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j VOLUME IX. I
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Mark Twain on Woman.
From the Cosmopolitan, London.
On the two hundred and nin th anniver
sary of St. Andrew’s Day, on Monday even
ing last, at the banquet given in Freema
son’s Hall, Mark Twain, who responded for
‘The Ladies,” made the speech of the even
ing. We can give his words, but not the
infinite drollery of his utterances. He
said: I am proud, indeed, of the distinction
of being chosen to respond to this especial
toast, to “The*Ladies,” or to women, if
you please, for that is the preferable term,
perhaps; it is certainly the older, and there-
MuHm- ‘ewtitled to reverence.
[Laughter.] I have noticed that the Bible,
with that plain, blunt honesty which is
such a conspiecuous characteristic of the
Scriptures, is always particular to never
refer to even the illustrious mother of all
mandkind herself as a “lady,” but speaks
of her as awoman. [Laughter.] It is odd,
but you will find it so. I am peculiarly
proud of this honor, because I think the
toast to women is one which, by right and
by every rule of gallantry, should take pre
cedence of all others—of the army, of the
navy, of even a royalty itself, perhaps,
though the latter is not necessary in this
day and in this land, for the reason that,
tacitly, you do drink a broad, general health
to ali good women when you drink the
health of the Queen of England and the
Princess of Wales. (Loud cheers.) I have
in my mind a poem just now, which is fa
miliar to you all—familiar to everybody.
And what an inspiration that was (and
how instantly the present toast recalls the
verses to our minds) when the most noble,
the most gracious, the purest and sweetest
of all poets says :
“Woman! O woman!—or—
Worn—”
(laughter)—however, you remember the
lines; and you remember how feelingly, how
daintily, how almonst imperceptibly the
verses rise up before you, feature by feature,
the ideal of a true and perfect woman; and
how, as you contemplate the finished mar
vel, your homage grows into worship of the
intellect that could create so fair a thing
out of mere breath, mere words. Aud you
call to mind now, as I speak, how the poet,
with sternfidelity to the history of all hu
manity, delivers this beautiful child of his
heart and his brain over to the trials and
sorrows that must come to all, sooner or
later, that abide in the e.artb; and how the
pathetic story culminates in that apostro
phe—*so wild, so pathetic, so full of mourn
ful retrospection. The lines run thus:
Alas!—alas !—a—alas 1
Alas ! alas 1
and so on. [Laughter.] Ido not recollect
the rest; but, taken altogether, it seems to
me that the poem is the noblest tribute to
woman that human genius has ever brought
forth—[laughter]—and I feel that if I were
to talk hours I could no my great theme
completer or more graceful justice than I
have now done in simply quoting that
poet’s matchless words. [Renewed
laughter.] The phases of the womanly
nature are infinate in their variety. Take
any type of woman and you will find in it
Something to respect, something to admire,
something to love. And you shall find
the whole joining your heart and hand.
Who was more patriotic than Joan of Arc?
Who was braver ? Who has given U3 a
grander instance self-sacrificing devotion ?
Ah, you remember, you remember well,
what a throb of pain, what a great tidal,
wave of grief swept over us all when Joan
<sf Arc, fell at Waterloo! [Much laughter.]
Who does not sorrow for the loss of Sap
pho, the sweet singer of Israel ? [Laughter.]
Who among us does not miss the gentle
ministrations, the softning influences, the
humble piety of Lucretia Borgia? [Laugh
ter.] Who can join in the heartless libel
that says lonian is extravagant in dress
when he can look back and call to mind
our simple and lowly mother Eve arrayed
in her modification of the Highland cos
tume ? [Roars of laughter,] Sir, women
have been soldiers, women have been pain
ters, women have been poets. As language,
lives the name of Cleopatra will live. And
not because she conquered George lll—
[laughter]—but because she wrote those
divine lines—
“Let dogs deliglit to bark and bite,
For God hath made them bo.”
[More laughter.] The story of the world
is adorned with the names of illustaious
ones of our own sex—some of them sons
of St. Andrew, too —Scott, Bruce, Burns,
the warrior Wallace, Ben Nevis—[laugh
ter] —the gifted Ben Lemond, and the
great new Scotchman Ben Disraeli. [Great
laughter.] Out of the great plains of his
tory tower whole mountain ranges of sub
lime womon—the Queen of Sheba, Jose
phine, Semiramis, Sairey Gamp: the list is
endless—[laughter] —but I will not call
the mighty roll; the names rise up in your
own memories at the mere suggestion,
luminous with the gloiy of deeds that can
not die, hallowed by the loving woaship of
the good and the true of all epochs and of
all climes. [Cheerr.]
Suffice it for our pride and our honor
that we in our day have added to it such
names as those of Grace Darling and Flor
ence Nightingale. [Cheers.] Woman is
all that she should be —gentle patient, long
suffering. plead for the erring, encourage
the faint of purpose, succor the distressed,
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 14,1874.
uplift ihe fallen, befriend the friendless—
in awjrd afford the healing of her sympa
thies, and a home in her heart for all the
bruised and persecuted children of misfor
tune that knock at its hospitable door.—
[Cheers.[ And when I say God bless her,
there is none among us who has known the
ennobling affection of a wife or the stead
fast devotion of a mother, but ih his heart
will say, Amen!” [Loud and prolonged
cheering.]
Wit and Humor,
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An era unknown to
fges.
v A Maine girl is said to liave killed her
se#chewing gum. *
Two ladies in Staffordshire, Conn., have
had live spiders removed from their ears.
What are now known as garters were
called shankbanda by our Saxon grand
mothers.
Why are the Mary's the most amiable of
sex ? Because they can always be Mo\\-
fied.
Why is a lady of fashion like a succssful
sportsman ? Because she bags the hair o
course. *
Here is the newest floral sentiment: s‘lf
you wish for heart’s ease, don’t look to
marigold.” «
Miss Nellie GrSnt is to officiate as first
bridesmaid at approachingwfidding in Phil
adelphia.
Mr. Bradlaugh has survived an interview
with the St. Louis woman suffragists, and
is able to fulfill his lecture engagements.
A young lady in Blinois recently became
so much embarrased by|a proposal from
her lover’ that in her agitation she swallow
ed a needle.
WTiy is a pretty girl like a locomotive en
gine ? Because she sends off the sparks,
transports the males, has a train following
her, and passes over the plain.
Garters with mouogram clasps are now
all the fashion withfthe pretty girls. The
style is said to be and elegant
and we hope to see more of it.
An old lady who has six unmarried
daughters started out a few days ago on a
search for the patrons of husbandry. “Oh,
what is home withuot a mother !”
A disconsolate husband advertising his
runaway wife, describes her as follows:
“Blue eyes, red hair, prominent nose dress
ed in yellow kids, bronzed boots and blue
sash.”
Most of Cleveland girls will fall in love
with a man for the same reason that they
do with their looking-glasses—because they
are constantly telling them that they are
charming.
A young lady by the name of Mary Ann
Boggs, a resident of Georgetown, i3 under
arrest for dragging her father down stairs
feet foremost, because he opposed her danc
ing round dances.
A young lady of Dodge county, Ga., who
found a rattlesnake clinging to the skirts
of her dress the other day, had presence
of mind enough to trample on the serpent’s
neck, and thus tear him loose.
Some of the young ladies of Savannah
have signed a document declaring their in
tention not to purchase dry goods at any
store whiciT*keens the young men busy after
seven o’clock innhe evening.
“Take a wing,” gushed a young and pom
pous upstart, extending his bent arm to a
sensible young lady, at the close of a prayer
meeting. i‘Not of a gander,” she quietly
replied, and walked home with her mother.
Indianapolis girls when at the opera oc
cupy balcony seats, and playfully hang
their feet over the railing. A man in the
parquet recently had the top of his head
crushed in by one of the fair creatures lett
ing her boots drop upon him.
The following lines were found upon a
lawyer's table in the courthouse the other
day:
“Fair mw was made to bewitch:
A companion, a nurse,
A blessing, a curse,
Fair woman was made to be which?”
Vermont girls have the hang of postal
cards. Last week, a young man in Greens
boro’ had his wounded heart lacerated still
more by a postal card from his Ann Eliza
which said, “You needn’t come Saturday
night, nor any other night; I don’t want
to see you.”
Dr. Dio Lewis now tells “our girls” that
if they want to learn to walk well they
should “walk an hour a day, with a weight
—say a bagofkeans—upon their heads.”
A few days Ugo he advised ladies to eat
beans to improve their complexion. We
begin to suspect that he belongs to the
bean “ring,” and is trying to bull the bean
market.
Dramatic Doings*
Sophia Miles committed matrimony re
cently in Galveston with Samuel Shorev,
Fatte Stewart is amusing great crowds
nightly at Enoch's Varieties, Philadelphia.
Lydia Thompson and Troupe are an
nounced for New Orleans on Monday eve
ning next.
Geo. L. Davis late of Frank Howe’s
Comique in this city, opened in Pittsburg
THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THE UNION AS EESTOEED.
last Monday night.
Maj. Burnell, of the Pittsburg Museum,
who was seriously injured last summer, is
now slowly recovering.
. The Yokes Family, now in St. Louis,
received two plum puddings Christmas day
from London, made last year.
Maggie Mitchell is playing a brilliant
engagement this week at Richardson’s
Opera House, Albany. New York.
Edwin Adams is impersonating “Enoch
Arden” at the New Park Theatre, Rtook
xit 4 and F, S. Chpturan, are attracting
Theatre, al
though now in their fourth week.
Frank Mayo and Rose Rand opened at
Troy, New York, Monday evening last, to
a large and fashionable audience.
Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Texas Jack, Mor
lacchi and party, all opened at the Olympic,
Philadelphia, last Monday night.
Joe Jefferson closed the season at Co
lumbus, Ga.. on the 26th, and has gone in
to winter quarters upon his splendid Lou
siana plantation. *
Campbell & Leonard’s Minstrels will give
one entertaianment in* Baltimore, January
15th, for the benefit of the Indepent Order
of Rechabites.
Theodore Thomas is announced for four
sympony concerts at the Philadelphia
Academy of Music, January 16, February
12, March 13 and 27,
' Miss Elise Holt, the popular cotnme
dienne, died on Sunday night last at the
Robinson House, Pittsburg, Penn., after
three weeks’ illness from typhoid pneumo
nia.
The Martinetti-Ravel Troupe appeared
at Ford’s Opera House, Washington, D. C.
last Monday night, where they were joined
by Johnson and Wills, Dutch Comiques.
The Salvini season terminated at the
Academy of Music, New York, on the 20th
of December. The company are now mak
ing a Western tour prior to their departue
for Mexico.
The Meseurn Building, corner Calvert
and Baltimore streets, is to be re-erected
upon a much larger scale as to tile theat
rical portion. It will, be used in future as
a first-class concert hall.
Oliver Doud Byron, ably supported in
<l«uaaa Lp bis wife Kate O’fieil Rvron,
has recently closed a very successful' en
gagement at the Opera House, Pittsburg.
He went from thereto Albany, New York.
Matilda Heron is now living in Twenty
third street. New York, teaching elocution
for a subsistence. Time has not dealt gen
tly with the great representative of “Ca
mille,” for she is now as grey as a badger.
* Mrs. Shcidan Shook gave a performance
at the New York Academy of Music on
the 20th of December, which was a great
success, the proceeds going to the families
of the Virginius victims. A handsome
sum was realized.
The climax of absurdity has been reach
ed -at Dan Bryant’s Opera House, New
York, by the black burlesque of Cinderella.
It is difficult to decide whether Eugene
Unsworth, Nelsey Seymour or Dan Bryant
creates the most fun.
An uncoth Tennessean, caused Lydia
Thompson much chargin last week in the
Memphis Theatre, by singing out a3 soon
as she made her appearance, “bully for you
old tow top ; gracious goodness how she
kicks and sho^gj^pegs.”
Nellie West at Cleveland on
Monday night last. It is rumored that she
is soon to be married at Detroit, to a citi
zen who recently furnished the funds for a
gold watch and chain which were present
ed on the stage of the Detroit Comique.
Edwin Booth closed a brief engagement
at the Providence Opera House on the
20th of December, receiving for two weeks
work, 310,000, while the management made
nearly as mnch more. The engagement
was the most successful ever played in
that city.
Gilmore’s celebrated band of sixty-five
a grand entertainment at
the New York Twenty-sec
ond the night of December.
These concerts have proved highly merito
rius and will be continued eveiy Saturday
ev«ing.
Edwin Booth commenced a four week’s
engagement at the Walnut, Philadelphia,
last Monday night. So far, this week,
hundreds have been turned away nightly.
Mr. B. is support ed by Miss Blanche De-
Bar, a cousin of the distinguished actor,
and herself an actress of rare merit,
A Woman’s Fickleness.
The Chatham Tribune , published at
Pittsylvania Court house, Ya., furnishe
the folloing:
One night last week a couple from the
northern part of the county, accompanied
by several gentlemen friends, arrived in
our village and put up at Carter’s Hotel.
The bridegroom (for the couple came to be
married) proceeded to the Clerk’s office and
got license, while a message was despatch
ed for a minister. While waiting the ar
rival of the minister the couple evinced
considerable uneasiness, and in reply to
the question whether, being tired, she did
not wish to retire, the lady answered, “No,
not until I seethe preacher.”
It seems that the lady had engaged her
self to two gentlemen, and both had made
the necessary arrangements for the coming
event. One had pressed his suit, and the
time set when two would be made as one
was on the night after their arrival here,
the gentlemen, having already procured his
license for that purpose. The other, hear
ing that, the object of his affections was to
become the bride of another on the follow
ing evening^hastened to her house to as
certain the truth of What he had heard,
andjfound that the rumor was too true.
He, thereupon, resolved that she should
; never marry the first he could pre
vent it, and having one day left to accom
plish his purpsse, he went right to work.
Calling upon the lady she reiterated her
former declarations that hewts the one
in whom she had centred her affections,
and expressed her willingness to flee with
him to the Oid North State and have the
ceremony performed at once. So, when
the evening shades drew on and the god
dess of night had spread her sable mantle
over the earth, he procured a vehicle and
repaired to the residence of his affianced,
She being ready and willing, they were
soon on their way, arriving here in a short
time.
Finding that he could get a license here,
without the trouble and expense of a jour
ney to North Carolina, the gentleman in
formed his intended of the fact, and, as
aforesaid, a minister was sent for. In due
time the pastor of the Presbyterian church
was on hand, and the happy couple were
made one. Music having been procured,
the wedding party and a number of the
young people of the town were called in,
and engaged in terpsichorean injoytoent
till late. When the dance Was over the
newly-made man and wife, and the gentle
men who accompanied them, again entered
in the darkness, not much wiser but cer
tainly a great deal happier.
All this was enacted while he who was
first accepted was at home, dreaming prob
ably of the happiness to be his on the fol
lowing night. How he received the news
we are not informed, but to hear of a suit
for breach of promise being entered in our
court in a few days would not surprise us
a bit.
Mexican Outrage in Texas.
Kavttc F«. -Tsuj. f>.—-Tba TCI Paso Senti
nel says: 'Ou the night of the 27th ultimo
a large party of armed Mexicans crossed
over from Presedio del Monte to destroy
the ranche of John D. Burgess. They
were paovided with turpentine and other
articles to burn the place, and intended to
kill the proprietor and his family. Burgess
had left for Fort Davis, and they were
persuaded by some Mexicans living on the
place to go away without other hostile
demonstrations. When the news reached
Fort Davis Colonel Bliss sent a detach
ment of cavalry over. While the cavalry
were there a party of thieves crossed the
river and stole every head of cattle from
the ranches of Smith and Tinkham, living
about 25 miles from the river: They es
caped unperceived, but returned again on
the 4th instant, and attacked the train of
Mr. Saudelben, which was on the return
trip from Chihuahua to San Antonio, hav
ing a large amount of specie on board. Af
ter a brief skirmish they were driven off,
but it is reported that they are daily grow
ing more unsettled.
The Weather in November,
The signal office weather review for the
month of November contains the follow
ing items:
Twelve well-defined storms traversed the
territory of the United States during, the
month. The most violent of these origi
nated in northern Georgia an the 16th,
advancing rapidly to Wilmington, North
Carolina, and thence northward along the
coast to the mouth of the St. Lawrence
river. The course of this storm was mark
ed by extreme barometric depression, high
winds and heavy rain and snow. Its vio
lence inceased as it progressed, the wind’s
velocity being forty miles an hour at Nor
folk and * sixty-four miles at Eastport,
Maine.
The November temperature has been
generally lower than usual over the coun
try east of the Rocky mountains. The
variation in the Ohio valley and Tennessee,
from the monthly mean of this month of
many years, is one degree two minutes be
low.
The photo-lithographic map giving areas
of rainfall shows a deficiency, compared
with the mean amount for November, in
the Lower Missouri and Upper Mississippi *
valleys and the lake region, and an excess
in Tennessee, Texas and New England.
New Cattle Disease,
The Fall Mall Gazette says that a cattle
disease, of so disagreeable a nature 4hat it
causes the animals affected by it to com
mit suicide, has broken out on the Asiatic
shore of the Bosphorus, and has been offi
cially reported at Constantinople. It it
characterized by frothing at the mouth,
running at the eyes and nose, a total loss
of appetite, great heat, and a thirst so
insupportable that some of the beasts at
tacked by the illness cast themselves head
long into adjacent rivers and streams and
are drowned. The disease, it is stated
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has been in existence for upward of a
month in several villages between Beicos,
on the Upper Bosphorous, and Scutari. It
attacks bullocks and cows exclusively, and
is believed to have been introduced from
Ada-Baza, beyond Ismidt. At Boskana,
four hours distant from Beicos, the dis
ease is increasing and three or four beasts
die every day. At Musseinli, an hour’s
distance from Boskana, it has killed about
eighty animals, half of the stock or cattle
which the village possessed. At other
places it is reported to be on the increase.
At Koutchoulli sixty head of cattle have
perished, and at the village of Sultan
Tehrflik, three hours’ distance flora Scuta
ri, five or six animals die daily.
Dreadful Shipwreck near Savan
nah.
twenty-nine colored people drowned.
The following particulars of the loss of
a vessel Monday last with a large party of
colored people belonging to Hilton Head,
is taken from the Beaufort Messenger*.
The boat Elizabeth Miller, belonging to
acoloied society at Hilton Head, left
Savannah for the Island. It was filled
with men, women and children who had
been to the city for the purpose of selling
their produce and buying things for the
Christmas holidays. The boat was load
ed with passengers and freight to its ut
most capacity in smooth weather.
After passing the lightship on Tybee
knoll the wind came np strong from the
southeast and tore the jib in ribbons, mak
ing the boat unmanageble and soon drift
ed her on the shoals of Danfuskie Islands.
She struck a band and was thrown on her
beam ends.
The passengers clung to the gunwale for
two hours, when they commenced drop
ping off one after another until all were
lost but one mart named Moses Polite,
who bracing himself in the mast hole,
managed to keep from being washed off.
The boat had in the meantime, rolled off
the bank and drifted towards Savannah,
and at about one or two o’clock Tuesday
morning this man was picked up by a boat
from Savannah going to Donfuskio island.
It is barely possible that the mate Scipio
Drayton, may have been picked up, he
having drifted off on the cabin hatch.
The boat was a good one .about .forty
feet long, built by O’Driscoll, of Port Roy
al, about two years since. Captain Bra
man, family called C aptain George, was
well known at Hilton Head and in Savan
nah. He has carried goods and money for
storekeepers there for several years. He
was one of those known as God’s noblest
•work—an honest man. On Tuesday a
Savannah pilot discovered the boat near
Fenus point. Tow bodies, one of them
that of George Jsraman, the Captain, were
found in her, still grasping the tiller. The
body of one young woman was washed
ashore on Wednesday, on Tybee, near the
light house.
New Year's Resolutions,
New Year’s Day hardly makes its yearly
round with more punctuality than the
repetition of resolutions of reform in re
gard to some demoralizing or improvident
habit—resolutions which were formed a
twelve-month previous, soon broken then,
and repeated with but little better promise
now. Almost everybody makes them at
this time. And yet, alas ? how few stick
to them to the end of the year 1 how few,
indeed, remember them at all for three
months I They are promises to one’s self,
with no security strong enough to resist
the demands of ease or passion—promises
made only to be broken, and yearly repeat
ed with the same result. If it were as
easy to do as to resolve, what an improv
ing and progressive world we would have!
But the uncivil old proverb, that a certain
unmentionable place is “paved with good
intentions,” contains more af parabolic
truth than most of us are apt to accord to
it. Is it not a reasonable supposition that
the yearly trampling under foot of our
good resolutions, formed about the first of
January, will prove, the paving of our fu
ture pathway with remorseful memories
and sad regrets ? Whatever may be our
future state, if memory survives the change,
the neglect of opportunities to reform our
owu lives on earth, or to do good to our
fellow-men, cannot be a pleasing contem
plation, and it requires no strength of the
imagination to conceive that it will make
for ns an uneven pavement hereafter—
tinging even its most beautiful snmmod
ings with a shade of remorse for broken
pledges, whose observance would have pro
moted our own happiness and that of
others—causing chagrin for the perversity
or thoughtlessness that ruthlessly sunder
ed
Bright links by glory wove,
Sweet bonds entwined by love.”
The greatest and most insidious pro
moter of their violation is not design, but
irresolution or procrastination. We are
too prone to overlook the danger of post
poning untiUo-ruorrow the good which we
ought to commence to-day—too unmind
ful of the folly of relaxing even once the
resolution which weakens with, every giv
ing way of its tension. He who now
forms a resolution of relorm and delays its
commencement for a day, will be very apt
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efforts of our friends in
v corn Georgia In Ac extiiuston bftlio cii**
eolation oFTtTe'FW; Yipi, H answer to jho
inters zcceifod daily iu.ivtfnnl to the matter,
we refer them, to our Ciubing liates below:
FivofOopies, one year ... fy
Ten Copies “ . _
Fifteen Copies . . .“ 25
Twenty Copies ... go
Parties in the City failing to get their pa
_P er will report to the office. P
to let weeks, months, the whole vear glide
away without'making a beginning. To
give efficiency and value to these New
Year resolutions, we must ,v.
“Seize the prompt occasion— make tbt D
thought,
Start into instant action, and at once 4-*
1 lan and resolve, perform and execute.” Wi
New Years’ pledgee formed and adher
ed to in this spirit, whether they concern
our moral or pecuniary welfare, will
ia much immediate good, and ease th**
of yearly progress in the camc/JiV 1
But without this high and ,
they will be but Wrefcks along
way, to mark-the sad instability and ir7b-.C. .
of poor human nature.— Golvmbus £hiquir&*
er.
Eternally Ycap Year.
A gentleman who passed sometime a
mong the Cossacks of the Ukraine tells of
some strange customs still prevalent there,
one of which may perhaps interest our fair
readers. When a young woman in the
Ukraine feels a tender passion for a young
man, she goes at once to the house of hiß
parents, and says to him. “Pomegai-bog,”
which means, “be you blessed of God."
Hie young woman then sits down and talks
to the object ot her choice as follows:
“The goodness I see written in your coun
tenance is a sufficient assurance to me that
you are capable of ruling and loving a wife
and your excellent qualities encourage mo
to hope that yon will make a good husband.
It is in this belief that I have taken the
resolutions to come and beg yon, with all
due humility, to accept me for your spouse,"
She then addresses the father and mother,
and solicits their approval of, and consent
to, the marriage. If she meets with a re
fusal, she refuses to leave the house, and
such conduct is usually crowned with suc
cess. The parents of the young man never
put the young maidens away if they still
persist in their stay, believing by doing so
they would bring down the vengeance of
heaven upon their heads.
“Order in Court.”—A letter from Cul
pepper, Virginia, gives the following novel
and noticeable occurence in open OTurt.
“A motion was made by Mr. the
Commonwealth’s attorney, to release •an
old and infirm negro man from the pay
ment of his capitation tax. While giving
in hi3 reasons for the exemption the old
man gave a very searching look all over
--trhsrco irrt-ibu m, vo m rerrran- ecr t Tx-tts beau
ty and fine appearance, and said that if it
had not been opened with prayer before
he would like to do so then and there, and
instantly falling; upon his knees, without
interruption by the court, and amidst pro
found silence, he offered up a fervent prayer
for the judge, the bar, the officers and the
people. Such a thing never, perhaps, took
place before in a court-room; but to have
stopped him would have been mortifying
and cruel. The court suffered him to finish;
he occupied a very short time, got all ho
asked for, bowed and politely left.”
The following collodions will bo inter
esting at least to our juvenile friends :
The locust can be heard a sixtieth of a
mile. An ordinary.man will outweigh 15,-
00 of them. Were his voice proportional
to his weight, in the ratio of the loCust’s r
he could be heard over 1,000 miles. A flea
weighs less than a grain and leaps a yard
and a half. Where a man of 150 pounds
weight possessed of equivalent agility, he
could spring from the dome of the capitol
to China, and almost go round the world
in two jumps. \
A railway train, at a continuous, speed
of forty miles an hour, would pass from the
earth to the inoon in a little more than
eight months; to the planet Yenus, in
seventy-one and a half years, and would
reach the sun in two hundred and sixty
odd years. A ray of light will pass from
the moon to the earth in a trifle over a
single second; from Yenus t 8 the garth, in>
a little more than two minutes; from the
sun to the earth,! in about eight minutes-
So vast are the distances that separate us
from these heavenly bodies! and so swiftly
does light move!.
The financial editor of the Philadelphia
Ledyer discourses on the financial outlook:
“There is a fairly favorable aspect in fi
nancial Watters. The outlook is encourag
ing. We see in Iqps than three months of
the crisis that the banks have passed the
culminating point,.are already well stocked
with greenbacks and strong and abundant
in all their resources. In view of the fu
ture it is most important—first, that prices
should not rise too rapidly, so as to cause
reaction and delay. Second; that the
movement of greenbacks to the commer
cial centres should be steadily Continued,
because what gives strength at those points
gives confidence everywhere. Third, that
the savings banks shall adopt the excellent
suggestion of the financial Chronicle, to
place their excess of greenbacks on deposit
in the national banks, with the- requisite
special agreements if needl>e. To do that
wonld be to make sure lhat they will rot
need it themselves. It would ,so fortify
these banks that all thonghts of “runs" in
any Quarter would pass out of mind, and
then, what is vastly important; it would
leave the national banks - *wtafaparati
free to manage thdir accumulating reserves
so as to restore life to. the interior com
merce of the country.