Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

oVT HE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING- COMPANY, y VOLUME I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, the Jack°n County Publishing B' Company. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. O fFICE. N. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STALRS. ' MALCOM STAFFORD,” MANAGING AND BUSINESS EDITOR. • terms of subscription. Ok copy >2 m ™ ths 2-00 ti 11 D I.UU u “ 3 “ 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tr%y of t he paper will be given. Laws Relating to Newspaper Subscriptions and Arrearages. The following laws in regard to newspaper sub •riptions and arrearages have received the sane • randare published as the decisions of the fnited States Supremo Court: 1 Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered wishing to continue their subscription. o jf subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publishers may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3 If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the office to which they are di rected, they are held responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered them discontinued. 4 If subscribers move to other places without notifying publishers, and the papers are sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. - The Courts have decided that “refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud.” 6. Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber. If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound to give notice to the publisher, at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue taking it; otherwise, the publisher is authorized to send it on; and the subscribers will be responsible until an express notice, with payment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. Jcofcssianat’ L business Sards. J. A. B. MAHAFFEY. W. S. M’CARTY. YfAHAFFEY & McCARTY, ill ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga., Will practice any where for money. Prompt at tention given to all business entrusted to their care. Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly DR. C. R. GILES OFFERS his professional services to the citizens of Jefferson and vicinity*. Can be found at the late residence of I)r. H. j. Long. Jan. 22, 1876—tf STANLEY & PINSON, JEFFERSON, GA., DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce ries. New supplies constantly received. Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock. June 19 ly Medical Notice. Dr. J. o. ■HJIN'T’ having located in Jeffer son for the purpose of practicing Medicine, respectfully tenders his services to the citizens of the town and county in all the different branches of the profession. After a flattering experience of nineteen years, he feels jnstified in saying that he is prepared to successfully treat any curable disease incident to our climate. Me is, for the present, boarding with Judge -ft>hn Simpkins, but *>!l move his family here soon. Office with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey. can be seen in the office of T. 11. hiBLACK, Esq., C. S. C. octlS "11-EY c. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD. HOAV.VKD &. HOWARD, ATTORNEYS AT LA AY, Jefferson, Ga. 'nil practice together iu all the Courts of Jack ind adjacent counties, except the Court of Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75 El wiluaiisoa. • WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. hr. Wm. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block, A (jiens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner, ‘M warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi- H CASH. Julylo-6m. ]-! !'• WOFFORD, Attorney nt Ijiw, HOMER , BANKS Cos., Ga. Hill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and P 1 P ro mpt attention to all business entrusted to , are - Collecting claims a specialty. 1875. ly J 0 ®* OAKES, v HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA. ‘and good buggy and wagon harness always } Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c., peon short notice, and cheap for cash, juneia —ly J ‘ FLOYD, I J. B. SILMAN, v. Covington, Ga. Jefferson, Ga. pM>YD Jk SIL!IAX, \ ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. . ’'ill practice together in the Superior Courts of counties of Jackson and AValton. JUnel2—ly \\ I*IKF Attorney t Law, p!V* . -JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. '-bees in all the Courts, State and Federal. and thorough attention given to all mV • kgal business in Jackson and adjoining "“"ra- June 12, 1875i per day at home. Samples tO vb&U worth $1 free. Stinson & Maine. marll X 1 n <lay at home. Agents wanted. Outfft and terms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta, Ume - marll F. P. TALMADGE, DEALER IN AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES, CLOCKS, JE WELR Y, SIL VEB $ PLATED WARE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C. Batches, clocks jewelry repaired In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction. Ornamental and Plain Engraving a Specialty. LOCATION—CoIIege Avenue, one door from the Bookstore Corner, ATHENS, GA. April Ist, 1876 ly THE FOREST NEWS. The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. Picture Grallery. Up-Stairs, between the Fitly Thompson corner and Stanley Pinson's. A. H. BROCK, RESPECTFULLY announces to the ladies and gentlemen of Jefferson and vicinity, that his Gallery is now open for the accomodation of all m want of pictures, and that he is prepared to ex ecute his work in the best style of the art. Call and examine specimens. Rates reasonable. All work warranted to give satisfaction. fl 2 SPRINGDALE NURSERIES, ATHENS, GA., W. HUDGrIN, Proprietor. HAS now ready* for delivery a splendid lot of Pot-Grown Plants, suitable for Parlor or Con servatory decoration, at New York prices. Nurs ery* and Green House, corner Rock-Spring Avenue and Bobbin-Mill Street. marll—tf THE REASON WHY J. H. HUGGINS Sells goods cheaper now, is because he has adopted the CASH SYSTEM! The ready cash enables him to buy goods very low, and consequently he is offering to the public every thing in his line, such as All kinds of Crockery and Glass-ware, Lamps, Chandeliers , Farmers' Lanterns, Kerosene Oil , at wholesale and retail; Family and Fa?icy Groceries , Dry Goods , Boots, Shoes, Hats, Saddles, Harness and Leather. And also a large stock of EOIE, both for build ing and fertilizing purposes, all very low for the CASH. When you go to Athens don’t forget to call on J. H. HUGGINS. If you want KEROSENE OIL, at wholesale or retail, he will supply* you at the low est price. If you want CROCKER Y and GLASS WARE, there’s the place to get it. If you want TOBACCO , FLOUR , BACON, BARD, SU GAR, COFFEE and MOLASSES, go there and you will find it. If you want LIME, for building or composting with fertilizers, go to J. 11. HUGGINS’, No. 7, Broad St., Athens. B@"Remember the place. mar!B TAX RETURNS For 1876. IN ORDER that I may get my Digests complet ed and returned according to law, my* Digests must be closed on the 10tn of June. Tax-payers will please make a note of this, and govern them selves accordingly. Each tax-payer is required by law to make their returns in person, unless ex cused on account of sickness or non-residence.— One giving in as agent is required to procure a true statement of the value of the property returned, under oath. lam desirous, as a public servant of the citizens of Jackson county, to perform all the duties of my office with direct reference to justice lo all men. I feel, fellow-citizens, truly* grateful to you for placing me in the position I now occupy. * I feel that the right arm which to-day bleaches on the gory Jield of Bentonville, North Carolina . was lost iu defense of the homes and ladies whom I now love and respect. I am, fellow-citizens. y*our obedient servant, GEORGE A\ v . BROWN. T. R. J. C. Below will be found the list of my appointments for 1876. at which time and place I shall be pleased to have the tax-payers make their proper returns : Jeff erson. Tuesday, April 4th ; Saturday, April 22d ; Tuesday, May 2d ; Saturday. May 6th. Thompson’s Mills. Yv r ednesday, May 3d. Harrisburg, Wednesday, April 12th. McLester’s Mills, Monday, May Ist. Williamson’s Mills, Monday*, May 22d. Clarksboro’, Monday, April 3d, and Monday and Tuesday, May* Bth and 9th. New Town. Thursday*, April 13th, and Thurs day, May* 11th. White’s Mills, Friday, May 12th. Harmony* Grove, Friday, April 14th; Saturday*, May* 13th ; Monday, May loth. Avilson’s. Monday, April 17th, and Tuesday and Wednesday. May 16th and 17th. Miller’s, Tuesday, April 11th. and Tuesday and Wednesday, April 18th and 19th. Human’s Store, Friday, April 21st. Appleby*’s, Monday, April 10th, and Thursday*, April 20th. Randolph’s Store, Saturday*, April Sth, and Tuesday, April 25th. Thompson’s Store. Monday. April 24th. House’s, Friday, April 7th, and Wednesday* and Thursday, April 26th and 27th. Chandler’s, Thursday, Friday and Saturday*, April 6th. 2Sth and 29th. Sautafee, Wednesday, April sth, and Thursday and Friday, May 4th and Sth. Farmers will please come prepared to make returns of the quantity* of “Crops produced” last year, and of the amount of land to he culti vated in the various “ Crops planted” for this vear. “ marlS G. AY. BROAYN, T. R. of J. C. Jackson Mortgage Sheriff’s Sale. WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in May next, before the Court House door, in Jef ferson, Jackson county, Ga, within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to wit : One house and lot in the town of Jefferson, con taining three-fourths of an acre, more or less, with a good dwelling house and necessary out-buildings thereon, bounded as follows : On the East by the main street leading towards Gainesville, on the South by J E Randolph’s home lot, on the AYest by* a back street on the North by J E Randolph’s clover lot and horse lot; said lot embracing the lot known as the J R North office lot, and more particularly* known as the R A Go wan house and lot. Levied on as the property of P E Lamar, Sr, by virtue of a mortgage ti fa issued from the Su perior Court of said county in favor of Thomas R Holder vs P F Lamar. Property pointed out in said mortgage fi fa. Notice served on P F Lamar, defendant, and C C Thompson, tenant in posses sion. as the law directs, marll (MO) J. S. HUNTER, Sh’ff. Job Printing at reasonable rates JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 29,1876. GLEANINGS. Avery and McDonald joined Joyce in the Jefferson City penitentiary, Sunday. Next class, stand up! Captain J. N. Montgomery*, of Madison county, has the reputation of being the model farmer of North Georgia. Mr. David Rosser, of Eatonton, Ga., has shown the editor of the Messenger an egg in the shape of a gourd with a long, crooked handle. There are $1,000,000 worth of shoe pegs made yearly in the United States, most of them in Massachusetts, requiring 100,000 cu bic feet of white birch. The recent freshet carried the waters of the Flint so high that the Clerk of Baker Supe rior Court could sit in his office and catch fish through the window with a hook and line. The banana crop in Louisiana is the larg est ever grown there. The fruit has grown through the whole winter, instead of being killed by frost as usual. They are having the throat rot in Wash ington. The Nashville American says “it comes of the incessant discussion of the un earthed corruptions at such short range.” The meek-eyed Celestials are a plague to the Californians, and the State being power less to stop immigration, Congress is appeal ed to for relief. The Democrats in Congress are busily* en gaged in cleaning out the Augean stables of the Radical party. Every* day brings some new fraud to light. Secretary* Bristow is to be investigated. Mr. Bristow and his friends seem confident that his hands are clean. While Mr. Bristow courts, Mr. Blaine avoids an investigation. Mr. Thomas Farmer, of Franklin county, is now ninety-one years old. He had thir teen grandsons in the Confederate army, and now has more than one hundred grandchil dren. Miss Emma Snyder, a revivalist, who has been laboring with success in the towns of Southern Illiirois, has adopted the original expedient of publishing in the local newspa pers the names of the new converts. Ex-Attorney-General YYilliams gives some very damaging testimony against President Grant, who ordered him to pay $30,000 for election purposes. Does not this look a lit* tie like corruption ? Professor Swing said in a recent sermon at Chicago, that “ latterly wine had not done as much harm as lace.” Lace is a very good thing “ to point a moral and adorn a tail.”— Nashville American. The negroes brought to Brownstown, AA r est Virginia, to take the place of the strikers agreed to leave by noon to-day if unmoles ted. The agreement has been ratified by the whites and a bloody* riot averted. AYoraen are allowed to vote in Wyoming but they* are indifferent as to who or what they vote for. At a recent local election there a fellow running for town clerk bribed eighteen female voters with one pound of chewing gum. The State’s Attorney* of a Vermont district, when asked by the Judge whether he was ready to proceed with a case, replied : “Yes, —no —your Honor. The State is not—in a state to try this case to-day ; the State, your Honor—is drunk.” Thomas Jefferson rode on horseback to Washington, hitched his horse to a rail fence and walked over and was inaugurated, but it wouldn’t be safe to try* that now, as while he was being sworn in one of his Cabinet offi cials might steal the horse. Hawkinsville Dispatch: The cotton crop of Georgia for 1875 has been estimated at four hundred thousand bales, and the average cost of production at eleven cents per pound. Calculations prove that the cost was more than the sales amounted to. A loaferish young Californian married a servant girl, and after a day* or two deserted her. Three months of dissipation in San Francisco killed him ; but before his death his mother died, leaving to him as her only heir, about $150,000. Thus the girl gets a fortune. In Tuscaloosa, a negro who had entered the room of the daughters of Mr. S. B. Curry, and found there by them at a late hour, was arrested. He escaped, and some days after was again found by the young ladies in their apartment. He had a drawu knife, resisted arrest, and was killed. A correspondent of the Abbeville (S. C.) Medium says it is supposed that President Jackson derived the sobriquet of Old Hicko ry from his use of walking sticks of that wood, cut by Dr. Eli S. Davis, from the vicin ity of the old Block House in Abbeville, and presented to him. A decision said to be worth half a million dollars to the photographers of the United States has just been rendered in the Federal court at Grand Rapids, Mich. The decision is that the letters patent issued to Albert S. Southworth for an improvement in plate hold ers for cameras are void and of no effect, and that Southworth is not the original discoverer and inventor of the improvement he claims. MISCELLANEOUS. [by request.] Letter to Ex-President Andy Johnson. At the request of friends, both of The Forest News and the writer, the following letter, handed us some weeks since, is inserted. It was in manuscript at the time of the decease of the “Great Commoner,” and though near ly a twelvemonth has elapsed since it was written, still the evils portrayed are yet ex isting to a greater or less extent, and in the opinion of some who have perused it careful ly*, it will prove interesting to the general reader. Hoping this may prove true, we give it a place “in the picture.” Atlanta, Ga., July 25th, 1875. To His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, Ex-Pres ident of the United States : Hon. and Dear Sir : —When yon became President of the United States, on the death of Mr. Lincoln, I addressed you live letters through the public press of the country*, ad verting to the little acquaintance I had with y*ou in Nashville, when you were Governor of Tennessee ; to your vetoing the unjust Rad ical bills, which they* carried over your shoul ders with two-thirds majority in Congress, and to y*our retrieving y*our reputation in the estimation of the South, in your going with the North in the late war, and against them. At the surrender, as I observed before to your Excellency, Gen. Grant, the representative of the Radical Government, promised to bury* all hostilities in oblivion, and to establish peace and mutual friendship between the two sections, North and South. But. alas ! in stead of peace, worthless characters, carpet baggers came out; carpet-baggers with a few old duds in them, a few old shirts, a razor and a razor strop, with a few old bottles of perfumery* to counteract the effluvia of their sable brethren with whom they were to asso ciate, to rule the South with the iron rod of ignorance, cruelty and oppression. For the last nine or ten years they have ruled it with cruelty and oppression until they* so impover ished them with oppressive taxation that the people were not able to live under it, and with their plunder they (the Radicals) went back to the North, to live on their plunder and robbery*. They had no more claim to rule the South and oppress them, than the Goths and Vandals had under Marie and At tila, in the fourth and fifth centuries, to in vade Rome. There are two of the Southern States y*et under Radical tyranny and oppression, that is Louisiana and South Carolina. The col lision in New Orleans last year between the Democrats, who elected McEnery, and the Radicals, who elected, unjustly, Kellogg, is an indication that the Democrats will not succumb much longer to Radical tyranny*, op pression and injustice. Alas! New Orleans, the great commercial city of the State of Louisiana and of the South, ever since Picay une Butler, of spoon notoriety*, planted his vandal foot upon it to the present time, has been under Radical tyranny* and injustice— it has been robbed of every silver spoon in it. If the notorious Picayune Butler had re ceived a bullet m his back when lie was run ning away* at the battle of Bull Run, the peo ple of New Orleans would have been spared their silverware. AVith respect to South Carolina, the land of the great John C. Calhoun, McDuffie, Rut ledge and Butler, it is now disgraced and ruled by* mean Radicals, carpet-baggers and negroes, and by a little fellow of the name of Frank Leslie, who represents Barnwell county as Senator of that once noble State, distinguished for so many great men. Of Leslie, the editor of the New York Herald has said that at one time he was employed at the Five Points, in New York, a house of ill-fame, at five dollars a week, with a club in his hand to keep order among all the immoral charac ters who visited it. I am well aware that your Excellency en tertains no favorable opinion of the two par sons and politicians, Beecher and Brownlow. The two parsons remind me of the twins Castor and Pollux, recorded in classic story. Castor and Pollux, par nobile fratrum, genite ah eodem avo. Castor and Pollux, a noble pair of brothers, born of the same egg, hatch ed under the same chicken, and having the same old rooster as a father—the Devil him self. Alternately every Sunday, and for some time before the last war, Parson Beecher de livered two sermons, one against the Charles town Nunnery, distinguished for its erudition and the piety of its inmates, and the other sermon against the slavery of the South. lie continued his abuse, lies, falsehood and slan der until he instigated an ignorant and savage rabble at midnight to set fire to the convent, and the holy women were forced to leave and seek shelter in the open air, with no other canopy to protect them but the open heavens, till morning. An intelligent individual at the North made an application to the Legislature of Massachusetts for an appropriation to re build it, and he failed in getting it; and yet, the convent stood contiguous to the Bunker Hill monument, which was erected to com memorate one of the first battles fought for American freedom. lie then turned his bat tery, his lies and his falsehoods against the slavery of the South, until he succeeded, with the other abolitionists, in the election of Mr. Lincoln as President, and dashed the Ameri can barque a wreck, a second time, against the celebrated Plymouth rock. “As the tree is known by its fruits,” I discover his character has been well developed in New York recent ly. It seems he is dexterous or well skilled in throwing tilts, or quoits; he is so dexter ous that he tilted the Rev. Parson Tilton out of his bridal bed, and squatted down like an ’possum, or raccoon, growing luxuriantly fat upon his clandestine or stolen corn. With re gard to Parson Brownlow, since I saw your Excellency, I am informed he is indented around the body with the shape of a snake or serpent, visibly demonstrating that his fath er, the Devil, has a bill of sale against him, when his polluted breath leaves his filth}* body. When he mounts the pulpit to preach. Indian like, he is armed with a pistol and bowie-knife, and frequently in the midst of his singing and preaching he smells powder, anticipating a fight with some of his belliger ents. If his father, the Devil, could possibly laugh, standing behind him, he must feel well pleased with his darling boy*, Parson Billy*, and exclaim, with great glee, “he is a well disciplined soldier in all his diabolical mili tary tactics.” Your Excellency is aware of the new name the prominent leaders of the Radicals have assumed—that is, the Credit Mobilier party, the roamiug or fictitious capital party*, or rath er the wholesale plundering party, without any* original capital. They* have embezzled of the public funds three or four hundred mil lions of dollars ; they* have appropriated fifty millions of acres of the public lands to build the North Pacific Railroad ; they have plun dered several millions of the United States funds ; they have cheated the Government out of millions with the whiskey* ring; they* have robbed the money that was appropriated for the Indians; they have plundered the Government in all the goods they* smuggled into the country without duty*, with the cor rupt Radical revenue officers knowing it with out reporting ; they have robbed the Govern ment of millions of dollars with their oppres sive taxation of Internal Revenue ; they have associated with Tweed in robbing the city funds of New York, and whilst Tweed is re ceiving his merited retribution at Sing Sing, the other political plundering black-birds have escaped. But there is a day before them in the next world when they can not escape, un less their sins arc washed away* with a timely* repentance. They* have even associated with the carpet-baggers and negroes of the South in plundering the Southern States with their wholesale system of robbery*. The civil rights bill, introduced by* the late Sumner, and pass- ed, is not only* equal to every other barbarous act they* have done, but surpass it in ab surdity. There are high and low. rich and poor, servant and master, and will be till the end of time. You may as well try* to change the spots of the leopard, change black into white, as to establish social equality between the white and black people. Canute, of Den mark, subsequently of England, in the early part of the eleventh century*, placed his chair upon the beach, to please his flatterers and to arrest the waves of the ocean ; but he soon found—poor, silly mortal—that he would have been swept away by* the approaching tide if he had not receded or moved back to that designated boundary line to which Almighty God lias said, “so far slialt thou go and no farther.” In the Garden of Eden there was peace till the tempter came, then came sorrow and trouble on this land. In 1492. when Christopher Columbus and iscovered the Western or American continent, it gladdehed the hearts of the people of Europe that there was an asylum for the oppressed of all countries. Subsequently, in 1620. the pilgrim fath ers, the Puritans, landed at Plymouth Rock ; they* and their descendants have been a curse to this country. They and their descendants imported slaves. They* encouraged slavery until they* foun 1. from the vast tide of emi gration and the coldness of the climate, they* could dispense with it. They then sold them to the South, put the money* in their pockets, and built factories with it. They soon after embarked in a crusade against the South with as much zeal as Peter, the hermit, or Richard, the lion-hearted of the eleventh or twelfth century; but whilst the latter were carried away with a laudable zeal, to recover Pales tine—consecrated with the birth, life, suffer ings and resurrection of our Saviour, the former, the abolitionists, were carried away with a corrupt zeal, to act in violation of one of the commandments given by* Almighty God to the Jewish legislator, Moses, on Mount Sinai, to promulgate among the children of Israel, “Thou shalt not steal.” They dashed it, a wreck, as I said before, a second time against that Plymouth rock, in the election of Mr. Lincoln as President in 1860. In that election, Hon. and dear sir. they destroyed an institution which supplied their factories with cotton, raised their proprietors from in digence to prosperity* and affluence, fed and clothed their poor people, yielded a large revenue to the Government, enriched the South, and afforded a market of two hundred and fifty millions of dollars for their manu factured goods and produce. They then plunged the fatal knife into the heart of the South, and whilst it is still reeking with blood, and the crimsoned and clotted gore warm around the blade, it recoils around their own necks, inflicting a gash, or an orifice, which is causing their own life blood to flow. It is true that cotton is still raised with black and white labor, but from the number of cotton mills or factories springing up in the South, resulting from the abolition of slavery, my humble remark is still correct, that they cut their own throats in regard to their cotton factories, when they abolished an institution, black labor or slavery*, which made the whole country* prosperous—the North as well as the South. It is presumable the two sections are well satisfied with the massacre and carnage of the last war ; the only and best alternative that is now left is the ballot-box. Should the Democrats and conservative Whigs combine and elect such statesmen as Gen. Gordon and Mi*. Stephens—if not of the same talent, of similar principles ; should they avoid the cur rency question in the next election for Presi dent —that is, say nothing respecting specie basis or expansion till the election is over; should they elect a sound statesman as Pres ident, they would remove the American barque from that Plymouth rock, against which it has been a wreck since 1860. Like another ark, it would ride triumphantly over the turbid waters of the deluge ; the angry billows would soon subside, the sun of political liberty would again shine upon us, and we would all exclaim, like the Roman citizen of old, “ we are American citizens, and a nation of free men.” I am, Hon. and dear sir, your most humble and obedient servant, John C. Sheehan. Seasonable Rhyme. Now, ladies, bare the snow white arms, House-cleaning brings the tug ; Exile the cockroach and the rat, And shoot the grim bed bug. A liar should have a good memory, S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM/ ( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. Sweet Mary and the Hour of Prayer. BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE. The sunset's sweet and holy blush Is imaged in the sleeping stream ; All natures deep and solemn hush Is like the silence of a dream ; And peace seems brooding like a dove O'er scenes to musing spirits dear— Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of lore, And I were blest if thou were here.- The miriad flowers of every hue. Are sinking to their evening rest, Each with a timid drop of dew Soft folded to its sleeping breast; The birds within yon sileht grove Are dreaming that the spring is near— Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of love, Andi were blest if thou were here ! On yon white cloud the night wind furls Its lone and dewy wings to sleep. And the sweet stars look out like pearls Through the clear waves of heaven's blue doop The pale mists float around, above. Like spirits of a holier sphere—* Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of love, And I were blest if thou were here! The pale, full moon in silent pride O'er yon dark wood is rising now, As lovely as when by thy side I saw it shining on thy bfoW ; It lights the dew-drops of the grove,- As hope's bright smile lights beauty's tear— Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of love, And I were blest if thou were here ! Ah ! as I muse, a strange wild thrill Steals o'er the fibres of my frame ; A gentle presence seems to till My heart with love, and life, and flame, ] I feel thy spirit round me move, I know thy soul is hoyering near— j Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of love. And I am blest, for thou art here ! Singular Occurrence. AN UPHEAVAL OF EARTH. WATER AND FLSIL Poughkeepsie. April 12. —At the foot erf Sugar Loaf Mountain, on the east side of the' Hudson, near the northern entrance to the Highlands, is the summer residence of the Widow Wade. Opposite, in the Hudson, is Pollipell’s Island. The ground on which the Wade mansion is located is eight hund red or a thousand feet above the level of the river, the back-ground being Sugar Loaf, rt thousand feet higher. A strange occurrence took place within a thousand feet of the house yesterday afternoon. James Mc- Manus is railroad flagman near the spot. He was in the rock cut north at 3 o’clock on the afternoon mentioned, when he heard a singular noise, a sort of rattling or cracking. He ran south to ascertain the cause, and found the railroad track for 500 feet covered with small stones and boulders, and snnflsh and perch. He looked up the hill and saw a hole 300 feet in width and 50 feet in depth, and from it fully fifty thousand tons of dirt and sand had to all appearances been lifted! up and hurled into and across the cove below. The cave is 500 feet in width, and the avalanche swept through it and over it to the Hudson River Railroad track, tearing down fences and covering the track six inches | deep with stones, dirt and fish. Huge trees | were hurled in every direction, and the water j the entire length of the cove was disturbed. At 7 o’clock in the evening there was another report, and another mass of earth was hurled to the cove below. At eight o’clock this morning there were two more reports, and a quantity—perhaps much more oart’n was displaced. What is stranger still, almost immediately after the last report, rt torrent of water burst from the bottom of the cavern, from where the eartii had been hurled, and plunged down the side of the hill, cutting a ravine five feet deep in less than no time, and the volume of water is increasing hourly. Trees thirty feet in height were carried to a distance of a thousand feet. Scores of people visited the spot to day, but not one could satisfactorily explain the occurrence. It was not a land slide. It certainly looked like an eruption, for to all appearances the thousands of tons of earth must have been forced upward and outward to the cove below. The result of this upheaval can easily be seen from the win dows of passing trains. All around the chasm the ground was undisturbed, except where the immense mass of earth struck it as it tumbled into the river. The indications are that there will soon be another upheaval ! there, and the trakmen are watching the track closely. The occurrence has revealed tons of the finest sand where it was thought no sand existed. Muscle Against Brain. When Jackson was moving on to strike McClellan’s flank on the Chiekahominy, he came to a stream that had no bridge, and couldn’t be crossed without one. The General had brought with him from the Val ley, a rough uneducated man, full of energy', who had served him in emergencies, and in whom he had the utmost confidence. He called In's man and told him that the stream must be bridged immediately; the regular engineers were advised of the fact. In a short time the rough carpenter and the pol ished men of science were at the stream, the former had his plan, the latter theirs; he wished to go to work at once without draw ings, but they objected until they could per fect the plans on paper. The engineers retired to their tent to perfect a paper bridge ; carpenter took his men and went to work to make a real one. In a very short time ho appeared at the General’s tent and reported briefly, thus : “General, that bridge is done but them pictures ain’t come yet.” Variety in Feeding, Experience has proved that variety is one of the secrets of success ; not only in feeding stock, but also in feeding the soil. No intel ligent farmer would expect to maintain the health and vigor of his family by confining them to a single article of diet, and it is easy to see that the same principle applies— though not, perhaps, to the same extent—in furnishing nutriment to his animals, or plant food to his crops. All kinds of stock will thrive better on a judicious variety of food, however dissimilar, than on one or two kinds only, however nutritious ; and it is clear be yond a doubt that this law holds equally true in the application of fertilizers to grow ing crops.— Exchange. Foi age and want save while you may. NUMBER 47,