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PUBLISHED BY
HANCOCK, GRAHAM & REILLY,
Volume 17.
TERMS:
Tl\ree Dollars a Year,
MTUU IS ADVANCE.
AMERICUS, GEORG I A, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20. 1871.
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insertion, 80
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era of Diamisaion,
lieation for leave to sell real estate,.
• >f Ileal Estate
Professional Cards.
HAWKINS & BURKE.
Attorneys nt lint
Americaz, Georgia
Journo Rob's mi luight encounter on ti e
Cliickahominy, with a maurading party ft on.
Yankee //eojsjuartcra, aupposed to be a por
tion of Bcui Builtr s body-guard.
Once, when in a btru I shivered, and my bod.
not bairkiverod,
Thinkinjpsadly of my comrades who were kille-
the day before;
Whilst I lay there soundly sleeping, and the
Ware my eyea were steeping,
I heard something gently creeping—creeping
slowly on the floor.
“Tis a little mouse," I muttered creeping all
about tbo floor—
Only this, and nothing more
Ah l I recollect it clearly it vraa late iu Jan
And tlio scene around was dreary, for the
><egau to pour;
And as I lay there sprawling, the thing it kept
on crawling,
With my lists 1 went to mauling—mauling all
about the floor,
To kill this midnight prowler that was creep
ing on tbo floor—
Only this, and nothing more!
Jno. D.- CARTER,
A?T#R5BT AT LAW,
Americas, Georgia.
Office in Americas Hotel building, corner
Umar and College streets. may 18 tf.
Now the sad realization of my freezing situa-
Stampc-J me, cramped mo with all Lind of pains
1 never felt before,
For I could’nt stop the quiveri'u of my limbs,
but kept a shiven'n,
'. Homs 1 And a louse Lencaih the hivrttt’ 1 had mashed
FORT & HOLLIS,
ATToKSSYS at law
And Solicitors of Patent*.
Americas, Cconria.
«••>*=•'» "*• r»» “■ T.Bjrd'. .tor.,
april ‘2!>tf
0. T. GOODE,
Att orney at Daw
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
*r<'five over W. T. Davenport’a Drug store.
, I ha l mashed it tin
SAM. LUMl’KIN,
attorney at law,
Will practice in all the curia of 3. W. Ga.
fu-ferw, tv permission. to Dr. Wm. A. Greene.
"1 FILE: With M. Callaway, Esq., in the Conrt-
JunftO, 1
JACK BROWN,
A ttomoy n t T.« a w ,
AMERICUS, GA.
tV Office in Court House with Judge htan-
,' rd. fob 1C tf.
N. A. SMITH,
Attorney a t Zj a w.
W ILL practice in the Courts of Sumter and
adjoining Counties, and in Circuit Court of
«j- Office on College street,
t to Itepubli-
fob 8.f tf.
J. A. ANSLEY,
Attorney-at'Law
Am orlcue
•active in the C
.a and in the Unit
HAWKINS & GUERRY,
Atlorneys-at-Law,
upon the floor—
The bloody, basted
the floor.
But just then I saw one m
Off I threw my blood-stained blanket
swore I would out flank it
For his shoulder-straps betokened he ¥
j of a
Not a
■ingle blow ho made me, not a con
lie paid me,
But with eyes cocked up, surveyed ir.
crawled in from the door—
Crawled about quite self-conceited, jin
me ou the floor.
Only this, and nothing mor
It put mo lairly on the rack, when I a
on his back!
For I know he was a spy from the habiliments
So in silent cogitatior
belore.
ilow to flank Ids situatioi
It was hazardous I'm sure
Then this queer louse interesting my sad fancy
into jesting
By the mean and sneaking aspect of the count
enance Le wore:
"Though you’re on this midnight bender, and
your body looks so slender.
And you sigh for something tender as you sneak
along the floor,
Ti ll me what your thieving name is—tell
quickly, 1 implore 1"
Quoth the louse, "Bite you more
Much I v
» lightly,
i talk had little
ightly louse to hear it
"Bite you more!
tehed him crawlin
is he spoke dryly
Vonl as his couscio:
Bat tuo loose, wiin look appalling, still u creep
ing, still is crawling,
Vs he’d bceu doing all uight long, around upon
the floor ;
vnd his eyes have all the sadness of a demon in
his madness,
vs the starlight in its gladness, eh- ws his car
cass on the floor,
to I raised niy boot, for badness, and I smashed
him out tie floor.
He will bite me never more.
EDGAR ALLEN POE (so-called )
A. id. BROWN
VriOHXEV AT LAW,
™'"*1 Georgia.
ffTlLLgjw* prompt attention to all business
« ".•r.i.u.imb’*care. »ov*26tf
George W. Wooten,
ATTOUNEY-.VT-LAW,
duioriou®, m m m Grn.
the Court House. janlStf
Phillip Cook,
Attorney at Law,
AMERICUS. GEORGIA.
Not another word then said be—not another J
movement made he,
When I spoke, with lips unsteady, ‘‘Other Reb’s j
Startled the:
ly taken
my eye.
wend, "Not ho sure 1"
waken! at reply so qnick-
"Doubtless,” said I, all its
ticed well before,"
Caught from eoiua unhappy Johnny, who, Tor
the want of Confed* money,
Tumbled down, and still on dotcncr, 'till ho
could’ut stand it more!
Till tlio waiting of this broken heart this solemn
Lurdeu Ik,re:
! Not s
But the loi
t kept
t sppawling
wling—to my soul
ii lY-vu-lbauui’s Building Next, t
GEORGE W. KIMBROUGH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
tL.n v, '¥^ A K° , ‘ l U ’ x 'he sale and purchase j
tiLmi in is mib meat Georgia. Jnvostigat-
llJ e. Lv county, Ga. novlltf himimplylng
OR. WILLIAM A. GREENE,
Straight I turu*-d m>sc!l right
the louse and door,
Tltcn upon some straw reclining, I right off com
menced divining,
And saute ce\&ou was assigniug, what this louse
upon the (1>
md sneaking, gaunt and tam-
hod louse upon the floor
Meant by saying "No t so sore!”
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
C°2 INl *” s ,0 serve his friends of Americua
id*,.. .sjUT^uinUng country in all the depart-
Dr. J. B. HINKLE
r(, l,r i ‘r 1 , ..i H p' ! ’A\ n, ’i r hi» services (in all the
v fwi’toAiasl^n) to the poo.1
v 'VSmr.UT count a. and so-
K. J.
- - 8 • '•"•loence in the hpuso known as
lf ijiMih, . nearly opposite A. A Adams.
_ I Jane 8 tf
Dr. S. B. HAWKINS.
jj 1 ^FICE at Dr. Eldridae’s Drug Store.
rcf tear the Methodist Church.
rv, ' l ‘" I again under the good people of
J j* 1 " 3 country generally.
ME DI CXL~CARrDT
ejnst
That meant to rc«
iliould snore.
This and more I sat a thinking, bat my eyes
they kept a blinking,
And I could nt keep from winking as I lay upon
the floor.
On the sofily-tinted rve straw, with thi
light gleaming o'er,
1 shall sleep oq "nevermore!
n mo thought the ah glow thicker
breath came quick and quicker,
And I fell a strange sensation I liad never feit
before;
‘Wretch 1" I criod, "yoqrsoql you’ve bartered—
by son,o devil yon wore chartered,
this liel»c] standard as lie lies upon
this floor :
, 1 guess I’ll dress your ilrodom’ if yon bit*
* We are pained to le-tru, bum the
Atlanta Intelligencer of Saturday, that it*
'oHtical Editor, Maj. John H. Steele,
is confined to his Bed By serious and pro-
trteted illness, from which he is suffering
intensely. M«j. Steele is one of theatrics'
Editors in Georgia, is a brilliant writer,
a staunch Democrat, a high-toned gen
tleman, and a whole-souled man. If wt
mistake not his feeble health has prevent
ed his laboring on the Intelligencer for
many months past. The Intelligencer soys
“He was sixty-feur years old yesterday,
and for a man of his age—he bears his af
flictions well But we fear the result of
his case. ” Wo hope a kind Providence
will deal tenderly with him, speedily re
store him to health, and spare him to see
the return of many more birth days.
Since tlio above was put in type, the
Intelligencer of the 12th inst. announces
the death of Maj. Steele. It says :
Maj. John II. Steele,
Who has for many years been in our
employ, on the editorial department of
the Atlanta Intellioenceb, is no more-
dead. He died, half-past three
o’clock, on the morning of the 11th Jan
uary, 1871, at his residence, ou Colhonn
street, in Atlanta, in the presence of his
family and friends, after an illness and
close confinement to liis bed for nearly
three months.
Major Steele was bom in tho city of
Charleston, the Gtli day of January, 1807.
■presented Putnam county in the
representative branch of the Georgia
Legislature with his colleague connected
with the Georgia Journal, in Milledge-
ville, and in 1843 and 1843 was, by Exec
utive appointment, one of Governor
Crawford’s Secretaries, and iu March,
eighteen hnndred and forty-nine, when
His Excellency George W. Crawford was
appointed Secretary of War by President
Taylor, Major Steele was invited by Gov
ernor Crawford to go with him to Wash
ington City, and to act as his Secretary;
and in this capacity the services ot
Major Steele were valuable and highly
appreciated by the Governor and by all
who had business in his office or depart
ment.
Upon the death of President Taylor,
Governor Crawford resigned his office,
and Major Steel returned to Georgia, and
again became connected with the Georgia
press, in Griffin, Ga., and also acted as
editor of the Atlanta Examiner until it
was merged into the Inteligencer.
When Governor Brown was inaugura
ted, in 1857, he selected Major Steele as
one of his Secretaries, aud in this capaci
ty Major Steele rendered Governor Brown
and the State invaluable service.
Major Steele was in charge of the edito
rial department of
years; aud at no time didjlie ever neglect
onr wishes or fail to advocate and defend
the right. He was not only our warm
personal friend, But he was a true friend
to Constitutional liberty, iu its true seusu
us tho files of tho Intelligent
abundantly attest, during the 1;
and since.
Major Steele was perhaps tho oldest
editor in the State, possessed of a high
order of intellect aud talent for the po
sition lie occupied. As a writer ho was
clear and forcible, defending those great
principles, iu tho delenso of which ho
assiduously labored, with a masterly
Land but seldom equaled. While he was
positive and unflinching iu tho defense
of truth against those who entertained
different opinions, he was ever respect
ful, kind and unostentatious; in a word,
Major Steele was the embodiment of all
that was characteristic of the gentleman,
and acknowledged abilities, throughout
his long aud useful life.
The Press has lost one of its oldest
four smart children or nppren-1 and much esteemed members; tbo coun
command a very large salary. tr y a true patriot, and Atlanta a noble
throw somersaults over horses I , , ^
■ra called leapers, and sometimes get as ■ ' . ... ,
much us *75 per week for tl»t not alone, Tho last crowning act of ins Inelong
doing no other porformanco. Gymnasts spirit-life he wus found battling for truth
usually go iu couples, and receive from an j the general good of his country.—
An Elephant in a Lady’s Chamber.
A St. Louie Sensation—An Unexpected
Visitor and liis Reception.
The Missouri Republican, of the 21st
ult, has the following :
A sensation of the first water swept
East St. Louis vesterday morning, of so
uuique and exciting a character that it
will not be forgotten in many a long
day.
About hiilf past three o’clock yester
day morning Mr. Edward S. Brantiy
was awakened by his wifo with the in
telligence that burglars were attempting
to effect an entrance to tHe house. _
The upper portion of the dwelling is
occupied by the family for sleeping apart
ments, while ono of the lower rooms
serves as a room for an old lady named
Flynn, a member of the household.
On learning that some cause for alarm
really existed, Mr. B. arose, and grasping
a huge cavalry sword, stationed himself
at the window. While thus waiting, a
sudden crash was heard from below, as
if the whole side o! the house liad been
jammed in, and at the same time the old
lady was heard toscreampiercingly as if
wild wilh fear. The window and the
bureau near it were suddenly dashed in
to the middle of the room. Sho sprang
from her bed ana seized what she sup
posed to be the retreating ^leg of a man.
It had a queer feeling, however and was
drawn outward with violence, and the
old lady having advanced close to the
shattered window saw to her horror the
towering bulk of an enormous elephant.
Unable to overcome the shock, she fell
almost insensible to the floor. At this
stage of affairs Mr, B., with his drawn
sabre, started tofthe rescue. The stairs
leading below are on the outside of the
house, and os he.descended he encoun
tered the elephant, who appeared deter
mined to ascend the steps. A few blows
of the steel blade on tho trunk cowed
the hnge brnte, and ho commenced a
retreat. He backed out of the yard aud
took a northwardly course until lie arriv
ed at a saloou owned by Mr. Charles
Schafner, at which place he stopped,
took a general observation of tho sur
roundings. then making a desperate
charge, ho shivered a large door to
atoms. This last affair was the close of
his damage, lie wandered off through
tho silent streets, aud at daylight
found dead near the Southeastern
pot, having, it is said, died from the ef
fects of tho cold. The explanation of
the business was soon ascertained. The
elephant belonged to a menagerie which
was going cast on the Vandulia Railroad.
The elephant was left at dark by tho
keeper iu a railroad car, being as was
supposed, securely locked in. During
the night, however, ho broke the chain
which fastened his leg, tore down the
door, aud started on his voyage of death.
He was an immense brute, aud his car
cass was viewed with intense curiosity bj
the citizens during tho day. It is said
that the original cost of the animal
nearly $5,000.
The Sawdust Arena.
Circus riders can well uflord to stand a
good many luird knocks during their ap
prenticeship, in consideration of the
high salaries they receive after the} have
learned tlieir business uml come of age.
First-class riders get all the way from
$75 to $350 per week for their services,
xrith their expenses while travelling; but
it must l<o a rider of extraordinary merit
who can command over $100 per week,
while most nnybody who can keep on his
feet three times around the ring can get
from §3(1 to 3G0 per week, with travel
ling expenses. Female riders receive
from $30 to $150 per week, according to
their ability and shrewdness in making
an engagement. A good rider who has
three
tices < (
Men who throw somersaults over horses I
How Btcksns LiYed,
It is folly to deny it. Charles Dickens
lived fast. His domestic troubles may
have helped this life on. It certainly iu
• reused after liis wife left him. There
were two parties upon the question oi
blame aud thought he was too proud to
'eek advice, it irked him to feel that hi
•■•1003 cbmdemm d by many whose opin
ions ho ouce valued. A coldness grew
up between him and his publishers.
Neighboring gently fell off from intima
cy. Society criticised the relations ex
isting between him and his wife’s sister.
Matrimouials connections formed by
two of liis older children were disturbed.
His literary pre-eminence, always ac
knowledged, failed to prevent a social
distance, every day increasing, between
him and the circle in which he had been
the leader. Whether ho were right or
wrong—and ho was too self-reliant to
discuss tho question—he knew that he
was being judged by a court that ad
mitted no plea of mental superiority in
abatement of its verdict.' It was natural
in such circumstances that ho should be
thrown back upon himself. His choice
of fricuds was loss careful. Conviviality
became at Gad’s Hill the rule, rather
than tho exception. Literary work went
steadily on, but its excitements came
from different sources. Tho cellars well
stocked with the choicest wines, the
dinner-tabic made attractive by perfect
cookery, the hours of leisure from labor
devoted to intercourse with convivial
companions, tho evenings given tip to
conversation and anecdotes over the
friendly glass, told of something from
which tho host was endeavoriug to es
cape. There was a sore that would not
be healed. No ono kuew it as well us
he. The Nemesis pursued him beyond
his work-room and made him reckless.
Dickens was never a drunkard. His
mind was always his own. But in the
excitement of good living he was able to
drown the care that hannted him, and he
yielded to it. For a full twelve-month
before the end came, the “possible” wits
beyond doubt, tlio cloud, never quite
overshadowing, but always slowly ap
proaching the steady worker.
State lload Debts Swarming.
The amount of debts that tho State
Treasury will have to pay fur the State
Road cannot be estimated. These little
reminders of Mr. Blodgett’s superintend-
ency, however, have begun to stream
into tho State Treasury in shoals. The
auditing committee are at work. Tlieir
session promises to be as lengthy as the
sitting of the Governor's Legislature.
We iiud the following audited aud paid
to date :
V. A. Gaskill, services iu four
Fain & McConnell, i
.$ 350 00
. 1,075 00
L. Schofield, iron 3,200 00
Georgo Sharp, regulator and
clock $3
j Lobell Car Company, car wheels 2,570 33
‘ Red wine & Fox, merchandise.. 138 00
: It. L. Taylor, two month as »gt. 300 00
R. H. Brown, legal services... 100 00
Hopkins it Brown, legal services 050 00
J. W. II. Underwood, liquidated
indebtedness 500 00
M. G. Dobl-ius, liquidated in
debtedness. 15,548 00
$30 to $125 per week for the two. Con
tortionists get from $20 to $00 per week
for kicking themselves. Clowns usually
command from $20 to $120 per week,
according to ability aud reputation. A
cloqn who is well-known and popular
through the country, is worth more than
an equally good ono who is unknown, as
his name on the bills is an attraction, the
clown being the most important per
sonage in the show in tlic eyes of the
rural amusement seekers. One noted
clown lias received a salary of $1,00(1 per
week for a season of seven mouths, but
this included the services of apprputiees,
the use of various horses ana animals,
, and tho use of his name a* the ostensible
»nd my t proprietor of the circus with which he
• travelled.
Am!
uanvn
Qnolb the louse, TJ b
>T© I”
I ^ Flomowftl.
l) fr ‘ U p y -^ F.. SMITH won a inform hie
I r,, -.V- Dublio generally, that he
14,^7 kin Ohjro to the room over R. A.
v <•“ I . J- 0l, '^i'U<niery establishment. En-
. , ; D ?, to . Masonic IUIL Wh rc Ue will
,i“,times, qnless absent ou profcs-
p n ** e eolicita his old friends and the
>n *™ er *lly to call on bun, promising
, t il'ff r& ®° to U»e best of liis ability.
J- H. CALLAWAY & CO..
MILLERS,
I »L iAIXES GEORGIA.
I H Fresh Flour ground at their
I t'-Uaci HaciJd aUtl n P in 60 .* Q d 10°
3 «ud Mt»] ,1.,,, on hind.
•OKI GA
Dissolution.
ADAM8 - WASHBURN A OO., I,
1 d.m,i ved i,, H. K.Wub-
I ’riffle ‘jggy&ffjs
i-Xhu. ADAMS ABBO.
s»7AnTT£ „ . a. a. axuuu
vuuh » Nor. 1,187®, t novlOtf
"Strange” loose, said I, "crawling demon, tor
more blood your heart is teemiug,"
Whether devil sent or Freodmau’s Bureau drop
ped you on tho floor!
Whilst I reel, my cares are lighted, and I know
tliaU ou aI ® not frightened,.
For yogr gfip yofl’d sqon have tigutuhed as I lay
upon the f,oor,
"Toll me, are these things iu freemen’s heads,
oh! tdl me, I implore ! r
And the loqse said, !‘Plenty more 1”
"Strange louse,” said I, "cradling deatnonl
queer Jonac 1” «aid I, xhauat screaming,
"By the rafters rifcht above us—by tho blood
you sucked before,
Tell this Reb* without negation, or the slightest
hesitation,
Do you know a situation wbsrs these insects
bite no mors—
Where these mean and hungry army hugs shall
bite a Reb'no more?
And the louse then said, "No morel"
"Be that word your sign for dying, loathsome
loose,” I yelled np crying—
"Got thee back into some freodman’s head or
intamous bureau 1
Leave no trace behind to sho yon, fori never
want to know you;
Leave this humble barn and go you—limber off
right through the door—
Qst right out, and that instantsr—take your cai
Casa from this floor t*
Qttoth the louse, "Novcr more!”
A Reiauiqv's Amendment to the Cos-
stitittion. —A very determined effort is
making to secure the embodiment in the
constitution of the United State3 of se me
rb&l recognition of God and Christian
ity. The national association to further
this object of which Judge Strong, of tlio
Supreme Court, Is President, has issued a
coll for a national convention, which call
signed by many prominent persoqs qf
all shades of belief throughout tho coun
try. Antong them we notice Bishop
Simpson, Methodist Episcopal Church ;
Bishop Huntingdon, of Central New York;
Bishop Eostburn, Massachusetts; Bishop
Mcllvane, of Newark; Rev, Dr. Miner, of
Boston, Preejdept of Tafts (Universulists)
College 1 Geo, A. Stuart, Esq., and Jay
Cooke, Esq., of Philadelphia; Gov. Gea
ry, Gov. McOlurg, otc. The convention
met in New York on the 13th inst—Ex
change.
The following curious advertise
ment appeared lately in an Arkansas pa-
•Whereas, I Daniel Clay, through
misrepresentation was induced to poet my
wifo, Boda, in tho papers, now I beg
leave to inform the public that I have
again taken her to rqy wife* after set
tling all onr domestic broils in an amica
ble manner, so that everything, as usual,
goes on like dock work.”
But, yielding to the maudute of that
decree, which must befall us all, he has
shifted off his mortal coil,” and en
tered upon the scene of an uuknown
stage of existence.
While the Major may have had his
frailties, he certainly possessed,
nent degree, many traits of character
which more than counterbalances them.
His hands were always open to the ap
peals of tho poor and needy, and his
heart moved in generous response when
ever cries of distress broke^upou liis
lie was always true us steel to his
friends—faithful to his family and coun
try, a strong reverence and ^respect for
Christian people, aud a firm believer in
Christ, and we trust lie is at rest with
him.
Onr friend is gone, and we deeply
sympathize with his family and relations.
Although the grave will soon cover his
mortal remains, his name will live in hia
country’s fume, and thousands will hon
or the toonib in which he silently sleeps.
Peace to hia ashes.
$30,584 81
This more than Thirty thousand
ears is believed to be but tho dimioutive
'ant-courier of untold sums.
Over a-inonths rent eaten tip and gone
a jiffy.
Let the public pocket possess ifs«
patience. The end no man can ti
fit. Con. .
TELEGRAPH.
Tlie Great Hattie of hemam.
Lemaxs, J«‘u 13—Midnight.—(Special
to the New York Telegram.) Tho army
of tho Loin-, the hope- of France, has
been defeated in a bloody battle within
seven miles < this city. The report of
cannon wa- :card all day. Tho entire
population • Lcmaus crowded the house
tops and sn; .rbs of the city, and all the
thoroughfares, aud the progress of the
finht was anxiously watched. Although
the people are accustomed to the roar of
cannon, there never was such excitement
At 9 o’clock in the morning the right
wiug of the French army, which was on
the East of Letuaus, was suddenly at
tacked by the advanced guard of the
Prussians, which emerged from tho woods
i the extreme right oi tho French.
Upon the alarm being given, the ad
vance of the French infantry wheeled
into line of battle. The artillery pushing
forward through intervals made in the
several ranks. Tho cavalry took position
Faithful is He.
By the side of a rippling brook in one
of the secluded plens of Scotland, there
stands a lovely mud thatohed cottage,
with its neat honey-suckled porch facing
the south. Beneath this humble roof on
a snow white bed by. not long ago, Nan
cy, the Scotch woman, patiently and cheer
fully waiting the. moment when her hap-
Number 47.
dbsams.*
the skies;” experiencing with holy
Paul, “We know that if our earthly tab
ernacle were dissolved, we have a build
ing of God, a house not made with hands,
In order to pr»ve that almost any kind
of dream can, with tolerable certainty, bo'
excited by special classes of stimulants.
M. Maury caused a series of experiments
to he performed on himself when asleep,
which afforded very satisfactory results.
First experiment: IIo caused himself
to be tickled with a feather, on the lips
pj- spirit would take flight to “mansions >ml in9ido of thc uostrlk He dresmed
that he was subjected to a. horrible pun
ishment. A mask of pitch was applied
to his face, and then tom roughly off,
taking with it tlic skin of his lips, nose, *
eternal in the heavens." By her bedside | an( j |- J(V
small table, lay her spectacles and, experiment: A pair of tweer-
i was hold at a little distance from his
well thumbed bible, her barrel and her
cruise,” as she used to call it,—from
which she daily, yea, hourly, spiritually
fed on the “Bread of life." A young
minister frequently called to see her. He
loved to listen to her simple expressions
of bible truths; for when she spoke of
her ‘•inheritance, incorruptible, undvfilcd
upon the right and left wings. A more I , , ,
perfect line of buttle could not have been “ d lhat no£ lt ^ cn,cd but
formed by the iiuest army. The artillery
were well supplied with ammunition,
d the infantry with one hundred
rounds per man. Supply trains were
leniently posted near, and tbo real
bloody work began. The battlefield was
alley, and the two armies occupied
tho heights opposite each other.
The French line was a semicircle, and
extendrd twelve miles overlooking the
valley which was covered by one foot of
snow. On the heights opposite the Prus
sians held and almost similar position.
Shortly after nine o’clock tho Prussians
began a furious cannonade from the
woods near the extreme left, flunked by
immense force of cavalry, the wood
concealing their position, when the troops
massed with the evident intention
of turning Chausey ’« right. The artillery
fire conti uued on both sides until the
ammunition of the Prussian artillery was
almost exhausted, when tho Prussians
became furious and gave an order for an
advance of the infantry.
The French advanced with equal rapidi
ty along tlio whole lino to meet the Ger
mans iu a fair hand to hand light. The
Germans were cool aud collected, and
the French were behaving favorably, but
n the Mobiles began to waver,
d tho French not able to hold tlieir
a little way off, and the listener almost
fancied he heard the redeemed in heaven
saying; -Unto llim that loved us, and
washed us from our sins in his own blood."
One day the young minister put to the
happy saint thc following question: “Now
Nannie, ho said, “what after all your
prayers, waitings and watchings, God
should suffer your soul to Ixs eternally
lost‘t Pious Nannie raised herself on her
elbow, and turning to him a wishful look
laid her right hand on tho precious bible
which lay open before her, and quietly
replied : “Ae, derieme, is that a’ leugth
yc has got inon ?’—and then continued,
her bright eyes sparkling with almost
heavenly brightness: “God would line
thc greatest loss. Poor Nannie would
but lose her soul;—that would be a great
loss, indeed, but God would lose his hon
or and his character. Haven’t I hung
my soul on liis “exceeding great aud
precious promises?" and if he . brak’ his
word, he will lie himself and ’a the uni
verse would rush iuto confusion.’
By faith the old Scotch woman had
cast her soul’s salvation upon God’s prom
ises in Christ by the gospel. In every
sorrow she haddbuud a *vcry present help
position began to retreat, meanwhile the! in trouble; and now about to leave the
weary wilderness for her everlasting home
could she think that lie would prove un
faithful to his word ? No. Sooner than
poor Nfhnic’s soul would bo lost, God’s
honor, God’s character, God himself must
be overturned, and a the universe rush
into confusion 1* Dear old Pilgrim.
A Boy’s Composition on tits Goat.—
goat is stronger than a pig and gives
ilk. He looks at you. So docs the
doctor, but the goat butted Deacon Lill
inghast in a bad plaoo, and a little calf
wouldn’t do so. A boy without a father
is an orphan ; and if he hadn't got no
mother he is two orphans. The gout
do'nt give quite as much milk as a cow,
bat more than an ox. 1 saw a ox at a
one day with a card tied to his left
ear* aud we went in on a family ticket—
Mother picks geese in the summer, and
the goat eats grass and jumps on a box —
Some folks don’t like gouts, bat as forme
a mule with a paint brush tail. The goat
is a useful anunal, but don't onell as
sweet as nice bear’s oil for the hair. If I
had too much hair I would wear a wig as
Captain Peters does. I will sell my goat
for three dollars and go to the circus to
see the elephant, which is bigger than
five goats. FfttUer is coming home to
morrow* and the baby has got the croup.
Bad.
. The Radical Pabtt.—The Boston
Poet says Brownlow and Horton* carried
into thft Benafo Chimber by their servants
fully represent the paralyzed Radical
Fatalism Illustrated.—A Hardshol
Baptist miuistcr, living somewhere
the frontier of Missouri, was iu the habit
of saying to Us family and to liis church
“Friends, yon Deed not take any un
usual care about your lives; the mo
ment of your death was ‘writ’ before the
foundation of the world, und you cannot
alter it.” His wife observed when be left
on Saturday to meet one of his frontier
missionary engagements that be dressed
the flint of his rifle with unusual care,
put in dry powder, fresh tow, and took
every pains to make sure that the gun
would go off in case he came upon an
Indian.
It struck her one day as she saw him
in the saddle, with his rifle on his shoul
der, that his conduct contradicted his
teacliings, and she said to him: “My
dear, why do you take this rifle with
yon? If it was ‘writ’ before the founda
tion of the world that you were to be
killed daring this trip by an Indian, that
rifle won’t prevent it ; and if you
to be killed of course the rifle is unneces
sary ; so why take it with you at all ?”
‘Yea,” he replied, “to be sure, n
dear, of course you are all right, aud that
a veiy proper view j but, see here, my
dear—to be sure—-but then—suppose I
should meet an Indian while I am gone,
and his time had come, aud I hadn't my
rifle with me, what would he do ? Yes,
my dear, we must all contribute onr
part toward the fulfillment ot tho decrees
of Providence.
A fow days ago a youth from the
country oame into onr office trod wished
to liavo tho loan of a copy of our paper
published in October last, stating that
there was a piece in it he wished to see.
We told him we had none but our file
papers, und at his solicitation we refer
red to tho file to find the article. In or
der to know what to look for we asked
what the caption of the article was.—
He stated that it was a piece of poetry^
called the “ Lover’s Address.” W’o had
no recollection ot e\es publishing such a
piece, but supposing that he was suffer
ing from an attack of Capid,aml was very
ill from the (high state of love fever that
was on him, we referred to onr file, bat
found it not The yonng fellow, after
standing around awhile, left doubtless
feeling that his cose was hopeless, and
that “Hope told a flattering tale;’
dead and wounded strewed tlio ground,
and the field was red with blood. The
carnage was fearful. Fifteen thousand
French had fallen before five o’clock,
when the whole French army was in full
retreat.
The number of troops actually en
gaged cm each side were numbered at
sixty thousand.
General Chausey is reported sick, ;
but he is still iu command, and it is ex-:
pected that another battle will occur.
London, January 13.—The Duke of
Mecklenburg telegrams from Montford,
Department of theSainthe, on thc 12th,
that after a severe engagement at St. Cor-
uicle wo readied the river near Sauiqita,
Leregue, several miles northeast from
Leman?, with a small loss. We have
tokeu one thousand prisoners.
Extraordinary efforts are being made
to place tho entire British navv iu a sea
worthy condition. Vessels being repair
ed aud approaching completion are hur
ried by order of tho Admiralty.
London, January 13. 3:30 v. M.—The
telegram just received from Versailles
brings the important news that the mines
and counter mines around Fort Mont
Valerian are in such close proximity that
a collision is momentarily expected.
London, Janaary 13, r. m.—Loiuaus
has beeu taken aud is now occupied by
the third and tenth army corps.
Siva You Young Man.
From what 1 Not from hard work ami
exhausting toil, for this is thc appointed lot
of men and we should not expect to escape
from it : by this right character is formed,
and the earth brought to yield her riches.
Not from protracted and close study, for
thus only are attainmenty, brain power
developed, and the professed fdled with able
Not from rigid e
lomy, years of toil, and
slow increase of wealth? for this is far
ter thau fortunes made in nil hour.
Cut save them from the fascinations of the
gaming table, and especially from the in
ous, tearful course of intemperance.
Ob, it is burning out the very vitals of
mortality and manliness in a hundred social
circles. It is destroying by thousands tli
youth in onr best families. U is sweeping
through the country and carrying away
worthlessness and crime thc young men «
would be pillars in tlic church and state, a
it is gaining power daily.
In a small room in a dark tenement Iniild-
■, and struck with a pair of scissor*
lie dreamed that he heard tho ringing of.
bells. This was soon converted into the
tocsin, and this suggested the days of
Jane, 1848.
Third experiment: A bottle of eau de
Cologne was held to his not»e. He dream
ed that he wus in a perfumer’s shop.
This excited visions of thc East; and he
dreamed that he was in Cairo, in the
shop of Jean Marie Farina. Many sur
prising adventures occurred to him there,
the details of which were forgotten.
Fourth experiment: A burning lucifcr
match was held close to his nostrils. He
dreamed that- he was at sea (the wind
was blowing in through the wiudows.)
and that the magazine of tho vessel blew
«P-
Fifth experiment: lie was slightly
pinched on tlio nap of the neck. IIo
dreamed that a blister was applied. And
this recalled the recollection of a pliysi-
.ho had treated him in his in
fancy.
Sixth experiment: A piece of red-hot
>n was held closo enough to him to
communicate a slight sensation of heat,
lie dreamed that robbers got into the
house, and were -forcing the inmates, by-
putting their feet to the fire, to reveal
whore their money was. Tho idea of tho
rubber suggested tiiat of Madame D’Ab-
rantes, who, he supposed, had taken him
for her secretary, and in whose memoirs
he had read some account of bandits.
Seventh experiment: The word para-
fagannnu* was pronounced in his car.
lie understood nothing, and awoke with
the recollection of a very vague dream.
Thc word niauian was next used many
times. He dreamed of different subjects,
but heard a sound like the humming of
bees. Several days after, the experiment
was repeated with the words Azor, Cas
tor, Lconorc, On awaking, he recol
lected that he had heard thc last two
words, und had attributed them to one of
the persons who had conversed with him
in his dream.
Eighth experiment: A drop of water
was allowed to fall oft hta forehead. He
dreamed that he was in Italy, that he was
very warm, aud that he was drinking thc
wine of Orvicto.
Ninth experiment: A light, surround
ed by a piece of red paper, was repeated
ly placet! before his eyes. He dreamed
of a tempest and lightning, which sug
gested thc remembrance of a storm be
had encountered in the English Channel
in going from Merlaix to Havre. ,
These observations arc very instruc
tive, inasmuch as they show conclusively
that i>ne very important class of our
dreams is due to our bodily sensations.
quantity of stores was captured both at j ing iu u low P* rt tl,e t * ie
----- 1 called recently te ——*
Lemans and St. Coriel.
London, January 14.—Pixley’s circu- P ra f
lar, just issued, expresses the opinion
that the Continental demand for specie
must last until the end of the present
month, after which overland shipments
will satisfy it.
Havana, Jan. 14.—The Hornet appear
ed off Puerto Gninchas, two miles from
Pareto Del pad re, on Sunday. The gun
boat Guerriere sighted the Hornet, and
fired nt her several shots. The Hornet
immediate!v went to sea.
ad the Holy Scripture and
tho dead body piously trained,
’classically educated and endowed who a few
years ago commenced his career with the
brightest prospects. His fortune squander
ed, his heart destroyed; liis briliant talents
besotted, by intemperance he died.
Abrotlier once equally talented and prom
ising, and met at the door of narrow rooms ;
with palsied hand and fevered eye, and mut
tered welcome, staggering against the coffin
as thc service proceeded.
A third brother;—the youngest—with down
face and burning heart wept over the
Tlio ladies of the Leo .Jluimruvut Com-
inittt u desire to acknowledge tlio receipt ot (be
following sums :
City of Havaniiah, $1,161 17 ; Columbus, $477
65; Macon, ilil 25 ; Athens, $200 00; Katonton,
$186 20; Kingston, KW 00 ; St. Mary*, $24 50 ;
Albany, $CJ 30 ; West Point, ill 50 ; LoaUvUto,
•79 23; Americas, $120.
From mauy towns no response has yet been
received.
Asa matter of iuterent to all who hare con
tributed to thia came, tlio C mmittoo desire to
mako public tho following extract from a letter
addressed to them by the Secretary of the Cen
tral Committee in Richmond. She writes under
tho date of January 5,1871:
“I received a lotter last evening from Mrs.
Lee, in which she saya llut it is tier intention t<
k»vo the General's remaius removed to Rich
mond should site ever leave Lexington; and
not, that she wishes them at her death to
placed in Hollywood, and that alie be buried be
side him there. This settles tho question that
Richmond ia to l>o their final resting place, and
makes it appropriate that hero hia grateful and
loving countrymen should rear their great!
monument to his memory.”
Papers throughout tho State please copy.
Tho Cuthbert Appeal, of Friday,
says; .
We are sorry to learn that Mr- Jno.
Christian, editor of the Lumpkin Tele
graph, was seriously stabbed in several
places, a few evenings since, in that
place, by a yonng man named Douglass.
The difficulty, as we understand, grew
ont of a notice published in the Tele
graph relative to a Christmas tree with
“BarreUVia tbo household word.
desolation wrought by drink. He may be
ved. Aud this U one of the many cases
at arc constantly occurring.
Ministers, teachers, fathers, mothers, lia
rs, call upon the young men to touch not
ste not, the accursed bowl, Go«l save our
young men.
Ett.vsirKi.AH is Hous.—The patches on the
skiu point to morbid changes in the blood.
Ten grains of tartar emetic may be shaken
upon the tongue as » vomit; a scruple of salt
petre and 20 drops of tincture of the perch-
loride of iron may be administered thrice
daily in an ounce of wateT, and cold watei
may be dashed on the surface followed in
cold weather by active friction. If the diffi
cult breathing shows that the lungs
volved, mustard aud turpentine may be ap
plied upon the sides, after bathing them with
very hot water. If the spots or patches ro-
main stationary, a favorable result may be
looked for.
The .Soxijs of the Nea.-«—If the
earth has its songs of warbling birjls,
ami rustling leaves, and whispering winds
and murmuring brooks, and, sweeter
than ail, voices of thc heart, the sea, also,
hath its songs, of whistling winds, and
rippling waves, and roaring billows.—
You are awakened in the morning by
thc sound of surges ; you are lolled .to
sleep in thc evening by tho hymn of thc
billows; and jn tho dead of thc night
you start up from your dream, feeling
that you have heard thc dear sweet
s of the loved ones far away, but it
ily the song of thc mermaid* return-
to their coral homes. The waves
have their wild laugh when they play
with the spirits of the deep and surely
there is thc billows when old ocean
wrestles with the tempest But, whether
it be in the “still small voice of the gen
tle wavelets, or in tho louder singing of
the large waves, or in the mighty thun
der of thc mountain billows the ocean
‘rests not, day nor night, for ciying,’ with
its thousand voices, ‘Holy, holy, holy, is
the Lord of hosts.’"
associated, Wo liopa the wounds
not ns serious as represented to us.
1“ At the recent centennial celebra
tion of Rutland, Yt., many curious relics
were exhibited. Among them was “a
letter written by our blessed Saviour
Jesus Christ, found under a great stone
sixty-five yean after His crucifixion, and
reprinted in London in 1791 .’ r
Effectual prayer bring* down from hea
ven’s ample chambers the choicest blessing*
upon-earth.
N* /
A. ’Warning.
To the men, and particularly tho young
men and boys, I would say a few farewell
words. Look at mo I am on the scaffold
about to be launched into the other world
What has brought me to this ? Let me
tell you and let these words ring forever
in your ears. It was whiskv ana the car
rying of fire arms. Whisky and the
bearing of pistols have ruined me. If
you do not want them to ruin you, ifyou
do not want to be imprisoned, and in the
end brought to the scaffold, don’t drink
liquor, don't carry fire arms."—Jeremiah
Bailey, on the scaffold, at She Mmeirply
Dee.-13,1870;
r A Chicago lawyer told the jury ifc
would bo as proper to spear a buffalo
with a knitting needle, or dip the Missou
ri river dry with a gourd, or to convict
his client of manslaughter for nothing c
_ . „ . No'man, whether rich or poor, can make _ .
which the mother of young Douglass was or attain a useful position in life, without the ly just killing a woman. That Chicago
fta *’ Mj 1 two valuable habits of punctuality and « * * * 11 ‘ 1,1 *'*
pernnee.
bar has developed some of the first tal
ents of the country.