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pToTe'SS 10N A L CARDS.
DR. F. M JOHNSON
Dentist.
EKSPECTFCLLY offers hi* professional MT-TZSX
««rvlee« to the ettieen* of Cartersville
and rloiuity. He U prepared to do wfcrk ~ l llTTVrr
•o the lpu «t and moat improved style.—
Teeth extractej -'l., , |by means of narcotic
• prey). W • a ..t warranted. Office over.!. Elsas’
Sure, CARTKKSVILLE, Oa. Feb 20, 1866w5m
JERE A. HOWARD,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
PRITCHETT Sf WOFFORD ,
Attorneys at Law
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE OVER ELSAH STORE,
Oct, 17, 186 7^
THOMAS W, MILNER,
Attorney at Law,
fARTERSYILLE. GEORGIA,
Will at'end promptly to business entrusted
I * his care. Oct. 5 wly
JOHN J. JONES
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Carteravilh, Ga.
WILL attend promptly to all business en
trusted to his care. Will practice in
the Courts of bw, and equity in the Cherokee
t'ircuit. Hpecial attention given to the collec.
tiow of claims. Jan. 1, 1866. ly
John J- Jones.
TSTfTjjINTs
BEAL ESTATE AGENT,
CARTERSVILLE GA
I tm authored to sell, and have on hand several
W,.u.»s and and also numerous building lots In the
t««s of Oartersville. Also several plantations of van
out tliet in Bartow county. Parties desiring to buy or
• til will do well to give mo a eall. All communications
promptly answered. July 17. ISCS.
DR. O. PINKERTON,
Cartersvillc, Georgia
Toeders hi* professional services to the citisens o
artortville and surrounding country, aud will attend
' \U« at all hour*. Office up-stairs in Dr. Samuel Clay -
OVI Now Brick Building. May 10. 1867, wly
S. 11. Patti 11 o,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
tl 111 attend promptly to the Cutting, Repair- > §a
rs Ing and Making Boy's and Meu’s Clothing. gpl
Jfflco In back room of Blair A Bradshaw’s store, vfjk
Oartersville, Ga.
The Gartersville lloi cl.
DR, THOMAS MILAM having fe&A
charge of this House, would he
/leased to accommodate a few Board-0 *i ®
•rs with BOARD, with or withoutff a
Lodging. Call and see him at once for terms
Oartersville, Jan 17.
jrxW . r. nioirimiSTLE,
and Watch and
w Clock Repairer,
Ist the Front of A. A. Skinner it Co’s store.
Oartersville, jan 25
S. O'SHIELDS,
Fashionable Tailor ,
CARTERSVILIE, BARTOW COUNTY. GEORIGA.
tIS prepared to execute all kinds
of work in the Fashionable Tail- «T|
in;; line, with neatness and in du- ■ )I.£i
table style. Over J. Elsas & Co’s store,
Cartersville, jan 23.
Errors of Youth.
A Gentleman who suffered for yeara Irom
Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all
the effect* of youthful indiscretion, will, for the
sake of Buffeting humanity, send free to all
who need it, the recipe and directions for
making the simple remedy by whieh he was
eared. Sufferers wishing to profit by the
advertiser’s experience, can do so by address'
ing, in perfect confidence,
JOHN B. OGDEN, 42 Cedar Street, New
York. ' .
J. H. PURTELL!
MERCHANT TAILOR,
White nail Street, Atlanta, Ga.
CLOTHING made to order in the very
latest style, and at short notice.
ta, st.
Revenue Tax Notice.
TWILL RECEIVE, at mr office In J. ELSAS'Store
•UIMWI Returns for 1867 and article* in Schcd
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bs rsfanjttt fiomrdlatelv.
fcaMVELT A»DT P«ON'
If. S. Assi'Tknt
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
YOU 6.
FORCE'S BOOT AND SHOE
House.
ARE now rece 1 vine their FAll and
WINTER STOCK of BOOTS AN D V
SHOES, the largest ever brought to Lx W
this market. These goods came direct
from the Eastern manufactories, and win be sold to
Country Merchants and the Trade at New York prh-es,
expenses added, consisting of Mens’. lV*vs’, Youths’,
»nd Childrens’ Wax. Kip, Calf, and Bull Brogans and
Bulmorn’s—Boots of all styles, thick, wax, kip. calf,
dos the flaett qualities Ladles’, Misses’, andChil
nt’.B jots ant Shje3, of every style, and all made to
j e r G. II FORCE.
B. W. FORCE, formerly of Charleston will he glad
to see his old customers. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 10-!y.
A GOOD f O t PENING
BUSINESS.
THE undersigned, desiring to change his
business, offers to sell all bis stock, con
sisting of horses, buggies, hacks, carriages,
wagons, harness, provender, &c. also, to
either sell or rent his stable, known in Cartcrs
ville as the
ECLIPSE SALE & LIVERY STABLE,
to any one desiring to engage in the Livery
Stable Business, no place ill North Georgia
affords a better opening than Cartersville. It
is located in the veiy heart of Cherokee Ga;
surrounded by a country rivalled by no supe
rior in the South- A central point tor a great
area of territory, and Cartersville is one ot the
most flourishing towns between Atlanta and
Chattanooga, having grown trom about seven
hundred to near two thousand inhabitants since
the war, and is the principal point of trade for
thirteen counties and part 13 of counties. This
is the only stable in the plaee. For farther
particulars address or apply to
J. G. STOCKS.
Cartersville, Ga.
| • lan. 31st, 186S-tf.
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ER. SAS3EEN. B. W. YORK. K. T. JOUR JAN
SASSEEN'S
United States Hotel
Cor. Alabama and Pryor streets,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Within 100 yards of the Passenger Depot. .
SASSEEN, YORK and JOtJRDON, Propr’s.
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> Clerks.
R. T. JOURDAN, $
Dec. 20th, 18G7-tf.
B Xi A C K SXVX IT HIN Cr
2B A. & °M. GOODSOIt
JJAVING COMPLTED THEIR NEW
Shop adjoining Strange’s Tin Shop, on West
side of Railroad, Cartersville, Ga.. are prepared
to do all kinds of work in the Blacksmithing
line. They flatter themselves that they can
do as good work, and at as low piice, as any
like establishment in town. They ask a rea
sonable share of the public patronage, and
promise satisfaction both in the character of
their work and the reasonableness of their
charges. A. & M. GOODSON.
Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 31st, 1868-wly.
“ Wait for the
Jlnd ice’ll all take a ride,”
W *igp
and REP AI KING, by
J. W. MAULEY,
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA,
HAVING completed my new shop on
Mi in Street West side of the Railroad,
I am now prepared to put up to order
One, Two and Fowr-llor*?
WAGONS, CARTS, Wheel-Barrows and
Plow Stocks ; also, REPAIRING of all kinds
of vehicles done at short notice. Owing to
the stringency in money matters n v charges
will be as moderate as circumstances will ad
mit. My work recommends itself.
Cartersville, Jan. 23, 1807.
To Arrive.
iWII.L have on hand, in two weeks, a*
Agent of the Importer of French Glass,
300 Boxes of Allass of all sizes. Contractors
and parties wishing Glass will please call on
me. as I will sell s;' lower prices than any one
in Georgia can, as l am satisfied with the
commission paid me by the Importer.
I Feb. iih.lWwrr. *. R- KRAMER.
Cuitersvifle, (la.
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.. APRIL 24, \m.
PIANOFORTES!
r*IHF, undersigned would announce to the
| citizens of Cartersville aud vicinity that
he is fully pepared to furnish
PIANOFORTES.
Tflrju 7 0r 71-3 TT"j 77
OCTAVES, with all th# very latest improve
ments, and most elegant style and workman
ship, one hundred dollars less than they can
be purchased elsewhere south. They will be
fully warranted.
PIANOS TUNED and REPAIRED
In the very best manner, and all work warran
ted, and shall be pleased to give all orders
prompt attention.
MR, S, T. ANDERSON will kindly give
further information at present, and dehverauy
orders, or you can address, by mail.
P, L, PREQER. Kennesaw House,
Marietta, Ga,
Ho >s also agent for the sale of all kinds of
ORGANS, Jan 25wtf
EDWARD BECHTOLDT,
AX l) CONFECTIONER,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
§ S PREPARED TO BAKE and keeps on
1 hand, BREAD AND CAKES of every
kind, also a fine stock of OON t E )TION iRIES, a gen
eral variety. FKEStI LAGER BEKK kept on hand.
Parties and Weddings furnished at short notice.—
November 21, 1867.
'MURRELL & IRQ.,
Resident Dentists,
OFFER THEIR PROFESSIONAL SER
vices to the citizens of Cartersville and
vicinity. Having all the latest im-
provrnients in Dental Material, Drs, -ttyr f jifw
Murrell are prepared to Extract Teeth with
pnirt, Q.y «f A iva}. Insert on
Pivot, Fill with Gold, Os Artificial and Amal
gam, and put in Partial or Whole Setts of ar
tificial teeth on Gold or Vulcanized Base.—
Will direct the second Dentition of children,
and do anything pertaining to the proffession.
Alt work warranted to give satisfaction.
Office over S. Clayton <Sc Son’s Store.
References*: —T. J Young, MD„ M H.
T homas, M D and Dentist, W S R Hardman,
M, D., Monroe, Ga,
Cartersville, Jail. 23, ’67. wly
TO THE LADIES
PREMIUM FAMILY
SEWING MACHINES.
rj*!HE best machine for every description of
family sewing made.
Call and examine machine and specimen of
work over S. Clayton & Son’s store, Carters
ville, Ga- S. H. PATTILLO,
Agent for Bartow county.
Dec. 13 th, 1807-ts.
*-7' Actvc lomovce/my and /or/^
DRUG S, &C,
/com //c d/oic loom ane/cl //c
BARTOW HOUSE,
eerie/ eim 010 to /ocu/ce/ on
MAIN ST,
nccc/ </oo l /o
GILBERT & CO., HARDWARE HOUSE.
<= '//y /ictdona/ cr//cir/ton ed
eleven /o //tc e/id/tcndeny 0/
MEDIGIUES,
erne/ <=JT eim dc//tny a// eel
/tc/ed in my /tnc, duc/i erd
MEDICINES, OiL,
PAINTS, GLASS, &C.,
AS CHUAF
ad cart Aeune/1 j///to dame
ytea/t/y eo/icin/ieflt:, le=
>l/t eo//ff //y do/fed a coii/f itet
entce 0/ /Ac /tad/ Aenc/tiedd
.rj/ Aave Icccwee/.
J- IF 1 . 13TEST. M. _D.
Druggnt and Pharmaceutist.
Feb. 7th, 1868-wly. Cartersville Ga.
N. GILRE ATIf&SON.
GENERAL DEALERS IN
Dry-Good* and (Groceries,
ALSO,
Produce and Provision Merchants. Order*
for Grain or Provision promp-iy filled.
N. GILREATH & SON.
Feb. 7th, 1868-wtf. C artersvilie, Ga,
SADDLERY AND HARNESS
&&
MANFACTOR .
THE undersigned, determined to give the
people of Bartow and adjoiniiig counties
no excuse for going- abroad to purchase their
SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS, &C.,
and for repairing the same, have opened, in
the town of Cartersville, a regular,
SADDLE ANO HARNESS MANUFAC
TORY,
where they propose to pu„ up everything in
their line in the neatest, most substantia! ami
durable mannor, and at price* that will
defy competition. They flatterthem
selves that they can and will do work, which,
in evert respect, will compare favorably with
any work done North or South, both !■
quality aid price. Let no one ig
nore our work because it is done in the South,
nor our piicea, before giving us a t.ial, for that
is alf we ask to secure trade. Our work is all
warranted and that is a sufficient guar
antee to purchasers. We are determined to
build up a name and business in Cartersville
that will be a heritage to our children after
us, if proaipt attention, gooc work, and mode
late charges will secure that end, . Ramis it.
the front of the Eclipse Sale a nd Livery Stable,
THOMPSON <V STOCKS.
( artersvilie. Ga.
Jan. 7th 16rf.ji.fv, 1
*■
- * A
t GILREATH 4 SON,
Are reotiviag anew stock of
Spring and
summer goods,
selected by one of the firm in person, consisting, in
part, of
Gent*’ I-'urnistiiug Goods,
Ladies’ Dress Goods,
Ready-JTlade CLOTHI.VG,
habits’, fHissts' ani (Stntß' JfaU,
Boots and Shoes,
Hardware,
QUEENSWAR2.
Also, a well selected stock of
GROCERIES,
To which we invite the attention of our friends, »nd
beg them to cel and examine—especially to buy from
us, as quick sales and short profits is our motto.
N. GI Lit HATH & SON.
april 9, 1868. Cartersville, <Ja.
“ To Wheat Growers.”
On hand for the coming season
Wheat Threshers and Fans,
Railway .ana Lever Horse-
Powers,
Reaping and Mowing Ma
chines,
Grain Cradles,
And. in fact, every thing needed for harvesting aud
Cleaning the coming Grain Crop.
P. W. .J. F-CTIOt.S :—The Horse-power Threshers and
Uans I bought of you for myself and neighbors, last
year, gave perfect satisfaction. On the Railway pow
er, though working constantly, my mules fattened,
while my mules that were pi owing were falling otf.
J. F. SHIPP, Social Circle, Ga.
‘•The four-horse lever power and thresher and clean
er, bought of P. W. J. Echols,in 1567, we unhesitating
ly say is ttie best we have ever seen Though rather
late in the season when we received it, we threshed
over 7.000 bushels of Grain.”
BEGGAIILY & HUNNICUTT
Coweta county, Ga.
Any amount, of evidence given as to the quality of
these Machines. Cali HDd examine or address
P. W. J. ECHOLS,
Georgia Agricultural Warehouse,
Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
April 9,1868.
II u.jra\% are Ac Iron'
STORES!
HARDWARE,
STOVES,
Iron and Steel,
JA ORIGU Xu TAKA X_j
IMPLEMENTS /
Direct from Manufacturers, LOW FOR CASH.
W II GILBERT ami GO
Cartersville, Ga.
April 9, 1868 wly
Gun-smithing,
Cartersville, Oa.
, TAKE AIM! , I
Hi ready: hi
VJ F-I-8.-E ! jjJ
JTno. 3J 1 . "EIA'fI'WXLL.
Is still hammering away at his old tricks re
pairing PlMfol* ami Gun*, Thresh
ers, Gins, and all kinds of metalic ma
rhinen . also any kinds of work done in Iron,
Steel, Gold, Silver, Copper, Brat* or Zinc,--
Shop adjoining Strange’s Tin Shop.
april 9th
LIPSIND ESTRELLA OIL
Em i» o i* i ii ni!
COMB on*, cnsie all! anil secu-r a Lamp, which far ]
Beauty, Safety, Cleanliness, Economy and Brillian
cy, car not he excelled anywhere In the World ! The
Oil is prepared In Cartersville by the undersigned, and
he wiit always be ready to satfi.fy the most Incredu
lous.
Old Lamps fitted up with new Burners and Chim
neys. Safety Lamps always on hand three hundred
per cent cheaper than candles.
P. MARSH, Proprietor,
KIRKPATRICK'S DRUG STOEE.
apr9 why Cartersville, Ga.
DICK THOMPSON,
ANNOUNCES to hit former patrons, and all other*,
that he has returned to Cartersvltle, and is pre
pared to do anything in the line ot
House, Sign and
Onumental Paiating,
with cheapness, nestnes* uni dispatch. Oniy try me
and be satistieck FaOi*fas L«n warranted in -tery In- 1
ttanre. sprit 6. tWvj *;tf
A Rackelor'g Experience
Our Baby.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
It was a very pretty little baby
that is. for a baby. I had no fault to
tini with it, as far as its individual
identity is concerned. Il babies rausl
exist—and I suppose there is a neces
ity for the thing, or else where would
all the grown people come from l—
this baby was as well in its way as
any other way.
I mention these facts merely to prove
that lam no ways prejudiced. As far
as mortal man can be, lam an entirely
impartial witness.
I was fast asleep in its cradle—a
little whbeheaded doll, with long dark
eyelashes, ami a crimson dot of a
mouth, against which lay its tiny fist,
with five welLdefined dimples in the
five joints thereof. It was fast asleep.
I shy, when Bertha came airily into
the room.
“ I am going over to the depot to
see mother ofi, Joseph. I’ll be back in
half an hour. Just keep an eye to
baby while I’m gone, will you?”
I looled blankly at my sister. But
w hile 1 was considering how best to
express mv total dissent from her au*
daeious proposition, she tripped out
of the room, her ribbons fluttering in
the soft spring air.
Silence doesn’t always give consent
but Bertha had taken it for grained, in
this matter, and I was left an unwilling
guardian of my little nephew.
However he was fast asleep, that
was or.e circumstance in my favor. —
Mortal baby couldn’t present a more
innocer.l and cherubic aspect than he
did. So I calmly went on with my
writing, soon becoming oblivious to
his infantile presence.
“Talk about tending babies,” quoth
I to myself, dipping my goose-quill
triumphantly into the ink, “why its
the easiest business in life. I should
never spend my money hireing nurses,
il that little one was mine—but women
never do know how to economize
property.”
As these fancies passed through my
mind, the baby waked up and sneezed.
I gave the eradly an oscillatory kick,
and then burst fourth into the
known burden of “Bye a baby bunt
ing,” but the little villain absolutely
declined to shut his eyes again, like a
sensible baby. lie opened them wider
than two minaiure moons, stared at me
with an air of malevolence that has
made me a firm believer in human de
pravity ever since, and began to cry.
And the harder f. rocked the cradle
aud the louder I sang, the more reso*
lutely did that baby cry.
,“lie’s hungry,” thought 1 to myself.
“Babies must be fed, and its highly
reprehensible of Bertha to stay aw’av
so long.”
So I went down info the pantry and
instituted a searcli for some milk ;
which I had a vague idea was the diet
generally preferred by toothless infan
cy. But milk there was none. Lamp
oil; Stewart’s syrup; vinegar; kero
sene ; brandy ; everything but milk
was there ; every known or coneeiv*
able fluid, in agravating profusion—but
not a drop of milk.
All this time meanwhile, the roars
of my infuriated nephew, bu, slightly
softened by distance, followed me about
like a Numesis. *
1 rushed frantically upstairs, armed
with a lump of sugar, the first sooth
expedient that suggested itself to me.
“ Bless the dear little heart, there,
there; confound your racket, can’t
you keep still! Take .its sugar from
its own, own uncle, that’s a little gol
uen boy.”
But the golden boy resolutely re
jected the sugar, sceaming louder than
ever, as if its lungs were forty baby
power. and warranted never to tire out,
It kicked, it struggled, it pawed the air,
it grew purple in the face. Ashes of
King Herrod and all the Egyptians!
what was a man to do ?
In vain I executed a war dance
around its cradle, in vain I rang the
dinner bell, and jingled the china or
naments, and waved the feather-duster,
and swung my gold repeater, and
bawled nursery ballads at the top of
iny lungs. Talk about preseverance.
Houert Bruce’s spider was .nothing
to that atrocious little lump of mortali
ty.
“There’s nothing lor it but to capit
ulate,” said 1 to myself, as I jammed
my hat on my head, viciously thrust
my arm into my overcoat, md seized
the baby out of his cradle.
Leave il absolutely alone I dared
not ; and the nearest grocery w here j
milk was procurable, lay full three
bloeks off! Thus, in a sort of stony
despair I issued forth from the house
carrying iny persecutor like a bundle
ifr.dur mv arm.
I thought he would stop crying v hen
he got into the open air, but not he ;
oxvgen only seempd to increase the
the shrill power of his villainous little
pines! People turned to st'aFe at me.
as if I were an escaped lunatic, or an
abductor of infant innocence. Wo
men looked indignantly at the babv.—
Blue wonted socks and little pink legs
kicking blindly from beneath mv arms.
| Children ran after me. dogs barked,
but I kept doggedly on my \v!ly, walk
ing into the grocery, with ft resolution
second only to that of the Homan fel
low who jumped into a crater, nobody
•knows how many years ago !
“ A pint of milk, if you please.
“ Milk, sir? Have you brought any
thing to put it in ?”
I thought *of my tohaceo-box, my
pocket liatikercliief, the corner ol my
hat. all of these impracticable places
for the deposit of the lacteal fluid.
“1 never thought of that!” I said,
righting the baby, who came head up
permost with a very crimson counte
nance, and eyc3 looking detranfly into
mine: eyes that said as if they had
spoken in so many syllables, “ I won’t
stop crying. I’ll die first!”
'The stnrekeener looked on sympa
thetically.
“ I could sell you a nice little pitch
er sir, if—”
“The very idea,” 1 interrupted. “A
pitcher of milk! and please take tIk 4
change out of this porie-monnate. for
if I had three pair of hands, I couldn’t
more than hold this kicking little de
mon with thrm.”
“ Well, sir,” said the storekeeper,
“ he does seem a rare one for using
his legs, let alone his lungs. Yes. sir,
thank you sir !”
Now, I have always since laid it up
as a grudge against human nature, that
that unprincipled grocery-man took a
five dollar bill out of my port-monnaie.
knowing that I should not discover it,
until too late to rectify the error !
(I wouldn’t have treated a Turk so.)
I took up the pitcher of milk in my
right hand, still balancing the b thy
skillfully against mv lift arm and side,
and started for home.
“ Now, I’ll settle your business, mv
fine young friend !” I thought. “Is it
possible that I was ever such an tincor
rigible nuisance as this ?”
But my triumph was speedily re
duced to the lowest pitch of humilia
tion !
“ Dear me, Mr. Beverly, is it possi
ble that this is you ?”
It was Ivate Milton’s self, radiant in
spring bonnet, lilac silk walking-dress,
close.fringed parasol, and the daintiest
ol lilac kid gloves ! Kate Milton, with
an air of astonishment that served to
make her one tlegree prettier titan ever.
My first instinct was to turn and flee
ignominiously ; my second was to drop
my nephew and his milk into the gut.
ter, and resolutely deny all connection
whatever with them ; my third prompts
me resolutely to stand my ground.
“ Yes. it is I, Miss Milton—a—a
fine day.”
“ Very fine.”
Kate eyed me dubiously, and no
wonder. One sock, curling and twist
ing as if a serpent were in it instead of
a baby’s foot appeared beneath my
coat-skirts, flanked by about ?. quarter
of a vard of Swiss embroidery and
tucks, wofully crumpled by the fiery
ordeal through which we had both
passed—the milk (confound it!) had
dripped down the full length of my
pearl-colored pantaloons, and my hat,
bent and bruised, was thrust rakishly
on the side of ray head. I was glove
less, flushed and tlisheaveled, and. take
me 4 for all in all,” must have appeared
considerably like a pickpocket, or an
old clothes-man out for a walk.
I passed on, followed by the sound
of faint subdued laughter—a sound
that stung me to the quick.
So Kate and her companion were
laughing at me ; this was, indeed, the
unkindest cut of all. I resolved never
to dance the German with Kate Milton
again !
The house was quiet ar.d deserted as
I returned and inserted my night-key
in the little circular lock. What could
have become of Bertha ? The cold
dew oozed out upon mv brow as I, for
one instant, contemplated the horrible
possibility of being left a sort of mod.
ern Robinson Cruso, with that diaboli
cal little man Friday on my hands. i
Nonsense ! there was no possibility
of that. I sat down on Berlin s low
rocking chair and, planting the baby
firmly on my knee, applied the spout
of the pitcher to his month.
Would yo* believe il ? he wouldn’t
drink a drop. He screwed his mouth
as tightly > s 4’ lie never intended
to open it again, and doubled himself!
over backwards with a otrengtli or will ■
that would have been remarkable in a
full jrrQwn matt, but tva«, simply nt-ir- ‘
NO. 42.
ve!lc*«s in a tort months old 1 :>l v. I
perseverec.nnd lie persevered. f po’iJ'rnl
die milk over h'Mf neck, hi* embroidered
dress* waist, and his coral arhdtcK; lie
would h« u e hern drownen sooner ihari
to open his mouth half* a quarter sis an
inch. Probably, ot etiefi stuff were
our Revolutionary fathers made : and
this baby had, through some ins'-iuta
ofc blunder of Dame Nature, come in*
to the World just a cenfiiry too late. |
I put him bark in the cradle, flat on
his spinal column, and looked at biih*
rtiore in sorrow than in anyer.
“’My youngster P* £ addressed him, j
“ ery away, erv vour liitiss out'—birtak ,
a biood vessel or two it agreeable to
you l —fracture your trachea ! i can’t lie j
held legally respondilife fi>r it, thank
Providence ”
1 took tip a book arid sat down by
the cradle, rocking it :ee.&lessiy back
ward and forwards, regardless of the
screams which still rent the 'air. I '
wasn’t gninu to waste any more time j
in trying to quiet him. Let him cry !
This is a free country.
“ Why Joe! whatever is the matter!”
It was Bertha’s voice. I jumped up
as if a cannon ball had smitten me,
and dashed my boost upon the #oo*.
“ Matter, ma’am ! matter ? The
matter is that I’m going mad ! I shall
be a fit subject for a lunatic asylum in
just about fifteen minutes more 1”
But I might as well have wasted my
despairing,.eloquence on a blank wall 1
She didn't hear nor heed me. She
was loading that little wretch with
carresses, pity and blandishments. —
And I shoulcUi’t have credited the Sud
den turn pf'affairs, if 1 hadn’t wit
nessed it with my own ev es—the baby
absolutely laughed up in her (ace, as if 1
to say: “I’ve given my uncle a pretty
time of it.”
Yes—laughed and crowed, and held
tip his hands and behaved exactly as ts
lie had never in his small life known
what it was to shed a tear. The hip*
ocrites are not all grown up.
“ (las he been good, uncle Joe ?”
I looked volumes at my sister.
“ Bertha, if ever you leave me in
charge of that—that little atrocity. I’ll
commit suicide.” *
“ You neidn’t speak so loud,” said
my sister in an lujuied voice ; “1 in
tended to have been home before, but
tiie train was delayed, and—bless its
little heart, did it want to come to its
mamma’s arms —and was uncle Joseph
crosser than an old bear, and wasn’t it
the sweetest little rose-bud that ever— ’
I waited to hear no more, but rushed
precipitately out of the room, con
vinced that of all fools, a vounjr moth
er was the most hopeless specimen.
That is the last.time 1 have had the
heir of the family confided to my
guardianship. I think Berth’s little
afraid to leave me alone in the room
with him. “So mote it be.”
Rome one sent me a comic valentine
this fourteenth of February—a picture
of a hooked nose old bachelor—(my
nose is a tine Rohianeque curved) in a
blue coat and red trowsers. dandling
the baby upside-down ; 1 solemnly
believe it was Kate Minton.
I detest comic valentines. I abhor
babies —and I believe in a life of old
bachelorhood. That's my platform.
Do you wonder at it ?
Meeting for lUe Settlement of
the Debt <|uestioa» in Edgefield
South Carolina.
On Monday last, in response to a
call o's the Committee appointed, by
the meeting held in the early part of
Mare!:, to prepare a report proposing
some acceptable plan for the settlement
of old debts, mtr citizens, from all
oarts of tlte district, flocked to the
Court House.
The meeting was extremely large in
numbers and .very earnest in spirit and
intent. At the time the report was
submitted, the great Court room was
densely thronged. The approval and
adoption of the report was most em
phatic and unanimous.
Below, will be sou nd the proceed *
ings of the meeting, as we received
them from lire Secretary.
The meeting was organized by call'
ing Ex-Governor Piekens to the Chair
and appointing .f. H. Mims, Secretary.
The Chairman, after succinctly stat
ing wtiat bad been done at the previous
meeting, read the following report of
the committee:
COMPROMISE SKTTI.KME.Vt OP PF BrS.
The Special Committee have had
[under consideration the matter submit
ted to them bv the general meeting held
on sale-day in JMarch, at the Masonic
Hall, and beg leave to report as fol
lows :
According to the census, the distort of
Edgefield bad in round numbers 23.000
slaves. These at a valuation of ?30'», j
iu r wlii h they sold before tl*p war,
Would be eleven millions live hwndnd
tbsusarid doflars f9M.fi<MMK)O). Tlu*
was consider* *d safe arit*st::ble proper*
by, as much so as .*4l} thing held in the
South'; an Tt was aH swept ofl by the
results of ill* war, ami the acts of the
Government. The whole j ripolation
Went ii to the war with enthusiasm, and
arq equally lespopsible for it. We
have no tkfti upon which trt estimate
the capital vested in sucks and money
to he loaned OIK, bin shore is net just
reason why those who held notes or
tMiniU* tor mnuev, should not lose any
thing from the lace of the note* or
bomts, and that the whole artmitht,
iiild'rcsV and a!U ffbUuM be paid lip. bv
kneed sales, dollar ibr dollar, while
thorn? who owned lam! and negroes
should be cntitely sacrificed by tho
j war, in which all engaged alike, and lor
file eonseiptenees ol which, ail should
suffer equally. Fund has been* reduc
ed in value to almost nothing when
It rct'ff to lie sold in order to pay
mom*y, bonds, notes and morlgages.
The lubor that made them valuable bos
'• brCh abolished’, while nlost’ol our tare*
arc raised upon land, and' not* and
1 bondholder! ate cordpafiitivelv but
!ig! t'y taxed. Now we t'liink it but
proper atm' right thakn community thus
sitrtV.tWf oflgfif, as just and patriotic
rrtr*ri, rw Hume to some fair and »*quUa
| hie r'othyiromise by which the settle
ment rtf debts should be made. As
neighbor*, as fellow-citizens raised up
together in'all the walks of life, we owe
it to ourselves*, to-justice, to honor,
after our teccilMe ealhniities, to make a
biit* and friendly adjustment of all our
debts, and thus set am* example to other
Districts in our ruined and dishearten
ed State, so they can see that the Dis*
trict that' was amongst the first to lead
oil in the war. as a band of brother*!,
was the first to show that we are still a
band of brothers, and that brav« men
are always just and magnanimous.
Wc would, therefore respectfully re
commend to the people of Edgefield
District, that all notes, bonds, mortgag
es or debts now held, involving any
1 consideration, or based upon any obli
gations incurred during the recent war,
from Ist January, 1861, to the Ist of
May, 1805, shall be adjusted and
settled upon the basis of a gold stand
ard at the date of the contract or obli
gation, and then placed upon an equal
footing unth debts biforc the war.
We recommend-that all notes, bonds,
or moneyed obligations of an*.kind/
made or executed prior to Ist fjtauary,
1801. with interest, shall be reduced
to 25 cents in the dollar, and paid ift
currency.
We earnestly urge the general basis
ol settlement to be made by all our
neighbors and fellow-citizens, and
whenever it is not agreed to, then we
recommend that it be submitted to an
arbitration of three ar five men as the
parlies may agree upon, and the whole
matter referred to iliese for full and
filial settlement. This would relieve
us all from the heavy expenses of liti
gatiou in our Courts, ami before mixed
juries, composed in part of our former
slaves. It is well known that the
expense of litigation, under the general
distressed condition of our country,
will consume in most cases two third*
of the debt recovered, and if land b*
forced to nay it, that the sale ofl.uid
now will not pay the other third.
Wc therefore think the compromise
we propose to our fellow-citizens will
lie better lor both debtor aud creditor.
As to urttlertient of and» lit* due by
Guardian* to Wards, or by Administra
tion and Executors to widows and
minors, we would respectfully recom
mend that all such be made upon the
same basis, except that an arbitration
be made by thirteen good citizens
chos< ii by the parties alternately, and
that their settlement be presented to the
(’ourt, nil petition, p.aying that the
Judge or Chancellor shall confirm the
same.
We present the above basis of set
tlement to our fellow-citizens, and trust
that it will be adopted and ratified by
this meeting, as the Kontnnent of
Edgefield District, if generally acted
upon and acquiesced in, we hope it
would, to some extent, restore confi
dence and give new stimulus to indus
try, because most of us would then feet
that there was some hope for support
to be secured by honest laf>cr, and
u'orthy enterprise.- All of which is re
spectfully submitted.
.1. DEVORE, Chm’n, F. \V. Pickens,
M. Frazier, Ji'uus Banks,
G M. Yaubrucoii, Al \V Ct.vKv,
Thos B Reese, Abram Jones,
B C Ukyan. v Vm. Moss,
IV COOT,EM AN.
Ootnmi'tee of Eleven.
The meeting was then addre*aed in
an able and eloquent appeal by Dr. J.
A. Devore,in support of the report.
The Chairman then submitted the
report for the consideration of the
meeting. It was received with applause
and unanimously adopted.
On motion. Itrsolred, 'That the report,
together with the remarks of
Devore, be published in tb« .Vrfeersßfe
and that the other papers of ihe
and also the Augusta Chronictr <VH&n
littel and Constitutionalist be
to copy. V. W. Pickens. Chtn'ii
J. IT. bfittv Scervvary’</’
