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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.” no. mi