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THE GEOR GI A ENTESP 11 IS B.
Vol. VI.
RAH.HOAI) SCHEDULE.
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Atlanta ••• 540 P. M
i rr ive it Augnstft at
1 . Atlanta at oal ■ M
KIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
8 10 P. M
,WVCAU|IU t nt ... 615 R M
,e»« Atlanta •
fftve at An?nsta at M
, rite at Atlanta at « 41 A. M
fflTe 8 K. JOHNSON, Superintendent.
"snrJTH CAR°LINA RAILROAD.
„ er Trains leave Charleston at 12.50 p. m.,
m , connectin'; at Augusta with trains
Sand New Orleans.
grains for Charleston leave Augusta at 7.10 a. tn.
i o qa n. rn.
Tral ” 7.40 a. m., and arrive at Columbia
p m ’ connecting with trains going North
Special Notice.
KiVIVT. SOLO mv interest in the New Drug
r shall, in future, devote mv whole
* St the’nractiee of Medicine. My Office will
[me to in I ndKKSOW > 8 Now Drug Store, where
found at aii limes, except when Proles
ionally called away. j E H WA RE.
Covington. Ga„ August 18, 1871.-4 ltf.
' V D. ATKIXSOM, Jr.,
IffORUEY AT IAW, AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
1 Conyers, Georgia.
raonitT attention given to all business entrusted
PSSSKto tbe c, - ,n . rtß ‘o t! i c „? nt Circuit
* : ... p nn ntlc6 adjoining Rockdale.
■sl^Wo«ofJ■ aV. E, Treadwell 40
A f. McCALLA,
Attorney at law,
/Office at Rail R° a<l ? Tote, ->
pAVY I rS GEORGIA.
ITTILL Practice in Rockdale and adjoin.ng
VV counties.— 4Stf ___
J. A. KING,
ATTORNEY at law
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
(Office at Thorn’s Hotel.)
Jill practice in Newton and adjoining counties
ROBERT WHITFIELD,
attorney at law,
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
(Office at Rail Road Hotel.)
IITILL give prompt attention to all business
\ entrusted to his care. —42tf
if. T. Onkal. R. AY. 11. Neal.
0 I E A L & SEAL,
IffORNETS AT £ll,
THOMSON, GEORGIA.
ITTILL Practice in the Augusta, Middle and
W Northern Circuits, and in the United Status
)istrict Court6.-r36.3m
JOHN S CARROLL.
DENT I ST
COVINGTON. GEORGIA-
Teeth Filled, or New ones Inserted,ln
Style,and on Reasonable Terms
like Up Stairs. Riaht Hand Back Room Mur
erll’s Brick Building. ltf
R. IVI. EVERETT,
SADDLE AND HARNESS M AKER,
bpit street, near Freelan i’s Slop, Covington
8 A Having just, open a Shoo amv
8k Nee Building on Depot street,
31u3»*l will keep on hand a good supply
of Saddles and Harness. 1' ork
full kinds made to order Repairing of all kinds
one promptly, in tl best style, an lon rearon
leterm*. All work warranted.—lyls
DP. E. H. YANCEY,
ICLECTIC PHYSICIAN,
tpF.NPER- his Professional services to thecit
I itens if Newton and adjoining Comities. —
P'is prepared to treat all diseases pecu'iar to
this country—both Acute and Chronic. Partic
olar attention gi'-en to Chronic Diseases, an I
•II diseases peculiar to F> males. Office next
door to 8. N. Stallings, Covington, Ga.—lstf
KENTUCKY
Livery and Sale Stables!
Covington, Georgia.
The undersigned having purchased the above
named Stables from Mr. R. P. LEE, will continue
the business as heretofore, at the old stand.
I will keep on hand a good supply of Stock,
for sale and hire.
HORSES and BUGGIES inferior to none in the
ountrv, will be kept for the accommodation of
mv customers.
J >trSODS f ri) m a distance w shing to go into the
’ °i! n re,v u P Hn earefful drivers,
lorees Boarded by the month, or single feed
A. A. MORRIS.
AA. BEALL. J. H. SPEARS. w. H. POTTER.
BEALL, SPEARS, & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
fABEHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
their business at their old Stand, the
tl?T®' h . ous Eire-Proof Warehouse, No.d.Camp-
Sr«.f reet ' (,rtice ®nd Sales Room, 177 Reynolds
. Augusta, Ga.
ili?*}®*** entrusted to them will have strict
Tir« ... intention. Orders for Bagging, Universal
P’® r j {ft pe and Family Supplies promptly filled,
feu” f 'M *•'»"« Cotton W per cent.
Store —3m44 at vanues naade on Produce in
f BANKLIN, READ St CO.,
cotton factors
°fflcc and Warehouse, 161 Reynolds street,
Libe Augusta, Georgia.
W** , < ? a ' h advances on consignments. Com
our ,H° r cent, tor soiling Cotton. We give
ol) tcarc to all business entrusted to
~FALL CROPS.
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HAVE A SUPPLY OF THE CELEBRATED
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Tll E FA L L CROPS
T °V*M, & ROWLAND, Agents,
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Cotton Factors, Augusta, Ga.
I’m Growing Old.
Rev. Dr. Cooley, of East Granville, Mass.,
one of the best of men, introduced the follow
ing lines into a sermon, delivered after he was
fourscore years old. The allusion to his two
daughters, who died at the age of 20 years,
makes it probable that the lines are his own.
If they are not, we would be pleased to have
the name of the author.—Eds. of N. Y. Obs.
I'm growing old—’t’s surely so,
And yet how short it seems
Since I was but a sportive child,
Enjoying childish dreams.
I cannot see the change that comes
With rucli an even pace ;
I mark not when the wrinkles fall
Upon my fading face.
I know I’m old and yet my heart
Is just as young and gay
As e’er it was before my locks
Os bright brown turned to gray ;
I know these eyes, to other eyes,
Look not so bright and glad
As once they looked, and yet 'tis not
Because my heart’s more sad.
I never watched with purer joy
The floating clouds and glowing skies,
While glittering tears of rapture fill
These old and fading eyes.
I’ve seen the flower grow old and pale,
And withered more than I;
I've seen it lose its very charm,
Then droop away and die.
And then I’ve seen it rise again,
Bright ns the beaming sky<
And young and pure and beautiful,
And felt that so shall I.
Then, what if I am growing old,
My beart is changeless still,
And God has given me enough
This living heart to fill.
I live to see the sun go down
And lengthening shadows throw
Along the ground, while o’er my head
The clouds in crimson glow.
I see beyond the gorgeous clouds
A country bright and fair,
Which needs no sun —God and the Lamb
Its light and beauty are.
I seem to hear the wondrous song
Redeemed sinners sing,
And my heart leaps to join the throng,
To praise the Heavenly King.
I seem to see two cherub ones
As hand in hand they go,
With golden curls and snowy wings,
Whose eyes with rapture glow.
When I was young I called them mine ;
Now, Heaven’s sweet one are they,
But I shall claim my own again
When I am called away.
Unhappiness in Families.
More than half the little bickerings that
constantly arise between husband and wife
under the infirmities of human nature, would
nil die out of themselves or dry up like thin
grass before the gonial warmth of natural ef
fection, if they were not studiously, but in a
most mistaken manner, paraded before the
attention of others. We know that a bruised
spirit needs sympathy and consolation. This
is natural. But what sort of sympathy is that
which mere busy-bodies show one who takes
advantage of the confidence reposed in them
only to widen the breach they have discovered,
and to swell the torrent of passion they know
they could never diminish ! Those who nre
least interested in the matter—these who cre
ate and report scandal for their own gratifica
tion—busy-bodies and fast-talkers who insin
uate themselves where they should never be
allowed to go—these are the ones who, in too
many instances, help on the misunderstanding
and trifling disaffection between married par
ties, and their triumph is only complete when
the rupture has become notorious and final.—
If such persons could have less to do with the
families of others, there is but little doubt that
those matters would take much better oare of
themselves.
In early childhood, you lay the foundation
of poverty or riches, in the habits you give
y OUr children. Teach them to save everything
—not for their own use, for that would make
them selfish—but for some use. Teach them
to sharo everything with their playmates ; but
never allow them to destroy anything. I once
visited a family where the most exact economy
was observed; yet nothing was mean or un
comfortable. It is the character of true econ
omy to be as comfortable with a little, as others
can be with much. In this family, when the
father brought home a package, tho older
children would, of their own accord, put away
tbc paper and twine neatly, instead of throw
ing them in the fire, or tearing them to pieces.
If the little ones wanted a piece of twins to
play scratch-oradle, or spin a top, there it was
in readiness ; and when they threw it upon
the floor, the older children had no need to be
told to put it again in its place.
Brotherly Lovf..— TVo Michigan brothers,
well to do and generally harmonious, had a
little falling eut the other day, and one of them
threatened to do some injury to the other. To
guard against any fatal result the threiftened
one thought best to apply to the district official
for protection. Accordingly the two rode into
town together, put up their teams, drank each
other's health, and then together visited a jus
tice of the peace. That official listened to the
complaint, issued a warrant for threats, tho
accused pleaded guilty and the accuser became
his surety in the sum of S2OO for his good be
havior for one year.
Sorrow's rain brings blossoms and bird
songs to the tree of knowledge.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, October 6, 1871.
Walker in Nicaragua.
Some verses by tho new poetical celebrity,
Joaquin Miller, upon ‘Walker in Nicaragua,’
commencing‘lie was a brick, and brave ns a
bear,’ recall to tho public notico a man who
though 'forgotten in the rush of stirring events
which followed hard upon iiis tragical death,
once occupied a wide share of the world's at
tention. With an audacity worthy of the
Spaniards of the sixteenth century, Walker
revived the glories of Alverado and Gil Gon
zales on the same fields, and set the whole of
Spanish America ablaze with his bold filibus
tering. He rallied to his banner, high advanced
in the very ‘Paradise of the Indies,’ the most
daring and chivalous youth of the South, es
tablished a working government,"procured the
connivance of leading American statesmen,
and the money of capitalists, managed part of
the cabinet at Washington in his interest,
Awaken the angry apprehension of England,
then interfering in her meddling, pottering
way with tho ‘Mosquito question,’ and was
finally crushed, after an obstinate and gallant
defense, by the combined power of all Central
America.
William Walker was born in Nnshville Ten
nessee, in 1824. lie was a puny, studious boy,
and received what is called at the South a
classical education, at the University of Nash
ville. ll© roved about the world until 1853,
having been a teacher, an editor, a lawyer, a
physician, and then ‘broke out’ (in Califorinia
phrase) as a filibuster. The writer saw him
In 1850. A more unpromising hero could not
be imagined. He was slight in figure, only
fiTe teet four inches tall. His face was com
mon and dull. His complexion light, pimpled
and freckled. His mouth was wide and coarse,
his eyes grayish blue, no beard, and his hair
thin and yellow, He may have been person
ally brave, but he made no display of it. He
was not a dashing leader, and was rarely un
derfire. lie was cool, reticent, and forecasting.
He had no personal magnetism, never had the
affection of his men, though doubtless he had
their confidence. The partial success which
he did achieve, arid which came neat being an
entire and magnificent success, was due to the
popularity of tho cause of which he was
champion, and his own belief in it. He was
an active apostle of this ‘manifest destiny’
doctrine, and his faith, constancy and boldness
allured the bustling spirits of time. The un
derlying purpose w r as the extension of slavery
to new and richpr fields, and'the aggrandizement
of Southern Empire. All such aspirations
perished in the bitter struggle of our lato war,
their graves unknown, their gallant deeds un
told, till now, in song or story.
A Miss Thurston, who has made quite a
number of balloon ascensions this season, had
a disagreeable adventure last week. She
made a trip from Watertown on Thursday af
ternoon, and came down in a forest fifty miles
from her starting point about 7 o’clock the
same evening. The balloon caught in a tree,
and the young lady was obliged to spend the
night at an elevation of about fifty feet from
the ground, with no human being within sight
or hearing. In the morning she threw out a
rope which she thought nearly reached tho
ground, and slid down by it ; but when sho
came to the end she discovered that she was
still twenty feet from the earth. A* she could
not- climb hack, she was obliged to drop, after
which she made her wav ihree miles through
the woods to a clearing, where she procured
assistance.
A Meeting of Vermont Anti-Masons. A
meeting of the anti-Masonic Society of Wind
ham county, Vermont, was held in Fayetteville,
in that county, on thels‘h instant. The ven
erable Vico President of the General Associa
tion, Hon. Austin Birchard, who took an active
part in the anti-Masonic campaign in 1831,
was present, nod General Phelps, its President,
was among the speakers. Tho meeting adopted
resolutions declaring that they will support
the laws of the State which are designed to
suppress secret societies, of whatever form or
hostile to republican institutions,
and dangerous to our civil and religious liber
ties. It was reported that the association is
increasing in numbers, and will probably soon
exceed, in this respect, any of the secret lodges
of the State.
One Flag, One Country.— The French Dem
ocratic Club of San Francisco recently passed
a resolution, which the Bulletin of that city
commends as an example which should be fol
lowed by all citizens of foreign birth who have
adopted America as their country :
‘Whereas, Foreigners once naturalized are
no longer foreigners, but American citizens ;
therefore it is resolved that the members of
this Club, in all public demonstrations, will
never carry any other flag than tho one of the
country of their adoption—the only one to
which they now owe allegianco.’
Says the Bulletin ; ‘A man has no more
right to two countries than he has to two wives.
Any man who, after swearing allegiance to the
stars and stripes, marche. under the flag ot
the country which he has renounced, commits
political bigamy.’ _
Heaven help the man who imagines he can
dodge enemies hy trying to please everybody !
If such an individual ever succeeded, he should
be glad of it-not that one should be going
through the world trying to find beams to knock
and thump his head against, disputing every
man’s opinion, fighting and elhow.ng, and
crowdin'* all who differ from him. 1 bat, again,
is aether extreme. Other people have them
opinion, so have you ; don’t fall into the error
of supposing thev will respect you more for
turning your coat every day. to match the co
-of theirs. Wear your own colors in spite
of wind and weather, storm, and sunshine
?[ costs the vacillating and irresolute te,, time
the trouble to wind and twist, and shuffle, that
it does honest, manly independence to.stand its
ground.
A School Wanted,
Wo hear much of the necessity of industrial
schools for young men, where they can obtain
a practical knowledge of industrial specialties
—be qualified for civil engineers, apothecaries,
farmers, olectricans, etc. And there is great,
good sense in the adaption of mental culture
to the pursuits of life.
If this is true of boys, is it not equally true
of girls—those who are to rear the next gen
eration, and who, if they do their duty, will
at least direct and control the preparation of
the food on which that generation will live.—
And yet, who thinks of giving a girl any prac
tical knowledge of household chemistry ?
Is there a school in the land that will teach her
what surt of food will best develope the hone
and muscle of children—what bread is un
healthy, and why? what paltry is hurtful, and
what harmless, and why ?
They are specialties in which girls are well
tauglit; but they are usually such as are classed
among the accomplishments, which prepare her
to shine in society; while the sort of training
that makes her a good housewife, capable, not
merely of cooking and drudgery, which she
may not have to perform with her own hands
but of being an enlightened mistress of a well
ordered home—are almost totally neglected.—
We doubt if there is a female school in Geor
gia having a manikin,from which a girl can got
a correct idea of her physical structure—can
see the practical effect of tight lucing, or got
correct practical ideas of the effects of dress
upon tho female organism.
There is a sque.iinishness about these mat
ters which is all wrong. The bodies and souls
of the race are particularly in the keeping of
mothers. Because the mothers of the past
have blundered along in ignorance of the laws
of health, it has Become a popular custom to
leave other generations to learn by experience,
or suffer and die in ignorance.
It is a fact that a great portion of those that
are born die before maturity, and vast num
bers are victims of disease brought on by the
ignorance of mothers—by improper food—by
ignorance of the physical structure and wants
Oi their children. Somebody ought to stop
this slaughter of the innocents, and we know
of no way of stopping it so successfully as to
educate those who are to bo mothers with a
direct practical reference to their maternal
functions and responsibilities. It is unworthy
of our civilization to leave human life to strug
gling and flicker nud fade under violation of
nature’s laws—under customs that even do
violence to the instincts of bru e-’.
Those educators who will step boldly out of
the beaten track, and give our girls a practical
education, will do more for the race than the
founders of great universities for boys have
done.
Every educated mother knows that the stern
est lessons of life am to unlearn tho false ideas
and fashionable customs that were a part of
her school education.—Fanner and Artisan.
Married Life.
Julius Moser gives the following counsel
from a wife and mother : ‘I try to make my
self and all around me agrecablo. It will not
do to leave a man to himself till he comes to
you, to take no pains to attract him, or to ap
pear before him with a long faco. It is not
so difficult as you think, dear child, to behave
to a husband so that he shall remain forever
in some measure a husband. I am an old
woman, hut you can still do what you like;
a word from you at the right timo will not fail
of its effect; what need have you to play the
suffering virtue ? The tear of a loving girl,
says an old book, is like a djw-drop on a rose;
hut that on tho cheek of a wife is a drop of
poison to her husband. Try to appear chcer
*ful and contented, and your husband will be
so ; and when you have made him happy, you
will become so, not in appearance but in real
ity. The skill required is not so great. Noth
ing flatters a man so .much as the happineis
of his wife ; he is always proud of himself as
the source of it. As soon as you aro cheerful
you will be lively and alert, and every moment
will afford you an opportunity to let fall an
agreeable word. Your education, which gives
you an immense advantage, will greatly assist
you ; and your sensibility will become the
noblest gift that nature has bestowed on you,
when it shows itself in affectionate assiduity,
and stamps on every action a soft, kind, and
tender character, instead of wasting itself in
secret repinings.’
Never Run in Debt.
The Cultivator and Country Gentleman says
that it is always poor policy to run up store
and mechanic bills; ready money will alway*
save more than the interest. The cash custo
mer is sure to be better and more promptly
served, and to get n better article at a more
reasonable price than the slow paymaster, —
The reason is easily socn ; the merchant or
mechanic can use the money thus paid several
times, making a profit each time; but whon
paid once a year, there can only he one profit
in a year. Ready money is also convenient
when there is a ohance to buy any stock, or
other property needed on tho farm, at a low
rate. Much is lost in buying nt the wrong
time, paying high prices to obtain credit, and
by other difficulties that want of funds brings
a farmer into. Plenty of available funds are
also needed to enable the farmer to sell to the
best advantage. No small sharo of the profits
that should be realized by many farmers is
lost because they are obliged to sell at the
wrong time. Every farmer should have money
to use so that he may not he forced to sell at
very low rates, when it is evident that by
waiting a better price may be obtained.
—
A New Orleans paper states, there is in that
city a bog, with his cars so far back, that he
can't hear himself squeal.
Senator Carl Schurz on the Situation.
The following is an extract from a speech
made by Senator Schurz at Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. Schurz said:
“You tell mo that the revolutionary period
has fostered arbitrary power, and that thereby
tho rights of all of us aro threatened. Yes,
it has produced that dangerous tendency;
yes, by that tendency not your right alone,
but the rights of us all, the principles of con
stitutional government are threatened. It is
unquestionably true that things are done with
impunity and almost without censure, well
calculated to alarm every true friend of free
institutions, and ii is time that thinking men
should seriously consider how, by concerted
and determined action, they can prevent thut
tendency from undermining our whole con
stitutional system, now that the exigencies of
great public peril aro oyer and .the results of
the war are firmly imbedded in the fundaoicn.*
tal law.
Now it is indeed time to arrest it lest the
people drift into a laxity of constitutional
notions from which they cannot recover, and
in order to arrest it we must not recoil from
tigorous means. When I the other day in a
publio speech in Chicago declared that I
would not support President Grant for re
election on account of tho fragrant violation
of the Constitution he has committed in the
San Domingo case, a great many of my Re
publican brethren were shocked beyond meas
ure and raised the cry of high treason against
the party, while some of the feeble in mind
exclaimed, that my making such a declaration
was a sure sign that I must have been disap
pointed in the matter of patronago. I may
assure them that I spoke with cool and mature
deliberation, for it will not do to trifle with
such cases. I will not here argue the San
Domingo matter over again; but I will simply
say this : When a President orders the navy
of the Unitod States to a foroign country, and
without condescending to ask Congress for
authority, instructs our naval officers to pro
tect and defend tho chief of a foreign Gov
ernment against any foreign enemy, and
even against his own subjects and country
men, and when ho does this not only while
negotiations are going on with that foreign
Government, which negotiations, however,
would not confer upon the President the au
tocratic power to measures of war at his own
pleasure—but even after the results of such
negotiations in the shape of a treaty have been
formally and solemnly rejected by the Senate,
and we have no relations with that foreign
Government and people but the ordinary re
lations Os peace—when a President does that,
then he arrogates to himself one of the moat
important powers belonging to the represen
tatives of the people, he violates the Constitu
tion in all its most vital points, and constitutes
himself theaibiterof peace and war for this
great Republic, and when lam asked to en
dorse such an act by supporting that Presi
dent for re-election and thus to aid in sanc
tioning by a popular vote such an act as a
precedent, a precedent which, if taken as a
rule of constitutional construction, would au
thorize the President alone to initiute a war
under almost any circumstances, and make
this republic virtually a monarchy as to the
question of peace or war—then I, as a faithful
citizen of this republic, who has sworn to sup
port its Constitution, say, ’I will not do it.’—
[Cheers.] I will not help to re-elect an officer
whoso re-olection, sanctioning his grevious
acts with popular approval, will be a justifi
cation and encouragement to all future Presi
dents in committing acts of usurpation, still
further reaching. I will not help in paving
the way to tho advent of an irresponsible per
sonal government in this Republic. And when
I am told that by such opposition other
grave interests may be jeopardized, I an
swer that I am very doubtful whether the
wanton levity with which our Presidents are
to be permitted to play with the peace and
honor of the people, and tho general decay of
constitutional notions do not contribute in
their inevitable consequences as a great dan
ger, and perhaps, even greater than any now
within sight. And when I am tauntingly re
minded by pliable partisans that the people do
not care much about these constitutional ques
tions, I answer that if there are many who do
not care much about the integrity of thoir
Republican institutions, this constitutes a
stronger reason why those who do care should
make themselves heard, and act with deter
mination. lam frequently reminded that
declarations like those I have mn-le are apt
to prove ruinous to a publio man. Be it so.—
I take that risk, for I am in earnest, and I am
sure the day will come whon many of those
who now shrug their shoulders at my protests
and predictions will, to their sorrow, admit
that I was right, unless this tendency bo
speedily arrested.”
Prater of a Distracted People.— Mr.
Groesbeck, in his great speech at Steubenville,
uttered tho following invocation for national
blessings which may well serve as a form of
prayer for the United States;
I plead for the preservation of this Union ns
a limited Government. I plead for the State
as our home government. I plead for the ac
customed freedom of our elections, and that
they may not be spoiled by military supervis
ion. I plead for the sanctity and inviolability
of that great writ which alone secures our
daily personal liberty. The war is ended,
and we have entered the seventh year of
peace. I plead for the spirit of peace and
i confidence and good will in all our public con
i The hand outstretched in friendly snlu-
I tation is a better peace maker that tho shut
hand uplifted to strike.
Tho poorest education that teaches se.f-con
' trol is better than the best that neglects it.
No, 48.
Centralization. •
To centralizo all power in one brunch of the
Government hits been the policy of the major-!
ity in Congress for several years past, aw}-
every political move has been made to plac^ r
that body above and beyopd the people.' It.
has utterly disregarded their voico, and a*-t
sinned for itsolf to decide upon questions that,
have abriged the liberties of the masses, with*
out consulting the country, and oven in deff-.
arc© of its expressed will. Congress ha*
glided into the position of an usurper, while
it is professedly but a co-ordinate branch of
Government, and it will be just as easy for the .
occupant of the Whito House to subvert the
powers of the Legislature. The judiciary and
executive departments of tho Government havtf.
been made subservient to tho designing man
agers of the Radical party, and the next etep
in the programme is to place all the power in
tho hands of ono man, and tho present occu
pant of the Presidential chair does not seem
to he in any way chary about accepting the.
responsibility. The recent acta in New Or
leans, which there can be no doubt were bf
his special consent, in placingthe custom house
at tho disposal of his personal friends, and
authorizing the military powortobe in attend-'
ance to stifle any discontent that was supposed, ’
to exist in the Radical party, is sufficient of
itself to show tho purpose of General Grant
and his advisers. He determines by this aot,-
unless steps be at once taken to overturn his
assumptions, that the people of Louisiana shall
not he heard ; that all disobedience to his bet'
hests shall bn met with tho strong arm of the
military, nis own political adhorents are net
to be heard in theoounsels of the party, nnlesf
they aro willing that thoir rights and the
rights of the masses be trampled upon, and
made subordinate to his ambition.—Nashvillet’
American.
Keep Straight Ahead.
Pay no attention to slanderers or gossip 4
mongers. Keep straight on your course, and
let their backbitings die the death of negleot.
What is the use of lying awake nights, brood
ing ovorthe remarks of some false friend, that
runs through your brain like forkod lightning?
What’s the use of getting into a worry and
fret over a gossip that has been set afloat to
your disadvantage, by some meddlesome bu»y
--b idy, who has more time than character/
These things can’t possibly injure you, unleaa,’
indeed, you tako notice of them, and in com
bating them give them character and standing.
If what is said about you is true, set yourself
right at once ; if ii is false, let it go for what
it will fetch. If a bee sting you, would yon
go to tho hive and destroy it? Would not %
thousand come upon you ? It is wisdom to aay
little respecting the injuries you have received/
Wo ore generally losers in the end, if we stop
to refute all backbitings and gossipings wo
may hear by tho way. They are annoying,.
it is true, but not dangerous, so long as we do
not stop to expostulate and scold. Our char-'
ncters are firmed and sustained by ourselvev,'
and by our own actions and purposes, and not
by others. Lot U3 always bear in mind, that
‘calumniators may usually be trusted to time
and tho slow but steady justice of publio opin’.'
ion,’
Elastic Rails.
Letters patent have been taken out for anew
rail for rail roads which promises to do
nway with the continual rattle and jar of rail
road travel. It is a continuous elastic T-rail/
and tho inventor and those who havo examined
the principle of its construction claim impor
tant advantages over any rail now in use. The
rail is in two sections, the upper section lapping
over tho lower, and they arc fastened together
by horizontal bolts. Between tho sections is
India rubber packing, flve-eiglits of an inch in
thickness. It is thought the use of this rail
will prove important in many respects, and be
cheaper in the end than those now in use.—
The upper section may ho made either of iron
or steel, and when worn out can be relaid with
out disturbing the under sections. A great
expense will therefore be saved in relaying the
track. Tho India rubber packing, it is con
tended, will give the car an easy and almost
noiseless motion, and prevent tho sharp con-'
cussions which so frequently result in the
breaking of tho axles. The saving every year
to the rolling stock, it is claimed, will be an
item of very great importance, and will com
mend the use of this improvement to all com*
panics that study oconomy as well as safety.
If the friction is lessoned as much as engineer*
claim it will be by the adoption of this
merit, the duration of the rails will bo greatly
prolonged.
Eg -»-<
Mr. Abernethy is supposed to be addressing
a dyspeptic American who had applied to hint
for medical advice:
‘l’ll bo hanged,’ said he,' ‘if I ever saw n
Yankee that don’t bolt bis food whole, like n
boa constrictor. How the devil can you expert
to digest food that you neither take thetronblft
to dissect nor the time to masticate ? It’» »0
wonder you losb your teeth, for you never dm
them ; nor your digestion, for you overload it;
nor your saliva, fur vou expend it on the car
pets, instead of on your food. It’s disgusting}
it's beastly. You Yankees load your stomaohs
as a Devonshire man does his cart, as full as it
can hold, and as fast as ho can pitch it in with
a dung-fork, and drive off; and then you com
plain that such a load of compost is too heavy
foryou. Dyspepsy, ch ? lufernal guzzling,you
mean. I'll tell you what, take half the time to
eat that you do to drawl out your words, chew
your food half as much as you do your filthy
tobacco, and you’ll he well in a month.’
Th e world is a sea of glass ; affliction scatters ‘
; our j ath with sand and ashes, in order to keejj 1
' our feet from slipping*’