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If f, LUMPKIN, Editor and Proprietor VOLUME l. I [poetic Selections. | u: JOLLY OLD PEDAGOGUE. (iKORCiE ARNOLD I jolly old pedagogue, loDg ago, flltuder, and sallow and dry; was lent aul his gait was slow, I ? thin hair was as whit? as enow, wonderful twinkle shone in his eye; sang every night as he went to bed, b3 happy down here below; ng should live taough the dead be dead.” ht his scholars the rule of three, ng and reading, and history, kr; the little ones upon his knee, nd oil heart In his breast had he, he wants ot the little it ch i 1 hb knew; while you're young,” ho often said, cis much to enjoy down ho e b3low; tha living, aod rest for the dead!” ae jolly oli pedagogue, long rgo. 3 stupidest boys he was kind and cool, ng only in gentlest toner; was hardly known in his school— ig to him was a barbarous rule, >o hard work tor the p >or o!d boner; was painful, ho sometimes said; hould make life pleasant down here below, ng ne?d charity more than the dead,” he jolly old pcd igogue, long ago, in the home by the hawthorn lane, ose? and woodbine over the door; 13 were quiet, aad neat and plain, rlt of comfort there held reign, ado him forget he was old aad poor; to little,” he often said, my friends and relatives here b low tigato over me when I am dead,” tej>l!yold pedagogue, long ago. pleasantest times that he had, of all, he seciable hours he used to rass, chair tipped biclt to a neighbor’s wall, an unceremonious call, pipe and friendly glass, the finest pleasure, he said, many he tasted h c re btlow; is no cronies had better be dead 1” e jolly oli pedagogue, long ago. ) jolly old pedagogue’s wrinkled free, all over ia sunshiny smiles; and his glass with an old schoil grace, 1 and sipped, and prattled apace, ’ house grew merry, from cellar to lilos; retty old man,” he gently said, B lingered long while here below; leart isfroih if 1117 youth ia fledl” e jolly old pedagogue, long ago. ed his pipe in the balmy air, light when the sun wont-down, e toft wind playtd in hij eilve y hair, Its tender kisses th; re jollv oid pedagogue’s jolly old crown; ng the kisser, he smiled, aud raid : i a glorious world and jwo here below; tfor happiness till wo are d<ad ?” e j olly old pedagogue, long ago. tin door one midsummer night, he sun had sunk in the west, lingering beams of golden light kindly old fac3 look warm aad bright, theolorous night-wind whispered ‘ rest!’ tenth, he bowed his head, tvere angels waiting for hire, I know; uie of happiness, living or dead, illy old pedagogue, long ago! I lories and Sketches. ANAESTHESIA. INTERESTING facts concerning ITS DISCOVERY, New York Times. | 15. F. Carpenter has just finished Ef early full length portrait of Dr. jfi Jwford W. Long, late of Athens, Ga., [■ r e t^ ier to destroy pain in surgi- Sml operations March 30, 1842, nearly ■W 6B years before Horace Wells, of ■P* ford, Conn., discovered that nitrous B Kde gas was also an effective agent to ■Syxliice a similar result, and mere than H-F years before Sir James Y. Simpson, I t Edinburg, demonstrated that chloro m was as effective. Morton’s claims 11 rest on the fact that he administered ier in 1846 to patients in the ?.lassa- Ll -etts general hospital, who were op ® ed upon by the eminent surgeons, Warren Haywood lind Bigelow. Dr. ling's discovery t was made and well; Wo’.vn to physicians and others in his ( ■ighborhood ; also to Dr. C. T. Jack of Boston, in 1854, and to congress * Jlen Norton made his attempt to get I body to recogniz3 his claim by giv- Bg him 1100,000. Senator Dawson, of proved to the committee that | ft (lLl *covery was made by one of his natituents, Dr. Long. Some months S Mr. Carpenter received the order to l ‘ n - a portrait of Dr. Long for the urnn * cf the Georgia university, to be * ( ’ e( l 1° the State capitol in Atlanta. Er. Crawford W. Long (now dead), of then?, ( reorgia, was born in Duniels- W'He, Madison county, Georgia, on the November, 1815. He graduated at ■C 18 EJni vrersity of Georgia (then the Ih ranklin College) in 1835. He studied Medicine and graduated at the medical epartmenfc of the University of Penn* * n He then went to Jefferson, Jackron county, Georgia, practiced medicine for many M' irs. la 1842 he had four students in his f IC9viz - P. A.Wilhite, John S. Groves, J) . I. Lmg and H. R Long. The two a - 1 were relatives of Dr. Long, and they are both dead. Wilhite and Groves are - lljbving (187 /). Dr. Long was twenty y< - years old. His pupils were all from nineteen to twentysone ; they were on the best of terms with each other, the Doctor entering into all the sports of his pupils with a hearty good will, while h never neglected his duty as their teachere On one occasion they were talking about the inhalation of nitrous oxide gas, when one of his pupils asked him to make some for them. He said he did not have suitable apparatus for it, but that the in halation of sulphuric ether would pro duce precisely the same exhilarating effect. One of the young men present said he had ether while at school, and was willing to do it again. They were all anxious teTwitness its effects. Dr. Long got some ether immediately and gave it to the young man who had previously inhaled it. He then inhaled it himself, and afterwards gave it to all present. After this the young doctor and his pupils indulged occasionally in ether frolics. On several occasions Dr. Long became furiously excited and could not be controlled. After recover ing from the ether intoxication he fre quently noticed that his arms and hands were badly bruised, and yet he was not conscious of having felt any pain at the time he was under the influence of the ether. He also noticed the same thing in his pupils. They were often hurt by falls and blows, and were not conscious of pain at the time. These facts, repeatedly observed, suggested to his mind the idea of using ether to prevent the pain of surgical operations. He frequently spoke ol this to his students, and at last he determined to give it a trial. Dr. Long having made up his mind to try the experiment with ether on the first favorable opportunity says, (South ern Medical and Surgical Journal, De cember. 1849): “The first patient to whom 1 admin istered ether in a surgical operation, was Mr. James M. Venable, who then re sided within two miles of Jefferson. Mr. Venable consulted me on several occa sions with regard to the propriety of re moving two small tumors situated on the back pari hr --veil*, Hut wat-JJ pone from time to time having the opera tions performed, from dread of pain. At length I mentioned to him the fact of my receiving bruises while under the in fluence of the vapor of ether, without suffering, an i, as I knew him to be fond of, and accustomed to inhale ether, 1 sug gested to him the probability that the operations might be performed without pain, and proposed operating on him while under its influence. He consented to have one tumor removed, and the op oration was performed the same day- The ether was given to Mr. Venable on a towel; and, when 'nlly under its influ ence, I extirpated the tumor. It was encysted, and about half an inch in di ameter. The patient continued to in hale ether during the time of the opera„ tion, and when informed it was over, seemed incredulous, till the tumor was shown him. He gave no evidence of suf fering during the operation, and assured me, after the operation was over, that he did not experience the slightest de gree of pain from its performance.” The names of Long, Wells, Morton and Jackson, ail Americans, will doubtless be associated, and to these must be ad ded the name of Sir James Y. Simpson, who introduced chloroform and enlarged the domain of a-teßhesia. Sir James received the highest honor from his government in recognition of the great service he had rendered ha-* inanity. The fate of Wells, Morton and Jackson is most pitiable. Wells, disappointed in carrying off the honor of the great discovery of aEseffiesia, became insane and committed suicide in New York in 1848. Morton, disappointed at not receiving a pecuniary recognition |from congress, for his labors, fretted himself into a con gestion of the brain. In July, 1868, he returned to New York, from Washing* ton, in the wildest state of excitement. Dr. Lewis A. Sayre and Dr. Yale were called t~> tim on the 15 th July. They considered his condition as critical, placed him in the hands of a trained nurse, ordered leeches to his temples, cups on the spine, and ice on the head. Dr. Morton would not submit to treat ment. As soon as Dr. Sayre laft, he ordered his buggy to go to tbe Riverside hotel, saying he knew he would soon be well if he could get out of the hot city. He drove furiously up Broadway, and through tho Central Park. At the upper end of the park, ho leaped from his buggy, and ran to a lake near by to cool his burning brain. Being persuaded to get into his buggy again, ho drove a short distance, then leaped out, and jumping over a fence, he fell down in a state of insensibility. He was then RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1879. “ Faithful to the Fight, Fearless Against the WrongA 9 taken moribund to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he died an hour or two later. Jackson has been for some time in an insane asylum, hopelessly incurable. Ia Boston, Mass., a monument has been erected to the “discoverer of aiiae thesis,” but no man is designated there on by namß. The citizens of Hartford, Conn., have erected a bronze statue of Wells (by Bartlett) in their Capitol Park. We have no objection to it; and would suggest that the name of Long, Wells, Morton and Jackson be inscribed on the Boston column, with dates, and suitable inscriptions. The state of Georgia will, at no distant day, erect at the national and at its capitol or its university, a statue of Long, who was unquestionably the discoverer of surgical arsesthesta, DARKENING THE BLOOD. SOME OF THE EFFECTS OF ALTI TUDE IN LEADVILLE. Leadville Letter. I saw but very few cases of intoxica tion in the streets, though the three hundred saloons in the city held out their best inducements. I was surprised at this, as one of the notable effects of the great altitude of the place (10,300 feet above the level of the sea) is that all fermented liquors intoxicate more quickly than at lower elevations. The boiling point, owing to the decrease of atmospheric pressure, is much lower than at Chicago, and the alcohol is sooner vaporized and taken into the circulation, producing intoxication much quicker. The boiling point of water here is about 190 degrees, instead]of 212 degrees, *he effect of which in boiling beans, eggs, potatoes, etc , is that it requires along while to cook them in an open vessel, and it is necessary to keep the pot well covh ered or the water will vaporize and es cape before being raised to the requisite degree for thorough cooking. At this elevation much air is required to fill and satisfy the lungs, and breathing must be quicker in order to properly oxygenize the blood. It is said, too, that after one ut-eii rrere'ioi ffunrc tmre me coloring matter of the blood becomes darker, being changed from the peroxide to the sesquioxide of iron. With a person suf fering under any difficulty or disease of the heart, the effect of any long-con tinued exertion ia to cause a dangerous degree of palpitation, and even with per sons entirely well the pulse runs extreme ly high. There are other and notable facts con nected with this altitude. There are few birds seen here—perhaps for the rea son that flying is difficult in the light air. The common house fly, the suin'* mer pest of our eastern house-keepers, is unknown here. There are some of the out door bluebottle variety, but they seem languid and tired. It is said, also, that cats can not live here. This is probably owing to their delicate organi" xition being unable to resist the rigor of the night air. So the “voices of the night” are not heard in this locality, and bootjacks are reserved for their natural uses. Another result of the lightness of the air is that, having so little density, it is easily heated by artificial means. Our nights are uniformly cold—so cold that it is uncomfortable to sit without a fire; but a few pine chips or small sticks will warm an apartment very quickly. At the same time the sun’s rays do not seem to have the heating power that they do in lower elevations. This seem3 to confirm the theory that there is no substantial caloric in the rays of the sun, but that heat is the re sult of chemical action, generated by the direct rays with the elements of the at mosphere—the directness of the rays and the density of the atmosphere. While standing high upon these moun tains, even at a distance from any snow drifts and where the air is still, the sum mer sun has only sufficient power to make the air refreshing and pleasant, while you on the plains are sweltering under a torrid heat. In the shade of a rock or two it is always cool enough. The effect of the altitude is the same as that experienced by balloonists, who in ascending from the surface of the earth, even on the hottest day, soon find it necessary to don their overcoats and warmest clothing. In the night, here, a good supplvof blankets is always nAessary; and nearly every morning heavy frosts are found, and sometimes thick scales of ice are formed. The crests of some of the mountains and many of the deep ravines upon their ides are still full of masses of snow so compact that one can walk over them without pinking. A day or two ago, in visiting a mine close to the summit of Mount BroBS, I was compelled to cross a field o. snow, hanging over the edge, which must have been a mile in length and probably in places twenty-five feet in depth. INTIMATIONS OF GENIUS. CHARLOTTE F. BATES. A hawthorn bough in full and snowy bloom ; Strange birds that flitted ever by the Bhip; Built on a broken branch, a little nest Upon whose eggs brooded the parent bUd; Things unfamiliar floating on the tide— All these to greit Columbus gave the sign Of the new land he was about to touch. Such sights are manifold with thee, my soul! Such hint* are breaking on thine eager eye. Strange fancies brood or else go winging past; Fresh forms and growth of Nature’s life appear; Things old as time, yet to the old world new; The new xpressions oi accustomed thought, Thou art already on anew world’s verge, That mighty world is Genius-ah 1 but know Thou car* t expect no better fate than his Who four*’ that other! poverty, neglect Follow tbe fate of him wno finds a world Whether it he of matter or of thought. Not now. not here, will be thy claim allowed, But long years hence when thou hast left thy clay And all thy shackles moulder with its dust, Then shall men know the greatness ef thy work, The littleness of those that lived with thee. Through mortal hurts immortal glories come Push on to keel upon thy new-found fhore, And taka possession in thy Sovereign’s name! Silent Influences. It is not necessary that we shall be public speakers, or writers, or functiona ries in order that our influence shall be felt about us. These outward means of influence are more direct and apparent, but not more positive and sure. Our looks, our words, ou actions, nay, even, our silencs, speak of our characters. We are impressing ourselves upon oth ers. Our seniors, our equals in age and standing, even the children about us, are receiving impressions of our characters. We ftto breathing a silent but strong influence into many a soul, which goes direct from our characters. Are not our responsibilities fearful, so great and constant is our influence? Hence the vast, the inexpressibly vast, importance of possessing good cbarac actera. Our characters are not for our selves only, but for others. If they make us happy, they produce a similar happiness in the minds of all with whom we associate, differing only in de gree. Think of our friends; relatives and dear xittle children, the circles in social and business life we en ter, daily, weekly, yearly ; many we meet with, speak wiam thus influence from year all throigh our lives, and then calculate the amount of influence we each one of us exert upon tba world. And then thins that, through all whom we have thusaffected, our influence, in a smaller degree, is carried to ftowhom they do or may influence, and tMt outwari and onwird, till it may be mat generation fron generation, roren through eternal ages shall feel till wave of influence whuh we have set *n motion, and then enebavor if we can to realize the respons sibiity that rests upon us. If our char actff ia bad, oh ! what a weight of wickr. edmss and misery we shall c ause! but if god, how pleasing the thought that we arßthus intrumental in sending tide af ter ide of joy and peace out on the wings of ur virtuous influence to purify and glslden human hearts in countless thasands for as many ages. Cauglit ia the Toils. bme curious instances of retribution hae occurred from time to time. In Mf, 1862, a weaver of Nottingham braght home a loin of veal and told hia wi) to cook it for dinner. As he did noreturn to that meal, she put the vel aside, untouched. In the evening heiame back and gave her a steak to pnare for him. After eating the steak hecomplained of horrible pains, and fidly died of convulsions. The meat head brought in the morning he had rubed with poison, hoping that his wife wild eat it, and she had fried the steak iiihe drippings of the dish intended for h( destruction. In England, while two ders were employed .in removing the ranants of a shipwreck, they found a ti case full of sovereigns. Both seized it al struggled for its possession, until o contrived to smash the window in ti other’s helmet. The unfortunate eh was drowned, and, in hauling his Uy to the surface, it became en tgled with the air-tube of the other and broke it. The murderer was found rtd beside the treasure he had wrested fin hia victim, whose fate he shared. ..We frequently hear of narrow es pes from drowning, the victims in irly every instance being rescued ist as they were going down for the ird time.” Why is it that some are t saved when about to go down the sond time ? Let us hear of some ons red before going down at all, like the atchman who was the sole survivor of >arty of nine, the reason of his nairac* Dus escape being that ho “didn't so idt in der poat.” Autumn Fashion Whispers. Th? Princess style of dress will conv tinue in favor. With long trains the balayeuse of white lace is still in favor. Elaborate decorations are in favor for evening and reception robes. Crimped and copeaux fringes are very pretty, and are favored trimmings. Puffed paniers have been generally adopted in place of plain, tight-fitting overskirts. Belts of leather or morocco have buckles of strass, nickel, steel or oxy*> dized silver. Gilets and revers are not quite so popular as they were last season, even in combination suits. A tall lady should avoid stripes and make her selections from the new fab rics in checks and figures. Black dresses, trimmed with pink bows or flowers, will greatly become a lady of pale complexion. For full dress, sleeves are semi-short, leaving room for the bracelets, which arß worn over the long gloves. A pretty fichu is composed entirely of kilted Bretonne lace, and ornamented with bows of of eau de-nil satin ribbon. Madras skirts in bright-colored pat terns are pretty with tunics of some light fancy woolen material draped over them. A stylish lace bonnet is simply yet effectively decorated with long ostrich plumes and a dark red rose and foliage. Plain redingotes,stitched all round ; and very tight fitting to tbe figure, are be coming to tall slight ladies with small waists, A short costume requires to be made and trimmed more carefully than the trained one, otherwise it does no* look distingue. % Moyen Age fans are painted Upon satin cambric, in floral patterns, rustic scenes, birds, and animals, and have plain lining of a different color. Indian cashmere, huge and Llama tissues are combined with fancy foulards, Indian and brooade silks and satins in the stylish utnmn costumes. The new solitaire studs have a separate which is introduced into the but tonhole and upon this stem the stud is fitted, when it snaps and is locked. Jewels are in great favor, and necklaces or lockets and crosses suspended from chains, ribbons or velvets are worn even over the high-necked bodices. In stockings, hair stripes of two colors upon a light ground is the style most in favor, and in Lisle thread stockings the lighter stripe of the two is of silk. An elegant dress of pompadour foulard in floriated stripes, all the tints of which are faint and melting one into the other, has underskirt and trimmings of pale blue silk. A stylish dress for a bridesmaid is of rose-colored Surah, trimmed with very narrow flutings, and tunics of fancy changeable gauze, striped with rose-col ored satin, made with puffed paniers fin ished with pretty Bretonne lace. Coddling a Streak of Lightninir* ® *9 An American lady writes: “At night my husband comes home with a rush, hangs his hat upon the floor, his coat upon the first chair, seflls tiWboota flying in another direction, works his feet into his slippers while unfolding his paper, reads, eats, reads again until bed time, throws his paper down for some one else to pick up, and rashes off to bed. Thi3 is the programme, with exceptions, until Saturday night. Sunday morning he bolts his breakfast and tears around while getting into his ‘Sunday best,’ and rushes off to church ; comes home and bolts his dinner (never eats), reads a lit tle, sleeps a little, and away he goes again. When he tries to keep quitt he is sure to make more noise ; if he starts to go round a mud-puddle he is sure to step flat into it; if he crosses the room carefully he is sure to kick the table-leg or fall over a chair; and let him go to the table where a spare clean cloth has bsen spread, and you will see more of ‘decora tive art’ in five minutes than you ever dreamed could be accomplished in so short a time. He is temperate, naturally kind-hearted, attends strictly to busi ness and pays his debts like a man ; was once chatty and domestic, fond of his family and home, but has a lowed him self to drift with this rushing, reading habit, until now nothing could break it up short of breakup his neck. Fancy a wife trying to coMle such a streak of lightning. • The public are soon to be permitted to iqspect the interior of M. Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty. She is to have a stair case terminating in her back hair. TERMS : SI.OO per Annum, in Advance. NUMBER 46. THE ARRIVAL . ELLA WHEELER. What do I hear at the window ? Did 80tn8 one call me ? Nay, It was only the wind, my darling, Grieving the night away— Only the wind and the shutter Talking as two friends may. But now I hear some one speaking; O listen and you will hear! It is only the night-bird calling To her mate in sudden fear; Only the dead leaves falling— The first dead leaves ol the year. But now there is one coming; I hear a step on the stair. Nay, nay, it is nothing, darling, But the rockers of my chair. I have just been out in the hallway— I am sure there is no one there. Never a knock at the doorway, Never a step in the hall, Yet tho King is certainly coming— How lightly his steps do fall! A sigh—and a straightening downwarl— And silence is ever all. Clipped Paragraphs. .. He knows enough who knows how to be silent. ..The end of man is an action, not a thought. .. Nothing i more easy than irre proachable conduct. .. The secret of prolonging life is not to abridge it. .. It is good to be deaf when a slanderer begins to talk. .. None are so old as they who have outlived enthusiasm. . .We can not do evil to others with* out doing it to ourselves. .. Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be equally outraged by silence. ..Sitting on a campmeeting ground eating peanuts and listening to dull sermons may not be a very rapid way of getting to heaven, but then it’s a sure way. .. When a paragrapher gets up some* thing too stupid to go in the funny column, he gives it to the literary editor, who puts it in a column headed “ Pearls of Thou ght.” .. A Georgia young man asked his sweetheart whether si e had ever read “ Romeo and Juliet.” She replied that she had read Remeo, but she did not think she had ever read Juliet. .. King Alfbnso broke his arm a fort* night ago, but as he has just gone on a visit to his girl, we conclude that it isn’t the arm that he finds use for when the two sit out on the /rout stoop of the palace and look at the moon. . .Senator Bruce, of Mississippi,has for mally christened his baby Roscoe Conk* ling Bruce, The happy event occurred in Cleveland last Saturday, at the resi dence of Mrs. Bruce’s father. IPs to be hoped that this saddle-colored extract will grow up to be a better man than his illustrious namesake. .. It is alleged that an earthquake was felt at Niagara Falls on the morning of the 21st. A St. Louis gentleman, now visiting N Jrristown, called at our office next day and explained the cause of the supposed phenomenon. His theory is that a Chicago girl at the falls was charged five dollars by a hack driver for driving her around for an hour and a half, when she very properly “put her foot down” on the attempted extortion— hence the quaking.—[Norristown Herald, ..The most remarkable unanimity that is so pleasant to observe between man and wife is nicely illustrated by the following letters of the same date : “Up Country, August 20.—Dear John : I am going to stay another week. Am having a splendid time. Affectionately, Julia.” “City, August 20. Dear Julia: You can stay another week- Am having a splendid time. Affection, ately, John.” For some reason or other, she concludes to pack up and start for home immediately, to see about his “splendid time.” .. A German gentleman who keeps a seven*by-nine lager beer shop at the South End ,treated himself to a day’s vacation recently, leaving his son in charge of “ter business” and a keg of bser. On his return he found the keg empty, and addressed his offspring as foL lows: “How is dis, Yawcob, dat you make me only und dollar un dirty cents for dose keg of beer ? Show me how you draws der peer ?” Yawcob took a glass and drew[it nearly full of beer, with but the least margin of froth, when the old gentleman, seizing his hand, said ; “ You make doso glasses stand higher down from der keg, Yawcob, der profit in der beer bizzineaj is in der pubbles.”