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POETRY.
From the Waverley Magazine.
I NEVER CAN FORGET YOU.
A'eg lonely to the River side
To .eek the favored spot
Where Neil and I so often strayed
And said “Forget me not."
Bat tims has changed, (and so have we) .'
For I’m bound there along—
Forget me. ah ! yes I’m forgot,
As she no more will come.
I know her spirit is as proud
■ As he who on thg battle-plaid
Upholds his country with his blood.
And saves for hci her name :
For well I know she'll come no more
To meet me there again,
For when she parted all she said
“ ’Tis parting gives me pain,”
,4h/ here phe comes, she sees me not.
Her thoughts are wondering far,
And hastens to this dear old spot
Sbe’e coming, coming-near.
She sees me now, but still she com.a,
And slowly pass me by
Her lips they quivered, aud methought
Her trea t bad heaved a sigh.
With queenly pride she onward goes.
Her lips tbeyare compressed
My heart strings tear lo thiuk that I
Lost one oi nalure’s best.
They say, ah, yes, that distance lends
Enchantment to the view ;
Nell, Cupid drove his arrow far
Into my heart for you.
•‘Farewell/” if we no more can meet,
As we did in olden 'imes,
As lovers in onr old retreat,
We must in heavenly climes :
Although on earth we severed be,
And my cheeks grow pale and wan,
Forget you, Nellie, nearest, I
Forgetyounevere.au.
I*e Gentle with tliy lVi (<>
Be gentle, dor ;ou lltt e know
How many trials rise.
Although to thee they may betmall,
To her of giants sian-
Be gentle, though perchance that lip
May spnak a murmuring tone
Tbe g irt may beat with kindno • yet.
And]oy to tp thine own.
Be gentle • weary hours of pain
Tis woman's lot to bear-
Then yield her what support you can,
And al’ her sorrows share
Be gentle! for tbe noblest hearts
At times may hare soma grief,
And even in a pettish word
May seek to fin-. relief.
Be gentle 1 lor unhindnrss now
May rouso -ome angr. g o:m,
That all the after yea's of life
In vain may strive to it u.
STHAY THOUGHTS.
BY CLARA AUGUSTA.
•
Who can estimate the value of
a kind word? “Words fitly spo
ken are like apples of gold in pic
tures of silver.”
Who knows how many hearts
have been saved from despair by a
few kind words ? When the cares I
and burdens of life press heavily,
and the spirit as well as the flesh
faints and grows wCak, how grate
ful are the expressions of sympa
thy and kindness. Like the dews
of Heaven, to the thirsty plant—
like rain to the parched earth—like
sunshine to the folded flower. Nev
er judge any man harshly, however
rude and unsocial he ma^ r be, until
you have tried upon him the law of
kindness.
We are all more or less obsti
nate, and you will not find ono per
son in a hundred who relishes be
ing driven. Perhaps it is a little
singular, hut it is none the less true,
that most of us xMll not readily do
a thing which we want to do, if we
feel that any one is trying to force
us to it. *
I once hoard a wife say—“l was
not intending to go to Mrs Smith s
party to-night, but John said I
should not go a step, and now 111
go if I die for it!”
And little Tommy Johnson evinc
ed the same spirit when he said-*-
“I’d just as liof give Jim Sykes
my whistle as not, for it's a crack
ed old thing,- and all the whistle
is out of it; but Jim said if I
didn’t give it to him he'd whip me;
and now 111 burn it! see if I
don’t!”
If you ever want to influence
any person, try kindness. Hearts
may be softened by love—hut nev
er by a spirit of hatred and unkind
ness. And if you would succeed
jin convincing a man against his
will, ten to one he will hold to the
same opinion still.
GREENSBORO’ GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1868.
Cultivate punctuality. It is a
good thing to build a character up
on. I know of nothing more do
sirable than reliability. If you
can say that a man is reliable, yon
are giving him the best of good
name!.
Never make an engagement, in
tending to break it. If you prom
ise to be at a certain place at a cer
hour,set here, if you are alive. Do not
wait five, ten, or twenty minutes,
but keep your appointment to a mo
ment ! Oh, I like those people of
whom it can be said —you know
where to find them. They are the
■kind who keep their promises.—
They never run away with your
umbrellas, nor lose a train by being
too late, nor keep you waiting at
dinner, nor forget the little bill that
the tailor sent in a week before,
and you never in the world knew
one of them to have a Sunday
headachei •
Avoid contradiction. A spirit of
contradiction is always particularly
hateful. Ts there is anything es
pecially despicable, it is the man
who is continually arguing and con
tradicting. Such a person is a pub
lic nuisance, and our law-makers
ought to enact a law to “abate”
him. He is never happy himself,
and no one can be comfortable with
him He would be in the anguish 1
of torment if any one thould hap
pen to be undisturbed by his per
verseness.
You cannot venture upon re- (
marking that it is a fine day with- !
out running the risk of being con
tradicted and argued with for an
hour or two, to be proved wrong at
last.
I was once traveling on a steam
er in company with couple
of my acquaintance, who had re
cently agreed to undertake life’d j
journey fnd ; vi j^j a w!
business it is to watch everything 1
that every one says in order te be
ready with his contradiction
We were passing a littlo village
set in among the hills, and the la
dy made tbe observation, iu a care
less way—“ That is Ililldale, I be- ■
lieve.” -
“Ililldale? no indeed /” sail her
companion, cresting himself like a
cock turkey; “that is Dellville !
How could you make such a mis
take ? I’ve been in these parts be
fore, and I know.”
ffihe young lady colored—but .
maintained her assertion. The 1
gentleman appeared astonished that
she should dare anything of the
kind, and went on with an argument
tooleng to write down, tqconvinee
her that she was wrong. Sbq kept
a dignified silence, and bv-and-by
he finished, having, I* suppose he
thought, settled the question as to
the name of the placte forever.
The young ’lady dismissed him
shortly afterwards, and I cannot
help thinking that his spirit of con
tradiction helped on the result. . ■
As for myself, I was curiouff
enough to take pains to ascertain
the correct name of the village in
question, and found to my hprror
and amazement, that it was ilbither
Hilldafe nor Dellville—but Scratch
Gravel Corner! —Arthurs Mag.
Heath of lion. Thaililens
STEVENS.
The Conner of yesterday morn
ing announced the long-expected
death of ILm. Thaddeus Stevens,
which occurred in Washington pre
cisely at 12 o’clock the night be
fore. Mr. Stevens was a man cf
whom a large number of his coun
trymen will find it difficult to speak
charitably, even now that the grave
has closed over hrs implaeablc en
mities. But in his case it will be
good to obey the kind rule which
forbids us to speak ill of the dead.
While we may discuss his acts, we
must remember that he is now at
the bar of the Judge who can alone
weigh both his acts and bis motives.
Thaddeus Stevens Was born in
Caledonia county,. Vermont, April
sth, 1798, and was therefore iirhis
76th year at the time of his death.
Graduating at Dartmouth College
j in 1814, he removed to I’ennsylva
nia in thg same and was ad
mitted so the bar of Adams county
in 1816. In 1833, he was elected
to the Legislature and served four'
terms, distinguishing himself as a
violent revolutionary partisan in
? the anti Masonic agitation, and iu
“VINCIT AMOR PATIIIJiV’
the famous “Buckshot, war.”
He early took position as aft an
ti-slavery men,- and being a member
of the State Convention elected to
revise the constitution of Pennsyl
vania in 1836, he refused te append
his name to that instrument because
it restricted suffrage to white men.
In 1838 he was appointed OnnM
Commissioner. He removed to
Lancaster in 1842, and there resi
ded until his death, except when
living in Washington as the Repre
sentative of his distinct, in the 31st,
32d, 36th, 37th, 88th, 39th and
40tn Congresses.
Mr. Stevens was never married,
and had a bad reputation as a lib
ertine. He was addicted to gam
bling, and was not a believer in the
Bible, but professed a sort of phil
osophical religion of his own inven
tion. In politics he was a reckless,
violent, and proscriptive partizan,
cherishing up his latest moments!
the luxury of “immortal hate.”— *
iTo indulge it, and triumph over I
, the Democrats and over the people \
1 of the South, he spurned the
‘stltution, and was the ackno-v! Ig’-j
ed leader in all the bol 1, Trad tnc.is*
•ures of his party. His political
course, however, is familiar to the ,
whole country, and, like that of a
Marius or a Sylla, will he regarded '
with approval or aversion by hi.s J
‘contemporaries, according to their'
political bias.
But pirates and freebooters are '
found to have a good side to their '
, characters, and we belieye that, with ■
! all his faults, there were redeeming !
traits in the character of Thaddeus ;
Stevens. While he would stop at!
no violation of the Constitution, he |
scorned to pervert its plain mean- j
ing, and boldly avowed Yhigbt and
his owh sense of right as the only
sanction he claimed for the policy
■MK-'as ever an open one. mr.-Tr.-g;
espoused the cause of the negro a
gainst the white man of the South,
lie scorned all professions of friend
ship for his victim, and advocated (
the most relentless use of the pow- j
er which his party hell to elevate
the slave, and to insult and to de
grade the master. And yet, with
all his animosity toward the South
ern whites, a3 a people, he is said j
! to have been always kind to indt-
I viduals from that section when they
■approached him for a favor.
| Ts he had been as charitable to
! ward communities as he was to per
sons ; if he had been as true to the
' whole country as he was to his own
'section; if he had been aa-faithful
to the Constitution as ho Was to hrs
party, his iron will, and
his talents would have made him a
public benefactor. As it is, ho will
ever be regarded by the mass of
mankind as a master spirit in the
work of ruin, and the legacy of ha
tred and sir fe which he has left to
his .country will ever associate his
name with talents misapplied, vir
tues perverted and passions indulg
ed to the prejudice of higher mo
tives and nobler capabilities.
C'onmg-al Felicity among;
THE. FREEDMEN.
Lee,"our devil, who is the son of
Ike, of Ku-Klux memory, and who
is as black as the ace of spades, got
married last week to an ebony beau
ty.
He just had money enough to
pay for his license, and when we
asked him how he was going to sup
port his wife, his ready reply was,
“Es she's gwine to cat,she has to
oarn it as I does. T didn’t bargain
to feed and dress her, bos3.” We
were congratulating ourselves that
the devil was married, and sorry we
were too ill last week to*givo an
obituary to the happy occasion.—.
But we knew tha devil was to pay
when tlie devil got married, aud
tho truth is we were right. Last
Monday, Lao came to us with a
face .as long as a Boston shingle
and said, “Look, here, boss, Iso
been a big fool, and I wants to get
a perforce," “What do you mean
by a pc<forcc ? wo asked. • “Some
thing that perforce a uian and his
wife to quit being married—for 1
tell you, boss, I'sc tired oi it, ahu! ’
“Wiiy Lee,” we replied, “what do
you want to quit your wife Cor ? ’
“For* hcavon, Doss, itisu t what I
bargained for , i took h&r for better
and for woss; the better am goue
and I'se only got the woss. left;
dar’a a colored man and a white
man, both good friends of mine,
tley love me so well dut dey’s take
my place wid my wife, and I thinks
so much of them dat l’se gwine to
gib her up to them. If dar’s any
fighting to he dono dey’s got to do
it.” So off Btarted our devil to
look for a lawyer to get a “perforce,”
• and we have not seen him since.—
Grenada (Mist.) SeAtinel.
How a Oirl under High—
TEEN PROCURED A HUS*
BAND.
It seems to bo generally admitted
that love laughs at locksmiths, and
'occasionally we find an illustration
that it can even ovorcome obstacles
ofa more embarrassing character*
than can ho created by merely keys
and kicks, and of this we furnish a
case in point.
Avery pleasing young couple
arrived at the Everrctt House yes
terday from Illinois. Tt was ap
-1 parent they were lovers, and it
I soon became evident they wanted
jto get married. The Clerk polietly
inquired if two rooms were rqquir
‘ ed. and the young man replied in
the negative, saving they expected
'to be married during the day.—
I Shortly after arrival they started
| out upon a tour of inquiry. Led
by a rural instinct they first repair
ed to the Court House, but not
finding any facilities among the
! leather-headed officials therefore
1 consummating a marriage, they re
turned to the hotel and consulted
the courteous Clerk. He recom
mended them to procure the servi
ces of a Justice of the Peace, and
consequently Justice Jecko was
| sent for. Ho was promptly on
lhand. The young man drow him
aside and said h« was green at the
“business,” and wanted the Jus
tice's. advice.
"gre-ywruoi tu age ? r—
“I am old enough,” said the
young man, “but the girl.” It
was then ascertained that the young
lady was under eighteen and the
Justice declined to proceed.
This placed thfi young people in
a serious dilemma, and they revolv
ed the matter deeply and finally
| hit upon a happy expedient. The
! number 18 .was clipped from a
.newspaper of that day of the month,
! and the piece of paper was placed
' in the voung girl’s shoe, and being
under her pretty little foot, she
] might With a certain truthfulness
! say she was over eighteen. The
n o xt was to send for Jrtsticß
j Lawrence. That big and bearded
|functionary dnly arrived and ex
pressed readiness to proceed with
j tho ceremony. Ilfs questions were
answered satisfactorily and the
marriage was consummated and the
happy two became a happier ono,
and the sole objection was removed.
Their names were Mr. J. McKibben
and Miss Loretta Allraon, both of
Marion county, 111. The young
lady we understand, is quite
wealthy, and Troth are respectably
connected. They appeared deeply
attached to one another and no
doubt have a «unnv fntare before
them.
| The trick-little practised upon
the S'l'ilro Is not a now one, and,
however, it may -he viewed under
such circumstances, it is easily for
given. As the - recording angel
writes down the deception he no
don v >t washes it ont with a tear, if
that scrcno seraph has any heart at
all. We hope the young couple
will always be as happy as they ap
peared yesterday.— St. Louis lie
! publican.
Read this to your Snvekt-
HEARTB. The character of the
i jo ing men of a eom-munity depends
in'ich°upon that of 4m young wo-
If the latter ard cultivated,
intelligent, accomplished, the young
men will feel the requirement that
they themselves should be upright
laud gentlemanly, and refined, but
)if their, friends are frivolous and
sillv, the young men will be toand
to be dissipated and worthless. But-
I remember, always, that a is
i tb© boat guardian of a brother s in
legrity. As a daughter, she is tae
true tight of a homo. The pride of
a father ofteuest is centered on bm
sons, but his affection is expeuded
on his daughter. She sh-udd there
i t'ojq, !jo -tli* sun aud centre of all.
' Whatman a man have iu his
pocket when it is empty ? A big
fcoJe.
Reward fo'tlie 'Capfhrct
OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Tho bill reported from tho House -
Committed ot Claims on Wednesday 1
provides that tho reward of SIOO,- ;
1 000 offered for tho capture of Jes-j
fersou Davis, by tho President of!
tho United Slates, in hi3 proclama-
Uon of May 2, 1565, shall be paid,
as follows; To Tamos H. Wilson,
of Illinois,-late major general vol
unteers, $3,000 ■ to Benjamin -D.
Pritchard, of Michigan, late lieu
tenant colonel of tho 4th Nlichigaa
cavalry, 3,000 ; to Joseph A. O.
Yeoman, of lowa, late captain .of
the Ist Ohio cavalry, $3,00(b and
to the following officers, nan-com
missioned officers, and privates in
proportion to the ninthly pay pro
per to which they were rospect.ively
®ntitled in the grades which they
hold at tho time of said capture.—
(Here follow the names of one hun
dred and forty four officers and men
of the 4th Michigan cavalry that
were present on the morning of
May 10; of seveuty-fivo officers
and enlisted men of the Ist Wis
consin cavalry* and of twenty -seven
others, being the dotachmeut ac
companying Captain Yeoman,
principally of Ohio.) The bill pro
vides that to tho heir at-law and le
gal representatives of such soldiers
named therein as wore killed in ac
tion at tho capture* or have since
deceased, the shave, proportion, or
claim of such killed nr deceased
soldier shall b* paiji. Tho sum of
SIOO,OOO appropriated to carry
theV’t into effect. /
Making Love with Umbi hei.las.
—A certain dramatic writer, being
caught in a shower of raiu, took
refuge under the dortlco of a hiind
.aoing dwelling...New York. As
window was opened, and
female face appearen, wmen see tire a
to beam withsympathy and iwixiety.
She soon retired, and sent him an
umbrella by a servant. Ho tell at
once desperately in love, and think
ing from her anxious looks that the
feeling was recipoeated, he called
on her the next morning, sent up
his card, and gave into her own
hand a very oostly umbrella he had
purchased Iu place of the old and
shabby one he had borrowed, and
then wound up all by making a pro
fession of love. The young lady,
without oven noticing the exchange
tha' nod been mado perceiving how"
her act bad teen misinterpreted,
natively replied : “I feel it to he
my duty undeceive you, sir: At
the time of the shower I was anxi
ously epecting a gentleman who is,
I confess, very dear to me, who
vHi«d to sea, who wished to see
me in private, and my only motive
for sending you the umbrella was
to get you off the steps.”
Beautiful Answers.—A pupil
of Abbe -Eioord g>vo the following
extraordinary answer;!;
Q. What is gratitude ?
A. Gratitude is tho mefitiory oi'
the heart.
(and. What is hope l
A. Hope is the blossom ot nap
pin esa. *
U>. What is tho difference be
tween hope and desire?
A. Dcuro is a tree iu leaf, hope
is a tree iu flowers, and enjoyment
is a tree imfriiit.
What 13 eternity?
A. A day without yesterday or
to-morrow ; a day without end.
Q. What is time t
A. A lino that has two ends—a
path that begins in the oradlo and
.ends iu tbe grave.
Pir-KLiNo Puteims.—Best vine
gar 1 quart'; sugar 4 pounds;
peaches peeled and stoned 8 pounds;
spices as desired, or cinnamon and
cloves ground, of each 1 tablespoon.
Tie np your spices in a cloth and
put with tho fruit and vinegar,
cooking the peaches until done on
ly. Keep in jars. If the.r begin
to ferment at any time, simply boil
down the juice; then boil the
peaches in it a few minutes.
Keep out of bad company, for
cbauceS are that when the Devil
fires into a flock ha will certainly
.hit someone.
There are two things which can
not be too short, a pi© -crust and a
(C mu nun motion for a newspaper.
. Li. IL MORGAN, Priulti.
NO. 19.
Determined to rnvn Another.
.•^A'clergyman, who was consoling
a young widow on the death of her
husband; spoke Tn' a. very serious
tone, remarking that lie was “one
ot the few. Such a jewel of a
Christian, yon cannot find his equal,
yon well know.” Ts which the
lobbing fair onQ replied, with an al
most broken heart—“l'll hot I
will !”
-V
General Eailv, late C, S. A., i»
frequently visible in the Clifton
(House, to which lie drives in from
his residence at Druiunaondsvillo, a
town a mite and a half distant. Ho
iy»* to meet and converse with
P 'tests “hailing” from the South,
ii j is very bitter in his oppositions
to Grant for Hfo'sident. A; says
Grant has, or Lad no ability at all
as a General, and.has no civil ca
pacity to fill the ufiice for which ha
®a been nominated. ' •"
ell/’said an old judge to a
negro who had been hauled up for
stealing a pullet,* “what have you to
ay .for yourself?”
‘•Nujfhf but dis: I was as cra
zy a3 a bed bug when I stole Aat ar
pullet, co j I might have stole a big
hen and . nebber done it. Dat
shows ’clusively dat I was laborin’
uudor deli rum tremends.
A Proper Name. —The intelli
gence of some boys in financial af
fairs •peaks volumes as to the daily
harden of some men’s, conversation.
VVe stopped one tho other day who
was leading a fiue mastiff— fierce in
look, powerful in muscle, and very
probably dangerous, as he was very
closely muzzled. “What’s the
dog’s name?” asked wo. “He
isn’t named yet,” said the boy;
/‘bet l , j< > c;iII bins Banknote,
»»- > ■ , ai g-cry one
An old bachelor says women are
so fond of appearances, that if you
eouhl make them believe that there
were no looking-glasses in heaven,
they would set no more value on
salvation than they would on a poor
relation. Singular how age sours
people.
It is said that words hurt nobo
dy: nevertheless, Sampson jawed a
thousand Philistines to death.
When your wife begins to scold,
let her have it out. Put your feet
up co iiy over the fireplace, loTT
back in your chair, light one of
your best cigars and let the storm
rage on. Say nothing, do nothing,
know nothing.
■An. incorrigible wag who lent a
minister a horse which ranaway and
threw hue clerical rider, thought he
should have somo credit for his aid
in spreading the gospel.
“Married well,” nowmeams yok-..
ing two fouls together with plenty
of money or laud to justify the lol
ly. Hearts and brains, aud worth,
have gone out of date.
Sulky females generally die old
maids. If a girl wishes, therefore,
to taste tho swoets whieh spring
from love and corduroy, let hor go
training for good nature, and be
come mimical with gladness, like
June crowded with bob relinks.
Two Irishmen wero in prison,
one for stealing a cow. and the oth
er for .-tealing a wateti: “Mike,**
said tho cow stealer, one day.
“what o’clock is it ?” “Och, Pat.
I haven t my watch handy, but I
think it’s about milking time.”
Sfivrmak’s Bawe.—’Tho man
Sherman wanted to duck in" tho
Missouri river, at St. J©» is named
E. O. Hayes i liis great offense
was tooting a horn, which gaare the
signal for multitudinous cheers for
Seymour and Blair.
A chap was asked what kind of
ja “gal”'he preferred for a wife. lie
replied—“pne that is not a prodi
gal, and a fru-gnl, and a truc-gaJ.
and one that suited his conju-gai
ta9te.*’.
John, I fear you arc forgetting
me, said a bright-eyed coquette to
hor sweet-b Cart the other nay.-
“Yes, Sue, T have been for gc'P'GVg
you these two years.”