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Communications of general or local in terest, under a genuine signature, are cespectlully solicited from any source. SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO., Publishers. GATHER THE WAYSIDE FLOWERS. O cherish the human flowers That are scattered along the way, And help them turn their faces To the light of the brighter day! O help them to seek the sunshine That gleams o’er the path of right, Till the shadows hat lie about them Shall change to a gio ious 1 ght. O many there are that are fading •On the great highway of life ! Fading, drooping and dying ’Mid ceaseless toil and strife. But there’s never a little flower, Be it e’er so humble and small, By our heavenly Fa her forgotten; He tenderly loveth them all. O ye who would serve God tr ily, And hear the words “Well done! ” Stretch forth ihyhand to his children, And gather them one by one, Into the beautiful sunshine, Out of the shallow of sin; With a hand that is gen'le and loving, Tenderly gather them in. O then will the blessings of angels Be wafted to thee from above, The light of their presence will guide thee In thy beautiful mansion of love. And for the kind words thou hast spoken To the suffering children of God, A crown of bright flowers immortal, My brother, will be thy reward ! •CAN THE PLANTER HONESTLY WITHHOLD HIS COTTON FRO VI MARKET I We answer this question, yes! if the cotton is his, clear of liens or obligations. In such a state of things, he has the per f ct right t < store it in his cutton hous •, or to burn it. But if it is bis exclusively, and he owes his factors for advances t • make the crop, and storekeepers for the means of living during the year, the cotton is not bis to speculate on the market. Il is his, in com mon with others, who furnished him ad vance!# and supplies to ba paid ns soon as the season enabled him to send cot ton to market. Excepting, with this dis tinct understanding, be would not have ob'.aned the advances and credit by which he has made his crop and lived through the year. If he had told his factor or grocer: I do not intend to eend any cotton 1 may make to market, unless I judge for myself I can get the best price of the season, ami will keep it to January or February, as my interest shall appear to require, he might have planted no crop, and got no shop credit. Clearly he should fulfill the faith implied, and carry out the just expeditions of those with whom he does business. Do this, and do it speedily, as good faith re quires. Any sensible man must see that the fac tor and shop men are nd in the condition they were when they credited the planter. Circumstances beyond their control have surrounded them with unexpected embar rassment and distress. It certainly is a strong appeal to every conscientious man, th <t the necessities of those to whom he is indebted correfqtond with his own obliga tions of honesty and honor, to put forth the means in his possession for their relief. So dangerous Is the condition of things that It is not cert dn even if the planter will gain by delay. Or supposin' he should gain two or three ceuta a pound on his Cotton by its rightful retention, that it will be his interest to do so. The price of cot ton is uncertain and affected by many things. Planting will not end with the close of the year. It is to continue during the next; and if by his retent ion of his cotton be Injures or cripples the factors and bankers—how will he plant the next crept Both may decline any further deal ings with him ; and refuse assisting one, who neither public calamities or any re gard to a common interest, has induced to any other policy than that of self. C arac tcr is credit, and credit is means. We beg leave to submit to all who owe debts and can pay. the call of honesty to pay them. This is duty ; and we would further submit that in such a time M tills it may be also our duty not to become speculators in co - lon, which but few ever prosper at, but to push forward our resources ami res ue the Southern couu ry from a wide partici pation in t' e disastrous toas-s of the North. —New Orleans Picayune. (tod baa not waited for us to love Him; la-fore all time, • efore we were* endowed with life, Hr thought of u*» and thought of doing us good. What He mediated in eter nity He b*» performed in time. Ills best fi ceut hand has bv-m.w d rv-.ry v ui ty .-f bkaaingn upon us; neither our unfaithful ness mw our ingratitude h a dried up th fountain of Hi* gomiarm to us or arrest >1 th- -tream '*f Hl* bounty. - Fenrton. THE NORCROSS ADVANCE. BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. SHALL WE MEET AGAIN ? The following is said to be one of the most brilliant articles written by the la mented George D. Prenti e: “Ihe fiat of nature is inexorable. There is no appeal for relief from the great law which dooms us to dust. We florish and fade as the leaves of the forest, and flowers that bloom and wither in a day, have no frailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his footsteps. Generations of men will appear and disap pear as the grass, and the multitude that throng the world to-day, will disappear as the footsteps on the simre. Mi n seldom think of the great event of death until the shadow falls across their own pathway hiding from their eyes the faces of loved ones whose loving smile was the sunlight of their existence. Death is the antagonist of life, and the cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feats. We do not waut to go through the dark valley, although its dark passage may lead to paradise; we do not want to lie down in the damp grave, even with princes for bed fellows. In the beautiful drama of lon, the hope of Im mortality, so eloquently uttered by the death-devoted Greek, fin. Is deep response in every thoughtful soul. When about to yield his young existence as a sacrifice to fate, h s Clemantha asks if they should meet again, to which he replies: ‘I have asked that dreadful question of the hills that look eternal—of the clear streams that flow forever—of the stare among whose fields of azure my raised spirit has walked in glory. All were dumb; but as I gaze upon thy living face, I fe 1 that there is something in the love that mantles through its beauty that cannot wholly perish. We shall meet again, Clemantha.’” PLAIN WORDS. A writer in the New Orleans Picayune warns the Southern people that Europe, if need be, can do without cotton for several years, and run her mills on half or quarter time. This writer declares that “ neither American cotton nor American grain, or other provisions will force the precious metals from Europe back to the United States, but in lieu thereof millions of United States securities would be sent back to re alize, for whatever they might bring, and these securities held abroad, by some writers are estimated to be about 12,000,000,000. What, then, will become of all our domes tic securities ? When will there be a mar ket for anything ? Real estate with us in the South has already become a drug; the public impositions, the taxes, the never ending sheriffs sal s, staring out in all the public papers arc a sufficient testimony that whatever circulating money there may be set in motion, the fiat is gone forth that an Immense calamitous financial revolution will inexorably complete the grand social upheaval which was introduced by the Northern section into the Southern States. No other result can arise from this reaction of one sectional subversion of long founded staial institutes, upon the conditions of society in the other sections of our Union. Ai.d it is this feeling, this instinct, which drives the masses to cling to saving the medium, being well aware that * hen the higher classes tumble down, there must even be greater danger for the lower masses or strata of society. Hence the hoarding of greenbacks, hence the running upon the savings banks; and those feelings of terror, when healing the cracking of the social fabric in every direction, cannot be driven away in telling them foreign nations must buy our cotton, our produce for gold or money; for natura ly tuey answer: Green backs will do us, if only you keep the walls from falling ujx>n us and our families. ” “There lies the awful inner danger of our Union.” JEFFERSON’S TEN RULES. Jefferson's ten rules are good. They are so short and concise, and embody so much of value that it would be well if they were clipped out and put where we could see them often. They read as follows: Never put off till to-mo row what you can de to-day. Never troub'e another for what you can do yourself. Never spend your money before you have it. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. We eeld m repent of having eaten too little. Nothing is troublesome that we do wil lingly. How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened. Take things always by ths smooth handle. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. Emiiit Kixds or Womkx.—The obsti nate woman gi ts to sea in a bandbox. The path nt woman roasts an ox with a burning glass. The curious woman would like to turn a rainbow ovri to see what there was on the other side. The vulgar woman is a spider attempting to spin silk. , Ihe cautious woman w ites promises on a slate. Ti»e envious woman kills ber*df in I endeavoring to lace tighter than her neigh ’ bore. The extravagant woman burns a wax eaodl -in looking fir a lucifer milch. Ihe happy *oman dux! in a deaf and dumb asylum years ago. “Who made the lieautiful hills about here ! ’ asked a New England teacher of a little g rl w!h> bad recently tx-gua to ait tend hia«ch>»oL “I don't know,” was the reply; "iwr family only moved into town last MILTON MALONE. A SAD WARNING TO YOUTH. Milton Malone is not a bad man because he has bad instincts, for the natural impulses of the man are good. He is not a bad man because the circumstances of his birth and education were calcula ted to make him familiar with crime, lor his parents were people in good circumstances, moving in good society, ai d the future of their son was as bright and prom ising, so far as social advantages wer; concerned; as that of any young man in the State to-day. Alilton Malone did not rush into crime, urged by the instincts of hunger, or the preservation of life, but with his eyes opened, he pre pared himself for the career of a criminal, and the grave of a mur derer. Os course he did not have these things in his mind, or long since he would have halted and turned back to the paths of manly virtue. We speak this knowing there are hundreds of young men in this State whose hands are as yet clean of blood, but whose ac tions are the very ones that led young Malone into his present awful condition. It is cowardly to carry concealed weapons in a land under the control of law, for every time a pistol or a knife is strapped on, the loss of a life is contempla ted ; but when a man thus secret ly and habitually armed, goes de liberately into the rum mills of the land and becomes intoxica ted, he is guilty of crime, though he commits it not, for he is ready to murder without motive. Young men who habitually carry arms, as a rule, habitually drink, and they are the persons who defend their course by the belief that they “have to sow their wild oats” and “enjoy themselves while young.” This sowing cf wild oats means dissipation. This, hav ing a good time, means the fre quenting of brothels from which purity and decency have fled, and where vice and infamy have gathered. It means doing that which Ihe young man, with swag gering vulgarity, is willing to boast about to his dissolute friends, but the knowledge of which would bow Ihe head of his mother and bring shame to his sis tor’s (hecks. 1 here are young men sowing their wild oatsnow, as wick .id as Milton Malone, and who will only be saved from his fate by a return to the path of duty and right, or a sinking amid the breakers that have swallow ed up the wrecks of so many lives. It saddens our heart to think of this young man's fate, and to picture the aged parents who, with bowed heads and heavy hearts contemplate what their boy is, and what he might have been, and yet there are scores of parents saved this anguish and humilation only by the sheerest accident, not bj’ the pure lives of their sons. Would it not be well for our young men to consider this lesson, and with all their in fluence to keep themselves and their companions on the broad highway of manly purity and hon or, that gives the certainty of a better life here, and the promise of a happier life to come? We wish from our souls there was not a gallows in the whole land, and that capital punishment were ob solete as burning at the stake, but with equal earnestness we wish there were no concealed arms carried, no men sowing wild oats on the road to ruin, no young men whose hands and thoughts are not honestly employed. Surely the way of the transgressor is hard Colu mb us En q u irer. A Sunday school teacher was explaining the omnipresence of the Deity to his scholars, and ended by telling them that he was everywhere. Whereupon a red headed boy asked : ‘‘ls He in my pocket ?’’ The teacher replied that the question was rather pro lane but hu would answer‘‘Yes, he was everywhere. I’ve got you there, said the boy; “I ain't got no pocket.” Very Deaf. —The most appall ing case of deafness that we came across outside of an asylum was that of an old lady who lives just across the street from the navy yard. The other day they fired a salute of twenty-one guns. The old lady was observed to start and listen w hen the last gun was fired, and then <l»c exclaimed. “Come NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1873. •‘THINK. IT NOT STRANGE.” If you serve God, you will of fend the Devil. If you sail up stream you Ynust stem the current. If you are chosen out of the world, the world will hate you. If you are honest, you cannot have the friendship of rogues. If you are sincere, hypocrites will not fancy you. If you are lukewarm and sleepy, you may get along very quietly in the world ; but if you are earnest for God, at war with all sin, and trying to win souls to Christ, you may expect the Devil like a roaring lion, with all his whelps and pups baying at your heels. If he can tempt you into sin, or frighten you from duty, he will do that; and if not, he will send his horde of yelping hell-hounds on your track, with lies, slanders, insults and abuse. What then? Keep right along. Do not stop, that is what Satan is after. Keep at the work. Dou ble the watches and double shot the guns. Pour in God's truth, like an avalanche. You fight for God, and God will fight for you. Do not borrow the Devil’s wea pons. Leave alone all his fiery darts, bitter words, railing accusa tions, and all the machineiy which he uses to destroy the children of God. You cannot use these—yon would be no match for the Devil, fighting with his weapons. Do not study Satan’s tactics, nor the lessons in hell’s fencing school.— Outwit the Devil by telling God’s truth. Walk so straight that the crooked serpent cannot follow you. Fortify every weak place where Satan tries you. Hold np the shield of faith against his darts. Take the sword of the Spirit and cut with it right and left. Live so near God that you will be out of the Devil’s reach; and walk so uprightly before men that no one will believe the lies that are told about you. Wat er will find its level, Froth will float, mud will sink, and the real character of a servant of God will stand the test. No one can kill you but yourself; keep self right, and eL e will be provided for. “Think it not strange.” Do not be surprised, disconcerted, dis turbed, nor hindered. Keep near the mercy-seat, and walk where the pillar of fire and cloud shall lead. Canaan is before you,Egypt is behind—make haste and you shall out-strip your foes, and enter the home of rest at last.— The Christian. LIQUOR SELLING. A German proverb says: “ A man who takes soup with the dev il needs a long spoon. And this is especially true of those engaged in the occupations which thrive upon the ruin of their fellow men. They dream of prosperity, and count up their present gains, but eventually find that their soup spoon was too short, am., while they get the soup, the devil get. them. Almost every liquor shop and distillery in the land can fur nish instances which will demon strate this Dr. Dio Lewis relates the following: “A large whisky distiller in central New York ha 1 three sons, who assisted their fa ther in his nefarious business.— None but God will ever know the misery of which that distillery was the source. The distiller and his sons were among the victims. The father threw himself into a well in a fit of delirium tremens. The oldest son, during an attack, imagined his tongue a snake, drew it out, bit it off, and bled to death. The next son, while suff ering this horrible frenzy, threw himself into the well which receiv ed his father. The last one of the four, while driving a wagon load of whisky to his place in the country, pitched off his seat, was run over by the wagon and killed. I attended the funeral.” The man who enters into such an occupa tion as this takes an awful risk. The Bankrupt Law in Danger. The Wheeling Intelligencer says: It is stated that a very general opposition in the West, particuar | ly among lawyers and the larger creditor class, to the present bank rupt act, and that a considerable portion of the Western members will favor the absolute and uncon ditional repeal of this act. It i urged against the act that it has ! outlived its usefulness, that it now serves mainly as an instrument of fraud for designing persons, and is a source of extravagant fees fnr ‘ in annv of office holder-. “THE JERUSALEM FRIENDS.” This sect arose some fifteen or twenty years ago in Wurtemburg, South Germany, under the leader ship of Dr. Christian Hoffman, a brother of the Court Preacher to the Emperor of Germany. Dr. Hoffman is a decided scholar, a man of great resolution and per severance', a stern critic of men and institutions. He looks upon our present Christianity as very shallow, and its aims as very low and unworthy the Christian name. He regards Jerusalem as the Christ-chosen seat and center of the church, and the building of Ezekiel’s Temple as the greatest enterprise that Christian piety can undertake, that until the tem ple is built Christianity will con tinue to be fragmentary and pow erless, but the edifice once com pleted, will be the grand rallying point for the faithful of every sect, and the necessary prepara tion for the return of Christ. The Jew is regarded as outcast and accursed of God, never again to have part or lot in the work, except as a few may be incident ally converted. There is to be fib re-gathering of the children ol Abraham. It is the Christian who must restore the land of Israel and give to it its promised pre emi nence. A scholar by the name of Paulus has been a great helper to Dr. Hoffman; and he has publish ed a commentary on the Reve lation of John, which sets forth quiet clearly their pecular views of doctrine and interpretation. They hold all the main doctrines of the Reformed church, but lay particular stress upon their no tions of prophecy. Like Baxter and the author of “Armageddon,” and our countryman, Dr. Seiss, they expected the personal anti- Christ in Napoleon HI, and I know not whether they necessari ly had to change their opinion, since the fall of Napoleon proved a blessing to this sect, for after his fall at Sedan, the Sultan oi Turkey presented the emperor ol Germany, for the benefit of this sect, the greater part of Mt. Car mel with the adjoining plains— the valley of Ktston on the east, and the plain of Sharon on the west. Dr, Hoffman's idea is coloniza tion from his community, and eight years ago they started a colony at Haifa, at the foot of Mt. Carmel, which has-been grad ually increased. The colony is composed of steady,sterling Chr.s tian men and women. The land was carefully surveyed, and the site for the colony made with cau tion, and thus far the enterprise has proved a success. The colo nists have gone to Palestine with the idea of making it their home, and they expect to build houses and to till the soil with improved implements. In the meanwhile communities have been forming in this country. The one at Ro chester. New York, was not very successful; its organ, Zeichen der Zeit (Signs of the Times,) awa kened, however, interest in other quarters, and a community was started at Schenectady,New York, under the leadership of Pastor Schwilk, a man of good’education, warm heart and unflinching zeal. He publishes the Reichs-Posaune (the Trumpet of the Kingdom,) a weekly paper, and has sent out at least one colony to Syria. This colony on Carmel con j trasts most favorably with the ’ one sent out ten years ago to Jessa from Maine, which proved such a failure. These Carmel col onists have gone out under the most favorable auspices and are quite independent of Turkish authority. Whether they will ever be the builders of Ezekiel's Temple is doubtful,yet they will | be able to put to the proof the I real capacity ol the soil —a proof , eminently desirable -and to show j to those interested that it is sim- ] ply the need of a paternal gov- j eminent, giving security to prop erty and encouragement to labor which is wanted io make Israel again (he glory of all lands.” The early and latter rains are there; the dew and the sunshine, ihe soil begging only for thorough culture to prove its readiness.to repay with blessincs the toil of the husbandman. Cannel (liter ally “the garden of God”) may become again worthy ol its name through this scheme, which has piety lor its motive and loyalty for iU patron. We think it can not fail to work out both moral an 1 in.iteriai good for the inter ests of Palestine, and while we disavow sympythy with them as a sect, we wish them success as Christian* and colonists.* J*. /; r. 'f, i; > r fi,f. VOL. 1.-80. 19. •UN LUCK Y COMPLIM ENTS. The worst blunder in what was intended for a pretty speech that 1 ever heard of, was perpetrated in modern times by a dignitary of the church, who was asked to mar ry a young couple in a country place where he happened to be staying, and was also called upon to propose the health of the bride and bridegroom at the subsequent breaklast. “To sum up all our good wishes for the happy pair which we have seen united this morning, ” he said in conclusion, “we cannot, lam sure, do better than express a desire that the re sult of their union may prove strictly analogous to that of the parents of the fair bride.” Where upon the “fair bride’’ w'ent into hysterics; the bridegroom’s eyes flashed daggers ; the bridesmaids coloured and looked down ; the master of the house blew his nose violently. He who caused all this commotion sat down and held bis peace, wondering at the effect of his innocent compliment to the host and hostess; He soon, how ever, found some one to enlighten him. “She is not their daughter at all,” his informer explained, “but a niece who came to live with them when her own father and mother were divorced 1” — Cassell's Magazine. CURIOUS THINGS. A lady with a four hundred dol lar shawl on her back which was bought by her husband) swearing tha« she will have her rights. In the meantime the husband is out at the elbows, and the good lady keeps seven servants. A young man who squandered an estate at the gambling house and brothel, going into the pulpit to recruit his fortune- Younggentlemen who can’t pay their board driving a horse and gig on the swell road every Sun day. A friend'to the people drinking iced champagne and eating wood cock, while this workmen cannot receive their hard-earned gains. If you cannot be a great river, bearing great vessels of blessings to the world, you can be a lit. le spring by the wayside of life, sing ing merrily all day and night, and giving a cup of cold water to every weary, thirsty being that passes by. A young lady, recently married to a farmer, one day visited the cow houses, when she thus intero gated her milk maid: “By-the-by, Mary, which one of the cows is it that gives the butter-milk ?” A conceited young parson once said: This morning I preached to a congregation of donkeys.’ ‘1 i thought so,’ retorted the lady,’ I ‘when you called them your be loved brethren.’ A country girl, coining from a morning walk, was told she look ed as fresh as a daisy kissed by the dew, to which she innocently replied. “You've got my name right—Daisy: but his in.’t Dew.” A gentleman in Indiana being asked why he didn't marry and settld down, feelingly replied that he thought more seriously of be ing divorced and settling up. A fashion reporter writes: “Dresses are not to be worn any longer this Summer.” That would do for warm weather, but how about the late cold snap? “Do you want to buy a sewing machine ?” asked an agent of a farmer. “No,” was the reply,’ “1 alway sow my wheat out of a bucket.” A Western girl after giving her lover a hearty smack, exclaimed. •Dog my c?ts if you hain’t been taking a little old rye, old hoss.” There are four tribes of Indians remaining in Delaware, and the aggregate number of the four is only 16 persons. Don't loaf about the streets and depend on the Lord for your daily bread. He is not running a bakery. Barnum wants to get a night mare to exhibit in his museum — also a leg of the multiplication table. Lidies traveling across the plains carry their hair in their pockets to avoid being scalped. The sting of a bee cirries con viction with it—it make- a man a J&B W&BB OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Promptly and Neatly Executed at THE ADVANCE JOB OFFICE, At Reasonable Prices, gar give us A CALL, PROSPECTUS. o T II E A'ORCROSS ADVANCE I .. . . ■ ■ , / —AND— CHRISTIAN UNION, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNDSDAY At Norcross, Georgia, BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. o TERMS: One copy one year $ j 00 One copy six months 1 00 One copy three months so To clubs of five one year 8 50 To clubs of ten one year 13 00 To Ministers of the gospel half price. O THE ADVANCE Is designed to promote all the great interests of our readers especially, and of our country and race generally. To do that we promise to give them each week the most important news, both Foreign and Domestic ; the Market Re ports and Atlanta Prices Current; the Legal Sales of Gwinnett and a few other counties,etc., and such Literary,Scientific, Educational, Political, Agricultural and Religious reading matter as we may from time to time think most interesting and profitable. In Politics the ADVANCE will be independent; but it will not be partisan, nor do injustice to any party, oi indi vidual, knowingly. And, as we hon estly believe, that; the first and chief care of all Christians should be to defend our holy religion against the wiles of Satan— his hosts aud tneir arms, we will discharge this sacred duty, as best we can, under the guidance of Him who is able to direct and keep us in the way of truth. We will also studiously avoid giving cause of ofiense to any professed Christian on account of difference of opinion, and will not, through this medium, attempt to build up any one branch of the Church more than others, nor to injure any one of them. OUR PLATFORM. We believe that there is a per sonal God—who created and over rules all things—that Jesus Christ is His Son and our Savior, and that the Holy Ghost is His messenger and our instructor. That the Bible was written by inspiration of God —is true —and the only safe foundation for Christian faith and practice. That the soul is immortal—that there will be a resurrection of the dead and fina l judgment, and that the punishment of the unre deemed will be eternal. And will insist, that all who agree in these fundamental propo sitions,and seek salvation through Christ, constitute his Church, and should all unite and co-operate with Him, and each other, in the sacred work of redemption, as an affectionate family of brothers and sisters. James P. Simmons, J. U. Vincent. John lIf.AT-.