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THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
Vol. VI.
Borgia railroad schedule.
L C » Augusta at 540 P. M
trtT .t Atlanta at 6 28 P. M
A night passenger train.
Arr g k, JOHNSON, Superintendent.
caroijna railroad.
n „ C r Trains leave Charleston at 12.50 p. m.,
j glsp m ., connecting at Augusta with trains
for Atlanta and New Orleans.
Twins tor Charleston leave Augusta at 7.40 a. m.
' T S |n« for Columbia leave Charleston at 8.20 a.
• Augusta at 7.40 a. ra., and arrive at Columbia
40 p. m., connecting with trains going North
Notice.
i-rjVTNG SOLD niv interest in the New Drug
H smr’p I shall, tn future, devote my whole
• the practice of Medicine. My Office will
J , i \V AVDBKSOW’B New Drug Store, where
fosn he found at all tirne8 ’ exce P t w| ien Profes
sionally called away. j R WARE.
Covington, Ga., August 18, 1871.—41 ts.
W. D. ATKINSON, Jr.,
attorhey'at law, and solicitor in equity,
Conyers, Georgia.
P" nnirr attention given to all business entrusted
to his care, in the Courts of the Flint Circuit,
..a in the Counties adjoining Rockdale
Office over E. B. Rosser’s Store.-46tf.
4. €. McCALLA,
ATTORNEY at law,
fOffice at Rail Road Hotel,)
CONYERS GEORGIA.
W ILL Practice in Rockdale and adjoining
counties.— 48tf
" J. A. KING,
ATTORNEY at law
CONYERS GEORGIA.
(Office at Thorn’s Hotel.)
Will Practice in Rockdale and adjoining Counties,
ROBERT WHITFIELD,
ATTORNEY at law,
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
(Office at Rail Road Hotel.)
WILL give prompt attention to all business
entrusted to his care. —42tf
W. T. Oneai.. R. W. IT. Neal.
O !V E A L & SEAL,
ATTGKNEYS at
THOMSON, GEORGIA.
WILL Practice in the Augusta, Middle and
Northern Circuits, and in the United States
District Courts. —[36.3 m
JOITN S. CARROLL.
DENT I ST
JDOVINGTON. OEOROIA.
Teeth Filled, or New ones Ineerted.ln
Style,and on Reasonable Terms
tfflee Up Stairs. Right Hand Back Room Mur
rvrH’i Prick Building. Its
R. M. EVERETT,
SADDLE AND HARNESS MAKER,
Depot street, near Frcelan lV Shop, Coving in
Having just open a Shoo in >y
Ne ' Building on epot street-,
'TI wi’:l Uncp on ham# a good supply
of Saddles and Harness. Work
»f all kinds made to order Hepairingof all kinds
ion* promptly, in th best stylo, and on reason
bile terras. All work warranted.—lyls
DP. E. H. YANCEY,
eclectic physician,
TENDERS his Professional services to thecit
ijens rs Newton and adjoining Counties. —
He is prepared to treat all diseases peculiar to
Ibis country—b«th Acute and Chronic. Partic
ular attention given to Chronic Diseases, and
*ll diseases peculiar to Females. Office next
door to S. N. Stallings, Covington, Ga. —lstf
KENTUCKY
Livery and Sale Stables!
Covington, Georgia.
The undersigned having purchased the above
named Stables from Mr, R. P. T.RF,, will continue
fbe 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
country, will be kept for the accommodation of
m.v customers.
Persons from a distance wishing to go into the
onntry, can rely upon carefful drivers.
Morses Boarded by the month, or single feed
43,f A. A. MORRIS.
*< A. BEAM,. j. u, speaks. w. h. potter.
BEALL, SPEARS, Sc CO.,
COTTON FACTORS,
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
j.mitinae their business at their old Stand, the
wmmodious Fire-Proof Warehouse, No.fi.Camp
.nli. t, Office and Sales Room, 177 Reynolds
Tf 1 Augusta, Ga.
p n trusted to them will have strict
E-OMI attention, Orders for Bagging, Universal
p ' pr Hope and Family Supplies promptly tilled,
commissions for selling Cotton lVf per cent
} to rp <^ m < j aß k advances made on Produce in
f RANKLIN, READ Sc CO.,
L’Otton factors
Office and Warehouse, 161 Reynolds street,
y. Augusta, Georgia.
advances on cessignments. Corn
er P° r oont, for soiling Cotton. We give
oUr care ~‘){ 1 : y| ent ’ on ad business entrusted to
~FALL CROPS.
0
Have a SUrrLY OF THE CELEBRATED
KTIWAN and WANDO
°UANO,
F0 R the fall crops
STo * all & ROWLAMD, Agents,
'Otton Factoks, Augusta, Ga.
Tears.
BV FATHER RYAN.
Tears that trickle down our eyes,
They do not fall to earth an and dry ;
They soar like angels to the skies,
And, angel-like they cannot die.
For oh I our immortality
Sounds through each year—sounds in each
sigh.
What waves of tears surge o'er the deep
Ol sorrow in our restless souls ;
And they are strong, not weak, who weep,
Those drops from out the sea that rolls,
Within their hearts forevermore ;
Within a depth—without a shore,
But ah 1 the tears that are not wept—
The tears that never outward fall—
The tears that grief for years has kept
Within us—they are best of all—
The tears our eyes should never know,
And deeper than the tears that flow !
Each night, upon earth's flowers below,
The dew comes down from darkest skies,
And eVery night our tears of woe
Go up like dew to Paradise ;
To keep in bloom and make more fair
The crown flowers of we yet shall wear.
But ah I the surest way to God
Is up the lonely stream of tears
That flows, when bending ’noath His rod,
And fills the tide of our past years.
On laughter’s billows hearts are tossed—
On wsyeg of tears no heart is lost.
Flow on, ye tears, and bear mo home !
Flow on, ye waves of deeper woe 1
Flow on ye tears, that are but foam,
O’er deeper waves that will not flow !
A little while—l reach the shore
Where tears flow not—forevermore.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
has been out to Minnesota and 'interviewed'
Gen. Hancock. lie found him, as usual, on
duty, looking bronzed and hearty, and pre
senting every evidence of sound health, and a
contented spirit. The reporter was not long
in reaching the subject of the Presidency, and
upon this subject the General frankly said
that the fact of his being freely mentioned as
a Presidential candidate did not possess that
interest that people probably suppose. He
speke with pardonable pride of his army posi
tion and record, and considered it ‘a little late
to seek anew field of action.’ Ho, however,
did not think it proper for any one to ignore
the will of the people, and an expression of
preference for himself by his native State, hs
confessed, would be taken as a very flatter
ing compliment. His political views wers
stated in a few words. ‘I was a Democrat.
I am now a Conservative ;’ and be mod estly
disclaimed any desire to thrust himself for
ward or become entangled in the intricacies of
politicians.
—-.rSOl ■■ /mm
Swindled. — It is not strange that foreign
travelers who Und In New York complain of
the miserable hack system of. American oities.
A California United States Senator arrived at
a hotel in New York. In the evening he con
eluded to go and see Forrest as 'Coriolanus/
In front of the hotel he found a hackman.and
told him to drive him to Niblo’s Garden. Said
hackman drove him round nineteen blocks
and landed him safely at the theatre, waited
until theatre was out, and drove around seven
teen blocks back to the hotel. His fare was
fifteen dollars. It was not until the next day
that the successful politician ascertained that
both the hotel and theatre were under the same
roof, and that the entrance to each wers less
than twenty feet apart.
A rising poet, of ardent temperament, thus
describes some of the wonderful performances
of ‘Dame Nature t’
‘She next made woman—so the story goes
With an improved material and art;
Gave her a form, the choicest one of those
That make aught beautiful, and to her heart
A power to soften man ; and forced the rose
Its blushing tint to her soft cheek impart;
Then chopp’d the rainbow up,and with the ohips
She went to work and finished off her lips.’
The other day Mrs. Muggins, finding herself
unwell, sent for a doctor, and in the presenoe
of Muggins and her medioal man, deolared her
belief that she was poisoned, and that he (Mug
gins) had done it. ‘I didn’t do it,’ shouted
Muggins; ‘it’sall gammon, she isn’t poisoned.
Prove it, doctor, open her on the spot; I'm
willing. 1
Because a California Demoorat advertised to
address the citizens of Jonesvilla and vicinity,
he lost the vote of a knowing countryman,
who said that he knew all the places around
there, and a man who didn’t know that there,
wasn’t any such place as Vioinity was too ignor
ant for him to vote for.
Nelson, the murderer of General Clanton,
gave himself up on Saturday, making a bond
for $25,000 to answer the indictment, flis
father, Governor Brownlow, R. O. Jackson, and
Joseph Jaques, are bondsmen.
It is claimed for Grant that he has adopted
anew idea of reforming the civil service, that
of selling the offices to the highest bidder
His theory is that only the most respectable
men can afford to pay the highest prices. He
therefore pockets something while ‘reform
ing’ the service.
An honest country parson, who in the time
of a great drouth, was desired to pray for rain,
answered—‘l’ll willingly do it to oblige you,
but it is to no purpose while the wind is in
this quarter-’
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, October 13, 187 L
Let ns be More Sociable.
In order to increase the sum of human hap
piness, we should cultivate kind and fraternal
feelings one with another. A true life consists
in something else than simply accumulating
property. We do not and ennnot ‘live by
bread alone.’ A writer in the Journal of
Agriculture discourses on this subject most
beautifully, as follows)
‘The sole object and aim of too many indi
viduals seem to get gain, ‘grab all,’ let the
consequences be what they may to others.—
The desire to accumulate wealth, regardless of
the comfort, and social happiness of our neigh
bors, and tho interchange of friendly senti
ments, should be ignored. On the other hand,
we should so live and act that the generous
impulses of our own hearts would prompt us
to extend the hand of fellowship to all our
neighbors, and, looking them squarely in the
eye, feel that glorious ioward consciousness
that we had never wronged them in thought,
word or deed. Then, too, let words of kind
ness be spoken ; let little deeds of love be done ;
let the principles of the golden rule be exem.
plified in our daily lives : let us be more socia
ble, and cultivate our convivial qualities by fre
quent interchanges of friendly greetings a 1
social gatherings; let no aristocracy be ac
knowledged save that of the intellect; let us
beautify our homes; let us make them wlmt
they should be by cherishing a love for the
beautiful, so that—
‘Blessings may attend us forever ;
And whatever we pray for or do,
May our lives be one grand endeavor
To type the pure, the good and the true I’
If Politics must be Preached in the Pulpit.
Says the New York Express, then commend
us to a sermon like that of Rev. Dr. Thompson
who spared neither party, nor sect, nor condi
tion in life, but told truth wholesome for all to
hear and heed. Here are some golden words
to young men :
The causes of this state of corruption are
found in society itself and in the Church of
Christ. And this corruption is not confined
to any set of men or to any city or party, but
is breaking out simultaneously in New York
and Washington, in the Post Office and in the
Paymaster’s office alike. If youug men would
grow up virtuous and honest they must begin
right. If they would preserve their physical
health they must take care of it. How much
greater care, then, is required to preserve
moral soundness? The redemption of the city
must proceed mainly from young men, and
their fight now is for their homes and for suc
cess of business in the future. Chief among
the causes of official corruption is the prevail
ing tendency toward luxury in social life.—
The Doctor pointed out different forms of lux
ury—not confined alone to the rich—in which
men indulge, and deolared that corruption is
always in the financial direction. Power is
sought as a means of procuring wealth, wealth
as the means of retaining that power. The story
of defalcation is uniform. Men in public trusts
are usually sworn to steal as much as they can
not* indeed, that they take your pocket-book
or abstract vouchers from your safe in any case,
but they take millionsand thousands whenever
thev have a chance. And the story is all the
same, whether they steal from a bank, a post
office or the city treasury. Pleasure and lux
ury are obtained by money, and beyond these
lies the superfluity of pleasure, &e. Every
thing procured above our income is luxury.
How Two Honest Men Prospered.
There are two Johns in the Fourth Ward.—
The last name of one begins with a G. and
the surname of the other commences with aC.
They are chums. They are very sharp nun*
very ; but as Mark Antony said in a peculiar
way, they ‘are both honorable men.’ They
wers not long ago in a very unusual condition
known as ‘hard up;' by industry and integrity
they have achieved a little competency.—
Thus : C. and G. one day in a bar-room, their
usual resort. It was a temperance bar, of
oourse. Said C. i
‘Old boy, we’re dreadful hard up t but I know
how to make a raise ; sure thing/
‘Not’ said G.; ‘honor bright? I havn’t any
thing more to take to my uncle, except a paper
oollar, and my landlord’s dunning mo. But
really, now ?’
‘Yes/ replied C.; this is the plan ; I’ve found
a man fool enough to lend me SIOO. The great
race between Longfellow and Helmbold comes
off next week at Saratoga. We’ll go.—
There’ll be the heaviest kind of odds bet on
Longfellow, of course. I’ll back Helmbold and
you’ll be stakeholder. After the first bet you
give me the stakes and I'll bet the whole
amount; make you holder again, take them
again, and so on. Then we suddenly leave and
divide the pile, See ?’ *
‘Well, you are a genius, Johnny j we’ll try
it/
On the day of the great contest they were
on the ground. The plan worked. Soon G„
as stakeholder, had $5,000 in bia possession;
then they thought it convenient to leave before
the race came off. They went. During the
race they were coming to New York at the
rate of thirty miles an hour, planning to rusti
cate until the affair blew over. When they
oome out of the Hudson river railroad depot
the first news they heard was that Helmbold
had undoubtedly won 1 They were not
astonished, perhaps—at least not more so than
everybody else. They had fairly won their
money I They were honest men, and need not
run away. They didn't. Virtue is its own
reward. Honesty is the best policy.—N. Y.
Standard. _ _
A young man in camp-meeting askod the
prayers of the assembly because he 'could not
sit down to a meal without eating three times
I as mnoh as he ought.’
The Indian Chief.
The following beautiful story ia old, but
literally true, and first published in • lecture
delivered by Wm. Tracy, Esq., of Utica, New
York, on the early history of Oneida county:
One of the first settlers in Western New
York was Judge , who established him
self at Whitestown, about four milee from
Utica. He brought bis family with him,
among whom was a widowed daughter with
only one child—a fine boy about four years
old. You will recollect the country around
was an unbroken forest, and this was the de
main of the savage tribes.
Judge W , saw the necessity of keep
ing on good terms with the Indians, for, as he
was nearly alone, he was completely at their
mercy. Accordingly he took every opportu
nity to assure them of his kindly feelings, and
secure their good will in return. Several of
tho chiefs camo to see him, and all appeared
pacific. But there was one thing that
troublod him ; an nged chief of the Oneida
tribe and one of great influence, who resided
nt a distance of a dozen miles, had not
yet been to see him, nor could he ascertain the
views and feelings of the sachem in respeot
to his settlement in that region. At last he
sent in a message and the answer was that the
chief would visit him on the morrow.
True to his appointment, the sachem eeme;
Judge W received him with marke of
respect, and introduced hie wife, bis daughter,
and llitte boy. The interview that followed
was interesting. Upon its result the Judge
was convinced that hie security might depend,
and he was therefore exceedingly anxious to
make a favorable impression upon the distin
guished chief. He expressed his desire to
settle in the country and live on terms of
amity and good fellowship with the Indistls,
and be useful to them by introducing among
them the arts of civilization.
The chief heard him out, and then said
‘Brother, you ask much and you promise
much. What pledge can you give of your
faith? Jhe white man’s word may be good to
the white, yet it is but wind when spoken to
the Indian/
‘I have put my life in your hands,' said
the Judge, is not that an evidenct of my good
intention ? I have placed confidence in the
Indian, and will not believo that he will abuee
or betray the trust that is thus reposed.
‘So much is well,’ replied the ehief, 'the
Indian will repay confide Dee with confidence;
if you trust him he will trust you. Let this
boy go to my wigwam— l will bring him
back in three days with my answer I*
If an arrow had pierced the bosom of the
mother, she could not have felt a deeper pang
that went to her heart as the Indian made this
proposal. She sprang forward and running
to the boy, who stood at the side of the sa
chem, looking into his face with pleased won
der and admiratioDf she encircled him in her
arms, and pressing him to her bosom, was
about to fly from the room. A gloomy omi
nous frown came over the sachem’s brow but
he did not epe»k.
But not so with Judge——. He knew
that the success of their enterprise, the lives
of his family depended on the decision of a
moment, r
'Stay, stay, my daughter/ he said, 'bring
hack the boy I beseech yon. He is aot mors
to you than to me. I would not risk a hair of
his head. But my child be must go with the
chief, God will watch ovor him I He will be
as safe in the saohem’s wigwam as beneath
our own roof.’
The agonized mother hesitated for a moment
and then slowly returned, placing the boy on
the knee of the chief, and kneeling at his feet
burst into a flood of tears. The gloom passed
from the Sachem’s brow. He arose and de
parted.
I shall not attempt to describe the agony cf
the mother for tho ensuing days. She was
agitated by contending hopes and fears. In
the night she awoke from sleep; seeming to
hear the screams of her child calling on his
mother for help. But time wore away slowly
—and the third day came. How slowly did
the hours pass. The morning wanned away
noon arrived ; yet the Sachem eame not.—
There was a gloom over the whole household.
The mother was pale and silent. Judge W—,
walked the floor to and fro, going every few
minutes to the door, and looking through the
opening in the forest towards the Sachem's
abode.
At last, as the rays af the setting eun were
thrown upon the tops of the tress around, the
eagle feathers of the ohief were seen dancing
above the bushes in the distance. He ad
vanced rapidly—and the little boy was at hie
side. lie was gaily attired as a young ohief
—his feet being dressed in moccasins, a fine
beaver skin was on bis shoulders, and
eagle feßthers were stuok in his hair.—
ne was in excellent spirits, and so proud was
he of his honors, that be seemed two inches
taller than he was before. He was soon in hie
mother’s arms, and iu that brief minute be
seemed to pass from death to life. It wee a
happy meeting—too happy for me to deseribe.
‘The white man was conquered,' said the sa
chem, ‘hereafter let ue be friends. Yon have
trusted an IndiaD, he will repay you with con
fidence and friendship/
The Brooklyn Union says: “The man to
bear the Republican standard this fall for the
office of Mayor must be a true and tried Re
publican.” It will not be difficult to find suoh
a man, as a large number of the Brooklyn
Republicans have not only been tried, but
convicted and sentenced also.—Ex.
It was a wise negro who, in speaking of the
happiness of married people, said t ‘Cat ’ar
'pends altogeddor on how dey 'joy dem
solves '
Death.
Heavens ! what a moment must be that when
the last flutter expires on our lips I What a
change I Tell me ye who are deepest read in
nature nnd in God, to what new world are we
borne f Wbither has that spark, that unseen,
that incomprehensible intelligence fled? Look
upon the cold, livid, ghastly corpse that lies
before you I That was but a shell, a gross earthly
oovering, which held tho immortal essence that
has now left us; left to range perhaps though
Illimitable space ;|,to receive new capacities for
delight; new powers of conception, new glories
of beatitude I Ten thousand fancies rush upon
the mind as it completes the awful moment
between life and death 1 It is a moment big
with imaginations, hopes nnd tenrs ; it is the
consummation that clears up all mystery—
solves all doubta—which removes contradiction
and destroys errors. Great God I What a
flood of rapture may at onco buret upon the
departed soul. The unclouded brightness of
ths celestial region—the solemn secrets of na
ture may then be divulged; the immediate
unity of the past and the present, forms of
imperishable beauty, may then suddenly dis
close themselves, bursting upon the delighted
sense, and bathing them in immeasurable
bliss.
Apportionment or Representatives. —No
action having been taken by Congress at the
last session on the apportionment question,
the Secretary es the Interior, it is stated by
the Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune, will, under the laws of 1850
and 1862, make apportionment called for un
der the census Just taken. The number of
Representatives will be 241, giving two each
to Illinois and Missouri, and one each to lowa,
Kansas, Miehigan, Minnesota, New Jersey,
Texas and WiscoDsip. New York will lose
three, Ohio and Pennsylvania two each, and
Kentueky one, while the New England States
will lose six in all. Some two or three States
will probably gain an additional member for
large fractions, which will require the action
of Congress to authorize elections at large.
A Curious Joke.—A physician in the Grand
army Journal tells this ghastly joke ; ‘I re
member one day in making my hospital
rounds, a patient just arrived, presented me
an amputated forearm, and in doing so could
hardly refrain from a broad laugh, the titter
was constantly on his face. ’What’s the mat
ter ? This does not strike me as a subject for
laughter/ ‘lt is not Dootor but excuse me.—
I lost my arm in so funny a way that I still
laugh when I look at it. Our first Sergeant
wanted shaving badly, and got me to do it, as
I was corporal. We Went together in front of
his tent, I had lathered, took him by the nose
and was applying the razor when a cannon
ball came, and that was the last I saw of cither
his bead or my arm. Excuse me, Doctor, for
laughing as I do, but I'll be especially blasted
if I ever saw suoh a bully thing.
A country pedagogue bad two pupils, to one
of whom he was partial, and (U the Other se
vere. One morning it happened that thesA two
boye were both late and were called to account
for it.
‘You must have heard the hell, boys ; why
did you not come V
'Please sir,’ said the favorite, '1 was dream
in' that I was goin’ to Californy and I thought
the school-bell was tbs steamboat bell, as I was
goin’ in/
'Very well,' said the master, glad of any
pretext to excuse his favorite, ‘and now sir/
turning to the other, ‘what have you to say/
'Please sir/ said the puszled boy, ‘l—l—
was waiting to see Tom off.’
A Stranci Case, —A correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says : At Stevenson
I saw Governor Foote, who was returning
from the Federal Court at Ki oxvill*’, having
secured the release of an ex-Federal soldier
who has been in jail three years for murder.
During the war he killed a man, was tried by
court-martial and sentenced to be hung. Mr.
Lincoln pardoned him. After the war he was
indieted in a civil court, tried, and again sen
tenced to be hung. He appealed to the Su
preme Court, and, pending a decision, lay in
jail three years. His lawyers finally applied
to the Federal Judge for a writ of habeas cor
pus, which was granted, and upon hearing the
ease Jodge Trigg released him. The man's
lift had ones been in jeopardy, he bad been
pardoned and the eivil courts had no right to
molest him further. After nine years journey
through the eivil and military courts of the
country, including a good assortment of jails
aod guardhouses the prisoner finally pulls tbs
right legal string, and gets oat of his difficul
ties. This is an illustration of the fact that
the law is a 'complex scienee/
A learned counsellor, in the middle of an
affecting appeal in Court on a slander suit, let
fly the following flight of genius: ‘Slander,
gentleman, like a boa constrictor of gigantic
size and immeasurable proportions,, wraps the
soil of its unwieldy body about its unfortunate
vietim, and heedless of the shrieks of agony
that come from the inmost recesses of bis vic
tim’s soot, loud and reverberating as the mighty
thunder that rolls in tha heaven*, it finally
breaks its unlueky neck upon the iron wheel
of public opinion, forcing him to desperation,
then to madnees, and finally crushing him in
the hideons jaws of moral death I
A clergyman meeting a little by of his ac
quaintance, said : ‘This is quite a stormy day
my soul' ‘Yes, sir/ said tbs boy, 'this is
quite a wet rain,' The clergyman thinking
to rebuke such hyperbole, asked the boy if be
knew of any other than wet rain. ‘I never
knew personally of any other,’ said the boy,
'but I have read in a certain book of a time
when it rained fire and brimstone, and I guess
that wasn’t wet rain—not much it wasn’t/
No. 49.
Corruption the 1)< stroyer of Republics,
History show! that fill the republic* that
have perished, foil through tho corruption of.
their citizens ; anil it establishes another fact p
this corruption was the result of prosperity.—.
As long ns the republic wu- poor the people
were free and honest. So soon as wealth
poured in by conquest nr by trade, greed,
avarice and peculation became the ruling pas
sions.
There is* it seems to us, a striking similitude,
between our day and the last period of the RcS
man republic. In Rome, a* in our country,
in early time* when the State was poor, men.
were willing to serve their country from pa-,
tiiotism or for tho honor of office. But when
the conquest-of Asia, Africa nnd Gaul had,
made the State rich, public ( dice became so,
valuable a prize that those who once hold it
were willing to plunge the republic into civil
war rather than to give it no. Marius, Scyll#,
Coesar, Oittaviiis, Cni .- us and Anthony did
•this rather than yield up their command or
their pro-consulship, which were worth mil
lions to each of them.
Now consider the parallel in our own histo
ry, remembering that while Rome took five
hundred years to reach tho period of corrup
tion, we have taken less than fifty. It- may
be said that until tho time of the Mexican war,
and the accessions of territory which followed,
it, the prizes of oiiice, though honorable, were
not very glittering. Public officers lived gen-,
erally upon their salaries, which were scant
enough. But since that tiino what a ohango t
has taken place. Tho country has extended
its area in every direction, its wealth has in* ■
creased at a prodigious rate, and multitudes es
public offices, to which are attached contingent
perquisites have become exceedingly lucrative,
even where the incumbents are honest. For'
example, collectorsbips, Indian agencies and
the like. In addition to this came the late
war with its fat contracts, and we know to
what tremendous frauds it gave rise. Thus
was awakened the U auri sacra fames ,” the
cursed hungering a'ter gold, which has pro
duced all these rings, jobs, fraudulent claims,
swindling contract*, briberies, lobbyings and
all that variety of frauds for which the English
language could furnish no names, and new
words had to bo invented to designate them.
The same consequence follows with us that
did in Rome. To the victors belong the spoils
—and these spoils have become so immensely
valuable that those who hold them will, if they
can, plunge the country into anarchy, ruin and
civil war rnther than yield them up.
We had occasion some days ago to allude,
to the enormous and universal defalcations
that disgrace the Govern inentin all its branches,
But although these frauds are overy day as
suming more nnd more gigantic proportions,,
they are in fact but the srqallest part of the
evil inflicted upon the whole nation. Tho
country ia rich and can bear the loss of hun-,
dreds of millions : but what it cannot boar id
the loss of public virtue; honesty and honor, .
followed ns it must bo by the loosening of all
moral obligations in : riynto life. Can the;
spectacle of p i tical p. iFrracy and of rapid
and scandalous i irtun: realized with impu
nity by peculation in office, be without a dele
terous effect upon the young men of the land ?
But the evil does not stop there. It is surely
and not slowly destroying all the foundations
of republican government. It is making uni
versal suffrage a mockery—expressing the
sense of the people less faithfully than a French .
plebiscite. If e Convention is called it i3 man
aged by a ring which employs every corrupts
means to carry their point. At the polls bri- .
bery, patronage and the party iash nt one
point; bayonets at another; the terror pros
duced by an iniquitous perversion of the forma
ofjueticeatathird. di*gu*.t the honest, frighten
off the timid, silence ail opposition and the
trick is done. Tho intrigue of a ring is foisted'
upon the country as the will of tho people.
This suggests another thought. When de
moralization and corruption onco become fixed
in the public life of a people there is no more
hope of a return to firmer purity: The dag
ger of Brutus could destroy Cißsar, but it was
powerless to remove this degeneracy which
craved for another master. At a later day,
when a victorious genera! was made consul
for a term of year*, how long was it before tho
universal suffrage of a subservient people made
him consul for ten year.*, then consul for life,
and finally Emperor? There arc enough points
of resemblance between those times and ours
to excite apprehensions of similar consequen
ces.—Wilmington Journal.
What Love is to a Woman.
What a wonderful tiding love is to a woman’!
now it helps her to know that someone is
always fond of her, that he rejoices when
she rejoices, smiles when she smiles, and sor
rows when she grieves; to be sure that her
faults are loved, nnd that her face is fairer, to
One at least, than faces that are far more beau
tiful—that one great heart holds hfr sacred
in its innermost care above all women 1 She can
do anything, be anything; suffer anything,
thus upheld. She grows prettier under the
sweet influence—brighter, kinder, stronger—
and life seenm but a foretaste of heaven ; and
ell her dreams aro gold.
But when this is gone —when tho sods are
piled over that true lover’s breast—or when
her role has been played in one of those too
frequent human tragedies, and the curtain
has dropped and tho foot-lights aro out, and
it ia all over forever, then God have mercy on
the woman, for lifo holds nothing more for
her I
How weary is her work a ben no one helps
or praises ! How desolate her leisure 1 llow
joyless the things that rave her joy ! Tho pain
that she could bear when soma dear voice
praised her patience .r j pitied her, grows
insupportable: ambition iierishes; for who
shall care to h : ' t i
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