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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1867-1870 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1868)
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Advertisements inserted at intervals to be charged as new each insertion. The above rules will be strictly adheared to. 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 V>i; f^ r 13C8. Ths above returns being naw due. 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. 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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. J. W. F. BRYSON, 4 > 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’</’
