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AM-A-NA, A German Communistic Society in lowa. who They Are, and Ilow They Are Organlzed. Their Mode of Life, Politics, Religion, . and Industries, An Industrious, Prosperous, and Worthy People. Fpeetal Correspandenee of The Tribune, Dzs Morxes, Ia., Bopt. 18.—The traveler on the Chtenggo, Rock Island & Pacifc Railroad, soun after leaving Towa City, going west, will pear the conductor call out * Homestead '} snd, looking from the car-windaw, he will sco n small villago of wooden and brick houses, con- spicuous for nothing except, at thls scason, the yines and shrubbery which conceal them nearly feam slew, Pressing the Investization, the con- do. tor will tell you the viilago, tha station, and all abont ft belong to tho Am-a-na Soctety: and that {8 all hio knows about [t. Leave ‘tho traln sand go about threo miles to the northwest, aud you will approach another village, preclsely like ihe last, and soon find yourself among 8 peculiar peopley and liero Is their beadquarters. WIIO THEY ARB. 1n 1714, In Germany, was scattered hers and there a people who felt the need of a religion Jess formal and purcr, more in accord with the geschings of t:.¢ Bible, than prevalled in the " dominant Church. Drawn togotlicr by a come mon sympathy, they soou began to organize. They met with opposition and persecut.on, but clung to thelr faith, untll, In the year 1842, {hey turned their faces towsrd the land of re- Moivus liberty, Thoy purchasedn small tract of snd near Buffalo, ana thers began to colo- pize, there erected ancw thelr altars and homes, and catled thé place ' Ebenczer,” which sig- aifics “1fitherto hath the Lord helped ps" (I, Sam., vil, 12). They organ- fzed themeclves into one family, and be« ganaBoclalistic modeof living. Accesslons were constantly made to their number, and {n 1854~'5 It was docmed necessary to enlarge thelr bor- ders; *but the high price of land and limited means compeled them to look to the West, and avordingly they came to Towa, and selected a Joation on the Iown River, in Iowa County, emLraciog a wholo towuship. To it they guve the name, * Am-a-oa ' (a sounded in bat), w.l.h significs, In personal cuaracter, fnteeriLy and truth; and, In topographv, a beautiful land, They reorganized Into a new Assoulation a8 the Am-a-nn Bo fety, aud begau a new home, whepe they conld worship Gud according to the dictates of tho'r own consclenco. N ORUANIZATION. In law it {s 8 Jolnt-stock nssociation. When aperson jolus tho Sovloty, all hie posscascs {s tinto the common fuid and paseos beyond Is control, and e beeumes one of the Soclety- family, except that his individual and his own {amily rights are reserved. On’e cach year, usuaily at the Stato electlon, thero aro chusen thirieen ‘Trustecs, who from their own number elect a Director, Vice-Dire.it- or, and Secretary, who constitute an Exccutlve Cummittce to_control and direct the affalrs ot the Soclety. They appolnt manngers to oversco and mapage the aifferont deoa: tsents of labor, The labor-aepartments are filled according to fitness, and chunzes aro scldom made, 50 that tle greatest perfection attaipablo mn{,be - cured. ‘Tne present Director is o venerable and yencrated man, who has Leen the head of the Soclety many years, and 8 retained for his vir- tues aud in hunor of his goal name, though he now takea but Httlo part in afTairs, Belng alson civil township under the BState Governinent, they elect townshlp and school- district oflicers,—thua recelving.tho beneilt of Stato and county funds. The Bucloty Is kuown as one family, in which all have cquat rignts and privileges, elthough thero me ncarly 300 individual familes, whose hoinea are sacred to themscives. Wihion a now family is added, the Boclety builds s house for thens, to which is allotted a plat of zround arvund it, and which the octupants mnapmducu fruit on, or omament with flowera and shrubas; nnd theso arc appropriated to their own uso. MOW THEY LIVE. Thelr houses wre usually lorgs enough for two famllies. ~ Originally they were of wood, but, withun the paas two years, they arc made ot brick and stone, and all are two sturies high, and number about 250, There ‘are soven vil- lazes about threo totles apart. In cach viliare are boarding-houses suflicient to accommorlate the population of the village, and there all the r ople o tu et thelr meals, the hour for whicls s miven by a bell from a central tower,, There are also Iaundrics, where ' oll washe big and lroning aro done: so that 1o house- keeplue reaily wdone In the familles, wihich Jo.ves tho n:einbors 1o other deparlmients of Iabur, and every member of tho Boclety has sonetbing to do. There aro nu drones in the bye. Each performs his apecltied work, and ihe ;l‘;;l;' mosves ke clockwork, In perfect Lar- vu.e fn cach year the exccutive officers mako an_annuity-app rtlunment to each family or singlo Individual, whicli s to bo for their uso fur that year, fur personal cxpenscs, Tacre 18 In cach villuze a ature, In which all kinds of gouds sre kept, and which are dellvered 1o members ©f the Boclety without proilt; a record kept, and, 2t thy end of tho yoar the amount 18 deducted from the annulty, sv that but very little money Isu.ed. Each anivate tamily furiishes ita own buee. Ta buarding-liouscs are furpiahed aud upplied by the Boloty, 118 m wber withdraws from the Boclety what o putin Is ritarned, without Intercet or In- eriase. 1t a meutber dio, and s tho head ofn !Amly.l bis ehare or interest tn the Soclety 1s d:vl.el smong his lepal liclrs and placed” to their cred.t on'the books of the Boclety, Tnera ara threw physicians, wnosc duty It fs to visit the alck, ‘Thelr mediciuca and teams up, | ed by the 8. viety, 8o alsoschoul-taut are provided, and excellont public schouls malntuined, of courso pou thelr own plan, uslug thelr own houls, which are printed by thcinselves. “Tho {ntelligence of their childron emdences & bigh rude of schools, 8l thoruueh culture, Houscwivos ‘inelind to pet chilckiens, gosliugs, turkeys, and-so- fortn, muat ba satisfled witls birds, bt s or dug, a8 tho 8 cleiy inukes a specal d partuent of poultey, which is rafsed for the boarding-houses Tucie houses sre covered with grape-vines, aud tbelr yards crowded with graves, fruit- trees, shrubw, and flowers, all cultivatcd with :_x‘:'fl. 'l.ns'v:'r‘:h. knmlrmue vines about 8,000 21 are L galluns of whie made, tced yearly, and 1,000 TURDE PROFLE ° are short In stature, ronuat, aud muscle, They have no m'fi'm'.'n‘l}’fl'h'.’&"-“ exiept the material s of their own manufacturc, Tua woinen are the complete pheture of good Bealth, ‘Lhele broad hins, u walst, and sull theat show b sizus of pulf oF cordet. The; wear dresses mado of Indigo-Llus callco, shiey ukirts, 2 smali kerchlof atout the neck, and tizet black cap on tho head, . The el peon 8l tread wide liko a duck, indicative of the tute- ara of wooden shocd. Thelr mortality-list shuwy an average of uulfl twenty-five deaths per Juar, ur scventeen deas than tho birtha, ‘They aio courtcous and hogpitable o strang. &% who vome there for Lusiness, but Lave ng Hme or plae fur loafers, tramps, or trade-hum. mers. They aro very reticent ut thelr affairs, They are well cducated and thoroughly yersed inthe tupics of ‘the day, Thev are much futer. a-ltlug :‘n r&l‘m '(l‘:n.:u:-‘nuulnlm WAT, -?Al Lave a ape- of the Kusslun bear,but no sym, for tho Turk, - ! el Th Btato ceasus ui. 161 iiZes the populats 0 census ui 10i5 Lixes the ulat!o: the Boclety at 1,634, o‘l whom B'Imn mnlun a0d 797 famales ; 1,100 0f tho whulo wery tor- eo-born, “Thero lins been na change slove ex- cept by nutyral . b hgm.’ yral causes. ‘Tuc number of voters . POLITICS, They taks little or no part in national or State mlmu. In lucal county matters they vote for ose they belleve to be the best mies, without reranl o party, 1f anything, they aro Repub- THEIR RELIGION, NThn Bible ta thuir guhlr. aud Christ the head (‘nh‘!“ Church, which they deuomiuate Tho i urch of the True Insplration. They belicve .I'I:t l?n'::a}- :5 ln‘x&tm tlnl:-, %en mlny 3°' and . i viophey; flued to az, but to all time, 'l'hl:l;’mud‘:’:[ wounlpnl‘: ;“r‘!‘il&fc: that or Quak ‘They buve no®| r Thelr mectigs are corducted b E‘ugfq l}mmch person gtpclkl as tho Splrly uol\fi: blm' Tuey are very deyout, -uf all In; T business 15 subordliate to their relie- tu‘x\&lfiu quflfi" week-duys, durivis church- bu,;l,:uu .wmmal‘and shops arc closed und €y 8ro non-reelstants, and furnlshed no :‘:““P‘,““’ the late W, x:' bug evlnufid‘th?‘r parotls lg fl‘fi{ffi a fupd snd fliling their el S ity i, They sso povided ¢7 revard twarriyp mireage 1w 1s facrod uany peono TIIE CIHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATU man to bhe the huad f one wife, The home- clrele is the nuraery of the Cliurch} ita motto, Broherly Love, s, alinost seothout Thin witwition las been sxliln and mutinl wronma wl I the two politleal parties in some parta ot the South ina be liger- ent attitude, amonuting ot thnes shinost to real war. L iy bot perbape unnatiaral that grent wronas, and Coutrges ! v houll have o ewrred {n the condition In which Ly these varfons cirenmstances the Southern States have been pla Tue szuml citlzens have perhaps not always done all that they ought to have doue, norall that they could have done, to prevent these. But we know that many have made noble efforts, that they havedone inuch, and the results alreidy attatned give good reason to hope that they will finally sccompilsli all that trlotle citizens can deafre. Let us hops that he ternble Chisolm tragedy shall have closed forever that lung scries of radidest acts fn our histury. which party strife has done so mucli to enzenier. OXE OP TIE WORST EPPRCTY OF MILITARY IN- TERVENTION in the Bouth has been the discouragement it has cansed a'nonz ult goud eitizens (o thelr ef foris to control thelr own affales, and conse- quently the frequent elevation of ** the rough *? into tiic repre<cotative and_champlon of what oll have recarded as tug legitiunte rights of u State. Tae tendency of ** Home Ruie,” or of local sell-government, Is to_remove one causs of frritation immediately, and to place the re- sponsib.lity on the rood citizens, where it be- longs, of controlling their owt bad men, The rrewnl order and quict prevailing overywhere n’ the South very happily conllrm the ad- vantazes which are sure to attend the operation of this principle. It s not to be exnectud that this alone can relicve all the disorders of a so- ctety 80 profoundly disturbed as this has been, but'I believe that ‘It {s the true one. and tie anly one which can accomplish the results that thy friends both of the Unlon and the negro deslre. It these views arc correct, our Northern fricnds may be assured that, although the mil- {tary have ‘been withdrawn, tnere still remain efll.fent methods of protection for every eltizen, —methods more In accord with thic splrit of wur nfin and lnstitutlons, and, whils wa have con- fidence, will witlmately heat secupeto all tho enjoyment of all tuete richits, tie danger arlsing fromn the * Solld South,” and the adistlon of thirty-five Congressmen to the Southern representation by the negro vote, I cannot think, from our_staidpolnt, quite as alarming as somo of our Northern Republicans have done. It Is much to be regretted, no doubt, and I think the Bouthicrn whites have mado a miatake for thelr own Intercats in pre- ferring Democracy to iny own faith witis such tnanimity, but I am unable to regard that fuct in staclf as evldence of treasonable futent, - ‘The Increase Inthe number of Congressmen s an incldent to the freedom and the extension of the clo.tive franch!se to tho negrocs, for, while it Is ouly just to concede that the Bouthern white In litlle responefble, and it s attonded with tno many real advantages in view of all the nuuuz:llue- of the future, to Justify any scrious regrots. THRIR PATATR. The cstate consists of rhout 23,000 neres of land, fertlie as can be found [n the West, of which 3,150 acres are timber, The arahie tand Is under n hizh state of cultivation, snd pro- duces maanlticent crops, consisting of corn, wlheat, barley, sorghum, graes, potatocs, he: is, turnips, cavbages, and frl. Toere are ten acres of vineyard, vielting nearly 0,000 pounds of giapes audd 4,00 gallons of wine annually. There are aver 3,000 bearing apple-trecs aid #0 cherry-trees, They use about 173 horses and 35 Lmlrn of work-oxen. They raise and kill about 700 cel-cattle per year, and nearly 1,000 hoga, They keep nearly 3,000 alicep, from which tlm{ ‘pm- duee about 170,60) pounds of wool. Lhclr live- stock 1y ol improved breed, and fat as their skins can hold, ‘Tuey have a printinc-ofiice, in which are printed the books ueed fn thelr schools and church, and mlecellaneous work for theie fac- tories, They have two large woolen-mills, in waich are made all kinds of cloth, yarns, eloves, socks, tittens, ja.kets, and ffauncls: cotton- tmills, In whichare made the pecullar Indigo- blue prints, noted for their value and color; two flour-mills; several graln-clevators, and starch-mills.—all of which ars engaged In man- ufacturing for the trade. Owing to thelr luueut, pludding habits, everything they make s AS PENIPECT AS FOSSIDLE. ‘Thev aro _beyond the reach of necessity, ara Independent, and never get in a hurry. They do honeat work, and command and récelve more than usual prices, Thelr manulactures are sold throughout the West. Their millls are run by water supplied by tho Iowa River, and a canal nine miles lons, from a point on the lowa cast, running northward anil west to a polnt west on the Towa. A small lake on tho canal is used as areservolr, They own, also, & large light and dark sand- stonc quarry, which furnishes bulldinr-material, It 18 soit when firat exposed, but becomes hant with time, and, when lald in alteenate blocks, gives n picasing effect, They nlso have exten- sive brick-yurda: so that they now furnisa their own material for butlding, os they do for nearly all their wants. Tuey havo built and maintain two expensive hlzhway bridges over Pie lowa. They own and operale two raflroad-stations, with their passenger and freight houscs, grain- elevaturs, cte. They are altogether a WEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS PEOTLE, and creditablo to the State. From a band of 100 they havo inercased to near 1,600, and bave trausformed a wilderucss into a veritable parden six miles square, and are cach year adding thou- sands to mechanical fndustry, d giving - crcascd markets tor tho surplis wiicat, corn, and wool for th: surround'ng country, No person von get admission to membershi; unloss personally and well knuwn to the Socl- ety and apolicants must be of their faith and practice, {n fact, they have ceased to adaut any wore4o membership, HAwWEEYE, HOME-RULE AND “TUE SDLID‘ 'u;a "nullr lo" thux lmalhml from the unanimity of the white voto can on) SOUTIL” arirg fruin tho fact that tafs 5 the reslt of & v.-omblruuun. ruh x.thl?lnlu.-mr "l"""t’mx% A new secesalon and rebelllon, or at least - e can. A B L it ©f & Bouthern | {YGr"the Natinal Gosernment for ovi pur- puses, Nuow, {t scarcely seuus to us here that tho origin of this political unanimity is really due, i ail candor, to nny premeditated coneert of netion, 1t is a good fuls of reasuning, ns ape plicablo In politics as in natural sclence, that #1¥here apparent causes will account foreffects, ftis su‘wnlumu to wasto cfforts lu seeking for others.” Tlhere {8 no doubt that the fm- pression vroduced on the Southern mind by scveral suceessive measurcs,~the most notuble ot which 1s the Cisil-Rights bhiil,—that the Ite- publlcan party meant to fmpose on the South suclal equality with tho negro, lost us the native white vote, and accounts for the *color-hne.” Wa believe that In the hizht of lgte avents most of tho Southern people are satisfled that this was o deluaion, but at the time the white voto was jost It was very Ecnemll‘f credlted and gavo to many the dvepest solkeitude, TNENE ARK CERTAIN IRSULTS OF TIlE WAR which Iapprehend may be regarded as conclue slvely settied,—that the Umon fa proserved, that no new seceaston will Lo attempted by this weneration of men that tho freedom of the ne- fi:" s permanently ussured and his right to the ot recognized, the frco exercise of which and of bis other important civil rights will et time be sccured. The Southern people, I am couvinied, are 100 much oveupled at prescut In maklng n {ivelthood and recupernting thelr for- tunes to plot ovil desfuns against the Republie. I bolleve, tow, that the number ts tuconsiderablo, Indeed, of those who cherish desires or deslgns Inconsistent with thelr professions of fidelity to the Nativnal Government. Still more, it ap- peurs to ino that the admirable conduct of tho Bouthern leaders in the action which finally se- chired the peaceful inaucuration of Prosliient IHaves, at a time when {t had bicen casy for them to involve us innnew trouble, the inagmitude and fssues of which nono could determine In ad- vanro, a8 well as their attitude during tho re- vent *strikes,” ought to assure us-of tho frank and loyal acceptance of the situation by tho Southern people, and to dismiss forever fromn our minds the ungencrous susvlclon and appre- Liension of their disloyal purpose, TILE SOUTIIERN DEMOCRACY scems to ‘mo cven In its solldity a much Jess fearful thinz than our fricnds apprehend. 1cis coutrolled by men whose Intcrests, reputation, character,—now tnat the responsiility of the Southern altuatlon lles with themsclves,—must forbid any conduct caleulated to renew scenscs ot violonce and disorder, It is also leas com. pactly united as an organization, In principle or spirit, thau is gencrally thousht In the Nurth, being, In fact, the unlon of dilferent clements in orposition to certain supposed intentions of the Hepnulican party, in which they are mistaken, and the cohealva [nlucuces of whlh will coasd to operate ns suon as the mlstuke Is clenrly made known to them, and sectioual {astes shall have ceased Lo bo discusccd, Asto the ulterior purpose of prosceuting demands for compensation for slaves, Confed- crate debte, cotton cluims, and subsidies, 1t is Jditicult to pronounce fn wivance what_thess gentlemen mighit wish to do wero tho Demo- crats succossful in secorlng the two Houses of Congrens by o large mujority. But there are several contingencwes Lhat, were this thelr pure vose, mixht olluy our fears, Kirat, thoy are not 1ikely o have this majordy under the present Adm.n'stration, 8econd, “the Northern and Southern Democrats havo difforent fnlerosts on thesosubjects. And lustly, the Soutiurn peoplo would be much divided ‘aruong - themnselvos in regard to thew, now that most of the claims Iave passed 1to the hands of apoculators, and that g0 many men of modemto means, who never owned slaves, have become possessors ot Nttt homesteads waich they are 1oterested in gu.arding irom Inereasod taxaition, At all evonts, whatever tho causes of, or the danger arising from, the “solld South," forvo i ad of the nezro vote Is not tie romedy nor .tha'means of vffecting its dissolution. It Las been tried and has falied under arcumstances moro fuyorable than can occur aguin, The vast puwer of the General (Goverument can withaut doubt secure thu sate casting of the vote were all that is charzed wuoll true; but unicsa the Irrtatiog foflucnces which hive often stiendod tho electivus also be with:trawn, the frequent excrelse of that power must finpuse & military despotiam op the South, under tha vressure of which tho apleit, if not the formn, of our free fn- stitutlons muse perish, Happily it is vo lonzer uecessary, whatever may have been its need (n tho pasi, Better metlivds will surely bring wmore satisfactory results. Nor can I uelléve that the foundation of ; A “BOLID NORTH' inthe Repinlican futerests, as compactly united a8 tho Bouth is for the Demo.ra'y, were this possible, could bring anything but damagosto our best natlonal Intercsts, 1t Ia tho sectional form that nnr]mldlu questions have been uade to assume during thu last few yeara which has shlndercd that natural division of partics and of races which is esscutial to the lealthful con. ditlon_of Bouthern politles, This las often caused also unncccssary alarm among our Northern people, um*m arrestedt that Influx of capltal and fmumigration which is a becessary condition of the revival of SBouthorn prosperity,” —a vondition more lnwmmm perhaps to tho ncaro than the white. No lover of our country and no true friond of the nezro can safely aid In the coutluuance of this scctional conttict, No one cun unflunlfild without a residence In the 8outh how much las iImpoverishment which the Was nas cuused has to do with the bitterness of ita political coudlivts. Tt should be the alm of all truu patriots toald In rellevingthisas rapiily as poasible. Were the Guvornment able, witlout increasing its Unanclal diflleulties, to ald the South in its educativnal work orin its nceded plblic {mprovements, It would be & wiso ux- penditure uf national fuuds. To me it sscms llml it would bu an uct as patriotle and useful as graccful In. a grea, and magoanimous pasty, compelled by uniortunate circumstances, while In the vontrol of the Governwont, tolayits heavy hand upon the Soutl, to a.cept every op- rtunity, cousistent with wise inuncialeconomy, E»’r enerous u'd in the work of restoration, In all Just measures having for their object the real cification and restoration of thy Southern g‘l‘am. the good will of the Government will be tout:«l strouger and less cxpensive than fte anmics. The difleulty of arrivhg at a harmonlons agreement o regard to the present pulicy and the Soutuern questiona arlses no doubt fruin IMPERYUCT INFORMATION IN REUARD TO TUB &EAL SITUATION, It has happened, walortunately, too, that what suust scem (o all who underatagd this as ob- vlounlrv best for the futervsts of the country and of all classes ol its citlzous docs pot scvm Bett our ha lutareets of Baste. And vebfem To the Editor of The Tridune. ManizrTA, Go., Scpt. 12,1t Is a source of somo solleitude to many of us In the South that 8o large o pumber of our Northern Republicans hesitato tn thele approval of the Presldent’s Soutliern policy, and scem to regard the old sectional issues na still a party, if not a national, neeessity. ‘I'he quiet wa are now enjoying aflter a long series of conlilcts Is s0 agreeably and full of hope, and the operation of Home-Rule so satisfactory In all the most important relations of tho Southern poople that aught which indi- cates any uncertainty in its continuance Olls us with apprehenstons, and I vonture to ask brlet apace in your columns for & fow cunsiderations regarding this before some oplufons recently antounced by old party lcaders shall have been accepted as the party creed. It 1sa moment whon the South, if not the wholo country, bas noed of peace and reat for the development of its matorial Interests and recovery from its long exhaustlon, and no good cltizen luterested fn its welfare should ducline at thls juncture any elurt that mayald fn averting tho renewal of sectional controvorsics, which have been as wo belleve, so disastrous (n tho past, both to our party and country, We appreciate the gencrous heart and noble senso of duty and responsibility which render thou- sands of the wisest nnd best of our Northern en and women from lowa to Malne appretien- sive In regard to tho course President layes has taken with respect to the Southern Btutes and th 1uturs of the freedmen. 1t ;Ppe-m to us, liowuver, that our friends aro ucediessly alarm- ed, and that thelr apprencnsions arise from cer- taln parulnr crrors, wiulch some effort should bo made to correct. In default of any other willing to undertuke this, perhapsa residence of scven years in tho SBouth nnd daily intercourse 1 businces with a large numbor of people of all classcs and both races may have qualitied me {n some degree or this endeavor, and [ make it moro readily since I think it is tuo positivelv assumod Ly many that alt the Southern Repub- lieans muat noceasarlly Lo oppused to tho policy in the South of the present Admnistration. » First, then, wo are convinced that thero is NOT THE ANTAGONISM DETWEDN TIUB RACKSN which our Northeru irienda appreiieml, A lurge uumber of the freedmen live on the plantations of thesr uld mnsters, with thom or thcir sons, apparently very contentedly, and do this volun- turlly, from year to year. Un the other hand, tho majority of thelandowners furnish In ad- .yance each yeur the nceesenry supplics for the 1amilics of those in thelremploy or crn(yylng L on thelr lunde, without walch they would often bo in absolute destitution, and which, i the employers felt as sume imagine, even solf- nierest could bardly induco them to do. The fat that the cotton crup 1s about ns largs as boturo the War,—thls year It will probably bo larger,—and thnt 14 18 suvcessfully cultivatod, matu andgathered (n thuspardely populute:d districts cven, where in the extuig of forest, of lonoly hignways, and the absenco of law otll- cers, every opportinity for evil s afforded, fs proof ot “the general Zood feeifng and barmouy betweon the races, ‘The contllets at elections are exveptional, and are to be attéibuted to uudue passtons and {improper mothiods ol infla- encu ¢pluyeld lqr hoth purtivs. . TUE T RELEL" ELEMENT 1s nowas hostil: to the Uuion mon and Repub- lteuus resldent among them, whethor frum tie North or native. g8 many seom to foar, Tho Southern peoplu in thelr or*l:ur rolations witn thelr meychbors ure provefblally obliglng ant kind, Waults many Unlon men and Republicans have been reportod as sll-treated, thore are han- dreds of others'whu will bear Sestiuony to con- tinued couitesy and klidneas, Asoneof thoso, 1 sovuld’boungratefutand unjust in the highest dogres to the community in venich I buye had o pleasant bowne lor soven yoars if 1did not men- tlou witn grateful apprecation the unl.orm courteay, kinaness, aud confidenco wil b I and n llmlfy have recelved from the Buuthern peuple around us, without exce,tivn. It js our oeliet that for sevoral lye-u past, in nearly alt portions of the Bouth, it not all, uny Northern mun who has coms the ‘Boutn In good Joith to make s homo and sttend to private business, who Las treated the Southern peoplo ~ with the courteay usual siwong political opponents in the North, and has preserved tho same social relations with the negro that is usual {n our Nurthern soclety, basbeen cordially receivediiand has found his now homesafe and agreeable, We arg cunfidant tuat this bas been true ot Northern Ueorgia at lcast, and can sec no reason why this section should be exuaptional. K ‘Lo peace ol the South and the security of its cltizens have not been for several years ao de- vendont on the presence of tho miltary as to mako thelr withdrawal a source of real peril, No doubt mlilitary fntervention has srreated sudden viofence whien too late for other fotiu- ences to act, and has civen mavy timid oncs confidence, * But the number of soldiers in a one State bas beon tou swall to aflord pro tion, had not other Influcices aided, and thcso Influences we have long belleved would have =k tnoro powerful witliout thewm. Tho mutual interest Of the white man and tho negro woustitutes n ftsoll & greut security for their mutual good coudyct, 1f not well treated by one cmployer tho negro'can go to another. I the logislatiou of one Stfe Is uufavorable, he fan removs to another. This frec.lom in chang- fug bls location, aud the competition between the new and the old States fur lahor, mark a Kreat dlstincilon between the past and vresent condition ol the negro, aud fnvest Lim with oo ctilelent and Gfl'bl)luelll means of protection Lawre powerful [n Its fmmeddate snd perwanest lutlucace than a gurrison of soldicra at tho coun- ty seut or capltal can possibly be. The Anjhrsuon aud Clnstian love of law, onler, and humanity, which tho Southern poo- plo posscss In common with the Northern, have, aiterall that Las becn said and written upou the subject, been the most elllelent weans of the peave und quict that bave becn attained. Thero bave Leen, bo doudt, maoy aud pataful Vie- Tathos of these erinclples, wnud theso have seem- ed Lo our Northeru fricads to contradics this statcment, yet I om coufident that it is true, ‘Tue Suuthern territory 13 extenslve and spasely wopulated. Tho courts are held at loug mter- vais, aud magistr.ics and peace officers are few iy numuvee for tie exteot o territory uver which they have Jurisdiction, 0 lute War, too, hes caused a disturbance in- ss;lulhem soclety of 1te wgulal clewents, wud of thq pajural aetloy of RDAY, SEPTEMBER rl as many of iy enporarily, e have foet our Repub- maiority In thost, If not all, of tie Soutl- ern States, It was lost, bofore The preeent Ad- minfstration hegan. It was lost by incastires which the mujority of the party approved of, and thaitght a duty to the fresdmen which thry conlf not. honorably decline, but of which the present sftuation of parties s the lowleal result. It camnot ho fm- mediately recovered. Yet in that transition Rinte of rnrlw through which we are no'y pass- ing, (n the clanges and new party alliances wafch new Iasues aro sure to bring ns within the next four veass, it our Republian prin iples are what fornearly thirty years we have helleved them to be, wo K-vu littta fear that they will not.contlmy to recetve the adhesion and vonfl- dence which they are rightiyentitied to of the malority of the American penle. Certainly nothing butthe mistake of arvuslng ngain se > tlonal feclinga hy the persistent advouncy of scctional fsaues can defeat it. Antiony VAx Wyck. CURRENT GOSSIP. THE GREAT NAMES OF TRELAND. Niver heard—d'ye say?—of ‘*the fame of Mac Morna, Ot *'Niall the Grand," i " or of *'Cormoc" or ‘an Of the ** Knighta of the Red Drnch," the **Col. Iar of Moran," Of ‘:Fingal," or ‘*Feargus," or ‘\Thomond Makon"? But yo've heard—so ye havo—of tho **Lakes of Killamey, " Allglaming and glisthering in the warhm Sum- mee's bame, Of **Tnra's prond Halls," and the **Casthleof DBlarney, " Of tho **'Tuwers of Dunluce," and the *‘Crags of Noc Alne." And ye'ra heard—troth, that's thrue!—of the ould Irish tam'lics, Tho 0'Nalls, and O'Fllnns, and McFlathertys too, Of the Morphys, Ttourks, Rooneys, and Balta Mal- fooneys, Allchipsay tLo ‘'ould one"—ould Brian Rorn! And yc've heard av the lale onos—aye, dang'd. hard-to-bate ones— Of Emmet and Sheridan, and the **Prince," Cas- tlereagh; » Of *'Burke, the grest sphaker, and him that tras greater, The bould **iron Duke* who date *‘Boney!" (ueraht) Ye've hearid of the bards, too,—swate 3foore and awate Goldy, Wid thelr souls f11'd wid music,—aye, muslcdi- ving; And yo've felt In yer hearts that these aons of poor rin, Inthe zoynith of glory, wid the brightest sthill shine! Whilst th volce av O'Connell, the friond av his connthry, The champlon of Fraydom the world-round, athiil rings, . And his phost fs still walking, o'er land and say ethalking, The drid av all tyrants, and s terror to Kingst Ye've heard of MacMahon, *‘ihe GreatMarshal,” tramshplanted— Aye, bedad, but the 1ad's won a realm v his own e And of Jackeon,’ **Onld Iick'ry,™ who, **By the Eternalt" Mado tho sate av King George far too warhm far & throne! 2 Och!it'athrue thin, **Onld Erfn's the gim of the Qccan, " ¢ Not alone for her beanty of vale, hill, and dell, lesn ** paraties,* But for Jarsious, and Vimrue, and Vaton. as well! Rockrony, Iil, E. W, DramspeLr, “The Tresldent of France. MR. PARKER TRIFLES WITII POW- DER. New York World, Mr. Parker, besides Leinz a philanthroplet, (s a scientist, e Is Interested fn all the discover- fes of tho modern philosophers, from Polycarp P. Pilly®mp down to those lately sscinbied nt Nashvllle. Mr. Parker readsall thetransactlons of all the socleties for the promulzation of Thlis, That, and The Other, nnd discouiscs learnedly thereon, Yesterday Mr. Parker read thatu lady had presented a paper before the Selence Association in Nashville, ln which, among other valuable things, she bad suggested o method for tho cxtermination of mosquitoes. * Take powder," sald thla cstinablo woman, ‘and place it In a shovel; close all the doors and windows of your room, and thon explede the powier, The concussion will extermivate all thic mosquitoes In the nPnrtmcnt." “What a discovery!?” sald Mr, Parker, as he read, glowine with excitement, and cinphasizing Dia remoric wich a resuundine slap on- the bald apot on top of his head, where onu'of thy pests whaeo destritction he was meditating had estabe 1ished hlmscelf in busincss, “@reat guns! ' continued he, * what a noblo Idea. Bo shinpic, su iucxpensive, so cosily ap- plied. No complicated coparatus needed; only sl ‘Who s there that hasn't a shovel and apound or two of powder! Whero s therea grocer's shop at which one cannot get powder ! And anly to think that this philanthrople inven- tion should have bLeen struck out, in & mo- «ment of inspiration, by a woman! Ob, woman," sakd Mr. Parker. cesiaticnlly, *In our hours of caeo, uncertaln, coy, and hurd to please, but wien mosqultocs uip the brow, a flerce, destroy- Ing angel tlhuul" At the conclusfon of this apostropho to woman, Mr, Purker, asclzlnm his shovel in his rizht hand, polnted it towards heaven, and, assuming the actitude of Liberty Enlightenfug the Wogld, shouted “Tableau i in o loud volce. ‘Then he went out and bought two Pmmdn of powder, Wlien Mr, Parker returned to_his room le made claborate preparations. He closed the wind cnmu‘ll{, and, to sccure the best re- sults, stuffed cotion 1 all the cracks; then ho shut ail the doors and locked them. After he had Rolsked those arravgements ho glanced about the room. i ‘Two fat mosquitoes eat Irering at bim from tha top of his book-tase, All was calin without; throngh tho closed windows camo the _muflled hum of the city’s myriad actinties, The wall of a peripatotic leulureuuld bo faintlyVicard, and b pattstle '+ glass puddin' sounded like a propliecy, ‘he sun shone brignt- 1y, tho birds sang swectly, tho waters of the bay dauced to the fluting of the breoze, Within ull was sllence and cxpectation, *Alat" sulid Mr. Parker, pouring the powder into the shovel und perbaps funcylng hhuseld & modern Guy Fawkes,~"s"death, odds bodkius, caltitls, thine bour hus come V' (ho wos addressing the mosquitoes), * thy sorift shall bo a_stort onc. Marry cowe up, by my halidom 1" By thistine tha stiusel was 1ufl of powder, and aru{mlnu his character of conspirator Mr, Parker rutbed his hunds chiegriully together and began to bunt for a mateh, At Jast he found ono; ho scratclied it upon the wall, but beforo le applied It he thought of & passaga from Orpheus, ' Just the thing,” sald hiey ** for & funeral oration. I'llgive fvto'em.” 'Then, keeping ons eye on the fat mosquito and the other on the match, ho said: “ [ huve placed my hand Io the hamper,+ L have tasted the sacred bavley, have beaten the drum. [ have sald *Konox vmpax, and it Is fin- lahed.'™ Mr. P'arker touched the match to the powder—= 1111111 It was Onlshed. As the policeman conducted Mr, Parker through the strcets half an hour after the ex- ploslon the boys thouuht the tattuood man bad been arrested for gettiug drunk, to such an ex- tent had tho epfdermical adminlstrution of powder changed the pliluntaropic countenance of Mr, Parker, . “What have you to say, slr, against the chargzo of attempting to blow up the cityi” asked the sterpBergeant in the station-house. “It was & greab surprise to tae, afr,! said Mr., Pasker, inu daged manner, * 1 have no doubt It was a surprise to the mosquitocs.” ‘4 \¥nat can the man weanl ‘Fake bl to the deepest dungeon 'neath 't —— S EX yo pleass, Berzeant, 1 knows thisgent. 'E is a sclentitic gent, sn' was a trylue an xperi- meut wien it went offy sir,” Tho speaker bad & bux full of lasy on hla back: 1L was tha sman whose *‘glass puddin'® had sounded like & prophecy. *Eaved 1" sald Mr, Parker. P Tue peripatetic glazior bad a Job whick took hitn thres days to Bujsh. 3 THE MOURNFUL DOVE. Cincinnall Sqturday Aight, ‘A mournful dove, for its mate, sun- dered the bars of its prison gate and songhtare- treat among the lcafy brauchies of & poplar tres on Pike street: “Cool cool" gang the mournful dove. A truant schoolboy, homoeward bound, caught the plaintivy notes, and fn tho wickeducss of his heart he sald: *“I'll sby » rock at that ‘ere turklo dove.” He casta stone, but the bird Just ducked jts tonocent head, while the missile passed on through a French plate-glass window opposite, and buried itself fn & feather beds Thea 139 truant bov thoughs ho beard the far f 8 1877—TWEI, avay vore of his motier took wines aod few, MO0, e A Fonrth n crosy barre poplar tre * eaniz the gentle dose. aper 1iutle body {n passed beueath the snady ¥ liag sinee [ wasa pitcher in the 80 k43 has my hand yet Jost its cun- hien he gathered a bowlder and hurled it to- ward the harmiess binl with oll his pristine virrory but it fell far shortof §ts mark. Deserlh- Inga Leautlful prrobia, it bhore down tn full force upon an fnoTena.v» old gentleman with a beaver hiat, who was appro hing the spotunder | the prote-tion of Wis umbreila. In ono bricf moment the umbrella, the old gentleman, the teaver hat, and_bowhier all sauk to th have. ment in an Lrnominons heav: the cross-barred clerk, he too went awiltly down—far, far down the street, *Cua, cod, sang the mournful dove. A toil-woen meetanic from a furnfture factory slowly teudged that way, and beneath his arny he bote o bundle of kindling wood. ‘Thedoleful sound fell upon bis car, and he drew froi his hundle n erooked stfck shaped like a booraerane, murmurine the while to himsell, “1 think this'll fetch that gigeon down outen there," But, mind you, the sorrowful dove only cocked up ita head and winked, while the crooked Lunmierang cirled amunge the leaty bouzhs and returned. Retuencd, like a tewe and geaning boumerang, sauiltly and forcibly to the toll-worn mechianlc's nose, and there It nestled roitly and gently, likethe kick of the eneretic mule. Wil many select quotations from profane writers the Loii-worn mechankc bore his Kindiing away, hathed i bis own gore. *Coo, Lo, sang the mournful dove, hut none other caine that way to turaish him diver- slon or to shed nray of cliecrfulness upon bis melancholy situation, FRENCII WIT, Parta tharieart, It driven to the wall, the Russians ean take refuge in the Iaris Bourse, as tho Turks are forbidden admisslon there since thelr bank- ruptey, P ‘Turkish officee to Egyptian soldler—*¢ You arg no longer in the: pay of the: Viceroy of Egypt, but in mine." ' #That means, then, that I am to have notling.” Hizh Jife and the contrary—**The Baroness of Sainte Idicfonso Is angery becnuse T asked her if she was guing to the springs 1" 41 believe youl She was u washierwomnan.' Parlstan workman inspecting African tribe Iately arrive:d in Parla: * Just the wite for me, You can beat them as much as you llke without tho black spots showing." Cancerning tha politieal altuation In France, Fragment of a [uture historleal dictionary: “ Semirams—Queen who suspended grardens,’ In our days she would have susuended newspa- vera. Bome one sald, * That poor man X—— was very much ofilleted by the death of his wife, In oing to the cometery he kept. s handker- chief to his eyes the wholo time,” 1t was to conveal the fact that he wasn't weeplnez at all," remarked one ot those crucl creatures who de- prive you of all lusions, Last News of the War—The Russian army is hemmed in by the Turkish army. Tue rererve of the Russlan army hetns In thé Turkish anny. ‘The reserve of _the Turklsh army hems in the reserve of the Russian army, (Continustion in uext dispatches.) Here ard armies sulliciently euveluped not to be cold the coming winter, A gentleman examines a lodging. It sults me, ! uu?'n he to the conciere, **and I take it.*” * Will the entleman have the kindness to tell ma his occupntlon, because we don't let toall eorts of callings.” * Mine will not disturb the nelzgbbors, [ am a Journalist.” +Oh! the proprictor won't liave you.? . Wheit s - cause in {our bLusincas you have 8o often to pay fincs that the proprictor is afrald you will not pay him regulariy.” HAWK-EXTEMS. Burlington Muwteys, It must make Gen. Howara's eyes open wide with astonishment to read how thcy fignt nt Plevna. A carpenter doesn’t appear to be much bigger than a car-load of frelght, but ho Is, for the freight s only billed, and the carpenter is Luilder, It the Government would only give Chlef Joseph o vote now, the candidates on the Labor- ‘l!{cfrmll ticket would run him down fn three ays. An old married woman ia running agalnst a gnunu girl for Superntendent of Schools in hasta County, Caliturniaj and shasta just fly around amd howl to get the men to tisten to word sha says, and It Is thouwht that even her own liusband is going Lo vote for theoppusition caudldate. ‘Ihe melting philanthroplsts, who but a few short duys ago stoud at the coruersof the atreets and in the high places of the lund, and wept over the woes and gorrowa of the poor laboring men, who bad to work for 00 cents o day, now put In ten solid hours a day discussing store-box politica, and levy nssess- ments upon . the same worklngmen to defray ;' lnmvnlqn-cxpcuau"' With a bit of lemou n it The TlHindoos havo so many gods that a good Mindoo has to pray seventy-five times a day in order to get in & single mention of avery delty during an ordinary lMie-time, Now, in Amerias, when a mau has to get upln the night and chase his neighbor'’s cow out of the garden, o could use up the entire system of Hindoo theology In ten minutes, and then not be through, Aud be wouldn't pray very extravagantly, etther, “*Ona cxtrome loads to another. That fs the reason o young man who begrins by treading on ayoung “lady’s foot often ends by kissing her lips. And, we oy udd, tne same’ rule opplics on tho ottier alde, when o girl, wno has waated nhours of time and skeins ot chenille embrolder- ing un @ pair of alipoers for Henry's exquisito feet, soon hexing to claw the capillury vegeta- tlon out of the top of hls liead for conting home 2 ul. m. aull tryayg to go to sleep in the coal- scuttle, DIGGING I3 OWN GRAVE. Corind (2.) Times, Agan it becomes vur duty to chronlsleadeath hy suicile, and in this casc the determination to comm tho deed scema to buve been stromsr than ln any case aver Leard of before, Fora long tine Mr, Elljal Brown, aged about 85 years, Livinz at Crooked Creck, tas’ not been in his right mind, and has not only threatened suicide, but has made three attempts to take his life— the last onc of which oceurred last Suulay night and termmnated in his death. About a year ngo ho attempted to shoot himself, but was prevented by a bystander.. Seyen months oo, when his soi Jauies R Brown sulchled, the old man sald he Iatended 1o do the same thing at the flrst opportunity, On Saturday nig.t fast Mr. Brown's family sent wonl to Mr, Darid Hurns to come over, as Brown intended Killing himself, Mr, Harrls wont over and fouud Brown digglog a grave by the side of that of nis first wife, while o lighted candlo sat on tho side of the rrave und a shot-gun was 114 ncar by, Hurris psked bim what he intended dolug, and hereptied that he was going to kill bimself, tnat he wan digging his own grave, and wanted to bo buried just ‘wa ho was found 1 the grave, with- wut any colling asked Harris taduthe shuveling in ot tho dirt, and to tell cvery ono that e was in his right ming, and that all the world could not preveut his killlng bimselr: that no one was ROYAL BAKING POWDEILL, ROYA Absolutely Pure. Buch (s (bo tatrinsfc merit of the Royar Bakisa Pownkn, that m-d:( mrf 32 ibe standurd Fowder. Throuch excellencs uf quality sioad hss i galacy 3 ¢ Sl kilcheus of the bess Housekeeners L ths country. than say other kiud. 1Uls wi 'Bealthy 8aG nutritio themselv powder. 10 utruct daioncn g OWLES 18 fur aafs by the 50y i A spol ki 3t utlier powdel VI PAGTS. and his hoals ouasnrle of the ve tewliy to twesuperiurity uver all oo, wiud tiat 1y wlll.u‘mlryulmu.l mako bettee biscult, el it ILs xreat sirvugti, sdpcrio 10 every utelligeat HouseReepes who Wil'gtvs 1t poctal advantago of tha Koyal Powder (s that it will barp any dum d Bpol LY GXDIUTS (0 thie AtINGIPHCTE, beat Uroserser to blame for the a1 but his own fenily. Harris stald with bim until the candfe hurned oue, when both returned to the house. Brownat onve got anotner canale, put sonte fre: ot hts gun, amt started hick to his diggin Harrin then w 1 Mre. Brown went out and watched the The grave was l finfshed about 11 o'clock thae night. Tt s not i i ' ifim the Hon, Thurlow Weed 1NDORSING Dr,RADWAY'SR. R, R, REMEDIES After Using Them for Reveral Tears. Xz Yore, Jan.4, 1677.Dranfin: Having for ree eral years naed yong meatcines, dountingly' at Arat, bué agterexvertencing their etbcacy wich Ul caniidcace, it 1400 1eca & plemsurs than iy ue- knawledge the advantage we have derived from them, known whether he attempted to kil himaelf ®ith the gun that night or not, althuneh that was his first intentin,, s he returned to the house shortly after the rrave was finjshed. Here he fixcd o string to his nific g0 as to dischargs it himselt, but for suine reason he gave that fdea up. Bunday he eame to Carmi and purchased o drachm bottle of morphine, went home, and carried gome boarls out to hils grave to cover is body with, a'd then nished ub all his prep- arations for death, About 10 u'ciock that night he handed his little grandson a 25cent ple-e, and finmedintely swallowed two-thinls of the bottle of morphine. Ife lived until 5:25 yester- day evening, sleeping all the time. Brown was in comfortable clrcumstances, and appeared sound on every othier subject. For the Inst vear or 8o he has quite frequently sald that he in- tended killlng hims: cAnnat be better describied than 1t i8 by fta . We iy the tiniment trequientiy and frecly, alm rishiy Ainding thio promised **reliet © fruly soare, (tgned) THORLUWY WELD. tADWAT, RADWAY'S READY RELIEF Cures the Warst Pains in from Oncto Twenty Minutes, INOT ONE EEOUR Afier reading this adverticement necd any one anffer e i R ADIAY-S e s LA & ot EvEry TAINY 1R waitho arsi, s 1o CURE The Only Pain Remedy Thatinstantly stops the most excruclating patns, nila iatlamma:fon. and cores Consestions, whehier' of thn Lunge, romach, Dowels, of other glaods, or urgans, by ue spphisiion FILOM OXFE TO TWENTT NINUTES, Nomstter haw viotent or excruclating the pan, the WHEUM ATIC, Bed-Itinden, Jafirm. Crippied, Nervous, Neursigic, ur prosirated with discsss Ty RADWAY'S READY RELIER WILL AFFORD INSTANT EASE. Inflammation of the Kidneys, Inflammation of the Bisdder, Inflammation of the Bowe! Congestion of the Lungzs, Boro Throat, Difficult Breathing, FPalpitation of the Honrt, Hysteries, Croup, Dfbhtheris, 2 Du, ———— A “BUSTER. A letter from Warren County, Rentucky, to the Franklin Patriot sayst “T s eull 4. glr, was 4 yeara of azm ou th: 20th day ol st March. Stic welghs 100 poun le, measnres e ght- cen fnches across the chest, and is four feot elzht and onc-half Inches high, Tucro lea thi k growth of halr covering her entiro budy, while her face Is covered with whiskers, Including a mustache, Up to about cizhteen months ago #he was a healthy girl., At about that time her boly became very not and was covered with a bieavy perapiration, lastiog for scveral days. The odor uccasloned by the verspiration was very olfensive, anil within filteen minates alter beng cleanly dressed her body and clotucs would becomu saturated as If by’ some black- eolored Hquid. When the perspiration ceased the halr began growine, ouly leavinz thu eoles ot her feet and the palins of her hands bare, Her volee attalned a remarkable depth, sourid- Ingz as thouwh it catne from the inside of a bar- rel. Her strongth 1s astonishing. She cin car- ry her 10-year-uld sister under her arm with ap- parent case, and bYer mother states that the child actually does not know her own etreneth, The statements hereln made are strictly true, and, if nccessary, the testimony of the chinl's parents ond many pen[rwle living In the neighbor- Catarrh, Influcasa, huod can be produced for corroboration.” Headnchs, Toothache, . Neuralgia, Rheumatism, UNCLE DICK'S FIRST THEFT, Cold Chilla, Ague Catlls, Tarborn (N, C.) Southerner. : Chulblains, and ¥rost Bites, His Yonor Judge Cannon was as much amused as the Bar, jury, and spectators in tho court-room on Thursday of last week, when Dick Barnes, & eombre-brown African convivted ot larceny, was brought up for scutence. Mister Jedge, says Dick, **will you 'low me to speak o word(" “Certafuly,” rearonded the Court; ‘“‘let's hear vou," “Mister Jedee, I clar fore God I never stole nothin® in iny Life, 'cepen’ o plg-tall at a hog- killla" thne from my ole missus when 1 wasn hoy, an’y Mlister Jedge, L shull never forgit iy punishment, She sowed dat plg-tail to my breeches belund, an’ when company would come she would make me cuine out and shake myseif sodat tawil would awitch, an®, Mister Jedge, Ifelt 8o mean an’ got Ao tired of dat Plhie- ;nlluu.n. Tuever stole nothin’ sense. Dat's a e, alleation of the READY RELIEF to the part 18 Ncrs (e palior allicully €xise il sdund iy 10 31x1y drps In half 8 tambler of water will fn e s P 2Pt Sar, Bromori. d (i Howels ani i mSnl:nl *lm’fi;.:‘::'c""c‘ Cicraation 4 carry s bottle mEA LI S e A T R 2t cliange of water. {tbeiicr e French Brutay o DICES oo pilumalants FEVER AND AGUE. FEVER AND AGUR enred for 0 eents, aremeiial -‘K?l“ An trgs wo: I Enat will PXI’\'.Th'l"5 it Nicue and aif oth r Staarmis, Iiom o Yellow,and other Fevers (aiged b 15 A1: bt +oauick s RADWAY'S LEADY NKLILP. ¥ifty ccath Jer butties HEALTH! BEAUTY! Strong snd_pare Rich Nlood—~Tnerease of Flesh ani el Cllas biin aad Beautiras Comploston soeured DR. RADWAY'S Sarsaparillian Resolvent has 'r;uflnh c‘h}' mn{c -‘nm'n(:.t:lfilm aresien nu‘l;‘ .‘fi’ raptd are tho changes the hody underzocn tindor ucaca SFthis traty wonderful medic.oe, tbot S THE HAUNTED HOUSE. "Tisa chostly place, by the alde of & stream L eeps monningly un to the sea, And ever doth chant, 1i'the moun’s pale gleam, Of what the welrd place used tu be} . Ant 1t seeins nore liko scenery scen 1n a dresm “Than the place of « wild tragedy, The branches arg thick o'er the roof spread with moe: ecp, with a erating sound, Over a coll and a rude wooden cross Whers once o pale victim waa bound; And only the wens of the spider toss Where the moldering corpse was found. When Aufumn-time comes, with its patteringrain, And its breezes that struserle and sigh, A wild, hollow vafce appeals all in vain ‘T'o the merciless clonds floating by And tho paitering rain-drops but datken the stain ‘That never will tado out'snd dle. Tho crimson-stafned leaves whirl trembllngly own, Astlicy whisper, And form on the cross bluod-lika crown, And waveinthe wind so clully Whllu' the night-birds mourn, the dark tlonds rowWn, And the atreamlet murmurs at will. Vouuma, N. Y. MMiLuix C. Poxenor, Every Day an Increase in Flesh and Welght is Secn and Felt, THE GREAT BLOCD PURIFIER, JKrery drop of the Sarsapatiliinn Tlesotvent commun, rate; o weat, Urine, and othict fulds m,the viifor of life, o it prepares L new and sound msterial. ECTI0 iroriia. Bypbifie. Coninption, Glandumar i 4 sumption. Glanduier. Discase; REFLECTIONS. Uicers 1h a1 Brots. Slodtn T unore N odes i 58 Gisndaand uiher ¢ 9yaten, Fore Eyes. Sirume oraus Discharxes frotn the Lars, aud the worst forms o 14 T Bors, Ecald iead, On the gleaming shaft of s moonllt ray, In dreams 1 am wafted far awny, Iiack o'er the wearisome scenes that have fled, Thut left me but ashes, and thoughts, and the desd. Ashes of rmvnuu the hrightest, clear— Ashes of loved onc, cherianed, di Ashics of hope on promiscd mude. Anhes of fricnds 1t thy cold earth latd. , Th"l‘i“‘-’- Jhongh valn, of *‘what might have een 't — Of 1ifo ps 1t wan: a golden sheen, Unmoasured by day, inchilled by night, covening all with & halowed light, A heart thongh dead, yot throvbing to-dsy, Awearica lunit years in this anlmate clayg' - A prison-house barred with inscratahie cate, Whero more that are dead thioge than lving ones are. G ~kin Diseases, “Erupions, F. Wing Worm. Walt fibouis, Erpainelss, Acme. Disck oty Worme in tha Fiesh, Tumon. Ceucers {a tha amib. and ail wastes of the' Iifa princigie, are witifin the curative range of {Lla wonder of moders chemlstry, and » few days’ use will Dravo 1o ATY betson using It fof elther of theae forms of diseasa 1Us polent pawer to curo them, 1f the patient, dally becaming reduced by the wastes d_decomposttion that are contlnually progresing, yuccesds (n arrenian thean wastes, and repairs the sania it new material mads trum hy bluod—sud this [ icca [is works i minences | of puriication, and succeedd in diminaling the loss ox wastes, {18 repalrs will e rapld, and every day tha ticat will feel himclf stronicer, the food digesting ‘.flulrl.‘ :wemo improving, sud flesh and welght In- el Not only does the Barsaparillian Resolvent excel il remediat agents 1n tho cure ot vliranic, Rorofulous, Conatftutionsl and 5kin discascs, but It 18'the only pos- Itdve cure tor Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Utinary and Womb Diseases. Gravel, Dishetes, Droney, Stuisiage 0f Water, lucuntinoace of Grine. Hrighth Disesae, Albuminuris, snd in sil cases where tliere ara Hriek-auat deposila, OF 1hio water fe Thick, cioudy, maised with aabatances I the whito of dn ogw.or threada ke #hiioallk, or thero | a mortiit dark”bilious ahpeas ince and white boue-dutt depostts. and wheu there Is s Jricking, Durning ‘sensatlon’ when using water, aud palz 1 the small OF Lhie aSK and 8100 116 Lo1ase Tumor of Twelvo Years’ Growth Cured by Radway’s Resolvent Dn. Itanwav=1 have bad Ovarlan Tumof fo the ovaries sud ho S f“ the dociors sald ** thero was no heip for it ** Fird evervibing (hat was yo.ume but poth'ng Liviped me, 1 saw your esojvent ugnt L would try 14: bt had o falth ffl 1ty bo- cause | had sutiered fur twelve years. | foukslx bottles of the Liesolvent aud one Lux of Lisdwa, and iwo mluuo!d.mlr teady ielicly and thera | tumor 1o Do seen or felt, and [ feel betfer, tiappler thas | have fur iwelve years, Thi TG Bl Yon Tor the beneraf b Tite &l 'ou ful e benedit of uthers, You can Pubiian'e 't sou'chovee. - LANNAIL BT KNAPS: ure ia cer- s Again, an the shatt of a brighter ray, fneplrit I'm walted fur away, ‘T'athat beautifut home ] have bought with a price— Lnto tus walls of Paradise, Ruckronp, JuLiay Puyvwe, SANITARIU 1, | THE DANSVILLE BA G TARIUAL (1',+0. sddress Dausville, Livingston County, N, Y. TOUEALVH-N] 12 the largest e nen and worm 10 talter what (heir diseases. if cure aole—are restored Lo heaith withont the use of medie . 1ta puysiclaos, of whom thers are Gve—thres gentlemen and two lalies—are thoroughly cducated, And Y (1i=I¥ Kreat success heve: glven L. 1 eir Institute a astlonal eputation. At thly date § 1 ih BaullaTium between 150 lm.l‘.lurnl(m chillren undzr treatment for dis m remedice Lat falled to reach Thiese persoas have comie from twenty. Caonda. The tucatinn 18 very salub bracingy water of the highest N0 1nos julloes: Bne region fur frult mn'nml the climate sy mlh{ In Wi " the In- 8 kopl upen Lae your roand, an i the Autumn K whers invaiid 0, 4+ which air dry un 0ze perfecti Manire Winter Altani dertuly. X Slinckery o ‘o treatuene.” i whimouny ira | PRICE, =« 81 Per Bottlo, Tullian bulnics Are sub dhedience to whiel e subje Li iEaures liealths disa.ca lience 10 ek, Tuobey tho lawaot Life and tlealth Iy v keen il gr, If slei, et well! Fodisouer thoi (s i gt shek, ervl!ch eufter, and dle uattnety, If, then, tha Teaders uf TuK TRIBINE would ke, If wil, to their hualin, or it woid 1ike to'ket go.1 h GOiir Hume, a0d | them, Ilch produces sicke AN IMPORTANT LETTER. ok, Mich., April 80, 1873, —Dx. TADwav— R B0 e e ks JOT DR, Bavware taiing Fiile, end aso using tho flvaily Helie atoat o year for avatiag tuniore ou tho Ko, wIch § Tioat emiaeat physicians of our dedical Calles pro Bouncud incursble ey wera iko knots on tree. My welaht was 215 nen b commenced with your temedies, and en pounia, but they en twenty-four bottire of | sadieuidivhaticeot pia . Picgss send ma UUE bOOK +* Falso aad 17ua ALS, C. KBAPF, Another Letter from Mrs, C, Krapf, RADWAY=KInd Slr: T take the liberty to addrem Jou sl Mylicalts s greatly Juibroved Ly s useof your wedicines. Threa of ilie tumurs are entire Eunoand the fourti fe nearlyso. Dropsy Is guse, heals 4 (nprovioi, and my welght decreaslng ve. i S §rrat many call ouderful cura your. Ulilo, one fron; Lan, Lumber from this =3 t3 Ies themn come & we wi Bond for our Heath Jourasl. e Laws of Life, or as they nay nevd. Woat I8 the e Of baing ai¢k whon Ui wiht, Just aa well as wot, by lu good health through atible obedlenca to Lar? If fuformation (i siy iraciion 1 waated, 1t witi 03 fully snd cheerfully idercd, and the best of refarences y by, s g as sbOYVe. tiky bt Lol ORI ¥ 2 TEMPLE-1LAUE Hostua, the Arse 1o make the plessant occupatin of fret- cutting kuuwn {0 this coun- try, aitd are hea lyuarters fur | il tuols shd mater Do- WOOD CARVING Wesdo Driil. Price, AKING POWDER means of sellin drumelats of A ATbor, L0 peracns ual tumara, atlicted ‘We bave heard of sowe wouderful cures ellccted by §t. Yours respectfull wirh fotore Yingnsaci Ana Arbor, Mich., Aug. 18. 1678, D ACH & €0 hout the country: 120 8 reputation aud posltion (n failies o tho city aad country cult, Tulls, cakes pud hinse Tho {ugredients tuat enter (uio its composl> Jusiiey, and perfece uaiformity will maalteat trisl, §¢ coatalas the cxact strenzih of & purd igth af lima 4a any climaie sad L not lahle DR. RADWAY'S REGULATING PILLS! standa nlons Ty best Jwhere. DR, PRICK'S g axri POWDER IS THE ONLY POWDER Indorsed by Eminent Chemists and Physi- its PERFECT PURITY and HEALTEFULNESS, and USED IN THEIR cians for OWN FAMILIES. =t D!ln l'u!CE'&MNAK ING POWDER, e, or defeterious drugs, W Uoscrva o followlng symptoms resultlog from 7 of thie Divestlve Gryais; Coustipsifon, IuWar Pllea. Fuliness of tho Blood fn the bead, Acidity of tho Slumach, Nauses. licaribura, Disgust 6 Food, Wullveas of welht of the fuemacty rour Eruptlons slakige wud Hulicrioes tatho i o o Stomach, Bwimimniog of the heads Hurried and Ditiicult Dreatblog, Vutieriog at the ileart, Cookiung sadBudocatingartiation when u & lyinig pustute, Dia: ~ CREAM i tho bigh Ve 4 Dol puiit ) the Head, T et g:llmmu of 1l n tho shic. Chest: aad (1 A faw uoses of s will fros the system 1508 01 S0 Ao ned Quordere. Frices S5 ceuty perbox. somwnrum-u READ FALSE AND TRUE. 6ead dae Jotier stanip to BADWAY & CO., Nou Wi B A A TS ol WGBS he8§ Jous