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groftssional Carte.
' jTc. MORR TS ,
jtttornoyat Law,
CONYERS, GA.
‘ WW j. W CLARK &J. M. PACE,
ni vs formed » partnership, and will transact all
1 ..tineas entrusted to them in the counties of
bU oer llutts, Ilcurv, Gwinnett. Walton,
M °,% lll *t J on ail’d in the District Court of the United
gUte» C *tAtlanta- * Special attention Riven to cases
is Bankruptcy. w chiRK,
oct. 3 If J M PACE -
M * JONES,
D a ‘ nr T I » TANARUS,
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' JOHN S. CARROLL,
DENT I • T ,
Covington, aeoßan.
Teeth Filled, or Now Teetliln«erlcd,in
tl,e best Style, and or. Reasonable To rm.
Odes Rear of R- King’s Store.-l ltf
' JAM E S M . LEVY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
GEORGIA,
STl’e iVprcpared to Repair Watches, Clocks
* eirv in thebest lityle. Particular atten-
U.n given to repairing W etches injured by m
eolapetent workmen. All work warranted.
PIAN9S TUNED AND REPAIRED.
r PROF WILLIAM FISHER will
ailpiSllldevote his SATURDAYS te Tuning
J J land Repairing Pianos. He will
,Uit families in the country, and convenient
noints on the Rail Road for that purpose. HU
one experience will enable him to give satis
faction to his employers. Charges reasonable.
He is permitted to refer to President Oir.
Covington, Ga., April 8, 1888.— 20tf
DRS. DEARINC & PRINCLE
HIVING associated themselves in the Prac
tice of MEDICINE and SURGERY, offer
their professional services to the citizens of
Xevton county. They have opened sn offi eon
the East, side of the Square, (next door to h-
Drwaio’b Store,) and are pvepared <• attend to
nil calls promptly. They hare also a eaiefully
pelected a«sortmei*t of the
Very Best Medicines,
and will give their personal attention to Com
pounding Prescriptions, for Physicians and
others.
Hpcciul attention given to Chronic Diseases
At ni'lit Dr. Dkarino will be found at his
reaid-r.ee, aud Dr. Pkingi.b at his rooms imtne
dlately over the Store of C. H. Saxusks t Bao.
say 15, 25tf
BOOT & SHOE SHOP.
[would reap.’Ctfully inform t lie cil izen?
of Covington and surrounding country jr
.iiat I am now prepared to make to order
BOOTS AND SHOES
» r the finest quality. As 1 work nothing but
t i* Best Material, I will guarantee satisfaction.
Shop over R. King’s Store.
Hand 1 y JOSEPH RAUBER
JOSEPH Y. TINSLEY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Is fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clo ks
>nl Jewelrv, in the best Style, at short noDce,
All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below I ho Court House.—stf
SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP.
g. # I would respectfully inf,.rm the
citizens of Newton, nttd adjoining
nounties, that I have opened a
_ SADDLE and HARNESS SII OP
Onnotthside public square in COVINGTON,
whore I am prepared to make to order. Harness
• addles, <t c , or Repair the same at short notice
and in the best style.
4 7 ts JAMEB B. BROWN
11. T. II E N R Y,
D E KT T I S T ,
COVC'CTOX, GEORGIA.
y*. HAS REDUCED HIS INURES, so
Fffir&HHfL that nil who have been so unfurtu
■ELlTXF „ate ns to lose their natural Teeth
an have their places supplied by Alt. at Vory
tmall cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable prices,
and work faithfully executed, Office north side
I of Square—l 22tf
ANDERSON & HUNTER
Are now ready for the
FALL AND WINTER TRADE!
J I ST OPENED, a large and well selected
stock of
15 r y Gr o o ci s,
of every Description,
Ready Made Clothing,
L HATS & CAPS. BOOTS & SHOES,
every description of Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
I
GROCERIES,
Hardware, Agricultural Implements,
Anl any and everything else that is ever kept
in a Tirst Class .Store, Give us a call.-4Gtf
SB E 0 I gSB »!
I-C * "■* * T ARTF.TY of Seasonable Garden
mJ Grass, and Field Seed always in Store—by
papers, or by the quantity. Kentucky Blue
l r ’.' ass - lT erd or Red Top, Orchard Grass, Clover,
•timothy, Luzerne, Rye, Barley, Buckwheat,
'>ats, Stock Beet, Ac. &c.
200 lbs. Turnip Seed.
vuta Baga, Flat Dutch, White and Yellow
1 in L 'rge Norfolk, Red Top, Aberdeen,
I! or Hanover varieties.
lvnr* b^' h of ,ha «‘' lel«rateJ G ALE WHITE
‘ , for sale, tor Serd. It is earlier than
my other variety, and Ritst Proof.
Also,
Agricultural Implements and Machines
ry of every Kind.
„ P. W. .1. ECHOLS, Prop'r,
Agricultural W nrehouse and Seed Storfi
W.hitcliall street, Atlanta Qh.
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR.O.S. PROP HITT
Covington Gkouoia.
Will still continue his business, where bo intends
keeping on hand u good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs,
Together with it i.ot of
Botanic Medicines,
Concentrated Preparation*, Fluid Extracts, Are.
ire is also putting up Ids
Liver Modicines,
FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Vermifuge, Anil-Bilious Pills,
and many other preparations,
Of” Will give prompt attention to all orders
P ARTTCUI.iit NOTICE.
Her,-after NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELIV
Ell ED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except, for
O .A. £3 XX !
You nee not cal! unless you are prepared to
PAY CASH, fori wi 1 not Keep Books.
Oct. 11, 1867. O. S. PRO PH ITT.
Dr- Prophitt’B Liver Medicine.
Certificate of Rev. M. W. Arnold, of Ga. Oon.
HAVING used this Medicine sufficiently long
to test its virtue, and to satisfy my own mind
that it is an invaluable remedy for Dyspepsia—
a disease from which the writer has suffered
much for six years—and lining persuaded that
hundreds who now suffer from tliisannoying com
plaint, would be signally benefited, ns lie Inis been
by its use—we deem it a duty we ewe to tliis
unfortunate c’as>, to recommend to them the use
of this remedy, which has given not only himself,
but several members of his family the grcnlesl
relief M. W. ARNOLD.
Rail Road Schedules.
Georgia Kaliroad.
E. W. COI.E, General Superintendent.
Dtv Passfnoek Train (Sundays exeepted,)leaves
Au-lista at 6.00 am ; leave Atlanta at 7 am ; ar
rive at Augusta at 5.30 p tu ; arrive, at Atlanta at 4.20
*' vie,HT Passf.nohh Train '.eaves Augusta at 10.10
p.tn : leaves Atlanta at 5.40 p ni; arrives at Augusta
at 3 00 a in ; arrives at Atlanta nt 7.45 a in.
Passengers for Milledgeville, Washington and
Athens, (la., must take the day passenger train from
Anwusta and Atlanta, or intermediate points.
Passengers for West Point, Montgomery, Selma,
and intermediate points, can take either tram. Em
Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave Augusta on
Ni'dit Passenger Train, at 10.10 p. in.
Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junc
tion, Memphis, Louisville, and St. Louis, can take
cither train and make close connections.
Throuoh Tickets and baggage checked through
to the above places. Sleeping ears on all night pas
senger trains.
MACON &. AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
F,. IV. COI.E, Gett’l Sup’t.
Leave Catnak dailv at 2.40 r v : arrive at Milledge
ville at ti.2o r. At.: leave Milledgeville at 5.30 A. M.;
arrive at Catnak at H. 55 a. m. . _
Passengers leaving any point on the Georgia K.
R liv Dav Passenger train, will make close connec
tion at Ciiniak for Milledgeville, Eatonton, and all
intermediate points on the Macon A: Augusta road,
and for Maeou. Passengers leaving Milledgeville
at 5.30 a. m., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same
day.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
11. T. Pkake. General Sup’t.
Special mail train, trolrur North, leaves Aiigustn nt
3.55 a ni, arrives nt Kinsrsville at 11.15 a ni ; lesn'es
Kingsville at 12.05 pm. arrive* at Aiurusln nt 7.25
p. m. This train is designed espcehdlv for through
travel. m
The train for Charleston leaves Augusta al < a hi,
and arrives nt Charleston at 4 p m : leaves Charles
ton at 8 a ni, ami arrives at Augusta at A p in.
Night special freight and express train leaves Au
gusta (Sundays excepted) at 3.50 p in, and arrives at
Charleston at 4.30 a m ; leave# Charleston at <.30 }«
in, and arrives at Augusta at 7.35 a m.
WESTERN <fe ATLANTIC R. R.
Camphell Wallace. General Superintendent.
Daily passenger tniin. except Sunday, loaves At
lanta at 8.45 a m. and arrive* at Chattanootra at 5.25
p in ; leave* Chattanooga at 3.20 a in, and arrives at
Atlanta at 12.05 pm.
Night expres* passenger tram leaves Atlanta at <
p m, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a in ; lea\es
Chattanooga at 4.30 p in, and arrives at Atlanta at
1.41 a m.
MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD.
E. R. Wai.kf.r, Gen’l Sup’t.
Day passenger train leaves Macon at <.45 a ni.and
rrives at Atlanta at 2 p in ; leaves Atlanta at 7.15
a t\, and arrives at Macon at 1.30 p in.
Night passenger train leaves Atlanta at S.lO p in,
and arrives at Macon at 4.25 a in : leaves Macon at
8.3 b p m, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a m.
lintel.
PLANTERS HOTEL.
JC.PSTA, GEORGIA.
wTEWI.Y furnished and refitted, unsurpassed liy
tN anv Hotel South, is now open to the Public.
T. S. NICKERSON, Prop’r.
Bate of Mills House, Charleston, and Proprietor of
Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. C.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER A BASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passcn
gcr Depot, corner Alabama and Prior street*,
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE * WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
W. D. Wiley, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated the above
Hotel, we arc prepared to entertain guests in a
most 'satisfactory manner. Charges fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to please.
Baggage carried to and from Depot free of charge
r ARE REDUCED
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL U situated on
Broad Street, Central to the husincss por
tion of the City, and convenient to the Tele
graph and Express Offices. The House is large
and commodious, and has been renovated and
newly painted from garret to cellar, and the
bedding nearly all new since the war. The
rooms are large and airy ; clean beds, and the
fare as good as the country affords, and atten
tive and polite servants.
Charges.—'Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals 75 Cents,
I l ope to merit a liberal share of patronage
from the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for voureelvca.
», M, JONES, Prop r.
WM. H. COODRICH ,
sash, bunds, and doors,
Ou band, and made to Order.
<lßoin Georg’a .
COVINGTON, GA., NOV. 20, 18G8.
At the Window.
IIY THE AI'TIIOII Or ‘JOHN ll ai. ifax, gentleman.*
Only to listen—listen nnd wait
For his slow firm step down the gravel walk ;
To hear the cliek-cliek of his hand at the gate,
And feel every heart-boat through careless
talk.
Ah, love is sweet when life is young !
And life and love are both so long.
Only t > watch him about the room,
Lighting it up with his quiet smile,
That seems to lift the world out of gloom,
And bring heaven nearer me—for a while.
A little while—since love is young,
And life is as beautiful as long.
Only to love him—nothing more ;
Never a thought of his loving me :
Proud of him, glad in him, though lie boro
Mv heart to shipwreck on this smooth sen.
Love's faith secs only grief, not wrong,
And life is darling when ‘tis young.
Ah me ! what matter ! The world goes round
And bliss and bale are but outside things?
I never can lose what in him I found,
Though lore bo sorrow with half-grown
wings ,
And if love flies when we are young,
Why, life is still not long—not long,
And Heaven is kind to the faithful heart;
And if we are. patient, and brave, ami calm.
Our fruits will last though our flowers depart;
Some day. when 1 sleep with folded palm,
No longer fair, no longer young,
Life may not seem so bitter long.
********
Tears dried up in ber shining eves,
Her parted lips took a saintly peace :
Ilis shadow across the doorway lies—
Will her doubts gather, darken, or cease ?
When hearts are pure, and bold, and strong,
True loro ns life -itself is long.
Darkness.
When Hope deserts the human breast,
And Fate hath wrought the worst.
When Grief becomes the only guest,
That midnight skies have nurs'd,
Light recks the soul what wild unrest
From future skies may hurst.
Like stony statues, far and wide,
Behold a people proud :
Disasters loom on every side.
And storms on tempests crowd :
No change of gloom, save that descried
From cloud to darker cloud.
The Southern dead .are thrust from sight,
No marble columns rise
To tell where, in the field of fight.
They breath’d their latest sighs ;
Lone memory lends their funeral rite,
And pays their obsequies.
The living find their lot less kind,
As lapse the waves of Time ;
War. flood, nnd pestilence combin'd
To rack a lovely clime,
And penurylgnnnt stnlks dark behind,
That unforgiven crime!
Some sorrows are so deep and grand
They crush a human lyre,
The requiem of n ruined land,
Might move an angel choir :
Great God! remove thy chastening hand,
And stay thy righteous ire !
Friends.— AVhcn I see leaves drop from the
trees in the beginning of Autumn, just such,
think I. is the friendship of the world. While
the sap of maintenance lasts, my friends swarm
in abundance; but, in the Winter of my need,
they leave me naked. He is a happy man that
hath a true friend at his need ; but he is more
truly happy that hath no need of friends.
A Novel Invention. — The latest novelty of
inventive genius is a car which carries its own
track and runs on any ordinary wagon road,—
AVerc a freight train coupled at each end and
placed so as to represent a perpendicular hoop
and then a track bent around the circle and
welded at each end, the cars and track would
illustrate the principle on which this machine
is constructed. The car is oval, and encompass
ed by a track running lengthwise around it.
The wheels are in double trios, connected by
iron rods, and when it is in motion the wheels
nnd rods revolve around it. The wheels do
not touch the ground, but they are supported
by lees, which, if broad, allow the ear to pass
over sandy or swampy soil.
Let eyery one attend to his own business and
to the dnties of his office; they will then be
better discharged.
There is a man in Boston so poor that he
cannot pay a debt of gratitude. It is proposed
to get up a testimonial in his behalf.
Yankee doctor has recently got up remedy
for hard times. It consists of ten hours hard
labor well worked in.
A fanner says the best plan for any one to
adopt when there are inseet# on fowls, is to let
them sleep on pine shavings, and the turpen
tine will soon drive away all insects. He some*
timos sprinkles it on his dog's bed, and the
fleas soon leave.
A Thocgbtpcl llisbanp. —A sailor's wife
at Portpatriek had just received intelligence
that her husband had perished at sea. Site
was visited by a neighbor, who sympathized
with her on her loss, and expressed a fear that
she would be poorly off.
“ ’Deed will I,” said the widow ; “ but he
did all he could for me—he's saved me the ex
pense of his buryin'.”
Old DngoodN Dog.
Old Dttgood came into the barroom the oth
er day and took a seat among the idlers there
assembled. The d>g question was under dis
cussion, and after listening to a few wonderful
stories, Dtigcod chipped in as follows :
“ Now, hoys, you may all talk as you please
about the smart things dogs hev done, hut I
can jest tell you somethin’ that will lay over
all.yer stories.
I don't’speet you'll believe a man when lie’s
a tollin’ yc's the truth, but this is as true, as
the Gospel.
Yotts all know that big yaller dog of mine?
Well, that dog is the smartest dog in this drive.
He’s an intellectual dog, he is. Now, 1 know
you wont believe me, hut that ur' dog's been
lamin' to sing.
“ Learning to sing? Get out !" interrupted
one of the listeners.
“ Yes, sir, that's so, every word of it ; and
I'll jest tell you how it was. T'other night we
had some singing at our house. You know
our Sal's been going to the s’ngin’ school latc
ly, and she and the other gals, and the voting
felleiS what go, hev got so they can squawk
like the very blazes. And fO most every night
they meet at somebody's house and practice.
Well, the other night there was a whole crew
on 'em at our house, and they had a big time.
Such a sereeehin' and a squallin', and a holler
in' you never heard in all your lives. You'd
hev thought that a whole gang of tom cats had
broke loose and tackled Squire Jones' big bull
and wor jest having it hot and heavy. Well,
that nr’ dog was in the room while they wor
singin', and lie was the most interested crea
ture I ever saw. He watched 'em heatin’ time
and goin' through their manoovers, and 'peared
to understand ’em as well as they did. At
first they sung lively tunes, you know ; and
purty soon, when they got tired of these, they
commenced on psalms and hymns and other
serious things. The dog, he 'peared to like
these better than he did the lively tunes, and
sot down as close tip to 'em as he could while
they sung.
“At last the gals coaxed -Jim Blowhard to
sing “Old Hundred.” You know' what an old
tcarin base voice -Tim has. When he commen
ced, the dog began to get dreadfully interes
ted. He pinted his nose right up at the cclin,
and every time Jim caxo to the low notes he'd
sorter howl.”
“Who? Jim?”
“No blast you, the dog. Blowhard he sung
away lor a while, and just then lie turned
round and kinder hit his hind legs.”
“Gosh a mighty 1 lllowhard?”
“No, you all-tired fool you, the dog of
course. Then sez Ito the old woman, ‘Nancy
Jane,' soz I, ‘you just bet your boots that
dog's somethin in his head.’ And Nancy Jane
sez she, ‘You git out—l shant do it.’ Jest
then the dog picked somethin’ up in his mouth
anil bolted out of the room quicker'n a streak.
I didn't pay much attention to it, and nobody
else noticed it.
“When Blowhard finished, all the gals
crowded round him and commenced flatterin
on hi in, when suddenly we all heard a noise.
It was the orfullest mixed up noise ever any
body heard. Everybody was scart nearly to
death. Six of the gals fainted away into
Rlowhard's arms all at once. They wor
bangin’ on to him from all sides, like string
beans on a pole. Blowhard sot still for a
minnitor two, it was more huggin than he
could stand, and lie wilted right off his seat
onto the floor and tried to crawl under the
sofa. Before he got more'n his head and
sholders under, the gals all came to and caught
him by the feet and tried to pull him out.—
Blowhard he hung onto the sofa legs and bel
lowed murder; and the galls screeched, and
sum on cm run around the room nineteen
limes in a minnit before they could find any
thing else to faint onto.
“I picked up a candle and rushed into the
hack yard, with two or three of the spunkiest
men. and what do you think that ar intellec
tual old dog was doing? He'd got a music
book spread out before him, and he was beat
in time with his tail on a tin pan, and a howl
in “Old Hundred” liko all possessed."—Gol
den Era. rc ([
Our Enjoyment.
Among worldly pleasures, which is the,
chief? Here is a question for debating socie
ties, a problem for philosophers. They need
not trouble themselves to discuss it, however,
for it is one which will never be settled.
“What is one man's meat is another man's
poison,” says the proverb; and that which is
a delight to A may he and very often is. a nui
sance to B, his neighbor. Ask Tallyho, the
sportsman, what he thinks of fox hunting, and
he will assure you that it affords more pleas
urable excitement than any other pursuit un
der the sun. Put the same question to Gun
nvliag, who is exhausting health and life in a
hound-like chase of the almighty dollar, and
he will tell you that the man who hunts foxes
when he might hag “eagles” is a fool. One
thincr, however, is certain —viz : that the
happiness derived from doing deeds of kind
ness is the highest, the purest, and most lasting
of all human enjoyments. The vilest sinner
breathing, if he has ever performed a benevo
lent act in the course of his life, knows this
to be true. How strange, then that so many
thousands should ruin health, fortune, and
reputation in pleasures that turn to ashes in
the end, while they neglect this source of en
joyment. accessible to all, and which not only
brightens life, but softens the sting of death.
— Exchange.
A grape vino in Jonchccy, France, fifty four
years old, yields three tons weight of grapes.—
The stem is one hundred and sixty feet long,
and the branches cover a space of two hundred
square feet.
Tan Present and Future of the Bouth-«ThP
Examples of History.
There are those in the South, it is said, who
indulge the gloomy apprehension that their
section has been brought by the events of the
war to the close of its career, and that the
world, so far as they are concerned, has oome
to an end. The result of the late national
election will intensify this conviction among
persons of desponding temperament. Such a
sentiment, as far as it has been produced by
the war, is natural undpr the circumstances,
which, however, most nations of the earth
have had to encounter nt some period or other*
but which have visited the South fur the first
time. Other conquered races have had the
same sad imagination. No doubt tho Saxons
concluded they had no future, whun, eight
hundred years ago, the brave Harold lost his
life, nnd the Normans became masters of all
England. For four succeeding generations,
England was ruled hv Frenchmen; the offices
were filled by French ; the speech of the court
was French ; t was regarded as a degradation
for a Norman prince to marry a Saxon prin
cess ; even the Saxon abbots and prelates were
violently deposed, and when a Norman gentle
man wished to deny a derogatory charge in
the most forcible lorm, he indignantly asked,
“Do you take me for an Englishman?'’ And
yet the time came when to be an Englishman
was the proudest lmnst of the descendants of
the men who had uttered that scornful taunt.
At the peiiod when the two races, so longhos
tile, united in the support of the great charter,
the history of the English nation is truly snid
to have begun. The Saxon race, instead of
being extinguished, has, in fact, given the
dominating element to the character, opinions,
customs and laws of Englaud; laid the foun
dations of an empire oa whose possessions tho
sun nover sets, and of a languago and litera
ture which will live as long as the sun shines,
and be the heritage not only of England, but
of two hundred millions of people ou tliis con
tinent alone.
At a later period in English history, when
Charles I. was sent to the block, the cavalier
party thought, no doubt, that ics fortunes had
gone down beyond the hope of reconstruction,
aud therefore that the world had come to an
end. That party might well have been gloomy
and almost despairing, not only in view of its
disastrous overthrow, but of that master spirit
of the earth by whom its defeat had been ac*
complished, and of the steady, disciplined,
solid squadrons whom he had trained to victory.
After the fashion of all mankiud, (when their
cause is lost,) the cavaliers thought that the
country and all creation had gone with it.—
Instead of tiiat proving true, England became
greater under Cromwell than she had ever
been before, and having fulfilled his mission,
not only did the world and the country refuse
to he ruined, but even the cavalier party came
into power again nnd their representatives still
lead the councils and the camps of Grsat Brit
ain, Rip Van Winkle, after his twentyyears’
nap on the Catskill mountains, was not half so
much astoni-hed as n despairing cavalier of
Charles’ time would he, if he could rise from
the dead and see what the little nation, not
then containing five millions of people, whose
whole annual revenue of the crown was about
£1,400,000, lias been doing since in every de
partment of human progress. As he looked
upon all this, and cast a glance at the colossal
East India empire, (which lias come into exis
tence since his time) he might rationally con
clude that England never fairly began her race
of material progress till after the time when,
in the opinion of many, it seemed to have
ended. And on the other hand, the Puritans
who, at the period of the restoration, had rea
son to fear that their cause had become an utter
failure, lived to see it spring up with redoubled
energy in tho new world, until at last they
enjoyed the sweet consolation of being as able
to persecute others as others had been to per
secute them.
When the. tide of Gothic barbarism spread
over the Roman world, it might well have ap
peared as if Christianity would never emerge
from the deluge of heathendom. Yet the be
nevolent spirit of Christianity made captive
the followers of Alaric and Clovia, and Rome,
which had rocked to her foundations under the
blows of the Teutonic chiefs, became the capi
tal of a witlcr spiritual empire than that over
which the imperial eagles had flown in the
zenith of their greatness. Again, at the com
paratively recent period, when French repub
licanism was reveling up to its chin in the
blood of its enemies, when it was attempted to
depose the Almighty by statute, and a prosti
tute was deified as the Goddess of Reason, it
might well hare been feared hy all rational
Frenchmen that human society was finally dis
solved. When that “child of the revolution,"
Napoleon Bonaparte, was overthrowing and
distributing the monarchic of Europo among
his followers, no doubt the world seemed to the
dispossessed sovereigns to have come to an end.
Prussia, in particular, when Napoleon, after
the fearful work at Jena and Auerstadt, enter
ed her capital in triumph, could scarcely have
conceived that the current of her history, which
seemed plunging into a bottomless abyss, would
emerge ere long in a rejoicing stream, and
within the lifetime of a man, widen iatoa tide
go broad nnd deep that even the lusty einews
of France hesitate to buffet the angry flood.—
It is a fact attested by all the annals of man
kind that a race true to itself cannot perish by
by many tribulations. Looking back
upon the grand march of history, we find that
the career of nations to greatness, both politi
cal and material, often begins at the very point
where, to contemporary eyes, it seemed to have
ended.
That is the lesson which the South ought to
ponder. Why not say that instead of being
brought to the end of its course, it has been
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brought to the beginning of another : that if
its star has set in one horizon, it may hope to
rise in anew nnd more spacious firmament?
There is Just ns much profit in tho hopeful ns
the desponding view. So far as the result of
late elections is concerned there is, at least,
as good reason for hope ns for despondency, in
the fact that if the Republican party has tri
umphed, it has been by a recognition of the
Conservative spirit in tho nomination of its
candidate for the Presidency, nnd that the ne
cessities of the country itself, as well ns the
liberal instincts of tho successful candidate, ns
evinced in hi* course towards the paroled offi
cers and soldiers of the South, indicate a policy
of nationality nnd moderation. Why, thon,
should not the South hope, instead of despair ?
She is suffering now because she is in a transi
tion state, but may it not be a transition to a
new and grander arena of progress and pros
perity? Why may not the twilight upon her
be regarded ns that which precedes the day
dawn, not the fall of night?— lialtiinore Sun .
The Women of the South.
The following beautiful compliment to the
daughters of Mississippi is from a recent ad
dress delivered by Gen. Albert Pike in Dc Soto
county, Mississippi:
“Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters of the
men of Mississippi, I cannot speak to you. No
angel has touched my lips with the burning
coals from the altar of the sacrifices. I leave
to others the fine phrases and the empty com
pliments that you would not value. What you
have done in the past is sufficient guarantee
of your heroism and devotion in the future.
You have more than rivalled, you have excelled
the women of Saragossa and Verona, and the
Hebrew matrons and maidens who helped to
defend the Holy City of Jerusalem against tho
legions of Vespasian. You will also do your
duty in the days, dark or bright, that are to
come. Yon will teach those who love your
fidelity to principle amid all temptations, to
prefer honor to prosperity, and the dangerous
truth to the safe and profitable falsehood ; con
stancy and courage, and the manly and hopeful
endurance that befits a man. You are the con
querors who take all men captive, and whose
silken fetters, stronger than tempered steel, wn
are glad and proud to wear. Into our souls
your eyes shine like stars, and wo bow down
and worship, and in love find new strength to
undertake great enterprises or endure great
calamities. 01 flowers brought to us by the
angels from the Garden of Paradiso, you bloom
here to bless, to encourage, and to console, Wor
are all your willing slaves. Age gives no ex*
emption from that servioe ; for, in the sad and
sober autumn of our days, we still covet the
living smile and the loving look that can bo
ours no more. The sober autumn of our days!
For you, the bright and glad anticipations of
the future, the dreams that make youth’s hap
piness ; for us the memories of the past, of joys
and sorrows intermingled, of the hopes and
loves, and bitter disappointments, and cruel
losses, of tho days that are no more. Our
country, also our own dear Southland that you
love so well, has its memories of the past, of a
glad, brightdawn, and a morning full of prom
ise, that darkened into a day full of gloom, and
terror, and disaster. Out of that darkness the
faces of our dead look sadly, and pityingly, and
lovingly upon us. They have not diodin vain.
The land they died for shall yet reap the fruit
of the great sacrifice. Our country, also, has
its hopes, that are not delusive, for the future.
To it, the sober autumn days have not come—
nor even those of life’s summer. For it, the
rosy days of spring have not departed, though
the immortelles planted by angels bloom on
many graves.”
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Absence of Mind. —A bachelor friend of
ours is in the habit, when he comes to his
room in the evening, of putting liis tea kettle
on the stove and himself lying down on tho
lounge and taking a rnooze until the kettle
begins to sing, when he gets up and makes hi*
tea. The other evening, being a little pros
trated on account of old Simpkin's daughter
“cutting” him in the street, he put the kettle
on the lounge and got upon the stove himself,
and never discovered his mistake until he
began to sing.
Billings-gait.
Courting is about half natur and about half
scienco. The natur in it is simply energy.—
You must begin slow, but by and by it will be
best to agitate things. Wimmin, as a lump,
had ruthcr be tuck by storm than seige. Wim
mim, never surrenders, nor arc they ever ex
actly won, but rather captured. They “fight
it out on this line.” I am talking now of
sensible wimmin. There is wimmen who are
as easy to court as lint. “Luv at fust sight”
is like eating honey. It does seem e* tho you
could never git enough of it.
This kind of luv is apt to make blunders,
and it is hard to back out uv as well.
But there aint no such thing as pure math
ematics in courting.
If it is all natur, it is too innocent for earth,
and if it is all science, it is most too much
of a job.
Perhaps the best way to court is to begin
without much of any plan where you are go
ing to fetch up, and see how you and she likes
it, aod then let the thing kinder worry along
kareless, like throwing stones into a mill
pond.
You will find one thing strictly true, the
more advice you undertake to follow, the
less amount of real good courting you will
do.— Josh.
Avoid slander, and abstain from malicious
accusations.
Camphor is concluded to be the best reme
dy knowtn for strychnine poison. It gives
relief at once.
