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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.