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June *0, 1875. g5-tf.
GOOD-NIOHT.
Thy faon was tbe fairett of my,
Wh*« all was sharing and bright;
Tbr aoiU* was the aoftart ami dearest,
Tbst e’er held a partner in thrall.
Good-eight, to then, lady t ’tie over—
Tbo tralta—the quadrille, and the song ■
The whispered Orewall of the lover.
Th e heartless adieu of tbe throng. r
Th« heart that w«a throbbing withpleaaure,
The eyelid that kawod fbr npotoT’
Tbebeaux that wered reaming of treasure.
The belles that were dreaming of beaux.
Tie over, the lights an all dying,
Tbe ooaebeaiul driving away,
And many a fair one is sighing,
And many a false one is gay.
And beauty counts over her numbers
Of conquests, as homeward she drives,
And soma have gone home to their slumber*.
And soma hart gooe bom* to tbeir wive*.
But I, while my cab in the shower
Is waiting the last at, the door,
*1 round for this flower
Wherever next season may find i
iM.
Of England, of Altneek**, and jpw I
There are tone* that win bunt us tbo’lonely
Our path be o’er mountain or sea.
There are looks that wiU part from ns only
Wh«n memory cesses to be.
There ere hopes which our burden cu lighten,
Though toilsome ud steep be tbe way.
And dreams that, like moonlight can brighten,
With a light that is dearer than day.
Thera are name* that we cherish, tbo' nameless,
For aye on the lip they may be,
There are heart* that, tho’ fettered, are tameless.
And thoughts nnexpressedghut still free!
And some are too grave for a rover,
And some for a husband, too light,
The ball ud my dream are all over.
Good-night, to thee, lady! Good-night!
C. H. S.
LETTER
FROM HON. BENJ.
H. HILL.
House of Representatives,
Washington, Feb 25, 187G.
J. W. Davidson, Esq , Monmouth, III.
Bear Sir: I have received your letter
of the 22d inst., in which yon say: -
“ Some one, under the frank of John A. Logan, U.
8. S., has sent me what purports to he a summing up
of Hr. Blaine, yourself, and others, on tbe lata proposed
amnesty bill. * * Your speech is so eliminated ud
garbled, that, from it, no one can correctly judge of
your position."
A short time before receiving your letter
a gentleman kindly placed in my hands a
copy of tbe pamphlet to which von refer,
aider with most unselfish solic.tude. Here
tofore, when a republic has reached civil
war, a hopeless'decline has set in. This is
not true of monarchies. They often come
out of ei^U wars not only strengthened, but
vastly improved. This » notably so of
Great Britain.
But no free people ever had a civil war
who <lid not have a sequel of official imbe
ciles and corruption. The reason for this is
both philosophical and logical. It is this:
Groat Reduction in Prices
IIW the next thirty davs. Brackets, Wall j and 1 have carefully examined itl It pur
*- t^eketo, and all Mod. of Ornamental Wood Work, | ports to contain the speeches of Mr. Blaine.
Mr. Garfield and myself, on what is known
will be Hid at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Now la the time to make your houies beautiful at low
(urea.
Great bargain, given In everything At
SS-tf BURKE’S Bookstore.
as the amnesty debate. I find my own
8|teech most grossly and adroitly mutilated.
Many entire sentences arc cut ont, and
many other sentences and paragraphs are
cut up and garbled with a manifest purpose
BANKRUPT BLANKS.
T.A.
BURKE,
Bookseller ud Stationer.
CASH FOR WOOL,,
—OR—
CLOTH FOR WOOL.
The Athens Manufacturing Company i
much huger variety of Woolen Goods
are now making a
informed that this fraud til nt pamphlet has
been sent in great numbers into the State
of New Hampshire, where an election is
soon to bo had, and also into all the North
ern States, nqder the frank of lea 'ing Re
publicans, who ate members of tbe Senate
and House of Representatives.
Now, my dear sir, 1 do notkuour. your
aud prutraso to
thu ever before, politics, but there are expressions in your
Exchange them for Wool,
believing it to he more to tho interest of the Planter to
Exchange the Wool for Cloth, rather thu have it Card
ed and 6pnn at home. Call for Sample* and Term* ot
Exchange. B. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent.
May 12.1875—22-tf.
Miss C. Potts,
Fashionable Dressmaker I *® ter » “ ?“ nt Z °f the 6, ? eh< i“ d ’ ? ,d av0 7 8
fetter which show yon uo not love false
hood, and this is enough to justify me in
addressing yon this tetter.
I do not know who got up this dirty pam
phlet. It isa deliberate falsehood and a studied
attempt to deceive. Every man who sends
it to another, with knowledge of its char-
(Over University Rank.)
Broad Street, - - - Athens.
Would respectfully inform the Ladies and her triends I , w .
renerally, of Athens ud vicinity, that she is now pre- , C , gf®*^ qm Stlon 8, what effect Will
pared to do Dress making in the Neateat and moat such designing falsehoods have upon the
thereby his desire to deceive the people.
Every honest man to whom it is sent wil
feel insulted, and he is insulted.
FASHIONABLE STYLES.
With her ex|
giving
cr experience in the business, she feels sure
satisfaction. May 14,1875—28-tf.
J. S. DORTCH,
lltorney at Law,
CARNESVILLE, OA. .
U. 8. Internal Revenue.
A. G. MeCURRY,
TTOHJTEr d T K.4 If,
HARTWELL, GEORGIA.
Dxrotr Collector's Omar, j
Fourth District, Georgia,
Amaya, Jan. 15,1876. {
people? It is had enough to know that
oj I men deemed worthy to hold high positions
of honor should he guilty of such dishonor.
It is sadder to know, as I do know, that
this falsehood is one of many; or,-indeed,
part of a system adopted here to conduct
and control the elections to bo held in 1876.
But, I repeat, the great question is, what
will be tne effect upon the people? Will
ALL PARTIES DESIRING INFOR
. LM. mation as to TAX Imposed by the United State* , . _ , , .
| Internal Kerenua Laws, can obtain tbe same by apply-1 they be offended, or Will they lie influenced
ing to
. tire strict personal attention to all business an
il to his care. Aug. 4—40—ly.
M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas.
JACKSON & THOMAS,
attorneys at Law.
Athens, Georgia.
JOHN W. OWEN,
W. 8. MAYFIELD,
Deputy Collector.
Office over Jacobs & Michael's Store, Broad Street,
Athens, Ga. janlS-tf
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R* SAULTfiRf
DEALEB IN AtL KINDS OF
or controlled by falsehoods so deliberately
planned nnd circulated expressly to deceive
them ? I called the attention of one of the
best Republicans in Congress to this pam
phlet, desiring to see how he regarded it
He only Laughed nnd said, “ It is bad, I
admit, but it is politics, and you must ex
pect it.” Is tins true? Is this politics?
If so, is anything safe? Have we reached
the point where leaders are willing to de
ceive and the people are willing to be de>
ccived ? If so, then onr greatest statesman
is the greatest liar in the country 1 Of
course, reduced to its last analytes, this
means that the capacity of the people for
self-government has Billed, and our tree
institutions must perish through a process
of falsehood and corruption. This will ex-
i»i •ucuiion paid to crimionl practice. For refer- WINES, WHISKIES and LAGER BEER, n £ l 'y the predictions of the enemies
• - T - “ “1 Ho »- 5S“ I ' at v civ ™ars *. I " f ,P°P u ! ar government, so often repeated.
•M, Go.
ntgomery AUu Office over
FRANK HARRALSOS,
attorney at aw,
CLEVELAND, GA.
Uwactkaiu the counties of White, Union, Win- 1
FT •»» the SupemeCoitit A
t'v* epcch.1 Attention to ell elalineen-
piM toW mm. Aug. 11 1875—41—tf.
ALE, GIN, CIGARS, JL,
CALL AT SAULTERS EXCHANGE,
Jacxsox Stxxxt, Anirxs, GxouotA.
Oct. 2—d-U.
F SCHAEFER,
COTTON B UYERv
This brings me to what I chiefly now de
sire to say
For thirty^ye in, I have been an honest
and earnest student of the history, philoso-
afehtiwiji feed and Sale Stable, j cially of free, popula^govemment. I have
ml* *1 endeavored to discover, with as much ex*
actness as possible, the true cause or
causes of the frequent decay and fall of
popular government. I do nut doubt the
ATHENS GA.
GANN A REAVES PROPRIETORS
|<»rrectues8 of my conclusions, when I say
toccoa orrv, oa.
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it* "-f uiil Pram. ; octtowti.
I building, Tdomae street, neep always on hand goo. .
| Turnouts and careful driven. Stock well.eared for
when entrusted to our ear*. Stock on hand for sale at
.11 time*. doclJtf.
F. A. WILLIAMSON,
, PRACTICAL
ATC1IMAKER AND JEWELLER,
1 work'?*’* .brag Store, Broad Street, Athens, Os.
r*a«r k e ■ 10 * >nperior manner and wamniail U?
r * •atttfictiou. » Jan. tf.
BOOTS AND SHOES
TO ORDER.
W- HAUDRUPj
artist,
N
A. A. WINS,
—With—
HOOVER, STUBBS & CO
Cotton Factors,
—And—
^mral Commission Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
Ua*
totlM
Lester
hi* Shop
a aide of
from the old Lombard Bel
Price*
Sffc
the cause is identical, uniform, and almost
universal. It is interhat corruption and
pot external power. >
Our American system of free constitu-
tiona government is, by fitr, tbe very best
that human wisdom ever devised. And
yet, internal corruption has grown to
larger proportions turn it ever attained in
any outer system in the saute length of
riinc. We are absolutely exempt from
danger of external power, and this fact, I
am satisfied, has greaUy accelerated our
.. .iSf"—'S* growth in internal corruption. No p< ople
June 16,1875 3J-tf | ev< , r reached the p«dnt of decadence
Blasting and Wgging WeUs! ^ ZHitX’SS&IZ
WfSJ&'SS'wSSJJWTiSJfS'Ucnperatiooi wbk* no otter ftco pcoplo
Athena nd vicinity. First claw work guaranteed. I ever possessed, and WO can recover. Nev-
■ -i oavancea maaa oa *«■
w to Liverpool or NortUm
LIVERY AND 1ALE STABLE
I ing been Kemodi
'oeriagta, Buggies and Honet for Hire. | £££; Rep:UnUd nnd
terms reasonable.
K^^niTKHKAD, W**hington, WUlt*. Ol, G».
Planters’ Hotel, Augusta,Go.
»HIS WELL KNOWN HOTEL HAV- any other question for r.othing eUectn
"• ~ 1 save ns from tho worst fate that ever befell
a free people, unless we can stop the growth
feM-ly D. P. CHATF1ELD, Proprietor.
MEDICAL N01ICE.
i^^MWtaMwerewqrer myfenqpr patren*,!
practice of Wodicine
ll wBl nay enpacia) attention to the dU-
•nd Children, and the Chronio Diaea^a
*•*•16,1»75-»M v.
WM. KING, M. D
of this internal corruption.
No human study is so important, so in
struct vc, and so interesting as that of the
symptoms which indicate the rise, progress.
and prevention of this deadly bane, this _ _ _
ilnrat indigenous and almost incurable din- j Bm mere memories—now passions—of*|iast
H ILL few and WESLEY MERIWEATIIK, I temper of republics internal corruption, j achievements, Ido bt not, if Mr. Lnco
liavlng formed a copartnerehip for 1«6, reapeet- w» r f-. 1 • - -• -
fully arnounc vo «'.i-dtixens of Atlien-and aurround-1 tne caiiMJ i
Blacksmith Shop.
FEW & MEIOWEATHER.
Civil wars, &r more than foreign wars,
Produce chiefs who are elevated to the
highest civil positions. The successful fac
tion is certain to. make a civil head of its
military leader. These military chiefs rare
ly possess the qualifications necessary for
rivfl administration of free institutions.
Free governments are always more compli
cated than monarchies, and, therefore, re
quire higher qualificationsifor wise admin
istration. I do not care how honest or how
. ich .military.ei: ; r.uy be, yet,
not htmng the training anil qualifications
ncedetl for dvil statesmanship, they are
certain to be surrounded and controlled l>y
designing followers end flatters, who will
gather thickly about them, and corruption
will as oertaiuly, as naturally, and as log
ically follow as any effect will follow its
cause
In ail free countries parties will be formed.
In «na:iy respects these parties are salutary;
but whenever the questions become sectional
and the parties form on sectional issues, the
tendency is to dvil war. This has been our
fate, and, I fear will be our ruin.
The Republican party organized in 1855 _
to accomplish certain distinct objects, to-wit: ^
1. To prevent the extension of slavery.
2. : To abolish slavery in all places of ex-
clurive federal jurisdiction.
3. To annul the fugitive slave law.
The Supreme Courts of the United States
decided that Congress had no power to pro
hibit the extension of slavery, and that
the fugitive slave law was unconstitutional.
So t he Republican party was a sectional
organization on sectional questions and in
op|Kwition to the supreme law.
The Southern people insisted that this
was a practical abandonment of the Consti
tution, and released them Irom its obligation.
They most unwisely seceded, and the war
most unwisely followed.
During the war the Republican party
anged its objects, and insisted on the total
extinction of slavery. Three men, well
armed, well fed. aud well clothed, were too
much physically,. for one man, poorly
armed, poorly clothed, and, after a brave
struggle, the South yielded, abandoned
secession, and every Southern States abolish
ed slavery by constitutional provisions.
The Republican party then made another
change of positinu and insisted that they
had a right to reconstruct the Southern
States, create in them new constituencies
and new governments, and also to secure the
result* of the war by new amendments to
the Federal Constitution... All this has
been done—much of it terribly done V
Njw, what is left for the Republican
party to do ? It hs» forced the -accomplish
ment of all its work. The Southern people
give np slavery, give up secession, submit to
reconstruction, and accept the Constitution
as amended, and yet the Republican party
will neither abandon its sectional organiza
tion nor cease its sectional war upon the
Southern people
Upon what does the Republican party
propose to live? Upon nothing but sec
tional hate/ How can it keep alive sectional
hate? Solely by bold and persistent mis
representations of the Southern people, and
by perpetual appeals to the passions of the
war!
There are three hundred thousand people
who are crazy to hold and get office in 1876
through the Republican {tarty,* and they
have no hope of success except by keeping
alive sectional hate by misrepresenting,
maligning, and oppressing the Southern
people!
A Southern Representative cannot say
anything in Congress which is not instantly
misrepresented by a thousand lying pens
and tongues from this dt v. I 'NEVER IN
MY LIFE FELT OR irttfeRED A DIS
UNION SENTIMENT. I opposed seces
sion a* no Northern man ever did, for I
tvaa in the midst of the storm. I opposed,
also, subjugation and reconstruction as but
other forms of disunion, and as tending to
destroy our freo institutions. Subjugation
and reconstruction were as dangerous to
the principles of union as was secession to
the fact of union, and I have simply been
au earnest enemy to disunion in any form.
And.it does seem impossible for a Republi
can writer or speaker to tell the truth of
one even so humble as myself. I have
made one speech in Congress—forced to
do so in defence of the manhood of my
people. _ I made tho defence chiefly from
the official records Perhaps no speech has
ever, so brought oni the bitterness of mis
representation in tbe press and leaders ot
Uie Republican party. They have not only
mutilated and garbled the speech, but they
have filled their papers with the most un
mitigated falsehoods as to my life, habits,
character, and antecedents. I have seen
circumstantial details purporting to come
from personal acquaintances, and even quo
tation* from letters and speeches, which
had hot the slightest existence.
But these things do not surprise me.
Indeed, I should bo surprised if these falso-
hoods were uot frequent, and unscrupulous,
and often from men in high places. They
prove the correctness of my theory of the
present and future of the Republican party.
I maintain that that party has accomplished
all the jvork.it wss organized to> accomplish,
and riaparty can live, after its work is done,
aud; not' become corrupt.' No successful
party in a dvil war can administer:free in
stitutions on the paeons of the war, and
after the war has euded, and not destroy
the liberalities of the people. No party is
entitled to be trusted with power for what
it has done. The only title a party can
have to be trusted mutt rest in what it
proposes to do. The Democratic party is
now only entitled to twist^beeanse events
and the nature of existing issues compel it
to antagonize the Republican party, and
thus necessarily to become the party of
retrenchment, reform, and sectional recon
ciliation. No truly great statesman can re
main in the Republican party, for the plain
reason that its work is in the past, and not
in the future. You inight :ts well expect a
man to satisfy his hunger and support his
system on the memories of past feasts, as
to expect a statesman to lead a party ant.
maintain the prosperity of Ins country on
remain in the Republican party. I am
watching to see who, in defence of his self-
respect, will leave it next. They will be
Compelled to ga Thieves and demagogues
are taking natural, logical, possesaoti of
the Republican party, riot to accomplish
great works, but to have a general carousal.
They will drive statesmen and patriots ont
of it, as decent, virtuous women would be
driven out of a house which had become a
brothel. If, under such leaders as will re
main, the Republican party shall so influence
the passions of the people as to renew its
lease of power, it will bring disgrace on its
past history as certainly as the passing of
events, and it will be a miracle if, in the
riot that most follow, our Republican sys
tem shall not perish. •
Never had any people such a test of their
capacity for self-government as the Ameri
can people will have in 1876. They will
lie crammed with reckless falsehood* and
plied with appeals for sectional bate, as
never before disgraced any year in human
history.
Will they he' able to detect, resist, and
despise these assaults upon their intelli
gence, patriotism, and virtue? If so, we
shall live on as a free people, and prosper as
no people ever did. If not, we shall die in
more shame and disgrace than ever befel a
republic.
With high regard, I aray ours truly,
Bekj. H. Hill.
AI RIL FOOL’S DAY.
Reveries from the New York Son.
THE DAY IS PAST BUT THE FOOLS ABE HEBE.
We cannot better celebrate this day dedi
cated to fools and folly, than by considerin'!
some of the principal frauds, humbugs,
charlatans, hypocrites and fools who infest
the country, and dwelling for a moment on
their history and prospects. They are a
large and thoroughly self-satisfied company,
recruited from various ranks of society, and
armed with impudence, pretension, rant, or
simple stupidity. They like to he ohserved,
and entertain a low opinion of those who
criticise them. They think they ought to be
permitted to practice their trade unmolested
by ira|>ertinent scrutinize!* of their shoddy
materials, short weights, and other tricks of
deception. To-day let us celebrate the glo
ries of this enterprising company, carefully
abstaining from any word or suggestion to
which they can fairly take exception.
First, we must speak of Ulysses S. Grant,
the brother of Orvil L. Grant, and his part
ner iu the trader and sutler business. Grant
cannot strictly be called n fraud. He is not
that by any means. Hi* practice of greed
is open, and he believe* in it. Occe of the
very lowest estate, a social wreck and fail
ure, he was lifted by a bloody war to the
high ground of eminent |>nsitioii where all
men could see him. If ever a man had rea
son to be thankful for the happy fortune
which enabled him to get out of the mire
pud to stand in dean places, surely it was
Grant. But what did he do when he wa*
put in high place ? He at once proceeded to'
lefile it with the filth of the place whence he
RIP-RAP.v
Twenty cents on
wind they
State government*. There will be no fur
ther interposition of federal authority sup
ported by federal bayonets to support* I Offerings of the season
their rights or redress their wrong*. This the dollar,
important decision mark* tlmbeginning of If broken wish to raise the
a n -w era in the political relation* of the should negotiate a dydone.
negro race in onr Southern States. n , ,, V* ,, _ , . .. , .
If the Southern governments should
just, humane and considerate, they can east- ch “ t ® f furt y y ears standing,
ly detach their colored titizens from the re- Dandies and nanny-gnats never fail to
publican party and virtually annihilate that P n “ e themselves upou their kids,
party throughout the South. The negroes A little girl who wanted to be very good
will be likely to class this bogus Enforce- during Lent proposed to give up going to
ment law with the broken Freedmen’s Sav- school.
ings B“ k .- They will feel with keen resent- Why is a lady like a bill of exchange?
ment that their rights have been no eater Because she ought to be settled when she
than their money in the custody of the re arrives at maturity.
{S5S BT «££5 ’^Si d 'S . .I'V -*■?■» ** - -to. te,.
they roust, after all. depend for protection £n 8e,f possess,on ’ y° ur en «’« ie9
and prosperity on the communities with . ..... . .
which their lots is cast, they will be dis- .. w,th * g«>d-«*ed diamond a man can cut
Posed to. cooperate mote cordiallv with |»» *> ,*?. ^*rt of almost any 8odety
their immediate fellow citizens than they j la< v - '■7y : W
have ever been since their emancipation I We had rather kiss the hard, bony hand
They have nothing to depend upon now of the honest man who gives to he poor
but their own industry and sobnety and than the soft hand that steals from industry,
the justice and good will of their neighbors. Bristow says the country .is getting short
If the whites act with sense mid modem- of curreucv, which is the point in which
non, tiie undeceived negroes will hereafter we resembles the country near enough to be
give them no trouble.—2Veu> York Herald, twins.
Jndiclal Responsibility.
will
T „. , ~ . „„ „ „ „ ... go man to his dving wife. “ Tell me, can
Judges thcm-elvcs as well as the public “ m6 ,» „ . f ! ,i „i.- ..
ill doubtless w.i ch with peculiar interest T .JS’’ whwper
r**ioA iiAn- IioIapu »tiu stimi-umi. t’-iite i. n w> I ’ ^ smell yonr breath.
a case now before the Supreme Court here . „ .
in which a judge is the defendant, and is A v, ! ,ce comes from Washington lemto-
sued for damages resulting from aeti n *7. w . v,n 8 “Send ns wives l” And n thons-
taken by him on the bench which is held to an “ unhappy Benedicts respond “ Take
have been without warraut of law. One of our3,
the tlfbories of governments like ours is A Connecticut man has christened his
that the people are subject to the law and daughter Glycerine. He says it will be
not to the officers of the law, and that ii easy to profix ‘‘Nitro” if her temper resent-
ihe officers of tho law endeavor to inflict I hies her mother’s.
their will on the people in the guise of seu- An obituary notice in a Western paper
tences or judgments or other judicial acts, contained the touching intelligence that the
they are only sale in so far as their wil. deceased “ had accumulated a little money
precisely coim-nles with the law, and that ii and ten children.”
“ Can you see me, dearest?”said a China-
they err, it is at tlicir own peril; that where
the law and their will arc not one and the
The man who will not stay at home when
TV'Z rr *7 ana Z W I »lfc fondly do all they can to matte
t . IS ‘ luw thetr it leasant da . H n ,; t de80rve t| f„ ,„ ve of wo .
is the same as any other assault, and ..r -t-n •
same,
act is the same as any other assault, and
they are responsible for the damage that
may follow. Thi* principle is before the
men, or the affection of children.
If a generous but ugly boy give* his
Court in the case referred to. For certain I younger brother “60 for stealing 1 .of his
offences the law authorizes a penally of one a l*P e3 ’„ a , “* at n, K k * the apples give him
year’* imprisonment or a fine of two hun- *’ . w - !? an y °PP^ ea “™ riie younger
dred dollars, and leaves it to the discretion " rolaer rece,ve *
of the Judge which one of these two shall The was a very little boy wading np
b - imposed. Iu a case under that class, to his knees, almost, in the slush rat Summit
Benedict, of the United State* Court, im- street, Friday afternoon, when a passing
posed both penalties. The culprit paid hi* gentlemen said to him: “ Why ain’t yon
fine and came out of prison on the writ of to school, young man?” “.Cos I’ve got
habeas corpus, whereupon, the Judge the hoopin’cough!” he explained,
“annulled’'hi* first sentence and sentenced An Athens man lias been missing-for
the culprit ’o a year’s imprisonment with- three day*, and as he was recently married,
out fine. Ot. appeal to the Supreme Court, I grave doubts exist as to wheih r lie is
the Judge’s nullification theory was not I sitting round in a hay loft s-ome -vhere,
respected, and it was decided that his I meditating on the price of sp ing bonnets,
power was exhausted by the first sentence, or has merely drowned himself,
and that the subsequent action wasconse- John Adams wag 62 whe „ elected Presi .
quently extra judicial. Thereupon the d J efferw) n,54; Madison. «0; Monroe,
i^• e # J“ dge fo r damages for hi*kg. j ohn Quincy Adams, 58; Andrew
impmoment by the second sentence. One JackM 61 ? w . H. Harrison 67; Buc-
... decision on this suit has already-been given hanan, 65; Lincoln, 51; and Grant, as
tame. Though everybody has wished to against the Judge and the present tual is ^ b hia mental ’ cit _ 6 .
think well of him, to honor him, ann to an appeal from that. It is a msiortune to ,, T J . ,! J , M
society when the Bench is cauught in such “ l raean , 1,0 have told you of that hole,”
a position that a convicted criminal can 1 ? a,( ^ ® pentlemten to his friend who was walk-
have what looks !ikc a fair case against a !°S Wl . “J* 1 ! 1 . l ” “ l8 an ^ stumbled
Judge for acts donn presumably in the le- , ? toa .P ,t / u |( °f. wate ' f . No matter, said
gitimato discharge of judicial functions.— r the friend, blowing the mud and water out
New York Herald. I °* his mouth, “I’ve foud it."
A Scotchman went to a lawyer once for
Teach the Girl* to Work. | advice, and detailed the circumstances of
keep him secure in his exulted position, he
has so behaved himself that there is no re
spect left for him. Instead of holding as a
priceless treasure his high military reputa
tion, he has traded with it and exchanged it
for gifts and bribes, and the money he cher
ishes as of first importance. Though in a
place where he might choose his friend* and
acquaintance among the best in the land, he
prefers low associates and surrounds himself
with relatives greedy for lucre and destitute
of self-respect, and with men who share his
own notion that Government office is chiefly
valuable for the opportunities it affords for
money making ana for the general personal
profit of the incumbent and bis friends.
Srf, instead of keeping a good name, he
ha* given his to A very vile system held in
reproach throughout all the world, to the
system of Grantism. In thi* he ha* act
ted the part of the fool and the fraud
both. May Grant meditate on these things on
this April Fouls' Day, and courageously re
solve to mend his wavs, dismiss hi* thieving
associates, and. turning over a new leaf, set
himself to regaining such portions of the
wreck of hi* reputation as he can save from
the whirlpool almut him.
Belknap i* lost, but ite is only a small
fraud in the throng of Grantism. He steered
hi* ship on the rocks, and she went down *.
that is all. Secor Robeson has so far kept
off the breakers, but we hear the water*
splashing on the reefs close by, and see how
hopeless is his case, even with fraud, impu
dence. and adroit thievery at tli9 helm.
Hamilton Fish is a pompous sailor, replete
with the airs of an ope rose and ostentatious
respectability, but he keep* a Jonah aboard
in Sidney Wehatpr, his son in-law; and in
fact Fish is one of the holhiwest of fraud*.
Pierreront is a wily mariner, but he has not
escaped the frauds of Grantism, and he can
not escape the storm which blows over the
whole of them.
The cheekiost fraud 'is. Henry Ward
Beecher. Old and unblushing in licentious
ness, he takes the part of a manly fellow
and a holy man, and with variations of
buffimnery, plays it to the entire satisfaction
of the brethren. But paint and gewgaw^
cannot hide the foulness underneath. Hi
reputation is gone, and he lives on lies and
petjuries. He is a man to be pitied. If
this April Fools’ Day suggest to Beecher the
folly of longer fraud, and the duty of confes
sion and atonement, perhaps he might have
eternal occasion for celebrating with joy the
first of ApiiL
The farmer’s little daughters can be taught J the case. “Have you told me the facts pre-
mauy valuable duties aV the early age of cisely as they occured?” asked the lawyer,
seveu or eight. They can be taught to knit “Oh, aye, sir!” replied he. “I thought it
their own stockings and mittens, sew patch best to tell ye the plain truth. Ye can put
work, and even spin. At the age of nine or the lies into it yourself.”
eleven let them have a quilting, and invite A Presbyterian minister, while marrying
the little girls in the neighborhood to help acoup { eof his rustic parishioners, felt ex*
them quilt. This will induce them be smart oeed -, nj{ {y disconcerted on his asking tbe
and aeaevering. Likewise, have them bridegroom if he was willing to take the
practice in cooking, as every mother knows WO man for his wedded wife, by Lis scratch-
thi* is the most essential partot housekeeping. ing his head and W ying, “ Ay,’ I’m wullto,’
We must not think because they do not get but rd rather hae be r sister.”
about it as handily as we do, or scatter a
a little flour, they must wait until they are A country editor received the following:
sixteen. Just go into the pantry, and tell “ Dear sir—I have looked carefully and
them how to proceed to make biscuit and patiently over your paper for six months
pies, then leave them to cook and use their | for the death ot some individual I was ac-
soul
praise and 11 care anyining aoout nas dropped on; you
encourage them if they succeed- Never j will please have my name erased.”
speak discouragely of their efforts if they do | A captain> „ ho ^ a 80Und .{eep-mato,
not.
i and the progress of the canso is 1 were liiing, hj would lie now a zemous lican party under «
would forthwith have passed a new bill
avoiding the ohjectiont made against that
which is how adjudged void. Tho Court
folly admits that Congress may pass a law
for insuring the dvil and political equality
of the negroes. If the republican party
bad sooner known that by attempting too
much they had accomplished nothing it
would have in their power to substi
tute appropriate legislation for the uncon
stitutional. law which tho enacted. Bit
th s decision of tho 7 o >rcmo Court, coming
when it does, not only annuls the Enforce
ment act, but puts that provision of the
constitution in abeyance whieh authorizes
Congress to pas* law* for tho protection of
p.'gro cquility. After the unscrupulous
abuse* of legislation practised l»y the repub-
dor of that anthority-
[ns'i-nan-ir^ ™"rtai»prepsrcJ t**!- »ii msnncrof J as woli marked as is" that of any physical Democrat.^ So would bo Chaso and dimmer ; a id w’hiclitbeSup.vmeCoarthr.a condemned
‘‘ ’** disease ; and G-cch-y and Seward. ^Such Jiving the democr.it* are not likely to consent to
work In the Line, ami at reiuonable charre*.
They luwe tiie workmen and u»e nothing bnt the
beat material. Carriage work, plantation work,, horae
al'irinx and any dtflTonlt job# a apemalty. Shop ep-
pmRaMaaan Gann A Keavea’ Livery Stable.;
In a letter like this, I cannot go into de,' statesman and natriots as David Davis,
tail, but 1 will make some suggestion*, j Lyman Trumbull, Carl Schurz, Charles F.
which the thoughtful patriot ought to con- 1 Adams, and Nathaniel P, Bank*, cannot
any further legislation i.n tho subject. The
, . ... _ , . .. caught an Irish boy in the middle-watch
" T . he .'^ ,ch wa fi " d “ frying some pork and eggs he had stolen
Cherokee German, let us add, taacli the from the , hip ^ 8tore9t an ff he
hoys to work also Don t let cither girls or 0UttQ hiro r «. Y oa lubber, you; I’ll have
boys grow up in hab ts of idleness. Accus- none ^ that » «. Faitb t ' ai Fve none
tom Kith, from early youth, to reasonab e , or ve ^ , ied the ]ad .
requisitions of care and labor. These while
they will aid in forming good habits, will Tho recent shower of flesh in Bath Coun
make the sport* more hearty and enjoyable, ty, Ky., ha* provoked quite a religious re-
and contribute largely to healthfulness ot vival among the colored population there,
body and of mind. While the mother seeks They seat themselves about in little groups,
to interest her daughters in household con- with their faces turned upward, as if the
cerns, let the father enlist his boys in the heaven* were full of mutton chops, and
culture of the garden and the care of the I sing:
premises. Any observant boy will be «uily
inspired with enthusiasm on these subjects,
and while he should not be overworked or
deprived of a fair allowance of the time for
sport and play, it is important that he should
not have enough for surfeit, so a* to be
“Komsetyere, bunxnqr nigg
Knm »tt yen on the groin
De Lewd hum • gwine
To frow de vittels down.”
*• old Raids.”
- _ Some of the best, nurest and truest wo,
empted into the exdtement of mere mis- men livinK are oddnJds. They are, gener-
chief and wrong doing, or acquire lazy, cral i y speaking, girls who in their youth
lounging and dmultory hobits. The great | were belles and beauties, and who set a high
lesson of the day in Georgia, to men, women I y„] ua on themselves—too high to acceDt the
aud children, white and black, now is per so-1 p^pqjgjj 0 f common Iben, and so they have,
nalxndustry. We shall all «e *gbta if we to ^ an 0 j d expression, “ gone through the
don t go to work.—Tel. and Mess. woods without picking up a stick,” for the*
sole reason that they were afraid of picking
Am Importast Law.—Tbe Legislature up a crooked one. A girl who bolds herseif
at its recent session passed an act, of which I too high to stoop to wed where she can nei-.
the following is a synopsis, that is very im- ther love nor respect, is vety likely to be au
DneonstitutloaaUty of tbe Enforcmeat Act. portant to Ordinaries, County Treasurers, old maid. Age aoes not make her any the
Had the decision of the Supreme Court, Clerks of tlw Superior Court and 8herifl*s. less particular, and as she goes along her
declaring the Enforcement laiv imconstU Section 1 requires these officers to make Ufa's journey she sees, perhaps, three who
rational Tieen rendered at an earlier period, to the Grand Jury on the fint day tf each were girls with her, unhappily wedded to
before the republican party lost control .term of the Superior Court a fiiU stotenaent husbands who are upland, or dissipated, or
of the House of llepreacntativos, Congress of the amount of money received by them careless, or upfaitbful, and she is strengthen-
,, - ,* - —-j *-:« belonging to their ^county, tbe source from ed to go on her way alone. Girls are fre-
which.it came, and also their expenditures quently prevented from marrying by circa p»*
with proper vouchers. stances they cannot escape. Aged relatives,
Section 2, provides that when such returns whose waning and broken lives need tbe fos-
ahall have been made, it shall be the duty of teringaud gentle care of a daughter, may
the Grand Jury, if fouud correct, to endorse gtana between her and marriage; and with a
their approval thereon, attach the same to I commendable self-sacrifice she yields up her
their general presentments, and they are to fovo on the altar of filial duty, and stamps
be entered on tho minutes of the Superior 1 herself • with the appellation "old maid.”
Court If found incorrect, the officer to be Again, death may have, taken from her the
notified of tbe same specifically, and requir- chosen of her heart, and her nature may be
’og him to explain the errors complained of. too loyal and true to admit of her enshrining
Section 3, provide* that should any offi- another iq the place of her first love. She
cerfailor refuse to make such return he J* not an old maid because she could not find
shall be liable to be attached for contempt, lover*. Indeed; there are. but few females
Griffin News. ' . {living who have attaiued the age of thirty
that have not had several offers ot marriage.
A pretty little Ohio school rnarm tried to | She ia au old maid because she respected
whip otin of her pupils, a boy of fifteen the : herself too highly to choree a husband from
other day, but when *he commenced the op
erations he coolly threw his arms around bet
neck and gave her a hearty kiss. She went
negros, for the ensuing two year* at least, straight back to ber desk, and her face was
iU have to depend for protection oa the I “ just as red.”
the ranks of indiscriminate suitors. Sho
bad in her youth hei* own ideal of the true,
the pure and the gold, finding none to oom-
fort, with it she sensibly concluded to re
main “ sn old maid,”
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