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Year: 1870

The ENCHANTED MOUNTAINS IN GEORGIA
In one of the northeastern counties of Geor
gia, and less than hundred miles from Chat.
tan0ga, is natural curiosity, called from Indian
tradition, the Enchanted Mountain,


The mountain is not large, and there is moth
ing remarkable about it until you get on top
when human tracks, or impressions in the sol
i'd rock which appear to be human tracks are
seen.


How these almost human tracks came to be
impressed ON the rock of this mountain is one
of the many mysteries of this mysterious land OF
ours. There are great many traditions among
the Indians in regard to this mountain, but
none OF them are satisfactory, and it probably
never will be known who it was that left their
tracks upon the summit of the enchanted
mountain. One of the Indian traditions is
curious, for it shows that they had vague
idea of Noah's flood before the advent of the
white man. The story had been handed down
among the aborigines that it was the landing
place of the great canoe after the deluge, and
the tracks were made by the people in the ca.
noe as they stepped out upon the rock which
had been made soft by the long inundation.


One of the tracks, and the largest one, ia
seventeen and half inches in length seven and
three fourths inches wide. Unlike the others,
it has six toes. These must have been Noah q
tracks, and if there was anything in the Musiac
account of the flood concerning Noah's feet,
we might have a confirmation of the Indian
tradition. The size of the track would indi-
cate that he wore number eighteens.


There are 1876 impressions of the feet and
hands visible on the face of the rock. The
smallest foot track is four inches in length and
of perfect shape. Another Indian tradition is
that great battle was once fought there, and
the large track with six toes is that of the vic
toripus commander. This is essentially Indian,
as their ideas of mental greatness were circum-
scribed by physical size. To be great war
rior with them was to be of immense size and
strength. They did not recognize the size and
quality of the brain as having anything to do
with it.


But who made these tracks upon the En-
chanted Mountain? Ifit was human feet then
whose feet, and in what age of the world If
they were chiseled out by human hands, whose
hands aud when? Alas. that the learning of
the world amounts to 50 little, for no man caH
tell
Year: 1870

COOP JoKE-While up the river few days
ago, says the Mississippi Democrat We heard
rich one on some poor fellow, whose name has
escaped u.s. He was padding to Vicksburg in
a "dug-out," and had been informed of a cer-
tain locality called "Rick's Bend, (which is 15
miles around, and IN one place about 100 yards
across. He was advised to land ut the narrow
point, and drag his craft over after him, but he
passed the spot, going down without observing
it, and padded on eighteen miles around till
he struck it on the other side. Landing ut
once, he dragged his boat across, and went
gliding along down with light heart until be
came within few PAGES Of the same spot at
which he had made his former portage. Sup
posing it to be new cutoff, he went ashore
and tugged his canoe ever again. When he
got back to the river second time, he saunt-
cred around little to stretch himself, and dis
covered an old newspaper out of which he had
taken breakfast that morning. It was now al
most sundown, and as he had padded thirty
six miles without any fatterlng progress, he
scuttled his dug-out with hatchet, built him.
self camp and waited till next day for boat
that would take him to Vicksburg.
Year: 1870

THE RED SEA.-The Red Sea is the hottest
place in the world, the thermometer running
up to hundred and twenty degrees in July,
and ninety in early spring. The atmosphere
for about fifty miles on that sea is steamy and
sticky. Everything in the shape of iron or
steel about ship takes ON a coat of rust, and
no one travels there during the summer unless
compelled to. do SO by business or military or
ders. In the winter and spring the passage is
delightful; yet navigation in that body OF water
is always attended with many dangers. The
Red Sea is long and narrow. with hidden rocks
and projecting reefs; and counter winds pre-
vail, which produce dangerous currents.
Year: 1870

WIN. RULE, ESQ. Il have received the
first number of your new paper, the KNOX
WILLIE CHRONICLE, and have examined
it with care 1t is quite readable weekly,
and L would like to see it in every Repub-
lican family in the Estate. The type and
paper are good, the selections are judicious,
and the mechanical part of it well execut-
ed. Enclosed ! send you the names of
three subscribers, and will hand you the
money when see you.


Having now spoken of the good quail
ties of your newspaper, / must say word
of its bad qualities. 1t is too mild in its
tone, and altogether too conciliatory, con-
sidering the party with which you have to
deal, and how violent and hostile towards
the loyal people that party is. We have
Gov. Senter with us, and, as am told, he
has been before the Reconstruction Conn
mittee of the House. His testimony is
said to have been strong against the Ku
Klux party, and altogether satisfactory to
the Republicans. expect the Committee
of the House to report bill looking to the
reconstruction of Tennessee. We propose
to wipe out the Legislature, and the late
Convention, and order an election of a new
| Legislature under the old law, and with
new registration, leaving the Executive
and Judiciary undisturbed. The bill will
meet with opposition in the House from the
| Democracy and the tender-fOOted Republic
cans but will, nevertheless, pass. In the
Senate, we will have less trouble, as we are
divided, politically, sixty Republicans to
ten Democrats. They will, of course, go
on to elect Judges in Tennessee. What
Gov. Senter will feel it his duty to do, am
unable to say, but if were Governor,
would refuse to commission their Judges
and other officers. That party have made
a great noise over the increase of the State
debt by the issuance of bonds to pay the
five years interest they had repudiated by
the rebellion, and bonds issued under my
administration to put our railroads i'm order.
They call il the Brownlow despotism, ex-
travaganceand swindling. They promised
to wipe out Radicalism, and renew an era
of prosperity. What have they done
Are they building up the towns and waste
i places? Is real estate and rents advancing
or falling off? Let the mechanics and day
| laborers of Knoxville answer the question.
The fifth month of the present session is
passing off rapidly, and am pleased to be
able to inform you that am the only man


i'm the Senate who has never been absent a


day. / make no speeches, but the ayes and


noes show me to be always right, voting


for extreme Radical measures. If had


not lost my voice, it is likely l would be


talking too, though we have quite too much
talking in both Houses.


The death of General Thomas has cast
| quite gloom over the whole country. The
country seems now to appreciate him
why not? hold that he was the greatest
man of the war, and the only General o
, whom it can be in truth said he never los
battle nor made Il mistake. 1 have ex


tended this letter beyond what i had in


tended, and therefore, hasten TO close.
r w. q. BT.owNLow.
Year: 1870

their hearts In this sacred cause, and never
hold their peace, never stay their exertions,
never cease their prayers, until intemper-
ance shall forever be banished not only
from our own little town and county, but
from our land, and finally from the world
Year: 1870

NOW is TILE TINE TO CALL Intending to re-
move in few days to No. 1915 Main street, we
have marked down our Straw Goods to the very
lowest margin. Cur stock of Straw ycntiIators
and other summer wear is still large and varied
and must be sold. MCVEIGU e MARSHALL,
Year: 1870

TILE LEE GALLERY MAKING AFRAID
Amongst the beauty and chiyalry ofth South one
would think there Is some magic Influence stwork
to collect so much beauty. Is the magfc In the
name 2-thc LEE.
Year: 1870

A COOP SToRY.-Once upon time there
lived among the hills of an adjoining country
an old gentleman, whose entire personal and
real estate consisted of wife, we'll ventila
ted log cabin, halt an acre of not very pro-
ductive land, and a violent fondness for wha;
is sometimes called tangled" whlskey.
One spring morning the owner OF all this
property was struck with the conviction that
his land must be plowed. But he had no
horse, and found it impossible to borrow one.
Nevertheless, the ground must be broken
up, horse or no horse, and it was finally de
terinend that the ''old woman should hitch
up the old man, and hold the handle and
drive, while he drew the plov. This was
accordingly done, and the pillow went bravely
on. until the plowshare ran under root aud
the team was brought to dead halt. But
the ''critter" had become warmed up by
this time, and as the old lady gave him rap
with the rein. and cried out git up there T.


he threw his weight upon the harness with a
heavy jerk, which snapped the trace of short;
and he shot forward against fence, his head
striking the end of rail with the force OF .
maui. "Thunderation, old woman he ex-
claimed, as he wiped the blood and dirt from
his eyes, why didn't you say o-h-oo
Year: 1870

A BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT years
ago, Rev. John w Maffet, then in his prime
delivered lecture, which closed with the
following passage:


The Phoenix, tabled bird of antiquity,
when it felt the advancing chills Of age,
built its own pyre by means which nature S
instinct taught. All its plumage and its
form of beauty became ashes; hut then
would rise the young-beautiful from the
urn of death and chamber of decay would
the fedgeling come, with its eyes turned to
the sun, and essayed its dark velvet wing,
sprinkled with gold and friuged with silver,
on the bamy air, rising a little higher, un-
til at length, in the full confidence of fight,
it gives cry of joy, and soon becomes a
glittering speck on the bosom of the aerial
ocean. Lovely voyager on earth, bound on
its heavenward journey to the sun! So ri
ses the spirit bird from the ruins of the
body, tie funeral urn. which its Maker
built the death fires. So towers away to
its home in the pure elements of spirituality,
intellect, Phoenix like, to dip its proud
wings into the fountain of eternal bliss. So
shall precious humanity survive from Its
ashes of the burning world. SO beautifully
shall the unchanged soul soar within the disc
of eternity's luminary with undazzled eyes
and unscorched wings, the Phoenix i'm
mortality-taker to its rainbow home, and
Graded on the beating bosom of eternal


owe.
Year: 1870

Rev. Mr. b, passing Deacon Rs
premises one evening, was greatly Mortified
at that pious official swearing in the most
accomplished manner at his COW, which had
just kicked his milk pail into the middle of
next week On observing hi. minister look
ing over the fence at him, the deacon said
apoligetically: Il am, really afraid, Mr..
B, l shall never be able to enjoy reli-
gion a. long as keep that COW.


Three bachelors in a midland town recent
ly made themselves as famous as the thr e
black crows, by game of euchre. The
victim" is to marry before the close of the
year. and support the other two during the
year following The finding of wife is an
easy matter enough, but the trouble will be
to induce her to comply with the full terms
of the contract.
Year: 1870

came, they petitioned to be permitted
to keep together, telling their story with
considerable effusiveness to the doctor,
who after some time came to them on
the field This gentleman, who was not
a military surgeon, but member of the
blessed society which dates from Geneva,
raised his hands in pleased astonish-
ment at the tale he heard, and at once
showed himself to be Free Mason too;
so that three brethren Of the mystic tie
were to be seen wondering over the
strange chance which had thrown them
together. ..s .r.ry


The wounded men are supremely sat
isfed at the result, and their story has
given them quite celebrity among their
fellow-sufierers. AT lges,, where the
French prisoners were placed after the
capitulation of Sedan, and where, it is
too true, they were all but starving, some
of their numbers contrived to make
known to their captors that they were
Masons, and though this was Intellectual
in many instances, the sturdy and unini-
tiated Prussians laughing the Masonic
gestures to scorn, wherever it succeeded
the men obtained little comforts which
were priceless. t..


A stout trooper was seen handing q
warm frieze coat to one prisoner, and
giving part of his rations to another,
and explained his conduct to an inquirer
with a sheepish smile, which spoke vol
umes, They are my brothers, though
have fought with them, and they are
hungry and cold, and must be helped.
They would do it for me. These are
mere typical cases. But it is impossible
to mix much with the troops, particularly
after battle, without hearing Of these
kindred instances Of Masonic usefulness.
Year: 1870




earthquake a(or what2) was felt He
had the glass poised in his hand, and
was about raising il TO his lips, when he
felt rocking motion He Immediately
became alarmed, and thought he Ind
the premonitory symptoms Of delirium
tremens. Said he Gentlemen, II it
has come to this; il my nerves have got
SO did shalSy as this, | must quit. Good
bye, old benzine." d4lias0ga u


One man of an economical disposition
was at work with dirty apron and slip
pers on, his new coat and new boots be-
ing close by. When he felt the shock, and
saw the other men in the room with one
accord rush out Of the apartment, he felt
there was some great danger, but he was
not prepared to sacrifice his coat nor his
boots-no, sooner would he perish in the
ruins of the building than desert them,
as life without those pet articles would
be cheerless to him. So he called out,
"Wait, boys, till i get my new bootsv y
as though they were in duty bound TO
keep him company if he must die--and,
examining his hat on his head, ,1thrusting
one arm into sleeve of the coat, and
grabbing the boots in the other hand, he
followed on, descending three or four
steps at time. His appearance when
he reached the sidewalk was ludicrous
in the extreme. and those who saw him,
though participating in the same alarm,
could not forbear to smile.


One gentleman sitting quietly writing
at desk, all al once felt his head invol-
unfairly moving from side to side, his
hand was unsteady, and il occurred to
him that hegwas attacked with paralysis
or apoplexy. Quietly he rose from his
chair and hastened tothe window, where
he restedlhis head against a cool pane Of
glass, and calmly composed himself to
die. Looking out on the street. he saw
the walks lined with people in every di-
rection, and concluding that perhaps his
time hadn't come after all, he marched
out to ascertain what the matter was.


a.
Year: 1870

makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear.
ance on both sides Of the fabric and will
not ravel 1t is also more economical,
requiring oNE-THIRD LESS cotton than
any ot.er kind of stitch. Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear
Year: 1870

1t possesses the very great advantage
Of carrying the work in the natural way
from left to right-which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operatorrequire
an inclination Of the body forward (detri-
snental to health) and are hard and tire
some TO use. t.
Year: 1870

When his linen was changed it was
destroyed by the Governor as soon
as it was taken off. He never re-
moved his mask for an instant, and
when he went to hear Mass, which
was held in the prison, the armed men
who whre present were instructed to
kill him instantly in case Of his speak
ing or showing his face. For years
he remained in the Bastile ,and always
wore the mask. He died in the pris-
on and was buried at St. PauI's. He
was evidently person of high rank,
probably relative of the royal fam
lily, but the mystery has never been
solved. He was always attended by
the Governor and major alone, was
treated with great consideration;
died very suddenly, and after his
death all his furniture, papers, ETC.,
were burned, and his money and jew
els melted down.


When the Bastile was destroyed
by the infuriated mob in the French
Revolution, it was hoped that some
thing would be discovered in regard
to this Man in the Iron Mask, as he
was called. But no; not even the
carefully kept records Of the prison,
which were discovered, threw any
light upon the mystery. He was
merely mentioned as an unknown
prisoner; but the fact is set down
that he was obliged always to wear
mask of black velvet.


When the Bastile was thrown open
and ransacked On the terrible June
day, only seven prisoners were found
in its cells and dungeons. One, the
Count de Solage, had been there
close captive ever since he was little
boy of eleven. Another, named Tav-
ernier had passed thirty years in the
Bastile, and when he found the doors
Of prison open, and his fellow crea-
lures crowding in, eager to welcome
him, he was like one waking from a
thirty years sleep. His mind was
dulled; the sunshine frightened and
bewildered him and he scarcely knew
what freedom meant.


They found records there of one
poor old man named Lebar, who had
been arrested when 76 years old, and
died in one of its vaults at the age Of
80 years.


Dreadful deeds were done during
the French Revolution, hut one bright
spot in its record is the destruction
of the Bastile. No more shall broken
hearted prisoners languish in its
gloomy towers. The place where it
stood SO long is now one of the gayest
and brightest in the city of Paris, and
the famous July column marks the
spot where the cruel old walls fell
| Hearth and Home.
Year: 1870

A MASSACHUSETTS BULL FlGHT.-
About fifty years ago l heard the fol-
lowing anecdote: A man in Massa-
chusetts was very fond of seeing bulls
fight. One time he owned a very
large bull, and a near neighbor OF
his owned a pretty good mate to his
own. One Sunday when the neigh
Dor had gone to meeting, the other
went over and turned the neighbor's
bull out and put him into the yard
with his own to see them fight. They
soon got at it, and one killed the 9th
er. then ran for the man, who fled for
his life to his house, and the parlor
door being nearest he entered that,
but had not time to close it. He rush
ed through the parlor to the kitchen
for his gun, which happened to DC
loaded with powder and balls. A
large mirror hung on one side OF the
parlor, and as the bull was pursuing
the man he CHANGED to see the bull in
the mirror, and pitched at him furious
ly-which he demolished Instantly;
and then headed for the kitchen door
where the man stood with his gun,
which was instantly discharged, and
the bull fell dead on the parlor floor.
This was a pretty tall Sundays joke!
-Ne,c England Homestead.
Year: 1870

When ! returned,
With Oriel from our lonely mountain watch
To the fast filling vale of Paradise,
Who first of all those white-robed multtudes
Should greet me, but my own. my santed wife !!
Her spirit, like mine, dismantled of the flesh.
But radiant with the likeness OF the Lord;
Our infant cherubs clinging to her skirts,
The mother with her children; (how, not so ,
My wife-yet deem not by that name, her soul
Had not put off its earthly, and put on
Its heavenly. In a moment was ware
She was forever, altogether mine:
Not spouse, but what is symbollzed by spouse;
Not consort, but what consort typifes;
The meaning now made fact; the ideal here
Transparent in our own real unity,
A reflex glory and image Of myself,
An helpmeet for me in the house of God.
o, never in her loveliest on earth
OF bud or bloom appeared she lovely as now,
Nor ever had loved her as this hour,
When hanging on my neck as she was wont
She looked up with her tender, pleading face
And sobbed for very ecstacy, not grief,
MY husband" This was all, but this is heaven.


e. X. Bickersteth.
Year: 1870

Napoleon's remark that when traveller has
gone long journey he is not weakened oy
laying aside part of his burden, might help
the people of France to an excellent reason
for advising the imperial invalid to get
rid of the whole Of it. But the utterance
is, Notwithstanding, the most significant
of the usual oracular commonplaces reported
rs by cable on imperial occasions. The assur-
ances of devotion from the Corps Legislatt !;
the good understanding between the Corps and
the Emperor, never more necessary than now |;
the augmentation of prerOgative without les
sening authority make up the substance OF
the Emperor's latest reply to legislative ad
dress.


This reply is prefaced by NJ. OIliyier's re-
vised Ministry. The long-exDected Cabinet has
undergone a series of metamorphoses before
being finally formed in the imperial MIND; Dut
now we know enough of it to suspect that 1t Is
not liberal enough to satisfy the most
liberal, or sufficiently conservative 10 please
the most conservative. One of the French
papers characterizes it as the reaction which
aided the imperial usurpation come to power
again another murmurs that 1t is too much
influenced by the Theirs people. In other



probably complains that Count Daru, the Mar
quis Talhouet, and Messrs. Segris and Bufiet
belong to the Theirs section of Liberals,
while Messrs. Olivier, Chevaudier de
yaldrome, and Richard, who are
classed as Liberal -Imperialists, do not aid the
case of those who desire heavier prepon-
derance of names on the side of the empire
The Democratic Frenchman apparently hopes
little from this infusion into the Government
of two classes OF unparalleled Liberals
and it is probable that the Olivier Cab
met is more conservative than the
more sanguine of his fellow liberals could have
expected Only the ministers of war, marine
and the imperial household remain unchanged
by the reconstruction, so that the Emperor has
made his Cabinet, upon the whole, quite
as new as could have been ex'
pected of him. 1t is decidedly q
more liberal ministry than that which was re-
ported to US the other day, and its positive
majority of liberal names certainly verifes as
far as it goes the Emperor's charge to con-
struct a homogeneous ministry faithfully rep
resenting the majority of his legislature.
Year: 1870

We gave some facts yesterday about certain
remarkable movements of population which
are in progress in the Southern States,-shOw


ing that the colored race is moving toward the
cotton growing region of the far South, while
the poorer class of whites is moving toward
the newer States west Of the Mississippi. In
connection with these facts, we may notice
some statements made in the exhibit of last
years cotton crop, just published py the De
partment of Agriculture. In Alabama, the crop
of the past year was eight per cent more than
the crop of the previous year; in Florida, it
was seven per cent more; in Louisiana, twelve
per cent more in Mississippi, fifteen per cent
more; and in Texas, twenty-five per cent
more. In the Carolnas, Georgia, and Tennes-
see, on the other hand, the crop of the past
year averaged ten per cent less than the crop
of tho previous year. These facts are Curl
ously coincident with the movement Of the
colored population in the South. 1t has been
during the last twelve or eighteen months that
the migration Of colored laborers to the Gulf
States has been in noticeable progress. If this
migration continues TO increase as 1t has done
of late. we shall soon SEQ still further and


much greater increase In the cotton crop, as
well ~ iu tho 0olored population ID the Gulf