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Volume LII. THE ^owtluru gtmtftf. BY a , A EAERISON, ORME & CO. AS COfl MYIUCK Editor »nns ^2.00 Per Annum in Advance rates of advertising. $2.25 i $7.50 5.00 i 12.00 7.00 j 10.00 9 00 25.00 4^00 12.00 | 28.00 34.00 £12.00 $20.00 13.00 I 80.00 28-00 1 3*:oo! 40.00 I 50.00 | 80.00 1120.00 120.00 Ucu.oo 40.00 50.00 60.00 ,00 2 00 5 00 3 50 5 00 3 CO 5 00 1 50 2 50 5 00 5 00 1 00 legal advertising. UcXntor n dUin’n from adm’n.. licationfor dism n of guard u ... .. .• f,.r leave to sell Laud cTto Debtors and Creditors ... is of Land, per square of ten lines i of personal per sq.. ten days.... ..fS-Ench levy oi ten lines tinge sales of ten lines or less., rol lector's sales, (2 months.... ■ s -Foreclosure of mortgage and r monthly's, per square - -- ,v notices, thirty days 3 00 >sof Land, by Administrators, Execu- jr Guardians, are required, by law to .,.j the first Tuesday in the month, ten the hours of ten in the forenoon three in the afternoon, at the Court- tin the county in which the property tueted. Fc« of these sales must be published 40 previous to the day of sale. ,:. e for the sale cf personal property ‘ oe published 10 days previous to sale ,lice to debtors aud creditors, 40 days, tics that application will be made to lourtof Ordinary for leave to sell land, Mians for letters of Administration ■lianship, &e., must be published 30 -for dismission from Administration, hly in months, for dismission from guar- ship, 40 days. ,'es fur foreclosure of Mortgages must lablished monthly for four months-for iishne- lost papers, for the full space of months—lor compelling titles from Ex- , :s „ r Administrators, where bond has ,i yeu by the deceased, the fu»* space XX* for Homestead to be published r in tl.e space of ten consecutive days Schedule of the Georgia Railroad SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, ) Giorg:* isdM. & A Raiuioai. Company, > Augusta, Ga., January ~0, loll. ) O N and after SUNDAY. January 22d, 1871, the Passenger /Trains will run as ioi- lor.'s; DAY PASSENGER TRAIN, DAILY, (SUNDAY EXCEPTED ) U»ve Augusta at 8.00 A. M “ Atlantaat 5.10 A.M. Arrive at Augusta — 6.30 P. M. “ at Atlanta 5.40 P. M.. NIGIIT PASSENGER TRAIN. Le»ve Augusta at 8.30 P. M. “ Atlanta at 10.15 P. M. Arrive&t Augusta ...C.40 A. M. ‘ Atlanta 7.30 A. M, Both Day and Night Passenger Trains will m&ke close connections at Augusta and Atlan ta with Passenger Trains of Connecting Roads. Passengers from Atlanta, Athens, Washing ton, aud Stations on Georgia Railroad, by ta king the Down Day Passenger Train will make close connection at Camak with the Ma con Passenger Train, and reach Macon the •ame day at 7 40, p, m. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. MACON & AUGUSTA R. R. GOING PASSENGEB TRAINS EAST DAILY. Leave Macon at 6. a. m. Arrive at Milledgeville 8.14 a. ny “ “ Sparta 9.24 a. m. ‘'Warrenton ..11,00 a. m. Connect at Camak with up train on Geor E‘ s R R. for Atlanta. Arrive at Augusta. 1.45 p. m. passenger trains going WEST DAILY. k* y e Augusta 12 00 m. Arnve atWarrenton 2.00 p. m. “ Sparta 4.20 p. in. “ Milledgeville .5.30 p. in. “ Macon 7.10 p. m. triweekly freigi W EST MONDAY, I NESDAY AND FRIDAY Le * v es Camak 6.00 Arrives at Warrenton — 6.31 4 “Sparta 9.24 “ Milledgeville.. ...11.20 “ Macon ....3.35 DETLuxIAG—G OING 1 Tuesday, Thursday Saturday. heave Macon....................6.00 a. m Ar weat Milledgeville 10.00 a. m. “Sparta 12.00 m. " Warrenton : 2 00 p. m. “ Camak............ ....3.00 P- m - HANTERS’ HOTEL. Augusta, <*a. Ih ‘ only Hotel in the City where Gas is used throughout. 40 UN A. C OLD STEIN. JOB PRINTING IN ALL STYLES & COLORS, ¥im ?£MY. SOUTHERN RECORDER AND Southern Times & Planter, BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE, Ivlille dge ville. AND Sparta. G*a yyE INVITE TIIK ATTENTION OF the Public generally, to our extensive and well-fitted Jpali fPtintbiQ (DffLces.. Our facilities lor Executing BOOK AND JOB PRINTING are as good as those of any Office in the coun try, having a largo lot of types in our two Extensive Establishments. CARDS. WEDDING, visrnro, AND EVERY OTHER KIND. IRm&V QM €QL:QBEB, £1 MASOnABllff SOTDES WE keep on hand all the lime a full supply of Legal Blanks. Sheriff's, Ordinary’s, Clerk’s, Mag istrate’s, and Law Blanks, of every kind Printed on the Best Paper, and at Low Prices. Book Printing. AS we have a FINE lot of the BEST TYPE and a No. 1. Power Press, we are fully prepared to ex ecute as nice Book-work as any one. Call and give us a trial and be con vinced. BILL HEADS, ETC., In the line of Bill Heads, Letter Heads and Circulars, we are prepared as heretofore, to execute neat work, on favorable terms, and we guarantee that our work will be equal Lo that performed in any of the larger cities : so that our Law yers and Merchants need not send off to have such work done. Send in your Orders. FOSTERS, PROGRAMMES, HOUSE-BILLS, Sc., These Offices will be found to be equal lo anything in the State. Par ties have but lo call and Examine to be convinced. CALL ON OR ADDRESS R. A. Harrison & Co. XaXLXiXlBCtBVXLXi S * OR IVAftTA. QA MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1871. [The following Story, written by a gifted Southern writer, it entered as a competitor for the 1100 00 P rizt offered by Messrs. R. A. Ifar- rison Bro., for “7he but original contri bution” furnished their papers, during the pres ent yea\ MISTRESS ELSIE. CHAPTER X. To me it was no matter whether it were night or day. The sunlight brought no joy, the starlight no peace of iniud. The morning and the evening made up the day, bring ing my uncle’s plans nigher to fulfill ment. There was no need for me to reckon time any more. No chance came for me to see John again; no art of Janet availed, for my aunt had her eyes ever upon me, and the preparations for the voyage went on—su< h simple ones, that it could not take very long to fin ish them. Unlearned maiden that I was, 1 hardly knew where that dis tant colony was—only 1 was cer tain that a great sea lay betwixt it and England. God knowelh that I prayed some miracle might Tescue me. He knoweth that when hope of succor had gone from me, that 1 besought Him to let the waves en- gulph me. Poor wretched heart! I knew that John Gray’s prison stood beside the river, and some feverish idea beset my mind that when he died his spirit would drift out to mine. One night my uncle came, and to my great wonder, sat down beside me on my couch—for a lingering fe ver had fastened upon me, hinder ing me from all the duties which had fallen to my share, since I had been in London town. “Elsie,” said he, ’“thou art full stubborn, and hast cost me wakeful nights enough, God knows ; and yet, I have it in my mind lo give thee one more pleasure, ’ere you leave my roof for good.” No words came from my lips, but I lilted up my hand in token that I heard him and was attending to his speech. “This night I, myself, will carry thee to bid farewell to him thou call- est thy betrothed—Joho Gray—con fined according to his misdemeanor, in a prison on the river.” Something like a thrill shot through me—some vision of a coming deliv erance, came like a ray ol God’s bless ed sunlight into the dark despair ol my mind; and before he knew—well nigh before he had ceased speaking, I had risen and kissed the hem of his doublet; at which sight he turned and left me, in anger 1 thought, it was so sudden. Janet had been sent at early dawn upon a mission from my aunt into the country-side, and Donnel did not appear all day either. Ijwas alone ; though since I knew I was to see and speak to my dear John Gray that night, I tried lo make my gown look fit, and put the best rufl that 1 had upon me. The last, last time, that 1 would ever have to please his eye, and I would look as comely as I could. Surely it was some good augel which led my uncle lo do this great kindness to tne. To let ine tell my love, how that it was cruel fortune—not once mine own intent to forsake him—but strive asl might, I could not make me look as the sor rowless country maiden had done, before ever an unkind word had fall en 4 on mine ear; and I gave over striving ere long. My aunt was in another room; I could hear h t as she moved about among the piesses; and presently, 1 heard strange men come in and bear away some box or chest, and 1 be thought me, she was sending some household stores to her si3tcr in Ijer old north country home. Just at twilight, before either Don- nef or Janet were back—the which I mourned, because in soothe, I could not acquaint them of the grace done to me—my uncle brought his horse unto a side entrance, and himsell lift ed me upon the pillion. There was no pressing need to bid my aunt farewell—since I should return not many hours hence—hut, kpowirg how oft she had enjoined courteous behaviour upon my mind, I turned to make a courtesy lo -her before 1 gat upon the horse; but she had gone, as my uncle said “upon her housewife duty elsewhere;” and I lost the chance of showing off the manners she had taught me. Ah me, the dismal London streets looked blithesome to mine eyes, as we rode a-down them—and the great bells ringing, sounded like the wed ding bells that used to ring from out the old stone belfry on the moor— and to my mind, so filled with the thought of s«*H--g John Gray in such a little space of time, sweet sounds arid cheerlul lights seemed to pro* ceed from cveiy place! So full of joy was I, that I did not marvel that the distance seemed much greater, until the difference ot the scenes struck upon me. Had they moved his pris on ? “Dear uncle,” said I, “have we much further to travel, before we reach the place lie is imprisoned in ?” My heart took sudden frigid when he did not answer me at all; and I saw that we were going—whither 1 knew not—but, I gathered all ray courage and asked again, and this time louder, for fear he had not heard me afore. “Dear uncle, shall I see him in very truth (his trip hi ?” but yet he made no answer, and I knew that ho was minded nut to speak—since none could keep from hearing me, I spoke so loud , and after we had gone a hit farther, we stopped, and looking ea gerly to catch the sight of John’s a- bode, I saw instead, that we had in deed reached the river-bank, but not such place as 1 had ever been be- fore---but nigh the mooring of a ves sel—whose tall masts seemed stand ing grim and bare before us, reach ing much above our heads. Then my uncle spoke: “No need to raise thy voice, maid en, or beseech augfil of tne ; we are come to the vessel which, God grant, may land thee safe to thy husband, and, art as far from thy ‘shep herd,’ as yonder star from its fel- low!” , And this, then, was tny cruel fate and bitter lot! This the trap which merciless ones had laid lo fetch tne without disturbance from their house. The air must not be loaded with m3 7 sobs; no tender leave taking must be between Janet and me, or even kindly Donnel; they could not brook such sights—and jet no shadow of remorse came over my uncle and aunt, when they seethed the kid m its mother’s milk, and won tne by my love, to go with willing, glad* some feet, unto my doom! Did not my mother, ’mongst the angels, bear up an accusation to the Throne ? and had not John told me, that there was a Great Book, wherein the Lamb hath written and sealed the record by our woes, against a lime ut just requital ? Aye, surely there is much hidden, which one day those great white pages will make manifest! (To be continued.) There’s a funny story going the rounds, of an old colored man who was left in charge of a telegraph of fice, in New Orleans, while the op erator went out “to see a man.” A “call” came over the wires, and the darkey shouted at the instrument ns fond ns he could, “De operator is n’t ycr !” The nois ceased instanter. The San Francisco New Letter: “ ‘The third city in the State’ is still very bitter against the Census Mar shal for enumerating the inmates of the Stockton Asylum in the popula tion of that city. The protest is frivolous ; if the lunatics are not to be counted the figures of any census would be paltry to the points of con temptible.” The boys on Long Wharf, New Haven, have a novel way of getting molasses into their stomachs^ Fhey take a long string, dip it into the molasses, and: putting one end be tween their teeth swallow the rest. After calmly enjoying the delicious sweetness awhile, they take hold of the end of the string and pull it gent ly out and repeat the operation. It is fun, says the New Haven Palladi um; if you do not believe it, try it yourself, Parlor Games. Although the calendar tells of spring, and the daj 7 s are percepti bly longer, the beating snow on our window-panes speaks loudly of win ter and, furs and cracking fires are as much in order as ever. Still night follows hastily on the heels of day, biinding the world wiih his dusky cloak; still the b>ys and girls, driven in early by the darkness, cluster about the hearth with lesson and needle, or. weary of both, yawn loudly and demand 10 be amused. “What shall we do, modier, what shall we play?” perplexing question oft times lo poor mother, who has no frisk left in her, and wonders why the children can’t ' be content to sit still as older people do. Dear madam they can’t! You might as well ask your cider-barrel to slop working. Their legs and arms are all a twitch with the insatiable fermentation of their age; their brains are electric with growth. Let them have their lun now at the proper season, and they won’t be half so likely to lake it bye and bye at the wrong. Let them act charades, get up tableaux, dance about, “dress up.” Never mind il it does pull the room to pieces; or if the comfort of an in valid or busy person is invaded by the noise, let them play games, of which there are plenty neither bois terous nor difficult. They will en joy them all the more if you will lay down your work for a while and lake a part with them. There is “piano kaleidoscope,” for instance, which will keep a group of little ones enchanted and happy for a whole evening. The lid of the piano is raised and folded over so as to form, with the help of the piano cover, a long, triangular passage. The children stand at one end of this peeping in; the other is brightly lit by 7 a gas branch or a couple of candles, and Mother holds up at the opening a series of gay objects, such as (lowers, lamp mats, bead-baskets, which, triply reflected in the polish wood, make a series of beautiful effects, like those ol’a kaleidoscope. Or there is the “Game of Statues.” Everybody is a statute, excepting two who enact a showman and a would-be purchaser. The show man must be the “funny one” ol the family. He describes the statues, turn then round, gives the prices, indicates their best points, regrets that this one’s nose was a little in jured in packing, and that one got dirty on the voyage and hasn’t had its face washed yet; the statues meantime standing perfectly still, with immovable faces. Any one who moves or laughs is punished b} 7 a forfeit. “Menagerie” is another nice game especially if tfiere happens to be a family gathering or a little partj r . The older people arrange themselves as audience, one person acts show man, the rest are put out of the room and enter one by one. The show man states that he has the finest collection of beasts ever seen; brought together at vast expense from every quarter of the globe; and including every animal that went in to Noah’s ark. What would the gentleman (or lady) like to see? The visitor is pretty sure lo choose some out-of-the-way creature like a crocodile or gorrilta in hopes of pos ing the showman, who prolongs the conversation a little, and manages to extract a sketch of the animal and his ways. After which he draws aside the curtain, behind which a loooking glass is hidden, and Tom, who has demanded the “chimpanzee—a troublesome crea ture, always in mischief, a dread ful glutton; nails—of course they’re dirty—he never cleans them,”—he sees his own face! And Flora, who has asked for the porcupine, as a “cross, sulky creature, good for nothing but to make pincushions,” is scandalized by a similar reflec tion! Well managed, this game can be made very amusing. “Musical fright” is noisier. A row of chairs—one less in number than the persons playing—is ranged down the middle of the room. Some one plays the piano, while the chitdien dance in a circle. Suddenly the music stops and the plaj T ers run for the chairs. One person of course fails to secure any, and is counted out of the game. Alter each chair is withdrawn till only one chair and two players are left; the one who gets that is declared winner. “Russian scandal” is played in this wise. One person takes an other out of lhe room and tells him a story. Player No. 2 calls out No. 3 and repeats the same story. No. 3 tells No. 4. and so on till all have heard it, when the last told rehearses the story aloud lo all the others, the version b’eing generally widely dif ferent from the original, each per son having unconsciously added and left out something. In “Black Art” there must always be two confederates who know the secret. < >nc goes out of the room while the rest choose some object to be guessed. The person out then re-enters and is a-ked ; “Is it this ?” “Is it that?” till finally the right ar ticle is named, and immediately to the"sUrprise of ail he answers “yes.” The apparent witch craft lies in the fact that confi derate No. 2 names first some black object and then the thing chosen. “Cliarade.” Three or four per sons in the secret go into a room by themselves. The rest of the company enter one bj r one. The word- ol the charade is “Mimic.”— No one speaks, but everything done by 1 he new-comer the rest imitate exactly till he guesses the word ; after which he takes his place among the actors, and the next comes in. “The Reviewers.”—This is a game for older boys and girls.— Each is furnished with pencil and paper, and begins by writing the name of an imaginary book on the lop line, filding it once, and passing it to the next player, who adds a second name and an “or,” aud hands it on, Each then write the au'hor’s name, a motto, an “opin ion of the press,” and a second “opinion of the press.*’ The papers arc then opened and read- -thecon- leuls ruuning something in this wise: Ddiy Ducker ; or, The Fiend of the Hills. By Penelope Perry. Motto : “I heard a little lamb cry 7 , ‘Bah !! ” “Sweet—soothing—satisfactory.” Home Register. “A book calenlaled lo make the American eagle screech proudly and flap his wings.”—Kennebunk Argus. “Word and question,” is also played with pencil and paper.— Eeach player writes a word and a question on two difierent slips of paper, folds them, and lays them in two baskets provided for the pur pose. They are then distributed hap-hazard, and every person writes a rhyming answer to the question lie draws, in which the word is in troduced. This game gives great opportunity for clever people to show their cleverness. We con clude with a list of amusing forfeits: The forfeit-payer asks everybody in tlie room to do her a lavor. She must answer tlireo questions without smiling. • His eyes are baudaged, and he guesses who feeds him with spoonfuls of water. To put your sister or friend '‘through the keyhole. 77 (This is done by writing the names on paper and passing them through.) Answer ‘‘no” to twenty questions. Walk round the room and kiss your own shadow without laughing. Two persons from opposite sides of the room are to meet and shake hands blindfold. To imitate a donkey to the best of your pow ers. To be put up to euction and bid for. When the forfeit-holder thinks the price sufficient, he restores the forfeit. Answer fire questions without saying “yes” or “no.” '' Spsaking Slightly of Women’ At a recent dinner in New York, at which no ladies were present, a man in responding to a toast, “Wo men,” dwelt almost solely on the frailty of the sex, claiming that the bast among them were little belter than the worst, the chief difference being their surroundings. At the conclusion of the speech, a gentle man present rose to his feet and said : “I trust the gentleman in the ap plication of his remarks, refers to his own. mother aud sisters, not ours." The effect of this most just and timely rebuke was overwhelming ; and the maligner of women was covered with confusion and shame. This incident serves an excellent purpose in prefacing a few words on this subject. Of all the evils prevalent among men, we know of none more blight ing in its moral effect than the tend ency to speak slightly of the virtue of woman. Nor is there anything in which young men are 60 thoroughly mistaken as in the low estimate they form of the integrity of women— not their own mothers and sisters, thank God, but of others, who, they forget, are somebody else’s mothers and sisters. Plain words should be spoken on ibis point, for the evil is a general one, deep rooted. If j 7 oung men are sometimes thrown in the society of lewd women, they have no more right to measure all other women by what they see of these than they would have to estimate the charac ter of honest and respectable citizens by the developments of crime in our Police courts. Let, young men remember that their chief happiness in life depends upon their faith in women. No worldly wisdom, misanthropic phi losophy, no generalization can cover or weaken this fundamental truth. It stands like the record of God himself—for it is nothing less than this—and should put an everlasting seal upon lips that are wont to speak slightly of women. Number 15. The Dessert. —Grocers should remember that honest tea is the best policy. An affecting sight—To behold at a wedding the sorrow-strickon air of the parent as he “gives the bride a- way,” when you know for the last ten years he has been trying lo her off his hands. —“Ah! 1 '’ said a Sunday school teacher, “Caroline Jones, what do you think you would have been with out your g«®d father and mother?” “I suppose, mum,” said Caroline, “I suppose as 1 should ha’ been a horphan.” —A Boston woman refused lo permit her husband to go on a fish ing excursion, “because he was very apt to get drowned when he went upon the water, and, moreover, did not know how to swim any more than a goose.” —An apprentice sailor fell from the “round top” to the deck, stunn ed, but little hurt. The captain exclaimed in surprise, “Why where did you come from?” “From the north of Ireland, yer honor!” was the prompt reply, as the poor fellow gatiiered himself up. —A married lady who was in the habit of spending most ol her.time in the society of her neighbors, hap pened one daj 7 to be taken ill, and sent het husband in great haste for a physician. The husband ran a short distance, and then returned,exclaim ing, “My dear, where shall I find you when I come back?” —A Boston grocer, who excited the ire of one of his customers by presenting at his house his bill for goods rendered, was wailed upon soon alter by a daughter of the debt or, who said; ‘ I wish you wouldn’t come with that bill when father’s at home—it makes him nervous to be dunned,” The grocer apologized. —Figaro represents two married ladies chatting about their husbands. “What,” sa)s one of them, “j 7 ou permit your husband to smoke in your rooms?” “Certainly I do, but he spends his evenings with me,” replied the other. “Yes, at that price!” “My dear friend, a shrewd wife avails herself of her husband’s faults lo repress his vices.” —There is a little railroad near Bayou Sara, La, that runs to Wood- viile on a very uncertain schedule. A stranger came in the other day and inquired how often that steam car made trips to the country. The party interrogated said “tri-weekly.” “What do you mean by tri-weekly? ” The answer was, “It goes up one week and tries to come down the next.’" 1 —An elderly 7 lady who was hand ling a pair of artificial plates in a dental office and admiring the fluency with which the dentist described them, asked him: “Can a body eat with these things?” “My dear mad am, mastication can be performed with a facility scarcely equaled by nature herself,” responded the den tist. “Yes, I know, but can a body eat with them?” —A darkey was boasting to a grocerofthe cheapnecs often pounds of sugar he had bought at a rival shop. “Let me weigh the package,” said the grocer. The darkey assent ed, and it was two pounds short. The “colored gentleman” looked perplexed for a moment and then said : “Guess he didn’t cheat dis chile much, for while lie wa3 gettin’ de sugar I stole two pair of shoes.” —A very smart boy 7 on his return from college, attempted to prove that two were equal to three. Pointing to a roasted chicken on the table, he said : “Is not that one?” and then pointing to another: “Is not that two ? and do not one and two make three?” Whereupon his father sa.d: “Wife, you take one and I’ll take the other., and our smart boy can have the third for his dinner.” Oaths are the weapons a coward wields. A Firm friend—An obstinate Quaker. Thk pitable plea of the delendant in a breach of promise case in Iowa is that he “was in earnest about marrying the girl until he got that rheumatism.” Mr. Jones told his wife, the other day, that if she did not take care, he should lose his temper with her; she replied, she was glad to hear ol it, and only hoped he would never find it again- As old Van Shroomps was giving his youngest, who was inclined lo be la zy, a good cowbiding, the young boy cried out: “Oh! don’t, {"adder, it makes me smart !” “Dat’s shooost vat I vants,” seid the old man, as he whacked away with renewed vigor. igaft