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Augusta business €ards. SCHNEIDER, DEALER IN WINES, LIQUORS AND CICARS AUGUSTA, GA. Agent (or Fr. Schleifer ft Co.’s San Francisco CALIFORNIA. BRANDY. HUQOIH ELIEQUBTT EHAMPAGNB. E. R. SCHNEIDER, Augusta, Georgia. E. H. ROGERS, Importer and dealer in RIFLES, GUNS PISTOLS And Pocket Cutlery, Amm. tuition of all Kinds, 245 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. REPAIRING EXECUTED PROMPTLY W.H. HOWARD C. H. HOWARD. W. H. HOWARD, JR. W. H. HOWARD & SONS, COTTON FACTORS AND mil MMTS COR. BAY AND JACKSON STS., AUGUSTA, GA. Commissions for Selling Cotton $1 Per Bale. Bagginy and Ties Furnished. ORDERS TO SELL OR HOLD COTTON STRICTLY OBEYED. Particular attention given to Weighing Cotton. (glkftcm §usiuw Cavils. LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. j. F. C'ARIil A<iE A UFACT' R ELBERTON, GEORGIA. BEST WORKMEN! BEST WORK! LOWEST PRICES! Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to SIBO Common Buggies - SIOO. REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING Work done in this line in the very best style. The Best Harness My 22-1 v T‘ M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD SWIFT & ARNOLD, (Successors to T. M. Swift,) dealkrs in DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY, BOOTS AND SHOES, HARDWARE, &c., Public Square, ELBERTON CSA. H. K. CAIRDNER, ELBERTON, GA„ DEALER IN IITIHK ttOCIHIB. HARDWARE, CROCKERY, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &o ELBERTON FEMALE (Megiatejnstitwte rpHE exercises of this institute will be resum- JL ed on Monday, August 18th, 1873. ggyFal! term, four months. Tuition, $2.50, $3.50, and $5 per month, according to class— payable half in advance Mrs. Hkstbr will continue in charge of the Musical Department. Board in the best families can be obtained at from $lO to sls-per month. For further information address the Principal, H. P. SIMS. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AT LAW ELBERTON, LA. Will give undivided attention to law cases. ANDREW MALE HIGH SCHOOL ELBERTON. GA. P. E DAVANT, AM., - - Principal. GEO. Q. QU/LLIAN, - - Assistant Fall term commences Monday, Aug. 19, 1872. rpHB course of instruction in this institution X is thorough and by the analytic system. The pupils are taught to think and reason for themselves. Boys will be thoroughly prepared for any class in college. Those desiring aspeedy preparation for business can take a shorter course in Analytic Arithmetic, Surveying, Book keeping, &c. The discipline of thp school will be firm and inflexible. An effort will be madein all cases to control students by appealing to their sense of duty and honor, but at all events the discip line will be maintained. Rates of Tuition: Ist class, $2.50 permonth ; 2d class, $3.50; 3d class, ss—one-half in ad vance. Board in good families $lO per month THE GAZETTE. Series. A WHITE LIE. And What Game Of It. There are different colors and de grees of falsehood, just as there are dif ferent colors and degrees of other sins. There is, blackest of all, the malevolent hypocrite and slanderer, who can twist truth into falsehood, and falsehood into seeming truth. And there is that down right Liar, who falsifies on purpose to deceive. There is another downright Liar not quite so bad—he falsifies from the marvellous, and a burning desire to appear what he is not. Some people lie because it is their disposition to deceive. Others lie because they lack the courage to tell the truth. And, there are other lies—sometimes called White Lies— which are mere lies of convenience. In their utterance there is no evil intent.— They are told just as a man whisks an impediment from his path with his walk ing stick. They are told to save trouble of explanation; or, perhaps, to avoid reprimand. At first a lie of this kind may not seem a very sinful thing ; but, unfortunately for the misguided mortal who entertains the petty sin, it is one that does not improve upon acquain tance. Like many other evils which might be mentioned, it is likely to grow to alarming proportions and consequen ces. There is one safe ground—and on ly one: Truth—Absolute Truth—un der every circumstance and on all occa- Bions. Sarah Powers believed herself to be a truthful girl. She had not the disposi tion to wittingly deceive. Had it been plainly intimated to her that she was a Liar she would have been shocked beyond measure ; and yet her rule of life in this respect was not pure and unswerv ing, as we shall see. “Sarah,” said Mrs. Powers, coming into the room, one winter morning, where her daughter sat, “did you see anything of a twenty-dollar bill on the mantle-shelf last evening ?’’ Her voice and manner showed that she was un pleasantly exercised. “A S2O bill?” repeated Sarah, with open eyes. “No!” “You didn’t see anything that looked like one?” “Like a twenty-dollar bill? Certainly not.” “I certainly left it in the sitting-room on the shelf; and I know that I set the large glass lamp down on it, so that it should not blow away. I forgot all about it until this morning. O, I must not loose it.” “But, mother, S2O is not such a large sum.” “Ordinarily, no, my child; but just now it is considerable. Your father’s accounts do not balance so favorably this season as he had anticipated. In fact, Sarah, he cannot possibly spare me i any more if he is to meet his bank-pa per. Where can that bill have gone to? And I promised Mrs. Judkins $lO to-day. Do you think it could have got knocked j off and blown away?” We may as well remark here, that Sa rah had been lying. The facts were sim ply these: On the previous evening Robert Yea- i zie had called to visit Sarah. Sarah re-! membered that she and Robert had sat ! together upon the sofa and looked over j an illustrated magazine. While thus! occupied it had occured to her that they could see better if the large lamp, which stood in the middle of the shelf, was moved out to the end; and she arose to do it. Upon lifting the lamp she saw a piece of paper whirl out and circle down until it was drawn into the fire of the grate beneath. “What was that?” asked Robert who had seen the paper. “I kon’t know, I’m sure. It’s burned up, whatever it was," answered Sarah.— She saw the charred, tinder-like frag ments whisked up by the draft, and then she added, —“I guess it was nothing of importance, or would not have been on the mantel.’’ Now Sarah remembered all this very well; and, in truth, the question of her mother had startled her; but she had not seen a S2O bill. We can imagine the amount of mental reservation em ployed in this decision. Her first im pulse was to avoid a disagreeable expos ure. If the bank-nrte had been destroyed as she now saw it had, it was through no fault of hers, and, moreover, the loss could not be helped. Upon reflection, when Sarah saw how much trouble was upon her mother, she ■ was sorry' she had not confessed the ELBERTOK, GEORGIA. NOVEMBER 19, 1873. whole truth at once. But it was top late now. She had taken the first false step, and she could not retract without ft dis agreeable exposure. “Who could have knocked it off?’*; she said, in answer to her mother’iftast question ; “I certainly saw nothingfof a bank-note.” Mrs. Powers searched in vain, and at noon she told her husband of the loss ; and then they both searched, and Sir. Powers questioned his daughter—not thinking that she had deceivedJfbut in hopes that some forgotten incident might occur to her. But Sarah dared not confess now. She lacked the cour age ; and she lacked the courage because she was yet to realize how very small evils can grow to enormous consequen ces. Mr. Powers returned to his store in a thoughtful mood. He knew that his wife must have left the bank note under the lamp upon that shelf, and that it had been there on the previous evening.— She was not a woman liable to make a mistake in memory of such a matter.— The only other person who had been in the sitting-room from that time beside his daughter was Robert Yeazie. Per haps Robert might have seen the note. On arriving at the store he call his clerk and said: “Robert, did you see anything of a §2O bill on the mantel in my sitting room, last evening ?” “No, sir.” “You saw nothing that looked like one ?” “I—l saw nothing, sir.” ■ Mr Powers was not at all satisfied with this answer ; but he wouldn’t press the matter then. He dismissed his clerk, and sat down and reflected. And his in flections were not pleasant That very evening Mr. Powers called upon Mr. Selvidge, the tailor, to collect a bill for cloth. The tailor, was fortu nately, in funds, and he paid the bill.— With the money he handed out was a §2O bill, of the Blackstone Natiowjl Bank, new and crisp. It was such a bill as Mr. Powers had given to his wife. We will state that Robert was clerk ing for Powers & Dunbar, and was Sa rah’s lover. Mr. Powers asked Selvidge where he got it. “Robert Veazie paid it to me this forenoon.” “For what?” “For anew coat.” Mr. Powers went home, and showed the bill to his wife. She declared in a moment, that it was the bill she had lost. The merchant asked her could she be silent and discreet for a time. And when she told him that she could, he told her how the bill had come into his posses sion. They both were greatly shocked. — They had not believed such a thing pos sible. If Robert could be a thief, who could they trust ? On the following day Mr. Powers called Robert in the counting-room, and bade him close the door behind him.— There was that in his.employer’s look and tone that made the youth trem ble. Mr. Powers showed him the new, crisp bank note, and asked him where he got it. “Is that the bill I gave to Mr. Selv idge ?” “It is.” Robert did not answer readily. He stopped to think, and when he did not answer his employer’s searching gaze oppressed him. “Mr. Powers, I saw that bank-note in ; the drawer with another just like it. 11 happened to have S2O of my own in i small bills in my pocket, and I made the j exchange, taking the crisp, new bill, and putting in its place my worn ones. Be- j fore the money was deposited, I think you took the other one.” “I did take a bank-note exactly like this—the only one I saw with our money that day, and I gave it to my wife. She placed it beneath the large lamp on the mantel in our sitting-room. She did this just before sitting down to tea, and forgot all about it until the following morning, and then it was gone. On that evening only you and Sarah were in the room, Sarah did not see it. Now what am I to think !” “Are you sure that Sarah knows noth ing ?” ssked Robert, eagerly and excited ly- “She declares that she knows nothing at all about it! I trust that you would not have me believe that my daughter could— ’’ “No! no! oh no !" broke in Robert, quickly. Then he gasped and trem bled. “What more have you to say, Rob ert?” “Nothing, sir.” “Nothing?” “Nothing!” “You can leave me.” And the young m. Ji went out pale, bowed, and sti ick_n. The merchant saw, and was sorry. It was a grief to him deep and heartfelt. L..ier in the day he went out and told Robert he might go home. “I will send for you when I want you.” “Mr. Powers!—” “What would you say, Robert ?” asked he. “ Nothin g!” “Then you may go. I will send for you when I am willing to see you again.” And Robert Veazie went out from the store; but he dared not go home then to his widowed mother. The fear that came crushing upon him was for Sarah. Did she love him so little that she could sec! him thus suffer and be silent ? W T as it possible that— But he dared not think. He must wait until these first emotions were passed. That evening Mr. Powers and liis wife talked the matter over; and it was de cided that Robert Yeazie should be da nied the house, and, of course, that he must be discharged from the store.— They would not expose this his first known ciime; but it was certain they could giue him tlieir confidence never again. And they must inform Sarah. That was the hardest part of all. They sent for her to come to them. They would have it done at once. She came in and sat down. , 3§he '‘Lisped her hands, and gasped for breath What did her father want with her? He told her the story, directly and clearly, of his discovery of Robert’s guilt; and he told how broken and penitent the young man had appeared. This latter he added by way of showing that the crime was acknowledged. Pale as death, and with eyes fixed, she asked if Robert had mentioned her name. “He only asked me,” said her father, “if I had spoken with you,—if you could not throw some light upon the missing money. I answered him promptly, that you knew nothing whatever of the twen ty-doliar bill. His guilt was very appar ent from that moment. His shame and remorse—” “Oh! father! father ! moaned Sarah, “have mercy—have pity—upon your daughter!” “My child!” “No, no, —lift me not up. Let me tell it all with my head here in your lap. O! lam a miserable, wicked girl! I did it all!—Robert has suffered rather than be tray me.” And when she could control her speech she told the story of the binning paper; and then she tried to tell how she had been led to falsify and prevari cate. That was not a time for chiding.— Poor Sarah was like one whose heart was breaking. She had come to think now of Robert. He would despise her after this! Mr. Powers looked at his w-atch. Presently be whispered something to his wife, and then arose and left the room; and very shortly afterwards he left the house. In about half an hour he returned home. “Sarah,” he said, to his daughter, who sat w ith her head upon her moth er’s shoulder. “Robert is in the parlor. Go in and see him.” There was a fearful struggle, but the better genius conquered, and Sarah went to her injured lover. By and by both Sarah and Robert came into the drawing room. They had een weeping freely, but they seemed very happy, nevertheless. Sarah came and kneeled at her parent’s feet, and said: “Father—mother—-will you pardon and forgive as Robert has done.” “Yes, —yes, my child.” j “Then I will try to deserve your con Vol. 11-No. 30. fidence henceforth. O, Ido want to be happv once more, and never, never, —" Robert caught her to his bosom and held her there ; and her father came and rested his hand upon her head. “I know it is a bitter lesson, dear child; but I believe a blessing will follow it. It is possible that from this time you may be happier than you have ever been.” CURRENT NOTES. —The Courier Journal says that when Cincinnati whiskey fails to kill a man, there is nothing else that can, and he would just as soon jump from a nineteen story house into a pile of pig metal as to come down on an elevator. —Some of our statesmen think that if anything can save France as a Republic, it will be the circulation there of Ameri can newspapers. If some statements we hear are true some of the publishers who send there would find it difficult to tell the difference between a republic and a well-developed whale. —Magistrate—You may have been in toxicated; but the officer testifies that you were not so tipsy as not to know what you were about. Prisoner—Oh, if I had known that was an objection, I could easily have taken another chink or two. —The Gullet gin took the prize at the Macon fail - , and now comes Mr. Sawyer, who missed the prize by the “skin of his teeth,” and says Die Gullet man won by tarring his pulley. He can’t poke that down our gullet. —A. T. Stewart on the panic: “We don’t owe anybody anything. That’s more than most others can say. We’ve plenty of money. This panic does not affect my business; on the contrary, I make money after every panic. In 1837 I coined money; in 1857 I made mints of money, and now I am making a cent or two.” —A western paper says, on the best authority, tnat, at a very early stage in the next session of Congress, a Connec ticut Senator will introduce a bill to wind up the national banks, redeem their currency and issue greenbacks instead. —Mrs. Mary Custis Lee, widow of Gen. R. E. Lee, died at Lexington, Va., on the sth. She was laid beside the remains of the dead hero in Memorial Chapel, Lexington. —“You don't do that again," said the pig to th e boy who cut his tail off. —Ann Ward, colored, Dixon Springs, Tennessee. Staiting fire with kerosene. No caniages. —The old fashion of wearing beads around the neck lias been revived. Jet beads are used instead of the large rub bar ones as heretofore. Four times around the neck is the correct thing just now. —Elijah C. Hunt, who has been on trial in Brooklyn, N. Y., for acting as a decoy in obtaining possession of girls for vile purposes, has been released on condition that he leave Brooklyn and never return. We suppose he is at lib erty to practice his miserable profession anywere else he pleases. —A witty scientist once silenced a London fishwoman, w ho was pouring out at him a flood of vile talk, by hurling at her, in emphatic tones, the language of palaeontology, thus: “You ichtyosaurus, you pterodactyl, I’ll feed you on cephal opoda, and saurians shall consume your parietals. ’ In blank silence the woman stared at her enemy, and did not utter a word in reply. —“ That’s unjust,” exclaimed a travel er, w T hen informed by the conductor of a railroad train that the price of passage had been recently doubled. “True,” re plied the conductor, as he took the pas- ! eenger’s cash; “it is hard, but then it’s FABE.” —ln some of the western granges, it is said, the members are pledged never j to go to law with each other, but to set tie all their disputes by arbitration. That is a good idea. —A Chinaman came down one of the main streets of Millerton, Cal., on elec-: tion day, in a state of exaltation, and thus delivered himself: “Hoop-la! me all same Melican man. Hair cut short and drunk like h—lL Hoop-la!” —Catoosa county has produced Willie Jackson, who is just six years old and weighs one hundred and ten pounds. He has six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, and the showman says he can easily run him up to 160 pounds if he’d only give him as much as he want ed to eat. He ~vas on exhibition in At lanta a short time since. —Hon. Jamas B. Beck favors the re peal of the late salary law, with a provis ion directing the excess of the present compensation over the former pay re ceived by any member since the 4th of March last to be deducted from any fu ture payment to be made to such mem ber, and this repeal to be made applica ble to all persons, including the Presi dent, who were benefitted by the salary act —A son of Erin once accosted a rev erend disciple of Swedenbourg thus i “ Mr. , you say that we are to fol low the same business in heaven that we do in this world ?” “ Yus, that is in per fect accordance with reason; for the Cre ator himself is not idle, and why should his creatures be?” “Well, thin, your honor, do paple die there?” “Certainly not; they are as immortal as the Creator himself.” “Thin I should like to know, your honor, what they’ll find for me to do, for I’m a grave-digger in this world." —A watering-place correspondent sa; ■ that very few’bathers bathed at the West End,” whereupon Mrs. Partington says she “ had an idea that they bathed all over.” -A Micliigon farmer has 'written to Mr. Berg to know if folding doors in hog pens will be in fashion this winter. —Gen. W. J. Hardee, another Confed erate hero, died at Wytheville, Va., on the 6th. —The Supreme Court has before it a case of the heirs of John Slidell, which involves property to the amuuntof about half a million dollars, comprising valua ble real estate in the city of New Oi leans, confiscated by the government du ring the war. —Gin-house of Dr. Irving, in Baldwin, and seven bales of cotton, burned. —Jas. Reynolds, Macon county, gin house and eight bales burned. —The number of gin-houses burned since the 30tli of September will aver age nearly one a day. —The Virginius, engaged in shipping supplies to the Cuban patriots, was cap tured recently, and several of the officers, including the notorious General Ryaj > court-martialed and shot by the Span iards. —“You’ve been swimming,” said a fa ther to his son.” “I hain’t.” “You have ; your shirt’s on t’other side out.” “Pshawj! that shirt got turned wrong side out get ting over the fence.” Among sundry “Maxims of Garrison Life,” in a volume now in press, which is designed especially for soldiers, we observe many points worthy of atten tion from every one, in whatever po sition he may be placed. For exam ple : Be sure not to overrate your abilities, but remember that your superior may at any time stand at your elbow. Do not distrust others without a most just reason. If you are married, respect no one so cially who has not been duly courteous to your family. Be decided, kind, and polite in all your official private relations. Live within your income, and be just in all your dealings. Be faithful to your friends, and cau tious with your enemies. Never allow yourself to go in <h) bad habit of grumbling or fault finding, but be pleasant, agreeable, and cheemd in all your duties. Be careful, active, vigilant, and consid erate in the execution of all your duties; and above all be just to your inferi ors. If all persons, follow these “maxims, ’ the troubles of life would grow beauti fully less. A FRENCH WOMAN’S OPINION OF NEW YORK. A young French lady, just arrived from Paris, seeing “Cafe Francaise” on the windows of a small dining room in Sixth avenue, New York, entered. On her arm she carried a rich and expensive shawl, and in her hand a valuable silver handled silk umbrella. As she was unable to reach the hook on the wall, a well dress ed gentleman approached her, and po litely bowing said, “Shall I take them from you'?” Mademoisell blushingly said “Yes,” and the waiter approaching at the time she became engi-oseed in the bill of fare. On finishining her lunch she asked the waiter for her shawl and umbrella. They could not be found. Mademoiselle, pale with excitement, tearfully exclaimed— “On de virst day I coom to America, de deeves took my portemonnaie. On de second my shawl and parapluie. Mon dieu! mon dieu! de Americans are big I deeves. I sail go naked unless I go back to Paris." Gen. Hooker, in the late re-union of the Army of the |Cumberland, paid the following handsome tribute to the Confederates: “ Search the world over and you will never find the like of them. I have had an opportunity of seeing some of the ar mies of Europe since then—the French, Prussian and Austrian—and I tell you it , will be down hill work to fight them com -1 pared with our late foes. ”