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and others, who may wish to make
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!U -r.t.’"oy the first Turedxy In the month.
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---., 3 ‘ ..-douse in the oounty In which the prop
'[Vrennal Property must be advertised in like
” and Creditor* of an Estate must be
r ’, T Jnliati< will be made to the Ordinary for
sgroes, mu* be published weekly for
f- 1 f - Letters of Administration, thirty day?; for
’ monthly, u month*; for
: iSTamrdlanshlp. weekly, forty days
-st'” , L„-rrl.H4na of Mortgage*. montniv, four
’ H lire *'* ~£ Mbng M* papers, for the full space of three
<■ nr titles from executors or administrators
; sc .jn'jct* given by the deceased, the full space of
Hu-due** Cards will be Inserted un-
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iiuit m m\m am
Samuel H. Washington,
ITTORNEY AT LtW,
Mncozif G-a.
• • -t ee in all the Counties of the MACV*N Clß
the Counties of Washington, Wilkinson and
V it to flhncot Hall, over Payne's Dr.* Store.
LANIER 4 ANDERSON.
IITORNEYS AT LAW,
jVlacon, Ga„
-r’cr - the counties of the Macon Circuit, nd In
P ‘oißhesof .-’ loiter, Monroe and Jones; also In the
jai i'oiirt il Savannah.
‘"ER i Ah’PERSON have also recently become the
i. IcgU.'Ta"*SI^RANCAASEHBAA-KraOCOM
>. . ,- viii h W. M.D’Antlguac I* President, and C. r .
1 FIRE ANI> M A RISK IXBUR
MI’ASY. M ntgomery, of which T. H. Watt* Is
Y-; sad A. Williams is Secretary.
t *ad risks on slave* taken at usual rate*.
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L. X. WHITTLE,
(TTO RN E Y AT LAW,
MACON, GA.
Concert HaU,oer Payne’s Druf Store.
LCCHKANE & LAMAR,
Utorneys at, Law,
MACON, Qr^S-.
hv the Mechanic’s Bank.
irvvK uoAs from i to 11 A. M.. J to P. M. and also
ConntiMof the Macon Circuit andln
’tcnTsof jonea Monroe and Columbia, and -n the Su
’ T lOCTOAKC. JOHN LAMAR.
SPEER & HUNTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Mooou,
Ctt h rrao2lar Block, Corner of Cherry
Street Cotton Arenne.
Wr rfialed as partner* In the practice of Law In
■, - ulus Os the Mac.* and adjoialßC Oirculta, and
..... t e State bv • -dal contract—also, will attend
im'-.s. irts at Savannah and Marietta.
■*’ ALEX. M. SPEER,
, JWt SAMUEL ni'NTIK.
?h- in i w - c * M - DtnnaM
SBIFFIB & DUNSON,
Attorneys at Law?
MACON, GA.
Roforenco* :
, I l llr ,wn, Mil’.eddevllie; Hon. Washington Poe,
Hoi hm L Taney. MontdonH-ry. Aia.: Hon.
■’ Athtns,*Ua.; Uuo. C. J. MlKnald, Maiirt
kill i -Over Kln.herLrr * Vs Drus Store.
LEONARD T. DOYAL,
Attorney at Law,
Grift!xa* O a *
I r h street tietwevn Woodruff's Carriage Re-
M ,Urt T. DOTAL.
JAMES T. ELLIOTT,
kteney & Counsellor at Law,
f'.WDEy, ARKANSAS,
T ‘ ,;i Bustnem entruste4 to him in South Ar
THE LIVER
BTIGORATOR!
PRIPARKD BV DR. SANFORD,
•Funded entirely from gums,
|‘ ~t Pt..-jaU*e iad Liver Mt-llar.eio.r'w Sefore
: tut act. a* a Cathartic, rosier, milder, and
v tun ai.v .U.er medicine km ‘wn. It Is not on
-1 ‘ “sit a Liver remedv. actinc first on the Liver
“Hi matter, then on the Stomach and howelsto
‘ -alter, thus atcomplishin* two ports -xs* etter
r - it wv of the palate* feeltnire experienced in the
’■ , '-.vt Cathartic*. It drencthens the *y*tem at
, ‘’ it it ••';r*a it: and when taken (latiy Is mod*
: ; strengthen ami butld it up with untuual rap-
, :. r . *• r • rrir<4|ial re*nltnrs of the 1
htn it mA ;rf‘>nu* it? well,
, -<vit,ture mt tolly developed. Tbvstotn
dnt on the healthy action
‘ ■ ‘ ;.r oerformanceof it# functions:
’ j -is at fault I the bowel* are *t fault, and
. ‘ ‘ v ’ ‘■• •frrf in 1 consequence of one or*an—
v t.ti; ■ .w-ed a .to do it* duty. For the di*-
rci. one oft . ithe fropnetor* ha* made it
a i raetieeof; ! more than twenty yean, to
’* -!v where ! withtoeounteractthe many
7 ‘Wte WtliUjUls ! ! liable.
remedy! * ‘isar last fotnd, any person
■**“ LIVER • ‘OMCLAINT, in any of It*
•itttrT a!r vm tie. and conviction 1* certain.
’ ®* remove all (morbid or bad matter from
P'4'.yinf in A their place a healthy Sow of
-.m- w lach.cunsinirIach.cunsinir food to <li*est
■fT 1 ? 0 ■■ BLOOD, glvinc tone and
> . pry.retnoirtn* tie cause of
‘leal cure.
!“ 1 \ VTTAi'Kg (sreaured. AND. WHAT IS
niIVEXTED by the occasional u*e of the
,j“JTK*ATOR. 2*
1. “ Vr eatine Ist *ulßdent to relieve thesom
-,'**• the t.iod ■■ from risinft and aoorinr.
befcte retlnnjt, prevent* NIGHT -
fe; ‘■'*** taken at ■■ nleht, loosen* the bowel*
a *■*'"* cos- -- rrvENiss.
- after ract. mg :ueal will cure DYSIEI
-
’i • “ rl ,w ' ,e *’ ‘• ■‘poonftil* will always re
■ } A **PkLßr~
. ’.. “Jen f* f e . male obstruction? remove*
‘d--aw. and . makes a perfect cure.
I ‘'h.'d.tt*’ e > relieve* I'HOLIC. while
■ ‘’ ‘•ieated e* .* a *ure cure for OHOL
1T NwiUpxe- Tentative of CHOLERA.
4 - . ?nie U £ needed to throw out of the
IF , ’> niedi- cit e after a l<m* dekne**.
a etaken for JAUNDICE remove* all
stern col ..r ftnm The skin.
’ J thott ib. before eitiutf givse vt*-
Joiimakt". fooddiyest well.
d-d 2f cures CHRONIC DIAR
- n “i w r* forms, 1 “” i while SUMMER and
yield m almost to the Srst dose.
* cures W* |attacks caused by WORMS ■
• , j't“'-eUe-.jur; er, safer, or speedier remedy
IF , “it \fJiU.
Settles “DROPSY, by eidtin* the
in re. commend!n* thl* medictae
1 c >E VKKANDAOUEjCHILL
. • ‘ r EVER-. Os a KILLIOUS TTVE,-
fatSl***}"*.! _ and thousand* are willisg to
■:i * ta “-
**Th Iru jj ,r * kl'ln* their anmnimoua reil-
Mix u
he mouth with the Invlzora-
Tiin b “ ,h UwM ’ ,hrr
*vs Live ß in vigor atok
a. .y MEDICAL uISCOVEKY. and l*dally
Jr* Fe . 500 *reat to beiieve. It cures a* if by
.. • ‘Ol. Y? ! iu *< filing beueSl. and seldom more
; . to cure anv kind of LPV ER Com
c r.fTSS*/ B ""*** or t>y*prV',a to a common
” j! wti ch ire the result of TDISEASED UV
?RI £ 05 * dollar pkr bottlk.
SAA’F'IKD k 00.. I roprietnre.
\r, K4i liroadway. Sew York.
o#,al ° Agent*:
’ ‘lit s tut; T. w Dyott A Sons, Philadel
n. P^*{?*Co,Bott , m: H. H. Hav A Co_ Portland;
> ‘re.. :J , , .heinnati; Ga/b.nt Jt Hammond. Cleveland
i ,’ fc H K.v T '*-JL hifa o ;o. J. W.-sl k Co- H. Louis;
‘‘tSkltc l' , 'Yv.^ tut, ntsh : S. S. llaree. HaMimore.—
“T to Dru*glu. Sold Wholesale and Retail by
l *l;_n tin m bust a co.
Macon, U a
DOCTOR
J. Dickson Smith,
Practicing Physician,
Macon, Gn.,
WILL attend protoptl}-to all Professional eulls mane on
nim by day <-r hight. either at Lis r.|*< e or usiderue.
OFFH'K—uver Mennrd A liurghai'i'a Jewelry St. re, on
Cherr)’ Sfieet.
Khalil LACK—At Mr. J. B. Koss’. j*n. tl-tf
DR. A. PIERCE,
HOMOEOPATH
Office in Washington lllock.
Medicine Cases, and Books on Domestic Pract ce for sale.
Mjkcusr. July $, —ly
M. R. FR’EEMAN, M. D.
HA Vl>’<; returned to Macon. < flVr. hi. Professional .ervi
ces tott. citiror.?. and the surroundii g counuy, and is
prepared t > treat tl.tir various disease* with innocent ve e
laf.ie retoediea. arid kopm that in t'uislderatiou of the )act
that he gives to pots- a. draws no blood. nd never d-stroys
the consriurTi.uis of his patients, he will be liberally patioidaed
by the afflict ril.
W Partieubr attention will be given to Plantation, and
other country practice.
BTOBcc at the Drug Store of Dr. M. S. Thorr wn, to
whom he refers. (an. 7—ly
DR. €. J. ROOSEVELT,
lIIOm.PATUIC PHYSICIAN,
Office and ReMidcnce, Corner
YValnut and lird Mreels. Main, (la.
jan.sl—ly
AIEDICAL NOTICE.
XDr. J. JLi. Large,
ANNOUNCES to the pnMlc that he has fitted up Room*.
that are airy atai convenient, to accom.nodate Surgical
and Chronic (. *N! kinds—white and olaek—(the cure
of RUPTURE and *Tiet of CANCXR not excluded.)—
Blacks, laboring under chronic afectioaa, will be bought.
Price according to their condition.
Parties wishing to consult me, can do so be letter, with the
case fully described, and I can determine the care prior to
sending toe patient, and save expense ot sending and return
ing—as circumstances render some case* Incurable. I have
had considerable Hospital experience, which gives advantage
In the care and relief of Chronic cares. Office anil Residence
corner of South Brood and Aberooro streets. Savannah, Oa.
luly 9—ts
13r. Samuel Tarver,
(tONTIHUES the practice of Vcdicine. Surterp a ixl
/ UlMieirlr? at Parkers’ et sticn, No. 1 1 on tl e Central
Bail Road. -lelfers i Csnutr.Oa. His Post Office address
spier's Ti ri, or.t Jelfcrsoti County. Particular attention [■aid
to the treatment of CttnaniC I lis-a.-e.. Persons living at a dis
tance. bv riling a statement of tto ir naans can have pre-erip
lien? and Medicine sent to then by Mall. Charges moderate,
nov. UISJU.-lv*
“ DR. H. A. HETTADER,
HAVING S|>eDt a jrortlon of three succeanre year* In
thi* city, during which time he ha* limited his
practice almost exclusively to Surgery, now respect'ally
offer* hi* services to the citiaens of Macon and surround
ing country, In all the branches of hi* profession. Office
on the South East Corner ofSd and Cherry streets, over
Mr. Asher Ayre*’ new Grocery Store.
sepST—tf
J. (. edwakdsT
Real Estate Broker,
V\TlLLr.ve prompt and per.-onal atlentlcn to Buying
V ff Ai.d re.ling Lr.d and rit pr. p-ny, examining Titles,
Ascertaining the value of Beal >ale, Peniing Property,
and all tats ness pertaining toagei.e.a! Heal hlsfate Agency.
Ornct ‘ii Id story up stairs, in Dr. Sltuneckcr's building,
dec. 10—ts
Exchange on
NEW YORK FOR SALE AT THE
MANUFACTURER'S BANE.
mar 29 —ts
PATTEN & MILLER,
(Late PATTED, HUTTON A Cos.)
Commission Merchants,
S4T4NAAU, GEORGIA.
a. FATTEN. A. J. MILLER.
July i isae. _ -Ur.
JONATHAN COLLINS;
Late Patten, Collins 61 Cos.
Will continue the
Commission Business
AT th* Flrvproof MUitf c<scnpl! bT
in with him ton, .A. COIXISS* an i•
opecttully solicit* the busing* of the Patrons of the l**e rrm.
jffiti of Planter* plevicin Ihelr undivided attention
to ail bhMeonfldettto their care. Advance* mad *on Cot
ton and other produce in store, and order* cvefui.v idea.
J.
Macon, .luly Ist, 13i8 —^
insurance: risks,
TAKEN FOR
AUGUSTA INSURANCE & BANKING CO.
—AND —
Alabama Fire Marine Insurance Cos.
, T LANIER A ANDERSON.
nep -4—ts Agent*, Macoa.
HARTFORD IXSI R AXt’E
O O M P -A- N I 33 3.
The Hartford Incorporated 1810.
CAFITAIi 5500,000
The Springfield, Capital $150,000.
The >a*akoll, at Spriiigileltl,
Capital SIGO.OOO.
With a lanre -urpiUH securely iuveaUd,
JViiciea in the above firrf Clare l ‘JJttHf*tlS I *CO
set pr..m;Uy adjeUed by R- J- JOUASTU* JL<_ •
jane IS—U
U.HAM m. OUIUf. AAl‘* a. nor?
’ CARHART & RCFF,
WHOLESALE GHOCEBS.
DEALERS IN
WISES, LIQrORS ;^^|TtBiCfO,SE€ISS,
AID
GROCERIES
Os IVERY DESCRIPTION.
Macoo, Oa.
anf*—tt _ __
JTr. \TI\TKB. J* *• WIRT KB.
J. F. WINTER, A C 9.
IrCTIONEKtS AM) CENERiL COMMISSION
H£R€M ?S
Ffrun Vt# central portion, Macon oilers rare facilities for the
prompt saiea of
Hoar, Grata, Dry Gromifs, kt.
ConMinrr’enf* are solicited. ParJLmlar attsrt'on to
theputnicand pnv&ie Mueaot Beal £mUU*, Mocli.-. tsuiius-
Fumitiirt*. Ac.
LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE.
jy All busine** entrusted to our care wBl be promptly
attended u _aJ
References,
Smith k Patrick. Oliver Wetmore Es.].. New York : 3elL
<! c A Lifrar, K ,w . js. j.
(t fi-itin (nMgipiion; Pitta, Coimnbaa; ilth,
1 W^ rt A-<tl. M<.b‘te: aST; T.P. Stovall A C, A-*n-J,
Ga.; Fancy, Jury A Co- hewOneanr, La. <S ■ - u _
Tyler, Bradley & Cos.,
DEAIiER-S IN
OYSTERS,
Shad and Black Fish,
AND ALL KINDS OF GAME,
Savannah, Ga,
ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
(’n’nrr. us Enquirer. Mtl!ed*eville Reci'nier. pleasa
! pubLih weekly, two meutha atdnd lull to TANARUS„ 8..C0.
Wood’s Premium Gallery
* ,v- , 1.-. to ret Fine pictwreaea thousaadsraa testify
-1 Aud reeottect ! h e VlmtMuw.W tb- Llf- Sire
i e ,V UC o? r i\ Jw r Impeual Phots-
Portraits. Mh . , j t , n , :(| nr I'a-t-l, ei'ber in m
*rpn.*rePi-ntlim I- * * warranted to give w iaiac
. Lloe-Ua*theceyp**.a m ..
I t.ou. Amt rotyt e> Horn f
J %!■ ck, plV** t ‘ L.NyO>D. |
MACOIV. GA. FEBB.TJARY 23? 1859.
SSiscillajiM.
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From Russrli's Magazint.
GOLDEN HOIKS.
“My life Is full of ffrjilm hotirs” I ta'd.
In care.ess mood, one blight and happy day ;
“Would that I, too. could boast of boar* of gold,”
In saddest tone, 1 heard another say.
“slaM I count mine?” 1 asked. “Firtt, hours with friends,
No dearer link to bind luauklgi] is given.
Than friendship's name ; and, oh, *t!s sweet to me
To think It holds a favored place iu Heaven.
Next, hours of love : how brilliant Is'their gold;
now blessed, how doubly blessed their witching tics;
For. even when past, I can recall them all.
Because, w.tbln my breist their memory lie*.
And, ah, how golden are the hours of prayer.
When the bowed soul with cheering hope grows blight,
And o’er a d-rsened life calnj peace is shea.
While the g:ad spirit basks once more in light.
For me the household hours of care and toll.
Are turned by loving hearts to purest gold
For sympathy makes sunshine with her smile.
And home is warji, if all the world is cold.
Then, in the scale of glittering time, I prize.
High on the list, the seasons blest ot health
When the poise bounds and every breath Is free.
And but to lice is joy, content and wealth.
A golden era is a gift of flowers,
feuch gifts I call the floral smile of friends
And when I view. In nature, glorious scene*,
Those hours l feel, p.e good Urea’or sends.
And other hour* arc bright, and golden links
That bind the days and months end passing years
The joy, almost divine, that music brings,
De icious charm to soothe our woes and tear*;
Or welcome sound of holy voice at even.
That reads from poet grand some charmed verse;
Or twilight hour, when m the myst.c gloom
Loved tones a wondrous tale of old rehearse.
And last, hut not the !eai, the praises dear
Os those I prize, a record new unfold
But I must pause, for as 1 count l And
My hours without alloy are still untold.”
“ If you call Such your hours of gold,” *aid he,
Who st bewailed his dark and barren lot,
“There lives not one in the whole world can say.
Os some ts these, ‘Alas! I have them not.’”
Yes, there are golden hours in every life.
Text bright too beautiful, to slight or lone;
And we can change them, if they leaden are.
To precious, priceless metal, if we choose.
From the Clarion.
The Tfioru is Breaking.
BY EARL MARBLE.
The uight of the past
Is over at last;
The morn of the future resplendent is break
ing.
And the gloom of the night
Gives way to the light
That Humanity’s soul to bright deeds is
• waking.
All hail the bright day!
Let* eat eh every ray
The morn’s glowing sun in his gladness
sheds o'er u.s;
Knowing each one,
As our race here we run.
That the pathway of Duty lies plainly be
fore us.
Then let us our duty
Array in sweet beauty,
And thus hasten the work of the grand re
formation ;
Shutting out from within
The dark deeds of soul sin,
Knowing such is the only true soul's salva
tion.
Humanity's tide,
Far-swelling and wide,
Raises madly, but grandly, life’s broad and
deep ocean;
And the frail barques of error
Flex* wildly in terror,
Hut soon they are lost, and sink in commo
tion !
All hail, then, the morn,
Which in triumph is b<>rn, —
A better, a holier, a happier day!
For the car of Reform,”
Borne on by the storm,
Humanity joyfully cries—“ Clear the way!’
A Bad Rule.
The following is applicable to other places
be-ide? Petersburg:
*• A few yearly ndveriisers in the Expres®,
contracted for two square-, and are willing
to pav for only two squares, but sometimes
send four, aud think very strangely of our
refusal to insert more than thvy bargained
for. Now, as it is a bad rule that will not
work both wavs, we propose to all such,
that if they will give us two hams of bacon,
or two barrels of flour, when we purchase
one; and if a dry goods merchant, if he
will give us cloth for two coat", or silk lor
two dresses, when we purchase and pay foi
but one, then all such shall have four squares
of space, although they only pay for two.—
The principle is identically the same, and we
hope thiae who have only viewed one side
of the question, will wipe their “ specs ”
and take a look at the other. —Peiersburgh
Express.
4-*a-
Mf.lical Opinion of Seward—Not Bad.
Dr. F. is a well known, and highly respected,
but eccentric old gentleman of this city. He
is a wit withal, ami like Dean Swift does
not hesitate to show it upon any aud all oc
casions. Recently he was asked by one of our
modern “Republicans” what be thought ol
Seward’s chances. The doctor just having
lcfli.be sick bed of a patient, and absorbed,
no doubt, in ihoughts upon his profession,
quickly replied ; “Bad case, Sir, very bad !
It is of long standing, and I fear ha3 become
chronic.”
‘‘What do you, mean doctor?”
“Mean, Sir, why do you not know that
Seward has some uncontrolable maladies,
From which it is supposed he can never re
cover.”
. “You don’t say so, Doctor, pray, what are
they?” The doctor, with un arch express
ion peculiar to him when about to say a good
thing, replied, “why Sir, he is aftlieted with
mi incurable diarrhea of words and a consti
pat ion Os ilea*, and if he should possibly tet
well of thfcje. he will most assuredly die from
using too much of the Weed Iheß-ck
“Republican” sjoped, and the last seen of
him be was entering the Tribune office. A
Y. Aetvs.
■
A pretty girl, 22 years of age, daughter of
a fine old English squire, living m Dritheia,
in the East Hiding of Yorkshire, England,
has eloped will) her father’s valet. They
ran away to Mam-hester, got married sent
wedding cards to the “governor and then
started For a continental tour. The Squire
wisely did not disturb himself about the silly
girl, concluding to let her ramble until she
gets tired, as be is confident that the hus
[ band will return ocn lor forgotten wages.
For the Georgia Citizen.
MISS BETSY’S BEAU.
BY BILLY FIELDS.
In the upper part of Jones Count
there once lived an old lady, about sixt
years old, by the name of Betsy Troll*[
She was never married, and was gene
ally known In the neighborhood simp
as Miss Betsy. And Miss Betsy simp \
let us call her. Miss Betsy was truly ;
“ rara avis.” She hail the strangest di
position I ever met v* ith, and everythin',
about her was strange. She dwelt alon
in a small cabin, refusing the sympathy
as well as the society of the kind-hear
ed neighbors around her. She only ap
peared upon the stage of life now an
then, and there to act some strange an
ludicrous part. With mankind in get.
oral she seemed continualiy at war. Sin
had no other feeling for her own specie
but suspicion and malice. She was ••
great hand to abuse; she scarcely eve*
met a person but she abused him, an<”
she knew how about as well as any per
son of the female kind that I ever saw.
Not more than three miles from th*
residence of Miss Betsy there lived .
character— Benjam’n Ji >hnson by narn—
more famous, perhaps, than Miss Bt*ts.
herself. But Uncle Ben was as different
from Miss Betsy as one character can b
from another. Uncle Ben (so he wa
called by everybody) lived a life of fu>
and frolic. It was an invariabla custom
with him to go “to town” every tim
there was a “gathering” there; it wa
also his invariable custom to get nicel>
corned before he left. With a disposi
tion as kind as mortal ever had, it is m
wonder that, though our old hero had
his little foibles, he was still an univer
sal favorite in the county. Everybody
knew Uncle Ben, and everybody liked
him. Drinking was the chief foible in
our hero’s character. But shall we cal
it a fault? No, it shall not be called a
fault in him, however much it may bv
censured in others; for to this habit he
owes all that he has ever done, all that
he has ever said, “for glory or for
shame.” I am no apologist for the habit
of destroying both body and mind, as i>
now so common, by the use of ardent
spirits. But I have often thought that
the world owed more to the habit than
it knew of, or wou’d acknowledge if it
knew. How often has the orator been
called eloquent, as he spoke the words
that brandy promoted ? llow often
have the wild strains of a poet been
called the offspring of genius, when they
were but the outpourings of a heated
brain, maddened by the deep potations
of solitary debauch? Alas! the answer
is but again—how often ?
But my hero is not the only one tha*
ever bowed at the shrine of the jovial
god. Many of the Caoars who in former
times wove a chaplet of glory around
the Roman name, knelt humbly at the
footstool of B-cchus. Rienzi, who in
later times aroused the degenerate pop
ulace of Rome to a sense of their father 1 -
glory and their own dishonor, drank,
and drank deeply too. Then blame not
my old hero if he drank ; if you do, tell
History that she lied when she immor
talized the proud names of Caesar and
Rienzi. Snatch the laurel from the brow
of the Prussian Frederick, and teach the
world how many great names have been
worn by little men. Our hero drank,
but the world will pardon him. And
n<w to our story.
Knowing the disposition of Uncle Ben
For anything that would start fun, throe
of the youthful part of Clinton—John
Stubbs, Charley Leake and myself —mdo
out one winter evening to his residen e,
our object being to bring, if possible,
the two odd characters together, well
knowing, if we could accomplish this, a
rich scene would certainly follow. Hav
ing arrived at Uncle Ben’s domicil, We
were met by the old gentleman, “about
three sheets in the wind,” with a bottle
m one hand and one of his boots in the
other. This was just about as we ex
pected, and just the thing we wanted.
“ How is yer, boys ?” asked he, as we
got down from our horses. “ Come in ;
take a seat by the fire, and let me mix
yer up a glass of ‘ peach and honey.’ ”
1 and Charley assured Uncle Ben that
we never drank. The proposition, how
ever, was met by a hearty response in
the affirmative from Stubbs. (Stubbs
was a young lawyer, and lawyers are
wont so to respond to such proposi
tions.)
“ Billy Fields, you say you don’t
drink sperits?”
“Never do,” answered I.
“Wall, look here, boy, how in the
thunder do you ever expect to make n
lawyer? Be sensible, like Johnny. I
talk to yer juss like a father would talk
to a son. Driuk sperits, boy ; es ye don’t
know how, lam.”
I told Uncle Ben that I would think of
his advice, and perhaps would profit by
it. But told him positively that I and
Charley did not wish to drink that even
ng.
Uncle Ben still insisted, and to com
.roinise the matter he had an egg-nog
iade, which we drank.
Stubbs took two or three pretty stiff
orns, and was soon as tight as Uncle
leu himself. This was not in the pro
ramme, but still I and Charley deter
nined to carry the matter through. So
‘hailey observed ;
“Uncle Ben, why don’t you look out
•r a rib ? You are getting old now,
nd it is time y*>u were thinking about
“tting married. We havo got a nice
•Id lady down our way; the very thing
00, old fellow,” I
“ Who is she?” asked he.
“ Miss Betsy Trollop.”
“Hell!” was the emphatic cxclamt- j
“ion of Uncle Ben.
“Well, but I am in earnest,” said
Charley. “She is a nice old lady, and a
* >od chance for an old fellow like you.”
“ And as rich as a fiddler,” said J
Stubbs.
“ And thinks you are the nicest man
n th *se parts,” said I.
“ llow much is ole Betsy worth ?” ]
i'ked Uncle Ben, looking serious and 1
ireaking an egg.
“ Got lots of money ; don’t know how
nuch though,” said Charley.
“ A cat and—”
“ Blame a cat! You know my ole cat
Jake—”
“ Never mind about Jake now. Let
us go and see Miss Betsy,” said I.
“ Boys, now in dead earnest, do you
think ole Betsy will have me?”
“ No doubt of it,” said Charley.
“ Wall, boys,” said the old gentleman,
rising, “ drink er tost, and less give the
old gal a call. I want you to go with
me. Blamed es I don’t court that ole
’oman most to deth! You must hold
me off, Billy, when I get too warm in my
feelin’s.”
“ All right,” responded I; “ now for
the toasts.”
“ Here’s to Betsy Trollop, the fairest
flower that ever bloomed in the vale of
beauty,” said Charley.
“ Here’s to the cat,” said I.
“ Here’s to the money,” said the reel
ing Stubbs.
“ Here’s to ole Betsy,” said Uncle
Ben, who now was “slightly intoxicated
is regards liquor.” “ Let me put on
some store clothes,” said he, as he saw
us getting ready to start.
“ No, that won’t do; Miss Betsy don’t
like fine clothes,” said Charley. “She
?aid the other day that a man was a fool
that would put all of his money on his
‘iaek.”
“That’s sense,” said Uncle Ben.—
“ ‘Tween us, boy*, Betsy’s got lots more
sense than people thinks she is.”
“ Smart as a steel-trap,” said Stubbs.
‘This is the font, Uncle Ben,” as he as
sist -d the old fellow to get his boot on
right at last.
We had Uncle Ben’s horse caught,
and then went out to mount. It was
very cold, and Johnny and Uncle Ben
concluded they would go back into the
house for another portion of “draps.” I
and Charley, in the meanwhile, mounted
our horses.
After staying about as long as drunk
en men generally stay when they are
waited f<r, our companions appeared.
“ Let me help you up,” said Stubbs.
“ Wall, here,” said Uncle Ben, poking
out the wrong foot. Stubbs got hold of
it, and lifted the old gentleman on horse
back with his lace towards the horse’s
tail.
‘“Richard’s himself again!’ Push
ahead,” said Stubbs.
“Somethin’ is wrong up here, sure as
ye ar born,” said Uncle Ben, trying to
look round. lie weighing over two hun
dred, this was no easy matter.
“ No, all’s right; go head, old num
ber six!’ said Stubbs.
Charley and I, after some trouble, got
uncle Ben and Johnny on their horses
right at last, and proceed on to our place
of destination, without any further ad
venture, save a horse-race between
Stubbs and the old gentleman, in which
Johnny fell off, but fortunately not hurt
ing himself, except a slight bruise or
two.
Having arrived n.ear Betsy’s cottage,
we proceeded to hold a “council of war.”
Stubbs was for getting a parson, and
taking the old lady by storm. Uncle
Ben voted indiscriminately for every
motion that was brought forward. It
was finally agreed that Stubbs should
stay with the horses; Uncle Ben and
Charley was to call on the old lady, and
I was to peep thiough the cracks, and
see and listen for myself.
Accordingly Uncle Ben and Charley
walked boldly up to the door, and I sta
tioned myself.
“ You must be as polite as a dancing
mister,” said Charley, as he knocked at
the door.
“Who’s that?” asked the old lady
from within.
No answer was returned save throe
ponderous knocks.
“ I’ll bound yer will tell,” said the old
lady, as she picked up an old broom
stick and cautiously opened the
“ Now, who is yer, and what does yer
want?” asked she, confronting her vis
itors.
“ This is me, Miss Betsy, and this ’ere
fellow is Charley,” said Uncle Ben; “and
how do yer find yerself this lovely even
in’, my dear.” continued he, as he bent
his body into ;he shape of a cross bow,
as he bowed.
j “ Stop er dearin’ me, yer nasty old
I fool!” cried Miss Betsy, as she drew
j her stick back in a menacing attitude,
j “ I won’t call again soon,” said Char
i ley, as he backed out ot the door and
walked to a place of safety. But not so
I with Uncle Ben ; he was “ going to see
! the jig through,” as he afterwards said.
1 “Yer would not strike yer most de
j voted lover, would yer, Miss Betsy ?”
! said he, as he made another of his cross
i bow bows.
“ Ben Jonsing, walk right out ov that
i door !” said she.
“ Yer ole pole-cat! es—”
“ My dear—”
“ Ye ’re dearin’ me agin, is yer ? take
that!” Whop she took him right across
the pate. j .
“ Look a here, Bet—”
Whop she took him across the back.
“ Jemima Uncle Ben, as he
made tracks, jvfiss Betsy holding on to
his coat tail, and “ever and anon” be
stowing sundry blows upon his phreno
logical department.
Having got outside of the door, he
managed to get loose and to get behind
a large oak tree that stood in the yard,
she on the other side striking at him as
she caught a glimpse of his garments.
The delight of Stubbs knew no bounds.
“Hurrah!” he shouted; “hurrah, oli
number six ! Hurrah for Trollop !
Take aim !—shoot!” he yelled, as Miss
Betsy’s stick came down upon Uncle
Ben’s posterior, as he was peeping round
the tree, and she came upon him una
wares.
Uncle Ben now broke for the fence as
a last resort. “Charge!” shouted Stubbs,
as Miss Betsy followed close in the rear.
It was a race that outstrips John Gil
pin’s famous ride. Onward they sped.
Uncle Ben struggled manfully ; full fif
teen paces intervened between him and
the fence—scarcely a broom-stick differ
ence between he and Miss Betsy. He
was nonplussed ; to try to climb, it was
not to be thought of—to leap it, there
was the only chance. The attempt was
desperate—there was a terrible alterna
tive. Gallantly he neared it. The leap
was taken; over he went, but not until
Miss Betsy had again caught him by the
coat tail, which was left in her hands as
a trophy of victory, and had given him
a farewell whack across the shoulders.
Onward Uncle Ben ran until he gain
ed his horse, nor was he fully satisfied
of his safety until he was safely en
sconced in the saddle. Charley and I
had mounted our horses in the moment
of retreat.
“Yer shall rue this, yer old viper!”
said Uncle Ben, as he now shook his fists
at Miss Betsy.
“ Go ’long, yer nasty, stinkin’ old var
mint!” she replied, brandishing her
broom-stick.
“ Frailty, thy name is woman,” said
Stubbs.
“ Es there is Judge, law, or jury—”
“ Shet up yer old fryin’-pan !” yelled
Miss Betsy.
‘‘Farewell, and if forever,
Still forever fare thee well! ”
said Stubbs, as he trotted down the road.
We at last got Uncle Ben otf, carried
him home and put him to bed, where,
after a long nap, he awoke refreshed in
spirits, but sore in body. He treated us
rather coldly fur a while, but by degrees
it wore off, and many have been the jo
vial days that we three have spent at
the house of Uncle Ben since the unfor
tunate day when he played the beau to
Miss Betsy Trollop.
The Circus.
A circus come to town, and everybody
knows how the music and the grand tent and
horses set all the boys agog. Quarters of
dollars and shillings are in great demand;
and many a choice bit of money have the
circus-riders carried away which was meant
for better purposes.
A little boy was seen looking round the
premises with a great deal of curiosity.—
“Halloa, Johnny,” said a man who knew
hi , “going to the circus?”
“No, sir,” answered Johnny; “father don’t
like em.”
“Ob, well, I’ll give you money to go John
ny,” said the man.
“Father don’t approve of them,” answered
Johnny.
“Well, go in for once, and I’ll pay for you.’’
“No, sir,” said Johnny ; “my father would
give me money if he thought twere brst:
besides, I’ve got awenty-five cents in nn
strong box —twice enough to go.”
“ I'd go , Johnny, for once; it’s wi*nder
fa! the way the horses do,” your fathe
needn't know it.”
“I shan’t,” said the boy.
“Now, why ?” asked the man.
“’Cause said Johnny, twirling his bare
toes in the sand, “after I’ve been, I couldn't
look my father right in the eye, and I can now.”
Albert Hike’s Wake.
The friends of Albert Pike held a wake
over his mortal remains, a few evenings
since, in Washington, at which the said Al
bert was personally present, indulging in
post-mortem potations and cadaverous con
viviality. He met a large number of kin
dred spirits on the occasion, who hail assem
bled at the house of Johnny Coyle to do
honor to the distinguished ghost. The cer
emonies commenced with a song hv Wm.
M. Btirwell, of Virginia, entitled “The Ar
kansas gentlehian alive again,” which was
sung by a full chorus. It begins hv telling
how the Arkansas gentleman, miraculously
restored to life, iu the last verse of Pike'.-
nwn song, went off to chase the Buffalo, m
he has done before w ith his Indian friends:
Th<* rumor of liis visit had extujdeil fur and U< *r,
And di-taut child- ami WWIdW Wita with tww, and gun, and
8n whn ho roach *a the oon n; i1 - “-round t with much delight he
H.-e-
D.legations from the Foxes. Siouxs, Qtiapaws. lJJackfeet, Pot
tiwothunies. (im- Ventres. Arropahoes. Cal.ianolics,
Creeks, N’avajoes, Choctaws, and ( herokees.
This line Arkansas gentleman, close to the Choctaw
line.
They w-elc nit-J him with all the sport*, v\V-i known on the
frontier.
He huqleft buffalo and elh, aijd uvwt on grouse and deer:
And having hfvUjrhi his along, he entertained each
ti’ihtf
With best Otard and whiskev. smoking and chewing tobacco,
not forgetting cards, with instructions in seven up. brag,
bluff and euchre, till they drank themselves damn and
blind, having first war-whooped whoo-oc-00-oepecj till
he was deaf.
This fine Arkanias gentleman, Ac,
His time passed ploftaftutly on, while thus
engaged, 11 b added i
Now, w!l st n was enjoying all that such adventure brings.
Thu chase, and pipe, and bottle, and such like forbidden
things,
Home spalpeen of an editor, the Lord had made in vain.
Inserted in his horrible accident column, amongst murders
robberies, and the ts. camphene accidents, collisions, ex
plosions, defalcations, seductions, a-'-ductious, and de
structions. under a splendid Mack bordered notice, the
lamentable news that he was dead
This fine Arkunsie gentleman,
The other papers Copied I|, and then It wa- believed
That death at last had takun him, so recently repries ed ;
They mourned him a* a warrior, and also as a trump.
And with elegies, eulogies, biographies, reviews, articles, crit'-
claru* on his productions, doubt whether he had ever
lived, fought, wrote, hunted buffalo, or indeed lived at
all—And one tner* minus pa -an, “John on Honper,"of
the Montgomery if ill, always denied his dying, plump.
This fine Arkansas g'-ntlam in. Ac.
There was general grief at the sad news,
and
Fo sad the tavern-keepers and the faro banker* feel.
They crape the hell a half an hour. ’ and Intermit a deal
For this fine Arkansas gvntlein.ui, Ac.
Eut far above the common grief—though he was good as
gold—
His creditors, like Jacob's wife, refused to l>e consoled ;
They g anted him a poet, and a warrior, if you will.
But they hail extensive e*perienc>- iu generals, adm'rals, ora
tors, statesmen, congressmen, actors, editors, letter-wiit
ers, route agen’s, conductors, aud other public characters
who rarely paid a MIL
This flue Arkan.-as gentleman, Ac.
Behold in this excitement our distinguished friend arrive;
We “ knew from a remark he nrr.de th the was stiil alive.
The* every journal joyous y the contradiction quotes.
The tailors’ take his measure, and the ha"k renew his notes.
This tine Arkansas gentleman, Ac.
But Johnny Coyle, an Irishman, the news refuse ! to tike.
He swore rio gent'cmau alive should che-.it him of his w.ke:
So he called his fr.ends together, a* here you plainly see.
And ha< set out the splits to lay the body under the table da
eently.
This fine Arkansas gentleman, Ac.
Mr. Piko, whose genius seems to have lost
none of its fire in the nether world, wrote a
poem for the occasion, which was sung by
one of the company. It opened thus :
A gentleman from Arkansan, not long ago. ‘tiss.id.
Waked up one pleasant morning, and discovered be was
dead;
He was on his way to Washington, not seeking for the
spoils.
But rejoicing In the promise of a spree at Johnny Coyle’s.
He wakes on the ferry-boat which crosses
the Styx ; is informed by Charon that he is
dead ; lament* that, if so, this little accident
may make him miss the frolic at Coyle’s ;
resists all entreaty from Horace and Anac
reon to remain with them : crosses
The adamintine halls, and reached the ebon throne.
Where gloomy l’luto frowned, and where his queen’s zolt
beauty shone.
“ What want you here ?” the monarch. “ Y’our majesty.”
said he,
” FenuUiiuu at one frolic more at Johnny Coyle's to lie.”
He complains that, if dead, ho has not
“been waked, and buried decently;” de
clines nectar and ambrosia, preferring the
canvas-backs, terrapins, and St. Peray of
his*friend Covlc; and swears that better
company than Pluto can boast of he can find
at Coyle's.
“I’ll bring you Philip Barton Key, the Roman Tully's peer.
And Jonah Hoover, frank aud bra-e, straightforward and sin
cere ;
McGuire, the generous, liberal frieD' 1 , the patron of the arts.
Who, not content with fortune, takes delight in winning
hearts. y -s
“ I‘ll bring the Impressario, Rev. Thicker, who shall win.
From Pericles Aspasia. If he tiiortscs to go in ;
The man without an enemyMthe wit, the Sheridan ;
In whom two continents Ingres* the gallant gentleman.
“If these are not enougt*,!'ll bring Bob John**n with me,
tOO—
The very bravest of the brave, the truest of the true;
Impulsive, generous, tArless, frank, the Senate's Paladin,
Who never did ungeneAiUs act a victory to win.
“And with him Johnny Coyle himself, who never left a
friend, *
Nor harior and an igmihle thought, nor sought a selfish end ;
The Arthur he among h s kn ghts, the pride of all his peer-,
Whose heart i uy;rows the younger with the swl.t revolving
years.”
This lid of prime fellows affrights Pluto,
who announces his intention of taking them
by instalment, and of not letting Pike re
turn to upper air. But fair Proserpine
coaxes her swarthy and regal husband, and
prevails on him to allow Pike to be present
at his own wake :
“ Row can you .say me ray?
I'm sure you do not love me ; if yon did, you’d not refuse.
When / want to get the fualiious, and yvu want to hear the
news.”
And so at last the Queen prevailed, as women always do.
And thus it cocoes that once again this gentleman’s with
you;
He’s under premise to return, but that he mea*s to break.
And many another spree to have, beside* this present wake.
Wo hope from the closing lines that the
poet-soldier will remain with us for many
years yet.
Drover vs Ford—Dinner was spread in
the cabin of that peerless steamer, the New
World, and a splendid company were assem
bled about the table. Among the passengers
thus prepared for gastronomic duty, was a
little creature of the genus fop, decked dain
tily as an early butterfly, with kids ot an lrie
proachable whiteness, “miraculous’’ necktie,
and spider-like quizzing-glass on his nose.
The delicate animal turned his head affect
edly aside with—•
“Waitah 1 ’
“8ah?”
“Biviugme the pwopellah of a fwemalr
woos tab,”
“Y;s, sah.”
“And, waithab, tell the stewawd to wuh
my plate with •* wegitab’e wulgawly called
onion,which will give a delicious flavaw to
my dinnah! ’
While the refined exquisite was giving t is
orders, a jolly Western drover had listened
with open mouth and protruding eyes.—
When the diminutive creature had finished,
be brought his fist down upon the tabi>
with a force that made every dish bounce,
and then thundered out—
“ Here 1 you gaul-darued ace of spades!”
“Yis, sah.’’
“Bring me athunderiDgbig plate of skunk’s
gizzards!”
“Sah ?”
“And, old ink pot, tuck a horse-blanket
NO, 48.
under my ch n, and rub me down with brick
bats while 1 feed
The poor dandy showed a pair of straight
coat-tails kistmter, and die whole table join
ed in a “tremjnjous rotm’
A SuMi:tit‘ Peroration.
The closing passage of Prof. Mitchell’s lec
ture, at New York, on Tuesday evening,
was delivered with thrilling effect. After
-peaking of the unfathomable distances
which no telescope can penetrate, lying far
beyond the system in which the earth re
volve.-, and yet filled with independent sys
tems of infinite numbers, he said:
“ Light traverses spaoe at the rate of a
million miles a minute, yet the light from
the nearest star requires t- n year to reach
the earth, and Herschei’s telescope revealed
stars two thousand three hundred times fur
ther distant The great telescope of Lord
Ross pursued these creations of God still
deeper into space, and having resolved the
uebum of the Milky Way itwo stars, discov
ered other systems of stars —beautiful dia
mond points glittering through the black
■tarkness beyond. When lie beheld thin
amazing abyss—when he saw these systems
scattei ed profusely throughout s{aoe —when
be reflected upon their immense distance,
their enormous magnitude udA the count
less millions of worlds final Ofclonged to them,
it seemed to him as though the wild dream
of the German poet was more than realized.
“ God called man in dreams into the ves
tibule of heaven, saying, “Come up hither
and I will show thee the glory of my house.’
And to his angels who str,od about the
throue, he said, ‘Take him. strip him of his
robes of flesh; cleanse his affections; put a
new breath into his nostrils, but touch not
his human heart—the heart that fears and
hopes and trembles,’ A moment, and it was
done, and the mar stood ready for his un
known voyage. Tnder the guidance of a
mighty angel, with sounds of flying pinions,
rhey sped away from the battlements of
nea\en. Some time on the mighty angel’s
wings they lied through Sahara* of dark
ness, wildernesses of death. At length, from
i distance not counted save in the arithme
•ic of heaven, light beamed upon them—a
sleepy flame as seen through a ha~y cloud.
They sped on in their terrible speed to meet
ihe light; the light with lesser speed came
o meet them. In a moment the blitzing of
-tins around them —a moment the wheeling
of planets; then came loDg eternities of twi
light; then again on the right hand and the
est appeared more constellations. At last
he man sank down, crying, ‘ Angel, I can
go no further; let me lie down in the grave,
and hide myself from the infinitude of the
universe, for end there is none.’ 1 End is
there noDe?’ demanded the angel. And
from the glittering stars that shone around
ihere came a choral shout, ‘End there is
none!’ ‘End is there none?’ demanded the
rnvel again; ‘and is it this that awes thy
soul ? I answer end tLere is none to the
universe of God! Lo, also, there is no be
ginning!’”
H’lio are Xevvtpaper Patrons ?
The Boston “Ileraid” aptly remarks:—
There has been a wide-spread misconception,
a very general and very popular error, as
well on the part of the public as on the part
of publishers, on thiS question. And it ap
pears to us that now is a good time, at the
beginning of the new year, to examine the
whole subject and determine definitely who
ind what newspaper patrons are, to the end
that if injustice has beeu done on either side,
anew leaf may be turned over with the
coming in of the new year, and the true re
lations between publishers, their customers,
and the public, be placed upon a fair and
equitable basis. Iu the proper determina
tion of this question is involved the deter
mination of the editorial and business policy
which each paper will pursue.
The popular idea has been that “ a con
sent reader of your invaluable sheet,” “ a
subscriber from the commencement,” “ daily
reader,” have peculiar claims upon the edi
tor, which entitle them to crowd their doff
aud prosy c umnunications upon their hands,
and to be very indignant, io consider then
selves badly treated, and to threaten to with
draw their patronage, if the editor does not
publish every line they send. Another pop
ular idea has been, that an acquaintance
with an editor entitles a man to use the col
umns of the newspaper to puff up himself
and mutual friends, and to be very abusive
and insulting if his unreasonable demands
are not complied with. Another popular
idea has been, that representatives of a pe
culiar clique, party, sect or interest, public
or private, may properly look to an editor to
publish their documents, engage on their
side in their quarrels, and to defend aud sus
tain them in columns of editorial writing, on
pain if they are refused, of the withdrawal,
in a body, of the particular interest that is
offended.
Still another, and the most prevailing idea
has been that an advertiser has a right to a
puff in the editorial columns in return for his
liberal patronage in giving an advertisement.
This most pernicious idea, which has work
ed groat injury to newspapers, as well as to
the whole advertising community, has been
fostered and encouraged by publishers them
selves, until it has become to be a great
overshadowing nuisance. It has been car
ried so far, the public have become nausea
ted with it, and a newspaper puff, because
an advertisement lias been inserted, so liir
from being a recommendation, ip, as Capt.
Cuttle would say, “ quite the reverse.” But
certain advertisers have been so long accus
tomed to this thing, they feel that they are
the worst used people in the world, if a puff
or a ser.es of puffs do nJt accompany each
advertisement. Let us see how this princi
ple would work, carried into general business
transactions. We go to the dry- goods deal
er and purchase a good common dress for
our wife, and demand, as an acknowledge
ment of our pa’ronage. a silk dress tor our
daughter; we purchase a lot of lace and rib
bons, and ask the merchant, to throw in a
shawl; we buy seven pounds of sugar, and
look ior a box of raisins, at least; a half
peck of onions, and want a bushel of apples;
a j* int of pork, aod expect a rump of bets