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by THE JACKSON COUNTY ( PUBLISHING COMPANY. $ VOLUME I. ®1 i( foHSI s{&!*. i.T • . 1 . . , ... T ...*" ~. a ;y | PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY, lly flir .liickxon County Publishing; Company. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. OFFICE, N. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STALRS. MALCCM STAFFORD, MANAGING .AND BUSINESS EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months $2.00 “ “ 0 “ 1.00 “ “ 3 “ 50 jP'N' For every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. asr an Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will he published TILL forbid, and charged accordingly. Jgy Business or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Conlrnct A1 vertising. 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RICK, - - - Judge. EMORY SPEER, Esq., - - Sol. Gen’l. COUNTY OFFICERS. M IhF,\ C. HOWARD, - Ordinary. TIIOS. H. M BLACK, - - - Clerk S. Court. JOHN S. HUNTER, ------ Sheriff. WINN A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy “ I. J. JOHNSON, ----- Treasurer. JAMES L. WILLIAMSON. - - Tax Collector. GKO. W. BROWN. ------ Receiver. •TAMES L. .JOHNSON, - - County'Surveyor. MM.\\ A FLACK, - - - Coroner. G. J. N. \\ ILSON, County School Commiss'r. (’< >MMISSIONEIIS (RoAI>S A Nl> R EVENUE.)—WiII. Seymour. W. Haynie, W. G. Steed. Meet on the Ist Fridays in August and November. 'l'. IF. Niblack, Esq., Clerk. m i ats fn. t res axn n ail tffs. •TefFerson District, Xo. 215. X. 11. Pendergrass, •hi*.; H. T. Flceman, 3. P. John M. Burns, Constable. Clarkesliorough District, No. 242, F. M. 1 lolli dav, .J. P.; M. B. Smith, .J. P. .filler's District. No. 455, 11. F. Kidd, J. P. Chandler’s District, No. 246, Ezekiel Hewitt, J. P. ; J. fl. Burson, J. P. Randolph’s District, No. 248, Pinckney P. Pirkle, J. P.; .Jas. A. Stravnge, .J. P. Cunningham's District. No. 428, J. A. Brazle ton, J. I'.; T. K. Randolph, J. P. Newtown District, No. 253, G. W. O’Kelly, J. I*.: T. J. Stapler, Not. Pub. A Ex. Off. J. P. Minnish’s District, No. 255. Z. W. Hood. J. P. Harrisburg District, No. 257, Wm. M. Morgan, J. P.; J. W. Pruitt, J. P. House's District, No. 243, A. A. Hill, J. p. Santa fee District, No. 1042, W. R. Boyd, J. P. S. <L Arnold. J. P. A ilson's District, No. 4G5, W. .J. Comer, J. P. FRA TERN A L DIRECTORY. I nity Lodge, No. 36, F. A. M., meets Ist Tues day in each month. 11. \Y. Bell, W. M.; John Simpkins, Sec")'. hove Lodge, No. 65, T. O. O. F., meets on 2d an, l Atli Tuesday nights in each month. J. 11. Sil m:U1 ' N. G.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec'y. Stonewall Lodge. No. 214, 1. 0. G. T.. meets on Saturday night before 2d rtnd 4th Sundays in each month. .). I*. Williamson, Sr., W. C. TANARUS.: J. 11. I‘endergrass, W. R. S. -Teflerson Grange, No. 48$, P. of IT., meets on oat unlay before 4th Sunday in each month. Jas. R. Randolph, M.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec’y. Relief (colored) Fire Company. No. 2, meets on 4th I uesday night in each month. Henry Long, Captain; Ned Bums, Sec’y. COUNT Y CJU RCH DIR ECTOR Y. METHODIST. JtjLrxon Circuit. —Jefferson. Harmony Grove, r . v Pond, Wilson’s, Holly Springs. W\ A. Far ris. p. c. Nnlherry Circuit. —Ebenezer, Betjilehem, Con- Crtr d. Centre and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. A. L. Anderson, P. C. Chapel and Antioch supplied from Watkins vdle Circuit. PRESBYTER I AX. I hyatira, Rev. G. 11. Cartledgc, Pastor ; Sandy reek. Rev. Neil Smith. Pastor; Pleasant Grove, [yv. H. Cartledgc, Pastor: Mizpah, Rev. Neil femith. Pastor. BAPTIST. Cabin Creek, W. R. Goss, Pastor; Harmony \!r°vc, V • R. J, Hardeman. Pastor; Zion, Rev. ”11. Bridges, Pastor; Bethabra, Rev. J. M. avis. Pastor; Academy, Rev. J. N. Coil. Pastor ; alnut. Rev. .J. M. Davis, Pastor; Crooked reek, \\ .F. Stark. Pastor; Oconee Church, Rev. a' i> Kelle y, Pastor; Poplar Springs. Rev. W. i aStor ’ Kandler ' s Greek, W. F. Stark, PROTESTANT METHODIST, entecost, Rev. R. S. McGarrity, Pastor. .. “ CHRISTIAN.” ethany ( hureh, l)r. F. Jackson, Pastor. iH istnui ( Impel, Elder W. T. Lowe, Pastor, uudee, Elder P. F. Lamar, Pastor. r , , I ,.,, FI I RS 'r UNI VERSA LIST. m trC ! * Rev. B. F-> Strain, Pastor; Church bundav an< prcachin S every third Saturday and - ■ - ■■■—— ■ ... . . 11 ■li 5 ■ Tlic People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. dlie Pod’s dottier. My Husband’s Grave. The following lines arc suggested by a slab in the soldiers’ burying ground at Greenville, Ala., placed upon the grave of G. W. Nichols, C. S. A., by his affectionate wife : At last my husband's grave is found ! My aching feet may rest. And I may swoon away and dream 1 lean upon his breast. A Southern man for Southern cause, Regardless of the cost, Wore Southern grey; ’neath Southern flag lie fought and won—l lost! And though the marshalled hosts in file Tramp heavy on my heart; Fd rather iceep than blttsh far him — Thank God, he bore his part! How long ago I cannot tell— It seems one hundred years ! For time has held in scarlet hand An hour-glass dimmed by tears. God bless the gentle ones who came A t dawning of the y'car, And wept with me and garlanded Bright laurels for thy bier ! A widow's prayer will rise for aye, Strangers, for thee and thine; Thy kindly hands that ministered, Ilow blest, had they been mine ! An emblem of my widowhood Is all that 1 can bring— A stainless harp, four broken chords, And one poor, silent string ! Ah, wake me not! This spirit hand That sweeps the green, strong pine With lingers light, and strokes my hair Caressingly, is thine. Kisses T press upon the earth, Oh, stillest arms, unfold ! Thou wilt not give me kiss for kiss, Oh sod, thou art so cold ! If life and death were mine to choose, I'd be the coldest clod On tin/(h ad heart, than living flower That breathes above the sod ! I wait; sleep on where comrades sleep (>JT f/nard; thy warrior soul Would rather rise in ranks when God Shall call llis muster-roll ! --- I 1 - JttisccHiiiu’ous illeilfei). President Grant and Jefferson Davis. The portrait of Jefferson Davis lias been assigned its proper place in the War Office in Washington. We like this. There is stronger practical evidence in this seemingly trilling incident, that hates engendered by strife are forgotten, than in the sloppiest orations ever hoveled out in Federal or Confederate grave yards. When Mr. Davis’ worth, as a man, is conceded by the foremost men in the coun try. it is shown that the people of the North have forgotten how to hate, and we are sure 1 that legislation. like that which chuck ed Sambo into ballot-boxes, will be slowly but surely reformed. Mr. Davis, in social life, never recurs to wrongs he has endured, lie seems to have forgotten absolutely every incident of harshness that should make his prison life memorable, lie has apparently dismissed, utterly, all unpleasant memories, and no one encountering him on the street, or at the fireside, would dream that he had been the central figure in the most fearful revolutionary drama of modern times. He lends a life of quiet study, and is only earnest, outsi le his library, in promoting the ends of the London Society of the Valley of the Mis sissippi, designed to open direct trade be tween the Valley of the Mississippi and the Old World. He is eminently social in tastes and habits, and is the most fascinating col loquist perhaps that lives. He has traveled and enjoyed every possible advantage that wealth, refinement, cultured taste and high social position could give. In Scotland, among the old nobility, he was more familiar with local history, we are told, than were his delighted hosts. He has read everything and forgotten nothing. In manner he is singular ly graceful, and his face lias lost that cold, hard, immobile, expressionless character, worn habitually when tempests shook and lightnings flashed about his capital on the James. Whatever the fact, no one who now encounters Air. Davis would ever dream that he dreams of any further share in the guid ance of the affairs of nations. He is rejuve nated—ever smiling, ever ready to talk and amuse and delight, by exhibiting his wonder ful stores of wit and wisdom to those who would derive solid advantage or amusement from lessons he inculcates. If Air. Jefferson Davis be not one of the uncrowned kings, content to rest and abide by the fiat of his tory and truth, lie is the most eonsumate ac tor that lives. However generotisty, then, Federalism, as embodied in Grant's cabinet, deals with Confederatism, as personated by Jefferson Davis, there is no danger that it will blunder. Air. Davis, in all the forms and external acts of every day life, is, at this hour, the proper representative of the true people of the South, and it is in view of this fact that Grant’s proposition to suspend habeas corpus becomes a crime against every incident and development of Southern so ciety, and against Southern modes of think ing. as against peace, order and good govern ment. —Austin (Texas) Statesman. Religion as a Business Investment. — Mr. John 11. James is reported in the Atlanta Herald, as having delivered himself as follows at a late “experience” meeting in that city : Whenever lie had made money and used part of it in building churches, or other benevolent works, lie was always blest. In every instance his business prospered after wards. At one time, however, he was consid ering a business transaction and thought he could make by it, and he promised the Lord that if lie would prosper him in it he would use half to build another church. This time he signally failed. At a later date still, he had freely bestowed his money in aid of a revival meeting, and in a few days the Lord had wonderfully blessed him, he had made two or three thousand dollars in a single transaction. Moving is not pleasant. It breaks up old associations and the skin on your knuckles. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1875. CREASE. It may not be poetical, but it is neverthe less true, that the path of life would be ex ceedingly rough without the practical appli cation of grease. The milk of human kind ness might be termed the oil of charity, not only the charity that givetli, but the charity that forgiveth. No machinery will work without oil. Pour sand into the wheels of cars or steamboats, and witness the result; the sand must be re moved, and oil put in its place, before the wheels will do their duty. Your watch stops. You find out the cause. Dust has worked its way in between the covers, and the delicate machinery is power less. Clean and oil it, and all goes well again. If we arc so careful to remove the impedi ments, and to oil all the creations of man, how much more particular we should be in attending to the wonderful works of God.— Nothing on earth requires so much oil as the nature of man, and it is the duty of every one to use that smoothing power just as often as it is required. The head of a household needs to have a good stock of the oil of patience always on hand, lor if the sand of discontent and con tinual fault-finding is ever poured into the ears of the members of the family, home will bo far from being the haven of rest it should be. And if a good example of kindness and consideration is found in one in power, oth ers are most apt to follow it. Children are like watches, tender care and faithful attention only can keep the dust from tire delicate and frail machinery : nothing but the oil of love and patience can make the wheels run smoothly. There are so many different kinds of grease needed that we shall attempt to name but lew. The merchant would soon find his busi ness in a sad condition, did he not use the oils of prompt payment, system, firmness, and universal kindness. He must be kind to those in his employ, polite and obliging to his patrons. The lawyer must be oiled with a fee before he uses the oil of eloquence by which he gains his client's case. The church is like the family, while the power of money is needed for its support, there are many other oils required to make the institution an agreeable one. The pastor must please his people—he must preach good sermons—must neither be too long nor too short; lie must be faithful in his attentions to his flock, prompt in his visits, at home when his parishioners call on him, and always on hand when consolation or advice is needed. The .Sunday School is a combination of families, and while each family is under the care of a teacher, the whole comes under the direct control and supervision of the Super intendent, whose business it is to keep smooth the entire flock of little ones and their teach ers, which must be, at times, a most difficult matter, when all have different wishes and tastes, even in religion. Then, too, the fi nancial affairs of the school come before the Superintendent. It is his business, when the amount of money on hand is not sufficient for the demand, to see that the deficiency is filled, and if not from other sources, it must come from his own pocket. 11 c perhaps works hard all the week, and Sunday brings no rest to his weary brain and body, for be is through out the day thinking about his charge, if he is not actually at his labors. In truth, from our personal observation, wc are convinced that no two persons outside of the household need more of the oil of patience than the pas tor of a church and the Superintendent of a Sunday School. But we forget the editor ; and his position is by no means an easy one to fill. Fancy his feelings when the hour draws near for the paper to be ready for the eager public, and lie is told that half the reporters were on a “bust” last night, and most of the editors are missing. In vain the “ devil” calls for copy, while the editor searches his brain for an idea, and uses his last resort, the scissors, with but slight gratification. Then, too, at best, his is a sorry life, for lie must gratify the fancies of all his readers or else the pa per is lost. The doctor, of course, requires a good sup ply of oil among his medicines, for illness will make almost any nature rough. lie lias not only the trouble of his patients to bear, but should he be so unfortunate as to lose one, or any accident should happen, he must endure the fault-finding and accusa tions of the friends, and those arc often quite as hard to bear as the feeling which will come : “ Suppose I had done differently, she might now be alive.” We have mentioned but a few cases where oil is needed, but enough to show that in every sphere of life, no matter what our con dition or position may be, we all require judicious application and a bountiful supply of that most useful of all rust removers— grease. Mary E. Lambert. Lost Women. Has it ever occurred to you what a com mentary upon our civilization are these lost women, and the attitude of society towards them? A little child strays from the home enclosure, and the whole community is on the alert to find the wanderer and restore it to its mother's arms. 'What rejoicing when it is found, what tearful sympathy, what heartiness of congratulation? There are no harsh comments upon poor tired feet, be they ever so mirey, no reprimand for the soiled and torn garments, no lack of kisses for the tear-stained face. But let the child be grown to womanhood, let her be led from it by the scourge of want—what happens then ? Do Christian men and women go in quest of her? Do they provide all possible help for her return, or if she return of her own notion do they receive her with such kindness and delicacy as to secure her against wandering? Far from it. At the first step she is denounc ed as lost—lost 1 echo friends and relatives— we disown you ; don’t ever come to us to dis grace us. Lost, says society indifferently. How bad these girls are. And lost—irre trievably lost—is the prompt verdict of con ventional morality, while one and all unite in bolting every door between her and respec tability. Ah, will not these lost ones be re quired at our hands hereafter?—Mrs. Burleigh. A Look Backward. WALL PAPER JOURNALISM BEFORE THE SUR RENDER MULE AND CAT MEAT. Someone sends us a copy of the Minneap olis “(Minn.) News, of the 24th inst., which contains the following reminiscence of the days of shot and shell and bellowing of the mortars. T hrough the kindness of Air. J. P. Ray, of this city, we have examined quite a newspa per curiosity. It bears the title of the “ Daily Citizen ,” and was published in Vicksburg, Thursday, July 2d, 18G3. It is printed on the blank side of a small strip of wall paper, there being four columns of reading matter on the sheet. It contains many interesting items, of which wc make extracts. ''Khe editor, Air. Swords, acknowledges the receipt of a “mule steak" as follows : “ We are indebted to Alaj. Gillespie for a steak of Confederate beef, alias meat. AYe have tried it, and can assure our friends that they need have no scruples at eating the meat. It is sweet, savory and tender, and so long as we have a mule left, we are satisfied our sol diers will be content to subsist upon it.” Speaking of the scarcity of provisions in the city, of their secretion and sale to the half-starved citizens, at exhorbitant prices, the Citizen says: “A rumor has reached us that parties in our city have been, and now are, selling flour at five dollars per pound, molasses at ten dol lars a gallon, and corn at ten dollars per bushel. We hope this allusion to the subject will induce someone to ascertain upon whom rests this extortion, and if so, let a brand not only be placed upon his brow, but let it be seared into the very brain, that humanity may scorn and shun them as they would the portals of Hell itself.” The following shows one dinner bill of fare : “ Poor defunct Thomas was then prepared, not for the grave, but for the pot, and several friends invited to partake of a nice “rabbit.” Asa matter of course, no one would wound the feelings of another, especially in these times, by refusing a cordial invitation to din ner, and the guests assisted in consuming the poor animal with a relish that did honor to their epicurism taste. The “sold” assure us that the meat was delicious, and that hence forth “ pussy'’ must look out for her own safety.” Of Grant's boast of occupying the city on the Fourth of J uiy, the paper says : “Grant has expressed his intention of din ing in Yieksburg on Katurday*next, and cele brating the Fohrt h of July by a grand dinner, and so forth. Ulysses must, get into the city before he dines in it. The way to cook a rab bit is “ first catch the rabbit, etc.'’ But on the morning of the Fourth of July the city fell, and the ITnion troops were in the city. The “ form” of Thursday’s Citizen, was still standing, and some Union ‘ comp.” at the lower right hand corner, inserted the fol lowing, and re-printed the edition : NOTE. July 4tii, 1803. ■ “ Two days bring about great changes.— The banner of the Union floats over Vicks burg. Gen. Grant has ‘caught the rabbit,’ he has dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring his dinner with him. The Citizen lives to see it. For the last time it appears on ‘ wall paper.’ No more will it imagine the luxuries of mule meat and fricassed kitten—urge Southern warriors to such diet no more. This is the last wall paper edition, and is, excepting this note, from the types as we found them. It will be valuable hereafter as a curiosity.” The extracts above are substantially cor rect. Major Gillespie had the mule meat “jerked” by Mexican “experts” belonging to Want’s Texas Legion, and it was an experi ment of Gen. Carter L. Stevenson, like that of the pea bread, and became a leading article of food during the latter part of the siege.— The rumor mentioned about “extortion” is true, though some of the parties “ marked” then would grow bellicose if such a thing was intimated now, yet the proof might be found no farther off than Monroe, Louisiana. The extract about the killing of a cat is true.— The cat was killed in the yard of Mr. M. Shannon, one morning about five o'clock, and the parties to the “demise” were Marmaduke Shannon, Jr., afterwards killed in a charge at Spanish Fort, near Mobile, and the writer.— The venerable Thomas was prepared for table use by a cook belonging to one of the boats sent up Yazoo river for safety, and Gus Lew is, a servant of Mr. Shannon, yet in the city. The “ rabbit” was made attractive by pastry, and in addition, there was mule soup, pea bread, fig leaf greens and corn beer. Invita tions were sent to Colonel Robt. Richardson, Capt. Frank Pennington, Maj. M. S. Ward, Maj. F. S. Gregory; now of the Petersburg Appeal, and one or two others. The busi ness end of the Federals attracted consider able attention just then, and the dinner was sparsely attended. A plate of the dinner was, however, sent to the residence of our present Alderman, and to some lady friends at the corner of Second East and Cherry streets.— The “rabbit” and accompaniments were pro nounced “ delicious,” but the young men who perpetrated the joke, made themselves scarce until after they received their parole papeis, which followed very soon, as the Federals came in and found the forms of the Citizen “locked,” and the establishment deserted.— Vicksburg Herald. It is well known that nobody makes more delicious corn bread than the negro women down south. One of them told an enquiring young lady how she does it, and for the benefit of our housekeeping readers, we give the receipt. Says Dinah: “ Why, darlin’ sometimes gen’ally I takes a little meal, and sometimes gen" ally I takes a little flou,’ an’ I kine o’ mixes ’em up with some hot water, an’ I puts in eggs enuff and a little salt, an’ then I bakes it jist ’bout enuff. An’ you do so, jess so, honey, an' you'll make it as good as I do.” Cream Cake.— Four tea-cups flour, three of sugar, one of sweet cream, one of butter and five eggs ; sift two teaspoonsful of cream tar tar and one of soda into the flour and use any flavoring preferred. Rub the butter and su gar together, mix in the other ingredients, beat well, and bake as pound cake. The “ Grey Moss” and its Meaning. In almost every nation some natural pro duction of the soil has been regarded as emblematic of its people or its destiny. The Scottish thistle is a true type of a gallant race who cannot be trampled upon with im punity. What emblem more appropriate than the triune shamrock for a people whose pre eminent characteristic is attachment to their faith, and who may truly boast that infidelity and ingratitude find Irish soil as uncongenial as do the reptiles of animated nature. The “ Sunny South” lias been frequently typified by the queenly magnolia, the fra grant jasamine and the ever-blooming rose ; and while travelers have eloquently de scribed them, they have alluded to tlie ap parent anomaly; the sad discrepancy of tie mournful grey moss fluttering its funeral seeming drapery, where all else told only of joy and hope. It is meaningless no longer— fit emblem of a mourning land, it droops over many a sad and roofless homestead; it wreathes itself around our cemeteries and waves its banners over many a nameless hero’s grave. And less hopeless would be the task to tear it from our forests that it might never more meet the eye, than to eradicate the love of “the grey'* which is the just tribute to valor, patriotism, and all that ennobles manhood. Nature often seems to console or sympa thize with us; in future years, as they who keep weary vigils “ out-watching the stars,” view tlie grey tints of early dawn melt and kindle into the roseate flush of morn, they will recall the glories of Manassas, Ciian cellorsvillo and Fredericksburg." And as long as at eve the “twilight grey,” deepens into the shades of night we will not forget Atlanta, Columbia or Petersburg. On the banks of the Mississippi I lately passed the ruins of a stately mansion, proba ble once a happy home. The chimneys and massive columns alone stood ; shot, shell and fire had effectually done their mission, the orange grove was destroyed, a few struggling shoots of “the cloth of gold,” and a “ blood red rose,” the “giant of battles,” showed the spot where once had been a garden. There was no sign of life or cultivation ; but amid all this devastation there towered, unscathed, in immortal verdure, a live oak, heavily draped with the mournful moss. And this I thought should be the future emblem of the South, the oak, the firmly rooted, the less liable to decay, from the tempest it had with stood. and the removal of the adornments that had been torn from around it—the moss—that's for remembrance.— Record. True to the Character. “I say. girls,” said a little blue-eyed, flax en-haired boy, on Second street, yesterday, “ let me take your candy, and we’il all play chicken.” “Is it nice? - ’ inquired half a dozen six year-olds in chorus. “ Nice ! you Get it is. Let me show you. Now, I’ll lay the candy down here on the step, and you all go down there and come up when you hear me call like a rooster.” The girls retreated, and gathered in a group, about fifteen feet off, while the boy got on his knees, with his head over the candy, and be gan to call and strut and flap his arms like a rooster's wings. “Cluck, cluck, rat, tat, rap, cluck,” and all the girls came running up and bent to pick up the candy, when the little fellow opened his mouth and took it in at one gulp. “Oh, you mean boy,” they cried, “you have taken all our candy.” “ That's ’cause I played rooster,” said the boy ; “roosters always call the hens up when he finds a grain of corn, and then picks it up himself.”— St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette. ITe Knew llow.—At an auction of house hold goods on Harrison Avenue, the other day, when a woman had made a bid on an old bureau worth about §2, a boy slipped around to another woman and whispered : “ You see that woman over there with a blue bow on?’’ “ Yes.” “ Well, she says that no woman with a red nose can buy anything at this sale.” The woman with the red nose pushed her way into the crowd and ran the price of the bureau up to sl2. and as it was knocked down to her she remarked : “I may have a red nose, but no cross-eyed woman with a blue bow on can bluff me !” Detroit Free Press. Two Pictures. BEFORE MARRIAGE. My Maggie, my beautiful darling, Creep into my arms, my sweet, Let me fold you again to my bosom So close 1 can hear your heart beat. "What! these little fingers been sewing? One's been pricked by the needle, T see ; These hands shall be kept free from labor When once they are given to me. All mine, little pet, T will shield you From trouble and labor and care, I will robe you like some fairy princess, And jewels shall gleam in your hair; Those slippers you gave me are perfect, That dressing-gown fits to a T ; My darling, I wonder that heaven Should give such a treasure to me. Eight—nine—ten—eleven ! my precious, Time Hies so when I am with you, It seems but a moment I've been here, And now, must I say it ? Adieu. AFTER MARRIAGE. Oh, Mag. you are heavy—l’m tired; Go sit in the rocker, I pray; Your weight seems a hundred and ninety When you pf ump down in that sort of way. You had better be mending my coat sleeve— I've spoken about iwTbfore— And I want to finish thi?novel And look over these bills from the store. This dressing-gown sets like the d—l; These slippers run down at the heel; Strange, nothing can never look decent; I wish you could know how they feel. What's this bill from Morgan's? why surely, It's not for another new dress? Look here 1 I'll be bankrupt ere New Year, Or your store bill will have to grow less. Eight o'clock ! Mag, sew on this button As soon as you finish that sleeve ; Ileigh-ho ! I’m so dcucedlv sleepy ; I'll pile oil"to bed, 1 believe. S TEEMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. NEWS MISCELLANY. FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Dr. Loviek Pierce is said to be the oldest effective minister, of any persuasion, in America. A Blakely negro, who had jumped up to shout at a church meeting, a few nights ago, fell and broke his jaw. There were shipped this year from around Charleston, S. C., 400.000 quarts of straw berries, for which SIO,OOO was received. Col. Seward, of Thomas county, exhibited last week a stalk of cotton bearing two ma tured bolls and a blossom. The news comes from the grasshopper regions that the jumpers arc rapidly taking their leave, and the farmers arc yet hopeful that they will make fair crops, although many of them have planted their crops for the third time. A Milledgeville man who found a dusty finger-nail in a cud of tobacco which he was endeavoring to masticate, now chews calamus. The Albany News says that Capt. T. 11. Willingham has 2,000 acres in corn, 2,000 in cotton, and 1,100 in oats. His oats aro harvested, and he will probably have 8,000 bushels for sale. A Washington, D. C., man writes to the National Republican complaining of the “wa ter we drink.*' lie has been examining it under the microscope, and says, “ there's millions in it.” The Gainesville Eagle says the price of tickets to New York from Gainesville is only $24. Cheap enough for all who can start from Gainesville. Killed.— Dave Drummonds, the negro who attempted to commit a rape in Milton coun ty, about two months since, was killed near W estminster, South Carolina, last week. The Keowee Courier says that, he was killed by a man named Knight, who was attempting to arrest him. Dave attempted to kill him with an axe. Knight, after giving back some dis tance, shot him through the body with a gun. An examination at Cuthbert, last week, in to some scandalous charges against Hon. John T. Clark, resulted in his complete vin dication and acquittal. The trial was before Judge Kiddoo. It seems to be a habit of the Atlanta preach ers to fight over dying men and criminals.-*- The religion that causes its apostles to mash each other's noses and to refuse to shake hands, is a little too warm for us. We prefer the kind we read about in the New Testa ment—the gospel of peace and forgiveness, —Savannah News. It is reported that a weekly paper, devoted todthe interests of the Southern Methodist Church, and edited by Dr. W. P. Harrison, with an able corps of contributors, will soon be started in Atlanta. Mr. R. K. Payne will be the publisher. A cypress tree was cut down in Randolph count}' recently which contained a colony each of sap-suckers and bats, and two hun dred pounds of nice honey. Talk aliout 3 T our eucalyptus globuluses. A worth} 1 - country parson once preached a labored sermon on the beneficence of Provi dence in causing large rivers to usually flow past important towns. Virginia can boast of two of the youngest murderers of any State in the Union. One of them is only nine years old, and the other is thirteen. The latter is being tried for his life at Richmond, and the other is now under going imprisonment for his crime in the State prison. A young lady in Alabama said she guess ed she knew how to shoot a pistol. The doc tor who dug the bullet out of her brother’s leg said lie guessed so, too. An amusing feature of the next State Fair, to be held in Macon, will be a wheel-barrow race. The contestants will be blind-folded and placed with their backs towards a post, two hundred yards distant, and will then turn round and try to strike the post. A fifteen year old Atlanta boy has written a book called “The Two Boys ; or, Among the Pirates.” A Savannah t>oy is en gaged on a serial to be called “The Red Bug’s Redowa; or, Summer Life in Habersham.” There is a house in South Carolina which was once the headquarters of Gen. Marion during his revolutionary campaign on the Great Pedee river. It is built of c) r press, and is still in an excellent state of preservation. The Dawson Journal says that a very large majority of the people of Terrell count}' are much dissatisfied with the acquittal of Jack son, who was tried a few days since for the murder of Col. Jones. It says that the ver dict was an astonishing one to the Judge, the attorneys and the people, and was received with a feeling of indignation. An old gentleman gives the Elberton Ga zette a remedy for snake-bites or insect stings, which he lias never known to fail. Immedi ately upon being bitten or stung, or as soon as possible thereafter, apply a piece of moist ened copperas to the wound, and keep it there until the effects of the poison disappears.— The copperas can be applied with a bandage, or a large lump placed on the wound, to which it will adhere as .the mad-stone is said to do. When the lump drops off it should be replaced by another piece, moistened as the first, and this kept up until the adhering ceases. The Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist thinks that Col. Alston, of the Herald, lias forfeited the office of State Printer by sending a challenge to Col. Clarke. The challenge was not sent in Georgia, though whether this fact relieves the Colonel of the operations of the law, we are unable to say. The farmers in Oglethoqie county are com plaining of the destruction caused to their lands by beavers. These dam animals, they say. dam the creeks till whole acres are dam med. How hardly can a ragged man enter into the church of the period. NUMBER 6.