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THE WEEKLY mwm& OMB, Is published even THURSDAY MORN IMG: In CvUMTtU»,lß»rtow 0 Ga., by Samuel IT. EDITOR and PROPRIETOR. Rate* or Subscription : «„[ ; \ three months, *I.OO i,,,,. rnftv six month, 2.«0 Oat ci'l Y oue > esr 8.00 (Invariably in advance.) ur- p»riie. J »dvertl.<u«e will be restricted in their thiir legitimate business; t int is to gay, r jvertnements that rio not ref-r to their regular :‘' f , n ,., s »!|| he charged for extra. •IT Advertisements insetted at Intervals to be -L*rr««i a* new ‘' a, ’B Insertion. '‘‘gjff The above rules will be strictly adheredjto. fToTe ss lON A L CARDS. JOHN W. WOFFORD! Attorney at Law, 4 iTiriSYILLTL 013081 1. OFFICE OVER CURRV’W store, Oct. IT. 1868. Commercial Hotel, Cartersville, Ga. JIY JOHN C. MARTIN Two 'TORI' HFItCK BUILDING. comer of Depo gqoareand Market Sireet, East Slds ts Railroad. good and comfortable. Karnitnre and Bedding new. u„nd office and tuacious Dining Room Tables well supplied w ith the best that the market itT ir ds, and charges moderate. The Proprietor hopes, by good attention to business, „ rete liberal share of patronage. Dec. 1, ISOS. R. VV. MURPHEY, attorney at law, Cartersville , Ga. WILT, practice in the the Courts of Cherokee Cir cuit,. Particular attention given to the collection «lclaims. Office With Col. Abda Johnson. Oct. 1 QR. F. M.JO HNSO N, Dentist, RESPECTFULLY offers his Professional services to the citizens of Cartersville JSprfSSaSg and vicinity. Jeis prepared to do work '<il7YlVt ou the latest and most improved style. Teeth extracted withont pain, !by means of narcotic nirsv 1 Wt rk all warranted. Office over Htokeloy's hIore.V'ARTERSVILLK Ga. Feb. 20 1868.—w5m JERE A. HOWARD, ATTORNhY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. CARTERSVILLE, GA. JOHN J. JONES, Attorney at Law, Cartersville, (>a., fTTILL attend promptly to all business en V* trusted to his care. Will practice in the Courts if L tw, and Equity in the Cherokee Circuit. Special attention given to the collec li hi of claims. .an. 1, 18G6. lv JOHN J. JONES, REAL ESTATE AGENT, CARTERSVILLE. GA. ! am authorized to sell, and have on hand several houses and Lots, and also numerous building lots iu the town of Cartersville. Also several plantations of vari ms sizes in Bartow county. Parties desiring to buv or sell will do well to give me a call. All communications promptly answered. July IT, 1866. BLANCE & PODD, A T T ORiN EY S A T LA W, CKDARTOWN, POLK COUNTY, GA. Will practice law in the several Courtu comprising the Tallapoosa Circuit ; also, Bartow and Floyd Counties. Partic ular attention given to the collection ot ciaims. jan 12,1 y WARREN AKIN, Attorney at liftir, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA Will practice in all the Courts of the State* <Vr»w W . K. HOVHTGASTLE, tnJcndlcr and Watcli and w Clock Repairer, the Front of A. A. Skinner & Co’s store Jan. 25 JAMES MILNER, Attorney atlLaw, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA. r;LL practice in the Courts of the Cherokee and ad joining Circuits, also the Supreme and District Courts. Prompt attention given to business entrusted to,my care. August 21 BSI6. —wly J, C. C. Blackburn, ATTORNEY AT LAYY EUHARLEE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA. Refersaces : Industry, promptitude and at tentici march 22. w'j T W Milner, O H Milner. MILNER & MILNER, Attorneys at Law, r ARTERSVILLE GEORGIA. Will attend promptly to business entrusted to their care. jan. 15. ly M. CALEB TOMPKINS, well known for 20 years past, as a first I Icl ass WJtTCU CLOCK, and JEWELLER EEPAIRER, MANUFACTURER, has com menced work one door North of his former old stand,on the East side ot the Railroid, Cak ■jkrsville, Ga. Wili sell Clocks and Watches Warranted. Nov. 10. wly Two Dwelling Houses for sale, rent, lease, or to exchange for Atlanta property, together "with everal residence and business lotss. s7 H PATILLO, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, Will aitend promptly to the Cutting, Kepair-,** in. and Making Boy*’and Men’* Clothing. If* Office on the Second Floor of Stokely & w il- \i,m hams’ New Brick Building. Entrance from—J*. Main Street, in rear of the building. Ftb IT. join F IIARWELL is still hammering away at his L o .* Tfiß trade, Repairing Guns and Pis tols, also GINS, THRESHERS, and MA CHINERY, of almost any kind; in fact, he is prepared, and can do, almost any kind of work in METALS, such as Iron, Steel, Zinc, Brass, Copper, Silver and Gold, Shop on Main Street near Gilreath’s Warehouse, on west side of the Railroad, Cartersville, Ga, JXO. COXE, J. H. WIKXE. Coxe &; "Wilde, Commercial Agents, NOTARIES PUBLIC AND attorneys at law, With Gen. W. T. Wofford, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Will attend promptly to the Collection of all Commercial Paper, Demands between Foreign and North Georgia Merchants, and also to noting Protests of Commercial Paper for non payment, etc., etc., etc. liefer by Permission, to Gen W T Wofford, Hon Warren Akin, W H Gilbert <k Cos, N Gil rea'h Son, Hon J K Parrott, Howard 4" Peacock, Cartersville, Ga. feb 21 wly S. O’SIHII'EJ-.-DS, Fashionable Tailor, CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA. Having just received Charts of the latest styles of Gentlemens’ and Boys’ Clothing, European and American, announces that he IS prepared to execute all kinds of work iu the Fashionable Tail- jfA *JuL oring line, with neatness and in Jilt, durable style. Over J. Elsas & Co's store. Cartersville inch ‘£3 THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS VOL. 8. Kenaesaw House. I.ociltcd at railroad dr pot.) rilHh. undersigned having bought the entire | interest of Dix Fletcher, Trustee for Lou isa W. I letcher, in tbc Ktnnesaw House, and the business will be conducted, in the fu ture, under the name and firm of Augustine A. Fletcher <V Frcyer. Thankful for past fa vors and patronage,they will strive to give the utmost satisfaction to all pa*rons of the Ken nesaw House. AUGUSTINE A. FLETCHER. MARIETTA. Jan. 12, ’J9. F ‘ L ‘ FREYER ' E. T. White, j. M> Lykes. American Hotel, ALABAMA STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. n i t r & Lykes, Proprietors. E A(>(i.\(.E, carried to and from Depot j free of Charge. May tl. 18(10 E. IL PASSEEN, R. U- MANN, Georgia. Tennessee. THE OLD TENN. AND GEORGIA ©. 9. S8I1&, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MANN, Proprietors. j J. w. F. BRYSON, ) , h AAC N. MANN, } C/efA ’** January 1, 1809. The Star Store, # # :£ :fc % JACOB ELSAS & CO., DIALERS IN DRY-GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS-NOTIONS, ftfi- SOLE AGENTS FOR THE Nashville Paper DXills. ESlijittbaU stmt, Fourth Door from the Corner of Alabama, ATLANTA, GA. JACOB ELSAS, MORRIS ADLER. JULIUS DREYFOOS. may H,'6#.wtf K, W. SATTERFIELD, G. W. SATTERFIELD. I\- W SATTERFIELD & BRO. AT The New Erick Store First lloor East of Railroad. CARTERSVILLE, GEOR GIA Have just received and opened an ENTIRE NEW STOCK OF STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, READY MADE CLOTH ING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, CROCKERY HARDWARE, AND CUTLERY, FAMI LY GROCERIES, ETC., ETC., ETC. To which they invite the attention of the public generally, being satisfied that I he enn and will sell goods as cheap, if not a lit tie Cheater, thaiany other house in town. The attention of the ladies is especially invited to our Stock of Summer Dress Goods. Gentlemen can also be fitted up with whntever they may IVant. Country produce taken in exchange for goods, at the highest market price. Having withdrawn from the late Firm of J. H. Satterfield & Cos, l would respectfully solicit the patronage of my old friends and customers. R. W. SATTERFIELD. June 24th,-w ly. FIRE AND LIFE JDrt ©emjantf* : SO. MUTUAL FIRE INS. COMPANY, Athens, Ga. Policy Holders participate in profits. /ETNA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Hartfoid, Conn. Assets over five millions, lift Companit*’: SO. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Atlanta, Ga. Gen. J. B. Gordon, President. CONN. MUTUAL LIFE INS. COM'Y, Organized 1816. Members !f!58,000. Assets 23 millions. Purely mutual. For Fire and Life’-Insurauce apply to JOHN T. NOKRIS, General Insurance Agent, Apa 122,1869. CARTERSVILLE, GA. “Tames p. mason", Book binder and Paper Ruler, ER LAWSHE'S BUILD’G. j (Tided Story,) Whitehall Street, ATLANTA GEORGIA. May 1, 1869 CARTERSVILLE. BARTOW COUNTY, GA.. AUGUST A, IS ID. DR. JOHN BULL'S Great Remedies. SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP! FOR THE CURE OF AGUE AND FEVER or CHILLS AND FEVER. P r °l?^« or of til's celebrated medicine justly cla ins f.,r H a superiority over all remedies ever offer ed to the public for the safe, certain, weedy and per when,er' C r e , 0r , AgUt , and FeVer .or ChilU ami vJZ whether of shorter long standing. ii e refers to the enure Western and Southwestern country to bear him testimony to the truth of the assertion, that in no case ! whatever will it fail to cure, if the directions are strict ly followed and ca' ried out. In a great many cases a single dose has been sufficient for a cure, and whole ! families have been cured by a single bottle, with a per fect restoration of the general health. It is, however i prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its I use is continued in smaller doses Tor a week or two af- i , <i,sease * ias been checked, more especially in difficult and long standing cases. Usually, this medl ; Cine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in good order; should the patient, however, require a cathartic medicine, after having taken three or four loses of the Tonic, a single dose of BULL'S YEIETA BLJ*. I AM’LY PIi.LS will he sufficient. [ UK. J015.Y HI'IJ.’S Principal Office No. 40 I'Htli, Cross street, Louisville, Kv. Hull's Worm Destroyer. Io my United States and World-wide Read ers: T HAVE received many testimonials from proses- L s.onal and medical men, as my almanacs and vari ous pub Rations liave shown, all of which arc genuine the following from a highly educated and popular phpsiciau in Georgia, is certainly one of the most sen sible eoirimuineationf I have ever received. Dr. Clem ent knows exactly what he speaks of, and his testimo ny deserves to be written in letters of gold. Hear what the Doctor says of Bull's Worm Destroyer Viilanow, Walker co., Ga, ) June 29th, 1860 $ DR. JOHN BULL—Dear Sir:—l have recently giv en your “Worm Destroyer' 1 several trials, and find it wonderfully efficacious. It has not failed in a single instance, to have the wished-for effect. lam doing a pretty large country practice, and have daily use for some article of the kind. lam free to confess that I know of no remedy recommended by the ablest authors that is so certain and speedy in its effects. On the con trary they are uncertain in the extreme. My object in writing you is to find out upon what terms I can get the medicine directly from you. If I can get it upon easy terms, 1 shall use a great deal of it. I art aware thalthe use of such articles is contrary to the teachings and practice of a great majority of the rea u/ur line of M. p.’s, but I see no just cause or good sense in discarding a remedy which we know to be ef ficient, simply because we may he ignorant of its com bination. Funny part, I shall make it a rule to use all and any means to alleviate suffering hum mtty which I may be able to command—not hesitating because someone more ingenious than myself may have iearn d its effects first, and secured the sole right to secure hat knowledge. However, lamby no nuans an ad vocate or supporter of the thousands of worthless nos trums that Hood the country, that purport, to cure all manner of disease to which hum in fiesh is heir Please reply soon, and inform me of youi best terms. I am,sir, most respectfully, JULIUS I>. CLEMENT, M. D. Bull’s Sarsaparilla. A GODD REASON F"R THE CAPTAIN'S FAITH, READ THE CAPTAIN’S LETTER AND THE LET TER FROM HIS MOTHER. Benton Barracks, Mo., April 30, 1866. Dr. John Bull—Dear Sir: Knowing the efficiency of your Sarsaparilla, and the healing and beneficiul qualities it possesses, I send you the following state ment of my case: I was wounded about two years ago—was taken prisoner and confined for sixteen months. Being moved so often, my wounds have not healed yet. I have not sat up a moment since 1 was wounded. I am allot through the hips. My genera! health is im paired, and I need something to assist nature. I have more faith in your Sarsaparilla than in any thing else. I wish that that is genuine. Please express me half a dozen bottles, and oblige Capt. C. P. JOHNSON. St. Louis, Mo. P- S.—The following was written April 39, 1865, by Mrs. Jennie Johnson, mother of Capt Johnson DR. BULL—Dear Sir: My husband, Dr. 0. 8. John son, was a skillful surgeon and physician in Central New York, where he died, leaving the above C. P. Johnson to my care. At thirteen years of age he had a chronic diarrhoea and scrofula, for which I gave him your Sarsaparilla. IT CURED HIM. I have for ten years recommended it to many In New York, Ohio, and lowa, for scrofula, fever sore's, and general debili ty. Perfect success has attended it, The cures effect ed in some cases oj scrofula and fever sores 'were almost miraculous. lam very anxious for mv son to again have recourse to your Sarsaparilla. He is fear ful of getting a spurious article, hence his writing to you for it. His wounds were terrible, but I believe he will recover. Respectfully, JENNIE JOHNSON. BULL’S CEDRON BITTERS. AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS. ARKANSAS HEARD FROM. Testimony of Medical Men Stony Point, White Cos., Ark., May 28,’66. T>R. JOHN BULL— Dear Sir: Last February I was In Louisville purchasing Druir*. and I got some of vour Sarsapparilla and Cedron Bit ters. ‘ Mv son-in-law, who was with me in tho store, has been down with rheumatism for some time, commen ced on the Bitters, and soon found his general health Gist, who has been in bad health, tried them, al Dr^ Coffee^wh^has 5 ’been in bad health for several year e-sUmaeh and liver affected-he improved very much by the use of your Bitters. Indeed the Cedron Bitters lias given you great Popularity in this settle ment 1 think I could sell a great quantity of your medicines this fall-especially of your Cedron Bitters and Sarsaparilla. Ship me via Memphis, care of Bickett <fc Neely, KespecLu.ly, All the above remedies for sale by L. H. BRADFIELD, Druggist, WAITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, CIA. ftb 20, 1869hHj/ Front ihe Southern Watchman. thecorjKTUY weudixg. In June, 183‘J, I was invited to a j country wedding. Mr. Tab, the bride’s ! father, was u tall, slender, thin-visag ed old uian, particularly fond of his dram, and of.en took more than was | agreeable to his family. His wife, just the opposite, was. fat and clumsy, ! weighed over two hundred, like all fat persons, walked slow, panted and ; caught her breath when talking, was a good old Baptist, and a “night rider.” I arrived at the house about 4 o’clock P. M—there had been no rain for ten days—the dust and heat al most suffocating. The first thing that | attracted my attention was a large log ; hue, about ten steps from the front, ; door, a fork set up at each end, a pole laid a cross them,' and two large iron pots hanging over the fire, gipsy style; the house built of j logs, and about twenty feet square; the first room, used as a parlor, had a bed, side-board, half-dozen split-bot tomed chairs, and seats made by lay ing a puncheons on two chairs, the puncheon covered with a bed-quilt; on the side-board was placed a bottle of corn whiskey, two tumblers and a stone pitcher of water; a shed on the back of the house ,vith two small rooms, just large enough for a bed. a chair, and a small table. One of these rosms was the bridal chamber, and the other the reception room (for the bridal part}'.) I walked in and thro’ this room, and found the bride and bridesmaids already dressed. The j bride was about live feet high, weigh ed about 130, was thirty-live years old, black hair and blue eyes, heavy eye brows, very low forehead, thick lips.— Her face seemed swollen, her eyes be- I ing almost hid; had no pallet to her mouth; talked very badly, and as if talking through her nose; strangers could not understand her; from some cause, one leg was much shorter than the other, therefore, limped very badly; her dress a white muslin robe with deep scallops, so as to show the work as much as possible; a linen apron, reaching to the embroidery; a thread cambric cape, the ruffle around it and iu the neck, about four inches wide, starched very still' and not being plait ed, looked like the wind had blown it every way; the ruffle in the neck stand ing up to her ears; a veil of plain bob inet, with cotton edging round it, starched stiff as buckram, laid in folds across her head, instead of hanging ! down, stood straight out as if laid on a I board, the edging just reaching to her | heavy eyebrows: white kid slippers, | with strings of white satin ribbon about two inches wide, wrapped round her ankles and tied in a dnnhled-bow knot, the ends touching the floor; the scal lops, reminded oue of a booted chich en—the sleeves of the dress, long and full, a yard of white satin ribbon on each wrist, tied in a bow, the ends hanging loose. After the usual compliments, she asked me, (speaking through her nose, barely intelligible,) l ’Ow do I look ?’ ‘Of course,’ said I, ‘you always look nice, but why do you wear this dress ?’ ‘W-e-1-1, you see, I was baptised in this dress ten years ago, and I always said I meant to be married in it, and now I mean to save it to be buried in.’ ‘The three most important events of your life. Why this linen apron ?’ ‘W-e-1-1, Betsy, (first bridesmaid) said the dress was so old-fashioned and narrow, and no gathers before, and I must have a white apron, so I Towed linen would be the nicest, and we gathered it full, and I think it looks mighty nice.’ ‘O, yes, first-rate. Why this cape ?’ ‘You see it’s mighty fine, and I wore it to brother Bob’s wedding, and Tow ed ’twould do.’ ‘Yes; and I suppose you must have : a veil ?’ I ‘N-o-w, you see, I had this when I had that bi g Leghorn, and I Towed ’twould do just as well as to buy a new one, and Betsy she starched it good for me.’ ‘Certainly, it’s well starched and ve ry nice.’ About this time, the groom and his attendants came. The groom was a tall, slender man, about fifty years old; i a living skeleton; had the shaking pal- ! sy; with a shrill, squeaking voice; white pants, blue coat, white cravat, | four inches wide, tied in a bow, the i i ends hanging nearly to the waist; white vest, gilt buttons, white stoek iugs and black slippers. The first bridesgroom, James P., 22 years old, a short, fat man, with a bushy head, ; his clothes and the cut dl them ac | cording to the fashion of that day, waited with Betsy, a tall, slender old maid forty years, old, large white eyes, constantly blearing and blinking, dressed in white, her hair combed smooth like all old maids, with a wreath of yellow marygolds and cedar. The other bridesgroom, Henry L., a tall, well-proportioned man, about forty, also dressed in the fashion of the day, with keen blue eyes, likely to see everything passing, waited with a girl sixteen, weighing one hnndred and fifty, with red hair and blue eyes, dressed in white, with a wreath of j large red roses and cedar. The bride and bridesmaid seemed ' delighted to see them; said they thought them late coming, (the sun ; I then two hours high.) After passing j compliments, the bride took a quart ! bottle filled with the essence ofpepper j mini in her left hand, and pouring it in her right, commenced sprinkling the house—lloor, beds, hearth, chairs, ev erything and everybody iu the house, particularly the bridal party —using the whole quart. I asked, ‘What on earth are you doing ?’ ‘W-e-1-1, you see, peppermint always was my favorite perfume, and I Towed to have eveiything to smell good,— Don't you think it’s nice ?’ ‘O, yes, I like peppermint very; much.’ It was the custom about twenty j befoie this, to have eandle-bear ; ers; so, of course, the bride thought it absolutely necessary to have them.— Two little girls, about twelve years old, dressed in white. The bride then sat two chairs at one end of the room, and I taking the little girls by the hands, | seated them. She then commenced placing chairs at the other end of the room-—I wondering why she should be , hopping round with the chairs. No | ! one spoke or assisted her until she had j placed six in a semi-circle. She then i took each attendant by the hand sep- i ; arately, and seated them as they were j Lo stand during the ceremony; then | taking the groom by the hand, seated ; him in one and herself iu another by S him, having the attendants on each ; side. She then retted her elbow on 1 his knee; he crossing his legs, threw j I his leg and foot across her lap; sitting j in that position with their faces al- j most touching, whispering. The at tendants also commerced talking.— i After seeing all things arranged, as 11 thought, to the satisfaction of the par-1 ty, and that they would remain so till early candle-light, I began to wish to | know what that fire in the front yard had to do with the wedding. I made an excuse that I wished to smoke, and ; would go and get fire, ass saw some 1 in the yard. When I went out, the J old lady and some three or four ne-! gro women, with eight or ten little ne- j groes, were there jabbering about Miss Peggy (the bride.) Suky—Well, Jinny, I dun bin see , Miss Peggy. I tell you, she look kill- j in’. Jinny—She do dat; look out de ashes to-night. Molly—Who eber think Miss Peg gy gwrno to look so killin’. Sally (who was the head of the lot, all, white and black, expected her to finish everything)—What you all stand here mouthin’, mouthin’ ’bout Miss Peggy for ? She my child; all know dat; done nusher from a baby to now; told you she gwine to many some er dese days. Who gwine to do better ? Now, all you gwine to want er go wid her; shan’t do it; she my child, she is; old Miss know it too. Many time I’se took dat child, when old Miss gone night-ridin’, and kep’ her, for she all de gal old Miss ever did have, and old Miss tink most as much of dat child as I do, don’t you, old Miss? How long this jabbering would have continued I can’t tell, but I cut it short by asking of Mrs. Tab, ‘Why did you make this great fire out here such a terribly hot day ?’ ‘Well, 1 Towed there’d be so much to be done, and all the niggers will have to do somcLhinjj for Mamaret. (the bride) and i lowed 1 better coue uuv doors.’ ‘Have you got to get supper now ?’ ‘Jest to make coffee and biscuit; and one coffee-pot won’t hold coffee for this many foiks, so I’ll make it iu these two big pots. Sally knows, and slie says that’s the best; and here’s the ! gourd to dip it up with and put in the coffee-pot; don’t you think so ?’ ‘O, yes, that’s the best way, and so little trouble to aunt Sally.’ By this time the company were col- j lecting and I went in to witness the ; ceremony. The room, as I said, was ■ about twenty feet square, a small win dow in one end and a large fire-place, taking up at least one-half of the oth er end, with a large lightwood fire blazing and cracking, the room almost hot enough to roast an egg. The com pany being seated, Betsy, (the brides maid) came in, set a caudle-stand in the centre of the room, placed a Bible and hymn-book on it, called on two stout, healthy looking young men to hold candles, giving each a branch sil ver candle-stick, with three small, dark looking tallow candles in each stick — placing them between the candle-stand and side-board, about four feet apart —then placed the two little girls on each side of them, giving them a brass candle-stick with a candle in each stick. The silver candle-sticks being very heavy, the young men had to use both hands to hold them study, and the little girls, seeing them use both hands, thought it right, so they used both. She then placed the minister be ! tween the gentlemen. There stood the minister, with two candle-bearers on i each side, bracing themselves to hold | the candles steady. However, those 1 eight candles with the blazing fire on j the hearth, gave a brilliant light, to j say nothing of the heat. In a few minutes, the bridal party came out, and instead of coming out arm-in arm, joined hands and come out sidewise, iu a hue, like playing chickamacomico; placing themselves between the candle stand and the blazing fire, facing tbe minister, still holding each others’ hands, when the minister said, ’join the light hands.’ Henry L. had to force them to let go, and joined them for them. The ceremony being over, a gentleman said to the bride, ‘I congratulate you!’ ‘Thur?’ (meaning sir.’) ‘I congratulate you S’ •Thur?’ ‘I wish you much joy !’ ‘O, much obleged to you, thur.’ Toddy, made of the corn whiskey, was handed to the ladies; the gentle men all walking to the side-board, took a drink; the candle-stand and Bi ble were removed by Sally, (house ser vant) who by this time had come in to wish Miss Peggy much joy, and to tell the happy bridegroom what a jewel he ' had in Miss Peggy. Soon after, sup per w T as annonuced; the table being up stairs, or rather in the loft—fox one could scarcely stand, upright— with one small window in one end, a capacious fire place at the other, with a large log fire burning brightly; a large iron pot filled with boiling water; a large tub on the hearth to wash the plates for the second table; the table in the centre of the room, had a cake at each end, about the size of a break fast plate, two inches thick made of coarse country Hour, almost as dark as gingerbread, with loaf sugar grated ou 1 them. These cakes were laid on a I bow] turned bottom upwards, with a largo piece of cedar wet in water and | rolled in Hoar—making them look I like they were covered in snow—stuc k in each cake. One saucer of almonds j and one of raisins; biscuit dough roil ;ed thin and cut with a thimble, was | laid in four saucers, just thirteen piec es in each saucer, sugar grated over them; a saucer of pickles and one of preserves; two or three plates of bis cuit cooked over the Jluze, covered j with smut and ashes; tho candles in j two stands made of plank cut round, about the size of a dinner plate, bored full of augur boles as could be without splitting the plank— each hole having a dark tallow candle stuck in it; the ! room was so warm from the fire, that j the candles soon melted and run | down —being so thick or so much in a bunch, looked like a torch; a side table j with ham and roast chicken. The ! bride was seated at the head, and the I bridegroom at the foot of the table; the company were seated at the sides, on seats made of boards on two chairs covered with a quilt; the attendants, male and female, waited ou the table, aunt Sal lie directing and telling how much trouble they had in getting up such a nice, big supper for Miss Peg gie—but God kuow’d she didn’t grudge it to her, for she was all the gal old miss ever did have, and she ought to have a big supper, and should have it. The company soon finished eating, as also the groom; the bride continued to eat—sending her plate to the side table for chicken, (pronouncing it slacken;) she noticed the bridesgroom had finished, and sent word by Henry L. to him, that he must not stop — he must eat a belly full. He returned answer that he had eat a belly full, and could eat. no more. She sent again, that she had always said when she got married she ment to eat a bel ly full, and would do it —sending her plate at the same time for some more shiclcen Her plate being gone, Henry L. thought it a good time to let the company rise, as all had been waiting on her alone for some time. Just as the minister commenced returning thanks her plate was set before her for the fifth time, loaded with slacken. — She had just raised the knife and fork to commence eating, and sat in that position, head clown, with the knife and fork ready to commence—and as the company left the table, she com menced again, and I suppose eat until she was satisfied. W hen we went down, the bride took her seat on one side of the door, smoking a pjpe, the groom on the oilier, chewing tobacco. I walked up and asked, ‘Just married, and smoking ?’ Bride—‘Yes, I’m old ft Iks now.’ ‘Well, as you both seem so happy, I should like to know how it happened that you made up this match so se cretly ?’ Bridegroom, (speaking in that thrill, squeaking voice) —‘The first time I ev er seed her and heard her speak, I was charmed with her voice, and never could rest until she promised lo have me.’ \ Bride —‘W-e-1-1, you see, Mr. Oliver ; was jest the sort of mau I always said I meant to many; and when he went off to see his folks, and stayed two j whole weeks over his time, I was so miserable I tuck to smokin.’ ’ I said I had no doubt but that was a great comfort to her. After the smoke, they left the door, the happy bridegroom lying down on the bed, (in the parlor,) the bride sitting by the side of it, hands clasped, talking over their east troubles and present happiness. The old man having too much of the corn, staggered to the bed, telling them ‘it’s bed time.’ They moved off, and he went to bed—tho company ail in the room. The minister then took leave of sister Tab. She said, ‘I ’lowed to send the children some cake, but ain’t got none; all these boys here ain’t axed, must er stole it, for we made three whole pounds of cake, and I know that orter been more’n ’nough for twice this many folks.’ The bride sad there was no use in going to such expense as to make a night gown, so only took oil her veil and slippers The next day, about three o’clock, 1 P. M., the dust "and heat intolerable — ■ the happy couple walked one and a half miles through the sun (no um | brella) to make a call. Come all the i way hand in hand. He had on his bridal attire. She was dressed in crim son mareno dress, cape and bonuet, (sun bonnet,) all of the same —black silk apron and leather shoes. He said he was happy and well. She said she was not well; had been sick all night and all day. She reckoned she had eat too much shaken, and I reckon so too. A GEORGIA TRAVELER. Tlie Cincinnati Exposion cl Textile Fabrics. Some time since we published that Mr. James A. Chappell was traveling thro the Southern States to induce our Southern manufacturers to send sam ples of their goods to the great Expo sition of Textile Fabrics, to he held in Cincinnati, and we urged it as an ex cellent means to open u ' a commer cial intercourse with the great Lest, and thus secure a large and valuable market for cur productions. We see that a meeting of committees has been held in Cincinnati Air. Chappell made his report, by which it appears that sixty-four Southern manufactur ers have agreed to exhibit their goods, of which twenty-eight are in Georgia; Tennessee, fifteen; Mississippi, nine; Alabama, six; Kentucky, three; South Carolina, one:. Georgia, it will thus be seen with her usual enterprise, has taken the lead. Mr. Chappell reported a growiug in terest iu the South iu manufactures. Good are already being received.— NXT . , Arrangements arc* being made for half fare traveling on the railroads. Pre miums of $25 and SSO are offered for the best samples of different jeans, flannels, tweeds, cassimeres, satinets, blankets, cottouades, osnaburgs, yarns, carpets, wools, shawls, liuscys, beav ers, cloak-cloths, repellents, meltons, stockings, bale-battling, grain-bagging. ! cordage and twine, sewing silk and twist, worsted braid, cotton wadding; j and SIOO is offered for the best bale of new cotton.—Cincinnati Gazette. Uncle David. —Years and Years ago when I, a little girl, lived in the “house where I was born,” a quiet old home stead surrounded by fertile fields and neighbored by acres of nlmost prime val forest, for what is now a central State was then the “far West,” I lmd an uncle, David Burton. What a clear, vivid, lifelike picture that name recalls to me; and yet I know I can not reproduce it for your benefit, read er, for you never siw him, never knew him, and, above all, he was not your uncle! To me, as a child, he seemed the wisest, handsomest, and greatest of men; and yet he was only the son of a farmer, who was the son of a farm er; and so on, I doubt not, might his ancestors have been recorded back to the time when the memory of man j runneth not to the contrary. Very wise he could not have been, for he and his only brother performed ; the farm labor of a hundred acres; and yet he did find time each week to ! read both a political and literary news paper, and managed his affairs so well that ho never lacked the means of ob- j tainiug now then anew book—a luxury rare in the homes of our neigh bors of much larger means. Handsome, I am sni’o even now and then be was. Like David of old, “lie was ruddy and of a fair countenance.” Os fine manly proportions, nearly six i feet in height, with thick, curling, au burn hair and beard; he had a clear, honest, fearless blue eye, that was al ways quick to flash and kindle with delight or grow moist and tender with deep feeling. Great I know he was not, save in the sense of having great, undeveloped, or only half-developed, powers, which he himself never knew, and of which he had scarcely dreamed. He was not even so groat physically as my child ish fancy made him, when no feat of giant in nursery story seemed to me j so astounding as the one performed before iny very eyes, standing upon the floor of our low ceiled sitting room, he touched the old beans over head with his hand. Ah! he never seemed to be to me like other men now; nor would I destroy the illusion that cross my daily path.—Phoebe, in Harpers’s Magazine for August. We\r of Bailroads.— The average wear of the hacks of the railroads of the United States is estimated at seven per cent, per annum. Taking the length of the roads at forty-two thou sand two hundred and fifty miles, the annual wear consumes sufficient iron to lay two thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven miles of track or enough to lay a road from here to San Francisco. Ninety tons are required for a mile of single track, so that two hundred and sixty-six tkousai and oue hundred and seventy-five tons of iron are used up anually by the locomotives and cars. An (l dinary hot-bed is a capital place for drying fruit. A floor is laid inside on which to place the fruit.— Then put on the sash, but bo sure to raise both the upper and lower ends about two inches, to admit of a free circulation of air, or the fruit will bake jis in an oven. Here the fruit will not be wet in a shower, nor will it Le troub led with insects, which will be kepi away by the covering and the iutense heat. Porboiled green corn has been sufficiently dried in one day, in this way. From the S. C. Advocate Tfiiaiaiisgivlus fora‘‘»ctnljobu ol WliisHcj Mr. Editor: —l believe in the Press— “the fourth estate of the realm.” No man knows its power. Its Briariau hands touch every sphere of life and affect every department of activity.— The influence of the press is felt in every flbre of our civilization. It dis cusses all questions. There is no issue so grave but that it may be flippant in in the disposal of it; there is nothing so trifling that, upon occasion, it will not magnify it into grave importance. Its voice directs those great movements of the people that make or unmake administrations aid it determines the result of an election for constables.— It sets for? aid a grand enterprise of science and energy like the Atlantic Cable or tne Pacific Hailroad and re ports the proceedings of a village de bating society; it tells the world of po litical revolutions that give new gov ernments to millions, and paiades in a perfect ecstacy of interest, the details of the last prize fight or trotting match. The press wields the best and tin worst, the most conservative and the most destructive agencies that give shape to society and sow the seeds ol histories yet to be. It is obiquitous and impressible. No man is beyond its influence; one cannot stay in soci ety and avoid it. To escape it he must get out of the world—as he would es cape the atmosphere. The press and public opinion are tin Siamese twins of society; what moves the one aspires the other. Public opin ion is reflected in the press and tin press forms public opinion. The one may be judged by the other. The ut terances of the press give ns the dia thesis of the times. The newspaper if a sliding scale by whh h we measure the rise and fall of public and of private virtue. Do the conductors of the press generally know ihe tremendous power of this enginery? The words of Osar : were but the luuid of ft child to tliLs i j Hercules of our civilization. Is the press outside the great law of responsibility to Go 1 that binds every soul to "obedience of the truthV” Are publishers and editors, like railroads i and other corporations, without souls? and shall they, along with Baiboad ; Superintendauts and Directors, claim for themselves utter irresponsibileness II to God and man? Is it not true of publishers and editors, as of other I uicn, that thu abuse of a groat power is j the per version-of a great trust? a he nious sin against God and a grievous j wrong upon man ? I AN e give thanks that among the con j doctors of the press are earnest and true men who fear God and lul>or for man's peace ns ever in the groat task master s eye.” There are some who 1 have words of cheer for every good tiling, and who, unmoved by bribes or frowns, look sin in its brazen face and, in God’s name, rebuke it—always and everywhere. Heaven grant them re inforcements, for in the wide harvest field such laborers ire few.” AN bat the press is, what it ought to be and what it may be, what influence it is now exerting, are questions of grave importance to every good nun who thinks. It is a matter for thanksgiving that I certain classes of publications do not , have their origin in the South. There is not a Southern city that would sus i tain such treasuries of villainous wood j cuts, obscene recitals and diabolical j suggestions as are paraded before thu | country in those darling organs of ' Pandemonium—the "Police Nows,” | and other “creeping things” “after its kind. When the depraved among us delight their prurient tastes with such rase-bits of sensualism they are oblig ed to impoit it. It takes New York or Chicago to cater successfully to such appetites. Up to date, Southern Bish ops—Heaven bo praised!—have not entered the columns of Bonner’s Ledg er—trotting for pay with “Dexter and Beecher. But the carnal appetency is showing itself. The importation of this depraved literature is constantly increasing, and if the truth may be spo ken—our secular press is largely re sponsible for it If this result is in tended, and tho wicked things that are written and approved by some of our editors are simply spontaneous ex pressions of the thoughts they think and the principles Ihey entertain: if they write as they do, because, being what they are, they cannot write oth erwise; or, if, different to the good or evil they may accomplish, they only “grindfor tlu'. toll,” in any c;ise the char acter of many of our daily papers de monstrates the mental and moral uu fitness of their managers and editors for the places they have presumed to occupy. The time has come when—“for tlio money’,—the most disreputable busi ness may be advertised and the most unworthy adventurer bo editorially endorsed in thecoluws of three-fourths of the secular papers in this country. There is not a vagabond gang of tenth rate minstrels—too mean for editorial Mff.YgM'TNT so contemptible with its spavined hor ses and so loathsome with its drunken men and coarse women, that editorial rhetoric cannot be bought to exalt it into a “m tgniricent cortege”— “a most delightful entertainment;” there can not come this way an intimation of Black Crook, or other Devil’s show so appallingly nude, so revoltingly ob scene, but that editorial sanction shall immediately glorify it as “a chaste ex hibition”—a “spectacular drama of thrilling interest.” Os the majority of theso papers there is hardly a single issue that is not defiled with disgusting personalities, with half suppressed blasphemy, with low jests and doable entendre that may amuse the wits of the bar-room and the bagnio, but that make every pure woman blush and e:- ery right-minded ashamed. If to any charitable person those remarks should s°era unduly severe, I only ask that he will attentively consider what evi dence of their truth the next dozen pa pers, he may chance to see, will object to my statements only because they are deficient in fidelity of analysis and energy of expression. Ou last Sunday morning two, at least, of the daily papers published in this city presented to their patrons along with religious notices—for Sab bath reading, extravagant laudations of a ceitain “ale house” and drinking shop that in the local column had won editorial favor by the munifieient pres ent of a whole “Demjohn of Whisky!” It tkew these gentlemen into astute of preternatural mental activity while they invoked both prose and poetry to express their unutterable gratitude.— You may think that my account of the iffair is mere burlesque, but I assure you, sir, there was no burlesque about iheir gratitude—it was sincere and rapturous. One of our city papers has repeatedly within the last few months, publicly returned thanks to various ' tar-keepers for so small a favor ns a single ‘bottle of whisky. ’ In this lat ter case it is not easy to determine whether so violent a strain upon cour tesy and gratitude is the evidence of uncommon thirst or of extreme “nn pecuniosity.” Not long since we wero regaled with in editorial leader, strong and elo quent, in commendation of a certain ‘Lottery,” located here and run in the name of Mason ary and benevolence; ■■or which I refuse to believe that Mn -ionary is responsible, and upon which sinco it so antagonizes the Paulino ind Christian methods of benevolence, [ cannot expect the blessings of Hcuv •n to rest. I rejoice to know that here was one paper, in Atlanta, that •ould not be bought over by “the mau igement,” to the advocacy of this im moral device for making an easy living (Conclud'd on Second Ibige.J