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1? y D. B. FREEMAN. "* T | lo CourMC ofTrac Love. la spite of all that has been done in the last fifty years to improving the channel, the course of true love is still in places. An incident indi cative of this, although somewhat out 0 f the usual line, occurred in Danbury recently. There were two suitors for a young woman's affections. Number one was first acquainted with her, and had kept pretty steady company with her through the past month, when number two ap peared. The latter very soon got the best hold, and this became apparent to the former. The young lady gave herself up to number one until the day after the fourth, when she suddenly and rather strangely veered about to the stranger, who is now in town learning the jewel ry business. Number one was forgotten as easily, apparently, as if he had been an old debt. It was tho night of the fifth that this change in feeling dawned upon him ; he had purchased a quart of new apples, and taken them to her house. There was company present on his rival, and he requested to see her pri*' vatcly in the hall. She complied with a reluctance that struck him as being singular. “Here is something for you, Julia,” he whispered, extending the package. “She eolored slightly as she said, ‘I cannot take it, tfcank you.' ” “But you don’t know what it is,” he urged. “It is a quart of new apples just come in market.” She made no move. “Why, Julia, take them. They won’t hurt you. They are ripe ” “No, I mustn't,” she persisted, keep ing her eyes cast down. “Why not ?’* he pleaded. ‘‘You don’t think I would bring 'em up here if I thought they would hurt you, do you f She moved uneasily, but said noth* in r' ~ , “Julia,” ho began in a broken voice, don’t you bel'eve me when 1 tell you they are ripe ?” She did not answer. “Can it be possible,” he continued in a voice of pain, “that you believe that I would try to make you sick ? That I’d bring you anything up bore that would upset you jf” “The company are waiting, and I must go back to them,” she said, speak ing in a constrained tone, and reaching out to the handle of Che parlor door. “You won’t take them V* lie was very white, and his voice trembled with suppressed passion. “No ” “Then I’ll go home and eat every gol-darned ono of ’em before I touch my bed, if they kill mo deader than Golinr,” and with this ferocious threat lie bounced out of the house. Whether he did as he promised is not known, but as he was around on the street tho next day it is more than likely that wiser thoughts prevailed. That afternoon he started for her house, to see if the dreadful thing was true that tho jeweler, whom he had designated by the prefix of “pole logs,” had really supplanted hiih. As ho neared the houso he saw, with anger, that the jeweler was thero play ing croquet with Julia. The sight maddened him. For a moment he looked at them with clenched hands, then hurried away, with a gleam in his eye that de noted a storm. In a quarter of an hour ho was again approaching the place. He had both hands in the pockets of his sack, as if ho was holding on to something valua We. The dapper young jeweler was still engaged in the game with the fair young Julia, and their laugliing re marks grated distastefully upon his ear. Julia looked up and saw him, and a frown covered her face. lie saw it and understood its import at once. Ilis own face grew black with wrath, lie turned to her. “Julia, bavo you given me up for this cuss ?” he savagely inquired. “What do you mean by such lan guage us that ?” she angrily domauded. While the pa T, ty thus indelicately in dicated stared at the new-comer as he very much doubted his own existence. “Just what I say,” retorted the dis* carded one. ‘'Well, the quicker you leave this yard the better you’ll please me,” was the spiteful rejoinder from the .fair one. ‘‘Then it’s true ! it’s true !’’ he howl ed in a voice of anguish. She lias left me for old ‘polo logs.’ Oh !”—this with a sudden reverse of tone, as the name brought up the realization of the hated presence—“Tou are tho one that’s done it, are you ?” turning in rage upon his rival “You are the scoundrel that left me to buy her things for a whole month to get her sweetened ud for yon> and then you come in an' take her to yourself! Where were you ou the fourth ?” ho screamed, with biting sar casm. “Why didn’t you show yourself when there was money to spend, an’ things to show her that oostcash down? Where were you when the icc cream an’ cake wa6 around ? Oh, you old gimlet eye I” he added, suddenly re moving one hand from the recesses of a pocket and hulling a raw egg full in the face of his rival, which, breaking in the contact, completely changed the entire expression of tho jeweler.— vf here were you, I say ?” ho yelled, dancing around, and drawing forth an other egg. Cnlljoim dimes. At the advent of this awful article, Miss Julia scampered into the house, and the affrighted and almost blinded rival struck out wildly for escape ; but the foe was after hiui, and but ten feet had been cleared when the second egg caught him between (he shoulders, and sprinkled its glowing color over his back. The unfortunate man ran with all his might seeking escape, but baffled in the search. lie flew over the vegetables, and dar ted around the trees, but the avenger kept olose to him, plastering him with omelettes, and plying him with ques tions like this : “Where were you on the fourth ?” Egg. “Where were you when there was money to be spent ?” I Egg. ‘•Kept away, d’d you, till the fourth was over, the costliest day in (he year ?” Egg. “Knew cream was up that day, did you ?” Egg. And the eggs flew with all the ven geance an unrequited affection could impart to them. And the unhappy Julia, standing in a trance of horror at the window, saw her favored one pelted in the back, in the side, on the head, and against the legs; saw him tear through the shrub* bery, like a winged omelette ; saw the golden liquid stream from his hair, his chin, his coat tails, and his finger-tips ; saw him shed scrambled eggs, chromos, and circns posters at every jump ; saw him finally bound over the back fence, and sweep across tho back lots like a simoom of biliousness, and then she gave a scream and faiuted dead away.— Danbury News. itcsinald's Wooing. The shades of night were falling fa3t as through a Boston suburb passed'a a pair of lovers engaged in low and murmurous conversation, and tremulous sighs, and peppermint lozenges. They stopped, cud, leaning on a fence, gazed at the celestial emblem of the crumbling power of tho Ottoman dynasty, with feelings of overwrought ecstacy. “How calm ! how pellucid ! how— how very much so !” said he, passing his stalwart ar a around her waist In a moment of absen. tniadedneas “Yes, Reginald,” she whispered ; “does it not strike a hidden chord in the subtle depths of being, to wake to life latent aoul-mvsieries, and merge us in the Universal ?” lie said he thought it did. “Does it Dot seem to harbinger a belter ideal ? Please don’t, Reginald !” •‘Oh ! yes, Angelina, just once—this time don't count, as old Rip says.” “Go ’way ! don’t quoto any old rips to me There, now, that’s enough. No tice yon star, which gathers irridescent intensity every minute. The beamy brightlu ness overwhelms me. It is a corruscating magnet potent to draw us from earthly grovelmeats.” Silence for a moment, then a sound of a snapping corset-stving, and a deep male suspiration. “Why, what ails you, Reginald ? Why thus despondent ?” “Oh, Angelina ! aie you ignorant of tire tumultuous passion which surges in my bosom ?” “Why, how you talk !” “A passion which Aom the first mo mont I beheld the radiance of your smile has never failed to culminate.— Ave r t not thy gaze. Tell me, 0 ! toll me in accents as grateful to tho parchr l ed ear as the fountain in the desert to tho hungry mariner, whisner me in tones of bland though coy affection, say that you will—vou will—” “Well, what?” “That you will—” Be paused. The wretched man had forgotten the balance of the little piece he bad prepared aod recited over corn rectly a hundred times. Beads of pers piration hung on his ambitious fore-' beau. He w.ts about rallying for a desper ate plunge when — “O-o o-o-o h ! mv gracious ! A nas ty toad hopped right upon my dress ! Oh ! it’s made me quite faint! Take me home !” And with hasty step she glided in the direction of the paternal roof. He turned savagely upon the reptile and mashed him as readily as he would a Bashi-Bazouk. Even more readily. Then he followed, muttering, “Things can’t go on this way much longer. By thunder, I wou’t stand it 1 I’ll bring her right down to business to-morrow evening. Or —” A man who was too mean to adver tise laud ho wanted to sell, put a writ ten notice in the post office. A man who was inquiring for a small farm referred to the written notice, when he replied, “I can’t buy land at a fair price from any man who dees his ad vertising in that way. He would steal the fence, the well bucket and the sta ble doors before ho O rvo up possess sion.” A tunnel through the Pyrennecs will place France and Spain in railroad communication by the first of January, 1878. The work has been several years in progress, and will save twelve hours of tedious diligent riding. Those who blow the coals of others’ strife, may chance to have the sparks fiy in their own f‘ce9. CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBE&U 1877. POTIPHAR AND COLUMBUS. Who; Discovered America—The Most .Avtonisliiug Lie oa Record. “I see,” said the Professor, cocking up his legs upon the stove in the gro cery store; “1 see that they talk of putting up a monument to Christopher Columbus. It’s too bad the way peo ple 'vo been fooled about him. He never discovered America, and I’ve made up my mind to bust that old fraud and shake him out and let the people sea what kind of a rotten old swindle he is.” “You say that Columbus didn’t dis cover America ?” said Mr. Partridge. “Certainly he didn’t. He was a mean, lubberly sneak, who went pack dlirg around iu a scow letting on he was doing big things when he had. not pluck enough to get out of sight of land.” “Who did discover it then ?” “Well, I’ll tell you fellows in advance of publication, but mind you lay low about it. It was Potiphar !” “What was his first name ?” “First name ? Why, he hadn’t any. It was only Potiphar—old Paraoh’s Potiphar, you know.” “Ilow’d you find out about it ?” “Why, you know old Gridley, up in the citv ? Well, last year ho was in Egypt, and he brought homo a mummy, all wrapped up in bed clothes and sol dered around with sealing-wax. Grid ley asked me to come oyer and help to undress him. and so we tackled that mummy and after rolling off a couple of hundred yards calico we reached him. Looked exactly like dried beef. Black as your hat and just about ton der enough 10 chip duwn for tea. — Gridley said he’d like to know who tho old rooster was, and I looked him over to find out. You know how they put up a mummy, don’t you ? Take out all his machinery inside, and fill him up with nutmegs and cinnamon. Then they set a brass door-plate in his stom ach and make some little memoranda, with obituary poetry, and all that kind of thin®. Anyhow, after polishing him up with a flesh brush for a minute or two, I found tho door-plate, and, with somo care I managed to rca-1 the inscription on it. It was this: ‘I am Potiphar. servant of Pharaoh. I was buried 3,000 years before the Christian era. I discovered America. C. Co lumbus was an impostor.’ That’s what the inscription said, and to my opinion that settles ic. Now, I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’ve had a cast made of that dried boef, and I intend to have it swelled all out and made into a stat ue, and I’m going to set it up at my own expense alongside the statue of Co lumbus, and have a sign put ou it to the effect that Columbus is a ragged old fraud. Then I intend to get up a memorial to Congress asking it to ohange the name of the country to Pot ipharia, and to make Potiphar’s sacred animal, the tom-cat, tho emblematical bird of the nation, instead of the eagle. Bea big thing, won’t it, to compel ov erybody to sing ‘Hail Poi’pharia, hap py land 1” and ‘Potipharia, the Gem of the Ocean !’ ” “You said you read the inscription on the plate,” said’Partridgo. “I didn’t know you understood the language ” “Can read it as easy as A, B. C.” “‘Bu.ied 3,000 years before the Christian era.’ I think you said it read, flow did old Pot know anything about the Christian era if he died that long before 7” “Blamed if I know. Cast bis proe photic eye over the future, I s’pese.” “Well, how in thunder could he tell that Columbus, was going to claim to discover America V “That’s so. I dunno. Is kind of queer ” “Bo you know what I think of you ?” asLed Partridge. “I think you'd lie the hair off an old-Aashiuned trunk, and that if I was asked to nominate the champion American fraud to go on to a pedestal at some national exhibition, Id send in your name.” “Would you, though, really ?” “I would.” “Well, it’s surprising how well you know me.” The Potiphar memorial has not yet been sent to Congress. frightful commiiox of BULGARIA. District s in Wh*ch not a Chris tian Jlale Survives. The Fate of the Gcshoifs. Tho pitiful stories of the condition of the Christian population south of the Balkans aie beginning to create uneasiness and indignation in Europe. The dispatch of Ahmed ’] efik to Adrla nople at the instance of Minister Lay ard has not had the effect of putting a stop to the executions. The Italian Consuls are sending to their govern - ment fearful accounts of the doings of Ottoman officials. N They say executions and transportations are depopulating Iloumelia. The Italian Consul at Tri poli says that two thousand Bulgarians have landed at Tripoli from a Turkish transport, and have been sent tc the borders of the desert in the interior. A correspondent of the r J iuics, en gaged on one of the relief agencies at work among tho Bulgarians, sends a hideous account of the state of the province. Ho is at present established at Cardova, on the southern slope of tho Balkans, twenty miles west of Kazan lik. In this place, the* population of which he estimates must have been nearly twenty thousand, there is not s grown man left alive. For six week the place has been at the mercy of ir regulars of the Turkish army. There now remain among the ruins of what was once a beautiful and thriving town but five or six-thousand women and children. These pool creatures hide themselves as best they may, dreading the outrages of which nightly some of them are victims. They can hardly be said to have shelter, clothing or food, and have sustained life by furtively gathering roots and vegetables left in the ruined gardens. The same correspondent, writing un* der date of September 3 about the Gos hoffs, says : “Their case, was fortunate** ly taken up by Mr. Liyad, and algo, for the reason which follows, by the American Minister and I believe they are now as good as saved, though still in prison. Some three days before their arrest one of the two was appointed Ame dean Vice Consul, but owing to the formalities necessary the papers, signed by the American Minister ooly reached Philippopolis the day before I left. The joy was great in that refined Bulgarian home when I was able to announce the fact to the sister and aged lather of one of the prisoners that United Stales Minister Maynard had intrusted the necessary papers to the correspondent of the Edinburgh Scots, man, who had traveled night and day to save these two innocent men from a shameful death. However, a subse quent telegram via Svra. of date of lGlli inst., pieviously telegraphed to the United States, renders it probable that the sentence has since been carried into execution, and that the efforts of their friends in this country will come too late. The Manchester Guardian of the 22d says the announcement of the in tended summary execution of the Messrs. Geshoff. ot Philiupopolis, has been received with consternation by their friends in Manchester. A depu* bearing a petition in their be hal f ’, together with an official letter from the Mayor, p-oceeded on Friday last to lay the matter before Earl Der by, in London. The Messrs. Geshoff are so well Lnown in Manchester that their is a mat ter of eoucern to many besides their fellow-countrymen. The joungcr Mr. Geshoff waa educated at Owens College, and it is believed it is in consequence of reoresentatrons a3 to the couu tion ot Bulgaria .made, by him so me Times that the vengeance of the Turkish Government has fallen on the whole family.” Biisisbci’ly Gels Excited Over tlie War Jlaps. Deacon Bumberlv, of Athcns-on-the- Hudson, is a wide-awake old chap and no mistake. lie always keeps posted In current events. Thero isn’t much going on in the worid that he don’t know of, and when things are not run o suit his ideas he isn’t backward in speaking of it. Buoibcrly’s speaking of it don’t make anv diffeience as far as running things is concerned, but it relieves bis mind, so it is just as well, perhaps, to let him have his say. Bumberlv orides himself on the fact tlia* he is the only man in Athens who is thoroughly posted on the Turco-Fas sian war. Since tho proud Stilts a dared the imperious Czar to knock a chip off his shoulder, and the latter accepted the challenge like a man, Deacon Luuiberly has taken twen‘y-five daily papers reg ularly, and he generally reads up the cable dispatches during the day, and then si..s up till affer midnight study ing out the war-maps and trying to lo* cate the battles. Bumberly finally got to be about -three-fourths insane on this point, and lie would often wake his wiie up out of a souud sleep in the middle of the night to explain some new discovery of his own on the charts. “Barling, just get up a minute and see where the Czar fetched them a lick at Erzeroum,” lie Would yeli along about 11 p. M., aud Mrs. B. would meekly crawl out of bed, and put on ! her slippers, and come over to the ta ble and look ou, while Bumberly point, ed out the exact spot. Mrs. Bumbe ly didn’t eomoluin at this eccentric conduct, but tho thing went so far that she had to get up nine times some nights to see anew map and listen to some explanations about affairs at lsaktohi, Dobrudscha, or some other unpronounceable place. It finally began to wear on her, and she struck for higher wages or fewer working hours. * It was Hst Friday that she ventured to hiat to her liege lord and master that she was tired of studying war maps by lamp-light, and didn’t care about being called up in the night to do it. Bumberly heard what she said but thought she didn’t mean it. lie had an idea that everybody must be as much interested in the European itn., broglio as he was. That night he got in a fresh supply of papers, and they contained some of the most startling maps that were ever imposed on a credulous public. There had been uu unusually heavy battle. The Turks bad been defeated with immense loss—that is, three Turks had been seriously though not dangerously frightened, and one Lad sprained, bis ancle by failing off of au ammunition wagon. The papers gave a diagram of the battlefield, with foil particulars of fhe terrible SWI*" Bumberly , 1 There was no sleep foi hitn that night. By midnight, or a little later, he had the thing figured crut as clean as a whist- 1 tie. He had the line of retreat of the three scared Turks traced' out, and a pin stuck io the map at the exact rpot where the solitary warrior foR from ammunition wagon. * c •'* 1 ' '• Then be tho ighi. he’d call his wife aad let her see, so be shouted “Maria !” but no answer came. Then he went to the bed, and shook her head and said : “Maria ! Marta ! the Russians have walloped the Turks again. Get up and I’ll show you how and where it was dyne.” . .. ' “l dec t t*> li(dT#CMß4thir>rfhout it. I’m sleepy. ’’ “Come, get up, it will do you good to see it. They gave them an awful walloping this time ” “I don't cai'e if they did. I wish someone would wallop you so’s you’d keep quiet and let folks rest in peace.” “Then you don’t want to hear me ex plain the battle, and see a chart ot the ground, eh ‘ “I can hear and see all I want to of it in the morning.” “No you can’t. If you don’t get up to-night you won’t see it at all. I’ll tear every paper into minee-meat, so I will !” * ‘ “Tear ’em ; who cares ? I want to sleep.” And Mrs. B. turned over with her face to the wall. Then Bumberly took every paper and piled them up in the middle of the floor, and jumped on them, and danced and tbiH.-hed about till there wasn’t a piece the size of a postage stamp left. Then he blow (he tight out and went to bod, a ikl Mrs IS. had to struggle along the next day without a single War-map in the liou-c. A Little Delay Fatal. It is well known that Julius Caesar might have escaped assassination in the Senate chamber il ho had rc&d deliber' atelv a letter put in his hands by one informed of the conspiracy. The same fact is true of one or two of the French monarchs who perished bv the assas sin’s knife. But tho delay of a few hours to open these important letters rendered escape impossible. We • ave never seen the following incident before, but it is vouched for bv Dr. McCheseney, of Trenton, a re liable authority. The success of Washington at Tren ton lias been generally considered as the turning point in the war of inde dependence. Yet few persons are aware upon how slight an event tins critical action was made to hinge. On the Christmas eve, when Washington crossed the Delaware, Col. Ralil, the commander of tho Hes sians, sat in a private room near Tren ton, engaged in drinking and playing cards. A Tory, who had discovered the movements of the American troops, sent a note by a special messenger io the Colonel, with orders to deliver it into his own hands. The me-senger found the way to tho house, and a uegro opened the door but ro used him admittance, took the letter and delivered it to the colonel, who was just shuffling for anew game. Supposing the letter to bo unimpor tant, or not stopping to think at all, ho went on with liis play. The reading of the letter would have thwarted the design of Washington ; but the love of play conquered the colouel’s prudenoe and gave ouccess to a worthier cause, involving the loss of his life and army, and ull’inatelv the freedom of the col onies. Little did the colonel think, when he ras shuffling those cards, that he was losing the g eatest game that vias ever played among the nations of the world. Natural Hisiory. All animate that suckle their young arc c’assed under the general name of Mammalia. Lirds, lepliles, serpents and fishes, that do not suckle their young, but have a heart, brain ar.d skel eton, are called Vertebral Animate. All others, having no internal skeleton and no bia ; n, are called Invertebral Ani mate. All the mammalia have warm blood. I'irds have warm blood also, but the blood of reptiles, serpents, and fishes, is cold. The invertebral class of animate has no blood at all. Some tortoises live Trom 100 to 200 years. — Lut of all creaLures the '.oads live the longest. They have been found in the eeuters of immense rocks, and revived after being buried in them for counts less oenturie*. Mammi'eroas animate, or those that suckle their young, are divided into several classes. Some, have nails and some hoofs, while others are webfoot* ed. The first order is man, or homo. The first lamily of the second order is the simici, or monkey tribe in gen eral ; that is, original and distinct class es of being3. Each is divided into vt* j rious classes, or spec ; es, having some out not all the characteristics of the original and distinct genus. They live in colonies, and separute species inhab it, the same orest without natural ai> noyanee, and in the same trees with parrots. They miuiic man in every thing. The orang outang has no tail, and full grown in their native wilds often | grow from five to six feetj in height.— Tsfteit arms tire&loifrg, and they use them at %ands s <f Th4y i carry clubs fynoAsnsep nyowe im hordsj and reside it huts made of bushes and lsave<*. Somejakep to Europe.were docile, sen sible, Imifatirt, &iid Very affectionate.— In Africa they 'perform mush labor, and are very useful. The mona mon key is a great favorite in India, and they are fad and encouraged in some places. The gentoos have hospitals for them, and in some places they are more numerous than men. It is found to be good policy to feed theta, to keep them out of mischief. GRAH “barnett. STEAM SAW MILL Three Miles trom Calhoun on the Sugar Valley Rotul. Lumbei*. A good supply of Lumber ou hand, and any bill cut to order on short notice. Shingles. Wc are prepared to fill all orders for Shingles, and guarantee satisfaction to purchasers. Lathes. Lathes supplied in any quantity on shoi’t notice. Our prices are in accordance with the hard time*. iVe solicit the patronage of those wishing anything in our line. Our facilities for supplying the public are not excelled by any similar enterprise m this section. WHITE OAK LOGS WANTED. We want good White Oak Logs, and will pay the cash for them. GRAHAM & BARNETT. jun 2 3m. Interesting to Farmers McARTHUR & SMITH. IRON & WOOI) do work cheaper than it can bo done any where else in Calhoun fc cash or pro luce. You will do well to call and get their prices and test the quality of their wotk. You will get satisfaction. Mr. Smith is an excellent workman, a polished steel smith. All work done at prices conforming with the present scarcity of money and tne pres sure of hard times. Call and have your horse shod, and see how reasonable will be the bill. Also bring in your wagons and buggies for repair marol-Omr LOGS WANTED ! *v'£Q ,s:h : \ •. We will pay CASH for Logs. Good POPLAR, 12, 13 and 14 feet long. WHITE-OAK, 14 and 1G feet long. A few 12 feet long. PINE, 16, 20, 22, 24 and up. A few 12 feet long. WALNUT, of good qua’ity. A good suppiy of LUMBER constantly on hand. Also Lathes and Shin gles, which the cash can get cheap. L. HILLS & CO. Resaca, Ga., March 28, 1877. 6m. *JL“- IVI. BLLisr umv AI! STABLE. Good autl Huggy Horses ami New Vehicles. Horses and mules for*sair. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable. Will pay the cash for corn in Ihe ear and odder in the bundle. feb3-tf. H. A. DOItSKY’S SALOON, Railroad Street, Always on hand choice ISKItS etc., and the wants of customers willl at all times be attended to with prompt ness and politenesss. 3-lyebf J 11. ARTHUR, Dealer in General Merchandise CALHOUN, GA. Always endeavors to give satisfaetica to customers. Jub Work neatly and cheaply execu ted attliis office. VOL. VIII.—NO 7. ESTABLISHED 1865. GILMORE & C7o** Attorneys at Law, Successors to Chipman, Hosmer 4 Co.* 629 f. BT., WASHINGTON, >. 0- American ami Pareigir I ave Lien's procured in *ll e*inries. JS 9 FMtu is auvaxcii. No charge unite* the patent is granted. No fees for making pre liminary examinations. No addition*] fere for obtaining *nd conducting * rehenrin*. Special nttentie* given to Interferencg cases Wfwre tto Thtent Office, Kxtsnsisns before Infringement swit* i m dif ferewt Sinter, ami nil liligatisw appertain ing to inrent inn* nr patents. Send stamp for'pamphlet ©f sixty pnger. United States Courts and Desert. _ . nnnts. F Claims prosecuted m the Supreme Cenrl of Ibe Tailed Sinter, Court * Claims Cosrt of ?Msskiwml Alabama Claims! Southern Claims Corn missis*, end *ll class es of war claims before the Executive !>e portments. Arrears of Pay and Bounty. Officers, soldiers, and sailors of the late war or their heirs, are in many cases en titled to money freon tbc Government. r.f which they have a© knowledge. Write ful, history of serice, and state amount sf pay* and bounty received. Enclose stamp, and a full reply, after examination, will hw given you f.ee. Pensions. All officers, soldiers, and sailors wound* cd ruptured, or injured in the late war, however slightly, can obtain a pension! many now receiving pensions are entitled to an increase. Svad stamp and informa tion will be furnished free. United States CeneraTLand Office Contests! land cases, private land cl m>s, ining pre-emption nnd homestead c es,’ rosecuted before the General Laad Office nd Department of the Interior Old Bounty Land Warrants. Ihe last report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office shows 2,807,. r .OO of Bounty Land Warrants outstanding. These were issued under act of lfco£> ttn l prior acts. We pay cash for them. Send by registered letter. Where assignment* are imperfect we give instruction lo per fect them. Each department of our business is con ducted in a separate bureau, under he charge of experienced lawyers and clerks By reason of error ot fraud many attor neys are suspended from practice before the 1 en.sion and other oilier each year. Claimants whose attorneys have been thus suspended will be grat. itously furnished with full information and >ropoi papers on application to us. As we charge no fees unless successful, stamps for return postage should be sent us. Liberal arrangements made with attor neys in all branches of business. Address GILMORE & CO , P. 0. Box 44, Washington, D. C. M ASHWOTOX, D. c., November 24, 1870. I take pleasure in expressing my entire confidence in the respontibHiy and JUteNh of the Law, J atent and Collection ilouse of Gilmore & Cos., of this city. GEORGE If. B. WHITE, (Cashier oj the Natioi al Metropolitan Bank \ deeb-tf. ' A GREENHOUSE AT YOUR DOOR. For SI.OO wo will send free by Bdistinct varieties Monthly Rosea, Winter flowering. “ Chin. Chrysanthemums, “ 8 “ Begonias, •• “ Carnation Pinks, *• 8 “ Zonal Geraniums, •• 8 “ Double m • 8 “ Ivy leaved “ • 8 " Heliotropes, •• 6 “ Abutilons, •• - “ Double Camelias, *• 4 “ Azaleas, “ I obster Cactus, *• 6 •* Bouvardias • “ Stevias und Eupatoriuins' 8 “ Fuchsias, •• 4 “ Double Violets, •* 2 “ Poinsetta,scarlet & white ‘ 4 “ Plumbago, < 8 u Ferns, for Wardian Cases 4 “ Palms, * “ Mosses, “ 6 ‘ M irantas ** 8 “ Hyacinth bulbs “ 40 assorted lulips Bulbs. 20 assorted Crocus, Bulbs 2 asso ted Jacobean Lily, Bulba. 12 assorted Oxalis, 4 Lily of the Valley. 8 New Pearl Tuberose. OR BY EXPRESS: 3 of any of the above $1 collections for 5 “ M £ 7 “ 4 9 ' “ •* ft! 12 “ a g 14 “ •, ?. Or the whole collection of 358 Bulbt and Plants sent by Express or receipt o! $15.00. to which either of our books, “Gar- dening for Profit, Practical Floriculture, or “Gardening for Pleasure ” (value $1.50 each), will be added. Descriptive Catalogue free. PETER HENDERSON b 00., Seedsmen and Flo ris ts, 35 Cortlandt Ct., New York. junl3-ly. Great chance to make mon you can get greenback s. We net a per son in every town to take suV. ptwjns for the la*gest, cheapest and best. Illustrated family publication in ti e world. Any one can became a successful agent. TANARUS../ mt.st elegant works of art given free to subscri bers. One agent reports making over $l5O in a week. A lady agent repot 'A taking over 400 subscribers in ten days. All who engage make money fast. You can devote all your time to the business, dr only your spare time. You need not be away from home over night. You can do it h-. well as others. Full particulars, directions and terms free. If you want profitable work -icnd us your address at once. It costs you nothing to try the business. No one who engages fails to make great pay. Address “ The People's Journal,’* Portland, Maine, augll-ly - : --