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•' Uti >ty. , l ’ann s 'ya| Wf! ein g 1 th i]j ,Ul>‘^v„n. Associate Editor. f —-— ‘.jssss»_ bates OF weekly. 50 ? So I * «“ th3 ";r;, v i » one copy will be fur- ^VARIABLY IN ADVANCE A * _. one CODY Will •lob. Of F ‘ ve ILjrt*- M. DWINELL, Proprietor. irfAL ADVERTISEMENTS. , „ i i lV .Gim : ustni tors, Electors or »:« rf .reiairedby law to bo held on larUfi A.vlr. eaca month, between the IToeada. orenoon nu j il irc c i„ the ih. Court House in the county in I 4t ty j 3 situatod. l(^ ,W ?di«esales must bo given in a pub- I ,Hv 3 previous. f 1 -sate of personal property must 1 S>fc 8 . i;w. manner, through a public gai- ,ri«» in nrei ious to sale day. £ II 1 4 J S Debtors and Creditors of an estate, C.o* tfl ,to days. | ^tW P“ bl J-ppiications will be mado to the I fjtievthel PI . !eaTe to sell land must be months. I A*" f, letters of Administration, Gnar- ■® s mu5 t be publishod 3b days—for P ,,’ a Administration, three months— psion from Guardianship, 40 days. '■ the forcclosenre of Mortgages must ti m onthly for,four months—for es- I. Ill-- I ,these. I ikif'-’ , Siortg»i n pci ling titles from Executors or • » bond has been given by wiP always be continued accord* tlie foja.1 requirements, unless oth- ’ * the following RATES. levy often lines or less $3 00 a fi. fa. sales, per levy, 5 00 i. , liecwi - -le*. l ,er lev ^-: . _ (or letters of Administration 3 00 ^^efurfotterfl of Guardianship 3 00 M*’, opniicatiou for dismission from 'SuSwtioa 6 0(1 , uppiicatiou for dismission from ^disnthip.. ■l.tion lose land - Viflii«T) t° SC H — to Debtors and Creditors T..Dd. per square, i ’ -perilbable property, 10 days...., notices, “ VOLUME XXV. "WISDOM. JUSTICE AN-D MODERATION.*’ ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1871. NEW SERIES-NO 38. igsjgragggS^r (Harpold & Hillyer, are offering a large And Beautiful Stock of MADE CLOTHING, may exhibition. The exhibition for May will take place on Tuesday next. The last one was a suc cess. Wc have no doubt but wbat the next one will be more largely attended, and that a larger collection of fruits, vegetables and flowers will be on exhibition than be- fore. It will afford every citizen an oppor tunity to sec and examine the different va rieties and learn which is the best and most profitable to cultivate, also the man ner of cultivating them. No one can attend those exhibitions who desires light and knowledge on this sub ject but what will learn something that will be of profit to them. Come one come all and do what you can. Of these monthly exhibitions the Mari etta Journal says: These Monthly Fairs properly conducted are calculated to bo of the most beneficial results, they excite generous rivalry and serve as a stimulus to our Agriculturists in the improvement of their stock and farms. Ideas are gathered here and disseminated that are worth to the farmer and country fully as much as that many dollars. s or by tbe Single Garment, at prioes that must suit the closest buyers. I Shirts ana Drawers. I lr ,>i filing Shirt is as ossensial to a man's good fitting coat. We have arrgnge- with ono of the best manufactures in N. t Tewill take your measure, order your Shirts Iii* to order, and guarantee satisfaction. We ia stock a large assortment of White Shirts, fsU Calico Shirts, Lisle thread and Gauze I tiler Shirts J uim‘3 Linen IlM'k’fs, Tie3 and Bows; Gent |iii!e thread and British A Hose; Gent’s Collars, nd Suspenders; Gent’s fin custom made | He AND SHOES. HATS, HATS! lLarge Stock of Cloths Cassimers and Linens, for Tants or Suits. Feare Agents for PRINCETON MANUFACTURING CO., Athens, Ga., i 1 »fJj as for the GEORGIA MANUFACTURING CO.. Athens, Ga. I jts Mills raako Shirting, Sheeting, Osnabergs, r:;es. Plains, and Cotton Yarns, which we jaictee as good us any other make in the ia. All of which we sell by the PACKAGE, i'.S:hdfa:ttirers prices. HARPOLD & IIlIiLYER. | Restore Your Sight. SPECTACLES RENDERED USELESS. OLD EYES MADE NEW. ill diseases of the eye successfully treated by 12-ii'j .Yew- Patent Ivory' Eye Cups. S«J for yourself and restore your sight. >?ectaclc3 and Surgical operations rendered 5 - Tho incstimablo blessing of Sight is ale perpetual by the use of the now Patent llsproved Ivory Eye Cups. 1 Lev of our most eminent physioians, ocu- students, and divines, have had their sight ciaently restored for life, and cured of the iCviing diseases: I impaired Vision; 2 Presbjopia, or Far Sight- I **»®r Dimness of Vision, commonly called I -‘-T.nj; 3 Asthenopia, or Weak Eys; 4 Epipho- P R:auing or Watery eyes; 5 Sore Eyes, speci- | ^treated with the Eye Cups, cure guaranteed; ■fakaess of tho Retina, or Optic Nerve* 7 fdsltnia, or Inflammation of the Eye and its ‘triages, or imperfect vision from the effects - kfemmation; 8 Photophobia, or Intolerance c Light 9 Over-Worked Eyes; 10 Mydesopsia, I Z ~*l specks or floating bodies before the eye; 1 iamrosis, or Obscurity of Vision; 12 Cata- Partial Blindness; the loss of sight- A T one can use the Ivory Eye Cups without J aid of Doctor or Medicines, so as to receive I Estate and bcnoficiai results and never wear I fetuoles; or, if using now, to lay them aside I^Ter. Wo guarantee a cure in every case ^‘die directions aro followed, or we will re- CiUb' money. 2300 CERT1FCATES OF CURE 50 honest Farmers, Mechanics and Mer- I 5umo them the most eminent leading I vw-ioual an( j political man and women of ed- ^° n aQ d refinement, in our country, may be I our office. , ? Jer v .^ a, -9 of March 20, Hon. Horace Greely, 8 York Tribune, writes: “J. Ball, of ls a conscientious and rcsponible man, KS[ |^ ana P a Lle of intentional deception or im- JSLY: ^ err ick, of Lexington, Ky., wrote vnth*^’ 1S6 ^’ Without my Spectacles I pen I ftiMA j 0le ’ after using the Patent Ivory Eye I ecn da 7 s » a nd this morning perused I ill withi. con,ents of a Daily News Paper, and | Y‘ h the unassisted Eye. J?.*! am 1 grateful to your noble invention, I ka „• Ten 1,1633 and preserve you. I have • lt “ !i: “S spectacles twenty years; I am seven- jears old. Truly you/s. PP.OF. W. MERRICK. I Maiden, Mass., Cur- I )s* ifs_5; l:11 J“bndness, of 18 year* standing in £ r y}y’ ^bo Patent Ivory Eye Cups. « v'J bate Mayor of Dayton, Ohio, wrote rr*r T .' 1S6 ^ : 1 have tested tho Patent Ivo] a . n , d 1 am satisfied they are good. fiSftjiwrththm; they are certainly the V6ntl . on of the age. atfj [,f' 08 Wia bingfor full particulars, certif- • ” , A ure8 ' P r , lcea » 4c., will pleaso send your Jr’ f n< J wo wil1 Bend our treatise on DrinS Pa Ees, free by return mais '* Liberty Qf J ’ & C °v P * O. Box. 957, No. Start K«r York. MSHTEnv?™* “a Of MYOPIA, or NEAR ^lim^. i. U8 ° our New Patent Myopic ^ r e 1 a p. a PPbed to the Ivory Eyo Cups has Sal ,“re for this disetse. *ali n 0 hamphieta and certificates free.— !s . , “iruos a r ^T?' e ^ by ad i ustio * Bags glasse- «-0disfigure your law. B> r yi°yd County, Ga., is LhEN PLEDGER, Cava Spring. fli lSty.« m A ' MIZE > Cedar Town, Polk Co. “tort,. Land CEDAR VALLEY FOR SALE. iHKsubsc, from 1 u r : uor ^ s °u place, three-fourths ol a*Uins 700 „„ :ir , ToWQ for sale. The place l i,r Valiev ?! !o,“ s g? od land as there is in y-ted ln n ,i''ff •*> the net profits, from th. l,rs Per ln cotton, was forty-eight «<M c'au 11' Tbe P !sce « admirsbly water- S b0 diTidcd «th two or " ■ I.-.. ;.There is an excellent two story ^■opuhT! f nme , r »o»». well finished—an nJl Scr« fv 0 ,? out boilings, a good Gin l»r re nt ?’ “, d , e, « hl or ni “» comfortable pl T df any one is willing to pay Irade. FAIR PEICE for G0 °I> LAND, S''h arc k n 0 < 'r, 0 ,', balf . t he amount that lands, Vdley 0 “otter, have recently sold for in ^ , 'l'23t»: lrtf HIRAM PHILLIPS. Straw and Shacks for Sale T ~ AT ~ ^tkia?* ALISON’S. THE LATEST NEWS. FOREIGN. The Prussians are about to interpose in the Paris troubles, and havesentan ultima tum to tho Commune. They are approv ing Paris and will attack it unless the Com mune acceeds to their demands. In the German Parliament, the question of State Rights is likely to produce some little wrangling. Quite a stormy debate was before the Reichstag on the right of members to enquire iuto the a-ts of the government. A magazine explosion in the avanue Tracadera, on the n'.ght of the 17th, killed 600 persons. The following is the conclusion of Grant's Ku-Klux order from the war department. “The President directs that whenever oc casion shall arise, the regular forces of the United States stationed in the vicinity of any locality where offe»ces, described by tho Act approved April 20lh. 1871, may be committed, shall, in strict accordance with the provisions of the said Act, be em ployed by their commanding officers in as sisting the authorized civil outhorities of tho United States in making arrests of per sons accused under tbe said Act, in preven ting the rescue of persons arrrested for such cause, in breaking up and dispercing bands of disguised marauders and of armed organ izations against the peace and quiet of the lawful pursuits of the citizens in any State. Whenever troops are employed in the manner indicated in this order, the com manding officer will, at the earliest oppor tunity, make a full report of his oppera- tions to the proper superior authority.” Horace Greely is in New Orleans. He made a speech before the American Union Club night before last^in which he said. “This is my first" visit to the South. I came here with a heart devoted to the good of all the people. They are not my ene mies now who were six or eight years ago. I bear hatred t> no one. He believed the bast men should ocupy the best places, with out any reference to bygones. The spirit which necessitated the exclusion of some men from tee ballot-box no longer exists. He opposed disfranchisement, as it was no longer a necessity. There would not have been a Ku-Klux in the land now if there had been general amnesty five years ago.; it would have united the people and healed the wounds produced by the war; for that he had struggled, and the time was not far distant when every American would have his fair sayat the ballot box, andthe major ity rule.” And now when the old rascal gets back, he will swear that the Ku Klux made him talk so prettily. The following nomination were sent to tho Senate on t' e IStli. Wm. A. Pile, Minister to Venezuela; Willard Warner, of Alabama, Governor of New Mexico; James R. Partrige, Mary land, Minister to Brazil; Siegel, Collector of Ninth New York; Commodore B. F. Sands, Rear Admiral; Captain Reed Wor den, Commodore; Capt. Stephen D. Treu- chari, Commodore. By them it will be seen that Alabama's carpet hag, Senator Warner, has been provi ded for, and it is now to be hoped that no further opposition will he had to the seating of Senator Goldthwait. Negtocs are now making it quite profita ble, traveling for the purpose of being eject ed from the white cirs. In the United States Court at Richmond on the ISth, Jas. Simms, a colored member of the Georgia Legislature, obtained a verdict for one thousand eight hundred dollars damages against the Richmond, Fredrickburg and Potomac Railroad Company for ejecting him from the white people’s cabin, of tho steamer Key Port, between Washington and Richmond. If instead of putting the impudent scoundrels off, a few bullets wore put in their necks it would teach them a lesson of manners and propriety that would put a stop to such suits as the above. ALABAMA NEWS. The Taladega Mountain Home says: The late heavy rains lave thrown the far mers badly behind.” Charley Gamble, a Talledega suffrage slingcr and Pelham law adjuster ventila ted his wife’s skull with an axe a few days ago. He is now on his way (o San Do mingo, and Pelham’s jury material is one is. Selma is complaining of dost. Talladega is running a debating society. The discussion last night was looked for ward to with great interest. Tue judge Didn’t See it.—Ben Plant one of the rioters engaged in beating A J. Baxter som .• time ago, offered t /plead guil ty if Judge Saffold would agree to sentence him to the shortest time prescribed by the law. The Judge did not see proper to thus compromise tbe claims of justice and very properly decliued the plee. Ben thinks that a jury will not do him justice and moved for a change of venue. His co-rioters are now being tried one of whom, Charles West, wa3, sentenced to the penetenliary for 20 years. A just sen fence. The Marietta Journal says; Negro labor is becoming so unreliable, that a few of out countymen are making efforts to introduce into our’ county, Swe dish immigrants. The last Grand Jury of Taliaferro connty “went for the District Court as follows: We join heartily in sentiment with the Grand Juries of many eountes in the State, iu reprobating the action of the last Legis lature iu forming a “District Court.” ~ I is a political blister that is calculated to draw the body of tho people to emaciation and pain, while to the drawers fatness and joy is promised in its administration to a well known party power. - We trust the next Legislature will repeal the act. GEORGIA. Ou Tuesday last Mis; I’racina Douprec, of Athens, was married to a Mr. McCalla, of South Carolina. Hanleiter’s City Directory estimates the amount of sales in Atlanta, daring the past year, at twenty-five million dollars. Tho Landcrdalc Orphans gave perform' ances in Athens on Saturday night; Greens boro Monday night; Madison Tuesday night, and Covington Wednesday night. The Savannah News says : On Monday night, or ratter Tuesday morning, about 1 o’clock, a German named John Hogan, who works at a guano manu factory near the city, on the Louisville Road, was returning frem a visit to town, where he bad been on husiness, when about, a hundred yards beyond the canal bridge, he was rushed upon by five negroes, who, in the darkness of the night, knocked him down, and to make sure against resistance, beat him very severely afterward, robbin him of about fifty dollars, all the money he had abont him. Beforo he became insensible, he recog nized, in the darkness, two of the robbers to he laborers at thb manufactory, and sup posed that they were aware of his having gone to the city intending to return, and that he had moDcy about him. Thu police were attracted to the spot, and on their arrival they found the man in a suffering condition. He was immediately removed to the Barracks, and on yesterday morning was taken to the luuse of some of hi? friends ic the city, and medical aid pro cured. No arrest or discovery of the rob bers has yet been made. The Chronicle & Sentinel says : The trial of Bowen for bigamy will com mence in Washington on the 23d of this moi th. As our readers well know, lie lad a trial last winter in one of his eases, and the jury wa3 discharged because they were unable to agree. What tee result of tho next trial will be no one can tell. He certainly, however, will not be acquitted because there is a scarcity of positive evidence of his guilt.— Tho principal witnesses against him are from Augusta, and they expect to !cavc for Washington city on Saturday next. Among the witnesses from Augusta are Chief of Police, Christian; Judge Levy, Ordinary of tho county; Seargont Hicks, of the Police Force and Mrs. Bowen. Professor W. W. Lumpkin, of Athens, has been invited to deliver the literary ad dress at the commencement exercises of the Masonic Female College, at Covington, in June. Mr. Oscar Ulmer, who lives some 5 or C miles from Savannah, was run over on Fri day, near tint city, by the down day pas senger train from Macon, and his legs dreadfully mangled. Amputation was re sorted to, but he died on the next day. On Monday, at Savannah, Gen. Henry L. Benning was rc-admitted as a member of the bar of the United States Circuit Cjurt. The Atlanta Constitution says : Judge Hopkins, yesterday, sentenced Dr. Harri son Westmoreland to tho penitentiary for ten years. Dr. Westmoreland’s counsel have moved for a new trial, and the Judge has suspended the sentence until the mo tion can be heard. Should a new trial be refused, we learn from some of the counsel that they intend to carry the case up to the Supreme Court, The Atlanta Constitution says ’ Last night a brilliant wedding came off at Ath ens. Hines M. Smith (son of Bill Arp) of Rome, was united in marriage to Miss Sal- lie Sparks, of Athens. A. C. ’Hodgson, of Athens, has been nominated as midshipman at the United States Naval School at Annapolis, by Hon. W. P. Price, M. C., from the Sixth Dis trict, ou the recommendation of the Uni versity of Atliens, as “the most meritorious student iu the University.” The farmers of Heard county are com plaining of too much rain. Of the proceedings of the Atlanta and Sa vannah Railroad meeting, recently held in Savannah, the News says : A large and enthusiastic meeting of citi zens assembled in the Theatre yesterday, to consider the proposition ol taking a half mil lion of dollars worth ot stock in the Atlanta and Savannah Railroad. It will be reon by reading our report of the proceedings pub lished in this morning’s paper, that many of our prominent citizens, large real estate own ers, and others, participated actively in the discussion of the subject. AU of the proba ble advantages and disadvantages to Savan nah were ably presented, and routes west ward dosely compared. The final result of the meeting was a de termination to submit the matter to a vote of the people, which is ordered to take place on the 25th inst, when all of our citizens will have an opportunity of passing upon the pro jected enterprise, so far as Savannah is con cerned. In the meantime let the intellgent examine fully all the facts, and satisfy them selves as to the feasibility of the proposition. Cartersvillc is luxuriating in hchnrch scan dal, and an archaeological wonderboth at the same time. Of the latter the Standard says: The latest sensation in Cartersville is an image recently unearthed on the plantation of Col. Lewis Tomlin, near this place, at what is termed by oar citizens the Indian Mounds, though so termed improperly, as the oldest Indian disclaimed any knowledge of them, their origin, or the object of them; conse quently onr oldest citizens, nor anybody else in this country knows anything of them. The image, oi idol, or whatever it may be, is cer tainly contemporaneous with the mounds, and most havo teen an object of worship for those to whom it belonged.’ It is about 18 inches high, the body below the collar bone being almost square, and poorly executed, as is the whole thing, though bearing evidence of hav ing been sculped with metalic instruments. The head is shaped like that of a heathen Chinese, or a child of the Asiatics. It is scalped from what is commonly called soap stone of a dark color, hearing upon the sides jeharaeters of ciphers of a peculiar shape, [painted or marked upon it with a substance of some kind which age; have tailed to oblit erate. There is a hole in the top of the cra nium, also in the cars for the purpose, wc suppose, of placing ornaments. “TIIE WEE SMA> HOURS AYONT THE TWAI.» ‘■Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark uafothoiucd eaves of ocean bear.’ No. VII. TIME—1, .1. M. Present—Mr. O'Riley, Wilhelm Von Spcigle, Mr. Wrecker. Erin go Bragh OU Grizzly, and the noble army of “dev ils.” Mr. Wrecker—The abrupt iuteiruption of Erebus with his Pandemonium press din. of our discourse, left us without a chance to answer your argument; that the logical sc qucnce of the theory that the test of right ness is happiness, is a disbelief in the doe trine of future towards, and of future pun ishments. I cannot cooceive how yon can arrive at any such conclusion. Old Gr'zzly—I cannot well conceive how I could arrive at any other. By measurin: the actions of men by their natural merits, you substitute the natural law for the mor al—make them amenable to material con sequences instead of moral responsibilities; reward their well directed efforts with rich es, prosperity and happiness in this life, in stead of the martyr’s golden crown in tbe life to come. Mr. Wrecker—Pshaw ! I am surprised a* you. I do no such thing. I bless them in this world, it is true, as Abraham was bles sed, with prosperity; as Jacob was bless-d with his flocks and herds; as David was blessed with his power, and as Solomon was blessed with wisdom beyond all other men, hut I do not deny to them tho far greater blessing of the life everlasting. * Old Grizzly—Aud think you it was for their natural goodness (or rightness I believe is the term you use) that they were thus blessed; that all the prosperity of Abra ham came of the rightness of his actions— the good he did unto his fellow man; that Jacob’s reward was the reward of right ac tions—that the birth right he swindled his brother out of, was made his fur any right ness there was in the deed; that the sub terfuge he employed to deceive his blind father was so right in itself as to secure to him the blessing intended for his more honest hearted brother; that the kingly power of David was to reward him for the right it was destined that he should do, for bo it remembered that when David was fi r st led to Samuel, it was not known that he had done any’hing that was so right as to merit such a great reward. No, Mr. Wrecke-, the motives of men are regulated by their moral force, and their rightness must be tested by a moral standard, and not by a material prosperity. It does not alwav follow thrt those who are right, arc successful, or that those who are wrong aro doomed to ignomiuous failure. Mr. Wrecker—Then you do not believe with Beatham, that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the practical test of right or wrong, both in laws and in morals. Old Grizzly—I do not; neither in laws, aud still less in morals. It is a heresy as false in politics as that most damnable of all political heresies, the vox Dei voxjKpuli.— According to that test, you would take the wealth, (or prosperity which you defined in our last, as happiness) which is now con fined to the few, and distribute it among the many; you would tear down the high places in society that a broad platform might he erected, upon which the rag, tag and bob-tail, could kick up their heels in one grand and universal jollification. It is but the incipient stage of the Ejalitie mad ness that is now destroying Paris; and, were Jeremy Bcntham alive to-day, and in Paris, he would bo tugging at the ropes, side by side with Rochefort, to overturn the col umn in the Place Vendomc. Erin go Bragh—And in morals it is no less a heresy than in politics—it is a reviv al of the Pagan oracnlar judgement of n cause by its success—the vidrix causa Deis placut; sed victa Catoni, whereby Lucan made Caosar right and Cato wrong—Caesar right because Caesar was successful—Cato wrong, because Cato was not successful, al though the victa cattsa, represented in the fortunes of Cato, was sanctioned by all the human virtues. ’ « Old Grizzly—True; and not only Pagan philosophers have thnB«djndged tbe right ness of a cause, or a nation, hat modern and Christian philosophers, and even theolo gians, have adopted the same standard, and argued that the downfall of a great cau3e was a proof that that cause ought not to have been perpetrated. Even Milton, with all his high-toned and liberal morality, was ready to rejoice over the downfall of roy alty, because in the success of the pnritan- ical hypocrites, he saw a manifesto of the approval of Heaven. Mr. O’Riley—No ho did’nt though.— Milton was a Radical himself, and the suc cess of his party accorded so well with his own wishes that it begat the thought (sac- riligions as it was) that Heaven favored the revolutionists because they were right. Old Grizzly—I grant that Milton’s po litical views may havo biased his moral judgement, bat I am quite sure that he was sincere in his professions, and what he pub licly enunciated, he secretly believed, but it was for a greater than Milton to put forth the true doctrine—even the Master him self—the founder of onr faith. The whole teachings of Christ—the entire doctrine of the New Testament, go to prove that there is no immediate connection between the practical and material consequences of an action, and the Divine ordinaden ot favor. It rains upon the unjust as well as npon the just. It is a cruel argument and unjust, to presume that a mao had been guilty of some heinous offence against morality be cause he was stricken, like Job of old, from head to foot, with diseasorTo suppose that the forked lightning, as it startles the noonday heavens with its deafening thunder seeks only the harsh and the vicious, npon which Li explode its wrath. That a railway train, plunging' with a rushing fury into a death-gaping chasm, was guided by a right- eons it stinct, in its coarse of destruction, that k might crash beneath its wreck. the gnilty heads of those whose crimes had sin gled them cut, and called npon them this visitadoa ol God’s just vengeance. And yet this is the legitimate resnll Of your the ory—the ultimate conclusion to which its logical discussion will carry it. Mr. Wrecker—I do not bold with yon there. I still iasist npon the truism that, to be useful is to be right. Old Grizzly—I understand what yon mean. Yon mean that it is right to be use ful, and that by usefnl, you mean condu cive to. the general happiness of mankind. Mr. Wrecker—That is precisely what I mean. Old Grizzly—And I am willing to sup pose that that is what Bentham meant— what Hume, Paley. D’Alembert,Ohastel- lux, Briscot aud Dumont meant, and what Mill now means; b it that is not what their arguments le-id to. We all esteem it to be onr doty to be tisefnl, and we may intend to be useful, but circumstances over which we have no control, may intervene and com pletely prostiate onr intentions. The trou ble with yonr. philosophy is that you at tempt to connect too intimately the materi al and the moral—to judge by the material effect, and not by the moral intention; and besides, yonr standard of usefulness is al together too high. To be consistent with it yon cannot reeognize any end as worthy, but that which would felicitate tho condi tion of man. Yon can see no moral beantv in human character, distinct from actual results or material actions, l’onr dntytoyour self is made subordinate to yonr dutyto your neighbor. Your responsibilities to God are set aside by yonr responsibilities to so ciety. To be useful, to be successful, to be happy, is the chief end of yonr argument, Whci to be right, be honest, be earnest and true, ought to be tbe acme of man’s moral aspirations. Mr. O’Riley—The time is np, gentlemen, we will have to defer the discussion until next week, when 1 think I will havo to take np the cudgel in behalf of Mr. Wrecker. I pjannnot see how yo-i can make it wrong to be useful. Old Grizzly—Nor can I suffer you, Mr. O’Riley, to rest nnder the impression that I attempt any such thing. It is right to he usefnl, hot it does not follow that not to be useful is not to be right. There are many things which are right in themselves, and yet neither in the practical or moral are they useful. Yon Speigle—The galley is ready. Urdus starts his rumlling, and the dis cussion is hushed. Col. Stewart’s Reply to Jadjc Wright- lie takes a “Bird’s Eye View” of the Sit uation, and tells wbat is the matter with Hannah. SIr. Editor—Since Judge Wright Las taken the liberty to use my name, in connection with the subject of the lease of the Slate Road, I beg leave to state that I am not responsible for any errors that may have been committed in leasing the Road to Brown & Co.—that I endorse no wrong, fraud, trick nor scheme, that has or may have been employed to swindle the State; and that, so far as any discovery of wrong may bo made, I shall not hesitate encourage every legitimate means within my power to protect the State and the people against it. The lease of the Road is said to have been made in conformity with an act of the Legislature, which authorized tbe letting of the Road to the highest bidder. Bids were made, and theresnlt was : A contract was entered into between the State of Geor gia on the one part, and Joseph E. Brown and others on the other part, to run for a term of twenty years. It was a contract to all intents and purposes; and legally binding npon the parties until fraud in the transaction is made to appear; and, even then, the coarts will have to decide the case —the Legislature having no power what ever to sit in judgement on the validity of such contracts. From my knowledge of machinery and its management, to make it successful, 1 would not give mere than $25,000 per month for the State Road; and I so wrote to J. R Wallace, of Atlanta, who is one of tbe Scago-Blodgett Company, warning him as a friend, to avoid a snit against Brown & Co., to take the lease ont of their hands. I pointed ont to him the immense expendi tures that would have to be made to rebuild bridges, to repair the Road, and to famish new equipments, and I told him that it would require the most consumate skill and perseverance in management to pay even $25,000 per month. The present management is paying in that som, and I believe will be able to con tinue paying promptly that amount, which sums np three hundred thousand dollars per year, and which, we may rest assnred, is more money than would accrae to the State from Judge Wright’s programme of allow ing the politicians of the next Legislature, by a revolutionary act, to “recapture the Road,” and ran it again by political over seers. I am for the lease as it is, unless fraud can be made to appear in the transaction. If fraudulently obtained, I am in favor of an action being brought that our courts may set it aside. Bat tbe Judge wants to go, to the Legis lature himself; and he wants to he Gover nor. He has made two unsuccessful efforts to get me off the track. The second attempt that direction came with the pies'that he was the only man that could heat Scott. The Judge wants to go to the legislature so he can there electioneer for himself for Governor, and he wants to he Governor so he can “recapture the State-Road’ and show us by his superior management that he can make it a hig paying thing. - Now, from my knowledge of the Judge’s mechanical skill, I would not entrust him with the run ning gear, of a dock’s nest. J. A. Stewart. The good people of Griffin were so re joiced at the removal from their midst Col. C. C. Peeples, that they gave a jollifi cation banquet on the event. Press Dispatches.—The increased rates of the Telegraphic assessment to the Cou rier and Commercial makes it imperative npon us to decline them, and in concert with the Commercial, we shall discontinue onr telegraphic reports. In lien of them we shall give a summary of the news, care fully compiled from onr exohanges, and flatter ourselves that we ean give a column of more interesting matter than is usually found under the telegraphic head. Monthly Exhibition.—The Agricul tural Association have their next exhibi tion on Tuesday, the 23rd inst. It is a free exhibition at the Hall of the Society, in the rear of the Telegraph office, and all persons, whether members of the Associa tion or not, are invited to bring in sample of rare flowers, vegetables, grains, fruits or other products of the Farm and Garden. Also, rare specimens of mechanical ingenu ity. Articles will be received up to 10 o’clock of that day. This is the way, according to the Fair- bault Leader, they do the handsome in Minnesoto. That sheet describes a fash ionable wedding, and says: “After the cer emony the friends presented the happy bride with one dozen beautiful oranges, one dozen fine lemons, five pounds of new Sge fire pounds splendid assorted candies ancl six cans of fresh oysters.” German story writers are abont to flood the world with war novels. An extensive fish story is related of vessel in the Baltic sea. The bark Provi dence, from Hartlepool, lately sprang a leak, and all bands were forced to work at the pumps until they were utterly exhaus ted Their hope of saving the vessel or even their own lives had almost gone, when the leak suddenly stopped. After the port was reached and the cargo discharged, a search was made, and it was found that a knot in one of the planks had been forced ont, hat the hole was tightly plugged by the body of a fish. OUR NOVEIm CHAP. VI. Andy Johnson will again tell how ho rose son going our. Afloat upon the rough tide of life. The buoyant boat of youth floating high and lightly, catching tbe swell of every tittle wave, and scadding hither and thither, be fore every passing breeze, how greatly in need of some strong hand at the rodder, stands every boy. To give shape and di rection to the horning aims; firmness and decision to the plastic character; those who have never felt the want of a father’s in flnence can never know it. Alone, not to' wrestle with the harsh cares of life—to meet and overcome its wants; to eke ont the pittance of a subsis tence; no, not these;‘bnt to forecast their destiny; to shape their future; to grasp its opportunities, and to resist its temptations —what an aching isolation; a miserable sol itude; a terrible seclusion, it is to be cat off from the penetrating ken; the encourag ing smile and the strengthening approba tion of a father’s love. And this fatherless isolation was Hirams’. A mother, gentle and goed, could breathe into his heart the rarity of her own sweet son]—could instill nts his nature the softness and the good ness that shown so brightly in her own blameless life; but bis opening manhood re quired something more; a destiny had to be shaped; a life mapped ont. His mother’s gentle teachings could fit Marion the strug gle; could sustain him on - the dreary read; coaid lighten his cares and sustain Ms spir its, bat it conld not develope his manhood. Like the well filled haversack of the sol dier, it conld cheer tho inner man, bnt it could not direct the inarch, or dictate the campaign. It needed a father’s energy and father’s encouragement todo that; and feel rag tbe want of such a father, Hiram Lav ender felt the sorest want that ever bowed an orphan’s heait. Bnt, notwithstanding this unmcasnrable want, the life of Hiram was not withont its promise, or withont its aim. Nor was it altogether withont direction. Mr. Middle- ton Mnggleton was a true friend. A father conld hardly have felt a more ardent inter est in the destiny of Ms own son, than that kindly hearted man felt in the destiny of his portege. Bat the trouble was not there* It is not from the lack of a proper sympa thy in others, so much as the want of con fidence in one’s own self, that influences one for good or for evil. Hiram eagerly drank in the kindness of his benefactor, and while his heart blessed him for bis goodness, he yet wanted that perfect confi dence and faith in his judgement that one most have before the soul can give itself np to another’s direction. President Hudson was not so demonstra tive in bis kindness; nor indeed so enthusi astic in his regard as Mr. Middleton Mug- gleton, bnt yet he was a firm and gracious friend, and his advice and guidance sup plied, as far q&another can supply, the ad vice and the guidance of a father. With two such friends as these, Hiram would hare been lacking in that which con stitutes the honest character, niot to have profited by their kindness, and to have im bibed something of their hopes and their plans for his own future. And he did profit by them, and in their plans he entered with a boyish enthusiasm. The material servioe he rendered Mr. Mid- dleten Mnggleton was considerable, and went far towards repaying Mm, so far as a material return conld repay such q debt, for the trouble and expense he bestowed npon him. To Mrs. Middleton Mnggleton he became as a son—iu fact, from the very moment, Mr. Middleton Mnggleton became his ideal father; she had made him in her heart her ideal son, and the quiet, .motherly interest Mrs. Lavender felt in his happiness, was none the more earnest than the interest of Mrs. Middleton Mnggleton. She watched Ms expanding powers with a glowing pride, and as the boyish features began to give place to the harder marks of maifhood/and the boy to whom she used to stoop to stroke his curly head, straightened up to a tall man, up to whose face she bad to. tiptoe to kiss, her motherly heart grew warmer, towards, and her motherly love was thrown the stronger around Mm. And Mr. Middleton Muggleton too, re joiced in the strengthening of Hiram’s man hood, and as he stood before'him in all the beauty of a manly proportion, his eye rest ed as proudly upon Mm as if he were the his flesh, instead of the child of his from the Taylor's bench to theFresidency. at Nashville, on the 27th. eonl. And the interest he felt in the boy had not abated one jot, now that the boy was standing, «ith foot upraised, ready to plaee it do yd firmly upon the shores of manhood, but it had rather strengthened, as one’s in terest in the work of his hands increases as the work progresses to completion. Not un til the fruition of one’s hopes are held iu their grasp, and their promised aroma per fumes tbe soul, does one begin to feel the first feint emotions of satiety creep in tbe heart and loise the tender chords that have so long and so lovingly entwined around its .idol. Not until the ideal beanty has, by 1 the practical touch of time and actuality, been transmuted to the real, do the prom ised joys of pursuit prove Dead Sea apples of possession. And the fond hopes that Mr. Middleton Mnggleton had bnilded npon Hiram were not yet ready for realization, and the Ely- s'an fields of fancy were not withont prince to walk them. Tbe flight of time, seemingly slow and leaden to those who sorrow may know, and impatient to those whose brightest joys lie jost beyond the borrow, is yet surprising to any one who will pause for a moment and tarn his eyes backward adown the far reaching vistas of the pest. As we behold its corridors strewn with the wreck of our sunniest years; the tresses of hair; the rib bons she nsed to wear; broken rings; the monogram lantern that recalls the even ing 8 . “When I wa3 young as you are young. And hearts were broke and iutoa were strung. And love lights in the casements hang.” When wc catch the hum ol its migh ty voices—re echoing “snatches of songs that nobody sings; the whole past comes rashing npon ns with snch an overpowering presence that we can scarcely realize that all these scenes and emotions were the work of years, instead of short and flitting hoars. Bnt yet they arc so. Day by day the months creep along, and youth succeeds to age. Yes, warm-blooded, hot-headed, im- ralsive youth puts on the softness of man- tootf, and soon, through his veins begin to oreep the chilly tide of age. And the life of Hiram thus glided t>y, and when we are next brought face to face with Mm, he is a man —a man in years, and a more than man in feeling; lor the moral life of his manhood began, while other men’s were bnt the epitome of boyish fancies and boyish pleasures. Hiram was a handsome man— not yonr precious little, pretty man, whom the ladies all love, and caress as they love, and caress their pretty little poodles—bnt a handsome man; handsome because the well formed features reflected the light of an earnest, noble sonl within. His figure was tall and commanding,—etch limb and muscle displaying a perfect development. Tbe opportunities for mental cnltnre bad not been lost upon him, and he had jnst graduated with the highest honora. The choice of a profession had been hesitatingly made. Iu this matter it was that he so sadly needed the advise of a father. Mr. Mid dleton Mugglcton designed him for the law. Mrs. Middleton Mnggleton’s ambition sym pathised with her husband's. President ludson had discovered in him a rare tal ent for mathematics and practical science; aud as president Hudson’s talent lay in the same direction, he spared no pains to devel ope and encourage his taste for facts and figures. “There is no profession more honorable, and none more profitable—that is is, more profitable, per se, than that of civil engin eering. It opens a field for the rarest dis play of genins, and though it may take centuries to produce a Wren, a Vanban, and a Brunei, yet its annals are rich with illnstricns names.” President Hudson 1 hod not then heard of the fame of M. Lesseps. For the star of M. Lesseps had hot yet burst ont npon the world. “Yon, Hiram,” he continued, “have a taste for snch tilings, and your talent is preeminently adapted to the profession, and when the inclination and talent of a man both point to the same object, he is certain to succeed.” “I am glad Mr. Hudson that you so read ily approve my choice. If Mr. Middleton Mnggleton could only be induced to accede to your views, and would favor, with his ap proval, my desire to enter at once upon my profession, I would feel a great relief. I owe too much to Mm to lightly regard his wishes, or to disappoint his plars—plans which I know he has cherished out of his own pore goodness and kindness toward me.” “And what does Mr. Middleton Muggle- ton wish you to do?” “He wishes me to enter Harvard at once and complete my law coarse.” “And were.you so inclined, the opportu nity would-be a splendid one,” answered president Hudson, after a moments study. “It is certainly very kind in Mr. Moggle- ton to thns offer it yon.” “Yes, it is very kind; and his excellent wife is equally anxions that I should go.” “Kind people, Hiram; dear good hearted people are the Moggleton’a,' and the Pres- dent nodded hk head two or thiee times reflective approbation. “Oh, yes, they are very kind,” answered Hiram; “not such another family in the world I ” and Hiram rose up at once into, the son-light of gratitnde. “All that pa rents, or sisters could be to me, they have been ; and all that a grateful son can do to repay them, can never discharge the debt of love that I owe to them; and it is this, sir, thdt.se distresses me. I know how mach Mr. Mnggleton has set his heart upon making a lawyer of me, and while I cannot reconcile my own convictions to the dis-* tasteful profession, I cannot bear the idea of opposing his wishes.” Have you ever stated your wishes to him?” asked president Hudson, after a mental debato with himself, evidenced by sundry solemn shakes of his frosty head. “I havo not; the subject is so painful to me, that I really have not the courage to broach it to him.” Then I must see him myself, and tell him what I think about it,” generously an swered the president. “It would be a great relief to me, sir,” answered Hiram, with a sigh of gratitude. “And yonr mother?” asked the President, how is sue inclined?” “She is eqoally poised between the views of Mr. Mnggleton, or xather, Mrs. Mnggle ton (whose kindness towards her and to me has won her most perfect confidence) and my own.” Your mother’s opinion is worth a great deal, Hiram.” •Oh, yes, I know it,” quickly answered Hiram, “her opinion is worth all else in this world beside; and were she to decide that I should accede to Mr. Mnggleton’s plans, I should hash my own inclinations and do all that I conld to realize their gen erous hopes.” “I hope she will not so decide," answer- - ed the president, “for, in that event, I, loo, wonld have to yield my convictions, and instead cf mastering and utilizing the pow ers and secrets of nature, I would turn yo* over to the grovelling quirks and tricks of the law." ~^“And yet and hath its glories, no less renowned than art; and there is much in it to relieve hu manity of its dreary stains.” “Yes, there fa much id its theory that is noble, bnt in its practice it fa absolutely despicable,” azd the worthy president prew savage. dint u remembered the legal technicality by which his mother had be- a so foully wronged too bititer'y to venture upon a defence of a profession by which she was wronged, and so the president had time to continue: “Its practice fa cold, harsh, selfish, and dishonest, and a man’s distinction and suc cess in it depend altogether upon his skill in perverting facts and destroying jnstice.’’ “Mr. Mnggleton. thinks differently," answered Hiram, “and sorely Mr. BInggle- ton can’t bo so far wrong.” “Is[cak of the profession, not as Mr. Mnggleton sees it—not perhaps as it ought to be—but as it fa every day practiced, when it fa followed rirnply as an avocation by which to earn money; when a man’s bread and meat fa dependent upon it, hu loses, in the contemplation of his fee, that sense of j istice which a purer code of mor als would only sanction." “It has its temptations, doubtless,” an swered Hiram, “and to overcome them as they are often ovetcome, would be a tri- npb in the profession that any man might v well be proud oi ” “Yes, bnt the surest way to icsfat tempta tion fa to avoid it. Never place yourself in a condition that will require the strength of your moral courage to sustain yon; lor. Hiram, no ne can say to himself, ‘I know how strong I am/ no man can say to Mb pas sions, ‘thus far and no farther,’ for man's moral strength is not his own.” “Only convince Mr. Mnggleton that the paths of glory lie through other fields than those spread open by Blackstone and Chi*! , and I will feel a load of embarrassment lolled from my mind.” “That I will try,” answered president Hudson. But the task wa3 not an easy one.— Mr. Middleton Mnggleton drank ton deeply from the gushing springs, and had roamed too fondly amidrt those flowery fields, to lightly tarn from them He had listened too often to the rich, sih-ery voice of Hiram's eloquence, as it filled the College Hall, and had mounted upon that voice too high in the regioosofearthly tame to readily agree to have that voice hashed in the gloom of some mountain tun nel. “Oh no let Hiram take hfa course at Harvard, and' then, while drinking in the enobling sentiments of its theory, he wonld be so imlned with its moral prin *iplcs, as to be able to resist the grovelling influences of its practice. And, besides,” he added, seeing that the President was hesitating for an answer, “Hiram fa yet young, and a coarse at Harvard will do him good, even if, after all, he should not like the law." , The President conld not well contravene this latter argument, and so he contented himself by saying: “Well, well, yon must have yonr own way, but I am sure that Hiram Lavender will never make a great lawyer.” “If he does qot, I shall have lost all iaith in hnman promise," answered Mr. Middle- ton Mnggleton. And thus it was again decided, bnt not with the 'same cordial unanimity as before, between the eralicand excentiic Mr. Mid dleton Mnggleton and the sober, staid and reverend President Hudson, that Hiram was to adopt the law as a profession, and preparations were immediately set about for lfa departure to Connecticut. A slight reversion of fortune bad mate rially improved the widow’s condition. Ono honest man had been found, who, after years of reverses, bad been enabled to re pay a debt lor which the Lavender t state, as surity, had been responsible, and hail mid; and with this timely assistance, Sirs, [lavender had purchased her a neat cottag .- of her owd, and had enough yet remaining to provide for her frugal needs. Content with its bumble pretentions, she devoted her taste to its adornment with fair and fragrant flowers. Music, too, was add ed to her resources of homo enjoyments, and a sweet toned, bntcleap piano, graced her little pirlor. This she touched with a skillful hand; and Hiram’s violin added, produced a “concord of sweet sounds” that would have honored the stateliest halls in the land The prospect of Hiram had been triumphantly imparted to her by Mr Mid dleton MnggletoD, himself, and Hiram per ceived that she so hopefnlly caught it op, forbore to chill her enthusiasm by interpos ing even a doubtful regret “I only reget to give you up so long.” she said to Mm one evening as she ha-l paused from the busy work of preparation. “I will write often, mother,” he tenderly- answered. “Yes. yon most write often; but you are a man now, and I most not expect to bare you alway with me,” she added, after a moments silence. “A man to the great unfeeling world, mother,” he replied, with hfa sonl welling np in hfa words; “but a child still to you— yes, a little child,” and he stooped hfa head and kissed hfa mother. “There now, my foolish fondness over comes me, but it has passed now,” she said, after a moment’s emotion. Come, we will have some music; get your violin.” Hiram readily obeyed, bnt before they and arranged their music. Dolly, Mrs. Lav- - der’s negro maid, entered the room to hanounce that a carriage was at tbe door, en Hiram stepped forward to receive tho visitors, and with a flashed surprise, ho saw Mrs. and Miss Eustaes descend from the carriage. Mrs. Eostace saluted Mm with a matron ly grace, while Emma’s imperious glance, told hfa heart that the meeting. with him was unexpected. “Mother," she said with an abrupt decision, “I will drive on, and call for you on my return,” and she turned to re-enter ths carriage. “Emma,” and a pained expression mount ed to the brow of Mrs. Eostace, ‘‘Emma yonr respects are due Mrs. Lavender—sra her a moment, and then yon can go.” . Hiram's pride was angered, and for a moment he forgot hfa natural shyness, “M y mother can readily excuse Miss Emma, if she fa so hurried to go,” he answered. “I will do no snch thing. Yon can go yourself, but Emma must come in,” broke in the sweet voice of Mrs. Lavender, as she made her appearance, and greeted the ladies—as ladies have such a tantalizing way of greeting each other—with a kiss-— not in this instance a Judas ki.--a—but a kiss of sincere and warm affection, and be fore they conld reply, she ushered them in to the room. A cosy little box of a room it was, jnst large enough to be pleasant, and simpld enough to be homelike. But the embarrassment of Hiram and of Emma was too great to be soothed by tbe isant offices of tbe widow, aud as soon as sense of propriety would admit, Hiram excused himself, and offered to retire. But : to this Mrst Eustace interposed a remonstrance. “No, Hiram, I cannot excuse you; *us true tbe pleasure of meeting yon at homo was an unexpected one, but I esteem is nono the less happy for that; and besides, were I to release you this evening, I fear that I should not have another opportunity of enjoying yonr society soon, for I learn that you are preparing to leave us." __ Hiram stammered a reply so incoherent as to be lost to any meaning, and Mrs. Lav ender had to answer for him. “Yes, he leaves us sjon, but be would hardly be so ungrateful as to go away wi L- out paying hfa respect to yon and to Em ma," she added with a slight smile os giro turned to the proud beauty.