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Arrive at Atlanta 5.25 l* m NU'iIIT FREIGHT AND PASSENGER TRAIN. e Atlanta 3.00 p. ji. Arrive at West P0int. ....... 11.05 p. m. Leave '1 est Point 3.0 a. m. Arrive at Atlanta 10. 00 a. m, ROOT & lADYr Music Dealers and Publishers, 67 Washington Street, in Crosby’s Cpcra House, declO—tf Chicago, 111. Hoots, Shoes and Trunks! G. 11. k T W. Force, (Sign of the Big Iron Boot,) W hitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. W ill sell to country Merchants at New i ork prices, freight added. jan2l ly* C - w - **. G. \V. Byington. BYISCTOS’S motkl, Kjin- ton Bros., P ropi'icloi'S. ithiu oOyatds of the Passenger Depot, macon, GEOitciA i™? s ‘. etcellerit nd Barber Shop * Ulcbed - oct29—tf M NAPIER WSmoSABLS IfTanKR, E} ING TON'S HOTEL , macon, geokgia CLTTING ’ SHAVING, SHAM POOING and DYEING. Satisfaction guaranteed. oct29 t VARIETY SHOP. Jolm . Waterhouse, Doorl as b, Blinds and Pumitnr,’. 8 ) . unids anc * Dickey’s old stand. L uiadtand repaired with dispatch, Also Coffins made to or der, °22~1y kennesaw house, GEORGIA, (At Railroad Depot,) Freyer & Cos., Pro’s the Railroad llepot. lI BBS HOUSE, J.D. GA . tterl y ot M InRELL l n RELL & E. BUISE, (for- Ala> ) Proprietors. p ~ ,a * D s, and ready on tho arrival ■ Best UK* with the THE BABNESYILLE WEEKLY HAZETTE VOL. L DK s a. PFi ACOCK has return cd to Barnesville to resume the prac j rice of Medicine. Will be found at night tit Residence of J. M. Hightower—in the day at J. W. Hightower’s Drug Store declO—B—ly ° L. P. HUDSON. GABINRT EH OP. PVRMTIttE OF ALL KINDS Qnd door above Livery Stable. All ordersex -Weeuted with neatness and dispatch ct22—tt. Dr. g7pY¥cDOWELL CONTINUE in tLc practice of h v * profession. OFFICE over J. W. Hightower’s Dru-r Store oct22, — ly WTP7 TYLER |7> ESPECTFULLY informs his friends and J.%-Ihc public that in connection with Dry Goods, Notions, Ac., he keeps on hand a good j supply of MILLINERY. Mrs. Tyler will be p.eased to attend to all orders in that line. oct29—tf j, A IIUXT ATTORNEY AT LAW, „„„ . BARNESVILLE, GA. hft *‘-L practice in the counties oomprisinc '* ” Fllnt Judicial circuit, and in the Su preme Court of the State. Office over Drug Store of J. W. flightowe 00122—]y HART & ALEXANDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Tho uiast on, Georgia. \ATILT. practice iu ail the Courts of the * * F*iint Circuit. Special attention to col lection, filing petitiou for Homestead, &c. nov26—tt Hational Life Insurance COMPANY. WASHINGTON, B). C. E. T. POUND, Agent, Barnesville, Ga. Baifimerc Sialioncry House. S3LBIT St DU&AI&Sr. Booksellers Sf Stationers, Oder inducements to the Trade that cannot fail to be appreciated. Sole proprietors of the Celebrated Gen. R. E. LEE PEN. A handsome Lithographer likeness of Gen. Lee, L T )\en with each Gross of pens. Orders respect fully solicited, SELBY & DLL ANY, 332 West Baltimore St., bAltimore, Md apr 29 ly.f CKO. W. HOWARD. J.\o. H COLE. HENRY R. BCHURMAN. Chas. 11. Corbin, of Middle Ga., WITH Howard, Cole &. Co.* Importers and- A\ holcsalc Dealers in Foreign and I) •mostic Dry Goods and No tions, 351 Baltimore, and 64 German Streets, Baltimore. •-* * Prompt Customers. June 17-6-a e 7 A 3DREWS & CO. > Manufacturers and D alcrs —IN SADDLES HARNESS AND COLLAiiS. —o°o — WE Beg toweall tlie attention of SADDLiE -—AND— HARNESS MAKERS To our large and well selected stock of Saddle and Harness ; I [All!) WARE. We have the best assortment of ORNAMENTS, BUCKLES, BITS and IIAMES, SADDLE NAILS and TACKS, To !>e Found in tlic City! o Always on hand, a large lot of No. 1 Harness and Skirting Leather, Patent Skirling Enamel, Dash an and Collar Leather, Pad Skins and Enamel Cloth, Buggy Whips,Lash es,Curry Combs, Brushes, And other things Too Numerous to mention. Being PRACTICAL men we are better able to fill orders in our line thanany other house in the city. o MI. Oc&oes Promptly Filled. OF 3 Don’t Forget tlie Sign and place. Sign of the Horse Head, WHITEHALL STRET, 17- -ly ATLANTA, UA. K<) RGI \, Till IRViLvW ALGIJST 12, I8GJ). For the Barnesville Weekly Gazette. A Dram Orinkers’ Argument Answered. BY \V. E. ii. SEARCY. Dram Drinker. Boys, if you do not wish to be drunkards, just keep away from all temperance organizations. I joined one of them once, and fhe first thing I knew, I was nearly dead for a dnnk. \\ ed, the first time the thing met, I resigned ; and being then free from restraint, indulged to excess, and got dead drunk. Now you take my ad~ vice and keep away from all such tt aps. 'lhe Answer. Among the powers of the soul is that called the will—the faculty by which man either orders an action performed, suspends one in oper ation, continues one that is suspended, or refuses altogether to act. Alan then, can do nothing until he wills to do it; and when he has once willed to 'i a Ring,it lie does not sus pend its operation, the action wiLed must be performed, if possible. It is clo ar from tlris philosophical fact, that to control the action , it is on* ly necessary to get the will under con trol. Again, there is connected with man, uot lost to shame, a principle of world* ! iy honor which, as he draws himself nearer the things of eternal life, shines the brighter in his bosom. This de sire to be thought well of by our fel low's, the principle so closely connects ed in our nature with the moral con science pulling us continually, as it were, towards the wavs of pleasantness land the paths of peace, when rightly cultivated by pure association, elevates the soul high above its baser propensi* ties. It b the last beacon light, when conscience is scared, that shines ore the tempestuous ocean of life to guide his broken and forsaken spirit back to the pure nature from whence it fell. The honor then controls the will in all cases where the character is at stake. Now when a person presents him* self for membership in a “Sons' LoA>rc the nature of the institution is explain ed ta him, and when lie has been made to understand the purport of the order, he is asked if he wills to not manufac ture, trafic, or use as a beverage spir ituous or malt liquors, wine or cider.— If ho answers that lie does, he is requir ed to so’emnly pledge Iris honor that that will shall be his will, so long as life shall last. by i'u<i honor) and the honor in the possession of the lodge. The honor governing the will and the will govern ing the actions. His character is at stake. If he remains true, peace and prosperity will around him come; but if he proves false, remorse will sting his out cast heart until he drowns the pain with the liquid fire, and sinks him self too low in degradation to raise his body from the fittli wherein he wal lows. Alan thus situated instead of being induced thereby to become a drunkard, would flee the wrath to come with hasty step, and ne’er indulge again, the unclean thing. Temperance associations will love then, right minded men, and instead a curse, must be a blessing to any civil ized country. In our temperance societies the vice of dramsdriuking is paiuted in all its horror and hideomness ; and “Vicfl to be hated, needs but be seen ” By die pure associations louiul mound the altar of Love, Purity and Fidelity, the principle of honor is cul tivated, and the man who sticks to its principles will find himself carried along to higher and nobler thoughts. Thus lie rides triumphantly above the tempt ers snares. Does joining a temperance society make one become a drunkard ? The answer is before you. The beloved Dr. Means in answer to the same argument lias, in a few words, made the matter char, practi cally clear to all. Says the Doctor: Strange philosophy ! Are you a grand juror, sir? Then forbear to take an oath to report crime, or you will be the more tempted to connive at, and encourage it. Are you a witness ? Then decline that solemn judicial ap- peal to Heaven, that your testimony ‘‘shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” or lo ! you will incur the probability of commit ting the honorable crime of peijury before court and jury. Truly if this reasoning be orthodox, cur simple an cestors, both English and American, have been but relaxing the bounds of virtue by every obligation imposed to I secure it. But if it must prevail, we hope that our fair young auditors on the right, who have not yet appeared at the altar, will, for their own sakes, move an alteration of tho matrimonial ceremony to accommodate the sensP Ewe consciences of suitors of this creed. For should they solemnly pledge, before preists and people, in the language of the marital vow, '"to love, comfort, hon or and hcep, the lady of their choice, a fearful temptation is generated, de ipso i facto, to hate , torture, disgrace, and, reject her.” “O ! shame where is thy i blush, ” when sophistry such as this is held for argument.” My fellow men cease your wrangling. “Come join in our temperance army, And put on the temperance badge ; 1 am sure that it never will harm you To give in your name to the pledge.” Slisiutos of flic Stale Fine Musical Convention. New ITorE Church, Heard Cos., Ga., ) Friday noon, July 9th, 1869. j State Line Musical Convention met according to adjournment. The 1 resident, 13. F. Wilson, being absent, J. D. Louis was called to the chair pro tern. Music lesson, conducted by W. Y r . Moody. Recess 30 minutes. L ssou of music, by C. F. Lctson. On motion, adjourned until Satur day morning, 9 o’clock. Saturday* .morning, ) July lOtb, 9 o’clock. j Convention met pursuant to adjourn ment, B. F. Wilson presiding. Opened with singing and prayer by the President. On morion, the Chair appointed a Committee of Arrangement of five, c nsi-ling of the following vrrnc'L per* sons: J. N. Pittman, Lash ley, J. D. Louis / Wocdv Smith ai*H D. F. Cato. A lesson cf music by the President. Recess 15 minutes. Alusic by J. N. Pittman, 30 min utes, followed by W. Y. Aloe dy, 30 minutes. Recess 45 minutes. EVENING session. Alusic by G. F. Weaver, 30 minutes, followed by Win. A. Hardy, 30 min utes. Recess 15 minutes. Lesson of music by A. 13. Lasliley, 30 minutes, followed by C. F. Letsan, 30 minutes. Recess 15 minutes. BUSINESS SESSION. On motion, the doors of the Con vention were opened for the reception of members, to remain open until the body adjourns on Sunday evening.— The Constitution was read :dso. On motion, there was a call for cor* respondents to volunteer to represent Los body in certain conventions of Georgia and Alabama, which was ta ke u up in the following order : first, fur correspondents to the Alabama Alusical Convention— J. Av. Pittman earn lie wmuld go; second, t the Del ta Convention—B F. Wilso i promised to represent us there; third, to the Southern Musical Convention of Geor* gia, to which B F. Wilson responded. *hi in' ■ ’here was or. .qiporfuni ty ottered Tor ine'recepfTon of corre spondents from other bodies, schools, etc. On motion, the Chair appointed a committee of five to define the limits, or boundary lines, for the location of this body, which committee consists of the following pei’sons: A. N. Jones, C. F. Letson, A. B. Laehley, J. N. Pittman and John D. Louis. Then a motion prevailed for the suspension of business :—a lesson of music was given by the President. Adjourned in regular order until 9 o’clock to-morrow morning. Sunday morning, ) July 11th, 9 o’clock. J Convention met. Opened with singing and prayer. Lesson of music, 30 minutes, by G. F. Weaver, followed by D. T. bey, 30 minutes, Recess 20 minutes. Music by J. N. Pittman 30 minutes, followed by A. B. Lishley, 30 minutes. Recess GO minutes. EVENING SESSION BUSINESS. The committee to establish the boundary lines of this body reported as follows : The boundary lines of State Line Convention—the Chattahoochee River from the Mclntosh reserve to Hear ston’s ferry is the eastern liue ; from Hearston’s ferry, via Fredcnia, Camp’s Gross Roads and Mill Town to Louina is the southern line ; from thence up the Tallapoosa River to the junction of the tw’o rivers, then up the little Tal lapoosa to the Mclntosh road is the western line, and the Mclntosh road from the Tallapoosa river to the Chat tahoochee river is the northern line. The above report was received and adopted by the body for its province. There being no petition banded in for the next session of this body, a motion prevailed which authorized the appointing of a committee to select a location for the next session of this body ) also, to define the time of bold ing said meeting. The committee consists of the following persons : A. N. Jones, T. A. Chvensbey, J. D. Lou is and C. F. Letson, A motion prevailed in this body pe titioning the Southern Musical Con vention, of Georgia, to grant this body territory on the eastern side of the Chattahoochee River. Next, resolutions of thanks etc., etc., were offered by J. N. Pittman, which w r ere received and adopted.— Also, by Pittman, Resolved, That the Secretary for ward a copy of our proceedings to the Editors of the Barnksville Weekly Gazette, with a request that they publish the same. On motion, (business being dispensed witti,) the body prepared for mu si©. Music by T. A. Oweusbey 30 min u*s, followed by Wm. A. Hardy. 30 i/iuutos. ■ Recess 30 minutes. i Music by C. F. Letson, followed by fbe President. Adjourned. P* F. Wilson, Pres’t. 1. A Oyvensbey, Vice Pres’t. C F. Letson, Sec’y. For the Barnesville Weekly Gazette. Alkssrs. Editors: I have just re* turned from a week’s meeting, the com mencement of which was the dedica tion ot anew church. The meeting, being protracted, was very iuteiesting throughout the week. Saturday night, while the last hymn was being sung, ] a dy rose up far back in the house, came forward and took her seat on the front pew. I w F ent to her and inquired what she meant —whether she wished for prav er or desired to offer herself for mem bership. Uer reply W'rs as follow’s : ”1 Rina great sinner. I want you to pray for me.” The invitation was then extended to all and many* others came forward af ter prayer. I he lady mentioned above returned to her seat; but, instead of silling down, she knelt at her seat. This act attracted the attention of a number of the sisters of the church, who seemed to be gathering around her, so I took the privilege to go and inquire of her her real condition, asking her to tell me all of her case. She related her experience as follows : “YY lien 1 was about sixteen years old I was reading the Bible. The part I read was about the destruction ot Sodom, and when I came to where Lot’s wire looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt I thought, ‘Why such an example a6 this ?’ I decided that it was because of disobedience, and was 1 not rs disobedient as slie was f and if God made an example of her, would he not do the 6ame with me ? I decided that he would—if not in tins life, in eternity —and thus my conviction arose. For Bor 10 months I had sore trouble and distress, a bur then that this poor heart scarcely was able to bear. One eveni g, as I sat in the door reading the Bible and breath ing prayer, (lor 1 cou'd do nothing else my very breath was prayer to God,) there 6eemed, all of a sudden, a light around me. It truly was not a visible light ; but, in my soul, the glo ry ot God was, to me, so evidently clear that it seemed as a light. The joys of salvation so filled my heart that I felt that, as a feather, the heav enly breeze would carry mo up to the world of bliss. So, soon alter, I united with the church ; but, in a short time, 6cism and division entered and broke it up. From thnt time I have been suf fering with double and tears, sometimes trying to throw all hope away and sometimes almost driven to infidelity.— i- (Ji Uij eiTlb OOQ 11<1.3 TViiujs oii, l jj SWo hand ot deatli, my father, mother, brothers and sisters. I had three children. God has taken tl em,one at a time. Last week I buried the last of the three. Now,” said 6he, “1 Want you to give me some advice and pray for me-” I advised her to join the church.— She said that she was not worthy. I told her that I would vouch for the honesty of the church, and that if she would tell the church all of her case they would advise her what to do. So she again rose up and went to the al tar to tell her feelings to all. She then said : ‘■Now, if you think rne worthy, give me a place at your feet; if not, be honest with me.’’ Alessrs. Editors, this woman’s talk had more effect than all the preaching before. She is a well informed lady and has a bright intellect, although 6he has for two or three years, in her distressed circumstances, lived as a hireling, or servant, to cook, wanh, milk, etc., occupying the humblest station in life. She his a good, chris tim spirit. The church received her and gave her a place among the peo ple of God. AI. Russc 1 cille ) G 0.., July 28, ’GO. [communicated.] Pleasant Grove, Ala., ) July 27, ISG9. f ■ Messrs. Editors: I Lave received some three or four copies of your val- , uable and, to me, interesting paper.— ; Interesting from the fact that it is re freshing to my mind, and I love to read those friendly discussions on the prin- ; ciples of music, a theme that I have spent a large portion of my lifo in ad vocating and teaching. lam pleased at the idea of anew book in any kind of syllables that are better than those we have. If it is possible to get them, they should bo selected with great care. Tli6 present shapes are hard to beat if properly app ied ; but I would Lke something new iu the principles as well as the music—plain and easy of comprehen sion. A laiger and fuller gamut, or rudiments, with more explanations iu the form of a dictionary. I would be glad to see you, witli as many other good leaders as can come from old Georgia, at our Convention iu September. We love music in Alaba ma and I aoi happy to say there is considerable interest felt in the good cause at present. Some of our c.lurch es make appointments of two and three days length and invite leaders to attend and conduct the music. I in variably attend such appointments, as I think they are gotten up from the proper source to effect much good. 1 send you two pieces of music and hope you will publish them, if not published before. Send on your paper. I will send you the in a few weeks with, I hope, several others. I will do all I can for the Gazette. My address is Wetnmpka. Yours, etc., \Y. Williams. ‘‘My dear,” said an anxious matron to her daughter, “It’s very wrong for young people to be throwing kisses to each other.”—“Why so, mamma? I’m sure they don’t hurt, even if they do liit” [communicated.] Euhaulee, Ga , August 2 1, 1809. Messrs. Editors: Bad health, and other conflicting circumstances, over which I could exercise no control, have prevented me from giving my usual contributions to vour excellent journal. The weather, here, has been exceedingly hot this Sum mer, and the drought, succeeding the severe hail storm of the Spring, has had a damaging effect upon our crop prospects. The wheat crop being only a half average crop, and the price being so much smaller than last year have rendered the monetary market exceedingly stringent. Indeed save immediately after the war there never has been a greater dearth in monetary affairs than now. Farmers who purchased supplies to enable them to carry on their farming operations, based upon the wheat crop, manifest great disinclination to sell their surplus of wheat at the price offered, and the consequence is that bu iness men, dependent alone upon the tillers of the s< il for funds to liquidate their debts, are greatly embarrassed. Added to this the gloomy prospect of the cotton crop causes no very pleasant anticipations in the future. On lands which usually make 1000 to 1200 pounds of cotton per acre, not half this Rnrount may be expected ; and the corn crop can not be, under the most favorable auspices, more than a half crop. True in 6ome localities crops are fine and promising, but they are only “vases in the desert's waste.” But I have thus far given you the dark side of the picture. In contrast with this sombre cloud of gloom stands the genial sunshine of health and peace. I have been here three years, and this year, so far, has proven ‘‘distressingly healthy,” to the doctors at least. We have had no epi demic up to this time. An intermittent fever which h;;s hitherto been so preval ent in our midst seems to have well nigh exhausted itself in the past, and our peo ple are almost universally healthv.— Laborers of all kind have worked faith fully, and as a general rule the two con flicting races move on in harmony in their respective spheres. This is, in the main, to be accounted for in the absence of a fredman’s bureau to encourage idleness and shield crime. This institution, doubt less designed for good, proved a roost miserable abortion. It lived, flourished, and died, and now there are none “so f oor as to do it reverence.” Rev. Mr. Buckhcad, of the Presbyterian church at Athens, has been conducting a series of interesting meetings here for the past ten days. He is no ordinary man.— He blends in one harmonious whole, some of the best qualifications of bead and heart. lie is indeed an able divine, and his ministrations here have been well re- 1 ceived and crowned with happy results. Mr. Harris’ school will resume its exer cises on Monday week. He has had a fine school the p&sc session and doubtless will lave, as he justly deserves, a flourishing school next term, n uuj uf nium>r _ ous readers wish to send their sons, daughters, or wards to a splendid teacher’ in a pleasant neighborhood, they can do no better than to patronize the “Euharlee Male and Female High School” But enough ! goodbye ! Yours truly, J. C. C. Blackburn, A Fearful Tragedy. Tho Augusta Chronicle 4* Sentinel contains a long account of a fearful tragedy occurring in one of the moun tain counties in this State. A Mr. R., the happy possessor of a young and beautiful wife, being obliged to go to Atlanta on business of importance, suggested to bis wife that she should invite the unmarried daughter of bis next neighbor and friend, Mr. L , to stay with her daring his absence.— This arrangement was mutually agree able, as Mr. R’s servants slept at the negro quarters, nearly half a mile from the house. Tho young lady, after consultation with her mother, agreed to come over during the afternoon, and Mrs. R. felt sati.-fied until dark, when her friend failing to come, according to promise, she began to feel a little uneasy. About 9 o’clock, a servant brought a note from Miss L. stating that her father, a man about fifty-five years of age, had positively refused to consent to tho arrangement. Mrs. It. then prepared to spend the night by herself. Feeling that she had a proteeter in a large and very fierce yard dog, she took him in her room and retired to rest. Somewhere near midnight she was aroused by the growling of the dog, and discovered that someone had forced the liall door open and was seeking to gain admittance to In r chamber. She asked who was there, to which a man’s voice replied by telling her to open the door, adding that if she refused, ho would break it in. Mrs R. said that if he did she would shoot him. The man laughed scornfully, and thr iw his weight against the door, which gave way, and ho burst into the room. The dug, which had all this tune crouched growling on the floor, sprang forward j as the man entered, and fastened on his throat. The intruder attempted to kill him with a knife which he had in ' his hand, but the faithful dog was too t mush for him, and bore him to the i floor. Mrs. R. ran out to the nearest neighbour’s bouse, that of Mr. L., and raised tiie entire household to go to her assi-tance. Mr. L. was not at home, and his wife, as if struck by a sudden presentiment, screamed — “Merciful God 1 it must be my hus band !” Tho whole crowd returned to the house of Mrs. R , where they found a man on the floor, with the teeth of the dog fastened iu his throat. When they pulled the noble animal off it was found that the suspicions of Mrs. L. were but too correct —her husbaud lay thpie dead. i It appears that on some frivolous ' excuse he had objected to his daugh ter's going to spend the night with her friend, and said he was going to sit np with a sick friend living some mtle6 distant. He loitered about in the woods till midnight, when he forced his way into the house aud met with a 1 just retribution. A Monstrous Evil.—The Hong kong Daily Press, of June Ist, throws anew light upon the question of the importation of Ohinesr women for the purposes of prostitution. Jt appears that a -arge proportion of these txnfor tunnte females are kidnap ped in China, and sent here against their will, to be devoted to a life of shame. They are systematically inveigled from their homes in the interior by cunuing old hags—si ch as infest other countries than China, and being taken to Hong keng are forced on bdaid Ship, under terror of threats ar.d intimidation.— The Daily Press calls for colonial leg islation on the sulject, and suggests the propriety of issuing a proclamation informing the girls (who are mostly ignorant of the law) that they may claim protection of the authorities.— Whatever action the poople of Hong kong may take in this connection, it is certain tl at much of the responsibility of this disgraceful business rests upon those who knowingly permit their vessels to c-irry those kidnapped women. ISO 42. The Pacific Mail Steamship Com* pany might check this immigration materially by the exercise of more caution in taking Chinese, passengers ; but even then it is probable that they would come by sailing ves-els to some j extent. Borne months ago the beads ; of the Chinese Companies expressed a determination to put an end to tha shameful traffic ; and for a short time it seemed ns though we bad seen tfco last of it. But when the- public had forgotten the matter a little emigration increased again, and at present if is in full blast. We believe the uompanies can stop it ;f they w T ant to, and if they will not, we must take the matter into | our own hands. The qu stion is one which affects our reputation as a Christian, civilized community—and now' that we know how these unfortu nate creatures are procured, wo mu&t lose no time in putting the shameful 1 bus'ucss away from us. The Caterpillar in Florida.— An extract from a private letter dated Cherry Lake, Florida, July the 29th, and written by a reliable gentleman, brings bad news from the planters of our sLter State : “On my return I find that the cat erpillars have infested every f*rm ami every cotton field that 1 can hear of, and from present indications they will make an exceedingly short, job of it. — It has rained almost constantly for the lust, forty days, and the season is pro pitious for them, and from present ap pearances they will be as numerous as the locusts of Egypt in the days of Pharaoh in a very short time. The hearts of the people sicken and sadden at the thought of again losing all, or nearly all, of their year’s labor, and that, too, when their anticipations and fondest expectations came so near be ing consummated. Hope is aii ihat seems to be left us. The planter’s greatest desiie is dry weather. The corn crop is cxceLent and quite ade quate to the wants of the community, [Savannah Republican. Liberty of flic Press. Around her waist 1 put my arm— It felt as soft as cake, “OIL, dear,” says she, “what liberty lou printer men do take?” “XVhj- yep, my, Sal, mv charming gnl,> (I squeezed her some,' F g-xac,) Can you Kay sc lt against The freedom of the Press?” I kissed her some—T did, by gum ; She Colored like a beet ; Upon my living soul she looked Almost too good to eat. I gave another bus, and then Says she, “I do confess I rather kinder sorter liko The freedom of the Press ! An observing individual, in a very healthy village, seeing the sexton at work in a hole in the ground, in quired what he was about, “Digging a grave sir” “Digging a grave, why, I thought poople didn’t die often hero, —do they “Oil, no£sir. They nev er die but once.” There is an anecdote told some where of a di-pute in which a boister ous, ill-bred fellow called his adversa ry “no gentleman.” “I suppose you think yourself one ?” was the reply.— “Dertainly I do,” answered the bully 7. '• 1 hen,” Haiti the, other, “I am not of fend. and that you don’t think me one.’’ “Recollect, sir,” said a tavern keeper to a gentleman who was about leaving his houso without paying the “reckoning”—“recollect, sT, if you bse your purse, you didn’t pull it out here.'’' 2L-ib> ’ ‘ Look out, there ! what are you kicking my dog for ?” “I'm kickin’ him ’cause he’s full of fleas, and I don’t want to get ’em on my Sunday clothes.” “Fleas, the devil! Why, that dog sleeps with me “Yes. dam you, X know it; and that’s where he gets ’em.” Self” Smith aud Brown, running op pos te ways around a corner, struck each other, “Cli dear, how you made iny head ring,” said Smith. “That’s a sign its hollow,” said Brown. “ But didn’t yours ring ?” “No.” “That’s a sign its cracked.” replied bis friend. ‘‘What can a man do, asked a green one, when a sheriff is coming up to him with a writ in his hand 7” “Apply the remedy,” said another. “Apply the remedy! What reme dy r . “Iled-ing Remedy.” A man who bumps his head against that of his neighbor isn’t apt to think tha* two heads are better tban one. * SST* An editor desires his subscribers to pay up, as be wishes to play a simi lar joke upon Ins cteditors. Queer philosophers these chil dren. “Ala, do combs eat?” ‘‘No* child.” “Well, what do they have teeth for Ad aueer ouce said to Socrates. I “You canuot stand on one leg as long as I can.” ‘ True, rep ied tlio philos opher, “but a goose can.” A social glass to which Jadfe.-; ! are addicted. The mirror.