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The Editor sat in hit tow'll turn and looked the old
Thou K^anUt•t^lbe grinning young hopeful, end
"uT^YSST ««SS5 edition of Moec
Can*ho compaaa'bu'apiril with meekness, and
Rtninctc k n»tural o:iUi. . — . .
Can he*l'wve all his wrotra. to the future, and
carrv his heart in In* cheek .
Can he 4»*n hour’s work in a minute, ami live
on n nixpencf* « week ?
Cwi he courteously talk to nn e<iu*l, and brow
beat »n impudent dunce ? _
Can he keep things in apple-pic order, and do half
adoxeu at «*ece? . ...
(Uu he i»ress nil the spring* of knowledge, with
quick and reliable touch ?
»nd Ik-sure that he knows bow much to know,
and knows how to not know too much ?
he know how to spur up hi* virtue, and put
a check-rein on his pride ?
Can hecarrv a geinlonian’* manners within % rm-
noeeroa 1 hide f. *
Can 'tr know *11, and do nil, and Im all with tdiccr-
fuliie**, courage and vira ?
If so, we perhaps can Jwi \uakiu' an editor * on ten
of him.” t
And *tl» thus with our noblo profession, and that
It will over lie, still.
There sm mnne who appreciate it* labors, and some
who psrhnp* never will
Hut in the great time thai ia coming, when loudly
tho trumpet shall sound,
Aud they who have labored and rested shall come
from the quivering ground :
When they who have striven and sulicrcd to tench
and ennoble the race.
Shall march at the front of ths column, each one
in hi* Hod-given place,
As they pass through the gates of The ti y with
proud ai»d victorious trend,
The editor, printer, and “devil,” will travel not
far from the head.
LA UGJ/EWISMS.
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NO. 47.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORN-ING v AUGUST 22,1&73.
v. t. ju ftjisrtfo
editor; and niopa*t5Toie,
Al 2 wo dollars Per Annum,
CASK in
Brows’* Wooden Wedding.—Brawn, •
h young insurance iricml ot ours, who lives
in Cambridge, bad the tilth anniversary
of bis wedding occur ubout a week ago
and his friends determined to celebrate
bis wooden wedding l»y n surprise party.
Brown came in yesterday and told us how
they succeeded. They commenced by,
sending a servnnt round with a team to
take Brown and hit) wife out to ride about i
seven. Then they began to come with
present!and materials for supper. There 1
was a little party of five came first, all la
den—hands full. 'They all got nicely in-'
side the garden gate, which shuts with a
s pring, when Brown’s big mastiff, who is
abvayslcft unchained in his muster's ab
sence, came round the corner :ird surpris
ed them. One woman stepped on her
dress, and in her fall so demoralized a I
fragile black walnut book case site carried,
that it Was afterwards done up in a bun !
and preseuKr 'TviKViftttJxfij wood. Anoth
er fellow got safely out of the yard, qtl
bat part of his pants, while old Smithers,
who weighs 230 pounds, plunged wildly
with the eight gullon pail of ice cream he
carried, through Brown’s glass hot house
in the corner of the yard, and surprised
some $30 worth of exotics. Finally they
and as it was about time for Brown's re-! our in this C0Untry ’ fa alread > weU known to many of
ta'wc. They’gnt'down 7 tea set oMarc ! the iStbya'bri^-*' and . are five in nu ™ l,cr ' including the Art HaH, which is connected with
china that a friend of Brown's in a trade I the Power II “
had loaned him a week before, and broke departments,
two pieces, so that Brown has since been | most attractive fonns and with endless profusion. It may be justiy termed a popular school of art an<f industry^teaching by
obliged to mortgage bis lien-house nnd ) object lessons of the most vivid and attractive description b
buy the set; and the comments of Mrs. i I-* : ’— ’ *- - -
Brown when she saw the condition of the I ment
From the Due Went (.South OtfuLaa) Presbyterian.
IIo! For the Mountains.
Best size for a man—Exercise.
To have fish at supper—Just drop them
a line.
A well dressed dog wears a collar, nnd
pants in the summer.
When does a man have to keep his
word ! When no one will take it
Why is a minister n :ar the o id of his
M-rninn like a ragged urchin? Because
he's toward his ciosc
A poor, lone widow, with seven cliil-
I'.n-n aud a sore throat, paid the necessa
ry taxes and took six dogs tromYhc Mil
waukee pound.
"Don't worry about my going away
darling. Absence, you know, makes tit
heart grow fonder.’’ " Of somebody else,"
added the darling.
Then; are two sets of fools in this
world—the rich for starling so many :tb-
i-urd and ridiculous fashions, and the
r for living to follow them.
Cincinnati Industrial Exposition Buildings, 1873.
won ,*iu worm ... i.vuits. *■ •••>•■■; mej 1 . present out readers above with a view of the buildings of the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, in which the Fourth
fixed things up and goti into the house, I " ih„ iuK^tenttar 3 to October 4, 1873.
«n,1 .0 nlwvut limn fiw r,- Thl ? S re . at Exhibition, which is the foremost among similar ente]
Its immense popularity is partly due to the central location of Cincinnati, but mainly to the liberal character of its manage*
f, which is in the hands of the three commercial associations of the city. There being no stockholding interest, all its
Dues are diirrllr rvni'nrl^S in intr^tcinit St. nnnni,. ...ku. . 1... 1-: _1. .1 1 : L ■ . - . _ C ... ,
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.Mr. Wallace, of Minnesota, dressed up
us an Indian and skulked around a neigh
bor's house. A doctor shortly after dc
vclopcd a lead mine on his person.
One paper having said that “unruquit-
Ird love was the toothache of the soul,’
another editor suggests that the only way
to stop it is to use some gold fillin
A Vermont paper says a young lady
iron the country called at a book-store
the other day and asked for “a deck of
them new postal kcerds, double headers.’
Sombody has given one of tho young
Grants a lunutiful pony. It is said to be
a very lat pony ; but it i- perhaps no fat
tor than the office for which it was inten
d-d an eiptivolent.
A lio Theater correspondent asks. ’Tins
o'.d Bi>widow gone toll—11 yet?” As
the telegraph brings us no intelligence of
a row or revolution there, wc take it for
granted that he has not.
Dayton gentlemen arc very gallant.
Seven of them lately jumped into the cn-
tui at once to rescue a woman; but when
they found out it was an old woman, six
<>f them paddled uahore at once.
An ignorant nnd obtuse Ohio farmer
says the only result he notices from his
daughter's recent attendance at a college
for both sexes 19 her tendency to sigh
uml mope about the house like a sick kit
ten.
The retiring editor of a Kansas paper
’ vulediets" himself as follows: “If I
i< ive said anything through these col
umns that 1 am sorry for, I am glad ot it.
fo my friends, I thank yon tor your lib
erally. and to my enemies, you can goto
the devil.”
One of the late lxiys while reading a
chapter in Genesis, paused to ask his
taoth- r if hoys in olden times used to do
their sums on the ground. It was discov
ered that he had been reading the pass-
nu'e, “and the sons of men multiplied on
the lace of the earth.”
The principal of an academy, who was
very unpopular with young ladies, on the
a .•preach of a thunder storm very careful
ly insulated his chair on four pieces of
glass, and then politely naked one of the
girls to sit in his lap tor safety. “Well.
no,”said she; “I think I’d rather lie struck
by lightning.”
A Detroit boy knocked at the the door
and carelessly inquired of the man of the
house : “Are vott going to move to-day?”
“No;” was the answer. ‘I’ll bet yon
*■-•"> you are!” responded the boy. “Why
you impudent dog?” “Cos, your root’s a
blazing,” screams the adolescent rascal,
;ls he runs for life; nnd it was true.
That was a beautiful idea in the mind
V' “Tittle girl, who on beholding a rose
°n the topmost stem of which a
: * ' vai fading, whilst below and around
-‘ -tree lieautiful crimson buds were just
ni«i s t ' lu * r oharms at once nnd ear-
th J.Wanted to her brother, “William,
t„ w. l,tt ' e btids have awakened in time
■ a their mother before she dies.”
her vie® n '" ro woman in Georgia gives
Bill St' * i ,,n m »king cotton. She tells
counu in 6: “Do way dey use to make
hick'rv '?? Wlis w ‘ d 11 Plenty o’
ilen y d ' dn ’t need no juanner
niggers amt 5 °" wil * dcs g*b me a few
makeanv oAf 00 : 1 llic kTy now, I kin
good cotton, cut S? , abo , Ut hcrc / CtCh
juanner.” 11 beat on y of J er
*omVtimo Ga . ,cna g ,rl at a circns
whirling a h a7’* !? ,ookm S at a clown
eel t 0 1 at Wlth a stick, and remark-
do that ” Ti* 1 " 8 man t ' iat 8 * le “used to
at a contort; yaun S m “U was looking
arena wlm i„j I9 k. ,n ftnot l'or part of the
neck Vo l‘ , tm ,e 8* ticd a ™« ad «>is
had iieen p t,on ensued until a bet
again. ‘ iUe t mt ®l ;e couldn’t do it
hang
“Welcome” on them on the porch over
the front door. They succeeded in hang
ing two lanterns, nnd when they had
saved the house from the fiery fiend there
wasn’t enough porch left to pay for the
trouble of trying to bang out any more.
Then they sat down and waited for Brown
and his wife to come home. Wc draw
the veil over the scene that followed their
return. Some scenes are too joyous to be
described in cold, cold words.
\ Qtri;:;;: Iowa Stout—One of the IcmI-
g citizens of North Davenport had un
only daughter, who was betrothed to a
young man of fair promise, a clerk in a
leading commercial house at Dubuque.
His visits to the city were regular, and
and ai nngcments had been made for an im
mediate union, when the bride-elect was
striken down with typhoid fever, and, in
spite of what skill and care could do died.
Alter the melaucholoy journey to Oakdale
the young man returned to Dubuque.
Nervous fever set in, and a peculiar hal
lucination seized him that his lost, one
\as present in the room draped in the
styiie grab which hnd enveloped her clay.
All t cmoi s‘ranee was in vain. He min
utely described Iter dress, her appearance,
and her position in his chamber. Even
when his parents or friends would sit or
stand where he declared her to l>c, lie; saw
her glide away and take_another place.
This went on for weeks, and the patient
was gradually sinking under the physical
nnd nervous excitement, when a friendly
ruse was trie d to cure him of his ccstacy.
Coming to Davenport, his mother lound
that the funeral garments were purchased
of C. & M.. and made by a Mrs. B. She
procured the material, had it made up
and returning, a young lady as near in
height and appearance as could he found
was dressed to resemble bis deceased love,
unci during one of his fevered and brief
slumbers was introduced into the room,
taking her scat in a shaded corner. Ilis
awakening was anxiously watched, and
sanguine hopes of removing his halluci
nation were indulged in. lie awoke at
length, and, turning his cycBin the direc
tion of the pious fraud, stared with fixccl
eye balls for a few seconds, then raising
himself almost upright in his bed, flung
his arms aloft, and shrieking in an un
earthly voice, ‘My God, there are tint of
Mem/”fell hack and expired.”—Davenport
Gazette.
>yt. „
age of the United States; and by the attendance of over 600,000 visitors,
dopted system of school excursions at reduced rates of admission.
A large increase is expected this year, under the newly
J3IX.L ARP.
lie Gives his Views on Female Sttl-
(rngc nnd Miss rioosau
Antny.
Rome, Ga., Aug., 1873.
Mr. Editu:—Soosnn Antny aint
nutin to me—that is nuthiu partikler.
No woman aint exsep Mrs. Arp, but
when I heard they was a tryin Iter for
votin, my feminine instinks carried me
strait to the court house. I was on
her side before I got there and I am
on her side yet. Women in general is
my weakness and espeshully a woman
whose name is Soosnn. I always en
vied a man who could fondle over his
wife or his sweetheart and call her
“ Soosy.” It sounds so nieller and
soft. 80 when I seed Soosan Antny
arrained up before the Judge like a
konvict I was mad—mad with the
whole Yanky nasltun. They raise a
hellybillooo over the old broken kno-
stitushun and mend it up so sons to let
the black babboorts vote in the rebel
States, but if a white woman of sense
and spunk dares to do it, it shocks
their pewritan modesty. The old
Judge tried to look fierse and said a
woman shouldeut undersex herself. I
have s'eeu a heap of men who, when
they got sorter old, took up a sourgrajM}
spite against good lookin women. But
Soosau looked at the Judge as strait as
nn egul. She stood up square on her
paster joints and remarked that she
was free-born aud untiv-born and had
A Nexv England Wedding.—A corres
ponded writing from Guilford. Conn., u n
der date of 8th inst., beguiles the readers
of the Milwaukee (\Vis ) Journal of Com
merce with the following: Young John
Hubbard was married last week ton lady
of Stony Creek. He brought his bride
from the home of her father in his own
farm wagon, arriving at the sufficiently
romntic hour of one o’clock in the morn
ing. The bride prepared her lord’s break
fast the next morning by five o’clock, in
the appartraents built on the homestead
—with one or two exceptions the oldest
inhabited house north of St. Augustine
—for the accommodation of the young
folks. The weather being fine for hay,
John was soon down near Sachen Head,
about four miles away, getting hia heaps
ready lor carting. Alter the breakfast
dishes were put away and the housework
was done, onr lady, with some friends
followed the groom to tho hay fields
where they had a nice picnic pnrty. To
xvatd t vening the nexvJMrs. John llubhard
xvas driven home in triumph on the top
of the load of sxvcet, fresh hay, weighing
about two tons; ‘and,’as the chrildrcn,
upon the venerable authority of Mother
Goose, sing, ‘now my story’s done.’ ”
GO degrees he might he smart for a
monky hut he was n fool for n man.
He sed that this test would rule out
nearly all the idiots aud Afrikins from
votin, and if it dident their faith in
witches would. I wouldent let a fur-
riner vote until he had lived here and
behaved himself for ten years, and he
shouldent vote then unless he had-
married an Amcrikin gal, or xvas a
raisin children on Amcrikin soil. I
wouldent let no unmarried man x-ote
who xvas over thirty years old; though
I would let all sich justify by swearin
that they had tried but nobody would
have em. I’d make ent name the gals
in their affidavy.
I would let every married man and
his xvife and every xvidder if they
wasn’t cut off by the foregoiu excep
tions. They should have one vote
apiece for themselves and one for every
chili! they had. This last would ele
vate the Arpian family about elektion
times shore. Akkording to Solomon,
all sich ought to have a heap of privi
leges, for it aint no pikayune bisiness
to raise a big drove of children. Jest
let any hide-hound bachelor try it aud
sec. 1 look upon resj>ektablc children
as the hope of the State, nnd if 1 had
my wax- these stagnant old rips who
wont marry, but prowl round and live
easy and die rich and lea\-e no sign, at
least none to speak of, should be taxed
hea\-y and the money appropriated to
the orfin’s fund. What’s a tnan worth
to tho State who leaves no defenders
after he’s ded and gone; who patro
nizes no Sundy schools or Muridy
admit that a woman is just as good as
a man, if not better, in most everything
that requires more sense than ntuscel.
I wont say she ort to vote if she dont
want to, but I <lo say that 110 politishun
could buy her vote xviih a drink
Bill Aiu*.
THE PERSECUTION OF JONES.
Hoxv shall we go ? lit our own con
veyance. Railroads and hacks may
do for those who xvaut to go to n par
ticular place and sit down, and mope
and yitwn, or to play checks or cards,
or to. sleep through the day nnd to
dunce through the night, but for those
who wish to see whatever is to be seen,
to drink out of the cold springs that
flow from different hills nnd mountains,
to snuff the breezes tliat float over Alps
and Apennines, to see the fertile valleys
that usually lie at the feet of our
Southern mountains, must go in bis
oxvn conveyance. So ou r party went—-
three buggies, one carriage and. a wag
.which tourists can go on horseback.
Here the horse become* useless. A
mule even would be at the end of hi*
row. Our party, consisting of four
gentlemen, five ladies, and two boys,
with the addition of a guide and one
gentleman from the loxv country who
joined us, started up at 7 o’clock in the
morning. It had rained heavily the
night before, which increased the diffi
culties of the trip. In about an hour
we all reached the horse rack, out of
breath nnd pretty tired. Here wc
rested.
From ■ this point “the pool” lies
round to the right about a half mile,
over rocks and under rocks, and
through rocks, at the base of a pile of
granite that is said to lie 397 yards
on, with one tent for the Captain aud I high and almost perpendicular. Ihe
' e boys, and provisions for all. tn P ,s «•» that people make usually
only once inajife-time—that suffices.
properly of her oxvn, and had a right
to vote for the lawmakers of her choice, schools-buys no'candy or baby clothes,
She said that women done as much ‘or balls, or barlow knix - es, or long stock-
for the country as the men, and if they
dident fight in a battle they raised the
boys that did. That bavin em and
nursin em aud tendin to cm in sickness
and in helth wag a harder job than
fitin, and if the men diden’t believe it
ins, or jackonct imtsliti, or hoop skirts,
or galluses. What intrust has he got
in perpetuatiu great principles ? Why
a chronick old bachelor can jest turn
over in his one-horse bed and die and
not keer a darn if the world coins to
•• *•**'■' “■*•“** - ~ | iiuk acvi a uut u u uio wan tti
jest let em try it awhile. She sed if end in 15 minutes. He wouldent
the Judge could name one good reesuu
xvhy they shouldent vote she wanted to
knoiv it.
Soosan’s eyes flashed a little angelik
fire when the Judge fined her one him- 1 else haint aksidctitaily been
dred dollars, and she remarked that | with offspring. By no mean
keer, if the devil xvas to break loose and
eat up the women and children alive.
Now Fmnot sayin a word agin them
married foaks whose mho w or sutnhow
blessed
Titov
every ndvanse in sivilization hail to ‘ shoxv a willingness to hav and that’s
have its martyrs, nnd she was reddy. enuf for me. I’ve always apologized
Shethrowd a hundred dollars bill over for peepttl xvho done the best tl: in
to the clerk, and sed she would bet an- could, whether tha suksoedod or not
other hundred that the money never I aint no Bonypartu to chop a man’s
reached the State treasury. She head off for losin a battle, whether lie
dident mind that old Judge no more was to blame or not. I’m 1 fiend to
than if he was a monkey She told him < married foaks, children or no children,
that if they xx'ould base the votin i Lawful wedlock is sosiety’s main spring
bisness on morality, or property, or in- j —its back bone—its life Inshoorance.
telligence, or all three put together, j I’ve no patience with these stingy old
the women would be satisfiile; but 'stags who xvont marry xvithout tlicy git
they based it on xvearin britches, and j a pile of penshun money, who xvaut to
drinkin whisky and chexvin tobakker, j be hired to do it, xvho hang around a
and keepin one xvife at home aud an-! toxvn waitin for sum rich gal to turn
other sum where else. She declared nn • U’ltiln f Itorn’o Info /\f* tvuxi* nnno
that she had as much rite to choose her
politikal masters as the Suthern niggers
or the hecthen Chinee. That if the
We have no other authority for it
than Jones himself, and therefore can
not vouch for its truthfulness. Jones
told its that he xvas persecuted nearly to
death some time ago by a sexving-ma-
chine agent, xvho wanted him to make
a purchase. Uoable at last to endure
the persistence of tho man, Jones says
lie bought a diving-bell, and went out
four hundred miles from land and
descended two miles into the ocean to
spend a fexv days in peat*. He had
hardly touched bottom xvhen he saxv
the sewing-machine man coming down
in the divers’ armor carrying with him
a shuttlefeed anil sixty strong testimo
nials to tho merits of his button-hole at
tachment. Jones informs us that he
suddenly rose to the surface and pre
pared to sail home ; but just as the
ship’s anchor xvas being hauled over the
side, ft fell and upset tho pick’s ca
boose, scattering the live coals in the
powder mngazine. This caused a ter-
rifie explosion, and Mr. Jones xvas
bloxvn four miles npxvnrd into the air.
(This is Jones’ statement, remember.)
Just as ho began to come doxvn he met
the sewing-machine solicitor coming up
in a balloon, with a bucketful of sam
ples of tho lockstitch, and a model of his
patent reversible hemtner. When
Jones fell he xvas picked up, aud he
sailed straight for home. As the ves
sel drexv near the dock Jones perceived
the agent standing on the xvharf wait
ing for him with a “noiseless button
hole attachment.” (wo thought all
button holes xvere necessarily noisless;
but Jones is responsible.) Thereupon
Jones hid himself in the cabin, and in
structed the captain to say to the
agent that he, Jones, had died of yel
low fever on the voyage. When the
sewing machine man heard this he
seized a copy of a certificate from a
clergyman's xvife, and then blexv out
his brains with a pistol, evidently de
termined to follow Jones into the next
world and sell him a machine at all
hazards. Wo give this for what it is
worth. Wc only know that Jones xvas
educated by his parents to believe that
it is wicked to tell a lie.—Max Adder.
nnd moot ofth»m wa >' s ?? shakin g h»nds,
There is the Lu are dlsn greeable ones,
“nd the liumixin 5 way ’ the snubbing way.
nil, whi ^ ng xvay, and, the worst of
friend is so » 1 ^'L heart y When a
«J our hand in hU i^ y ° U ^ hat h ? crush '
incapable of manuotu?’ ( ender6 y° u
14 i® nearly tinie'thi* fV° r f°v «leven years,
co "io a lost Is fnendship should bc-
Pened to a t noor t fu CTt ': Th ,8, *"liathap-
w hose sad ^ shonm*" N ° W Ham P*h«o.
*0 the ®hould serve as a waminu
a «d unrca&onatfin~L >e a'"?* 4 !, invctora *
worlfi asonah, ° hand-shakers in the
Literary Ladies of the South.—
The Raleigh 8 atiiul says: “We take
leave to say that North Carolina may
well be proud ol such gifted women as
Mrs. Spencer, author of ‘Last Ninety
Days of the War,’ Miss Fisher, well-
known author of three or four popular
novels, Miss Cameron, author of the well-
written story, ‘Salted with Fire,’ Mrs.
Mary Bayard Clarke, our best female
poet, and others that might be mention
ed. But whilst we are glad that some of
onr ladies are endowed, we have not for
gotten that Virginia too is well favored.
As long as Mrs. Preston, Miss Emily V.
Mason, the author of a volume entitled
the ‘Refugee’ we believe, published by
Messrs. E. J. Hale & Son, Mrs. Downing
nnd others live, Virginia can well point
with pride to her own accomplished
daughters.
Mo&e of the Bender Horror.—A
Timet special from the neighborhood of
the Bender graveyard, says that while no
new graves have been discovered, indica
tions were found that ground in the com»
Sold, south of where the honse stood, had
been disturbed to a considerable depth.
As it was approaching night, it was con
cluded to suspend operations for the pres
ent anil send notices at an early day to
neighboring farmers to bo on hand with
their plows, scrapes and spades, and com
mence a regular organized search for any
bodies that may be buried there. It is
the opinion of our party that the search
will not be in vain.
The whole number of dead letters re
ceived and disposed of at the Post Office
Department daring the month of July
was 321,379, a larger number than for
some time past Of this number 7,701
were returned from foreign countries, and
17,510 were returned to foreign offices.
women could vote there wouldent be a
drunkard, nor a thife, nor a fool on
the beuch, nor in any other oflis, and
whisky would be harder to git than
arsenik. An old, red nosed, swell-
faced man winked one eye at her and
hikkuped “ the h—he—hell you say.”
When the court adjourned the crowd
cheered Soozy, and one man sed he’d
pav ths fine; another sed he’d see her
a fair fite with the Judge; another
sed the law dident say whether the
britches must be worn outside or inside,
and another sed he’d rather risk the
the women to vote than thousans of
theara drunken furriners and fools who
clekted John Morrissey.
Now I’ve been thinkin a heap about
this votin bisness myself, and my opin-
yuD ar that Gov. Jinkins is a mity
smart man. The first time he run for
Governor they beat him bekaus he sed
he dident think that every fool and
every vagabond ort to be allowed to
vote. He was for draxvin in the lines
insted of lettin cm out, and the melan
kolly sequel hsv proved that he wer
rite. If I was a king I wouldent let
anybody vote who couldent tell wheth
er General Jackson was ded er alive,
or who took more than three drinks a
day as a regular thing, or who chawed
tobakker after he had gone to bed, or
who was n meaner man than his daddy,
or who beleeved in gosts or witches, or
who dident put on a dean shirt onst a
week, or who dident earn 50 eents a
day at sum respektabul bisness, or who
shouted at nite meetins more than two
hours on a stretch. I heard a blind
freenologist say that the way to test a
man’s sense was to draw a strait line
from the top of his upper lip to his
up, xvhilo there’s lots of poor ones,
purty and clever just waitin to take
shoognr in thorn.
Now I don’t want to be misunder
stood about this votin bisness. I aint
in favor of xvotneii mixin up with
skalaxvags and trash at the polls. By
no means. I want the moral strength
and influence of their votes bekuus
they are better and purer and honester
than the men, but I would hev cm to
stay at home and let their husbaus or
their fathers or their next frend vote
for ’em as the case may be. If a man
fooled his wife out of her vote it
wouldent exactly be the dean thing,
but it would be a family matter, and
nobody’s bisuess. It xvouldcnt be the
only thing that some men fool ’em
about. There’s strong minded women
and weak minded men, and in such
cases I xvould let the longest pole
knock down the persimmon. The time
used to xvas when a married woman
dident hav no voice in nuthiu—exsept
makin baby dothes. She couldent
own any property—she had no sivil
existence. If anybody giv her any
thing the law required a man to keep
it for her. If she couldent liv with a
drunken husban and quit him the laxv
giv him all the children. But as the
world grows older she keeps a steppiu
up higher. Now she can oxvn as much
property as anybody, and Bhe can
make a will, and in sum States set on
a jewry, and in Ik cases out of 10 she
gets the children when there is a divorce.
Sum of ’em are studyin medisin aud
make the best soft of doctors for
women, and for children a half hour
old and under. They do clerkin and
book-keepin and telegraphin and print-
in and can keep a post offis better than
a man and never steal a scent. If they
do peep into other women’s letters its
only out of kuriosity, and they always
forrerd ana another from the lower I seal ’em up again. Take it altogether
corner of his nose to the hole in his ear, I it looks to me like the time has mity
and if the angle between was less than | nigh cum when the men hav got to
Wedlock and Blood—V Groom and Ills
Brother In Deadly Conflict.
On Monday last Mr. Wm. Horan was
married to Miss Fanny .Vkcrs at the resi
dence of her father, Mr. Abraham Akers,
living at the abox’o-iuentifraed place.
Among the invited guests xvas Mr. John
Horan, a brother ot tho groom, and it
seems that on some account he was an
unwelcome visitor, either to the bride or
groom, or probaly to both. On this
point two versions are given. On the
one hand it is said that the brothers Wi re
rivals for the affections ot the young lady,
and that John Horan attended his broth
er’s wedding'with malicious intent. An
other statement is that the brothers arc
Catholics, arid the young lady being Pro.
testant, the marriage was bitterly opposed
by Horan’s people. Tho bride was aware
of this antagonism betxveen the families,
and the presence of the brother was, on
this account, offensive to iter. Hoxvever
this may have been, while the wedding
party was in the midst of tho festivites of
the occation, a difficulty arose between
the brothers, They left the house togeth
er and passed out of the front gate to the
sidewalk. Here some angry words pass
ed between them nnd n fight ensued.
During the struggle the groom drew a
knife and plunged the blade into his
brother’s side, then withdraxving the wea
pon he made another thrust, striking his
ear and almost entirely servering it from
the face. The wounded brother then
broko away and ran up Walnut street to
Fifteenth, where he turned and went ont
toward Chestnut What became of him
is only known to a fexv xx’ho have knowl
edge of the affair, and whether or not the
man was dangerously xrounded could not
be ascertained by the reporter.
The noise made by the row created a
commotion iu the neighborhood, but as
the affray wm so quickly over the excite
ment os quickly subsided, the wedding
party went away and the abiding place of
the happy bride and groom was not as
certained- by our reporter.—Couriet-Jour
nal, Augutt 8.
Wm. Griffin, Wiley Henderson and a
girl, living in White county, were struck
by lightning last Monday. Tho two lat
ter will probably die.
A big bottle of prime rye whisky has
been dug out of the rains of a building
that was burned ia 1860, at Jaokson,
Mich.
Thu slatting -was wot auspicious.
One, the writer of this, on the ihorning
set for starting, xvas unable for duty,
and had to be left behind to overtake
the party the next day, if xvell enough,
xvhich, by the blessing of Providence
and the help of the railroad, ho did.
But he had only joined the jwrty when
pastor P. xvas called back home by the
sickness of a child.
The third day out saxv the shadows
clear axvay, and the caravan set its fact?
steadfastly for Table Rock. It was
Saturday, and a leaky day. Txx’enty-
six miles xvere passed through Green
ville and Pickens counties, over the
head waters of Saluda river, crossing
now a spur of a mountain and then a
valley clad with com. Nothing struck
us more forcibly during the day than
the sight of cotton fields up to the very
foot of the mountains, txventy miles
north of where the cotton plant grew
ten years ago. And not only did we
sec cotton, but fine, large cotton, a good
xveed xvell filled. The old gentlemau at
xvltose xvell we lunched at noon told us
that he raised twenty-two hundred
pounds of seel cotton on two acres last
year xvithout fertilizers—the first cot- j
tou lie had ever planted, and he was an
old man, and xvas raised ou the place
where he is uoxv living. 11 is a fact that
with the aid of fertilizers a very large
amount of cottou is noxv raised in the
upper counties of South Carolina,
where a fexv years ago not a pound xvas
raised. Titis is revolutionizing the ag
riculture of that whole region. There
is still, hoxx ever, a large amount of corn
raised in that section. Large cribs of
old corn xvere visible every now aud
then.
In the afternoon we began to draxv
near to the mountains. A thunder
shower came up and xve had magnifi
cent views occasionally of the moun
tains through the clouds. At one time
a light, pretty cloud hung along the
ide of the mountain for miles, like a
scarf, exposing the head ami the foot.
Those of our party xvlto had never seen
such a sight xvere greatly interested in
it. The thunder storm rolled around
us and did us no harm.
Late iu the evening we reached the
TABLE ROCK HOTEL.
Formerly this house was kept by old
Mr. Sutherland, a jolly, old-fashioned
mountaineer, who entertained his
guests with coarse fare and coarser
jokes. It is noxv kept in good plain
style by Dr. L. C. Neal, late of Ander
son. The doctor devotes himself to his
guests, aud makes every one feel at
home. The table is literally loaded
with the good things of that fertile re
gion. The hospitalities xvere tendered
to the editor, and he enjoyed them for
txx’o days, but this is not the only reas
on he has a kind word for the hotel.
Truth demands all that we have said.
The doctor keeps the best furnished ta
ble that we saxv in a trip of two weeks.
THE SABBATH.
Besides our party there xvere several
others at Table Rock on the Sabbath.
Some of them went up on the mountain
and spent the day; most of them, hoxv
ever, spent the day quietly at the hotel.
There xvas no preaching near us. At
5 o’clock, by request of our host and
some others, xve attempted to preach iu
the ball room to the occupants of the
house, and others that came in from
the surrounding country. We sang
Rouse, old version, and we guess it was
a nexv thing in those parts. We hope
the seed sown may bring forth fruit
hereafter.
Two old gentlemen that went up on
the mountain in the morning came
doxvn in the afternoon completely ex
hausted. We never saw men more
completely exhausted. The day was
warm, and one of the old gentlemen,
who xx'ould weigh, xve gues3, about 300
pounds, looked like he had been in a
shoxver of rain. He xvas as wet from
head to foot as water could make him,
almost. He said hp would not take the
trip again for five hundred dollars.
The other old gentleman, who has more
of fun and frolic about him than any
man of his age that we ever saw, (he is
73 years old,) had all the vivacity ta
ken out of him by the trip. He had
but little to say for the remainder of
the evening. The first named old gen
tleman slipped to one side, as soon as
he got rested a little, and said to us
softly: “The way of the transgressor is
hard.” Ho said that he knew it was
wrong thus to violate the Sabbath, but
he could not help it. His conscience
was apparently not exactly easy.
THE ASCENT.
It is ragged -wynnS 'descj^jtToU.
too, tho scenery is grand beyond the
poxver ot any pen to tell. Think of
silting at the foot of a rock twelve hun
dred feet high, by a pool of xxater that
is never empty, that is visited only by
an occasional tourist, nnd looking out
over a valley that lies betxveen you and
another range ot mountains that shoot
their heads far above you, with a little
stream winding its path axvay down in
the gorge beneath you, with a little
river, (the “Slicking,” whose very
name is romantic,) leaping doxvn the
side of the mountain opposite to you,
with a veritable eagle’s nest in the -ock
ox’er your head, and the home of wolves
and bears all around you. In such a
place hmv small is man. We feel that
God only is great. Thus surrounded
xxe felt like singing with Byron:
“Ab«#Y«5 me are tlio All*,
The palaces of nature, rant walls
Have pinnacled inctlmd* their snowy .scalps,
And thron’d eternity in icy halls
Of cold sublimity, where form* and fall*
The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow !-—
All that expand* the spirit, yet appal*,
< lather around these summits, a* to show
How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain
man below.’*
But come, xve must retrace our steps.
Before we can ascend the summit, we
m:;st get back to the “ horse rack.”
From this point a foot path winds
up the mountain side, rough and rug
ged, about four hundred yards to the
foot of the “steps.” Take care.
Tread cautiously. At this point the
hair begins to stand on end. The
scene is really frightful. A log lies
along the edge of the precipice to guard
you and to keep you from slipping, for
txventy or thirty feet ltefore reaching
the “steps.” Here you havereachec.
the ultima Unde, yon can go no farther,
and if you get up to the top you must
go up over the face of the bald rock
for a distance of perhaps 200 feet
To enable you to do this, a set of
rou£h wooden steps, constructed of
chestnut punchio s, have been erected
with slender hand-rails (no balusters)
the xvhole pinned to the rock with iron
bolts. Tliere are nearly two hundred
steps, and the ascent is at an angle, xve
would guess, of about 120 to 140
degrees. At one place it seems to be
almost perpendicular. Remember that
these steps are up over the naked
rock, with neither tree nor shrub near
you, and that to trip and fall iu the
ascent or descent would throw you over
a precipice of a thousand feet, and
then say whether you could go up them
without fear. It required a good deal
of coaxing and mauy assurances that
there was no danger from our faithful
guide, to get some of our p&rty to
make the trial. But they all did make
the trial but two, and all who tried
succeded. ‘ But when all got up to the
top, tliere was a general inquiry, “ Is
there no other xvay to get doxvn ?” nnd
there was an evident sense of relief
when the guide said, “ Yes, a rough
but short route down the side of tne
mountain.” ,
The view from the summit is about
equal to that from Csesar’a Head, once
before described in this paper, but
there is greater xmriety here than there
Splendid views are obtained here from
several points, anv one of which Is
xvorth all the trouble that it cost*.
A good spring is found almost on the.
very top of the mountaini and near to
it there is a nice plat of laud for a hotel,
and if a railroad should ever ruu near
to the mountain some enterprising tunu
will make a fortune by making n good
road up the mountain side, aud then
placing a hotel by this spring. We
xvould want no better fortune.
Two o’clock found us back at friend
Neal’s Hotel, as dirty and undignified
party as ever dared to ascend the
mountain.
TUE ADMINISTRATION FEMALE
SLAVE AUCTION.
r crushed,; by
Table Rock is said to be about 2,500
feet above the level of the sea. The
Hotel is in the valley at the base.
There are three ways of ascending to
the top of the Rock. One of these is
about five miles round, and may be
driven, but it requires four horses to
take up two persons. The middle
route is almost directly up the side of
the mountain, about two miles, over the
roughest conceivable path. The right
hand route from the Hotel, and the
one usually traveled, ruus from the
Hotel a mUe aud a quarter, (the old
gentleman aforementioned came down
it Sabbath afternoon, and they said it
was three miles long), np a grade of
500 feet to the mile, we guess. There
is a smooth foot path up to whatis
A little more than a decade since,
in the days xvhen the “peculiar insti
tution” was vigorous, ana Uncle Tom’s
Cabin” xvas wept over by men and xvo-
men of tender sensibilities throughout
the Northern States, the sale of female
slaves at private sale and ou the block
was regarded as the most revolting fea
ture ot slavery. It xvas a fact which
gave keenness and snap to hmny
a sermon and lecture against the
Southern institution, and finally told
with crushing effect against it in the
great revolution. When the struggle
ended and amendments were inserted
in the Constitution in the interest of
liberty, one would have taken
It for a settled fact that it would be
impossible henceforth to sell a human
being into slavery in the Uuited
States. After the storm the calm.
The negro had been delivered from
bondage and made the nation’s ward,”
and was set up in business xvith a
brand-new bureau polished up for the
occasion to a dazzling effulgence by
that master workman General How
ard. It would appear incredible, but
all the while this politico-sentimenta
lism in behalf of the African xvas
gushing so exuberantly, there xvas a
regularly-established traffic in the bod
ies of Mongolian women briskly con
ducted on the Pacific ooast and in its
metropolis, San Francisco. Young
girls xvere put upon the auction block
and sold to the highest bidder, notor
iously for the purpose of prostitution.
tunato women for their phyrfchl point*,
just ns they would select, a I idqudpi
ear of horse, paid the purchase mon
ey, xvhich ranged from $250 to 5500,
according to personal attractions, and
took them axvay to a life of Just, the.
lowest to xvhich women cun descend.
All this xvas flagrantly in onposithtu to
the amendments recently inserted in
tho Constitution. But the atucnduMM*
were intended for political effect.
They xvere designed to: eatch negri>
votes. The negroes could vote and
and the Ghiuese could not The Ail'
ministration was consequently con ten!
to confine its flaming indignation to?
to negro slavery only, and wink at
the safe of Ghiuese woms»t$MH{ pMs-
titutimi ih the city of nw FytiaMNte, .
This slave trade is still to-day in Califor
nia as will appear by the tmlowtng ex
tract from a San Fran^co ktttv tut
the New York tKrikl: '; ;r h
“The steamer Japtiii; xvhich aftivM
here the night of the 28th, brought
over only two hundred aid Mbetity
Mongolians, of whom twenty-eight
xvere women. The women href*'to
usual imported for slnves, and were
gaudily bedecked and rigged otffc
their landing. They were taken t*»
the house of one of onr principal Chi
nese merchants who had purchased
them in Hong Kong on a speculation.
The greatest of care was exercised bjr
the firm to prevent tho fact reaching
the ‘outside barbarians,* but it leak
ed out, ns did the knowledge that.these?
\x omen xxvre to be sold at anv tion yes
terday to the highest bidder. This
sale took place on one of the princi
pal Chinese alleys, nnd as might be
fxpected, created a great flutter ‘of
excitement among the Chinese mer
chants, brothel-keepers and wealthy
roues, the consignment being, from «
Chinese stand point,:of superior beau
ty to tliat of any yet received. The
bidding was sp&ifed, amt the ytito
and prepossessing beauties brought
sums ranging from three to four hun
dred dollars, while mt olive-hued
almond-eyed, dainty-foot and fhttncsed
girl, just entering her teens, Was
knocked down to an ugly, lecherous
toothless old Mongolian for 8575.’* *
Ahvs for the transitonr nature at polit
ical sentimentalism ; for the soon-dried
tears xvhich trinklcd down like April
showers xvith the pathetic pathos of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, and for tho
multifarious amendments to the Consti
tution ! Women, not negroes, ‘ire
knocked doxvn v> the highest bidder in
San Francisco, and can be kitoeked
doxvn by him when carried borne with
impunity, and no grisly John Brown
brandishes his pike like a resurrected
Don Quixote for their deliverance, and
the President puffs his everlasting cigar
as ho is whirled along the drrve at
Long Branch, regardless of the tact
that women are still sold as slaves in the
United States.
DESPERATE FIGHT WITH A MAD
DOG.
Officer Patrick Hearty was severely
bitten in the face by a mad dog, last
night about two o’clock, at tbe coroar
of Muin and Arch streets. About
one o’clock last night Hearty, parad
ing to custom, went to a home on
Broad street to get a lunch, before go
ing on duty again, and whom he ,jeft
unchnined his dog. The anlmtd iBBs
a large gray bulldog, weighing About
fifty pounds, and when released last
night shoxved none of thc rigM w*
noting a rabid condition. At Gak&ft
Hill, Hearty stopped to talk
officer Birmingham, wboutihtt mK f
and the dog, who was a dcteJJy foe to
the feline race, started off on ^ ; wtM
chase after a cat At the corner of
Arch street Hearty met officer tiftor
and a man named Henry Buck, with-
whom he stopped to converse a mo
ment. Here the bull dog aud a smal
ler dog prolonging to Hearty made
their appearance, when tho former ani
mal suddenly gave a loud yelp, wept ’
around in a kind of circle, and* then,
without xvarning, sprang or tai mas
ter’s throat. Hearty pushed the ani
mal away, thinking ne was in play,
but thp frenzied dog made another at
tempt, and this time fastened its teeth
in the officer’s left cheek, inflicting
three wounds. 01 ‘ 1
Then ensued a desperate struggle
betxveen Hearty and the enraged uai-
ntal. Officers Starr and Bums mpde
all haste to get out of the locality, the
former courageously running into a
yard and concealing hitttseff in Att
out building. Hearty had no fev6h«r
and xvas obliged to defend hi m>*lf*ith
his club, the repeated Mona from
xvhich appeared to produce little effect
upon the brute, which continued to
epriug nt his throat Finally he man
aged to get the dog down, but my» he
should have been unable to do titis
hnd it not been for the help of the
smaller dog, who seemed to understand
the situation and lent Hr aid 4$ Its
owner. Hearty then roneadjacahtel
over a fence into a yard, where Ihe
dog, which had recovered tooomgi.'mr
him again, found him. Taking tho
heavier club in Start's possession, ho
engaged in another fierce tussle with
with the dog. after his efforts to get a
revolver in the house proved unsuooeee-
ful, and by persistent pounding tod
first obtained the advantage, wlten
Stanford and Birmingham, attracted
by hia whistles, came up and pus an
end to the dog’s life with their revpl-
vtrs.. Hearty went to once to Dr.
Beers, who applied canstio to the
xvounds. This morning Hearty‘foe
confined to his bed in a rather feverish
condition, and with a linifljr siiffsi'
face.
called the “horse rack,” a point to The purchasers selected these unfor-
Pkesident Grant’s Last Speech,
Delivered July 30, at Kingston,
N. Y., at a Reception Giykn by
Gen. Sharpe.—Ladles aud gentle
men of Kingston: I have been in your
county two days, and I hare found
them most enjoyable here and to Over
look Mountain. I am very' much
fatigued, and want to retire, as I shall
leave to take the early boat for New
York in the morning.—N. T. Himes.'
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