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L . H . A N DE 1 i SON,
TL.*ZX~VXr,
A N l>
s OLICITOU I v E QUIT Y
COVIXGTON , GEO HO IA.
will. W. CLARK ft J. M. PACE,
H AA’E formed a partnership, and will transact all
business entrusted to them in the counties of
Morgan Jasper, Butts, Henry, Gwiulieft, Walton,
’ and Newton, and in the District Court of the United
States at Atlanta. Special attention given to cases
in Bankruptcy.
\v. vv Cl. A UK,
oct. 3 If M I,ACK
" J. 0. M o H R I S ,
Attorney ext Law,
CON VERS, OA.
R . A . JONHS,
152 XNT JL ®
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
Will lie found prepared to put, up work in his
line, w’.i.-h he fee's Confident from his knowledge
of t'iie la'e improvements wiil giro satisfaction
'o those wlio may fa' or hint —3in3
J Oil N s. CARROLL,
D ZL NT I ST,
COVIN fl TON. G 1 :0 UGI A.
.ssx Tt,dU Filled, or New Teglliln»srted,in
best F.t-ylr, and on Reasonable Terms
Odlcs Bear of R. King's Store.—l its
.1 A M E S M . LE V Y .
[Watchmaker St Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
COVIN’ CTO V, HCI'GI V.
Where he is prepared to lb pair Watches! Clocks
Mid Jewelry in I lie lies' style. Particular■ atten
[tion civen to ri’iciieinir Wat idles iejured by in
competent workmen. All wok warranted.
pi&sss mm f‘MB bepaikeb.
PR 'F. WILLIAM FISIIEH will
lovofe lit' SATURDAYS to Tuning
l) i ic* jj * (and Repairing Pianos. He will
(* is)l ipniiirs in t ho country, am! convenient
[wi Is on tlie Rail Ron i for that purpose. Ills
mi tr experience will enable him to eive saiis-
V-ii->n lo iiis employers. Charges reasonable,
fe s permitted to refer to President, <>tr.
ovingion, Ga., April 8,1863. —20 if
DNS. DSAftINC & PRINGLE
Til WIN G associated themselves in the Prac
litiee of MEDICINE and SURGERY, offer
their pi ofesstounl servie.es ’to the cirizons of
N- vton Qounl.y. Tnev h ive opened on offi. eon
the East side of the Square, (next door to S-
PtWAio’s St -re.) an ’. are prepared 'o attend to
101 l calls promptly They have also a carefully
[selected assortment, of the
['tfary 3ost ffS ecfici ne s ,
lurni wilt give tWb'r personal attention to Com
pounding Prescriptions, for Physicians mid
[others.
[•Special attention given to Chronic Diseases
| At ni.'lii Dr. Hearing will be found at his
|ro;id nce, and I)r. PuiN'crn at his rooms Itmue
dul.-lv over the Store of C. II Sanpeus & lino,
may 15, 25tf
BOOT & SHOE 3HO
H would respectfully inform the oil izens _,*•s. .
aof ( 'oviugton and siirronn ling count,m Cft |
hat Tam now prepared to make Inorder *wi».
800 r i’ S A N 1) S H O E S
■if tlie finest quality. As 1 work nothing but
Bhe Best Material, 1 will guarantee satisfaction.
I Shop over R. King’s Store.
r<t »idly ' JOSEPH BARBER
II . T . HEN K Y,
Resident Dentist.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
I* prepared with ell the latest im-
IfWiSgSL proveincnts ill Dentistry, to give snt
t' • T " isfaction to ell. Office north side of
snare, —1 23tf
■I '» SB I’ II Y. TANARUS! N Si. KY .
I Watchmaker & Jeweler
| D fully prepared tv Repair Watches, Clocks
) n ' •h'Widi'v, i” the host Style, at short notice,
: .11 Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
'M 2d door below the Court House.—6tt‘
Georgia Railroad
breakfast and Dinner House,
At Be r zel ia. G a.,
~)hKSONs leaving Augusta by the 7 o’clock
l assengrr (Morning) Train'. Hreakfast at
o zeha All persons leaving Atlanta by the ft
| dock (Morning).train, Dine at Beraelia Per
TJSX™* >y TlainH «•» o'ways
1 rV;," C,,ls ' , 1 : )b, ! s provided nifh
1 best tli6 market affords.
K. NESbfIUT, Frp'r
S.OLOMON OEWALD,
his old stand, sign ~f Uie RIG WaTCH,
Has received his Stock of
Bsnd Summer Goods.
ish s to purchase all kinds of
Litx*y Proauce,
1 will pay the Highest Market Trice
r Goods.—-2 46tt
T X S* *3? XX Y .
i>rs. ft. & j
SURGEON k MECHANICAL DENTISTS,
E ’ l , * ,roa 't l4U, t Marietta streets, in
; ; ; P“' Vu »» Hie Bell Granite, over
w , o. ' -'‘Cast arpet Store, Atlanta, Da
THE fxBORGI A ENTERPRISE.
DR. O. S. PROPHITI
Covington Gkoimua.
\V ill still continue his business, where tie intend,
keeping on hand! a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Studs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
Concentrated Preparations, Fluid Extracts, Ac.
He is also putting up his
Liver Mo<3.icincs,
FKMW.E TOXIC, ANQDYNE PAIX KILL IT
t'crmirugn, tiiii-Uilious Hills,
aud many other preparations,
J3TWill give prompt, attention to all orders
PiniHlLiH YOTKE.
•Hereafter NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELI V
EKED, or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
O f3 3E31 !
You iicc not call unless you are prepared-to
PAY CASH, for I wiil not Keep Books.
Get. 11 1807. O. S. PRO PIT ITT.
Dr. Prophitt’s Liver Medicine.
Certificate of Rev. M. ML Arnold, of Ga. oon.
H AVING used this Medicine sufficiently long
to test its virtue, and to satisfy mv own mind
that it is-an invaluable remedy for Dyspepsia —
a disease from whic h the, writer lias .suffered
much for six years—and b eing persuaded that
h u ud i eds win now suffer from t his annoying com
plaint , would lie signally benefited, as he has been
by its use—we deem it a du'y we owe to this
nnfort unate ebasc-, to recommend t o them t he use
of this remedy, which has given not only himself,
but several members of his* family lh> greatest
relief. M. W. ARNOLD.
Hail Road Schedules,
Georgia Ualiroad.
E. W, COLE, General Superintendent,
D\t P vBSKNOF.it Train (Sundays excepted,)leaves
Augusta at 6.00 am ; leave Atlanta at 7 am; ar
rive at, Augusta at 5.30 p in ; arrive at Atlanta at 4.20
p m.
Ntgttt Passpnc.fr Train ’.eaves Augusta at 10.10
p.m ; leaves Atlanta at 5.40 p m : arrives at Augusta
at 3.00 a m ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 a in.
Passengers for Milledgeviße, Washington and
Athens, Ga.. must take ttm day passenger train from
Augusta and Atlanta, or intermediate points.
Passengers for West Point, Montgomery, Selma,
and intermediate points, can take either train. For
Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave Augusta on
Night Passenger Train, at 10.10 p. in.
Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand .Tnne
tion, Memphis, Louisville, and St. Louis, tan take
either train and make close connections.
Turoimh Tickets and baggage checked through
to the above places. Sleeping cars on all night pas
senger trains.
MACON’ & AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
F. W. COLF-, Gen’l Sup't.
Leave Camak daily at 2. 10 r. m.; arrive at Milledge
-it (j.-yo p. m. ; leave 'futsayreviii.. »• e -°°
arrive at Camak at 8.55 A. M. (
Passengers leaving any point On tlie Gaorgia R.
U.. by Day Passenger train, will make elose connec
tion at Camak for 51 iltedgcvitle, Eatonton. ami all
intermediate points on the Macon A: Augusta road,
and for Macon. Passengers leaving Miliedgeville
at 5.30 A. M., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same
day.
POUTTT CAROLINA RATLROAD.
If. T. Revkf, General Sup’t.
Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at
3 AT a in, arrives nt Kingsville at 11.15 a m ; leaves
Kingsville at t2.G5 p si, arrives at AuamMa at 7.25
p. m. This train is designed especially for through
travel.
The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at 7 am,
and arrives at Charleston at 4 p in ; leaves Charles
ton at 8 a m. and arrives at Augusta at 5 p m.
Night special freight and express train -leaves Au
gusta (Sundays excepted) at 3.50 p in. anil arrives at
Charleston at 4.30 a m ; leaves Charleston at 7.30 p
m, and arrives at Augusta at 7.35 a m.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R, R.
CvMPr.ru, Mbvt.r.vrr.. (lenernl Superintendent.
Daily passenger train, except Sunday, leaves At
lanta at, 8.45 a in, ami arrives at Chattanooga at 5.25
ti m ; leave? Cliattanooga at 15.20 am, and arrives at
Atlanta at 12.05 p in.
Night express passenger train leaves Atlanta at 7
p m, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a m ; leaves
Cliattanooga at 4.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at
1.41 a pi.
MACON A- WESTERN RAILROAD.
E. T>. Walker, Gen’l Sup’t.
Day passenger train leaves Macon at 7.45 a m. and
reives at Atlanta at 2 p m ; leaves Atlanta at 7.15
a :n. and arrives at Macon at 1.30 p m.
Night passenger train leaves Atlanta at 8.10 p m,
#n and arrives nt Macon at 4.25 am: Jenves Macon at
S <)0 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at. 4.30 a m.
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL.
JGUS.TA, GEORGIA.
vT KYYI.Y famished and refitted, unsurpassed by
t* ail” Hotel South. i- now open to the Public.
T. S. XICKKRSON, Prop’r.
J.nte of Mills House, Charleston, and Proprietor of
Nickerson's Hotel, Columbia, S. C.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General I’assen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house, to th ■ Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors,
W. D. Wiley, Clerk.
Having rc-ieased and renovated the above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain guests in ft
most satisfactory manner. Charges fair and
moderate. Our efforts will he to please.
Baggage carried to find from Depot free of charge
T U K N I F 5 t
t 11IOW THEM LARGE AND FINS, AND
PLENTY OF THEM.
Now is the time to sow the Seed, hut first
thoroughly prepare your land; and if it is not
rich enough, call on us and get a reliable FER
TILIZER
Don’t neglect your own interest, by failing
to use all proper means to ensure ft bountiful
supply of thi» most excellent H inter crop—
good for man and Least.
We tire closing out our
Summer stock,
At Greatly Reduced Pric.s!
An-. H.— 381 f ANDERSON AIT ENTER,
COVLYGTOA 1 , GA., SEPT. 11, ISOS.
Drum Hie New York Evening Express.
Son; us the Taxed.
BY SJ’EKOEK W. CONE.
Rock ;v by baby—your Cither’s a slave
To the fanatic fool and the Radical knave,
And even the cradle you sleep in, poor dear,
May lie sold to pay taxes in less than a year.
He works for you harder each day than before,
But each night brings him home to n lessening store;
For, of all that lie earns, there’s but little it leaves,
After feeding pet negroes and Radical thieves.
He’s taxed on the hat that he wears on his head ;
The boots on his feet, and the sheets on his bed ;
Every rag tlint lie wears ; every morsel he cats i
His tea and ids eofFee ; his broad anil his meats;
The pot they are cooked in ; the cup that lie (ills;
Every implement used on tlie. land that he til’s ;
Every tool that he works with ; the lamp that ho
burns;
Tlie things that he works on ; the wages lie earns;
On the stove in the kitchen—tlie coal, too—still
higher;
Ay ! even tlie match tlint sets light to the fire :
On liia pipe of tobacco, his whisky and beer;
On the medicine lie buys for you poor little dear.
To tlie taxes lie pays we now see no cud —
No, not even Death, ♦rushed humanity's friend.
They tax even Ids eofl'm, his shroud ami his grave ;
Ami liis baby must starve, and his widow must slave.
To hide in the earth he lion hopelessly tilled,
The heart-broken husband whom Taxes have killed.
Rock a by hahy, sleep on whilst you can,
1 hunk God 1 for the years ere yon grow a man ;
For though your poor father to day is a slave
To tlie fanatic fool and Radical knave,
He 11 vote for you, baby, that you may he spared
The curse and the ruin your parents have shared,
And pray that your life may he Saved from his shame,
And a birth-right of freedom be more than a naipe.
Rock a by baby ; sleep sound while yon may,
And your father will work and your mother will pray
T iiat the Radical sharks, with their Taxes and lies,
May be swept as a cloud from America’s skies,
And anew bow of promise be set in the air,
\) ith tlie conquering banner of Seymour and Blair-
The West Wide Awake.
A dispatch to the Chicago Times, August 15, Bays
Os a Democratic meeting ;
“ The Democratic meetingat Hamburg, Fremont,
county, was the largest ever Hold in this State. Over
500 wagons,by actual count, ivere in the procession.
There were 500 ladies on horseback. The States
were represented by 30 young girls, dressed in red
white, and blue, and also by (lie same number op
boys dressed in suits of blue. Tlie 13 original States
were represented by the Boys in Blue dressed iri tlie
Continental Uniform, mounted on white horses
presenting a beautiful appearance. The procession
was three miles long, and, as it passed along, the
gemune Western yells aud hurrahs for Seymour and
Blair were perfectly deafening. The lowest estimate
made of the number assembled was 10,000.”
A Jewell for a Pinchbeck.
In the j.iuTisiaua Senate on Monday, aewen, a
white Democratic member, was ousted to make
room for Pinchbeck, a Jacobin mulatto. The indi
vidual on whose affidavit Jewell was ousted, swore
to frauds in his election, but afterwards took it all
back aud said he bail been bribed. Soitgoes. Real
Jewels must make room for Pinchbeck—white men
for niggers. Bat it will not always he so.
Uig Pile.
The public debt of tbe United States, if piled hi
dollars, one row up, would be 80S milesjiigb! It
taxes every one. in tbe country an average, off 14,00
yearly—.that is, directly. How much indirectly we
we would not venture to compute. The task Would
be too laborious. Taxpayers should think of these
facts before the November election, and then de
posit their votes for Seymour and Blair.
A Fish Story.
Baron Cuvier stales that if the progeny of a pair
of herrings went on increasing and multiplying
without molestation or destruction of the ova?, in
twenty years it would require all the seas in the
world to contain the herrings that would result.
If only half the spawn camelo life, and half the
fisii lived, a boat could not move in the sea.
.. -.<»»► -• -C*—
Bloody Fruits oy Radicalism. —Mr. John
Gregg, who is spending the summer in Jessa
mine county, Kentucky,!rcccive<lJa letter a few
days ago from his home in Texas, containing
an account of another wanton negro outrage.
Two children of a neighbor had boon sent
to tlio field after some cattle, and while ap
proaching a clump of trees, unconscious of
danger, were fired upon and killed by a band
of outlaws. The freedmen had killed one of
a herd of fine cows, and while skinning it
were guarded by a part of their number. The
pickets seeing the boys approaching, and fear
ing detection, deliberately shot them down.
White children murdered in cold blood in
broad daylight by a band of armed negro
thieves—what a picture of Radical philantho
py and protection in the South !
Well Said nil Around.
Among the. many line things uttered at the
recent commencement at Washington College
Yn., we find the following not unmerited com
pliment to the Mother of States. It was the.
sixth regular toast:
“Virginia--Jlrokeh, but not destroyed ; cast
down but not dismayed—the glories of her
past arc but the heralds of a coming, time,
which, leaving her moral grandeur untarnish
ed, and undiminished, shall place her in the
foremost rank of progress, wealth and pow
er.’’
Col. Withers, responded in an appropriate
and telling speech, and at its conclusion, hol
ding aloft a glass of unadulterated water, said :
“I drink to Virginia in a heverago pure as the
virtue of her daughters—unsullied as the
honor of her sons.”
A Young woman in Cincinnati is looking
for her husband, whom she has lost after
three days of married bliss, and whose name
she has forgotten.
“Loilty"—the cant of cowards.
“ButleriziDg“—stealing spoons.
“No policy” —the proof of no brains.
“Equality”—the cover for wholesale theft.
-4-^^-4*—
The Democratic lion is raising up his Maine.
A Mother’s Love.
llappy is he who knows a mother's love.—
M hat is so pure ? The patriot expects fume,
the iriond sympathy, and the lover pleasure.
Lvcn religion while she waters her faitli with
tears, looks forward to the Blest fruit of her
labors and her love. Hut maternal affection
springs from the breast, uninvoked by tlie
wand of hope, unadulterated by the touch of
interest. Its objects are tho weak and woful.
It haunts the cradle of infantile pain, or hov*
ers near tlie couch of the faint and forsaken.
Its sweetest smiles break through the clouds
of misfortune, and its gentlest tone rises amid
the signs of suffering and sorrow. It is a
limpid and lovely flow of fooling, which gush
es from the fountain head’of purity, and cour
ses the heart, through selfish designs and sor.
did passions, imminglin:' and unsullied.—
*ybat is so firm ? Time a>d misfortune, perm
nry and persecution, hatred and infamy, may
roll their dark waves successively over it; and
still it smiles unchanged, or flic potent allure*
inents of fortune, opulence and pride, power
and splendor may woo her; and yet she is
unmoved—a mother “loves and loves for
ever,”
Woman.
An exquisite writer beautifully says ; As
a dove will clasp its wings to its sides and
cover and conceal the arrow preying upon its
vitals, so is it the nature of a woman to hide
from the world the pangs of a wounded affec
tion. With her the desire of her heart has
failed. The great charm of existence is at an
end. She neglects all the cheerful exercise
that gladdens the spirit, quickens the pulse,
and sends the Dde of life in cheerful currents
through the veins. Her rest is broken, the
sweet refreshments of sleep are poisoned by
melancholy dreams, dry “sorrow driuks her
blood,” until her feeble frame sinks under the
least external assailant. Look for her after a
little and you will find friendship weeping
over her untimely grave, and wondering that
one who so lately glowed with all the radi
ance of health and beauty, should now be
brought to darkness and the worm. You will
lie told of some wintry chill, some slight in
disposition that laid her low, but no one knows
the mental malady that had previously sapped
her strength, and made her so easy a prey to
the spoiler.
The Gotton Crop.—ln conversing with an
old and experienced planter who has soon
much of the growing crop in the adjoining
counties, lie said that the crop is more seriously
injured than the planters generally suppose.—
The damage from the nrmv worm aud the boll
«u f „, .u oousiucrabie, but the Jong
and continual rains in the early part of this
month destroyed all hopes of a late crop and
caused many of the matured bolls to -rot. A
rainy August is always fatal to the cotton crop.
Our informant gives it as his opinion that the
crop of Lowndes and Montgomery counties
will not yiel 1 over one sixth oftheerop's usual
a vera ge.— Afont. Advert user.
Ons, of the Eri ECTSor Radical Rule.— The
New Orleans Picayune, of the 28th ult., says
One of the saddest and most unhappy cases
of distress which prevails among the police
force occurred yesterday. For several weeks
the family of a policeman have been prostrated
by sickness, lie bas bad no money to procure
medicine or proper noursiimcnt. Yesterday
one of his children died—it cannot be denied,
died from want. He bad not eyen money to
purchase the burial certificate, much less to
defray the funeral expenses. To this dire ex
tremity are the police of one of the first cities
on the continent reduced. This simple state
ment of a fact needs no elaboration—it tells its
own talc.
A New Question Sprung Upon tile Rabi
cai.s.—The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, says : Anew idea has
been broached by Southern anti-Radical poli
ticians in favor of allowing every native and
naturalized citizen of the United States, in the
reconstructed States, the right to vote in the
coming Presidential election. The idea is,
briefly, that the constitutional amendment of
the Constitution, known as article fourteen,
only deprives of the right to hold office such
persons as, anterior to the rebellion, took an
oach to support tiic Constitution and after
wards engaged in the rebellion or gave aid
and comfort to the enemy. By referring to
the article, it will be noticed that not a word
is said about the right cf such persons to vote,
and hence Southern politicians contend that
that they have not been deprived of that right
by the new amendment.
Hon. J. C. Breckinridge. —Of John C.
Breckinridge, the Observer and Reporter of
Lexington, Kentucky, says ; Thero seems to
be a prospect of the return of this son of
Kentucky to his home and friends. The tele
graph announces that three of his personal
friends. Judge Alvin Duval, Frank Hunt, Esq.,
and the Hon. J. B. Beck, are now visiting
him in Canada, with the view of inducing him
if possible, to make application to the Presi
dent of the United States for a pardon, so that
he can return to his native State. It is stated
that thefime for filing an indictment for treason
against those who participated in the late war
for Confederate independence, has passed by
limitation of the law, and even if it had not,
the President can pardon all who apply
to him, excepting only such as are
now under indictment or conviction. The day
when General Breckinridge can retnrn to us
in safety, will not be more joyful to him thau
to thousands who love and honor the *cxiled
soldier statesman. * j
A locust stung a radical editor out West
the other day. The locust died.
Must Vote Under the Old Constitution.
According to Rresidcnt Johnson’s view, flip
people of the Southern States, in order to in
sure the counting of their votes for President
and Vice-President, will have to vote under
the constitutions prior to the year 18G7. In
his message vetoing tho Electoral College bill,
occurs the following:
“It is worthy of remark that if the States
whose inhabitants were recently in rebellion
were legally and constitutionally organized
and restored to their rights prior to the 4th of
March, 1867, ns I am satisfied they were, the
only legitimate authority under which the
election for President attd Vice-President can
bo held therein must bo derived from the gov
ernments instituted before that period. It
clearly follows that alt the State governments
organized in those States undec act of Congress
for that purpose, and under military control,
are illegitimate and of no validity whatever ;
and, in that view, the votes east in those States
for President and I ice-Prcsident, in pursuanee
of acts passed since the 4th of March, 1807,
and in obedience to the so called reconstruction
acts of Congress cannot Be legally received uiid
counted; while the only votes in those States
that can he legally east and counted, will be
those cast in pursuance of the laws in force in
the several States prior to legislation by Con*
gross upon the subject of reconstruction.’’
Jlowell Cobb’s Disclaimer.
The subjoined extract from a recent private
letter Horn llowell Cobb, of Georgia, is made
public :
"I entered this contest with a desire for the
success of our tickot, which I never felt before.
Wearied with the bitter struggles of the past
few years, my heart panted for peace, quiet
and repose. In the election of Governor Sey
mour and the success of the Democratic party
I felt, iu common with all our good people*
there was not only a prospect but a certainty
of peace—an enduring peace, that would lift
up our own desolated section and give to it
new days of prosperity ; restoring, too, the
past relations of brotherhood between the two
sections, and making us once more a happy
and united people—united not merely in name,
but in heart, spirit and truth. It was with
these feelings I was induced to break a long
self-imposed silence and address tho people of
Georgia, to induce a like feeling on their part.
Well, imagine if you can, the surprise with
which I have read the comments in Radical
papers on that speech, perverting ita meaning,
distorting and construing my word's of peace
anil hope into words of blood and revolution.
1 am made the advocate of strife and war,
YMH", im.u every pore of my heart, there
comes gushing the Unrat eiM-nesi auu smrai:
desire for peace—lasting, eternal peace.”
The Washington special of tho Louisville
Courier says the scheme of securing the elec
toral votes of the reconstructed' States for
Grant, by taking the choice of electors 'out of
the bands of tho people and remitting it to
bogus legislatures elected by Grant's bayonets,
has been abandoned by the Radicals. They
found that it is a gani9 that two can play at.
The Democrats have the legislatures of Ohio,
New York and New Jersey, and a prospect of
carrying enough legislatures in the North to
elect Seymour, and they threatened to take the
same course in the North if the Rndicals under
take the legislative plan of choosing electors in
the South.
Dead. —Ex-Governor Seymour, of Connec
ticut, is dead. lie was a leading Democrat,
and will be a great loss to the party.
The reason why the world is not reformed
is. because overy man would have others make
a beginning, and never thinks of himself.
Never carry a sword in yonr tongue to
wound the reputation of any man.
Cast no dirt into the well that lias given
water when you were thirsty.
Good words, and good deeds are the rent
we owe for the air we breathe.
A letter was received at Washington on
Friday from the Hon. Horatio Seymour, dated
Utica, New York. August 27th, in which the
great banner-bearer of the American people
announces himself in good health and spirit,
and “certain of the success of the Democratic
ticket—for the rights of the whole people, the
maintenance of the Union entire, with the
same privileges to one section as the other. 1 '
■ -* i
“Let us have peace,” says General Grant;
and with it come blows and insults in the
shape of the reconstruction acts of Congress,
carpet-bag legislators, and personal denuncia
tions of every sort against tbe Southern States
and people. “Let us have peace,” says Gov
ernor Seymo””, and peace in the way provi
ded by the Constitution—that pence which
conies from good will, with equal States, eqifhl
rights, equal people, and equal laws. One is
peace , the other is war.
A Simple Mode or Destroying Insects on
Vegetables.— lnsects injurious to vegetation,
it is stated, can be destroyed by the applica
tion of a liquid composed of one part vinegar
and nine parts water. The mixture should bo
applied to vines and plants with a garden
syringe or water-pot with a fine nozzle.
“Ah !” said a mischievous wag to a lady
acquaintance of an aristocratic cast, “I per
ceive you have been learning a trade.T
“Learning a trade?” Replied the lady,
indignantly; “you are very much mistaken
sir.” , : -
“Oh, I thought by the looks of your cheeks
yon had turned painter.”
The lady waxed wrathv, and the wag va
mosed'.
VOL. 3. m. 42
[From tlie New York Saturday Courier,
(ueutrub] i \
Look Out for the Political Overthrow—
Meymoiir’s 'Election a Fixed Fact.
TIIE SILENT VOTE.
The political campaign is practically finished
and victory won before any apparent blow has
been struck or battle delivered. The Repub
licans are def'ated—horse, foot and artillery—
before they have hardly set their squadrons
in thcficld. We are not talking now as parti
sans. Wo put aside all questions of predilec
tion. We dismiss any consideration of tho
justice or propriety of the result itself. Polit
ical reasons have, undoubtedly, conducted to
it in a largo degree. The very through re-or
ganization of the Democratic party, the quench
ing of all feuds and schisms in it, and its com
pact union for a common end, would have
made it formidable in any event. But causes,
many of them subtle, nnd all of them superior
to the.common political causes which govern a
quadrennial election, have operated to produce
this romlt. Let us consider them :
Many very wise old merchants have laid it
down as a business axiom that there is a finan
cial convulsion in the United States every
seven years. Tlie often rush ahead in wild
peculation for six years, and seem to swim in
a sea oT success ; but on the seventh comes a
kind of jubilee of destruction, nnd everything
goes, to smash. It is much the same with po*
litieal parties—a period of wonderful success,
and then a terrible collapse. The jubilee of
destruction, the terrible seventh year of col
lapse, has overtaken the Republican party.—
Go where you will, talk to whom you will, the
signs arc all the same. Everywhere men say,
“Well, we think it’s about time for a change.
The Republicans have had their chance in,
and it's about time to give the other fellows a
turn. Tlie Republicans have had full swing
for seven years, and made innumerable prom-*
iscs of economy, reform, peace, good time," etc.
“None of their promises have been kept,
and we arc tired of wasting for tlie good time
which don’t come. Let us give the other side
a chance, and see if they will do better.”—
Such is the common talk of the great “middle'
party,” which hold-; to-day, as it always has
held, tlie balance of power in the Unitod :
States; and every politician knows that as
that middle party goes so goes the Union. For
it is well understood by shrewd politicians,
and by dispassionate observers of tho course of
events In the United States, from 1801 to the
present year of grace, that the real and ears
nest Federalists and Democrats, the real Whigs
and Democrats, or the real Republicans and
Democrat/', never carried an election by their
own unaided strength. The parties which in
wijiiiiauu ursi arouuu uiu uuuugunisiio
principles of centralization and decentraliza**
tion, attracted in those two directions all the
earnest thinkers.
From that time to this, men with whom
politics is a faith, have as conviction led them,-
joined either side, and the two parties liavo
been very noarly balanced. But, between’
these two lie a great mass of voters whose po
litical opinions yield to the passion or impulso
of the moment, to hard times or flush' times ;
who have, perhaps, neither the capacity nor
the antecedents which fix them in stubborn ad
herence to the principles and fortunes- of a
party ; who aim at no office and sympathize
.with the party out of power, not so much*
Because they believe in it very strongly, but
because they don’t believe in anything deeply,
and particularly disbelieve in the party or‘ins’
because it has failed to satisfy their expecta
tion. This is tbe character and power of the
great third party in tho nation, commonly
known as the “silent vote,” and everything
indicates this silent vote has resolved to cast
itself for Seymour and Blair.
As the Democratic party was overthrow® by
“Tippecanoe and Tyler, too;” as it was swept
down by Zaehry Taylor when this “silent vote”
declared for it, all shrewd men see that it
must succeed overwhelmingly, and that, with
its success, the Republican party, with all its
de. ds, va li.-lies, as a party in entity, from' the
field of American politics, and that tlmse with
whom its principles are a faith and reality,
must slowly re combine under anew name, and
a:'*-:.ipi to iv ;ain popular favor by presenting
new issues or artfully repainting the old' ones.
A boro—the man who persists in talking
about himself when you wish to- talk about
yourself. h ir -
An editor at the South has purchased a race
horse at the expense of two thousand dollars
for the purpose of catching his runaway sub
scribers.
Never condemn your neighbor unheard,
however many tho accusations which may be
preferred against -him ; every story Iras two
ways of being told.
The most ignorant have knowledge enough
to detect the faults of others; the most clear
sighted are blind to their own.
Iu a lute speech Butler exclaimed : “If we
lose Grant’s election, all is lost,” But then it
is possible a good many spoons may be found.
Wasliburne, of Illinois, while urging Con
gress to adjourn, said ; “lie desired an adjourn
ment at the earliest possible moment, for if
they went on at the rate they were going, the
Government would have neither money nor
credit left,” What an admission for a leading
Republican to make on the floor of Congress,
and in the face of the American people!
One man—“ Jim, what are you going to do
this Fall?”
Other man—“ Don’t know, Sam. Times are
dull. Think I’ll go South, and be a United
States Senator.”
