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If you ask a lady to walk out with. *"
you, she first looks at your dress, and •
then thinks of her own. c $
If a woman holds her tongue, it. it oqJy_ '
from fear she cannot “hold her bariT^'v
How much more difficult it isTogofiv ..
woman out on a wet Sunday than 6n a
wet week day. Can the shut ships havp- *
anything to do with this ? f _■%
The oddest mnemonic curiosity is, Wat
sishii) oth
lfrom tLo Saturday Evening l’o»L|
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“wKt ^ toaijK * f.
I’m sitting by the fireside, "
Janet;^.,'.. " l",-.
An 1 musing fondly, sadly,
I forget 4Hn alone— a«1
That a vacant chair’s beside me,
And thou’rt gone. •
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■ Ftdm tlfe : nall
Comes the heating of the clock.
And the wall is scarcely while
In the pale apd dying ember's.
Flickering light, vi H
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directory.
j-gr Professional nnd Business men onn have
their cards inserted undo iS’"' head, for one year,
at the rale of Five Dollars for a . <--'1 of not molt'
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lionalliiu*.
TilE DISMISSED.
Inpo-we shown right i »r^>'3tingmy prayois..
But why, tell mo why, di i she kick me a* >wn stalls f*
» • r " >' Hil.f.OCKS, *.- Uncorded?'
The wing of my spirit i.s brokon,
My day-star of hope htva declined.
For a month not a word have I spoken
That's either polite or refined. " t
My mind’s like the sky In bad weather.
When mistcloinlsaround us nre curled,
And, viewing mvsclf altogether,
■I’m the veriest wretch in the World.
.61'
I wander about like a vagrant—
1 spend half the time in the street ;
My conduct’s improper and flagrant,
I auaiteTwith all that 1 meet,
i\ty dres8, too is wholly neglected.
My hat 1 pull over my brow,
And 1 look like a fellow suspected
Of wishing to kick up a row.
In vain I’ve endeavored to borrow
From friends “some material aid**—
For landlady views me with sorrow,
Witen she thinks of the bill that’s unpaid,
Abroad,myacqnaintancesflout me,
Thelad’esery, “llless us, look there 1".
And the little hoys cluster around me,
As sensible citizens stare.
IIENRY CLEVELAND,
TTOBNKY AT LAW, Hartwell, C.co.
j\ "refentTo llim. Thomas VV. Thomas, Elberlon
Hon. .Joseph Brown, Canton;
lion, llcnclicl V. Johnson, Milledgcvillo-,
Hon John 11. Lumpkin, Floyd.
Juiy IU-- ly.
T. BISUOP i SOX,
W HOLESALE nml Retail dealers in Gmeer
iei, Hardware nud Staple Dry 6«o>l
1 ltrond St. Athena, On.
No.
l>l:.y 1
’ve thought ol the means—yet I shudder
At dangers or ratsbane or rope;
At drawing with lancet my blood, or
At razor without any soap !
Suppose l should fall in a duel.
And thus leave the world with eclat !
But to die with a bullet is cruel—
Besides, ’iwould be u breaking the law.
DORSEY & CARTER,
D E ALERS in Family Oroeerie*, Choice Wines
LUzan, Ac., corner Broad and Juekaon ala.
Allium, lieu.
1 Aprils.
VV. VV. LUMPKIN,
A ttorney at i.aav,Athens,fionnrin—
will practice in nil the count iei of the Western
Circuit. 1‘art ieulu# attention given to colieiding.
Otlieo on comer of Qcn. Oerdine’i lot, near the
Epiioopai Church.
•Inn 31—tf
C. XV. & 11. R. J. LONG,
W HOLESALE and retail Druggisti. Athens
On. | Jan. 3.
DR. C. R. LOMBARD.
W OULD respectfully announce to tl e cit'zena
of Atheni and vicinity, that hL office is still
»ror Wilson X Veal's Clothing Store, College Ave
un, opposite the l’ost Office.
Feb. 9—ly.
MOORE & CARLTON,
n EYLEUS in Silk, Fancy and Staple Goods
^ Hardware nnd Crookery, No. 7, Urnntc Row
Athens, (la. (Ja>»-
T. II. WILSON & BROS.,
*yyilOLESALK and retail dealer* in Dry Goons
Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Ac., Nos. 3
and 4, College Arcane, Athens, Du,
March IS .. <■
SAMUEL P. THURMOND,
A TTORNEY’ AT LAAV'.JeflV-rion, Jackson conn
ty, «(*., will attend promptly to any busmen
cmiSdcd To bis earn. [April ih, iSoo.
WILLIAM G. DELONY,
Attorney at Law,
Office Ah ft read Street, over the Mweeid I.M.Keu
ney, Athena, Ua.
Mutvli 13— if.
HILL & THOMAS,
J^F.ALEUS in Silk, Fanev, nml Staple Goods,
Hardware, CVeek*r-y, tlroceric*. Ac., No. 4
Uruuitu Row, AtKort,Ou. [Jun.lh.
One says “He’s a victim to Cupid ;”
Another. “His conduct is bad ;”
A .third, “He is awfully stupid ;”
A fourth, “He is perfectly mad !”
And then I am watched like a hnndi*.
Mankind with me all are a* strife ;
By Heaven; no longer I’ll stand it.
But quick put an end to my life !
Yet one way remains : to the river
I’ll fly from the goadings of care!
But to drown !—ah the thought mikes me
shiver! _
A terrible death, 1 declare! *
Ah, no!—I’ll once mure see my Kilty,
And parry her cruel disdain;—
Beseech Iter to take me in pity.
And never dismiss tne again.
—sometimes called snspenders. I know
that sontc of you. will after a while be
furnished at the State’s expense, but
you can’t tell winch one, so buy where
the’re cheap. Al) that deserve hang
ing arq not supplied with a gallus ; if so,
there 1 would be nobody to make Jaws,
condemn criminals, or hang c.lpritt un
til a new election. Made of pure gum-
elastic—stretch like a judge’s conscience
and lost as long as a California office
holder .will steal; buckles of pure iron,
an ) warranted to bold so tight that no
man’s wife can rob him of the breeches:
arc, in short, as strong, as good, as per
fect, as effectual, and as bona fide as
the ordinance against Chinese shops on
Dupont street—gone at twenty-five
cents.” * . - - . i ; •
E L- FERRY, > . - ,
HOLESALK ttnl retail deaVr in Hats, Capa,
W itoois. Shoes, Tnmks, *c„ b*twccn Un.
luags and White’s corner, liroad street, Athens,
Ga. [Jan. 10.
F. W. LUCAS,
'^Y’HOLESALK and retail dealer in Dry Goods,
Unaneries, Hmdware, Ac., No. -'. Biotul at.
Atlwn , On. . , |Ja|> 19,- ;
R. L. BLOOMFIELD,
1IOLESALE and retail Clothing St ore, Broad
Strreet, Atiieus, Gn.
[May 10,
COLT & COLBERT,
D EALERS in rapleDry Goods, Groceries, Hard
ware, Ac., No. 0, Gvanite-Row, Athens, Ga. .
.I a«KS I. Cot.T. WlLI.I VM C. OoLtlKUT.
August '23—ly.
J. w. GOSS.
W AREHOUSE and Commission Merpbnnt
Augusta, Ga. [Aug. 30, ltwJ.
BAR RY & llCG n ES,
W HOLESALE and retail dealers in Boor
Shoes, Leathers, Tools, and oil material
■*ed by 1m>ot and slioc mnnufactorios, Trtmks, \ a
tires, CnriHtt-Bogs, Shoo Blacking, Ac.
Athens,
Brond-st.
Sept. SO.
J. F.F1TTARD&C0.
D EALERS in Family Qroccric* and Confeotion
urios, Ac. At • All articles in our line of busi
ness can bo purchased elieap lor cosh, or ou three
liiunlhs time. We would also, reaper I fully call the
sttuutiuu of those indebted us, on note or aeeounl
lHf>| 1 Hjj, to cull and settle, as further indulgence
snimnt bo given,
blarch S.7—tlJnn,
JAS. R. LYLE
A TTORNBV AT V.AW, Will bo found at
tV hid otlieo over White &. Mom* «torc, Uroail »t.
HI biuiucM eutnittted lo bin care will, uirot with
prtwyw (itteution. Special aUcution.paid'to col
loct* •
looting,
ill arch .6, JS56.
M JL&W.Ts JUILL1CAN.
\ TTORNEVS AT LAW—Wilt pmttlee in the
-is. counties, of the Westorn -Circuit, and the
»"Unties of Uadhsm, Elliert and Hnn,oftiioNorth
cm Circuit. - „ „
W«. T. Mn-we**,
nNi
■k J. H|Luea»,
Jefferson. Gn
May 14.
Carncsva
;«a.
I. II. MATTHEWS, f i
\TTORJ7SYAT law. BanieLville.G*.
May IS. •
A California Auctioneer.
The reporter of the San Francisco
News furnishes that paper with the fol
lowing report of a speech made by a
California auctioneer:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I now bave
tbe honor of putting a fino pocket hand
kerchief ; a yarl wide, a yard long, and
almost a yard thick; one half cotton,
and t’other half cotton too; beautifully
printed with stars nnd stripes on one
side, and the stripes and stars on t’other.
It will wipe dust from the eves so com
pletely as to be death to demagogues,
and make politics as bad a business ns
printing papers. Its great length,
breadth and thickness, together with a
dark color, will enable it to hide dirt
and never need washing. Going at one
dollar? seventy-five cents? fifiy cents?
twenty-five cents? otic bit? Nobody
wants it! Oh ! thank you sir !
“Next, gentlemen—for the ladies
won’t he permitted to bid on this article
—is a real, simon pure, tempered,
highly polished, keen edged Sheffield
razor; bran spnnkin new never opened
before to sunlight, moonlight, starlight,
daylight, gaslight; sharp enough to
shave a lawyer, or cut a disagreeable
acquaintance or poor relation ; handle
of buck horn, with all the rivets hot the
two at the ends of pure gold. Who'wil!
give two dollars? one dollar? half a dol
lar? Why, ye long bearded, dirty
faced reprobate?, with Hot room oft your
tliizzes for a Chinese woman to* kiss,
I’m offering you a bargaitf at half a' dol
lar! Well, I will throw in' this strop at
half a dottnr ? razor and strop! a recent
patent ; ’two mbs upon it will sharpen
the city attorneys all for four bits ; and
a piece tff soap, sweeter Than roses, lath
ers better than a schoolmaster, and
strong enough to wash all the stains from
A California politicians countenance, all
for four bits. Why) you bave onlyTo
put the razor strop and soap nnder yftnr
nllow at night and wake up irt tho tnorn-
ng. clean shaved. Won’t anybody
I rive two "bits, then, for the lot?
!cnew I would sell’crt . * •
Next ladies and gentlemen; I offer
three pairs socks, hose, stockinjgs, or
half hose; jnst as you’re a mirtd to call
them, knit by a machine made on pur
pose, out of- cotttffi wool. The man
thn^ bnys'tlfose w.I be emtbfod to walk
till lie gets tiredand, provided his
boots are high enOngh, nded'nf have
any cbntpj’'n*rtefeff '»•' lon^as bHls
against the co poratton, and tw thick aR
the heads of the members'nf the legisla
ture. Who wants ’em at one half dol
lar? Tharik-ee, madam flic motiey.
“Next; I offer yon n pair of boots
made especially for San Francisco, with
heels long enough to raise •« man up to
the Hoadley grades, and Waite to insu o
against being* carried river by * * land
rffide; legs wide enough to carry tware
volvers and a bowie knife; and the up-
pei? of the Very befit horse leather. A
man in these boots can move about as
the State capitoK Who -says ! twenty
dollars? Alt the taxpayers ought to
Vtmr o natr fnlrtnlr tliA Mfllipjl Willi i
GRIFFITH & WILLIFORD*
WHOLESALE and Retail Dealers in Hard I
YY mm. Crockery nml Hottre■ Fwnshwg
Mh Clothing
Goods, one door ’wVt w IL L Btoouffield’* Clotiiinfc'
•lore, Athi-jui'O-o* • . [*•? * 5 '
~1IEW GOODS
, (tiughnin*, Prints,
Hals, L’a
Also, a
A then*, April
The Throne oTSoIoaon.
The following account (says an ex
change) of a remarkable piece of mechan
ism is taken from a Persian manuscript
called the “History of Jerusalem.” It
purports to be. a description of the
Throneof King Solomon, and if the de
tails are correctly given, it undoubtedly
surpasses any jriece of mechanism pro
duced in modem times. The sides of it
were pure gold, the feet of emerald ant)
rubies intermixed with pearls, each of
which was as large as an ostrich’s egg.
The 1 lirone had seven steps, on each
side were delineated orchards full of
trees, and branches of which were of
precious stones, representing fruit ripe
and unripe; on the tops of trees were to
be seen figures of plumage birds, partic
ularly the peacock, the staub nnd the
kurges. All these birds were hollowed
within artificially, so as to occasionally
utter a thousand melodious sounds,
such as the ears of mortals never heard.’
Un the first was delineated vine
branches having bunches of grapes,
composed of various sorts of precious,
stones, £ishioned in such a manner as
to represent the various colors of purple,
violet, green and red so as to render the
appearance of real fruit. On the sec
ond step on each side of the throne were
two lions of terrible aspect, large as life,
and formed of cast gold. The nature
of this remarkable throne was sncli that
when Solomon placed his foot on the
first step, the birds spread forth their
wings and made a fluttering noise in the
air. On his touching the second step,
the lions expanded their claws. On his
reaching the third step the whole assem
blage of demons and fanes and men re
peated the praise of the Deity;
When he arrived at the fourth step,
voices were heard addressing linn in the
following manner: “Sen of David, be
thankful for the blessings which the Al
mighty iias bestowed upon you.” The
same repeated on reaching fifth step.—
On his touching the sixth, all the chil
dren of Isreal joined them; and on his
arrival at the seventh, all the birds and
animals liecnme in motion, and censed
not until he had placed himself in the
royal seat, when the birds, lious, and
other animals, by secret springs, dis
charged a shower of the most precious
perfumes on Solomon, after which two
of the kurges descended aud placed a
golden crown upon his head.
Before the throne was a column of
burnished gold, on the top of which was
;oldcn dove, which held in its beak a
volume bound in silver. In tins book
were written tbe Psalms of David, he
read aloud a portion of it to the children
of Isreal. It is further related that on
the approach of a wicked person to the
throne, the lions were wont to set-np a
terrible roaring, and to lash their tails
with violence. Thq birds also began to
bristle up their feathers, and the assem
bly also, of demons and genii, to utter
horrid cries; for fear of them no one
dared be gnilty of falsehood, but all
confessed their crimes. Sneh was the
throne of Solomon, rite son of David.
1 lay my hand abstractedly’ ** u
Upon thy chair; *
Bnt, when turning, only greet
The empty air, alas ! my vision
Fades like all Kanh’s dreams that wear
Such hues Elysian!
Still 1 linger By the nresi;!.,
Dear Janet,
Gazing on the dying embers—
Ah ! not yet art thou gone,
For a pressure is beside tne.
And a tone.
Sweet and holy as the chiming
Vesper bell.
When, floating on the air of evening,
Its casts a spoil o’er all toy care,
Echoing lo my spirit’s hearing
Words of prayer.
l'he immense quantity of the protoxide-
squirted about hero causes trees, build
ings, streets,, everything^ to present a
diluted and wisliy washy appearances—
The women loso their colour, tbe men
their hair, (washed off, sir.;) and the an
imals, J by constant exposure acquire
scales and fius, like the native of the
great deep.- In fact, aU the inhabitants
cif this territory have a* generally scaly
appearance, and ’rejoice in a peculiar
smell, a combination, I should say, of a
fish-ball and a fresh mud-sucker. The
rains of Oregon beat everything in that
line I ever beheld or conceived of.
Those that fell on Noah’s Ark were not
more heavy ; those of Nero, Caligula,
aud I Neely Johnson, not more terrible
nor those of L&ky Suffolk nnd Moscow
fr-
mixed metaphor of a veiy happy de
scription. So, upon the whole, I’m glad
I’m off ; yes, I am quite sure of it, and
I long to get to D —, where the
people enjoy the light of the blessed
Thick the ashes while are falling—
On my soul
Falls the chill of desolation ! I
To its goal the night is flying.
While the last gray warning embers
All are dying.
buy a pair to kick the council with
everybody ought to" have a pair to kick
the legidature with, and'they will bei
found of assistance in kicking the buck
et, especially if somebody 7 should kick
at being kicked. Ten deHart for legs,
uppers, and soles i'while-sotlls, nndihw-
erable souls at that, are bringing twenty
thousand dollars in Sacramehtri! Ten
London Depicited by Hcfnricli Heine.
The Gerjimn.tLeinp, in his pictures of
travel, thus describes the city of l^ou-
don: . , l .
I have seen tlie greatest wonder
which the world caw show to the aston
isbed■spirit.” I have seen it, and. am
still astonished ; and still there remains
fixed hi my memory the stone forest of
houses, aud amidst them the rnshing
stream of living faces of living men, with
all their motley passions—all their terri
ble impulses of love, of hunger and of
hatred—I mean London.
Send a philosopher ...lo. London, but,
for your life, no poet f_' Send a philoso
pher there, and stand firm at the corner
of Cheapside. where he will learn more
than from all he books of the Lepsic
fair; aiid as the billows of human life
roar around him, so will a sea of new
thoughts arise before him, and the eter
nnl spirit which moves upon the Lace of
the waters will breathe upon him ; the
most hidden scenes of social harmony
will be suddenly revealed to him; lie
wilfheai* the ‘pulise of the world teat
audibly, and see ifr* visibly—for if Lon
don is the right band -of the world*—-its
active, migbty right hand—the i we may
regard the j-oute which leadsl from the
Exchangetd r ’ i U)bWrtTn{*' ffreet as the
world’s pyloric artery. But never"send
a poet to' London. This downright
earnestness of all things, this colossal
uniformity, -this machine-like movement,
this troubled spiriLin pleasure itself, this
exaggerated London smothers the imag
ination and rends the heart.
N
But thy spirit, oh, thy spirit,
Speak, Juuct!
Comes it not lo breathe a blessinn ?
Miy regret—sole sentry here—
Admit no hope of future calm
To hover near?
Of an hour, when, by the preside*
Mine Janet!
Thou shall teach my weary spirit
To forget that e’er alone ;
I placed a vacant chair beside me,
And thou wert gone ?
AX AON.
latest
sun, and where I can enjoy it also, and
dry my things, and read Irving’s ‘Asto
ria.’
“Howbeit, there, arc many interesting
aud curious things in Oregon; many odd
and entertaining people also therein ;
and I have seen much that was funny,
ami laughed thereat, and should have
laughed louder and longc., if my mouth
hail not filled with rain before 1 had half
finished; and I might perhaps regie
leaving a country in which I have had
so much positive enjoyment, were it not
that I have chronicled all these amusing
things and peculiarities, and shall be
glad to get somewhere where I can
have a dry laugh over them. Such a
thing ns’dry humor’ in Oregon is, of
course, a physical impossibility.”
Railway Horrors.—The very
from Georgia.
The London Times, of October 15,
serves up an appetizing, dish of horrors,
related by one of “ Our Own Correspon
dents,” as characteristic of life in the
Southern States, and especially in Geor
gia. The whole is thus condensed in
the Liverpool Mercury, of the 18th
ult.:
“ On the 28th of August, at 5 P. M.,
a train started from Macon, in Georgia,
for Augusta, in the same State. The
train consisted of one long passenger
car and a luggage car with seats for
smokers, and on starting contained 25
passengers. In the cnuise oftlicjom-
ney, which occupied ten hours and a
half, there took place amongst this small
number of fellow-passengers five actu 1
duels with fatal results; a sixth duel,
which was arranged, hut did not come
off, owing to the death cf an intended
principal in .another duel; a seventh
duel, which there was every’ reason to
believe had taken place, though tlie
tram went on too soon for the rcsiftts to
transpire ; eighthly, a child, .which per
sisted in crying after its murdered fa
ther, was deliberately slain. Of the
tw® dozen passengers, fifteen are men
tioned as entering more or less into the
action of the drama ; twelve took a di
rect part in duels ; six were killed, and
throe were left on the way fighting.—
Four duels were fought at convemcnt
spots, tlie train stopping for the purpose;
one was fought in theluggnge^car V?hile
the train was iu motion, n.nd one with
uncertain result was fought at a regu
lar stopping place. Three of' the dead
[Saa Francisco Corrospon <1< ncc of N. A’. Picayune.)
Marriage and Divorce in California—
Advice to Ladies.
By reference to the law columns of
our journal, you wili perceive that we
are in, on an average, for four divorces
every day. And what is not a little sin
gular is, that the application generally
comes from the weaker vessel. Perhaps
von will get your ears pulled for pub
lishing it, but I must in all fairness say
the root of the evil is that women nre
naturally a little too fond of admiration.
Here, in this city..we have at least seven
men to one woman, and in the interior
the disproportion is much larger. The
consequence is that, ns in tlie case of all
scarce commodities, the article com
mauds more than its intrinsic value. “It
isa good deal sought after,” as the quo
tation sometimes run on a popular rail
road stock.
The feminine is quickly caged ; the
husband is in esstacies for ab ut a fort
night, but not quite so exalted the suc
ceeding two weeks. Her forty other
lovers, not easi y finding another unap
propriated piece of dimity to soothe their
dis ppointment, make friendly e l!s up
on the lost Pleiade, and by exceeding-
sympathy with her at the coolness ol
her husband, win her regard, and then
their attentions arc so much p ore deli
cate titan those of her lord, that the poor
weak (hit g finds she has committed a
great error in her choice, especially if
the new flame is rich and generous, and
the old otie rather p ain and economical.
An application for divorce is the result.
Hundreds have no other exensfe loof
fer in making tlie application, than “utt-
congeni 1 dispositions,” and dislke.
Flic process is the simplest imaginable.
A lawyer with an easy conscience is cn-
gaecd—most San Francisco lawyers
have easy consciences wnen they have
receiver the fee from the
bodies were left beliiml; one was car- anlJ , w * lu *y . ,, . . ,
new I&vor. A referee is then hunted
icd from the scene of the duel and de
posited on the luggage; another lav
where it tell in the.car; another!was
thrown out.on tlie roadside. Of the six
killed, two were fathers agd two were
{heir sons, one father was killed while
avenging his son, and o~o child murder
ed for lamenting his father.”
It would have heightened the effect
greatly, and been equally consistent
with truth, it the correspondent liad
thrown in,a few mueders of women, and
then cescribe the - survivors its feasting
ou tlie barbecued bodies of tLe vic’.t
■A Moist Climate.
John Phoenix, poet, philosopher, liu
nrut. and “lilcowiSA nlRD.” a CftlTCiS-
morist, and “likewise also,” a corres
pondent of the Knickerbocker Magazine
lias been sojourning in Oregon, and
thus gives utterance to his experiences
in that climate, in a letter of an Au
gust date, from Portland, 6. T.
“It, giveamo unfeigned pleasure to in-
foim you that I fm about to qnit the
gloomy and never-to-be-dried-np sky of
Oregon, and',repair without unnecessa
ry delay! to D , ou our borders.
i v £-Cotton. 141 MtuoLE Florida. T—From
what we'can learn tlie planters of Miu-
dip Florida will, with few exceptions,
secure a very'.fair-cWp df cotton, ftot-
withstanding-the disastrous storm of the
last of August* But for tb*t mishap
their crop this yearflrould have been un-
precedentetynsize. , v
«n.»! <«»m*>*! ««»*“?•«*
rs!
’ ‘•'NextIs sometl
have,' gentlemen,'d 1
A Californianjtjry, in i 1 -Suicide 'case
tely', Tmuuf, 'the folio winjg' verdict:
“\Ver the jury,-find that tlie deceased
was a fool.”
Yes, sir; I’m off, ‘services’ no longcj re
quired on these inclement * shores—
shores which, when you read of in Ir
ving’s ‘Astoria,’ you naturally wish ,to
behold, and admire old Astor’s pluck in
making establishments thereon, and
which, when you reach, you wish you
hadn’t, and admires still more old As
tor’s good sense in breaking his estab
lishments up, and quitting while thece
was yet time. , • . -, v . -
“Itain is an exceedingly pleasant and
gratifying institution in its way, and in
moderation; it* causes the grass to grow,
the blossoms to flourish, and ■ is a *]
tive necessity to the timbreHa-mjt _
but wheu you get to a c »untry where it-
rains incessantly twenty-six hours a day
for seventeen months in the year,- you
cannot resist having, the' conviction
forced upon your mind that the thingis
slightly overdone. Tliftt’s the case in
Oregon; ; it commenced Taining pretty
belvily on tbe-tbird of last November
and continued up to the fifteenth of
May, when ; h set'fit'for & long storm,
which, isn’t, fgirly over .yet. There’s mistress of
moisture Tor you. * ’ tne oMe, .
- ^XfcawfcsemieMae of Jd»8 awfuidi-
matexure just what might be supposed.
CARRY ME BACK.
Or Sam’s Soliloquy.
In Mississippi's lubly clime, M ; y ■
J’ye worked front night.to night,
A raikiu’ up a iuolly .crew , "
To aril me in the figlit;!
But the I.okny tokie's smelt a rat,'''
' - ! Ahd the debel'was to pity V ** -
And such a slushing 1 did get,
'"*- On the election day.. •
— • ■ > ■ CHOIttS. , * ,
Den parry tne back to mv native State,
My native State once.more,
O carry me back—O carry me lirck
To Massachusetts shore.
1 fixed tny tricks—my slngnsand grips :
Both Whigs and Lo hies war da r,
Sam was afraid <lat some: would break,
And so he made them swar.
But ’iwant no use—one night we met.
By the light,of the silver moon—
AhiT the dratted Lokies ntn"away -
Dey swar dey smell de coon.
CHORUS. ; »- •
De SonPs no place fo* midnight clubs,
Nor Yankee colored folks,
De way dey some limes treat us dar—
Old 8am can’t S'and such jokes.
So give me here my lantern da r k—
I’ll * quit this mournful vale,”
And spend the remnant of tny days
Will Wilson and Joltny Hale.
CHOItUS.
up by the lawyer, who agrees to decide
according to the lady’s wishes for a por
tion of the fee. The Judge <»f catircc
refeis the application as req ested. Th?
referee hands his report into court, Xvhere
it:.te often passed upon without a’ word of
open testimony—and nine cased out of
ten, favorably.' the lady is then ready
to be married again—and having lost all
delicacy* by the process she has gone
through, is ready to run away with the
next lover withovt a divorce.
My advice to weak headed ladies in
the Atlantic States is not to come to Cal
ifornia to get ti.ariied—and not to come
after they are married; if the are pretty
“and interesting,”'they are much snfer
anchored in some snug harbor in the At
lantic than iit the opes roadsteads among
the shoals and breakers of the Pacific.
But for the encouragement of those
who have determined to come, I will
quote from the Bulletin the following
ndver isement. If ay>A*t»cook, thirty-
five years of age, has to give- bonds not
to marry within six months, it stands to
rensdn that a* teuder little chicken of
about half that age- would stand .no
chance at all of pitting away for lack of a
husband up at Rabbit Creek <
**.Wantcd.-r-A. single female, from
twenty to thirty-five years of ag«; tp £Q
to Rabbit Creek, Sierra county , to. do
plain cooking and general housework iu
a genteel family, and agrees not to marry
From the Macon Telojrnph, Nov. tl.
A Letter from M?j*or Downing.
Marin, Bibb County, Nov. 10.
Air Telergrnjj': I’m not satisfied with
tills place, and shall leave it shortly.
The rcsons I shall norate in the follcrin
lettci to my fiend Ranse, and ef you
know ogzackly whar he is, (which I sus
picion will be more knowlcdgablc than
Ranse himself, jest about now,) I’ll got
you to forrerd the letter and oblige yours
’tell deth,
JACK DOWNING.
To my (rend Mister Ranse Rite. My
d^-ar ltanse—it looks mity like we wttr
in a derred bad fix up this way ; and
bein’ as I’ve not heerd ov y*ou sence
Election, and not knowin whar to find
you—and spectin to have seen you here,
hekaseyou wur here pretty much of a
constancy afore the 4th—and fearing
you mouglit not git the returns, which
arq not much to git, as the little boy sed
when his Daddy guv him his blesstn,
and a dod-rotted thrashin at the same
time ; so, Ranse, I’ve ktnn to the con
clusion to try the P. O. department, as
old Amos sed, when he quit the “egg-
citemcnt of cotnpcrsition”*in the Globe
and tuk up with the Postmaster Gi tier id
That ’s 140 mistake about it, Rausc,
you must kum back to this old stompin
ground of your’s agin, or our credit as
polytishuns will be lower than the bot
tom of a sixty foot well. Look heer.
You sed we wur goitt’ to carry this
durned old cmnty, and heer we ar a
stapgerin ui der nigh two hundred ma
jority agin us—not a staggeriu, either,
bnt not kt ocked down flat by a perfect
soc’idolerger, as 8haksper says. You
gin your word of honor that Georgy wur
a goitt for Fillmore by two thousand six
hundred and seventy-six votes, adzactly
—but, Ranse, cordin to rny rccknin now.
you wur out of it seventeen thousand six
hundred and seventy-six votes. This ar
infernal bad calculashun for a Georgy
polytishnn, and needs explannshun, as
the * Komptroller sed when they brot
him seven hundred thonsan 1 dollars of
Fremont's accounts against the Ginoral
Guvernment. But, Ranse, it wur a
grate deal wuss out oc the State. We
wur a goitt to carry Alybama, Fluridy.
Mississip, Lonisiauy, Kaintuck, Tennes
see, Pennsylvnny, North Carolina, New
Jersey Delaware, New York, Connec
ticut, aud perhaps Massachusetts—nnd
this wur another blunder, as fur as 1
make it, of two httudred and fifty thou-,
sand votes—sayin nothin of, the majori
ties.we wur to git in these States—or of
the two thousand six hundred aud seven
ty-six Geqrgy wur to give us—or of the
vote of. South Caroliuan which' we war
to git, but which went agin us afore the
polls were closed, anti the name of Fill
more never hurd iu that Legislatur.
Now, Rausc, siclr calktilations are bad
eniitf to spile eggs out and out, a.id how
you can, iu. filter, kum the wild cat
elycusitun oil tifestump, without explain-
tl. nnrl »uli :i ‘.Hill Vm
Fillmore men, while in the Sooth they
did their best to take Buchanan - votes
away, and did take eight. This raake*
sicli as meant to do right feel as cheap
as a tarred doggand snm of them ' as*
dont belong to the Church s* inclined to-
cuss. ' ■ .. J i ■■ - * - ;**;
Sum oifem.feels dredfolly sore and
mortified when they sees that yen; mis-
able Fillmore column of ate votesia.the
Presidenshttl tables, looking as comtem-
tyble as a tom k at in a managery. Tba*
se8 it sets ‘ern in mind of tvliat that ow-
daslius old profit Morc Kanner, se d to
t ie Nonothtugs rf his time, when ho
held up the old dark lantern ami sliowd
how he’d bamboozled 'em :
Thar ye durn’d gumps behold your;
lamp and Star.
Ye would be regular gammon’d year 1 .
For Sartin.
Or words to that effec accordin to the
poit more.
Now, friend Ranse. vou may tltii k
I’ve been making too big a boo for a colt
iu this yere letter, lnt I toll ye never
knned tilings to be in a worse fix in Old
Bibb. Suppose you leave 4 < ih so and
kttm back next year novatin for tlio
Nonothings. I toll you, the boys wiil
be inquiring after these ateen States and
these thuuderin F.l'ini-re majorities, and
wai t to ki ow what tbe actual Note wrs
which-elected Fillmore in ISofi, hud-
when Buel anan withdrew. Why,
Ranse, sunt of your plain country No-
no bings will cutn upon you for yo r
piny contribution as Collector at Sa
vannah, or Georgia U. S. Marshal under
Pres'de it Fillmore. Of course they are
never goin to believe the dcmicrats,^ nnd
so you must cum ami correct your own
statements. Take the back track at.
once and straighten things as much,as-,
you can, or you’ll have no path next-
year. It will be clocked up-with‘huge
boulders.” And cf Ben Hill or jitdga
Hill or Craft’ >rd or any of the rest of;
•cm has been noratin this sorter way.
send ‘em all back to set themselvesril$. r
Let us have a Lig light’nd fire, amij
burn up these stories as the apostles did,,
the witchcraft books iu the olden time..
Yours ‘tell doth,
Jack D-WNTNCL,
THE STARS’ WHISPERS.
BY \VM. WINTEB.
Tn the line heaven, so coldly bright
The harvest moon shines fair to-night,
Ami calmly, sweetly from afar
Falls the pure light of each pale star.
Silent, serene, they shine and move
By Gad’s ete r r>al pdwer and love
So should it be with us, to whom
Are hours ofjoy and hours of gloom.
Patient, our hearts should still beat on,
TiJ|l this world’s changing dread is gone.
Pure ai d serene our souls should be,
Till n.ercy’s summons sets them free.
[Boston Transcript.
6nf Shaci
If you
you,she
then
If a
from
!*b v * >————" v— __ * ~ (luintiBM —
within six mouths. Wages §50 per. pose( { t0 res ine in despar, bekase,
.» an. • >1 1 .4 T.V 11
in, aud exploutidiu, aud kiveiin 'cm
over sum wfiat, is fnor’n 1 can tell, but
you may no. 'l’he boys is all talk in
about ’em. Sum of ’em as has lost bets
is hi up in the back and low down in the
pockets; aud they don’t speak com
plimentary by no manner of means.
They talk about the horns « f a dilemmy
—and say cf you Didn’t know no better,
you ort to have kept_your moptli sbet,
and ef you did know Letter wlmr was the
still small mor.etor within ] , 'They sqys,
fur a pian namod Rite r you wur wrong
out of site, and they’ll never believe you
agin, unless you have the docyment*
sort Hide to by the. dark and.umUr afil-
davy before a democratic jnstus.
Stun is more good nntuicd and scs it
wur a mistake. Tbq| privately you did
not count on but afo States, and you
used ’em for a figger to represent tlie ate
roA't’whicb Filtmnretuk from Budmaan
in-Maryland. But others ask, ef. this
be so, wfiat on birth’ did you mean by
uoration about that old Buck had pro
tlie
month. .Expensespaid None need
ply unless well qualified. Address A.
C., at this office, or 117 Merchant
street.” -• , _ .
N. B.—Your correspondent is a mar-, know what the bpvs will say st
vied man, but his wife doesn’t live in w | IGn tB ar backs is up.T'It ar a
Califyiitta.
A Warning to Mothers.—TfWMc-
some Tarent. Who was making that
noise, Clara?
Clara, (patting her lap dog, while
her beau conceal* himself behind her erm-
olutt\—Only me and moustache, mam-
m.i 'iLrfH L’'' ' ' *'
A female school teacitet. injteu
tisement, stated that she was complete
mistress of her own totigue. “If that s
lift
contest wur, all between Fillmore and
Fremont? If you believed that, you
ort not to have gone out wlieu it rained;
and ef you didn’t believeit, you ort to
sometimes
up. vrit ar a bad case
every way you look at it, frend Rite, but
something mouglit prehaps b3 made out
of this figger of speech "business.
Sum of the Boys is madder than the
rest, bekase they seat they have been
regularly aold out and liumbugged by
these hrfalutinTttdkalashuns 'and state-
pientsof yournxbput the ateefi’ States
and conteskbe'ng between Fremont and
Fillmore. Wlien they cum to 6ee the
actial vote, they ses they have been reg-
elar bamhbozleil into playing bottlehol-
dert for Fremont. They ses that old
Buck got nary an electoral vote in tbe
Nor k, that he^d dn’t nt Ift ftpite.M; the
wet
anything to
The oddest mnemonic
a woman, who never, knows
knows to half an hour that of all
male friends.
A woman may laugh too much. It is
only a comb that can always afford to
show its teeth.
Woman will never be punctual. They
scorn the “charms” that hang to a watch
chain.
Small Shot.—*Say wliat you will, a
marriage by advertisement must, after
all, be the union of two ‘'corresponding”
minds. ;
Life is but a station, wbcrc we stop
only for a few minutes. Before we bavo
scarcely bad tiine,to eqjov a single thing,
tlielLcil rings for us to start ogaiu —It
is but the affair of a breath, and we are
rone!
Sunday Morning.—‘‘Now, my Love I
—are you nqt ready for Church
“Ready for Church, Mr. Smith !-
How you talk !—When you know per
fectly well that odious MiSs Jackson has
not sent hotae my new Barege Dross ?”
The Marriage Relation.
The great secret is to learn to bear
with cacholber’s failing; not to be bHml
to them—that is either an impossibility
or a I0II3*, we must see and feel them ;
f we do neither, they arc not evils to
11s, and there is obviously m tiee t of
forbearance; but to throw the m nit to of.
affection around them, conccaliug tli< m
from, each other’s^ eyes; to 'detcViniu-v
not to let them chill tbe affections ; to
resolve to cul ivate good-tempered for-
bearance, because it is the only way of
mitigating the present evil, alwaytf with-
a view V> ultimate amendmeut. Snrely
•it is not the perfection, but the imperfec
tion,, olbitmau character that makes the
strongest cla m in love. . All the world-
must approve, even enemies must admire,
the good and the estimable iii human
nature. If husband and .wife estimate
only tliat in c.icli which all must be con
strained to value, what d£ they more
than others ? 11 is infirmities of’charac
ter, imperfections of uature, that call'for .
tie pitying sympathy, tlie tender com-
patsu o that makes each^tlie comfortor,
the- mouitor of the other. Forbearance
hoi j s to attain commatfd overthemsclvea.
Few are the creatures so utterly evilaS
to abuse a geuQrous confidence, a calm-
f rbearance. Slatried persojs shonldbe ’
pre-t minently. friends, ttnd fidelity !a th^‘
great privelega ot fiiendship. f lho folr-
bcarancc here contended for M ftotw
weak end’ wicked indulgence of e&ch
other’s Far
other’s Ralte. but such a cahffi, ;ten^f
observance of them as exdudesaB hatsn-
fiess and anger, anA-takes the’’beat aaff
g. ntlest methods of pojutmg themreyt fn
Ute full confidence oJfaffectipn.— Whisper
tv a Bride.
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