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6 Pisttltajj. 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. — 4 «-»-»- ... ■ 1 ■ 1 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- veston. Texas, or at any Depots on the Rail 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. Prattville, Ala., March 2 th, 1566 „tJan67* ANDERSON & WOODS, Dealers in staple dry goods, GUO EKIE-5, v * COMMERCIAL PE UTILIZERS, AXD GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS. TUii-d Street, Macon, Ga. General Partners : Special Partner. CHAS. I> ANDERSON, JOSEPH DAY. WM. D WOODS. junltf. A. A. BEALL. J. H. SPEtRS. W. H. PO I'TER. BEALL, SPEABS & GO., Warehouse and Commission MBRCH AINTTS. Fire I roof Warehouse, No. G, Campheli. St., AUGUSTA, GA. Wilt, give strict attention to Storage and Sale of Cotton, Grain, Bacon, Flour, and other Produce. Orders for Bairgi g. R< pa and Family Snpplie* promptly tilled The USUAL CASH ADVANCES made on produce is store. Solicit the pa ropage of their friends and the publie generally. 8, pi It —3m. * heiiill siffnn SCHOOL sums. COMMON SCHOOL I’IU .ME it, 9G pages, lGmo., ciotli hacks. GOODRICH S NEW SERIES of Readers; by Noule Butler, Louisville, Ky BUTLER’S INTRODUCTORY GRAMMAR. BUTLER’S PRACTICAL GRAMMAR; by No ble Butler. Louisville. Ky. TOWNE S AKI I'HMBTIC, TOWNE’S ALGE BRA and KEY to the ALGEBRA, by Prof. P. A Town e. Mobile, Ala. BUTLER’S COMMON SCHOOL SPEAKER. BRONSON S ELOCUTION, i The above Books are Printed, Bound and Eleotrotypcd in Louisville, Ky. The Teachers iu Macon, after a caref.il exam 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 |