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Communications of general or local in terest, un.lor a genuine signature, are respectfully solicited from any source. SIMMONS, VINi ENT & CO., Publishers. [From the Louisrille Courier-Journal.] RURAL CONIENTMENT. BY WILL S. HAYS. (Suggested on seeing a lit.le picture of an aged couple seated in a log cabin before a fire at bed-tune.] & The banks is all a bustin’, Nance, an’ things is goin’ ter smash, The people sold for credit whar they’d oughtcr sell fur cash, An’ winter’s briugin’ poverty to everybody’s door, The rich kin stand it pretty well—hit’s orful on the poor. The workin’ mans the suffeier, Nance; he’s got uo woik to do; An’ folks are goin’ to suffer whar they suff’rin’ never knew, An’ them that’s always “showin’ off ’ to poor folks what they’ve got, You’ll find, perhaps, that they’ll turn out the poorest of the lot. I’ve fist l>eeu thinkin’, Nancy Jane, about the awful muss; How folks had better live an’ raise thar children jest line us; For, as I told old Deacon Smith, he sed it al! was true; He never in his life had seed two folks like me an’ you. Our home’s an old log cabin, Nance, 1 a’ f hidden in the woods ; Our family’s rich in life an’ health, but poor in “worldly goods We haint no fine lace curtains, or no carpet on the floor, But the sua is al ' ays smilin’ through the window an’ the door. Our farm is small—we’ve got a spring, an’ horses, hogs, an’ cows; We’ve gals to milk, an’ cook, an’ sew, an’ boys to tend the plows; M e’ve got no gold in banks that burst, nor owe no man a cent; 1 tell you, Nance, the Lord Is good, an’ we should feel content. We're plain an’ honest country f >ll s, nn’ know no “city airs;” We read the Bible every night before we kneel in pr iy. rs; We go to ebi r.'.li on Sunday’s, Nance, an’ walk just like the rest, An’ live 1 ke Christian peeph cug’it—we try to do what’s b st. Our boys don’t do like city I toys, who from thar duty shirk, "Whose p treats raise ’em up to think ’tis a d sgra' C to work; Our gals ain’t like them city gals you will so often meet, Who ought to help thar mothers more an’ run less on the street. You don’t see Thomas Henry pushin’ bil liards every night, Or loafin’ ’bout the tavern gittin’ treated till he's tight; You don’t find him a namin’ ’round to catch some damsel’s eye, Or courtin’ of some gal that's rich, whose daddy’s ’bout to die. Ah! Nance, the time has come at last when pride must have its fall; The folks’ll find the workin’ man's the life and prop of all; The farmer’s independent, Nance, his trade will never spoil, Bo long as he Is able w ith his sons to till the soil. The proud, aristocratic folk?, who sol in fortune’s door, Who thought they’d never come towant, an' “ listed up” an’ poor; Their servants gone, their horses sold, their houses an’ their lands, Au’ everything except their liver, are in the sheriff's hands. Old woman, put yer knittin' up; it’s giuln’ purty late; I’ll read about two chapters in th 1 Bible, if you’ll w» t; We’d pray to God before we sh*ep, as every Christian ought; An’ thank Him, not for what we want, but what we’ve had an’ uot. PUTTING ON A SHIRT. There are things which a man can do with some show of dignity and even ele gance, but the puttlug on of a clean shirt b not one of them. Even those fastidious chajw who put one ou every week never be come so expert and familiar with the pro cess that they can go through with it with any degree of comfort or dexterity, and the less extravagant ijjdhldurJs who change only < ®cc a month, are really to be envied. The feat te accomplished in this way: You lay the r.nent down on th • b<xl, or acro*< a table or washstand, bosom down ward.*, eaih rustle of the sLily-st. rehed garment striking terror to your soul. Pull ing it open, you make a strange draft on your courage and resolution, and plunge into It, thrusting yout anus here and there in a frantic and d< speratc search for the ►lcvw*, finding which you strugg’e trnui fnlly In an endeavor to draw the garment down so that you can catch a glimpee of the outer world once marc. Ry the exercise of a prnp»T an*' unt of judgment you are finally suece*»ful in this, ami vou find younwlf gating out upo» Mimmi ding ob jicta, enejrebsl by stiff, niMl'mg Imn, w hlch prop* your chin up in the air ami gives ite to a feeling as though you were tirwcid MCUod about by crowl’ara, »i*h no prucpccl of ever being able to stdiwn a tain Putting on a collar and a tie, you d,wi your outer ganni ats and salh forth, ftviing as uncomfortable and uneasy as though you bad just sat down ou a evat- I it! imrkrt full eggs. THE NORCROSS ADVANCE. BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. HISTORIC STEPHENS. PICTURE OF A DRAMATIC SCENE IN THE HOUSE. The Washington correspondent of the Brooklyn Argus writes: “Chief of them was Alexander H. Stephens, Col. Waddell, of North Carolina, supported the brilliant, intense, magnificent tactician of other days to his feet. He took their arms and dispensed with the significant crutches that had been stacked in front of his desk. He stood right at the beginning of the middle aisle of the House. By felicitously dramatic accident or happy design, all the rest of the many ex-Confederates ranged in a semi-circle on either side of their former Vice President. Then the modified oath was taken by them with uplifted hands and assented to with an unanimous and quietly elegant bow. There were many magnificent looking men in the company; I doubt that any one observed them; the pale, sufter ing, distinguished little man in the middle was the cynosure of all eyes. He was dressed in ex quisite black, as if in mourning for his country. In sitting, he had worn his hat to protect him from the draught. In standing, he dis pensed with it and disclosed an abnormal;y large head, pierced with intensely black and deep eyes, and covered with a sh< r , disordered growth of iron gray hair. When he responded to his name the strong soul in him was manifest, for his clear, sharp, pen etrating voice, the echo ot that soul, was heard distinctly all over the House. The ethereal part of the man is as strong as ever. The physical is a wreck. It was a his torical scene. He who fifteen years before the war, had been the leader par excellence of the House, returned to subscribe to the oath administered by a Speak er who was never heard of when Stephens left Congress, or three years thereafter. In all the House were but two men who had been his congressional contemporaries - ‘Sunset’ Cox, then of Ohio, and John B. Clark, then and now o! M ssouri, who had a three months of notoriety fifteen years ago by Hinging John Sherman’s endorse ment of Hinton Rowan Helper’s ‘lmpending Crisis’ at John Sher man’s head, and thereby defeat inghim for Speaker,though Henry Winter Davis’ single vote e’ected William K. Pennington, a Jersey Republican, to that office. Well could Stephens say he stood dying the solitary survivor of many great dead. Gone was Thad Stevens, the incarnation of hate; gone was Giddings, the abolitionist whom Stephens himself loved ; gone was the courtly ex-Governor Briggs, of New York, and the uncouth Mike Walsh; gone was the fiery Keith, and gone the fearful and wonderful John Covode; gone the eloquent Lovejoy and the mellow Mallory ; gone Herschel V. John son ; gone Bocock, and Yulee, and E Imondtlon, and Clingman, and the impetuous Brooks, and Potter, and Rector, and Phelps, and Rol lins, and Winter Davis, and a I thousand, once statesmen of eith er party, and there was the mar; on whom twenty years ago death had apparently set his seal, sur vivor ot them all, mid representa live of the greatest district of the Empire State of the South. Back ground this contrast with the fear ful four years of intersections! throat-iu ting, and the dramatic facts of the occasion stand out, grim with graves and lighted by intense cerebral fire." Our Silent Influence.—We are touching our fellow being on all >ides. They are effected by good or evil by what we think and feel. May flowers in the parlor breathe their fragrance through the at mospl.ere. We are each of us as silently saturating the atmos phere about u« with the subtle aroma ot our churacte . In the family circle, besides and beyond all the teachings, the daily life of each parent and each child mys teriously modifies the life of every person in the household. The same process on a wider sc.de is going on through the community. No m m liveth to himself, and no man d eth to hnnself. Others are built up and straightened by our un conscious deeds, and o.hers may be wret cited out of their places and thrown down by our uncon scious influence. LIFE INSURANCE MEN. Never, never has that fearful creature, the life insurance man, been more thoroughly hit off than by a Philadelphia newspaper gen tleman, who, in the following heart-rending manner, describes what nearly every healthy Amer ican citizen has had the misfor tune to experience: “His name was Benjamin P. Gunn. He came around to my office fourteen times in one morn ing to see if he could not persuade me to take out a life insurance policy in liis company. He used to waylay me in the streets, at church, in my own house, and bore me about that policy. If I went to the opera Gunn would buy the seat next to me, and sit there the whole evening talking about sudden death and the ad van'ages of the ten-ye?r plan. If I got into a street car, Gunn would come rushing in at the next cor ner and begin to explain how I could beat his company out of a fortune. If I sat down to dinner in a restaurant, up would come Gunn, and seizing the chair next to me, he would tell a cheering anecdote about a man who in sured in his company for fifty thousand dollars only last week, and was buried yesterday. If 1 attended the funeral of a departed friend, and went as they threw the earth upon his coffin,! would hear awl isper, and, turning around, there would be the indomitable Benjamin P. Gunn, bursting to say: ‘Poor Smith? knew him well. Insured for ten thousand in our company. Widow left in good circumstances. Let me take your name. Shall I?’ “ He followed me everywhere ; until I got «o sick of persecutions that I left town suddenly one eve ning and hid myself in a secluded country village, hoping to get rid of him. “At the end of two weeks I re turned, reaching home at one in t’.e morning. I had hardly got into bed before there was a ring at the door-bell. I looked out and there was Gunn with another person. He asked if Max Adeler was at home. I said 1 was the man. Mr. Gunn then observed that he ex pected my return, and thought he would call around about that in surance policy. He said he had the doctor with him, and if 1 would come down he would take down my name and have me ex amined immediately. 1 was too indignant to reply. I shut the window with a slam and to bed again. After breakfast in the morning, I opened the door and there was Gunn sitting on the steps with his doctor waiting for me! lie had been there all night. As 1 came out they seized me and tried to undress me there on the pavement in order to examine me. I retreated and lockeu myself up in the garret, with orders to admit nobody to the house until I came down sta.rs. But Gunn <vas not to be baffled. He rented the house next door and stationed himself in the garret adjoining mine. When he got fixed he spent his time pounding on the partition and cry in gt, ‘Hallo, Adeler! Ad eler, Isay! how about that poli cy?’ And then he Would tell me some anecdotes about men who were cut off immediately after paying the first premium. But 1 paid no attention to him and made no no se. Then he was silent for awhile. “Suddenly one morning the trap door of my garret was wrenched oft’, and, upon looking up. 1 saw Gunn with the doctor and a crow bar and a lot ot death rates com ing down the ladder at me. I fit d from the house to the Presbyte rian Church, close by. and paid the sexton twenty dollars to let me climb up to the point of the steeple and sit astride of the ball. I promised him twenty more, if he would exclude everybody from that steeple for a week. Once safely on the ball, three hundred feet from the earth. I made my self comfortable with the thought that 1 had Gunn ala disadvantage and I determined to beat him fi nally if I had io stay there a mouth. About an hour afterward, while I was looking at the superb view to the west, 1 beard a rust ling on the other side of the stee pie. I looked aroynd and there was Benjamin P. Gunner eping up the side of that spire in a bal loon. in which was the doctor with the tabular estimates of the losses of hi 4 ' company frem the Tontine NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1873. system. As soon as Gunn reached the ball he threw his grappling iron into the shingles of the stee ple and asked me at what age my father died, and if any of my aunts had consumption or liver complaint? Without replying, I slid down the steeple to the ground and bounced the first train lor the Mississippi Valley. “In two weeks I was in Mexico: I determined to go to the interior and find some wild spot in some elevated region where no Gunn would ever dare to come. I got a mule and paid a guide to lead me to the summit of Popocatapeta. We arrived at the foot of the mountain at noon. We toiled up ward for about four hours. Just before reaching the top I heard the sound of voices, and upon rounding a point who should I see but Benjamin P. Gunn seated on the very edge of the crater ex plaining the endowment plan to his guide, and stupefyinghim with a mortality table, while the doc tor had the other guile a few yards off examining him to see if he was healthy. Mr. Gi n i arose and said he was glad to see me, because now we could confer over that business about the policy without fear of interruption. In a paroxysm of rage I pushed him into the crater, and he tell a thou sand feet below with a heavy thud. As he hit the bottom I heard a voice screaming out something about ‘non-forreiture;’ but there was a sudden convulsion of* the mountain, a cloud of aahes, and 1 heard no more. I was confident that it was wrong, and that I had no right to murder Gunn in that manner, but he forced me to do it in self-de fense, and I hope his awful fate will be a warning to other insu rance agents who remain amongst us.” THE BENEFIT OF ONE AD VERTISEMENT. We would call the attention of our readers to the following para graph, which we find in one of our exchanges: “If there is one man on this continent above another who ap preciates the benefit of advertis ing it is Orange Judd. A number of years ago, when he and his wife spent their evenings in put ting up packages, and a penny had its full value to them, he sent a boy w th a check for one hundred dollars to the Herald office with instructions to pay what was due and leave the rest for future ad vertising. The boy being dull of comprehension didn't understand him, and told the bookkeeper to use one hundred dollars for one day. The next morning what was Mr. Judd’s hoi rar, on taking up the Herald, to see, ‘Read the American Agriculturist’ repeated for nearly a whole column. He rushed down to the office for an explanation, and found that they only followed instructions and there was no help for it. ‘ We are ruined,’ he said to his wife, ‘a whole year’s advertising gone in a day.’ But instead of being his ruin, it was the beginning ol his success. Immediately subscrip tions poured in from all parts of the country. The Agriculturist soon became an institution, and its proprietor is one of the richest men in New York. Mr Judd has continued from that day of his lucky mistake, to be one of ti e most extensive advertisers in the country, and he has his reward." A Wife’s Sympathy'.—A writer says that “what the true man most wants of a wile is her companion ship, sympathy,courage and love." He is right. The true man wants his wife's c< mpanionship when he has to get up in the night to see wiiat that noise is in the cellar. Her courage is eminently valua ble in the general neighborhood debates over the possession ol some domestic article, and her love is absolutely indispensable when he gets in late. But her sympathy ! Well, any one who has ever picked up the wrong stove lid with his bare bind can esti mate the value of that. The day when a boy begins to feel uneasy at being tlep-iulent up ni somebody else, is the ua\ when his boyhood begins to give way to manhood. The day when a g r! finds somebody on whom she is willing to depend, is that in which she passe? from girlhood to w 'manhood. FINDING EACH OTHER OUT. Robert Collyer says that after young people many they have to find each other out,and they spend a lifetime in doing that: “Son.e married folks find each other out as I have read of mariners finding out the polar world. They leave the shores of their single life in the spring days, with tears and benedictions sail on a while in sunshine and fair weather, and then find their way litde by little into the cold latitudes, where they see the sun sink day by day, and feel the frost creep in, until they give up ai last, and turn to ice sitting at the same table. Others, again, find each other out as we have been finding out th s conti ncn*. They nestle down at first among the meadows, close by the clear streams; then they go cn through a belt of shadows, lose their way and find it again the best they know, and come out in to a larger horizon and a bettv r land ; they meet their difficult hills and climb them together, strike deserts and dismal jl.ices, and cross them together; and so at last they stand on the further reaches of the mountains and see the other ocean, sunning itself, sweet and still, and then their journey ends. But through shad ows and shine this is the gosp?l for the day, they keep together right on to the end. They allow no danger, disaster or difference to divide them, and no third per son to interfere, for if they do it may be as if William and Mary ol England had pennitted the great Louis to divide their throne by first dividing their hearts. “Did you hear my definition oi marriage? Sidney Smith says: ‘lt resembles a pair of shears so join ed that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite direc tions yet a’ways punishing any one who comes between them.’ The definition is as witty as it is wise, and he might have added, part the shears a.id then all you have left is two poor daggers. “So it is possible we may grow aged in finding each other out. and wondering why we never saw that trait before, or struck that temper; but if there be between us a true heart, if the rivet holds, then the addi d years will only bring added reasons for a perfect union, and the sweet old ballad wiil be our psalm of life : “ ‘ ohn Anderson, my Jo, John We elamb tke hi is togither; And many a canty day, John, vn e’ve had wi’ ane anither; Now we maun toddle down, John, But hand and hand we’« 1 go, And sleep together at the foot, John Antkrson, my Jo.’ “We mu t find each other ou', and then it is possible that, like my mother’s old shears,over whit h I used to ponder when 1 was a child, one side is greater and the other, by consequence, less.” A PRECAUITON. Mr. Bellows has been paying at tentions to young Miss Snively for some time, ami a few evenings ago he called for the purpose ol making a formal proposal. .Miss Snively, it would appear, has had other and rather unfortunate love affairs in the past, and a melan choly experience has made her singularly cautious. After talking wit!) her lor awhile, Bellows hem med, ami hawed,and blushed,and then, suddenly seizing her hand, he was about to plump the ques tion right out, when Miss Snively interrupted him. “Ah, excuse me for asking you. ; .Mr. Bellows, but are you going to . propose ? ” Am; zed and somewhat bewil : dered. Mr. Bellows replied : “Well, I —that is I should say that—t. at I did, perhaps, cherish some —some—as it were, some— i lea, that is to say—well, yes.’’ “O, very well," rejoined Mis- I Snively. “very well, but just wail a moment, p.eaoe, while I cab ; my aunt down s airs.’ “Wh wh wh-what for?” asked B Hows, in astonishment. “W hy, so that I can have a wit ness in case I'm obliged to sue y< u for breath of promise, < f course. The last man w! o pro po>ed got off; but I leekon y u won’t i I know how to fix things. Wait a mmu e.” Ami i hen, as M ss Snive’y we t ou n search of her aunt. Bt How.* t meigeu into the entry and glided hr>ugh the front door. And mashing fo.s has, down over his eyes, he dissipated his love’s y un» dream, stiffled his giief, bit oil an inordinately large piece of tobacco, and went to bed. Miss • Snively vrid not VOL. I.—NO- 25. CHEAP HOMES, ABD ON LONS TIME FOTS. SAI.I’ IX GWIN NETT COUNTY. The lauds which were advertised for sale in Lawrenceville, on the first Tues day in this month, by the subscriber, were not sold at auction, as was intended, in consequence of the money crisis now pre vailing, and the heavy rain which fell dur ing sale hours. A minimum price was fixed on eacli tract, however, and a few were sold at private sale. Those described below were not sold, and are now offered al the price to each annexed, to-wit: The Northeast corner of lot number 111, and a part of number 148, containing about 75 acres. This p’ace lies one mile south ol the Coui t-house, in Lawrenceville, on the Covington road. There is a dwelling house, stable, veil of first-rate water, a young orchard, and about, forty acres of pretty level gray land in a good conditio i for a crop next year: the balance is all in the woods. Price $lO per a -re. The Southeast corner of the same lot, and part of number 148, making another tract of about 75 acres. This is all in the woods, and contains a good deal of branch bottom, with a beautiful building spot, on the same road. Price $7 per acre. The Southwest corner of number 111. This is all in the woods, lies well and is well timbered, except some ten to fifteen acres, which is a pine old line. The soil is good and contains a large proportion of bottom land. Price $7 per acre. The Northeast, Southeast and South west quarters of lot number 140, contain ing, according to original survey, sixty two and a half acres each. The Cov.ngton road runs nearly on the Northeast line of this lot, and a right of way to the lower side of the lot from the road will be re serve ’. These three tracts are all in the woods, well watered, and on each could be opened a nice little farm. Price of 'ach $7 per acre. As many of the above tracts will be sold ogether as may be desired, or any person (pplying can have either alone. A tract of 22y, acres, adjoining NVm. J. Born, l>r. Mitchell and Colonel N. L. llnt diins’ lands, lying inside of the town eor poratiotffand good red land, well watered, all ready f>r the plough. Pri(es’s per a<r The Gordt n place,with 50 acres of wood land, in the Southe; st corner of number 130. On this place there is a good dwelling house, with seven rooms, and a poor crib ind stable, one and a fourth miles from the Court-house, on the Jefterson road. There is a first-rate spring, well improved and surrounded by the native forest trees, near tLio house, and about 75 acres of first rate red land, now all lying out. The houses and fences arc in bad condition, but can be made good wi.h but reasonable cost. The two tracts contain 175 acres. Price sl.2'X*. Any competent judge would, on seeing this property, pronounce it very cheap. The Hollinsworth place, on the same *ad, two mi es from the Court-house. This place contains 250 acres, number 207, and has always been considered one of the best farms in the neighborhood. Im provements fair, about one-half cleared, and the other in the woods. If desired, this lot will be divided into two equal parts, by running a line across the road, so as to throw one-half on the side next to K. T. Terrell, and the other next to J. M. Anibros’ farm, and the purchaser can have choice of sides at tlu price asked, which is $lO per acre. Also, about 75 acres in the Northeast corner of lot number 130, on the sam<- road, and adjoining the lands of J. M. Ambrose and others. Os this tract about 25 acres is old field, and the balance all aood lands. There is an old house place on the road, two and three-fourth miles from town, and several fruit and shade trees around it—a beautiful place for a residence. Price six dollars per acre. All these lands lie in the fifth district of said county, and within sight or nine miles of the Air-Line Railroad, and to enable persons of small means to secure homes for themselves and families,are offered on the following easy terms, to-wit: One fourth cash, one at two years, one at three and the other at four years, with interest at ten per cent, •William E, Mimmons. Samuel J. Winn, or Dr. T. K. Mitchell, would show the property to strangers wishing to see it. For further partie liars, address JAMES T. SIMMONS. Norcross Ge >rei.i. PROSPECTUS. o T II E NORCROSS ADVANCE AND— CHRISTIAN UNION, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNDSDAY At Norcross, Georgia, BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. o MS: One copy one year. A S 2 00 One copy six mouths 1 00 One copy three mouths 50 To clubs of five one year 8 50 To clubs of ten one year 15 00 To ministers of the gospel, professional teachers in schools and in academies, pro fessors and presidents of colleges and uni versities, and all presiding ofllccre of agri cultural clu s and farmer’s grangers, we will send it for one dollar a year. 0 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 wc may from timo 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 uud tneir arms, we wilt discharge this sacred duty, as lajst we can, under the guidance of Him who is able to direct and keep us in tha way of truth. We will also studiously avoid giving cause ol offense lo Wiy 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 ono ot them. OUR RELIGIOUS 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 final judgment, and that the punishment of the unr<*- * 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 tho sacred work of redemption, as an affectionate family of brothers and sisters. James P. Simjpxs, I. U. VtNctM. Riat.s.