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TrlT I mm * p Ell f. a, I i * a I y * • a * T-il =► L M VOL. II. The Hancock Journal IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, V$> VtohwStob* Qfe B (Office, Old Masonic Hall—Court House.) William II. Royal, Editor & Proprietor. Rates of Subscription: One copy 12 months $3 00—8 months $2 00 One copy 6 months, 1 00—4 months, 1 00 gjayTwo copies to one address, 1 year, 6 00 No name will be taken unless the cash ac¬ company the order. Rates for Advertising: Transient Advertisements will be charged at the rate of. one dollar per square ,for the first and seventy five cents for each subsequent Insertion, for one month or less. A liberal discount, will be made to persons advertising extensively, both as to time and space. Cards, for three months longer, business or will be charged six dollars per quarter for •sell square. fill Twelve lines of this type onesquarc. [Professionals: F, LLITTLE, iiiffliii attf, Sparta, Ga. Office in Law Building, west of thcC. H. GEORGE F. PIERCE, Jr. Sparta, Ga. Office In Low Building, west of the C.II PROFESSIONAL CARD TAR, A. F. DURHAM, thankful for past Jpatronage, takes pleasure the practice iu of announcing Medicine that he still continue* and .Surgery in the town of 8parta. brother Having associated with himself his Dr O. W- Durham in practice, one or the other of them may be found at their office nl all times of the day. attention is given the ireat , jpjgr? Special and diseases to peculiar j>cnt of Chronic Diseases to Females. Feb 12—ly Li OKta; ii. jones,” WITH M II V AMS * CO ‘J34 It road Street. Under Central Hotel, Augusta, Georgia Dealers In rift IS GROCERIES, W inea, Liquors and Cigars ; ALSO, GENRE COM MISS MA R CHANTS April 30 18051. ly. (Iiai’li'k A. Sledge, Trimmer & Upholsterer, Harness Maker and Repairer, Sparta, Ga. Tfi/| AY be found in the upper story of J A, JjUL (prepared Scmhlny’s to Carriage the public Shop, in where his Hue he ef is serve work, '’u terms to suit the times. iuay7~Iy JEWEL’S MILLS. (FORMERLY ROCK FACTORY.) Post Office at CULvfcRToN, Ga. k will Manufacture wool for CUSTOMERS this season, oti the following terms t Wool Manufactured In JEANS (ool'tl warp) at Manufactured ,, 30 cents per yard ; 20cts yard; into Kerseys at per or Carded into ROLLS at cents per lb. Sheetings, Shirtings, Oshaburgs and Yarns constantly ou hand. la Wool Wanted, Exchange for Uooils, at market value, or for CASH. <\m*i|rninonts by Raifroad should bo direct¬ ed to CulvoHou, Qa. D. A. JEWEL, may 14 bin Proprietor. Carriage,Buggy & wagon REPOSITORY •J James Carriage A. Shop, SCUDDaY at his old has stand, re-opcned where his he Is prepared to serve hi* old friends and patrons and tho public generally, in every branch of bis business, either with New Work, Repairing Ur Uttiovating of Carnages, Buggies, Wagons, in &0., at the most reasonable prices. Ho has his employ the well known freedman Tom Coles, alius Tom Thompson, and will warrant nil work to stand tho test. Torn is a thorough Democrat Mr. S. will also do all manner of Black smith work pertaiuiug to his business, and solicits a share of the public patronage. Sparta, April 23—3tu New Cabinet Shop. JOHN FRIESE, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE, 1 RESPECTFULLY fpnrla and vicinity informs that the he citizens has re¬ cently opene i in this place an establishment for the MMiiulteclurc and Repairing OF FURNITURE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION' and will keep on hand a full assortment of Bedateadn, Tables, Chairs, Jtc. or make to order any article in the cabinet Vina at the lowest prices and at short notioe. Call and see him. Will also Supply loans at •bort notice. U. INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS- -n eutral inc jvovj&jsfa. SPARTA, HANCOCK COUNTY, GA., AUGUST 1809. Poetry, The Dying Mother. sr al'ck c*ar. We were weeping round her pillow, For we knew that ahe must die ; It was night within our bosom— It was night upoa the sky. There were eevea of us children, I Ihe oldest one t.f all; Sol tried to whisper comfort, But the blindiug tears would fall. On my knees my little brother Leaned his aching brow and wept; And my sister's long black tresses O’er my heaving bosom swept. The shadow of an awful fear Came o’et me aa I trod, To lap the hardens of our grief Arouud the throne of God. “Oh J be kind to one anotl er,” Was the mothers pieadiug prayer. As her band lay iikea snow-flake On the baby's golden hair. Then glory bouud her forehead Like the glory of a crown, And in the sileut sea of death The star of life went down. Her latest breath was born away Upon that loving prayer, And the baud grew heavier, paler, On the b^by’e golden hair. ^ V 0m -- Liberty of the Pretw. Aronnd her waist 1 pot my arm— II fell as reft aa cake, ‘•Oh, dear," says she, “what liberty You printer men do take?" “Why. yea, my, Sal, rny charming gal, (I tquetzed her some, I guess,) Can you say aognt against The freedom of the Press ?’’ I kissed her some—I did, by gum; £he colored like a beet! Upon my living soul she looked Almost loo good to eat. I give another bu s, and then Says she, “1 do soufese 1 rather kinder sorter like I he freedom of the Peas t Miscellany, “I Wish 1 Had Capital.” So wc heard a great strapping young man oxeluim the other day. Wo conclu¬ ded that he wanted practical advice, and wc shall give it to him. You want capital, do you? And sup¬ pose you had what you call capital, what would you do with it? Haven’t you hands, feet, muscle, bone, brains, health, and don’t you call them capital ? What more capital did God give anybody ? “Oil! but they are not money,” say you. But they are moro than money, and no* body can take them from you. Don’t you know how to use them ? If you don’t its time you were learning. Take hold of the plow, or hoc, or jack plane, or broad ax, and go to work. Your capital will, in due tirno, yield you a large interest.— Ay but there’s the rub; you don’t want to work; you want money on credit, so you can play gontlcman and speculate, and end by playing the vagabond. C'r you want a farm, with plenty of hands upon it to do the work, while you run over the country and dissipate ; or you want to marry some rich girl who may be foolish enough to marry you for your good looks, that she may support you. Shame on you, young man ! Go to work with the capital you have, and you'll soon make interest enough upon it to give you as much money as you need, and make you feel like a man. If you cannot mako money on what capital you have, you could not if you had a large amount in cash. If yju do not know how to use bone, muscle and brains, you would not know how to use gold. If you let the capital you have lie idle, tmd waste aud rust out, it would bo the same with you you had gold; you would only know how to wasto it* I hen don t stand abont idle, a great helpless boy, waiting for something to turn up, but go to work. Take the fir.t work you can find, no matter what it is, so that you do it well. Yea, whatever you under¬ take do it well; always do your best. If you manage the capital you already have, you will aoon have plcuty more to manage; but if you can not or will not manage the capital God has giveu you, you will never have any other to mauage. Do you hear young man? A bachelor editor, who had a pretty uu married aistcr, lately wrote to another edi¬ tor similarly circumstanced, ‘Pleaac ex¬ change !’ Sambo, in speaking of the happiness of marriedj people said: ‘Dat ar’ ’pends alto gedder how dey enjoys demseirea.’ Rum’s Doings—A Strange Tale. Forsyte, July 30th 1869. I nm eighty four years of age, and nev¬ er, to my knowledge, have I used a pint of ardent spirits throughout my life; and yet, no man, has ever drained a deeper or bitter cup, because of the rum traffic than L have done I have been the father of nine children, seven sons and two daughters. One poor sickly I girl is all that remains to me now. was once the owner of two hundred acres love of land; owed uo man anything, but and good works—now a little cottage with a small warden and cow pasture is all my My earthly wealth. oldest son became a merchant; drink was fashionable at the time; he be¬ came the intemperate, failed in business, and at age of twentys even died of deliri¬ um tremens. My second son established a distillery, and at the age of thirty»two, died a chain-, cd maniac, the inmate of a mad house— the cause intemperance. My third son, under the influence of li¬ quor, quarrelled with his friend—sought revenge, shed blood a nd died on the gal¬ lows. and My fouith son, after years of reforming failing, Hnally perished in a snow storm. He was found a week after, with a half-emptcd My fifth rum jug by his side. son—he was greatly beloved— a preacher of the Gospel, but rum drags ged him from God’s altar, and laid him in the grave of a suicide. My sixth son was for three years a clerk in the city of New York, came home a wreck, and in four weeks died of pulmo¬ nary habits. consumption, induced by intemper¬ ate My seventh and last son, while intoxi¬ cated, fell from his horse and had his brains dashed out. He died on the spot. My oldest daughter married a man who became a aot. She struggled long with poverty and abuse; but finally, gave way and died of a broken hart. My youngest and only remaining child is the sickly girl I mentioned, the very last fragiueut of my once promising fami ‘y-. My wife bore fortitude, poor the weight of long with Christian her crushiug woes; but nature gave way at last, and I rejoic¬ ed, for her sake, when she fell asleep in death. . I have nothing personally to fear from the ruin traffice, but four of my sous hav¬ ing left families, I fear for them. 1 am told to love my country. . If mv country had loved me I might have been the father of nine living sons and daught¬ ers. Does my country kuow that she is giving legal life and being- to a system more ruthless— a murderer more deadly than the bloodiest sword of a foreign foe ? or tho most oppressive laws of a foreign power ‘t She is cherishing a feind that is gloating upon the best blood of her chil¬ dren aud sendiug them to the judgment seat berelt of reason and devoid of hope. 1 am told to love my neighbor as my self. Father of Mercies! how cau 1 love him, who, for inouey, will rob father and mother of all that their hearts hold dear ? 1 will love my country when she guards my iaterest aud my life. J will love my neighbor when he proves human. Till then, 1 have ho love, be¬ cause But no hope. he pardon me, pardon aa old man if speaks warmly; let my fearful suffer¬ ing plead my excuse, aud the magnitude of the evil it would overthrow.— Extract from Uncle Sam’s Farm Fence. A Rare Case. —The following ac count of an occurrence in Nantucket some twenty years since presents a vivid con¬ trast to certain business transactions of the present day, and so may be of inter¬ est ; “It was a very severe winter, and the harbor had been frozen over for weeks.— The coal in store had long been exhaust¬ ed, and there was much suffering from lack of fuel. Even fences had been torn down and burned to eke out the supply of wood. To the great delight of the townspeople the ice broke up one flue morning, and a schooner was seen ap¬ proaching. There was much excitement and before the croft was moored a coal dealer boarded her aud eagerly addressed the Cap’en” Quaqcr skipper, Capt. Gifford. “Wal, said he, “you’ve about hit it this cruise. I guess I’ll hev to take y'ur hul cargo. al §7 Spoae you’ll want more’n the usu¬ a tou. Wal, I like to do the square thing by a friend, and I’ll give you 812 a tou for it,” “Friend,” said Capt. Gifford, “thee can have one ton of my coal if thee likes for 88, but only one ton ; all must have a chance.” Just then one of the richest men ia the place joined them, say iug : “l want ten tons of your coal at your own prioe—name it. 1 have mffered enough for once. He received the same answer, and so did all—one tone for each family, and 88 as the price of each ton.— No love of gain, no solicitation, no regard for individuals could move honest Capt. Gifford.” ^ Beecher says that meu confess every¬ thing but their own besetting sins. They steer clear of these. Who ever heard a man say, “O Lord, I am as priud as Lu¬ cifer , humble me ;” or “O Lord, I ajuso mean and siingey that 'tis only paiu generous.” that I can unloose my-ltrsf^make me — • --------- ^ Negro Eloquence.— Man is is de first animal in do creation ; he springs up like de hcoper grasss, hops about like a poper grass, and dies dc same as a jackass ! Wbat JESrery Young Man Should Do. 1. Every young mail should make the most of himself, intellectually, morally, socially and politically. 2. He should depend upon his own ef forts to accomplish those results. 3. He should be willing to take advice from those competent to give it, and to tollow such advice, until his own judg¬ ment or convictions, properly founded, should otherwise direct. 4. If he is unfortunate enough to have a rich and indulgent father, he must do the best he can under the circumstances, which will be to cenduct himself very much as though he had not these obsta¬ cles to overcome. 5. lie should remember that young men, if they live, grow old and that the habits of youth are oftener than otherwise ii ^tasted in the mature man. Know tis fact, he should “ govern himself accordingly.” 6. He should never he discouraged by small beginnings, but remember that nearly all great results have been wrought out from apparently slight cause. 7. He should never, under any circum¬ stances, he idle. If he cannot find the employment ho prefers, let him come as near his desires as possible—he will thus reach the object of his ambition. 8. All young men have “ inalienable rights,” among which none is greater and more sacred than the privilege to be ‘somebody.” ■• w ' - Fashionable Women. Fashions kill more women than toil and sorrow. Obedience to fashion is a greater transgression oi the laws of woman’s na¬ ture, a greater injury to her physical and mental constitution, than the hardships of poverty and neglect. The slave woman at h.r task will live and grow old, and see two or three generations of her mistresses fade and pass away. The washerwoman with scarce a ray of hope to cheer her in her toils, will live to sec her fashionable sisters all extinct. The kitchen maid is hearty and strong, wheu her lady has to be nursed like a sick baby. It is a sad truth that fashion-pampered women are,--almost worthless for all the good ends of life; they have but little force of character; they have still less of moral will, and quite as little of physical energy. They live for no great ends They are dolls formed in the hands of milliners and servants, to be dressed aud fed to order. They dress nobody, they bless nobody^and save nobody. They write no books, they get no rich examples of virtue in womans life. If they rear children, servants and nurses do all, save to conceive and give them birth. And when reared, what are they ? What do they ever amount to, but weaker scions of the old stock? Who ever heard of a fashionable woman’s child exhibiting any virtue and power of mind, for which it became eminent ? Read the biographies of our great aud good men and women. Not one of them had a fashionable mother. They nearly all sprung from strong minded women, who had about as little to do with fashion as with the changing clouds. Manners. Young folks should be mannerly. How to he so is the question. Many a good boy and girl Icel that they can not behave to suit themselves in the presence of company. They feel timid, bashful, and self-distrustful the moment they are ad¬ dressed by a stranger, or appear in com¬ pany. There is but one way to get over this feeling and acquire graceful aud easy manners, that is to do the best they can all the time at home, as well as abroad.— Good manners are not learned from arbi trary teachings so much as acquired from habit. They JS> grow upon Y us by J use. We must , be courteous, agreeable, civil, . kind, . gentlemanly and womanly at home, and then it will soon become a kind of second nature to he so everywhere. A coarse, rough , manner at , . home . begets habit of a roughness, which we cannot lay off if we try, when we go among strangers. Be most agreeable at home Home is the school for all the best things, especially io r good manners. --- ‘Don’t eare much ’bout the bugs/ said Mr. Swinks, ‘but the truth is I hav’nt got the blood to spare.' newjonj^been discovered. It w extracted front sausages, anjl called phate of canine. ‘I won’t pay for steaks as tough as these '’ aa an o r J boarder ; ‘no law can com P €l me—they’re not legal tender.' A Fact.— Courtship is bliss, hut mrtri mony is blister. The Farmers Creed. Wo believe in small farms and thorough cultivation. Wo believe the soil loves to eat as well as the owner, and ought, therefore, to be well manured. We believe in going to bottom of things, and therefore, in deep plowing and enough of it. All the better if it be a sub-soil plow. We believe in large crops, which leave the ground better than they find it—mak¬ ing both tho farm and farmer rich atonco. We believe that every farm owns a good farmer. We believe that the best fertilizer of any soil is the spirits of industry,. enter¬ prise and intelligence—without this, lime, gypsum and guano will be of little use. We beliove in good fences, good barns, and good farm-houses, good orchards and children enough to gather the fruit. V\ e believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife in it, a clean cupboard, a clean dairy and a clean conscience.— Dixie Farmer. R medy for the Turnip Fly. S. Edwards Todd, in the Working banner, proposes to rid the tnruip crop of this pest by the use of ashes. He says ; As soon as the young plants can be seen, let a light sprinkling of wood ashes b« sifted over the rows. It .ill not iojure W ‘, r," t,S T ,08ift Indian odi meal. Aaltos cannot be applied entisfnetonly .nh the hand. Then™ should be to simply cover the minute leaves with fine ashes sufficient to prevent their being devoured by the turnip fly.— hen ashes are applied by hand without a eeive, which should be held close to the ground; careless operators are very liable to throw it on so bountifully as to smother the tender plants. -:--- Household Receipts. To Prepare Green Corn. —To one qt. of green corn grated, add one pint of cream, salt and one large spoon of butter, two hake. eggs, pepper to the taste, then Tomatoes Catsup. —Take one bushel of tomatoes, boil until soft, then squeeze through a seive and add one-half gallon of vinegar, a pint and a half of salt, two oun¬ ces of cloves, the fourth of a pound of all¬ spice, three ounces of cayenne, three table spoons of black pepper, five heads of gar lick, mix and boil for three hours. Corn Oysters.—G rate young sweet corn, and to each pint add one well beaten egg, a half teacup of flour, half a gill of cream, and a salt spoon of salt; mix and fry in hot lard by the spoonful. Tomatoes. —Few persons cook tomatoes long enough—they should be cooked three hours; peel and put into your stew pan without water, oook slowly ; when almost done, add butter, pepper, salt and a little sugar. On Monday morning, J. D. Enos, the negro whom Creswell appointed post tnas ter-at this place, took possession of the books, records, &c., of the office. The iniquity of the transaction on the part of the authorities of the postal de¬ partment—the acceptance of a bond not woith a farthing in this community—is appalling It only strengthens j n our nri n <l the long lainy entertained opinion that Radical vil¬ and corruption will hesitate at noth¬ ing in attaining its ends. That from the highest official to the lowest, they are a pack of knaves, cormo¬ rants—buzzards ! We counsel forbearance, 11 does not degrade us, but them. We who hare routed “the world in mail,” and now have our hands manacled behind us, cannot be degraded, unless we do it ourselves. Let us try this arrangement awhile ;— We are a law abiding people and will re¬ main so-, for we can but “kick against the pricks.” They are determined that we sh dl be brought snb juga, and all our efforts to flank tho authorities will result in the loss altogether of our postal conve¬ niences. There may be uninterested madcaps who t l»nk differently, and men who are wise ’ ^ a bu * ine f man wiJ ! .admit j at once that f i we mu-t have a post office, and must have one at Va/doeta. We tnay talk of political honor and principle, ! other things, hut when the great Utilitarian, Interest speaks, we listen, an d we find that some things are not so h ar< j to bear after all. Men and brethtren, what shall we do to be saved ? We counsel forbearance—till it ceases to be c virtue.— Valdosta Times. “I say, Mister, did you sec a dog come by here that looked as if he were a year, or year and half or two years old ?” said a Yankee to a Countryman, at the roadside. “Yes,” said the couutryman, thinking bimsfilfouizzcd. “He passed about an hourj or ^ our ana a half or tw0 hourj} ago, and u ^ ss about a mile, or a mile and a baTffor two miles ahead; and he had a tail about an inch, or an inch and s- half, or two inches long.” “That'll do, i “id the Yankee; you’re into me a feet or a feet and a half, or two feet.” NO. 17 Scraps. i . YE AGED BACHELOR. When I remember all The girls I’ve met togetheet, T’M A I feel like a rooster in the Fall Exposed to every weather. I feel like one who treads alone Some barnyard all deserted, T Whose oats are fled whose hens are dead, And off to market started. i * ■ ' 1 >;,? * fM r*T Si*L Will Grant ever get the hang of politics asks the N. Y. Telegram. Probably trot like old John Brown got it. Charles Dickens jr. is playing the Dick¬ ens—he is writing a Novel. il icKiif».:£» box A spiritualist brings a recommendation from Abe Lincoln for an office. Grant thinks it is too far-fetched. :>if, tithinb The woman’s club ‘says they want prin¬ ciples, not men. They’ll want men and not so much of the priuciples, after awhile. I The Omaha Republican chronicles a goose race. A frequent occurrence near¬ er home—without the feathers. It is asked “Is Governor > ,, 'i”wsiiWfn Walker i_ of Virginia a republican or a Democrat.”— He belongs to neither of those rotton or¬ ganizations# ~ „ A tioo t0 ^ tU „ k! „ u (mt „ f * oegroes hair i. no. advertised in the South.” There uswl lo one to teles |he kink out of Me bond, but it 1, .MU. ed now. ti brat afJsh Some of the Radical doilies arc discuss* ing the subject of ridding their party of the corrupt element. If they do that r there won’t be enough of them left to bu¬ ry their dead. T- i vj.jtrr* teat ‘Attention, men !’ said a corporal to a* division of recruits. ‘When your Dames are called you say here, and he who is not here, say absent.’ has 'oJt*o7 What is the difference between a citifer ed dinner and a person who subsists at the North Pole ? One has his fill of bear. ‘Harry, you ought not to throw away nice bread like that; you may want it some day.’ ‘Well, mother, would I stand any better chance of getting it then if I should eat it now ?’ A notice of a recent steamboat explo¬ sion, in a Western paper, ends us follows : ‘The captain swam ashore. So did the chambermaid; she was insured for $15, 000 and loaded with iron. A farmer saw au advertised receipt to prevent wells and cisterns from freeaing. He sent his money and received in an¬ swer : ‘Take in your well or cistern on cold nights, and keep it by the fire.’ Josh Billings says: ‘When a young man a’n’t good for anything else, I like tew see him carry a goldheaded cane. If he can’t borrow money enough to buy a cane, let him part his hair in the middle.’ “Father/ said a cobbler’s boy, as he was pegging away at an old sho, ‘they say that trout bite like every thing now.’— ‘Well, well,’ replied the old gentleman, ‘stick to your work and they won’t bito you.’ A Frenchman, wishing to speak of the cream of tho English poets, forgot the word in his enthusiams, and said : The butter of poets. 1 An Englishman remark¬ ed that he had fairly churned up the Eng¬ lish language. What is the difference between an old married couple who remained at home and quarrel, and a young mared couple who go skating and break through the ice ? The first stay in and fall out, and the second go out and fall in Said a Baptist to a metbodist: ‘I don’t like your ohureh government. It isn’t simple enough. There’s too much ma¬ chinery about it.’ ‘It is true/ replied the Methodist, ‘wo have more machinery than you; hut then, you see, it dost’ take n£ar so much water to run it.’ An old author quaintly remarks :— “ Avoid argument with ladies. In spin¬ ning yarns among silks and satins, a man is sure to be worsted and twisted. And when a man is worsted and twisted, he may consider himself wound np.” “Tain’t de white, nor de black folks, dat bah do most influence in dis worl’, hut de yalter boys,” said old aun’t Chloe, as she jingled a few gold coins that had come down from a former generation. v [Exchange. Prentice says man was the chief consid¬ eration at the creation. Woman was on ly a ‘side issue.’ A married lady being asked to waltz, gave the following sensible and appropri¬ ate answer, “No, thank you sir. I have hugging enough at home/ ? t