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by THE JACKSON COTJNTY ) PUBLISHING- COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. §ms l (t PUBLISHED EVERY BATUIIDAY, jjy Ihe ,|ackon County l*ul>liwliing; t’onipsiny. JEFFERSON , JACKSON CO ., GA. OFFICE, N. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. ■ALCO m STAFFORD, MANAGING AND BUSINESS EDITOR. TERHIS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months $2.00 “ “ 6 “ .. 1.00 “ “ 3 “ 50 ftarFor 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 tirst insertion, ami Se#ENTY-FIVE Cents for each subsequent insertion. frif All Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL forbid, and charged accordingly. Business or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum ; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Advertising. 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RICE, - Judge. EMORY SPEER, Esq., - - Sol. Gen'l. COINTV <)FFIVERS. M I LEY C. HOWARD, - Ordinary. THUS. 11. N l BLACK, - - - Clerk S. Court. JOHN S. HUNTER, ------ Sheriff. WINN A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy •• LEE J. JOHNSON, ----- Treasurer. JAMES L. WILLIAMSON, - - Tax Collector. CEO. W. BROWN, ----- ‘* Receiver. JAMES L. JOHNSON, - - County Surveyor. WM. \\ ALLACE, - r - - Coroner. C. J. N. WILSON, County School Commiss’r. ComMISSI (NEKS (ttoAl >8 AND REVEXUK.)— Will. Seymour, W. J. llaynie, W. G. Steed. Meet on the Ist Fridays in August and November. T. 11. Nib lack, Esq., Clerk. MAGISTRATES AND BAILIFFS. Jefferson District, No. 245, N. IT. Pendergrass, J. P.; H. T. Flee man, J. P. John M. Burns, Constable. Clarkesborough District. No. 242, F. M. Holli d*v, J. p.; M. B. Smith, J. P. Miller's District, No. 455, 11. F. Kidd. J. P. Chandler’s District, No. 246, Ezekiel Hewitt. J. P.; J. G. Burson, J. P. Randolph's District, No. 248, Pinckney P. Pirkle, J. I*.; Jas. A. Straynge, J. P. Cunningham's District, No. 428, -J. A. Brazle ton, J. P.; T. K. Randolph, J. P. Newtown District, No. 253, G. W. O’Kelly, J. P.; T. J. Stapler, Not. Pub. & Ex. Off. J. P. Minnish's District, No. 255. Z. W. Hood. J. P. Harrisburg District, No. 257, Wm. M. Morgan, J. I*.; J. W. Pruitt, J. 1. House’s District, No. 243, A. A. Hill, J. P. Santafee District, No. 1042, W. R. Boyd, J. P. S. G.. Arnold, J. P. Wilson's District, No. 4G5, W. J. Comer, J. P. FRA TERN A L DIRECTOR V. I n 'tv Lodge, Xo. 36, F. A. M., meets Ist Tues day night in each month. 11. W. Bell, W. M.; John Simpkins, Sec’y. Love Lodge. No. 65, T. O. O. F., meets on 2d and 4th Tuesday nights in each month. J. B. Sil man. X. G.; G. J. X. Wilson, Sec'y. Stonewall Lodge. Xo. 214. I. O. G. TANARUS., meets on Saturday night before 2d and 4th Sundays in each mouth. J. P. Williamson, Sr., W. C. T • J. B. Tendergrass, W. R. S. Jefferson Grange, Xo. 488. P. of 11., meets on Saturday before 4th Sunday in each month. Jas. L. Randolph, M.; G. J. X. Wilson, Sec’y. (colored) Fire Company, Xo. 2, meets on ~ * * nesday night in each month. Henry Long, “Plain; Ned Burns, Sec’y. COUNTY CHURCH DIRECTOR V. METHODIST. and ■ ow Circuit. —Jefferson, Harmony Grove. r ! 'l> °“d, Wilson’s, Holly Springs. W. A. Far- Mulbcrry Circuit. —Ebenezer, Bethlehem, Con ('lry Centre and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. A. L. Anderson, P. C. thapel and Antioch supplied from Watkins- Vl Ue Circuit. PRESBYTERIAN. nvatira. Rev. G. 11. Cartledge. Pastor ; Sandy feek. Rev. Xeil Smith. Pastor; Pleasant Grove, ( L H. Cartledge, Pastor; Mizpali, Rev. Xeil knuth. Pastor. ’ 1 n . . BAPTIST. “bin Creek. W. R. Goss, Pastor; Harmony W°ij’ " \ J- Hardeman, Pastor; Zion, Rev. • H. Bridges, Pastor; Bethabra. Rev. J. M. 'H\us. Pastor; Academy, Rev. J. X. Coil. Pastor ; Halnut Rev. J. M. b av is. Pastor; Crooked \ , Y-'V Stark - Castor; Oconee Church, Rev. a i.‘ ,hcy, Pastor; Poplar Springs, Rev. W. Pastor^’ I>aßtor; handler’s Creek, W. F. Stark, PROTESTANT METHODIST. 1 Rev. R. S. McGarrity, Pastor. 1> “CHRISTIAN.” •etliany Church, l)r. F. Jackson, Pastor. <iim t,an vS?* p r U Elrler VV ‘ T. Lowe, Pastor. Galdce, Elder P. F. Umar, Pastor. VNI VERBALIST. meeting 0 ! ’ Ecv / E ‘ • *^ tr ain. Pastor; Church Sunday UIV >rcac^un o every third Saturday and THE FOREST NEWS. The People tlicir own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. title .poet’s Comet. WRITTEN FOR THE FOREST NEWS. Lines to Miss F. D. O, lov’d one, why not give your love To one who loves you so Devotedly and so dearly And who no others know? How happy, when around our home To each our love has given, Go hand in hand here on this earth And hand in hand to heaven. This w'orld holds out but one bright star For me to strive to gain; That star your heart—that star your love ; Forbid that I in vain Should strive and wish and hope and pray For what all others pine ; May heaven smile on me and grant That you may yet be mine. Could I but win your heart and love, My life would be complete ; The happiness of this earth would flow In streams so pure and sweet. And when you, bright angel of my heart, To me your love has given— You arc so pure and good, that you Would fit us both for Heaven. GEORGIA. Its General Resources. To the exclusion of our usual amount of “miscellaneous matter,” we publish the fol lowing extracts from “ A Report prepared for the International Chamber of Commerce and Mississippi Valley Society of London, Eng land,” by the Savannah branch of the society. The entire report being too lengthy for one issue of our paper, we have endeavored to “ cull” the most important portions ; howev er, it is as a whole, a very interesting docu ment, and we may, possibly, make future ex tracts from it. THE STATE OF GEORGIA Is divided into three great geographical di visions, called north, middle and lower Geor gia. It is also divided geologically into the all lvial, tertiary, cretaceous, siluvian, tucon ic, metamorphic and plutonic. Is bounded on the north by N. Carolina and Tennessee, on the south by Florida, on the east by South Carolina and the Atlantic ocean, and on the west by Alabama. We can justly claim for our state that it is the “Gate State” or Atlan tic water front for a port ion of the states con stituting the Mississippi Valley. Our sys ‘emof railroads gives us direct and rapid communication with the Mississippi river, and hence with the Mississippi Valley states. The state has an area of 58,000 square miles, and with 640 acres to the square mile, we would have 37,120,000 square acres, nearly as large as the whole of the New England states put together, viz : Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con necticut and Rhode Island. Making due al- lowanccs for tlie area covered with towns, cities, and for swamp lands that are at this t me considered but of little value, and not triven in, we have by the comptroller gener al's report a return of 34,535,639 acres, at an aggregate value of $98,703,789, not quite an average of $3 per acre. We have thousands and thousands of acres that are termed open or wild lands, and at present used as ranges for cattle, though comparatively few are raised when we take into consideration the advantages and inducements that are offered. The state is about 300 miles long from north to south, and 520 miles, as an average from east to west. It lies in the parallels of latitude of from near 30£ deg. to 35 deg. SOU. CLIMATE —PRODUCTIONS. The state of Georgia has every kind of soil that can bp desired, and our productions are as rich and as varied as our soil. Our climate is one of the most pleasant and delightful of any of the states—neither too hot or too cold, but generally of a pleasant temperature the year round. One can work the full with out any drawbacks from January to Decem ber. Vegetation of different kinds are grow ing and maturing in different portions of the state at all seasons. There is not a month in the year but what some garden vegetables can be had for the table. On the Atlantic coast and in the more southern counties dffer ent kinds of vegetables are quite common at all seasons. There is a difference of nearly six weeks in the maturing of vegetation be tween the northern and southern sections of the state. FOREST TRF.ES. We have in our forest nearly all kinds of trees and woods, and suitable for almost all kinds of purpose. We have every kind and variety of oak—no less than t wenty varieties, differing in grain, leaf, and texture, strength, durability, wear and life ; a half dozen varie ties of hickory; then comes the ash, chest nut, beach, sycamore, dogwood, cottonwood, elm, poplar, magnolia, bay, maple, persim mon, cedar, cypress, the black and sweet gum, sassafras, chinquepin, the white and black mulberry, haw, walnut, and many other kinds less general and important, We have given the most prominent and abundant. As to our pine, we have the finest in the world, and it has a general and universal reputation. The flora of our state is rich and varied. Plants and flowers of all descriptions and kinds, and many witli fine medicinal proper ties. Our genera is large, and the species number 2.063. WATER POWER FACTORIES. The water power of the state, with fine, natural falls, well adapted for manufacturing purposes, cannot be excelled by any state in the union. There may be some that can equal us, but certainly none that can present superior advantages. There are states that have a great many more manufacturing estab lishments, from the fact that they live by manufacturing. They have neither our soil, climate or productions. Since the destruction of our negro property, the late slaveholding states must from ne- JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1875. cessity turn their attention to manufacturing, mining and commerce. We will be driven as a natural consequence to the manufactur ing of our own cotton and wool. And as our iron and copper mines are developed we will also divert our capital to the erection of foundries and machine shops of all kinds. Our surplus earnings can not and will not be invested in lands and negroes as in former days. The field is large and inviting, but unoccupied both from the want of knowledge and capital. Northern and middle Georgia could be made unrivalled for manufacturing purposes. When we take into consideration such na tural advantages as are presented, success and large profits could but attend wise and skillful efforts. All that is needed is simply an enlarged expereience in such business. Sites and water privileges will be given free of charge to parties who will erect mills and factories. The cotton manufacturing establishments now in operation, especially in Augusta, Macon, Columbus, Athens and Milledgeville, and others of less pretentions, are declaring fair dividends upon the capital invested. No fine goods are manufactured, but the heavy cotton and woolen goods turned out are of superior quality, and find ready sales. We have no calico establishment, nor any factory that produces fine woolen goods. A fine article of Georgia jeans is made in sever al of the factories, that finds a ready sail. We now want factories for the manufacture of calico goods, fine shirting and other fine white goods, such as will rival any made at the north. ADVANTAGES GEORGIA PRESENTS. Georgia, in her desire to become a man ufacturing state as well as an agricultural one, has, by an enactment of law, exempted* all manufacturing establishments from tax ation for the term often years from building. That fact alone is an extraordinary induce ment to capitalists to invest in the state. In the manufacture of cotton goods, the raw material can be brought direct to the factory without one cent of charges for hauling or freight; can be brought even from the fields in the seed. But, as is now generally done, it is bought from the wagons that bring it from the farms to the towns for sale. We have known it bought in the seed, and the cotton ginned in the factory and turned into cloth with not one particle of waste. The seed may be compressed, and the oil used for many purposes, and the oil cake fed to cattle, of which they are very fond, as it has fine fattening properties. Cotton seed oil is fast becoming an article of commercial impor tance, and it is now so refined as to be sold for sweet oil. In Georgia but little thought is given to thus utilizing the seed, and the developing of another source of wealth that is so conve nient and so easy of manufacture. As it is. millions of bushels of cotton seed are used simply as a manure, and found to be a most excellent one. But in the light of true econ omy, and the development of an important manufacturing interest, it is sheer and waste ful extravagance to simply make manure of an article so full of oleaginous and nutritive qualities. We would respectfully invite the attention of capitalists to the subject, as it is one deserving of consideration, and an un questionable source of wealth. POPULATION OF GEORGIA. By the census of 1870, we had 1.184.100 inhabitants. The number of whites, 328,926 ; negroes, formerly slaves, 545,183. With an area of 58,000 square miles, we would have upon an average of near 21 inhabitants to the square mile, when we ought to have, to begin to develop our resources, from 30 to 100 to the square mile. England and Wales have 35 to the square miles ; the same in Georgia, with our area, would give us a population of 20,300,000. The united kingdom of Great Britain has 225 to the squhre mile, which would give us 13,050, 000. France has 180 ; that would give us 10.440,000. Spain has 90 ; that would give us 5,220,000. Give to Geor gia 100 to the square mile, and we would then have a population of 5,800,000; if we had but 50, then we would number 2,900,000 ; as it is, we now have in round numbers making an estimate for an increase in the past five years about 1,200,000, We can easily upon our soil, and with our climate, support 5,000,900 of people with comfort, making enough to eat and having plenty to sell besides. It should be borne in mind that in the greater portion of the state two crops can be made on the same soil in the same year, and in vegetables three crops. As to population we are litterally “in the woods.” GEORGIA’S COTTON CROP. But coming down to actual facts, the state of Georgia has, within the last ten years, made on an average about 500,000 bales of cotton per year, which would give us 5,000,- 000 bales for the past ten years. At an aver age of SIOO per bale, and which is a fair esti mate, we have made $500,000,000. To be within a certain and unquestionable calcula tion we put down the average at SBO a bale, and then we have realized the sum of $400,- 000,000 as the cotton crop of the state for the past ten years. We have made no fancy' fig ures, nor have your committee indulged in any imagination on the subject. We state but actual facts. It should be borne in mind that no estimate has been made of the value of the corn, wheat, rice, sugar and sy'rup that was made, or the pine lumber that was made, or the pine lumber that has been shipped, or the spirits of turpentine, resin, tar, etc., etc., that has been exported, which would perhaps have netted about $200,000,000 more. The naval stores shipped from Savannah, 'from April Ist, 1874, to April, 1875, were 33,000 barrels rosin and 7,000 barrels spirits turpentine. Probable crop this year, 115,000. Simply our cotton crop has brought in over $400,- 000,000. We ought to be, as a state, among the richest people upon the face of the earth, when we take into consideration our varied sources of wealth. Unfortunately we have never studied properly the principles of true economy'. We have bought what we should have made, and sold what we should have manufactured. We have bought corn and 1 meat, horses and mules, and made everything subservient to the raising of cotton ; and the result is, we are not as rich to day as we should be and could have been, if we had followed a wiser policy. A change of policy has come over the farming interests of the state and the south generally, and in the future a more diversified system of farming will be followed. GENERAL REMARKS. The committee, in closing their report, would give a few statistical facts, as taken from the comptroller-general’s report of the state of Georgia for the year 1874 : Taxable property for 1874, $273,092,999 an increase of over that of 1866—immediate ly after the war—of $126,735,870. Number of railroads in the state, includ ing main trunks and branches, 35 ; number of mile*, 2,300. The state owns property to the amount of about $6,000,000, and her total public debt not due, amounts to 8,105,500. Value of city property, $57,218,248. Capital invested in cotton and wool facto ries, $3,692,989. Capital invested iron foundries, etc., $735,580. Capital invested in mining, $55,342. Capital invested in shipping and tonage, $600,000. As remarked in the first part of this report, the people of Georgia are agricultural in their habits and tastes. But since the close of the war, many are desirous of turning their attention to other avenues and sources of wealth, looking at the same time to the de velopment of our mineral resources, which are so great and inviting ; but for the want of capital and proper experience slow pro gress is being made. We therefore invite in capital and skilled labor. These are our greatest wants at present. General education is receiving attention, and liberal appropriations are being made by the state so that every child can be taught. The amount of the school fund paid out for 1874 amounted to $265,000. We have churches scattered over the whole state, and we are comparatively free from all religious and political “isms” that are so prevalent in the more northern states. Moral and religious influences are felt and recognized in our social and politicul econo my. We have some four colleges for boys and young ladies besides three medical colleges, one each in Savannah, Augusta and Atlan ta. Recuperating as we are from a most dis astrous and destructive war, we are bending all our energies to the building up of our shattered and broken fortunes, and are ready and willing, yes, anxious, for capital to come in and help us to develop onr agricultural, mineral and mining resources, the greater part of which must lie untouched for want of such means as to enable us to properly work them to our advantage. pp’There is great magnetic power in the eyes of several of the lower animals. The lion’s, the tiger's and the serpent’s eyes are all magnetic. It is well known that the ser pent will charm birds that are flying above it, until in great circles they will sweep down to the destruction which awaits them. A friend of mine, a doctor, was one day walking in the field, when he saw an adder lying on a rock. He drew near to examine it and presently looked at its eyes. He was attract ed by their great beauty and involuntarily stepped forward two or three steps. Beau tiful light flowed from them and seemed to bathe the very coils of the serpent. Gradu ally he drew closer until, just as he was almost within the reptile’s reach, he fell, feel ing, as he said afterward, as though he had been struck by a stone. When he became conscious his head was in a friend’s lap. His first words were; “Who struck me?” “No one struck you, doctor. I saw you were charmed by the snake and I struck it with a stone.” He had struck the snake and the doctor had felt the blow. —Home Journal. With a white chip bonnet, paper of pins, and a box of miscellaneous feathers, lace, rib bons and flowers, any girl of the period, with a very small stcck of ingenuity, can convey the impression to the public at large that she has half a dozen bonnets this season. Avery fashionable shape is tMt made by sitting down and stamping on an ordinary frame, and then putting in some large roses. Ten Years Ago! BY HOPE DEV ERE. Ten years ago ! alas ! alas ! llow rapid is Time’s flight, Ten years ago ! It brings me back Ten years ago, to-night. Ten years ago ! ah ! happy time, Could you have halted there, A cloud would not o’ercast me now. You’ve gone, but where, oh ! where? The past looms up most brightly, The future's dark and drear, One heart, at least, is crush’d with woe, One soul is bow'd with care. Ten years ago ! Can I forget That glorious happy time, I wandered ’neath the pine-trees shade, With a fair white hand in mine? Can I forget those tender eyes, Of Heaven’s deepest blue? Can I forget that gentle heart, Loving, kind and true ? Can I forget the pleasant walks, ’Xeath our own bright sunny clime ? Can I forget her gentle words, Breathed from lips almost divine ? Can I forget the evening shades, ’Xeath which we pledged our love, So good and holy, pure and true, ’Twas registered in Heaven above? Can I forget the hour wc parted, When f left my darling’s side, To roam o’er waters wide and deep, Ere I claimed her for my bride ? Ten years have gone, ten years have passed, And brought me nought but woe, Mv darling's now in Heaven above, While I linger here below. Ten years ago ! alas ! alas ! How rapid is Time’s flight, Ten years ago ! It brings me back, To tho parting of that night. Miscellaneous iHedfeg. AIDEVIL TREE. A HORRIBLE AUSTRALIAN PLANT THAT EATS HUMAN BEINGS A FRIGHTFUL SCENE. If you can imagine, says the South Ameri can Register, a pine apple, eight feet high, and thick in proportion, resting upon its base, and denuded of leaves, you will have a good idea of the trunk of the tree which, however, was not the color of a banana, but was a dark, dingy brown, and apparently as hard as iron. From the apex of this fusticated cone (at least two feet in diameter) eight huge leaves sheer to the ground, like doors swinging back on their hinges. These leaves, which are joined at the top of the trees at regular intervals, were abo it eleven or twelve feet long, and shaped very much like the leaves of an American agave or century plant. They are two feet through at their thickest part and three feet wide, tapering to a sharp point that looked very much like a cow's horn, very con vex on the outer (but not under) surface, and on the under (not upper) surface slightly con cave. This concave surface was thickly set with strong horny hooks like those upon the head of a teazel. These leaves, hanging thus limp and lifeless, dead green in color, had in appearance the massive strength of oak filler. The apex of the cone was a round concave figure like a smaller plate set within a larger one. This was not a flower, but a receptacle, and there exudes into it a clear, treacly liquid honey, sweet, and possessed of violent intox icating soporific properties. From under neath the rim (so to speak (of the undermost plate, a series of long, hairy, green tendrils stretched out in every direction toward the horizon. These were seven or eight feet long, and tapered from four inches to half an inch in diameter, vet, they stretched out stiffly as iron rods. Above these (from between the upper and under cups) six white, almost transparent, palpi reared themselves toward the sky, twirling and twisting with marvelous incessant motion, yet constantly reaching up ward. Thin as reeds and frail as quills, ap parently, they were yet five or six feet tall, and were so constantly and vigorously in motion, with such a subtle, sinuous, silent throbbing against the air, with their sugges tions of serpents flayed, yet dancing on their tails. My observations on this occasion were suddenly interrupted by the natives who had been shrieking around the tree with their shrill voices, and chanting what Hendrick told me were propitiatory hymns to the great tree devil. With still wilder shrieks and chants they now surrounded one of the wo men, and urged her with the points of their javelins, until slowly, and with despairing face, she climbed up the stalk of the tree, and stood on the summit of the cone, the palpi twirlfflg all about her. “Tsik! Tsik?” (Drink! drink!) cried the men. Stooping, she drank of the vascid fluid in the cup, and rising instantly again, with wild frenzy in her face, and convulsive cords in her limbs. But she did not jump down, as she seemed to intend to do. Oh, no ! The atrocious can nibal tree, that had been so inert and dead, came to sudden, savage life. The delicate palpi, with the fury of starv ed serpents, quiv ered a moment over her head, then, as if in stinct, with demoniac intelligence, fastened upon her in sudden coils round and round her neck and arms, and while her awful screams and yet more awful laughter rose wildly to be instantly strangled down again into a gurgl ing moan, the tendrils, one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal energy and infernal rapidity, rose, protracted themselves, and wrapped her about in fold after fold, ever tightening with cruel swiftness and savage tenacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey. It was the barbarity of the Laoeoon with out its beauty—this strange, horrible murder. And now the great leaves rose slowly and stiffly, like the arms of a derrick, erected themselves in the air, approached one anoth er, and closed about th%dead and hampered victim with the silent force of a hydraulic press and the ruthless purpose of a thumb-screw. A moment more, and while I could see the basis of these great levers pressing more tightly toward each other from their inter stices, there trickled down the stalk of the tree great streams of viscid lioney-like fluid, mingled horribly with the blood and oozing viscera of the victim. At sight of this the hordes around me, jelling madly, bounded forward, crowded to the tree, clasped it, and with cups, leaves, hands, and tongues, each one obtained enough of the liquid to send him mad and frantic. Half a Hog Apiece. Statistics carefully collected by the De partment of Agriculture reveal the startling fact that within the United States at this pre sent moment there are “on the hoof” no less than 18.000,000 head of hogs. Exclusive of aged toothless persons and young infants and those who abstain from pork as an un clean thing, there are now living in the United States just about 36,000,000 human beings. The altogether appalling deduction from these facts is only too obvious, the horrible conviction being forced upon us that within the next twelve months each individual able bodied man, woman and child within the boundaries of this misguided land, where once was liberty, must eat half a hog or dis turb the export and import equilibrium of the world. UsF'Did it ever occur to any of our readers that it takes more feed to make a pound of beef than a pound of butter? A good cow in milk, well cared for, will make two hundred pounds of butter in a season, worth from sixty to seventy dollars 7 but a dry cow, with the same feed, will not gain anything like as much weight in the same time, nor will she be worth as much as butter from the dairy cow—and the milk is left. An acquaintance of mine is fattening an ox, and in sixty days he had fed him 000 pound of meal at a cost of sls, with only 100 pounds gain in weight. — Exchange. The wisest man has a foolish corner in his brain. V TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM. ) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. Paying Old Debts Again. The supreme court of the United States has recently made a decision which will be of interest to the people of the south in more than one way. The case l>efore the court was from the circuit court of the Eastern district of Virginia, and its history is about as fid lows : On the Bth day of April, 1861, Charles Stover executed to Fretz and wife a bond for $2, 366.55. payable on or before the Ist of March 1863. The bond was made in Fauquier county, Ya., where Stover lived, and secured bv a deed of trust npon real estate in said county. The bond and deed of trust were delivered to Samuel Chilton, agent and attorney for Fretz and wife, who resided in Pennsylvania. The civil war came on and as a matter of course communication became unlawful and impossible l>etween the states wlie ein the parties lived. Just before the date of its ma turity, Stover paid the amount named in the bond to Chilton, in Virginia bank notes and Confederate scrip, at their face value and was returned his bond and deed of trust. But after the war had closed. Fretz and wife, having been apprised of this trasaction, de murred in no mistakable terms and filed a bill in chancery, charging want of authority in Chilton to receive the money and actual fraud between him and Stover in the transaction. Stover answesed, denying the fraud charged and claiming that the payment was, in law, a full discharge and satisfaction of the trust deed. The decision of the court was that the contract did not comtemplate a state of war and that the settlements for Confederate states currency was void and that the debt could only be discharged by the payment of the money of the United States. This decision promises to give rise to no little litigation, as it is probable that a great number of claims were thus discharged dur ing the war and never afterwards questioned. Those who thought, at that time, that they had discovered anew and easy way of pay ing old debts will doubtless find that their troubles have grown upon them rather than been reduced in bulk. Interest will have ad ded its leaden weight'-to the sum total and the creditor will have discovered that which he has long mourned as lost. It docs seem that the statute of limitations ought to operate very beneficially along here some where, and we trust some remedy may be found for the long train of evils which some apprehend will flow from the decisions.— Const. A Rustic Courtship. I hitched my chcr close to hern an’ shefc my eyes an’ sed : “ Sal, you're the very gal I’ve bin hankerin’ arter fur a long time. I luv you all over, from the soul of your foot to the bed of your crown, an’ I don’t keer who knows it; an’ ef you say so, we’ll bejiued in the holy band of padlock. E pluribus onions, gloria Mon day morning, sick temper tarantau’a, non compimmentus, world without end,’ sez I an’ I felt as thou’ I had throwed up like an alliga tor. I felt so relieved. With that she fotched a scream, an’ arter awhile she sed: “ Peter!” “ What is it, Sally ?” “ Yes,” sed she, hiding her face. You may depend upon it, I felt orful good. “ Glory ! glory !” sez I, “ I must holler, Sal, or I'll bust wide open. Hooray ! hooray i I can jump over a ten-rail fence ; I can do anything a fellow could or ort to do.” With this, I sorter sloshed myself down beside her and clinched -tl e bargain with a kiss. Talk about your mo lasses, talk almutyour nite-blooming serious, they warnt no where; you couldn't have got me ni’ ’em ; they would have tasted sour ar ter that.” “ O broomstraws with lasses on ’em ! Ef Sal’s daddy hadn’t bawled out. “It’s time all honest folkes waz in bed,” Ido believe I’d stayed all nite.” Washing not Taken In. A good old minister of one of our New England Baptist Churches, was agreeably surprised by the intelligence from one of his flock, that five individuals had expressed a a desire on the next Sunday to have the bap tismal rite performed upon themselves. Af ter its performance, however, he was some what chagrined that only one of the five join ed the society of which he was a pastor. A few Sundays after, the same worthy elder waited on him with the intelligence that ten more desired immersion. “And how many will join the society ?” queried the minister. “Two, I regret to say, are all we can de pend on,” was the elder's reply. “ Very well/’ said the good old man, “ you may as well inform the other eight that this this church doesn't take in washing.” Marry her First. Many years ago, in what is now a flourish ing city, lived a stalwart blacksmith, fond of his pipe and his joke. He was also fond of his blooming daughter, whose many graces had ensnared the affections of a young prin ter. The couple, after a season of billing and cooing, ‘engaged themselves,’ and noth ing but the consent of the young lady’s pa rents prevented union. To obtain this an in terview was arranged, and the typo prepared a little speech to admonish and convince the old man, who sat enjoying his pipe in per fect content. The typo dilated on the fact of their friend ship, their mutual attachments, their hopes for the future, and like topics ; and taking the daughter by the hand he said : ‘I am now, sir, to ask your permission to transplant this lovely flower from its parent bed’—but his feeling overcame him and he forgot the remainder of his oratorical flourish, blushed, stammered, and finally wound up with, ‘from its parental bed into my own.’ The father keenly relished this discomfit ure of the suitor, and removing his pipe and blowing a cloud, replied : ‘Well. young man, I don’t know as I have any objection, provided you marry the girl first.’ NUMBER 7.