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MILLED SEVILLE, GEORGIA, MAT 2 8, 1873.
NUMBER 44.
THE
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licv 1> E BUTLER, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
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Rev H E LUCAS, Pastor.
Lodges.
TEMPERANCE,
yiilledgcvillr Council No. I, meets in the Sen-
ole ('(minbt-r at ihe State House on every Friday
ig at 7 o'clock. C P CRAWFORD, W P.
E P Ease, Sec'y.
MASONIC.
Benevolent Lodge Xo 3 FA M, meets 1st and
i Saturdav nights ot each month at Masonic Halt.
(i 1) Case, Sec’y. IRBY H HOWARD, W M
Teuiplc I'llnpier meets the second and fourth
Saturday nights in Cacti mouth,
li 1) Case, S- c’y. S G WHITE, H P
A.-, &
illcilgevillc l.oilgr of Perfection
A. S.. R.. meets tvep' Monday night.
SAM’L G \Y HITE. T P G M
GD Case, Exc Grand Sec’y.
TO THE WEST! TO THE WEST!
arrangements to follow th
J ready gone,” it would be
to make the journey to y
and as free from danger
advice of the
ell to eonsid-
ir “Homes in
s human skill
and construction a road has been put into
ortest possible line from Nashville, Tenn.,
Iture great City of the world.” This line,
St. Louis <k. Southeastern Railway,
Hhe past year, earned an enviable reputation by its
. prompt time, sure connections, and the m&gnifi-
pastspvger equipment. Its trains urt* made up of
.:iio<ii<*us day i ars, provided with the celebrated
r and platform, and the SN'cstiugiiouse air-brake.
y th** only line running Pullman Palace Drawiug-
Lg Cars througli without change from Nashville to
No other line pretends to offer such advantages,
uuu , time, or equipment. W hy, then, journey by
Do uot l*e induced to purchase tickets to St.
st by any other line, remembering that
“mu. Louis A* .•4oull*€*»»ifer*i”
« heapeft. quickest, best and only line under one
>m Nashville to St. Louis, aud is from 60 to 200
*t to St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver,
and all western points. It i» also the “Cbica-
ur the \\>
The 4
:ure the
applies
Ev
•llle.
i cape at rates fo
■ yourselves and your
by letter, to Charles
ir College street Depot.
•N'*> to hu
May 1, 1373.
•r Agent, n<
• to the undersigned,
W. B. DAVENPORT.
(i«*neral Ticket Agent St. Louis.
Beyond the IVIississippi!
Thousand# have already gone, and thousands more
are turning their eyes towards new homes ia the fur-
•• West. To those going to Missouri, Kansas, Nebras
ka.Coloi ado, Utah, Wyoming,Nevada,Oregon orCali-
torma, we recommend a cheap, sate, quick and direct
route, via St Louis, over the Missouri Pacific Rail
road. which runs its fiue Day Coaches and Pullman
Sleepers from St. Louis to principal points in the West,
rithovi change- We believe that the Missouri Pa-
* tic Railroad has the best track and the finest and
safest equipment of auy line west of the Mississippi,
and its connections with loads further West are prompt
and reliable. The Texas connection of this road is
now completed, and pu*-enge*s are offered a first claw
nil-rail route from St Lotus to Texas, either over the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas K. R,,r*Vz Scduha. or over
the Atlantic & Pacific tt. R., via Vinita. For maps,
time table, information a3 to rates, routes, &c., we re-
ter our readers to J. F, Thompson, Southern Passen-
K'*r Agent, Cattauooga, Tenn., or F. A. Ford, General
Passeuger Agent, St. Louis, Mo- Questions will be
eheeifmly and promptly answered.
The following letter addressed to
Mr. William T. Green, of this county,
from his brother who has been a resi
dent of Brazil for several years, will be
read with interest:
Tiete, Santa Paullo Province, >
Brazil, S. A., March 9, 1S73. \
Dear Brother: I write you a few
lines to inform you that we are all well
and hope this may find you and family
enjoying the like blessing. I received
a letter from sister Carrie a few days
ago ; it was miscarried and dropped
in a post office about forty miles from
me and a friend of mine saw it and
brought it to me. It was dated July
•5th. I’ve nothing strange to write.
I think we have a good country—far
better than the United States ever was
if the same people lived here—better
health, better water and the land pro
duces better. The corn crop is as sure
to make as it is planted. Cotton will
make 2000 lbs to the acre average
crop, if the worms do not come, and
they have not come but one year
since I have been here. It is never
very cold nor hot. I have not seen a
night since I have been here but I
could sleep under a blanket nor a day
that I could not go without my coat.
We have had no sickness, not even a
bad cold. You know that I was trou
bled with the piles a great deal when
I lived in the States; I have got en
tirely well of them. I have not bought
land. I have rented a coffee farm with
5000 trees. I give half the coffee
when I gather it. There is plenty of
cleared land on the place for which I
pay no rent and cultivate as much as
please. The land grows up with
weeds and bushes in oue year so you
can cut them down with what they
call a force, which has a socket like a
brier hook and a blade about twelve
inches long. They stick a handle iu
the socket and cut down the weeds
ery rapidly and then put fire to them
and burn them off clean. As soon as
this is done they stick holes three or
four feet apart and drop four or five
grains of corn in a bo'e and step on it
or job your stick down bv the side of
t. That is all the work it gets. Some
put 6 to S grains in a bole. The corn
will make before the weeds and bushes
hurt it. I have not given one lick in
my corn this year. I have plenty of
old corn and my new’ corn is dry. We
plant corn and cotton from August
till Christmas. October is the best
month for planting. The dry season
begins in March and the wet season in
January. We have showers enough
in the dry season to keep the ground
moist enough to make corn and cotton
come up and grow. We have time to
cultivate our cotton before the wet
season sets in. We can bit the wet
season with our corn and never fail
to make good crops. We never have
heavy rains at any time like you do
sometimes in the States. The rain
comes in showers.
I do not work much iu the farm. I
make plows and sell them to the Bra
zilians at high prices. Joseph my
youngest child, strikes in the shop
and blows the bellows. We make
from $10 to $15 per day. The Brazil
ians are anxious to learn to farm like
the Americans and will give high
prices for American overseers—from
$600 to S1000 a year.
Everything that I have seen plant
ed here grows w’ell. We planted two
yam potatoes last year. I cut vines
from them and planted about half an
acre and I never saw one-fourth as
many potatoes on that much land—
many of them weighing 8 and 9 lbs.
Tell brother Thomas to write to
me and tell me if the Seat of Govern
ment has been moved to Atlanta. I
see in a late Geography that Atlanta
is put down as the Capital.
GENERAL LEE.
The London Standard on the Sdin-
bnrg’ Reviews Critique. *
The most interesting perhaps of the
articles of an unusually lively number
of the Edinburg Review is one review
ing what is, as yet, about the best life
of the great Confederate commander,
cotton, tobacco and sugar; her supplies 1 the dreams of ideal chivalry; so great
were cut off, and she had a bare suffi- j in victory that none ever surpassed, so
ciency of food, and a total want of much greater in defeat that none ever
“Lovb is Enough.”—It is profita
ble sometimes to be sentimental. Let
us to-day remember that it is spring
every other necessary of life and war.; approached him; the patriot without a / time, however gloomy the weather
She obtained powder and arms from
the enemy; boots^ clothes and blank
ets she bad to want. Her finances
broke down at once; for her exports
were her wealth, and exports had
ceased. But, above all, she was
and the best account of the war in j crushed by numbers; the North could
Virginia, that has been published, and
sketching tbe later career and the
character of General Lee. That ca
reer was, in a military point of view,
so glorious, so full of brilliant achieve
ment and of merit more solid than
striking, so grand a lesson in tbe art
of war and in the qualities of sol
diership; that character is, from every
point of view, so admirable in its
moral grandeur, its perfect simplicity,
its close approach to tbe highest idea!
of the Christian soldier and gentle
man, that they command an interest
which does not fade with the fading
recruit at home four men for one, and
could hire the offscourings of Europe.
And it was this alone that decided the
issue. The Edinburgh Reviewer adds
the want of discipline; but we believe
that in the essentials of military dis
cipline the Southerners were always
superior to their foes, and that if the
troops of Grant and M’Clellan hud
been tried as Lee’s were tried, they
would have melted like snow, or died
like rottln sheep. Lee won almost
every battle he fought, and against
odds of from two to one to four to one.
What destroyed him was Grant’s cold,
thought of self, the hero without a
shade of affection or display; the man
who would neither despair of his coun
try nor conspire against her conquer
ors; ideal soldier and perfect citizen, a
Christian without pretensions and a
gentleman without flaw.
DOVEDTH’ PICTI’RK*.
may be, and recount a simple love-
story. Last Bummer a German boy
and girl, Henry and Susie, living in
Minnesota, fell in love with one anoth
er. Her family, at first indifferent,
early in the winter put themselves in
opposition to the match. But this
1 Romeo was no drawing-room lover,
j Desperately in earnest himself and
j confident of his Juliet, he bravely went
to work to make a home for her. He
memory of the keen excitement and ! cruel policy—which only a Yankee, a
often passionate sympathies of ten | Napoleon, or a Prussian could have
years ago. In tbe story of the Con-J deliberately adopted—of sacrificing
federate war we read lessons of the j men without stint, whom he could re-
highest political moment and of the j place, to wear out an enemy who
profoundest military significance; in
the character of the Virginia leader
we have a model of all that a hero of
an enlightened and Christian age
should be, than which no nobler ex-
EHSICfE.ATIOIf
Cheap Farms in Moulh-wesf Missouri!
Tbe Atlantic &. Pacific Railroad Company offer.
1,‘41)0,01)0 acre, i.t land in Central and Southwest Mis-
eouri, jit horn S-j to £12 per acre, on seven years
tiui-. with free tran.portati jn from St. Louts to all pur-
chasers. Climate, soil timber, mineral wealth, schools,
churches and law abiding society iuvite emigrants
iroin all points to th s land of fiuits and flowers,
cor particulars address A. l uck, Laud Commissioner,
“Louis, Mu.
April 15, t>j73. 33 ly.
Myna’s
Throat
improved Open
Curved Rib
COTTON iilNS.
To ihe Fin,,of Baldwin
anti Adjoining Counties:
I D0W ready to Make and Repair Cotton Gins on
j* snort nuuoe, at Midway, two miles south ot Mil
! ' Seville. All work done warrauteJ to perform well
or no pay.
iue improved Curved Breast $4 per saw. The old
-, e B f«ast 53 5!) per saw
uepairiuj, done on reasonable terms. Any work de-
n , -j n -Mdledgeville. or at the Miiledgevi le De
, '■ ■ w11* l Je attended to free of any charge to and
U: > elj op. I dps ire the early attention of my pat-
: ” to °"e particular: G'/re me lime by sending in
^ )our ciders or work, at once, as it is iinpo.-sible fo
•re n ‘an to sei ve a dozen at Ihe same time. As I re-
j ire iiiij,ay until the wu:k is approved of, pive'rtc
i.*rAdd ess meat SlilledgeviUe.
A. F. WYNN.
6 s An experience of 25 years and my terms, are
reient recommendations; however, if references
■• resiled they will be cheerfully furnished.
April 18,1873. J 33 3m
For Sale.
I t-MBER in quantities to suit purchasers. Any
a. 'I r< ^ er8 wr.h T. A. Caraker will be filled imae-
tr„ y J by T ' w - TURK, Agent.
Milledgerille, April 18,1873. 33 3m
Your leving brother,
Joseph I. Green.
The Public Debt of Georgia.
The Atlanta papers contain an in
teresting letter from Gov. Smith to
Col. Nutting, in reference to the pub
lic debt of Georgia, the resources of
the State, &c.:
The bonded debt aud interest runs
to $9,030,500. Tbe binding railroad
endorsements are $3,158,400, from
which little liability will accrue, in
tbe Governor’s opinion.
The Sta^eowns $8,0LS,S00 of prop
erty. The taxable proper of the State
is $238,063,203. The income is esti
mated from all sources at Si,27S,984.
It will take $600,000 to run the State.
This will leave $G7S,9S4 67 to pay on
the interest of the debt. The average
interest is $632,5-55. This will leave
$40,429 in tbe Treasury.
This is a fine showing for Georgia.
Referring to the new bonds, the Gov
ernor shows that, as they are to pay
up past due interest and bonds, they
don’t increase the public debt any.
They are being rapidly taken, and con
stitute a splendid investment.
The Hon. Samuel Shellabarger, of
Ohio, is one of the most virtuous men
of moral principles amoug ail the
worthies of the Forty-second Congress.
He voted against the back pay bill ;
and now having as he says, “striven in
the forum of his conscience and in
view of all obligations to God, coun
try, self, and children, and decided
fearlessly what duty is,” he has de
termined to take his part of the swag.
Besides, he confesses to “needing this
pay;” and then he continues in a fiue
style of moral elevation: “did I re
turn this money I would be guilty of
either an act of vulgar demagoguery
which I am not ambitious to achieve,
or else of moral cowardice, which I
would gladly leave undone.” Shella
barger must be pronounced a model.
He is worthy of the other Christian
statesmen who have so long sat and
stolen in bis blessed society.
N. T. Sun.
ample can be set before the youth en- ■ without soldiers; and therefore greatly
tering on the temptations of military ' .
life, or the trials and perplexities of a
great public career.
We have also an historical question
of considerable importance practically
solved, for all those who are not too
superior numbers, thus used, must
prevail in the loug run. It is no
longer possible in wars between civiliz
ed nations for prowess to prevail again
numerical odds of great weight. And
this terrible lesson a state like Eng-
A SEASONABLE EXPERIENCE THOSE
Carpenters—story OF A sick boy I a l re ady owndH a quarter section of
„ ! land. Taking his axe he went to bis
THE TACK AND CLAW HAMMER BUS- , . , *
“estate, and there cut down trees
iness a general rovs the CAR- , an j hued out logs enough to’ make a
PET IS WHIPPED TO YOUR heart’s j cabin, which he put up without help
content. 1 and furnished in a rude but comforta-
ble fashion. This done he asked Susie
The annual ceremony of taking up, j t0 c0,yie and be his wife. She con-
whipping and putting down carpets, sen * et ^ Unfortunately the young mao
is upon us. It is one of the ills which ! had not y et 8e , fc U P h,s carnage; and,
flesh is heir to, and cannot be avoided. >lnce it> vvas unbecoming for a bride to
You go home some pleasant day, at o 0 .® 0 a hand-sled, drawn by the
peace with the world, and fiud the j b r, d e groom, W as pressed into the ser-
baby with a clean face, and youget v,ce P a ‘ r * ^ us
your favorite pudding for dinner.— ,orth ,n secrecy to their new home in
Then your wife tells you how much I ''oodland, she riding trimly on
younger you are looking, and says she ^ ie s l ed * * ie tugging bravely at the
process might j really hopes she can turn that walking ! s ( ra P- It was eight miles to the little
fall, and save the Cilb,n ’ but ,ove made the j« ura ey
expense of a new suit, and then she 1 sbort * There the wedding was to take
asks you if you can’t just help her i P la ? e ’ a c ,er gyman having pronuse*! to
about taking up the carpet. If you be 1(1 waiting to make them man arid
enemy
could not recruit. Under different
circumstances sucli a
last longer, but a general w ho can af-j dress she\vore last
ford to saciifice three men to kill one
must always end by leaving his enemy
Dr. JOHN BULL’S
GREAT REMEDIES.
Dr. J)HN BELL,
MANUFACTURER AND VENDER OF THE
OB&BBRATS9
SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP
FOR THE Cl'RE OF
AGUE AND FEVER,
OR CHILLS AND FEVER.
Tbe proprietor of this celebrated medicine justly
i tor it a superiority over all remedies i ”
prejudiced to accept a solution which ! land will do vvffl to lay to heart. This,
does not suit their fore-judged cod- j and this alone, was the cause of the
elusions, by the conduct of such men fall of the Confederacy; this is the
as Gen. Lee at the outset of the war.
No one can read the story of the Seces
sion movement in the documents of
the time w’ithout seeing that though
slavery was the open sore that kept
the passions of North and South in
constant irritation, and afforded occa
sion for the violent collisions of Kan
sas and Harper’s ferry, which precipi
tated the issue and made its decision
dark and painful moral of.the Virginia
campaigns. Against everything but
sheer “attrition” Lee was victorious.
Great as he was in the war—and
j surely no captain of any age ever ac-
j complished greater things against an
. enemy of the same race, better armed,
j better provided, and outnumbering
' him by two or three to one ou every
, * . •, ,• | . battlefield—General Lee was greater
by any other arbitration than that of j „ tm in disastei , defeat aIld ruin 5 T fae
the sword impossible, it was not the J retreafc from Richmond wa8 a master .
issue of itself Slavery had no place , - f moral power and soldierly
in the councils whuff hurried State at-1 J ki]) tbe surrender was elevated by its
ter State out of the Union; for slavery j circum8tance8 and its spirit into 7 ona
was the interest oftbe few, and it was ! of the Jes( . an(J £ osfc pathetic
by many that feecessKHi was prec.pi- 8Cenes in e history . Lee was surround-
tated. 11he Southern people resented j eJ by ten . fold „ umber8 „_ a |i was lo8t;
the Northern dictation, Northern asser-1 but J ig men were staunch t0 the | a8t .
tions of superiority, Northern preten- the temptation “to ride along the
sums to an exclusive right in their ter- , ines and - ‘ the word andend it ° a ip>
ritories, Northern intermeddling, and , wag R * indeed . He conquer ed it;
Northern invasions, as the most fun- | he .. did h f s be8t >. for the rne n whe had
ous of English Dissenters would resent ]ove(] flnd trusted hjm g0 , and he
the interposition of the Roman Catho- and hig sol(]jerg Went back ° to their
he Powers in the question of Church dego , ate homes the ruined citizens of a
establishment in England When the . ruined and ensIaved country . H ow
seven Southern StMes had withdrawn crue] , th were wrong J ed _ bovv
the Border States, which were most sham / full e ; erv led iv ® n at eve _
deeply concerned in the Northern at-1 gt Q f the ^ a l r , G n which virtual-
taerxs on slavery, still clung to the / the 0 Confederates had surrendered,
Union; the State of Virginia, despite ^ been violated _ our readers know .
the piratical invasion of her territory j The RepubIican party c i amoured for a
and of the midnight robbery and mur- violatio J 0 f the military capitulations
der that was passionately sanctioned I _ for the b , ood of the ' r ' al who had
by her New England sisters, still le- j re(] Jn a?nr tnniln ; a h m „r/U,r hv r«-
fused to secede; and only when the D \.j sa i s
treacherous attempt of the Federal |j ons
Government to reinforce the fort it! title t 0 honor-put down this demand
had promised to evacuate, and “r- with a high ba 4 d . Bufc he a n owed
prise Charleston with an armed fleet, the Sout f ern people to be wronged,
precipitated the reluctant sections into ed> insu t ] te ^ pillaged, by negro
and when Mr. Lincoln forced „„j xt„.h „„
and devastations by
General Grant—it is
requisi-
his one
war, auu WU«» lur. izinoo... lu.ceu , voters and Northern adventurers, as
upon her the choice between fighting never nation wag e8sed and pillag .
for Southern freedom and State rights j ed before> Perh " till he became
or Northern ascendancy and Federal President he had li[ t!e power to pre-
despotism, did she throw in her lot ventit; at al l event8 , he did not try.
with the Confederates. Slavery, then, Leegaw aU thig? and with a
was not her determining motn e. : break i Q g heart, exerted himself to keep
Slavery made no appearance in the h[g , e ieL He had , 08t furtune
private letters of men who, one after ; and l ho 4 ie in the war , by p ii| ag e and
another, went with their States. It is wantoo dest ruction; he ‘was proscrib-
a remarkable fact, that while scores ed be dec ]i ned t 0 draw vengeance on
of leading Northern men denounced j hjg Stdte b taki 0 en part in her
the war, not a single Southerner of Hticg the commander-in-chief of a
high character, education, and influ- [ iational arn CODdesce nded to the
control of a military school, and to a
ence, deserted the cause.of the South.
They universally held that their alle- | Hfe of 8iience and obscurity. But all
g.ance was due to their native States; | Southern 8 wm! fi X ed on him, and
and on that ground alone they threw j hig influence wa8 used to keep them
up career, fortune, fame, and placed ca j m afid and to reattach them
themselves at the disposal of those to the Union which had conquered
who claimed their fealty It is absurd | and wag crushl0g them . Even while
to call such men rebels; they were loy
alists to all the principles recognized,
up to that moment, by three Ameri
cans in four. To General Lee the
Federal service offered everything that
ambition could desire. He wus its
foremost man; he was tbe favorite of
General Scott; he might have bad the
chief command as tbe prince of treason
to Virginia. His feelings w r ere divided;
his interests were all on the Federal
side; but, as his letters now publish
ed show, be was convinced that his
duty was to Virginia, and he decided
accordingly. YVith him went Stone
wall Jackson, the -two Johnstons—
every Southern soldier in high or low
command. The cause was so espous
ed, and by such men, cannot have been
what English Ranters and Radicals
call it. Good or bad in essence, it was
so strong in apparent justice that not
one man of character and weight
whose allegiance it pretended to claim
declined to support it.
Its failure had nothing to do with
its alleged demerits. The South was
crushed by weight, not broken by
weakness. Three things determined
the fate of the war—the closing of her
ports, the superior wealth, and, far
above all, the overwhelming numbers
of the enemy. The North was a corn
growing and a manufacturing country,
and had open to her the markets to
Europe; she had unlimited command
of all the resources of the civilized
world. The South was subject to the
disadvantages both of an agricultural
and of a non-agricultural country. She
had no manufactories, and yet she liv
ed by manufactories and not by agri
culture; by producing clothing, not by
producing food. Her wealth was at
once annihilated by tbe blockade,
which prevented her from selling her
their wrongs and miseries were wear
ing out his life he checked every ut
terance of resentment, every expres
sion ofliope for a future deliverance.
“YVe are all Americans now.” He
would allow no toasts to the Lost
Cause, no honors to the Fallen Ban
ner. He bore his burden with sim
ple, unaffected, patient heroism. Other
men may have approached him in war
and achievement; none capable of
deeds like his ever rivaled him in en
durance and submission under hope
less defeat. A Cato would have fall
en on hi8 8word; a Brutus might have
conspired; Hannibal endured only in
the hope of revenge and retrieval.
But General Lee not only endured,
but he also submitted, and that with
out suffering his couutry to entertain
even the wish to renew the struggle.
He had to endure for some weary
years, aud then the release. The over
wrought nerves suddenly gave way;
he sank at once from perfect self pos
session and apparent health into col
lapse and speechlessness, and died as
literally “of a broken heart” as ever
despairing patriot or defeated soldier
—more truly'far than most “broken
hearted” victims of private grief. So
he passed away from tbe country he
could neither save by his sword nor
restore to happiness by his counsels,
but which he had crowned with glory
in war, and rescued in defeat from
useless struggles and deeper misery.
He has left behind him no rival of her
love, no object of equal pride and
reverence. Nor is his fame confined
to tbe South. Wherever the English
tongue is spoken his name is revered
and honored—a name to which his
tory furnishes few equal iu military
renown, none in moral grandeur; the
name of one who realized in actual life
„ fool, and you generally are by wde ’ Uufortunately the clergyman
that time, you tell her of course you was th , ere > and Sasie was
can, just as well as not. Then she j ® d and ®®Lamed. She wanted to go
gets a saucer for the tacks, and stands i bome - But Henry, grieved at herdis-
and holds it, and then you get the claw ; trus 1 t aad y et secret >y P ,eased ™ th , her
and go down on your knees and begin ! ™desty, proposed that until a cler-
to help her. You feel quite economi-; pman could be found the cabin should
- - - -be divided by a partition wall, into
cal about the first three tacks, and
take them out carefully, and put them
in the saucer. Your wife is good
about bolding the saucer, and beguiles
you with an interesting story about
how your neighbor’s little boy is not
expected to live till morning. Then
you come to the tack with a crooked
head, und you get the claw under it
and the head comes off', and the leath
er comes off', and the carpet comes off,
and as it won’t do to leave the tack in
the floor, because it will tear the car
pet when it is put down again, you
go to work and skin your knuckles,
and get a sliver under your thumb
nail, and tell your wife to shut up
about that everlasting boy, and make
up your mind that it does not make
any difference about the tack, and so
you begin on the corner where the
carpet is doubled two or three times,
and has been nailed down with a shin
gle nail.
You don’t care a continental about
saving the nail, because you find that
it is not a good time for the practice
of economy, but you do feel a little
hurt when both claws break off from
the claw, and the nail does not budge
a peg. Then your manhood asserts
itself, and you rise iu your might, and
throw the carpet claw at the dog, and
get bold of the carpet with both bands,
and the air is full of dust and flying
tacks, and there is a fringe of carpet
yarn all along the mop board, and tbe
baby cries and the cat goes anywhere
out of the world, and your wife says
you ought to be ashamed of yourself
to talk so—but tbe carpet comes up.
Then you lift one side of the stove and
your wife tries to get the carpet out
from under it, but can’t because you
are standing on it. So you try a new
hold, and just after your back breaks
the carpet is clear. You are not
through yet. Your wife don’t tell you
any more little stories, but gets your
old coat and bangs it on you and opens
the back door and shoves you out, and
intimates that the carpet needs whip
ping. When you hang the torment
ing thing across the clothes line the
wrong way, and get it righted, and
have it slide off into the mud, and hang
it up again, and get half a pint of dust
and three broken tracks snapped out
of the northwest corner into your
mouth by the wind, you make some
observations which you neglected to
mention while in the house. Then
you hunt up a stick and go for that
carpet.
The first blow hides the sun, and
all the fair face of nature, behind a
cloud of dust, and, right in the centre
of that cloud, with the wind square in
your face, no matter how you stand,
you wield tha*t cudgel until both hands
are blistered, and the milk of human
kindness curdles in your bosom. You
can whip the carpet a longer or short
er period, according to the size of your
mad; it don’t make any difference to
the carpet; it is just as dusty and
fuzzy and disagreeable aftqr you have
whipped it two hours, as it was when
you commenced. Then you bundle it
up, with one corner dragging, and
stumble into the house, and have more
trouble with the stove, and fail to find
any way of using the carpet stretcher,
while you stand on the carpet, and fail
to find any place to stand off from the
carpet, and then you get on your knees
again, while your wife holds the sau
cer, and with blind confidence hands
you broken tacks, crooked tacks, tacks
with no points, tacks with no heads,
tacks with no leathers, tacks with the
biggest end at the points. Finally the
carpet is down, and the baby comes
back, and the cat comes back, and tbe
two cabins, ot which one should belong
to her and one to him. To this she
agreed, ana the young man went elev
en miles through the snow after the
boards for the wall, and dragging
them home on the sled which had just
carried a more lovely burden. When
the parents found their runaway
Gretcben it was under these circum
stances—she keeping house by herself;
he living like a bachelor, and bearing
himself in every way with a chival
rous courtesy worthy of Henry Es
mond himself. The father and moth
er, notwithstanding their grief and
anger, were touched by the unconven
tional honor and purity of the youug
people, and wisely concluding that the
match was made in heaven, gave their
heartiest assent to it.
The surviving brother and partner
of tbe late Hon. James Brooks speaks
thus strongly and feelingly of him, and
of certain recent animadversions: We
had hoped to have said no more, as
Mr. Brooks’ brother partner and sur
vivor, of Mr. James Brooks and the
Credit Mobilier, but these renewed
attacks, now upon the dead, call for
more, and when our heart is less bruis-
*ed and torn than it is, by one of the
greatest afflictions of our lives—when
nature has had time to reassert her
poweas long enough to remember that
death, though the common lot and
messenger to us all, gives no privileges
of assault or libel—we hope, with
God’s help, to be able to defend one
most cruelly assailed and most deeply
wronged. Mr. Brooks lived long
enough to forget, if not to forgive, his
slanderers, in and out of Congress, and
for the last four or five weeks of his
life he gave no utterance or wish in
regard to them except to check those
who felt these attacks upon him even
more than he felt them himself. We
have read and re-read and studied
every published line and word in re
gard to the Credit Mobilier. Mr.
Brooks has laid open his heart and re
cord before us, and before God we af
firm that everything said against his
integrity as a man, every word utter
ed as to hia untruth, selfishness, or
prevarication, every act of his upon
this question that does not redound to
his honor as a public maD, is alike a
calumny and a libel. We sat silent
under it when Mr. Brooks lived, but
the time for silence has passed.
claims for it a superiority overall remedies ever offer
ed to the public for the ta/'f, certain, speedy and per
manent cure of Ague aud Fever, or Chilis and Fever,
whether at short or long standing. He refers to the
entire Western and Southern country to bear him tes
timony to tire truth of the assertion, that in no case
whatever will it fail to cuie if the directions are
strictly followed aud carried out. In a great many
'Hsee a single dose has been sulficieut for a cure, aad
whole families have been cured by a single bottle,
'.vilh a peitect restoration of the general health. It is,
however, prudent, aud in every case more certain to
cure, if its use is coil tinned in smaller doses for a week
or two afler the disease has been cheeked, more es
pecially iu difficult aud long stauding cases. Usua’iy
tliis medicine will rot require any aid to keep the bow
els in good order. Should the patient, however, re
quire a cathartic medicine, after having taken i hree or
four doses of the tonic, a single dose of Hull's Vege
table Family Pills will be sufficient.
BUXjXj s
Bird Tracks in Stone.
A correspondent of the Providence
Journal, in an article on fossil bird
tracks in the Connecticut River Val
ley, says:
We have only to go to the Connecti
cut Valley in the northern part of
Massachusetts to find in the slabs of
sand stone frequently quarried there
the imprint of more than fifty spe
cies of birds, with some quadrupeds,
which trod the shores or waded the
shallows of that ancient estuary, the
head of which was probably near
Turner’s Falls, filling what is now the
Connecticut Valley to that point, and
opening into the ocean. These birds,
long since extinct as living beings,
did indeed leave their
“Foot-priuta iu tlio sands of time,”
and so well does a part indicate the
whole, that these may also be photo
graphed from their tracks, as Agassiz
draws a fish which he has never seen,
from a scale.
Some of these birds were small,
their steps not being more than three
or four inches long, while others were
six feet. Think ot the birds that took
Read the following extract of a letter from Mrs.
Rivera, wife of Reverend Dr. Rivers, one of the most
learned, eloquent and popular Muiiatere of the Met hod-
iet Episcopal Church, aud who ia at preaent atatioued
at Broadway Church, Louisville, Ky.
Louisville, Kv., Oct. 8, 18f>9
Or. John Dull—Dear Sir: Mauy thanka to yoa
for the medicine you have ao kindly given uni. I have
been a great sufferer tor years, aud had the advice of
various phygiciaua. Some pronounced my apine, some
my lungs, and some my heart to be tlie acat of my die-
ease. I have been burut, blistered and cupped until
I bail become disbearteued. Several very eminent
physicians who examined my spine informed me that
I was threatened with paralysis or appoplexy any day
and that nothing but a seton would relieve me. I had
a perfect horror of that, and was hesitating about
having one inserted, when you kindly sent me your
Sarsaparilla which I immediately begun to take three
times a day. I had suffered terribly witli a most
acute pain in tbe right side of my bead, especially
when I would read or write for any length of time, and
on rising to my feel I would be perfectly blind for
several minutes, aud would have to hold to something
to prevent falling.
I am moet happy to inform you that the pain in my
head is entirely relieved; I suffer but seldom with my
spine and tiien not so acutely. My appetite is good ;
indeed for the first time in my life I enjoy my dinner
more than any meal daring the day.
You kindly sent me four bottles again last night,
and I began again this morning, and I hope to be en
tirely relieved- Please accept my heartfelt thanks and
best wishes.
Very truly your most grateful friend,
M. B. C. Rivers.
My journal abounds with similar letters, all of
which 1 guarantee to be genuine aud written by the
persons whose names they bear.
Do not suffer yourself to be imposed on. Don't be
drawn away after new and doubtful experiments.
Don't risk your health by letting novices experiment
upoQ you with their trash. My Sarsaparilla has stood
: the test for twenty-five years; it is still the Sarsaparilla
{ of the day, and of tbe age, towering over all others in
popularity aDd its curative qualities. Avoid all those
who are trying to palm off on you other extracts of
Sarsaparilla, so-calied. Remember it is Dr- John
Bull’s Sarsaparilla, of Louisville, Ky , that is the old
and reliable remedy tor impurities of the blood and
scrofulous affections. Always bear that in mind.
Another Testimony.
Bentos Barracks, Mo-, I
April 30, 1866. f
Dr. John Bull—Dear Sir: Knowing the efficacy
of your Sarsaparilla, and tbe healing and beneficial
qualities it possesses, I send you the following state
ment of my case :
I was wounded about two years ago, was taken
prisoner and confined for sixteen mouths. Being
moved so often, my wounds have not healed yet. I
have not set up a moment since I was wounded. I
am shot through the hips. My general health is im
paired, and I ueed something to ass.ut nature; I have
more faith in your Sarsaparilla than anything else. I
wish that which is genuine. Please express me half a
dozen bottles, and oblige.
Capt. C. P. JOHNSON.
St. Louis, Mo,
P. S.—The following was written April 30th, 1866
by Mrs. Jennie Johnson, mother of Capt. Johnson:
Dr John Bull—Dear Sir: My husband, Dr. C. S.
Johnson, was a skilltul surgeon and physician in Cen
tral New York, where he died, leaving the above C.
P. Johnson to my care. At thirteen years of ago he
had a chronic diarrhea and scrofula, tor which I gave
your Sarsaparilla. It cured him. I have for ten
years recommended it to many in New Y'ork, Ohio
aud Iowa, for scrofula, fever soies, and general debili
ty. Perfect success has attended it. The cures ef
fected in some cases of scrofula and freer sores trere
almost miraculous. I am very anxious for my son
to again have recourse to your Ssrsup irilla. He is
fearful of getting a spurious article, hence his writiDg
to you for it. His wounds were terrible, but I believe
he will recover.
Re poctfuUy
JENNIE JOHNSON;
such strides ! The foot-print of one
dog comes back, and your wife smiles . is seventeen inches long, and another
sweetly, and says she is glad that job
is off her mind. As it is too late to do
anything else, you sit by the fire and
smoke, with the inner consciencious-
ness that you are the meanest man in
America. The next day you hear
your wife tell a friend that she is so
tired; she took up and put down that
great heavy carpet yesterday.
[Utica (N. Y.) Herald.
The Mitchell heirs have employed
Gen. Toombs, and have commenced
suit against Governor Brown and
Loohrane to recover their Atlanta
property.
makes a track—if the impression made
by wbat is thought to have been a
kind of heel be iocluded—two feet in
length and a step of six feet.
These tracks were first brought to
a notice of the world in 1S36, by the
late President Hitchcock, although
they had been observed a year before.
Although his statements were first
received with skepticism, they are now
as well verified as any thingin geology.
Specimens of the tracks from the lo
cality named are to be seen in the
large geological cabinets of tbe world,
and are to be found iu many private
collections.
BULiIi’S
WORM DESTROYER.
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM GEORGIA
Villanow, Walker Co., Ga., I
June 28. >
Dr John Bull—Dear Sir: 1 have recently given
your Worm Destroyer several trials, and find it won
derfully efficacious. It bas not failed in a single ia
stance to have tbe wished for effect. I am doing a
pretty large country practice and have daily use for
some article of the kind.
I am, sir, respectfully,
JULIUS P- CLEMENT, M. D.
P. S.—So unqualified aud numerous are the testimo
nials in favor ot my Worm Destroyer that newspaper
space ia entirely too small to teil its merits.
It ia an infallible remedy for Worms. Try it and be
convinced. See my Journal for a more lull descrip
tion.
JOHN BULL.
Bull’s Gedron Bitters.
Bull’s Pectoral Wild Cherry.
Bull’s Extract Buchu.
Bull’s Vegetable Family Pills.
All the above medicines prepared by Dr. JOHN
BULL, at hia laboratory, Fifth Street, LoniavilleKy.
For sola in MiUodgavilia by JOHN M. CLARK,
Dnf|W-
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