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y j,|y at $2.00 F er n,,ni,m > in advance.
Job PkinWO of every description, executed
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MARKWA lter,
IJLRB i*k wores
Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
.urbi-k monuments,
p Tomb Stones,
n.rble Mantles, and Furniture Marble
1,3 OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
. u,p plainest to die most Elaborate, design
?r ffurnished to order at short notice.
*”«• AH work for the Boai.tr;,' .n ret ally boxed
3%14-SdVty.
ALBERT HATCH’S
CRfP ia » c and Ha’rness
Repository,
IVT Bread St., Augusta, Ga.
Southern Excess office, in the
Augusta Hotel Building.
AGENT FOR
THETOMLINSON DEMAREST CO.’S
CELEBRATED
Carriages, Buggies & Plantation Wagons.
H,rne«s sUavs on hand and made to Order.—
Sapairing neatly done, snd at short notice. 3m4
iMANUFAPTUHR
Superior Cotton Yarn
No. Bto 12. A Doz, No. 400 to 700.
M A T r F R R S S R S
All sizes and qualities t'> suit orders.
B ex, t t 1 ix & ,
Os Waste or Good Cotton
WOOL CARDIN C.
The quality'of the Rolls unsurpassed.
FLOUR and MEAL,
r'IE GRIST MILL cannot b surruissed in
the quality, n**r th-quantil of MEAT, fir
PhOUR turned. A supply of teal or Flour
eenstintlv on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
in tipte and price.
Fancy, Rouble Extra, Extra Family. Eanvlv
SußWjne, anl Fine. Graham Floor an 1 Grit
Horder. RH >RT- and B'< AN, for«t<. c k Feed
Ooltpt. The patronage of the public is re
sgectfu’Ty asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
\ splendid ctock of
Dry Goods and Groceries
a, hand aid for sale Cheap for Cash or barter
111 all kinds of Country Produce.
F,. STEADMAN, Prop’r.
Stiaduan Newton (to., Ga., FcblS l9,
Fa N D RE" ]) E P I) T !
THE OLDEST
€UAN O « 0 SP S 3
In Aiignsfn.
Established t 355.
Os this one thing you may be sure :
T«u’ll have poor crops without MANURE.
T REG TO OFFER
FT'RF. PERUVIAN GUANO, 2,000 I,BS.
Cash sllO
LAND PLANTER,
Cash * S2O
On Time 2f»
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO,
Cash S7O
On Time 80
FLOUR OF RAW UNSTEAMED BONE,
Cash S7O
On Time SO
GROUND BONE,
Cash $65
On Time 75
compound acid phosphate of lime,
(For Composting with Cotton Seed.)
Cash SSO
On Time 57,50
Time Sales are payable by Planters. Drafts
••good Factors, maturing Ist November, 1870,
tutnout interest,
J. O. MATIIEWSON,
285 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
] 0 0 0 TONS GUANO.
On Time, and for CASH.
harden, Field, and Flower Seeds,
In endless Variety,
Spring Scffil oafs,
Norway Oats,
DICKSON’S SELtCT COTTON SEED
M OINA, ZIPPORAII, PEELER, <t BRAZILIAN
; COTTON
CtOVtfß AND GRASSES,
RUNNELL’S patent churns
TTtloy Plow,
which all should have.
Bread Preparation,
Nothing Equals it.
MURFEE’S SURSOILERS,
WATT PLOWS,
DOW LAW COTTON PLANTER
‘ ‘*y Rose, Early Goodrich, and l’iuk Eye
POTATOES.
MARK W, JOHNSON,
“Ml 2 T>
Bioad street, ATLANTA, GA.
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
J. C. M ORRIS,
Attornoynt Law,
CONVEUS, GA.
A. B. SIMMS,
A ttornoy at Xjcvxv,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA,
Office north ride of Square, formerly occupied
by Dr. Henry.—lOtf
L. B. aWbjwol*. A ,■ M, ( aii. v.
ANDERSON ,& HfcCALIA,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COVINGTON, GA.
WILL attend regularly, and practice In the
Superior Courts of the Counties of Newton,
Butts, lleury, Spalding, Pike, Monroe, Upson,
Jasper, Walton, DcKalb, Morgan and Gwinnett.—
~SIMMS“ HOUSE,
COVINGTON, GA.,
THE above Hotel has just been opened in
this City. Newly furnished throughout,
and the undersigned will spare no pains to make
it a favorite retreat for the traveling public
5-atf G. F. MERIWETHER, Prop’r.
RAIL ROAD HOTEL.
JUST OPENED AT CONYERS, GEORGIA,
TPOR the accommodation of the Traveling Public
and all those wishing good hoard by the month
or year, a New Hotel in the “Treadwell House,”
very conveniently situated immediately upon the
Rail Road.—l l.lm. S. BEAVERS, Prop’r.
E . G . ROGII It 8,
Dealer in
17' TJ 37>L 2ST X T* TJ TIL HI
of every Description,
1(3 and 145 Broad street, Augusta, Ga
loaurus, Wnshslands,Sofas, Tete-a-Tetes, Chairs
Rocking Chairs, What-Nots. COTTAGESETS,
with and without Marble Tops.—3m4
f would respectfully inform tlie
citizens of Newton, and adjoining
(')' scounties, that I have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
On north side public square in COVINGTON
where Tam prepared to make <o order, Harness
'.addles, Ac , or Repair the same at short notice,
and in the best style.
17 if JAMES B. BROWN
AC. COOK informs his friends and the pub
» lie that, tie is now prepared to till his orders
for Vines and Planting, A full assortment of
choice Grape Vines and Cuttings for sale low.
Also agent for R. dTleureuae’s Air Treatment of
Wines, and in Distilling, Malting, Manufacture of
Syrups, Sugar, Oils, in Tanning, and all Fluids,
and many solids, as Bread making, curing Tobacco,
and other organic substances.—ly-tSj
JUS iP 11 V. T i X s I. gv ~
Watch maker & Jeweler
D fully prepared to Repair Watches, Cloi-k
snd Jewelry, in the best Style, at short notice.
All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House.—stf
H * T< II E N RY,
! dentist,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Office front, room up stairs over D. W. Spence’s
Store. —1 22f .
JOHN' 8. CARROLL,
DENTIST
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Teetli Filled, or New ones Inserted,in
hr best Style, and or. Reasonable Term*
Offiee Rear of R. King’s Store. —1 ltf
New Photographic Gallery.
11l AYE completed my NEW GALLERY over
the POST OFFICE, and am satisfied that 1
can, with my new Sky Light, take as Fine a
Picture a« any Artist in the State. As ! use
none but the very best matei ial, I will guaratce
satisfaction to all in need of Pictures. Give
me a call and examine specimens.
,1. W. CRAWFORD. Artist.
Covington, Ga., Nov. 2fi, 1 8*59.—4 30tf
,1 iw EIRY r J EWfiSFT
■ HAVE JUST OPENED a Fine lot of Jewelry,
I including ail the late styles of Ladies’ Fine
Gold Breast Pins and Far Rings, also Shell, Jet,
Cornelian,and Pearl Breast Pins, and Bracelets,
Gent’s Shell, Jet,, Hair. Steel, and Leather,
Watch Chains, Finger Rings, &o. Also, anew
lot of Watches and Clocks, an.l a full supply of
Spectacles, Cases, &c. I respectfully invite a
call from tlie ladies, and all in want of anything
in my line. J. Wl. LEVY.
FISK’S METALLIC BURIAL CASES
AND CASKETS,
"or sale by THOMPSON A HUTCHINS,
1y29 Covington Ga.
Hotels*
P~llTn T ERS HOTEL,
Augusta, Georgia,
This well known first class Httel is now re
opened for tile, accommodation of ihe traveling
public, with the assurance that those who may
have occasion to visit Augusta, will be made
comfortable. -As this Hotel is now complete in
every Department, the Proprietor hopes, that by
strict and personal attention, to merit a share of
public patronage..
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, 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,
AMEBIC AN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
Having re-leased and renovated ie above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain uosts in a
most ’satisfac'ory manner. Charp s fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot .roe of charge
THE GEORGIA PAPER MILLS.
GAR OLL CO., GA„
WILL pay Cush for Rags, Rope, Bagging,
and old Papers. Orders solicited for
Wrapping, Manilla, and Printing Paper.
New Mill, Pure Water, Live Men. Prices
Low. Term* Cash.
All inquiries promptly answered. Address
M. P. KELLOGG, Pres. Go .
3 m 2 “College Temple,” Newnan, Ga.
COVINGTON GA, FEB., 18, 1870.
The Unbroken Slumber.
[ I he following beautiful lines, dipt from an
exchange in which they appear without credit
or signature, will touch a responsive chord in
many alveary heart. Whoever wrote them is
a natural poet,— Ed. Enterprise.]
Yus I shall rest 1 Some coming dnv,
When blossoms in the winds are dancing;
And children at their mirthful play
Heed not the mournful crowd advancing,
Up through the long and busy street
They’ll bear me to my last retreat.
Or else—it matters not—may ravo
ihe storms and blasts of winter's weather,
Above the narrow, new-made grave
Where care and I lie down together.
'Enough that I should know it not,
Beneath, in the dark, narrow spot.
For I shall sleep I as sweot a sleep
As ever graced a child reposing,
Awaits me in a cell so deep,
V hero I my weary eyelids closing,
At length shall lay me clown to rest,
Heedless of clods above iny breast.
Asleep! How deep will be that rest,
Free from life’s fever moving wildly,
Where when is past the earth’s unrest,
Its bosom shall receive me mildly ;
For not one dream of earth shall eomo
To invade the slumber of that home.
0 deep repose ! 0 slumber blest!
0 night of peace! No storm, no sorrow,
No heavy stirring of the breast
To meet another weary morrow 1
I 'hall heed neither night nor dawn,
But still with folded hands, sleep on—
Sleep on, though just above my head
Prowl sin and misery’s haggard dices!
For the deep slumber of the dead
All sense of human woo erases,
Palsies the heart and cures the brain
Os every thought and outward pain.
Armies above my head may tramp
They’ll not distuih one rigid muscle 1
I shall not heed their iron stamp
More than a leaf’s complaining rustle ;
Nay were the world convened to break
My leaden sleep, I should not wake.
And yet, me thinks if steps of those
I'd known and loved on earth were ’round me,
’Twould break the night of my repose,
Shiver the iron cords that bound me,
Save that I know this cannot be,
For death disowns all sympathy!
Well, be it so ! since I should yearn,
Anxiously watch for their appearing,
Chiding each lingering, late return,
And ever sad and ever fearing,
Living life’s drama o’er again,
Its tragedy of hope and pain.
Then mourn not. friends, when ye may lay
The parent earth above my ashes ;
Think what a rest awaits my clay,
And smooth the mound with tearless lashes,
Glad that the resting form within,
lias done at length with care and sin.
Think that with me the strife is o’er
Life’s stormy, struggling battle ended,
RjoicC that I have gained the shore
To which, though weak, my footsteps tended;
Breaihe the blest hope above the sod,
And leave me to my rest with God.
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Peabody Cornered. In the “ M'Doodlc
Club,” in the Old Guard, for January, we have
a story about George Peabody, running in this
wav: A Virginian, who had bought larg6
quantities of cotton before the war, took his
property to England, and when there the fight
commenced, cotton went up, and he realized
about a hundred thousand out of his specula
tion, and invested in consols. It yielded him
a nice little income aud be lived up to it
prudently— kept a cab and tiger, and lounged
about town. Ho was a member of the same
club with Peabody, and one day the latter,
who rather liked him, spoke to him like a
father about his extravagance. “It is great
folly and useless expense to keep a horse,”
said he. “ Why. I always tako the omnibus—
always.” The Southerner was nettled, and
intimated pretty strongly that he managed his
own affairs without any interference. Peabody
apologized, and explained that it was only a
friendly remonstrance, and there the matter
dropped. That night they were at the club
together. Peabody, though no gamester, like
every member there, liked his quiet game of
whist, and at half guinea points, managed to
lose thirty pounds to his Southern friend, who
happened to be opposed to him. When he
rose to go, he shoved over a piece of paper to
the winner, “What’s that?” “That’s my
I. O. U.,” was the reply. “ Why, that won’t
do for me, I want the money.” “ What do you
mean sir? I don’t hnppen to have that much
rroney about me, I fancy I'm good enough
sir, for thirty pounds.” “ I don't know,” was
the answer. “ I doubt the solvency of any
man too poor to keep a horse, and obliged to
ride in an omnibus.” And he insisted on the
money in gold, and positively forced Peabody
to borrow it, aud settle before he left the room.
< $
“ Many a man for love of self,
To stuff his coffers, starves himself;
Labors, accumulates and spares,
To lay up ruin for his heirs ;
Grudges the laborer his scanty dole ;
Saves everything—except his soul.”
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Good Advice. —An old New England far
mer, when on his dying bed, said to his son—
“ Johnny, don’t get in debt 1 That is my last
and solemn advice—don’t get in debt! But
Johnny, if you do get in debt, let it bo for
manure.”
A Word for Local Newspapers.
M o tako the following from the New York
Tribune. It is true and vre commend it to
every one who has an interest in the place
where he resides : “ Nothing is more common
than to hear people talk of what they pav for
advertising, etc., as so much given in charity.
Newspapers by enhancing the value of the
property in the neighborhood and giving lo
calities in which they are published a reputa
tion abroad benefit all such, particularly if
they are merchants or real estate owners,
thrice the amount yearly of the meagre sum
they pay for their support. Besides, every
public spirited citizen has laudable pride of
having a paper of which ho is not ashamed
oven though he should pick it up in New York
or 'Washington. A good-looking thriving sheet
helps property, gives a character to locality,
and is in many respects a desirable public con
venience. If from any cause the matter in
the local.or editorial column shonld not bo to
yoni standard, do not cast it aside and pro
nounce it good for nothing, until satisfied that
there has been no more laior bestowed upon it
than is paid for. If you want a good readable
sheet it must be supported not in a spirit of
charity, either, but because you foel a neces
sity to support it. The local press is the power
that moves the people.”
Mrs. Partington on Courtship and Mar
riage.—“ Don’t put too much diffidonco in a
lover’s word, my dear girl. He may tell you
that you have lips like strawberries and cream,
cheeks like a carnation, and eyes like an as
terisk. But such things oftener come from a
tender head than from a tender heart. I like
to go to weddings, though ; I like to hear
young people promise to love, humor, and
nourish each o her ; but it is a solemn thing
when the minister comes into the chancery
with his surplus on, and goes through the cer
emony of making them man and wife. It
ought to bo husband and wife, for it ain’t
every husband that turns out to be a man. I
declare I shall never forget when Paul put the
nuptial ring on my finger and said: ‘With
my goods I thee endow.’ Ho kept a dry
goods store then, and I thought he was going
to give me the whole there was in it. I was
young and simple, and didn’t know till after
ward that it only meant one dress a year.”
A Blow at the Press.
The House of Representatives at Washing
ton, goaded on by the reproaches of the peoplo
at their abominably corrupt and rotten system
known as the franking privilege, which loaded
down the mails with free matter, of no public
use, passed an act abolishing it; but they
accompanied it with a mean and spiteful blow
at the press. They abolished the free list of
the mutual exchanges of the press, and of
newspapers within the counties in which they
are printed. This latter measure was not de
sired by the people, but the abolishment of the
franking privilege was. Congressmen hope,
by coupling the ttvo together, to find protection
—to make a useful arid proper exemption
cover a notorious abuse. From the origin of
the Government to the present time no one
has ever found fault with the circulation of
editorial exchanges free through the mails,
which free exchanges diffuse public intelli
gence, and therefore of incalculable benefit.—
If the postage tax is upon them they will be
fewer in number. The Government will re
ceive no revenue from that which will not be
carried at all, but the people will be the suffer
ers by the absence of the local interchange of
newspaperial sentiment and intelligence.
Most of these Congressional gentlemen, who
are down on the press for echoing the com
plaints of the people, owe their positions to it,
and but for its friendly aid they would now
have been at homo, engaged in their private
business. Perhaps the newspapers deserve
punishment for thus making great men out of
eharlatarrs and pretenders, but it ought not to
come from the ungrateful recipients of their
kindness and bounties.—[Cincinnati Enquirer.
An Item for Bachelors.
A judicious wife is always chipping off from
her husband’s moral nature, little twigs that
are growing in the wrong direction. She keeps
him in shape by continual pruning. If you
say anything silly, she will find means of pre
venting your doing it again. And by far the
chief part of all the common sense belongs
unquestionably to woman. A wife is the grand
wielder of the moral pruning-knife. If John
son's wife had lived, there would have been no
hoarding up of orange peel—no touching all
the posis in walking along the streets—no eat
ing and drinking with a disgusting voracity.
If Oliver Goldsmith had been married, he
would never have worn that memorable and
ridiculous coat. Whenever you find a man
whom you know little about, oddly dressed or
talking absurdly, or exhibiting an eccentricity
of manner, you may be tolerably sure that he
is not a married nmn ; for the corners aro
rounded off —the little shoots are pruned away,
in married men. Wives generally have much
more sense than their husbands—especially
when their husbands nre clever men. The
wife's advices are like the ballast that keeps
the ship steady. They are wholesome, though
painful shears, clipping off little growths of
self-conceit.
Brown and Smith were ract by an over
dressed individual:
“Do you know that chap, Smith?” said
Brown.
“Yes, I know him ; ho is a sculptor,” an
gwered Smith.
“ Such a fellow as that a sculptor ? Impos
sible ! ”
“ He may not bo the kind you mean ; but I
know a tailor out of whom he chiseled a suit
of clothes.”
l’or You—ls it Fits You.
“ Times aro getting worso and worse every
day.”
What then, my dear sir? Will it do any
good to draw your face up into ten thousand
wrinkles, and vent the bitterness of your spirit
upon a’l with whom you come in contact, on
the strength of the above-mentioned fact?
Suppose you had to walk barefoot over a
road thickly strewn with thorns and sharp,
flinty stones. What would you do? Go nside
out of the way to tread on every stray thorn
and pebble, instead of carefully avoiding every
needless hurt by picking your way warily
through them ? Which courso will you choose
now?
Will you snap your wife up at the breakfast
table when she asksypti for “a little change?”
Would you suggest to her the probability of
your all going to ruin in a short time through
the prodigal outlays made for household needs,
and then throw the monoy across the table at
her as you would throw a bone to a dog?
You know very well that her demand is per
fectly reasonable p-and you know, too, that you
would be just as much offended as you are now
if she did not ask you for money for household
expenses when it is needed ; but you aro not
willing to miss the opportunity of selfishly
venting your unpleasant feelings on this con
venient domestic scapegoat.
And if she should (wonderful to think ofl)
plnck up enough courage to ask you for money
to buy anew dress—though it may be only
six montlis since she last committed this mor
tal sin—don’t ask her ironically if she thinks
a thousand dollars will do her for this time ;
or make some cutting remark abont her ruin
ous extravagance and the slave life that you
lead; but if you can afford it, give her the
money cheerfully and a kiss into the bargain.
But if you really feel too poor to indulge
yourself in the pleasure of seeing your wife in
anew dress for the first time in six months,
give her the kiss any how and explain the
matter kindly to her, and the kind explanation
will go nearly all the way toward making her
forget the disappointment.
And, above all, don’t bring yonr business
home at night with yon. Don’t sit in solitary
misanthropy, or snarl and. poke the fire.
Your wife hasn't had a chance to talk to you
all day. She has a thousand little cheering'
items to communicate, but while you sit there
looking so cold and repellant, she has no cour
age to begin.
Your children are eager for a game of romps;
hut they aro “ afraid of papa” when he looks
as he does here to-night; so they congrogato
in a half awed manner in the corners, until it
is time to go to bed. No pleasant chat, no
merry laughter, no game at romps, no music
—nothing but gloom and constraint, because
“ father has come home in bad humor.”
You ungrateful man 1 You inhuman iceberg!
to behave so in the bosom of your family. To
turn away from the pleasures and um privi
leges still left you, became you cant have every
thing just as you want it! Think of the lov
ing, clinging hearts that your coldness shad
ows—of the bright faces over which your
frown lias cast a reflected gloom. Aren’t you
ashamed of yourself?
Again, your burdens may bo so heavy that
you cannot smile. But, oh 1 be kind. Because
your own soul is dark, don’t pierce another
heart with a needless wound by your coldness
nnd your sullenness. Because there aro some
thorns in your way, don’t plant ether thorns
in the path of another \Gthyour own hand.
If you cannot be cheerful, be kind. —[N. Y.
Evening Mail.
Modern Par agr a thing.— That was a bitter
joke of the man in New Jersey, who put n
quantity of jalap in some beer his friend was
about to drink. The funeral was very gen
erally attended.
A man in Now Jorsev couldn't wait for the
cars to get to the depot, and jumped off. His
widow has sued the insurance company.
Few men would attempt to dry dampened
gunpowder in a kitchen stove. A man in Can
ada did. His afflicted family would bo glad of
any information as to his whereabouts.
In Massachusetts the other day a man
thought he could cross the track in advance of
a locomotive. The services at the grave yard
were very impressive.
A man warned his wife in New Orleans not
to light the nre with korosine. She didn't
heed the warning. Her clothes fit his second
wife remarkably well.
A boy in Detroit disregarded bis mother's
injunction not to skate on the river, as the ice
wa3 thin. Ilia mother donit have to cook for
£0 many as she did by one,— [Cin. Times.
A Noble Display of Charity.— lncidents
like the following exert a marvelously healing
power on the warm Southern heart. A writer
from Nashville, Tennessee, to one of our New
York papers says : “ The Confederate orphans,
sixty in number, from their Home in Clarks
ville, were brought here on Tuesday last, to
give a concert in aid of their Home, the insti
tution being entirely dependent upon private
charity. At the railroad depot they were met
by the Federal post bands, in full uniform,
which preceded them into the city, playing
sweetly and mournfully, therefore, most ap
propriately, commanding the admiration and
constraining the enthusiastic applause of thou
sands. This practical fact, with the culmina
tion of that beginning in the Federal post offi
cers attending the concert in the evening, in
full uniform, where honors given were respond
ed to by tears of sympathy shed and contribu
tions bestowed, has preached the Union with
decided power in all this quarter, and been ac
cepted as au earnest of peace and good will to
come,”
FOR 5. NO. 15. •
M e Fade> —We extract the following beau-'
tiful and truthful illustration from an ex
change: “As the trials of life thicken, and
the dreams of othor days fade, one by one in’
tho deep vista of disappointed hope, the heart
grows weary of the struggle, nnd wo begin to’
roalizo our insignificance. Those who have
climbed to]tho pinnacle of fame, or revel in luxu’
ry and wealth, go to the grave at last with the
poor mendicant who bogs by the wayside, and
like him arosoon forgotten. Generations, says
an eloquent writer, have felt as we feel, and
their fellows were as active in life as ours aro
now. They passed away as a vapor, while
nature wore the same aspect of beauty as when
the Creator commanded her to be. And so
shall it bo when we aro gone. The heavens
will be as bright over our grave ns they aro
now around our path ; the world will have the
same attraction for offsprings yet unborn that
she iiad once for ourselves, and that she bos
now for our children,”
A I: alls County, Texas, paper says the fam
ily of General Sam. Houston is very poor. It
remarks : “ll is youngest child is, we suppose,'
about ten years of age. He has two others,
about twelve or fourteen, perhaps fourteen or
sixteen years old respectively. He had a noble'
wife, who in the providence of God, was grently
instrumental in leading the mind of the veteran
soldier and Statesman to the sublime faith in
Christianity in which he died, and by which'
he was led to happiness and Heaven. His
numerous friends will not let lus family suffer,
but it should be a State affair, nnd thon the
humblest friend and admirer of the hero of San
Jacinto, who pays taxes, w ill feel that he or
she has soma share in the labor of love and
gratitude.”
Hard Times.— Under this head the Suffolk'
Sun gives several severe hits to the hard time*
grumblers:
Ihe cry of hard times, scarcity of money,
and such expressions, has become to us rather
sickening. We do not believe half that people
say in reference to the times. Everybody is
busy, and yet all the time complaining. Our
people dross as well as they ever did. Their
tables, as a general thing, are loaded with
plenty. Meats, vegetables, fruits, and pastries
►in abundance. Why such constant complain*
ing? The times are alwnys hard to somo
people. And in the most prosperous seasons
in the history of our country, there have been
somo unfortunate poor porsons in every corns
munity with whom the times were always
hard. This will always be so. But the truth
is, the constant cry of hard times is with most
people, a simple cloak to cover up their covet-'
ousness. We are sick of it.
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Tiie Ukon River.— Captain C. W. Raymond
has surveyed the Ukon river in Alaska, to Fort
L kon, two thousand miles from its mouth, and
finds that post within our newly acquired ter
ritory, and conse ,uently gave the agents of the
Hudson Bay Company notice to quit. The
trade of the whole region is limited almost to
the article -of furs. There is no agriculture,
for there is but little sunshine, and the timber
is small and of poor quality. After the Mis
sissippi and Amazon, the UYon river is tho
largest fresh water stream in tho world.—
1 here is abundance of edible fish in this river
but it is sometimes difficult to angle for many
months, in consequence of the thickness of
tho ice.
Elevation of the African. —losh Billing*
is on his travels and indites the following from
Wheeling, Virginia, to the New York Evening
Telegram : The late ackt of emansipashun haz
thrown a vast lot ov negroes out ov employ
ment in Wheeling: they don’t seem tew hav
erny thing to (Jo, only tew belong tew them
self, which iz the hardest kind ov work for tho
poor phcllows.
( The nogro must be olevated or destroyed;
not elevated by the hair ov the head, for that
iz too short a holt, but bi learning him tew
work for himself.
Enny man who has lerned tew work so»
himself is three-quarters elevated.
The Columbus Enquirer says : At a calico
party down town, the other night, a clerk of
one of our grocery stores made his entree in a
two-story “heave.” A young plasterer, wish
ing to show his wit, accosted tho bee gum
wearer with “Eh, G , out trying to hive
bees, aro you ?” “Yes,” said G.; “but don’t
want any dirt-dobbers.” That chap chawed.
Mark Twain has foresworn the flowing bowl.
Now let him abandon the smoking bowl—all
but the one that contains oysters—and be more
respectful to “them old roosters” with whom
he traveled on the Quaker City, a.nd he may .
yet be saved.
The Louisville Journal having expressed the
opinion that Gen. Grant was tho famous Car
diff Giant, a New York radical paper reminds
the Journal that the Cardiff giant is an im
position and a humbug. Tho Journal says it
is now more than ever convinced that Grant is
the Cardiff giant.
“lias a man,” asked a prisoner of a magis
trate, “any right to commit a nuisance ?”
“No, sir ; not even the mayor.” “Then, sir, I
claim my liberty. I was arrested as a nui
sance, and, as no one has a right to commit me;
I move for a non-suit.”
“Is your master at home ?” “No, sir ; he’s
out.” “Mistress at home?” “No, sir; she’s
ont.” “Then I'll step in and sit by tho fire.”
“That's out too.”
An astronomer predicts for this year aeom
et of such brilliancy, and so near the earth,
that our nights will be almost as bright as our
days.