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52 00 l'i R ANNUM
Jlrofcssionnl Carts.
JOHN s. CARIMLL,
t, E N T I 8 T
COVIXUiON, QKOIiUIA.
_ Toj-tli Pilled, «r New Teelli Inserted, to
i lie best Style, and on Reasonable Terra*
) nkrH«rorll. Kiiifi’a Store. 1 Us
I \ m K S M . I- K\' Y ,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
Eahl Hide us t l»o S<|unrc,
, oV (j KOUGI A,
I. 0 /'* 1„. iVprcpaicl lo Repair Wat,-lies. Clocks
i r e welrv in the best style. Darticnl*. att.-n
--• ,ivcn ty repairing 4V *uln s injured bv in
f‘*“ | ! , e ie..t workmen. All Work warranted.
SORS. D6ARINC & PRINGLE
H lV .v(j associated themselves in Hie Prnc
tice of ÜBDlOiNli and SURGERY, otter
orofesaion.il services lo H.e ciii/.ens ol
"ton county. They luve opened an oil, eon
L Hast aid* of the «q"»re, (next door to S-
Store,) «n.Ure prepared to attend to
,11 call* promptly rbey liav also a carefully
• leeted assortment of Hie
ftorty Best Me and i!c int s ,
j w ,li give tlieir personal attention to Com
lounding* Prescriptions, for Physician* and
itliers.
peeial attention given to Chronic Diseases
At ni'lit Ur. Dkakixo will be found at, his
•side,ice, and Dr. I’kinulk at bis room* iinm,-
liatelv over the Store of II Sanoeus & Bh«>.
ni»y 16, 2otf
JOSEPH Y. T INSLEY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
I, fully preparod to Repair Watches. Clo ks
in 1 Jewelrv, in the best Style, at short no’ice,
All Work Done at Old I‘rices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House.— stf
SADDLE ANu HARNESS SHOP.
1 would respectfully inform the
Ask. citizen* us Newton, nnd adjoining
counties, that I have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
Onnurtb tide p ,blie square in OOVINGTD.V ,
where I am prepared to m ike to ord -r. Harness
Saddles, «l-c , or Repair Hie same a short, notice
in the best style.
J 7 t s JAMES ». BROWS
11. T. IIEN It Y,
DENTIST,
covr orow, GttotteiA.
--jga. II \S REDUCKD ms PRICFS. a«
that all who have been so u if <r u
' . r i.ate ns to lose t!i*-in .lur H Teeth
-an have their blaces supplied by Ait. at v rv
mall cost. T-'th Filled at rea-nn 1 le prie s,
an.l work fail lifully executed, Office north sid ■
of Square.—l 22tf
FIRE HSUItAME amicy. '
itTR represent two FIRST CLASS "irr In
»V sur.mee Gompnni-*,
Tho Southern Mutual
Os Athens Oe< rgin. rut 1
The Georgia Home,
of Colilmbu*, Gc rgia.
I'i.mpmje* which have no Suom ii s. and very
t.w .qua’s. i the cs-enlja sos oocd iinnnge
vnent. and goad faitWc nr prepared to take.
,:i.l in-i'e the iiuml risl;< a' fair r t- s.
M l*Aor. ANDERSON & RACE.
W. I*. Am.Kitsos. 3m2
NEW WAREHOUSE FI R HS.
FS W. DODGIirV. (Who, f r iwe t.-fo.tr
J* years uriorto 18i>5, w»< nctiv ly engaged
in the I'o t-oi F ie'orag.' and Gom "i sioo bud
u,o | ml WILBK'iFORt’K DANIEL, (late ol
the li ill of If. V. Ritsolt & «..) have entered
into Dor.vKT .Kusuic. onder toe firm of
E. W. DOUGHTY, & CO.,
aikl offer their servie. sto t li. i'' riends'au ■! tbe
"pubic- as
•COTTON FACTORS
ANI»
Commission fflorchants.
Their oTiee and st,o ag • are in he we 1 known
and commodious warehouse ' uildings fnrmerlv
«>.copied by Dustin it Walker, on Mclntosh
Greet.
The charge for sel l g Cotton wi'lbe ONE
TI.I.AR a Dale f..r all < u-tomevs.
rallies who Lave Cotton (u store, and .le-ire
'ason ble ndvanc-s in cash will be acconiuio
e. w. doughty.
IVILUF.R FORCE DANIEL.
Augusta, Cn.. September 1, lßtiß.—lmS9
THE PREMIUM WATER DRAWER.
MU M. It. M RK-t, of Georgia, li -s pur
■h isod the right for this mo** valuable
Labor Saving Mu-lone. 'l'W■* best Maehin-- tot
■drawing water from ao <m dinars- well, with
Rope and Windlass Simple, durable, and e' cap
—-any child of six years can draw it. It emp
fir* itself by tilting, and can be applie 1 to any
well. We take plea lire in ’ ecomntendi g it to
the public, lie has County and .'late Rightsfor
•sale, and anv husine s man can c> rtainly make
money out of it. Adds . ss
51 »43 Maj. M. U. MARKS, Atlanta, Ga
w. c. COURTNEY.it CO.,
F A C T 0 R s
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Jbt. ft, lioyer’* Wharf, Ciiaiu khtos, S. C.
*i. Ci COVUTSKV, UOIIT. MUBDOOK, JAS. S. Mt'lltxU'K
ASM
CEO. J. HOWARD,
GROCER AND COMMISSION WERChANT
Marietta street,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Order* for all descriptions of Groceries filed
lowest Market Prices.
Consignments „f Country Produe* solicited
dl make returns promptly.—bm.V)
Ceorgia Railroad
Breakfast and Dinner House,
P At Berzelia. Ga.,
F.RSONS leaving Augusta by the 7 o’clock
Passenger (Morning) Train, Drenkfast at
m zclia. All pers »ns lenviiig Allnnia by tlireu
" c
" nH bv tl»e Freight Trains can always
■ go°<l •loll*. Tables hI «\ ays provided nith
the Ills market affords.
E. NEB HUT, Trop*
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR.O.S. PROPHITT,
Covington (inottoiA.
Will still ootilinue hi* business, where he intend
keeping «u hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, DyeStufTs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
H -entrated Preparations, Fluid Extroofi*. Ac.
He i* also nutting up his
Liver Mociicinoß,
FEM \LK TONIC, ANODVN F. PAIN KILL IT
V«*rniirnse, 4ittl-I*lllotis B'lllst,
and many other prcparal iiras, ,
jy Will give prompt attention to all ot,Vts
I» 411T1C1U1.4 R X O'S’l ni.
Her.after NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELIV
RRE ». or SIiCVICE RENDERED, except for
ITC S H !-®«
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY CASH, for I wi.l not Keep Books.
Get. 11 18G7. O. S. PROPHItT.
Ivnil Road Schedules.
Georgia Railroad.
F,. W. COLE, General Superintendent.
" JD a Y Passenop.u Train (Sundays exeepted,)leaves
Augusta at 7 am: leave Atlanta at 5 a in; ar
rive at Augusta at 3.45 p in ; arrive at Atlanta at 0.80
p in.
Night Passenger Train leaves Augusta at 10
p.m ; leaves Atlanta at 5.40 p in : arrives at Augusta 1
at 3 00 a m ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 a m.
Passengers for Milledgeville, Washington and
Athens, Ga.. must take the day passenger train from
Augusta and Atlanta, or intermediate points.
Passengers for West Point, Montgomery. Selina,
and intermediate points, rail take either train, hoi
Mobile, and New Orleans. must'lcaW: Augusta on
Night Passenger Train, at 10 p. in.
Passengers for Nashville, Corinth. Grand .Tune
tion, Memphis. Louisville, and St. Louis, can take
either train and make close connections.
Thhoi gii Tickets and baggage cheeked through
to the above places. Sleeping ears on all night jias
genger trains.
MACON k AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
E. W. COLE. Gcn’l Sup’t.
Leave Cwntak and dlv at 12.40 t*. m.: arrive at Mill edge
ville at *2O t>. M.; leave Milledgeville at <5.45 A. M.;
arrive at Camak at 10.15 A. M. ... - -d
Passengers leaving any point on the Georgia K.
U bv Dav Passenger train, will make eloseronnee
tiiln at Camak W Milledgeville. F.atonton, and all
intermediate points can the Maeon A Augusta road,
an-1 for Mat-on. Passengers leaving Milledgeville
at fi to am., reach Atlanta and Augusta the .ame
day.
sorrn cauol'Na railroad.
11. T. Peake. General ?up’t.
Stweial mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at
3.55 a in, arrives at Kingsville at 11.15 am; waves
Kingsville at 11.05 pm. arrives at Augusta al <ds> !
p. m. This train is designed especially for through
" Th ' train for Charleston leaves Attjttsta at (5 am,
and arrives at Charleston atS.ft p m ; VeaWtYarles
too at sg, in. -in-1 arrives at Augusta at •> m.
Xiglif speeial freight and express train leaves Au
"•usta (Sundays except edi at 3.50 p in. and arrives at
Charleston at 4.30 a m ; leaves Charleston at 7.:50 p
m, and arrives al Augusta at ft. 45 am.
\VR«TRR\ A ATLANTIC U. R.
C i,. E. lli t.ttF.TiT. General Superintendent.
[>,ll v passenger train, except Sunday, leaves At-
Unta :»t 5.15 a in, and arrivcp at Chattanooga at 1.4 »
pin ; leaves Chattanooga at 1.40 am, and arrives at
Atlanta at 2p m. . , . ...
Night express passen r-r train leaves \th’.ntn at 15
p mg and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a m ; leaves
Cliallanooga at 5.50 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at
3.35 a tit.
MACON k WI'NTRUN RAILROAD.
F,. B. W.At.KER. Gen’l Sup’t.
Day passenger train leaves Maeon at -.45 am, and
arrives at Atlanta at 2 p nt; leaves Atlanta at H.lo
a. li. and arrives at Maeon at L3O p ill.
Ni"ht passenger train leaves Atlanta at 3.10 p in,
and arrives at Mac on at 4.25* m ; leaves Maeon at
X. 30 pm, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 ant.
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL.
JOfSTA GEORGIA.
«T F.WI.Y furnished and refitted, unsurpassed by
.5 anv Hotel South, is now open to the Vttblle.
T. S. NICKERSON, l»rop’r.
uoe of Mills House, Charleston, and Proprietor of
Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. C.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SASSEF.N, Proprietors.
Witliin One Hundred Yards of the General l’assen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
A [HI £ it I C AN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot,
WHITE * WHITLOCK, Pro ictors.
W. D. IViley, Clerk.
Having re-lease 1 and renovated e above
Hotel, we are prepar-d to entertain nest* in a
most, satisfactory •-turner. Cham > fair an-1
moderate, (lur efforts will be to .case.
Baggage carried to and from Depot ree of charge
FA- HE REDUCED
AUGUSTA HOJTEL.
THIS FIRST CLASS HOT I Ii- situated at
Broad Street, Central «o the business por
tion of the City, as-1 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, andjLhe
bedding nearlv all new since the war. The
rooms are large and airy ; clean beds, and the
fare as good m the country affords, nnd atten
tive and polite servants. •
Chabges. —Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals }.j Cents.
I ! ope to merit a liberal share of patronage
fiom the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for < ourselves
s. M. JONES, Propr.
WM. H. COODRICH ,
SASH, BUNDS, AND DOORS,
On hand, and made to Order,
i Augusta 356.n Georgia
COVINGTON, GA., JAN. 20, 1800,
The (.olden Side.
There is many a rest in the toad of life,
I's «e only would stop to take ii;
And many a tone from the better land
If the querulous heart would make it!
To the sunny soul that is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth,
! The grass is green and the tl overs ate bright,
Though the wiutry storm prevaileth.
Better to hope, though the cloud* hang low,
And to keep the eye* still lifted,
For the sweet bluo sky will soon peep through
When the ominous clouds are rifted !
There was never a night without n day,
Or an evening without a morning;
And the darkest hour, as the proverb goes,
Is the hour bes-re tbe dawning.
There is rna»,y a ge-*i in the patli of life,
Which we pass in our iJ'le pie*.sure,
That is richer far than the jeweled crown,
Or the miser’s hoarded treasure ;
It may be thu lore ot a little child,
Or a mother’s prayer* to heaven,
Or o.ily a beggar’s grateful thanks
For a cup of w»>ter given.
Better to weave in the web of life,
A bright and golden filling,
And to doG-d’s will with a ready heart,
And hands that are swift and willing,
Than to snap the minute, delicate threads
Os our curious life asunder,
And then blame heaven for tiio tangled ends,
And sit and grieve and i o .dre.
Fro* the North Georgia Citizen.
Sheriff Killed*
We learn that tl.e STicriff of Dickens county
was shot dead on Sunday last, and h’*« Deputy
wounded, by a desperado from Ttmn., named
Joel Ritchie. The-circumstances, as we gath
er them from Mr. J. A. Nelson, of Murray
county, are these: On Friday evening last
Ritchie catne to the house of Mr. George Terry,
living in the upper part of Murray, from the
-direction of Tennessee, riding a mule, which
he succeeded in swapping to Mr. T. for a
small bay pony, and immediately i-cift ivt the
direction of l’ickens co-enty. The next morn
ing two men rode up to the house of Mr. T.
in pursuit of Ritchie, whom they described,
statiug that he had stolen a mule from one of
them, and asked him if such a man had pas
sed that way. Mr. t. informed them such a
man had stopped at his house the evening
previous, and had traded him a mule, which,
upon examination proved to be tho one th«y
were looking for. The two strangers, Mr. T.
anil several of his neighbors, immediately
went in pursuit of the thief, whom they could
hear of all along the road leading to the town
of Jasper, which place they reached ah-mt 11
o'clock, on Sunday, where they learned that
the man they were after had left a few hours
before in tho Jiroction of Dawsonrill-, and
was then supposed to he at a lions-: about four
miles distant. The Sheriff of the eountv ami
his Deputy, being in town at the tim-, were
called,*:! by the pursuing party to aid in
Ritchie's Arrest, which they proceeded to do.
But before leavint, the sheriff prevailed on
the party to remain heliiud, as seme of
were known to Ritchie, who being on Hex look
out anil seeing them, might give them the
dodge, lie was found at the hort ve at which
it was thought lie ha-1 stopped, sitting at a
t tide shaving himself. The sheriff stepped
in'o the room, an-1 placing l-is hand upon his
shoulder, told him lie was his prisoner, and to
follow him. Ritciiie replied, "You will let
me finish shaving first, won't you ?’’ to which
the sheriff assented. The desperado then
stooped down and commenced strapping t.ts
razor on his boot, and lose up with a pistol ir,
his Viand, which lie jerked fr-m the leg of his
boot, and immediately placed the muzzle of >t
against the breast of tho sheriff and killed
him instantly. The deputy then rushed in
and was fired at twice in rapid
both balls taking effect in his arm and shoul
der. disabling him. The desperado then rush
ed from the u onso and made good his escape
in the direction of North Carolina, on a large,
tine, fleet horse belonging to our’ informant,
Mr. Nelson, which the sheriff' had rode to tho
house.
How they Cook in Oregon,
There is a place in Oregon ealb-d the Smo
ky Yalloy, where the people have a very cu
rious way of cooking. They do not have the
trouble of making a fire every morning when
they wish to get breakfast. They just walk
out with kettles, coffee pots and whatever else
they need, and cook at the boiling springs.—
The water scents a great deni better than com
mon boiling water, and all they need to do is
to hang their kettle in it a short time, and
their food is nicely cooked. They are able
even to bake in it. The bread i* )>«t into a
tight sauce pan, and lowered into the flood,
for an liouf or two, and then drawn up most
exquisitely baked, with but a thin rim of crust
over. Meat is cooked here, and bonus, which
are the miner's great luxury. It takes but a
minute to cook eggs, or to make a cup of cof
fee or tea ; but if there should chance to bn a
‘slip between the cup and the lip,’ the food
would begone beyond recovery.
Our devil says some evenings since while
talking love to his sweetheart she blushed,
which caused him to ask :
“Miss, what have you done to be ashamed
of, that you blush so?"
“Sir, what have the roses and the strawber
ries and the peaches done, that they should
blush so ?”
The editor of the Haris Pay* has alreuiv
fought upward of sixty duels,
i If you want to “turn peoples’ heads’’—go
late into church.
'Kfr.itr- ot Southern Prosperity.
The vitality an-1 recuperative power of the
South -art wonderful, in thesu she surpasses
anything that the world has ever seen before.
She astonishes men not less by her immense
vigor in peace than by her tremendous energy
in war. In spite of all the fearful disadvan
tages that have been and are around her and
upon her ; in spite of the fact that hut a par
tial pacification lias haen effected within her
birders; in spite of the undeniable truth that
large portions of the negroes aro not an aid
to her, but a monstrous nuisance ; in spite of
all these things, flowers'and verdure, and nil
those rich production* of thu earth to which
her matchless soil anil climate are adapted,
are springing, as beneath the trend of God's
angels, from her lately bleached and desolated
fteisu. . <
The people of the South have had, during
the last season, far less means of production 1
limn they ever ha-1 before, but they have di
rected their means more skillfully and to bet
ter purpose than they over did before. Taught
salutary and necessary lessons in a hard and
te.'rible school, they have taken cure that the
lessons should not be lost on them. They
have discovered and devoted to use capabili
ties witliin themselves, the very existence of
which, in time* past, they Ifefcver suspected
They find that they can accomplish what they
formerly deemed impossibilities. They feel
the spirit of independence moving in their
souls and thrilling all the chords of their
frames. Their dependence, to any great ex
tent. upon the North or upon any other region |
has disappeared forever. They cun place
themselves and aro fast placing themselves iw
a condition of more perfect exemption from
control and the necessity of reliance than is
perhaps enjoyed by any other people on the
globe. The North is destined to realize the
extraordinary truth, that when she thought
herself striking at Southern independence,
she was, in one and a highly important sense,
striking far Southern independence.
WfV.x.t mortal mind, when events are tsoewr
ring, can behold tlieir remote oh even their
near consequences.—J Loti. Cotir. -Tour.
Rothschild said, one day, he always knew
when people wore talking about his fellow-
Hebrews, whether the latter were rich or poor.
Upon being asked to explain how he came to
know that, he replied: “Why, yo* sec, when
people are talking about a wealthy man of nty
creed they call him an Israelite, but/lf he i* 1
poor they call him a Jew.”
A sub-editor announces that the editor of
the paper is unwell, and piously add* :
“AU gooJ paying subscribersjure requested
to make mention of him in their prayers.—
Thu other class need not do it, as tho prayers
of the, wicked avail nothing, “According to
good Authority.’’
The acti'-n of the House o( Representatives
in passing a bill to cheek the abuses of the
franking privilege to members of Congress
will receive the approbation of honest men
everywhere. SlmuFl the new bill pass to A
law. the franked matter will IntVe to contain
the written autograph of the member or per
son entitled to the privilege. Stamp* stolen
by editors will be of no avail. —[New York
Democrat.
This is the way a Louisville paper talks
about Memphis: “There is an ambitions clus
ter -if shanties on the Chickasaw Bluff, in
Shelby Cos., Tcnn., an-1 the Avalanche, pub
lished there, claims that the place lias 40,000
inhabitants. The Bluff will begin to put on
airs.’’
Tbe shadow of a tree made by the moon
was found photographed in water which frozo
during the night, lately, in Maine.
Feed is so scarce in some sections of Ohio
that fanners are selling off their slock at re
markably low figures. Sheep are being
slaughtered for their pelts by tbe thousand.
Five thousand two hundred and fifty sheep
were sold at Cleveland last week for ?272,50,
or five cents per head, the seller retaining the
hides and the purchaser slaughtering the ani
mals. Carcasses of sheep ready for delivery
are sold at the astonishingly low figure of 40
to 00 cents each.
They tell a storv about a man otVt V* est who
bad a hair lip, upon which he performed an
operation himself by inserting into tho open
ing a piece of chicken flesh. It adhered and
filled up the space admirably. This was all
well enough until, in compliance with the
fashion, lie undertook to raise a moustache,
when one side grew hair and the other feath
ers.
Wrong Side Ot t.— A radical and a negro
were talking polities one day, nnd Sambo get
ting the best of it, the radical broke out sud
denly, saying :
“ What arc you. any way, but a black nig
ger ?"
“ Well,” sai-1 Sambo, “ I know I’se black,
but dat don't make no difference, for you is
jes' as Mack as I is,”
“ How do you make that out ?"
“ Why, dat’s jes' as plain as day. I’se black
outside and white inside ; but you are & nig
-rpr turned inside out—you are white outside,
but black as dc debble inside.”
Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis arrived in
London on December 21, from Lemington,
whero they have been staying for several days.
During his stay in Warwickshire, Mr. Davis
visited the Lord Lieutenant (Lord Leigh) and
several other noblemen arid gentlemen. Mr.
and Mrs. Davis and their family intend passing
the winter in the South of France, Mr. Davis
being still in indifferent health.
Military ltute in Texas—. 4 Cltiten Wan
tonly Killed.
Tho New Orleans Picayune of Jan. Mi »ays :
wa-TM's are not ignertwft of tbe sad con
dition to which Reynolds' rule has brought the
State of Texas. M •urnvieff's rule m Foltmd
was more en tumble nt large, and te proud
snirits, infinitely less galling: for, whereas the
Russian satrap sorved one master, an “enlight
ened despot,” Reynold* was the tool of e fac
tion that illustrates tho mostoJious and mean
est vices of party rule. During hi* reflime,
wherever the military wero insufficient num
ber* to overawe the citizens, and Radical mis
creants had personal or political end* to compass
the peoplo held thoir live*, liberty, an-1 prop
erty at the hazard, a* it were, of a die. We
need not rehearse the sad nnd shameful story of
the la t year. The last act in this tragedy of
military despotism has ju»t Vfeen enacted «l
Jeffe'-on. By a telegram to Messts. Speak*
& Buckner, wc learn that Captain William
I’erry, of the firm of Perry & Norwood, wae
shot and killed by Unitid States soldiers in
JeffersoH en the night of the 2d in*t., “through
mistake,” as they sny. The deceased wae the
father of Wiley T. Perry, Esq , a resident of
our city. He was a gentleman of irreproach
able character in every relation af Wfi»,
ing an enviable reputation in JeffcrstM ae a
tnun of -business. His friend* here, who knew
him well, regard bis death as entirely unpro
vuked, as lie was one us the last men to have
made himself ohnot'reos to the powers that be.
Jefferson is now garrisoned by nearly 3,000
men. Some of It or best citizens are in military
prison, and others ‘are wanted.' We suppose
Mr. Perry was shot and killed in a military
raid. I* tbi* a free country?
Social Arithmetic*
A pleasant pastime at an evening gathering
of family or friends is the solution of problem*
in what a writer in 04timber*’ Journal call*
“social arithmetic.” On# of the examples he
gives is tbe following:
“Two brothers were walking the street, when
one of them stopped at a house, saying he must
call and se<* a sick niece. The other passed on,
saying, “1 Am thankful I have no niece."—
iVhnt relation was tho last speaker to jthe
Invalid?
Another is apparently very easy ami simple,
but we venture to say that not one in ten will
the correct answer the first time trying.
A stranger entef-cd A shoe store and bought
a pair of shoes worth f-isy dollars, for which
he tendered a five d-dlAt greenback in pay
ment. The shoe denier having no change, got
tl.e bill “broken” at the grocer’s, next door,
and delivered to the purchaser ihte shoes «M-d
tbe one dollar in change. The grocer after
watds discovered that the bill was counterfeit,
and ma le the shoe dealer take it back and give
him go -d money. Now, the question is, how
much did the shoe dealer lose in all?”
Religioa*
Someone whose bead is unusually "leveV’
lias written out his idvws of religion as fol
lows :
We want a religion that goes into the fami
ly ; that keeps tire husband flfum being spite
ful wheD the dinner is late; keeps the wife
from being spiteful when the husband tracks
the newly washed floor with muddy boots, and
makes the husband mindful of the scraper nnd
dour mat; amuses the children as well as gov
erns them ; projects tho honeymoon into the
liurve.stmoon, and makes the happy hoars like
the eastern fig tree, bearing in its bosom at
once the beauty of the tender blossom and tbe
glory of the ripened fruit. We want a religion
that not only bears on the sinfulness of sin but
on the rascality of lying and stealing ; a reli
gion that banishes all small measures from the
counters, small baskets from tbe stalls, pebbles
from the cotton bags, clay from pepper, sand
from sugar, chicory from coffee, beer-root from
vinegar, alum from bread, lard from batter,
■strychnine from wine, ami water from milk
cans. The religion that is to advance the
world will not put all the big strawberries nnd
peaches on top and all the bad ones at the
bottom. It will not offer more baskets of for
eign wine than the vineyards ever produced
bottles. The religion that is to sanctify the
world pays its debts. It does not consider
forty cents returned for one hundred given,
according to Gospel though it is according to
law. It looks u|Km the man who fails in trade
and who continues to live iu luxury as a thief.
It looks upon a man who promises to pay, and
who fails to |siy it on demand without inter
est, as a liar.
Locomotive Without Steam, —The N. Y,
Sun says that Mr. Moltt, after eight years’
labor, has produced a locomotive which be be
lieves will supercede the use of steam on rail
roads, and relieve the public of the apprehen
sion of disastrous explosions. Tbe machine is
set in motion by levers noting ott art eccentric,
which moves the wheels of the engine. Bal
ancing weights uud spring* seem to supply the
motive power. The model, which is on exhi
bition iu New York, cost tho inventor $13,000.
I am rich enough, says Pope to Swift, nnd
can afford to give away a hundred pounds a
year. I would not crawl upon the earth with
out doing good. J will enjoy th* pleasure of
what 1 give by giving it alive, and seeing
another enjoying it. When l die I should be
ashamed to leave enough for a monument, if a
wanting friend is nboCe ground. That speech
of Dope is sufficient to immortalize him, inde
pendently of his philosophical verses.
The end of Wrath is the beginning of re
pentance.
An Irish monk onee called on his congrega*
tion to thank God that death had been placed
at the end of life instead of the middle.
VOL 4, NO. 11
Wc Still Live.
’(he Dcu'iocrats of New England hhve never
had justice done them, and wo are glad of ah
op|R)rtnnity to say a good word of some of
those sturdy New Hampshire believers in tho
CcrwtiW-tion vho, year After year, poll theiT
vottrs in its defense, not a whit dismayed by
the raging of the hoatl.'t i majority wherewith
they have to contend. On the last day of the
old year there met in tho \\ ashington Town
Hall sotuo three hundred of the unterrified to
renew their devotion to constitutional liberty,
and pledge them selves afresh to the great con
flict of truth against error that must be had ere
the npNthlic “find repose in the triumph of
sound principles over the it mu of tho present
day.”
Among tho addresses delivered was one by
a young man engaged in teaching, » Demo*,
crat; and we note tho circumstance os afford
iwg good hope that, if there bo more like
the children of New Hampshire may learn
something of reading, writing, arithmetic, and
tho Constitution of their fathers, and not bd
crammed, as they too often are under Radical
auspices, Witk t*« basks of loilty alone. Af
ter speaking and singing by the glee club, “4
beautiful collation, consisting of oyster*
choice pastry, and good old New England eider,
was partaken of,” and then there wusadnneet.
Among those present, it is recorded that there
was “ a negro, recently from Mobile, but still
more recently from Newport, N. 11., where h«
met each a cold reception from his Republican
friends that his feet wero frozen. Tbi# negro
contributed to tho entertainment by ningiYi£
«evwal plantation melodies, to the great delight
of the ehildmt ”
Now, tliie ie a very pretty picture, is it not f
And sea how poor Cuff, caught in the dead
waste and middle of a grim New England win*
ter, See* from the prating Radical hypoeritai
permitted his foct te freeze—after, nt
doubt, enticing him from his Mobil# home—td
the Democrats, who give him bread and warmth
and set him in tlieir midst to eing to the child*
ren.
truly, whether in the North or in the South
the Democrat is the best friead the negro hast
We may refuse him the ballot and think him
not fit to hold the reins of State, hut then, ia
the name of Humanity, with a big 11, we don't
freeze his feet.—A r . V. War hi.
Discovery for the South*
The Journal of Agriculture says, the pan*
phlet on the use and merit* of the Ramie, b
Dr. Roesel, contains all the information neces
sary to those interested in this vatnable discov
erp-**rand describee this plant, with all its ad
vantages over eetfcon. and as a substitute for
it. It is conceded by tbe results of eminent
French botanists, that this plant possesses the
following advantages, (and machines are al
ready patented for its preparation :)
1. That th* fibre of the Ramie is stronger
than that of the best littrepean hemp.
2- That it it fifty per cent, stronger and bet»
let than tkt Belgian, flaxen, or linen fibre.
5. That the Ramie fibre may be spun at fine
aa flax, and that it will lie doubly as dura*
hie.
4. That the plant is a rigorous grower, Jind
will produce far the greatest nmount of text
tile fibre of any plant hitherto known.
5. That it produces within the belt in which
it flourishes, from three to five Annual cropsj
each equal to the best gathered from hemp.
It requires less labor than cotton, is not
destroyed by the caterpillar, does not suffer
from excess of rains, and withstands the
drought without injury; can be taken! root
the field in the morning, and a few hours aftef
A nice fine fibtc may be had by using a clean*
ing machine patented by Roezcl.
The fibre of this plant is when churned)
without bleaching purely white, far finer than
cotton or flax liner. The plant, in a warm
latitude, is perennial, and the crons from it are
taken like those of cane, by cutting it at the
ground $ from the rattoons anew growth
springs up at once, giving from three to four)
and even five cuttings per annum in Louisiana!
middle and lower Mississippi, Alabama, Texas,
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. Richf
sandy ground suits be«l, hut it is so vigorond
that it will do well anywhere, and the roots, of
pieces of roots and stalks, can be used to in*
crease the plantation.
In a word, the cultivation of this plant will
reconstruct the prosperity of the Smth, its
market price being already quoted in the furs
eign price* current.—[Farmer's Journal.
Tuts RkasoS of IT.—The “oldest inhabitant' 1
has been reading the articles in the New York
World on the adulteration of liquors, and had
arrived at a somewhat singular
The analysis of those liquors showed an average
of about 65 parts of water to 35 of spirite.—*
“They don’t give the spirits a fair chance)* 1
said that aged bacchanal ; “they’ll keep oil
fooling with water till it depopulates the earth
again. M
Mr. Bingham has introduced a bill which
provides for the admission of Mississippi sftef
its Legislator# ratifies tbs 14th amendment)
and shall remove the disabilities imposed bjf
the fifth section of the seventh article of the
Constitution. It declares void the disabilitiaft
imposed by the 3d section of the seventh article
to the Constitution.
fitly in llltsts and pay in leisure is the motto
of many young (and old) men.
He who marries for beauty only, is like a
buyer of cheap furniture—the varnish that
eaiight the eye will not endilrc the fireside
blaze.
Iton. B. it. Miff, and Celt: Toombs, have
recovered from their serious illness.