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Number 45 Volume LIZ. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1871. THE .South**# §t**o*it*r. BT s. A. HARRISON, ORME & CO. Terns, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance HATES OF ADVERTISING. C h i a CL j * O CD of 3 months.; a B 0 0 1 year, j 1 ,$1-00 $3.2o $7.50 i$12.0U $20.00 i ) 1.75 5.00 12.00 18.00 30.00 3 2.00 7.00 10.00 28-00 40.00 . 1 3.50 9.00 25.00 35.00 50.00 l I 4.00 12.00 28.00 40.0*1 eo.oo icoll 0.00 15.00 34.00 60.00 75.00 ,icol 10.00 25.00 f.0.00 "0.00- 125.00 lcolj 20.00 50.00 80 UtF.'&o 00 1GU.O0 LEGAL ADVERTISING. Ordinary's.—Citations for letters of id ninistration, guardianship, &c. $ 3 00 Hjmestead notice...... 2 00 Aijplicatioufor dism’u from adm’n.. 5 00 Applicatioufor dism'n ofgnard’n 3 50 Application for leave to sell Land.... 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors.... 3 00 Sales of Land, per square of ten lines 5 00 Sale of personal per sq., ten days 1 50 Sheriff's—Each levy often lines,.... 2 50 Mortgage sales of ten lines or less.. 5 00 Tax Collector’s sales, (2 months.... 5 00 Clerk’s--Foreclosure of mortgage and other monthly’s, per square 1 00 Estray notices,thirty days 3 00 Sales of Land, by Administrators, Execu tors or Guardians, are required, by law to be held on tlie first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court house in the county in which the property s situated. Notice of these sales must be published 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notice for the sale of personal property must oe published 10 days previous to sale day. Notice to debtors and creditors, 40 day Notice that application will be made of the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land. 4 weeks. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, &e., must be published 30 Jays—for dismission from Administration, monthly six months, for dismission from guar- iunship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must be published monthly for four months—for “stablishing lost papers, for the full space oj ‘.tree months—for compelling titles from Ex- icutors or Administrators, where bond has seen given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Application for Homestead to be published twice in the space of ten consecutive days. T MARK WALTER’S sV'A Broad St., Augusta, Ga. MARBLE MONUMENTS, TOMB STONES &C., &C. Marble Mantels and Furniture-Marble of all kinds Furnished to Order. All work for the Country carefully boxed for shipment. M'ch 12 p ’70 ly. r Feb 1, ’71 ly NATURE’S MIR DOM. Free from the Poisonous and Health-destroying Drugs us ed in other Hair Prepara tions. No SUGAR OF LEAD-No LITHARGE—No NITRATE OF SILVER, and is entirely Transparent aud clear as crystal, it will not soil the finest fabric—perfectly SAFE, CLEAN and E F FI C IE N T—desideratums LONG SOUGHT FOR AND FOUND AT LAST! It restores and prevents the Hair from be coming Gray, imparls a soft, glossy appear ance, removes Dandruff, is cool and refreshing to the head, checks the Hair from falling off, and restores it to a great extent when prema turely lost, prevents Headaches, cures all hu mors, cutaneous emotions, and unnatural Heat, AS A DRESSING FOR THE HAIR IT IS THE BEST ARTICLE IJV THE MARKET. DII. G. SMITH, Patentee, Groton Junction, Mass., Prepared only by PROCTOR. BROTH ERS, Gloucester, Mass. The Genuine is put up in a p&nnel bottle, made expressiy for it with the name of the article blown in the glass. Ask your Druggist for Nature’s Hair restora tive, and take no other. TTrix-m For sale in Milledgeville by L. W. HUN1 & GO. In Sparta, by A. H. BIRDSONG &• CO. P July 2 ly. H Feb28’71 ly. W.m. II. Tisos. Wm. W. Gordon TIS0N & GORDON, (established, 1854 ) COTTON FACTORS AND Commission Merchants^ 112 BAY STREET SAVANNAH, GA. B agging and iron ties advan CED on Crops. Liberal Cash Advances made on Consign ment of Cotton. Careful attention to all bust> ness, and prompt returns Guaranteed, oct. 9 r a n 4m. Fine Furniture ! THOMAS WOOD, next to Lanier House, MACON GEORGIA Parlor Saits, in Walnut and Mahogany: Cham ber Suits, in Walnut, (Oiled and Var nished,) Mahogany, Oak and Maple. Also, Enameled Painted Sets, in large variety. Large lot of Maple and Walnut Bedsteads, from 95 to 990- Chairs of all descriptions. Mattresses, and Pillows, Wall Paper, Window Shades, and well selected stock of Carpets, Oil Cloths and Mattings, CHEAP FOR CASH. Illistellaneflus. COFFINS Rosewood, Mahogany, Walnut, Cedar and Imitatations. Metalic Cases and Cas kets. new styles, at reduced prices. Oct. 17 41 tf LAWTON, HART & CO- FACTORS AND Commission Merchants, U sual advances made on Cotton in Store, oct. y r &n.:4m NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CUNDURANGO! Bliss, Keene k Co's Fluid Extract The Wonderful Remedy for Cancer, Syphilis, Scrofula, Ulcers, Salt Rheum and all other Chronic Blood Diseases. Dit. T. P. KEENE having just returned from the Ecuador and brought with him a quantity of the genuine Cudurango Bark, se cured through the official recommendatiou and assistance of his Excellency, the President of the Ecuador, and the Government of that Re public, we are prepared to fill orders for it to a limited extent, and at a price about one' quarter ^f that which the cost ot the first very small supply compelled us to charge. Our FluidExtruct is prepared from the gen uine Cundurango Bark from Loja. Ecua'dor, secured by assistance of the authorities of that country. Sold by all Druggists in pint bottles, having on them our name, trade mark and full directions for use. Price, $10. Laboratory No. 00, Cedar st., New York. BLISS, KEENE & CO. D. W. Bliss, M. D., Washington, D. C.; Z. E. Bliss, M. D„ New York ; P. T. Keene, M. D., New York. W ft 0 n ’ « household KIAGA- 11 |l/ U U O SEINE is offered free durfng the coming year to every subscriber of Merry’s Museum, the Toledo Blade, Pomeroy’s Demo crat, etc., which is an evidence of its worth and pop ularity. Horace Greeiy, James Parton, The- odore Tilton, GanTamilton^tcT, write for every number In clubbing, it offers three first class periodicals for the price of one of them. A variety of pre“ miums on equally lib9ral terms. It is an or iginal, first class magazine. Volume X begins ith January 72 Address F« ree specimen copies free.— S. S. WOOD, Newburgh, New York. AGENTS M ATED FOR The Year of Battles. The History of the War between France and Germany, embracing also Paris under the Commune. 150 illustrations; 642 pages; price. $2 50; 5 n ,000 copies already sold.— The Only complete work. Nothing equals it to sell. Making 10,000 copies per month now. In English and German. Terms unequaled. Outfit $1 25. Address H. S. GOOD8PEED <& Co., 37 Park Row, New York. PATENTS Solicited by MUNN & CO., Publishers Scientific American, 37 Park Row. N. Y. Twenty-live year’s experience. Pam phlets containing Patent Laws, with full di rections how to obtain patents free. A bound volume of 118 pages, containing the New Census by counties and all large cities, 140 Engravings of Mechanical Move ments. Patent Laws and rules for obtaining Patents, mailed on receipt of 25 ceuts. Bloomington Nursery, Illinois. 20th year! 6(K) Acres ! 13* Green Houses I Largest Assortment. Best Stock. Low Prices. Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Bulbs, Seeds, Stocks, Grafts, Jkc. 100 Page Illustrated Catalogue, 10 cents. Bulb, Plant, Seed Catalogues, all for 10 cents. Wholesale Price List, free.— Send for these before buying elsewhere. F. K. P1IG5NIX, Bloomington, 111., i ( IHEAPEST ADVERTISING IN THE WORLD. For 24 per Inch per Month, we will insert an Advertisement in 35 first class (Georgia Newspapers. Including 4 Dai- I lies. Proportionate rates for snialle- ad\ ertisomeuts. List sent free. Ad dress, GEO P ROWELL & CO., 41 Park Row, New York. TIIHE Harrisburg Family Cornsheller Co. waut Agents to sell their Family Corn- sheliers. Best invention of the kind. Sells at sight Profits large. For Circulars address EUGENE SNYDER, Treasurer, Lock Box 9, Harrisburg, Pa ■ ; $30. We Will Pay $-30. Agents $30 per week to sell our great and val uable discoveries. If you waut permanent, honorable aud pleasant work, apply for partic ulars. Address DYER &. CO-, Jackson, Mich igan. m A MONTH es paid. ... Horse furnished. Expense II. B. SHAW, Alfred, Me. A VOID QUACKS- a victim of early indiscretion, causing nervous debility, premature decay, etc., having tried in vain every advertised remedy, has discovered a simple means of self cure which he wdl send to lAs fel ow sufferers. Address J. H. REEVES 78 Nassau street, N. Y- Nov. 7, r p n4w PULASKI HOUSE Savannah, Ga. W. H. WILTBERGEB, Proprietor. Augusta,] da. The only Hotel in the City where Gas is used throughout. JO UN A. GOLDSTEIN, Vagaries of a Starving Man. Mr. Evarts, who was lost in the Yel owstone, contribute to Scrib ner’s an interesting account of his “Thirty-seven Days of Peril.” YVe quote: “1 lost all sense of time. Days and nights came and went, and were numbered only by the growing con sciousness that I was gradually starving. I felt no hunger, did not eat to appease appetite, but to re new strength. I experienced but little pain. The gaping sores on my feet, the severe burn on my hip, the festering crevices at the joints of my fingers, all terriblfe in appearance, had ceased to give me the least con cern. 'l he loots which supplied my food had suspended the digestive power of the stomach, and their fi bres were packed in it in a malted, compact mass. “Not so with my hours of slum ber. They were visited by the most J luxurious dreams. I would appar ently visit the most gorgeously de corated restaurants of New York and Washington ; sit down to immense tables spread with the most appetiz ing viands; partake of the richest oyster stews and plumpest pies; en gage myself in the labor and pre paration of curious dishes, and with them fill range upon range of ele gantly furnished tables, until they fairly groaned beneath the accumu lated dainties prepared by my own hands. Frequently the entire night would seem to have been spent in gelling up a sumptuous dinner. 1 would realize the fatigue of roasting, boiling, and fabricating the choicest dishes known to modern cuisine, and in my disturbed slumbeis would en joy with epicurean relish the food thus furnished to repletion. Alas ! there was more luxury than life in these somnolent vagaries. * * “By some process which I was too weak to solve, my arms, legs and stomach were transformed into so many travelling companions. Of ten for hours I would plod along conversing with these imaginary friends. Each had his peculiar wants which he expected me to sup ply. The stomach was importun ate in his demand for a change of diet—complained incessantly of the roots I fed to him, their present ef fect and more remote consequences. I would try to silence him with promises, beg of him to wail a few days, and when this failed of the quiet I desired, I would seek to in limidate him by declaring, as a sure result of negligence, our inability to reach home alive. All to no purpose —he tormented me with his fretful humors through the entire journey. The others would generally concur with him in these fancied alterca tions. The legs implored me for rest, and the arms complained that 1 gave them too much to do. Trou blesome as they were, it was a pleasure to realize their presence. 1 worked for them, too, with right good will, doing many things for their seeming comfort which, had I fell myself alone, would have remained undone. They appeared to be per fectly helpless of themselves ; would do nothing for me or for each other. I often wondered, while they ate and slept so much, that they did not aid in gathering wood and kindling fires. As a counterpoise to their own iner tia whenever they discovered lan guor in me on necessary occasions, they were not wanting in words of encouragement and cheer. I recall as I write, an instance where, by prompt and timely interposition, the representative of the stomach saved me from a death of dreadful agony. One day I came to a small stream issuing from a spring of mild tem perature on the hillside, swarming with minnows* I caught some with my hands and ate them raw. To my taste they were delicious. But the stomach refused them, accused me of attempting to poison him, and would not be reconciled until I bad emptied my pouch of the few fish I had put there for future use. The minerals in the spring had poisoned them, and those that I had eaten made me very sick.” Never forget what a man has said to you when he is angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. A person has of ten been started from a pleasant dream of self-deception by the words of an angry man, who may wish his words unsaid the next hour, but they are past recall. The wisest course is to take home this lesson with meekness to your soul. It is a saying of Socrates that every man has need of a faithful friend and a biller enemy ; the one to ad* vise, and the other to show him his faults. To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vatn man is every*, body’s. The Farmer—A. Beautiful Picture. BY HON. EDWARD BVERBTT. The man who stands upon his own soil; who feels that by the laws of the land in which he lives—by the laws of civilized nations—he is the rightful exclusive owner of th land which he tills, is by the consti tution of nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source. He feels—other things being equal, more strongly than another, the character of a man, as the lord ot the animate world. Of this great and pnverful sphere, which, fashioned by the hand of God and upheld by his power, is rolling through the hea ven 1 , a portion is hisj his f oin cen tre to sky. It is the space on which the generation before him moved in its round of duties; and he feels himself connected, by a visible link, with those who preceded him, as he is also to those who follow him and to whom he is to transmit a home. Perhaps his farm has come down to him from his fathers. They have gone to their last home ; but be can race their footsteps over the scenes of his daily labor. The roof that shelters him was reared by those to whom he owes his being. Some in teresting domestic tradition is con nected with every enclosure. The favorite fruit tree was planted by his father’s hand. He sported in his boyhood beside the brook, which still winds through the meadow. Through the field lies the path to the village school of earlier days. He still hears from his window the voice of the Sabbath bell which called his fathets and fore fathers to the home ot God, and near at hand is the spot where his parents laid down to rest, and where, when his time is come, he shall be laid by his children.— These are the feelings of the owner ot the soil. Words cannot paint them, gold cannot buy them ; they flow out of the deepest fountains ot the heart; they are the life spring of a fresh, healthy and generous na tional character. STEQNG DSINS—A FABLE. “I am hungry,” said the Grave ; give me food.” Death answered: “I will send forth a minister of awful destruction, and you shall be satisfied.” “What minister will you send?” “I will send Alcohol. He shall go in the guise of food and medi cine, pleasure and hospitality. The people shall drink and die.” And the Grave answered: “I ain content.” And now the church bells began to toll, and the mourntul procession to advance. “Who are they bringing now ?” said the Grave. ‘Ah!” said Death, “they are bringing a household. The drunk en father aimed a blow at his wife. He killed the mother and child to gether, and then dashed out his own life.” “And who,” said the Grave, “comes next, followed by a train of weeping children ?” “This is a broken-hearted wo man, who has long pined away in want, while her husband has wast ed away her substance at the tav ern. And he too, is borne behind, killed by the hand of violence.” “And who next?” “A young man of generous im pulses, who, step by step, became dissipated and squandered his all. He was frozen in the streets.” “Hush!” said the Grave; “Now I hear a wail of anguish that will not be silenced.” “Yes, it is the only son of his mother. He spurned her love, re viled her warning, and a bloated corpse he comes to thee. And thus they come; further than the eye can reach, the procession crowds to thy dark abode. And still, lured by the enchanting cup which I have min gled, the sons of men crowd the path of dissipation. Vainly they dream of escape, but I shut behind them the invisible door—desLiny. They know it not, and with song and dance, and riot, they hasten to tiiee, O, Grave! Then I throw my spell upon new thiongs of youth, and soon they too, will be with thee.” A colored member of the Texan Legislature was recently seen with a roll of greenbacks in his hand, over which he chuckled so loudly as to attract the attention of a’by stander, who said to him, “What are you laughing at, Jim r” Jim replied, “You see that money ?” “Yes,” “Well, boss, I just got that for my vote. I’se been bought four or five limes in my life, but dis is de fust time I ever got de cash myself.— Cincinnati Commercial. Choose a friend as thou dost a wile, till death separate you. A Beautiful Sentiment Life bears us on like a rnighiv river. Our boat at first glides down the narrow channel through the playful murmuring of the little brook and the winding of the grassy borders. The trees shed their bfos soms over our young heads; the flowers on the bank seem to offer themselves to our young hands, we are happy in hope, and grasp eagei ly at the beauties around us ; but the stream hurries on, and still our hauds are empty. Our course in 3'outh and manhood is along a wider and deeper flood, and amid objects more striking and magnificent. We are animated at the moving picture of enjoyment and industry passing around us—are excited at some short lived disappointment. We may be shipwrecked—we cannot be delayed ; whether rough or stnooLh, the river hastens to its home, till the roar of the ocean is in our ears, and the tossing of the waves is beneath our feel, and the land lessens from our eyes, and the floods are lifted up around us and we take our leave o! earth and its inhabitants, until of farther voyage there is no witness save Infinite and Eternal. ing better than a good one, and nothing more horrible than a bad one.” So I say of children. I te- joice with those whose quiver is lull of the good, and pity those whom the bad afflict.—Mothers' Journal. give Filial Respect and Obedience. We commend the following arti cle to the attention ot our readers. Its suggestions are eminently wor thy to be seriously considered and acted upon by Sunday-school teach ers as well as by parents. Self- control is of the first importance with those who desire to be succe-s- ful trainers of the young.—Sunday school Worker. It becomes a most important question how best to secuie that obedience in children on which so much that is noble and good, both in the present and in the future life, depends. In reply, let me these few and brief directions. Let parents deserve the respect and obedience which they claim. If by prudent management and kind de meanor toward them they merit their reverence and love, ordinarily they will receive them. It is as much the duty of fathers and moth ers to govern themselves prooerly as to govern their children properly ; and let them bear this in mind, that those who manage themselves the best, find the least trouble in man aging their children. There is an Arabic proverb which says, “Cor rect thyself, that thou rn; vest cor rect others;” which applies to all whose duty or desire is to rule. It is very difficult for some children to respect their parents, attempt it as they may. Avoid harshness, which crushes the tender sensibilities of childhood, seals up the fountain of sympathy and hardens the heart. Be careful how you wound the feelings of a child. All discipline and correction should be administered without in justice or unkindnes?. Domestic tyranny is most detestable. Use- ess and oppressive severity makes wilful, reckless and disobedient chil dren. “Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath,” stands in the sa cred counsels as a guide and way- mark, to deter from a fault to which fathers are more disposed than mothers. Kindly instruct them as to the na ture of their obligations and duties. A MOTHER S POWER. A moment’s work on clay tells more than an hour’s labor on brick. So work on hearts should be done before they harden. During the firstsix or eight years of child-life, mothers have chief sway, and this is the lime to make deepest and most endearing impressions on the human mind. The examples of material influ ence are countless. Solomon him self records the words of~' wisdom that fell from a mother’s lips and Timothy was taught the Scriptures from a child by iiis grandmother. John Randolph, of Roanoke, used to say: “I should have been a French atheist, were it not for ihe recollection of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers, and make me say. on my bended knees, ‘Our Father who art in Heaven !’ ” “I have found out what made you the man you are.” said a gem'eman one morning to President Adams; “1 have been reading your moth 1*5 lett' rs to her son.” Washington’s mother trained her boy to truthfulness and virtue; and when his messenger called to tell her that her son was raised to the highest station in the nation’s gift, she could say : “George always was a good boy.” A mother’s tears dropped on the head of her little boy one evening as he s it in the doorway and listen ed, while she spoke of Christ aud His salvation. “Those tears made me a mission ary,” said he when lie had given his manhood’s prime to the service of the Lord. Some one asked Napoleon what was the great need of the French nation. “Mothers!” was the significant answer. Woman, has God given you the privileges and responsibilities of motherhood ? Be faithful, then, to the littie ones ; you hold the key of then hearts now. It \ou once loose it, %'ou should give the world to win it back; use your opportunities be fore they pass. .And remember little ones, you will never have but one mother.— Obey and honor Iter, listen to her words, aud God will bless you day by day. Sating too Fast. Eating loo fast generally involves eating too much—more than is need ed for the support and nutrition of the body—and the reason for this is, that the organs of taste, which are our guide in this matter, are not allowed sufficient voice; they ate not allowed time to take cognizance of the presence of food ere it is pushed past them into the recesses of the stomach. They do not, therefore, have opportunity to represent the real need of the sys tem, aud hence allow the crowding of the stomach. „„ . . - • , , 1 held that thirty minutes should 1 hey need instruction m all nselul be spent at each meal, and spent, \z nmvlPi I nrp tind in this pp rfoinUr o j , 1^1 . too, in chewing the food a good por- knowledge, and in this certainly as much as an3% How shall they un derstand these responsibilities unless they are taught ? Why should you feel a delicacy in urging upon your children the duty of filial respect and obedience ? It is essential to the comfort of parents, and vital to the welfare of children that it be rightly understood. Tell them what to know; but see that you do this very early, as soon as they can understand it; and also that you do it kindly and patiently, not with scolding and foul, finding. Exercise a steady, and as far as possible systematic government and discipline. Endeavor with each day to correct some fault and add some virtue. Do not despair be cause it is no better, and abandon it entirely. As far as possible, how ever, be uniform and equable. Do not correct with severity to-day a fault which is overlooked to-morrow, nor punish in one an act which [/as ses unnoticed in another. Too ma ny parents govern and correct ac cording to their caprices rather than the real desert of the child. This is shameful. If they are out of tem per, much annoyed, or much en gaged, they are very severe. It in good spirits, and much alease, they will allow serious faults to pass un- teproved. Therefore, correct and train thy son discreetly, and the fruit of thy labor shall appear; “he shall give delight uuto thy soul.” The pleas ure of having good children is a crown of honor and gladness to pa rental care and toil. Simonides said of wives—»“A man can obtain noth* tion of the time, and not 111 contin ued putting in and swallowing, but in pleasant chat and laugh, instead of the continuance of the intense nervous pressure ot the office or the library. It you lay out to spend thirty minutes in this way at your meals, you may rest assured you will not eat too much, aud what you do eat will lie in the best condition tor appropriation to the needs of your system. You will be healthier in body, happier in mind, and more vigorous ot brain—for there are tew things that so clog the brain as a me tl ot half eaten food put into the stomach.—Dr. J. H. Jackson. To be Remembered.—Three things to love—courage, gentleness and affection. Three things to admire—intellect ual power, dignity and gracefulness. Three things to hate—cruellv, ar rogance and ingratitude. Three things to delight in—beau ty, frankness anil freedom. Three things to wish for—health, friends, and a cheerful spirit. Three things to like—cordiality, go >d humor, and mirthfulness. Three things to avoid—idleness, loquacity, aud flipping jesting. Three things to cultivate—good books, good friends, and good hu mor. Three things to contend for—hon or, country, and friends. Three things to govern—temper, tongue, and conduct. Three things to think about—life, death, and eternity. 7ACSTXX. Wh3r is- B like a hot fire?—Be cause it makes oil boil. Two reasons why some persons don’t mind their owu business : One is, they havn’t any business; and the other, they hava’t any mind. “Have I not a right to be saucy, if 1 please ?” asked a young lady of an old bachelor. “Yes, if you please, but not when you displease,” was the answer. We have heard of an economical man who always takes his meals in front of a mirror—he does this to double the dishes. If that isn’t phi losophy, we should like to know what is. A lawyer engaged in a case tor mented a witness so much with questions that the poor fellow at last cried for water. “There,” said the Judge, M I thought 3’ou’d pump him dry.” tauwarrow, the great Russian general, even in peace always slept fully armed, boots and all. “When I was lazy,” he said, “and wanted to enjoy a comfortably sleep, I usu ally took off one spur.” The latest Irish bull we read of, is the case of an Irish gentleman who, in order to raise the wind whereby to relieve himself from pe cuniary embarrassment, got his life insured for a large amount and then drowned himself. We never read a certain patent pill advertisement bearing the start ling caution “Take them and live ; neglect them and die!” without thinking that the words import pre cisely the demand ot the highwa3’- man—“Your money or your life!” A boy was observed watching for a woodchuck to come out of his hole. “Do you suppose you can catch him ?” said a passer by. “Catch him said the boy, con temptuously, “Catch him! Pve got to catch him, stranger ; we’re out of meat.” “When a man and his wife have quarrelled, and each considers the other at fault, which of the two ought to be the first to advance to wards a reconciliation ?” inquired a husband of his wife. * The best- natured and wiser of the two,” was the sensible reply. An Indiana girl tearfully consented to marry a man she hated because she couldn’t bear the thought of los ing the wedding trousseau. Henry Wolfe, a Kentuckian, re cently completed his one hundred and eighth year without having known a sick day ; and then, not to mar so clean a bill of health, cut bis throat. An Eastern editor was serenaded a few evenings since, and in the next issue of his paper compliment ed the serenading party on their “ju dicious musical taste in the selection ot pieces.” He was informed by a listener, after the publication, that they had played the “Rogue’s March.” 6 At the grand reception of Grant at Bangor, Maine, the word “weU come” in large letters was placed over the door of the jail. The jailor was probably excited, and wanted to “celebrate” the occasion with the rest of the citizens, but didn’t seem to think how his “welcome” might be construed. The wise man is cautious, but not cunning; judicious but not crafty ; making virtue the measure of using his excellent understanding in the conduct of his life. Thoughtfulness.—Young man, in the Hush of early strength, slop and think ere you take a downward step. Many a precious life is wrecked through carelessness alone. If you find yourself in low compa ny, do not sit carelessly by till you are gradually but surely drawn into the whirlpool of iniquity and shame, but think of the consequences of such a course. Rational thought will lead you to seek the society of your superiors and you must im prove by the association. A benev olenl use of your example and influ ence lor the elevation of your infe riors is a noble thing; even the most depraved are not beyond such help. But the young man of impressible t haracter, must, at least think, and beware, lest he fall himself a victim. Think before you touch the wine; see its effects upon thousands, and that you are no stronger than they were in their youth. Think before 3’ou allow angry passions to over come your reason; it is thus that murderers are made. Think be fore, in a dark hour of temptation, lest you become a thief. Think well ere a lie or an oath passes your lips ; for pure speech only, can merit respect. Ah ! think on things true and lovely, and of good report - that there may be better men am) happier women in ib$ world,