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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1866.
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,\U. \V. T. LOCKIIART. tenders his profes-
I ) .;'i,,iu! services to the citizens of Milledgeville
1 j ; v. Special attention paid to SURGERY
‘Hof its diversified forms, lie will be found at
lilV s. when not professionally absent, at Judge.
residence one mile from the State*
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orsE OF ENTERTAINMENT.
DR. JOHN GANTT, occupying the
h.te residence of Dr. Fort, in Milledge-
viiie, would respectfully inform tbe pub-
. generally, that his house is now open for the
tion (>f transient custom,
ylile'iirevilh’, April 3, 1866 J4 tf
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-Attorney-at-Law,^
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA.
Mii’u-d■"■eville, March 13, ld66 11 tf
CABINET WORK.
j '.VOTED respectfully inform the citizens of
X Baldwin county that I am prepared to do all
kinds of Cabinet Work. Will feel thankful for
..:iv favors in the way of mending old furniture, or
uaiuflg ne'v. Give me a call, and 1 will promise
to please both in price and work done.
EOBT. N. ADAMS.
Milledgeville May H, 1866 lri tf
OSBORNE’S OPTICAL DEPOT.
Jot) intOAD S T ii K ET,
- -'y 3 Jd AUGUST A, G A.
X! \RLY OPPOSITE PLASTERS’ HOTEL.
e it fu I/
jkdsibipib & jf^bs
Presetting their entire Stock of Goods
j // JvniL jjj(>/■/,: /Ja.st /
CALICOES, S CAMBRICS: and | JACONETS,
.A_t Cost!
Nansook, Swiss, Tartton and Illusion,
Beautiful Figured, Plaid and Checked Jaconets,
AT COSTS
An elegant assorted Stock of Dress Goods
-A.T COST!
Specially and Exclusively Optical.
Eury Kj e-help known in Optical Science.
PATIENTS treated by mail to superior Glass -
I es i v sending one glass out of their old Spec-
l.icL-s and stating the beat distances or number ol
inches from the eyes at which they saw comforta
•• y to read, with the old glasses—length of time
Ley have been used without change, and a state
Kent as to general health.
C£_rIi;SA33S3
of ail SHADES and color inserted so as to defy
detection even by experts.
Augusta, March 20, 1866 12 tf
Wool
Carding.
1HE MILLEDGEVILLE MANUFACTUR-
. ing Company will continue, as heretofore, to
d WOOL into ROLLS, or manufacture it in-
elotii. Their machinery has been placed in the
it order. M. WAITZFELDEE, Pres’t.
Uilledgeville, May 20, i8t>6 22 lOt
AS. It. WALKER £ TiiOS. J. FLINT,
’hole,.■sale f Retail Dealers Importers oj
IHINA. glass a queens ware.
At R. P. McE vox’s old Stand, opposite
mier House, JVIa,OOXU 7 Q-a,.
ILicc now on hand a full and complete Stock of
liiiin, DINNER and TEA Sets,
White, Flowered and Gilt.
1AXITE DINNER and TEA SETS—White,
jilett.: <&. Chamber Sets—Plain & Ornamented.
LASS—Pitchers, Stands, Dishes, Butters, Gob
lets. Champagne W me and I utnbleis.
LYE RED GLASS in TEA SETS and by the
piece.
I1AR TUMBLERS and FIXTURES.
iXDY and FRUIT JARS—Qjiart h gallon, 3
quarts and gallons—plain and fancy.
-f-sealing FRUIT JARS, half gallon,
large lot of Queen’s Lava Rock and Yellow
Ware.
Fla,ted Warep
onsistmg of Castors, Baskets, Butters, Forks,
Spoons, Strainers, &c-
Mi of which we will sell ms low as can be bought
1 the South.
-v Oniers solicited and promptly filled when
“P'O!I by the cash, or shipped C. O. D.,
Bxuress.
Keen, June 19, 18G6
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and.
Mmrness*
attention of DEALERS & PLANTERS
ts respectfully called to my stock of
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AND
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COMPRISING
"° Assorted SADDLES,
” IJ ^ els “ Double & Single HARNESS.
) Sets “ Carriage &, Team COLLARS,
Sides Harness, Bridle, Sole, Upper, \land,
Jellows and Strings LEATHER. As well as
SADDLERY HARDWARE of all kinds,
embracing Bitts, Stirraps, Buckles, Rings,
Spurs, Webbing*, Whips, Saddle Trees.
&c Sec &c,
‘hi see me wlieu in want of any goods DU
U1| e. It shall be my aim to please iny patroiis
V( tv particular.
^ Didei's by mail faithfully e^cuted.
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tnn Acc.nur,, between Mulberry and Cherry Sts.,
pr|1 17 -3m 16
Blanks lor Sale at lliis Office*
Trimmings, Hosiery—ALL and EVERY THING
At Cost!
^ l ar S e lot of Ladies, Misses, Chil- —■
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’ ^ SHOES, HATS and CAPS, 1 ~
-A.t A.ct/Qal Cost!
READY MADE CLOTHING, ? 111 PACT ?
—the very latest styles— S vUlol •
Now is your time to buy. Call and see
JOSEPH & PASS.
3d door, Milledgeville Hotel, Canvas Sign.
Milledgeville, May b, 1866
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Chas. P.McCalla.
M. T. McGregor.
M’OAZjXjA cfc CO.,
Particular attention given to the Sale and pur
chase ofCOTTON and COUNTRY" PRODUCE.
Liberal Advances made.
o. 1 van winkle raxge Corner of Jackson
and Ellis Streets,
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P. H. WOOD
J. W. [Rabun & Co.,
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AND
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SAVANNAH, GA.
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STEEL PEK WORKS,
Factory, Camden, W. J.
R. ESTERBROOK & CO.,
Steel Pen Manufacturers.
warehouses:
403, Arch St. Philadelphia; 42, John St. New York.
These celebrated Pens are of genuine American
Manufacture, and comprise every leading style in
the Market, and are equal in finish, elasticity and
fineness of point to the best imported. They are,
therefore, sure to gain the confidence of the Amer
ican public. .
EF 1 Samples and Prices on application. Lots
made to order, of any pattern or stamp required.
For sale to the Trade at the Manufacturers
Warehouses, as above ; and at retail by all Sta
tioners, Booksellers and News Dealers in the U.
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March 13, 1866 11 tf _
E. REMINGTON & SONS,
Manufactures of
REVOLVERS, RIFLES-
IVTuisket-S <&> Osurbines,
For the United States Service. Also,
Pocket and Belt REVOLVERS,
repeating pistols,
RIFLE CANES, REVOLVING RIFLES.
Rifle & Shot Gun Barrels, & Gun Materials sold
by Gun Dealers and the Trade generally.
In these days of Housebreaking aud Robbery,
every House, Store, Bauk, and Office, should have
REMINGTONS’ REVOLVERS.
Parties desiring to avail themselves of the late nn-
nrovements in Pistols, and superior workmansh.p
?md form, will find all combined m the New Iiem-
‘“ScutacSnins cte and description of our
•irnm will be furnished upon application.
E REMINGTON & SONS, llion. N. Y.
Moore & Nichols Agents,
No 40 Courtland St. Ne« York.
June 19. ' 25 ,3t -
P^mrnitmre
T AM NOW PREPARED to do^ any
I job in the way of fitting up oi rep. .njg OLD
FURNITURE: or I can make anything that m y
KSed When you want John done gl ve me
acall- You can save money and have neat tur
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Milledgevi^e. Jwwe 5, 1866
ORIGINAL MISCELLANY.
Faiih and Reason—In Allegory.
A traveller wearied with the world was seeking
some quiet spot to spend the remainder of his
years unvexed by the noise, tumult and cares of
life, that had been to him a vein show, and had
satisfied bis mind of the fleeting pleasures and glo
ries of the world.
Sitting tired and faiut, he musgd of the day
when the beatings of his heart and the flow of his
blood would cease their functions, and he be a
cold, inanimate lump of clay that would again
mingle with its mother earth. Ah! said he, will
that be the end of pround and defiant man
when life’s fitful and disturbed dream is o’er ?—
Must I rot in the grave a putrefying mass of cor
ruption ? or is their an immortal part about me
that will live forever ? was man created but for
to-day, and to-morrow be a nonentity ?
Looking up, sad with his thoughts, he beheld
a proud, bold, and self-confident personage stand*
ing by, smiling upon him ; whose clear eye and
intelligent face bespoke no ordinary man, and
whose erect form and commanding appearance
looked the embodiment of a God. Tell me, said
the traveller, who are you ; and tell me further, if
you can direct me where to go to forget the cares
of life and find the happiuess for which I pine.—
My name is Reason, answered the man; and if
you will, coine go with me, I will take you to the
“School of Philosophers’' where you will learn to
be happy.
I will go, answered the traveller ; but first, let
me go tp yonder cool fountain to drink of its pure
and vitalizing waters that I faint not on the way.
He went, he drank, and as he arose, he beheld a
beautiful woman standing by wuh a countenance
so lovely, so inviting, aud so full of serene happi
ness and inward joy, that he stood, gazed and ad
mired her. -
Whither art thou going, asked the woman, for
you seem to be a weary and lost traveller. I am
going with Reason, answered the traveller; for
see you, he stands waiting for me. I pity you,
said the woman, for he will take you to the “School
of Philosophers” and bid you learn happiness there.
Pray, tell me, asked the traveller, who are you,
for you seem to kuow r my desires, and his inten
tions. My name is Faith, answered the woman,
and I am the first born child of Christianity. Will
I not find that for which I crave, asked the trav
eller? No! answered Faith, not ia his boasted
and infidel school. Wbere can I find it then ask
ed the traveller ; can it be found on earth ? Yes,
answered Faith, and if you will remain with me,
I will instruct you in the path that leads not only
to happiness on earth, but to an immortal happi
ness beyond tbe grave. What! asked the travel
ler, has man an immortality beyond the grave,
and shall I live, though 1 die. Thou hast a soul
Immortal in its nature, aud it will live through
countless ages.
If you are coming, come along, said Reason, ap
proaching, and stop your talk with the woman,
for she will make either a fool or fanatic of you, if
you remain much longer, or perhaps what is
worse, a bigot. Wait a while longer said the trav
eller, I am tired, aud as Faith is willing to talk
with me, I want to hear what she has to say, for I
am interested in some new thoughts that she has
presented to my mind.
I have argued with her so often, remarked Rea
son, that I am disgusted with her simplicity and
credulity, she believes without investigating, and
follows like a child. That is the only argument
that Reason urges against me, answered: Faith my
simplicity, credulity and belief. Unfortunately
for him, he has none of them, and no settled be
lief to guide him through life. He is sailing up
on the dark aud foggy ocean of infidelity ; amid
rocks, quicksands and breakers and is nearing the
maelstrom of destruction, without even Hope to
light him on to his terrible end. Be not troubled
about my end, answered Reason. I fear not the
future. I view man as he is, and what I thiuk his
will be.
My glorious and blest mother has scattered his
wild vagaries aud fantastical theories hither and
thither, the sport of school boys. So you say, re
plied Reason, but judging from the infinite trouble
that I have given you to defend your belief, my
arguments are a little more than idle words. I
am aware, said Faith, that you are strong with the
unthinking and the wicked ; and as you have an
excuse for every vice, for every imagination of
the miud. for every sin, for every passion, for ev
ery appetite if it be forbidden and unholy ; and as
you defend the rational and carnal man, so he
defends you as his friend.
There you are at it again, answered Reason,
talking about vice, sin, the rational and carnal
man. I have told you a thousand times that I
look at man both in his mental and physical na
tures ; he is a creature of passion, of appetite, and
thank God, of reflection and investigation, and
not to be carried about by this or that belief. Be
lief is neither a virtue or a crime, and man is born
with tbe belief of the people with whom he asso
ciates ; like his language, he takes it from associa
tion. Because, replied Faith, I would put a rein
upon the bad passions and appetites of man, and
tell him that he is both temporal and spiritual in
his organization ; that he must die and yet live: that
he is fearfully and worderfully made ; you become
impatient of the great truth of a blessed immor
tality or a lost soul, you would have him but a
creature of time ; a mere butterfly to drink in the
sweets of life, and then lie down and cease to be>
or perhaps, if to live by your theory, to enter an
abode of happiness without the exercise of one
single spiritual qualification or thought—spiritual,
according to your reasoning, but that spirit dead
while man is upon earth. Ah - ! Reason, our great
Judge could with equal justice give immortality
to the brutes of the field, if man is not to exercise
and enlarge his spiritual nature by a confiding re
liance upon his goodness and mercy. Strange
would it be, if a child believed that affection was
due his parents, yet live to old age and sink down
into the grave without the least manifestation of
that spiritual quality, and expect a reward and
blessing for his neglect and indifference. God de
mands of us a spiritual exercise in belief, and reli
ance upon him. Religion, my mother so instructs
me.
I trouble not myself of the future and its de
mands here on earth, replied Reason. What we are
to be, determined by what we have been, an in
scrutable mystery, of which we can only guess at
a solution, by referring to the past and the pres
ent—by r appealing from the unknown to the known,
from the unseen to the visible, from imaginary
torment, to real enjoyment, from the frightfulness
of Toplmt, to the beauty of a tulip, and the fra
grance of a rose. Vain delusion, sadly replied
Faith. I go said Reason, are you coining with
me Traveller J No, answered Traveller,
I am glad that I met you at this fountain re
marked the Traveller, to Faith. I have been on-
lightened as to the future of man, and inwardly
feel that you have truth on your side. My Me til
er was born of Truth, replied Faith, and my sis
ters are Hope, Repentance, Love aud Charity. In
struct me in the ways of wisdom asked Traveller.
Then traveller to eternity, remarked Faith, eschew
Reason, when he would bid you call your Creator
and Savior to account before the bar of his finite
miud and catechise him as to why he did thus
and so, and lie did not do thus and so. When the
finite, can weigh the infinite, and time, measure
time with eternity, and the creature become grea
ter than the Creator, then aud not until then, call
into question God’ s judgments and visitations
upon earth, or why he reasons not as Man, his
creature, or dispenses his blessings or curses to
please tbe world.
Isthatall? asked Traveller. No, answered Faith
belief in the teachings of my great Teacher, who
never reasoned himself, and taught his followers
not to reason ; but simply as children to believe
in him as the Savior of mankind. Why should I
not reason, asked Traveller, have I not mind tor
that purpose ? Because, answered Faith, God’s
ways are not as our ways, his thoughts not as our
thoughts ; man’s wisdom, is but folly before God.
Man’s merit and his blessings depend upon the sim
ple act of faith and belief, to humble his pride and
abash his boasted self-knowledge.
And again said Faith, had reason been made
the touch-stone of faith, there would have been no
virture in the act. Hope, would have been a slave
to thought—Repentance denied an existence—
Love the result of human feeling, and Charity,
tlie child of cold calculation. But as it is : they
are the attendant angles that record the—desires,
sighs, good will and good deeds of man, and bears
them to heaven and lays them at the feet of a Sav
ior, and asks that man may be "forgiven and bless
ed. Tho religion of heaven, is not of mortal ori
gin or mortal thought. Here take the Bible—read,
believe and be saved.
“What Truth is here, O Man !
Hath Hope been smitten in its early dawn ?
Hath cloud o’er cast thy purpose, trust or plan ?
HuvcFajth, and struggle on !”
From the La Crosse (Wis.) Democrat.
The Soldiers Soliloquy,
Good bye, blue ruin ! Go into tbe dye
tub—into tbe rag bag, anywhere out of
my sight. For three years I wore those
blue duds, aud now, thank God, they are
off, and once more I am in command of my
self. •
What did I go to war for? That’s the
question. What did I eat hard tack for—
drink commissary whisky—carry a mule’s
load—sleep in the mud—suffer in hospital
and lose this limb for ? Who knows ?
I enlisted to save the Union.
1 went to war to put down tbe rebel
lion.
I fought to punish traitors.
1 killed people to restore tho harmony
of things.
1 went to war because that was in old
times the way to patriotism.
And what was there gained ? I had thir
teen dollars a month. I rode Shanks mare
from Bull Run to Red River, almost for
nothing.
I fought to keep this Union whole, and
dow, wheu the war is ended, I am told
that fightiug divided, and that legislation
alone can restore the Union? Then why
in thuuder must I lose three years of time
and a limb if all this work must be done
by Congress ? Why were a million of us
killed by drunken, thieving, cotton-steal
ing, silver-ware-hunting, conceited up
start, political generals, who wont up like
rockets and came down like sticks, if Con
gress can or could restore the Union by
legislation ?
I went to war in good faith.
I fought a score of times,, and the more
I fought and the less I stole the slower
came promotion.
I helped make a dozen generals, fif
ty colonels and a hundred officers rich.
I have lugged many a piano, rosewood
bedstead, marble-top table, cabinet of
books, mahogany sofa and Such stuff out of
southern homes to be sent North for tLe
use of my superior officer, and the adorn
ment of his home in the North, This was
the big dart for putting down the rebel
lion.
And I went to war for less wages than I
could have earned at home. And my wife
was often starving while I was away. And
my children became ragged and dirty—my
farm lan to weeds—my shop ran down—
my tools were stolen or lost—my place is
filled by another—I came home a cripple,
filled with disease, and am now looked
upon by the same men who wanted me to
go to tbe war, much as people look upon
some dead beast who has gone through
for them all their spare change.
And the abolitionists who forgot to take
care of soldiers families—the abolitionists
who told us that the Democrats wanted
the Union dissolved—the abolitionists who
said the Democrats were traitors—the
abolitionists w r bo staid at home and dare
not fight except in tbe form of a mob, in
the attack cf some defenseless democrat,
now tell us that—
The late war did not restore the Union.
The war was therefore a failure.
The white men of the North were no
match for the white men of the South.
The war would have ended in defeat for
the North but for the nigger.
This is what abolitionist tell us. Reck
on they will have a fine time getting us re
turned soldiers engaged iu another cru&
sade for cotton, nigger, mules and stolen
plunder, taken by force of the bayonet
from women and children.
It seems to me as if the late war was a
gag—a humbug—a wicked, treasonable,
unconstitutional gag. It did not restore
the Union, but it made a pile of abolition
ists and war Democrats rich.
it never prevented secession, but left
this Union iu the shape we did not find
it.
It never henefitted any one North or
South, except thieving soldiers, army
chaplains, swindling contractors, drunken
officers, incompetent generals and other
such pets of the late administration.
It didn’t help tbe white people.
It didn’t help the niggers.
It impoverished half of the Union.
It didn’t make the South friendly to
northern ideas, interest or people.
It piled a big debt upon us and took
from us two-thirds of our rneaus to pay
it.
And now I am back from the war to find
that I must pay the most exborbitant tax
es—and to find that old Grudgins, a mean
narrow minded, stay-at home coward is
rich, with a safe full of U. S. notes or
bonds for which I must work the balance
of my life out to pay interest on, wh ile be
escapes taxation and lives in idleness. I
had a hundred dollars bounty to go to war.
Now - I come home to find the town,
county^city fcnd State in debt for the mon
ey I had—the wealth of the country is in
bonds—the school houses, in ruins—the
court house &c, in ruins—all these things
to he built up—the bonds aud their inter
ests to be paid besides all the other taxes,
and the holders of bonds living in luxuri
ous idleuess, with large incomes, and not
one cent of tax to pay anybody or for auy
purpose.
It w r as bad enough to fight for such cow
ards,
It is bad enough to have it said we could
not have whipped the Sonth without the
aid of these high-llavored nigger troops
who are now to he called our equals.
It is bad enough to have enormous taxes
to pay to repair the damages time and war
have wrought. But its worse than all
to have to pay six hundred million
dollars a year of interest to the men
who hold bonds exempt from taxa
tion—iu other words to go to war, and
then come home and pay ourselves for be
ing shot at, wounded and killed. Aboli
tionism dont pay. Now I’m as good a
man as any of them. No man has a right
now to lord it over me. 1 wear no badge
of servitude, advertising that I am a fit
subject lor shoulder strapped damns, cuffs,
kicks, guardhouses, &c.* I’m a returned
soldier—a poor man who must work or
starve. I love’ my country, I’m a better
patriot than the man who makes the poor
man to pay taxes and interest ou bonds
exempt from taxation, and 1 say it boldly
that the next time I shoulder a musket
will he for equal taxation, equal rights and
free country. I don’t like tbe idea of re
pudiation, but if government don’t tax her
bonds, may I be hanged if I ever pay a
cent of taxes, for my cripplfed limb is a
better and a more honorable bond than
the government ever issued. If all are
taxed alike, it is woll. If not, it’s repudi*
ate, or another fight.
Beautiful Figure.—Two painters were
employed to frescoe the wall of a magnifi
cent cathedral ; both stood on a rude scaf
folding, constructed for the purpose, some
eighty feet from the floor. *
One of them w r as so intent upon his work
that he became wholly absorbed, and in
admiration stood off from the picture, gaz
ing at it with delight. Forgetting where
lie was, he moved backward slowly, sur
veying critically the work of his pencil,
until he neared tho very edge of the plank
upon which he stood.
At this critical moment his companion
turned suddenly, and, almost frozen with
horror, beheld liis imminent peril ; anoth
er instant and tho enthusiast would be pre
cipitated upon the pavement beneath. If
he spoke to him—it would be certain
death—if he hold his breath, death was
equally sure.
Suddenly he regained his presence of
mind, and seizing a wet brush, flung it
against the wall spattering tbe beautiful
picture with unsightly blotches of coloring.
The painter flew forward and turned upon
his friend with fierce imprecations but
startled at his ghostly face, he listen
ed to the recital of danger, looked sud
denly over the dread space below, and
with tears of gratitude Ldessed the hand
that saved him.
So said a preacher, we sometimes get
absorbed in looking upon the pictures of
this world, and contemplating them, step
backward, unconscious of our peril, when
the Almighty dashes out the beautiful im
ages anil we spring forward to lament their
destruction, into the outstretched ax-ms of
mercy, and are saved !
Sons of tiie Pilgrims.
The Herald discoursing upon the offi
cial reports of Gens. Steedmau and Fuller
ton, says :
It is umiecessary to recite the details of
fraud, corruption, cruelty and wickedness
generally revealed by the commissioners.
These bare been laid before onr readers
very fully, both in the official reports and
through our correspondents. We may add,
however, that, information we possess from
other and the most reliable sources fully
corroborates the statements published It
is the same story of the Puritans over
again. The same class of canting Puritan
radicals that enslaved tbe Indians iu Mas
sachusetts formerly and that first introduc
ed negro slaves into the country arc now
squeezing the life-blood out of the freed-
meit. Wherever tlfey have the power,
and especially iu seclned districts where
their operation cannot l>e seen so well, they
reduce the negro to worse kind of slavery
than existed before. They are not the
Southern men, but the old radical abolition -
•sts of the North, who have established this
new system of slavery uuder the shelter of
the Freedman’s Bureau. Shall we ever be
relieved of snclx disgusting cant and hypoc
risy l May we ever hope to see the day
when the manly common sense of our peo
ple wili no longer tolerate such hypocrasy ?
We have at least the satisfaction to know
that it does not escape exposure.
Writing Your Name o.v Metals—Take
1.2 lb of nitric acid and 1 oz of muriatic
acid. Mix, shake well together, and it is
ready for use. Cover the place yon wish
to mark with melted beeswax ; when cold
write your name plainly in the wax clear
the metal with a sharp instnxuient;
then apply the mixed acids with a feather,
carefully filling each ’ letter. Let it re
main from one to 10 mrnutes, according to
appearance desired; thefi throw on water,
which stops tbe process, and remove the
wax, .
Jefferson Davis on Woman.
female lecturers—the'"true - mission
OF WOMAN.
Mr. Davis referred to some remark of Miss
Anna Dickinson, hostile to himself, which
he had seen in the papers ; also recalling
that he had heard of the lady’s honoring
Fort Monroe with her presence some six
weeks before—he supposed to derive her
inspiration of an actual view of liis
casemate, or possible to catch a secret
view of him through tho admiring favor o£
General Miles or some srnitte J officer. Ha
had noticed that Miss Dickinson had fig
ured largely upon the lecturing stage,
and had undeniable talent rather of a Mae
nad or Pythoness than most ol {be mild
virgins who worshipped Vesta aud kept
the fires of faith aud charity forever bur
ning on her pure altars. Woman’s appear
ance in the political arena was a deplored
departure from the golden path which na-
j ture had marked out for her. The male
animal was endowed with more than suffi
cient belligerency for all purposes of heal
thy agitation ; and woman’s part in the
social economy, as she had been made
beautiful and gentle, should be to soothe
asperities rather than deepen and make
more l'ongh the crosstracks plonghed in the
road of life by the diverging passions and
opinions of men. It was a revolutionary
age ; transpositions and novelties were the
fancies of the day, woman on the political
rostrum was only au outcropping of the
disorganized and disorganizing ideas now
in control of the popular miud. The clam
or of certain classes of women for admis
sion to the professions and employments
heretofore engrossed by men was another
phase of the same malady. They deman
ded to he self supporting, forgetful that
their most tender charm and safest armor
lay in helplessness. Woman’s office em
braced all tbe sweetest and holiest duties
of suffering humanity. Her true altar is
the happy fireside, not the forum with
its foul breath aud distracting clamors.—
Physically unable to defend themselves
from injury or insult, their weakness is a
claim which the man must be utterly base
who disregards. The highest test of civ
ilization is the deference paid to women.
They arc like beautiful vines of the South,
winding around the rugged forest trees and
clothing them with beauty ; but let them
attempt living apart from this support, and
they will soon trail along the ground iu
muddy and trampled impurity. While
women depend on man for everything,
man’s love accepts, and liis generosity can
never do enough to discharge the delicious
and sacred obligations ; but let women en
ter into the ruder employments of life as
man’s rival, and she passes herself under
thus e exorable laws of trade which are
without sex or sentiment. Perhaps in one
branch of inediciue there might appear a
fitness iu her claim to matriculation ; but
even iu that branch ciicumstances of sud
den difficulty aud danger were of every day
occurrence, requixing the steadier nerves,
cooler judgment, and quicker action of a
medical man to deal with. It asked for
his sublimest ideal of what woman shoold
be in time of war, he would point to the
dear women of his people as lie had seen
them during tbe recent struggle. The
Spartan mother sent forth her boy, bidding
him return with honor, either carrying his
shield or on it. Some women of the South
sent forth their sous, directing them to re
turn with wounds disabling them from fur
ther service, or never to return at all. All
they had was Hung into the contest—beau
ty, grace, passiou, oruauient; the exqui
site frivolities so dear to the sex were cast
aside; their songs if they had any hearts
to sing, were patriotic; their trinkets
were flung into the public crucible; the
carpets from their floors were portioned out
as blankets to the suffering soldiers of their
cause; women bred to every refinement of
luxury wore homespuns made by their
own hands ; when materials for an army
balloon were wanted, the xjeest silk dress
es were sent in, and there was only compe
tition to secure their acceptance. As cur
sors of the sick, as encoui'agers and provi
ders for the combatants, as angels of chari
ty aud mercy adopting as ther own all
children made orphans iu defense of their
homes, as patient and beautiful household
deities, accepting every sacrifice with un
concern, and lengthening the burdens of
war by every art, blandishment and labor
proper to their sphere, the dear women of
his people deserved to take rank with the
highest heroines of the greatest days of tho
greatest countries. Talking further upon
wornau, Mr. Davis stated his belief that
wheu women proved unfaithful to their
marriage vows, it will in almost every iu«»
stauce he fouud the husbands fault. Men
throw their wives or allow them to be
thrown, into the companionship of male
associates whom they know to ho disso
lute ; neglect them while tbe illicit lover
pays every attention, aud then grow an
gry at the result of their own criminal fol
ly. It is either this, or that the man
has chosen, without sufficient inquiry, a
woman whose unfitness for the relatious of
wile might have been readily ascertained.
No woinau will err if treated properly
by a husband worthy of the name; but
she is the weaker vessel, and must be pro
tected.
August 2i>th—Called upon Mr. Davis,
accompauied by Captain Greeson, of tho
staff ol Major General Miles, officer of tho
day. The Captain gave me au order from
General Miles, allowing State'-prisoner
Davis to have a knife and fork with his
meals hereafter. Mi*. Davis was pleased,
but said he had learned many new uses to
which a spoon could be put when no other
implement was accessible. Iu particular,
it was the best peach-pealer ever invented,
and he illustrated as he spoke on a fruit
that lay on his table. Denying him a
knife and xuij^ j lest he should commit sui-.
cide, he said, was designed to represent
him to the world as an atrocious criminal,
so harrowed by remorse that tho oblivion
of death would he welcome. His early
shackles had partly the same object, but
siiil^more to degrade his cause.
Prisoner’s health very delicate, but the
erysipelas subsiding. Asked could Uq
