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H. II. CARLTON & CO YOI. Of Jlt|ens d§forgiau. jj h. CARLTON & CO., Proprietors. A. K. CHILDS.' XICKKKSON. CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO. PEALEKSIS TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: —jo:— one COPY, One a OO PIVE COPIES, One Yenr 8 78 TEN COPIES, One Year 18 OO Hardware, Iron, Steel, Nails, i FAIRBANKS’ SCALES, RUBBER BELTING, RATES OF ADVERTISING. ‘ Af-mm tituai rummnrvT« Transit®*. Advertisements *1.50 per square AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, ti:>t insertion and 75 cents per square for each ! continuance. Local notices 20 cents per line, notice inserted fur less than $1 90. # s follows: 1 Column 12 months f Column 13 months j Column 13 month* 1 Column 0 months .■ ‘ Column G month* j Column 0 months No local Contracts IH11 Findings, AOIKT1 BOB V-3 *c>ooo ! Win ship and Sawyers Cotton Gins. wloo i20 00 70.00 40 00 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Citation for Estlcn of <tuirril*n»hip - fS 00 Citation tor Lallan mt Administration .... . 4 DO IAppllc.tloalarL.tMnW Dlimlnion Administrator. 5 00 Application tor Lrltpra of Dlimluton tiuardian 5 » Application for le.TotoS.il Land. 5 00 \,.uce to IKhlon anil Prod lion „ 5 on ...(Unit, Ac , per squat* 6 50 i lYrinhabl. 1‘roporty, 10 days, per 1 so av N..licet, 30 days a oo .... jiffsalet. por square * i 50 Pbeiiff Mouses* tv.t» sales per equate 5 PO I'jlleclor'i Sales, per equsre 5 00 , i,..lire M.irtsiee, per square, each time. . 100 option Notice, .in atlvance) 2 JA ■itole Si.i*,. tier square, oaeli lime- I 50 (Business and Professional Cards. Il.vm.u: Conn. IIoweli. Cobb. l. & 11. conn, Itornejys til la if, Athens, Ga. (ifliec in Deuprcc Bunding. Idi.ly. __ _ ALEX. S. ERWIN, Attornej' at .Law, Athens, Ga. lulii'e nit Broad Street, between Center Jc Heaves mid Orr «lt Co., upstairs. Ji. E. 111 11AS11ER, A / / O'JtJV'UT A 7 1A w, watkinsville, ga. &c., &c„ &c. - c tof ATHENS, GEORGIA. GINS DELIVERED IN ATHENS AT MANUFAC- ; \ TUBERS PRICES, . j ’ Sfri. ao^i-tf, f ; j i 1 f ! T. T. TAUM9C*. —DEALER IN— Amtrifw ati) Import^ Waters, Clods, Jewelry, 1 ■ •»«*»'»*>«. [For He Sunday Chronicle and Sentinel.] A BLACK BIRD THAT COULD SINC BUT - i j WOULDN’T SING. Rovisod and CorrecW by Poe E. Tatter. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and wean', O’er the War of the Rebellion and the thloga tliat were before; While 1 eat absorbed in thinking, brandv cock-tail, slowly drinking, | Suddenly I enwa blliidhig, one eyad figure at my door— Saw a nasty, stinking, blinking, one eved figure at my door, Standing up as atiff as steelyards, just across my cham ber floor,:.' 1 I * if Peeping in, and—nothing more. Alt! I never sliall forget it, bow, in glancing round. 1 1 met it, And 1 ever ahull regret it that 1 look’d towards that door, For I saw a monstrous figure—like a giant, only bigger— And there stood a big buck nigger, with bis back against the door, Darting, with a hideous snigger, glances right across lay floor. A reeking, lantern, jaw'd buck nigger, bolt upright against my door, Glancing in, and—nothing more. Quick, Instinctively espying where ray bam Tberra^^'lyin^klbU, floor, Ana with most determined vigor seized nnd hurled it at the Rigger, But so quick was he on the trigger, as he jump'd it ATHENS; GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1876. —-4-—-r> BANGOR’S SAS'L nd eggs rth upon the SILVER AND PLATED WAKE, Musical Instruments, (Inns, Pistols, Etc. I WATCHES, CI.rtCK. AND JEWlIllY REPAKXD IN A MAT, | WORKMAN LIKA MANNER, And warranted to give entire satisfaction. Ornamental and Plain fatter Fnyraeiny a Specialty. COLLIDE AVERSE, sae Imt fca Stilt Eton Career, ATHSSS. DA. fcb.l5tf. W I^a ML.- Th ?r 1 ^ e democrat* Inviu Ben H. HU1 to Break Bread With Them. , -■ . Which Mr. Bill Answers I* • Masterly Pics for Concession^ The Democrats of Bangor will celebrate Ibe <*ne hundred and forty-fourth anniver sary of the birth of Washington, hy a sup per at the Bangor house, on Tuesday even ing, February 22, 1876. ; ‘~*’> You are cordially invited to be present and participate in the festivities of the oc casion. The Reception Committee will be in at tendance at the parlors .and reception rooms of the Bangor hoose, at 8 o'clock. The supper will bo served promptly at nine o’clock. • -Vi; v M^uceuxs Emery, Josksph P. Bass, FeKDEUIC IL K •jr.HTON, Committee on Invitations. Bangor, Feb 14, 1876. To H..n. Benj. II. Hill, M. C. Accompanying the above invitation was the following private note from a promi nent Maine Democrat, which elicited Mr. Hill’s reply: Bangor, Me., Feb. 14, 1876 My Dear Si it—Should youreongressional no mortal ever staked or quaked ; duties prevent your acceptance of the on ly sinner mutter forth the** word.: | >'>vit:ttio», ca . n . v f*“ " ol *»VOr US by | Struck beneuth him, aa he bounded just like lightniug • from the floor, j A» like u Urr’d und leathered mercury, up he bounded j from the floor, Grazed his heel, und—nothing more, : ; Rack toward my heart li'.stouc looking, where my ham and eggs were cooking. Shaking, quaking, belore, | Soon 1 heard the ugl I “ tome dinnsrP letter with such werds of counsel and cheer Looking stilly more ga*nt and thinner, nvea than be I ag your feelings may prompt? These the words ’the heathen m iter’d—the sole and j Gur eelebration will be att doer. • Never quit them nig ‘ ‘ very sure. JAU2 »i;!i v in former Ordinary’* Office. REMOVAL! /. A. A Ale 12. DJ2JV2IS2, |I AS l: KM< >YKD to the office lately occupied by Dr. J. ruarantced in l>oth AV«>rk and Trices. C. 1). JIILL,, ~~ \A/7071V2JY A1 HAW, ATHENS, GEORGIA. 1‘rompt attention given to all business and the same sj uctfuUy Hoheted. janlt-ly. ROPE HARRO W, A Z7 07t\Yin • A 7 1A It \ ATHENS, GA. **iVkc in Mr. J 11. Newton’s new building. >i.l K. A I’G UST DORR, V K It C IIA X T r A I LOR. Imm’Rtlr of Fink ('lotus and Dovskins, its, kkady-made clothing, and GENTS- FURNISHING GOODS, «’bir>.3m. Broad Street, Augusts. G:v. ir. li. LITTLE, At to r nejy at la it', CARNESVII.LE, GA. J. S. DORTCH, A tto r n ej> at law, oaknesvh.le, a a. A. (i. McCURRY, •I TTO it .YE IT .€ T L.4 W, HARTWELL, GEORGIA. i' II I. give >:rit*t ivrsonal attention to all business cu *.<•1 ?•> his care. Aug. 4—40— ly. a M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas. JACKSON & THOMAS, ■A ttorneys at Uiaw» .llAc/w, Georgia. JOHN IF. OWEN, Attorney at Law. TOCUOA C1TT, OA. i' ill practice iu all the counties of tho Wastern Cir- lbrt und Madison of the Northern Circuit. Will >i*vei a i niteniou to oil claims entrualed to his care. tfaowiy. P. (L THOMPSON, ‘Vttorney at La\v, "d attciiliun paid to criminal praetic*. For refer- v *it v to Kx. Gov. T. 11. Watt, and Hon. David M mtiomerv Ala. Offloe over Barrr’* "Storr, i. Frb.J—tf. FRA NK HARR A LSON, ATTORNEY AT AW, CLEVELAND, GA. ‘11 practice in the counties of White, Union, Lum- : n ’ r »wn^, and Fanning, and the Supreme Court at Will give special attention to all claim* en- 11.» hi* care. Ang. 11 1871^-41—tf._ Boo) and Shoe Manufacturer COLLEGE AVENUE, Xext Door to Pont Office. hand, Uppers for making Low Quartci \nti pSS^lly Minted.’ a ‘“ l l r “' C ° BAlhert ’' Bep “ r " j Nev ?.c¥ clMned the pI:lt,cr ' lho ^ h • vou bcat ,ne !xend ten ilollnra, per moil nr expres.-. and vou shall re ‘ 4 ^roar, ccive a fimt clans pair of boots. June SO, 1875. 35-tf. Great Reduction in Rrices F or the next thirty days. Brackets, Wall Pwcketfl, and all kinds of Ornameutal Wood Work, will be told at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Now is the time to make your houses beautiful at low figures. rest bargains given in everything at BUKK attended by the only noinid then uttered, j prominent Democrats of our State and by As Slrm^oMm” 1,igl ‘' iU "‘ 1> b * fluttr ’ d ’’ Ii « l,,in « on I leading democratic members of the Legis- Dinner!’’ said be, nothing more. j hi ore, ami it is designed as the beginning Then Me impudence beginning, he dl>played hU gums j which, \vt* in grinmug, ! trust, will ho fruittul of good results in our And with eye* angbt eke but winning, leer’d upon ine l next September election. Speaking thuidy : “ ’Tis your treat man, l’il never go ( ^ ,)llr cfFeetit e answer to Diattic llUS made into the street man, | you hosts of friends atiiont? the Democrats ™ is? *° me Kr “ b ,0 **' , * i “ 11 ’•“*'*’** y oar of Muine, and there is no man from the and bacon now just done I’m j Sotith troiii whom they would more gladly the political situation then? Our father* Itad waged no war, save against a common enemy. They had won victories—the vic tories of liberty; and not the triumph of .strifes. They were bat three millions in thirteen States, snrronnded by enemies and struggling to lay some foundation for free institutions amid the jeers of a monarchical world. They were gladdened bv common successes, animated by common hopes and pressed together by common, dangers. Yet, even then, the immortal Washington himself tells us that the spirit of amity and of mutual deference and concession was in* dispensable to the formation of oar consti tution. And what is oar present political situation ? We are over lhrty millions in nearly forty States. We have’ had a war which was not a struggle for our common liberties. Wc have bad strifes in which there were surrenders, but nc victories; results, but no successes. Our war was but a fraternal butchery. In fifteen • years we have slain more of our brethren, burned more of our homes and cities, wasted more of our country, and created heavier bur dens for generations of honest toil than were wrought by all the wars with ene mies, not only since the declaration of inde pendence, but since the foundation of the colonies! How inexpressibly important, then, is it tliat every patriot in our land should re invoke, for its preservation, that spirit of amity, and of mutual deference and conces sion, which Washington tells us was imliss pensable to itsjformation! How unworthy MARK TWAIN’S DUEL. His Wonderful Escape, Mark Twain contributes the following to Tom Hood’s Annual. The only merit 1 dsirn for the following narrative is that it is a true story. It has a moral on the end of it, but I claim nothing on that, as it is merely thrown in to carry favor with the religious element. After I had reported a couple of years or. the Virginia City (Nevada) Daily Enter- prite they promoted me to the editor-in-chief; and I lasted just a week by the watch. Bu; I made an uncommonly lively newspaper while I did last, and when I retired I trad a duel on my hands and three horse-whippings promised me. The latter I made no attempt to collect; however, this history concerns only tho for mer. It was the old “flush times” of the silver excitement, when the population was wgnderfully wild and mixed; everybody went armed to the teeth, and all slights and insults had to be atoneil for with the best ar ticle of blood your system could furnish. In the course of ray editing I made trouble with a Mr. Lord, the editor of a rival paper. He flew up about some little trifle or other that I said about him—I do not remember now what it was. I supposed I called him a thief, or a body-snatclied, or an idiot, or something like that; I was obliged to make the paper readable, and I couldn’t fail in my duty to a whole community of subscribers merely to save the exaggerated sensitiveness of an individual. Mr. Lord was offended. Treat me, or I’ll charge ’era sure.” HKE’S Bookstore. Then toward the fire-place marching, where my eolFce, too, was pareiting, Boldly ftalk’u this sassv nigger, right across my cham ber floor. t Never stop’d to bend or bow, sir, then I knew thcre’d be a row, sir. For 1 made a solemn vow, sir, be should soon recross that floor, BANKRUPT BLANKS. f >HlLlP«fcSOLOMAN’$ AUTHORIZED EDITION, the only complete edition published. Sent bv For safe bv T. A. BUtfKE, Bookseller and Stationer. ii! at *1. febS.tf. C.1SH FOR WO Ole, —on— CLOTH FOR WOOL. Athens Manufacturing Coinuwv " * Good; larger variety of Woolen and propose to Ex iy are now making a 1* than ever before, Ixchange them for Wool, *- believing it to be more to the interest of the Planter to iixehangc the Wool for Cloth, rather than have iMJard* ed and Spun at home. Call lbr Samples and Terms ol Exchange. R. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent. May ll», 187. r —29-tf. Miss C. Potts, i- , 'ashionable Dressmaker (Over University bank.) Rroatl Street, - - Athens. Would resjteetfully inform the Ladies nnd her friend*- generally, of Athens and vicinity, that she is now pre pared to do Dress making in the Neatest and most fashionable styj.es. With lic-r experience in the business, she feels snre of giving satisfaction. May 14, 1S77>—28-tf. U. S. Internal Revenue. Deputy Collector's Or nor, | Fourth District, Georgia, J- Athens, Jan. 15, 1876.) A ll parties desiring ixfor- mntion as to TAX imposed by the United Statrs Internal Revenue Laws, can obtain the same by apply ing to W. S. MAYFIELD, Deputy Collector. Office over Jacobs & Michael’s Store, Broad Street, Athena, Ga. * janlJMf cMrmrwicr RAILROAD TICKETS For sale, hy nil routes, and to nil principal points in the * . —— UNITED STATES. Buy your Ticket® before leaving Athene, and get all information from Capt. WM. WILLIAMS, Agent Seutliem Kxnress Co., Athena, Ga. . . L 28-tt . R R* SAULTERf DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF WINES, WHISKIES and LAGER BEER, ALE, GIN, CIGARS, CALL AT SAULTERS EXCHANGE, Jackicm Stuct, Atufm, Georgia. Iur.tr tlutn from the Representative of the Ninth District of Georgia. Yours truly, ** House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., February 19, 1876. Gentlemen—I have received your very kind letter of the 14th inst., informing me Anil 1 kicked liitn through the room, air, back attain ' that “ the Democrats of Bangor, will c.le- ... toward the door, . ! brute the one hundred and forty-fourth Kick’d and ciiflcd turn in my anger, back at-aii»t uiv .... , ■ , chain tier dour, • . anniversary ot the birth of \\ ashmgton, l>y Thcii I kicked him yet once more. a supper at the Bangor ltottse, on Tuesday Rut this midnight bird beguiling my Mirr’d spirit into cveitetluig, February --id, I816,” and cor* amiiiug, j dially inviting me “to he present and par- ' ’ K ‘ 1>id ’ ruv " K ' u ' 1 Iook ,;L " U ' wr - Y ! ticipate in the fc tivities of the occasion.” " Tuo’," 1 >aid, •• thou art a l'rccdman, thou La.t gone | It is a matter of painful regret that iny .o much t« seed, man, duties ltere will not allow me the gratiflea- That lil give you one v<xxl feed, man, as you seem to i .. • * # * .. „ r ** be so poor— j tion ot being with you. I was never north 'hiegood iced in yoor *ore need, man,- as you eecm »o 1 of the Savannah river until after the fra- Thes'e el-g^ni meat eiaU be my treat, if,‘with light j war began, and I was never i.l S work, yon’ll pmy the score.” i northern State until alter that w ar (of anUs) Quoth the nigger—” Work no more.” ' was ended. And yet, I know I do not eu- Mncb I Tnurrelied this ungainly Nigger should refuse j tertain a political sentiment, feeling or de- so plainly ^ - ) sire, that would not find a cordial response s£e do * itU * work ’ tM food 1,e crmTod * ad nccded from every true patriotic union man of eve- For we cauuol help a^feeu^r that no Uviug human beiiiij ^ Should decline to labor, seeing that lie was so blasted of public confidence, and how criminal must «an tnutvauat. ar. uara was. he be who would invoke the spirit of discord ! and . re P l,ed v '« orou * , y h ! s PfP*- Vigor and of mutual distrust and coutumelv! ; °" i]y 'T"?.* dea ' wheu 11 refeM to a And now let me say, I speak as a "repre- I C5 rs ?. t ! a lin a frontter newspaper, tentative man of the tkrath.'when I sav our t>uel ,llg wa ' * U ‘ he f l ; l,,on a, ," on S S.uthetn people, with unprecedented tma- P er i f a ^ es,n tlmt couutry, an, a very few niinitv, are ready and willing to meet the f wouW th £ ,w the "PP^tum- Xorthem people in this spirit of amitv, i * y 7 ono ^i 1 " 11 one ma ", "J a deference and concession Wlmtevw , due * T“ "5f» t0 be even >‘! okcJ might have been the wright or wrong of UP . .V* 0 'T !' >e ° rd,nar - v slavery, the Southern people thought that I We", out there if you abuse a man th, provision of the colistitution regarding ! *!“' that ‘"TJ-'n .? “’ ^'° U had ‘° it ought to have been obeyed until the ' 1 “ m ,.° Ul “ d kdl h ‘>«’ otherwiae you world constitution should be amended as provided i?jbuf' , era lettged Mr. Lord, therein. Thev were made to believe those ? nJ 1 d,d 1h °? e '>e won d not accept; but I provisions w ould not be obeyed and that k “ew Perfectly well hat he dtd not want to the disregard of one provision of the con- * ud 8 “ 1 ? hal ^ •'"« >" the most stitution tvould result In the abandonment, I i' ,ol f u , t and 'T k * nia 1 ni,ner - , Aa( th f" by the North, of the constitution kaelf j 1 sat down and sal .f^ »" d 8nu ® iJ *«» They did honestly believe they had a | an3W ® r came. All the boys the editors— right, and that it was their duty, to take "T‘ he '•> the disk tliat constitution and go unto themselves. I bu . snl ® 38 > a, “ l telhng about, duels and I did not concur with ...v own people in ‘^^tug ihe ^de wttha lot of aged ruffiatts the wisdom of their conclusion, but I knew j f 0 had e , x 'P enence ,n . « a ch matters, and they were honest in their conviction, and ?>‘«fether there yvas a loving mtere.-t taken - 1 ..... . ’ - in the matter that made me unspeakably un comfortable. The answer came—Mr. Lord declined. Our boys were furious, and so yvas I on the surface. I sent him another challenge, and another, and other, and the more he did not want to fight the more blood-thirstier I became. But at last the man’s tone began to change. He appeared to be waking up. It was be coming apparent that he was going to fight me after all. I ought to have known how when they decided for themselves, they leeidcd also for me. The Northern peo ple denied the right of the Southern people to - o, and war resulted. No intelligent man can doubt the sincerity of the South ern people when he views the courage, privations, and sufferings they exhibited and endured in defence of their conviction. But they’ were overpowered in the struggle, and like brave men they have accepted, poor; Should rvt'rtisc to earn a dinner, which he hungered for I’m »u e. And would have damned his .soul by stealing, had he hoped to make the door; Escaping thence, to—work no more. ry party in the northern States. That great constitutional system, embracing State and Federal governments, which makes our American union, is regarded, and has be n regarded, by me, as the grandest contribu tion ever made by human intellect and pa- | triotism to the science of government and Awhile, I sat absorbed in muainjr, what meant he by I Welltire of mail. With all the earliest- this remsinjr, j ness of my nature, I opposed secession ; a T ' ll 'R , |' i .ckui‘ooi- rlieJ 111,0 ld,u:du * t,le °’ loruu< \ war of subjugation and reconstruction, Sure,” .aid I, “you roust be enuty, to be so internal lbr the same reason, and that reason was, and do accept tho results. In every form .,, , , iu which it could be expressed, they have ^T 1 '* ™s anran who couldnever expressed their abandonment of secession. 1 ^ oepended upon. _ Our boys were jubilant, both as a theory and as a remedy. ‘ .he They admit tac freedom of their slaves, and ask no compensation for their property. They concede the citizenship tuid en franchisement of the co.ored race, and ■hM*. K. SCHAEFER, corrox n uyer, VOCCOA CITr, o*. I: . 'a*' 1 1’rire paid f ur Cotton. Agent for Win octSOwti. Lively. Feed and Sale Stable, ATXXSfTS C3-A. GANN * REAVES PROPMETORS Will bo fonnd at their old Mnnd, rear Franklin limine building, Thomas street. Keep always on hand good Turnouts and careful drivers. Stock we!l cared for when entrusted to our care. Stock on hand lbr sale at all timea. declStf. BOOTS AND SHOES ;ro ORDER./ N W* HAUDRUP, ARTIST, moved hi* Show from the old Lombard Briton* TbatTlT raanl lib verv lights opposite aide of College A venue, next door tn^ the that door • Building. I rice* Liberal, *=J Firet Cla»* W ork Ue slul || workj or _ tt ID* removed to Uie Lexter guaranteed. June 16, IS* 5-—ll-tt li.ri- and i F. A. W ILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL •VTCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, B, 1 *’-‘“I*'" I’rog Store, Brood Street, Athens, Go. linn* ,« . anperior manner and warranted to Jan. A— tf. . .4. WINN, —With— (HOOVER, STUBBS & CO., Cotton Kactors, —And— Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. J"'*. i Rope and other *dpplie» furnished. F* °t «h * 0 * S|1 »'' v <“iee« made on consignment* for | I 'lictu to Lircrpool or NortLern |£ort*.^_^ UVf *Y AND SALE STABLE. t 1 !Triton y. i j I injr been Remodeled, Enlarged, thoroughly Ren- Hun tiles and Ilorsts for Hire, orated, Repainted and Newly Furnished during the * Sommer of 1875, is now opened, with increased facili- TKRMS pp a env A 7*T P the accommodation of the travelling pnblic. \bAoONAJSLlh. fcbi.iy 1% CHATFIELD, Froj*rietor. lazy, So vussudly, outrages lajey, ns to want to work no more; You uglv, grim, ungainly, ghastly, heathen, savage Blaekiunoor. Will yon even work for wages—food, and clothes nnd payment sure I” Quoth the Nigger—“ Work no more V “ Nigger,” said I, horrid demou! Xigger still, if slace j or fretmau. Pause and ponder, crc you answer this one question 1 j implore : Have you got no senaa of feeling ! do yon mcau to live by Htealing! Or by working and fair dealing i teii me truly, i im plore, On your honor, as a Nigger, will you ever labor more ? Flow in coru or hoo iu ootton as you did in days of yore'.’’* 1 * Qootii the Nigger— 4 - Nevermore V 1 Startled at the stillness broken by reply so flatly spoken, 44 Doubtless,” said I, “this big Nigger once could eat enough lor four. When ou some grand rice plantation, he could out eat •11 creation, Until his corporal situation warned him, he cox . .a. - - " lip wore, ~ * T" • Scorning any caculation of how much cash it cost 1’iu sure For his master paid the piper in the good old days of Days he’ll revel in no more! 44 Nigger,** said I, “ tluog of ovil!” quit my sig’.it! go to the Devil! Or even yet, pause, rcconsid. r terms I’ll ofler you uo more, : Tell me truly, 1 implore yon, for the last time, I con jure you,* If good wages 1 insure you, and clothes the best yon ever wore. Will you work three days in seven, at tasks far lighter than of yore ? Only thr ® short days in seven—-labor light and pay ment sure ? Quoth the Nigger— 44 W ork no more.*’ 4 Be that word our sign of parting, Nigger man,' I said upstarting, 4 Get you gon*; to where you came lrom, let me see your face uo more, Quick, vamose, cut dirt—skedaddle—seek some far-off, distant * “ Uasto^reBr * dm*■ Join the army —go to Texas! Never come back here to vex ns, Take your gaze from off my vituaU—take your carcase from my door— Quoth the Nigger— 44 Nevermore.’* Bore; ’ s me of that vUagc—darkc i not again my And the Nigger, never working, still is shirking—3till is shirking Every kind of honest labor, in tho house or out of door. And his eye haa all the seeming of a vulture’s starved and d"earning, And mgr bacon gently steaming, tampta him stiD to cross my floor, But 1*11 gamble, with tliat poker that 1 hurled at him before, out. If he dares to poos ork, or—eat no more! prompt ..ttention. jmiA.lf. EDWIN W. PORTER. [^ ,llTEHEA D, Washington, Wilka, Co., G i, ,Uri ‘e the lClUt,on nun y ** »y Conner patrons, I rontbkf^H 00 Medicine WM - KIN «. >* D medical notice. BhlStillg and Digging W ells ! The Rev. Dr. Ritchie, of Edinburgh, *,% 1TII AN EXPER1ENCEOF TWENTY YEARS, i though h very clever man, once met with his v T 1 hereby tender tnj service* to the citiieii* o , match. When examining n student as to itexidenoe'st Ib^ TriJd^U^e, n^*,’ | the classes lie had attended, he said, “ And bridge und Check Factory. All order* will receive i yon nttendeil the classes for mathematics?”’ “Yes.” “How many sides has a circle?” “Two,” said the student. “What are they ?" What a langh in the court the stu dent’s answer produced when he said, “An inside and an outside 1” The doctor next inquired, " * nd you attend' <1 the moral phi losophy class also ?” “ Ye3.” “ Well, you would hear lectures on various subjects. Did ! yon ever hear one on cause and eftect. ?” , “ Yes.” Does an effect ever go before a cause ?” "Yes.” “ Give me an instant*.” A man wheeling a barrow." The d-vtor Planters* Hotel. Augusta, Ga. 'PHIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL UAV- I ins 1 Blacksmith Shop. FEW A MKRIWEATIIER. because I believed they were each and all terribly inimical to tbe preservation of that glorious constitutional system. I have submitted to each, as each in its turn took its place in our bistory as accomplished tacts, precisely as I submitted to the death of raj father— only from necessity ami never from choice. Widle my humble record will lisclose the severest invective of which I was capable against each of these errors and heresies, no delver in personal records can ever find a single line, word or syllable ever uttered by me against this constitu tional system, nor against our union under that system. True, there have been limes in the raging conflict of passion, when I have almost despaired of the preservation of onr constitutional union, but there is not man in America, to-day, who can rejoice more sincerely titan I do, that, in spite ol lecession, war, and reconstruction, our mien still lives; nor one from whose breast the aspiration ascends more Warmly to Heaven that bur union sliall live forever. How tntiy it live? The answer is plain : we must Irallo.v the constitution as it is with the spirit of tbe union as it was We cannot undo the past. We may never agree upon the relative errors and respon sibilities of the respective parties to the conflicts ol the past. Let the past die; and let its passions be buried with it! Whatever doubt may exist as to who was vise or unwise, patriotic or unpatriotic, in com.cction with the abuses which produced secession, war, and reconstruction, all must admit that he is neither wise nor patriotic who would keep alive the aniinosties of the strife after the strifes themselves have ended. The man pr the party, who, tor personal advantage or party ends, would call back the retiring Moloch o( hate, and keep sections divided in feeling which must be united in fact, deserve, and, I be lieve, will receive, the anathema maranatha of the American people. No noisy preten sions to exclusive aud superlative loyalty can prevent such a man or such a party from being adjudged, at an early day, as the real euemy of all sections, and the most dangerous foe to every right of every color. No patriot, for even the crown of the Ctesars, could become such a criminal. That the errors of the past may be aban doned, and its strifes forgotten, and that we may have fraternal union again aiul forever, let us all indulge the habit of re verting to the feelings, the sentiments, opinions, and acts of our common fathers which e abled them to frame and adopt that great constitutional system which form onr union. In the letter with which, he, as the organ of the convention which framed it, trans mitted the constitution to the congress of the confedera.ion, the noble Washington, whose birth you cclehrtte, used the follow ing language: “ The constitution which we now pre sent, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual defense and concession which the peculiarity of our political ait- uation rendered indispensable.” If the political situation then existing, aeuiiist it. i think it is a bad, immoral thiug. It is every man’s duty to do all he can to discourage dueling, Ifa man were to challeuge me, I would go to that man and take him by the hand and lead him to a retired room—and kill him. THE HOMESTEAD. // An Important Amendment. It was time to go out and practice. It was the custom there to fight duels with navy six-shooters at fifteen paces—load and empty till the game for the iuueral was secure. We without stopping to discuss the wisdom of went to a little ravine just out of town and their enfranchisement, they will do, as it is ^ ,r r rowcd a harn do<>r * ,ra Wget-borrow their interest to do, all in their power to ^ fr , on, 1 a f f? n ,ema " who "as abseu-and make the race worthy of these high privil- j we ’‘T 1 th .» do Vr “P’ aml 8toi,d a jreset.tatives cheerily vote an ead a « a,n9t t,le m,ddle of “ repent Lord, and put a squash on top of the rail to represent his head. He was a very tall, lean creature, the poorest sort of material for a duel; uothiug but a line shot could fetch him, and even then he might split your bullet. Exaggeration aside, the rail was, of course, a little too thin to represent the body accurately, but the squash was all right. If there was an intellectual differ ence between the squash and head itwas in favor of the squash. Well, I practiced and practiced at the baru door and could not hit it; and I prac ticed at the rail and could not hit that; and I tried for the squash aud could not hit that. I would have bwn entirely disheartened but that occasionally I crippled one of the boys and that gnve me hope. At last we began to hear pistol shots near hr in the next ravine. We knew what that meant! The other party was out practicing tot). Then I was iu the last degree distressed, for of course they would hear our shots and then send over the ridge, and the spies would find my barn door without a wound or mark, and that would simply be an end to me; for of course the other man would immediately become as bloodthirsty as I was. Just at this moment a little bird no larger than a‘sparrow flew by and lit on a bush about thirty paces away, and my little secoud, Steve Gills, who was a dead shot with a pis tol—much better than I was—snatched out his revolver and shot the bird’s head off. We all ran to pick up the game, and sure enough, just at this moment, some of the other duelists came reconnuitering over the little ridge. They ran to our group to see what the matter was, and when they saw the bird Lord’s second said: That was a splendid shot. How far off was it?” Steve said with some indifference: “ Oh, no great distance. About thirty paces.” " Thirty paces 1 Heavens alive! Who did it?” “ My man—Twain.” “ The mischief he did ! Can he do it often?” Well, yes. He can do it about four times out of five.” eges. Their representatives cheerfully to tax the lame confederate soldier to pen sion the lame union soldier. In a word, they accept the constitution as it is, and offer to imbue that constitution with the spirit of the union as it was. Wliat more can brave men demand ? What is in the way of peace and fraternal union? The answer is known to all meu : There arc men at the North heralded, and heraldiug themselves, as the leaders of a great party, who insist that the Southern people were not actuated by honest convictions, but were moved hy wicked purposes aud crim inal desires and intentions, and even assert that their action was not only causeless, but without provocation, and that they are therefore to he treated as criminals! Nay, they demand that the Southern people shall confess themselves to be criminals! And all the sufferings inseparable from the war are paraded by these loaders o. discord— these bold beiigerants of peace, and are magnified, distorted aud exaggerated iu order to excite aud keep alive the spit it of hatred towards the Southern people. The great question now is, “ Will the Northern people, after eleven years for re flection, concur in this demand of their leaders? If so, the spirit-of amity and of mutual deference and concession in which the constitution was made, was also slain in the cruel war, and can have no resurrec tion. If so, the union may live, but the spirit of its beauty is dead. A people who were bravo enough to fight for their eon victions, will never he mcau enough to sur render their honor and confess themselves criminals. The confession, if made, would lie false. But if the people of the north, »n this auspicious year of our history, can rise above their ignoble passion, aud tebuke those who make their ability to promote strife the evidence of their titles to office, they will achieve a victory in the preserva tion and perpetuation of our constitutional union far more glorious and more replete with blessings for onr posterity than that which was achieved hy our fathers who won independence and oraained and establish ed the constitution. That we may win this victory, let ns cele brate the hirth-day of Washington; let its gather around the cradle of our liberties; let us rehearse, and rehearse the teachings of our fathers, and invoke a return of the spirit of the founder of onr republic 1 Let the voice that would divide be rebuked; let tbe ambition that would feed on strife to get power, be despised, an<T Id the party that would live on memories that harrow, rather than on works that would rebuild and reunite, take its place with the memories and the strife in the pi With sentiments of fraternal regard I am, yours, very truly, Bevj. H. Hill. Messrs. Macellus Emery, Joseph P. Bass, Frederic M. Laughton, Committee on In vitation, Bangor, Maine. twill few AVD WESLEY MERIWF.ATHER, then sat down and proposed no more que* relllll . re j foe spirit of amity and of mutual 15 defence and concern indispensable to inc’countrv. that thev or© prepared to Jo all unmncr of • —■ • • r the tomiiUiou OI tnC ' Constitution, must _«il. it.* Q! .*I,.m^I> T !•>« «nd at rascnnshlo * . - . . - • . ? fi! *-!.* _A !* *1 m wnrk in »"* Hi '<-V*mlth Line, »n«f at reasonable chares*. They b*w tfvs host workmen aud use nothin* bnt the he*t‘m»! riqi. Cnrriaxo work, plantation work, horse shoeing »nd hny lUfficnlt job* a specialty. Shop op' poslte Mm,re G inn At Reave*’ Lively Stable. janUy. A recent visitor to the Dismal Swamp describes it, in Forest and Stream, as having lost none of the characteristics which c it its name. Bears are not so plenty tl as when the region was rarely penetrated by man, yet they still afford sport for hnnters. Lake Drummond, once believed by tbe ig norant to be bottomless, is not really ih any place more than fifteen feet deep- Its An exchange *ava: ** In onr obituary j riot overy intelligent patriot admit, that _ , notice, in ve-iddav’s issue, for the phrase * our present political situation, renders that ter, impregnated with the juices of j lie was a m>blo and pig-hea led man, read, spirit tar more indispensable to the proser- and gum leaves, is of the color of wine, Vation of that constitution? Whit was is drunk hs a remedy by consumptives. 1 lie was.a noble and pig-hea-ied i 1 he was a noble and big-hearted I knew the little rascal was lying, but I never said anything. I never told him so. He was not of a disposition to invite confi dence of that kind, so I let the matter rest. But it was a comfort to see those people look sick, and see their jaws drop when Steve made that statement. They went off and got Lord and took him home; when we got borne, half an hour later, there was a note saying that Mr. Lord perehipterily de clined to fight. We found out afterward that Lord hit bis ma.k thirteen times in eighteen shots—if he had put those those thirteen bullets into me it would have narrowed my spere of useful- nessa good deal True, they could have put pegs into the holes aud used me for a fiat-rack; but what is a hat-rack to a man who feels he has intellectual powers? I have written this true incident of my history for one purpose only—to warn the yoatb ot to-day against the practice of duel tog, and to plotd with them to war against it I was young and foolish when I challeng ed the gentleman, and thought It 7ery fine and grand to be a duelist and staud open the “field of honor.” But I am older and more experienced now, and am inflexibly opposed to the dreadful custom. I am glad, indeed, to be able to lift up my voice We give the full text of the bill tp amend the homestead laws introduced-by'Senator Reese amended in the house. Sec. 1. That every person seeking the benefit of exemption of personalty and realty, unaer the act of 1868, und other acts amend atory thereof is hereby required to make the application for the bemsfit of said exemption! hy a petition iu writing, signed b]L tbe ap plicant, stating for -whom’ the-exempttofPlr"'"*” claimed, aud if for minora their ages and namts must be fully set forth, und if for a wife her name and age must be fully set torth, and said petition must be accompanied with a schedule c ntuining a minute aud ac curate description of all real and personal property belonging to the person from whose testate the exemption is to be made, to that persons interested may know exactly what is exempted und whutuot; and also, with a list of his or her creditors, and their post office if known which must be sworn to hy the applicant, or his agent. For a failure to comply with this section of this act, either in the original petition or amended petition, which may he amended at any time pricr to final proceedings before the ordinary, the or dinary shall dismiss the petition. 2. That, in addition to the notice by publication required to be given hy section 20f 6 of the code, the a; pheatit, orjhis agent, shall give notice in writing ot the filing of such application, aud of the day of hearing the same, to each of his creditors residing iu th ■ county, at least five days before the hear ing, which r.o’ice shall he served personally or by leaving a copy at the residence or house of business of his creditor, anti the tact of such notice sliall be verified by oath of the applicant or his agent; said applicant shall also notify creditors residing out of tho county of his application hy preparing writ ten notices of his application, aud the dsy of hearing, which uotice shall be delivered by trim to the ordinary with stamped envelopes, and shall be hy said ordinary directed and mailed to said persons so residing out of said county, it the residence of such creditors be known to the petitioner at least fifteen rla'ys before the day of hearing, us provided in section 2007 of the code and the same is hereby so alterated as to be not less than twenty nor more than thirty days. 3. That the deed of investment to be made under section 2013 of tbe code shall Ira re corded with the order which is required to be recorded under the last three lines of said section 2012. 4. That section 2014 and 2015 of the code are hereby repealed. • ’ 5. That section 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021 of the code he and the same are hereby re pealed. 6. That section 2024 of the code be and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following section shall be inserted; •Said projrarty so set apart for a wife, or for a wife and minor childrden, or for minor children alone, shall upon the death ot tho wife or her marriage, when set apart to her alone, and upon majority of the minor child ren or their marriage during minority when so set apart for minor children, and upon the death or marriage of the wife aud majority or marriage of the minor children, when set a part to a wife, nnd minor children, revert to the estate from which it was so set apart, unless sold or reinvested in pursuance of the provisions of this act, when the same pro vision as to reversion shnll follow all rein vestments, unless the fee-simple is sold as herein provided. 7. That section 2025 of the code be and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu of tbe same, the following provision shall be iuserted : Said property, so set apart, shall bo and is hereby considered as liable to the debts enumerated in the constitution ; and whenever the parties interested desire a home stead to be sold for reinvestment, the appli cation must be made to tbe judge of the supe rior court of the circuit iu which said pro perty is situated, unless he is interested, when application may bo made to the judge of the superior court of the adjoining circuit for the sale thereof. Said judge shall order a sale of no greater estate than the home stead estate, and the proceeds of said sale shall Ira reinvested in the same kind of pro- perty, real or personal, as that which pro- duced the atnouut of money to be reinvested, and no other. Said judge shall order the whole proceedings to be recorded by the clerk of the superior court, where the parties ap plying for the sale reside, on the book for re cording proceedings in equity—except the reinvestment, which shall be recorded in the book for registry of deeds. Said judge shall have all the powers ot a chancellor to provide the means and mode of sale afore said ami reinvestment, and when all parties interested consent, the homestead estate and fee simple estate may be both sold at the same time; and in that event, said judge shall provide fully for the protection of all parties. 8. That at the end of section 2032 there shall be inserted tho following words: Un less the homestead and exempted property so elected is lost by virtue of a rale under an outstanding claim, in which event such elec tion shall not bar an application for a home stead and exemption not liable to such out standing claim. When the party has elected to take a homestead or exemption he shall not, after such election, supplement or in crease the same by adding to it. 9. - That when a receiver is appointed under section 2033 of good bond and securi ty shall be required of him by tbe ordinary for the performance of his__duty. Said re ceiver shall be subject to rule in the superior court of the county where appointed, as sheriffs and bailiffs, and shall pay out mon-— eys received by him as sheriff and bailiffs, when there are conflicting claims to moneys in his hands, under rule of said court, nnd not under the order of the ordinary; and when there are no conflicting claims, tne re ceiver shall settle all the claims and taro the excess, if any, to the legally entitled to the same. „ s 10. That sections 1047 and 2048 of the code be and the same are hereby repealed, and in lieu of the same, that the provisions of this act as to the duration and quality of exempted the same, and control property virtue of laws in existence before tbe act of 1868. ■ 11. ThatidUans parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of 'this acl same are hereby repealed.