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$2 00 PER ANNUM 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, " coN'vr.r.s, ueoroia. wm r;:. b i'.u .*"■ 7*. ", those who may faeor h,m -Bmß ' 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 VOL. 4 NO. 2 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.” 1 - IWI -- 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.