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BLAKELY, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1871.
THE VOYAGER’S GUIDE.
Far out on the thieatening sea of life
A mariner steered his boat;
Proudly she stood ’neath the swelling sail,
With his banners rll afloat.
Expectation looked with eager glance
From the bright and searching eye ;
Already he saw in letters famed,
A name that would never die.
With pride he thought of the glitt’ring goal
Os the world and all its worth,
And smiled and hastened on his boat
To the gilded fields of earth.
But a ringing voice came o’er the sea—•
“ Whither, sailor art thou bound ?
I’ll he thy guide to a glorious port,
Where peace and joy are found.”
“ Where is that port, O gracious guide,
To which your promise leads?
Is’t fairer than you glittering world
With jewel-covered meads?
“Look how radient’ and it jjUU me—
Calls an *. wops gferinore ;
A .i iny barque with hue unspotted,
Almost touches at its shore.”
“ Fairer than you could conceive it,”
Cheerily the voice replied ;
“ And over the breakers, through tempest
and storm
I will be your friend and guido. m
“ Eye cannot reach its golden gleam,
But it gleameth and snincth still;
And never a shadow night e’er throws
O’r emerald bank and crystal rill.
“ Wilt go to this beautiful place,
And be so wonderfully blest? —
To sec our King, to gaze on bis smile,
And live in infinite rest ?”
“ But of that land not a trace I see,
While here is my heart’s desire;
Iv’e only to lift the cup and drink,
To quench ambition’s fire.”
'With pity the guide’s sweet voice grew soft
As he said, “ Earth will doceive,
But the port of peace is open to man,
If he will only believe.
“ Leave, I entreat, this billow-hound shore,
And conic sail this way with me ;
I promise not a storm shall demand
More strength than I shall give thee.”
“ Away 1” the boatman angrily cried,
“ When old and weak, I’ll call thee ;
While here in my strength and pride of life,
What evil can befal me ?”
But never more the sky seemed bright—
A cloud hung ever o’er him ;
And whither he would not have steered.
The current ever bore him.
Like enchanted giound, that fair land seem’d
Far receding,—then so near—
Till mocked and cheated with phantom joy,
He grew desperate in despair.
Long the combat waged, hut all in vain ;
Soon human strength was wasted ;
Helpless he lay, with the brilliant joys
Os fame’s bright cup untasted.
He drifted long o’er braker and wave,
Jostled by tempest and tide ;
Helpless, and friendless, and all alone—
Alone on the waters wide.
The useless hands in desoair were clasped,
Cautiously drawing each breath,
Shutting the picture out from his eyes,
Waiting each moment for death.
But in the last of this agony deep,
That guide still loving and kind,
With one stroke of power turned the craft
Before a favoring wind.
With hopeful words dispelled the sorrow
Os the lonely sea-exile,
And drifted into the haven of rest
With a sweet and peaceful smile.
Lila.
Savannah, Feb. 11, 1871.
Unlucky Days for Matrimony.
We may possibly be doing a service to
some of our readers by informing them
(on the authority of a manuscript of the
15th century, quoted from the Book of
Days) that there are just thirty-two days
in the year upon which it is unadvisable
to go into join-hand—namely : seven in
January ; three each in February, March,
May, and December ; two each ia April,
June, July, August, September, and No
vember; and one in October the best month
for committing matrimony, the actual un
lucky days being these : January Ist, 2d,
4th, sth, 6th, 10th, 15th; Febuary 6th,
7th, 19th ; March Ist, 6th ; April 6th,
11th ; May sth, 6th, 7th ; June 7th, 15th;
July sth, 18th ; August sth, 19th ; Sep
tember 6th, 7th ; October 6th ; November
15th 16th, and December 15th, 16th, 17th.
As to which is the best day of the week,
why
Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday the best of all;
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all.
Elder Knapp, the great revivalist, was
actively engaged in a revival of religion
down in Arkansas, and when about to
baptize a Dew convert, he called out in a
loud voice: “ Does any ono know any
reason why this man should not be bap
tized?” and to his surprise a long specimen
of an Arkansas traveler shouted in res
ponse: “See here Mister Preacher, I
don’t want to interfere in that ere busi
ness of yours, but if you expect to get the \
sin all cut of that old cuss you will have
, to anefcoi him out ia the river 07ei m^ht.
f?rom the Independent.]
“A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK.”
Ben. Butler's Nephew in Egypt-
I
The following shocking account of offi
cial misconduct calls for the immediate at
tention of our Government. It is written
from Alexandria by a prominent American
missionary in Egypt. He is known to
' many of the Christian people of this coun
try and Europe, aud most kindly remem
bered by his brother soldiers of our late
war. To those who know him these facts
will come as the statement of a man of
cool, clear judgement and superior discrim
ination. Rev. Mr. Strange writes;
Knowing that the people, whether we
wish or not, intimately associate the Amer
ican Mission wuh the American Consulate,
you may fo£j* some idea of how deeeply
we are interested in having a respectable j
Consul General, one who shall make the
name American honorable in this land, not
despised as it is to-day in the chief towns
of Egypt, through the misconduct of Col.
George H. Butler, our present Consul
General. It would make this letter too
long to tell you in detail how he has ac
complished so much in one year; but you
can afford to read a few of the items. It
may not be amiss to state to you that when
he first came he was polite euough to the
members of the mission ; that I with oth
ers was iuvited to his Fourth of July re
ception, was pleased with it, and wrote a
favorable account of it to one of our church
papers. So favorable was the impression
he produced at first, that when we heard
of scandals connected with his office we
took for granted he was imposed upon by
men whose language he did not under
stand, and that the only thing necessary to
secure a reform was to inform him of the
abuses.
Very shortly after Mr. Butler’s advent
in Egypt the consular agents in the vari
ous towns received notices informing them
that tlieir offices had expired with that of
the Consul General by whom they were
appointed. As their official position se
cured them certain rank and privileges, and j
"caused them to be heartily envied by their
less fortunato neighbors, they were panic
struck, and several of them hastened to
Alexandria to beg a renewal of their ap
pointments. Coming here, they were not
able to converse with him without an in
terpreter, and generally they had little op
portunity to converse with him at all.—
They were met in the office by an Arad
named Hassan and a wandering Jew nam
ed Strologo. The former, who speaks sev
eral languages, told them that the latter
was Mr. Butler’s confidential agent; that
he had bought the Consulate General for
Mr. Butler in America, and would now
attend to retailing the agencies in Egypt.
The retail prices ranged from 8500 to 81,-
500; and they were told that on the pay
ment of these sums to Mr. Strologo he
would give them a receipt, which they
could exchange within two days for a
proper ceitificate of office. These things
were reported to Colonel Butler in a letter
signed by every male member of the mis
sion then in Egypt. I was the bearer of
the letter. He gave it respectful atten
tion, and soon after pleased us by setting
Mr. Stologo aside. He assured us be was
ready to appoint men recommended by the
missionaries, and that money spent in
bribes wouldj’oe wasted. After this, mem
bers of the mission went again and again
with men in whose appointment they felt
a friendly interest; but all action was de
layed on some frivolous pretext, till they
made up their minds to the swindle dicta
ted by Mr. Strologo.
' Then the applicant went, with an Arab
; interpreter only, and finished business at
- one sitting. Ouly a few weeks ago, ac
cording to a paragraph I saw in the local
papers, Mr. Felix Walhas, a worthy old
man, a gentleman and a scholar, was set
out of the Vice Consulate in Cairo, and
his successor is this infamous A. D. Stro
logo. Persons pretty well informed ho- !
lieve Iliac the only consular agent w ho got 1
his place without paying a specific price is !
a man in Tanta, who earned his appoint
ment by entertaining the Consul General
in a day’s drunken revel. When
was in Egypt a short time since, he aDd
Butler and Strologo visited the upper
country and several towns of the Delta to
gether. To secure proper consideration
for such worthy companions, letters were !
sent telling the agents to prepare for the
reception of “distinguished American of
ficials;” and the deluded Egyptians thought
that in the person of they were
entertaining one of the highest diguitaries
of the Great Republic. And such enter
tainment! At Tanta the striking feature
was a company of dancing women perform'
iug in puris vaturalibus. At Maosoora
they asked for dancing women, but neith
er the Consular Agent nor the chief of po
lice would procure them. They met with
a similar refusal from Wasif al Khayyat,
the agent in Osioot, on whom they called
Sabbath evening. But they were not to
be defeated, and they procured the dam
! sols by means of their own interpreter,
1 Mr. Lane, who 3peut some years study-,
iug the language and customs of the mod
ern Egyptians, and whose book is a world
wide authority, says these dancing women
are the lowest courtesans of Egypt. Our
“distingushed American Official” had,
perhaps, not read Mr. Lane’s testimony,
or had doubts of its accuracy. At any
rate they escorted the trail females to their
homes, where they probably found suffi
cient light on the subject. This affair is
notorious among the natives throughout
Ifigypt, and it is commonly said the dan
cers have not enjoyed such patronage since
a royal rake went up the river two years
ago. The distinguishing feature thus far
of Mr. Butler’s official course has been his
prosccu'ion of wliat is known as the “Kin
dincco case,” in which n Greek, named
Kindineco, claims from the Egyptian Gov
ernment theytttormous sum of 813,000,-
000. How he dares to prosecute it at all is a
mystery to us, who know that the total
! rottenness of the claim was exposed to the
| State Department by the late Consul Gen
eral, Mr. Hale. The sham citizenship of
the plaintiff was procured after the com
plaint began, and for the purpose of its
prosecution. With a full knowledge of i
the facts, Mr. Butler urges the case, and
makes American citizenship odious in |
Egypt. I could write you more, but my ,
time is short, and this is euough, at least,
for the present. Yours truly,
David Strang.
Alexandria, Egypt, May 5, 1871.
The Valandigham Tragedy—How the
Fatal Shot Came to be Fired.
Mr. Vallandigham had been engaged ;
for ten days in preparing for the defence j
of one McGehen, charged with the mur- !
i dcr of Meyers, at Hamilton, Ohio, some
weeks ago. He had gone to Lebauon to
attend the trial, and his wife had been
summoned to attend the funeral of her
brother at Cumberland in Maryland—-the
Hon. John V. L. MacMahou, a lawyer of
that State.
A Lebanon correspondent of the Cincin
nati Enquirer furnishes that paper with
the following details of the terrible acci
dent which resulted in his death :
After taking supper, he procured from
j the landlord of the hotel a bit of white
muslin cloth perhaps a foot square, for the j
purpose of testing to his own satisfaction j
the question as to whether a shot fired
from a pistol in close proximity to it would
not leave a mark of powder upon it. Hav
ing provided himself with this, aud put
his pistol in his pocket, he and Mr. Mili
ken and Mr. Hume went out together to
the south edge of town, beyond the resi
dence of Governor Mcßurney. Arriving
there, they were joined by Dir. MclMr
ney, aud the trio become a quartette.
TIIE PrSTOL
which he took with him for this purpose is
a new revolver which ho had purchased
only a few days before coming to Lebanon.
It is one of Smith & Wesson’s manufac
ture, with a fourinch barrel, aud five cham
bers, and carries a ball of 32-100 of an
iuch caliber.
HOW THE ACCIDENT CAME ABOUT.
Two shots were fired into the cloth, and
all were satisfied with the result of the
experiment, and started back to the hotel
Mr. Milliken, ever cautious and thought
ful, said:
“ Val., there are three shots in your pis- :
tol yet. You had better discharge them.” •
“Wliat for?” responded Mr. Valland
igham.
“To prevent any accident,” replied the
cautious attorney. “ You might shoot j
yourself.”
“No danger of that,” replied Mr. Val-i
landigham, “I have carried and practiced
with pistols too long to be afraid to have a
loaded one in my pocket.”
“ You had batter be careful, though,”
said Mr. Miliken.
“ Never fear me,” was the reply.
They then slowly walked back toward
the town, and, before they bad reached
the hotel, separated.
Arriving at the Lebanon House alone, j
| Mr. Vallandigham was stopped on his way j
j up stairs by the landlord, aud a package j
j that had been left for him in his absence |
■ placed iu his hands. That parcel con- .
| taiued another revolver —a weapon that j
had been exhibited at the trial in court, j
and was not only unloaded, but had the |
chambers removed. Proceeding to his j
room, he unrapped the parcel, and at the
same time taking his own weapon from
j his pocket, laid the two murderous instru- j
ments on the table, side by side.
A moment later, Mr. Scott Symmes, a
young lawyer who has beeD connected
with the prosecution of the case, passed
the door.
“ Symmes,” said he, “ Follett is mistak
en. A man could easily shoot himself as
Myers was shot. Come in and I will
show how it is done.”
Thus invited, Symmes entered the room,
but a moment later, seeing Judge Pope
coming up stairs, excused himscif on the
ground that he was going to Hamilton in
the morning, and wished to see the Judge
before he left. He passed out and a min
ute or so afterward Mr. Mcßurney came
into the room. Mr. Vallandigham, still;
standing by the table on which the pistols j
i laj, said; [
NO. 44.
'!, .“ 1 shuw y° u how Tom Myers shot
- j himself. Follett’s mistaken when ho savs
i| it can’t bo done.” Saying this, ho took
r up one of the murderous instruments in
, his hands, put it into his pantaloons, pock
> et , and slowly drawing it out again, cocfe
’ iug it as he drew it forth, he attempted to
place it in the exact position which he be
lieved Myer’s weapon to have assumed at
1 the moment the fatal bullet was sped on
• its mission of death. The muzzle of the
weapon still within the lappel of the pock
-1 at, he brought it to an angle of about for
ty-five degrees.
j “There, that’s the way Myers held it,
j only he was getting up, not standing
erect.” Saying this, lie touched the trig
! s cr -
A sudden flash—the half suppressed
sound of a shot—and Clement 1,. Vallan
digha.n, with an expression of agonv, ex
claimed : “My God, I’ve shot myself,”
and reeled toward the wall, a wounded anti
dying man—wouuded and dying by his
own hand.
De-Koi-um in the louisana House.
| _ A Senegambian “Legislator” in the Lous.
, iana fLm of Representatives was called
, to order for what the Speaker was pleased
ito term a breach of decorum. The Sen
egambian. who had been listening to a
speech by a Congo member, on the close
of said speech classsicali'y observed, “Dat
dar oigga is a dam liar, an’ I’ll f'row my
boot down his front if he opens his collu
doah on me again.
To this Chesterfieldian outburst the
j Speaker responded with his mallet, called
i order, and ventured to declare “the gen
tleuiau guilty of a breach of decorum.”
“llr—br—breach ob de who—who,
sah? breach ob de iVlio?”
“ Rreach of decorum, sir.”
“Dor’s no korum heah at all, sah IV'e
I a qualified memba atilt, a settin’ hcah for
itodo do business ob my constitumus; art’
I if dat dam nigga fochcs his lies to diet
| 'sernbly, I’ll frow a number sebeutecn boot
into dat trap-duah ob his sah.”
After the indignant gentleman had thus
given expression to his sentiments, the
j other gentleman subsided, and the august
j essombly of lawmakers for the State of
| Louisiana went on with their important
i business.
A llap at Corner Loafers.—Ad
exchange “goes for” corner loafers in the
following:
That young squirt on the corner, with
his hat a little on one side, the stump of
a cheap cigar in his mouth, and a stave for
every young lady that passes—is a loafer.
Do you knotv where he gets his money ?
His mother earns it foi him by taking in
washing. Poor soul ! She thinks her
boy will get work soon. lie could find
work enough to keep him busy fifteeu
hours a day, if he wanted it. If he gets a
place he shirks or docs his woik so very
poorly that he is soon discharged. He
□ever works for the same man twice. Os
j perhaps he is particular as to what kind
lof work lie does. lie is willing that his
mother or sister should sew or wash tcf
earn money for him to spend, but he is a
little particular, he is, what work he does
with his hands. He looks down on that
sweaty curpenter who hurries by him, and
! nods condescendingly at his friend the
j shoemaker, and sends a whiff of smoke iu
; to the eyes of the bedaubed painter, with
I both hands full of pots and brushes. Ho
couldn’t borrow ten cents of any of them,
j They know that he would never pay them
j They earn their money. He begs his o£
I his mother. A stylish boy, isn't he?
Secret of Happiness
An Italian bishop who had struggled
through many difficulties without repining*
and beeu much opposed without manifest
ing impatience, being asked by a friend trt
| communicate the secret of his being al
j ways happy, replied : “It consists iu one
i thing, and that is making a right use
|of inv eyes.” His friend in surprise
begged him to explain his meaning.—
| “ Most willingly,” replied the bishop.---
j “Iu whatsoever state I am, I first of all
I look up to Heaven, aud remember that
! my great business is to get there; I look
! down upon earth and call to mind how
I small a space I shall soon fill in it; I then
look abroad in the world, and see what
multitudes are iu all respects less happy
than myself; aud then I learu where ail
my cares must end, and how little reason I
ever had to murmur, or to ho otherwise
than thankful. And to live in this spirit
is to be always happy.”
A physician of great note has said, “ To
bacco has a tendency to soften and weak
en the bones of young people; it greatly
injures the brain and spinal marrow, and,
in fact, the whole nerveous fluid. A boy
who smokes frequently, or in any way uses
tobacco constantly is never known to make
a man of much energy, aud generally lacks
muscular as well as mental power.
Ministers are said to be, on the average,
the longest lived men.
There are thirty thousand women aud
girls in New Aork who earn their living
, in the stores and manufactories of the city,