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§2 50 PER ANNUM
NE3W GOODS!
THE subscribers are constantly receiving ficsh
accessions to their present desirable stock of
GENERA L MERC HA NOISE,
and the publir, as well as their friends, are res
pcctlully uvited to favor them with a call,
Their assortment of
DRESS GOODS,
Hats, Shoes, School Books, &c.:
are ample, and are offered at prices that will not
fail to give satisfaction.
ma J'3-‘.f HOtyELL & NEAEY.
NOTICE!
and niter this date. thcDrnjr Bnssiness
-F of ,f. E. Walker &Cos will be conducted tin
der the Firm name of Walker & Torbert, and
unviitj to our limited means and an almost
Universal Cash System,
we will lie compelled to require the cash ;or our
Drugs July 15th 1807.
J. E. WALKER A Cos
july2or-lm
i-ook Out Farmers
lff- 9 0€»€»
BUSHEL WHEAT
For which the highest market price
will be paid. Sacks furnished.
Apply to
O. 11. P. MOSES & CO., •
Greensboro, Ga.
GREEK ESBOIUP HOTEL
t undersigned has re opened
HTiiip.* t-i. * the above namec Hotel, at
£3 ll (Deoid stand opposite the Court
StSTjTVTwECEi House where he will at all times
be pleased to set his friends and the public gen
erally. Tin bouse has been renovated, and the
table will be lit erally ouppfied.
Mr \\ 1’ Doster will be in readiness with good
Itorses and vehicles to convey passengers to any
desired point.
_ J- J. DOHE/fTY.
Greenesboro Ga. sept 20—ts
Augusta Hotel.
AUGUSTA, : : : : GEORGIA,
S. M. JO.\ES, Proprietor.
rill IIS Leading. Fa-bionable Hotel, lias been
JL newly and elegantly fnimsbed, and is uov
prepaicd to extend a ‘ Georgia Welcome ”
Col. GEO. H. JONES, Chief Clerk,
may 18—ts.
Carriage B£iop.
THE Snbscribers having permanently located
in Greenesboro, Ga., is prepared to do all
kinds of
Carriage, Euggy and Wagon Work,
in the neatest and beat style. Al.-o all kinds of
n t \ t' i-d «•
#@“l’articulai attention given to Horse shoeing
and Repairing old Acs.
A liberal patronage is earnestly soliciK'•
iV i:i. H- Co
Photogp.phic
Photographic.
-» rnppufi JONES have opened over the
of Elsas & Adler a
Pliotograliic Gallery,
,-r'e they are prepared to take
mtirotypes. Porcelain and Gera Pictures, Ac,
7 Matures taken to lit Lockets, llreastpins, etc,
jwsons need nos wait for clear weather to
wve their Pictures taken.
‘ T'ntlr chemicals are new and reliable and pic
tnros taken by tlrjm will not be soiled l>y mois
ture Rug3o—tf
M, A. RTOVALL, H - EDMONDSTON
Stovall A Edmoiidston
l|/ q p jaijftJßE D G jEX/j RAL
" (Uaiunissiou Hlcrcljunts
™ in COTTON Grian, FLOUR,
1 PROVISIONS §-c
NO 2 Warren Block. Jaekson street,
AUGUSTA GA
altention given to the sole of
Cotton .Large storage accommodation.
AMERICAN FARMER’S HORSE
BOOK.
BY ROBERT STEWART. M. D. V. S.
THIS work is printed from a beautiful, clear
new type on fine paper, made exp essly tor
the work aiid is comprised in onelarge volume of
Coo pages, embellished and illustrated with nu
jjj-.ro is engravings. It will be furnished to
subscribers A ! iv ? dollars per copy payable on
delivery. A. REESE
ogt. for Greene, Taliaferro, & Warren.
Furniture !
Furniture !
GEO. P. FRAZER
MARIETTA ST.,
ATLANTA, G A.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER,
JJAS now on hand one of the
LARGEST and CHEAPEST
stocks fliFnamtsi
ever offered in the Atlanta market, embracing :
Parlor Sets, Writing Desks,
Chamber Sets, Tables,
Bedsteads, Whatnots,
Bureaus, Solas,
Wardrobes, Rockers,
Chairs, Washstands.
In short, everything to complete a first class
stock ot FL’RNIT{7RE, including the best and
cheapest Cottage Chairs ever offered in this city.
The attention of the citizens of Atlanta and
the country generally, is respectfully invited to
this establishment. Great inducements to the
trade, l’rices low to suit the timjs, Orders fill
ed p ornptly ivud well, je22 2m
THE GBEENSBORO HERALD.
GEIENSBOM
MALE ACADEMY,
"VT’OUNG ME.Vmay be prepared at this Insli-
X tut ion for the advanced classes of College,
oi be carried to any degree of advancement.
RATES OF TUITION’.
First Class, embracing AVading, Writing, Gram
mar, Geography, Arithmetic,
Ac $1 per month
2d Class, higher English Blanches
and Ancient Classics $5 per month
junt-tf is. C. KIXXPISIIV. IV, Principal,
IDIR,. W. MOBO-A UKT
m»ILL attend to the
practice of Dentistry
.. -. S K Ns n > in Greenesboro’ on Mon-
Wednesday and Frl
mUWwaa '' a N °f each w eek. He can
Vll ItnaTriTj l»e found at his office over
Elsas A Adler’sstore, Horn
8 a m till 5 o clock p in
Peufield, Ga.,aug 2 —ly
'b: v :h.*®
All persons indebted to the firm of Boon A Peek,
are hereby notified, that their accounts have
been placed in the hands ot Thomas W Robinson.
Att’y at Law, for collection, and that immediate
payment of the same must be made,
This July 15th, 1867.
EATONJ MAP?
1m Agent for Boon & Peek.
SPERRY, SAWRIE k CO.
Wholesale Grocers
—AND—
Genera! CommissinMerchants,
Corner Church <fe Market Sts.
Na*hvillc, Tciui.
Georgia Railroad.
Until further notice Trains will run as fol
lows on the Georgia Railroad: .
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
(Sunday excepted.)
Leave Augusta at 6.30 A. M.
Leave Atlanta at 5.15 A. M.
Arrive at Augusta at 6.00 P. M.
Arrive at Atlanta at C.lO P. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 8.00 P. M.
Leave Atlanta at 6.20 P. M.
Arrive at Augusta at 3.15 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta at 5.00 A. M.!
Passengers for Mayfield, Washington and
Athens, Ga., must take Day Passenger Train
Passengers for Mobile and New Orleans must
leave Augusta on Night Passenger train at 8.00
p, m. to make close connections.
Passengers for West Point, Montgomery
Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junction, Memphis,
Louisville and St. Louis, can take either train
and make close connections.
THROUGII TICKETS and Baggage checked
through to tlie above places.
Sleeping Carson all Night Pa ssenger Trains
B. W. COf.ll (fr>fl , l,,Snp’fr..-
s j*nc"SoutTi Carolina Railroad will run the
following Schedule until further notice:
CIIA LESION TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 7.00 A 51
Arrive at Charleston 4.00 P M
Arrive at Columbia 5 20 P M
Leave Charleston at 8.00 A M
Arrive at Augusta 5.00 P M
If. T. PEAKE, Gen’l Snp’t.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC li. R.
Day Passenger Train—{Except Sunday.)
Leave Atlanta 8 45 A. M.
Leave Dalton 2 55 P. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga 5 25 P. M.
Leave Chattanooga 320A. M.
Arriv? at Atlanta 12 05P. M.
Eight Passenger Train — Daily.
Leave Atlanta * 00 P. M.
Arrive at Dalton 1 15 A. M
Arrive at Chattanooga 4 10 A. M
Leave Chatlauooga 4 10 P- M
Arrive at Atlanta 1 41 A. M
Dallon Accommodation Train—Daily Ex
eept Sunday.
Leave Atlanta 3 50 P, M
Arrive at Daiton 12 25 P. M
Leave Dalton 1 25 P. M
Arrive at Atlanta 9 45 A. M
ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD-
Day Passenger Train—Going Out.
Leave Atlanta 5 15 A. M
Arrive at West Point 10 A. M
Leave West Point 1 18 P. M
Arrive at Atlanta 6 5 TANARUS, M
MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Macon 1 45 A. M
Arrive at Atlanta 2 00 P. M
Leave Atlanta 1 15 A. M
Arrive at Macon 1 30 P. M
l— -Ul.nl. 8 10
Arrive at Macon ‘ j
CLEMMONS HOUSE
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
rpilE undersigned takes pleasure in informing
I the Traveling Public that he has furnished
his Hotel tbroi ghout, and is prepared to ac cm
modate all with the best the country aftords, on
reasonable terms. Board and Lodging $2.00
per day. Single Meals, 50 cents. Board per
month, $12,50. —6m32 W. A. CLEMMONS
A MERICAN HOTEL,
J\. ATLANTA, GA.
I'.OUNO & BROWNING, Prop’rs,
(Opposite Passenger Depot.)
Having taken charge of, and placed in thor
ough repair the above House, wo hope to merit,
a share of patronage.
Col. Acton Young, Wm. U. Browning,
Late of Nashville, Tenn, Late of Columbus, Ga
PLAInTERSHOTEL.
AUGUSTA, :::::::: GEORGIA
Newly Furnished and Refitted
UNSURPASSED BY ANY
IIOTEIi SOUTH
IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
T. S. NICKERSON, Prop’r.
Late of Mills House, Charleston, and I’roprie
of Nickersons’ Hotel, S. C.—ealo
GREENSBORO, GA., AUGUST 31,1867,
A Dream of the Past.
lIV A. FCI.KEKS3X,
I saw' a bird glance through the air
With lovely golden plumage rare I
Across the sky it quickly sped
And from my sight liko lightning (led !
My soul its beauty scarce had known
O* ere the lovely thing had flown 1
I guard into the vacant air
And sighed to think it was not there;
But whenco it came or where it went,
Or to what climo its flight was befit,
I ne'er have known and ne’er shall know l
Through all the days I live below 1
It went away on jealous wing
Perchance in other climes to sing
Perchance some other sky to find
More bright than that it left behind 1
Perchance in other woods to greet
Its absent mate with music sweet,
And cheer the forest’s deep dark shade
With love’s delicious serenade—
And meet the morn of happy day
With glancing wing and joyous lay 1
Thus did I meet in early youth
A peerless maid whose soul was truth—
Whose eyes in dewy lustre swam
Beneath her marble brow all calm—
Whose cheeks liko roses bloomed and glowed—
Whoso lute-toned voice like music flowed,
And in her form I’ll ue'er forget
Allmortal charms and graces met!
Our meeting brief, our parting sad;
I looked—and have I since been glad ?
No, many a year has passed away
Since first 1 gazed on her that day !
I looked and loved, and she was gono,
And in the world I was alono 1
I heard that on a night in June—
A glorious night, when stars and moon
Shed mingled light from heaven abovo,
And in a happy trance es love
Earth seemed a fair amt fitting home
Where angels in their bliss might roam—
She went from earth to happier lands
And joined in the bright angelic bands
Who sing their anthems round the throne
Where sin and sorrow are unknown,
And love eternal tills the heart—
Where those who loved may never part I
Now never more my eyes shall see
That fairest form that e’er could bo,
Nor shall I hear on earth again
Iler voice's low and dulcet strain ;
But still in faith and hope I trust,
Looking all dimly through the dust,
To claim in yonder blissful sphere
The love which made me happy here 1
Assassination of the Traitor Lo
pez.—The particulars of the assassination
of Lopez, the betrayer of Maximilian arc
as follows:
Lopez was stopping at a hotel in Rue
bla, where his wife spurned him from her
presence. Early one morning a Mexi
can arrived and familiarized himself with
an hostler in a livery stable adjoining
-* J| Uent Miguel Lopez was Inquired for,
but not being in, the stranger was told
that the General would be in at dinner.
Before the dinner hour Lopez returned
and was pointed out to the stranger who
made special nole of his man. When
dinner was called Lopc-z and his assassin
occupied opposite seats at the table.—.
After some minutes, during which time
the stranger called for and drank a glass
of wine, ho deliberately rose, drew a con
cealed knife and sprang upon Lopez, and
stabbed him nine times. The stranger
then took his hat, and, as he started to
leave, said : “This is the way all trai
tors should be paid.” No one interfered
or prevented the assassin from leaving.
Thus was the blood of Maximilian, Mi
ramon, Mejia, yes, and thousands of
others, avenged. This report is regarded
as authentic.
At Last. —Andrew Johnson is at last
beginning to give symptoms that he con
siders himself Piesident of the United
States. The removal of Stanton, though
tardy, was due both to himself personally
and to his office. Had it been done
eighteen months ago, it would have saved
the President much trouble and irritated
the Radicals less. Gen. Grant, it will be
seen has taken Stanton’s place ad inte
rim—that is, he is to he Secretary of
War until Stanton’s successor shall have
been nominated by the President and
confirmed by the Senate, which means,
in plain English, during Andrew John'
son’s administration. If Grant goes into
the movement cheerfully, the Radicals
are effectually check-mated in their game
of power* The army will ho m *};«
Cf r.oomenr, and ne Will be able to
snap his fingers in the face of the
Rump Congress and set them at defi
ance.
We shall look with interest to the res
suit of this move on the political board,
which we are inclined to regard as saga'
cious and masterly. —Macon Telegraph,
Cheerful View of Things. —“llow
dismal you look!”said a bucket to his
companion, as they were going to the
well.
“Ah !” replied the other, “I was reflec
ting on the uselessness of our being filled;
for let us go away ever so full, we always
come back empty,’’
“Dear me ! how strange to look at it
in that way,” said the bucket. “Now I
enjoy the thought that however empty
we come, we always go away full. Gnly
look at it in light, and you’ll be as cheers
ful as I am.”
The State Tax collecter for Sumter
District, S. C., has returned to the sher
iff d,OOO executions, including his own
name and the sheriff’s among the defaul
ters.
Anew and dangerous counterfeit five
dollars national currency note has just
appeared at Detroit. On the left end
of the note the wrist of the left arm of
Columbus is scarcely visible, whereas in
the genuine it is distinct. At the top
read “This note is secured by bonds,”
the letters b and y are too far apart, and
the o in “bonds” is under the y, where
as the b in the same word is immediate
ly under the yjn the genuine. The gen
eral appearance of the bill is a clo3C imi
tation of the genuine.
Ox Dits. —lt is said that informal, but
not the less potent, orders have been pri
vately issued from headquarters at Atlan
ta, that no negro delegates shall be sent
to the convention. How do our colored
brethren like this form of proscription ?
We also understand, from good author
ity, that e*,cial advertisements that have
heretofore appeared in the secular and
political papers will not be allowed in the
religious or purely literary papers of the
district. Nothing will suit but a change
to the Radical press. A case, we hear,
has been made by the sheriff of Coweta,
who wished to insert his sales in Miss
Barber's Weekly, published in that coun
ty, and enjoying a large circulation, but
the liberty was refused. —Macon Tel.
A great deal of sickness prevails thro’-
oul Burke county, principally in the lower
edge of it. Several deaths have occurred
in and near Waynesboro recently. The
prevailing disease is the congestive chill.
True, — It is not whist or dancing
that harms young people. It is outlawry.
Whist does not lead to gambling. Dan
cing does not lead to dissipation. It is
playing cards “on the sly, that leads to
gambling. It is having to get out of
the way of ministers, and church tnems
bers, all religious people, when dancing
is to be dene, that leads to dissipation-
It is loneliness, want of interest and
amusement, any unjust and unnatural
restriction that leajis to all manner of
wild and boisterous and vicious amuses
ments, which prey upon the soul.— Gail
Hamilton.
Official Printing. —The Mobile
Tribune asks, What is meant by “offi
cial advertising ?” and answers the ques
tion in this wise :
“Do the advertisements of business
in the Chancery and Probate Courts come
under that head? We are inclined to
paid* for by the parties having the cases
in Court, anil they alone have (he right
to designate the paper to which they shall
bo given. Neither th ; Judge of Probate
nor the Registers in Chancery has any
more than assumed light to take charge (
of the matter. Parlies having business
in either Court would do -veil to advertise
in the paper of their choice.’
Grf.eley on Confiscation.—Ex Attorney
General Speed’s recent letter to the freedinen
of Kentucky, gives practical advice, in telling
them they must woik for themselve*, and not
depend upou others for advancement. These
gentlemen v/bo talk to the coloied men about
the confiscation cf rebel property, and its
distribution among the negroes, txcito hopes
which are likely to be disappointed. The
freedmen must raise themselves; they must
woik now, and not depend upon vague
promises of future aid. As Mr. Speed says,
there is little more that can be done for the
freedmen; we have given them all the rights
and privileges we ourselves possess, and the
opportunity is for them to use. “Cultivate
all the virtues which ennoble man,” says Mr.
Speed ; “be honest, industrious, sober; edu
cate yourselves, make money and learn to
keep it; own your own homes; identify
yourselves as good citizens with the commu
nities in which you may live; in all your
dealings with your fellow man do as you
would bo done by, and learn to respect your,
selves that others may respect you.” To this
we would add one golden rule—for one man
who becomes rich by the confiscation of
property of others, a thousand will remain
Inocr. No sensible freedman who desires in
dependence will hesitate to WQrk for it.—if.
Y. Tribune.
Senator Wilson Oitosed to Conftsca
nou.—For myself, I want no more punish-
Hants than have already been inflicted on
these men. They have Buffered and have
teen disappointed more than any body of
men in the history of the world. Their ideas,
p incif les, and policies are all gone forever.
The hope and aspiration of their souls are
hit. They are baffled, defeated, humiliated,
conquered. For oue, 1 have it not in my
heart to pursue the system of confiscation or
ary other system that shall bear harder than
those that have already been adopted to bring
them into the country and make them a part
of the country. I don’t want an Ireland or
Poland in America. [Applause.] Speech at
Saratoga,
A German writer estimates that an acre
of good buckwheat will yield fourteen
pounds of honey daily.
In the Connecticut river this year there
will be one hundred million shad
c( ] by artificial means.
Advice to the Negroes.—We make the
following extract from a speech recently de
livered at ITully Grove, Miss., by lion. Albert
G. Brown ;
Most of you want land. Allow mo to say
in all sincerity, as your friend, regarding you
in your present position, that is the last
thing you do want. If you had laud, what
would you do with it? You would want
provisions, plows, hoes, axes, carts, mules,
everything necessary for carrying on a farm,
and where are these to come from I Now
1 will tell you what you want —first of all,
you want a year’s provisions and clothing
for yourself and families, or the means of buy
ing them. Next you want horses or mules,
then you want farming utensils, and last of
all and most important, something to foed
the horses or mules on. When you get thus
equipped, there will be no trouLle about the
land. There is land enough for overybody.
If any one or fifty of you will come to me
nixt year with the means of carryiog on a
farm on your own hook, I now promise you
land on your own terms.
But understand me. Ido not agree to
put up houses and fences, sink wells, and fur
nish mules, plows, hoes, wagons, fire-wood,
provisions, clothing, and in short everything
to carry on a farm, and then give you every
thing you make; that would be setting the
colter a little too deep. But if you want land
and nothing else, coma on, I am ready for
you.
1 have another little piece of advice for
you : When yon get land, as you will after
a while, pay for it ont of your honest earnings,
and thou you will feel happy in the knowl
edge that you have not by fraud or force
appropriated other peoples goods to your
own use. I traveled the other wiih a
black man who rode his own horse. lie had
bought and paid for him, and I admired the
honest pride with which he strode him. If
he had stolen him he would have slunk away
as a thief. I look to the day when every
honest man among you will own lfrtid, and
set down in full security at your own door,
protected by the majesty of the law. But I
warn you that you must woo the coming of
that day by habits of industry, frugality and
earnest desire for peace and good will among
men.
The Booth Family.—Dur'ng Mr. Brad
ley’s SDaeph- in.the Surrsxt ■>( W
ton, Friday, in referring to the diary of
Booth, ha said: “They suppressed that diary
which exculpates Mrs. Surratt; that diary
which shows who and what the man was; a
fanatic and a madman. His graDd-father,
Richard Booth, was the most thorough red
republican who ever settled in America, and
his grand-son inherited the traits of that
grand father. It is well known he aided
slaves to escape from Maryland, which his
son, the elder Junius Booth, paid for. The
Grandfather named his son, the great actor,
Junius Brutus, and taught both son and
grandson to idolize the memory of the great
Brutus that killed Csesar in the Roman capi
tal. J. Wiikos Booth was an accomplished
scholar, and moved in the best society, but
lie bad running through him this vein of in
sanity, and above it all flows that indescrib
able affection of a son for a mother.
derful was the power he exercised over men,
wonderful Lis power on the stage, makingffiis
$2,000 a year.”
It appears that rum is not responsible for
all affrays. A disgraceful fight occurred id
a Lodge of Sons of Temperance, at Charles
town, Mass., a few evenings ago, originating
between two of the sons, and soon became
general among the fifty or sixty members.—
The ladies present eudeafored to stop the dis
turbance, but one received a blow which
prostrated her, another had her cheek and lip
badly cut, another fainted, and two or three
ran iuto the street crying murder.
The Line Drawn. -Several of the Vir
ginia papers, including the Charlotteviile
Chronicle and the Norfolk Dag Book, that
hare recently manifested a desire to co oper
ate with the Radicals in restoring the State
to the Union, have changed their views since
the meeting of the Hunuicutl Convention.
The Chronicle remarks as follows :
“From the proceedings of that Conven
tion, it is almost impossible to ditcovor that
anv white man was there except Mr. Hunni
cult and Mr. llauxhurst. The colored peo
ple just took things in their own hands, and
acted as if there were no white people in the
State. They have defiantly organized them
selves into a black man’s party, and only one
thing remains for the while people to do;
to lake up the glove.”
“Our advice is this; let us fight it out.
It may be that ia the approaching election,
the whiles will fail to carry a majority of the
counties. But in the loDg run the result is
not doubtful. The colored people are merely
sealing their own doom. We tell them, as
we told them before, that thirty-one millions
of white people in the United Slates are not
going to surrender the South —the magnifi
cent empire of the South —to four millions
of blacks. The thing cannot be done ; it
I will not be done ; their hope is in peace; but
If thev will have war, let it come,
I ’ - s ' ' *
VOL. 2, NO 19
Cut This Out.—-A little girl was cured of
a rattlesnake bite recently, by the use of a
strong decoction of white ash leaves, taken
internally, and also applied to the wound. The
decoction was not used until the day after she
was bitten. Had it been used immediately,
after receiving the bite, there would probably
have been no swelling at all.
There is a species of black snake (not
poisonous) which always fight the ] rattles
snake when he meets him, and always kills
him. But, in the encounter, he generally
receives many wounds from the fangs of bis
poisonous antagonist. These he cures by
chewing white ash leaves and applying Ids
saliva, charged with their pulpy juice, as a
sort of liniment. The instinct of the reptile
suggested the remedy to man.
Marriage Law in Genmany.—Among
the antiquated laws and customs of some of
the smaller German States, which will be
abolished on their annexation to Prussia, not
the least curious are those relating to mar
liago. In Electoral Hesse nq man was allow/-
ed to marry if under twenty-two, and no wo
man if under eighteen. The result of this
somewhat severe law was, that while in other
countries girls try to make people believe
they aro “sweet seventeen” for many years
after they have left school, the llessian young
ladies often declare themselves to be eighteen
years old long before they have reached that
age. The Prussian authorities, however,
will change all that, the law ot Prussia ma
king the minimum marriageable age eighteen
for a man and fourteen for a woman. In
Wurtetubnrg men are not allowed to marry
under twenty-five, except by special dispensa
tion. A curious law, said to date from the
Visigoths, also exists in that country, forbid
ding any woman to marry a man twelve
years younger than berself. In other Ger
man .‘Mates similar anomalies occur. Thus
in Baxony, the minimun marriageable age
for a man is twenty-one; for a woman there
is no restriction. In Austria a boy of four*
teen may marry a girl of twelve; while in
Baden marriages where the bridegroom is
under twenty-five, or the bride under eigh
teen, are not allowed unless sanctioned by
the police authorities.
Our Soldiers’ Graves.
A few days since we visited the graves of
the Confederate dead, who are buried near
mis place, and w7m7eTr in defense of our
though lost —still sacred cause. We "found
a plain but substantial palling which had
been put up by the ladies, but with this ex
ception but little else had beon done to orna
ment the last resting place of our noble dead.
No arched entrance and graveled walks.—
No raised mound and tall flag-staff, to attract
the attention of the passing stranger. But
we felt while looking upon their humble
graves that they were more honored by the
Southern people than they would be were
they buried iu the most splendid Cemetry
that was ever erected.
The beautiful and touching picturo is in
vested with a grave and holy charm to which
we bow in reverence and admiration. These
martyrs passed away as silently as stars be
fore the coming morn. They died ; htit no
knell was tolled, save the sobs around some
mou’ning hearth. No fancy head-boards
mark the place where they lie.
harps of the mourning forest alone sing peans
to their honor, and the lullaby rippling of the
rivulets alone chimes a requiem to their
ashes, and their memory is alone carved on
the sorrowing hearts of their countrymen ;
but now their comrades, and the young
daughters of the land—ever ministering an
gels of mercy—gather around in silent grief,
and weave a chaplet of glory, brighter than
the gemmed coronets of thronged monarohs
—prouder than the meed ot the Olympic
hero, and
“Which will never die away
Or fade in the light of any ray.”
We thank God that the same genius of our
land, that once • animated the breasts and
moved the arms of those freemon fighting
for their homes, is to day traced in the heav
en horn deed of its daughters; it is now the
placid smile of the resigned victim given in
turn for the revengeful grins of our Puritan
torturors ; it is a ray that will shine with the
sun, which the pall of infamous legislation
will never darken —the power of no bayonets
can ever consign to a dungeon 1
May the Father of Mercy bless the daugh
ters of the South for their work of love 1
Culpepper Observer.
A clergyman who enjoys the substantia,
benefits of a fine farm, was slightly taken
down a few days ago by an Dish rTougUtsar®
who was sitting at his r'ougb. in « iOoacco
field, resting his horse- The.mere ni
tleman being an economist, said w ; (h
seriousness : f «*, would* ,j t „ *
plan for you to have a stub settle here and
be cutting a few bushes al 0 '. lg ' the fence w! , |fo
the horse t? re ting a s .iort time?” Joho
Wlt h quite as serious a couruenaDC6 aa
divine wore htmse sa ; d; it be
T ’ foifVV to haVe a tub of Potatoes in
the puli it, e.acl when they are ata _ js „ (q
peel era liwiiik to be ready for the pot V’
The reverend gentfomau laugbe-i heartily
and left, - *
