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f JOHN S. OAU.OLL,
n eNT I S T
D coVIKOTOK, G EOKCIA..
Teoth Filled, or Sew ones Inserted,l>
h,. best Style, and on Reasonable Toms
f R King’s Store, —1 ltf
tea Hear of *• JU, ‘ B .
r Fine^A mber Syrup
mrPPLY of line Amber Syrup .lust
l MOTHER bOl goWK ER & HARRIS.
i received by
I county Script Wanted.
r W v Paving any "f the above named
iNYpo dispose of, will consult their own
lercrtby calling °n B^WKER & IIARKIS .
inns DEARINC & PRINGLE
I .V Associated themselves in the Pmc
Pr UCC f'Vioual services to the citizens of
Lir pr° ,cf ; ‘ Xiicy have opened an offi. eon
|»ton couu )• yq U are, (next door to S’
L past bm “ . ftn( i flre prepared to attend to
fepn*"‘pi' T h ( 7 haVC ttlS ° “ CarefUll> ’
I SdLovunentof the
r fV Best Medicines,
I -II rive their personal attention to Com
linding I ’ resCriptionS ’ f ° r Ph y sioians and
fccialattention given to Chronic Diseases
P • ht p r . Rearing will be found at his
l A i «ml Dr Pringle at his rooms imme-
K“;“the store of C, H. Sanders & 8.0.
|y ]5, 25tf __ .
W7~~~jk I would respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton, and adjoining
counties, that 1 ltave opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
side public square in COVINGTON
I i, m prepared to make to order, Harness,
Eldles, Ac, or Repair the same at short notice,
Kin the best style.
| t f JAMES 15. BROW>i
I T. HEN II Y,
h E N T X S T ,
I' COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
HAS REDUCED JUS PRICES, so
that all who have been so unfortu-
FuTLlr , la te as to lose their natural Teeth
In have their places supplied by Art, at very
■tall cost Teeth Filled at reasonable prices,
Id work faithfully executed, Office north side
ISquare. —1 22tf
I j. c. M ORRIS,
kttornoynt Law,
CONYERS, GA.
jAM E S M . LEv t ,
jfatchmaker & Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
IviNGTON, GEORGIA,
L, re he is prepared to Repair Watches, Clocks
li Jewelry in the best style. Particular atten
fc given to repairing Watches injured by in
Lpetent workmen. All work warranted.
I. OTOORAPIISJ
IVE JUST RECEIVED a Fresh Supply
Chemicals, and am now prepared to exe
ork in my line in a supeiior manner,
soon if you would have a superior Pic
t my old stand, rear of Post Office build
;otf J. W. CRAWFORD, Artist.
)SE P II Y. TINSLEY,
tchmaker & Jeweler
illy prepared to Repair Watches, Clock,
welrv, in the best Style, at short notice,
rk Done at Old Prices, and Warranted*
and door below the Court House,'—stf
‘rrible Case of Poisoning
COVINGTON,
% *
be prevented, by buying your
UGS, & MEDi’CJNES,
i NE W DRUG STORE, of
Dr. J. E. H. WARE & CO.
North side of the Public Square,
COVINGTON, GA.
ave a full supply of Pure Medicines, and
tee everything they sell. Call on them.
manufacture
erior Cotton Yarns,
»• 6to 12. Si Doz, No. 400 to 700.
M 1 T Tl ESSES
■ Blzeß an 'i qualities to suit orders.
B a t t i xx & ,
Gs IVaste or Good Cotton.
■ 0 0 L C A R D I N C.
| I Quality of the Rolls unsurpassed.
■ L 0u & and MEAL.
MILL cannot bo surpassed in
H|}’n 'l uall ty, nor the quantity of MEAL or
Ktanib!"' ne l 1 ' A su PP 1 y of Meal or Flour
J iin° n andl Flour of all grades to suit
F* 1 arul price.
l ' 0l j > L e . Fxtra, Extra Family, Family,
tKr,i r yii ne ' Graham Flour and Grits
pX I 'UTS and Bit AN, for Stock Feed,
BHctfulllr c , Patronage of the public is rc
Y y asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
_ A splendid stock of
oJjL 1 7 ?? and s and Groceries
fXall l-in'i t ?, a ' e Gheap for Cash or barter
■ ‘ k,nd Sos Country Produce.
E. STEADMAN, Prop’r.
H Ncwton Cos., Go., Feb. 19, 1809,-13
Himself Again.”
I<)( Agents Wanted ! —Having
Bjks T „:!. 8u ' Tled "'y business of publishing
m lvahialil 0 'i> A ** nt f lo sc " hy subscription
llbll< ; a t ,n »3 in every pari of the.
•4'iied Sol r S A B°°d chance for intelligent
*ly to ° ,dlerS ' agency nn.l yTerritory,
• Social Circle, Ga
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DP. O . S . PkR O P H I T.T,
Covington Georgia.
\\ ill still continue Iris business, where he intend?
keeping on hand a good-supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stufls,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
Gf' odilf rated Preparations, Fluid Extracts, Ac.
He is afso putting up his
Liver Medicines,
FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Tcrmifuge, Antl-flllious Pills,
and many other preparations,
givo prompt attention to all orders.
P.tRTICIJIiAR NOTICE.
Her.after NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELIV
EKE'), or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
iW<D ASH !-®a
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY C ASH, for I will not Keep Books.
Oct. 11. 1867. O. S. PROPIIITT.
mmz DRY GOODS STORE.
1* ESS EL S & STEIt \\
Wholesale Dealers in
Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Shoes,
Gust’s Furnishing Gcons, Notions, &c.
No. 1, Whitchaß Street, (in Mark ham Empire
Block, dm22 ATLANTA, GA.
T ~ “Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL,
Augusta Gkorgia.
This well known first class llitel is now re
opened for the accommodation of ihe (raveling
public, with the assurance tlmt, those who may
have occasion to visit Augusta, will be made
comfortab'e. As this Hotel is now complete in
every Department, the Proprietor hopes, thal by
sti i t and personal attention, to merit, a share of
public patronage.
JOHN A. GGLDSTEI.Y, Pro’p.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER A SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
A M E a I C AN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Ncaresl house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro ictors.
Having re-leasel jmd renovated le above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain nests in a
most satisfactory ".aiyner. Chare s fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Bagt-ago carried to and from Depot .ree of charge
Dr, TUTTS SARSAPARILLA AND QUEENS
DELIGHT. The great Blood Purifier.
1 VR. .TUTT’S EX PECTORANT. A certain cure
■A I! MPROVED HAIR DYE. The
i vlp' TUTT’s' VEGETABLE LIVER PILL
I ) For Liver Complaint, Dispopsin, Ac. .
Tbese valuable ITcparations are for sale m
Covhl'noii bv PACE. WOOD A ROGERS
, (S I)R. J. A. STEWART
Hi SdU;by GEORGE MANSFIELD
hi Thomson by A - D - JULL
ttjm TOLLMAN,Dea’er in Watches, Clocks,
\V Fine Jewelry, Gold Pens, Spectacles, &e.
Whitehall street, second door above M. Lynch’s
& Co's book store. Atlanta. Ga. Repairing done
in good stile and warrranted.—s. 4.
A. J. ROBERT* J, A. BISAXER* W. A, RICHAB.DSO
Marietta, Ga Marietta, G,a. Louisville, Ky
THE GEORGIA MARBLE!WORKS,
Are now prepared to fill all Orders for Marble,
and to furnish
Monuments, Slabs, Tombs, &c.
Finished in the best style, and at Lower Pricks
than the same work done with Northern Marble
Our Warble is Equal to the Best American
Dealers om be supplied -it. Blocks and
]sai sos any diininsions.r
For any information o designs, address
GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS
Either at Marietta, or Jasper, Tic
C. H. & A. W. FORCE,
Wholesale Dealers in
33 oots tfc SHoos,
Whitehall street, Atlanta, Gal
Our Goods arc direct from
Eastern Manufacturers. We will
sell them to Country Merchants at N. Y. prices—
Freight added. —lv’43
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS,
AND
wsKl> O W 8 lI.IDE 81
We have JUST RECEIVED a Splendid Stock of
Brussels, 3 pjy, 2 ply and Venetian Carpets
12, ft, 74, 6, 14 and 8 feet
Floor Oil Cloths,
MATTINGS, RUGS
DAMASKS, LACE CURTAINS,
WINDOW SHADES,
AND CORNICES,’
All of which we are offering at
GREATLY REDUCED TMtICES.
We now havean experienced Upholsteior, and
arc prepared to put down Carpets and make
Curtains in the best Styles. We invite inspec
tion from CASH lil \ ElyS !
* ‘ CHAMBERLIN. BOYNTON & CO.
C >rn or Whitehall and Hunter streets,
3ml ft Atlanta, Ga.
N. O. Molasses.
IF yen would secure a first.-class article, go to
Uie store of C, U, Saxhibs A Bro.
COVINGTON GA, JUNE, 4 1861).
Song.
IV hen Autumn’s dully winds complain
And red lcayos withered fall,
Wo know that Spring will laugh again
And'loaf and flower recall.
But when Love’s saddening Autumn wears
The hues that death presage,
No Spring in Winter’s lap prepares
A seooud goldon age.
So when Life’s Autumn sadly sighs
Yet smiles its cold tears through ;
No Spring with warm and sunny skies,
The soul’s youth will renew.
Love blooms but once, and dins—fi r all.
Life lias no second Spring ;
Tlio frost must come, the snow must full,
Loud as the lark may sing,
O, Love! 0, Life! ye fade like flowers,
That droop and die in June ;
Tlio present, oh ! too short 1 is ours.
And Autumn comes too soon.
Morning After Storm.
I cannot tell where the sun went down,
Nor tell where the sun will rise.
Such terrible fears my senses drown,
And such blackness fills the skies;
O sailor-'tnan ! look through the fearful frown,
And say where the morning lies.
The waves they beat our boat about,
As they madly fall and rise,
And the landsman cannot hear our shout
For the sea wind’s cruel cries:
Speak out, good sailor-man, speak out!
And say where the morning lies.
Jly hopes thoy beat, like my boar, about,
And all in the waves as they rise ;
My faith is broken to fear and doubt,
And my heart within me dies ;
Speak out, sweet sailor-man, speak out!
And say whore the morning lies.
And the sailor-man stioked niv sca'-wet hair
As lie pointed up to the skies,
And with all his voice intoned to a prayer,
And with all li is soul in his eyes,
lie said : “Look there ! it is only them
That the light ’o th’ morning lies!”
A False Report.
The report of tlio murder of Samuel Harde
man, of Oglethorpe county, which has been
published by various papers, including tho
Banner, proves to be entirely without fou> -
datian. Mr. Hardeman has beer, in Lexington
during tho last few days, and there is no
ground whatever for tho report, is
nobody has been murdered in the county
recently. Our informant was a citizen of
Oglethorpe, and believed the report true.
This report probably originated from the
death of Allen Goolsby, of that county, who
was thrown from a buggy a few days ago, and
received injuries from which he died.
The report freely circulated hut nut pub
lished, that the negro arrested for outraging
and killing a young lady in Oglethorpe, had
been burned, is also untrue. The negro is in
custody at Lexington, awaiting trial.—[Ath
ens Banner, May 28tii.
A German gives the follovvingas a sure cure
for hydrophobia : “The bite must lie bathed
as soon as possible with warm vinegar and
when this has dried, a sow drops of muriatic
acid poured upon tho wound will destroy the
poison of the saliva an 1 relieve the patient from
all present or future danger.”
There is a man “down East” so stingy that
when he cries 110 saves tho tears to get the
salt.
Gold. —ln three weeks there has been im
ported at the port of New York foreign goods
to the amount of twenty four millions, gold.
In the same time there was exported from that
port domestic produce to the value of eight
millions currency. Trade is reported dull,
and business generally unprofitable ; yet in tho
face of dull times, a high tariff, and 40 per
cent, premium on gold, foreign goods are
flooding the country. We are paying for two
thirds of these goods in United States bonds un
equal to 88 cents on the dollar in gold. This
explains the advance in gold.
Confederate States Money Wanted. — Con
federate money is not altogether valueless
after all. We notice an advertisement in some
of our North Carolina exchanges, over the
name of W. C. Troy, of Fayetteville, offering
ten cents on the dollar for $32,000 Confederate
money, of date of July 11, 1862, and fifteen
cents on the dollar for $07,000 of date Sept.
19, 1804.—|Sav. News.
The prospect, in Tennessee, is said to be
favorable for the most bountiful [harvest of
wheat eyer known in that section. From
one end of the State to the Oliver, the papers
bring the most encouraging reports.
The Springfield Republican calls Sickles’
appointment “a disgrace and calamity to tho
country.”
A gun is exhibited in San Francisoo that
fires 500 shots a minute.
A wag suggests that a suitable opening fur
many choirs wouid be, “O Lord have mercy
upon us miserable singers !’’
—— —-
A blind preacher has eloped from a Penn
sylvania alms house with one of tho servants.
An unsocial old snarl says that love is a
combination of diseases—an affection of the
heart and an inflammation of tho brain,
■■■■
Jones thinks that instead of giving credit
to whom crodit is duo, the cash had better be
paiJ. • There is about as much truth in this
as wit.
A Visit to Mr. Dickson’s Plantation.
There is in Georgia, probably there is in
Atporicft, no more successful planter than Mr.
David "Dickson, whoso plantation of 1,500
acres is situated on the little Ogeeehee river,
about ten miles east of Sparta, in Hancock
county.
To roach this country T traveled over a hilly
country of mixed lands on which oaks, hick
ory and other deciduous trees were common,
but where the prevailing growth was yellow
pine, llut just before reaching his plantation
the hills sink, there are extensive plains, Ird
clay’ is seldom soon, and the long leaf pine"
prevails. The plantation is a pine barren :
not so barren as much of tho pine land near
the son, hut not nearly so fertile ns (ho oak
and hickory lands further north, or the pro
ductive rod-tiny plains of Smith-western Geor
gia. Lasting your eyo over tho fields, you
note particularly that their surfaces are quite
smooth; Ym distinguish the rows of cotton
and corn by the stalks only, and not by the
high ridge made bv plows and boos, suoli as
3’ou see rtralmost every Southern field. They,
are perfectly [clean, too, no fringe of crab
grass, or other weeds covering the ground.—
The corn stalks are large, and the cotton stalks
very bushy and thickly covered with dead pods
or bolls. Near are some farm out-buildings
and a cluster of very neat and comfortable ne
gro-quarters—the host I have seen in Georgia.
Still, there is little to excite remark in the
appearance of things. There m e good fences
and gatos, and it is evidently a tidy farm, but
we have seen many tulv farms elsewhere in
Georgia.
The aim of this planter has been.to increase
tho productive capacity of the land, first, and
second to increase tho productive capacity of
tho laborer. The accomplishment of the first
has teen effected by means of fertilizers,.which
make the land richer, and improved tillage,
which makes the natural and acquired fertility
of the soil more available. Tho second has
been effected by new modes of planting and
new implements. Ordinarily, in this country
fifteen acres of cotton and corn are cultivated
to 1a di hum 1 . Before tlio war Mr. Dickson
cultivated thirtv-three acres to the hand, and
the slaves had no drivers. In this part of
Georgia, an average crop of cotton is about
ono bale to four acres. To be sure he expends
large sums every year for manures, but these
repay him ono hundred por cent, on their cost,
and the cost of the labor required to produce
a bale of cotton, is comparatively very small
by liis system of culture.
The ground is planted in cotton but once in
four years. It is succeeded by corn, and tlio
third year by grain. T!*e fourth, year the
ground lies fallow’. The manures used for
cotton are one hundred pounds each of Peru
vian guano, dissolved bones, salt anil plaster—•
t,lie whole costing at present prices about elev
en dollars. Tho ground is ploughed, not
scratched, as has been the case with all the
other plantations, I have ec< n. Tho dirt is
turned up to tho depth of seven, eight or nine
inches, and the whole surface is broken up,
the dead furrows being upon the ridges.—
Elsewhere the -pace between tho rows forms
a “land.” The furrows for cotton rows arc
opened about eight inches deep and four feet
apart. The manure is deposited in the furrow’
and covered with the plow. The seed furrow
| is then opened above it, a great many more
cotton plants being started than are permitted
to remain. After they are finely started, spa
ces are cut in the vow with a broad,heavy hoe,
leaving from one to three stalks to a hill.—
The plowing is done with wtiat is generttlly
called here a “sweep,” a large plough cut
ting twenty-two inches wide, formed the two
narrow mold boards, very like our plow
shares. This just scrapos the ground, cutting
up all the weeds, but not going deep enough
to wound the cotton toots or open the light
soil. It is hoed and plowed often enough to
keep the ground perfectly clean. The more
rapid the growth of tho cotton, the loss cultiva
tion is required, for when the plants are tall,
thick and bushy, they so shade tlio ground
that weeds and grass can hardly live upon it.
Three plowing* and two hoeings sufficed last
year for a remarkable field of cotton raised
last year by Mr. Dickson, which averaged two
bales to the acre. Usually tho hoe and plow
are busy almost until cotton picking com
mences in September.
A Western farmer would smile at Mr. Dick
son's corn fields. The rows are almost as wide
as the streets in some old European towns.
But it must be remembered that this is a
very light soil and cannot bear many stalks,
and by making the rows wide tho sun reaches
botli sides of every plant. Mr. Dickson makos
his rows for corn seven feet apart in the rotvs,
and only one or two stalks to a hill. But al!
this space is not wasted, as a row of peas is
planted hot ween every two rows of corn, and
these produce from five to fifteen bushels
per acre, and are equal to the average produc
tion of corn on unmanured land.
Mr, Dickson’s experience is of course valu
able chiefly to the Southern planter. A gen
eral adoption of his methods would more
that double tho products of the country and
profits of the farmer.
Mr. Dickson says that he can pay his labo
rers one hundred and fifty* dollars per year
and make a small profit by raising cotton at
ten cents a pound, if the laborers are as order
ly and efficient as they were before the war.
But he secs no. indication that they will be
come so. With law and order and a strict
enforcement of contracts he feels that he can
make money by raising cotton. Not other
wise.—[Cor. Cin. Com.
— 1
The New York Express says that in the in
comes of business men of that city “ those who
advertise make the largest returns.”
Get Money.
Young man, with all thy getting, get money.
For, aftcvdl, it is tho head, base, frdnt and
foundation of life. Books, poets and ministers
talk of' something higher and better. Such
converse is made for show, not use."
The creed and tho practice vary. True,
some of our ministers thunder at tmS iniquities,
great and small, which are daily carried on in
this buying and selling community. That is
ttheir duty. Thoy are paid for it. The con
gregation listen, nnd when church L dismissed
every man goeth to his dinner content. The
minister also sits down to his own repast feel
ing relieved. All hands are satisfied. The
preaching lias boon done. Custom and pro
priety are satisfied. It would he a dreadful
tiling not to observe the Sabbath, according to
Hoyle. *
The religion of the day would almost prove
the Almighty a fool. For lie has laid down
laws more stringent than thoso of the Modes
and Persians. “ Thou shalt not lie.” But
every man who holds certain mining stock
must at times give a tacit assent to a lie.—•
“ Thou strait not steal.” If wc can sellout,
knowing that something is rotten in Denmark,
to a brother who is unsuspicious of the coming
crash, shall we not do so? Doesn’t the world
call ns fools for not making the most of a good
thing? “ Thou shalt lave thy neighbor as
thyself.” When you sec a private telegram
stating a rise in wheat, do you get up in the
middle of tlio night to inform your neighbor,
that he may take ad van tag# of it also? No.
Sec him first, wouldn’t you? All this
and thousands more are carried out per pro
gramme, for ten, twenty, thirty or forty years;
at last we are sick ; there is a partial recovery;
but the doctor tells us we cannot last long ; ho
gives 11s, mayhap, a few months. What then ?
Devoutness ; send for minister ; talk over the
plan of salvation ; church membership ; dona
tions ; change of heart; prayers, etc.; and this
sort of life for a few months atones for the
wrongs and wickedness of years, and satisfies
the God of the Universe, who has sworn that
not a jot nor tittle of his commands should
fail!
“ It is easier for a camel to go through the
eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter
the Kingdom of Heaven.” But, somehow, the
rich man is supposed to get in. Private com
promise patched up between tho clergyman,
the monied culprit, and God. Side door, lead
ing from the goat’s passage on the left, to the
psalm-singing sheep on tho right; opened by
a turn of the wrist, th# fist crammed full of
greenbacks. Brethren, let us pray 1
Young man, with all thy getting, get money.
It makes the mare go, not only on this earth,
but, spurred to incredible and wonderful exer
tion by the jingle, the panting beast darts clean
over the dark abyss of Hell, and lands with
the sinner safe on the brighter and cooler side
of eternity. Get money 1 It’s the real King
dom of Heaven on earth.— [Figaro.
The Sting of the Wasp Cures Rheumatism ?
Dr. Desinaatis states that he bad long been
alilicted with rheumati&m, One day, in pick
ing.up a handful of weeds in his garden, he
was stung by a wasp, on the wrist. The arm
swelled, hut the rheumatism disappeared.—
Seeing this result, he caused himself to be
stung, along the seat of the pain in ids leg,
and was again relieved, and able to walk with
ease.
A wasp sting on the neck of M. DoGasperin
overcame an attack of bronchitis.
Dr, Humboldt has also discovered that the
poison of the scorpion is a remedy for yellow
fever. lie inoculated two thousand four hun
dred and seventy-eight men of the military
and naval garrison : six hundred ttnd seventy
six afterwards caught the fever, of whom no
more than sixteen died,
Tho sceptic and infidel have asked for what
purpose wasps, scorpions, &c., were made.—
Here is the triumphant answer.
Telegraphing in Fac-Simile.
Where may wo expect discoveries in elec
tricity, to stop ? An invention, not many re
moves from ono for telegraphing a portrait, is
said to have been made by Mr. Meyer, an offi
cial engaged in the French telegraphic service,
lie has discovered a plan for telegraphing fac
simile. The details are not given, but if what
is published is fact, tho new system is as won
derful as the electric telegraph itself. There
is no transmitter wanted ; the sender of the
dispatch is his own clerk. Tho message itself
docs the duty of the interpreter, and controls
the electrical power so as to make it faithful.
“ That which tho Meyer system gives us is not
a copy moro or less exact of the message sent
to us; it is the fac-similo of our correspond
ent's writing, so that, thanks to this apparatus,
telegraphic dispatches will present so far as
regards exactitude and authenticity, all the
guarantees now found in ]>ostal communica
tions.” If this be not an enigma, and do not
refer to some kind of cipher—and there is no
reason for thinking that it does—Mr. Meyer
will be among the famous of the future. We
are further told that the apparatus is at work
on the railway from Paris to Lyons, and the
lines from Paris to Marseilles, and from Paris
to Bordeaux will soon be provided with it.
An intolerable bore, having talked a friend
nearly out of his senses, finally struck out on
“ the oyster,” which ho called “ono of the
most remarkable specimens of creative wisdom
extant;’’ when his friend interrupted hint, and
closed the debate by exclaiming, “The oyster!
Ah, yes, the oyster is a glorious fellow : he
always knows when to shut up !”
*An lowa man telegraphed thus to an Illi
nois sheriff: “Arrest C. P. W. , eloping
with iny wife. Owes me one hundred dollars. I
U'he pays, let him go."
VOL 4 NO. 29,
Vain Hope.
Somo comfort appears to he taken from the
supposition that tlio objectionable appointees
to post offices in tho South will not ho able to
give security for the faithful performance of
their respective trusts. This is a mistake. Tho
power that makes such appointments wilLnev*
er quibble over the solvency of a bond. They
are wholly without reference to the public
welfare, and consequently with entire indiffer**
enco as to tho capacity and honesty of the
men thus put in office. The public may suffer
—valuable letters may bo plundered, missent,
or not sent at all, —but what's tho concern.with
tho creature of party who now administer*
tho Department at Washington ? Nono what
ever. If our business is mismanaged and
our property stolen, it is only what we deserve,
and wo should even consider ourselves fortu>«
nate to como off so well. It is an act of gra
cious forbearance that our homos, our flocks,
and our herds have not been parceled out tm*
Turner, Simms, and their associates, our for
liter slaves, and wo have no right to complain.
Such is the spirit with which the government
is administered by tho dominant party. We
may except the President, but 110 is not all
powerful and stands almost alone.
Mi hatever Macon or Savannah may do,
neither Turner nor Clift will find any difficulty
in getting at the North men of straw for tlioir
bondsmen.—[Sav. Rep.
Don’t Dnrn the Letters.
Never burn a kindly written letter ; it is so
pleasant to road them over when tho paper U
yellow with ago, and the hands that tracod
tho friendly words are folded over the heart
that prompted them, under tho green sod.
Above all never burn love letters. To read
them in after years, is like a resurrection of
one’s youth. The elderly spinster finds in tha
impassioned offer foolishly rejected twenty
years ago, a fountain of rejuvenescense. Glan
cing over it, she realizes that she was once a
belle and a beauty, and beholds her former
self in a mirror much moro congenial to her
taste than the one which confronts her in her
dressing-room. The widow indeed derives a
sweet consolation from the letters of the belov
ed one who has gone before her to the far off
land, whence there comes no message, and
where she hopes one day to join him. No
photographs can so vividly recall to the mem
ory of the affectionate mother the tender#
ness and devotion of the children who have left
at tho call of Heaven, as the epistolary out
pouring of their love. The letter of a son or
daughter to a true mother is sometimes better
than an image of the features—it is a reflex of
the writer s soul. Keep all loving letters.
Burn only the harsh and cruel ones, and in
burning them forgive and forget them.—Ex*
change.
A Contrast.
President'Johnson appointed Grant’s father
to office and suffered him to remain in offico.
President Johnson appointed Grant’s brother
in-law to office. President Grant lias removed
President Johnson’s son from a petty
Tennessee office to which ho was appointed by
President Lincoln. President Grant announ
ces that he has no favors to accord to any Sen
ator who failed to vote for President Johnson’s
impeachment, and he tolerates no man in
place (his own relatives excepted) who receiv
ed his appointment from Johnson. If there is
in tho English language any singlo • word
which more exactly than any other character
izes Grant that word is mean. I{e is emphat
ically a mean man. He has no more exal
tation of soul than a lump of cold gray earth,
[ —Lou. Cou-Jour.
A gentleman in Terre Haute has a number
of notes, executed by various persons, in favor
of R. C. Sanders, who was a Captain in tho
Confederate army.. The notes embrace, in tho
aggregate, ton or twelve thousand dollars, and
were found in an encampment near Spring
Hill, Tennessee, after the retreat of the rebels
from Nashville. Tho address of the present
possessor of tho papers will be furnished by
the editor of the Terre Haute Journal.
A. T. Stewart's income last year was only
$3,500 a day. It is said ho managed to live
within it.
Conscience, be it ever so littlo a worm while
we live, grows suddenly to a serpent on tho
death-bed.
An exchange publishes the following, which
if true, is a very singular coincidence :
“Years ago, a Pennsylvania farmer stabbed
bis wife in a fit of drunken insanity and fled
to the West, supposing himself a murderer.
The woman recovered, and after five years of
solitary life, married again. Her secund hus
band died in a few months, and she also wont
West. Ihere she met a prosperous and
wealthy merchant, was wood and wedded;
and iqion disrobing in tho bridal chamber, the
bridegroom saw upon her neck the soar of the
wound he himself had made, and recognized
his wife of years ago.”
An illiterate negro preacher said to his con
gregation : “My brethren, when de fust man,
Adam, was made, he was of’wet clay, nnd set
up agin de palings to dry.” ‘Do you say,’ said
one of tho congregation, ‘dat Adam was made
ob wet clay an’ set up agin do palings to dry?’
‘Yes, sar, I does.' *Wlio made dem palings?’
‘Sit down, sar,' said the preacher sternly;
such questions as dat am liable to upset any
system of theology.”
Mr. Grant hold a lengthy interview with
Gen. McClellan, a few days since. As he pre-,
posus to fight all Europe, it is suggested that
he is looking for a commander who -knows
more of the art oi war than fighting on one
line all summer,