LIFE-a birth and a death. What comes between is usually of no importance to the liver, or “any other man." NEVER use warm water in taking a cold bath. A uniform life-that of a soldier. -Fred. Douglass said the other day that times were when his color would secure him the advantage of a whole seat in a railroad car, but that since the war he was by no means safe from molestation. He told a good story of a citizen with conquered prejudices, who stirred him up out of his nap on the cars recently, and demanded a place beside him. “I'm a nigger,” said Mr. Doug- | no one feels it down here. las, showing his head from beneath the shawl in which it had been wrapped. "I don't care what you are," answered the liberal-minded intruder; "I want a seat." IT is a bad sign to see a man attempt to walk on both sides of a lamp-post at once. THE fall to which all men must comeAutumn. DEATH-a period following the final paragraph of a man's life. SHARPER-a razor. A high wind-that which blows so high A fool-the man who deems all the world rogues except himself. PLEASURE the interest one gets upon capital invested in good deeds. CONSCIENCE-Man's fear of the devil. HOPE a sugar plum for a boy after he has hoed a long row. TYPE-tongues whose utterances can be heard to the four quarters of the earth. OLD maids-matchless among their race. Monthly Gleanings. The month of December has been prolific in events of notoriety and importance. Congress assembled on the 7th, refused to hear the President's message read, but introduced several bills looking to the enforcement of extreme radical legislation upon the reconstructed States. The Georgia delegation was not admitted. Pending any final action both houses adjourned over the holidays....... The appalling steamboat disaster on the Ohio, which resulted in the loss of between sixty and seventy persons, many of them ladies, and in the total destruction of two magnificent boats, is traced to no criminal carelessness on the part of the pilots, darkness and the storm and the smoke having effectually obscured the sigThe burning of the boats resulted from the bursting of the petroleum casks on the boiler deck. Thus this inflammable agent is responsible for another terrible disaster. nals. -The hanging of the three Reno brothers and Anderson in the New Albany jail, by a band of men who came seventy miles by rail to accomplish the deed, and returned unmolested, is a feat that never has been surpassed by Judge Lynch in any State South of the Ohio. Will our Northern friends make a note of this, and publish in connection with the next mythical atrocity that they locate in the remote Southwest? - Affairs in Spain are not moving so smoothly as the defacto government wish. A serious revolt at Cadiz, aided by the late Queen's emissaries, threatens the integrity of the revolting government. - In Cuba a rebellion has been going on for several weeks, though latest dates give reasonable hopes of its speedy suppression. - The Rev. Mr. Milburn, the well-known blind preacher, has hopes of recovering his sight. He is under the care of Prof. Von Graef, at Berlin. -The Springfield Republican-which must be out of its senses-says, "Murders are coming thicker and faster here in lawabiding New England; there is no need of going to the south to find atrocities." Is this not treason? A very remarkable feature in the topography of the country presents itself in Wise county, Virginia. At or near the Pound Gap, on the Kentucky side, is a mountain about four miles in circumference at its base; in this mountain head four rivers, flowing in different directions, nearly corresponding with the four cardinal points of the compass. The four springs can be seen at one view from the top of this mountain, and they are nearly equi-distant from each other, say a mile apart. These rivers are: The Guest river, flowing south into the Clinch; the Lickfork of the Kentucky running west; the Cumberland river south, and the Pond river north into the Sandy. They flow through four States, and are all tributary to the Ohio river. An Albany Judge and an Albany jury have introduced a discriminating refinement in criminal ethics that will prove vastly convenient in all murder cases, if the theory is accepted by others. It is thus stated in the telegram: The jury in the Cole-Hiscock case came into court this morning and stated that they found the prisoner to be sane at the moment before and the moment after the killing, but they were in doubt as to his sanity at the instant of the homicide. The Judge said they must give the prisoner the benefit of the doubt, and thus instructed, they returned a verdict of acquittal. - Henry M. Flint, more widely known as “Druid," who died in Camden, N. J., on Saturday, was the author of a Life of Stephen A. Douglas, a work entitled Mexico Under Maximilian, and The history and Statistics of the Railroads of the United States, lately published. - It has recently been ascertained that the literary criticisms in most of the Paris dailies, although signed by a great many different names, are all written by the same man. This industrious citizen, Phillippe Bury by name, combines literary labor, enjoyment and profit in a very practical manner. His daughters read to him the new books, and the numerous editors' copies which he receives are, after they have been read to him, put in the circulating library, which his wife is managing. His income, derived from his salary as a critic and from the circulating library, is over fifteen thousand francs a year. In order to prevent his identity from being discovered, he often ridiculed and attacked in one paper the criticisms which he had written for another. -Hinds county, Mississippi, has produced a musical prodigy in the person of a negro girl eighteen years old. She is as black as the ace of spades, and does not know a single note, and cannot spell the simplest word. She was a house servant, and as such was permitted to play upon the piano. She can play any piece, however difficult it may be, after hearing it played, and her accuracy and delicacy of touch, is really something very remarkable. For the past two years she has been employed as a field hand, and has had no opportunity of playing, or listening to others. Her performance on the piano is astonishing, as well for accuracy, delicacy of touch and brilliancy of execu tion. She can play anything she has ever heard, with marvelous facility, and seems never to weary of the instrument. -The minutest fossil horse yet discovered was lately found by Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, in the tertiary deposits of Nebraska. - At a meeting of the Trustees of the Uni- Although full grown, as ossification of the versity of Georgia, held in Macon recently, various bones prove, it was only about two the following elections were made: feet high. This makes 17 species of fossil A. H. Stephens, Professor of history and horses now known to have lived in North Political Science. America, although until quite recently it Charles Morris, Professor of Rhetoric and was generally believed that there were none Belles Lettres. indigenous to the continent. Dr. Smeade, Professor of modern Lan - The Florida Supreme Court has renderguages. ed judgement of ouster against Lieutenant The election of Adjunct Professor of An- Govenor Gleason, forbidding him to exercise cient Languages was postponed. Some portions of Schuylkill County, in Pennsylvania, are now buried three feet in snow. the duties of his office as Lieutenant Governor. The probability is that the case will be taken to the United States Supreme Court. The New York Times denies the reported story relative to the Alaska purchase money, and says that $7,200,000 were sent from this country to Russia last August. The $5,000,000 referred to as having been sent from London were in payment of the Russian railroad loans. - Affairs in Arkansas appear to be getting no better fast. The citizens in the region where martial law has qeen declared are leaving the State and are arriving at Memphis daily. Even the Radical organ in Little Rock asserts that the extreme measures adopted are not warranted by the situation. -In Belgium a new mode of dressing wounds has been adopted. A sheet of lead one-fiftieth of an inch in thickness is applied to the seat of injury, and made to assume its shape by pressure. By means of strips of adhesive plaster the lead is secured, and a current of fresh water is poured over the surface of the flesh once or twice a day. -The New York Tribune says editorially that it is confidentially advised from Washington that the Supreme Court is pretty certain to adjudge the legal tender act unconstitutional and that there will probably be but one dissentient from the court's judg ment. – The library of the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian will be gold next month in Berlin. It contains the largest collection of books relating to Mexico that was ever formed. The Emperor, as is well known, was a man of fine tastes in literature, science and art, and the archæological collections he made in Mexico are found to be of great value. -Mr. Robert Bonner has added to his list of contributors to the Ledger, the name of Mrs. Mary E. Tucker, the talented writer of the great book of the age. "The Life of Brick Pomeroy." -Only "Three Dollars." The Post Master General in his recent report, says "that three dollars will buy the fac simile frank of any member of Congress, and the use of it by claim agents and business men, in cities, in sending books, periodicals, circulars etc., defrauds the Government of at least $1,500,000 yearly. -In 1801, Mr. Moses Shattuck, of Brookline, New Hampshire, now eighty-eight years old, built the house where he now resides, and which he has occupied from that date. He had six children-four boys and two girls-now all dead. The names of the boys were Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. -The new cable which is to connect us with France, will be very similar to the Atlantic cable of 1866. but stronger, having a breaking strength of 1,000 pounds,against one of 800 in the present cable. - A simple contrivance for discovering the impurities of the air in a tight room is a bottle of lime water. If the air is impure the water will immediately become milky. - A tame deer in the city park at Charleston, S. C., attends church regularly every Sunday. Recently he walked up the aisle in the chapel in Queen street, and took his place in one of the pews beside a lady. Dr. S. A. Moore, late Surgeon General of the Confederate States Army, has been appointed to fill the vacancy of superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, Virginia, occasioned by the death of Dr. Petticolas. -The Confederate privateers did a large business. The Alabama captured 28 ships, 22 barks, 5 brigs, 6 schooners, the steamer Ariel, and the U. S. gunboat Hatteras. The Shenandoah captured 38 vessels, mostly ships and barks. The Florida took 36; the Sumter 27. There were probably 300 craft of various kinds captured by the Confederate privateers. - An Englishman proposes to overcome monitors with vessels armed with fire engines which will throw water into the portholes and wet the powder, and into the smoke stack and put out the fires, when the "intrepid tars" will" board the helpless log" and take it into port. He proposes to "put an end to maritime warfare." -The Chilton (Wis.) Times says that in the town of Woodville an Indian and a shebear were found lying dead together. The Indian had put six shots into the bear and then attacked her with his knife, and in her dying struggles she had grappled and squeezed the lite out of him. Reviews, Notices, etc. IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS.-Col. E. Hulbert, Superintendent of the W. & A. Railroad, has addressed a circular to Southern railroad officials proposing a reduction of fare to all persons and parties visiting the South with a view to immigration and settlement. He also invites a conference of Presidents and Superintendents at Atlanta during the month of January. We heartily endorse both suggestions and only hope that important practical results will be thereby achieved. GA.-This well known house is doing an exCLAGHORN, HERRING & Co., Augusta, tensive business at the corner of Jackson & Reynolds streets. Our planting friends will find it to their interest to communicate with them when they have cotton to sell or supplics to purchase. They make liberal advances on consignments to New York and Liverpool. THAXTON, CREWS & Co.-During our late visit to Savannah we had the pleasure of member of this enterprising firm. They are meeting our excellent friend Mr. Thaxton, a doing a very heavy business in tobacco, cigars, &c., and we advise our friends who trade with Savannah to give the above named firm a trial. We have made arrangements with one of the most original and successful humorous writers of the South, and withal a popular poet and general literateur, to conduct the department of Salmagundi," which has hitherto been but an omnium gatherum of the witticisms of the day. Henceforth, we are safe in promising that it will prove Davis, at the corner of Whitehall and AlaCHRISTMAS PRESENTS.-Messrs. Jack & an attractive feature of our Magazine. The bama streets, have an endless variety of arpresent number gives a partial outline of ticles suitable for the holidays. Santa Claus what will be more fully developed hereafter. | will call at their establishment and provide the boys and girls in the city. himself with a budget of good things for all "THE MILL OF GOD."-In our February number will be commenced the exciting and thoroughly original story with the above title, written by J. Maurice Thompson, the eccentric poet, novelist and reviewer, whose productions are already familiar to our readers. We do not hesitate to predict that this novelette will materially enhance his reputation as a brilliant and successful literateur. time to rectify, our edition for December was Owing to a mistake, not discovered in exhausted before our mail subscribers had all been supplied. Those who were thus deprived shall be more than compensated by an extension of their subscriptions. We publish a brief prospectus of the "Nashville Banner," a paper which justly From a Milledgeville paper, we copy ranks among the most enterprising and the following announcement: Married, on the 25th of November, at the residence of P. M. Compton, Esq., by Rev. Mr. Mower, Col. B. W. Frobel and Miss Mary L. Compton. The Colonel has the congratulations of the readers of the Magazine, to which he has contributed some of the most acceptable articles. We ask the attention of our readers to the Card of Frank Madden, of Louisville, Ky. He has few superiors in his line. (80) few superiors as a newspaper. MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH, GA.—We our advertising sheet. refer our readers to the card of this house in country have a better reputation and none Few hotels in the are more deserving. is one of the best stopping places on the 6355 072 |