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Cost Of the War.

The whole cost of the war TO the
Northern and Southern States from
1861 10 1865 is estimated az follows
Lives, 100000; property, by destruc-
ton, waste, &c. $1,000, 100000. The
gross expenditures of the United
States from June, 1861, to July, 1866,
were s., 192 2,257,U00. OF this, the actual
war expenses were about S., ,352, 237 900.
The expense of States, counties, cities
and towns in the Northern States not
represented by funded debts have been
estimated at $500 100000. The increase
of State debts on the war account was
Sl23,0O0,0O0. The increase of city.
town and county debts is estimated at
$50 DO~,Wn. Total war expenses OF
the loyal States and the National Coy
ernment, Sc, l65, ,237, 900.
The estimated direct expenditures of
the Confederate States on account of
the war were s., ,000, ,0O0,O
Aggregate estimated expenses of the
war TO the country, North and South,
S., l05, 2237 900.
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TOOmbs and Wise.

The malignants are coming together
from all the four quarters of the political
compass. Henry A. Wise joins Robert
Toombs in preferring Grant and the party
of hate to Greeley and the party of peace.
How natural! We believe in the doctrine
of affinity, and in Morton and Toombs, in
Wendell Phillips and Henry A. Wise, we
find the most perfect similtudes. After
much wandering and curious Emergencies,
these men come together at last. Auspi-
cious circumstance
During third of century the South
has been misrepresented by such leaders
as Wise and Toombs. They are really bril-
liant men in their way-full of audacity
and enterprise, irrepressible eccentrics,
who dazzle where they fail to convince.
They belong TO type, a most singular, a
most startling type. To extraordinary
dramatic talents, to a genius for the stage,
not inferior TO that of Edwin Booth and
Joseph Jefferson, they unite a taste for
pubIic affairs and turn for political man
arement, which battles phrenology and
nsvchoIogic research. The fve-hour speech
delivered by Henry A. Wise at Alexandra
in 1855 against the Know-Nothings-the
speech that squashed the order in the
South-was q model of artistic stage play.
Mr.. Toombs never made great ''hit." He
never appeared, like Jefferson and Booth
as Rip Van Wrinkle and .Hamlet-thst is ia
say he is not identified with any specially
But he has made the pit rise" on several
occasions; and, if he had gone on the lie.
ultimate boards early in life, he would, a,
realist, have emulated Bouffet and lie
maitre
Every great actor is most at home in hi
idiosyncratic passion. Edwin Booth ha
Q dreamy, abstract cast Of mind, and make
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19

1t has been generally supposed by
scientific men that the fossil elephant
of Siberia had no representative in the
same latitude on this continent. Re-
cent examinations on the Yukon river
in Alaska, however, have established
the fact that the remains are even more
plentiful on the west than on the east
side of the North Pacific. Enormous
quantities of bones are found, and a
supply of ivory sufficient to last the
world for centuries. The valleys of all
the streams and all the low grounds
are filled with bones and tusks, so that
every vessel now arriving from these
remote possessions has part Of its cargo
made up in part of these new-found
remains. The elephant, whose range
was formally almost universal, is now
confined to small portion Of Africa
and Asia, and it would seem as if the
species was in process of slow extinc-
ton. Neither Europe nor America,
which once swarmed with them, has
now either a climate or q vegetable
fitted to their existence. Their re-
mains, however, are likely to give
Alaska q value not previously sus-
DectAd
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19
A Drunkard's Daily Experiences.

The atlantic Monthly gives the fol-
lowing graphic sketch of the daily eX-
perience of every drunkard: The daily
life of one of the steady drunkards is
like this: Upon getting up in the
drunkard's sleep, he is miserable be-
yond expression, and almost helpless.
In very bad cases he will sit almost
double, and his hands will tremble so
that he can not lift to his lips the
glass for which he has a desire
amounting to a mania. Two or three
glasses of spirituous liquor will restore
him SO far that he can control his
muscles, and get about betraying his
condition. After being up an hour,
and drinking every ten or fifteen min
utes, he will usually be able to eat
pretty good breakfast, which, with
the aid of coffee, tobacco and COM
paratively small quantity of liquor,
he will he able to digest. After break
fast, for some hours he will be able TO
transact routine business, and associate
with his fellows without exciting their
pity or contempt. AS dinner draws
near, he feels the necessity of creating
an appetite, which he often accom-
plishes by drinking some of those in
fernal compounds which are advertised
on the eternal rocks and mountain
sides as "bitters," under various names
offered to the public, and displayed be-
hind bars in drinking saloons, some
with certificates of physicians at
tached, which are usually vile COM
pounds of refuse whisky, condemned
cordials, wines, etc., mixed together
and favored to suit the taste with a
few herbs, spices and sugar, and sold
under the names of Tonics, Restorers,
Appetizers, etc. Many persons are in
duced to take them, believing them to
be beneficial, when if they knew the
vile stuff from which they are made,
not one out of a thousand would
touch them.
1t is vain for advocates of temperance
to write, speak or labor for reform
while this shameful business is carried
on, and physicians can be found to re-
commend them.
1t is not surprising that sensible
people are becoming disgusted with the
name of bitters," which are nothing
but the worst liquors disguised az
medicines, and do but lure the tippler
on to ruin and destruction.
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Wonders of the Universe.

What assertions will make one be-
lieye that in one second of time, one
beat of the pendulum of a clock, a ray
of light travels over 152, 900 miles, and
would therefore perform the tour of
the world in about the same time that
it requires to wink with our eyelids,
and in much less than a swift runner
occupies i'll taking single stride!
What mortal can be made to believe,
without demonstration, that the sun is
almost million miles larger than the
Earth ?-and that, although so remote
from us, a cannon ball shot directly to-
ward it, and maintaining its full speed,
would be twenty years in reaching it,
yet it effects the Earth by its attrac-
ton in an appreciable instant of time
Who would not ask for demonstration,
ordinary flight, beats many hundred
animated and regularly organized be-
ings, many thousands of whose bodies
laid together would not extend an inch?
But what are these to the astonishing
truths which modern optical inquiries
have disclosed, which teach that every
point of a medium through which a
ray of light passes is affected with a
succession of periodical movements;
regularly recurring at equal intervals,
no less than five hundred million of
millions of times in a single Second!
That it is by such movements commu-
nicated to the nerves of the eye that.
we see: nay, more, that it is the differ
ence in the frequency of their recur-
renee which affect us with the sense
of the diversity of color? That, for in
stance, in acquiring the sensation of
redness, our eyes are affected four hum
dred and eighty-two million of mil
lions of times-Of yellowness, five hum
dred and forty-One million Of millions
times-and of violet, seven hundred
and seven millions of times per second?
Do not such things sound more like
the rawlings of madmen than the sober
conclusions of people in their waking
senses? They are, nevertheless, con-
clusions to which any one may most
certainly arrive, who will only be at
the trouble of examining the chain of
reasoning by which they have been
obtained.
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RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

Methodism is strong in Nebraska.
Henry Il. B. Bascom, son of Bishop
H. B. Bascom, died at the residence OF
his mother, Lexington, Ky.
The cost of the Methodist church ed
ifice of Akron, Ohio, to the time Of its
dedication, was $120, ,248 II.
The executors of the will of Miss
Nabby Joy, of Boston, have distributed
among fifty-six charitable and trade
societies $236, 900.
Rev. r. C. Clarke, q worthy Presby-
terian minister, died recently In San
Diego, California.
The best paid preacher in the world
u said to be the Rabbi of the great B<f-
lin Synagogue, Germany. He receives
$4,000 per annum.
Rev. Mr.. Malcolm, defender of the
Open Communicates In the Baptist
Church in this country, reports;that the
movement Is gaining ground every
where.
Quite a romantic wedding came of
in the first circle of . Franklin county
Pennsylvania, village recently, when
the bridegroom, widOwer Of seventy,
married lady whom he and his for.
mer wife had brought up from infancy
and who had lived in his family q /
daughter for forty yssfx
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19
SUNDAY 4 Day Of Gladness.

God docs hot mean us always to be
sombre, least of all upon Sunday, the
glad feast of the Resurrection, a day
whose atmosphere throughout should
be one ofqlHet, unworldly joy. Let no
boistcreus merriinent disturb the calm:
let hearty worship, and kindly inter-
course and refreshing rest-rest of
tired mind from iss dragging brood Of
weekday anxiefies, rest of tired body
from the round of weekday toilet
this he the employment, this the tone
of the hallowed day. Religion, not in
every word, act, look, obtruded with
painful effort, but present i'm the heart,
should prevade the day, its rest, its
reading, its conversation. o! never
represent Sunday-at any rate to the
young-as dull and gloomy day; nor
dream that heart devoted to the kind
God need abjure all that is genial and
joyous, or that a subdued, spirit-broken
step is necessary to the child who has
chosen to walk beside that tender
Father, holding by his hand.-Rdndona
Thoughts.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19
Omen Xind0Ms at Night.

Very much has been written OH
this subject, and written unwisely the
facts are that whoever sleeps un-
comfortably cool will get sick. To hoist
a window sky-high when the mercury
is at zero is an absurdity. The cooler
a sleeping apartment is, the more I'M
healthy it becomes, because cold con-
denses carbOnic acid formed by the
breathing of the sleeper. 1t settles
near the floor and is rebreathed.
Hence, we must be governed by cir
cumstances; the first thing is, you
must be comfortably warm during
sleep, otherwise you are not refreshed,
and inflammation of the lungs may be
produced, and life destroyed within
few days. An open door and an open
fireplace are sufficient for ordinary
purposes in cold weather. A-t
When outer windows are opened, 1t
is we'll to have them down at the top
two or three inches and up at the bot
tom for the same space. In miasmatic
lOcatiOns-and those are along water
courses, beside mill-ponds, marshes,
bayous, river bottoms, fiat lands and
the like-it is important, from the first
of August until several severe frOsts
have been noticed, to sleep with all ex.
ternal doors and windows closed, be
cause the cool air of sunset causes the
condensation of the emanatiOns which
were caused by the heat of the noon
day sun to rise far above the earth
this condensation makes the air
heavy" at sundown, yet heavier by
the greater solidification of the emana-
nations by cold; and these, resting on
the surface of the earth in their more
concentrated and malignant form, are
breathed into the lungs, and swallowed
irtO the stomach, cOrruptlng and
poisoning the blood with great rapid
ity.
BY daylight these condensatiOns are
made so compact by the prOtracted
GOODNESS of the night, that they are too
near the surface of the earth to be
breathed into the system but as the
sun begins to ascend, these heavy con-
densations, miasms, begin to rise again
to the height of several feet above the
ground, and are freely taken into the
system by every breath and swallow;
hence the hours of sunrise and sunset
are the most unhealthful of the twenty
four in the localities named and noon
tide, when the sun is hottest, is the
most healthy portion of the day, be-
cause the miasma is so much rarefied
that it ascends rapidly to the upper re-
giOns.
The general lessons are,-lst. Avoid
exposures to the outdoor air in MAS
matte localities for the hours including
sunrise and sunset. I'd. Have q blazing
fire ON the hearth of the family room
at those hours, to rarity and send the
miasma upward. Sd. Take breakfast
before going out Of doors in the morn
ing, and take tea before sundown; then,
being out after night is not injurious.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19
Strength Of Gibraltar.

Until you set foot on Gibraltar, you
can form no idea of its impregnability
Very properly its real strength cannot
be seen from a ship in the bay; only
when you land do you find that the
sea wall bristles with heavy guns, and
groans beneath piles of ball only as
you traverse its flank do you see how
formidable breech-loaders peep from
every available chink, and powerful
mortars Iurk behind every convenient
embankment. And not till you pene-
trate the rock do you get any just no.
ton of the marvellous piece of military
engineering exhibited in the "galler-
ies." These are tunnels excavated
from the solid rock, parallel to its outer
side, but some thirty feet therefrom,
and large enough to drive Q carriage
through. They are in two tiers, and
comprise total length of nearly three
miles. At every thirty feet Or SO along
them, spacious embrasures are out
portfolios, which look to spectator
outside the rock like swallows nest
holes in a sand cliff. These embrasures
contain heavy guns always standing
readyefor action, with powder maga-
lilies HaTu Dy. FIOm the pOrtnOles a
beautiful peep of the bay and the Span
ish continent are obtained; out of
these, ON the North side, you look
down upon a half-sandy, half-gra.sy
fiat, perhaps half mile long, and as
wide, connecting the rock with the
main land, and separating the bay,
from the Mediterranean. Two lines of
sentry-boxes, one at the rock end, the
other at the distant end, mark the
boundaries of British and Spanish land,
and between these lines is the, neutral
ground. The guns of the quarried en-
brasures and those hidden cannon that
stud the Western and Southern slopes
of the rock, cover the neighboring
Spanish land, the whole of the bay,
and the straits; AMI the strengthing
work is ever going on by the fortifica-
ton of new points that from time to
time appear vulnerable. The Eastern
side of the rock requires no protection;
it is a forbidding wall, with great
sand slope in one place, but with no
fOOthOld for anything more than few
fishermen's huts near the waters edge.
st. James Magazine.
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SUNDAY READING.

Love God and serve him.
Lord, direct, control, suggest, this day,
All design, or do, or say;
That all my powers, with all their might,
In thy sole glory may unite.
We all have direct relation towards
God, and cannot in any way avoid its
responsibility.
Some professors of religion are much
more ready to fight for Christianity
than they are to live according to its
precepts. .,ts..
A man that hath anything i'm the
world so dear to him that he cannot
spare it for Christ if he calls for it, Is no
true Christian.
He that has inherited the love of
God, what has the world more to give
him? What can the world reach to
take from him? He has the chief
thing already.
God never fails, never changes, and
we have simply to depart from iniquity,
and cling TO him. We are to do what
is right, and, following it diligently,
leave results to him.
may be ever so rich, ever so finely
educated, ever SO handsome, ever so
much admired, and yet the day is
coming when l shall die. What then
will these profit me? Think of these
things, think of them.
If with a double burden the Lord
supplies double strength, it is exact
ly the same to our experience as if
with half, the burden he left us half the
strength. To all alleged difficulties
there is one simple answer-He 0iUeth
more grace.
All things are now ready the Lord
has promised; the fountain is open
the pure river of the water of life, clear
as crystal, is proceeding out of the
throne OF God and the Lamb; you are
called to its banks, and with you it
rests to drink and "be filed with the
Spirit"
The difference between receiUing the
Spirit and being filled with the Spirit,
is difference not of kind, but of de-
gree. In the one case, the light of
heaven has reached the dark chamber,
disturbed night, but leaving some OBJ
scurity and some deep shadows. In
the other that light has filled the whole
chamber, and made every corner
bright.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19
LADIES' COLUMN.

Bridal parties at Saratoga average s
round dozen daily.
Nuts, oats and oak-apples are worn
on plain straw hats.
Chip hats Dof American make are
worth five cents in Paris.
Blade-grass hats are the latest loves
for rural wear. - ~ safa
Organ grinders in New York dress
their monkeys in Dolly Vardens.
The latest styles of ladies' shoes are
made to button on both sides of the
boot.
Colored linen colors are coming in
fashion again this season, with cuffs to
match.
A novelty for polonaises is white
nets in large square or diamond-shaped
meSheS.
A large party of New Workers are
travelling through the Holy Land on
horseback.
Slim waists and brick cOlored hair In
dicate the bellies in French female
fashion.
Maiden ladies regard the multitude
of weddings nowadays as simply out
rageous.
At Niagara the billing and cOoing''
of bridal parties is heard above the
roar of the falls.
Long Branch, not to be outdone, has
its Spa, where all the mineral waters
can be obtained.
Vesuvisn lava is in such demand for
jewely that another eruption is desired
to supply the market.
'"The Lady of Lorne," the " Refine
Margot," and the "Martha Washing
ton," are the poetical titles of bustles.
American girls are Mortified to see
the fashionable ladies of England
wearing light silks and lace shawls on
the street.
Fashionable fastness is now known
asDolly Vardenism, which is a very
good name for it.
The habit of taking arsenic to
beautify the complexion is on the in
crease among both sexes in New York.
A dressy skirt-trimming for batiste,
linen, lawn, or any ordinary spring
material consists Of two plated ruffies.
Owners of pearl jewelry should be
careful to keep them from exposure to
greasy surfaces, as contact of this kind
destroys their lustre.
Coral necklaces have superseded all
other kinds this spring, and the mania
for the rose-tinted coral seems ratherOn
the increase than Othel wise.
Many partial ladies who are partial
to lOW-neck dresses and have not a
pretty neck, wear false one of wax
or alabaster brow, and when heavy
necklace is worn it can hardly be de-
tected from the real article.
A very beautiful fabric ia damask
gauze for evening wear, perfectly
transparent, Aand brocaded with rich
satin flowers. 1t is made up into polo
naises' to wear over some delicatetly
tinted silk.
A new style of bracelet, called the
Marguerite wristlets, has been intro
duced. They are of gold, made quite
wide, and divided into small squares,
on each of which is design in enamel
different scenes from the
opera of Faust, and each of these
squares open by small spring dis
closing an appropriate motto.
In Paris, writes young lady, bon
nets are awfully high, fiat" and
much overloaded with ribbon, leaves
and tulle. The pale sea green, trimmed
Sicilinne, preferably to a crepe de
chene, and white lilac appears to
please most for driving. The richest
ornamental wreaths are placed in
trails over the chignon and the flowers
are exquisite.
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BY HORSLEY BROS. & FIGUERS.

the movements of graceful, we'll
favored, dark featured, young lady,
who followed him, and whom, even in
the first warmth of his welcome
home" he introduced as tiny wife,
my Lucia"
Maggie Pilsey hugged her and kissed
her, and so did Irene Wyer, and so, in
a moment more, did old Mrs. Pilsey,
and the deacon was too wise q man to
seem altogether astonished, while Joe
Gaines and Bob Humphrey were fair
ly boisterous. In fact Scott Pilsey's
California bride was 80 overcome by
the warmth OF her greeting, that the
poor thing forgot her pride, and burst
into tears. In half minute after that
there wasn't a lady visible, and then
Bob and Joe knew enough to leave the
deacon and his son to themselves. The
young men walked off arm i'm arm, but
they were back again before the day
was over.
The deacon's face was trifie serious,
but not exactly cloudy, and before
long he managed to get Joe Gaines off
by himself for bit of private converse
ton.
"And so Joe," said he, "you and the
rest knew all about this matter of
Scott's some time ago?"
"Well, yes; Irene told me in conf
dence, and then, when they wrote and
told Scott how matters were here, he
wrote to congratulate us, and begged
us not to spoil his surprise to you. We
couldn't tell after all that, you knOw.n
"Ahem! well-nO-I can't say; but
p'raps not. can't be mad with Scott,
for she's brought him big rancho and
mine; but what am l to do with you
now? L like Bob Humphreys first
rate-I alters did like Bob-and now it
can't be Scott, don't see that / Ort to
interfere. You've armed your fee, and
rll pay it; then, you see, there amt
no more use'-
"Oh, no; not a Bit" interrupted
Joe, "BOb is a good fellow, and he and
Maggie are just suited. Irene and l
think Maggie couldn't have made a
better match, and we think Scott's
done splendidly we'll"
"Irene and youw exclaimed the
deacon.
ayes of course. Pve explained to
Irene that can't afford to lose my fee.
/ told her at the beginning, and she
said L must earn it. Seems to me I've
done that; but I'll let you up"
"Done it," exclaimed the deacon.
"Well, yes, Joe; On the whole,
should rather be inclined to say guess
| think you have! Yes-yOu and
Irene!'
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the greatest 0f H6H1lSts. JoseD6 "
has G sweet, generous, charitable nsfure.
and wedges his own beautiful, ch7Idlik5
personality-not unmixed with chiIdlika
shrewdness and mother wit-into the rem.
dering of R;p Van Hinkle So With Wise
and Toombs, each in his way; they are
Characteristic in their political impersona-
tons. To them public life is species Of
comic opera. They engage init as profes-
sional stars" Whilst "chivalry" was the
cue and keynote of the South-the off
spring of . mswkish, provincial sentimen-
taiity which fhe practical realities of the
war Knocked into cooked hat-they made
then. lives perpetual tourney. They did
not consider practical questions, sor care
about them in their search after sensation
al. In this way they did infinite damage
to their fellow-citizens, whom they were
able to misrepreseut by reason of their
snowy and insolent swagger and not by
reason of any actual reflection of the
the Southern people.
When Mr. Toombs declared that he
would call the roll of his slaves under the
shadow of the monument on Bunker Hill,
he simply got of q burst of 6rst-rate, stage
clap-trap, regardless of expense. Hemade
dash, as Junius Brutus Booth once did,
at the clamorous galleries. crying wildly
have at ye all, and fairly burst with the
spasm of the moment In like manner
Henry A. Wise, much more artistic COM
edian, has time and again undertaken the
atrical coups of startling brsvodo and dex-
terity; consulting always his normal pas
sion, which is hate Both have done their
fellow-man, their period and their section
limitless harm; and it is a circumstance of
good omen that they are for Grant and
not for Greeley-Coa ier- Journal.