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jl* m fE GEORGIA CITIZEN i **** BfT Fr ;jay morning fit O-iOper annum In . t the regular chrge will be On* Dollar iret words or the first Inter *f2T’ •* ‘? / r eacn -oibsequent insertion. AU ad j. i • , am*, will b* pubTshed until -■ V j ~ A liberal discount allowed * !>T the year. ten lines. -IK be charged at the *•■■ n, r of candidate* for offlce to be paid for at n*d> * th eamatf offlcera, DrnggDt*, and others, who may wish to make mn .i \>-roe, bv Ixecutors, Adrainistra ,f T “ previous to the day of sale. !U -r.t.’"oy the first Turedxy In the month. ,■ f.*renoon aa>l three la the f ---., 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- M l "®< jt theWiowing rates, vix: -rtiPrtannum, •• # JO 7 do 10 00 of this els* will be admitted, unless paid vtMTfcr a less term than twelve mouths. Ad - -■ f ,-t.r. lines will be charged pro rata. Ad -tpi: for in advance will be charged at the ipll i ran 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*. ’i;3—tt _______________ 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. - —^=d===m=== 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