down again.— HD resolution was taken. “ Hut how,” he asked, “do you propose to save me ? Would not any at tempt at tlight from a place like this be detected, and make my lot harder than it is at present ?” “Fear nothing,” the monk ea gerly replied ; “only say, will you he one of us, and will you follow me ? There is a subterranean —” “That is all right, then,” Diaz replied, rising from his chair, and dragging the padre to a corner of the room where he had deposited his mantle and cap; “I agree to your proposal in so far that I will follow you to the outside of these walls, and that right now. If I shall gain the Sierra before morn ing, I have no time to lose.” “Yes, but will you promise—” “I promise nothing,” Diaz cut him short. “As soon as we reach the open air our roads part; I shall never walk in the wavs of vour church,” The Padre with trembling hand tried to loose his sleeve from the iron grasp which held it. *4 leave you to your fate, then,” he hissed; “your execution is decided upon already.” “Yes, it would be pretty bad if God had not sent you in time,” — Diaz chuckled. “You know that if you make the least resistance or try to elude me, 1 shall alarm the guard; why shouldn't 1? And I hen—t ho French would hang you before you could confess one per cent*, of your sins. So led us go, and be quick, please; if you de lay me much longer it will not be worth while going, and I shall give t In' alarm anyhow,” The Padre was too shrewd not to comprehend his mistake, and was not the man to risk his own skin for a barren revenge. “Well, follow me, then,” he sighed, “but be sure the vengeance of (Jqd will sooner or later-—'’ “Hush, hush,” said Diaz, “l am no Indian, my good friend ; and it would not do in my case, you know.” The sentry outlie lower floor heard a creaking noise in an un used part of the old building, but said nothing till he was relieved, and no one thought much of the circumstance. But at midnight, when the sergeant of the guard went up stairs with a lantern, the prisoner under his charge had dis appeared, and. though forty min utes after the entire mounted gar rison of Puebla galloped out in every direction, none of us or ours heat'd of Diaz again till lie appris ed us of bis existence by captur ing a silver convoy in the (Sierra of .Jalisco, about a year afterward. jFVowi thi /•/■<! nctsc<t Diaz is now master in the an cient capital of the Montezuma | kings, and it's difficult to sav when he will be driven from bis strong hold. That he is determined to make short work of one of his ri vals, Iglesias, is evident, for he has already sent an army to at tack that so-called President. The Governor of the State of Guana juato, Gen. Aiitollon, is comman der in cheif of the army sustain ing Iglesias, but as he cannot have j more than 3 or 4,000 men. mostly I militia, he cannot hope to gain a j victory over the veterans of Diaz, j legions of whom are wild and fe ! roceous lighting Indians from the I mountain districts of Oaxaca and Puebla. Five thousand revolu tionist- marching upon l.eon, with 3,000 as a Yx -orvo force on the march for the -ante capital, will j be able to drive Gen. Antilloni I | glesias and his Cabinet from the iLieeept it ► ( Po tions, THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE. Stat e. The two powers which will prolong the bloody contest are the loyal forces under President Ler : j do, and the revolutionists under , Diaz. That the Constitutional President of tlie Republic lias the sympathy of the honest laboring classes, the capitalists, and enter prising men of the country, with him, cannot he doubted. But la bor and capital are very weak in the presence of bayonets, and en terprise shrinks when brought in contact with the revolutionary spirit. Hence Diaz, who depends entirely upon brute force, may be able to hold his power for some time. That he can long remain as permanent President of the Re public, even at the point of the bayonet, is doubtful. Some other military Aieftain, opposing force to force, will resist his authority, and pronounce him the worst ty rant and despot that lias ever curs ed the country, lie lias given the people two revolutions, both ter ribly disastrous to the best inter ests of the country. His reign does not promise to he anything else t ban a repetition of t he bloody past. American and Englishmen cannot fail to watch with deep in terest the conduct of tlie revolu tionists. Citizens of Ihe United States and subjects of Great Brit ain have inaugurated great enter prises in Mexico, and they have lost heavily by both of tlie revolu tions headed hv Diaz. England and Mexico are now not in diplo matic relations, and if England could not come to an understand ing with the Lerdo Government, it certainly will not hold relations with such a notorious revolution ist as now occupies the capital of the nation. Nor will Diaz be able to pay the debts due American cili-Aoos ;is awarded hvThe Mexi can commission at Washington. Mexican capitalists will aid him through terror of force, but they will have no faith in his adminis t rat ion. GRAZING PLAINS IN THE MOON. Every one has noticed the dark spots which mottle the sur face of the full moon. These long ago used to be considered the seas, and in the geography of the lunar orb went under such names as the Sea of Tranquility, the Sea of Nectar, the sea of Serenity, the Sea of Ruins, and the Ocean of Tempests. They are still designa ted seas by astronomers, for con venience sake, but are known to be nothing but vast plains hem ed in, in some cases, by lofty, rug god mountains. When examined t hrough a telescope some of these plains exhibit a greenish tint, and strongly marked, but here and there difficult to catch except un der favorable conditions. This verdant hue has excited specula tion. If the moon has no atmos phere and no water, it may arise from the color of the ground, but certainly cannot indicate vegeta tion. If, however, the moon has an atmosphere the case is altered, and recent studies of the state of the lunar surface have excited grave doubts as to its being noth ing hut an airless, unalterable de sert, a changeless mass of dead matter. An American scientific contempory proceeds boldly from doubt to certainty. “The moon,” it observes, “is now known to have an atmosphere of considerable volume and density, to present a bumlant evidence of physical a bility and change, and to have in all probability water enough tf> make life easily possible on its surface. The moon is dying, but not dead. Being so much smaller than the earth it lias run its course more rapidly, but it is still a good way off from that goal of ultimate deadness to which so many astron omers have theoretically assigned it. There is not the slightest ade quate evidence, Nelson says, of the popular want of life, and its t ruth would he admitted by no as tronomer who had devoted suffi cient attention to selenography to enable him to thoroughly realize the probable present condition of the moon.” If such is the ease, the green tinted plains may be no thing but vast grassy regions cov ered with flocks and herds. The “man in the moon” may have a lumdant pasturage for his cattle, and many a shepherd boy may be there seated on the ground, piping as though he should never grow old. It is a pity we can only spec ulate. Reality is true romance, and if we knew all that goes on in the moon, astronomers probably would shut up their books and break their telescopes.—[Cassel’s Magazine. According to the Kansas lOity I’rice Current the cattle dri | yen from Southwestern Texas du- ring the year was 317,698. Of this number 250,252 were driven north to Kansas and to fill Indian contracts. Tlie indications are that the drive for 1877 will be fully equal to that of last year. RELICS TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD. I got up from my books and papers and strolled through the corridor which leads into the mu seum, for the library is shut off from the main part of the build ing, and thus in going to it, you merely cross the entrance hall, so that a man may find his way to his hooks regularly every day for a score of years, and never see the famous collections of the mu seum. I wandered forth into this terra incognita, still thinkingo ver the task upon which I had set myself to work in the library, when I suddenly found myself in front of a case in which a cylin drical piece of stone, with an en graving of a king on one side of it, attracted my attention. Be neath this stone, I read the fol lowing writing on a card: “Cylinder dedicated to Nargal on behalf of Dungi, king of Baby lonia, son of Urukh : about B. C. 2,000 Baghdad.” Two thousand years before Christ! One associates such a remote antiquity as that chiefly with geological specimens of a conjectural date. What is known of the human race at that period ? Next to nothing. We think of Isaiah’s prophecies about the fall of Babylon as an ancient book, and recall the prediction which, when it was uttered, must have seemed like incoherent raving— “And Babylon, the glory of king doms, the beauty of the Chaldee’s excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neith er shall it be dwelt in from gene ration to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. * * * I will also make it a possession for the bit tern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.” Anything more unlikely to happen than these things at the time they were foretold, no man could have imagined, yet the words have been literally fulfill ed. And 1,250 years before Isa iah spoke, the stone now lying in this case, here in the heart of the greatest metropolist of the mod ern world, was engraved. Sure ly this was something to give rise to reflections calculated to drive one’s casual and fugitive work in yonder library out of one’s head. As I looked up from this small stone, with the figures upon it still perfectly clear,my eye chanc ed to fall upon another inscrip tion, which ran thus: “Hexago nal Prism of Terra Cotta, contain ing the annals of the first eight years of the reign of Sennacherib, B. C. 702 to 694, with an account of the expedition against Heze kiah.” A record contemporary with that wonderful account in Isaiah in which the expedition of Sennacherib is described,and how the “angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the As syrians a hundred and forescore and five tliousand,” and how sub sequently the sun returned ten degrees as a sign that 15 years should be added to the days of Hezekiah. The prism is nearly perfect, and the characters upon it are as sharp and distinct as if they had been cut hut yesterday. Just opposite to the ease in which it was placed there stands a much larger stone, with the figure of a king in relief, and the “record of •the sale of a field, probably in the reign of Merodach-Adan-Akhl, king of Babylon, about 1,120 B. C.” This is the earliest transac tion in real estate of which I ever seen a record, and I do not lie lie ve that Mr. Ludlow himself knows of an earlier one.—-[N. Y. World's London letter. The capital invested in public buildings in the Cherokee Nation amounts in the aggregate to two hundred and sixty one thousand dollars. THE FIELD FIRESIDE BOOK AND JOB Printing Hskit! POWDER SPRING STREET, MARIETTA, GEO,, BEING FULLY PREPARED WITH MU & IMPROVED PRESSES, i Also, with the latest styles of Cip, iWkrs, ORNAMENTS, &C. Is prepared to execute EVERY DESCRIPTION OF Book & Job IN A NEAT MANNER : Sueli as Bills of Fare, Programmes, Drug Tickets, Picnic and Ball Tickets, Auction Bills, Hand Bills, Circulars, Deeds, Invoices, GIVE | Bill Heads, US A | Headings, TRIAL | Patent Tags, Bills Lading, Druggist’s Labels Promissory Notes, Cards, Bank Checks, Catalogues, Envelopes, Mortgages, Contracts, AND EVERY VARIETY OF BLANKS. Posters, Street Bills, Programmes, Dodgers for Shows, &c. DONE IN A SUPERIOR STYLE, AND At the very Lowest Rates! Orders by Mail promptly at tended to, and estimates for warded, on application to J. G. CAMPBELL & CO. JHMOXI.iI SupurWiosphate. MADE BY George Upton, Boston, Mass. AND J. C. RAGSDALES AMMONIATED DISSOLVED BONE PHOSPHATE. These are the Fertilizers so fa vorably known in Georgia as the UPTON’S and RAGSDALE’S, equalling, in all tests made, any other manufactured Fertilizer. They can now be had at the Old Printing Office Building, Powder Spring street, Marietta, Georgia, at SEVENTY TWO DOLLARS, COTTON OPTION, Fifteen Cents. March, 1877. E. N. RAGSDALE. Commission House. IIM. DOOMS It CO. DEALERS IN FERTILIZERS, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS &c. &c. &c. HAVE NOW ON SALE, Sterne’s ||mu, Bone Dust, Land Plaster <fec. Ac. <fce. On the best Terms OF THE MARKET. Will take on commission, AGRICULTURAL IMPLENENTS, MACHINERY, AC. Adapted to this locality, advertise and store for sale in our fire-proof Ware house. March, 1877. WESTERN & ATLANTIC Rail JWmBHi Road. KENESAW ROUTE. Train No. I—Northward. Leave Atlanta . , . 4.10 p m Arrive at Marietta . . 6.06 p m Arrive at Cartersville . . 6.28 p m Arrive at Kingston . . 6.62 p m Arrive at Dalton . . . 8.32 p m Arrive at Chattanooga . 10.16 p m Train No. 3—Northward. Leave Atlanta . . . 5.40 aui Arrive at Marietta . . 6.32 a m Arrive at Cartersville . . 7.67 ain Arrive at Kingston . . 8.26 a m Arrive at Dalton . . . 10.08 a m Arrive at Chattanooga . . 10.56 a m Train No. 11—Northward. Leave Atlanta . . . 800 a m Arrive at Marietta . . 8.56 a m Arrive at Cartersville, . . 10,20 a m Arrive at Kingston . . 10.53 a m Arrive at Dalton . . 1.05 p m Train No. 2—Soutmvard. Leave Chattanooga . . 4.00 p m Arrive at Dalton . . . 6.38 p m Arrive at Kingston . 7411 Pni Arrive at Cartersville . . 7.N1 p m Arrive at Marietta. . 9.18 pm Arrive at Atlanta. . 10.10 p m Train No. 4—Hauthward. Leave Chattanooga . . 6.10 p m Arrive at Dalton . . . 7.09 p m Arrive at Kingston . . 8.57 p m Arrive at Cartersville . 9.3S p m Arrive at Marietta . 10.66 p ru Arrive at Atlanta. . . 11.52 p m Train No. 12—Southward. Leave Dalton. . . .12. 59 a m Arrive at Kingston . . 4.16 a m Arrive at Cartersville . . 5.60 a m Arrive at Marietta. . . 8.10 am Arrive at Atlanta. . . 9.46 a m LAW DONE