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VOLUME XXII.
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HUNT LOVE.
1Y JULIA WARD HOVE.
Whom tirot we love, we know, wo seldom wed.
Time rules us all. And lire, indeed, is not
The thing we planned it out ere hope was dead ;
And then, wo women cannot choose our lot.
Much must be borne which it is hard to bear.
Much given away which it were sweet to
keep.
God help us all 1 who need indeed His care ;
Aud jet I know tbo Shepherd loves His
sheep.
My little boy begins to babble now
Upon my knees bis earliest infant prayer:
He has bis father's eager eyes, I know.
And, they say, too, his mother’s sunny bj.ir.
Hut when be sleeps and smiles upon my ki ..e.
And 1 can feol his light breath come and (o,
I think of one—Heaven help aud pity me—
Who loved ine, and whom I loved, long ago.
Who might hare been—ah, what I dare not
•'link.
Wo are all changed. God judges for us best.
God help us do our duty, and not shrink,
And trust in Heaven humbly for tbo rest.
lint blame us women not, if some appear
Too cold at times ; and 6ome too gay and
light;
Some griefs gnaw deep ; some woes are hard
to bear.
Who knows the past T and who can judge
us right f
Ah, were we judged by what we might have
been.
And not by what we are, too apt to fall!
My little child—be sleeps and smiles between
These thoughts and me. lu Heaven we
shall know all.
THE SECRET OF A LIFE.
BY COL. FRENTiss ldOKAiiAJt.
C’lnrcoce Kane sat in his sumptuously fur
nished library, lost in thoughts evidently un
welcome to biin, for bis handsome face was
clouded, and the stern lips flrmly compressed,
as ho gazed vacantly into the rod coals in the
grate.
Though forty years had passed ovor him,
neiiuer form nor face indicated that age, for
proudly erect and graceful, besides possessing
dark Hashing eyes, waving hair and regular
features, be was a strikingly handsome man,
apparently not more than thirty.
Reared in luxury, for his parents bad left
hiui a millionaire when but a college student,
he bad never known poverty through necessi
ty, though a wandering life of many years in
many lands, had shown him tbat there existed
more want and suffering than happiness and
comfort in tbe world from lack of the almigh
ty dollar, aDd his noble nature aided ever,
vhere circumstances brought him in contact
with his fellow beings in distress.
Three months before that bleak December
evening when he is seated in the library of his
own magnificent Baltimore home, Clarence
Kane bad returned from a wandering tour
abroad which bad lasted for two years, and
the circumstance tbat had brought him home
again is the subject of this sketch.
Sitting there in silent meditation he was
awaiting tbe coming of one who was very dear
to him; though no wife or sister had ever
brightened his doorway, or made happy his
bachelor home, Clarence Kane held the re
sponsible position of guardian over a young
girl of seventeen, and having received from
tbe fair maiden a telegram tbat afternoon that
she would be with him during the evening,
having loft the boarding school for the Christ
mas holidays, he bad remained away from the
Club to greet her.
' If *he bad stated by what train or at what
hour she would arrive, so tbat I could have met
her,' be murmured in rather an ill-humored
tone, and then as the sound of carriage wheels
on the pebbly drive broke on bis ear, he start
ed up suddenly and walked quickly to tbe
door, which was thrown wide open by the
butler, to usher in a bright face, almost bid
den, as was the form, by warm wrops, for the
night was bleak and cold.
‘ Juniata, you are indeed welcome!' exclaim
ed Clarence Kano, checking himself as he was
about to eufold ir. his arms the maiden, whom,
in the three years since be bad last beheld her,
had grown from girlhood to womanhood.
‘Thank you, my dear guardian, I knew you
would like a little sunshine, this cold weather,
hence I have ootne,* laughed a musical voice,
from beneath the wraps as if divining the rea-
son why be bad not erabraoed her, and the
young girl raised her pouting ripe lips for a k iss.
I will not 0336rt that Clarence Kane bad
never, in his varied existence kissed a lovely
woman before, but be that as it may, he ap
peared a perfect novice on tbat occasion, and
then turned deadly pale.
But recovering himself, be extended a warm
welcome to tbe maiden, and then aided her in
unbundling herself from wraps, furs and hat,
nod his surprise was evident as he beheld
what a metamorphosed form his ward was.
A form supple, graerful, and slightly above
'•he medium height, yet perfect in mould; a
^aitly, fo r th 0 eyes were midnight in black
ness, liquid in expression, and filled with slum
taring fire, while tbe hair rivalling them in bne
" M worn in luxuriant folds around the p road
L nead, and was confined by a massive comb.
In undisguised admiration Clarence Kane
forgot his good breeding, aufl*fOOii and gazed.
' What! was this the girl-jf fourteen he had
leit at a boarding school a fair years before V
be thought, while tbo object of bis gaze, flush
ing crimson, said half timidly:
* Don't I please you, my dear guardian V
With a long drawn sigh, Clarence Kane
shook off tbe beanty-strncjc spell upon him.
and answered honestly:
‘Juniata, I believe tbat only angels ooold
possess yout beauty.'
‘ Thanks; but yoor angel idea* will have a
fall, for I'll astonish you by proving what affin
ities earthly angels can possess, for do you
know I’m moat starved V
‘ True, I had forgotten tbe politeness of a
host in my joy at your arrival, but I will now
atone for it.’ . \
And caliiDg to a servant girl, he bade her
conduct bis ward to a room prepared for her,
promising to meet her in a few minutes at
dinner.
The merry Christmas days sped rapidly
away, aud both Clarence Kane and his beau
tiful ward became toasts in the ariatooratic
society of aristocratic Baltimore.
The best parti of the State, Mr. Kane was
haunted by mothers who had marriageable
daughters, dined by bashful papas, and on ac
count of his great popularity, wined at the
clubs by bis numerous friends, while tbe beau
tiful Juanita arose like a star above the hori
zon of the social circle, and at once a reign
ing belle.
Butatnid alt tbe admiration of the outer world
bestowed on them, both Clarence Eaue aud
Juniata were better content to enjoy the quiet
of the old homestead, and were happiest when
left to themselves.
And yet neither of them knew of the other’s
feeliDgs in this matter, but believed the regard
existing between them was such as was right
between guardian and ward.
The merry days were soon over, and once
again Juniata returned so her school duties,
but not for long; as, in the commencement of
summer, sho was to graduate and appear be
fore the world’s footlights as a young lady;
and with joy she'looked forward to the day
when again sho would be back at the old home
stead, which Claroncfcfound to be strangely
dark and dismal witlrout her foir presence.
But the mouths roiled away at last, and
once more Juniata gladdened the mansion with
her suuny smiles and silvery voice, to the joy
of her guardian and the delight of the ser
vants, for one and all of them loved her dearly.
A mouth after her return she was seated
one moonlight evening, enjoying from the open
window the scono of lawn, lake and forest
spread before her, when suddenly a quick step
was hoard, and Clarence Kane entered the
room, and approaching her, said softly :
‘ Juniata, I am glad I find you alone, for I
have something to tell you.'
Even in tbo moonlight the beautiful face
was seen to flush quickly and tbe dark eyes
were raised towards her guardian.
Pointing to a seat beside her Juniata made
no reply; and sitting down, Clarence Kano
said quietly :
‘ Juniata, to-day is the first time the thought
of losiDg you ever camerforcibly upon me—’
‘ What do you meanf Speak, I implore yout'
cried the impassioned girl, startled at his
words.
‘ Do not be alarmed, little girl; I meant to
say that Caspar Hastings and Colonel Hughes
have both asked mo to-day to allow them to
lay themselves, their hearts and fortunes at
your pretty feet;' and Clarence spoke play
fully.
* I love Deitber of them, and never shall.
Hence I will not marry the one or the other;
but what did you say T'
' 1 said I wonld speak to you on tbe subject.’
‘ Yon are willing to give me op, then I'
* Nevor!—no, I mean: but some day you
will love some mao, and be will take you from
mo.’
* No, no, no. I will not go away from you.
I will not love any one; I wish to be always
with yon.’
Clarence Kane sprang to his feet and rapidly
crossed tbe floor, aDd returning said quickly:
4 Juanita, would to Heaven I could keep you
ever with me! but first, ere I know my doom,
let roe tell yon of your past life.
' Listen ! You have believed yourself left
in my keeping by yoor parents, who, I told
you, died in a foreign land ; but to your life
bangs a story which you mutt know, for no
longer are you a child.
* You know my life has been one of adven-
turo, of wandering, and thus I will begin by
telling you that sixteen years agone I was
roaming iu Spain, and one night put np at an
inn by the roadside, where were stationed t
number of Spanish officers.
* Whilo enjoying my sapper in qnlet, a eon
versation occurred at the table near me, be
tween several Spanish officers, tbat was most
insulting to my own land, and every vile epi
thet was heaped upon America and Americans,
until unable to stand it longer, I rose to my
feet, and walking to the table, threw a glass
of wine into the face of a young man attired in
a captain's uniform, who had been particularly
insulting in all he bad said.
Instantly there was a commotion, and mak
ing known my nationality, tbe yoang mao de
manded tbat I should meet him in a duel, and
nothing loath, I accepted the challenge, and
promised to meet him tbe next day bnt one,
at a spot designated in the mountains, and
some twelve milee distant, tbe captain prom
ising to have a gentleman friend present who
would act as my second, for I was a stranger
in a strange land, and knew not on whom to
call; bnt do not be impatient, Juanita, for all
this bears npon your life.'
* To be in time, I procured a guide the next
afternoon, and thoroughly armed and mount
ed, we started for the rendezvous; bnt a ter
rific storm set in, and we lost our way; dark
ness came on, and after wandering for hoars
a friendly light caught our eyes, and eagerly
we songbt it, and found a email farm-house,
from tbe inmates of which we received a warm
welcome.
* I liked not the appearance of tbe place, and
neither did my guide, for we felt assured tbat
there bad been some half a dozen mon in the
house when we called at the gate, for distinct
ly bod we heard load voices, and yet only an
old man bad greeted us.
* Bat a good supper wa3 given us. My
guide looked aftor tbe horses and was assigned
a place In the barn to sleep, while I was sho w a
op stairs to a small room, possessing but a
single door and window, besides the trap by
wbiob I bad entered the chamber.
* Dressed as I was, I threw myself upon the
low bed, bat not to sleep; for strange thoughts
came over me, and soon I heard the ham of
voices, and through a crack in the floor dis
covered in tbe room below a half dozen fierce-
looking men, in earnest conversation.
I At once I know all—I was in the bouse ef
a band of robbers, and well I knew my fate.
4 While I looked, the men started forth, and
I distinctly beard the words, * We’ll finish the
guide injthe stable.’
‘ Rising to my feet, I softly felt aronnd the
roots until I found the door I had observed,
and after a few efforts it opened, and I dis
covered that it led down a narrow passage
way, which following some distance, I came
upon a window opening out upon a shed, which
slanted off toward the ground at the back
the bouse.
* Here was a chance to escape, but unwil
ling to leave my guide in danger, without somo
effort to save him, I lit a match aDd glanced
around me, and to the right discovered a door,
which I judged led Into a room which com
manded a full view of the stable yard.
* Tbe latch raised easily and I entered, and
lighting another match, what was my horror
to discover the forms of three men lying upon
the floor; but believing them to be asleep, I
was about to withdraw when a voice said
quickly,
* * Great heavens, you here.'
* Instantly, I turned the blaze upon the
speaker, and with amazement discovered one
of the young officers I met at the inn, bound
band and foot, while by his side lay two oth
ers, the one I was to meet tbe next morning
in mortal combat, and he tbat was to be my
second.
But do need had I to dread that merrow’s
meeting, for both my enemy and the one tbat
was to have acted as my friend were dead."
* Dead t'
‘ Yes, Juanita, they bad been cruelly put to
death by tbe very baDd that was soon to seek
my life, for like my guide and myself, the other
party bad become lost in the storm and hap
pened on tbe same hense,
* This was quickiy told me by the yoang of
ficer, whose life the bandits bad spared, to
tortnre from him on the morrow a confession
as to when a richly laded commissary train
was to cross tbe mountains.
‘ Instantly I severed the bonds of the young
ofHcer, and rising to his feet be took tbe pistol
I offered him, and together we were consulting
our future movement to save the poor guide
when from the stable yard came a loud cry for
mercy, a few shots, aDd a groan of agony, and
poor Pepe, we knew had been cruelly murder
ed.
* * Let us away from here, or our fate will be
the same as his; see there are a dozen of
them," cried the Spaniard.
‘ And leading tbe way, I dashed through
the window, just as a cry arose amoDg tbe
bandits to seek me.
Out upon the roof, off upon the ground, we
hastily scrambled, and at foil speed rushed on
in the darkness, mile after mile, nntil my poor
companion was broken down and could go no
further; but then daylight broke, and I dis
covered a small cot near by, and arousing the
inmates we asked for shelter which was cheer
fully given, although death there met our gaze ;
for upon a snow white bed lay a young lady
who had been thrown from her horse the eve
ning before and killed.
‘ One glance and my companion tecognized
her. She was tbe wife of the young officer
with whom I was to engage in a duel.
‘ Her story bad been told to the inmates of
the cottage era she died, which was, tbat her
husband had gone to fight a duel, and she
was basteniBg after him to prevent it, accom
panied only by a guide, when her horse had
fallen and crashed her beneath bis weight.
‘ Juanita, never did I suffer as then, and to
atone for my having been tbe cause of all this
misery, I had the body of tbe woman borne
back to her home, and from there buried in
state, beside the grave of her beloved husband,
for the following day the yoang officer bad
taken with him a number of soldiers and gone
to the house of the bandits, and tbongh he had
found the place deserted, except by the dead,
be bad brought back with him tbe dead corp
ses of bis friends and my unfortunate guide.
‘ And, Jnanita, to atone yet more for my sin,
I took to my heart the baby child—a little
girl of one year—of the dead parents, and
bringing her with me to America, reared her
i my ward”—
* And I am she tbat was that little orphan
girl f" asked Juanita in a low whisper.
' Yes, Juanita, and each year as you have
grown to womanhood, tbe tendrils of my heart
have grown more closely around you, nntil
now, my fntnra, withoutyonr love most boa
dreary blank; bnt yet I fear it mast be so, for
now that yon know the story of your life, I feel
tbat yon will"—
' Love yon ten fold more, my dear, noble
guardian, and never, never leave yon 1" And
with the passionate vehemence of her nature,
Juanita sprang forward, and clang closely
aronnd the nook of the man who bad so well
endeavored to atone for the past.
' Yon will be my wife, then, Juanita V asked
Clarence, after a pause.
‘ Yes. Never have I known other love than
tbat I have (att for yon; and mingled with it
has been that I wonld hold for mother, father
brother, all. My poor, poor paraats, sleeping
in far-away Spain, I know, I feel that yon
would not blame your daughter, and I pray
tbat from Heaven you look down in kindness
and give ns your blessing, as I hope God will
bless ns, too.'
* Amen 1' said the stern and fervent voice of
Clarenoe Kane.
And one short month afterwards, all Balti
more heard with surprise tbat the handsome
guardian and beantifnl ward had been quietly
married, and had sped away to spend their
honeymoon in the romantic valleys of Spain.
EVENING.
One by one the roses falling.
Straw with withered leaves the way;
One by one tbe gleams of sunlight
Fade from oat the antamn day.
Hear by hoar the snn declinetb,
Day by day the sunlight dies—
Feebler grow the weary footsteps,
Dim with tears.the fading eyes.
Bnt still upward, upward, climbing
From the valley's smooth expanse;
Upward o’er the barren mountain—
Steady keep the upward glance.
All the blossoms left behind thee—
Nanght beyond me but the snow,
Falter not, still pressing-onward,
Cast no ling’ring look below.
In the valley lie tbe shadows,
But the peaks are bathed in light—
In the splendor of the sunset;
Blessed harbinger of night 1
Rest thee, rest thee, weary pilgrim,
From tbe danger of the way—
For behold tbe night is comlDg,
And beyond the night the day.
THE HAMMOND CASE—Particulars of the
Great St. Lonis Law Suit.
[Macon Telegraph and Meiaecger.]
We published yesterday an extract from a
St. Louis paper containing a decision ie the
Circuit Court in the great case “ Hammond
heirs w. Lindell heirs," for the recovery of
property of immense value iu St. Louis. Mrs.
J. H. R. Washington, of this city, daughter
aud only surviving child of Hon. Samuel Ham
mond, is tbe principal party to this suit, aud
we learn that her counsel are confident of
gaining the property in tbe Supreme Court, to
which the case has been taken, the decision
of the Circuit Judge of tbe State Court having
been based solely on possession by the Lin-
dells, contrary to a United States statute ex
pressly provided for such cases, the property
sued for having originally been conveyed to
Col. Hammond by a United States land grant,
and never sold by him, Liodell’s only claim
to ownership being tbat after Hammond’s re
moval from the State he (Lindell) ran a fence
areund tbe land, and gave some unknown per
son five dollars for a quit-claim deed. As the
particulars of this suit may prove interesting
to our readers we publish the following state
ment obtained from a gentleman acquainted
with the facts:
On tbe acquisition of Louisiana from France
in 1805, Hon. Samuel Hammond, then a mem
ber of Congress from Georgia, and who served
with distinction as a Colonel of tbe Revolu
tionary army of 76, was appointed by Presi
dent Jefferson Civil and Military Command
ant of the District oLUpper Louisiana, includ
ing what is now the States of Missouri, Illi
nois aud Arkansas. Col. Hammond repaired
at once to St. Louis, then a mere village,
where be resided over twenty years, filling
various important offices, as Governor, Dele
gate to Congress, President of the Bank of St
Lonis, etc. Being a gentleman of large means,
and bis wife individually wealthy, they invest
ed largely in lands in St. Louis and through'
out other portions of tbe West, none of which
they ever sold. Mrs. Hammond died whilst
on a visit with her family to a relative near
Augusta, Ga.. and her htuband, on account of
his great age and feeble health, never retnrn
ed to the West, leaving his vast estates there
undisposed of.
Many years ago Colonel J. H. E Washing
ton, of this city, who married the daughter
of Governor HammoDd, wrote to several prom
inent gentlemen of St. Lonis with a view to
bringing suit for the recovery of this property,
hot the war coming on and cutting off all
communication between tbe States, caused the
matter to be dropped for the time. It has
since transpired tbat some of tbe parties with
whom he corresponded were themselves in
possession of the very property in question.
Since tbe close of tbe war, and the death of
her husband, Mrs. Washington has energeti
cally pushed the investigation and ascertain
ed tbat all this valuable property stands on
record in the name of her parents, and tbat
most of the parties in possession have no title
whatever. The brick house built by Gov.
Hammond, on the corner of Fourth and Spruce
streets, St. Louis, nearly seventy years ago, is
still standing in a good state of preservation,
and is to this day known as “ Governor Ham
mond’s Mansion.” Some few of the older
citizens of St. Lonis remember Governor Ham
mond and his accomplished wife, and delight
to speak of their house as tbe abode of ele
gance and refinement in the thei “ Far West.”
Mrs. Washington, when a little girl, came
from St. Lonis to Augnsta, Georgia, in a car
riage, being three months on the road. The
same distance can now be traveled over in
three days.
A Grasshoper Story.
The misfortunes of a Kansas Woman who put
a panful of ashes under the stove.
From the St. Lonis Globe.
A gentleman who has jnst returned from
Cherokee county, Kansas, is full with remark
able reminiscences of the grasshoppers infest
ing that vicinity. He will stand around for
an hour, relating the hair-breadth ’scapes of
the people whom the hoppers have complete
ly overran, and who are leaving their homes
and fleeing from the fearful scourge. The
traveller is inclined to think that many of the
crimes attributed to the James boys are to be
traced to the more hardened and dissolute
grasshoppers, many of whan? fee says,,are
arming with shot guns and organizing a sort
of home guard for offensive and defensive
purposes.
One of the most credible stories is to the
effect that, a few weeks ago, a woman dug up
a panful of dirt in which to plant some flower
seed. She pat the pan nuder the stove, and
went out to see a neighbor. Upon her re
tnrn, after an hour’s absence, she found sever
al thousand bushels of grasshoppers generat
ed by tbe heat, literally eating her out of
bouse and home. They first attacked the
green shades on the windows, and then a
green-painted dust pan. A green Irish ser
vant girl, asleep In one of tbe rooms, was the
next victim, and net a vestige of her was
left. The stove and stove-pipe followed, and
then the house was torn down so they could
get at the chimney.
Boards, joists, beams, plastering, clothing,
nails, hinges, doer-knobs, tin-ware, every
thing, in fact, the house contained, was eaten
up, and when she arrived within a mile of the
place, she saw two ef the larger hoppers sit
ting up on end playing mumblepeg with a
carving knife, for which should have the cel
lar.
Tbe way the matter leaked ont was on a
suit brought against the insurance company,
wbieh refused to pay the policy on the ground
that the building was not destroyed by fire ;
but the court rendered a verdict for the plain
tiff, as she bad proven that tbe grasshoppers
were generated by fire in tbe stove.
• My son,’ said a father to his little boy at
the breakfast table, * if you bad tbe choice to
be burned at the stake like John Rogers, or to
have your bead chopped off like King Charles
the 1st, which would you chooset’ ’John
Rogers,’ said the boy. • And why I* * Because,’
replied the boy, ' I should prefer a hot steak
to a cold chop.'
Miss Catharine Sedgewiek.
Miss Catharine Sedgewiek, a woman who
was an acknowledged leader in literature and
society, used to say of herself, " Cooking Is
the only accomplishment of which I am vain.”
A New England life, especially in the coun
try, makes a strong draft upon all the ex
ecutive faculties of man or woman, and Miss
Sedgewiek fully and cheerfully accepted all
its obligations. She could make cake as well
as bookB, and provide for all household exigen
cies as ^ingeniously as she could construct a
story." She was an enthusiastic gardener, not
merely confining her care to flowers, but tak
ing a practical interest in fruits and vegeta
bles, which she delighted to gather in early
morning with her own hands. Her biogra
pher speaks of Miss Sedgewick’s frequent
breakfast parties as among the most fascinat
ing banqnete in the memory of her guests
On such occasions she would be in her garden
by six o'clock to gather fruits aud flowers for
the table, and unconscious inspirations of
health and happiness for herself, of which she
dispensed the latter at least as liberally as the
more tangible harvests of her borders. Then,
after arranging the table, and paying a visit
to her tiny kitchen, where the more delicate
dishes received the touch of her own skillful
hands, she would make a rapid toilette, aad
appear uutired as the day, to greet her
guestswith that exquisite grace and sweet
ness, that genial warmth and welcome, which
made old and young, grave and gay, literary
celebrities, distinguished foreigners, fashiona
ble people from town, and plain country
friends, all feel a delightful ease in her pres
ence.
these shells have petrolled into iron, instead of
limestone or flint.
I found that about a foot beoeath the sur
face there was a regular and solid platform of
stone covering tbe entire top of the mound.
This platform, though constructed by rude and
uumecbanical bauds, is placed iu position with
precision and firmness tbat might well defy
the ravages of the elements in all opining ages.
About twelve feet from the northern edge of
the mound, and directly on a line with the ap
proach and stairway, I noticed a very peroep-
tible elevation of the earth, covering an area
of about twenty by fifty feet, and driving a
pick into the elevated ground, the point struck
upon a rock a few inches below the surface.
Knowing the rock struck was considerably
more elevated than the general level of the
layer of stone, I drove my pick into the eleva
tion in several other places, always finding
solid rock near the surface.
Determined to investigate further, I called
my assistants to my aid, and soon a considera
ble portion of a large flat rock was laid bare.
Pushing our work, we soon unearthed a piece
of workmanship tbat an antiquarian would
have worked a week to bring to light. The
newly discovered cariosity consisted of a flat
rock twelvo feet long, ten feet wide and eleven
inches thick. The centre of the stoDe was
hollowed to a depth of six inches, with a mar
gin of about one foot around the edge.
At the south end of the stone a round hole,
iDches deep and 4 in diameter, was drilled.
Among the dire taken out of this basic hewn
in the stone, was a large fossil tooth, and a
piece of a small broken bone column, aod sev
eral bits of pottery ware.
The mound presumptively belongs to tbe
pliocene period, contemporaneously with tbe
race of mound builders: while tbe mollnsks
and other petrefactions belong to the paleozoic
age and tbe lower Silurian period. There is
abundant evidence to show that at some re
mote period all this southwestern country was
submerged iu water.
In viewing the wonderful antediluvian relio
just described, the question arises. What was
the object of its construction f Was it intend
ed for a fortification, a place of abode, or could
it have been designed as a place of worship t
Though so much at variance with the popular
ideas of savaus, I am constrained, trom the
appointments of the mound, to hold to the lat
ter theory. That the largo stone reservoir on
the summit was fashioned for the purposo of
immolating victims at the shriuo of somo deity,
I think there can be no question. The ap
pearance of tbe surroundings and debris all
oonfirm that hypothesis. The remains of the
broken column found iu the hollow of the altar
stone was, iu all probability, a portion of a
torch-holder, made to fit in the hole drilled at
the bead of tbe sacrifice urn, while tho molar
would indicate the remnant of an immolated
victim,— Correspondence St. Louis Times.
Noble Words Bravely Spoken.
At a recent celebration of a rennion of tbe
10th Pennsylvania Regiment, at Doylestown,
Pa., their former commander, Gen. W. H. H.
Davis, in the coarse of bis address to them,
said:
1 Bnt while laying a tribute on tho graves
of onr dead, we can afford to drop a tear for
the dead of the other side. They were onr
countrymen, and we should feel proud of their
gallant deeds. Their courage and fortitude
developed the highest type of American char
acter, aad in all the best qualities of a soldier
the Confederate gray proved himself the peer
of the Uoion bine. Our hearts should swell
with charity towards them, when we remember
that but for the accident of success, Washington
and Jefferson would have no greater claim to the
name of the patriot than Lee or Stonewall Jack-
ton."
THE MAID AND THE MONGOLIAN.
A maid beard, “ Mongolians are meek,"
So she sailed off to China to seek
And find whether ehe *
Couldn’t marry a he
Tea-rooeter, or mandarin meek.
She fonnd a gay heathen—Fing Wi,
A chap who stood seven feet high,
Says she, “ Gracious ! what fun!
Oh ! you son of a sun
Of a gun, come aud marry sweet I.”
Something must bare bothered the sight
Of one eye, as he answered “ All right,
Muchee high old gallee !
Oh 1 Huukee Doreo !
Me no workee! you washee I all right!”
Then soft to herself said she, “Nay,
Civilization has traveled this way.”
So, taking her bat.
She got up and gat,
And is still going East, I dare say.
The Mound Builders.
Twelve miles north of this city, and two
miles east of the Bolivar road, is one of the
most wonderful artificial works whieh the dwel
lers of a remote antiquity have left for our con
jecture and investigation. This remarkable
cariosity consists of an immense mound, evi
dently a relic of the pre-hiatoric race of mound
builders, and its exaet location is in Township
31, Range 22, Greene connty.
Armed with the necessary implements for
excavating, and accompanied by a couple of
assistants, I struck ont for tbe scene of this
monad a few days ago, determined to spend
at least one day in exploring and investigating.
The mound is located on the higher point of
a bill, wbieh gradually rises to an elevation of
abont 300 feet above the level of the surround-
lag country, and is shaped similar to the base
of a cone severed from the apex. Tbe monnd
proper has a diameter of 131 feet across the
summit, with a circumference of base of 1500
feet. The perpeadieular altitude is 62 feet.
Encompassing the monnd on all sides, save
the causeway on the north, is a trench or ex
cavation abont two hundred feet wide, and
now about five feet deep, though it has appa
rently filled several feet in the ages that have
elapsed since its construction. From this ex
eavation was donbtless taken tbe earth used
in rearing the monnd. The approach or cause
way which leads across the trench from the
north is ten feet in width. Ascending from
this causeway to the summit of the monad, is
the remains of a rude flight of stairs, construct
ed originally of roughly hewn stones. Most of
these steps are now displaced, and quite
number have rolled down into the trench be
low, bnt there is unmistakable evidence that
they were at one time arranged in regular or
der of ascent, and could, doubtless, be again
replaced in position by an intelligent architect.
On all sides of the monnd, from base to
dome, large boulders crop ont. These stones
are evidently scattered through the body of
the monnd, and materially add to its solidity
and endurance. .
Wherever these rocks are exposed to the
elements, tbe surface presents a most remark
able appearance, and can only be compared to
worm-eaten hickory or asb, though the fissures
are much deeper aod the surface more rugged
The rock is of limestono formation, and is com
posed largely of the potrefactions of mol
lusks, ammonites, etc.
In the trench surrounding tho mound are
numberless petrefled mollnsks, of all conceiva
ble shapes. What is most singular, many o f
.This world woald be a sandy desert of
lonesomeness if women were not privileged to
attend auction sales and pay more for an old
bureau than a new chamber set would cost.
..Alittle girl, hearing her teacher spoken
of as a painstaking woman, remarked that the
sobolars were the ‘ paintakingeat,’ for they
were generally whipped ail aronnd every day.
An aristoeratio New Yorker, on being re
quested by a rich and vulgar young fellow for
permission to marry ’one of his girls,’ gave this
rather orashing reply: ’Certainly; which do
yon prefer, the housemaid or the cook T’
-An old lady, hearing some one reading
abont a Congressmen at large, rushed into the
kitchen door shooting, ‘Sarah Jane! don’t
yon leave the clothes ont all night, I te'J yon,
for there’s a Congressman at large.'
-Jones gave a lawyer a bill to be collected
to the amonnt of $30. Calling for it, after
awhile, he inquired if it had been collected.
Oh, yes,* said she lawyer, • I have it all for
you.’ 'Whatcharge for collectingf* ‘Oh,’
said tbe lawyer laughing, • I'm not going to
charge yon—why I have known you ever since
yon were a baby, and your father before you :
$20 will be about right,’ banding over $10.
Well,'said Jones, as he meditated upon tho
transaction, • its darned Incky he didn't know
my grandfather, or I shouldn’t have got any
thing t'
LAKAR CUBA. | A. S. ERWIN. | HOWELL COIB.JR.
POBB, ERWIN i COBB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Office in the Doupreo Bnllding. Deo>l
A A. EDGE,
. BOOT, SHOE AND HARNESS MAKER,
Watcinsvilln, Ga.
B P. WOFFORD, Attorney at law,
. HOMER, GA.
Will execute promptly all business entrusted to hie
care. Collecting claim! a specialty. ap!21tf
Olficeon Broad street,over the etore of Barry A Son,
iVill give special attention to cases in Bankruptcy. Al
so. to the collection of all elalms entrusted to his euro.
TT'MORY SPEER,
XU LAWYER, ATHENS, GA.
As Solicitor General of Western Circuit, will attend
the Court! of Clarke, Walton, Gwinnett, Hell, Benke,
Jackson, Habersham, Franklin, Rabun and White,
and give attention to oolleoting and other claim! in
those conntiee. March 10, 1873.
Love for Love.
Ragged, dirty, ugly. He bad fallen <n the
gutter ; bis bauds and face were black, bis
mouth wide and open, and sending forth
sounds not tbe most musical. A rough baud
lifted him up, and placed him against tbe
wall. There be stood, his tears making lit
tle gutters down his begrimed cheeks. Men,
as they passed, laughed at him, not caring
for a moment to stop and inquire if he was
really hurt. Boys halted a moment to jeer
aud load him with tboir insults. Poor boy !
he hadn't a friend in the world tbat he knew
of. Certainly, he did not deserve one, but,
if uoue but the deserving have friends, how
many would be friendless f
A lady is passing ; her kindness of heart
prompts her to stay aud say a kind word to
the boys who are joking their companion and
laughing at his sorrow. Then she looked fix
edly at the dirty, crouching lad against the
wall:
‘ Why, John, is it you !’
He moves one black fist from bis eye and
looks up. He recognizes her. She has taught
him at the ragged school.
* Ob, ma’am, I’m so bad.’
She has him examined aud then taken to
the hospital. Afterward she visits him
kindly aud frequently.
A year passes by.
There is a fire one night. A dwelling house
in flames. The engine has not yet arrived
The inmates can not be rescued. A boy looks
on. Suddenly he shouts :
* Oh, she lives here !’
Then be climbs up tbe heated falling stairs.
He fights against the suffocating smoke. He
hunts about till he finds what be sought.
She has fainted—is dying, perhaps. No
He will save her. Five minutes of agonizing
suspense, and she ia safe in the cool air.
Tbe bystanders are struck with tbe intro
pidity of the boy. He only walks away,
muttering:
* She didn't turn away from me when I was
hurt.’
Oh, friends, the stone looks very rough, but
it may be a diamond.—[Selected.
Wayside Gatherings.
Singular—to see a garden walk.
..The wandering heiress—the wind-lass.
. .What holds all the snuff lu the world 1 No
one nose.
.. What Is it tbat a poor man has and a rich
man wants f Nothing.
..Certain people are more confident than
ever since the recent whiskey trouble, tbat
Grant is playing seiter-ism. _
..We think it no more than right tbat men
should seize time by the forelock, for tho rude
old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair
out.
..A Cincinnati paper says that recently in
that city five women spent two long hours in
making a selection of one simple little straw
hat.
- - A fellow who was np in a police oourt re
cently gave his occupation as that of a ‘ con-
chologist,’ and explained by saying be opened
clams at market.
..A Covington man died and they put him
on ice, but be awoke in tho night and yelled
out: * Why don’t you put some more wood iu
that stove!’
This is net gain,’ said a witty Worcester
girl who found a valuable silk hair net hang
ing to tho fringe of her shawl upon her roturn
home from an evening lecture.
BANKRUPTCY.—-Samuel P. Thurmond,
- -J Attorney-at-Law, Athens, G
TYRS. BRAWNER & YOUNG,
±J CARNESYILLB, GA.
Having associated in the praetiee of Medicine and
Surgery, tender their professional cervices to their
friends and the public generally. Office nearly
pposite the court honse.ep!21—tf
XpDWARD R. HARDEN,
JJj (Late Judge U. S. Courts Nebraska end Utah,
andwow Judge of Brooks County Court)
Attorney at Law,
july23 ly Quitman, Brooke County, Ga.
I0HN B. ESTES. MADISON NELL.
TASTES tc BELL, Attorneys at Law, *
Alt GAINESVILLE, GA.
^aW-WILL praotioo in tho oonnties composing tho
Western Circuit, and Dawson and Forsyth counties
of the Bine Ridge Circuit. They will also praottco in
tho Supremo Conrtof Georgia, and in the United States
Court at Atlanta. may!4
TpLOYD k SILMAN,
-L 1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Will praotioo in the oonnties of Walton and Jaokson,
OHN i. FLOTD, J. B. SILMAN.
Covington, Gn. mar4 Jefferson, Ga.
J F. O’KELLEY’S
. Photograph gallery.
Over Williams’ Shoe store, Broad itreet, Athens,
Georgia. »ep3.
T H. HUGGINS,
•J • holesaie aod Retell Dealer in
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac.
FebU Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
TOHN H. CHRISTY,
O Plain and Fanoy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER,
Broad St., Athens, Ga.
Offiee corner Broad and Wall streets, over tho stora
fames D. Pittard. tf
TAMES R. LYLE,
’A Attorney at Law,
WA TKINSVILIE, GA.
Doctl
JOHN M.
MATTHEWS.
Attorney at Law,
Daniolsviile,Ga.
Prompt Attention will be given to any business en-
usted to his oare. Marchl4.
TAMES L. LONG, M. D.
U SURGEON, ACCOUCHEUR A PHYSICIAN,
( Office at Mr. Thomas Sheats’ Store,)
Good Hope District, Walton eonnty, Ga.
Offars hie professional aarviees to the eitisene of the
surrounding oonntry. aug27
K ELIAS, Attorney at Law,
. FRANKLIN, N. C.
Praotices in all the Courts of Western North Caro
lina, and in the Federal Courts. Claims collected in
ail parts of the State. aplS—ly
T IVERY, Feed and Sale Stable,
JLi ATHENS, GA.
GANN A HE A. VE8, Eroprietorv.
^3B»Will be fonnd at their old stand, rear Frank
lin Honse bnllding, Thornes street. Keep always
on hand good Tnrn-outs and earefnl driven.
Stock weL eared for when entrusted to onr care.
Stock on band for saia at ail timas. deo25—tt
M W. RIDEN,
. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
U. S. Claim Agent and Notary Pnblle,
Gainesville, Ga.
ftW- Offiee on Wileon street, below King A Bro’s.
February 19,1873.
N. r. NOWELL.
C. PBNPLM1.
TDEEPLES k HOWELL,
X ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
20 and 22, KithbaU House, Atlanta, Oa.‘
P RACTICE in tbe State and Federal Courts, and
attend regularly all tbeConrte in Atlanta, includ
ing the Snpreme Court of the State, and will argna
eases upon briefs for absent parties, on reasonable
terms.
They also praotioe in tho Conrts of tho oonnties con
tiguous or accessible to Atlanta by Railroad, sopll
R B. ADAIR, D, D. S.
• Gainesville, Ga.
Offloo, southeast corner Public Square.
R S. ADAMS, M. D.,
. Gudgeon, Accoucheur and Physician.
Offiee at residence, Mountain District, Walton coun
ty, Georgia—offers his professional services to the
oitisene of the surrounding country. aug28—ly
S C. DOBBS,
» Wholesale gad Retail Dealer in
Staple and Fanoy DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Ae.
Feb9 No. 12 Broad Street, Athene, Ga.
SPOOL SILK!
G ET THE BEST and CHEAPEST! Get that man
ufactured by the SingerManufaeturing Company,
which is specially adapted for use on all kinds of Sew
ing Machines.
For sale, wholesale and retail, by the SINGER
MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
julyl—ly G. H. HOPE, Agent, Alhons, Ga.
P. G. THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATHENS, GA.
O FFICE over Barry's store. Special uttention gi
to criminal practice. For reference, applj »
Got. Thomas II. Watts and Hon. David Clop
goiuery, Alabama.