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CALHOUN TIMES I>. B. FREEMAN, Propi'lefot l . CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN Gordon and Adjoining Counties. Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. ‘ One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Railroad Schedule. Western & Atlantic Railroad AND ITS CONNECTIONS. ‘ • KLKXESA W ROVTJE” The following takes offer*,t may 23d, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. I. Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m Arrive Cartcrsville 0.14 Kingston 0.42 “ •' Dalton 8.24 “ “ Chattanooga 10.25 “ No. 3 Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m Arrive Cartersviile 0.22 ~ \* Kingston 9.50 • “ Dalton. 11.54 “ Chattanooga 1.5 G p.m No. 11. Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m Arrive Cartersviile 7.19 “ “ Kingston 8.21 “ “ Dalton 11.18 “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. 7,cave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m Arrive Dalton 6.41 “ “ Kingston 7,28 “ “ Cartersviile 8.12 u “ Atlanta 10.15 “ No. 4. \ orVe Chattanooga 5.00 a.m /t i ive Dalton. 7.01 " “ Kingston 9.0* ‘ “ Cartersviile .... 9.42 “ “ Atlanta 12 06 \m No. IX 1 *aic Dalton 1.00 a.m A ri e Kingston 4.19 *• Cartersviile 5.18 “ •* Atlanta 9.20 “ nil nan Palace Oars run o i Nos. I and 2 be: veen New Orleans and Baltimore. I villman Palace Cars run en Nos. 1 and 4 bet . een Atlanta and Nashvilic. 1 ullm in Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3 it'.veer Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars between New Or leans, N ibilc, Montgomery, Atlanta and Oaf more, and only one change to New York. Pissong *rs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 r. m., nrcD e in New York the second afternoon ther after at 4.00. Excursion tickets to the Virginia springs and various summer resorts will be on sale in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co lumbus, Mac >n, Savannah, Augusta and At lanta, at gi catly reduced rates, first of J une Parties desiring a whole car through to he \ irgima S’lrings or Baltimore, should addinss the imlersigncd. Pa ties contemplating travel should send fn- a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette, umta ning sclie titles, etc. 1)8.1} , A>k for Tickets * : a “ Kennesaw 1 outc ” B. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga. Change of Schedule. T.!E GEORGIA AND MACON AND AUGUST A RAI LROADS. ON \ND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28th, ('74. the Passenger Trains on the Georgia .rd Macon and Augusta Railroads will run as foil- ws : GEORGIA RAILROAD. Day Pa sue iger Train Will L avo Augusta at 8:15 a m L'-avi* Atlanta at 7:00 a rri \ rive in Augusta at 0:80 p rn A rive in Atlanta at 5:15 p in Nigijt Vans eager Train. [ oavc Augusta at 8:15 p in I case Atlanta at 10:30 p m \ri ve in Augusta at 8:15 a m Aviive in At la Tit i at 0:22 a m MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILR AD. Macon Passenger Train. leave Augusta at 0n...10:45 ni I cave Camak at 2:15 p Arrive at Macon at 0:40 p Leave Macon at 0:30 a m Arrive at Camak at 10.-15 a m Arrive at A u gust a at 2:00 p m BERZEI LI PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta ai 4;ln p m Leave Berzclia at 8:30 a m Arrive in Augusta at 0:o5 a in Arrive in Berzelia at 5:50 p m Passengers froi.i Athens, Washington, At lanta, or any point on the Georgia Rail road aid Branches, by taking the Day Pas senger Train, will make close connection sit Camak with trams for Macon and all points beyond. Pullman’s (First-Class) Palace sleepin Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on G corgi Railroad. S. K JOHNSON , Superintendent . /Superintendent’s Office Georgia and Macon and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June 29, 1874, aaw-vs . wmrtrm ■mmmmmmoemmmatxn JMJ.umua.MM mnmn i’rafessnnurt & Clinic. 13ARBEII SHOP. HAIR-CUTTING, SHAVING, SHAMPOOING, Hair-dyeing, and ail work in my line done in a manner sure to give satisfaction at my shop in rear of 11. M. Jackson’s store. MACK LAW. Manhood: How Lost Howßestored. /dWYgYm Just published, anew edition / -~~ A&jrof Dr. Culverwell s Celebra ,.k H y ted Essay on the radical cure (without medicine) of Speknatorrhcea or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary N’eminal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical In capacity, impediments to marriage, etc., also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Ins, in duced by self-indulgance or seiual extrava gance, &c. in a sealed envelope, only six cents. The celebrated author, in this admirable essay, clearly demonstrated, from a thirty years’ successful practice, that the alarming dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at once simple, certain and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure himcelf cheaply, privately, and radi ablly, lecture should be in the hands of every youth and evey man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to ny address, j ost-paid, on receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Addiess the publishers, F. I? KHi MAN k SON, St., New York; Post Ofliee Box, mars ly. CALHOUN TIMES Two Dollars a Year. VOL. VI. CHEAPEST AND BEST! HOWARD HYDRAULIC MIT! MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA. Equal to die best imported Portland Cement. Send for Circular. Try this before buying elsewhere. Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West President of Cherokee Iron Company, Polk county, Georgia, who has built, a splendid dam across Cedar Creek, using this cement, and pronouncing it the best lie ever used. Also refer to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., J. E. Veal, F. I. Stone. J. J. Cohen and Major Tom Berry, Rome, Georgia 1 , Major H. Bry an, of Savannah, T. C. Douglas, Superin tendent of Masonry, East River Bridge, New York, Gen. Wra. Mcßae, Superintend ent W. & A. Railroad, Capt. J. Postell, C. E. Address G, 11. WARING, Kingston, Ga octlol y. ic Institute : IF YOU would enjoy the jHIY 1 fUI'l most delightful luxury ; if ml /l All ly° u wo, dd he speedily, cheap xlllullll/ ly, pleasantly and perma nently cured of all Inflam matory, Nervous, Constitu tional and Blood Disorders if you have Rheumatism, Scrofula, Dyspepsia, Bron chitis, Catarrh, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Piles, Neuralgia, Paralysis, Disease of the Kidneys, Genitals or Skin, Chill and Fever, or other Malarial Affections; if you would be purified from all Poisons,whether from Drugs or Disease; if you would K. have Beauty, Health and ISII Long Life, go to the Hygien ic Institute,and use Nature’s Great Remedies,the Turkish Bath, the “ Water-cure Pro cesses,” the “ Movement cure,” Electricity and other Hygienic agents. Success is wonderful —curing all cu rable cases. If not able to go and take board, send full account of your case, and get directions for treatment at home. Terms reasona ble. Location, corner Loyd land Wall streets, opposite I) |fT]f| | Passenger Depot, Atlanta, 111 l Iti l | j NO Stain hack Wilson, Physician-in-Charge. Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna. E. & 11. T ANTHONY & CO., SDI Broadway, Vow York. (Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.) Manufacturers, Importers & Deal ers in CHROMOS AND FRAMES, Stereoscopes and Views, Albums, Graphoscopes an 1 suitable views, Photographic Materials, We are Headquarters fV everything in the way of Stereoscopt icons and Magic Lanterns, Being manufacturers of the Micro- Scientific Lan tern, Stereo-Pa n opt icon, University- Stereoscopt icon , Adveitiser's Stereoscopticon , Artopticon , School Lantern , Family Lantern , People's Lantern. Each style being the best of its class in the market. Catalogues of Lanterns and Slides with directions for using sent on application. Any enterprising man can make money with a magic lantern. CrirOut out this advertisement for refer ence.“©S sep29-9m Brick-Layer & Contractor. rniTE undersigned most respectfully begs 1 leave to inform the citizens of Calhoun aad surrounding country that., having pro cured the aid of Mr. llilburn as a number one bricklayer and Barrey O’Fallon as a number one rock-mason, L prepared to do all work in 1 is line in the most satisfactory manner and on ro 'derate terms. Ihc P a *' ronaec of the public generally solicited. HENRY M. BILLHIMER. Calhoun, Ga., November 9, 1875. All orders addressed to me as above wil receive prompt attention. novlO-ly uiriDijLXSr LIVERf & SALE STABLE. Good Saddle and Buggy Horse? and New Yeliioles. Horses and mules for sale. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable. Will pay the cash for corn in the ear and fodder in the bundle. febo-tf. ADVERfiSIWC hEEUGIOUS ANI> AGKICUL TUUAL weeklies, half -1 PRICE. Send for Catalogue on the List Plan. For information, address GFO. P. ROWELL &CO., 11 IV rk Row, New York. CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1876. the touch of the unseen. As feel the flowers the sun in heaven, But sky and sunlight never see ; So feel r Thee, 0 God, my God, Thy dateless noontide hid from me. As tocuh the buds the blessed rain, But rain and rainbow never see ; So touch I God in lliss or pa*n, His far, vast rainbow hid from ine. Orion moon and sun and bow Amaze a Sky unseen by me : God’s wheeling heavens is there I know, Although its arch I cannot see. In low estate, I, as the flower, Have nerve i to feel, not eyes to see; The sublets in the censcience is Thyself and that which touchetli Thee. Forever it may be that I More yet shall feci but shall not see ; Above my soul, Thy wholeness roll, Not visibly, but Tangibly. But flaming heart to rain and ray, Turn I in meekest loyalty ; I breathe, and move, and live : n Thee And drink tin ray I cannot see. Being Cheerful at Home. William Crownsheet while eating his lunch dnring Saturday noon hours at the Valley shops, unfolded a temptii g piece of cheese and saw the following lines, which attracted his attention, on the Lewspapcr wrapper: ‘‘Every man wh wishes to cherish the loving hearts of his household will lay off the cares of business with his working clothes, and carry cheerful ness and smiles into his bom.’' “Now that’s a right sensible piece,” observed William, critically. “ I’m blamed if I don’t try that thing and see if it won’t stop the woman’s jaw and the young one’s howl” As ho came near home in the even., ing he put on a smile that made his smutty face look like a potato the wheel barrow had run over, and going into the house he slapped down his blieky, jerk ed off his dickey, and danced a. small hornpipe on the kitchen floor, all the time grinning like a man having a tooth pull led, and ending by throwing his wife, as she prodded half a shad in the frying pan, as he shouted : “ Come give us a buss ole ’ooman, For I’m jpst as liappy as a stump-tailed dog, That’s found a bone in tlie garden.” But he never got any further. Mrs. Crownsheet rose u anu glared at him like a lioness at hay. “William Crownsheet! and has it come to this ! Have I made your fires, and cooked your meals and washed your shirts for fifteen years to have you come home drunk before supper.” “Why, Mollio, heaven bless you, I’m not drunk ; I’m only cheerful.” Cheerful, yes, a cheerful looking ob ject you are to oome home to a houses iul of innoc nt children Just look at that poor little dear Robert 11. Say er Crownsheet, sitting there staring his eyes out of his head at his idiotic old old father. Oh ! I’m ashamed of you !” “You’re all wrong, Mollie; I’m only takin’ off my cures along with my work ing clothes, and bringing cheerfulness home to the loving hearts of my house hold.” “Why bless my heart, if I don’t be a iieve the man is has gone clear crazy. Here, Matilda, run out and ask one of the neighbor men to come in here. Tell ’em your father has got something horrible the matter with him,” and she shoved the girl out at the back door, and grabaing the baby by one arm she fled up stairs. The neighbors cane in and looked suspiciously at William as he washed his face in the backyard ; then they went into the house, and h3 herrd them coinfortir g his wife, mho was crying by the apronful They guessed he would bo all right directly—he had only taken a little too much cn an empty stom ach . William says, this morning, that he never saw a newspaper receipt in bis life that was worth a cuss. ► How They Fix it in Canada. An amusing story is told of a young American, who while journeying in Paris, invited two demoiselis to accom pany him to ihe theatre. He secured three seats, and drove to the house of his fair iriends, half hoping that one was iti'Etposed, so that his fecility might be unbounded. The two were waiting him, and their mother as well, who kindly invited herself to chaperon the party, and intimated that her daugh ters could no circumstances go without her. There was no help for it The four crowded into the carriage. No fourth seat could be obtained adjacent to the three already secured, or even on same tifer, and during three long acts the ladies sat in a box, while our young American gazed at theui With feeliugs unutterable from his seat in the par quet. The drama over, only cabs witii room for two could be obtained to con vey 7 the party home. Here was a dile ilia —which young lady would he se* lect for his cab companion? They were both charming, and the matter was hard to decide. The old lady settled it, however, to her satistabtion, it to the annoyance ot the now miserable American. “Hortense and Sophia, you go in this cab. Monsieur and I will follow you in the next. jhe young gentleman now thinks that rrench so cial customs are barbarous. . - A YOUNG man in Western VV iscon sin who was about to be marrried, sud denly remembered that he liadn t led his horse, and tac ceremony had to wa't until that horse had been c-red fr. Lie explained that a good horse couldn’t be found every day, while thii teen di!- icFcnt girls wanted to marry him. *‘Trnth Conquers All Tilings.” Girls at Sixteen, Boys at Tweu iy-Oiic. In telling us that Mis3 Chaworth looked upon Byron as a mere school boy, Moore observes, by the way, that a. seniority of two years gives to the girl, “on the eve of womanhood,” an advance into life with which the boy keeps no proportionate j:ace. Leigh Hunt describes his vexation, early in his teens, at being kept at a distance by that laughing lass, Fanny Dayrell, who would call him “ petit garcon ” on the strength of her seniort.y of two years. According to Kingsley, “spirit ually and socially the girl develops ton years earlier than the boy.” Frederick Perthes was sorely tried with his “youthful twenty-year face,” when his former playfellow, Frederika, came to Leipzig, “a very handsome girl of six teen,” and was straightway surrounded by mature admires and “ highly educa-. ted men ” without number, against whom the “shy and anxious apprentice of nineteen ” seemed to have no chance at all. The hero of ‘ Great expecta tions” tells of his early acquaintance Estella, that although she called him “boy” so often, and with a carelessness that was far from complimentary, she was about his ow 7 n age, or very little older, adding, however,, that “she seem ed much older than I, of course, being a girl, and beautiful, and self-posesssed ; and she was as scornful ot me as if she had been one -and twenty and a queen.” Beatrice in Miss Bailie’s tragedy of “ Romierro,” taking upon her to chide her old paly mate, Maurice,as a “thought less boy,” is answered : “Cliide me, indeed, who am two years thy elder, And two good months to boot I—such higt pretensions! Have sixteen summers and a woman’s robe, Made thee so very wise and consequential ?” It was in early times, or teens, with David Copperfleld, when he wrote of Em’ly that, “wild and lull of childish whims as she was, she was more of a little woman than he had supposed.— She seemed to have gut a great distance a./ay from me, in a little more than a year. With what a demure assumption of being immensely older and wFer than I the fair little woman said I was a ‘sillA boy;’ and then laughed ctia.m ingly that I forgot the pain of being called by that disparaging name in the pleasure of looking at her.” After ra ting Coquette soundly for being like her set, in ketpiug back things, and making mysteries, and not telling all the truth at once, the Whaup, as Tom Cassiliis is called in U A Daughter of Doth,” is fair, to excuse her on the ground that she can’t deny it, she is on ly a woman. “And you are only a boy,” she replies, looking at the tall, handsome lad beside her ; “very kind, and very generous, and very stupid.” “I am older than you, at least,” says the Whaup, who does net like to be called a boy. George Sand remarks that even very young women usually esteem men of their own age as children, apropos of Consuelo’B relations with Haydn,who, however, was at the time so small and meagre that he seemed hardly fifteen.— Mr Disraeli’s Lucretia, though really older than Couingsby, felt that a woman of eighteen is, in all worldly considera tions, ten years older than a youth of the same age. — Belgravia. Bull Great Men. Descartes, the famous mathematician and philosoher, La Fontaine, celebrated for his witty fables, and Buff on the nat uralist, were all singularly deficient in the powers of conversation. Mormon tel, the novelist, was so dull in society that his friend said of him, after the interview, I must, go and read his tales, in recomrencc to inyseif for the weari ness of hearing him. As to Corneille, the greatest dramatist of France, he was completely lost in society —so ah • sent and embarrassed that he wrote of himself a witty couplet, importing that he w s never intelligible but through the mouth of another. Wit on paper seems to be something widely different from that play of words in conversation which, while it sparkles dies : for Charles IF, the wittiest of uionarchs, was so charmed with the humor of “ Fjudibras ” that he caused himse’f to be introduced in the character of a private gentleman to BuJer, its author. The witty King found the author a very dull companion, and was of opin* ion, with many others, that so stupid a fellow could never have wiitten so clev er a look. Addison, whose classic ele gance has long s'Dce been considrcd the model of style, was shy and absent in society, preserving even’ before a single stranger formal and dignified silence.— In conversation Dante was taciture and satirical. Rosseau was remarkably tame in conversation, without a word of fan cy or eloquence in his speech. Milton was unsocial and sarcastic whea much pressed by strangers. ——> — Tiie other day a Detroiter who has a good record of army services took clown his revolver fo shoot a cat which had been hanging around the house. After looking at him while he fired six shots, the cot walked away. While he was loading up for more destruction, the shooter’s snr-ll boy inquired, “Fath er, did you ever kill any one while you were in the army?” “I suppose so, my sen.” After a long pause the boy con tinued, “Then you in use have got cFse enough to hit ’em with an axe, didn’t you?” It was then discovered to be about school time. Never do anything to-day that can be put off till to-morrow, for the mor. row may never comc,aud chen vou won’t have to do it at all. The Origin of “ Home, Sweet Home.” The following is the history of “ Home, Sweet Home,” as Mr. Reed says the author related to him, in Tunis. Mr. Payne had written sevetal pieces for the stage that had met with consid erable favor, and hap been sent for to go to Paris to look after the introduc tion of one of them in one of the thea tres of that city. It was the afternoon before Christmas, and, although in win> ter, the day was bright and pleasant.— After strolling about for a time, he seated himself in the Garden of the Tuiileris. and became a quiet observer of the life and gaiety of that brilliant psomenade. While sitting there he thoug \t of the pleasures his acquain* tances had told him they expected to have the next day, and reflected that, although in the midst of all this gav th'ong, he was without a home and friends, and was really the most lonely person in the wotld. All through the day he had been humming to himself an air, which pleased him very much, that he had heard in the theatre the previous evening, when he had listened to an opera by Donizjtti, called “Anne Boleyn,” in which the air of “ Home, Sweet Home ” occurs. After a little he began to arrange these reflections in to verse, adapting it to this air, and, before leaving his seat, a song that has since touched the tenderest chords of millions of hearts, had its origin. He then went to his room and wrote out the song, an 1 showing it some of his acquaintances, they advised him to have it published. He did so, and the next time he went to London it was sung for the first time in public at Covent Garden Theatre, and immediately be came-very popular. — Independent. The Mauufacturc cf Solder, The alloys of metals are frequently more useful than either of the sub stances used in the combination’ and of ten exceed them in respect to some qual ity which is of great importance. Brass i3 much more used than zinc, and the alloys of lead are fully as valuable r.s the metal uncombined. The union of lead with tin is of immense value in the arts. It enables rough surfaces to be joined in a way that could not other wise be done, except at immense ex* pense. Tee solder melts at a low tern perature, and can be applied the utmost ease. The most common compound of these metals is seventy parts of tin to one hundred and thirty parts of lead, and is generally known as No. 1 or hard sold* or. Other substances are frequently in corporated, stneh as bismuth, antimony, and even copper. This is done for the formula, and less than either of tho metals when treated separately. It unites readily with a clean surface of cither lead or zinc, and remains for a short time in a semi fluid state, enabling the manipulator, by the aid of a cloth hold er or pad, to mold it in uny desired shape. Wh°n use by plumbers to join the apitioons of lead pip?, this is com monlo termed a wipe joint. These two metals are not alone in making a fusL hie compound. There is one alloy known to the art from which tea-poons can he made, bearing much the resenn blance of silver when rew, but so easi ly acted upon that the stirring of the fluid will cause the bowl an 1 handle to melt and fall to the bottom of the cup. —Ex. A Cat Story. Previous to tho big fire which occur red in this city on the 26th October, when half the city was laid in ashes there was a cat in the family of Judge Rising that attached itself to one of his little girls. The cat followed the child erery whereand never failed to be on hand when the family were earing, when it always took its place on the child’s lap. After the fire when the residence of the Judge anil all the buildings in that part of the town were destroyed, the Judge sent his family to California, where they remained all winter. About a week ago the famity returned and took a house on the same street where they formerly re sided when much to the surprise of all as they were collected for their first meal, the cat, which they had last seen some months oefore, at the time of the big fire, came into the house and jump ed into the lap of (he little girl that had been its friend, the same as though there had been two. All seemed to be well undersood between the child and the cat. But the Judge says the little scene caused the hair to stand erect on his head. — Virginia (Nev.) Enter’ prise. A Beautiful Incident. —a naval officer being at sea in a dreadful storm his wife sitting in the cabiu near him filled with alarm for the safety of the vessel, was so surprised at his serenity and composure that she cried out: “My dear are you not afraid ? How is it'oossible you can be so calm in such a preadful storm ?” He rose from his chair, dashed it to the deck drew his sword, and point ing it at the breast of his wife exclaim' ed : “Are you not afraid?” She answered, “No,” “Why, said the officer. “ Because ?” replied the wife, “I know that sword is in the hand- 1 of my husband and he loves me too well to hurt me. “Then,” said he, “I know in whom I believe, and that He who holds he wind in His hand is my Father.” In 4(lYance. l ady Byron on her Husband's W riling*. Lady Byron, who was a highly es_ teemed friend of mine, spoke to me on the subject of anew and cheap edition of her husband’s works about to be pub lished, and likely to be widely dissemi nated among the young clerk and shop-, keeping class of readers, for whom she depreciated extremely the rernicicus in fluenee it was calcul.ted to produce. She consulted me on the expediency cf appending to it some notice of Lord Byron written by herself, which she thought might modify or lessen the ins jurious effect of his poetry upon v o ung minds. “Nobody,” she said, “ kuew him as I did” (this certaiuly was not the general impression upon the subject) “nobody knew as well as I the causes that made him what he was ; nobody, I think, is so capable of doing justice to him, and therefore of counteracting the injustice to himself and the injury he might do to others in some of his writ* ings.” I was strongly impressed by the earnestness of her expression, which seemed to me one of affecticnate com passion for Byron, and profound solicit tude, lest even in his grave he should incur the responsibility of yet further influence, especially on the minds of the young. I could not help wonder ing also whether she did not shrink from being again, to anew generation and a wider class of readers, held up to cruel ridicule and condemnation as tho cold hearted, hard, pedantic prude, without sympathy for suffering or re* lenting toward repentance. I had al ways admired the reticent dignity of her silence with reference to her short and disastrous union with Lord Byron, and I felt sorry, therefore, that she con templated departing from the course she had thus far steadfastly pursued, though I appreciated the motive by whica she was actuated.— May Atlantic. How they Hang a Man In China. I observe one mope of Chinese capi tal punishment known as the “cage.” The “cage” used was between three and four feet square, and over six feet high. Near the bottom was a clo-e floor p’ank. The four sides were open work of plank palings. The plants composing the cover were made to fit around a man’s neck close enough to strangle him. The c mdemned man was put in this cage, his head projecting above, the cover fit ting around his neck, and under his feet a number of brick, one above the other, just etiongh to enable him to stand on tiptoe. When this position, from weariness, became unendurable, his only relief was to hang by the neck. The design is to make a man suffer as much as possible, but not to kill bin too quickly. Usually after a criminal has been standing thus for a dav or so, one of the bricks are removed, and then another, until be hangs by his neck al together. It is said that a strong man ordinarily will endure the torture sever al days heefore life becomes extinct. On toe present occasion death was hastened more quickly. The man was put iuto the cage Sunday afternoon, I bel’eve about one o’clock. I heard of it on Monday morning and went over to Amoy about two o’clock in the afternoon to see him. He had then been dead some time. The guard said that he died just before daylight; that he was conscious of having committed great crimes, aud had hastened his death by kicking the bricks from under hi 3 feet. But the people said (privately) that the guard wished to get rid of their charge that th iv might prepare to keep New Year’s day (the Chinese New Year was near at hand), and therefore had taken the bricks from under his feet during the night. This probably was the fact. Christian at Work. ——- Tlie Oldest of Hi© I'iiurcli Edi fices. Christ church, in this city, is one of the oldest in the country, having been built in 2700 and something, of brick brought from England. The grounds are surrounded by a brick wall four feet high, on the top of which is a picket fence, aid the gates are barred and locked with great iron padlocks. It has an old style gallery, in imitation white oak, on three sides. No two of the cushions are of the same color or material. Tho Washington pew—the only double one—is on the left hand aisle, about the middle of the church ; a-'d General Lee’s is in the body of the church, about half way up. On the left of the chancel is a white marble tablet with a cross and crown, and underneath, “In Memory of George Washington and on the right of the chancel a simi lar tablet with a cross and crown, and inscription, “In Memory of Robert Ed ward Lee ” Washington was elevated to a vestryman in 1763. He served till his death. Gen. Lee was also a member and constant attendant till he died.— Alexandria (Fa ) Letter to the New York Express Pretty Custom of tiie Polish Girls. —At Warsaw, the annual fete of “floating crowns” was recently cele brated, and it attracted, as usual, a large crowd of spectators of all classes. It consists in the young girls carry ing wienhs of roses, decked with rib/ bons, to the Vistula, casting them into the river and watching them as they are carried away by the current. The man ner in which they are borne along by the water is supposed to predict the fu* tut e destiny of those to whom they be* long, and accordingly the girls make demonstrations of joy or sorrow. A somewhat similar practice is prevalent Liaong the y.ung girls of India. llates of Adveritsing. Jpgy” For ench square of ten lines or less far the first insertion, sl, and for esh shln seqoent insertion, fkly cents. No.Sq’rs | 1 Mo. | 2 Mos. | 6 Mw I 1 year. Two £4.00 £7.00 $12.00 I $20.00 Four “ 6.00 10.00 18.00 SO.Otf | column . 15.00 25.00 40.00 l “ 16.00 25.00 40.00 65.00 1 “ 25.00 4000 65.00 115X0 Sheriff’s Sales, each levy ...$4 00 Application for Homestead 2 OO Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 ©O' Land Sales, one square 4 00 Each additional square 8 1)0 NO. 38- Sasacily of Halit- Incredible as the story maj appear of their removing hens’ eggs by <>tie fellow lying op his back and grasping tightly his ovoid burden with his fore paws, while his comrades drag hint away by the tail, we have no reason to disbelieve, knowing as we do, that they will carry eggs from tho bottom to the top of the house, lifting them from staTr to stair, the first pushing them up from behind, and the second lifting them with its fore legs. They will extract the cotton from a flask of Florence oil, dipping in their long tails,and repeating the manoeuvre until they have consumed every drop. We havo found lumps of, sugar in deep drawers a distance of thirty feet from the place where the petty larceny was committed; and a rat mount a *able where a drum of figs was placed and straightway tip it over, scattering its contents on the floor be neath, where a .score of expectant hveth rbn sat watching for the windfall.—' Quarterly Review. Blessed are they that are blind, for they shall see no ghosts. Blessed are they that are tfeiif, for they never lend money and never hear tedious stories. Blessed are they that are afiaid of thunder, for they shall hesitate about getting married, and keep away political meetings. Blessed are they that are lean, for there is a chance to grow fat. Blessed are they that are ignorant, for they are happy iu thinking they know everything. Blessed is he that is uglv in form and features, for tho gals will not molest him. Blessed is she who would gefc married and for the consolations the gospel are hers. Blessed are the orphan children for they have no mothers to em\ Blessed are they that expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed Blessed are they that do not adver-' tise for they shall not be troubled with a' customer. -*-*> A Long Eel. —When Mathew*, the elder, was a boy and lived with his fath er, a bookseller in the Strand a shortf,’ muscular fellow daily cried “eels” with a guttural voice—“three pence a pound elongating the word from Craven street to Ilungerford street, till the people used to say, “What a long eel !” Mathews, having imitated him to tho great satisfaction of many audit, ors, one day looked out for the original, and- saluted him with the imitation ; but he had no taste for such ingenuity, and placing his eel basket deliberately on toe grouud, he hunted the boy into his father’s shop, and felled li n with a? blow. “Next time,” said tho eel.vend* or, “you twist your little wry mouth about cut your mugs at a respecta* tradesman, I’ll skin you like an e*e —” and snatching up his basket, finished the manosyllahle about nine or ten doors off. Habit. — “I trust everything under God,” said Lord Brougham, u to habit, upon which in all ages, the lawgiver, as Well as the school master, has mainly placed his reliance ; habit which make? everthing easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from a wonted course. Make sobriety a habit, and intemper• ance will bo hateful; make prudence a habit and reckless pronigacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atroc'iouj crimes are to any of your lordships. Give a child the habit of sacredly re garding the truth ; of carefully respect ing the property of others; of screpu lously abstaining from all acts of iirc. providence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into an element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying, cheating or swearing.” Solemn Responsibilities of Pa rents. —It cannot be too strongly mO - upon public consideration, that by a? careful study of laws ordained by God, we arrive at the inevitable conclusion that under-'a practical obedience to these laws, everyone born with a sound structural formation might pass through infacy, youth and manhood, in the con stant enjoyment of health, both of mind' and body ; and if wo believe the script' ural text informing us that a Well-trin ed child will not in after life depart from the right way, we must believo that every or.me committed in the world is owing to evil training during child* hood. How solemn, then, is the trust reposed all who have the management of children ! how sacred the duty en joined upon every mother among man kind. — Hopley's Introductory Lecture upon Education. M> dam’s Feet. —Madame Y. ha? charming arms, charming hands—but monstrous feet. Just recovered from a long illiness, she said recently to one of her friends, “I am st 11 very feeble but I begin to be able to put one foot before the other.” “And that is not saying a little,” murmured the excellent friend. He was reading to his wife about aw accident, and casually remarked, “ I dare say there was a woman at the bot tom of it,” when something trans pired that made hint grasp his ! head in both hands and rub it <Jelir intis | iy, as if there had been a woman a. wo man at the top of it.