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DEMOtillATIC IN POLITICS| PUBB AINU UKATITIFIX IN UTEBATDBE) AND l?HOGH.ESSIVI3 IN SOUTIIEBN INTEBESTH,
WHITMAN & WRENCH.
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 8,1860.
YOL. II-
MIKCCM.AM.urN <’AItl»H.
H A>-.c a *mv..sus XTro|iNKv8Al , LAW J
Dnllon, Uoorgin.
j. a, n. tusk.. ful>II ». a. ttlVtXos. -
J. A. W. JOUSiOlT. ll ' J - U’OAUr.
JOHNSON A McOAM^ ToiiNrvg at ^
Up Stali n In King Building, Dalton, Gn.
Ill nrnotlco In tlio courts of thin circuit, ttnfl
tlio U. 8. District Court at Atlanta, mr-ly
wTaveuv,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
King Slrcot, Dalton, Guorgln,
iW prnctloo lu tins Circuit, tlio United States
strict Court, uml tlio U. B. Buprotdo Count.
-AMMON n A W KUim,N iNi . v8ATIAW
Wliltolmll Street, Atluntn, Ooorgln.
^ t>. T. HAMMOND. HOVly OUS WKIXBOBN
W.
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Acta ol'tfio l.rgUlntimu
IV0 Annex a list of tlio acts of the llist
Legislature of public lntorcst:
Act to extend tho time lu wliloli 1?ax
Collectors shall make final settlements
with tlio Comptroller Gcnornl of the Stato
of tlio taxes collectable for the year 1808;
extends tluio to the first Monday In April.
Act to alter and amend so much of sec
tion 2nd of an act to levy and collect tax
on circuses; In cities with a population of
10,000 and over, 8100; 0,000 and over, 800;
less than 0,000, 820,
Act to carry Into efibet the second clause
of tho 13th section of the Oth article of the
Constitution, provides a general jury sys
tem,
Act to dellnothe liability of tho Sheriff,
nlid other ministerial olllcorsof thin State,
and grant relief to the same; relieves them
from liability for failure to execute any
order or process of Court, in accordulibo
with any Statute at tho time n6t decided
by tlio Supremo Court to bo unconstitu
tional.
Act to amend the Garnishment Laws of
the State; requires the garnishee to appear
at the next court, then and there, or before
that time to depose on oath, what he Is in
debted to, or wlmt property or ofibets he
lms in Ids hands belonging to defendant at
W. BARRETT, deuier in Dry uoodn.uro. the time of the service of garnishment, or
* - * T -mllton Street, what property or efibets he has received or
got possession of, belonging to defendant,
between tho time of service nud tho time
of making tlio return.
Act to authorize tho Clerks of the Sunc’
rlor Courts of this State to issue executions
on judgments obtained in the Inferior and
County Courts of this State, in cases where
tho Clerks of. said Inferior and County
Courts have failed to do so.
Act to incorporate the Independent Tel
egraph Company, and for other purposes.
Act to alter and umeud •section 1)5120 of
Irwin’s Code, the same being in relation to
suits against Railroad Companies: embra
ces all causes of action against Railroad
Companies.
Act to more frilly carry into efibet tlio
first division of the 1st section of an act
entitled an Act to define certain acts of
trespass, and to make the same penal, as-
Vt^ENNKSSER HOUSE—J.-A, STAKsmmv, Pro-
1 pvlolov— Hroatl 8tv„ Romo, Gu v ueur tho
ltallroml Depot and tho Stewmboat Landing.
OdtoberS, 18(18-tf.
~A~llARE CHANCE FOR INVEST!!! ENT I
Sr J\. Twkwby Doi.LAim 1
B, O. Gammikm,,
Fob; 25-2in.
(QUN AND LOCKSMITH,
W. HIGGINS,
Bonier In
Now Guna, Pistols, Cartridges, etc.
Opposite Tibbs Houso, Hamilton Street.
Now it Hies made to order, and nil repairing
dono on short notice, and warrnntod. nmr-ly
■XTT w. WEBSTER,
\Y • with W. J. BETTERTON & BltO.,
Kmoxvilu^ Ti:xn.,
Wholosale Dealers In
tSmndics, AVlues, Liquors, thriving and Smoking
Tobaccos, Fancy (irocerles* Coufcctloneilcs,
Canned Fruits, Oysters and Sardines,
Also, Agents for tho colccratcd
Morning Star Bitters,
And tho world-renowned
HorsTord Self-Rising Bread l’ropavatlon.
S TACEY HOUSE,
NASHVILLE. TKNX.,
Having thoroughly renovated and refitted
tho Stneo.v House, I nm now prepared to give
tho public first class accommodation, at mod
erate priors'. Tin-' “
, will flhil It to their In
terest to make this their stopping place.
,C. A. POSTT.kY, l’ropt.
Juti7.
utting or felling of chestnut trees upon
the lands of another, enclosed or unenclos
ed, without the consent of tho. owner, a
penal offence. Any person can prosecute
For tho offense and one half 01 tho fine
goes to the informer. The onus of prov
ing authority vests upon the defendant.
Act to dissolve garnishments under at
tachments, etc.—may bo dissolved as ifit
Imd been at common law.
Act to authorize Agents and Attorneys
at Law of defendants to make oath to pleas
incertain cases. Inall civil cases, founded
T iquors 1 liquors 1 ! on contract, where there is an issuable dc-
rat reoolvfSnml for sale at areally refluc.il | fcnze, nml where defendant does no reside
T N. MURRAY, or Cloorgla.
. with ARTHUR EMORY »t CO.,
IMPORTERS and doalors In Engllsli, German
and Antnrloan Hurdwaro, Ctttlory, ole., *17
W/BMtlmoro street., Baltimore, Maryland.
Arthur Emory,, )
John B. Egorlon. )
Dee. 2l-3m.
prlb
20 Barrels or Finn WickUffo Bourbon.
90 Darrels of Can ’s Extra Bourbon.
M Darrels of Silver Creek Bourbon.
M Barrels of Woodcock Bourbon.
If. Barrels of GntT’a Huiwrtov Ityo.
100 •* lteotHied Whiskey.
And a full assortment of kinds of llmior*.
L. COHEN,
Febll-3m Wliitehull Street, Atlanta, CU.
j^PRIXU MPORTATIOX FOR ISC'.)i
Ribbons, Millinery and Straw Goods.
.Ut’ISTItMU, mini .V CO.,
2S7 mid,2.70 Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE,
Importers and Jobbers
Bonnet and Trimming Ulbons,
Volvct and Sash Ribbons.
Bonnets Crapes, Silk
Illusions, Blonds, Luces, Kuchci
and for other purpose's. All persons who
lmvo ns executors without fraudulent in
tent, DctWetm.Tnnc 1,18(11, and Juno 1,1805,
done such acts as to malto him or her exe
cutors dr ton tort, Is liable only to tho ex-
tont of thu value of tho personal property
actually In tho hands of such porsons at
tho commencement of the suit, or tho pro
ceeds of tho sale of personalty, If the same
has been sold. Either party may glvo hi
evldcnco the value of currency at the time
of sale for which said property was sold.
Act to amend nn act entitled an Act for
the relief of debtors, and to authorise tho
adjustment of debts upon principles of
equity, passed In 1808. Where parties re
fuse to avail themselves of the second seo-
lluu pf the act, any party at interest, either
ns security or owner of proiierty which
has passed through tho hands of defend
ant, shall have authority to lrnvo any judg
ment against such dpwudant re-opened,
provided said party shall bo liable lor any
eost which might nceruo against such de
fendant, on account of such motion.
Act to amend nil act to secure thq pro
duce, rents, or prollts arising from home
steads, nml for other purposes. Secures It
for the support mid education of tho funil-
llcxcliiiniingsucli homestead, and exempts
the same from levy and sale, except as
provided for lit tho Constitution, and lin
stock, provisions mtd other articles used
III making the crop, necessaries for the
family, medical services, and tuition fur
education.
Twenty Year* All,nil|r tire Iiiillnns.
The editor of the Springfield, Illinois,
Republican lias recently scenn mail, whose
name is Janies C, Kimball, who was cap
tured ill 1848, In company with others,
while going across thu Plains to California,
by a hand of Snake and Shoshone Indians.
His lift, since that titife; has been one of ad
ventures, us the tribe is one of exceeding
barbarity. Homarrieda young girl about
sixteen yenrs old, who lmd been captured
when a mere infant, who docs not remem
ber her maiden name. lie married in 1851,
and has five children. She could not speak
a word of English, hut was learned by him
to read by cutting letters in bark. In all
that time lie never had a thing to rend but
n testament, which ho found in the moun
tains. This is highly prized by him, as it
was the means of civilizing his wife, llo
was captured ny Gen. Sheridan last No
vember, and never hud au opportunity of
< seaping before, nor did he, ns lie says,
have an Inclination to do so, ns he and his
wife had become perfectly reconciled to
their fate; uml indeed, he proposes to re
turn again, as it is tin- wisli of his wife.—
Tlio following is tiie beginning of his liar-
tivc, after capture:
Though they diil not massacre him out
right, they compelled him to “run tile
gauntlet,-’’ which is two lines of Indians
armed- with battle-clubs, mid facing each
Tlio largest. Stock of
unty where suit is ponding.
I Act to alter niul amend section 4010 of
] Irwin’s Code in relation to the issuing of
I distress warrants, &c. Any person who
has rent due, may, hy himself, agent or ut-
toriB*v, make application to any Justice of
j iho lVnco in the county in which debtor
i resides, or where his property may bo
; found, apply for distress warrant. All
i sums over 8100 to be levied by tlu* Sheriff
I or his deputy; under that by Constables.
Act to authorize either party in a posses
sory warrant to give notice of an inton-
| lion to certiorari, and the same shall oper*
1 ate tis a suptnicilout for ten days. After
■ tho expiration of the ten days ifnocertior-
i ari has been granted, then the officer filial!
| proceed to deliver the. property as directed
! by thcUourt at tlio time of trial,
i * Act in relation to tlu** statute of limita
tions, and for other purposes. All acts of
the Legislature, and ordinances of the Con
ventions of 180.1, and 1808, having the force
and effect of law, which are retroactive in
iuml Lniien Huts, ! their character relative to'the statute of
mi uuti iimnod, ; limitation, null and void inall caacawher
down uml Shaker Hoods, j statute had fully run before tho passage of
r Millinery Gondii lu this ! such retroactive legislation. All suits up-
nnine- i <m J l Nlghient8 obtained outside of the State,
■25-3mvl prior to Juno 1st, 18(1.', not now barred;
—j all writes of scire facias to revive any jiidg-
uew. i nicnt obtained in the State now dormant,
rorffin,'! * >0 brought by January 1st, 1870, or
‘right of action and the remedy forever bar- ... ..
red. All actions on bonds or other in^trn-? In the State of Ohio, not long since, a
mi nts under seal, and all suits for enforce.- well-to-do farmer look nick and died. Soon
nient of rights accruing to individuals or after his decease thu rest of the family,
corporations under the statute or acts of j which consisted of the wife and three chil-
ineorporation, prior to June 1st, 18(1", not i dren, were very much annoyed by what
now barred shall bo brought by January | they considered a ghost. This apparition
1uf ,Q,:n A c "“'' nofis | generally made its appearance about mid
night, when it was first heard moving
Satin*.
Whrt In C’eNpoiloN?
A Cuban correspondent of the N. York
World gives the annexed account of Ccs-
pedes, tho civil and military leader of tho
Cuban revolutionists:
Carlos Manuel C'cspcdes was born about
forty-five years ago, in tho town of Hava-
mo, Cuba. Tho first twelve years of ids
life were spout with Ids parents, who re
sided on u plantation In the vicinity.—
With them no only learned tho first rudi
ments of reading, writing and arithmetic,
widle at thu same time he indulged in
those hardy employments and health-giv
ing games wldoh are consequent to a life
in a country naturally mountainous and.
frill of forests. Ills family having moved
when he was twelve wars of age to tho
town of Rayamo, Carlos Manuel was sent
there to school fu$ tho first time.
A few days after tho commencement of
Ids studies there, lie gave proofs of nn ex
traordinary mental activity and intellec
tual talents, leaving behind him the most
advanced of thu scholars in the school,
and being recognized hy them as the head
of the institution. AVnen eighteen yenrs
of age, he,went to Havana, with the ob
ject of prosecuting his studies there for
the law profession. His great intellectu
ality was ftivther developed there, at the
same time that numerous personal affairs
gave him an opportunity to show his ac
tive, courageous and tenacious diposition,
giving an indication then that he would
bo as “great in war as in peace.” Grad
uating as attorney-at-law in Europe,
where lie went afterwards, and receiving
tlte greatest university honors, be return
ed to Cuba and fixed ids residence at Man
zanillo. llis powers of eloquence, ener
gy, and his knowledge soon made bun the
the most popular man in tho vicinity, and
entitled bun to rank as tho first lawyer in
that part of the country. But of all trails
in his character, generosity marks an im
portant one, and will give a lustre to all
ins future actions. Thu fortune which he
inherited front his Hither, the wealth which
he amassed by his industrious exertions,
and his future prospects of increasing it,
would have secured him a life full of com
fort and ease; but his patriotic heart could
not support longer the sight of ills coun
try in chains and the victim to the out
rages of the tyrnnicul Spanish government.
.Inspired by a heroic resolution, he gives
freedom to all his slaves, abandons Ins su
gar estates to the merciless fury of Ids
Spanish foes, who burn them all in re
venge, and, sacrificing all ou the altar of
liberty and Independence, with the noblest
motives be inaugurates the revolution in
Cuba at the head of one hundred patriots
—a movement which now counts In its
ranks the whole native population of the
island.
Tito Ofil Mill.
Don't you romombor, Lily doar,
Tho mill by tho old hill sldo,
Whom wo used to go In tho sumt&or tlmo
Ami wiitoh tho fonniy title;
And toss tho loaves of Jhu fragrant bouch,
On Its breast so sweet und bright,
Whoro they flouted uway ltko emeralds.
In u flood of golden llghlT
’ Lily, doar 1
And tho mlllur, love, with his slouchy cap,
And cyos or mildest gray,
l'loddlngabout his dusty work,
Singing tlio live-long day 7
Ami I be coat that hung on tho rusty nail,
With many a motley putoh,
And tlio rudu old door, with Its brolton sill,
And tho string, und tho wooden latch?
Lily, dcurl
And the water-wheel, with its giant arms,
Dashing thu buudod spray.
And tho woods it, pullod from tho sand below,
And to send in soorn awayj
And tho sleepers, Lily, with moss o’ergrown,
Llko sentluels'stood In prldo,
Brousling tlio waves, where tho ohluks of tlmo
Were uiudo In tliu old mill’d side?
Lily, dour l
Lily, tlio mill Is lorn away,
And a factory, dark and high,
Looms like a tower, and pull's Its smoko,
Over tho clear bluo skyj
Ami tho stream is turned away above,
^ Ami the bed of the river bare,
And the bceoh is withered, bough and trunk,
Aud stands llko u spectre there—
Lily, dear!
And tho miller, Lily, Is de&d aud gono 1
Ho sleeps In tho valobolow;
l saw bis stouoin wintor time,
Under u drift of snow j
ut now the willow lsgrcon again.
And the \\ hid Is soft and still:
I send you the sprig to remind you, lovo,
Of him and tho dear old mill,
Lily, dear l
Josh Hilling, on llreltnctironcti
Tho cockroach Iz a bug al largo.
Ho Is one of tho luxuries ov civilization.
He Is easy to dnmestlkatc, yielding
gracefully to ordinary kindness, and never
deserting those who show him proper acts
of courtesy.
Vfu are led to boloavo, upon a doss ex
amination ov tho outward crust ov theso
fashionable lnsckts, that they arc a highly
successful intermarriage between the bru
nette plssntlre aud tho “nvtlkllus bovo,”
or common American grasshopper.
Ho don’t leave tho place ho was born at
upon tho slightest provocation, llko tho
giddy and vagrant Ilea, or tho ferocious
hed-bugg; and until death (or somo vllo
powder, the Invenshun ov man) knocks at
his front door, he and hlz brothers and
slstors may he seen with tho naked eye
ever and nnon calmly climbing tho whlto
sugar-bowl, or running foot races between
Tho cockroach Is born on tho hist ov ,lcr ' 1 ' 0 " * n
May and the fbst of November soml-au- Good Isaac Walton said, "every misery
What is no
Itlsnotcharitytogi
mendicant of whom
while wo higgle w
employment for a i
not charity to beat d
starvation prices.. I.....
a poor relation Into the li
a slave to nil your wH~
contlnually with her t .
It. Is not charity to tnrn a r
of work into tlio streets w
because ho cannot pay Ills rent,
charity to extract tlio uttermost fi
from tho widow ntid orphan. It
charity to glvo with nsupercilious
pntronago, as if God had inado .
rich man, of different blood from tl
crlng recipient, whoso only <‘
ho Is poor. It Is not charity
tortloncr—not though you bestow ah
thousands.
MerctoN in I>i*y.niao.
other. The intended victim, also armed
with a club, with which to protect himself,
is then started on a run through the lines,
and if lie can mamigo to reach the lodge
house alive, he is permitted to live; but in
nine cases out of ten he is knocked dead
before halfway the.goal. Mr. Kimball
says that lie received several severe-blows
on the bead, which so maddened him, that
though he did not oxuect to get through
alive, he determined to sell his life as dear
ly ns possible: and giving the war-whoop
handled Ids club with such spirit and pluck
that Ids toVmcntors dropped their clubs in
admiration and let him pass unharmed;
and when ho reached the lodge, the old
chief extended to him his right nand, and.
placing tho other on Ids.head, announced
that no was the property of the “Chief
Medicine Man” of the tribe.
Mr. Kimball was eighteen years old when
P hillips & crf.w,
Atlanta, t.eorgin.
Booksellers,Publishers & Stationers,
School Book* 1 . Stationery, Chrotnoj*.
I’nivor Books, Uolil Pens, LlilnV'raplj*
Blank Books, Music. AB oin-.
Miscellaneous Books. Hymn Book*, Bibles
kept constantly on lumrl.
Wo are agents also for
THE MASON AND HAMLIN ORGAN.
And keep apeolmons of Styles on Imiul. Have
also, tho improvement—vox nr max a—n on-
Ucrful addition. Declared By prominent
Musicians to bo tlio Rreatost Improve
ment on Musical Instruments that
lms boon made for vours.
Tho most choice colic
he joined the tribe; and upon the death slept m qjving posture, and had
of the “ Medicine Man,” he was selected dant to wake nun the moment
to fill Ids place—a position which was held
in great honor among the Indians.
A Thrifty CIiov
Shortnci«y of Tlmo In Dreniiix.
Out* of the most remarkable phenomena
connected with dreams is the shortness of
time needed for consummation. Lord
Brougham says tiiat in dictating, a man
may frequently fall asleep after uttering
a few words, and be awakened by the
amanuensis repeating the last word, to
show that lie. has written tlte whole; but
though live or six seconds only have elaps
ed between the delivery of tlte sentence
and its transfer to paper, tho speaker may
have passed through a dream extending
through half a lifetime. Lord Holland
and Mr. Babbage both confirm this theo
ry. The one was listening to tv friend
reading aloud, aud slept from the begin
ning of the sentence to live latter part of
the sentence immediately succeeding, yet
during this time lie had a dream, the par
ticulars of which it woul;l have taken more
than a quarter of an hour to write. Mr.
Babbage dreampt a succession of events,
and awoke in tinvo to hear the concluding
words of a friend's answer to a question
he had just put to him.
One man was liable to fvelhigs of su (lo
cation, accompanied by a dream of a skel
eton grasping his throat, whenever he
* an atten-
ho sunk
down. But, though awakened thu mo
ment lie. began to sink, that time sufficed
for a long struggle with the skeleton. An
other man dreampt that he crossed the
Atlantic, spent a fortnight in America,
and fell overboard when embarking to re
turn; yet his sleep had not lasted more
than ten minutes.
ul Ln
i Fn
vkot—selet
i-.l with
»the refilled taste
ick ot Shoot Music,
Instructors; Italian Striims. Musical Instru
ments, and merchandise ot every description
Konorallyto be found In a flrat-cluns Music store
Purchased for cash aud sold at New Yo
We claim decided advantages in idea
buyer.
Send for
,„u8trate<
paid on appllcatl’
" r i assure tho tuuu
i the sumo as the
r’s. Wo buy dim .
Magazines, Music and Hooks bouud on shor
notice, und reasonable terms..
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Comer Alabama aud Whitehall Sts., Atlanta.
Feb. 11, UWD-Sm
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and explanations, with numerous other illus
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letter from Paris desorildna tSfc*. very latest
modes, bY a lady whoso position trlves her ae-
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1st. tSiO, or forever barred.*" Suits
made prior to Juno 1st, 1805, not now bar
red, against administrators predicated on
alleged neglect or misconduct in tho invest
ment of trust funds in currency, bonds, or
the like, without authority of Court; pro
vided he lms not acted fraudulently and
corruptly, shall be brought by .January 1st,
1870, or forever barred. Xo recovery after
January 1st, 1870, on any liability accruing
prior to Juno, 1805. All actions for torts
commit ted prior to June, 1805, barred after
June inth, 1800. Bights accruing since
June, 1805, limited only by the Code.
Act to make valid the nets of certain
Notaries Public of this State—makes valid
acts of all Notaries who were the attor
neys of tho party to whom the oath was
administered, or in whose favor such at
tachment was issued, or by whom such
deed, bond, or other instrument was exe
cuted.
Act to facilitate settlements of copart
nerships dissolved by death of one or more
part ners. W here debts of firm a re a 11 paid,
assets ns far as possible, navy be divided in
kind between surviving copartners and
representative of deceased partner, by
three disinterested appraisers, chosen by
the parties or by the Ordinary. Each par
ty lms a right after division to sue in his
own name upon all choses in action assign
ed him in the division.
\ct to amend an act entitled an act to
protect the planters of this State in thu
sale of fertilizers. Allows Inspectors fifty
uls when inspected and analyzed ill lotp
of fifty tons or more, and twenty-five
cents for lots under fifty tons. All fertil
izers imported *in the .State must he ana
lyzed and inspected at the port of entry in
which tho same is received, and all fertil
izers manufactured in the State, in the
county where made and shall not ho
moveu from the mill or factory until ana
lyzed.
Act to provide for the election of Justi
ces of the Peace and Constables through
out the State. One Justice of the Peace
and two Constables in each milit ia district
on the first Saturday in April, 18(11), next
election on firstSnturday in January, 1875),
and every four years thereafter.
Act for the more efficient preservation of
peace and good order on election days in
this State.
Act to authorize testators in wills to give
to executors named therein, such sums of
money or property us they may wish, ns
compensation for their services in the exe
cution of the trust conferred and for other
purposes. Such gift or bequest does not
interfere with the right of creditors of such
testator.
Act to authorize Judges of Superior
Courts at Chambers to hear and determine
dumurrersand hear and determine motions
to revoke or change 'orders appointing' a
receiver in equity cases. Ten days notice
in writing to the opposite party or his at
torney is required.
Act to exempt blind persons from pay
ing poll tax. Exempts those not having
in their own right taxable property ex
ceeding $500 in value.
Act to amend section 240G of Irwin’s
Publication office, flSS Broadway, N. Y. W4W „ „ **...«„
Corlc dc eon tort in relation to executors.
about in the garret of the house, from
whence it descended a flight of stairs and
wandered in the upper apartments of the
house.
This so frightened tho bereaved family
that they were about to “sellout” and -sock
a home else where, when a friend from a
distance came to pay them a visit, and to
whom the condition of nflairs was related:
upon which the visitor, being a man of
courage, expressed his desire of seeing the
‘•ghost.” Accordingly,whennightcame,
he posted himself in the room at the foot
of the stairs, and, being well armed, lie
patiently waited for the appearance of the
“ghost.” As usual, about midnight, it
was heard in the garret of the house, and
wus soon seen coming down the stairs.
As it advanced, thu “sentinel” at tho
foot of the stairs commanded itto “hall;”
hut not obeying his command, he struck it,
on what he Supposed to be its head, with a
weapon selected for. that purpose. The
would-be ghost full sprawling down upon
the floor, and, upon being unmasked, was
found to be the brother of the bereaved
wife’s husband, wno, for somo time past,
hud been negotiating and was,about to
succeed in getting his deceased brother’s,
property, which consisted of a good farm
with a three story frame house on it.
Youthful Bleep-Walker.
In Webster, N. II., the other night, u
boy six years old got up from his hud while
he was asleep, and walked about the house.
Brett}’ soon ho full down stairs, and then,
getting up, passed through two doors into
the back room, ■where lie climbed over a
well-curb and fell into a well twenty feet
deop. Ilis father hearing the noise, got
up from hod, and heard his son crying for
help from the bottom of Iho well. Ho let
down the bucket, and the boy seized hold
of the chain and was drawn out of the well
without nny injury except a slight wound
on the back of his head. Tho child appear
ed to be asleep all this time. Tho next
morning when he awoke ho had no recol
lection of falling down-stairs or into the
well.
Good Tim cm iu En*t Tennessee.
The Knoxville Press & Herald says that
already the wheat fields arc as verdant as
a meadow in May, and the area sowed is
in excess of former yenrs. Tho season for
sowing oats lms been more favorable than
last year, it says, aud the farmers arc put
ting in a very heavy crop.
Mr. Davis.
A private letterreccived in New Orleans,
from a gontlcman sojourning in England,
says that the writer received a visit from
Davis on the 4th of March, who express
ed his intention to return to the United
States.
A Model l»uir.
A Western editor has been puffing a bar
keeper. Hear him:
“Mr. James Smithermnn, proprietor of
the above institution, last week asked us
to give him (or it) a null', at the same time
handing us a greenback, whoso dimen
sions we shall not mention. We do not
know anything about said saloon, but Jim
says he keens splendid whisky, and we
suppose lie does, for he buys of Barrett &
Craig, and they were never known to sell
any mean whisky—oh, no! Jim thinks
tiie weary traveler should stop at his rancho
and ‘wet his whistle,* ns it will help him
along amazingly. No .doubt it will help
him to squander his money, waste his
time, destroy his health, beggar his fami
ly, gain tho contumely of society, embit
ter his whole life, make a widow of his
wife and orphans of his children, cause
him to fill a drunkard’s grave, damn his
soul and make more work for the devil.—
Docs this putVsuit you, .Jim ? If not we
will refund the money.”
Nfttdyini? for the Mliiitilry.
A Louisiana darkey, somewhat advanc
ed in years, was accosted a few days since
by a ionner employer with the question
as to how lie was getting along. “ Well,
sir,” said the old darkey, “I’so quit work
now, and am studin for do ministry.”—
The gentleman, upon asking to see what
work his sable attendant of former times
had under his arm, was handed, with a
great show of importance, nn old copy of
one of Webster’s elementary spelling
books, which the old darkey declared that
tlio colored preacher up at tho school-
house lmd told him contained all the “lam
in’ dat was worf picking up afore gwinc
in de pulpit,
tinned the c
Alter you gits dcro,” con
oid would-be divine, “you’sc
got to pound away on dc Bible an’ enroll
dc Scriptures.”
Trim j our WteliM.
The coal^ficnd is killing its victims con
stantly. Anything which will avert the
danger should be known. Tlio Burling
ton Argvs says:
“The explosion is caused by a practice
of neglecting to cut oil tliccharrcd portions
of the wick when the lamp is filled: obser
vation will show that iu a few days uso
the wick becomes like charcoal in compo
sition, for an inch below the top of tho
tube containing it, and after the lamp has
burned a short time, the heated tube fires
all the charred portion of the wick inside,
and that set* the oil on lire below. This
may he prevented hy cutting oll’a sufficient
portion of the charred wick each day after
using the lamp.”
An Accommodating Conductor.
An Ohio paper tells of a conductor who
very kindly stopped his train to allow two
couples and a clergyman to alight and
perform the marriage ceremony at a house
by tho roadside. The performance occu
pied about three minutes, and the wedded
pairs getting aboard again, the train trav
elled on.
Wonders of .tho Microscope.
Tho editor of the New York Sun has
discovered a “living hell in a cubic inch of
raw sugar.” By a microscopic view he
lias seen myriads of horrible looking in
sects as largo as beetles and shaped like
crabs, with drcadftil legs, claw-piercers,
slmrp pointed spears, and a terrible head,
covered with ugly lips; ravenous and rest
less, always falling foul of each other, or
attacking great joints of sugars. He con
cludes:
The way these marvels came to light was
this: A spoonful of raw, coarse sugar, was
dissolved in about three times the quanti
ty of water, when, as with a conjuror’s
rod, the animalcules sprang to the surface,
and floated there, swimming about, and
up and down like tiie beasts that wriggle
in soft water tubs, and finally turn Into
flies resembling mosquitoes, but harmless.
These sugar animalcules, or acarus saccha
ric ns the scientific men call them, were
then gathered up in a spoon and placed
under a glass magnifying about two hun
dred times. They could he seen, however,
with the naked eye, to begin with, but not
in their hideousness until the object glass
brought it out. It has been proved that
in every pound of unrefined, raw sugar,
there are 100,CCD of these acari. In fifteen
grains weight, Dr. Jlassall, of London,
found one hundred of these insects; and
Dr. Harder, of the Itoyal College of Sur
geons, Ireland, found 1,400 m forty-five
grains weight, or 208,000 in a pound.
Worse still; as a matter of ecsthctlcs,
this is the very same insect that bores Into
the skin of Us victims in Scotch beds, and
treats them to a taste of the “Scotch fid
dle,” alias tiie itch,
A Man Murries lijrt Mother.
It will be remembered by many of our
citizens that at a wedding, which,was sol
emnized near Hustyhut, Georgia, somo
time in 1845, that tno bride’s father was
killed in a difficulty with tho brother of
her husband. It is, to those acquainted
with tiie circumstances, known that tho
bride of hut a few hours attempted to kill
her husband with a pistol. The wife and
husband parted. She went to an interior
village in Texas, and he remained, until
the war. peaceably upon his plantation—
although he married in the meantime, and
to pirn was born a son, which son entered
tho army of the Confederate States, and
followed the banners of Dick Taylor, Mn-
gruder and other of tho noblo chieftains
who commanded the soldiers around the
Gulf.
After the war the young man wandered
about through the Gulf btates and finally
located in Texas, where his father’s former
wife lived. She had resumed her maiden
name, and was tho proprietress of a large
and well paying hotel, where she had ac-
cumulatednn immense fortune. Arriving
at tho village tlio young man stopped at
the hotel, and was well provided for by
the enterprising matron. Neither knew
the relation of one to the other, aud al
though there is a vast difference in their
ages—he but a stripling youth and she a
well preserved, comely woman of nearly
forty—an intimacy sprang up between
them which ripened into affection and re
sulted in the proposition by tho young man
of marriage. lie was accepted, and in a
few days the quiet hotel was the scene of
marriage revelry. Tims the solemu wed
ding ceremony united a man to the wile of
his rather—his mother, nearly—and to the
would-be assassin of his father. Verily,
truth is stranger than fiction—a man mar
ries his mother.'—Athena (Alabama) Post.
Amly Johnson ns a Tailor.
A recent letter fr’om Greenville says:
I had a long and interesting conversa
tion yesterday with an old gentleman, a
tailor by trade, who formerly worked in
Johnson’s shop. He says that Andy was
the best tailor ho ever saw, and that coats
made by him never ripped. 1-Iia work was
not only substantial, out neat and tidy.—
All the young bloods about Greenville, who
parted their hair behind, and stalked about
with gold-headed canes, used to patronize
•Andy, as it wus the current report that
a young fellow who wore a full suit of
Johnson’s cut and make could marry
quicker, and stood higher with the ladies
than others.
When Johnson was elected Alderman
there was about as much honor in the po
sition ns there would be in owning a lien
and chickens, and it is said that the young
fellows about town elected him for li joke.
Two years afterward he was chosen Mayor.
In 1835, when he was first elected to tho
Legislature, lie quit the tailoring business
for the time being: but the next session,
when lie was defeated, he again resumed
his old place ou the workman’s bench.
“Talking: llor'nc.’*
The Cincinnati Enquirer gets off the
following which Id the close observer, ex
plains itself:
Wanted.—A young man,of respectable
parentage and good looks, desires to cor
respond with a young lady of similar qual
ities, tv ith a view to matrimony. Sho must
be related to Gen. Grant. None others
need apply. Cousin preferred, but no ob
jection to an aunt, if not too ngpd t
Try it.
The cultivation of broom-corn isextend-
ingln Virginia. The yield avorngesanet
profit of 814 per acre, not counting the
seed, which Is valuable for feed.
liually, and is reddy for uso in fifteen days
from date.
They are horn from an'egg, four from
each egg. aud consequently they are alt of
them twins. There Is no such thing In the
annuls ov nature non single cockroach.
The maternal bug don’t sett upon tho
egg as the gooso doth, but leaves them llo
a round loose, llko a pint of split mustard
seed, and don’t seem to care a darn wheth
er they get ripe or not.
But I never know jt cockroach egg fall
tow put iti nn appearance. Thcyjiro as
sure tew hatch out aud run as Kanada
thistles, or a bad kold.
Tho cockronch is of two colors, Borrol
and black. They aro always on tho move,
and kun trot, I should say, on a good
track, aud a good day, eluss to threo min
nltta.
Their food scorns to consist, not so much
in what they cat as what they travel, and
often finding them dead ln my soup at the
boarding-house, I havocum to the conclu
sion that a cockroach can't stvim, hut they
canllopt.
Naturalists have also declared that the
cockroach liavo no double tcoth. This is
nn important lhckt, and ought to be intro
duced Into all tho primary school books of
Amerikn.
But the most Interesting feature of this
remarkable hugg Is the lovelyness of their
natures. They can’t lilto nor sting, nor
skratch, nor even Jaw hack. They aro so
amiable thnt I have even known them tew
get stuck in tho butter, and lay' there all
day, and not holler for help, ana acktually
die at last with a broken heart.
Tire Milk Worm InClilnn.
Young J. Allen, missionary from Geor
gia to Ohlna, jrrltcs a letter to the Macon
Telegraph, from Shanghai, under dato of
January lz, enclosing in n pnekago of Chl-
neso newspapers a number of cocoons,
which latter have not yet been received.
Tho correspondent says in his letter that
the cocoons are open at either end, and not
perforated at the tlmo the worm makes its
escape. Tho worm is chiefly found on rose
bushes, hut In tho latter part of the sum
mer, when It begins to spin, travels into
every accessible place, henco you will sco
among these specimens ono plucked from
an arbor vitro, enclosed in the leaves of
tho willow. They oven clamber upon
houses, it is not till Into in the fall that
they ultimately tlx thcmsolves. If South
ern ingenuity shoulddlscovcr any means of
rendering the silk of the cocoon useful, ho
has no doubt but that China can readily
furnish nny.qunntity of tho raw material,
A Illff Hunt.
About tho middle of lost December a
lKtt'ty consisting of five men started from
Union Dept. Sullivan county, East Ten
nessee, on a hunt down tho Holston river.
They provided themselves with a comfort
able fiat boat, weathorboarded and divided
it Into several comfortahlo rooms, with
chimneys and all the appointments of a
first class cottage. This expedition reach
ed Knoxville on Monday, having been out
a little over three months. They shot and
trapped over five hundred deers, foxes,
otter, mink, coons, and muskrats, and sold
out their furs Wednesday for a profit of
about $300, after payiug the expenses of
tho trip. This expedition is tho most ex
tensive hunt thnt has taken place In that
section for many years, aud rivals in ex
tent the trapping expeditions of tho far
West.
11 1 Ire, nil Toko n Smell I
The following, which we clip from the
New York Times (Raymond's paper) is
disgusting, nauseating, In tho extreme.—
It is an extract from that paper’s special
AVnshiugton correspondent. Nono hut a
low, contemptible, Northern white snenk
would so far forget his Caucassinn blood
as to smell and bow around a negro, as it
is said tho Radicals in Congress did on this
occasion:
“In tho Senate Dunn, of Louisiana, a
colored man, was warmly and courteous
ly received by all tho Republican Senators,
nearly all of whom in turn shook hands
and emitted with him for several minutes.
He was similarly received in tho Houso,
and hold quito a levco near one of the
cloak rooms."
Ntranffo Words from n Itniltcnt.
In a recent issuo of tho St. Louis Demo
crat, ono of tho ablest and most extreme
organs of Radical sentiment, we find these
strange words:
As wo have already said, the expulsion
of negro members of the Legislature docs
not or itself form any justification for Con
gressional interference. The right to de
cide whether negroes aro eligible to the
Legislature belongs to the Legislature it
self; it is not provided hy the Fourteenth
Amendment nor by the Reconstruction
acts, that negroes shall be eligible to olllce,
and if they ere so by nny inference front
legal or constitutional provisions, the ques
tion is ono which must first bo settled in
tho United States Courts. Neither does
the refusal to ratify the Fifteenth Amend
ment justify interference; If Georgia is
competent to ratify an amendment it is
also competent to reject it.
The Newere of Mow York.
At Hoboken, N. J., a man was recently
arrested coming OfT the New York ferry
boat. lie was clothed from head to foot
innn India rubber suit, hoots, overcoat
and cap, besmeared With mud, and ln his
hand wasa carpet-bag, which oh examina
tion, was found to contain old wnlchcs,
silver spoons, (black from exposure,)
knives, jewelry, bottles of liquor, old pen
nies, silver pencil cases, finger-rings, one
a diamond ring of considerable value, nnd
various other articles. After an invcstL
gation it appeared that this person bod
been exploring the sewors of New York,
Butler must have been making deposits
in that locality.
A Yomiff Talker.
They have quite a sensation out In Chi
cago, Illinois, In tho shape of an infant
commencing to talk at tho age nf three
months. The story is vouched for by one
of the most respectable nnd successful
physicians of that State.
1 miss 1b a new mercy,» a saying worthy
of tho profoundcst plilloso^hcr. It Is on
ly too true thSt misfortunes come to us on
wings, but retire with a limping pace, and
yet one half tho world arb ready to meet
calamities half way, and directly to wol-
como them. There Is scarcely an ovll in
lire that we cannot doublo by ponderlug
upon itt a scratch with us thus becomes
a wound, nud a slight Illness oven ho utado
to end In sudden death by tho brooding
apprehension of tbo sick; while, on the
other hand, a mind accustomed to look on
tho bright side of all things, will repel tho
tnlldow and dampness of care by its genial
sunshine. A chcerfttl. heart paints tho
world as it secs It, Uko a sunny landscape
—the morbid mind depicts it llko a sterile'
wilderness.
Almnn nnd Fhiirpitr Rivers.
These two rivers of Damascus, men
tioned in the Scriptures, have recently
been thoroughly explored by McOregor,
tho fnmous canoe traveler. McGregor,'
after going from Cairo to Suez, nnd ex
ploring the Delta of the Nilo, had his ca-
ttoo carried by land to Beyrout, thence
over Mount Lebanon, and finally lautlch-
cd in the river Altana, on which ho pad
dled to the plains of Damascus, The riv
ers Altana and Fharpar, In consequence
of tho wild beasts, deep jungles and sav
age Arabs, have heretofore boon laid down
inaccurately on the maps by travelers,—
McGregor gives nn Interesting account of
a “giant stono town," with stone doors,
rafters and window shutters, covered with
Greek inscriptibns, dating before thcChris-
tlan era.
Drunk!
"My boy drunk!” and tho tears started
from tlio mother’s eyes, and she bent her
head in unutterable sorrow. In that mo»
mont the vision of a useful and honorable
career was destroyed; and ono of worth
less, If nut absolute dishonor, presented
itself. Well did sho know that intemper
ance walks hand In .hand with poverty,
sltamo and death; and her mother heart
was pierced as with a sharp-pointed stool.
Ah, young man! If. the holy feeling of lovo
for her who bore you iB not dead within
you, shun that which gives her pain; ad
here to that which gives her joy. If she is
with you on earth, she does hot, cannot
desire to sec her son a drunkard; if she is
with her Eat her in heaven, shun that course
of life which shuts the gates of heaven
against you, and debars you from her so
ciety forever. Tho drunkard cannot In
herit the kingdom of God.
Lucky MeffrcK.
Tho Louisville Courier-Journal men
tions tho fact where a negress brought stiit
in that State against the executor of her
old master, and recovered a judgment for
$12,000 withsoycral years Interest. Her
master was, before his doath, a wealthy
planter ln Kentucky and Mississippi, and
had emancipated this woman and her six
children, setting them up In life, in Ohio,
nnd willed them 30,000 to bo made out of
his property after his death. The execu
tor failing to do so, the suitwaa instigated.
The wny lie Put it Out.
At an Oakland (Ohio) hotel recently a
strong smell of gas was discovered issuing
from tho room Of a bridal party from the
country. Admission being demanded to
put out tho gas, the rural swain replied
that “ho blew it out, and then tho darned
thing smelt so had that ho put his stock
ing over it. ’ ’ Sure enough, there was the
stocking over the burner and tied down
witlia shoe-string.
Eutiflnff oft llnuilo.
A enso is now pending In the Houston
Superior Court, ou tho matter of enticing
a hand from his employer after a contract
has been made. Suits for damages havo
been brought in several eases in the State,
sympathy is universally for the plnintlfik,
and tlio wish.gchcrnlly expressed that tho
defendant will bo made to smoko for bis
conduct. The case in Houston is attract
ing considerable attention among tho plan
ters of tho country, as It will be taken as a
precedent.—Telegraph. ■
1 ^ r;
A Colored Postmaster Appointed.
T. K. Sasportas (colored), Rcprcscntar
live from Orangeburg county, in tho South
Carolina General Assembly, has been ap
pointed postmaster af Orangeburg Court
Houso lit that State. Tho Charleston
News says this Is tho first Federal appoint
ment of a liolorcd man to office in that
State',
AYnlitnlrie Dor;
Thoro is a large and strong dog, in Du
buque, Iowa, that has saved the lives of
fburpersons. He dragged acreeplng babo
from under the feet of a pawing colt, pull
ed two drowning girls out of a lake, and
seized his master’s coat-tail, ono dark and
stormy night, and held him hack just as
he was about to step into a river where
the bridge had just been carried away.
Hunter ln Hotnpbls.
A brutal and cowardly murder was com
mitted in Memphis on the 20th ult. ro
tor Crawley, while going to church wi th a
lady, was deliberately shot ln the hack by
a man named John Kelly, who fled and
has not been arrested.
Nlioit Stories Tor Small Hoys.
An exchange publishes the following
item of morality under the above beading.
It surely has a fair knowledge of teaching
the “young idea how to shoot”—in a horn:
A company of boys, from nlno to fifteen
years of ago, in New York City, tho other
oveutng attacked! bakerin the street, pull
ed him from hjs cart, and then took and
ran off with nearly all his bread and cake.
