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THE CUTHBERT APPEAL.
ipoairiaY.
GOD BLISS TOO.
How iwcotly full those simple words
Vpon the human heart,
When friends lone boniwi bs rtroo«ctst ties
Who tin* In love care» yon,
And soul ro^ponrlve beats to soul
When breathing out “God blew you P
••God blew yon!" ah long mouths ogo
l heard the mournful phrase,
When ooe whom I in childhood loved
Vmr.rmmi
Now blinding tears fall thick and last,
I mourn my tou* l«wt treasure.
While echoes or the heart bring back
The fprewcll prayer, ••God blew Joul'’
Tire n^olher sending forth her boy
To reenas untried and new?
Llsr* rot a studied stately speech,
Vor mnrmum out “adieu.”
81w sadly says lx-lwccn lier sobs.
•• WhenVr misfortunes press jou,
Coroe to thy mother—boy, come buck,”
Then sighs. "God bless Jon!'’
••find Wf jour p*or« of, love cxprptf?, .
Than-t^lmAe* wlthortf ntmliev^
Reveal welhnsour trust in Him
Whose eyaliils never slumber.
] aak in parting no long speech,
Unwrtuft dut Iff sMBlctl Wafure, -' 'th
I only ask the dear old words
So sweet - so sad- -"God bless you P
Vol. I.
Cuthbert, Georgia, Friday, February 1, 18G7.
FTo. 14.
®l)t (Hutl)btrt appeal.
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ITUX ROT ILL.
Nay, speak no! m t ft kindly word
XfifcMWf,leave uijbu bphiud j
Aftl. lk't* brratlM uooli lale we’ve heard
Is tar brntetb a noble mind.
Full oft u better need is sown
fly choosing thus the kinder plan ;
For If but tittle good be known,
8till let us speak the best \\c can.
Giro us the heart that fain would hide,
Would fai x another’s faults efface ;
Hots can it pi com e'eq human pride
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No! let us t each the higher tuood.
A nobler sffhtlmeut of man;
Dc earnest in the search or good,
Aud speak of all the beet wc can.
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PRonucitu*.—Them are two many
people trying to “make a Jiving" with
out work—without contributing to the
BUp|Jy of food ttnd raiment, und other
necessities of the community in which
they lire They wish to get their profits
out of tin: producers, and oUtets, whose
business is n neeessury adjunct to these
producers. Such men add nothing to
the wealth of a comunity—they are
drones. Some rhymeter jingles the fol
lowing’fllwint the enrs of such :
“The Shy lock wtio w iih head erect,
with honest people mingles, should caste
to shove his fellow man, and go to sit liv
ing shingles. The lawyer would be bet
ter oft bis science fur less pliant, who
owned a little furm in fee, and made that
furm a client Wo have some doctors
ia our midst, whoso talents they should
use, by practicing the healing art—heel
ing boots and shoes. The minuter
whose sage aduice n toornl lesson teach
es, should mind and “watch ss well as
pruy,” und practice what be preaches.
Tbo world should haVe its docket called,
and sluggards gll defaulted,j»nd those
should be the tip]
bath exulted. - ’
France exported 11,964 “waterfalls”
lost year.
tipper ten whom labor
MISCELLANEOUS^
From Win Bobur'a Weekly.
I ANDY BIGGIN'S ADVENTURE WITH THE
WIDOW.
BY S. II. Of ALA.
Otto duy Bundy ennto into my ofllco
uhd sat down without o word. For
somo minutes he sat still wntcliing ine in-
teutly as if ho was trying to make out
by tbo sound of my pen, wbut I
writing.
"Bquire,” said ho at length, “did I ev
er tell yon about my scrupo with tho
w iddei Horry, up hero on the river ?”
“Never did,” said I, laying down tny
pen, ‘'let’s lmVe it,”
"They’re curious creatures, widders
is,” said ho in u ineditutivo tone, “and
the more you study about ’em the more
you don’t know anything about ’em.
What was thut thing Fvo read
about in Egypt, or some other country,
that nobody couldn’t unriddle V
“The Sphvnx, probably,” I replied.
“Well,” no continued, “that was a
widder as sure ns you over had a gran
ny. Everything else in earth bus neon
found out but them, an’ they’re ns much
n mystery to-day as the length of the
North polo. You tnny rend the history
of tlm world from Gonesisto Revelations,
an’ you’ll fiud that widders has been at
tbo bottom or lop of five quarters of nil
lim dovjlmont that’s been cut up. Was
you ever in love with ono ?”
Lots pf them,” said I.
You're a great gander—that's What
you are 1” paid he. "A tnnn that loves
one und gets over it won’t never get bit
by another, of bo’s got as much sense ns
a common ground-hog. I don’t consid
er thut I've got any good senso at nli,
but I’m u lectio grain too smart to let
another of thm get all tho trumps on mo.
This widder Horry that I was speaking
of is a little* tho handsomest woman, I
do reckon, thut over looked a mun into
fits, an’I ought to bo u judge, for I’ve
seen lots of pretty w omen in my days.
She was ubout twenty-five years old
w hen 1 went up there to work, jest in the
bloom of her beauty, on! ue full of devil
try as a threo year old mule colt. There
was u bull over at old Jenkin’s, and of
course I went, for I always go where
there’s Any fun goto’ on, an* generally
uet tho fool boloro I get away, of course.
Tho widder was there dressed as fino as
one of Boloinou’s lilies, and Hying around
as frisky as a young lam' in a rye patch.
I got introduced to her and asked her
to dunco with me, and when she flushed
her eyes at me und said 'yes’ I jumped
up like I’d set down on a red lint spindle.
\ ou may talk about sensations, but
when she took hold of my hand und sor
ter squeezed it, 1 felt u sensation as big
as u load of w ood, an’ it kept running
up and down my back like u cat squir
rel with a hawk after him. I'tn very
food of dancing, but I’ll bo hanged if I
know whether I enjoyed it that night or
not, for every tiiutuilio took hold of my
hniid I’d commence reelin’ curious behind
my ears, an’ up and down nty back again,
aud then I wouldn’t know whether 1
wus on the earth or in a balloon, or on n
comet, or anything ubout it. It was un
doubtedly a case of love at first sight,
and u powerful bad caso at that. Fur a
wonder I got through the ft olio without
making myself conspicuous or cutting up
any extras, os I'm in tho hubit of Joing
when I go into public. I'd set my pegs
to go homo with tho widder wheh tho
bull fended, but just ns I wits fixing my
mouth to ask her, up steps a long lather-
fuced Doctor, named Mubry, aud walk
ed her right till’ before my eyes. That
riled ino u little, but I kept my tongue
still, inwardly swearing to break his
bones tho very first convenient opportu
nity that offered itself. I saw there was
no uso anyin’ anything, fo 1 went tome
nnd went to bed, an’ till the rest of the
night I was drtsmiu’ ubout rainbows,
angels, bintorflies, fiddles, widders nnd
doctors, all mixed up in u worse mess
than n Dutchman’* dinner.
“Well, Bquire, to make a short story
of it, 1 mode up my mind to have the
widder, or kill myself an’ somebody else
Bo i mude it convenient to be on bund
wherever she was on ull occasions. 1
couldn’t eat, nor sleep nor work, and if
tlie thing had held on I wouldn't had
seneo enough by this time to skin a rab
bit. Rut i was determined it shouldn’t
lust long for I'd l>eec fooled so often by
women that I thought 1 wouldn't give
her lime to think of anything elso but
me., Bho appeared to take me right
sharply and though tho doctor seemed
inclined to mix it w ith inn, I didn't cun
■kler him no more in tho way than a
brush fence, for I was so far gone thut
I thought she couldn’t see nobody on
earth but me. Well Bquire, things went
on go about a month, an’ one Sunday 1
screwed up my spunk und put the ques
tion to her. Bhe sorter laughed, und
sorter looked one sided, nnd fiuully told
ine she couldn’t answer ine then, but ii
I'd call at her house next Thursday,
evening she'd give me n final answer.
Thinks I, .‘You'ro mine jest as sure us
there’s fiddlers below ! W heoever a wo-
amo takes time to study she ll say yes !’
Bquire, don’t some ui the poets euy some
tiling ubout the calculations of men and
tatsgoin crooked?”
“‘Alice and men,' Burns says,”I an
swered.
“W ell mice an’rats is all one, and so
is men and fools sometimes, as I've fuur.d
out in my travels. I was so sure she’d
have me that I went off and spent all my
money for fine clothes, thinking I’d have
them ready for the w edding—un’ I did !
Confound ber 1 Thursday evening came
at last though it was a long time ubout
it. and over 1 went, dressed into fils, an’
fecl'in’ ns big or Josh Mnyuer did when
ho was elected coroner. I got there
about dark and (mind a right smart
crowd collected, which was not down in
tbo bills, but I felt ns big nnd uh good ns
the best of ’em. So I laqrehed in, like
a blind mulo in a potato patch nn’ took
a seat by tbo fire. I didn’t see anything
of the widder, but kept looking for her
to come in an’ send for me, and passed
away the time by cusin’tho crowd to
myself thinking they had no business
there, and thut 1 would get to talk to
my woman a bit. Presently n door
opened and in milked Polly an’ Hint dad-
burned Doctor, and a whole team of
boys and girls, fixed up savagely 1 toll
you. I looked around for a fiddler,
thinking they were going to bnvo a bull,
but I wondered what they all kept so
still for, and was about proposin’ a reel,
when up gets a little preacher, nnd uforo
you coulq swallow a live oyster ho had
Polly nnd the Doctor married faster
than a Mexican greaser could tie u wild
bull’s horns! 1 was so completely Hum-
muxed that I set therewith mouth open
lik'o I was going to swal'or the whole
crowd,an’ my eyes looked like two billiard
bulls till tho ceremony was all over when
I jumped up and hollered.
“I forbid thu concern from being con
stituted 1”
■'iou’ro a little too Into, my fricud 1”
says tho preacher, and they ull com
menced laughing like they’d seen some
thing very funny.
“'I’ll bo durnud squizzled if I don’t be
soon enough for somebody yot!' says I,
for I was mad, Bquire, nnd no mistake in
tbo ticket. I do bcliuvo I could have
out up that doctor quicker than a hull-
f -y dog could swnller a pquirrel skin, if
could have hud a fair ebtinco at him.
It wits loo bad, after Llind fixed up to
marry her myself, for no to walk right
out before my eyes and murry that grout
baboon.”
“It was bad, that’s a fact," said I.
•Bad!" replied ho, “it was meaner
than eating fried coon ! I first thought
I’d go straight home, but then I conclu
ded that wouldn’t spite nobody, so I de
termined to stay an’see if I could not
f et satifhetion of somebody. Yon know
in the devil to get myself or sombody
elso into n scrupo when 1 take a notion,
nnd I’d taken one tlmt night Unit went
all over me like a.third day chill, so I
commenced fitudyin' out some plan. I
recollected beniing the doctor say thut
where he como from (but tho Lord only
knows whore that was !) the bride nnd
groom ulwiiys washed their faces togeth
er before they went to bed, ns a ehnrin
against infidelity or imbecility or come
other long word. \\ hilo I was studying
about that I saw tho Doctor’s saddlebags
setting in n corner, so I waited till they
all went to supper, und then I got tho
bags and looked to see what I could dis
cover. Nearly the first thing I saw was
a piece of lunar enufitie, ns big ns n hick
ory nut, I slipped it Into my pocket, for
I hud my plan as soon ns I saw it. Well,
I watched around tilj I saw one of the
girls go to tbo water pail with n pitcher,
nnd I went out nnd asked her wiint she
wns going to do with it. Bho suid she
was going to carry it into tho room for
Doctor and Polly to wash their faces in.
I kept talkin' to her whilo she wns fillin
up tlio pitcher and wliun she turned her
bond nwny I dropped the caustic into it,
nnd she carried it to tho bridal room
and loll it. It wns then about bed time,
nnd I got my hnt nnd put out, but I
couldn't help laughin’all tho way homo,
whenever I’d think ubout next morning!
“Well, Bquire, they do Hay when fhnt
couple waked up the next morning they
both hnd tho hardest kind of fits, each
one thinking they had been steepin' with
u nigger. Uh, it was rich ! Ho n enssin'
nnd tearing tip things, and slio n scream
ing, nnd fainting, and coming to, and go
ing off again, and me not there to see it 1
They made such nn ungodly racket that
the folks broke into the room to s*.*o what
wns the matter, und thero they was with
their faces and hands as black as tho in
side of n forty year old stove pipe. I’d
a give half my‘’interest in t’other world
jest to liuvo been in some safo place
w here I could hnvo seen tho whole row.
As soon ns they found out that they
wero really the snmo folks thnt married
the night before, they culled for worm
water und soup, but jest then tho doctor
happened to think of the pitcher and
took it to the door to s«e wluit was tho
mutter. There wns a little piece of the
cutiHtic that hadn't dissolved, and assoon
us he saw it ho says,
“It's no use washing, Polly. All the
soap ia New York can’t wash that bluck
ofl P
‘•That was the truth Squire, sonp nnd
water and rags hud no more effect on it
thun it would on a native African, and
all tho chance was to wait fur it to wear
off. How long it took them to get white
again, I never found out but one thing I
do know," he aoeluded, getting up to go,
"the next time I saw tho Doctor I bud
the hardest fight, and come tho nigbest
getting whaled thut ever I did in all my
born days I’’•
S&u- A countryman, not long ago, on
his first sight of a locomot vo, declared
he thought it was tho devil on wheels.
“Faith un ye*e worse than myself," said
an Irishman bystander, “for Uie first time
I ever saw the crouther, I thought it was
a steamboat hunting for wuther."
Dufapful.—An exchange soys since
the rumor by the Atlantic Cubie of a
commercial panic in (Shanghai, chickens
has “riz! ”
THE HOLT SCRIPTURES.
Tim Scriptures hnvo been translated
into MS languages nnd dialects, of which
121 hnd, jirlor to the formation of the
British Foreign Bible Society, niSVer
npponred. And twenty-five of those
languages existed without nn alphabet,
in an oral form. Upwurds of 48,000,
000 of those copies of God's word are
circulated among not loss than 600,000,-
000 of people.
Tho first division of the Divino orders
into chapters und verson is attributed
to Stephen Lnngton, Archbishop of
Canterbury, in the reign of King John, in
thu latter purt of the twelfth century or
beginning of tho thirteenth. Cardinal
Hugo, in tho middle of tho thirteenth
century, divided the Old Testament into
chapters as they stand in our translation.
In lCGl, A thins, a Jew of Amsterdam,
divided the section of Hugo into ver.-rs
—u French printer had previously (J501)
divided tho New Testament into verses
as they now are.
Tho Old Testament contains 39 bonks,
929 chapters, 23,214 verses, 602,439
words, 2,<38,100 letteiw.
The New Testament coatn'me 27 books,
270 chapters, 7,060 vcrseH, 182,263
words, 083 flt’0 letters.
Tho entire Bible contains CO books,
1,189 chapters, 81,176 verses, 77.6U2
words, 3,605,489 letters.
The name of Jehovah, or Lord, occurs
0856 limes in thu Old TcBtnniunt,
Tho word ' and” occurs iu the Old
Testament 86,643 times.
Tho middle book of the Old Testament
is Proverbs.
Tho middllo chapter is the 20lh ol
Job.
Tho midldn verso Is 2d Chumielue, 29th
chunter, 17tb verse.
The midi
ENCOUNTER WITH AN ICEBERG.
Dr. Hays, in ljis new wm;k, “Th'o
Polar Sea,” Hitts relates a dangerous en
counter with an iceberg:
(Jiving too little heed to the currents,
wc were eagerly watching tho indications
of wind which appeared at the south nnd
hoping for a breer.o, when it wns discov
ered that tho tide had changed und was
stealthily settling tis upon a nest of bergs
which lay to leeward. Ono of them was
of that description known among the
crew by the significant tltlo of'touuh-tqe-
not,’and presented that nigged, honey
comb appearance indicative of great agu,
They are unpleasant neighlxirs. The
least disturbance of their equilibrium may
cause the whole mass to crumble to
pieces, and woo be unto the unlucky
vcfsoI that is caught in tho dissolution.
In Buch n trap, it scorned, however,
thut wo stood u fair chuneo of being en
snared, The current was carrying us
along at an uncomfortably rapid ruto.
A boat was lowered as quickly ns pos
sible to run cut a lino to a burg which
Iny grounded about a bunded yards fr«.m
us. While this Was being done, wo
grated tho side of a berg wTiich rose n
hundred feet ubove our topmusts, then
slipped nni-t another of smaller dimon
sions. By pushing against them with
our ioepoles vro changed aotnewhnt tho
course of tho suhoonor ; but whim wo
thought that wo were steering clear of
the muss which wo so much dreaded, an
eddy changed the direction of our drift,
nnd carried us almost broadside upon it.
Tho>chooner struck on tho ctaroonrd
quarter, aud the shock, slight though it
w as, disengaged Bomo fragments of ice
that wore largo onough to have crushed
tho vessel hi*d[ they struck hor, and also
mnhy little lumps which rattled about us;
but fortunately no person was hit, tho
quarter deck was quickly cleared, nnd nil
hands' crowding forward, mixiously
watched the boat. Tho oorg now began
to revolve, and was settling slowly over
us; the little lumps foil thicker and falter
upon the aOor-doek, und tho forecastle
wiib tho only pluao where wus tho leant
chance of safely.
At length tho berg itself saved us from
destruction. An immense mass bioko
off from thnt part which wim beneath
tho surfaco of the Hen, ami this, a dozen
times larger than the schooner, came
rushing up within a few yards of us,
sending a vast volume of foam and wuter
Hying from its sides. This rupture ar
rested the revolution, end the berg begun
to settle iu tho oppoeilo direction. Aud
now camo unothor danger. A long
tongue was protruding immediately un
derneath tho schooner ; ulroudy the keel
was slipping and grinding upon it, nnd
it seined probable thut wo should bo
knocked up into tho air like a football,
or at loust capsized. Tho side of our
onomy soon loaned from us, and we wnro
in no danger front the worse tlian hail
stone showers w hich hnd driven ua for
ward ; so wo sprang to tho ico-polcs nnd
exerted our strength in endeavoring to
push tho vessel off. Thero wero no idle
minds. Danger respects not the digni
ty of tho quarter dock.
After wo had fatigued oursclvos nt
this hard labor without uny useful result,
the berg camo ngain to our relief. A
loud report first startled U3; another mid
another followed in quick succession,
until tho noise grow deafening and tho
wholQ air scorned a resorvoir of frightfql
sound. Tiio opposite sido of tlio berg
had split off, piece alter i>ioce, tumbling n
vast volume of ioe into tlio son, nnd send
ing tho berg revolving back upon us.
This time the movincnl was queiker ;
fragments began to full, and already
feuiiioiently startled by tho alarming disso
lution winch had takun jduco, wo wero
in momentary expectation of seeing tho
whole side nearest to us break loose and
crash bodily upon,the schooner, in which
event she would inevituby bo carried
down beneath it, as hopelessly doomed
as a shepherd’s hut beneath an Alpino
avalanche.
By this time Hedge, who hnd chnrgo
of tho boat, bad succeeded in planting an
ice-anchor aud attaching his rope, and
greeted ua with the welcome signal,
•Haul in.’ VVu pulled for our lives, long
and steudily. Seconds seemed minutes
nnd minutes hours. At length wo began
to move off. Blowly mid stoudily sank ......
tho berg behind us, carrying away the 1. The Pontntouch,
main boom and greaing bard against tho books of Moses,
quarter. But wo wero safe. Twenty 2 Tho historian! books, 'comprising
yards uwov and tho disruption occurred ! Joshua to Esther, inclusive,
which we had ull so mtmh dreaded. 8- Poetical or dootrinnl books, from
The side-nouiost to us now split off, and Job to Bongs oi Solomon, inelnsive.
came plunging wildly down into tho son, I 4. Prophetical books, from Isaiah to
sending over us u shower of spray, ruis-' Mnlnchl.
iug a swell which sot us rocking to and fro Tho Now Testament io usually di-
us if in a gale of wind, and left us grind- vidod into three ports :
log in the debris of the crumbling ruin. I 1. Historical, containing the four
At lust wesucceededjin extricating our-1 gospels nnd nets,
selves, and were fur enough away to | 2. Doctrinal, eomnrising all the epis-
look back calmly upon tho object of our * ties from Roman to Jude,
terror. It was Htilf rocking and rolling I 8. Prophetical, being the book of
like a thing of life. At each revolution I Revelations of St. John.
ing man tbirtoen years of lubor to pur
chase a Bible ; os his pay would only
be 11 pence per day, wniio the price of
n Bible w«h £2.
middle book of the New Test
ament is 2d ThessnloniuiiH.
Tlio middle chapters are RomuUs 13
nnd 14.
Tho middle verso is Acts 11:7,.
Tho middle chapter, nnd tho least ia
tho Bible, is Pslams 1; 17.
Tho middle verse in tho Bible
realms 818:8.
Tho middle lino in tlip Biblq is 2d
Chronicles 1:1(5.
Tho least verso in tho Old Tostnmont
is 1st Chronicles 1:1.
Tlio least verso in tho Bible ia John
15:35.
The 19th chapter of 2d Kings nnd
Isaiuli 3G are the sumo.
In tho 21st verso of 7th chanter of Ezra
are all the loiters of the alphabet, I aud J
considered as ono.
The Apocrypha (not inspired, but
sometimes liound between the Old Testa
ment and tlio Now,) contains 14 books,
183 chapters, 15,031 verses, 153,185
words.
Tho preceding facts were ascertained
by a gentleman in 1718. Also by nn
Englishman residing nt Amsterdam,
1772, nnd la said to hnvo taken each
gentleman nocrly three years in* tho in
vestigation.
There is a Bible in tho library of the
University of Gottingon written in 2470
puhn leaves. #
A days journey was 33 nnd 1-5 miles.
A Sabbath day’s journey was ubout
un English mile.
Ezekiel’s reed was elevent foot nearly.
A cubic is twcnty twu inches nearly.
A hand’s breadth is equal to three
pnd live-eighth inches.
A finger’s breudth is equal to ono
inch.
A shekel of silver was about fifty
cents.
A shekel of gold was 09.
A talent of silver wns 8510 82.
A talent of gold was 818,809.
A piece of silver or a penny was thir
teen cents.
A furtbing wns three cents.
A go rah was one cent.
A mite wns ono nnd n hnlfconta.
A homer eontuins soventy-fivo gallons
nnd five pints.
A nephn or bath contains seven gal
lons and five pints.
A bin was one gallon nnd two pints.
A firkin wn4 seven pints.
An omor wns six pints.
A cap wns tl\rco pints.
A dog wqs one-lmlf pint.
The divisions of tho Old Testament
nro four
tlio four
fresh (posses were disengaged ; nnd, as
its sides came up in long sweeps, great
cascades tumbled and leaped from them
hissing into the foaming sea. After sev
eral hours it settled down into qnistude,
a mere fragment of its former greatness,
whilo tlio pieces that wero hrokon from
it floated quietly away with the tide.
A Late Rues.—The Pensacola Ob
server speaks of a Confederate soldier
who overstayed his furlough during the
war, took to the woods for fear of being
arrested ns being a deserter, and ro-op-
penred last Week, having just heard of
tho surrender of Lee and Johnston and
the close of the war. lie was making
his way to Fort Burrnncas to obtain
parole.
The commemorative ordinances of the
Jews were : h
Circumcision, the seal of the covenant
with Abraham.
The Pussover, to commemorate the
protection of the Israelites, when all the
first born of the Egyptluns were destr<»y-
od.
The feast of Tabernacle*, instituted to
perpetuate the sojourning of the Israel
ites for forty years in the wilderness.
The feast of the Pentecost, which wns
Appointed fifty years alter tho Passover,’
to commemorate the delivery of the law
from Mount Binni.
Feast of Pu;im, kept in memory ol
the deliverance of tlio Jews from the
wicked machinations of Human.
In 1272, it would have cost a labor
THE COUNTRY PRESS.
Tho following truthful article is taken
from ono of the ablest papom in the
country:
“Our duly is loo often overlooked.—
Go into one half the houses of the coun
try, nnd there will bo fmmd New York
newspapers, nnd Philudelphiu magazines,
and foreign literature of every kind;
while newspapers interested in advocat
ing the interests of the Btuio nnd their
own county, not one can be found. This
is grossly unjust. If a mun has live dol
lars a year, tun cents n week, to spend
for inlormution und literature for hid
family, his duty us u citizen is to tako
his own Btntu and county paper. I.ct
him Imagine if ho can, what his State
would ho without n paper within her
borders, and then ask himself what ho
is doing for thuir support.
“But nt>ino excuse themselves for tuk-
ing n metropolitan paper on tho ground
thut they contain more reading mutter
than those published at home. Truo
enough—eimply for tho reason tliut they
are supported. Every dollur soul to u
foreign newspaper by a citizen who
takes no local paper, builds up that for-
ilgo paper at the expose, not «»i Liu
own local paper, but the interests of his
awn Btuto and countv.
“We do not usk this for the local press
H9 d matter of charily, but of justice.—
A good paper cun do more good for any
town than any town cun do for a paper.
But few appreciate tho local press us they
ought. They overlook tho fact that its
conductors are tho most self sacrificing
men in the country. From one yeut'i
end to another they devotu Muir talents
und their energies to tho building up ol
their localities, oven to tho neglect of
their own pecuniary interests. ’
“Yet tho local press is sneered nt, nnd
given tho cold shoulder, forgetting thut
the little pebble is as necessary for muk-
ing the mountain ns thu bold or huge
muss of grunito. Tho ideal press holds
ns important u position ns thu rill does to
the river which goes oconnwnrd. It is
bud policy to starve then to death, ns it
would be for thu mouth of the stream to
duin up tlio fountains from which it ob
tains its supply. Thu interest of tiie city
press nnd the local press nro identical,
mid they should be fostered alike, as
each has its work to perform in its pocu-
liar province. The uouduutors of tho
country press mny sometimes err in
judgment, or full to cony out their pinns
to the fullest extent—but tho metropoli
tan presses opon to the same charge.—
Wo repeat, thut it is tho first duty of ev
ery mun—u duty that.is imperative—to
sustain his local press with a liberal
hand, nnd not Jet it languish for want ol
thnt uupport.”
PLEASANT HOMES-
Tho homes of America will not be
come what they should be until n true
Idea of life shall become more widely
implanted. The worship of tho dollar
does more to degrade American homes
than anything, than nil things else. Tho
chief end of life is to gather gold, and
the money is counted lost which hnngs a
picture upon the wull, which purchases
flowers for the yard, which buy* a toy
or u book for the eager hand of child
hood. Is this the whole of human life?
Then it is n mean, meagre and most un
desirable thing. A child will go forth
from a stall, glnd to find free air and a
wilder pasture. Tlio influence of such
a home upon him in ufter life, will bo
just nono ut all, or nothing good. Thou
sands nro rushing from homes like theso
every year. They crowd into cities.—
They crowd into villages. They swarm
into all places where life is clothed with
a higher significance; and tho old shell
or homo is deserted by every bird ns
soon as it can fly. Anoestrinl home
steads and patrimonial acres have no
siicredness; und when tho futher and
mother die, the stranger’s money and
tho stranger’s presence obliterate
ciations thnt should be among the most
sacred of all things.
I would have you build for youraelves
nnd your children u homo thut will not
be lightly parted with—n homo which
will bo to ull whoso liven have boon as
sociated with it the most interesting and
precious epot on earth. I would have
that homo the nbodo of dignity, beauty,
grace, lovo, genial fellowship and happy
associations. Out fjom such a home I
would hnvo good influences flow into
neighborhood*. In such a homo I would
see ambition taking root and receiving
generous culture. And then I would
seo young husbands nnd young wives
happy. Do not dupriyo yourselves of
such influences aft will como through an
institution like this. No money can pay
for such deprivation. No circumstan
ces but thoso of utter poverty can justi
fy you in denying theso influences to
your children.
Boi theiin Post Offices.—A cotompo-
rnry culls attention to the fact that the
notice* recently published concerning
the discontinuance oi Bouihern post
offices nro liable to be ‘misunderstood.
No wholesale discontinuance of ofiiues
now in operation is contemplated ; but
the action of the Post Office Department
refers only to the many offices in tho
Boulh which were suspended ut the
commencement of tho war in 1801, and
which hnvo not since been formully re-
opeiittk although in fact not discontin
ued.
HUMOROUS.
You seem to walk more erect than
usual, my friend.’ ‘Yes, I hate beeir
struileoed by circumstances.’
A chap who was told by a colporteur
to 'remember Lots wife,’ replied that ho
had boon in trouble enough already
about other men’s w ivea. •
Bevonty-five < <*nts per gnl 1’ exclaim
edMrs. PartingtdiqYii look iug over the
price current. 'Why, bless me T my dear
old man gave two dollars, nnd a ooahul
of tho very best potatoes fhr me, Howev
er, tlio gals of this day nint nigh so dear
ns I wus then.’
An o!d minister enforced tho necessi
ty of difference of opinion by argument;
Now, if everybody hud been of my opin
ion they would ail have wanted my old
woman.
Due of tho deacons, who sat just bo-
bind him, responded ; Yes; and if every
body wus of my opinion nobody would
have her. -
THE SEQUEL,
Our renders, adj-H nn exchange, have
all board tho story of souping tho clergy
man’s tin horn nt a camp meeting, so that
when he went to call his flock together,
ho blew tlio soap over his brother cler
gymen, and how he exolaimed: “Breth
ren, I hare Nerved the Lord thirty yearn,
end in thnt time I huve not uttered n
profane word, but I’ll bo d—d if I can't
whip tho man that soaped my horn I”—
Our readers, wo Rjiy, have all heard thin,
but.finve, perhaps, never hoard those-
quel, ‘given us by a gentlemen present.
It itt as follows:
Homo two claye after a tall, swarthy,
villuinous-looking dunpurndo strolled up
on the ground nnd leaned against a tree,
listeuing to nn eloquent exnortution to
repent, which was then being mndo by
tho preach-r. After awhile he became
interested, finally a fleeted, and then, lab-
big a position on the anxious rent, com
menced groaning In “tho very bitterness”
of bis sorrow. Tho clergyman walked
down and attempted to console him. Un
consultation, he wus too grout u sinner,
ho Bnid. “No; he was too wicked,—
there wns no mercy for him ”
“Why, what crimo havii you commit
ted ?” asked tho preueher; "have you
stolen ?”
“Oh ! worse than that."
“ Whut 1 havo you, by violence, robbed
femnlo innocence of its virtue ?”
“Worse thun thut—oh 1 worse thun
thnt.”
"Murder ?’ gasped the horrified min
ister.
"Worso than that,’ groaned the sin
ner.
The excited minister commenced'peel
ing ofl” his outer gBrmonts :
“Here, brotbur Cole I hold my coat
I have found the fellow tlmt souped my
horn 1"
A LETTEB.
Wo havo received a document so full
of figures uua capitals, that at first sight
we were not sure but thut it was a state
ment of account or dun from some one
who fancied we owed them some “aliin-
gles.” But we found it a somewhat
miscellaneous epistle, us tho reader can
judge :
Mr. Editor, will U Xcuso mo if I non
U a H of 2 or 8 lines 2 let U no I’ve 1st
rate luk & havo fonhd tho gal thnt fills
my i, &> U mny Dpend she's Nlra, &
more & all I’ve got married & keep
house 2. U no 1 sod I wood tell IJ all
about my wife when I got 1, & now, I'm
going 2 Wnl, stir, she’s 2 star sum
lor mo, thnt is, 1 don’t desRve her, but I
bless my *• I've got her. . Shu’s not 1
of Ur MT bonded wiinniin that R 2 al
ien 2 11 found, slio’s not 2 young nor 2
old, she’s just XX. She’s chock full of
fun, but do vaniT, full of NRG, but
not 2 swift, plenty of grit without NV.
Her ii’s li bright but not 2 sharp, ft xhe’s
mod lately plump ft not 2 much OBCT.
U needn't think this ' 2 my wife is 2
Xtrn, for I no U can’t find her J| in this
$ of the country. It didn’t tuko mo
long to pop the r. I didn't edge along
by oo like some timed thing, but IrOra
right to the ? in less than a minute.—
Bays I, “will U B 2 men loving wife?"
She sed, “Yes, sir, E.” Then soz she
"Will U B 2 mo 1 OBDNT hnz? M ft
sez I, "Yutti’m,” so we 2 Boomo 1. On
ly 1 thing has happened 2 disturb us
since we wero ~~-cd 2gether. There
is un ugly old maid keeps house in the
snmo building ft she’s hateful enuff—
This is a very Xpensive place 2 live in,
wood is high so we burn cole, well, we
Miss-trusted-this old maid would pilfer
all she could get her 19 s on. Wul, my
wife, U no I told U, wnsFornegrit; wal,
1 day she was in the old maid’s purt, ft
there it was she seen her fire, & she went
rite 2 her ft sez she, "There’s our : your
fire now.” I tell U Hho looked ft out of
her 2 ii’s. If U had been there (J wood
thot so 2, for it wns a gal affair. 1 never
On my wifu 60 spunky nl’ore, she did cut
a — ft no mistnko. 2 my Yt ft !! the
old maid looked rather
but wo agreed if she’d pay $t cost, we
would bring the mutter to u .
jfA- My native ciiy has treated . mo
badly,” said u drunken vagabond, "but I
love her still.” "Probably,” replied"*,**
gentleman, “her still ia ull you do lovo? r
tar a man lately inquired for letters
at a country posloffioe, und was told
there wus none; upon which he asked
if there was in<4 unothor postoffice in
he place.