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THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING- COMPANY. \ VOttME I. ®k iff ftafus* rUBLISIIED EVERY SATURDAY, B t |,c Jackson Coimly l*ulriiliiii£ '■ 4’ompany. ; bffkhson, co., ga, OFFICE >• w * COR - PU BLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. BIALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING AND BUSINESS EDITOR. terhs of subscription? s One copy 12 months % t • 6 “ ...2jLCnC4.„: tOO .. 3 “ 50 gfFor fiery. Club of Ten t subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RATEs*br ADVERTISING. Pol ,l .A ft per square (yf ten lines or less) for liful Sl^ T y-Kn#KNts for cacti stfbstquedt&iscrtion. ■yyll .UlverUsemenlii sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, wl |j b published TILL; FpRBLD, and .charged accCrdilitbl ■ f al/. i 'v'i I* \ S. or Professional Cards, ofcix Vines or less, Seven Durbars pur annum • and where tbov do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Advertising. 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AfAHAFFEY & McCARTY, 1U A T T O li NEYS AT LAW, Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.. Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at tention given to all business entrusted to their earu. Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB’T fc. HOWARD. Howard a iioward, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Jefferson, Ga. Will practice together in all the Courts of Jack son and adjacent counties, except the Court of Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75 Du. w. s. \ m:\vn SURGEON DENTIST, Harmony Grove, -Jackson Cos., Ga. July 10th. 1875. 6m V a. riijjihmft, L* WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, . At Dr. Win. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block, Athens. Ga. All work (lone in a superior manner, ln< i warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi- VASH. A July 10-Gm. Stanley & pinsox, JEFFERSON , GA ., > [WUERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce * A r ' es ’ -^ ew supplies constantly received. (-neap for Cash. Call and examine their Stock. JweMly ]\ b WOFFORD, Attorney at Law, Homer, banks co., ga., '* 'll practice in all the adjoining Counties, and P. ve P r °nipt attention to all business entrusted to : j carc - teaT Collecting claims a specialty. 19th, 1875. ly T°n\ G. OAKES, v HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA. \ c " an( l good buggy and wagon harness always 1 uaml. Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c., °nc°n short notice, and cheap for cash, joncla —ly J - J- p U)YD, j J# B . SILMAN, F Covington, Ga. Jefferson, Ga. 1 OV|> A Nll.nAA, w ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. ,i y together in the Superior Courts of duties of Jackson and Walton. juneii —ly \\ ** Attorney at I>avr, PrL' • JEPFERSON; JACKSON CO., GA. p' r ICos ' n all the Courts, State and Federal. kinil< thorough attention given to all C J,'*" legal business in Jackson and adjoining J urte 12. 1875 .Medical Notice. JJ r -J. ©. H|;a , T having located in Jeffer- r esD ®1? *. c ' r the purpose of practicing Medicine, tbe to . U y tenders his services to the citizens of ofth p U 11 county in all the different branches of profession. After a flattering experience h e ls e een years, he feels justified in saying that d,s;, prt ‘ Fared to successfully treat any curable Pits nt U j ci^en t to our climate. lie is, for the \rj]t r ding with Judge Johii Simpkins, but Ufu "' e ) ,ls family here soon. with Cel. J. A. B. Mahatfev. Xiur u L “ ron ce can be seen in the office of T. H. J Esq., C. S. C. octltf \\ ( ’' [ i } ) respectfully call the attention of the P ll die to their elegant stock of u “y G-oods of all Kinds, ► v -n a < o riiiNU, Bo IXE HATS, CAPS, Tr nn | ail(1 •''hoes; Ladies 1 Bonnets, Hats and W ar „ e^ s ' l hardware. Hollow \Vare, Earthen °Pes iM* 100 Paper! Pens, Inks, Envel- all l° Ur f Bacon, I,ard, Sugar Coffee, f Ul , Patent Medicines, in fact everything tin.r. ! UUl< * u a General Store. Prices to suit ... Jefferson, June 12, 1375. tf ~ Notice. wit'rr 8 are hereby notified not to hunt, person .'' l . gun or dogs, oh my premises. Any the doMl g. will be dealt wfflt to extremity of oct23 1m C. C. THOMPSON. The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE. The will necessarily Jiave elapsed the! of the i tyCongress to its appearance in these columns—and the knowledge that many or our patrons have seen it elsewhere—will, it is confidently hop >ed be an ample apology for the “ condensation” we make of the extraordina ry lengthy (Joeurpent. Endeavor has been made to cull from this great mass of “ mat ter’ such facts, statements and suggestions as, in our opinion, the people generally will be interested in. These, together with the following analysis from the Atlanta Constitu tion, we are induced to believe will give our readers a pretty fair insight of the. substance of President Grant’s message to the 44th Congress- —of which the paper above alluded to most .pertinently remarks:—“But as a WnoTh.Tf is flat and unprofitable. Its recom mendations are neither suggestive nor v^alua ble*. Tts TaTfts ate state, and Its style is'-far from perfect.” “ The President dwells with that pride which is common to all Americans upon the progress made by this people during the first hundred years of its national life. In a later portion of the message he roeurs to the subject in recommending such appropriations as will enable this wonderful pro gress to be made more clearly manifest to thq people of the globe who shall meet with us at the Centennial celebration next year. Asa potent lever to advance our national sta bility, the President makes an important recom mendation upon the subject of education. He urges that the States be required to establish and forever maintain a system of free Public Schools affording a certain standard of education to every child in the land. With this he couples the idea that sectarianism be wholly excluded from the schools, and that no political body, national, State or municipal shall contribute the public funds to schools set apart or maintained by or for any sect, religion or denomination. This is issen tially the policy embodied in the platforms recent ly adopted by the administratioiyiarty in several of the great States, and the Pr ®idcnt brings the matter before the public with the view, doubtless, of having it assume the shape and dignity of a po litical isgue. Education. toot he would apply as the brake to control the elective franchise, after the year 1890. After that time he would require all who are not now voters to be able to read and write, if they would enjoy the privilege of suffrage. This is a form of conumlsor}’ education.'”— Constitution, Due. 8. ‘ i “ The mysterious activity at the naval stations is still unexplained, and nothing short of a resolu tion of enquiry from the Ilousy of Representa tives wilt be apt to disclose the jolly Robeson\s great secret. And vet the President devotes more space to Cuban affairs than to any other subject discussed in thq message; but as soon as one comes to that part of the document an impression begins to steal over the mind that it is a brief from the office ofSiduey Webster, wlio is at once the heavily-feed Counsel of Spain in this country and a son-in-law of Secretary Fish. That impression grows and deepens as the discussion waxes longer. The President opens the Cuban question by nar rating in blood-curdling sentences the horrors of the seven years conflict. He even acknowledges that the insurrection —to use his own words— “ has shown a strength and endurance which make it at least doubtful Whether it be in the power of Spain to subcue it.” Hut he is not only exposed to a recognition of the independence of Cuba, but to granting the struggling republic belligerent rights. And why? Its independence cannot be recognized because the republic of Cuba is not an independent government ! He cannot prove the fact by Valmascda, or his predecessors; the for eign office at Madrid will not certify to the fact— on the contrary they would surely unite in saying that for seven long years the Cuban republic has been decidedly an independent government. The President adds that the patriots of Cuba should not even be granted belligerent rights, and he gives the oddest of reasons for this position. Tt is be cause war rloes not and has not existed on the island—only a u rebellious insurrection” and “oc casional skirmishes.’” This does not accord with his harrowing pictures of the situation at the outset of the discussion, nor does it accord with the facts of the case at all. The patriots of Cuba are in truth proceeding as satisfactorily as our fore fathers did to secure independence from monarch ial rule. " ■ : * J • - '• ’ But the President says mediation is feasible and proper to stop the strife ” with all its dread horrors and all its wminrcS to the interest of the United States and of other nations.” And yet he does not recommend it. and the only positive as surance that the message really contains relative to Cuba is summed up in a promise to make a further communication to Congress, recommend ing what tnav then seem to be necessary. As far as the republic of Cuba is concerned, we hope the House will take immediate steps to extend to a struggling people something more substantial than the negative matter that Secretary Fish—who has a son-in-law —has injected in the message. It is so with the Mexican border troubles. — There is a similar recital of the effects of warfare, but no recommendation that will bring comfort to the that the armed vessel on the Rio Grande, if not thwarted by the shallowness ot-the river and oth er natural obstacles. will material ly contribute to the protection of the herdsmen of Texas. Such language will’shrely not spur up Mexico to o-reater vigilance, and the people on the border will be compelled to hang their hopes of safety on that solitary gun-boat which the President wishes well. These parts of the message show that the Presi dent is too shrewd to plunge an embarrassed coun try into actual war. But lie does propose a wordy and legislative war against the Catholic church, and the circumstances under which he does it are at least suspicious. In Maine and in Ohio it was found that a general anti-Catholic crusade was a good investment on the part of the Republican party. It saved it from defeat in the latter State, and ever since that time evidences have multiplied to indicato that Radicalism is fast drifting into Know-Noth ngism. The President and Mr. Blaine have been out-bidding each other for some time on the subject. The former has now distanced all competition by proposing to take the control of popular education from the States, where it rightly belongs, and make its regulation tlie subject pi <i constitutional amendment. He knows that such an amendment could not be perfjected-r-thaf the States would not give up their right to control the question. Besides, he adds to the amendment clauses that are well understood to be blows aim ed at one church. He speaks in one place of the dangers of priestcraft—in a word, he appeals to the prejudices of Protestants to do what no sane man believes can be consummated. Mr. Blaine is absolutely distanced, and must take a back seat in the Kjiow-Notliing crusade of 1576. The passage relating to the taxation of church property is unmistakcably Grant's, He has no man about bun whose stupidity is equal to a re commendation that belongs in a gubernatorial message, for the taxation of cjiurch property must perforce be a matter of State revenue. But we have a suggestion to offer that may help the head of the government out of two of his distressing mistakes He has put his shoulder to the wheel of the coffee ring by recommending a heavy in crease of duties on tea tuid coflee. 1 his would, it is true put several millions m the pockets of the ring, for the stock of coffee and tea in the country JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, DEC’R 18, 1875. is enormous. But why fill the pockets of the ring? TV hy not let the breakfast tables go with out increasing existing burdens, and slap the whole amount needed—in a horn—on the churches? It is only a suggestion, but it would save the Presi dent from two mistakes—from promoting the ob jects of the coffee ring, and from trespassing on the duties of the thirty-seven Governors of the Union as to church taxation. We charge nothing for the suggestion, not even a Post-Office. There is much in the message, however, that all can endorse. No man can object to the gush of centennial statistics with which it opens, nor will any one be apt to demur to the summaries of the department reports towards the end of the lengthy message. But as a whole, it is flat and unprofit able. Its recommendations are neither suggestive nor valuable ; fts facts are stale, and its style is far from perfect. — Constitution. Dec. 9. • V ; *" THE MESSAGE. To the Senate and House of Representatives: In submitting my. seventh annual message to Congress in this centennial year of our Na tional existence as a free and independent people, it affords me great pleasure to recur to the advancement that has been made from the time of the colonies one hundred years ago. W e were then a people numbering on ly three millions, now we number more than forty millions ; then industries were confined almost exclusively to the tillage of the soil, now manufactures absorb much of the labor of the country. Our liberties remain unim paired. the bondsmen have been freed from slavery. We have become possessed of the respect, if not friendship, of all civilized na tions. Our progress has been great in all the arts of science, agriculture, commerce, navigation, mining, mechanics, law, medicine, &c., and in general education the progress is likewise encouraging. Our thirteen States have become thirty-eight, including Colorado, which has taken the initiatorv s s ps to be come a State, and eight Territories, includ ing the Indian Territory, and excluding Col orado. making a territory extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. On the South we have extended to the Gulf of Mexico, and in the west from the Mississippi to the Pacific. LESSONS FROM THE PAST. As we are now about to enter upon oik second centennial, commencing our manhood as a nation, it is well to look back upon the past, and study what will be best to preserve and advance onr future greatness. From the fail of Adam for his transgression to the pr \s ent day. no nation has ever been free from threatened danger to its prosperity and hap piness. We should look to the dangers threat ening us and remedy them so far- as lies in our power. We are a republic whereof one man is as good as another before the laws. Under such a form of government it is of the greatest importance that all should be pos sessed of education and intelligence e lough to cast a vote with a right understanding o" its meaning. A large association o ‘ ignorant men cannot for any considerable p 'riod op pose a successful resistance to tyr nny and oppression from the educated few, but will inevitably sink into acquiescence t> the will of intelligence, whether directed by dema gogues or by priest-craft. Hence the educa tion of the masses becomes of the first neces sity for the preservation of our institutions. They are worth preserving because they have secured the greatest good to the greatest por tion of the population of any form o'*govern ment yet devised. All other forms of govern ment approach it just in proportion to the general diffusion of education and independ ence of thought and action. FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. As the primary step, therefore, to our ad vancement in all that has marke 1 onr pro gress in the past century, I suggest for your earnest consideration, and most earnestly re commend it, that a constitutional amendment be submitted to the Legislatives of the sev eral States for ratification, making it the duty of each of the several States to establish, and forever maintain, free public schools, ade quate to the education of all children in the rudimentary branches within their respective limits, irrespective of sex. color, birth-place, or religion, forbidding the teachi lg in said schools of religion, atheistic or pagan tenets, and prohibiting granting of any school funds or school taxes, or any part thereof, either by legislative, municipal, or other authority, for the benefit or in aid, direct or indirectly, of any religion, sector denomination, or in aid or benefit of any other object o'’ an}’ kind whatever. TAXATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY. In connection with this important question, I would also call attention to the importance of correcting an evil that, if permitted to con tinue, will probably lead to great trouble in our land before the close of the nineteenth century. It is the accumulation of vast amounts of nntaxed church property. In 1850. I‘believe the church property of the United States which paid no tax. municipal or State, amounted to about $83,000,000. In 1860, the amount had doubled. In 1875, its is about $1,000,000,000. By 1900; without check, it is safe to say this property will reach a sum exceeding $3,000,000,000. So vast a sum receiving all the protection and benefits of government without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. In a growing country where real estate enhances so rapidly with time as in the United States, there is scarcely a limit to the wealth that may be acquired by corporations, religious or other wise, if allowed to retain estate without taxa tion. The contemplation of so vast a prop erty as is here alluded to without taxation, may lead to sequestration, without control of authority and through blood. I would sug gest. the taxation of all propert} 7 equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of t ie dead, and possibly, with proper restrictions, on church edifices. OUR CUSTOMS AND REVENUE RECEIPTS. The report of the secretary of the treasury shows the receipts from customs for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1874, to have been $163,103,833, and for the fiscal year ending June 30th. 1875, to f have been $157.- 107,722. a decrease for the last fiscal year of $5,936,111. Receipts from internal revenue for the year ending 30th of June, 1874, were $102,409,784 90, and for the year ending 30th of June, 1875, $110,007,493 58! Increase, $59,770,868. The report also shows a complete history of the workings of the the department for the last year, and con iains recommendations for reforms and for legislation which I concur in but can not comment on so fully as I should like to do. if space would permit, but will confine myself to a few suggestions which I look upon as vital to the best interests of the whole people coming within the purview of the treasury. I MEAN SPECIE RESUMPTION. Too much stress can not be laid upon this question, and I hope congress may be induc ed at the earliest day practicable to insure the Consummation of the act of last congress at its last session to bring obout specie re sumption on and after the first day of January. 1879, at farthest. It would be a great blessing if this could be consummated, even at an earlier day. Nothing seems to be more certain than that a full, healthy and permanent reaction can't take place in "favor of the industries and financial welfare of the country, unitL we return to a measure of values recognized through the civilized world. While we use a currency not equiva lent to this standard, the world’s recognized st andard, specie, becomes a commodity, one of the products of the soil, its surplus seek ing a market wherever there is a demand for it. Under our present system we should want none, nor would we have any were it not that the custom dues must be paid in coin and because of the pledge to pay interest on the public debt in coin, the yield of precious metal would flow out for the pur chase of foreign products, and leave the United States, “hewers of wood and drawers of water,” because of wise legislation on the subject of finance by the nations, with whom we have dealings. lam not prepared to say that I can suggest the best legislation to secure the end most heartily recommended. It will be a source of great gratification to me to be able to approve any measure of congress looking effectively toward securing resumption. Unlimited inflation would probably bring about specie payments more speedily than any legislation looking to the redemption of the legal tender in coin, but it would be at the expense of honor. The legal tenders would have no value beyond idling present liabilities, or properly speak ing. repudiating them; they would buy nothing after debts were all settled. There are a few measures which seem to me impor tant in this connection, which I recommend o voar earnest consideration. SUGGESTED FINANCIAL MEASURES. First, a repeal of so much of the legal en ler act as makes tlies notes security for debts ; contracts after date to be fixed in the act. s.:y not lajer than January 1, 1877. We should then have quotations at real values, not fieitpus ones ; gold would no longer be at a premium, but currency at a discount; a healthy reaction would set in at once, and with it a desire to make the currency equal to what it purports to be. The merchants, manufacturers and tradesmen of every calling could do businese on a fair margin of profit, the money received having an unwaver ing value. Laborers and all classes who work for stipulated pay or a salary, would receive more than their income because extra profits would no longer bo charged by the capitalist to compensate for the risks of a downward fluctuation in the value of the cur rency. Second. That the secretary of the treasury be authorized, to redeem say not exceeding $2,000,000 monthly, of legal tender notes, by issuing in their stead a long bond bearing interest at the rate of 3.65 per cent, per an num of denominations ranging from SSO to SI,OOO each. This would in time reduce the legal tender notes to a volume that could be kept afloat without demanding redemption in large sums suddenly. Third, That additional power be given to the secretary of the treasury to accumulate gold for final redemption either by increas ing revenue, curtailing expenses, or both. It is preferable to do both and I recommend that re Fiction of expenditures be made wliere ever it can be done without impairing govern ment obligation* or crippling the due execu tion thereof. rOSTAL AFFAIRS. The report of the postmaster general, here with transmitted, gives a full history of the workings of the department for the year just past. It will Ik? observed that the deficien cy to l>e supplied from the general treasury is increased over the amohnt required for the preceding year. In a country so vast in area as the United States, with large portions sparcely settled, it must be expected that this important service will be more or less a burden upon the treasury for many years to come. Hut there is no branch of the public service which interests the whole people more than that of cheap and rapid transmission of the mails to every inhabited part of our ter ritory. Nest to the fr'ee school the postoffice is the great educator of the people, and it may well receive the support of the general government. INDIAN TERRITORY. The condition of Indian Territory to which I have referred in several of my former an nual messages, remains practically unchang ed. The secretary of the interior has taken measures to obtain a full report of the con dition of that territory, and will make it the subject of a special report at an early day. It may then be necessary to make some fur ther recommendations in regard to legislation for the government of that territory. PATENT AND LAND OFEICE MATTERS. The steady growth o£ the business of the patent office indicates in some measure the progress of the industt ial activity of the coun try- The receipts of the office are in excess of its expenditures, and the office generally is in a prosperous and satisfactory condition. TnE INDIAN PQLICY, The method for treatment of Indians adopt ed at the beginning of my first term has been steadily pursued, and with satisfactory and encouraging results. It has been product ive of an improvement in the condition of that race, and will be continued with only such modifications as further experience may indicate to be necessary. THE SCANDAL OF POLYGAMY. In nearly every annual message I have had the honor of transmitting to congress, I have called attention to the anomalous not to say scandalous condition of affairs exist ing in the territory of Utah, aad have asked for definite legislation to correct it. That po lygamy should exist in a free, enlightened and Christian country, without the power to punish so flagrant a crime against decency and morality, seems preposterous. True there is now no law to sustain this unnatural vice, but what is needed is a law to punish it as a crime, and at the same time to fix the status of the innocent children, the offspring of this sys tem. and of the possibly uiiioqent plural wives. But as an institution, polygamy should be banished from the land. While this is being done I invite attention of congress to another though perhaps no less an evil, the importation of Chinese women, but few of whom are brought to our shores to pursue honorable or useful occupations. NEEDED BENEFICIAL ENACTMENTS. Observations while visiting the fcerrko’des of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, during the past autumn, convinced me that existing laws regulating the disposition of public lands, timber, and probably the mining laws themselves, are very defective and should be ca-eUully amended, and at an early day. In territory where cultivation of the soil canonlv be followed by irrigation, and irriga tion is not practicable the lands can only lie used as pasturage, and this only where stock can reach water to quench its thirst, cannot be governed by the same laws as to entries on lands every acre of which is an independ ent estate by itself. Land must be held in larger quantities to justify the expense of conducting water upon it to make it fruitful or to justify utilizing as pasturage. The tim ber in most territories is principally confined to the mountain regions, which are held for entry in small quantities only as mineral lands. The timber is the property of the United States, for disposal of which there is now no adequate law. The settler must be come a consumer of this timber whether he lives upon the placo or engages in working the mines. Hence every man becomes a tres passer. 'My opportunities for Observation were not sufficient to justify me in recom mending specific legislation on these subjects, but I do recommend that a joint committee of the two houses of congress, sufficiently large to bo divided info sub-committees, be organized to visit all the mining states and territories during the coming summer, and that the committee shall report to congress at the next session such laws, or amendments to laws, as it may deem necessary to secure the best interests of the government and the people of these territories who are doing so much for their development. lam sure' the citizens occupying the territory described do not wish to be trespassers, nor will they be. if legal wavs are provided for them to become owners of the actual necessities of their posi tion. As this will be the last annual message which I shall have the honor of transmitting in congress before my successor is chosen. 1 will repeat or recapitulate the questions which I deem of vital importance, which may be legislated upon and settled at this session. 1. That the states shall be required to af ford the opportunity of a good common school education to every child within their limits. 2. No sectarian tenets shall ever be taught in any school supported in whole or in part by the state, nation, or bv the proceeds of any tax levied upon any community; make education compulsory as far as to deprive all persons who cannot read and. write from be coming voters after the year 1890 ; disfran chising none, however, on the ground of illit eracy,who may he voters at the time this amendment takes effect. 3. Declare church and state forever sepa rate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation. 4. Drive out licensed immorality, such as polygamy and the importation of women for illegitimate purposes. 6. Enact such laws as will insure a speedy return to sound currency, such as will com mand the of the world. To recur again to the centennial year it would seem as though now we are about to begin the second century of onr national existence would be a most fit time for these reforms. Believing these views will commend them selves to a great majority of the right think ing and patriotic citizens of the United States, I submit the rest to congress. tJ. S. Grant. Capital vs. Labor. The drawer wa<? chairing a few days ago on the piazza of* the United States Hotel, at Saratoga, with a bright German gentleman, retired from business, who related the follow ing little anecdote: Going down to New York the other night on the boat, said he, I got to chatting with a German acquaintance, and asked him what he was doing. “ Veil,” he replied, “shoost now I am doing nodings, but I have made arrangements to go into bisiness.” “ Glad to hear it, what are 3 r ou going into ?” “ Veil, I goes into partnership mit a man.” “ Do yon put in much capital.” “ No. I doesn’t put in no gapital.” “ Don't want to risk, it, eh ?” “ No, but I puts in de experience.” “ And he puts in the capital ?” “ Yes, dot is it. We goes intopiziness for dree years; be puts in de gapital, I puts in de experience. At de end of dree year3 I will have de gapital, and he will have de ex perience.”—Harper's Magazine. A powerfully, built young lady from Ghost’s Gulch walked intq a dry goods store at Canon City, Col., the other day, and blowing her nose and wiping it on her shoe heel, inquired of the bachelor clerk : “Do you keep -hoes, young fellar IV “Yes, ma’am, all kinds.” was the reply; and pulling down a couple of at hose he held a pair up to view. She looked straight at him, turne i red, and overflowed with the remark: “You blasted fool, them's stockin’s—l want a hoe.” lie referred her to the hardware store. best "W^agOil Yard, in Athens, at Kilgore's stand. s TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM. ) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. YOUNG DRUNKARDS. How melancholy are the thoughts suggest' ed by the word “drunkard !” What associa* I l ions‘'does it bring up of degradation and ’ crime. Emaciated women, ragged children, comfortless and desolate homes—ignorance, brutality, filth and terror; angry words, in* flamed passions, cruel treatment, heart*' less neglect.; a brain on fire, hands red with a murder's blood—weeping, wailing, and shedding of tears—all these and much el?e that is terrible to contemplate, crowd around the mind at the mention of the term “Drunk ard.” An old drunkard is a loathsome object—a young drunkard is a most pitiable one. And yet this latter l>plougs to a class prodigious in numbers, and increasing with fearful rapidity—incipient drunkards, just learning the road that leads to ruin. Towns, cities anti villages abound in them, and even the rural population is infected with the madness of “drinking.” What a change has come over the people within a very few years. Lawyers and preachers have all, more or less, turned tipplers. Even among women may be found delicate maidens, and s‘ately matrons who, in ball rooms, at private entertainments and in the sacred retirement of home, are not averse to sipping the fermentation from the grape, and the distillation from the rye plant., while the children of the household eagerly consume the sugar left from the ••toddy.” We are not at all puritanical; and have nothing to say against the temperate use of wine among ali classes of people; but the abuse of it, and especially the intemperate use of the fire water of the distillery, is becoming a mon strous evil. Among our young men par ticularly is this curse of humanity becoming alarmingly prevalent. It is from this class that recruits for the of drunkards are chiefly obtained, and it is with the hope of “saving some” that we send this warning among them. We urge the young man to stop and consider that he is laying a founda tion on which to build a fabric composed of disappointed hopes, blasted expectations, ruined health, criminal degradation, a pover ty stricken family, and a lost soul, lie is forming an appetite which will haunt him to the grave. Let him go a little fhrther in dissipation, (perhaps he has gone far enough already,) and he will have acquired a taste for liquor which will become a part of his nature. His desire for the exhilarating effect upon the brain will be hard to resist. Even should he reform and abstain for years from all alcoholic stimulants, yet in mature and declining life, the appetite will revive with stronger power than in youthful days, and he will have less strength to oppose it. There are few greater risks which a lady can incur than to marry a “reformed drunkard,” so-called. We have known but two instances in which men who were drunkards, became sober and staid so , and these are still living, and still not safe. The least departure from the strictest abstinence might involve them as it has thousands of others, in the drunk ard's ruin. Put down that glass young man—there is woe in it; very soon you will be a young drunkard and then—but we drop the curtain over your dismal future.— Cliron. Sentinel. Who Makes the Sacrifice? Professors of religion often talk of giving their property for the support of the gospel, as if the Lord Jesus Christ was a beggar, and they were called upon to support his gospel as an act of alms-giving. A merchant in one of the towns in the State of New York paying a larger part of’ his minister’s salary*. One of the members of the church was relat ing the fact to a minister from abroad, and speaking of the sacrifice which the merchant was making. At this moment the merchant came in. “Brother.” said the minister, "you are a merchant. Suppose you employ a clerk to sell goods and a schoolmaster to teach yxmr children. You order your clerk to pay your schoolmaster out of the store such an amount for his services in teaching. Now, suppose your clerk should give out that he had to pay this schoolmaster his salary ; and should speak of the Sacrifice he was making to do it, what should you say to this “Why,” said the merchant, “I should say it was ridiculous.” “ Well,” say 9 the minister, “God emplo3 T s you to sell goods as his clerk, and your minister he emplo} r s to teach his children, and requires you to pay his salary out of the income of the store. Now, do 3*oll. call this your sacrifice in thus paying thnr.* minister's salary ? No' von are just as roach’ bound to sell goods for God as iie is to preach for God. You have no more right to sell goods for the purpose of baying up money than he has to preach for the same purpose. You are bound to be just as piems, and to aim as singly at the glory* of Gotfc is selling goods as he is in preaching the gospel. You and your family may lawfully live out of the avails of this store, and so ixy the minister and his family, just as lawfully. And a man who sells goods upon these principles, and acts in conformity to them: is just as much in the service of God as he who preaches the gospel. Every man is- bound to serve God in his calling, the minister by preaching, the merchant by selling, good??-, the farmer by till ing his fields, the lawyer and the physician, by ply ing the duties of their profession,. Excellent Teas. T 111.; Original American Tea Co.Mpanyv of New York. which Robt. Wells is President, Was established in 1840, and since that time h*. been steadily gaining in favor, not only in the city of New ork. but aIT over the country, until now teas reach every section. The leading press of the city and ot Hundreds of places in the country have endorsed it as perfectly reliable, and parties wish ing excellent teas at low prices, can with perfect confidence send to this company for them. Their teas are put up in one pound packages, with the kind and price printed on the wrappers; also, in boxes containing 5, 10, *2O and 30 pounds. They range in price from 4ft cents to $1.30 per pound. Our merchants can have samples mailed to their address by enclosing 10 cents for each sample. The company wish reliable agents in every' town to get up clubs amongst families for their teas, and otter great inducements. Send for our circu lar. Address always, Robt. Wells. Pres’t 43 Yosey St., New York. Sept 2.>-<-diu NUMBER 28.