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$2 00 PELi ANNUM
J. C. MORRIS,
» tton 10 y Law,
COM VERS, GA.
J A MBS M • LE V Y ’
watchmaker & Jeweler,
W East side of the Square,
GEORGIA,
# „r I SGTO i ed tQ Repair wat. hew. Clocks
" t'Jswelrv in the best style. Particular atten-
V* -sen to repairing Watcl.es injured by in
workmen. All work warranted. _
' j(>sE PII Y. TINSLEY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
t , f„Hv prepared to Repair V\ atchea, Clo' k,
, .j,v in ti.e best Style, at short nonce.
4 ml Jew« ’ , f)l j prices, and Warranted.
All W 2 t,;or bi the l oiirt House. 6tf
DEARINC & PJiSNCLE
H4V(\G associated themselves in the PraO-
K ?t MEDICINE and SURGERY, offer
tlCe J ,imil services to the citizens of
their proses Tiiev have opened an offi eon
ji e vton county. g ftr# (uext ,] oor to S
the Eag J s 's ) an d are prepared to attend to
[)fWALP* They hav«s also a caietully
,11 calls promptly- “ ?
•alectcd assortment of the
1/arv Best Medicines,
, »iM eire their personal attention to Com
mon ling Prescriptions. for Physicians and
Ilecial attention Riven to Chronic Diseases
At ni-rht Dr. Hearing will be found at his
r»«ider.ee and Dr. Prinoi.k at his rooms imme
idatel.v over the Store of C. 11. Sanoers & Lao.
■ay 15, 25tf
11, T. HENRY,
P B N T I S T ,
COVP'GTON. GEORGIA.
_ , HAS REDUCED lUS'PUICFS, so
that all who have been so unfortu-
I RIStUT nate ns to lose their natural Teeth
„n have their places supplied by Art. at v.ry
* cost Teeth Filled at reasonable prices,
Ind work faithfully executed, Office north side
if Square. —1 241f
' JOIIiU S. CARROLL,
dentist
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
j - Teeth Filled, or Sew Teeth Inserted,!
fffrrPUhe bent Style, and on Reasonable Terms
tfflee Rear of R. King’s Store.-l Df
aiv A 1 would respectfully inform the
|f citizens of Newton, and adjoining
fPfelalk. counties, that 1 have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
)a north side public square in COVINGTON,
share I am prepared to make ’o ord -r. Harness
laddies, die , or Repair tha same a' short notice,
„dj. Hr. but JAMW „ BB0V „
INDERSON & HUNTER
Ars constantly receiving
'resh and Seasonable Goods!
j*" All of wtiich (hoy propose to Sell at the
|IOWE9T cash prices,
rt also closing out. several lines of* Gooda
-At and Below Cost!—
AOENTS FOR
ericultnral Implements,
Clover nnd Grass Seeds,
And saveml of the best
rODARD FERTILIZERS.
n. 14, —46tf
PRIMS IMPORTATION
1 8 3 0.
BBONS, MILLINERY &STRAW GOODS.
ARMSTRONG, CATOR & Cos.
7 & 239 Baltimore street, BALTIMORE.
Importers and Jobbers of
Ms k Trimming Ribbons, Velvet h Sasb Ribbons,
onet Crapes, Silks and Satins. Illusions,
Is, Ruches, Netts and Velvets
)WERS AND FEATHERS.
NETS AND LADIES HATS
ned and Untximnned.
S AND SHAKER HOODS,
ock of Millinery floods in this
inequaled in choice
t prices that wil defy mpeti
ERS SOLICITED. 13
0 RTN E Y, & CO.,
'ACTORS ■
AND
ION MERCHANTS,
Vharf, OuAni f.stov, S. C.
HOBT. MURDOCK, JAB. 8. MURDOCK
JL Sl PHILLIPS,
it, Atlanta, Georgia
eived a Good Assortment of
GOODS
AND
cerl e s ,
lioh they offer at
L E AND RETAI I.
ery Low Figures.
all NEW, bought from First
nd they are determined
BE UNDERSOLD,
all Before Purchasing.
Filiei at the Lowest Market
■ J ■ F. KISER,
e and Retail Deal rs in
icy Dry Goods, Yankee No-
H ,luots ,*•'»«* Shoes, Hats.
rM. n *, ap "’ a,, ‘l straw Goods,
t 1 MA D E CLO T (UNO
JlGld stand of Talley, B rown> * Co t
Whitehall street, Atlanta, Go.
THE GKORGJA ENTEK PRISE.
Dll. O. S. PROPHITT,
Covington Gkorgia.
Will still continue his business, where he intend
keepmg on hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
<\ centratcd Preparations, Fluid Extracts, <tc.
110 is also putting up his
Liver Modiciiios,
FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Vermifuge, Antl-Itiliou* Pills,
and many other preparations,
jy Will give prompt attention to all orders
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Iler. after NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELTV
ERE'), or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
ire A. ® IET !“«*
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY CASH, for I will not Keep Books.
Oct. 11 1867. Q, S, PROPHITT.
Rail Road Schedules.
Georgia Railroad.
E. W. COLE, General Superintendent.
Day Passenger Train (Sundays excepted,) leaves
Auirusta at 7 a m ; leave Atlanta at 5 am; ar
rive at Augusta aUS.4S p m ; arrive at Atlanta at 6.30
Night Passengf.r Train leaves Augusta at 10
p.m ; leaves Atlanta at 5.40 pm; arrives at Augusta
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, Selma,
and intermediate points, can take either train. For
Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave Augusta on
Night Passenger Train, at 10 p.m.
Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junc
tion, Memphis, Louisville, and St. Louis, can take
either train and make close connections.
Through Tickets and baggage cheeked through
to the above places. Sleeping cars on all night pas
senger trains.
MACON A AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
E. W. COLE, Gen’l Bup’t.
Leave Camak daily at 12.40 u. M.: arrive at Milledge
ville at 4.20 p. m.; leave Milledgeville at 6.45 A. M.;
arrive at Camak at 10.15 a. m.
Passengers leaving any point on the Georgia K.
R bv Day Passenger train, will make close connec
tion at Camak for Milledgeville, F.atonton, and all
intermediate points on the Macon <fe Augusta l*oan,
and for Macon. Passengers leaving Milledgeville
at 6.45 a. m., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same
day.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
H. T. Peake, General Sup’t.
Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at
355 am, arrives at Kingsville at 11.15 am ; Raves
Kingsville at 12.05 p m, arrives at Augusta at 7.25
p. m. This train is designed especially for through
travel. , „
The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at 6 am,
and arrives at Charleston at 3.9 p m ; leaves Charles
ton at 8 am, and arrives at Augusta at 5 p m.
Night special freight and express train leaves Au
gusta (Sundavs exeepted)at 3.50 p m. and arrives at
Charleston at 4.30 a m ; leaves Charleston at 7.30 p
m, and arrives at Augusta at 6.45 a m.
WESTERN A ATLANTIC R. R.
Con. E. Tlui.hert, General Superintendent.
Daily passenger train, except Bunday, leaves At
lanta at 8.15 am, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.45
p m ; leaves Chattanooga at 4.40 a in, and arrives at
Atlanta at 2 pm. . , , „ . ... K
Ni ,r ht express passenger train leaves Atlanta at 0.40
p m" and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a m ; leaves
Chattanooga at 5.50 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at
3.35 a m.
MACON <fe WESTERN RAILROAD.
E. B. Walker. Gen’l Sup’t.
Day passenger train leaves Maeon at 7.45 a m.and
arrives at Atlanta at 2 p m ; leaves Atlanta at 8.15
a.m, and arrives at Maeon at 1.30 pm.
Night passenger train leaves Atlanta at 8 10 p m,
and arrives at Maeon at 4.25 am ; leaves Macon at
8.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a m.
Hotels.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER A SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Fassen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
A M E * I C AM HOT ft L,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot,
WHITE A WHITLOCK, Pro /etors.
W. D. Wilkt, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated ic above
Hotel, we are nrepar-d to entel'taiD uests in a
most satisfactory "anner. Chare t fair and
moderate. Our efforts wil) he to ease..
Baggage carried to and from Depot ree of charge.
FARE REDUCED!
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated on
Broad Street, Central to the business por
tion of the City, aad convenient to the Tele
graph and Express Offices The House is large
and commodious, and has been renovated and
newly aint.ed from garret to Cellar, and the
bedding nearlv all new since the war. The
rooms are large and airy; (lean beds, and the
fare as good as the country affords, and atten
tive and polite servants
Charges.—Two Dollars per day.
Sirgle Meals 75 Cents.
I 1 ope to merit a liberal share of patronage
from the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for vourselves
S. M. JONES, Prop’r.
PAYILION HOTEL
Char'eston, S. C.
HOARD PER DAT, *S.
A B utter FIE 11>, Mrs H. 1.. Buttehfie,
Supet it-.tendent Proprntr.
WM. H. COODRICH ,
SASH, BLINDS, AND DOORS,
On hand, aud made to Order.
Augusta 886 m Georgia
COVINGTON GA., MARCH 12, 1809.
Life’s Mystery.
Though mind and knowledge daily groiir
As fast the ages roll,
The more we learn the less we know
What constitutes the Si ul.
And would’st thou dare, presumptuous man,
Will; philosophic mind,
To scrutinize Jehovah’s plan—
His hidden nature find 7
30, study deep in nature's laws ;
Make science more profound ;
Yet vainly ssek to know the cause »
Os life and life around.
Go, hold the lighting in his wrath,
That human eye may see
The mighty power which it hath,
So swift to cross tha sea.
Go, mea-mre through the depth of space
Beyond the palest star,
And track the meteor to its place,
While flashing from afar;
Or gather, as the planets roll,
The music of the spheres,
Ar.d bring upon thy raptured soul
The harmonies of years.
Go, count the green leates from their birth,
The moments, as they flee ;
Each grain of sand upon the earth,
E ich atom of the sea ;
Aud should thy toil he nearly done,
Ere life begins to fail,
01 know the task is but begun
To penetrate the veil.
Vain, vain, oh. man 1 is all thy skill,
These are but little things—
The grains of sand beneath the hill,
The atoms of the springs ;
The space around, with tempest rife,
The green leaves of the sod—
Then study thou the good of life,
And leave the rest to God.
Away with Care.
Away, away with sighs and tears,
Away with care and sorrow ;
The storm that wrecks our hopes to day
May bury grief to morrow.
It is not meet that man should mourn,
Amid this world of toiling ;
For lie who looks in Nature’s face
W ill always fiud her smiling.
'Tis true, Old Winter did return,
To show his different phases ;
But Spring, we know, will come at last,
To strew the fit-ids with daisies.
Then come—away with sighs and tears,
A way with care and sorrow ;
The storm that wrecks our hopes to-dr.y
May bury grief to-morrow 1
Matrimonial Lottery.
A short time since, at a wedding in South
Carolina, a young lawyer moved that one man
in the company should be selected as president,
that this president should be duly sworn to
keep entirely secret all the communications
that should be forwarded’to him in his official
department that night, that each unmarried
gentleman and lady should write his or her
name on a piece of paper, and under it place
the name of the person they wi»h to marry,
then hand it to the president foi inspsetiou,
and if any gentleman and lady had reciprocally
chosen each other, the president was to in
form each of the result, and those whojiad not
been reciprocal in their choice were to be entire,
ly secret. After the appointment of the pres
ident, communications were accordingly handed
up to the chair, and it was found that twelve
young gentlemen and ladies had reciprocal
choices, and eleven of the twelve matches wsre
solemnized.
A New Swindling Dodge.
Pretended firms in this city advertise in the
country' papers to furnish Aluska diamonds,
equal in all respects to the genuine article, ex
cept in their intrinsie value. They request that
when rings are ordered, a ring already pos
sessed by the owner may be sent them, in or
der that the size of the finger may bo ascer
tained. On receipt of the specimen, they for
ward tbeir trash by express, to be collected for
on delivery. If the specimen ring should be
worthless, they include it in the parcel, hut if
they should happen to be valuable they retain
it, ami any attempt on the part of the loser to
regain his property proves fruitless, inasmuch
as no firm with the title they give are to be
found at the address given.
A case comes under notice from a corres
pondent of the jewelry firm of Mesers. Browne
& Spalding, at Lexington, Kr„ of certain in
dividuals, styling themselves James T. Monroe
<fe Cos., Importers and Manufacturers, No. 195
Broadway, N. Y., who obtained a ring in the
above manner, worth several dollars, of • lady
in that place. They obtained sl2 for the Alas
ka ‘‘diamonds” forwarded To her, but did not
return the property sent. As no such firm is
to be found at 195 Broadway, the prospects of
tlic lady for obtaining her ring are indifferent.
—A r . I". Timet.
Important Decision.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Rollins has
mnde the following decision in regard to agree
ment to convey real estate, vis t
A written agreement to sell and convey real
estate upon the fulfillment of specified condi
tions, such as the payment of a ceßfafpfr sum of
money, should be stamped at the rate of five
cents for each sheet or piece of paper upon
which it is written ; but if the instrument con
tains the promises of one of the parties signing
it, to pay a evtrain amount of money on de
mand, or at a time designated, ft shall also be
stamped at the same rate as a promissarv
note.
Inaugural Address of General Grant.
Your suffrages have elected mo to the office
of Prvsidsnt of the United States. I liavo in
conformity with the Constitution of our coun
try taken the oath of office prescribed therein.
I have taken the oath without mental reserva
tion, and with the determination to do t.i the
best of tny ability all that it requires of me.
The responsibilities of the position I feel, but
accept them without fear. The office has come
to me unsought; I commence its duties tin
trammeled. 1 bring to it a conscientious desire
and determination to fill it to the best of my
ability to the satisfaction of the people. On all
loading questions agitating the j uhlic mind, I
will always express my views to Congress, in.d
urge them according to my judgment; and
when I think it. advisable will exercise the
Constitutional privilege of interposing a veto
to defeat measures which I oppose ; hut all
laws will be faithfully executed, whether they
meet my approval or not. I shall, on all sub
jects, have n policy to recommend, but none to
enforce against the will of the people. Laws
aro to govern all alike, tlioxo opposed to as
well as those who favor them, I know no
method to secure the repeal of bud or obnox
ious luws so effective as their stringent exeeu
tibn. Tlio country having just emerged from
a great rebellion, many questions will eemc
before it for settlement in the next four years
which preceding administrations have never
had to deal with. In meeting these it is desi
rable that they should he approached calmly
without prejudice, haro, nr sectional pride, re
membering that the greatest good to the
greatest number is the object to be obtained.
This require* security of person, property,
and for religious and political opinion in every
part af our common country, without regard to
local prejudice. All laws to secure these ends
will receive my best efforts for their enforce
ment.
A great debt lias been contracted in securing
to us and our posterity—the Union. T-he pay
ment of this, principal and interest, as well as
the return to a specie basis as soon as it can
be accomplished, without material detriment to
the debtor class or the country at large, mu*t be
provided for. To protect the national honor,
every dollar of the government's indebtedness
should be paid in gold unless otherwise ex
pressly stipulated in the contract. Let it be
understood that no repudiation of one farthing
of our public debt will be trusted in public
places, and it will go far towards strengthening
a credit which ought to be the best in the
world, and will ultimately enable us to replace
the debt with bonds bearing less interest than
we now pay. To this should be added a fuith
ful collection of the revenue and strict account
ability to the treasury for every dollar collected,
nnd the greatest piactieal retrenchment in
expenditure in every department of the Gov
ernment. When we compare tha paying ca
pacity of the country now with ten States still
in poverty from the effects of war, buts<on to
emerge, I trust, into a greater prosperity than
ever before, with its paying capacity twenty
five years ago, arid calculate what it will be
twenty-five years hence, who can doubt the
feasibility of paying every dollar then with
more ease than wo now pay for useless luxuries ?
Why, it looks as though Rrovidence had be
stowed upon iisa strong box; the precious
metals locked up in the sterile mountains of
the far West, into which we are now forcing
the key to unlock to meet tho very contingency
that is now upon us. Ultimately it may be
necessary to increase the facilities to reach
those riches, and it may bo necessary, also,
that the General Government should give its
aid to secure this access ; but that should only
be when a dollar of obligation to pay secures
precisely the same sort of dollar to use now
and not before. Whilst the question of specie
payments is in abeyance, the prudent business
man is careful übout contracting debts payable
in the distant future. The nation should fol
low the same rule. A prostrate commerce is
to be rebuilt and all industries encouraged.—
The young men of the country, those who from
their age must be its rulers twenty-five years
hence, have a peculiar interest in main
taining the national honor. A moment's
reflection as to what will be our commanding
influence among the nations of the earth in
their tlay, if they are only true to themselves,
should inspire tliam with national pride; al!
divisions, geographical, political and religious
can join in common sentiment. How the pub
lic debt is to be paid or specie payments re
sumed is nut so important as that n plan should
be adopted and acquiesced in. A united de
termination to do, ie worth more than divided
counsels upon the method of doing. Legisla
tion upon this subject may not be necessary
now, nor even advisable; but it will be when
the civil law is more fuliy restored in all parts
of the country, and trade resumes its wonted
character. It will be my endeavor to execute
all laws in good faith, to collect all revenues
assessed, and to have them properly accounted
for and economically disbursed. I will, to the
best cf my ability, appoint to office those only
who will curry out this design.
In regnrd to foreign policy I would deal
with nations as equitable law requires individ
uals to deal with each other, and I would pro
tect the law abiding citizena whether of native
or of foreign birth, whenever his rights are
jeopardized or the flag of our country flouts.—
1 wowkt respect the rights of all nations, de
manding equal respect for our own. If others
depart from the rule in their dealings with us
we may bo compelled to follow their preeadent.
The proper treatment of the original occupants
of this land, the Indian, is one deserving of
careful study. I will favor any conrso towards
this civilization, Christianization amt ukimato
citizenship.
The question of suffrage is one which is likely
to agitate the public so long as a portion of tho
citizens of the nation are excluded from its priv
ileges in any State. It seeing to mo very de
sirable that this question should be settled
now, and I entertain a hope and express the
desire that it may be by ratification of the 15th
article of amendment to tho Constitution.
1 In conclusion, I ask patient forbearance,
one towards another, throughout the laud and a
determined effort on the part of every citizen
to do his shaie towards cementing a happy
union, and I ask the prayers of the nation to
Almighty God in bchaif ol this consummation.
An Elephant Attacks a Railway Train.
The following account of an encounter be
tween an elephant and a railway train in India
is taken from the Bengalee, of January 2d, an
intelligent uative newspaper, published in Cal
cutta, in English :
‘‘A correspondent writing to the Indo-Eu
ropean correspondence Irorn Monghyr, states
that a very serious accident, brought about in
a manner unknown, and perhaps unheard of
since the establishment of railways, not only
in India, but throughout the world, happened
to a train on the evening of the 20th of Decem
ber. at half past 8 o’clock, between Sahehgunge
and Mirzapore, about tw o miles from Lite latter
station. At that time the number 5 down
goods train was approaching a tope, in which
seventy elephants were stationed. Tho red
lights glaring in the distance, and the noise
and smoke of the engine would eeoiu to have
caused An awful consternation atnonc the
poor brutes, all of whom, more or less, tried
to break from their fastenings. One large male,
however, the strongest and most courageous of
the lot, became so infuriated that he broke Lis
chain and rushed forward to intercept and en
counter the supposed enemy. He had scarcely
placed himself on the line when the train was
down upon him. lie encountered it with head
and tusks ; but animal strength proved no
match for steam and machinery—the poor
brute was knocked down and ki lied on the spot,
and the engine, rebounding, ran off the line
and it and eleven carriages were capsized into
a ditch. The fireman luckily managed to jump
off in time, and the guard did the sarao, but
the poor driver, named Smith, remained in his
place, and received injuries from which it is
not expoctcd that ho will recover.
President Grant.
The New York World says of the new
President of the United States, that “his
character is surely cast in no common mould.
He has undergone the severest trial to which
character can be subjected—nnlookcd-for
prosperity, and sudden, giddy elevation—and
he has stood the test in a manner which would
have done no discredit to any man that has
ever lived. Hie head has never been turned
by his wonderful fortune; he has exhibited
no levity, no foolish vanity, none of the airs
of an upstart, none of the besetting weaknesses
of a.parvenu; but has borne himself with a
quiet and becoming reserve which, under the
circumstances, betokens great solidity of char
acter and an inborn sense of dignity."
We indorse the foregoing estimate of our
new Resident, and trust that ho will prove
equal to all the emergencies which his eleva
tion to the highest place in the gift of the
people, may place him in. By his acts we
shall judge him.—[At. Intel.
A few evenings since, with joyous spirits
and gorgeous.ly arrayed, I sallied forth with
charming Clara, for a dashing promenade.
Ah, what strains of magic power swoll the
chord of youthful pride, as one treads the
walks of fashion with a beauty by his side 1
Clam, with grace bewitching, seemed to trip
on fairy feet, and each passer turned to view
us, sailing gladly up the street; thrilled this
heart, for my fond affection's quaon, beating
time with quickest measure, to her crinoline.
Suddenly my.ehariner faltered, as if shocked
by some great ill, while the anguish of her
features, seemed my very soul to still; lightly
on my arm she languished, and I cried in
anxious fear—speak, my darling Glara—tell
me what's the mutter dear! Methinks her
gentle form grew lesser by the collapse of her
gown, as she sighed in trembling accents
“Lore, my skeleton is down !”
‘The moon,’ said a total abstainer, 'is not
quite a tetotaler, but she lets her moderation
be known to all won, for she only fills her
horn once a month.’ Then she fills it with
something strong,’ observed a bystander, ‘for
I have aeon her half gone !’
A country schoolmaster began ono morning
the duties of the day with prayer, as usual;
but after prayer he went up and a little
boy why he had not shut his eyes during the
prayer, wltea the boy sharply responded, “We
are instructed in the Bible to watch as well as
pray.”
The aim of genius should, like its own na
ture, be lofty, truly lofty, above meannetts, and
selfishness, and indolence, venturing ail forth*
accomplishment of.great fesults in the achieve
ment of real good.
A hoarding school Miss, being unwoll,
deemed it vulgar to say she was ‘Billious,’
so she complained of being ‘Williamoue.’
Why is a candle-maker the worst and most
hopeless of men 7 Because all his works arc
wicked, and aii his wicked works are brought
to light
Says Kate to her new husband, “John, what
rock does true love build upon ?” Quoth
John, and grinned from ear to ear,. “The rock
es yofidewcradle, dear.”
MWe are drowned in the bowl than in
the sea. .
VOL 4, NO. 17
The Miseries of a Rich Man.
The New York .correspondent, ot the Rov
chatter Democrat is for the fol
lowing :
Alexander T. Stewart clears one thousand
dollars a day, Sundays eoceptcd,,aii the year
round. Cornelius Vanderbilt pleads guilty
to twice that sum, while Wm. B. Astor rates
his income at four thousand three hundred
and thirty dollars per diem. Sleeping or wa
king, tho last named gentleman finds a three
dollar bill dropping into his hnt every minute
of the twenty-four hours. He cannot sit down
to converse with his physician without having
a little more wealth, if not health ; ho cannot
unburden his mind without feeling his burden
increasing in his pocket; and he cannot walk
down Broadway, however the weather may be,
without meeting a shower of money. At ev
ery corner cash stares him in the most insolent
manner; hanks fling their dividends at his
head [ vuthless financiers beat him with cou
pons ; unpitying and soulless corporations
dump their lucre at his door step ; and con
temptuous bill stickers plaster his door with
greenbacks. Ono might wonder what that
fellow has done to merit this treatment, and
tho only charge that can he brought against
him is that he is a rich man’s son, and there
fore must suffer.
George D. Prentice.
Ilodgeson, of the Montgomery Mail, who is
on the wing, in a letter from Louisville, thug
draws a pen picture of what Time's wear and
tear lias left of the once gifted and brilliant
George I). Prentice. The writer says :
Yesterday I had an interview with Mr.
Prentice. He is not the man he was ten years
ago. Indeed his genius is gone, and his per
son is a mere wreck. His family is broken
up—wife dead, one son killed on the Confed
erate side, another settled on a fans down the
river—and the old man, verging on three
score and ten, cooks his breakfast and dinner
in his little room on tho third floor of tbo
Courier building, and lives only in conversa
tions about the past. This man ones weilded
an imperial power with his wit and his
music. Now the world has whirled past him,
and he lies on thu shore a mere stranded
wreck, just as we will all lie if ws should
reach three score years through a revolution.
Suoh is life I To-day an emperor, to-morrow a
oypher.
Life Like s River.
Bishop Ileber, upon departing for India,
said, in his farewell sermon :
“Life boars us on like the xtrenra of a
mighty river. Our boat at first goes down the
mighty channel—through the playful mur
murings of the little brook, and the willows
upon its grassy borders. The trees shed their
blossoms over our young heads, the flowers on
the brink seem to offer themselves to our
young hands; we are happy in hope, and
grasp eagerly at the beautiee around us; the
stream hurries on, and still our hands are
empty. Os course in youth and in manhood,
is along a wider, deeper flood, nnd amid ob
jects more striking and magnificent. Ws are
animated by the moving picture of enjoyment
and industry passing us ; wo are eicitod by
our short-lived enjoyments. The stream bears
us on, and joys and griefs are left behind us.
We may be shipwrecked, but we canno* lie
delayed ; for, rough or smooth, the river has
tens towards its home, till the roar of the
ocean is in our ears, and the wave beneath
our feet, and the floods are lifted up around
us, and we take our leave of enrth and its in
habitants, until of our further voyage there is
no witness save the Infinite and Eternal.”
A couple of drum mere beseiged an old lady
in Illinois, to buy a patent churn from
them. She said it was a humbug, and they
offered to make the butter come in ten min
utes. So .-he filled the machine with butter
milk, aad they tugged at the crank for twe
hour# before they discovered the unotious prac
tical joke.
Mrs. Kelly, of Black Brook, New York, is
thirty-eight years old, has been married twen
ty-one years, and is the mother of nineteen
children without ever having twine, the
youngest child being thirteen months old.—
There is but ten months’ difference in the
ages of the first born and the second born
child.
Ilarper'e Weekly, the blackest of Mongrel
sheets, says:
“One wonders that the South does not rebel
anew, when one considers the miserable ver
min who have been sent down there a* gov
ernment official*.”
But done except miserable vermin would
aocopt the offices, or go there at all under tueh
accursed laws as the Reconstruction acts.
However, we are glad Harper confesses that
the scoundrels who are sent to govern the
South are “miserable vermin.”— [Banner of
Liberty.
“Bo a whole man to everything," wrote J.
J. Gftfrncy to his son at sohool. “At Latin be
a whole ntan to Latin. Geometry or History
be a whole man to Geomotty or Ilistory. Ad
play be a whole man to play. At washing
and dressing be a whole* man to washing and
dressing. Above »U at meeting be’ a whole
man to worship.”
General John C. Breckinridge, according to
the New York Sun, was the guest of the
Manhattan Club one evening last week, when
a dinfrer was given in his honor. Among
thbee present, according to the same authority,
tfere General Pryor. Geo. 11. Purser, Gideon
Tucker, August Belmont, Hosea J. Perkins,
Gonsral Magruder and Judge Cardoza. The
entertainment is said to have cost twenty-five
hundred dollars.