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Great Famine in India —Appalling
Scenes.
I started from Midnapore, a civil station
about 70 miles south-west of the capitol, on
the morning of the twenty-sixth of June,
and had hardly proceeded some seven miles
when commenced the painful sights which,
varying only in intensity, continued until I
returned to this place. -Gain had
fallen heavily during the night, and the
palki men were trudging slowly through
the mud, whin, a little after daybreak, I
saw two bodies under a tree. As there
seemed to be a slight motion in one, I
alighted, and on going up to it found, cov
ered under an old cloth, with just a spark
of life left iu him, an old man slowly dying
from hunger. He appeared as if he had a
thin piece of transparent india-rubber tight
ly drawn over his skeleton frame, so emacia
ted had he become. I gave him some beer,
and he slowly faltered out his tale of woe.
He said that he and his companion had left
their homes, after seeing their family die
from the effects of cholera or famine, and
had got thus far on their journey towards
Midnapore, hoping to get relief there, when
one struck by damp and hunger, dies on the
road under a tree, and the other wakes to
find his friend a corpse, and himself, ex
hausted and dreuched by the heavy rains
that had f; lien during the night, unable to
move. The dogs and jackalls least off the
bodv, while this living skeleton hut a lew
paces, off is powerless to prevent them. He
faintly begs from the passers-by, hut in vain.
Hunger is gnawing their vitals also. They
all turn a deaf ear to his cry. The beer
seemed to revive him, and I went to my
palki to get some biscuits, but returned to
find the poor sufferer in a state of coma,
and in a few minutes he was dead. The
half picked body of his companion attested
his tale. I continued my journey, passing
at intervals the dead as they lay unburied
and in every stage of decomposition on the
aide of the road. Sometimes I would see a
cluster together. In one place there were
twenty two bodies within the space of half
a mile; in another six, close together; all
more or less mangled and torn by jackals,
dogs, and vultures. t'yshing my way
through the jungle and over paddy fields,
often obliged to swim sundry streams swollen
by the late floods, in one of which my palki
was up.-et, I traversed one hundred and
twenty miles of country, when 1 reached the
house of a Mr. Fulls, an assistant in Messrs.
Watson & Co.’s indigo concern here. That
gentleman informed me that a woman had
died by the roadside, and that a living child
was said to be at her breast. He sent out
his servants, who returned saying that they
had found the corpse and the child, but the
mother’s arm clasped the latter so tight,
that in bending it back, stiff and cold, it
broke. They say that the living and the
dead had been thus linked together for two
days; at any rate, the poor little infant,
exhausted by exposure and want, died as it
was being released. The above gentleman
aid myself were traveling through a dense
jungle. Miles away from any human habi
tation we perceived a famished native, of
the Sonthal tribe, lying on the ground;
he had thrown himself down to meet a cer
tain death; but a little brandy rekindles
the vital spark, and, loth to leave him to be
a prey for the jackal and leopard, we have
him placed on the roof of a palki The
palki-tx arers, however, refused to budge an
inch, saying that their case would be gone.
u Suaoiter in modo ’’ is tried, but “no go;’’
11 fort iter in re ” then came into play. They
murmured, looked at the palki, asked for a
bottle of grog, and then trudged along with
their tipsey burden. The brandy had been
too strong for him. lam glad to add that
in twenty lour hours after this the burden
was walking about. The misery entailed
by the famine has brought out all the worst
qualities of the lower class of natives. As
a rule, affectionate and fond of their homes,
they have in too many instances fled, leav
ing their wives and families to starve; but,
as an eye-witness in two cases where noble
feelings held their sway, I hero record them.
A woman, with her three young children,
crawls into a planter’s house just as luncheon
was being carried from the table; she begs for
the remains of the curry and rice, which
are at once taken out into the verandah, and
placed before her. Without attempting to
eat, she quietly seats the three children
round the dish, who in a few minutes de
molish its contents, and although the mother
is wasted to a skeleton, yet mumbling her
thanks, she turns away grateful that her off
spring have been fed, even while she her
self still hungereth. In another village we
met a little girl and her mother, lying under
a mango tree. Both were faint from hun
ger ; they had been trying to keep life to
gether by feeding on snails picked out of
ponds, berries, and lizards, where they could
obtain them, but daily feeling weaker they
had suuk down under a tree, awaiting a
lingering death. We got some boiled rice,
and put it before them. The younger is the
stronger; the mother is too weak to raise
herself. Although the child’s big eyes
flashed with a hungry gleam, yet her little
hands, well filled, first seek the mother’s
mouth, and not until half the rice is thus
gone does she herself eat. It is impossible
to judge of the numbers that have died from
actual want, as no returns are kept; hut
taking the three districts of Balasore, Cut
tack, and Midnapore, I should say quite
twelve hundred a day. In Balasore large
plague pits have had to be dug near the
towns to receive the bodies of those found
dead near their precincts, but in too many
instances the bodies are left to rot on the
road-ide —Calcutta Correspondence oj the
London Times.
The Iron Crown.
General Menebrea has been instructed to
apply to the Court of Vienna for the resti*
tution of the iron crown of Lombardy, which
the Austrians removed from the sanctuary
of the Cathedral of Mooza at the time of
their retreat from Lombardy after the battle
of Magenta, in 1859. The Italians, it is
well known, when they crossed the Ticino
under Charles Albert, eleven years before,
and drove Radetzky from Milan, had Monza
and the iron crown at their discretion ; but
that iron crown of Alboin, —that circlet
hammered out of the nails of the Crucifix
ion, agreeably to tradition, and at all events
that undeuiable relict of so many centuries
—a diadem laid successively on so many
heroic brows, from Charlemagne to the First
Napoleon,—was looked upon by the Italians
as something too sacred to be touched by
profane hands, and was left by them on the
spot where it was first laid by Queen Theo
dolind full thirteen hundred years ago, not
to be moved from its shrine till it was want
ed for the consecration of the man, whoever
he might be, who should have the good for
tune to restore the old kingdom of the
Longobards. The Austrians could not, of
course, be actuated by such scruples. The
Emperor Francis Joseph continued, after
ViUafranca and Zurich, to style himself
King of iomhardo-Venetia, and Alboin’s
sacred circlet was removed to Vienna with
a feeling akin to that of the Moor of Afri
ca, who treasures up the door-key of the
house which was his forefathers’ home at
Grenada four hundred years ago. The hard
lessons of experience, and the difficulties of
her present position, must have greatly
softened the heart of Austria, and inspired
her with more generous feelings. Victor
Emmanuel is no longer designated by the
Vienna cabinet as “King of Sardinia,” nor
are the army and fleet so lately confronting
the imperial forces with honor, if not with
success, called “ the Piedmontese” in Aus
trian Bulletins. That crown which was
withheld in 1859, when Lombardy was
ceded with perhaps an arriere pensee of re
conquest, may well be given up now, when
the loss of all Italy is looked upon as an
actual gain to her late masters. Asa mere
museum curiosity it. would be of no great
value to Austria; as a national emblem it is
a jewel of the greatest price to Italy.
What we have said of the iron crown ap
plies equally to the treasures of art and an
tiquity of which the Austrians were lately
described as stripping the archives, churches,
museums and arsenals of Venice. The coats
of arms of the old doges, the ambassadors’
reports, and other documents of a purely
local importance would be mere trash to the
Austrian, but would leave the Venetian
very poor indeei. Her books and pictures
and parchments are the inalienable proper
ty, the household gods of the Queen of the
Adriatic; constitute the ehief pride
of that wise conservative government which
formed in the middle ages the connecting
link between ancient Rome and modern
England; and they may serve one day to
vindicate the memory of St Mark’s Repub
lic.
" Nothing to Wear.” —A professional
gentleman in New York, who it is said,
“ advertises largely,” has brought a suit
against an insurance company for the in
surance on his daughter’s wardrobe lately
destroyed by fire. The company, it is said,
were astounded by the magnitude of the
items presented in the claim, and refused to
settle. Hence the action in court, which
brought out a list of the young lady’s ward
robe as drawn up under her own supervis
ion. Considerable allowance is made for
the wear of many of the articles, yet at the
reduced valuation the list foots up twenty
one thousand dollars! The original cost
could not have been less than $30,000 !
Among the articles enumerated is a satin
dress appraised at $2,500, and another at
$1,500. The descriptive list embraces near
ly five hundred articles and fills a column
and a half in the New York Herald , in
small type.
A Phenomenon in Vermont —E. B.
Osgood, Esq , our city auditor, a few days
since returned from Brandon, Vermont,
where he examined the famous ice well, so
called, about which there has been so much
discussion among the savans The well is
of the ordinary size, and forty-four feet in
depth. At the depth of thirty-nine feet,
ice is formed on the sides of the well, and
from tfiat down. The water is of the usual
temperature of ice water, and no matter how
the thermometer stands on the surface of
the earth, even if it indicates one hundred
in the shade, this never varies, and the ice
is always there. In the winter the coating
is thicker. No other well in the vicinity
has this feature, and the cause is not easily
explained.— Lawrence American.
Influence of Muslin on Mortali
ty.—The influence of costume on mortality
i3 shown in a very instructive manner by
one of the English Register-General’s re
ports. Thus, from one to five yeirs there
is an equality of deaths by scalds and burns
among boys and girls ; but from five to ten,
double the number of girls to that of boys
die from these causes, while from ten to
twenty, there die one hundred and two
women and only twenty-seven men —and
from twenty and upwards, seventy-one
women and twenty two men; showing the
influence of muslin and flounces in produc
ing death, notwithstanding the greater cau
tion of the female sex.
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A Colored Preacher not Allowed
to Express His Opinions. —The Ope
lousas Sentinel says that the Freedmen’s
Bureau there has ordered the Rev. Armisted
Lewis, a colored Baptist Minister in that
•SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
place, to abandon preaching, and has sus
pended him from his functions. The cause
of this is that Mr. Lewis declares that the
Radicals are less the friends of the colored
race than the Southern men whom they wish
to disfranchise, and advised his hearers to
choose the latter for their friends and em
ployers. Louisiana certainly needs recon
struction.
SHEET MUSIC —SONGS.
J. W. Burke & Co’s Seventh List.
Mary Helena to her favorite rose Pettigrew 40
Mary Lindsay Mrs Sullivan 20 !
Miry Lyle Augusta Browne 30 ;
Mary May Hime 30 ■
Mary of the Wild Moor Turner 30
Mary Queen of Scot’s Lament Brinley Richards 30 j-
Mary of Tipperary—colored title Lover 50 j
Ma’-y, the village queen Wallace 20
Mary Vale Macaulay 30 !
Mary’s welcome home Tucaer 30 ;
Maryland, my Maryland Lady of Baltimore 25 ;
Massa’s in de col<l ground Foster 25
Massa sound is sleeping Baker 30
M asquerade Song Auber 25
Maud Adair and I McNaughton 30
May breezes Krcip; 30
May day , Rogers 30
May day Petersilea 10 i
May pole 011 English 25 !
May queen part 1 Dempiter 50 :
May queen “ 2 *' 50
May queen “3 ‘’l 00
May sun sheds an amber light “ 50
May thy lot in life bo happy Horn 25 |
Meet me at the twilight hour Trigg 30 j
Meet mo at yon ruined tower Westrop 20 ;
Meet me by moonlight Wade 20
Meet me in heaven Converse 25 ;
Meet me in the wi low glen Lee 25 i
Meet me love when twilight closes Linley 30 j
Meet me but once again Nash 20 j
Meeting of the waters Stevenson 20 j
Melancholy—German and English Schuberth 30
Melancholy “ “ “ Schwing 3J
Melinda May Foster 30
Melody-song Lover 20
Me'odies of maty lands G over 25
Mellow horn Hyatt 20
Memories dream Merritield 30
Memories of the past Hotchkiss 35
Mercy’s dream Hawthorne 30
Mei maid’s Cave Horn 35
Merrily, mer ily over the sea Wallace 50
Merrily, merrily shines tire morn Foster 30
Menily, merrily sound the bells Hatton 40
Merrily oh 1 the woodsman trudges along Brown 30
Merry days of old Nelson 60
Merry farmer boy Turner 20
Merry hearted sold : er Turner 30
Merry Lark Miss Cowell 20
Merry milkmaid Griffiths 30
Merry ploughboy Old bal ad 20 j
Merry sailor boy Lang 25 |
Merry s!< igh ride Wood ury 20 ,
Merry spring Russell 23 |
Merry vintage maid Glover 30 I
Midnight serenade —sing and chorus Taylor 30 ;
Midnight voice “ “ “ Darling 35 |
M dshipmau, The Miss Cowell 3) |
Mignou’s song—words by Goethe Strack 30 j
Miller’s daughter li W A B- ale 35 !
Miller’s maid German air 30
Millet’s song Kneass 30
Millet’s Will—comic Stump Town 30
Mine! —words by John Halifax, gent, Linley 30
Mine be a cot Kraust 30
Miniatur", Tne J P Knight 30
Ministering angel Walter 30
Minnie Gray—picture title Wetland 50
Minnie Nava 30
Minnie Gray Glover 30
Minnie Moore Hr- Howe 30
Minnie Moore Hatton 30
Minora—a German serenade Spohr 20
MmonaAs'hore Crouch 30
Minstrel Boy Moore 20
Minstrel child Bloeltley £0
Minstrel of the Tyrol Ru . sell 40
Minstrel w o’d a beauteous maid Barnett 20
Minute Gun at sea King 20
Miss Caudle’s complaint Jones 20
Miss Julia Tanner Johnson 30
Missouri —a voice from the South McCarthy 25
Mississippi boat race Cur Pilot 30
Mister G egg and Miss Snap Keller 20
Mister Hill—pray be still Barclay 20
Mi tress Cuirzer, or Taming a Tartar Carpenter 30
Modern Belle Hutchinson 30
Molly Ba-vn, why leave me pining Lover 20
Molly do you love me Foster 30
Money-tin Haacke 30
Monterey —a rational song Phillips 25
Moonbeams o’er the lake are glancing T. yh r 30
Moon behind the hill Brigham Bishop 35
Moon in all her beauty M .uliana i5
Moon is blinkin’ o’er ihe lea Bissell 2)
Moon is 1 rightly beaming Amateu 20
Moon is sailing o’er the sky Petersilea 30
Moon is up Phipps 25
Moon’s on the Lake, or McGregors’ gathering L e 2j
Mooulight, moonlight Lee 20
Moonlight is beaming whlte 20
Moonlight on the ocean Cherry ~0
Moonlight serenade Wood 20
Moonlit bow r S,,la 20
Moonli stream Glover 30
Moorish serenade Kucken 3
Morgiana thou art my deare. t Comer 30
Morning and evening Plunkett 30
Morning, noon and night Dempster 40
Morning its sweets is flinging (Ciadenlla) Russiri 25
J ittle 25
Morning p ayer ’ u
Morning song a *7
Morning song (Jenny L nd) Be “ ediC
Morning star . e
Moss grown cot Brigham Bishop 30
M .ther dear good bye Thom ‘* S
Mother a- ar, oh pray for me , "7 f d
Mother is the bade o’er Greiner 15
Mother of the soldier boy “ ;1
Mother, thou art the dearest one Lomze t, 30
Mother thou’rt faithful to me Foster 30
"J
Mother would comfort me Kari)h ; m 30
Mother’s charge •
Mother. I leave thy dwelling »o,b, 20
Mother’s lore Cr o,» 20
Mother’s love Cull 30
Mother’s prayer j, ] io 20
Mother’s t ' m,le Engelbrecht 30
Mother’s we'come 6 2Q
Mountain boy Hew i t t 20
Mountain bugle Hillon 35
Mountain maid’s invita-ion-come, come
Mountaineer wlli „
Mourn- pour 'a patrie— English words We .5
Mourner’s tribute Pontigney 30
Mourner’s vigil Hew.tt 20
Mournful good night
Mournfully, sing mournfully SeemulLr 30
Muiiel, from John Halifax in
Music on
Mus e hath a magic Glover 30
Music murmuring In the trees an ls
Music of the Mill °' ei o'?
Musing o’t r days gone by , Eeed 2o
Mrs Lofty an I Hutchins m 86
My absent br t er . Miss Evans 20
My a icestor’s dwelling Lson 20
Mn angel b y Brougham 20
My Arab maid Horn e 0
My bark is lightly dancing Browne 40
My bark o’er the billow Lemon 20
My bark which o’er the tide Balfe 20
My blessing with thee go Linley 30
My blithe bonny bark is my bride Henberer 20
My bonny bark Smith 30
My bonny highland lass Glover 20
My bonny Kate, my gentle Kate Peters 50
My boyhood’s days Baker 30
My boyhood’s holidays Shrival 30
My brother dear Howe 30
My brother’s on the sea Mbs Durant 30
My brudder Gum Foster 25
My canoe is on the Ohio Kneass 3)
My childhood’s days (Bianca) Balfe 30
My childhood’s home Blackley 20
My childhood’s suuny hours Morales 2C
My cottage in the grove Cli.ton 20
My cousin Mary Bell 20
My dear, my native land Thomas 30
My dearie O, or the Auld Grey KTk Eaton 30
My dear New Eng’and home Bonney 25
My dream oflove is o’er Spohr £0
My dreams are now no more of thee Lavenu 30
My early fireside Hawthorne 30
My early home Matthews 30
My eyes are dim with tears Gould 20
My father and my mother Dempster 50
My fatherland—Tyrolienne, Barnett 20
My forest harp Strong 20
My gentle spirit bride La Hache 30
My gondola’s waiting below, love Hay ter 30
My good old darkey home Janke 30
My grandfather’s da)S Sporle 20
My happy fireside Avery 30
My happy home Blockley 20
My heart and lute Moore 20
My heart is like the silent lute Dempster 30
My heart is like the faded flower Sirong 20
Mp heart is not yet broken Knight 20
My heart is sad, or Long, long weary day Wetmoie 30
My heart is sad and lonely Dempster 60
My heart is so lonely Loder 20
My heart's on the Rhine Spryen 30
My heart-to thee flies home Mac an - in 20
My heart was 1 ke a quiet lake Glover 30
My heid is like lo read, Wi:lie Swift 20
My Helen is the fairest flower Kiiby 20
My home Dutton 25
My home and theo Telford 30
My home beneath the Sycamore Rasche 20
My home in old KentueK Tucky ho 25
My home is not happy now Donald’s awa’ Loder 30
My home is there Fiske 3J
My hom°, my happy home (Jenny Lind) Hodson 30
My home no more Duke 30
My hoosiergil Barker 30
My husbaod is such a queer fellow Keller 30
My lady waits for me Jucho 39
My la t cigar Hublard 30
My little Sue Parian 80
My little valley home Devere 30
My lodging is on the cold ground Duvenant 2a
My lost Car. ie’s grave Luby 30
My love is o’er the sea Lee 2o
Mj love she’s but a lassie yet Scotch 10
My lover dear is on the sea Ccntemeri 30
My lute it lias but one sweet song v\ ade 20
My madness now forsaking Meyerbeer to
My Mary Eeder soiin 30
My mother dear Lover 20
My mother 1 obey K el.-er 20
My mother she is aged now Pixley 30
My mother’s grave Marten 30
My mother’s prayer (Carlo the Minstrel) Auoer 30
My mother’s sweet good bye Keller 35
My mother’s voice Ella 'Wren Ni bet 3u
My m j untain home Wttmorj 20
My mountain home Hodson 20
lily mountain lay—.Tyrolienne Rimbault 30
My native home Croal 20
My native land 1 Uaderner 20
My native land adieu Belial* 2)
Mr native la .dgood night Fowler 20
My native arid’s my home Turner 30
My New England home Wade 2,
My Normandie Herat 80
My ocean home Wodburjr 30
My old Aunt Sallie Emmet 2o
My eld house, my dear happy home Buculey 30
My old Kentucky home, good night Foster 25
My old wif j Russell 30
My own cottage home Comer 2-j
My own dear mountain home Hasse—Gilbert 30
My own dear Rosade (11 Pirati) Bellini 2>>
My own greet Isle Waylett 20
My own Katrine McNaughton 3)
My own mountain home lleasler 30
My own mountain stream Wrighton 30
My own, my gui ling star (Robin Hood) Macfarren 30
My own, my i aiive home Ilarroway 20
My owu wild Irish girl Duggan 20
My prairie home G F Root 30
My presence still in calm or storm Balie 20
My pretty Azile Linley 30
My pretty Gazelle Hodson 20
My pretty Rose Hodson 20
My Rose Taylor 20
My sister dear ( .Vtassaniello) Auber 25
My sister, I w ould sing of thee 20
My sister sinking passed away Howe 30
My soul is dark—words by Byron Phillips 35
My Southern sunny horns II ys 35
My spinning wheel Cunnington 30
My spirit’s bride Weiinore 20
My thoughts are of thee, love Feter-i 35
My treasure Reissinger 26
My warrior boy Muse 25
My wife and child—words by Gen. Jackson Rosier 25
Nancy Bell Collins 30
Naiuy Till White 33
N rpo eon’s grave Nelson 30
Napoleon’s midnight review Neukommc 50
Napol taine, I’m dreaming of thee Lee 30
Nay deem me not happy Baker SO
Near the banks of that lone river La Hache 30
Neath the willow, love We’tl meet Dcßeguis 50
Never mind de whit * folks Dante 30
Ne’er spurn the hand in friendship given Fenny 3J
Nelly Bly Foster 30
Nelly Cray H we 33
No ,y is forever singing Kohl 30
Nelly was a lady Foster 30
Never again Glov r 30
Never dre im of constant bliss Everest 30
Never mind Nisn 30
Never, never love M S Reeves 20
N w England I my home o’er the sea Btoddard 30
New friends, t.ue friends Hawthorne 30
New Medley song tor rt 40
New mown hay Ware 30
New Rvd. White and Blue La Hache 25
New York gals Morris 25
Newsj aper song Pete Morns 25
Nice young man—eoraic 20
Night before the batlle Louis 30
Night before the bridal Linley 20
Nightingale’s Trill Ga a 40
Night iu slumber Abt 30
Nights of mu io Hampel 25
Night tong Willis 25
Nina, Nina . 8 da 20
Noble’s and ughter Barnett 30
Nobody coming to marry me Cos .ke zO
Nobody’s bay Drayton 30
No m re Lady of Georgia 2j
No.ie remember thee Mrs. Norton 20
No ne’er can thy home be mine buy y 3o
No ono Murrell 30
No one to love Harvey 30
No prize tan late on man bestow Balf 25
Norah dear Hudson 39
N rah McShane Horn 30
Norah my queen Lloyd 30
N< reen, or O’Donoghue’s bride Crouch 50
Northlanu for me Lover 2)
No su render Mera 25
She never blamed him, never Bishop 20
A IMPROVED COTTON GI*S. .*“•
® Manufactured by W
§ DANIEL PRATT, PRATTVILLE, ALABAMA
g \XTHO H4B HAD NEARLY FORTY YEARS g,
Jsl Vv experience in the busine-s. Has nvro »
*7. all ’he time amongst cotton planters. Has vis- g
«g tied Gin Houses, put Gins in operation, amt o
thinks he knowsas near as most auy other man P
® wh >t constitutes a good Gin. ft*
W> I have now resumed the manufacture of (o - M
ton Gins. Th se planters who desire to get o
- ny make ofGins, w uld dome a .avor by set d-»
g iug in their orders so In ay know wh t sizes io
make. If th-y would pur ue this course tJity P»
„ will not fail to get their Gins in time. .
I will deliver at Columbia. S. f ~ Augusta. A
: anta, Macon, and Columbus, Gn„ anj Mo. t/
o gorne y. and Mobile. A.a, Nate <z. .
£ Vicksburg. Yazoo City, and Columbu-. MissJ g
Memphis. Tenn , New Orleans, l a., an t Gal-
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3 Road where it may be desired I sel* for ash o
* prices as low as limes will warrant. A. i rdors p
hj .in cted to Prattville, Ala., wil. receive prompt
attention , ,
Hg Having been appointed Agents for the sale of|
tiie above nsuied Cotton Gins, we would request P ant
ers. who intend gelling his make of Gins, to th us the fa
vor of sending in their orders, so that we may know what
sizes to have made for th m. All orders directed to^G.
L. Anderson 0., Atlanta, Ga.: A. H. Coates & Cos.,
Hamilton, Ga.t S.T. Walker* Cos., Hawkmsville. Ga.,
D. L. Adams & Sons. Augusta, Ga., or to ourselves, will
receive prompt attention.
J. H. ANDFRSON & SON,
Agents, .viticou. Ga.
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ination, speak in the following flattering terms
of their merits:
Wesleyan Female Coll eoe,V
July 19th, 1866 j
Numbers Four. Five and Bix of Goodrich’.- New Se
ries of R ader.s, edited by Noble butler. A M. ave
be<-n in u-e in this Institution since the year JBG9.
It gives us plea ure to testify that they have eivey us,
not mere y satisf ct on, but a high degree of oel ght,
so admirably do we find|t)i- m adapted to 1 liis purpose.
Remarkably characterise dby vivacity and variety in
the sole tions, and by clearness in the directiot sand
the rules that they contain ; they Itave added to th»
reading exercises of our classes that interest and de
light which pr.perly belong to them and which we
Consider esser.tial to rapid improvement
If has been my privilege to examine Eutlcr’s Gram
mar, and lam free to s ate that I consider it one of
the very best Grsmm ir» that we have. Following the
same g-neral plan as Bulli ms it is, in many points,
d-c’ded y superior so that work, lb-el assured that
after a fair trial of Butler, nearly all of those leachers
who are now usiug Bullion’s woulo permanently sub
stitute Butler.
The handsome and intelligib’e style in which the
bous cfJno P. M ron & C > get up their School
B oks, cor-Stiiutes no small r commendation toithe r
adoption.
• JNO.M DONNELL.
President.
PROF smitr’s opinion of the arithmetic.
A striking feature of Towne’s Arithmetic, is that it
contains no superfluities.
M *st of the Arithmetics are cumber -d with many
things which the pupils never earn, and are never ex
pected to learn. Prof. Towne has studied eo densa
ti n and t r.-vity in the enunciation of rules definition*
and principles, and h • ha* shown this st-ldom if ever,
at the exp-use of clearness. Percentage with it- ap
plications, is p'<sented in a manner new an I origi
nal. but very clea and satisfa-tory Tho chapter on
Ratio and Proportion is an excel ent one. We ven
ture to say that it is inf rtor t > the cor-cspondir g
part of no work iu u e in this country. Upon the
whle. wo think that this book is bn titled to a plac*
in the first r u k of Arithmet <-s. and we elmll r j .ico
to hear of its geDcral.introdu: tion into our schools'.
C. W SMITH,
Prof Math. W. F. College.
, PROF. POLIULL’S TESTIMONY.
OHangk Street School, 1
Macon, Ua, July 20ih. 1866. j
It gives me great pleasure to recommend to all in
structors of youth, the whole Series of Go<>dr ch’s
Readers, edited by Noble But or. A. M. I have used
all of them in my school sin e’lß6B. and find them bet
ter adapted to the u-e of -ehools, than a y books that
I have used during an experience of fourteen years
as a teacher
The chief recomm mdation of these Books, is the
easy gradation ot the senes from number one, to six,
by wnioh the pupil is led almost imperceptibly, f on>
the simple-1 less ns, to reading from the oe-t English
Cla-sics. To learn to read rapi.tly and well, ti.e pupil
must read unders'andinglv, and for this purpose these
Books excel all other, that I have used.
BEN.I.M. POLHILL.
RF.V HOMSRHENDEE LITE PRESIDENT OF GSEE.NBBORO COL
LEGE, ADDS HIS TEsTISIONT FOR THESE BOOKS.
Y uxa Ladies’ Academy, 3
Macon, Ga., Ju y 21st, 18C6. j
It affords me pleasure to co» mend such i ooks as
are adapted to me wants of our school--, at the res
ent time. Asa teaci er of Young Ladies or twenty
years, it wou and i.ave saved me much labor t > have
liaa. what I now recard as treasures, in ‘ the Prim try
an I Practical English Grammar,” and thfe s< rie* of
School Readers (Goodrich’s first to sixth) edited by
Noble Butler, A. M Tnese books are severa ly suited
t > the purpos a intended. Th« Grammars fid a place
unsuppl eu before. Tie Sixth Read- r alone, or in
connection with Bronson’s Elocution, cannot fail te
faei ltaje th •* plans of instruction in this delightful and
beautiful art.
I have just examined and am delighted with the
Arithmetic and Algebra, by Pr f. Towne, and* shall in
troduce tl em at once into my school
. HOMER HESDEE.
for the State of Georgia, is Rev. A. R.
1 , wl ‘° wi)l call in P“rs n upon the Teachers of
the State a rapidly as possible Ours is the only
Southern house engng-d n the publication
Bo >ks Thi-we exp ct no intelligent man to consid
er aval and reason f r adopting an infeior book; wa
pr s-mt t he wi&tement merel as an inducement lor
Southern men to examine nur bosks, which we wish,
and expec to stand on their merits. These books
nr- use by the best teacher* in Virginia, Alabama,
Mississippi. Missouri, Lon siana. Tennessee Georgia,
and more recently ad- pted by the State Educali nah
Convention - fT- xas. a* th- ten books, t > be used in
the schools of the <t-ue. We fee'just fied in pred et
iog that they wil! become the SToND.vRD SCHOOL
BOOKS tiir-u hhotib-S-nth
4®"- M ssrs. J- W. Burke A Cos., Macon. G»..keep.
constantly An hand, a large supply of our pub Rations,
for the trade, and will furni h copies for examination
fiat is. upon ap licaiion from Teachers. Letiers to
e Gener*l Agent. Rev. a. R. Macey. must be directed!
to the care of J W. Burke & Cos.. Macon, Ga
Very Fespectfu'ly, ..'i
JNO. P. MORTON & (Ml |