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VOL. 8.
Precepts at Parting.
BY lit WIN RL'SSXLL,
Well, son, so you’s gwinc for to leab us, your
lubbin’ ole mammy an’ ipe,
An' set you’st’f up as a waiter aboa’d ob da
Kobbut F. Lee,
Along id dem fancy young niggers, what’s
sluuued fur to look at a hoe,
(An’ Act* like a passel ob rich folks, when <i e y
Isn’t got nuffin’ to show.
You’s bad better ti-ainin dan doy _j ] lo p o6
’at you’ll ’libit more jeWe .
is like a * rfoTln g ro oter, a-settin
up top o v „ a fence =
He keeps on a-stretchin’ and crowin’, nn’
while he’s a blowin’ his horn
Dem chickens what ain’t arter fussin’ is pick
in’ up all ob de corn.
Now listen, and min’ what I toll you, and don't
you forgit what I say;
Take advice ob a ’sparienced pusson, and you’ll
git up de ladder an' stay;
Who knows ? You rnought git to be Pres’dent,
or jestice, perhaps ob de peace—
De man what keeps pullin’ de grape-vine
shakes down a few bunches at leas’.
Dem niggers what runs on de ribber is mos’ly
a mighty sharp set;
Dcv’d fin’ out some way for to beat you, if you
bet ’em de water wuz wet;
Yon’s got to watch out for dem fellers—dey’d
cheat 'off de horns ob a cow—
I knows ’em—l follerad de ribber ’fore ebber I
follered a plow.
You’ll easy git ’long wid de white folks—de
captain an’ stewarts and clerks—
Dey won’t say a word to a nigger, as long as
dey notice lie works ;
An’ work is de oneries’ ingine we’s any ’casion
to tote
To keep us gwine on t’roo de current dat pes
ters de spirichul boat.
I heered dat idee from a preacher—he ’lowed
’at dis life wus n stream,
An' tberyone’s soul wus a packet dat run wid
a full head ob steam ;
Dat some ob ’em’s only stern-wheelers, whila
oders wuz mon’ously fine —
An'de trip wus made safes’ an’ quickes’ by
boats ob de Mefodia’ line.
I ivim’ts ) on, my son, to bo ’ licular, and 'soi;iat e
only wid dey
Bat’s ’titled to go in de cabin—don’t nebber
hab nnftin’ to say
Todem low-minded roustabout niggers whit
handles the cotton below ;
Bern common brack rascals nin’t fittin’ for no
. cabin waiter to know.
Bat nebber git i, iry—be ’spectful to all de
white people you see,
An' nebber go back in de rnisin's you’s had
from yonr mainuiy an’ me.
It’s hard on your rnudder, your leabin’ —I
don't whateber she’ll- do;
And shorely your fader ’ll miss you—l’ll alluz
be thinkin’ ob you.
ell, now, I’a done tol’ you my say-so—dar
nin’t nufiln’ more as I knows—
’Cept dis: Don’t you nebber oome back, sail,
widout you has money an’ clo’s
I’s kep’ yon as long as I’s gwine to, an’ now
you an’ me we is done—
An’ calves is too skace in dis country to kill
for a prodigal son.
A Gem.
Sidney Smith cut the following from
a newspaper, and preserved it for him
self: 1 When you rise in the morning,
say that you will make the day blessed
to a fellow creature. A left off garment
to the man that needsjit; a kind word to
the sorrowful; and encouraging express
ion to the dejected—trifles in themselves
38 i'ght as air—well do at least for the
twenty-four hours. And if you are
joung, depend upon it, it will tell when
you are old, rest assured it will send
jou happily and gently down the stream
°f time to eternity. By the most simple
arithmetical sum, look at the result. If
you send one person away through the
3 - v * that is three hundred and sixty
®ve 1D the coarse of a year, and suppose
you live forty years only after you have
ooiuiuenccd that course of medicine,
)°u have made fourteen thousind six
hundred persons happy—at all events
for a time.’
lc osier to ayoid answering the ques
uoa "Who is elected,” the novel plan
0t Panting printed cards bearing the
,l e o end ■'Damfino* has adopted
To what class ot beings does a person
nocking on the counter ot a bar tor
sornethujf t 0 <tonk belong * Spiritual
W u bat claßs of vessels should ladies be
6 best commanders ot ? Smacks,
o'* 3 mer iike a ship in mourn
a • Because her colors are hoisted
wast high.
a b'in/k* a > >laCt * Phrenologist like
/^fo^ ,earnioZto, ’ c '
, s ™ *he characters,
y °- u fro,n bei “ B a fQpI?
. § lWoe Jes. (you’re too wise,J
legal reflections.
TALMAGE on the law
yers.
Some Highly Complimentary Ob-
About Members of
“ e Profession.
Talmage preached yesterday
morning to the legal profession. The
sermon was the third of the series ad
dressed to the different professions. —
There was the usual large congregation
present, a number of well
known members of the bar.
Mr. Talmage’s text wat ‘Bring Zenas,
the lawyer,’ Haul's direction to Titus.—
The preacher, in opening, spoke of the
profession as having had ardent support
ers of Christ and the Gospel, and then
referred to the fact that notwithstanding
all the pleas that profession had made in
behalf of God and the Church and the
Gospel and the rights of ajman, there had
come down through the generations a
certain prejudice against the profession.
Mr. Talmage then proceeded as follows:
1 say these things to show you that
there las been a prejudice going on
down, against that profession, from gen
eration to generation. I account for it
on the single fact they compel men to
pay debts that they do not want to pay,
and that they arraign criminals who
want to escape the consequences of their
crime, aud so long as that is so, and it
always will be so just so long there will
be classes of men who will affect, at any
rate, to despise the legal profession. I
know not how it was in o’her countries;
but I have had long and wise acquaint
ance with the men of that pn fession; I
have found th 2m in all my parishes. I
tarried in one of their offices for three
years where there came real estate law
yers, insurance lawyers, criminal lawyers,
marine lawyers, and I have yet to find a
class of men more genial or more
straightforward. There are in that oc
cupation, as well as in all our occupa
tions, (nen utterly obnoxious to God and
man ; but if I were on trial tor my in
tegrity or.by life, and wanted ovenhiuid
ed justice administered to me, I would
rather have my ease subm tted to a jury
of twelve lawyers than to a jury ot
twelve clergymen. [Laughter.] The
„egal profession, I believe, have
A KEEN SENSE OF JUSTICE
And less violence of prejudice than are
to be found in the sacred calling ; lul
there is no man who has more tempta
tions, more trials, or graver r°sponsibilis
ties than the barrister, and be who at
tempts to discharge the duties ot his
position with only earthly resources, is
makiug a very great mistake. Witness
the scores of men who have been your
contemporaries, making external ship
wreck. Witness the men who, with the
law ot the land under their arms, have
violated every statute of the Eternal
God. Witness the men who have stood
placidly before earthly tribunals who
shall yet shiver in dismay before the
Judge of the quick and the dead. See
the sad fate |of Thomas Marshall and
Sergeant Prentice, the bora orators of
the world, their names synonymous with
eloquence and legal acumen. Witness
Lord Thurlow announcing his loyalty to
earthly governments in the sentence :
‘lf I forget my earthly sovereign, may
God forget me,’ and yet stooping to urn
accountable meanness. Witness Lord
Coke, the learned and the wreckless.
Witness Sir George McKenzie, the exe
crated of all Scotch Covenanters, so that
until this day, in Gray Friars’ church
yard, Kdinburgh, the children whistle
through the bars of his tomb, crying ;
“Bloody McKinzie, come out if you dare
No other profession more needs the
grace of God to deliver them in then
temptations, to comfort them in their
trials, to sustain them in the discharge
of their duty. While I would have you
bring the merchant to Christ, and while
I would have you bring the farmers to
Christ, and while I would have you briug
the mechanic to Christ, I address you to
day in the words of Paul to Titus:
'Bring Zenas, the lawyer.’ By so much
as his duties are delicate and great, by
so much docs he need stimulus and Safe
guard,
WE ALL BECOME CHRISTS.
I don't suppose there is a man of fitty
years of age in the house, who has been
’in active life, who has not been afflicted
with a law suit. Your name is assaulted
and you must have legal protection.
Your boundary line is iuvaded and the
Courts must re-establish it. Ycur pat
ent is infringed upon and you must make
the offending manufacturer pay the pen
alty. Your treasures are stolen and the
thief must be apprehended. You want
to make your will and you do not want
CONYERS, GA., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1877.
to follow the example of those who, for
the sake of saving SSO from nn attorney,
imperil $50,000 and keep the generations
following for twenty years' quarreling
about the estate until it is all exhausted.
You aro struck by an assassin and you
must invoke for him the penitentiary.
All classes of persons, in course of time,
become clients and therefore they are all
interested in the morality and the Chris
tian integrity of the legal profession,
‘Biings Zenas, the lawyer.’ But how is
an attorney to decide as to what are the
principles by which he should conduct
himselt in regard to his oheuts f On one
extreme Lord Brougham will appear,
saying: ‘The innocence or guilt of your
client is nothing to you. You are to
serve your client regardless ot the tor
ment, the destruction ot all others. You
are to know but one in the world— your
client. You are to save him though you
should bring your country into copfnsion.
At all hazards you must save your client.’
So says Lord Brougham. But no right
minded lawyer could adopt that senti
ment. On the other extreme, Cicero
will come to yon and say : ‘Yon must
never plead the cause of a bad roan,’
forgetful of the fact that
THE GREATEST VILLAIN ON EARTII
Ought to have a fair trial, and that an
attorney cannot be judge and advocate
at the same time. It was grand, when
Lord Erskine sacrificed his Attorney-
Generalship for the sake of defending
Thomas Paine in his publication of his
book called ‘The Rights of Man,’ while,
at the same time he (the advocate) ab
horred Thomas Paine’s religious senti
ments. The attorney then, seated in his
office or standing at the bar between
these two extremes of opinion in rogard
to what he ought to do—what step he
shall take ? God only can direct him.
To that chancery he must be appellant,
and he will get an answer in an hour.
Blessed is that attorney between whose
office and the throne of God there is
perpetual reverential and prayerful com
munication. That attorney will never
make an irreparable mistake. True to
the habits of ycur profession yon say,
‘CLe ns some authority on the subject.’
Well, I quote to you the decision of the
Supreme Court of Heaven: ‘lt any man
lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who
givelh to all men liberally, and upbraid
t-th him not, and it shall be given him.’
What a scene in the office ot a busy
attorney? In addition to the men who
come to you from light motives bad men
will come to you. They will offer you a
large fee for counsel in the wrong direc
tion. They want to know fom you how
they can escape from solemn marital ob
ligations. They come to you wanting
to k iow how they can fail advantageous
ly for themselves. They come to you
wanting to know how they can make the
insurance company pay for a destroyed
house which they burned down with
their own hands. They come to you,
hundreds and hundreds of them, on the
simple errand of wanting to escape pay
ment of their honest debts. Now, it is
no easy thing to advise settlement when
by urging litigation you could strike a
mine of renumeration. It is not a very
easy thing to dampen the ardor of an
inflamed contestant, whom you know
through a prolonged law suit you could
get from him whatever you asked. It is
no easy thing to attempt to discourage
the suit for the breaking of a wifi in the
Surrogate’s Court because you knew the
testator was of sound mind and body
when he signed
quires no small lierosm to do as I heard
an attorney do in an office in a Western
city last month. 1 overheard the con
versation, when lie said : ‘John, you
can go on with this law suit and I will
see you through as well as I can, but I
want to tell yon before you start that a
law suit is equal to a fire.’ Under
THE TREMENDOUS TEMPTATIONS
That come upon the legal profession
there ore scores of men who have gfine
down, and some of them from being the
pride of the highest tribunal of the State
have become a disgrace to the Tombs
Court room. Every attorney, in addi
tion to tbc innpje sense of right, wants
the sustai n& grower of the old fashion
ed religic . Jesus Christ. ‘Bring
Zenas, There are two or
three f° r ir com tion to which tbe
'eg* l P ro be victim, “Ejected.
firet 1 poor all thro“* , ?° Dtro '
versy is th- “ of that oc
cupation /jq- (j j Observer
t emen. j nQ , art p er nee( j f or l v ,
oi acme en the ] aw being in. e\
is oeipetna . mfljng t j )em | 0 town an(
ing the san. fap fire WQod _
making the
tioDS that t .
which is a *
above lit ■
chance with somo of you. The most
brilliant orator of the Republican party
in the last Presidential campaign is a
foe of Christianity, and he wrote a book,
on tho first page of which he announced
this sentiment: ‘An honest God is the
noblest work of man !’ Skepticism is
the mightiest temptation of the legal
profession, and that man who can stand
in that profession resisting all solicition
to infidelity, and can be as brave as Goc.
Briggs, of Massachusetts, who stepped
from the Gubernatorial Chair to the
Missionary Convention to plead the
cause ol a dying race; then on his way
home from the Convention, on a cold
day, took off his warm cloak and threw
it over the shoulders of a thinly clad mis
sionary, saying: ‘Take that and wear it
—it will do you more good than it will
me j’ or, like John McLean, who can
step from tho Supreme Court room of
tho United States on to the anniversary
platform of the American Sunday School
Union—its most brilliant orator—de
served congratulation and eoomium.—
Oh, men of the legal profession, let me
beg ot you to quit asking questions in
regard to religion and begin believing.
The mighty men of yonr profession,
Story and Kent and Mansfield, became
Christians, not thiough their heads but
through their hearts ‘Except ye be
come as a little child, ye shall in no wise
enter the kingdom of God. It you do
not become a Christian, ob man of the
legal profession, until you can reason
this whole thing out in regard to God
and Christ and the immortality of the
soul, you will never become a Christian
at all. Only believe. ‘Bring Zenos, the
lawyer.’
- . ♦ ——
Are you Beady 1
Rev. Dr. Kidd was a Scotch minister
of some prominence, and very eccentric,
aud one who had his own way of doing
things. One ot his parishioners
says:
‘I was busy in my shop, when in
the midst of ray woik in stepped the doc
tor.’
‘Did you expect me?’ was his abrupt
inquiry, without even waiting for a sal
utation.
‘No,’ was the reply.
‘What if it had been death ?’ asked he
when at once he stepped out as abruptly
as be came, and was gone almost before I
knew it.
What a question! Wbat a thought
for every one of us! Does not death
come to roost, if not all, as unexpectedly
as this ? And does not the inquiry im
press the lesson form our Saviour’s lips,
‘Be ye a’so ready, tor in such an hour
as ye think not the Son ol man coin
eth.’
Marriage Maxims.
A good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing.
A man is what his wile makes
him.
It’s the mother who moulds the
character aud destiny of the child.
Never make a remark at the
expense of the gather ; it is mean
ness.
Never part without loving words to
think of during your absence. Besidhs,
it may be that you may never meet again
iu life.
‘llow gently glides the marriage life
away.
When she who rules still seems but to
obey;?,
Never both manifest anger at
once.
Never speak loud to one another unless
the house is on fire.
Never reflect on a past aotion which
was done with a good motivo and with
the best judgment at the time.
Let each one strive to yield oftenest
to the wishes of the other, which is the
mutual culivationof an absolute unsel
fishness.
Never find fault, unless it is perfectly
certain that a fault has been committed,
and even then preclude it with a k;ss,
and lovingly.
Never allow a request to be revealed.
‘I forgot’ is never an acceptable ex
ouse.
Marry into a different Mood and
temperament from that of you r own.
Plenty of money is s great convenience
but if obtained from the poor man's labor
unfrirly, it will sometimes in Iht future
born ent tbe vitals of the possessor.
h A French paragrapher writes that be
i isigg a gif] when she it trying to be a
>p, and a woman when she is trying
girl. But everybody exhorts a
\t like a mar.
>|
The People and the Politicians.
Whoever scut that dispatch from
Atlanta to a Northern paper that ‘the
people have beaten the politicians once
more, aud the South gives another Hen
ry Clay to to the Republic,’ must have
allowed his Hill mania to get the better
of his sober senses. Any one would
suppose from such a disingenuous dis
patch that Mr. Hill represented tho peo
ple, pure and simple, and that Norwood
was the puppet of a political conspiracy.
Now, we take no stock in that sort of
talk, and believe it to bo unadulterated
poppycock, We believe that Mr. Hill
was elected by superior wire-pulling
upon the pert of the most adro t politi
oians iu Atlanta, backed up by tho pres
aud residents of tho Gate City, who no
doubt consider that they represent the
people. To fortify in this view of
the case, we havo the testimony of
the lion. Patrick Walsh, who telegraphs
to his paper, the Chronicle and Sentinel
ou the date of the 26th, as follows :
Ex-Gov Brown rendered valunble
service to Mr. Hill and contributed large
ly to the defeat of Mr. Norwood. Near
ly all of Gov. Smith’s support went over
to Hill before the vote was announced,
and Walker’s supporters, four col
ored members, went at the same
time.
It is believed that the programme was
arranged last night, which worked so
fiucessfully this morning. Tho resolution
carried yesterday dissolving the joint
session elected Hill and defeated Nor
wood.
Whether willingly or unwillingly, the
names ot Governor Smith and Governor
Johnson were used as sticks to break
Norwood’s head.
A man who is not prepared at a mo
ment’s notice to sacrifice his boat friend
and sell out to his bitterest enemy wiill
not make a successful legislator.
Is ex-Gov. Brown uo politician? Were
ex Gov. Smith’s supporters, in Atlauta,
politicians or babies ? Were themeq who
used the names of Smith and Johnson
‘to break Norwood's head,’ mere inno
cents abioad? Did not counting and
crafting politicians fix up that ‘combina
tion’ which worked so well; and was it
not a political trick to get up Hill mass
meetings sooalled, iu several counties, to
create a presente upon Representatives ?
Wherefore, while not so much objecting
to Mr. Hill’s election, we protest against
the bold statement that it was the victo
ry of the people over the politicians. It
was no such thing. It was the voitory
of one set of political managers ovor
another set—only that and nothing
more.
But the sadesl part of Mr, Walsh’s
dispatch is the concluding paragraph
above quoted, that ‘a man, who is not
prepared at a moment’s notice to sacri
fice his bast friend and sell out to his
bitterest enemy will not make a success
ful legislator.’ Verily, these are stern
words, but all bumau history attests
their general truth. We trust that Mr.
Walsh will make plain the reasons iin
pelling him to an utterance which we
are stisfiqjl is largely founded upon fact.
Mr. YVJash has been in public* life long
enough to comprehend the wiles of po
litical maneuvering, and when he puts
such a burning brand upon tho ‘success
ful legislator,’ it is time for men who do
not aspiie to rule mankind to thank God
that they can remain in an humbler
sphere, where it is permitted at least to
stick to friouds and not sell out to’bitter-
est enemies.
A a for Mr, Hill himself we have no
personal feeling against him. Wo have
time and again borne cheerful testimony
to his commending talents, his phenome
nal eloquence and his aspiring soul. We
have not always agreed with him, but
we would not willingly do him an injus
tice, Now that ho is one of our Sena
tors, we recognize in him a remarkable
man—one who has it in his power to
make a glorious name for himself and
add another chapter to the glory of
Georgia. Wj shall rejoice if this be
so, and it may be that our joy, under
snob siroumstances, will be all the more
valuable bceause it comes not from the
mass of his enthusiastic friends or blind
idolaters.
The following arithmetical table is bo
coming very popular:—
2 glances make 1 look.
2 looks make 1 sigh.
4 sighs make 1 waltz.
3 waltzes make 1 palpitation.
2 palpitations make one call.
2 calls make 1 attention.
2 attentions make one fool, (sometimes
2).
2 fools make one fli.trtion.
1 flotation x 2 boquets “,l 1 engage
ment || 1 marriage.
THE HESSIAN AND HIS
BRIDE.
Nullifying tlie Law Prohibiting
tho Intermarriage of the
Whites and Blacks.
(From the Hale'gh Nows.)
Tho other morning n man sent to the
office of the Register of deeds to get a
marriage ILense. ThelPepu y Register
was surprised to hear iu re.-.ponse to Ins
questions that the man was white umD
the woman colored. Of course the li~-
cense was refused.
111 the afternoon we were in (lie Reg*
istcrer’s office, and the man who ha I
wanted the license entered. He had
come to inqu re why it was refused him
and though lie find it fully explained
that the intermarriage of races was il
legal, he left evidently not at all satis
fied.
There was present in the office a gen
tleman, to whose mind the circumstance
recalled an incident of bygone times.
He remembers to have heard of n Hes
#iun and wlio came into Halifax county
in this State, just at the end of the Rev
olulienary u’ar, and became nmoh infat
uated with a negress living in the neigh
borhood. There wa* a legal prohibition
as now, of the intermarriage of the ra
ces, but a clause of the law provided
that if a white man desiring to marry a
negro woman, or vice versa, would ap
pear before a magistrate amttnake oath
that lie or she had negro blood in his or
her veins, the marriage might be solem
nized. The Hessian was aware of this
law', and so, in order to dodge its intent
as well as to shield himself from indict
ment for perj l ry, 110 drew a pint of
Mood from the arm of tho negress,
idriMik it nr.d then went forthwith atvi
made the necessary oatli before a mag
istrate. Tho marriage was thereupon
solemnized, and the decendants of,
tho couple are still living iu Hali
fax.
Tough Lying.
, The fact that Detroiters aro long suf
fering and kind-hearted was again exem
plified the other day. One of the dozen
passengers on a Woodward avenue car,
suddenly remarked that it was nn awful
snow-storm, and that he never saw so
ranch snow on the ground before.
‘Pooh !’ exclaimed a little wifict ot a
man in the corner; ‘this is no snow
stonn at all! Why, in Omaha I have
Seen forty seven feet of snow on tho
ground at once!’
‘Buried the town, dldta’t it ?’ k queried
the man opposite.
‘Of course it buried tho town, but that
was all light. We dug out tho snow
aud left the crust as sort of sky; and in
three days we hadsumui’-r weather down
there. Roses bloomed; peach tress
blossomed, and the boys went iu swim
ming, tlie same as iu July ! Don’t talk
to me about such storms as this I’
‘W-what became of the crust?’ gasped
a man at tlie trout end of the car
‘lt’s hanging up there |yet!’ replied
the noble liar, ‘and the man who doubts
my w ord wants to step out of the car lor
half a minute!’
There that whole dozen men sat as
mute as clams, not daring even to wink
at each other, or to enter a protest, while
the little man branched off ar.ew and be
gan telling that he had s< en hail-stonos
weighing six pounds each.—[Detroit-
Free lVss.
An educated your g man went to Mis
sissippi a few years since. His friends,-
were proud of him, and said he would '
bo heard of in the world before many
years. They were right; the young
man now beats. gong at a railroad sta
tion. •
■■■ •*>*■-* —.
A country clergyman, seeing a young
man standing in the doorway ot a church
and looking hesitatingly about, paused in
the middle ot his sermon, and exclaim
ed : ‘Get out, young man ; she is not
here f
A da>k night—an air hole in the Ohio
! river—a bl.nJ horse—two drunken men
—and tbe coroner saw the shigli at the
bottom of the river.
The following is a verbatim copy of a
tombstone inscription m Pennsylvania :
Battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, John D.
L—— was born Marsh 26, 1839,. in the
town of West Dresden, State ot New
York, where the wicked cease from
troubling and ihe weary are at rest.’
A sensitive old bachelor rays that
pretty girls always affect him as orna
mental confectionery does—tljey givp
him tbe beart-bnrn.
A Wisconsin couple named
boy ‘‘Enough.”
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