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U r.i' cr SOUTHERN WATCHMAN . 3LIS HED EVERY WEDNESDAY. f„rr'/ Snioi "ntl IV«/J Streets, (upstair..) TERMS. r ^0 DOLLARS PER AMTJM, VARIABLY IN ADVANCE. ADVERTISING. •.naerteil At ONE DOLLAR PY 'EXTS par -t^uar® for theflratiaiwr N “ > * SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS per square foi , ia .. 3 a»u^'Y. for my time indor one month. Foi ,. St x lihoral deduction will he made. TO TH K VO L'EES OF JAGKSOIT CO. popular heart. Again, the change was not _ „ . | made until after the retirement from the court FeBow-Cttisena : _Having announced myself; hoaae of at least of the anauspeet- on the day of the mass meeting in Jefferson, j ing> honeac> liberty-loving yeomanry, the bene an* independent candidate for a seat in. the next and siaew of Jack30Q coanty . They reti red —let it be added in justice to them—not as disorganizes, but because they had been made the unwilling dupes of unredeemed pledges. And viewed from the stand point of CoL Sfl- man's resolution, to say nothing of the speech- ioduction iarlv ’”\=:ir.\L ADVERTISING . Oi0 ,. porlery of 10 lines $500 i'r*•C’l-i'* ^aio.N. »50 days 5.00 " V i aimsUtttorn. Executors, or 6.50 ,f \ immiitration orGuardiau&hip 4.00 peotori and Cmliiura. >.00 ,i, >«r * i tare, •acuineertiou ....... 1.50 ,n.; :L«*. a.-* tat a 4.00 ,r of Administrator 5.00 * (ruardi.m 5.25 trta -,n **.o nurahar of squares in an advertise- itaarv. vmntrho words—.me hundred beinj* „ n ,iaes. A Li fractions are counted as full Legislature, it ia a duty I owe myself, and an- der the circumstances, equally a duty I owe to von, to state the facts which have controlled me in again soliciting yonr suffrages, untram meled, as in my election two years ago, by a —..„for ca,ucu ^ nomination. This duty discharged, Ij BS that were made, I cannot, I most unhesita- tu. For 1 shall, in the next place, submit a statement of j tingly affirm, conceive of anything of a politi- tvertfsemenu. ^ le v ' ta '* 'ssacs. which the people of Jackson j cal character more nn-democratic and iniqui- county are called to consider in the forthcom- j tous from beginning to end than the mode of ing election. ^ procedure which resulted in bringing before The facta above alluded to, are substantial- j the people tbe two nominees of tbe caucus I meeting. riOFSSSIQHAL AND BUSINESS CARDS. V. S. URWIX. I nOWSLL COBB,JR. ntCli, ERWIN Jc l’UBB, attorneys at law. A T H E.VS, GEORGIA. n :he Deupr«e Building. Dec21 ly the following: At the primary Jmeeting held in, Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in September, the com mittee, appointed to prepare business for the meeting, reported a resolution favoring the “selection" of delegates by the several dis tricts, whose duty it should be to assemble in Jefferson on a given day to nominate suitable candidates for the next Legislature. Imme- .diately following the reading of the commit tee's recommendation. Col. J. B. Silman of- offered a resolution, which was unanimousiv \ 1. tlMih. A..BOOT. SHOE AND HARNESS MAKER, 'V.ITXI.'ISVII.LE, (5a. >\>”£RCPTCY.—Samuel P. Thurmond, ) Actoracy-at-Law. Athens, Ga. \ cr „ .?r-..*d <fr**ef,«rer f/i«r »torc of Barry X .Son, ittenrion to cases in Bankruptcy. Al- ' ae wllefiion •»!* all claims entrusteti to his care. A F. AMP. ]) % Attorney at Law. CARNESVILLE, GA. V $vt> prompt Attention to all business entrusted • -n He will Attend the Courts of Habersham. in.in i’td Hall. sepl7—ly. •SiLAND Jc 0RR. t Yaylesale and Retail Dealers, and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Dunree Hall.Broad St, Athens, Ga. prepared to store Cotton at 25 cents per .i * ..Advance **’<U when desired. Qct2S. P’.'i'illhH Jc CLASSICAL SCHOOL, ?or B.>ys, <ror. Wr»y and Lumpkin st*.. Ath- apfl—.1m LEE M. LYLE. Prin. 7'Ii'RV sPEEtt, LAWYER. ATHENS, (}A. jtur'ieneral of Western Circuit, will attend •fUrke, Walton. Gwinnett, Hall. Bunkri, tiao^rsham, Franklin. Rabun and White, ttention t& collecting and other claims in iim. March 19, IS73. First, we have the resolution unanimously adopted, inviting the people to assemble for a specific purpose, nameiv, to nominate eandt dates. In the second place, speeches were made by those who had control of the meeting and shaped its proceedings, condemnatory of the system of nominating candidates through delegates selected by the several districts. Thus much with regard to the meeting on Tuesday. Finally, we reach the day of the mass meeting. The first resolution of the adopted, inviting the people, the voters of! mass meeting was one empowering the Chair- rioYD a- 'ILR.LV. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, >rac:i«« in th« counties of Walton and Jackson, ,wn ' <i J. B. SILMAN. •vin^'.on. c»a. mar-4 Jofforson, Ga. WARD R. HARDEN, uJu igoC. S. Courts Nebraska and Utah, ioa now Judge of Brooks County Court) Attorney at Law, (Jmtmau, Brrxtlca County, (r<t. »• OTSS. MADISON BELL. ■Tl> Jc BELL. Attorneys at Law. hainesville, ga. “ practice in tbe counties composing the ra Oif uit. and Dawson and Forsyth counties Ulue ’.Udgo Circuit. They will also practice in ; retfcd C iurtuf (ieorgia, and in the United States *t Atlanta. may 14 r . O'RELLEY’S photograph gallery, «'T.lU»m«’ Sho* stars, Rruud street, Athr.-i.s, :j ~ seplt. a. HURD INS, iloJcsaiesmi Retail Deal*- i n . lOODS, GROCERIES. HAR DWARE, Ac. !l< _ Bread it re. t> Athens. Ga. 'US H. CHRISTY, lam and Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, „ 'JroadSt., Athen«, G». -««ra er Broad and V. »u street., over the,tore J. P'tiurd. Jackson county, to assemble en masse in Jeffer son, on Friday, the 12th inst., for the purpose of selecting candidates for the next House of Representatives. After the unanimous adop tion of Coi. Slimau’s resolution, ia lieu of the report of the committee—she gentlemen of the committee voting for the substitute. Mr. Dan. Matthews suggested that the resolution as adopted by the meeting, inviting the people of the county,to assemble in mass meeting in Jef ferson, would give the Jefferson and adjacent districts the advantages in the aomination of candidates, at, they could be largely represent ed without Inconvenience, while remote dis tricts would bebut meagerly represented. Not withstanding this timely and well-taken objec tion, Col. oilman's resolution was neither with drawn uor amended. And if it was the in tention o t' the meeting on the first Tuesday to be unde rstood as indicating oradvising that the mass meeting to assemble on Friday was to nominate candidates through delegates select ed hy a few men, claiming to represent the districts, which was the plan they finally adopted when they met on Friday—then, there was ao point ia the objection urged hy Mr. Matffievvs, as under such an arrangement the JeliLrson and adjacent districts with three bun dred voters present would have no advan- tag a over “ Cut Off" district with only two voi.ers present. But Col. ail man's resolution sai.d nothing about delegates to be selected By the districts, bat on the contrary, had embod- i< .d in it an invitation to the people to meet in Jefferson to select candidates to represent them in the Legislature. Speeches were made on Tuesday condemnatory of the system ofse- . lecting delegates by the districts. Col. Sil- mar.'s resolution, Mr. W. C. Howard's speech, as well as the general spirit manifested in the m eeting, allgndicated most unmistakably the 'utmost unanimity in the invitation to thepeo- Ipie to meet in mass meeting and nominate can- V-'lEb R. LYLF., ArTDRSKY AT L.iW, WATKLVSYILLE, GA. IdATTHEWS. Attoh-.z^ at Law, Daaiolaviile. Ga. uteation will be von to anv business en- >ai » Marchl*. iS&i L. LONVr, Jf. D. i'HGEOS, accoucheur a physician, JjSff .11 Hr. T\ODUM Ehcau’ Store,) Sood Hope District, Walton, co., Qa. prulta*iun*l service, to the citizens of tile Hading 'ounirv. ELLAS, Attorney at Law, ; " FRANKLIN, S. C. wnces in nil tie Courts of Western North Caro- 1=1 a the Federal Court*. Claim* collected .n ants—ly l ' Feed and Sale Stable, ATHENS, GA. St HEAVES, PBOPB7JBTOBS, on 3, .»und at their old stand. Tear Franklin u>m,.na | ldiu Sl Thoma* street. Keep always ‘ s°»a -era-outs and eareful drivers. *eil ;,red for when entrustad to oar can. =aad for sale at all tima,.. dac2S—ti \f W. RIDEN. . ^ATTORNEY at law, • 5- Claim Agjnt ar,d Notary Public, . GaissaviLhs, Ga. Hmj7i»? “ ilow Kin * 4 Bro ’ J * 'tHPLEa a HOWBIit, .V, . „attorneys at law. -■ Ximball Bouse, Atlanta. Ga. utad ^ 3»t«and Federal Courts, and -• y the Court* in Atlanta^ includ- ,h « St ^- ««» ^ J* r.ef*i U4 abiant panics, on reasonable t, ^1® Court* of the conn ties con- ^»c°...tbl.to Atlanta by Railroad. M pll 'AVILION hotel, Hi. Pittsi OT . „ CHARLESTON S. C. ttr«e( thl ,, Hotel i. situated in th. Twry willfu!'’ 8 ** PMt of th.city, and all who u •r.rac jr^, na n' “ r7 0o “ T,n >Unce and luxury thnt « v 80 ^- P«-i*x.«3.oo. Mr*. L. H. BntrxBFnuLD, 1 tf Pronri.tr, ee. 1 ->UlN a and Fancy Job Printing, At the Southern Watchman Office. 4 DA ®, m. d h 5 '« «re'leu."* Acconcatun aan Pavsiciaa, ^ * a ™ 1 **-Diariot, W altonc wa, hl * profuMionnl nr vice, to the ^ L •vrroonding onuntry. angSff—ly Pf ' r * i »* Dv-u,«tie HARDWARE, 6,Broad street, Athens, Ga. W* 1 * a- » a D^«r te '*» j DHY GOODS, GROCERIES, *«. ~>«• U Broad Street, Athens, Ga. A. 8 didatea. And I buzzard nothing in affirming that that the impression was universal that the people would be permitted to cast their votes for the candidates of their choice. And it was ia consequence of this widely circulated report, circulated, too, by those who wer present at the first meeting—and denied, so far as known to me—by no one, that about 500 voters left their fodder fields and assembled in Jefferson on the day named in Col. Silman’s resolution. The meeting on Tuesday had de creed that the nomination should not be made by delegates selected by the district. There was but one other jast and equitable way to make it, namely, by ballot. And the right to do it by ballot was wha5 the people demanded, and what the meeting en Tuesday seemed to say they should be pen tutted to do. If the noml nation was not to be made by delegates select ed by the districts, there is, reasoned the hon est unsuspecting masses, but one other tcay to make it. But there is another way, though hitherto uncouccivedand unheard of, and the Jefferson clique is entitled to tha honor of originating it. and should receive the thanks of all cliques throughout the world forthe con ception of the grand idea. What is it f Well the simplest thing in the world, and all other cliques will be utterly amazed at their stu pidity in not having conceived that idea long ago. It isaimply this : Have everything, in the first place, “ cut and dried”—but, this is an old idea with all cligues, well u nderstood and need not be dwelt upon. In the second platfe, have an eye to your chairman, get the right man. However, the “ catting and dry ing” process makes ample provision under this head, and again, I need not dwell. What next f Well, the best of all for all cliques who are really afraid to trust the nomination to district delegates or to a primary election. It is to clotl ie the chairman himself with power to appoint t, be district delegates for the whole eournt;/. Now, wh era's the clique that can best that ? And th is, fellow-citizens of Jackson, is pre cisely what was done. The very first act, immediai.ely following the election of Chair man, wan the offering of a resolution (which was easily declared adopted, bat in fact was not) dotliing the Chairman with fall power to aopoint the delegates for the several districts —said delegates thus appointed to meet in secret and decree whom tha independent voters of Jackson coanty should support for the next Legislature. Is this what they intended to say to the people in tbe Silman resolution, unanimously adopted on Tuesday and which assembled the people on Friday t Voters of Jackson, hesitate not to stamp this insult of fend to yonr manhood, your intelligence, and yonr patriotism with the seal of yonr unquali fied condemnation. You an called to do this mH can only do it through the ballot-box. It was on the definite announcement of the Chairman, that he was thus clothed with a power which, coaid be abused ia so selecting tha delegates as to secure the aomination of his own fovorites—to say nothing of so dan gorona a precedent.—that I arose nndannonne- ad myself an independent candidate. one man power programme, I learn through the papers, was changed. Yes, tbs pictan was too ngiy.it had to be repainted, man to appoint delegates for the districts— said delegatee to make the nomination.— The second resolution of the last or nomina ting meeting, adopted after the retirement of my friends, conferred upon small squads of men, the power of appointing the delegates Thus the report of the Committee at the first meeting, recommending the selection of dele gates by the districts, though voted down by the meeting, was adopted by the caucus—af ter the retirement of my friends—adopted too by the very men who opposed it in the meet ing on Tuesday. If a nomination of candidates through dis trict delegates was contemplated by the meet ing on Tuesday, why did they not in a common sense way plainly invite the people of each militia district to hold meetings, by assembling at their several coart grounds on Thursday precedi ng the meeting in Jefferson, so that the wishes of a majority of the voters could he fairly represented t I may not understand the true spirit and in teution of the meeting on tha first Tuesday, but viewed in the light of subsequent develop ments. I very much incline to the opinion that those who desired to control it in the interest of favorites were in a predicament similar to that of Bill Scruggs, who spied within shoot ing distance what he hoped was a deer, but feared might prove to be a calf. Bill was In a dilemma. What to do was the all absorbing question with Bill. “ Well,” said he finally, “ I’ll shoot any how, bat. I’ll be very cautious about it, and will so point my unerring rifle at the object, and so pall my triirger as to “ hit it if a deer, bat miss it if a calf1” Having said thus much in vindication of tbe action of my friends in withdrawing from the meeting, and of my independent candidacy, it only remains for me, in conclusion, to place myself definitely on the record, upon the im portant issues in the pending election. The following is presented, as embodying the vital ly important questions in issue, which you are to consider beiore casting your votes the first Wednesday in October; 1. Believing that the Martin Institute fund was intended by the deceased donor, the late Mr. Martin, to be used exclusively for the ben eiit of children residing within the limits of Jackson coanty. I shall vigorously oppose, as heretofore, any distribution of said fund in the payment of tuition of non-resident pupils.— And should my candidacy be ratified by the People, I shall introduce a bill, the provisions of which I need not now explain, which, if en acted into a law, will remedy the evil withonc immediate expense to tbe people of Jackson coanty. And I take occasion to say that the proper distribution of the fund left by the late Mr. Martin for educational purposes, is one ot the leading, fundamental and distinctive is sues before the people in the election for Re presentatives in the next Legislature. The nominees of the late caucus maintain, if I un derstand them, that the Martin Institute fund shall be equally distributed, regardless of county lines; that the children of rich parents, residing outside the limits of Jackson coanty, shad share equally with the poor children of the coanty, in the benefits of said fund. My position 13, and I wish it to be understood, that the fund or legacy left by the late Mr. Martin von. I therefore repeat that this » one of the leading, vital, fundamental, packet-fasting issues in the approaching election for Representa tives. 4. Believing that the hardens of taxation should be lightened, I shall, if elected to the Legislature, support all measures, whether of a local or general character, which look to re trenchment, reform and an economical admin istration of the affaire of the State. Thus have I, without concealment, laid be fore yon the convictions of my heart on all the living issues that enter into the present con test. And should it be found that a majority of the voters of Jackson coanty agree with me, of which at this writing I have no doubt, I can only promise that fidelity to yonr interest which you know to have characterized my previous career in the Legislature. .« Soliciting yonr suffrages, in behalf of the principles I advocate, I am, respectfully; Your obedient servant. Green B. Duke. P. S.—Lest my silence on the subject might be erroneously construed, l take occasion to state that I never was an advocate of what is known as the “ no fence” law. Had I advo cated it, as the two nominees of the cancns did, I should think it too late now to try to get oat of it Green R. Duke. i elect fpsctltang. * ’tk.«iii«n. Of Ad££l bat, after all, tbe brush coached » Hghtly that ftj****a. *.*.*.Cttfc r Wk .iff 0 * 8 cfa’BPr though in tha right diiansmja marll—till [ very for from meeting the should be given exclusively to the children of Jackson county. This ia a fundamental issne in tbe present contest. 2. The right of trial by jury, in certain cases, before tbe Jefferson municipal court, consti tutes another distinctive issue before the peo ple in the next election. The right of trial by our peers is one that we should not yield, un der any circumstances- It should be sacredly and jealously guarded, and I propose, if elect- id, to remedy the confessedly great evil, of which the country people justly complain, by using my beat efforts to have enacted a bill amending the charter incorporating the village of Jefferson. 3. The question of erecting a new jail and coart house ia Jefferson, is another distinctive issue before the people in the forthcoming election. Iirtbe present impoverished state of the finances of the coanty, to harden the people with the expense of aeeting a new court house and jail, while there are bridges which most be built, and others to repair— works of pablic necessity for tbe convenience of the traveling publie—would be, to say the least of it, exceedingly unwise and impolitic. It will be time enough to consider the project of erecting new and expensive pablic buildings in Jefferson, when ether am\ more essentially important public works are arranged for, and long standing accounts in favor of jurors and witnesses are paid. When the coanty pays its just debts, the people can, if they wish, give the Jefferson jobbers a job. There are some who most earnestly desire the job, no doubt it would be remunerative to the jobbers. If I am defeated, some one, I have ns doubt, will get the job very soon, and my word for it, the man or men who get the long coveted job An Editor’s Opinion of Base Ball. An editor, relating bis experience, says that the doctor informed him, that he needed ex ercise, and he recommended the national game. The advice was taken. His (theedi tor’s) conclusions are as follows: That was an eventful chap who first invent ed base ball. It’s such fun. I’ve played five games and this is the result: Twenty seven dollars paid out for things. One banged eye—badly bnaged. One broken little finger. One bump on the head. Nineteen lame backs, One sore jaw. One thumb dislocated. Three sprained ankles. One dislocated shoulder, from trying to throw the bail a thousand yards. Two hands raw from trying to stop hot balls. A lamp size of hornet’s nest on left hip, well back. A nose sweetly jammed and five uniforms spoiied from rolling in the dost at bases. I have played two weeks and don’t think I like the game. I’ve looked over the scorer’s book and find that I have broken several bats, made one tally, broken one umpire’s jaw, brsken ten windows in adjoining bouses, killed a baby, smashed a kerosene lamp, bro ken the leg of a dog, mortally injured the bread-basket of a spectator, and knocked five other players out of time by slinging my bat. I have used up fifteen bottles of arnica ointment, five bottles of lotions, and half a raw beef and am so full of paiu that it seems as if my limbs were broken bats and my legs the limbs of a dead horse-chestnut. Failures in Business. The man who never foiled in business can not possibly know whether he has any “ gift” in him, or is worth a button. It ia the man who fails, then rises, who is really great in his way. Peter Cooper foiled in making hats, failed as a cabinet maker, locomotive builder and gro cer, but as he failed he “ tried and tried again,” until he could stand upon his feet alone, then crowned his victory by giving a million dollars to help the poor boys in times to come. Horace Greeley tried three or four lines of business before be found the Tribune, and made it worth a million dollars. Patrick Henry failed at every thing he un dertook, until he made himself the ornament of his age and nation. The founder of the New York Herald kept on foiling and sinking his money for 10 years, and then made one of the most profitable newspapers on earth. Stephen A. Douglass made dinner tables, bedsteads and bureaus, many a long year bo- fore be made himself a “ giant” on the floor of Congress. Abraham Lincoln foiled to make both, ends meet by chopping wood; foiled to earn his salt in the galley slave life of Mississippi flat boatman; ha had not even wit enough to ran a grocery, and yet he made himself x grand character of the nineteenth century. General Grant foiled at everything except smoking cigars ; he learned to tan hides, bat canid not sell leather enongh to purchase a pair of breeches.. A dozen years ago, u he brought up” on top of a wood pile, “ teaming it” to town for $40 a month, and yet he ia at the head of a great nation. The lesson for every young man fo thm ; As long as yon hare the health, and have power to do, go ahead; if yon foil at one tiling try another, and a third—a dozen even. Look at the spider, nineteen times it tried to throw oat its web to its place of attachment, and on the twentieth succeeded. The young man who has the gift of continuance ia the one whose foot will be able to breast the angry waters of human discnnragwmant. A Governor Found In a Hogshead. A good natured philanthropist was walking along the docks one Sunday morning when he found a boy asleep in a hogshead. He shook him till ha was wide awake, and then opened the following conversation. * What are yon doing here, boy V 1 1 slept here all night, sir, for I had no other place to sleep in.’ ‘ How ia that t Have you no father or mo ther? Who takes care of yon V ‘ My father drinks, sir, and I don’t know where he is. I have to care for myself, for my mother is dead; she died not long ago.’ And at mention of her name, the boy’s eyes filled with tears: ‘ Well, come along with. me. Til give yon a home, and look after yon as well as I can.’ The child thus adopted en the wharf was taken to a happy home. He was sent to a common school, to a commercial school, to a classical school, and afterwards employed as a clerk in the store of his benefactor.’ When he became of age, his friend and benefactor said Go him, ‘ Yon have been a faithful and honest boy and man, and if you will make three pro mises, I will famish you with goods and letters of credit, so that yon can start business at tbe West on your own account. ’ * What promises do yon wish me to make ?• inquired the young man. ‘ First, that you will not drink intoxicating liquors of any kind.’ * Second, that you will, not nso profane lan guage.’ ‘ I agree to that.’ ‘ Third, that yon will nofrbecomea politician.’ ‘ I agree to that.’ The young man started bnsinessat the West, and by minding his business, in a few yearn became a rich man. At the dose of the war, he came East, and called npon his friend and adopted father. In the course of a happy in terview, the philanthropist asked his adopted son if he had kept his total abstinence pledge. * Yea,’ was tbe answer. ‘ Have you abstained from the use of pro fane speech V ‘ Yes,’ said the young man, with emphasis. ‘ Have yon had anything to do with politics?’ The visitor—the adopted son, I should have said—blushed and said, ‘ Without my consent I was nominated for Governor of my State and elected. I am now on my way to Washington to transact business for the State.’ Did ever a hogshead turn out so good a thing as a teetotal Governor before ? It had to be emptied of its wine before it could be a shelter for the> little Arab who ran wild in that wilderness of marble and mortar, the great city of New York. The streets and wharves of the great metropolis of commerce invite missionary effort, and the writer hopes that the little waife afloat on the wave of out door life will not be neglected. LOYE SEE HITCH AND LOTS SEE LONG. BX BARTON GREY. “ Love me little, love me long,” Thus it is you make your song; Is the rhyme a true one ? Do not love so bitter wrong. Hearken, dear, another song, Though it be a new one: Lave me much and love me long, Ia the burden of my song. Love me long and love me truly; Love me well and love me duly— Life is short and ill. And the spirit has a need Which all human love indeed Often fails to fill. Love me much and love me long— Sorely ’tis a truer song. Love me i love me with the passion Which all bounds of art or fashion Neither need3 or fours; Love me with tbe seal’s desire, Tbe long yearning mounting higher Through the happy years; Listen—’tis your soul’s true song— Love me much and love me long. Love yoo little !—’tis a lie! Laving thus, not you or I Work our life-love out; He that loves you little, never Can qllav yonr spirit-fever, Stay yonr restless doubt; Hearken, dear, a truer song— Love me much and love me long. Happy he these words who heareth; Love me, fear not; he who fcareth Is not whole in love; Love me with the whole soul's passion ; Other love ia cold and ashen, And must empty prove; Love me much and love me long— Trust me—’tia the truest song. Thus I love you!—through all trial. Love I with supreme denial Of all colder mood; Love that knows not this completeness Is of true love’s charmed sweetness Base similitude; Love me much and love me long la the burden of my song. Thus I love, and this love’s pureness Fills me with such steadfast sweetness Through all adverse fores. That I journey towards my home. Faithful, patient—and things come Cato him who waits— Journeying, singing still my song— Love me much and love me long. Somewhere in the starry distance Waits the crown of my existence ; Some day. too, I know. You will wake from vour soul's slumber, Aud the bands of doubt that cumber Melt from you like snow ; Some day you will sing the song— Love me" much and love me long. Yet, if not—if this my spirit, Mast love’s fatal blight inherit— I nor faint nor blame; I have loved, and life is purer; If I love, why God is surer. Through all loss and shame; Go, then, dear, but list my song— Love me much and love me long. The Georgia Gold Regions. The At lanta News ha3 been shown a piece of gold ore taken from the Vine branch mines, six miles from Dahlonega, worth about 810,- 000 per ton. He had a small piece weighing about one-fourth of a pound, which contained six dollars worth of the precious metal, the ore being worth §200,000 per ton. Mr. Harri son says that there are now three mills in op eration, two very large ones building, and by next summer six or eight mills will be run ning, employing nearly two thousand bands. Tbe mine known as the: big acqneduct mine purchased by Mr. Hand, of Ohio, will be one of the largest in this section of the country. The acqueduct alone coat about 8500,000. The power of the mills will range from twenty to forty stamps, and each stamp can ponnd twen ty tons per day. One gentleman has a mill that cost abont 815,000 con pound one hun dred pounds of ore pjr day, at a coat of about twenty dollars. The ore of this mine avera ges abont one dollar per ponnd, leaving a net profit of eighty dollars per day. Great pre parations are being made, and by the next Spring Dahlonega WEI present as busy an ap pearance as oar own city. .. A fond agent in Colorado remarked to an enquiring emigrant, that all that was needed to make the place a paradise was a comfort able climate, water and good society. “ That's all that is lacking in h— 1,” was the reply. .A naughty little boy, blabbering because his mother wouldn’t let him go down to the river on Sunday, said: “ I didn't want to go a swimming' with ’em, ma. I only wanted to go down to see the bad little boys drown for going- in aswimmin’ on Sunday,' And if. in your soul’3 desire. You should ever fomt and tire. Knowing then your fate. Cal!—this love that hides its embers. Through all change and chance remembers— Call—or soon or late— It will come and prove its song— Love you much and love you long! .There is a young woman in Marshall county, Kansas, said tc> be heiress to an estate of $15,000,000 in Eng fond. The yam runs that she was brought to this country by a gip sy, having been stolen from her parents—that riie is a member of one of tbe noblest families ia Great Britain—that the old hag who brought her here, confessed to these facts upon the bed of death. The young woman has received a letter from an English lawyer who asks her to come over and take possession. And she is going over, to the great grief of all the mar riageable young men oif Kansas. A Bad Mas. The Detroit Free Press tells of a who sat down to one of the eating stands in the market and called for seventy-five cents worth of ” the beet in the house.” It was h»r»W to him, and it made people’s eyas bang oat to see him eat. Ha was abont t»»if an hour at it, and when he gat op remarked tty he tw«v forgottenfria pocket-book. The woman grab bed a batcher-knife, and started for him, but instead of running away hp laid his handon her shoulder and whispered: “Be calm, and above all, don’t «"it* me. My fit Mmw on ket go and get him, and let him tmtin ma to the station right away, before I kill some one !* of building a new court house and a new j»»t She ran to get an officer, and the man ran. the will malts itpag them! Mark this prediction. 0t{l9r wa Y* By my election, the project will be defeated, ..A New York paper gravely observes that at least for tbe present, and you will be saved tile snicideef a former, which it notices, Give Yonr CItild a Paper. A child beginning to read becomes delight ed witha newspaper, because he reads of names and things which are frmiliar. and be will pro grass accordingly. A newspaper in oae year is worth a quarter's schooling to a child. Every father most consider tiiat information is con nected with advanceinBt. Tbe mother of a family, being one of itn heads, aid having a more immediate cfcargje of children, should herself be instructed. A mind occupied be comes fortified against the ilia of life and is braced by emergency. Children amused by reading or study are ot coarse mare consider ate and easily govemeei. How many thoughts lass young men have s{ient earnings in a tav ern or grog step whom igot to haT* been read ing. How many kind parents who have not spent twenty dollars fcr books for their fomi- every day at this boor, and I gat wild, kick, bite, yell, and tip aver things. I feel it com ing now. If there is a fo the mar- Ua8 ’ would B * ws thousands to reclaim a Sleeping With His Equal. THE WAX A LINCOLN COUNTY DARKEY MADE ms CIVIL RIGHTS PAY. A certain hotel, not a thousand miles from Fayetteville, recently had for its guest a sanc timonious looking Puritan from tbe bntt end of Massachusetts, who took great pains to In gratiate himself with the colored people and instill into their minds the edions doctrines of negro equality. The civil rights bill was his favorite hobby, and he took occasion, when ever a suitable opportunity occnrred to whis per into the ears of all negroes that came with in his reach that he considered them his equal in every way. The porter of the hotel is a burly negro named Joe, who is as greasy and odorous an African as ever imparted ,a flavor to the Summer breeze, and the saintly scala wag from Massachusetts had been using Mm for sometime as a whetstone to sharpen his abominable theories on. But Joe is a sensible darkey, albeit he is not the best fellow ia the world to rub one’s nose against, and he has a pretty correct idiea of a negro’s place, which kept him from being gulled by bis wouldrbe white brother. Besides, Joe ia attached to the landlord of the hotel, and, as he is talkative withal, be unbosomed himself to his employer one evening and related all the insidious Yan kee had said on the subject of Sumner’s legacy and negro equality. Tbe landlord was silent a moment, and then exclaimed: Joe, I’ll give yon two dollars to-morrow morning if you'11 sleep with that fellow to night. ’ Joe’s eyes twinkled like stars, and he quick ly responded: * Dat’s a bargain, Marae Jim, ’fore God.’ That night the meek and unsuspecting white friend of the race of Ham was juct crawling into bed, when Joe slid into the room ham ming, ‘ John Brown's body am a smolderin’ in de dua',’ and commenced shedding his clothes without farther ceremony. The amazed Puri tan started np in the bed, bis eyes standing oat from his foes like a couple of door-knobs, and tremblingly inquired: * My colored friend, what are yoo going to dot’ Joe pulled his shirt over hi* heed* gave a tremendous yawn, set a few then sand odors afloat and made a leap for the bed, screaming as he went: * I'se swine to spend to night wid my ekall P The horrified disciple of Sumner gave a yell that would have made a Plata Indian’s hair curl, tore himself from Joe’s perspiring, hot food embrace, leaped from the bed, broke for the door with the caudal appenaange of hie shirt tail floating like a Sommer eland behind him,, and fell into the arms of the landlord, who, attended by a few frianda, waa enjoying the whole scene aa only a decent white man conM, Next morning Joe received hie money, box the saintly soeak from Massachusetts oot.ta be seen there.—Fayetteville Enterprise. Wayside Gatherings. What is hash? A confidence game. . .Strip's bread—Bolls, and plenty of ’em. ..How to pat a horse “onbis mectia”—Shoe him. ..A wicked world—the world of candle- makers. . .People who moat draw the line somewhere —Anglers. ..A alow match—A wedding after long courtship. .An intellectual feast—The entertainment of an idea. .Breach of good manners—For rain to stare yon in the fece. If a Bedouin should lose his teeth, would he talk gum Arabia t . Home, sweet home,’ as the bee said whan ha entered his hive. . Coquettes are Uka weathercocks—only fix ed when they become rusty. ..A negro insisted that his race was men tioned in the Bible. He said he heard the preacher read about bow ‘Nigger Demos wanted to be born again.’ . .The atnpid item about a Treasury girl wearing a bustle made of railroad bonds has been widely circulated. If the the bonds be Union and Pacific, their introduction into a family can not be objected to. ..Ayoung woman at Trenton, who waa sleeping with her feet hanging out of the cham ber window, was struck by lightning and al- most torn to pieeas. The other Trenton wo men have taken their feet in. . .A Detroit young woman tried to be aristo cratic and did not look at the money she gave the horse car conductor, bat be meekly gave her back the lozenge on which was written, ‘ I’ll never cease to leve thee,’ and said that he waa an orphan with five little brothers to support and must be excused. .A distinguished clerical gentleman of Wis consin, is somewhat noted for parsimony, and for * dead-heading’ his way on lecture tours, <Scc. He had been a great traveler, and at a social party in Madison, in conversation with the hostess he said: ’ Madam, do yon know that 1 also, like Laander, and Lord Byron, swam across the Hellespont V The lady said: ‘ I have no donbt but what you did, rather than to pay your fare on a steamboat.' ..The St. Louis papers satirize the metro polis of the Northwest by spelling its name Schecawgo. ..That was a bright little child who inquir ed, ’ Ma, when cows die, do they go the Milky way.’ You can’t eat enough in a week to last yon a year, and you can’t advertise on chat plan either. Had you, sir,’ said Henry Erakine to a dilatory carpenter, ‘ been there to build the ark, we should not have had the flood yet.' -When a Tennessee husband will horse whip his wife for washing potatoes in his Sun day ping bat, it is time to inquire whether this generation of men isn’t getting to be too con founded high for the age of the country f ..A New York man has chcistenod his daughter Glyceri ne. He says it will be an easy prefix to nitro, if her temper resembles her mothor's. ..For a young woman to begin to pick lint off of a young man's coat collar, is said to be the first symptom that tbe young man is in peril. ..* Pompey.de corn’s up., De corn up! Why I only planted it yistedy.’ I know that but the hegs got in last night aud guv it a lift.’ ..Wilkinssays his girl waved her handker chief at him as he passed the house last even ing. In response, he waved hia coat sleeve— which he uses as a handkerchief. ..A friend was remoostrationg with.Clarke the actor, about his profanity, and quoted the Scriptural injunction, ‘ Swear not at all.’ * I don’t,’ said Clark, ‘ I only swear at those who offend me.’ son or daughter, who had ignorantly, thought lessly fallen into temptation. Give yonr chil dren papers to read. A sewing machine agent called npon a farmer residing in a neighboring State, yester day, sod wanted to sell him a machine, * Ob, gift riirention is from that harifenaomo taxation, which the as he tea Rttlnp,’tithfonnar-ropSast (foot raise v«j demands of the election of the caacas nominees will fosten upon oeen in tbs habit of doing such things.’ \ much wheat, and than I so w by hand/ What is this fbrT sskad the colored por ter at the Hotel, Long Branch, the other day, holding out atwirrty-fivo cent note,given Ma by the gentleman addressed, for carrying: 7 up Ma trank. ‘That,' said the gentleman, takip" the note and patting it back in his pastes, * was liar yonr trouble, and this is far yonr impudence,’and he kicked him cet. Mm inches and a half, into the ' One-Half Guilty. A fellow named Docks was tried at Yuba, Cal., for entering a miner’s tent and stealing bag of gold dust valued at $400. The testi mony showed that he had once been employed there, and knew exactly where the owner kept the dost, that on the night specified he cut a slit in the tent, reached in, took the bag and ran off The principal witness testified that he saw the hole cat, saw the man reach in, and heard him ran away. *1 rushed after him at once,’ continued tbe witness, ‘ bat when I catched Mm I didn't find Bill’s bag, bat found it afterwards where he had thrown it.’ How for did he get in when he took tha dost?’ inquired the counsel. Well, he was sunthia’ over half-way in I should say,’ replied the wicnesB. May it please yonr honor,’ interposed the connsel, ‘ the indictment isn’t sustained, and! shall demand an acquittal on direction of the court. The prisoner is on trial for entering a dwelling in the night time, with intent to steal. The testimony is dear that he made an- open ing throagh which he protruded' himself abont half-way, and stretched oat his arms and com mitted the theft. Bat the indictment chargee that be actually entered the tent or dwelling. Now. yonr honor, can a man enter a house when only one-half of bis body is in and the other half oat f ‘Ishall leave tha whole matter to the jury. They most judge of the law and the feet as ' proved,’ replied the judge. Tbe jury brought in a verdict of ‘ guilty m to oao-half of his body, and not guilty aa to the other half.' The judge sentenced the guilty part to two yean’ imprisonment, leaving it to the prison er’s option to have the innocent part cot off or to take it along with him. ..A doctor always treated bis juvenile pa tients for ‘ worms,’ whatever might happen to be their symptoms. One day being called to attend a boy who was suffering severely, ha felt the pnlse, and looking at tho mother, with a solemn shake of the head,, said: * Worms, madaml worms!’ ‘Now, Doctor,’ said the mother, * It isn't worms at all, I tell ye ; that boy fell down on the wood pile and broke his T WAM tr» efnn r»pvimr * wnritttt ’ lagv and I wane you to atop crying * wo and sot it immediately.’ - * Ah!'’ sddte doc tor, determined not to be put down, * W< in tbe wood, madam! worms In the wood VOLUME XXI. ATHENS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTR 30, 1874. NUMBER 26. pVJOHN H. CHRISTY. DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION AND GENERAL PROGRESS. #23.00 per Annina, in advance