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U. CARLTON & CO. devotld to our political, educational, agricultural, and industrial interests. Two Dollars per annum, in advance. VOL 4. NO. 15. It II t.ARLTON & CO., Proprietora. k K jis OF SUBSCRIPTION: —— copv, on« vaar ....... —a a oo ■ COPIES. On# Y««r — - 8 78 COPi E9. Ona Year —- 18 00 itates of Advertisbftg: ,n of on.iquare «r moiatl C* r,. f,.t ih. ftrat i.Mrtion, Mid M coat, for each *»b- n.prtiol). a 1 vertiseiacnu considered Irauilent .eaeapi All ,jh , roiitractaara made. Jom or !U0 word* raaka one equare. r Liberal contracts made with yearly advertisers. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. ,.r Administration or Guardianship..* Ok •ation lor IHunlt alion for Leave i • Debtors and Creditors •fUnd. do., per sqnara... Ptrihall* Properly, 10 days, p«r»q.-- , Nwtico*. 10 days ~~ « 2r»sics. per square ~ - • \dlertors Sales, per square Jwurr •I""*. « ch ii.tion Nolle** (la aa**eea) Si.i ., v»r squirt. ««»»»• itratian or t.uaraiansaip *•«* alulon Adwl.i.trmt.rorOu.rUi.Q IN va to Hell Lands — — '• >d Creditor. - ■? HHATST (.OVER SAID. Bj th. m.rwt chance hi tb. twilight gloom. Id tho orchard path « met me— In the tall, wot gnu, wild ita bint perfume— And I tried to past, but hr made no room; Oit, I tried, but he would not let mo; So I otood tad bluabod till tie graao grow rod, With my Set beat down above It Wl.Be ho took tay hand, m ho whiip’ringoaid— .'Low tho clover lifted etch pink, tweet hood, To Ultra to all that rey lover add; Oh! tho olover in bloom—I love it!) In the high, wot grain, wont thr path to bide And the low, wet leave, hung ovor; But I could not pale upon either aide, For I fcuud mviolf, when I vainly tried, In the arm. or my itead&at lover. And be held me there, rad be railed my bead, While be cloud tho path before me; And be looked down into my .tea and said— (How th. leave, heat down from the bough, o’ Vo ii.ten to all ibat my bvor uid; Oh! tb. I.«-.?» iianging lowlj o’er me 1) Had he moved aeide a little w.y, I could aumlytheubavepeawd him; Aud would not have beard what ha bad to lay, Could I only a>lde have caet him. It waa almost dark, and the moment, oped. And the ixnrchiug uight-wind found ui; But be drew me uesm- aud softly aatd— ATHENS, GEORGIA, TTJESDAjT, FEBRUARY• 8, 1876. s- OLD SERIES, VOL. 55. that j-'inn me on the north. They say be I He could not deny that his wife had Worked is hard np now, and when he finds out that as hard as she could during the yean past, I can make a large payment down, Up- ud the economy that he bad practical bad ild get it mighty reasonable. And when 1 & - paid for, I would have one' siness and Professional Cuds. It. E. THRASHER, \/lOLiiVETA2 I,AW, WATKISSVILLK, GA. iu former Ordinary’* Offloe. jontS-ly REMOVAL! *1. SALE, DEE2IS2, yMOVED to the office lately occupied by Dr. J auction pnsrsnfoed in both Work and Pr.oce. f COBB, ERWIN & COBB, attorneys AT LAW, ATHENS, GA. lifloe in the Deupree Building. ( '. D. HILL, TLOILYET AT LAW, ATHENS, GEORGIA, t.t ••■trillion given to oil bu.ine*. and the uni ally .olicted. j.nll-ly^ POPE BARROW, fTO'IiJYEY A2 LAW, ATHENS, GA. Hr. J. H. Newton’s new building. W. H. LITTLE, Attorney at Law, CABNESVII.LE, GA. J. S. DORTCH, Attorney at Law, CARNEBVILLS, 8A. A. 0. MeCURRY, TTOK.VJSr it T £ Jlf’, HABTWELL, GEORGIA. give Uriel iwrwmol ittentlou to oU bn«ine»» an- .... in. cure. Aug. i'-iO—,y. M. Jackson. L. \V. Tuouas. JACKSON & THOMAS, (torneys at Law. Athetu, Georgia. j JOHN W. OWEN, Attorney at Law. TOC004 CITY, 04. practice iu all the counties of tht Wtstsrn Cir- Hsrt ati»i Madison of the Northern Circuit, tt ill pecisl utteniou to oil claims eutrosted to bis care. vely. .... p. a. thompsos, Attorney at La w, Mention paid to crimiual pvnolio*. For rafar- •pp'y to Kz. Got. T. U. Watte rad Hon. David u.u, d-Hiteomrry Ala. Ottoa over Berry’. Store, iu, (i.. Feb. S—tt_ JOHN T OSBORN, Attorney at Law. ELBKRTON, GA. practice iu the counties of the Northern Circuit, t», Frank] iu sad Uebereham ot tho Woe tern will give special attention to all claims entrust' cere. Jau. 10,1874—ly. FRANK HARRALSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CLEVELAND, GA. practice in the oounties of Whito, Union, Lum- . Tua ns, and Fanning, and tho Supreme Court at urn. Will give special attention to all elehne en- •d to his care. Aug. 11 187&—-41—4*’• E SCHAEFER, cotton buyer, toeco. cm, o*. 1'uh ?,•,«« ,*ia for Conon. Agent for Win f* Buu nul Preee. . oc^20wt.. ^ L A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL atchmaker and jeweller, Dr, King’, Drag Store, Brood Street, AtUru, G». erufk done in a sui»erior manner and erarrmted to I »slisfaction. Jan. 8—tf. a. a. wfsy, -With- ROOVER, STUBBS & CO.. Cotton Kaotors, -And- 'eneral Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. jf“l. T ‘re. Bop. ud otb.r .appliea fcrni.be », libcrri ch advraeee mad. oa eon.ignmrato *w | vt .hipiatut to Liverpool or Northern £Ort». ^ ! liver y and ule stable I"*"?**, Buggie* and Hones for Hire TERMS REASONABLE. l^i^HlTEHEAD, Wellington. Wilka. Co., G». MEDICAL NOTICE. aa; *^’"iution of mray of my former patrona, I >r ^c.tico of Medicine I am rare he knew when he held me Cut, That 1 moot be all unwilling; Fur I tried to go, rad 1 would have paired ; A. the night win coming with it* dew at laat. And the rky will. itar. was filling; But he elasped me close whau I would have Bed, And lie mad* me hear till story, And hi* aonl cam* out from hi* lip. and said— (How the atari crept out where the whito moon led. To listen to all that my lover said; Ob, the moon and stars in glory !) I know that th* gnu rad th* leave* will not tall, And I’m sure that th* wind—precious rovar— Will cany hi* secret ac aafaly and well That no being aliall ever diacover One word of the many that rapidly fell From the eager lip* of my lover. Shall neterravtal what a fairy-lik. spell, They wove round aliout oa that night in th* dall, In the path through the dew-laden clovar; Nor eclioth* whiipcr* that made my heart awell j As thav fell from the lip. of my lover. I HIRAM GRAHAM’S INVEST MENT. “Now wo arc not only out of debt, but we have got ll.OoO ah.-ad, and the question U, how are we going to invent it ?** Hiram Graham, sitting jest outside of the open door to enjoy the g-sitei'ul cool ness of the summer evening, threw aside his paper as he s iokc, and awaited his wife’s reply. His wife, busy over her sewing, did not answer immediately. “ Come,” he said, “ let me have your : opinion. I’!l bet you’ve made up your { mind what to do with it long ago. You know the saying: “ A man to save money, and a woman to spend it,” and ho laughed good naturedly. Yes, Mrs. Graham had made up her mind long ago. The thought of a time when thev should lie dear of debt and some of their surplus earnings could ho expended for home comforts had helped her to make over and repair many an old garment that she was al>out to tin ore- aside in depair; it had oncouraged her to contend with num berless disadvantages and inconveniences. Bat now that the time had really come, she felt a strange reluctance aliout reveal ing'her thoughts. 8h* was oppressed with fear that her long cherished plans might be dashed to the earth. However, sho commenced bravely enough: “I have thought we would repaint the house some pretty color, such as silver grey, and have shutters put up at the wjp- clows the right shade of green to harmon ize with the eoior of the house—the same as the utocii 'eaves of t il-.- poclar harmonize with the soft grey „i its trunk and branches—” “ Why, Jennie,” exclaim- d Mr. Graham, “ there is a good coat of paint on the house now. And there if no color an durable as red lead, in my estimation.” ' ’ “And,” continued his wife, “I would have the yard inolosed with a neat picket fence—” “ I don’t see any use in bearing down that fence. The rails are good -uia sound a» they were twenty years ago.” “ Lase don’t interrupt me so, lliram. I would re-paper the rooms, buy a new in grain carpet for the parlor and muslin cur tains for the windows ” “Tnunderation! What is the sense of having curtains if you havo shutters f Be sides, these paper curtains answer every purpose os far as I can see. The paper on the walls is perfectly whole. It u true that you havo patched it considerable, but that dou’t show much. And as for tho carpet—why, haven’t you got" a new carpfit in the room now ?” “Yes’, hat th-t would be for the sitting- room. Anti I would have a hay window, made ofT the south side of the sitting-room, for house plants.” Mr. Graham laughed outright at this. “Now, Jennie:” he said, “I .ave never said anything' about It, but have always thought it was kind of foolish to spend as much money and time as you d» fussing with flowers out-doors; but when you come to make flower-beds of—that beats me!".. „ Jt 1 “ Yiri “ “Hiram,” said Mrs me for my opinion. Now, pl.ase don't in. terrnpt me.” “ Very well. Go ahead.” “ I would have a portico built over where fon are sitting, and a wood,hour>e and a arge cool pantry, that I need o much, on the liack of the kitchen. One part of the wood houso would he finished off, where the cook stove could stand in hot weather. It would he so much cooler working there than iu the close kitchen. And the lutchen, too, would be so much cooler for ns to eat in. Beside, this, there are many little adornments, such as pictures, eto., that I would ada afterwards.” “ Why!" exclaimed Mr. Graham, “ if we were to go into that, it wonld take every cent of the money.” “ Well, wo eamod it to invest in some. , didn’t we ?” cs; but I want to invest my money in something that will bring me'in soma kind of an income.” “ It would bring ns in the best of all in- comes not in dollars, but what is better, far—in joy and happiness. Life would have a fader and purer meaning for us both; it wonld bring a higher aud - otter atmosphere in which to rear up our children. Ere? the humming-binl ‘ loves to deck Its sweet of the best farms in the country. Now, what do yon say to that!” he asked trium phantly. \ “It tkoifld ran os right into debt again,” suggested Mrs. Graham. / ' “Well, supposing it did. Wo have, twang dear this time easy enough, apd can again. Yon must remember that the land was badly run down when I first got hold of it. hut the farm is in good condition now.”. “Easy enough” Mrs. Graham did not repeat the woras aloud. Her husband did not know of the little sacrifiees and acts of self denial it had cost her. • He never oould know it, and therein lies the pathos of many a sacrifice. The next morning Mrs. Graham was up betimes and busy as usual amidst her house hold cares, but her heart bad lost its light'* neas; and as she stood under the locust tree, which shaded the back door, churning, it seetaed, too, as if much of the brightness had gone out of her life. Golden dandelions nestled in the grass that caqieted the yard I ike stray hits of sunshine; they were still iriglit with the dewy treshuess of earlv morning. To the right, there was a stretch of low meadow land; tho silver thread that traversed it showed where a brook mur mured along, . i|s tiny waves sparkling in the sunlight.' To the left, were £elda of grain witB^ripMev Mads bowed, waiting tor the sickle. The air was full of happy sounds; the soft tinklo of distant oow hells, t lie voice of domestic fowls, and the song of tv ld birds. Bat her great disappointment overshadowed it all. She could think of nothing but tin- great har-i-likc house, painted glaring red, with its large, slmttorless windows, like tidless eyes, staring out upon the dusty highway. Inside of it was equally as barren of grace or beauty ; the walls were dingy and una dorned by pictures of any ; ind; the furni ture wis worn guiltless of p-iiut or varnish; ■•■ith no works of literature worthy of men- ti ,-ii besides the weekly paper, the Bib o an-1 an almanac. In this atmosphere sue inu-t!ive; here, she must henceforth work on while mind and soul starved; here, too, she must rear her children, to st— worth or beauty is nothing that cannot lie repre sented liy gold. What wonder, then, if her thoughts and eyes wandered over tin- fields ot waving grain, to where a stately stone house stood on an eminence. She knew there was buauty there; the breezes stole into large airy rooms, through lace curtains; there were rich carpets and cost*, ly furniture, and a library that was almost an intellectual feast to but look at; outside then- were pleasant, walks and drives, and a flower garden, ^fii.e l with rar st floral treasures; and then r-he sighed softly as she Jionght to hernelE * Bui love would not have bean there, find life would have been of little worth without that.' 'Jennie! Jenniel Oh, here you are,’ and Mr. Graham came out through the back kitchen door end seated himself, upon the edge of a huge logthat be had hewn out.'and did doty for both evesdrop end cistern. It was not unusual for him to seek her; he alwa’s did when he eeoe in and found her not in the house. It was not e bed habit in the man. His very life seemed bound up in her; and although he bed the reputation among his neighbors of being * close, in his business trr inaction* he wns kindhearted and generous ton, in his way. This morning ho had something of importance to com municate. * I diden’t tell you last evening,’ he raid, that I had already had some talk with South- well about that land. lie wouldn't listen to * cent under $2000 then, and I wouldn't ofleF more than $1500. He came over to see me this rooming end offered to split the differ, enee. Ain’t that a bargain, though! A little better then spending money for paint or paper, eh Jennie f Oh, be raid, rising te go, ‘ I came near forgetting to tell you? Power* is here. He wants to hire out through tlie harvest. I have hands enongh, but 1 suppose tho more help I have the better I shall get along, so I told him to go right at work. I don’t -uppnse he haa been to breakfest yet, his folia are eo slack j so you might set ewBSLititfer hhn toeat Try.and have the lunch reedy bv half past nine; you can blow the horn end l ’“ the men down for it.' JOHN RANDOLPH. economy been mostly in her domain. He began to wish that he had treated her wishes Mere re spectfully, at hast. But then he aeeM-not help loakipg over to where that forty acres lay-. What a choice pieoe of land it was! How long be hod wanted it! And now when it was almost within let it g^IvAnd even were Jennie’s wishes uow, wouldn’t be hod done eo reluctantly, and against his better judgmeut T And during the afternoon he thought the matter over and over. 1 Powers,’ he called out, os that individual was leaving the Add fit night, * if the folks et home can spore Miranda, let her come up in the morning end help mr wife.’ * All right, she will be glad to come,’ was the answer. Harvest was over, and Mrs. Graham spoke of diachar ging the girl. * You hod- better keep her to help you,’ odrised her a- ijWnit, ‘No,’ raid Mrs. Graham; * when" there is none but my own family I can do the work easv enough alone. I believe I like to work/ added she smiling; ‘ at least 1 am always happpiest when 1 am busy.’ * How long is it since you have been home to your father's on a vk.it ?’ he asked abrupt- ly. . < » ‘Five years ago lost June, when sister Ellen was married.’ . How prompt the aaswer came. Perhaps she had counted the time. * How would you like to go outand see the folks this fall f What a glad light came into her face, and then faded, as she said hesitatingly. ‘ How can I go ?’ * Never mind about that. You have earned a play-day. and none of my transac tions shall hinder you from enjoying one. You had better take the children with you ; the folks will want to see them. We will go to town to-morrow, and you can get what things you need, and Miranda can slay and help you to get ready. You will want'toget off as soon as you can, for you will want to make a good iung vi.it while you are about ! will sand one of tsi*,w , ^ . . .. .-1. T-.C.1 the huiniumg-uira loves 'aa!*! 1 "* * r< * Children, tf£3S£r&£:!ft* ni-st w.th pretty mosses and lichens. j Ought we noi to havo as much love for WM. KING, M. D [homo and ns adorning* as God’s dumb creatures T" BLACK dt GARDNER, I “1 have something more hnrortf Iters and General Jobber*. I li*e for ’.han » humming-bird•kaa/’Mi yfofr oflarthair aarviaaatatlraaManaaf Atlren. | Grlhin^wmW^^l RL Location, two doom rest o! j something more substantial to nr, y children, 00 such an bread, wdhtilled acrej^r/ Marc> M. isTs—ly. I will t*U you what I have been of”’ he said, wit the air of one who tins the expressing of his Opinion necessarily bring conviction of nis si You know that 1 have Poor Jennie 1 It was like the last straw tlwtlimi At ImR Hci ‘Sba atrtiatMfl hard but the tears would come. Mr. Gra ham turned back and causa instantly to her side when he raw that she mi in trouble. '-What is the matter, dear’ he asked, com- passionately, while his large kind hand glid ed down her hair with a soft .stressing touch. There was no answer and tears only come toi-ter. * It you are not feeling well I will slip down and get Miranda Powers to come up and help you, I guess I’d better any way, hadn’t I? Mrs. Graham mastered ner' emotion with j effort. * O no ?’ she raid. ' There isn’t Mr. Graham hesitated; he was not satisfied with this explanation. ’ There!’ she raid. ‘ Now do go along to your wotk, or l shall be foolish enongh to cry again,’ and indeed, she laughed very much as if she might. Hiram Graham had a hunt idea as to what the matter was, and wns very willing to do as she bade him. He ielt con siderably annoyed that his wife could ant see the advantage of the proposed purchase that would so materially add to their mutual pros perity. And then he began to wonder what she was thinking so silently about while she stood looking off toward the distant hill. A lit.le jofowjWI*iu with thf thpoght.,The owner of u&t nne ziiqiiod bid once been t formidable rival of bis. There coaid have of a summer evening ten yean ego. How proud end happy he had felt! Ha vowed ebeeLeiud aeeer wanifov anyikiag which his labor could procure. Bs* he bad changed since. He hod but little to mence life with; they had to practice rigid economy, add to watch every doll closely. , to be able to meet the payments on the form .fonaK, it/ yV the LaGrange Reporter: “Thi points of the Chronicle lie appeared te be anxious to hasten her departure; but Mrs Graham was too hsppv at the thought of Seeing the home of her childhood again to notice it at the time. But what will you do without us, if we make a long stay ?’ ’Don’t mind about me. I can keep bache lor’s hall.’ he added laughing. Two weeks after and Mrs. Graham had gone; and Hi ram Graham had the house all to himself. After the lapse of five weeks he went to the station to meet his wife and children. They had enjoyed the most'delightful visit, and all were glad and happy, and os they drove homeward there waa much to be told, and many inquiries to be made. As they neared the house Mrs. Graham looked sud denly forward, while her husband watched her faoe sad rubbed his heads together in qniet glee. What was that soft luitrons gray, gleaming out from among the green trees? Was she dreaming? No; it was the bouse with its 'green shutters aad por ticos. ‘Why Hint ui Graham, what have you. oa doing ?’ She looked again. 'And a picket fence? And the mast charming little gate I And a graveled walk;’ And then she couldn’t keep the glad tears from eoming. ‘Come, Jennie/ said Mr. Graham, teasing- ly. although his own eyes moistened with sympathetic hapiness. don’t feel so glad about it. I may have worse things yet to show you. There how does that suit you ? he asked after they had entered the house, pointing to the gay-window. *1 didn't un derstand such things, so I got a workman that did, you see it is all complete, ready for the plants. And here/ he raid leading, tho wayjUireMjififa kitchen^ and throwing open a door, hs the wood-house; and here, opening a doorPGPa pantry that can’t be beat anywhere. And this is something you didn’t mention, he continued, approaching a neat sink is the’kitchen ; and laying hold of the handle of a cistern pump that stood in one end. up gushed a jetof soft water, which told of a good cistern underneath. 'Look through the window and you will see a covered drain that carries away all the waste water. I am going to fix it so you can irrigate your flower garden with it. You see I didn’t do anything with these things/ he said, after they had entered the sittings room, glancing depr c'atingly toward the dingy colored papering, the dilapidated furs nilure and thread-bore carpet. I would rather trust that lb you. And besides I found there was so much real enjoyment iu it that I would lie generous and leave some of the pleasure for you. Here is the mousy that is left/ he added, presenting her a goodly roll of hills. One plearant day in autumn and all - was complete, and indeed, as Mrs. Graham, raid, it looked like a ‘bit of Eden*’ *1 do be lieve/ she raid, turning towards her husband, with such a glad, bright look iu her face— ‘I do believe that I am just the happiest wo man in the world.” He drew her gently to him. ‘Jennie/ he said, ‘what were you thinking about that morning that I fouud you churning under the locust tree, and looking so intently at that old stone building on the hill? Her only answer was a merry laugh. , ‘Did you you ever think so before?* A1 though he asked the question hesitatingly, he looked very wistfully into her face for an answer. No, you dear, simple darling, and I am sure I never shall agiun; and/ looking up archly, I didn’t then! Six years had passed away, and one bright morning in spring Mr. Graham en tered the house. He hod changed in three ; the slight renghness which had char- 'him previously hod worn away'; i an increased dignity and maliness in hisbeating. His children, also had grown to be n constant source of paternal pad* -find delight. So surely do our inner natures conform to the planes of our outward sur roundings. He held op a paper j he hod iu his hauls. ’There,’ said he, addressing his wife. *is the deed of that Southwell forty, from incumbrance. If «t had not __ for you/ he continued, smiling, are well taken, and M ld have owned that long «go. and the PB Y SIC IAN. r 4 c*., 5 tint forty-lore lot of mittee’s reply.” to see the Execuive Com-, Southwell farm, too, perhaps. But I God that I didn’t/ he added earnestly. . * I hod I would have been so close over Sa y s Mo-wrttio ilxaxni.—Toe reputation of the, W ork-nck tty this time that I never tV lift on .B.tuttie gffnrms Machine is eo thoroughly , « , tu ImI — * IP..,.— Jt.irnl established that no wor.l in ita commendation ienreee-M^ he iblefo look Up. nettem xiurai. nhjts ■ -ygsyflan^adopted by the manufacturer, of this mi fiunMISilflamMe « placing their prices so low a. to "T(Yom* wit-.m the reach of the pr.rrr cl.-uses, certainly entitles them to the gnuito h- ,.f those who are really BioW- to need ofsUch an article. Mxhite* will he de livered at imy Bell rood Station in this countv free of transportation charges, if ordered through Draaaw & Gnrmrn at Athens, (Ja. r T” Thny send eu elegant citalogue and’chmmo circular, rraaon application. They want a few more good rr i*WA f/Oil f A Week (umjM to Male aad Femalo u ■- *•- *- ■*—“— '^uti Nothing . —-— — _ .... .O. YICKE- *• -*?** M rea.1 of Covington, intend bu ild- How Hs Cana Ids Slaves of Lsslnets. It is well known tkat Mr. Randolph owasd more than three hundred alms, and was sncasdiwgly lenient to them; he mould not allow his overseen to treat them with aqy degree of harshness; they were eye ser vants and would only work when closely watched, or when Mr. Randolph was at home from their love ef him and fear of his anger. Once when public duties kept him from home for several years, his negroes be came idle and worthless, and not half crop* ware raised, and carts end wagons and all the farming utensils were left in the field, and without shelter went to ruin; the fences were down or dilapidated, and the cattle and stock of everf kind were much crippled up by the negroes in the efforts to chase them out of the fields. More than half the nig gers were “ playing possumthat is, pre tended to be sick in order to avoid work. While things were in this condition Mr. Randolph came home from Washington to spend -the Christmas holidays. Looking over his plantation accounts with his over seer, he discovered that bis plantation was not only not self-sustaining, but actually bringing him into debt. After a thorough examination of everything on the plantation he saw at once what was the matter, and that his rigid instructions to bis overseers to be lenient to the negroes had been the cause of the trouble, and they wouln not work un less under fear of punishment, and he de termined upon a plan for correction. The slaves in old Virginia, and all the South, had a week’s holiday from Christmas, to New Year, and these days were days of gen eral jubilee and jolification. Egg-m g was kept at the house or mansion for everybody and all hands ; there was a terrible slaugh ter among the negroes’ pigs and fat pou try, anil many a ’possum, caught weeks before and fattened in barrels, and “ coons” smoked in the big cabin chimney, were served up with pound-cake, puddings, chicken-pie, “ store tea,” and locust and persimmon beer at the holiday feasts night aud day. It was then that the fiddle, the banjo, anil tambu- rine and the clevis and the clevi.-pin kept up a perpetual music for the never ceasing dance. Mr. Randolph waited for the ter mination of these Christinas holidays, and promptly on the 1st of Jauuary he ordered the overseer to have all the farming utensils brought to the barn yard. It took all day to search for them and to get them together from where they had been lying about in the fields far and near. The next morning there was a grand inspection of plows, harrows, hoes and rakes, and all that were broken or seriously injured were thrown into a pile. Mr. Randolph then raid, in bis shrill voice: “ Set them on fire, Mr. Chumly, and burn them up.” The overseer remonstrated and urged that many of them might be re paired. “ No, sir! No, sir 1 I wont than burned up. They would always ba old, rickety good for nothing. I went no good for noth ing ateleles on this place.” And burnedjthey were. Orders were then given to have all the wagons, carts, slides, scythes, cradles, harness and gear brought up, and, after due inspection the next morn ing, a bonfire was made of all those rejected, and immediate order* issued to have all the sheep, goats and hogs gathered together. On the ensuing morning these were inspect ed, and many were found feeble with age and want of food ; others were crippled and injured, and all such, iu spite ot the over seer’s pleading, were remorselessly knocked on the head and buried. All the horses, mules and homed stock were brought up for the fourth day, and in Mr. Randolph’s rigid inspection many were declared worth less ; and though Mr. Chumley begged that some of them might be spared, as they could he put to good use, Mr. Randolph was un relenting, and all the condemned, including the blind, lame, spavined, fistulated and wind broken, were mercilessly shot and buried. As the weather had been quite cold during these days of inspection, many of the negroes, and especially the old, had continued to “play’possum,’’ and had never turned out of their cabins to aid in getting gether the, live stock or farming utensils. _r. Randolph now gave orders that *11 the negroes, old anil young, should he brought to the house next day for inspection, and, in the meantime, he had a good many plain cuffius of all sizes made, and suitable graves dug near the chapel. The news of these fearful preparations soon penetrated every c ibin, and things began to look serious iu tho mind of Mr. Cuffee Black. Th j negro- e knew toot Mr. Rondo ph was a member ot Congress, a big man in the country; they knew lie was accustomed to have his way, and nobody attempted to interfere with him, and they fully believed that ho had full power of life aud death o\er them. Tuey knew ho. eras a good, kind master, man hd neighbor; bnt then, they said, he had “such quare ways” that there was no tolling what he would do if the notion took him. They had seen ho.v he had burned all the damaged hum implements and caused the injured and worth css sheep, goats and horses to be knocked on the head; and how he had shot all the old bro ken down stock without pity; and now what did he mean .to.dot with them and with all those coffins and caves 1 This was actly the train of reflection and comment that Mr. Randolph had calculated upon; and accordingly, on hie arrival on the ground, be found on anxious, terrified crowd of negroes, and not ®ue was. missinj —all were there. He entered and took hi seat betide tho overseer at a table. Juba, his servant, placed on -he table before him his dueling cose open, and containing pis tols and plenty ot amunition. “And they are all here f” asked Mr. Ran dolph of the overseer. Up spoke a hundred voices, “Oh, yes, Mont John, we’s all here.” •Ghumley was ordered to call the Hat con tuning the names of all those who had been old enough to work during one year, but hod not worked. They were planed in a row, in which stood more than half the grown negroes. The old shirks and tinners were not dew to see how the list had been made up, and long before the roll call was ended many of them were on their knees, beseech ingly looking from the stern face of their master toward the pistols and the open graver and many 8 “ Lord-a-mercy on me. Mars John,” went up from the line, but Randolph ordered them to be silent. When the lost hod been called, he squeak ed out, “You ray, Ghamley, these ~ won’t work; tifA fhsjLom *h& 3* find good for nothing; that they cannot moke enongh to eat, and I most buy bread and moat to feed them.” Handing Ghamley * pair of pistols, he gfijg: “Ckaatisy. bagtn at the otkor and ot tb# -l —I LHU 1 Coeds* to Their Seases. ThereJs every prospect now that the cot* , , - _ , , . . v , , tow crop of 1875 will reach 4,400,000 greet rushed up to Randolph and begged in bales. Whim to this is superadded tho the most pitiful terms for thsir lives, all de- * ‘ ' - line and I’ll begin at this, and wall shoot these worthless ntgroes.” - A universal cry went up, and all the no* that they could work, mad that they ["never play ’possum and lie up again. Randolph finally relented and agreed to spare them, provided they could rive securi ty among the other negroes that they wonld work Writ in the futnse. No ono could have eSectod «■§ a gsaaioe searfeae Row* dolph did. The negroes knew tkat he was a strange, ecentrie man; that the whole peo ple o! Charlotte ell hot wonhipped him; end they believed implicitly that he wowld do what he said he would do. He did not al low any severe punishment upon his slaves, but this lesson was sufficient. The empty graves were filled np without occupants, end the negroes went to work with a will. The ■iMMosef thetty. How does the blueness mt eo unclouded sky originate ? We (GaSttfs gbefeseicaf J3tfu- brier) may fori Explain it hg wisamri *a«- perimental illustration. Upon a sheet of black glass, or a surface of black japanned metal, place a drop of milk, dilluted if nec essary—which will seldom be the case—with 'a drop of water. The milk is a cloudy medium ; its minute particles reflect certain rays of very short wave-length—those to ward the more refrangible or Blue end of the spectrum ; Therefore, by reflected light a drop of milk on a dark background appears blue. So through a. delicate skin, and a series of translucent hut not transparent membranes, the light reflected where the dark background of a vein filled with venous hlo<<d exists, is blue. So, also, the translu cent, hut not apparently transparent, tissue of the iris ot the eye often reflects a blue light, there being in this instance also a background of black pigment, but no real colouring matter whatever. The blueness of the sky hss a similar orgin. Against the great depreraion in the price rf manufao- tored goods, tho clotiog of scores of factories, and the working on short time of as many more, the numerous labor strikes, and general stagnation in business, it it not too mash to say that tho prico of oar great staple most tend still lower, and even reach the point when the cost of pro duction will exoeed the. most moderate margin of profit And the people, real ising this feet, are, happily, preparing for each an emergency, by sowing an enor- mous area in small their crops. Yesterday, we met a gentleman who gave ns the name of • planter in Dough erty county, who hod turned-his back upon the ruinous policy of the paat,ond ignoring cotton altogether^ was bending every encr-i- ' gy to the production of rye, barley, wheat and oats, and the rearing of stock. Ho had falraady beaded -three hundred acres oats, and expected to devote'rik'hahdr more to corn, sorghum, sugar cone, etc. The purpose of this gentleman is to turu his attention to sheep and cattle raising os the principal source of revenue. And what could bo more profitable in that soft and f enial climate, if the stock is watched by ay to protect it from dogs and biped thieves, and duly herded at night under the eye of the proprietor ? For at lcast/eight months in the year the native wire grass, bay leaves, and cauo brakes of the swamps afford the finest pasturage, and then the open fields, with their wealth of pea vines, corn, shucks, rice straw and crab grass, can eke out the win ter almo-t without any positive expense for keeping. But in addition, with the land enriched by the droppings of the stock, any amount of turnips, corn, fodder, millet and other forage may be raised at dark background of infinite space a translu-; gnia ]| expense, and fetfaway in very wet or cent medium is placid; this medium is the co ]^ wea ther. atmosphere. It is never transparent, count less millions of minute particles, chiefly of water, being suspended in it. When these particles are of a certain degree oi minute ness and uniformity, they arrest the free Indeed, nothing but vigorous effort and the settled determination to succeed are wanting to transform the cotton belt into a glorious stock region, teeming with sheep, - - , goats, cattle, horses and swine,which,to- pasrage of white light; this they do by a pe- j gether with the production of rice, grapes culiar kind ot “ interference. Each minute aiu ] sugar-cane, would make it the most prosperous farming region in the State. The above gives but an inkling of what can and must be done if cotton continues to rule at present prices. And wo arc not sure that a rise would not in tho end prove more disastrous than beneficial to the peo ple inhabiting that portion ot the State.— Telegraph and Messenger. foreign particle of wator gives rise to two reflections, one on each surface—one exter nal, on the anterior surface; one internal, on the posterior. These reflecte 1 rays, passing from air into water, and from water into air, suffer different retardations, and, on emergence, cause the usual phenomenon of interference, uami-iy, the production of col our. . When the partioles thus affecting the incident light are sufficiently minute and sufficiently numerous, the proportion of re flected green, blue, end violet rays, which together gi ve the colour-sensation of blue, predominates greatly over the red, orange and yellow ray*, with their longer undula tions. Thus the reflected light of the open sky is blue; but let the thickness of the re flecting layer, or the number of the reflect ing particles increase, and the blueness of the light decreases^ for the solar light which has been deprived by the kind of reflection just described of.a great proportion , ef its more refrangible rays ot abort vibration, has become yellowish, or orange, tinted, and is no longer capable of furnishing on excess of blue rays. From this cause we see that while the light of the zenith' is a distinct blue, it becomes gradually of a less pro nounced than that to wards the horizon, where it would be white if other conditions did not there produce other modifications of the re flected light. This exquisite gradation of tone in the sky is often missed by unobser vant painters, who think that the same mix ing of some blue pigment will do to repre sent the color of the whole sky in their pic tures. Slanukr a Disease.—The Jewish Mes senger, at New York, discourses forcibly about this fell pest. It observes that when tve examine “ the human form divine” we find that the tongue appears to hav,e been especially guarded by what may he termed two breakwaters, tho teeth and tho lips, so tluit it should not pass them without a struggle for the mastery; yet totally un mindful of consequences, it passes the guards and runs a giant’s race to indulge in utter loquacity and slander. It is a dis ease of so virulent a character that, even in days of old, it appears to have per meated society, even to endangering life. It was not without a purpose that Israel’s sweet singer warned people against employ ing their tongues to slander their neigh bors, showing the resulU in tho following emphatic sentence : “ Who is the man that desire th life, loveth many days, that liness ? Guard thy tongue from evil, and thy Ups from speaking de ceit ” No one hail suffered more from the effect of slander than David ; hence, as ex- icriencc is the best teacher, the shepherd ting was decidedly the safest instructor, f admonition of this character, however, were needful in tho undeveloped days of David, how much more eo must it be in this modern fast age—in this day of a thousand facilities for the utterance of lies and unclean gabble by endless speech-raak' ing and circulation of the same by railroad and telegraph and multiplied printing. Guard thy tongue, in the press and out of it—business and out ot it—in the Legisla ture and out of it—and especially in the family circle. The London PictoruU World says that the story of Cinderilla is not the invention of some imaginative genius, but that is founded on fact. It cities Strabo as its authority Gerusn Railway Traveling.—Charles Dudley Warner writes to the Hartford Courant: “ The German railways are not intended for through travelers. The rail way lines laid npon ;he map look lika a lace pattern—there are to straight lines. You are always going round to call at some town or another, which is uninteresting for a stranger who has no friends in the towns. Not more than one express train a day seems to go in any direction, and all the others ore as slow os a Now England deacon’s horse on Sunday. However, I don’t mean to complain of German rail- ways—they ore safe and comfortable; if you want speed and damages you Amer icans know where to go. A compartment of the second class, holding eight persons, in a German carriage, is a snug place for a winter ride. It is so well upholstered that you can ride on the seats without fatigue, and sleep at your ease. The compartment of the first --’.ass is in the same carriage, and differs only in a little more luxurious upholstery. For winter travel, when there nothing to see, these compartments are very nice; for summer I prefer an Amer ican palace-car. But when the wind raves over a desolate country there is a feeling of sntigness in these little apartments. The window* are all closed, everybody lights his cigar, the lady, if one happens to bo present, does not ever think of saying that she likes smoke—that is taken for granted —and soon the air is so thick that you might imagine yourself in a beer-hall, en joying yourself to the utmost. Not that you are obliged to ride iu smoke ; on prob ably all the trains there arc compartments distinctly set apart for the non-smoking, -nd generally there is a separate compart ment for ladies. story is, as follows: One day a Isay id Bhodopis was bathing in the Nile, th* wiud carried one of bar raiflsls and ts very beautuui ana u;e sing mnrrjea r. She is remembered in history ns the Rosy Cheeked Queen” of Egypt, end the •ed two thousand years before the Cbris- The named and the laid it at the feet of the Kingof Egypt, who holding court of justiee in the open nir not far away. His curiosity wns excited by the singularity of the event and the elegance of the nndsl, and bs offered a reward foe the discovery of the owner. Rhoddpis. churned it, and it was found to fit her exactly. Sh# woe very beautiful and the king manjed her. f - - Rosy lived two thousand years tian era. Mr Hathaway, who was deputed by Fall River manufactures to go to England, and arasitain whether cotton goods could profitably exported to that country, is his return. Meantime exports ore increas ing. A new and most extensive market is also open in Chino, where the reputation of British goods is wqr low, oa acceowt of over-sizing and adulteration. It is a strange feet that, notwithstanding the known superi* Irity of the product of many American mills over the British, some New England manu lecturers who turn oat,goods of excellent quality, palm them off on the market as im ported from Grant Britefor Madison Home Journal: One incubus, however, and a gigantic incubus it is— must be raised from us before we can rise to our ante ibellum prosperity. \Va allude to the infamons homestead and ex emption provision in'the bogus constitu tion under which we now live so hardly. This provision is tho very essence of dis honesty, and as such is a disgrace to the statute books of Georgia. We are not at- " ing the character of those of our peo ple who have been eo unfortunate ae to tave been forced to seek a fancied shelter beneath the carrion wings of this law; but the constitution itself—the organic law of the State—which, instead of reflecting the sentiments of our people, bears npon its very face the badge of fraud. We must get rid of the homestead and exemption laws before we can prosper. To do this, the constitution must be amended or a new one mode. To amend it will require three years at least, so that it is decidedly *x- pedient that a sovereign convention of cur people be held, and a new constitution be le in which there shall be no vestige of this iniquity, nor of any other found in the old. This done, the “Empire State” will “blossom as the rose.” Thomoston Herald: Mr. Hamilton, of Floyd, proposes to have all the dogs in the State registered in • book provided by the Ordinance between tho first, of April and the first of June, tho owner ““ dollar for registration, declaris_ tered number. The dog so registered shall wear upon his neck a collar bearing on it th* name of hi* owner and the regis tered number. A violation of this order subjects the owner to a fine not exceeding $50, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. The money arising.from the regis tration of dogs goes to the pubUc school funds of the county. Any person killing » dog not registered is entitled to receive one dollar. This seems to cover tho ground, and if each a law was pot strictly in force for five years there would be m many fine sheep in Georgia as then awe worthless dogs sow, and m a short time' pruitobls ted growing Would toh* Mm place of growing cotton at s loss to • grate extent. Who, that has the good of his country at heart, or the welfare of Ms neighbor,can object to snob a regulation.