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j*Y JOHN H. CHRISTY. DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION AND GENERAL PROGRESS. • #8.00 per Annum, in advance. VOLUME XXI. ATHENS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEB’Y 10, 1875. 1 1 B-BS-— 'I —■■■ NUMBER 44. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. 0 p e , fornrr of Hroad and Wall Streets, (upstairs.) ~ Ykums" TATO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. advertising. 1 j f *rtii«m.nts will be inserted at ONE DOLLAR 1*11 XIFTY CENTS per square for thefirstinser- ' —,1 SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS per aqaare for liausnco, for any lime under one month. For ,. r iods, a liberal deduction aill be made. - A liberal leluotioo on yearly advertisements. LEOALADVERTISING. late*, per lery of 10 tinea *500 .. mortgase sales, 00 days... - 5.00 j lion 40 .Uy*. by .\<linioi*trator», Executors, or •iusr lisn* 6.50 .‘'r.iinn of Administration or Guardianship 4.00 li'lRU . . _ . ft lie C AA AND FANCY GOODS, m>X«ei tender p 1 THE LAND OF LONG AGO. ways, old friend, MRS. T. A. ADAMS I Since childhood's buoyant years. A NNODNCES to the public that aha ia now reoaiv- 0ur P aths - oow brightly arched with hope, -tv In, a large and varied stock of Ladies' Bonnots, Now dark with clouds and tears: Hats Laeos, Ribbons, Trimmings, Ac., which she is But looking back O'er time and Change nuoringatlowprieos. Coll.oiamineandbeeonTineed. I The fairest land we know Nest door to Bank of the Tlnleorsity. Ath.ns. s.pSO | Lie8 bathed mornillB . 9 r03 y lj gb t- The Land of Long Ago. When there, bow distant far appeared To us the glow of noon; A _„ What eager, earnest glances tnrned T Dr. King s Drug Store, Broad Street, will exe- To days that came too 800U— and .’reasonable ,B b **' M,U ^e,too soon with earnestness, Term, positively CASH. feb4 Struggles, triumphs, woes ; With grave, calm words and tbongbtfnl words, Sotii-e to Debtors end Creditors ... „ *i,i. nor 1'jaere.eecbinsertion..... i„ .ell Reel Estate Jitstior New Firm and New Goods. I f ir iiamiiiion of Administrator 5.00 «« *' Guardian. 5.25 To »-?#rt»in the number of squu ... an adTertiaa- a«ct <>r dbitaary, coanttho words—onohundred being ail ttj ton linos. Allfraotious are counted as full professional anb ^nsintss Carbs. IB. I A. *■ CRWIN. | HOWELL COBB,JR 10BB, ERWIN £ COIIB, AT rOllNEYS AT LAW, A THEIfS, GEORGIA. n the Deuptee Building. Dec*! 0 A A. EDGE, HOOT, SHOE AND HARNESS MAKER, WATUixavii-Lit, Ha. B ANKRUPTCY.—Samuel P. Thurmond, Attornojr-at-Law. Athens, Ga. (Jfire on Broad street, over the store of Barry A Son, Will five special iittontionto cases in Bankruptcy. Al io. to the collection of all claims entrusted to hisoare. CVV.LAND £ 0RR, Wholesale and Retail Dealers, and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Dupree Hall.Broad St, Athens, Ga. ire now prepared to store Cotton at 25 cents per nd will advance cash when desired. Oct2S. E nglish * classical school, Fur Boys, cor. Wray and Lumpkin sts., Ath- •up, Be. ap8—3m LEE M. LYLE, Prin. E mory speer, LAWYER. ATUENS, GA. As Solicitor General of Western Circuit, will attend th« Courts of Clarke, Walton. Gwinnett, Hall, Banks, Jacksoo, Habersham, Franklin, Rabun and White, sad give attention to collecting and OwL;r claims in tkoit counties. March 19, 1873. E dward r. harden* (Let® Judge U. S. Courts Nebraska and Utah, and now Judge of Brooks County Court) Attorney at Law, juij23 ly Quitman, Brooke County, Ga. JOB* B. ESTICS. MADISON BELL. TT'STES £ BELL, Attorneys at Law, JJj GAINESVILLE, GA. jb£*WILL practice in the counties composing the Weitern Circuit, and Dawson and Forsyth counties of the Blue Ridge Circuit. They will also practice in the Supreme Court of Georgia, and in the United States Court at Atlanta. may 14 TJ'LOYD £ SILMAN, l 1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Will practice in the counties of Walton and Jackson, *0H* J. FLOYD, J. B. SILMAN Covington. Ga. roar4 J offer so o, Ga. T F. 0'KELLEY’S V . PHOTOGRAPH GALLERT, Over Williams’Shoe store, Broad street, Athens, Gtorgii. sepS. T II. HUGGINS, LI • holesale and Retail Dealer In DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac. Feblfl Broad Street, Athens, Ga. TORN U. CHRISTY, Plain and Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER Broad St., Athena, Ga. Oflct corner Broad and Wall atreets, over the atora JaiLci 0. Pittard. tf TAMES R. LYLeT _ DecS2 Attouxet it Law, WA TKINSriLLE, GA TOO M. MATTHEWS. O Attouxet at Law, Danielsviile.Qa. Prospi ittontlon will be gi7.n to any buiineia on •uii.J to hie care. Marco.4. TAMES L. LONG. M. D. . tl SURGEON, ACCOUCHEUR A PHYSICIAN (OJice at Mr. Thomae Sheate* Store,) Good Hope District, Walton county, Ga. Offer* his professional services to the citiicns of the I'jrrouuding country. aug27 Millinery felrrt fgisffWang. E. A. WILLIAMSON, Practical Watclmater and Jeweler. „ . What dreams wo dreamed in olden times, GRIFFETH & CRANE What castles proud and fair, A RE now opeuing at the old Hand of Lampkin A Arose to bless our hopeful Sight— Crane, No.« Broad Street, e fine .lock of I They TOM too high in air, STAPLE DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, PROVISIONS OF ALL KINDS, Hats, Shoes, Crockery, TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, In fact.erory thing naually kept in a firat-elaaa Van ety Store—which we propore to aellat tho lowest cash price*, or exchange for Country Prodnce. We respectfully solicit the patronage of onr friends and the public generally. Febl GRIFFETn A CRANE. Their great bails rang with merry throngs. That now lie still and low ; They drooped acd faded since we loft The Land of Long Ago. Our friends, dear friends of vanished years ! Their mem'ry haunts us yet, Like fragments of some sweet old song The heart can ne'er forget. Their kindly words were music's tone. Their eyes bad friendship's glow; But, ah ! their smiles beam faintly now Of far off Long Ago. DR. WHITTIER: No. 617 Si. Charles Street, St. Louis, Ha, • •febiuelMU HirrUr*.b jUk rt salts I . wtafe uyinlUM P —UNtsly* U ilarwM bj UiRtoUorMU. • OTT *» fcwwl ul ku beet setahUtkid u srnnre r*U*b»* raUaf. MARRIAGE GUIDE, ar*ygga St™**?"*?* Erg- in | Wo’vo climbed life's bard, rough h'", old friend, We'ro passing down its slope; I Behind us lies a weary road. Before, tbo land of Hope. That weary road is lined with graves, Tbo vale is glad below, | Tbeir children play as once we played In happy Long Ago. I For aye may childhood’s sunny sky I Bo free from gloom and tears, I That stores of joy may treasured be I For dreary afte r years; I For. viewing now the day of life. Through eight's descending snow, | The fairest, dearest pictures gleam From bright old Long Ago. The Best Spool Cotton, MUSIC HATH CHABMS. The following was related to me by one I j'OR nro od any Sewing Machine, i* “ CLARK’S | wb o was an eye witness—an old man now, 0. N. T.,” especially that made for and bearing I but with this scene as vividly fixed in his me- the name of too Singer Manufacturing Co. A word to the wise should be sufficient, Price, 75c. pci vividly mory as though it had occurred only yester- doien Spools, at the office of the SINGER MANU-|day: FACTORING CO. ^«; £ HOPE. tbo year 1838. a man named Tappan moved, with bis family, from New York to WagOIl Yard ill AtllCllS I lh e remote Western country, said family con T ..„~’ ...... , . , * leisting, besides himself, of a wife and six fortable and commodious Wagon Yard, on Rivei J^SUgQtflrs. Ho had failed in business ; Was street.in theneighborhood of the Upper Bridge, where I broken in Spirit; bis children, ho thought. CORN, FODDER, and all other necessary supplies can ... be purchased on reasonabla terms. Charge,raoderats. I eea ® < I fresh air, SO ho accepted as a gift The highest market price paid for Country Produea, I from bis brother a large tract of land upou * D T rt o“yT nk tf"’ r *''* iT *' 1 in " eh “*iLKY 0 ;° hood | tho edt!0 of the wilderness, and settled there on. Very soon enterprising people began to settle beyond him, and there came to be much travel past his door; and, as an act of humanity, be frequently entertained wayfar ers. As these calls upon bis hospitality be came mere and more freqnent, be enlarged bis bouse to meet tbo requiremeots of a com fortable inn, and put up the usual innkeeper’s THE GREAT REMEDY for Boras, Scalds, Corns, Poisoii flat, Sip if Insects and Cutaneous Inflammations Generally, DISCOVERED BY MRS. L. E. BUSH, I sign. JUG TAVERN, WALTON CO., GA., I Not loD g after this came a party of young II f AS entered against «h. World, at th. l.t. State men ' ci « ht or teD in number ' W6 » mounted VV Fair at Macon, and iadaiij affecting THE most I from an electioneering expedition. They had WONDERFUL CURES, »nd beoome tin indii- stopped at overy tavern on their route, and pensable houichoM necessity. No family should be I . , , \ .... , itbout it! I toward the middle of the afternoon they rein* If, after trial, a family W willing to live without this 1 before Tappan*s door, pretty well under preparation for Tan Dollars, agents art authorised to 1. . a / , .. . .. n .. refund the money. I the iiflnence of various kinds of fiery fluid, FOR SALE, laud having dismounted and secured their tb.'s^r^of Judg^J i^^Pitt.rd.** 1>ru ^ ® ,0,# an< ^ horses, they entered the house, and noisily In Watkins,ill.—At the Star, of Booth A Durham. 1 demanded whiskey. In Mo.ro.-At Dr Galloway's Drug Star.. | Now u 80 happen ed that Mr Tappan and bis wife were both away, and only bis daugh ters were in charge; and it also happened that the host, being a rigid and conscienscious teetotaler, bad never kept any spirituous li quors in the bouse. Of this fact the visitors The men who bad gone in search of the axe, hearing the music, had left the wood* pile and entered the house. Other songs wore sung, in several of which two of the younger sisters joined. The riot ous spirits were all sabdued, and half the party had wet cheeks. Their sympathies were aronsed, their hearts opened, and the best part of their natures brought to the sur face ; and when they had taxed the fair song stress so far that they felt ashamed to tax her more, they thanked her heartily, and withdrew with as much decorum as might have been exhibited had they been retiring from the throne of a monarch. A year after this event, Mr. Tappan chanc ed to be in Jacksonville on business, where he was introduced to Philip St. Clair, a rising young lawyer of the place. * Is this Mr. Tappan who, one year ago. kept a public-bouso on the Cloud Hill road f asked St. Clair. * The same, sir.’ •And I, sir,’ pursued the lawyer, * was the leader of that party of riotous men who so shamefully frightened your daughters. I suppose they told you of the circumstance T' ‘ Yes, sir.’ * Well, Mr. Tappan, from that day I have not touched, as a beverage, any intoxicating drink. I wnuld like to see your eldest daugh ter, ^jmd tell her of the blessiDg her sweet music bestowed upon me. Mr. Tappan kDew St. Clair well by reputa tion, and cheerfully invited him to call when ever be could make it convenient. Si. Clair once more visited the wayside in” tsult of which was, that in less than yH^he sweet songstress had become bis wife. ‘ My blessed angel,’ he said, clasping her to his bosom when she was bis own to cherish and protect,' never, .ever can I sufficiently thank Heaven for the providence that led me within your saving influence in that dark hour of my life.' At Princeton—By Mr Ruaiell. Address mil orders to WILEY H. BUSH, novl9 Jug Tavern, Walton co., Ga. ANTI-PYROTIC, -OR,- Grreat J^^irG’Killor, [were informed by the oldest daughter, * la handsome, intelligent girl of eighteen. NO HUMBUG! I g ut tbe riotously-inclined invaders had no CERTAIN,SURE* RELIABLE. care just thou for female beauty, nor K ELIAS, Attorney at Law, . FRANKLIN, N. C. Prsctiffi in >11 th. Court, of W.st.ro North C*ro- 1)D*. *U<1 lo (be Federal Courts. Claims eollectsd io ill parts of (he Ststs. aplt—ly T 1YERY, Feed and Sale Stable, -LA ATHENS, GA. GASy Jt BRAVES, IVeprietors. irJUWil] be found at their old stand, rear Frank- Us Hum* building, Thomas strut. Keep always on hand good Turn-outs and careful drivers. J5tock well cared for when entrusted to our care. Stock on bend for sale at all times. dec25—tl M W. K1DEN, * ATTORNEY AT LAW, U. 6. Claim Ag.nt and Notary Public, GAixatviLLm, Ga. *dr Offlca on Wilaon street, below King A Bro’s. Fsbru.ry 18, 1873. c - VStfL,,. B. r. U0WE1.1.. Peeples & howell, x ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 20 and 22, Kimball House, Atlanta. Ga. URACTICB in th. Stat.and Federal Coart*, and , •“•nd regularly nil thnCoarts In Atlanta, inelad- “» 'h* Supreme Conrt of th* Stats, and will nrgun «»*«• upon bri*fsf.r abssnt parties, on rnaaonabln They alio practice in thn C.artn of tb# eoantlni con- Ufdoot or acoej.ible to Atlanta by Railroad, sapll B Y a recent discovery, w. *r. enabled to offer tb. I were they moved by the fear aDd distrust of poblic a .afe, e.rum and ,ur* ear* for tbe frightened girls; bat they still demanded Borns, Scalds, Scald-Head, Stings by Insects, I whiskey, and when they bad become assured TC *and Old lores ol long standing? th « » he y conld not have it, thoy resolved This preparation has been tborongbly tested—in I that they would cat down the sign before the burns always insnras almost instant rsliaf— has nnvnr I door, and the leader SO informed the young failed in a single instance. Ilndv W* bar* in onr possassion numbers of certlficnts, I J' shewing th. WONDERFUL curfs effected by this ' You must do as you please, gentlemen, prepnration.whichneverf.il.. «he said, shrinking, while her little sisters Every Family should have a Bottle of it gathered aronnd her for protection ; * I can- ready FOR USE! | not prevent yon.’ No one know* how toon * member of the family may I • a. tavern-sign, and no whiskey l Such a D *ni', t a Georgia production and perfootly free from | 8 'S n ‘ 8 a base fraud.' ‘ Ah—down with it!’ mineral poison. *aa.For sale in Athens at tha Drag Store, of Dr. ft. | M. Smith A Co. and Dr. Wm. King, Jr. Order, should be addressed to JARRBTT a mulkey, AngS Walton’s Ford. Ga. Pavilion hotel, -V „ CBARLESTON, S. 0. Ihn FIRST-CLASS Hotel is situated in the very •strsof th, business part of th*city, and all who jp itisro will a 0 ii every oonTeqitpoe and luxury that ••obsprocqred. Board, per day, *J.#0. A- litxtiTos, .?«pt. Mrs. L. H. BcrvaaricLD, 1 tf Prapristrsss. f P B. ADAIR, D. D. S. GainxaviLLx, Ga. ^^Ors.iouthsasteoroer Puhlic Square. P s. ADAMS, M. D„ iim Ko *°*ox, Acconcaacn ann Pnrsiciax. . „• »t reiidenee, Moantain District, Walton eoun- J. Ueorgi.—offar, bis professional services to tb* —-*1°* °I the surrounding country. angit—ly QUMMEY i NEWTON, Dtnlsrs in ... . Foreign and Domestic HARDWARE, S '” No. 6,Broad straat, Athens, Gn. c. DOBBS, 8taa*u Wholssal* and Retail Dealer in » 0<i Fancy DRY GOODS, GROCBRIBS, An. - ' No. IX Brond Straet, Athens, Gn. J>UIN and Fancy Job Printing, At the Southern Watchman Office. SPOOL SILK! G E . T r. T . H * ?.* 8T *»d CHEAPEST! G,t tbatmsn nkicKr'""* tk* Singer Mannfnetnring Company, i'x Ba'hln Ci * ll3r I° r nseon nil kinds of 8*w- *AMnn'. , AJ! b#, * ,,u ratall, by th* SINGER l.l.^ CTURI * e COMPANY. Ij 0. H. HOPB, Agent, Athens, On. „Fh*N, hark.f. ,, ' 0 York WE *KLY WITNESS, giving News, IJ 1« 1*1 Piol«r«» aid Lit• Edltoriila, at F°'t*g* paid, has reached 75.000 oirca- t» thro* years. Send for free sampln copy. * Where is y«ur axe t’ • Yon will find it somewhere by the wood pile, sir.' Three or fonr of the party made a rush for the wood-pile, cursing as they went, while the leader of the gang, a young man who wTll".^ 8 n T,'f"Ih , fl.h 7nd'7,.t.r.'Tt".U I w °Q Id have been decidedly handsome if he _ hoars, at my restaurant on Jseknon street, and will I bad been himself, with Others of his comptin- krap . good • 0 v PP 1 f w f “ r T " 1 T ^ lI K I ’*7 I) ‘^ 0 n f,. n “ t “ d | ions, took a notion to overhaul the house. In- FRESH OYSTERS 1RD FISH: HANCIS LOUI8, (Democrat,) Proprietor. ATHENS M1RRIE1HDJR1HITE Y1RD. A. R. Robertson D BALBRloMennm*nt*,H**dSton*s.Cr*dl#Tombs, Marble and Granite Box Tombs. Also,Vasesnad Marble Tops for Furnitare. Persons desiring work of I yjj s f Can JOB t this kind will do well te examine my designs before' purchasing elsewhere. Prise, modemta. Work shep adjoining old osmetery. jalyll—ly sisting that there must be a ‘ drop of some thing’ somewhere. And we may here say that the whole party considered themselves gentlemen. They were well dressed and re spectably connected. In a small, well-furnished apartment, apart from the guests' room, was found a piano forte. Hallo!’ cried the leader, * who plays on HORSES & MOLES. rTXHK undersigned hav* established, In addition to 1 their Livery, a regular SALL STABLE, And will, from this date, keep *a head, at all Umts, a fall supply of HORSES & MULES. Thost In want o Stock eon *>• supplied nt £ ^Reasonable Figures. \ I skill and ■ Give as a call. Athens, Nov. 4—tf GANN A RBAVBS. It is mine, eir,’ answered the girl, thus ad dressed. * And can yon play t’ ' Yea, sir.' * Can yon siDg V * I sing sometimes, sir.’ * Will yon sing and play for net’ * With pleasure, eir.' She opened the piano, and sat down, and played and sang ‘ The Maiden’s Prayer.’ Her voice was clear, musical, and sweetly rich, and the accompaniment was played with rare grace. The little sisters gathered in a semicircle close aronnd the instrument, and the heretofore riotoas men—but riotous no more—drew near and nearer, npon the oat* Brackets! Brackets! r»RACKBT8. W.1I Pockets, Book.sh.lv.., Clock- Some of them bad never beard a piano .-o D Shelves, Toii*t-C*s*s, M*toh-8*fss, Hanging Boa* I before, and not one of them bad overheard nil kinds of 8#w- k .u, A^,h.l.rg M ..»db.»d ; o»M«M , ert».nt.rarl weoter mut ^ Afwr a at tho ^ " burke s book stork. I elusion of the piece, the leader spoke again, IP YOU WANT TO SEE but ln a 8tran 8 6l i subdued tone. j __ — ym-_ _ i —^ ^ ‘Will yon sing for ns another song t And she. played and aang the sweet song, Th^wuido you^d to look 0 ^’/°MAvl8. The Old Home.’ A STRANGE STORY. How a Confederate Soldier from Tennessee became eery Rich—His Removal to California with Ne mesis after him. [From the San Francisco Examiner, 19th.] When toe Confederate army, nnder General Lee, was forced back from the trenches at Pe tersburg, by the Federal army, President Davis hurriedly ordered about fifteen million dollars, the property of the banks of Virginia and of tbe Confederate States, to be placed on traiDS at Richmond and sent South, intending to convey it to tho trans-Mississippi Department, if possible, there to make a final stand. Tbe treasure was carried down to Charlotte, North Carolina, where the railroad ended. At this place it was decided to leave tbe money be longing to the Bank of Virginia in keeping of their officers. The rest of the money belong ing to tbe Confederate States was placed in wagons, and the retreat continued. The brig ades of Generals Basil Duke and Vaughn, who bad succeeded in escaping from East Tennes see, and had arrived at Charlotte a few days before, were placed, nnder the orders of Gen eral John C. Breckinridge, to act as an escort to the treasure, and the command proceeded sontb until Greensboro', Washington county. Georgia, was reached. At this point informa tion was received that the Federal General, WilsoD, bad captnred Macon, a few miles dis tant, and in tbe line of retreat to the trans- Mississippi Department. Tbe news soon got among the men. They became demoralized, and a rash was made for the wagons contain ing tbe treasure. It was speedily divided among them, the officers being unable to re strain tbe men. Among tbe lucky ones were two soldiers belonging to company B, Third Tennessee Mounted Infantry, ef Vaughn’s bri gade, from Monroe county, Tennessee. One of them was named Albert Stevens and tbe other we will call J. T. Jones. They had charge of a wagon containing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold; and when the panic spread among the soldiers and the cry wae “ sauce qui pent,’’ they retained their pre sence of mind and drove off in the woods, where they divided tbe money, making some seventy five thousand dollars apiece, and separated, Stevens taking bis to bis borne in Tennessee, where be buried it, confiding its hiding place to bia mother, a very old lady. Finding that it would be dangerous for bim to remain in Tennessee, owiDg te tbe unsettled condition of things there, tbe people being equally divided on the question of tbe war, be went to Georgia, where be found Jones, who had bonght a small place, and was quietly waiting until it would be safe for bim to return home. Stevens stay ed awhile with Jones and then went off to an other part of Georgia to visit some relatives before going, however, he informed Jones about the biding of his money, and his mother's know ledge of its whereabouts, As soon as Stevens was gone, Jones moan ted his horse and made a bee line for Tennessee, to the place where Stevens lived. Arriving there he presented his comrade's mother with a forged letter, par- porting te come from her son, directing her to deliver the money to Jones, which the old lady did. Jones then started direct for California. Arriving here he purchased a large tract of land In Mendocino county, land being very low at that time, and baa since amassed a large fortune in addition to his ill-gotten gains, and la now highly respected and a member of the cbnrch. ’ In tbe coarse of time, Stevens, bar log ascer tained that it would be safe, started for home, possibly dreaming of a future life of ease and comfort on some blue-grass farm—raising fat cattle and blooded horsee—this being yonr average Kentuckian’s or Tennessean’s idea of an earthly paradise. On reaching home he soon foond ont bis loss. Bnokling on his re volver, be scoured the entire South and West iu search of hit faithless friend, vowing to shoot bim on eight, aud only recently ascertained bis whereabouts. He is now in correspondence with a prominent lawyer of this city, and an attempt will shortly be made to bring' Mr. Jones to account through the courts. [IVWo don’t know whether any portion of the above is true, except the statement that large amount of specie was shipped from Rich mond. The writer evidently blunders in re gard to local geography—Greensboro’ being in Green connty. We presame he was think ing of Washington, Wilkes connty. Ho seems (D have gotten things mixed up considerably.] A Prophecy by George McDuffie, In reflecting npon the political events of the last few years, tbeir character and tendency, we are reminded of a remark made by George McDuffie, io bis celebrated speech on tbe re moval of tbe deposits, delivered in the House of Representatives, in tbe Congress of the United States, on tbe 4th of April, 1834. Daring that time of high political exoite- ment, publication had been made in the official journal of certain anonymons letters purport ing to contain threats of assassinating the President, General Jafikson. Mr. McDuffie spoke of the probability ef these letters being a contrivance of the partisan adherents of the President for political effect, or that they may have proceeded from some misguided man nn der the influence of passion, who hoped to alarm the President for bis personal safety, and thereby induce bim to change his political course. And after expressing his “ utter ab horrence to every proceeding that may have the remotest tendency to snggeat the idea of assassinating the chief magistrate,” he said : ‘‘I will make one concluding remark on the subject—God forbid that it should be prophetic —and it is that, if in the midst of a violent po litical excitement, it ever should occur that a President of the United States should be as sassinated, he will be the last constitutional President, aud his blood will cement the despotic throne of his successor.”—Griffin Messenger. Trades of Animals. It has bean well remarked by a clever au thor that bees are geometricians. Tbe cells are so constructed as, with the least quantity of material, to have tbe largest sized spaces and the least possible interstices. The mole is a meteorologist. Tbe torpedo, tbe ray and tbe electric oei are electricians. Whole tribes of birds are musicians. Tbe beaver is architect, builder and wood cutter. He cats down trees, and erects houses and dams. The marmot is a civil engineer. He not only builds houses, but constructs aqueducts and drains to keep them dry The ant is a soldier, and maintains a reg ular standing army. Wasps are paper manufacturers. Caterpillars are silk spinners. The squirrel is a ferryman. With a chip or pieco of bark for a boat, and his tail for a sail, ho crosses a stream. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and many others, are hunters. Black bears and herons are fishermen. Ants are day laborers. Monkeys are rope dancers. think I’ll tell bim I’m likoly to die first.—De troit Free Press. Wayside Gatherings. A Stupid Witness. There is a point beyond which human for bearance cannot go, and tbe most even of tempers will become ruffled at times. At the assizes held during tbe past year at Lincoln, England, both judge and counsel had bad much trouble to make tbo timid witnesses upon a trial speak sufficiently loud to be heard by tbe jury, and it is possible that the tem per of tbe counsel may thereby have been turnod aside from tbe even tenor of its way. After this gentleman had gone through the va rious stages of the bar pleading, and had coaxed, threatened and even bullied witness es, there was called into the box a young os tler, who appeared simplicity personified. Now, sir,” said tbe counsel, in a tone be would at any other time have denounced as vulgarly loud, “I bope wo shall have no diffi culty in making you speak up.” ‘‘I hope not, sir!” was shouted or rather bellowed, out by tbe witness, ln tones which almost shook the building, and wonld have certainly alarmed any timid or nervous lady. How dare you speak in that way, air!” said the counsel. I’lease zur, I can’t speak any loader, zar, sair the astonished witness, attempting to shout louder than before, evidently thinking tbe fault to be his speaking too softly. ’* Pray, have yon been drinking this morn ing f" shouted the counsel, who bad now thoroughly lost the last remnant of his tem per. "Yes, znr,” was the reply. “And what have yon been drinking. "Corfee, zur." “And what did yon have in yonr coffee sir f" shouted the exasperated counsel. “A spoon, zur,” was the answer, innocent ly spoken, amid the roars ot the whole court— excepting only the now thoroughly wild coun sel, who flung down his brief and rushed one of the coart. Legal Precocity. An old lady walked into a lawyer's office tbe other day, when the following conversation took place: * Squire, I called to see if yon wonld like to take this boy and make a lawyer of him.’ * This boy appears rather young, madam Hew old is bet’ ‘ Seven years, sir.’ * He is too yonng—decidedly too yonng.— Have you no boys older t* * Oh, yea, sir. I have several, bat we have concluded to make farmers of tbe others, told my man I thought this little fellow wonld make a good lawyer, so I called to see if yon wonld take him.’ * No, madam, he is too yonng yet to com mence the study of the profession. Bat why do yon think this boy so much better cnlca lated for a lawyer than any of onr other sons! ‘ Why, yon see, sir, he is jnst seven years old to-day; when he was only five he’d lie like all nature; when he got to be eix, be was sassy and impudent as any critter conld be; and now he’ll steal anything he can get hie bands on. Materialized spirits—Frozen whiskey. ..A matchless maid—An ancient unmarried lady. . .Plain sauce—An interview with a Sarato ga hotel clerk. ..Reticence may not be considered sound sense, but it is good sense. ..How unjust it is to accuse a bald-headed man of putting on false hairs. .. How to make good puffs—Send the pub lisher fifty cents a line for them. What can’t be cured mast be sold fresh,” is what they say in Porkopolis. ..The financial pressure is loosening. Even tho days are not so ’’ short” as they were. .In some of the new styles there is no change. Poor relatives are cut the same as last year. .Here’s a new view of the Christmas stock ing—The boy says he “set it, but didn’t catch anything.” ..Since thejiard times struck Nevada they have raised the price of killing Chinamen to seven dollars. . .The reason why Pagans arc so far behind hand in the march of civilization, is because they are such idol people. ..This jute the ladies patch their hair with never looks more like real hair than when it appears in the butter Berkshire Courier. ..1 be Gardiner, Maine, Journal says that there is a store in that place in which a skull is kept, marked: ‘This man was a drummer. Beware 1” ..Silas Card was married the other day, and on his wedding notices were tbo words “ No cards." But he doesn’t know what might happen. .What station do yon call thist" said a man, as he crawled out of the debris of a rail road smash-up “Devastation,” replied the conductor. ..“A man who fears tbe Lord and can carry homo an intoxicated member,” is the kind of Sergeant-at-Arms they want for the Minnesota Legislature. ’ ..The young man who resolved to commit suicide because bis sweetheart married an un dertakor, owes his life to the second sober thought that he might bo furnishing bis rival a job. ..A Maryland man whose wife dropped dead a few days ago, bad tbe funeral put off one day longer to get the balance of his corn husked. He said it wouldn't make any differ ence to her, as she was always good-natured How dreary seems each hour. As it slowly, slowly goes, To tbo man who sits in anguish, With a boil upon bis nose I ..Perplexed Schneider, who had made garment for a youth, aud found himself unable to dispose of tbo surplus fulluess which ap peared when trying it on tbe young candi date, declared vociferously :" Do coat isgoot Is no fault of de coat. Do boy is too tin.” ..A man out West who married a widow has invented a devico to cure her of “ eter nally” praising her former husband. When ever she begins to descant on his noblo qual ities, this ingenious No. 2 merely says: “ Poor dear man! How I wish be bad not died 1” ..A good deacon making an official visit to a dying noigbbor, who was a very churlish and universally unpopnlar man, put tbe usual question : “ Are you willing to go, my friendt” “ Oh, yes,” said tbe sick man, “ I am.” ' Well," said tbe simple-minded deacon, “ I am glad you are, for all the neighbors are wil ling.” I want to be a police. And at the corner stand; A star npon my bosom. A club within my band. I’ll stand and roll my eyeballs, By passing breezes fanned. I’ll walk into each restauraunt. And take my oysters panned. ..The Stoats Zcitung is laboriog to dissi pate the common, though erroneous opinion, that tbe Germans have no conception of a joko. An Indiana paper having said of Gov. Allen that “ Every time ho opens bis mouth he puts his foot in it,” the Z. S. translates it thus: “ It is said that every time Herr Allen speaks he puts bis foot in bis mouth.”— CM- cago Post. ..A stranger from the country observing an ordinary roller rale on the table, took it op and inquiring its use, was answered: “ It is a rale for connting-boases.” Too well bred, as he construed politeness, to ask unnecessary qaestioDs, be tamed it over and up and down repeatedly, and at last, in a paroxysm of baf fled curiosity, inquired. “ How in the name of wonder do yon count houses with thief ..This may answer some op-country editor, but we ain't that kind: Complexion clear as polished wax; Her longue as sharp as carpet tacks; Her eyes a dark bewitching blue; Her voice is pure and high-toned too; Her neck's like Annie Laurie's swan; Her words you’d love to dwell npon; Her teeth so pearly, clear and white; Yon almost wish yonr ear she’d bite. .I wish I bad yonr head," said a lady one day to a gentleman who bad solved for her a knotty point. “ And I wish I bad your heart,” was his reply. “ Well,” said she, “ since yonr head and my heart can agree, i don’t see why they should not go into part nership.” And they did. ..Acotemporary asks: “ Wbat are street lamps for f’ To which tbe Galveston News replies: “ Tbe man who doesn’t know wbat a street lamp is for, is hardly fit to sit in an editorial chair and monld public opinion. Street lamps are for weary young men to re cline against at midnight, when they foiget the way home.” And whereas, all the States, including those which linked their fortunes with the Confed eracy, are upon terms of perfect equality, en titled to exercise each for itself the rights of States, includmg the right of local self-gov ernment, except so far as they may be re stricted by tbe Constitution of the United States. And whereas, it is a well established prin ciple that each branch of the Legislative de partment of each State is the sole judge of the election returns and qualifications of its mem bers, and has the right to establish its own rules for determining all questions growing out of all contested elections, there being no appeal from the decision of the House iu such case; Aad whereas, neither tbe executive of the State nor the executive of the United States has the right, by the use of the military po w er, to interfere in or control tho organization of the Legislature of a State, nor to interfere with the decision of cither branch of tbe State Legislature, nor has the right to nse the mili tary power of the government in any State for any purpose than tbe suppression of do mestic violence er the repulsion of invasion, and then only upon the proper application of the Legislature, or Ijy the executive when the Legislature cannot convene. And whereas, we have noticed with alarm the authentic statement that the great prin ciple of constitutional government has been violated by tbe use of a portion of thn army ol the United States, which under the direc tion of the President, has interfered with the organization of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, whore the military assumed to judge of the election of its mem bers, and at the point of the bayonet expelled such as the military commander adjudged not to be entitled to tbeir seats. Resolved, That neither tbe President of the United States, nor the Governor of said State, bad any right to interfere in tbe organization of tbe Legislature, or to assume to judge of the election of tho members thereof. That the use of tho military in tbo expulsion of such members by tbe bayonet was a palpable and dangerous usurpation of power by tho Presi dent of the Unitod States and a violation of tbe rights and privileges of the State of Loui siana. That the attempt of tbe President to justify the act in a message to tho Congress of tbo United States is sufficient to awaken the serious apprehension of tlu> people of every State in tbe Union, inasmuch as the uso made >f tbe military in tbe State ol Louisiana, if tol erated by popular sentiment, may ripen into a precedent: may be repeated at any time as to the organization of Legislatures of any of tbo States, and even of the organization of the ' Congress of tbe United States ; and that tha result of such a policy, if tolerated, places tho civil government and the liberties of the peo ple of each State at the feet of the President, clothed with the power of a military dicta tor. Resolved, That the question rises in impor tance above ail party consideration, and threatens alike tbe liberties of tbo citizens of tbo United States, without regard to party affiliations, and wo appeal to all good citizens throughout tbe Union to unite with us in en tering, as we now do, our earnest and solomn protest against the act itself, and tho prece dent sought to bo established by it. Resolved, That we condemn all lawlessness and violence ; that we will faithfully support the constitution of the United States, and the laws enacted in conformity thereto, and that we advise all citizens of this and sister States, to render strict obedience to tho laws, to re sort to legal means for tbe redress of grievan ces. relying upon popular sentiment of the poopleofthe States, fairly expressed, for a re turn in the administration of tho government to tbe principles of constitutional law. Resolved, That we tender our sympathies to the oppressed people of Louisiana, and com mend tbeir moderation and forbearance ex hibited in the trying emergency through which they are now passing, trusting that they have tbe fortitude still to forbear, resorting neither to force nor violence, but making a calm and dignified appeal to tho people of the United States to break the shackles which hind them and to deliver them from tbe hands of the dis honest adventurers who now tyrannize over them, and from tbe galling military despotism by which they are now oppressed. Resolved, That the Governor of this State be requested to send a copy of these resolutions to each of onr Senators and representatives in Congress, with tbe request that they lay them before their respective Houses, and to the Ex ecutive of each State in the Union. She Felt Happy. Two ladies met on Woodward avenae yes terday and one inquired of the other: “ Why, yon look very happy this m orning. What's happened t” “Ob, I've jnst been np having my fortune told,” was the reply, “and the woman says I’m to marry twice more, have diamonds and aeamel'e hair shawl, and that I can go to the opera eix nights in a week if I want no.” ” Dear me, I don’t wonder than you are happy. Bat yon won't say any thing to yonr husband 1" ” Ob, of course not. Poor man ! He’s good to me, and it might hart his feelings to know that I was to marry twlfcfe more. I The Louisiana Iniquity- The following document has been standing ready to go into tbe Watdunan for the past two or three weeks, and was accidentally omit ted. “ Better late than never,” however :| Tho following resolutions, reported by the Joint standing committee on tbe State of tbe Repnbilc, were unanimously adopted by both branohes of the General Assembly, Wednes day last: Whereas, Under the original constitntional compact between the States of this Union, eaob State is the equal of, and is entitled to Andy Johnson. Now that Ex-Presidebt Johnson has been elected to the Senate to succeed Brownlow^ everything connected with him of recent date, becomes interesting. It bas been charged that he has sought in tbe past to make odious tbe ex-Confederate soldier, that ho has assail ed tbe Democratic party, that be is no Demo crat, and therefore ought not to be elected Senator. These charges have been so often repeated to Johnson’s prejudice! that an ex- Confederate soldier interviewed him on the subject. In response to tbe question pro pounded, Johnson said: ‘ My whole pnblie acts demonstrate that I exhausted all*'the powers and prerogatives of)the;office of President in behalf of Confed erate soldiers, and I went so far that Congress nnder the influence of an extreme party spirit repealed tbe amnesty act authorizing tho Pres ident to pardon rebels. Then I fell back to the pardoningjpower under the constitution, and under this power, on the 2J>tIi of Decera- ‘ber, 1868,1 issued a proclamation of general amnesty, releasing and releaving all those who fought against the flag. This was assailed by the radical leaders, but the Supreme Conrt of the United States has within the past year, I believe, decided in my favor. When tbe im peachment trial was going on, my exercise of the pardoning power was one of the items of inquiry by tbe committee. Now as to my dem ocracy, I think no one who can read can bp ig norant of my political views. I think I am in line with tbe democracy of the nation, and tbe unwilling testimony of my political opponents has established that I was nominated as a Union Democrat for Vice President, aad I I think that all of my life shows me to be dem ocratic—an unadulterated democrat. By the way, I think some people sneeriogly say tha I am too much of a people's man, demagogue and all that. Yes, these questions have all been answered by me before, and I went over this ground more in detail in a speech I made in Shelby villa last October.” ..A boy read Spurgeon's declaration that a * cigar is a thing to thank God for,' and invest- .. , w ed his two nickels in ono. He was next seen all tbe rights and powers belonging to each i leaning over a goods box, but ho wasnotgiv- and every other State. f ing thanks.