Three-fourths of the Republican National Committee are said to be Grant men. - Mrs. Thornton is expected to revive the brilliant days of Lady Napier in Washington, and beaux and belles are happy. - Flax is so profitable in Canada that flour mills have been turned into linen mills, and near Preston twelve hundred acres of flax were raised. - Milwaukee erected 1,233 buildings in 1866, at an expense of $2,500,000, and exceeds that figure this year by twenty-five per cent. -The young Marquis of Bute has just attained his majority. He comes into possession of an income of $600,000, with an annual rent-roll of $150,000. -A San Francisco paper looks forward to the time when California grapes, per Pacific Railway, will retail at five cents a pound in the Atlantic States. There are forty lady postmasters in South Carolina. -There are ten million dollars' worth of gold plate in Windsor Castle. Many are making war upon the Secretary of the Treasury, and many more upon the Treasury itself. Mrs. General Gaines is at present visiting some friends in New Orleans. She is now worth fifteen millions of dollars, but it has taken her almost a lifetime to establish her claim to the property. - Amos Lawrence, of Boston, kept a record during a long life of all his mercantile acquaintances, and found out that of every hundred who entered business, ninety-seven failed of success. -The Rosses have lost their power in the Cherokee nation. At a recent election for chief, Lewis Dourning, a full-breed with a Christian name, was elected by a large majority over Wm. P. Ross. I think men drink in crowds because they are afraid to drink by themselves. It requires a good deal of courage to stand up alone and pour a glass of whisky down your throat. - In Chicago the keno banks are closed by the authorities, but the players hire a vessel and go out on the lake to gamble. A young man in South-western Missouri has committed suicide in a manner to excite the envy of a Parisian. He put himself at an angle of a "Virginia rail fence," and using an ax-helve as a lever, he raised the fence, put his head under it, and caused his neck to be broken by the falling weight of fence timber. - A New York judge, en route to Washington, was robbed of $6,000 in five-twenty bonds on Sunday night. -Nelson Walker (colored) is announced in the Press and Times as a candidate for Sheriff of Davidson county, Tennessee. -The truth of the report that Spain has offered to sell the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico to the United States is denied. - Mr. Cyrus W. Field is to be made the recipient of a magnificent silver dinner service of twelve pieces, the gift of George Peabody. -The police force of Philadelphia now nearly numbers one thousand men. -The Hudson river has become so full of gold fish that fishermen take them by the wagon load. - The New York Express says that fifty thousand men are out of employment in that city, and full three thousand girls are looking for "places" and cannot find them. A BOSTON paper says Dickens quietly. eaves the Parker House every morning for a ten mile walk in the country. A SUSCEPTIBLE youth says he would rather go to church to see the hers than to read the hymns. -A telescope has been invented in France which enables one to see objects under water. Vienna is an aristocratic city; sixty archdukes and archduchesses live there. - A dinner was given, a short time since, to General Beauregard, at the Restaurant Porcher, St. Louis. There were fifty persons at table, among them Generals Jeff. Thompson and Basil Duke. - Count Bismarck has just celebrated his "family day" by a dinner party, to which all the Bismarcks were invited. This custom is jealously preserved in Pomerania and the Mark. -Two girls, of ten and fourteen years, were lately burned to death in a dwelling in Springfield, Massachusetts. -Two "soldiers of the legion at Macon, started out as highway robbers. They were caught and locked up in jail. -Mrs. Louise Morris Eustin died last Wednesday at Cannes, France, of consump tion. She was the daughter of Corcoran, the banker at Washington, and previous to her marriage to a Louisiana Congressman, was one of the belles of the capital. She leaves three young children. -A young Quakeress in Philadelphia, succeeded in blowing herself up finely, while trying to light a fire with kerosene. -An Irishman in Cleveland, tested a keg of damp-powder with a match. Both powder and Irishman went off with a flash. -The newest silk garment forms a sort of half-fitting paletot at the back and a mantilla with rounded ends in front. -The Bosphorus is to be bridged. The whole distance is 3360 feet, and there are to be but three arches. --Dickens offered to read in Toledo for $2,000, but the offer was declined. -Forty-two young Persians went to Paris in 1860 to receive an education. They have all become thoroughly acquainted with various branches of learning, and most of them have returned to their native country. --Suffer not your thoughts to dwell on the injuries you have received, or the provoking words that have been spoken to you. Not only learn the art of neglecting injuries at the time you receive them, but let them grow less and less every moment, till they die out of your mind. -We are never so happy or unfortunate as we think ourselves. -Desire not more of the world than is necessary to accommodate you in passing through it. -It is better to keep your temper than to let other people have it. It will do them no good, or you either. -A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, the true glory of the angels, the rare miracle of the earth, and the sole wonder of the world. -As storm following storm, and wave succeeding wave, give additional hardness to the shell that encloses the pearl, so do the storms and waves of life add force to the character of man. -Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide, anguish of body few. This proves that the health of the mind is of so far more importance than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. -Millard Fillmore is reported to be writ ing a history of his Presidential administration, to be published after his death. -There are two men in Paris, Ill., over 100 years of age. One of them, John Edgan, an Irishman, who fought in the Revolutionary war, is in his 104th year; the other, John Garvin, also an Irishman, is 110. -A young wife in Moreau, New York, threw a bonnet and shawl into the river, left a suicidal note, and eloped with a young In a late letter by Prof. Huxley, in London, he states that he has read an Egyptian novel of much greater antiquity than the Pentateuch, and that he finds there the original of the story of Joseph. -Cincinnatians have feared a coal famine this winter. This fear is now put to rest by the rise of the Ohio. - Thieves are prowling around Indiana, stealing hair for Eastern jewelers. Two ladies in Evansville have been robbed of their hair by force within a few weeks. -Mr. Buchanan, of the Sumner Street Theatre, in Nashville, placed some gunpowder in the chimney to clear it of soot, and was burned by the explosion so severely that he may lose the sight of his eyes. One night recently the prisoners in the jail of Kalamazoo, Michigan, made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to escape, aided by persons outside. In the melee the sheriff was dangerously wounded by a pistol shot. -One thousand dwellings are said to have been built in St. Paul, Minnesota, within the past two years. - A table, said to have been owned by Marie Antoinette, was lately sold in New York for $1,500. - The cemeteries in New Orleans are full of people adorning the graves of their cherished dead, who have fallen victims to the yellow fever. The next session of the Annual and North Georgia Conference of the Methodist E. Church, is to be held in Griffin. - The Ohio Cashmere Company in Vinton county have bought one hundred thousand dollars' worth of cashmere goats this year. The wool sells for six dollars a pound. -The Cincinnati Hebrew Relief Society has spent over twelve thousand dollars this year for the benefit of the poor. Frozen potatoes make more starch than fresh ones. Reviews, Notices, Etc. CURIOUS MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. By S. Baring Gould, A. M. Roberts Brothers: Boston, 1867. The subjects embraced in this handsome volume are, The Wandering Jew, William Tell, Prester John, Pope Joan, The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, and a few others of less note and interest. The author performs the same service to the cause of historical truth, in the Middle Ages, that Niebuhr did for the mythical period of the Roman Annals. It is a silly sentimentalism that finds fault with these fearless discussions of historical problems. As well insist upon the belief in the tragical story of the Death of Cock Robin. or the Adventures of Jack the Giant Killer, as to require implicit faith in the legends which relate to Prester John and the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. As natural science has disenchanted the hills and forests, and mountain streams, so the researches of the historian have dissipated the myths of ancient and mediaeval history. We therefore thank Mr. Gould for his contribution to the learning of the age, and would be glad to know that his unpretending volume was introduced into our libraries. For sale by J. W. Burke & Co., Macon, Ga. FOUR YEARS AMONG SPANISH AMERICANS. By F. Hassaurek. New York: Hurd & Houghton' 1867. The information contained in this book is neither original nor striking. It concerns chiefly the Republic of Ecuador, and be gins with a tame description of the City of Guyaquil. There is a family likeness amongst all Spanish Americans, whether they inhabit the table lands of Mexico, or dwell on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. There is the same passion for card playing and cock fighting, the same tendency to dancing and debauchery. Mr. Hassaurek, however, as an accrdited Minister of the United States, had excellent opportunities for observation, and his conclusions are worthy of attention. The typography of the book is good, and it may be well for those who have abundant leisure to devote a day to its perusal. OUR REDUCTION.-We offer this Magazine to subscribers the present year for FOUR DOLLARS. This is for strictly advance payments. If delayed thirty days, we must have FIVE DOLLARS. We would call attention to the card in this issue, of Harper & Brothers. Their series of School and Family Readers is complete and by the best authors, admirably arranged, and adapted to School, College and home instruction. 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The learner will not find himself enveloped in that cloud of obscurity which pervades the works on this subject, by Parker, Boyd, Quackenbos and Blair. The book is designed for the use of Colleges and schools, and should be generally adopted by teachers and pupils. Louis Napoleon is individually in debt some six millions of francs. |