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2nd Congressional Dis-
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great disaati- fact ion
• i■• 1 !•»* official course ami
'im! • ■•'■l i < I'o; mg.- i. . > J
control • .*1 n-.it.Me of his Dis
i ~) much lu Democrats. Now
wdl in Mitchell.
..that these ami
ove false tout >rit/ioul
only circulated
\vc aro well
i malcontents of Albany
mmm taken they suppose that
'aped by such fake nccusa
. No of the 13d
more fully the confidence
•!:. y ;I:an Major Whitoley,
Republicans of
let these assistants
€&■'. ';»■:• iv .i assured that .Mitchell
VgH fully the acts of our Rep
ami no/h/se charges that they
r asainst him will prevent our
n casting their vote in the con-
>on to assemble in Albany for
B 1 AY e believe that no man in
■* tu.l District can control
effectually harmonize
• iv. !!. Whiteley—for
Nos the Republicans
Hf am 1 the Democrats ae
ihy ami consistency, and
■f' is the nominee—which
in y will be troubled to get
■< -hi m.the even a respec-
Y. iiii Major \Y as our staml
- and victory will again
. : principles and truths of
. ...;ty i:i the ‘2nd District,
elects and Ural helpers
party should be able by
..Mem. and by giving eur-
y faults and short com-
urn and tried Representative.
■ ... but doVciif : lhkvV.VJ-:A ;,n
* • ,i -r AVliiidey as our leader, we
V -up such a Republican majority in
P :d in tho District as will astound
■ !-be wide awake Greoleyitcs and
rn Democrats.
■ : we have no divisions or dissensions
tlte Republicans of Mitchell, not-
'..u.iiing I hil Joiner and Wiseman
■'■".! in the upper part of the county
Bi -to Sow discord among our people.
B ’ mu. and while we have such working
B- uas ('has. Cooper, Flem Battle and
Coiiins .lames they may come, but
a.way as they left some time ago.
B ••• 1 .hat the Republicans of Mitchell
u \\ i.itchy. \ os: they are united tts
B- : »-•* and only ask that the convention
’• t.'i i i:t .Vi'.any on the 22nd July, give
B ’••• s and tried Republican—he who
~"ne through the crucible of abuse.
B •uv and even acts of violence, in the
B ; -'Wmcy ut those Ivopublican jtriuciples
B ... h are as ii.destruelible as the hills, and
-i out more than conqueror—for
B ‘ms been “weighed in the balance and
t touu.l wanting.”
[ \ ari uts reasons have been offerd among
h..e tvir the opposition and tho efforts
M A*®' individuals are making, by
nag Su, .my, Bud often in a way not
torabti. to defeat the nomination of
White! y. Some say these parties
to receive Democratic money as the
,.i ! r ti. -'i treachwy. others, more
■•.*.. -av. 'on unr this *!ls-
satisfied crew some who are aspiring to
('omrre-cionul honors. While we are ready
to concede the right and priviledge to
every member ol the Rejiublican paity to
have his claims considered in our conven
tions, yet we are not willing to sacrifice
tho great principles and interests of theKe
publican party by bringing out such a eon
; didate as cannot unite the party or control
i its voting strength. lam glad to see from
your correspondents in the different parts
of the District that Major Whiteley is re
ceiving endorsement, and that the disaffec
tion is confined to one county, and a small
portion of that, as a large majority of the
Republicans of the county have boldly en
dorsed the official course of our Represen
tative.
Respectfully,
Isaiah Arnold.
The IVominating Convention for
the Fifth district.
Hon. James C. Freeman Nominated for
Congress.
Griffin, Ga., June 18th, 1874.
Tn pursuance to a call made by Hon
11. P. Farrow, Chairman of the State Ex
ecutive Committee of the Republican par
ty, the convention of the sth Congression
al District, for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for Congress, met in the Court
House in this city on the 18th inst.J and
presisely at 10 J o’clock w'as called to or
der by the election of Mr. J. U. Fuller of
Atlanta temporary Chairman and Mr. 11.
C. Roberts of Griffin as Secretary pro tern.
On Motion the Chair appointed the fol
lowing named gentlemen as a Committee
on credentials, and requested the delegates
from the various counties to present their
credentials to the Chairman of the Com
mittee: Back, Wimbish, Jenkins, Wash
ington, Snyder. The Committee retired to
take into consideration the credentials of
delegates, and after an absence of a few
minutes, reported tho following delegates
duly qualified and authorized to partici
pate in the deliberations of the Convention.
Fulton County, J. G. W. Wills, D. I).
Snyder, J. IJ. Fuller, J. C. Wimbish;
Houston Cos., Geo. Allen, E. Glover, Geo.
R. Bass; Pike Cos., J. F. Washington, Wil
liam Wilkins; Henry Cos., W„H. Groves,
11. C. Brown; Spalding Cos. Oliver Back,
IT. C. Roberts; Dekalb Cos ~11. E Baldwin;
Monroe Cos., Jus. Jinkins. Jack Brown,
Abb Watts, A. Godwin.
On motion, the report of the committee
was received and adopted.
On motion, the usual committee on or
ganization was dispensed with, and the
temporary Chairman and Secretary were
elected as the permameut officers of the
v t/rrvcnrioii. —
On motion, the following named gentle
men were appointed a committee to pre
sent the names of suitable candidates for
Congress—J. G. W. Mills (chairman) J.
O. Wimbish, Jenkins, 0. Back, G. Allen.
E. Glover, Wilkins, J. Brown, 11. C.
Brown.
During tho absence of the committee
speeches were made by several gentlemen,
lion. Jas. 0. Freeman, M. C., being in the
hall, was called for, and responded briefly
and pointedly.
The committee on nominations returned
and made the following reports.
V our committee appointed to submit
the name of a suitable candidate to repre
sent the sth Congressional district, have
performed that duty, aud respectfully sub
mit the name of Hon. James C. Freeman
as a proper person for that office—Allen,
Brown, Jenkins, Glover, Back, Wilkins,
Wimbish.
The undersigned respectfully dissent from
the above recommendation, and recom
mend the name of Thomas G. W. Crussell
for nomination.
J. G. W. Mills,
W. II Groves.
On motion of M. Wimbish, of Fulton,
the majority report was adopted oy a large
majority, and the lion. Janies C. Freeniau
declared duly nominated.
On motion the nomination was made
unanimous.
On motion, a.congressional committee
composed of llie following named persons
was appointed:
Fulton Cos., J. G. W, Mills, D. D. Sny
der, J. B.Fuller, J. 0. TFimbish; Fayette
Cos., Geo. Ware; Clayton Cos., Nat Hud
son; Houston Cos., J. 11. Griffin; Spalding
Cos., C. R. Johnson, 11. C. Robert, Win.
JMonroe Cos., James Jenkins;
J. F. Washington. *
Mr. Mills, of Fulton, offered tho follow
ing resolution, which was adopted.
Eesolved; That the Congressional Com
mittee of the Republican party for the sth
Congressional District be authorized and
directed to organize at the first meeting of
said Congressional Committee a Republi
can Executive Committee for the said
Congressional District, for all party purpo
ses that may come before it, and that said
Committee so appointed shall hold its
tenue of offiee until the meeting of our
next Congressional Convention.
On Motion the Secretary was authorized
and instructed to have the proceedings of
the Convention published iu the three Re
publican papers.
On motion the convention after an ap
propriate prayer adjourned sine die.
J. B. Fuller,
Chairman.
11. C. Roberts,
Secretary.
Newswaper mistakes aic scarcely un
avoidable. Every issue of mauy journals
involves the placing of 150,000 types. Out
of that number some will be wrongly pla
ced, in spPe of tho best of care. A Rits
burg paper made a rather ridiculous blun
der lately, aud yet there was ouly one let
ter out of place. The editor said “the
Legislature pasted (passed) tho bill over
the Governor s head.'
BAIN BRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY; JULY 2, L 874.
Letter from Calhoun County.
Calhoun Cos., June 17th, 1871.
C. IF. Arnold.
Chairman Executive Committee, 2d L'is
trict:
1 have desided, upon reflection, to sup
port the Hon. R. 11. Whiteley as the can
didate for the 44th Congress. I shall and o
this, as it appears the opposition parly
have failed to produce any proof, founded
on facts, wherein Major Whiteley has, in
any instance, proved that he is not a* true
friend to the Republican partjv True,
there has been a great deal of bitter, scan
dalous reports circulated, at great expense,
pains, and labor, to induce his friends to
discard him, but upon thorough investiga
tion of these accusation, lhave discover
ed that they are all founded upon falsehood,
and that they have been uttered for a wan
tonly wicked purpose to. defeat the Re- (
publican party ’n + hr ,T '-*‘C'■ ‘t. Although
I must confess that when T first heard
these reports I felt a small sore coming on
my head, and which might have destroyed
my whole scalp, but for the •timely appli
cation of the all healing balm— the virtues
of truth!
Furthermore, it has been generally re
ported that Calhoun county, and most all
of the 2d /list, have abandoned Mr. White
ley and taken up with this deception and
untried party, but I will inform you nut
only ot myself, but the Republicans of
Calhoun county are en masse going to sup
port him, and all the opposition cannot
prevent them from it; and if all the District
is in as healthy condition, this sore head
disease will be confined to but very lew.
Very respectfully,
Win. Tucker.
This and the letter published last week
from Gilford Arlington are copies of the
.originals sent to Dr. G. W. Arnold, and
published by request. — Editor.
The Southern Situation.
The situation of the people of the South
ern States deserves the serious considera
tion of the leading minds of the whole
country. Their condition is anomalous in
the world’s history. Before the was the
inhabitants were divided into three
classes :
First. The highly-educated, wealthy, and
refined whites, of aristocratic pretensions,
claiming social eminence on account of a
long and distinguished ancestral lineage,
and such others as, on account of either
culture, native talents, or other attractive
qualities, had gained admittance to the
foregoing circles. From this class was se
lected local and Mate officials. Senators
and Representatives in Congress, ami other
dignitaries connected with the National
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Second. The mass of the whites, who
were generally poor and unlettered, but
possessing enough pride of race tube easily
led in political affairs by their more fortu
nate neighbors.
Third. The millions of colored slaves,
who were totally destitute of political and
civil rights, and were controlled by their
owners as completely as if they had been
domestic beasts, with the exception that
nominally it was murder to put them to
death at the caprice of tho master. These
slaves performed the bulk of tho labor of
the South.
From this brief statement it will be
readily perceived that comparatively a few
families governed the Southern States, and
by harmony of action, occasioned by har
mony of interests, also controlled the policy
of the United States, and monopolized a
large proportion of the position of national
distinction.
At the close of the recent war this was
all changed. The slaves were all set free
without compensation, thus sweeping away
as suddenly as a stroke of lightning their
money value from their former owners,
amounting to thousands of millions, and
demoralizing the modes of farming, plant
ing. and preparing their crops for the mar
ket, making it exceedingly difficult to se
cure aud organize help to manage profitably
large estates, on which the great Southern
staples hud been chiefly produced. This
difficulty was increased to a fearful extent
by the destructk » of property of all kinds
during the war by both armies, aud the ex
haustion of the accumulated resources of
the country, rendering it almost impossible
for landowners to raise means to hire labo
rers and to rehabilitate these great estates.
The colored people were unaccustomed to
their new position as freemen, and, dis
u-uotful of tlio good faith of their former
Tuade.vearlv contracts to labor on
plantations with great reiucuuice, ana an
immense number of tho adult male white
population had been killed and disabled in
the terrible conflict of arms through which
they had just passed.
In the reorganization these distinguished
white families not only lost all their other
wealth, but also lost their prestige at home
in local affairs, as well as at the national
capital; and the former slaves (free colored
men) aud poor whites, with immigrants
from the North and from Europe, have
shared largely in the management of public
affairs. Such a social, pecuniary, and po
litical revolution never before occurred in
the history of civilization. Those previous
ly accustomed to lead aud to govern in a
majority of these States became a helpless
and meager minority.
It is not, therefore, surprising that dis
content and querulousness find widespread
expression from this class throughout these
States. Even their resort to intimidation,
force, and. in some cases, fraud, for the
purpose of retaining power, although un
justifiable aud unwise, ought not, under the
circumstances, to have surprised those
versed in a knowledge of human nature.
Cougress anticipated its probability, and
attempted to guard against it by extraordi
nary legislation, clothing the President and
the United States courts with unusual
powers
In truth pity will commircle with t v '>
THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THE UNIQft AS TiESTCEEU.
condemnation of such illegal acts by a class
of persons once accustomed to lead and
govern at home and at the national capital,
and to make themselves felt as their coun
try's representatives abroad, but now
broken down in fortune and influence,
struggling to regain their former prestige.
That they should even become clannish
and exclusive, and decline the acquaintance
and fellowship of all the members of the
new element in their political society under
the reconstruction laws, just as a now,
homo was either leered at or totally un
noticed by the conscript fathers iu the old
Roman Senate, is not unnatural, although
so verry silly, because so perfectly worth
less as a practical means for the achieve
ment of any good end.
This class of Southern people will strug
gle hard to reinstate the old Democracy in
their own States, and also to breathe tho
breath of life into its old, dry bones in the
North and West; aud it may as well be
conceded that whenever and wherever this
class of Southern politicians secure the con
trol of a State it will be won for the De
mocracy; but their triumphs will bo short
lived. They are now in the minority in
every Southern State. Their relative num
ber?, as compared with that of the new
political elements, will continue to diminish.
Zioth the laws of natural increase and immi
gration will prove too strong for them.—
Very soon they must, in the very nature
of tilings, be outnumbered and outvoted
everywhere.
We, therefore, advise them to pause in
their career of opposition to the Adminis
tration, and make friends while they may
with the party of progress which is destined
to govern t lis country for at least the next
fifty years.— Washington Chronicle.
"Sanlics Slischist Z&laker.
Did it ever occur to the average native
Southerner that the most of the mischiev
ous things that have been done in the
South since the war —those things that,
where they have not culminated in actual
disaster, have at least tended to make the
Southern people ridiculous in the eyes of
the world—have been the result of Yankee
suggestions and the work of Yankee cun
ning?
The race of Ichabod Crane has its repre
sentatives scattered all through the South
and in protean characters, but the fawning
sycophantic parson, with his South-side
view ; the athletic lash snapper of the cane
field; the Gumption Cute of tho market
and the exchange, seem to concentrate the
cream of their accomplishments in the full
fed Yankee who apes tho manners of the
plantation lord and presumes to lay down
a line of conduct for his indigenous neigh
bors to follow.
We are inclined to these reflections by
Uie caul or u, Mr. James Todd, a planter
of St. Mary, which appears in the Braslicar
Eat as of the thirteenth instant. The
writer proposes to “solve the political
problem" by employing on his plantation
no men, white or colored, who vote the
“radical or scalawag” ticket, lie goes on
to say:
1 have many colored men on my planta
tion who assure me that they will not vote
at the election. Such men I will always
employ. I have no desire to force any one
to vote”as I do, but I claim the right to
employ on my plantation those will protect
my interests at all times and in every man
ner. Ido not propose to break my con
tract with my laborers on account of their
votes, but I do propose to make no con
tract in the future with those who will
destroy my interests and rights if they are
afforded the opportunity.
1 am justified in this course by the ex
ample of General Grant, W. P. Kellogg
ami all Radicals in power, who will not ap
point men of opposite political opinions to
office, and, further, will remove persons
from office if they dare to vote contrary to
the interests of the Radical party, even
though they are among tho large taxpayers
of the country. With such examples be
fore me, why should not I refuse to employ
those who support by their votes the
theiving scoundrels who live only to rob
me ? 1 have been carrying on my planta
tion for the last seven years at great ex
.pense for the benefit of whom, myself ? No;
for the benefit of the negro, the carpetbag
ger and the scalawag, and I propose to do
so no longer. 1 prefer that it should grow
up iu weeds ; that it should become a wil
derness, than that it should be the source
)»v which these vultures of society are fed
and fattened.
But I can obtain a sufficient number of
good white and honest colored men to
work my plantation without employing my
enemies, aud 1 intend to do so.
This seven-years planter concludes his
letter to the JVeics with an invitation to
other planters to follow his example to the
end that an “honest government may again
be inaugurated in Louisiana.”
We do not know what ulterior object
our Yankee friend Todd hart in starting
this mischievous proposition in St. Mary
at this time, but wo have sufficient confi
dence in the good judgment of the masses
of the planters of that section to believe
that such suggestions, from such a source,
will not have a feather’s weight with them.
Too fresh in their memory is the nsult of
such teachings when enunciated by Deunett
of Maine, six years ago.
The officionsness of our Yankee friend
reminds us of an incident of the war. Many
of our readers are acquainted with the gal
lant McLaughlin, of the Fourth Cavalry,
lie tells this story on himself:
During the war he commanded a Massa
chusetts infantry regiment, and occasion
ally the brigade to which he was attached.
In the smoke and turmoil of the
battle of the Wilderness, liis command
surged away from the Colonel, and left him
by himself. In his endeavors to find his
men again, he came across a battery of
guns behind temporary earthworks. . It
occurred to him that they were shelling the
woods in the wrong direction, and he im
mediately jumped in the midst of the guns
and gave orders to change the direction of
the pieces. Ilia orders were obeyed with
alacrity, until, in the flash of one of the
discharging pieces, the lank butte rnntclad
cannonier caught a glimpse of the offimr
whose order he was obeying. He reached
r l übered McLaughlin by the collar,
exclaiming: “Look a-yero. you blue-bel
lied Yankee, I reckon you’ve been com
manding this yero battery about long
i cough. ’ Door Mac was taken to the rear
unler guard, and tho next day was on tho
rc .and to Richmond, a prisoner of war.
. And so wo presumo it will bo with Todd.
Some planter of St. Mary who ranks him
by virtue of h ; .3 birth will be apt to remind
him that his advice is not wanted in adjust
ing tho relations of capital and labor in
that parish, aud ho will bo, metaphorically
speaking, sent to tho rear under guard.—
AT. O. Republican.
A Story About Secretary Belk
nap.
A correspondent of tho Cedar Fall Ga
zette, writing from Washington, tolls tho
following story, which may be so or may
not be, but at any rate it is new and well
told and worth reading:
In company with Mr. Allison I called on
our honored citizen, tho genial and very
competent Secretary of War, General
Belknap. ITe is in appearance every inch
a soldier and in bearing a gentleman, with
out tho frigidity and fussiness of too many
officials. During a pleasant private con
versation he gave me this item of his per
sonal history: “I was born in Washington,
and in passing the War Department ! used
to wonder if I would ever get into it. Iu
the course of time 1 read law, and became
a clerk for six months in the war office. J
then took my satchel and started B est for
lowa, with a deep conviction and present
ment in my mind that 1 would one day re
turn here as head of the department. A
fellow clerk said to me, ‘.Belknap, you aro
a fool to leave your clerkship, with a sala
ry of SI2OO, and go West.” “I went
West.” said he. “I am Secretary of War;
ho is my clerk.” This is only one of tho
thousand incidents illustrating the wisdom
and correctness of the oft laughed at ad
vice of tlie Sago of jUhappaqua, “Go West,
young man.”
Lauds Wanted.
Tlio following letter from 11. S. Haines,
Gen. Superintendent ol the Atlantic &
Gulf railroad to the Savannah Advertiser ,
explains itself. Read, but don’t sell your
farm unless you intend to open another
immediately A good farm is & fortune in
any country.
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Cos.,
Sanannaii. Ga., June 11, 1874.
Editors Advertiser-Republican—Sev
eral applications have been recently made
40 the officers of this company by persons
desiring to purchase lands along the line
of the Atlantic and Gulf railroad for farm
ing purposes and for the manufacture of
naval stores. They wish to ascertain what
lands are for sale, their location, prico aud
description.
If any of your readers having such prop
erly for sale will send to this office such in
formation as they may desire to give in
relation to it, we will take pleasure iu mak
ing use of it in replies to our correspond
ents.
'the newspapers published in Southern
Georgia might also assist in directing iho
attention of their readers to the matter by
publishing this communication.
11. S. Haines, *
Gen. Sunt. A. andG. R. R.
The death of Mr. Francis ri. Butler, of
New York, the great dog-fancier, from
hydrophobia is somewhat remarkable. Mr.
Butler was an author of some celebrity,
and had given special attention to tlio dis
eases of dogs. Some six weeks ago he
was administering a dose of salts to a dog,
when he was bitten on the thumb. The
animal was not supposed to bo mad,
and no special attention was paid to the
wound. On Tuesday last ho was seized
with the usual paroxysms attendant on
hydrophobia and died.
Someyear3 ago ho wroto a letter in
which -lieannouced as tho result of his long
observation and experience that “persons
who go into spasms of terror at sight of
water do so, not from an inoculated dis
ease by the tooth of a rabid member of the
canine race, but from the workings of fear,
imagining a poison in tho veins which has
no existence in fact.”
Ho further said, “that persons, even if
actually afflicted with the malady, which
he considered exceedingly rare, if it ex
isted at all, could be certainly cured by
simple applications -of caustic and salt
bathing.”
Notwithstanding his firm adherence to
the doctrine, he was compelled to suc-
Ciiii’ib to the irresistible force of tho mala
dy, and ujed a victim to a disease ho had
spout hi* life in demons Dating did not ex
ist.
Georgia and Alabama Clover. —A
Y”ankec Judge was once told a thing was
impossible. Wellington, the “Iron Duke,”
would have replied “Its in the order book,
and must be done.” The Yankee’s reply
was simply “I liev done it.” So it is about
clover in this section. Old farmers say it
cannot be raised in the South. Now we
have seen as rich, choice clover brought in
on wagoii3, in the last few day s for sale, as
was ever gathered from the best fields iu
Kentucky. People can raiso an abundance
of it if they will rotate their crops and fol
low some advice they get from books and
papers, and not be so pig-headed as to pur
sue a system because their fathers, who
were bully farmers, did so. Those who
raised the clover say it pays largely.
While upon the subject, we may men
tion that the beautiful clover and blue grass
n tho Baptist Church yard is disappearing
simply for the want of attention. Any
clover field would amount to notlung if it
were allowed to take care of itself for
years.— Columbus Sun.
What throat is the best for a singer to
reach notes with? A soar throat.
Among the oil paintings in San Fran
cisco is a picture ot General Jackson just I
from the bath.
A Tidbit a Prima Donna.
[N. Y. Correspondence Danbury News.]
A little bit of interesting gossip in con
nection with Mme. Nilsson has just
sprouted, in the social field, and peoplo are
plucking at it with sufficient vim to show
how much they relish the occupation. It
seems that the prima ilonhaordered a dress
to be made for the purpose of attending a
dinner party given in her honor. Tho
order was given to one of tho most fashion
able dressmakers in town —a man—and he
exerted himself to satisfy his distinguished
patron. Tho dress was to havo been sent
to Mme. Nilsson’s hotel at 3 o’clock on
a certain day, but it did not reach her uu
til nearly 8 o’clock in tho ovoning. Tho
prima donna has a bit of temper of her own,
and when tho dress was delivered sho in
formed the girl who brougt it that sho
wouldn’t pay for it, owing to the failure of
Monsieur Backbreadtli to keep his promiso.
She wore it, however, and the girl delivered
the messago. Backbreadtli was furious.
All the time, ingenuity and money expend
ed for nothing. Ho said that he was not
that kind of man (or words to that effect),
and straightway entered a carriage and
drove to Mme. Nilsson’s hotel. He
strode up to her room like tho Giant
Despair. Mmo. Nilson was not in, but
her maid was, and she told Backbreadtli
that her mistress had gone out to dinner
in the identical dress he had manufactured.
The man Modiste at once used the expres
sion Mr. Bailey’s shipmate did—“ Helen
Blazes”—but recovered himself sufficiently
to go down to tho office and tell tho cashier
that the prima donna has requested the
bill be then and there presented to bo paid.
Tho cashier promptly handed over $350 in
greenbacks, and Backbreadtli drove home
happy. A powerful row followed, of
course, but finally Strakosch is said to
have reimbursed tho hotel peoplo in order
to keep peace in the family.
Couldn’t Fool JSSCr. Cassidy.
JI. Cassidy, a wealthy New Orleans mer
chant, wasinctuceo, on Saturday, to accom
pany a stranger, who aceostcd him in Broad
way, to a banker’s to get a coup; n cashed.
They went to place in West Broadway,
and ascended a flight of stairs to a room,
on the door of which was tho sign “Jones
& Cos., Bankers.” Mr. Cassidy suspected
no harm until ho entered the room. Then
tlio peculiarity of tho furniture struck him
as not suitable for a banker’s offico. Tho
usual preliminaries of the “bunco” game
performed, and after winning some
crisp bank notes, tho stranger asked Mr.
Cassidy “to try his luck.” Mr. Cassidy
pulled out a revolver and said: “Y'ou
scoundrels ! Y'ou brought me here to swin
dle mo. Clear out, or I’ll shoot you both
like dogs. If you ever speak to mo upon
the street, I’ll shoot you on sight.”
Tlio rascals fled, one through a panel
door into an adjourning room and tlio other
ran into tlio street and around tho nearest
corner. Mr. Cassidy then left and called
at W. Grossman & Co’s wholesale brush
storo, where ho related how tho rogues had
tried to swindle him. The confidential
clerk of tho house accompaniod Mr. Cassi
dy to Jones & Co,’s, but the door of tho
establishment was locked. A placard upon
tho door read. “Closed for tho day.”—
New York Tribune, June 15.
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s?ruc Female Mobility.
The woman, poor and homely as sho
may be. who balances her income and ex
penditures, who toils unrepiningly among
her well-trained children, and presents
them, morning and evening, in rosy health
and cheerfulness, as offerings of lovo to her
husband—who seeks the improvement of
their minds rather than tho adornment of
their bodies—is the most exalted of her
sex. Before her shall tho proudest bow
her hoad, for tho bliss of a happy heart is
with her forever.
If there is one prospect moro dear tn the
man than another, it is that of incoting at
the door his smiling wife and group of
happy children. How it stirs up the blood
of an exhausted man, when ho hears the
patter of feet on tho stair—when young
voices mix in glad confusion, and the young
est springs to his arms with a mirthful
shout. Father Almighty,
“Thy glory shines around tho group.
Thy smile and blessing hover shore.'*
There is no heart so utterly hardened
that it cannot bo touched and melted by
woman’s lovo and tenderness.— Ex.
Light Without Matches. —To obtain
light instantly without the use of matches
and without danger of sotting things on
fire, take an oblong phial of the whitest
glass; put into it a piece of phosphorus
about the size of a pea, upon which pour
some olive oil; heated to the boiling point,
filling the phial about one-third full, and
I then Heal the phial hermetically. To use
it, remove the cork and allow air to enter
the phifti, and rework it. The whole empty
space iu the bottle wHJ th.cn become lumi
nous, and tho light obtained will be equal
to that of a lamp. As soon as tho light
grows weak its power can bo increased by
opening the phial and allowing a frosh sup
ply of air to enter. In winter it is some
times necessary to heat the phial between
the hands to increase tho fluidity of the
oil. ’l iras prepared, the phial may be used
for six months. This contrivance is now
used by the watchmen of Paris in all ma
gazines where explosive or inflammable
materials are stored.
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Disease Among the Fish. —The Herald
reports “a malaria or disease, whatever it
may be,” among the fish of New York Bay
—the result of which is that they spoil
soon after capture, to such an extent thir
ty tons were thrown away in Fulton market
iu one week. It is supposed that the
germs of diptlieria, which is now very pre
valent in New York, are contracted from
the fish used as food, in Incipient stages of
decay. The common varieties offish bear j
a wholesale price of only two to t hreo
cents per pound, in consequence of the
rapidity with which they lapse intodecom
positiou.
[Terms, Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
Sabath Day Suggestions.!
As the rays come from the sun, and yet
are not the sun. even so our love and pity,
though they are not God, but, merely a
poor, weak image and reflation of him, yet
from him alono they eome. If there is
mercy in our hearts, it comes from the
fountain of mercy. If there is the lovo ir»
us, it is amy from - the full sun of love.--
Charles K i uysU y.
God hath*given to mankind a common
library, his creatures; and to every m»u a
proper, book, himself, —being an abridge
ment of all the other; if t hou read with
understanding, it Will make then a grout
master of philosophy uud o true servant to
tho Divine Author; if thou but buxety
read, it will mako thee thy own wise man,
and tho author’s fool— Quarter.
It is tho naturo of every artificer to ten
der and esteem lilts own work ; and if God
should not love Ins creatures, it would ro
fleet disparagement on his workmanship,
that ho should mako anything that ho
could not own. God’s power never produ
ces what his goodness eanuot embrace.
God oftentimes in the same man distingui
shes between the sinner and the creature j
as a creature he can lovo him while as u
sinner ho does afllict him.— South. Jb.
“Wo touch heaven when we lay ouryund
on a human body.” This sounds much
like a moro flourish of rhetoric ; but it is
not so. If well mediated, it will turn out
to boa scientific fact; the expression, >ti
such words as can be had, of tho actual
truth of tho thing. Wo are the miracle of
miracles, —the great in sorutable mystery
ofjGod. We cannot understand it, wo
know not how to speak of it; but wo may
feel and know, if we like, that it is Verity
so. — Carlyle.
For a man to do his work to tho best of
his ability, to put all his energy into it, is,
of course, an obvious duty; to devote him
self to it is a sin. A man who devotes or
gives himself up to any work, to anything,
to any narno save One, in earth or heaven,
is an idolater. Tho language of one man'a
idolatry is revolting to us, the other com
mands our rospect; but the result is much
the samo in both ; the soul can bo smoth
ered in a lawsuit as effectually as in a beer
tankard ; and fifty years hence the fonher,
as well as tho latter, will bo gone, tuid tho
two men left equally bare, equally dead,
equally unprofitable.— Oalfiekl.
A Cornwall, farmer told us that his cat
tle wero so geutlo and kind that they fol
lowed him all over tho farm, and in passing
a haystack they would often call him, upon
which lie obligingly gave each one a lock
of hay. Tho traits referred to are not un
common among domesticated animals. Wo
were visiting a family last week in the vi
cinity of Goshen, and. having occasion to
cross a field where a male cow was grazing*
when he followed us to the gate with an
erger expression, and, lifting the gato olf
its hinges, ho took alter us at full speed.—•
No doubt ho would have called when wo
passed a hay stack, but the folks were wait
ing dinner for us aud wo couldn't stop. —
So wo left our coat-tail and a portion of
our pants on the gentle creature’s horns,
and went into the home.
Ono of tho raon connected with a rtfe
nagerio went to church recently; und heard
a chapter from tho Revelations. He said,
when ho came out, that he would like to
engago the porson who wrote about those
beasts with seven heads to travel with hid
show and lecturo on the animals.
When an Ohio railroad engineer detects
a rag baby on the track, lie immediately
reverses tho engine and stops the train ;
but let him have a chance at a human be
ing, and he dashes ahead at full speed, ex
claiming to tho coal-heaver, while a holy
enthusiasm lights up his countenance:—
•‘There's going to bo another angel bom,
Billy!”
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A Boy’s Composition. —Bees is a insect.
They sucks up hunney from posys and
stings boys what go foolin’ round era with
a stick or a peeco of a old shinglo. Shin-'
gles is made to cover up -houses so they
won't leak. I got stung onct on my nose,
and it swelled up as big as a meshanick 1 '
potater. and the boys called me “old Nosy.”
I like hunny, but when I eats too much I*
git the bel tho colic, awful. Bees are
moro usefuller nor flies, but its more trou
ble to tend to ’em. Bumble bees is tlttf
most fun. They wasent made to make
hunny, but to touch up fellers as mows in
to ’em in their shirt sleeves. Its better
nor a circus. Adieu.
Peter'.-
Tho repeal of the Sanborn contract law
in the National House of Representatives,
by a unanimous vote without a call of the
roll, is satisfactory. But it is to be regret
ted that Buch an infamous act was ever
passed. It has smirched a good manyrej>-
utations that would probably have never
been unsettled but for the txy
evil-doing which it afforded, and Ims made'
the morality cf even honest men sceni>
questionable. Wo trust that the warning,
oflogislation like this, which pnts a pre
mium oil corruption while professedly un
earthing it, will not he fost, and that w xr
shall have no more of such dangerous po
litical ferreting.
Chief Justice Chase, who administered*
tho oath of office to Lincoln in 1865, to-
Johnson soon attcr, and twice to Grant
made a practice of sending to the wifo of
the President the Bible on which tho oath
was taken, marking the passage therein
pressed by tho President’s lips.. Andrew
Johnson, we are told, kissed the twenty
first verso of the eleventh chaptor of Eztf
kiel, and Grant, in 18GD, tho one hundred
and twenty-first Psalm.
A New Hampshire farmer’s wife fell in
to a well, and it was four days before he
missed her and made search. He said ho
thought the house was unusually quiet, but
ha didn't know what made it sq.
NO. 1.