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L 2 ,,0 i: K ANNUM f"j c. Moltll Is , A Law, ¥*’* CO-NVlillS, OA. • j \M 8 s M . LEW, Ltchmakor & Jewolor, P a Kil »t side of tlie Square, OKOItaiA, ION ’ V 1 e-l •<> Repair Watches, Cl..eks I 1 ; velrv in best Style. I’arHc.l „• atteii ■' uto repaiiing A at,h,s i njure.l by in ||t| |,!i workmen. All w.,rk wan-Mited. r j oTki'HV. tinslky, r n1W,,.-pm.e.i t- Repair ***** Ulo k, I** !, best style, at short no-ice. P v ‘ '!' " i nlnAit (.>l*l I'i-k;-s, hikl Warrant* and. [“ 2daior below the Court llouso.-bif TdRS DEARING & P3INCLE I r() ..ssneiateA llieim-elves in the I’.u.c --l Ml IMCINK «»*1 SUJWMUV, oiler RTJliUnl sei viees to the cnue.i* o( fcnr h7veo |>A "* a "" ~m e " n W'**. CU ,T ‘or tilt Square, (next door to S- Be *»■* « * nn ; „, e prepared to ntte.id to irr«ii* pro-npt’iy V 7 um: tt i*" • civ,eiu,i - v K M t.*d Msorunent o. the |_ r v Bast Wt 3 <l l cln os , 1 1 KiTf their per*'"al tvte.iMo, to Crtn | inding” Prescript ions, lor Physic***. and tcial attention given to Chronic Bine**.-* lAt n i -lit Dr- Dkauing w '* l ,ie l«id nee and 1 >r. PaisotK at his rrfeifc* imrn- K lt ,i v ' over H>e Store of 0. 11. San..bus & Jiao Cay 15, 25tf I ~ii. t! il ENR Y, h E3 N T Is T , COVI GTON. GEORGIA. I TTI FIAS REDUCED HIS PRICIS, so IJEfiaSMftfc that all who h ive been a umfor u i,ate as to lose their nffur 1 Teeth Lti hatelheir places supplied by Alt, at v.ry r_.M Tertii filled at reason*!.la prices. End work fai hfully ive tiled, Office uoi lb sid • [f ftipiare. —1 -2<i f JOII.N S. O AliWtlLli dentist COVINGTON, GKOIIGIA [ F lied, or New Teel!. In-erted.i best Style, and oi. Reasonable lemi. Dfflec Rear of 11. King’s Store.-' 4 Hf [”_ 1 would respectful'/ inform the cil iaens of N c i tomid adjoii.i g ‘S|sr^^" ,>ll>>t ies, that I have op.-l.ed a [)a n...tli side pbf »q ">r »" GuVINGT *N. 1,1,,-re 1 an. prcpved to mk' o ord -r. Ilm-noSs <a Id e«. Ac, or ii-nair t ,w same a short notie It; and in tile bust sty'c. j 7 I f JAMB* ** »*UOA N ArdDSHS ON & HUNTER Ai# cot.sljinly rvecuvi g Fresh anil Season ibie All of u-liie they ro:.o«e t-» a-I »t the ta OW£ 3 T CASH PR! CE 3 Arr i!« closing out soV.ial lines of Good -A t and 3e!ow Cost! — A(iENT S F O K Agricullurhl Implements, Clover itiul Grass See.!*, Ait<l . v. rd• f i e test STAND Alt D Tll HTII.I7IEKS. 'an. 14, —l6lf SPRSH3 IMPORTATION —jL Q 33. — lIBIONS, MILLINERY & STRAW GOODS. Af!M373OMG, CATOR Cos. 237 A 239 Baltimore etr ct, BALI IMOl.!- Inipo t -rs and Jobbers of Bonnets & Trimming RiDOons, Velvet & Sash Rihhons, l!onn»t Crapes. Sdks and Satins. Illusions, Blonls. L-'C-s. Rue es, Notts and Velvets FRENCH FLOWERS AND FEATIIKIIS. STRAW BONNETS AND LAlfiEa 11 ATS Trimmed and Un'rimmod. -SUNDOWNS ANI) SH AKER HOODS. largest Stock of Millinery f ;, .n ( ] s in this Country, and utiequaled in choice ariely. 'vhicli We at pric.-a that wi 1 defy vmp-ti •tun. (RjfORDERS SOLICITED. Iml3 w. c. COURTNEY, & CO., F ACTOR s A.sn COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 9, Boyce’s Wharf, CtiAai eston, S. C. C;, COUfITIiRT, lIOUT. MURDOCK, JAS. S. MURDOCK 48tf RUSSELL &. PHILLIPS, Street, Atlanta, Georgia Have ju,t received a G"od Ass >rtment of Dry goods AN D Crocorlos, which they offer at Wholesale and retai i. »t very Low Figures. Their floods nre nil NEW, bought, from First Hand*, and they are determined !iOT TO BE UNDERSOLD. Give us a Call Before Purchasing. H der* pro uptly Filled at the Lowest M rket i rices.—(jtf M. c. & J . F. KISER, -V holcsn e and llet .il J leal r< in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Yankee No tions, Routs and Shoes, Hats, Caps, and straw Goods, READY MADE CLOTII IN G (Old aland of Tal'ey, Brown, A 9 f ' m,r> M’hiteball street, Atlanta, Ga. THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE. DR.O.fc. PROPHITT, CuVINGTON (JfiUltOlA. Will still continue his business, where lie intend keeping on hand a good supply of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, DyeStufTs, Together with a Lot of Botanic Medicines, <’ 'entrated Preparations, Fluid Extracts, Ac. lie is also nutting up his Liver 3VEoc3.iolii.ojs, FEM\LE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT YcrniiftiKe. Aiif 1-UIIIIous and ip any ot’.or prcparal ions», giro pro-npt attention to-al! orders PinTIITMR NOTICE. Hereafter NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELIV EUF/>. or -MIRVICE RLN’DER-ID, except for tro ash !-a* You nee not cal' unless you are prepared to PAY CaSII, for I will not Ke«p Boeks. ‘Y- n TO O, S, PROPHITT. Rtiil Road Svliodiilps, Geoi'trln Railroad E. W. COLE, General Superintendent. Day Passknoku Train (JJimday* excepted,)leave* Augusts st 7 a in ; leave Atlanta at 5 a m : ar rive at Augusta at 3.15 p in ; arrive at Atlanta at 0.30 * Night PASSKWom Tit atv leaves A tig list a at 10 p.m : leaves Atlanta at 5.40 p m ; arrives at Augusta at 3 00 a ill ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.4:> a ill. Passengers for Milledgevlllc, Washington and Athens. Ga., must take the day imssengcrlrain fr<Jtn Ati'Wta find Atlanta, or intermediate points. Passengers for West Pcltlt, Montgomery, Selma, and intermodiate point*, can take either trim. For Mobile, amt New Orleans, must leave Augusta on Ni'dit Passenger Train, at 10 p. in. Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand .Tnne tion, Memphis. T.onlsvilte. and Bt. bonis, ean take either train and make, close eonneetions. Timormi Tif'KfTS and liaggage ehe.-k.-d tlirongh to the above plaees. gk-eping cars on all night pas senger trains. MACON A AUGUST A RAILROAD. F-. AY. COLE. Gen’l Sup't. I cave Ci-nik daily at 1d.40 r M.: nrriveat Vllledge vilie at 4.‘JO e. m.Cleave Milledgeville at 6.45 A. K J arrive at Camak at 10.15 a. m. „ , r> Passen-'er- leaving any point nil the Georgia H. R liv Day Passenger trtin. will make close eoiinee ,inn at Gamak for Milledgeville, Fatonton. and all intermediate points on the Macon <C Augusta rtwwl, ami for Ma<-on. Passengers leaving Milledgeville at 6.45 a. M , reach Atlanta and Augusta tlie same day. SOUTH CAROL NA R-MI.ROAD. 11. T. Pf.akf General Snn’i. Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at 3 55 a m. arrives at Kingsville at IVIS am; leaves Kingsville at 1.’.05 pm. arrives at Angiisla at «.-> I> This train is d<*sijriifc<l oapcflany lor tlirou^n ' The train for Cliarlestnn leaves Augusta at 6 a in. and arrives at Charleston ato.O l> m ; leaves t harles ton at s a in, and arrives at Augusta at n p m. Vi-lit special freight and rvoress train leaves Ait- Cii'sta"(Sundays excepted! at 3.50 n tit and arrive* at Charleston ai 4.30 a m ; leaves Cliarlestnn at ~-41 p m, and arrives at Augusta al 6.45 a m. WESTERN A- ATT.-WT O IT R Cel.. E. llri.nEiiT. General Kunerintendt’tit. Dailv oassengor train, eveept Sunday, leaves At lanta at 3.15 am, and arrives at Chattanooga at ~4.> pm ; leaves Chattanooga at. 4.40 am, and arrives at '-ht' - voress passenger train leaves Atlanta at 6.45 A and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a m ; feaves Chattanooga at 5.50 pin, and arrives at Atlanta at 3.35 a m. MACON <T WESTERN RMT.ROAD. E. R. Wai.ker. Gen’l Sun’t. Dav passenger train leaves Macon *t 7.45 a m. and arrives at Atlanta at ‘3 P 111 ; leaves Atlanta at S.l --n. Ti, and arrives at Macon at 1.30 P m. Vi-lit passenger tralh leaves Atlanta at 9.10 pm, and arrives at Macon at 4.25 a m ; leaves Macon at 8.30 p in, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a in. Hotels. United States Hotel. ATI. A VTA fIkORGI A WTIITAKER Sc SASSEEN, Proprietors. Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets, AMERICAN HOTEL, Alabama street, ATLANTA, GKOKOIA. Nearest, bouse to the Passenger Depot. WHITE A WHITLOCK, Pro ictors. W. D. Wii.ry, Clerk. Having re-lease 1 and renovated ie above Hotel we are Prepared to entertain nests in a most satisfactory maimer. Chare j fair and moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease. Baggage carried to and from Depot rce of charge FARE REDUCED! AUGUSTA HOTEL. THIS FIRST CLASS MOTEL is Situated on Broad Street, Central to the business por lion of the City, aa.l convenient to the Tele graph and Express Offices The is large and commo li-us. and has been renovated and newly painted from garret to cellar, and the bedding nearly all new since the war. The rooms arc large and airy; clean beds, and Hie fare good as the country affords, and atten tive and polite servants. Cbaboks. —Two Dollars per day. Single Meals 75 Cents. I 1 opo to merit a liberal share of patronage from the traveling public.* Give me a trial and j i lgc for vourselves S. M. JONES, Propr. PiiVILIOM II OT E 1.. t'hat- es‘on, S. C. HOARD PER DAT, *3. A Bin-rutrtat.P. life IL L. Buttikm, Su -eiii tendent Proprtvtr. WM. H. COODRICH , SASH, BUNDS, AND DOORS, On hiitul, and matle to Order. Au-ustn 386 tn Gtorgia COVINGTON GA., MARCH 5, 1809. Alone. T am tvl! a.iine 1 an J the visions that play Round life’s young days liavo passed away; And the songs are hushed that gladness sings ; And the hopes that I cherished have ma le them " itt-s ; And tlie light < f my heart is dimmed and gme, And I sit in my sorrow—and all atontf. And the forms which I fondly lovod are flown ; And friends lihvc departed, one by one; A ml memory sits, whole lonely hours, And weave, her wreath of hope’s fade 1 (1 iwers, And weeps o’er the chaplet, when no one is near, To gaze on her grief, or to efiTfy a tear! And the liowt*’ of niy.ehililhood is distant far, And the looks that I meet, and the sounds that I hear, Ar« no light to my spirit ami song to my cm i And I walk in a lan 1 where strangers are ; And sunshine is r >nn 1 mi—which I can net see, And eyes that beam kindness— bn’ not for me ! And the eun goes round, and the glowing smile But I am desolate all the while ! And faces are bright, and bosoms glad, And nothing. I think, hut my heart is sad ! And I seem like a blight in a region of bloom’ While 1 dwell in inyowru little circle of gloom, I wander uhout, like a shadow of pain. With a worm in my breast and t* spell on uiy brain ; , f And I list, with a start, to the gushing of glad ness ; Oh, how it gtates on a bosom of sadness! Sol turn from a world where I never was known To sit in my sorrows—end all alone. Nearing the Ferry. We may torn our eye* to the pas', my 1 - ve, And mu»a on tlie scenes that we ones held dear. But tlie future for ns H»s far above The sordid cares that disturb os here. We may see some days tint are bright and fair We may di'caui some dreams that are calm and »» eet, But the mountains of II >po in the morning air Will never more answer the tread of our feet We must walk in the vattf where the violets grow; We '«n>t sit in the shadows of poaeelul bowers When the mountain torrent hath learned to flow With a gentle tide through the meadow flowers. O hers shall follow to take our place, And scale the heights we shall reach n-> more And the morn will smile on “ach radiant face With li.e same strange light lor u« it wore ictoss our pathway a dirk river sweeps ; We know not when it shall greet eur eyes, But we know that l>eyond its iinfathomvd deep- The glorious avoinlains < f God arise. The Fifteenth Amendment. Tlie Senate having passed, on Saturday, the amendment to tho Constitution known as Ar t c!e 15. regulating suffrage in the Unit'd States, il 111 tv be well to kiwiV i'.s provisions, it roads as lolloWi : Be il resolved, two thirds of both II uses concurring, That tlie following amendment to the Con 6 itiltion of the United States be, sub mitted to the Legislatures of the several State* and when ratified bv three fourths thereof, it shall ho a part of said Constition: Arti i.e 15. The right of tho citizens of the United States to vote sliail not he denied or abridged by tlie United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous eond'tion of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article liv appropriate legisla tion. On Thursday, the sth ulr., it was adopted in tlie House of Representatives as the work of a committee of conference. As will be marked, it says nothing about the right to hold office. (New Era, 2d inst. [From the Knoxville Press and Herald ] Retribution. A singular chain of coincidences in connec tion with the brutal assault made by some ruffians of Blount county upon tho Rev. Mr. Neal a minister of the gospel of the Methodist Church South, last year, and which was fully reported in our columns, has just been com municated to us. It will be remembered that while returning from divine service he was set upon by a gang of desperadoes, stripped, tied to a tree and brutally flogged with hickory switches, for no other offense than his connection with what these loyal villian* were pleased to term a rebel church. The civil authorities being loyal, sympathi zed with them rather than with their innocent victim, and the strong arm of the law was never iavoked agninst them. But a strongsr power than that which administer* human law witnessed their crime, nnd in the mysterious dispensation of Ilis providence has brought retribution upon them. Wc learn that out of the entire number of ruffians, three have tinee died, one was recent ly thrown from hi* hor»e and received inju ries which are believed to be mortal, while another is now lying in jail for crime. Even the tree to which Mr. Neal was tied bv his persecutors has been smitten by tho same unseen, but ever watchful power, and is dead. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small, Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. i -I' Ilk* AZitUSr* 7LJ CI4C3iVZ3 ~. Mill I— I [From the Sacramento Union.| A Sister’s Strange Revenge. A strango story w.is in general circulation in the city yesterday, on good authority, which wo ild indicate most outrageous conduct on the part of one of tho parties thereto. It runs to this effect The wife of n citir.cn quarreled with her sitter, several months ago, and they have been at variance ever since Sarah, the sister who is unmarried, going to work as a domestic, in tlie family ol u well known merchant. On Saturday, Sarah recctr ed word from her sister that she had heard from a relative, and if she (S.irali) would call she could read the letter.. Site went to the house, was pleased to find her sister desirous of “making up,” and they became quite soci able. A child of tlie married sister was lying ill at tlie time, and its motlinr asked Sarah to take it awhile. She did so—fondled and k’ss ed it. Tho mother then informed her, in a manner indicatingfgrcat gratification, that tlie child hud the small pox. Convinced (hat she was the victim of a diabolical trick, Sarah left tho house, went to that of the employer, ami informed the holy of the house of the circum stance, refusing to go in, for fear she might communicate the disease to the family ; then went to the office of a physician, got thorough ly vaccinated, hired a room, and is awaiting tlie result of her sister's treachery. Yes knit No. In the circle of th* languages thero do not exist any terms half so emphatic as tho two short words which express assent and refusal. How many men s fortunes depend upon them ! and how soon is the sentence pronounced! Their very brevity indicates the intensity of their meaning. If the rich man, who has granted a favor to the needy, knew the warmth of gratitndo which glows in the heart that blesses him—the elasticity of step with which the suppliant hastens home to acquaint those nearest and dealest to him with his success* and the genuine happiness which is thereby diffused among a family whom it resenes from misery ; and if that wealthy individual who has rejected a poor man's suit were only aware of the anguish of soul which Iw inflicts, if he witnessed the slow and irresolute step with which the disappointed petitioner retra ces the way home—if ho saw tho sick wife raise horsolf from her pallet of rags to learn their late, and, on its announcement, heard her exclamation ns she fell back upon the bed, of ”0 my poor children !”—if the great were acquainted with all this, and well considered it. there would surely ha loss hard hcartedness and less misery in the world. Yet even the wealthiest canndt be expected to grant every demand m>oii their bounty ; nor is every one who comes with a doleful story in his mouth an object of benevolence. Many * man has heed ruined simply because lie could not sav “No,” A worthless charac ter comes t v him with a plausible story of dis tress, and !i dug of a disposition too indolent to doubt, because doubt might involve him in inqiiT\\ and wishing to get rid of the fellow’s opportunity, he yields ali that is asked. Thus we see that he who never confers a henefif, and be who never refuse* as long a* h“ is able to grant, do equally little good to the rt-allv deserving poor. The for mer gives to nobody, and the hitter to none hut (lie worthless. M e see. also, tli it a judicious use of the insignificant looking particle* Yes arid Nn, is alike of vital importance to the mail who em ploys them and to him who anxiously awaits their decision. Hundreds and thousands of men, says Charles Reade, take a share in the country's public morality, legislate, build churches, and live and die respectable, who would be jail birds sooner or later if their sole income was the pay of a banker's clerk, and their eyes, and hands, and souls rubbed daily against hundred pound notes as his do. Conoress wii.L no Nothing.—AVe are fully advised that the present Congress will do nothing more in Georgia matters. We speak from th* highest and most reliable authority. This is as it should he. Grant and the new Congress will do *1! things well. We arc willing to trust them, at least. Let us have peace.—Ex. Brownlow, who is living in East Tennessee, describes that portion of the State as a “polit ical paradise.” It is suggested that the resem blance is confined to the single fact that it lias a devil in it. --*0 -- 4 •* O**' It is suggested that parti** addicted to sno ring should wear clothes-pin* on their noses while sleeping. “ Soldiers must he fearfully dishonest these days,” says Mrs. Partington, “as it seems to be a nightly occurrence for a sentry to be re lieved of hit watch.” Ike's last trick was to throw Mrs. Parting” ton's old gaiter in the alley, and call the old lady down from the third floor to see an alley gaiter. A Chicago roorlcr took phonograph notes of hi* sweetheart's love talk, and prevented jilt ing by threataning publication. The. noblest sight on earth i« a man talking reason and his Wise listening to him. A pin manufacturing convpntny iff Connecti cut, manufacture nearly seven millions of pins per day. The number put on paper* last year approximates the enormous sum of 2,000,(XX),- (XX), or more than enough to supply every hu man inhabitant of tlie globe with a pin each. When is a young man’s arm like the Gospel. I When it rn-iketh glad the Waist place. Costly Missile. 4ilk' Harrison State Guard is for the following story : Nearly a century ago nn old gentleman in the lower part of Virginia picked up a clou* to throw at a rabbit ; the stone glittered in the sun, and tho old man concluded to take it home to ilis children to play with. Short'y after ward the family physician happened to »oe the stone, and offered six dollars for it. hut the family would nut toll it. Subsequently a trusty friend about to visit Europe was given the stone, and on reaching London he consul ted an old lapidary named Nox, who after careful examination, declared that “All Amor ica is not able to buy that stone.” A Jew, whom tho trusty friend .afterward consulted, informed him not to come out with tho ttone, again without a guard, as he would bo robbed wore it known ho had it. Tho friend return ed homo nnd delivered up tlie precious gain. Some time afterward a party of six Mary landers uttered fiw the stone, iff L'tod and ne groes, the equivalent of m« hundred thou-and dollars, which was refused. The old man died, and the stone remained in the family for sev eral generations, and vuoontly, $o run* the story, it came into the possession of Dr. Dougherty, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, whose children are legal heirs. It is claimed to be n diamond of first quality, and weighs four hundred and fifty carats, while that of the Rajah of Mattan (?) said to be tho largest in the world, weighs only three hundred and sixty seven carats. The stonejfias hoert sent to puss the scrutiny of the ablest scientific men of the country, and there i* reason to be lieve that America can boast tbe largest dia mond in the world. A West Virginian on Ills Travels. —The Hillsboro, N. C., Recorder, ha* tho following item : An ox cart filled with woman nnd children passed through this town on Wednesday even ing last. Two men and a hull calf wore pull ing the cart—the hull in tfie? middle, and a man harnessed in rope and fastened to each end of the single tree. In answer to where they were from, the men said that “ h—l was to pay in Western Virginia, and they were moving to Raleigh to look after a home.” Everybody— hull and all—was pulling his “level best.” Practical Information. —Take a fig leaf, break the stem and rub the white fluid upon a wart two or three times a day , aud it will soon disappear. Anew system of rose culture is now being prao.iccd in Europe, the principal points of which are now to prune out all the old wood, 1 1 shorten the new wood a littlo, and peg it down flat to the earth. The rose is thus al lowed to bloom only in the wood of last year’s J growth. Tho effect is very fine. Tun can be removed from tlie face by dis solving magnesia in soft water—beat it to a thick mass—spread on the face, and let it re main a minute or two ; then Mash off with ffastile soap slid*, and rinse with soft water. One of tho leading merchants of Shanghai, China, is a genuine live Yankee. He ships twice as much tea as any other firm in the com.try, attends two cliurehes, leads the choir at one, is a treasurer of a missionary society, member of the Philharmonic society, engineer of a fire company, member of a Regatta club, teacher of a Sunday School, assistant editor of a newspaper, member of the Asiatic society, and a debater at a debating societv. Number of Words in I’se, We are told on good authority, by a clergy man. that some of tho laborers in his parish had not 300 words in their vocabulary ; that of the ancient sages of Egypt, so far a* is known to us of the hieroglyphic inscriptions, amounts to about 625 words. The libretto of an Italian opera seldom displays a greater va riety of words. A well-educated person in England, who has been at a public school and at a university, who reads his Bible, his Shakespeare, and ali the books of Mullie’* library, seldom uses more tiian 3.(XX) or 4.(XX) words in actual conversation. Accurate think ers and close reasoners, who avoid vague and general expressions, and wait till they find the word that exactly fits their meaning, em ploy a larger stock, and eloquent speakers may rise to the command of 10,(XX). Shakes peare, who displayed a greater variety of ex pression than probably any writer in any other language, produced all his plays with about 15,000 word*. Milton’s works ar« built up with Fight thousand, and the Old Testament say* all it has to say in 5,642 word?. An Ohio editor is getting particular about wlmtheeats. Hear him : “The woman who made tho butter which wo Is ught last week is requeste Ito exercise more judgment in proportioning the ingredi ents. The last hatch had too much hair for butter, and not quite enough for a water-fail. There is no sense in making yourself bald headed, if butter is thirty-five cent* a pound.” What is blacker than a crow? A crow's feather*. Why does a chicken cross the road ? Bocauso it wants to get on the other side. When is a bed not a bed? When it is a little buggy. M hat is the prettiest lining for a binnet? A pretty face. Why is a railroad conductor and a bad cold notalike? Because one knows the stops, while th* other stops the nose. The man who can crack a joke in half a minute after a fifty-two pound weight has fall en on his toes, may bo called excruciatingly VOL 4. NO. 16 An Alarming Proceeding* Th* Edgefield Advertiser, of the 17th ult,. says: „ . The trial of the case of the Stato again*? Hi)lory Hardy and Lewis Freeman, two ne groes, for the murder of Mrs. Elkins, termin ated on Thursday morning ot tho second week of tli* late KETiir, in a mistrial, tho Jury having been absolutely unable to agruo upon a verdict. The case, like a wounded snukt, had drugged its (low length along for more than three day* ; and tho divers point* of evidence arising, had been discussed by counsel, in presence of Judge l’latt, through all the stages of reply, rejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, ie., in fact almost ad infinitum. And after all, it culminated, as we have above stilted, in a mistrial. Indeed we may say in worse than a nus.rial;* inasmuch as on Friday last the prisoners, to the astonishment and indignation of all who had tho faintest acquaintance with law, wer# ruleaseiWrotn jail upon their own recognix anoe by authority of Judge Platt Our community, unaccustomed to this novel/ spsedy and iniquitous method of general jail delivery, even where offenders were imprisoned for minor offenses, was, a* a matter of oourw,' shocked to learn that two stalwart negro fel* lows, indicted, imprisoned and arraigned for murder, rendered hideously heinous by suspi cion of rape, had heed turned loose unwhipt of justice, upon their own si hi pie and sole recog nizance. We venture to say that the records of South Carolina will not disclose a parallel case. In deed, we have never heard it intimated befor* that a prisoner indicted for murder eould be released save upon recognizance with approved sureties. Nor is it likely that IliUerj Hardy and Lewis Freeman, had they been whits would have been thus released And il thia is to he deetnod a precedent in Ulw cases, old Edgefield would do well to consider the quet tion of setting her house in order. * Josh Billings on the Mule. Tho mule is half horso and half jackass, a»« then kums to a full stop, natur discovering hit mistake, tha v?ci e h more, akording to their heft, than any other kreaturc, except a crow* bar. Tha kant hear enny quicker nor further than the boss, yet their oars are big enough for snow shoes. You ken trust them with any one whose life aint worth any more than tL# mule’s. The only way to keep them into a pastur is to turn them into a inedder jming, and let them jump out. Tha are ready for us* just as soon as they will do to abuse, lb* huint got enny friends, and will live on huckle berry brush, with an oceasonal chanceat Kan* ady thistles. They arc a modern inveushun, I don’t think tho Bible alludes to them at all. Tha sell for more money than other domestik aniraiLs. You kant tell their age by looking into their mouths enny more than you could a Mexican c.innon’s. Tha never have no disease that a good club won’t heal. If tha ever die tha must kum rite tu life agin, for I never heard enny body sa “ ded mule.” Tha are like sum men, “ very corrupt at harte.” I’ve known them to be good mules for 6 months,' just tu git a chance to kick sum body. I nSvsf owned one nor never mean to, unless there is’ a United States law passed requiring it. Th4' only reason why they ars pashant is because they are ashamed ov themselves. I have seen eddikated mules in a sirkus. Tha would kick and bite tremenjis. Enny man who is willing to drive a mule, ought to be exempt by law from running for the legislatur. Tha are the strangest creeturs on earth, and heaviest ac cording tu their size. I herd tell of one who fell oph from the tow path onto tho Eri kanawl and sunk as soon as he touched water, but he kept rite on towing the boat tu the next station breathing through his ears, which stuck out of the water abut 2 feet 6 inches ; I didn’t sea this did, but an auctioneer told of it, and I never knew an auctioneer to tell an ontruth unless it was absolutely convenient. A Graud Enterprise. We find the following proposed union of the' Tennessee and Alabama rivers in the Tallade ga Reporter ; The old idea of connecting the waters of the' Tennessee and Alabama rivers by a canal baa' been revived. Maury, in a recent scientific report upon the topography of the country, renews the suggestions aa to the practicability of this grand enterprise. The Montgomery Mail, and other Alabama papers, hare taken up the "nrbject and commented upon it, and suggest that a survey might be made under the recent appropriation to complete the survey of the Coosa, so as to tost in a satisfactory man ner this interesting question. It is, porhaps, not generally known tha Will’s Creek, one of the tributaries of tho Coosa river, has its source within a mile of the Ten nessee river, and that the intervening space is comparatively level. Old settlers have all In sisted that tho waters of th# Tennessee might be brought to the Coosa by way of Will’sCreck at comparatively small cost. What a grand idea there is in that suggestion. Think of boats loading away up in East Tennesseo, on the borders of Virginia and West-North Caro-' lina, and coming down she Coosa thence to the Alabama and on to Mobilo. What a line of trade ? How much undeveloped wealth would be brought to light? llow many towns would be built up, and what teeming hives of indus try would spring into life? An American writer says : “A woman will cling to the chosen object of her heart liko a possum to a gum tree, and you can’t separate her without snapping strings noartcan mend, and leaving a portion of her soul on the up per leather of your affections. She will some times see something to love, while others see' nothing to admire; aud when fondness is once fastened on a fellow, it sticks like glue and treacle in a bushy head of hair.”