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Yol. 11.
THE DEW DROP.
BY REV. S. LOVELL,
This little shining dew drop
Has sailed the world around;
It tints the gorgeous cloudlets,
It sparkles on the ground.
It breathes in evening zephyrs,
Reflects the sun’s bright beams,
And in the jetting fountain,
Descends in pea.ly streams.
It paiut3 the cheeks of beauty,
It glistens in her eye;
It forms the glorious rainbow.
That spans the eastern sky.
It slakes the thirsty lab'rer,
And on his brow it stands;
It ripples in the brooklet,
Meand’ring through his lauds.
It falls in fleecy snow-flakes,
Aud robes the earth in white;
It hangs in icy pendants,
A cold, yet lovely sight.
It rolls with waves of ocean,
And leaves the good ship’s side,
It conies in rushing torrents,
To swell the river's side.
In trees, and shrubs, and flowers—
In fields of richest green,
In Nature’s thousand glories,
T his Dew drop may be seen.
It'serves as morning bev'rage,
We drink it when we sup;
In ev’ry place we find it,
Except the—drunkard’s cup.
Georgia Press Association.
Atlanta, Kimball House, Jan.
15, 1873.—The Convention assem
bled according to adjournment, at
3:30 o’clock, and was called to
order ly the President.
Minutes ot yesterday’s proceed
ings read and adopted, with the
following changes, in the evening
session, where it rends : “Colonel
Styles moved that tho c mmittee
on uiemoralizing tho Legislature
in regard to taxes, be authorized
to alter, amend or modify, the bill
before drawn and presented to that
La dy. AYtoptedshould read,
“Committee on Advertising;” and
the following: “Gul. Christy moved
that,Col. J. R Sneed be invited to
a seat in tho Convention should
read, “In all Conventions of tiro
Association. ’
Thecoinmitt.ee on the death of
Mr. Thus. Ragland and Gen. A, R.
.Wright, read the following report,
which was received anti adopted:
report on the deau of thos. rauland
AND GEN. a. R. WRIGHT.
Since the last meeting of tlio
Press Association,death has strick
en from this body two of its most
useful representatives, and as to
one of them, most brilliant mem
bers. In Thomas Ragland, Esq.,
proprietor for thirty years of the
Columbus Enquirer, and General
Ambrose Ransom Wright, editor--
in chief of the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel, the press has lost
two of its worthiest exponents;
society two noble exemplars and
ornaments, and the State two of
the best citizens that ever lived or
died within her borders.
In view of this two-fold loss,
the Press Association of Georgia
Resolves,
1. That it hereby officially an
nounces its profound sense of
regret and bereavement at the
death of these two conspicuous
and distinguished members.
2. That in Thomas Ragland we
recognize those sterling qualities
of character that constitute at
once the strength and the good
repute of the business manage
ment of Georgia journalism.
That in Gen. A. It. Wright, we
mourn one of the ablest, most elo- [
qnent and intrepid editors that
Georgia or any other State ever.'j
had to grace illustrate,.thq. i
or_(^T r -nonored witlfyiflec
li*i and-respect. p y
4* That ue pub
fished and copies be sent by tlje
Secretary of the Association to the
immediate families of the deceXsod.
In conclusion, we appfy to our
departed and cherjshed brothers
those rare aucrtouching words of
a gifted genius under solemn sor
row : “Peace be to the dead. Re
gret cannot wake them ! With a
sigh to the departed, let us resume
the dull business of life, with the
certainty that we abo shall have
our repose.”
C. A. Miller,
. Edwin Dklton,
1. W. Avery,
Committee.
Col. Style* moved to appoint a
committee of three on the subject
of county advertisements, which
was carried and the following up- ,
I pointed said committee; Col. C. W .
Styles, C. W, Hancock, and J B i
i Gorman, who, after retiring, made
L&wrencevilie, G-a., Wednesday, January 29, 1873.
l a report, which,with slight amend
ment, was received and adopted,
as lollcvvs :
Resolved, That tho practice of
soliciting county advertising from
county officers, who are, at the
time, under annual contract or
agreement with a particular paper,
is exceeding the rules of legiti
mate competition, aud that the
offering to do smell advertising at
reduced rates or to pay a per
centage or bonus to such officer or
officers as inducement to change
his or their official journal, is dis
reputable and should subject the
offender to expulsion under Article
VIII. of the Constitution
Resolved, That the acceptance,
knowingly, without advance pay
: incut from a county officer who is
in arrears with his former pub
lisher is uijust, unprofessional,
and dishonorable, and that any
mem be so offending shall be ex
pelled, published and stricken
from the exchange list of the Asso
ciation.
Resolved, That any member who
shall accept such advertising, in
ignorance of such officer’s arrears,
and who shall refuse or fail to dis
continue the same, on proof of the
fact, by the publication of such
officer as a defaulter, shall be sub
ject to like punishment.
Resolved, That the rates for
legal advertising agreed upon by
j this Association, on the 9lh of
May, 1872, in section 9, of a ‘‘bill
to be entitled an act to regulate
the legal advertisements of the
several counties of this State” are
| fair and just, and that b’dding
below the said rates to obtain pat
ronage engaged by another paper,
is, to all intents and purposes,
“underbidding,” and should be
classed w th the crime of “ratting.”
By J. J. Toon —A resolution on
the cash system for subscriptions
was otiered, which, alter a lively
laud interesting discussion, was
adopted as follows : '■
Resolved, That we urge with
, deep earnestness every publisher
i of this Association, and the entire
[ press of the State, to adhere strict
ly to the system of advance pay
ments on all subscriptions to their
papers, and so advise their patrons
j ifoul week to week.
I By T. G. M. Medlock —unani-
mously adopted.
Resolved, That any member of
the Georgia l’ress Association
who shall hereafter insert adver
tisements, or enter into contract
with any advertising agency, or
I any other parties, to insert adver
tisements for less than the mini
mum rates printed in our schedule
prices, shall be expelled from the
Association and dropped from the
list of exchanges.
Resolved, That any newspaper
in Georgia, whether a member of
this Association or not, violating
the foregoing resolution, shall be
struck from the mailbooks of every
member of this Association and
that each member be requested to
publish the above resolutions as
often as practicable.
After a liberal discussion of
matters of general interest to the.
! Association, the Convention ad
journed, sine die.
J. R. Christian,
Secretary pro tern
An Unfortunate Youth. — Hie
Danbury News gives an account
of the vicissitudes of liic as expe
rienced by a young man in that
place. He wjept to see a young
lady, previoilWy just< having beefi
to an oyster 'supper. As*eh»eared
I the house Jrel'ff'tiler stand
(tig on the step4* andfhailed him :
“Hello, pW .tadpole: zat you ?
Wlierd is <nv lovely Gaxeila (—~
Wlfrre" isW tuy love now dreumini",
The lather looked at the young
man and thinking he wanted aguw
thing, placed hi* hand sadly on
his shoulder, turned him gently
aro#id and filled tho space under
his coat tail with leather. Hie
young man don’t go there any
more ; he says small pox is hetcdt
tary in the family.
Remedy for Cob ns. —Mr. Rose, a
merchant of Fan Diego, announces
that these creators of so much tor
ment in the world, can easily and
surely be cured by applying a good
coat of gum arabic mucilage ev ;ry
evening on going to bed. lie hail
them for forty years, and tried nearly
all the corn remedies in existence,
wilh&ut relief, until he tried the
above, which readily cured him in
a few weeks.
A new town in Liberia has been
named Philadelphia.
“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE! ”
Rini ANTfo CAREER.
Tho Story i>T Mrs. Myra Clark
dames, lire ‘tefo of a
Famous haw Suit.
George Alfred Townsend writes
to the Chh'.agojTribunc :
Mrs. Gaines is the great female
; character in New Orleans. She is
a •small.plump, bright eyed woman,
and she lias been the heroine of a
very heroic lawsuit, which she has
; personally conducted, raising mo
ucy for the purpose to tits amount
| of half a million, recovering near
; ly a million, and with all the pro
babilities in Inn - favor of getting a
million more. But if she were to
j get what she wou’d receive under
other conditions, than those of do
inocratio public opinion, she would
possess half the city of New Or
! loans in its most valuable part,
and be a wealthier woman than
Miss Burdett Cunts.
The home of this lady is in*
New York city, but she spends
much of her time in New Orleans,
where she has strong friends and
strong enemies, almost equal in
number. Her suit has involved
many of her most intimate friends,
from whom she has borrowed mo
ney to pay lawyers’ fees arid court
fees. Her second husband, Gen.
Gaines, believed implicitly in the
merits of her case, and gave her
two hundred thousand dollars to
light it out. .She has been twice
married, and to excellent men both
times; and 1 was told there that
the brother of her first husband
helped her with nearly the whole
of her funds. There is a dash,
piquance and nitnhlcnnns about
this woman which distinguishes
her as one of the queens of Her
sex. She is said to be about sixty
years of age, but would pass for
forty; and, while her education is
defective, she is a natural author
ess and lawyer, and can write a
stinging brief, where sauce and
justice are mixed up together.
She is just the sort of woman to
be identified with New Orleans
provincialism and cosmopolitanism
mingling in her as amongst many
of these old inhabitants, llur
mqtlier had married a Fiench biga
mist, and discovering the fact
after she reached New Orleans,
presumed to marry again the great
Daniel Clarke, who was one of.the
wealthiest men of the South lie
was one of the earliest property
holders in New Orleans, and repre
sented that territory in Jefferson's
administration. Clarke was smit
ten with the beauty of the French
lady, and contracted a secret mar
riage with her —made secret in
Older to anticipate a divorce from
his French predecessor. But while
he was absent in Washington city,
his relatives, who had expected to
get his money, told him that his
wife was not faithful, and hired a
lawyer to tell her that her mar
riage with Clarke was not legal.
Having a natural affection for
man, the French lady proposed to
take another husband. Ttiis offend
ed Clarke, and it seemed to confirm
the lies which bad been said
against this lady ; and meantime
his daughter was born —the pres
ent Mrs. Gaines—for whom he
maintained affection, so that,while
lie let his wife slide, he gave a
very Considerable sum of money
to a man in Wilmington,Delaware,
to be used and applied to the edn
catiyn of* his daughter, and, at
Imr maturity, to present her with
toe princii'&d. the banks ol
the Brandywine, wlmfe Lafayette
yhoinmas, Harry McComb and
your humble correspondent spent
their youth,became the playground
< f the future Mrs. Games. As
they had no penitentiary in the
tstate, ami never whipped white
people at the post, the custodian
of the baby saw no business reason
why he should* uot squander her
money. He did squander it; and
history has made no mention ol
the innumerable fried chickens,
roast capons, and deviled crabs
which this unfaithful gnaidian
devoured out of the inheritance of'
the babe in the wooyls. A Mr. j
Crossdale, who Is the best journal
ist in Delaware, some time ago
collected the story of Mrs. Gaines’
cluldlrood in Wilmington, and it
was published, over another name,
in the Galaxy magazine.
When the guardian had squan
dered all tho money, and both his
liver and Couscieneo were disor
tiered, some faint recollection of
her childhood iuspired a dream in
the little ward.
She dreamed that her father was
another person than tho man she .
called father ; that he was rich and
alive it) a distant State, amongst
negroes, molasses and such other
things Ss children like. She came
down to breakfast the next morn
ing, where the unfaithful guardian
was thinking, in si morose way,
■ how I irtunate it wsis* for him that
the State had no penitentiary, ami
i how unfortunate that there were
no other little girls to be let out
: with endowments. Unhappy Bela
warinu ! For him no longer the
I fried oysters gambolled or the
chicken fricaseed ! While lie was
; thinking over this tiih.g the little
j girl told her dream, lie iiumecli-
I ately fainted, and they had to
j borrow some old Delaware rye,
j ne.tt d >or, to bring him to COn-
ScioUsnesS.
As he c une to, he said : “Myra
I (lie pronounced it Myrie, as did the
future gallant husband of tiie lit
tle girl), who has been putting
that nonsense into Join hmul V”
lie answered his own question by
confessing, like an honest criminal
in one of the fairy books.
The little girl was at once put
in possession of a lawsuit. She
became a heroine, married two
husbands, and iias living grand
children. Both her husbands were
devoted men, who believed in her
claim; she does the same, lighting
it out.
I have a theory that Nature’s
'Chief use for us in this life is em
ployment; and that, like the fires
which convert into healthy motion
the mortification aud decay in the
atmosphere, we are all right
enough if something is given us
to do. But Nature makes a very
unhappy tly of us when she leaves
U 3 a vast law suit., and, at tlie
same time, impresses with the fact
that wc arc after our rights. Who
would know much about Daniel
Clarke, or the man in Delaware, if
it were uot for Mrs. Gait.es ?
———— m » ••
String of Pearls.
No man ever offended his own
conscience, but first or IdSt it was
revenged upon him for it.
What you leave at your death, let
it be without controversy, else the
lawyers will bo your heirs.
* Conversation derives its greatest
charm, not from the multitude of
ideas, hut from their application.
He who can conceal his joys, is
greater than ho who can hide his
griefs.
There are few tables where con
viviffi talents will not pass in pay
ment, especially where tho host
wants brains, or the guest has money.
Where necessity ends, desire and
curiosity begin; and no sooner are
we supplied with everything nature
can demand, than we sit down to
contrive artifical appetites.
In private conversation between
intimate I’tiends, the wisest men very
often talk like the weakest; for in
deed the talking with a friend is
nothing else but thinking aloud.
Nature loves truth so well, that it
hardly admits of flourishing. Con
ceit is to nature what paint is to
beauty; it is not only needless, but
it itnpaires what it would improve.
Our conscience is h firo within us,
and our sins is the fuel; instead of
warminof, it will scorch us, unless the
fuel bo removed, or the heat of it
allayed bv penitential tears.
A man is a-fool if ho be enraged
i with an ill that he cannot remedy,
lor if 113 endure one that lie can, lie
j must bear the gout, hut there is no
; occasion to lot a fly tickic his nose,
A man who can give up dream
i ing and go to his daily realities;
who can 6tnother down his heart,
its love or woe, and take to the hard
work of his hand; who defies fate,
and, if lie must die, dies fighting to
the last—that man is life’s host hero.
“Ik you Know any Just Cause.”
—The Napanetf (Conn ) Beaver
relates the following story :
A joke, altogether too good to
be lost for .want of telling, occur
red in the - Methodist Church in a
village not ten miles from Napa
nee, a few mouth ago. The minis
ter, after the service, published
the bans of a marriage between a
loving and interesting couple, and
at that portion of the form where
the words “if you know any just
cause,” etc., came in, the minister,
whether from any previous knowl
edge or not, looked straight at a
young gentleman directly tit the
fool of the pulpit. This gentle
man, thinking he was personally
alluded to, arose, amid the luugh
ter of tho congregation, and ex
claimed—“Oh, no; not the slight
est objection, sir.”
[s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Mark Twain’s Best.
The following narrative, by that
inimitable humorist, Mark Twain,
is Hood’s Annual :
The Only merit that I cun claim
for the following article, is that it
is a true story. 1( has a moral at
the end <>f it,* but 1 claim nothing
on that, as it is merely thrown in
to curry favor with the religions
element.
After l had reported a couple of
years on the Virginia City (Nev.)
Daily Enterprise, they promoted
me to be editor in chief —and I
l isted just a week by the watch.
But I made an uncommon lively
newspaper while I did last, aud
when x retired 1 had a duel on my
hands and three Imrse whippings
promised me The latter 1 made
no attempt to Co led ; however,
this history concerns only the for
rnqr. It was theold “flash limes'
of the silver excitement, when De
population was wonderfully wild
and mixed; everybody went arm
ed to tlie teeth, and insults had to
be attoned for with the best article
of blood your system could fur
nish. In the course of my editing,
I made trouble with a Mr. Lord,
editor of the tival paper lie flow
up about some little trifle or other
that I had said about him. I do
not rember now what it was. I
suppose I called him a thiol, or a
body snatclier.or an idiot, or tjomc
tiling like that I was obliged to
make the paper readable, and 1
could not fail in nly duty to a
whole community of subscribers
merely to save the exaggerated
sensitiveness of an individual*—
Mr. Lord was offended and replied
vigorously in Ins paper.
Vigorously means a great deal
when it refers to a personal edito
rial in a frontier newspaper. Du
eling was all the fashion among
the upper classes in that country,
and very few gentlemen would
throw away an opportunity of
fighting one. To kill a person in
a duel caused a man to be even
more looked up to than to kill
two men in the ordinary way.
Well, out there, if you abused a
man, and that man did not like it,
yon had to call him out and kill
him ; otherwise you would be dis
graced. So l challenged Mr. Lord,
and I did hope lie would not ac
cept; but I knew perfectly well
that lie did not want to fight, and
so I challenged him in a most vio
lent and implacable manner. All
our boys—the editors—were in the
office “helping” me in the dismal
business, and telling about duels,
and discussing the code with a lot
of aged ruffians who had had ex
perience in such things, and alto
gether there was a loving interest
taken in the matter winch made
me Unspeakably uncomfortable
The answer came—Mr. Loyd de
clined. Our boys were furious,,
and so was I—on the surface.
I Rent in another challenge, and
another and another ; and the
more lie did not want to fight, the
bloodthirsticr 1 became. But at
last the man’s tone changed, lie
appeared to be waking up. It was
becoming apparent that he was
going to fight alter all. I might
to have known how it would be—
lie was a man who never could be
depended upon Our boys were
exultant. I -was not, though 1
tried to be.
It was now time to go out mid
practice. It was the custom there
to fight duels with navy six shoot
ers at fifteen paces—load and
empty till the game for the funeral
was secured. We went to a little
ravine just outside of town, arid
borrowed a baru door for a target
—borrowed it of a gentleman who
was absent —and we stood this
born door up, and stood a rail on
end against tho middle of it to
represent Lord, and put a squash
on top of the rail to represent his
head. He was a very tall, lean
creature, the poorest sort of ma
terial for a duel —nothing 4jut a
line shot could “fetch” him, and
even then he might split your bul
let. Exaggeration aside, the rail
was, of course, a little too thin to
represent his body accurately, but
the squash was all right. II there j
was any intellectual difference be
tween the squash and his head, it
was in favor of the squash.
Well, I practiced and practiced
at the baru door and could not
hit it, and I practiced at the rail
and could not hit that; and I tried
hard for the squash, and could nut
hit the squash. 1 would have been
entirely disheartened, hut, that oc
casionally l crippled one of the
boys, and that encouraged ate to
hope.
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mutter, double rn’.s will be e!i»r*«!
No. 46.
At last we began to bear pistql
Mints near by in the next ravine.
VVo knetv what that meant. The
other p-rty were out pr£ft*l fcin'g,
too. Then I was in the last degree
distressed; tor, of course, tiu-m*
' I'.Cople would bear opr shuts, and
they would send spies over the
j r!<l k rp . »»d the spies won ill fi,.d my
barn door without a wound or
sci at oh. an.i that v. mild simply bti
tne end ol nit- l.>r. ol Course, that
other man would immediately be
come aft 'blood liirsty as 1 was.—
Just at this mmnen.t, a little bird,
no larger than a spMtvrnw, flew hv
and lit oti a sage-bit-h, about
thirty paces away ; and my little
second, Steep Gdltis, who was a
R’ itellies'*' markstiihri with a pistol
much hotter than i was—situ tell
el out hir revolver, and shot tins
bird 8 hen 1 oil'. We all run to
pick up the game, and, sure enough,
just rtt this moment some of the
other dm lists cuiiiiii I'rContioilei ing
over the iid go. ihey ran into our
gr iii!) to see what the maticr was;
•atld " htjai.tuey 8 i a lho bird, Lord A
Si eoiii ! s;d d :
‘'That, waft a Splendid shot. —
llow lur off w,s it r ’
Steve &ll.lcl with some indiffer
ence :
‘‘Oli, mi great distance. About
thirty paces ”
“ Thirty paces ! Heavens alive,
who did it ?”
“J/y Ulan -Twkn ”
“’! ke mischiul he did ! Can iio
do thill often ?”
“Ue!l—yes. He can do it about.
well about lour times out of
live.”.
1 Lie vi the little rascal was
lying, but I never said auything.
I tievor told Him so. lie was m>t
ol a, dispositim to invite confidence
ot llmt kind, so 1 hit the matter
r* *t. But it was a comlorl to see
those people look sick, aud see
their under jaws drop, when Steve
made these statements 'I hey went
off and got Lord, and took him
home; and when we got home,
halt an hour later, then Was a
note saying that Mr. Lord peremp
torily declined to fight!
It was a narrow escape. Wo
found out afterwards 'that Lord
had hit his mark thirteen times in
eightoeit shots, it he had put
those tlii i teen bullets through me
it would have narrowed my sphere
of usefulness a good deal—would
have wull nigh closed it, in fact.
True, they could have put pegs in
the holes, and used me fm a hat
rack: but wbat is.a hat rack to a
man who feels lie has intellefMua!
powers ? I would scorn such a
position.
I have written this true incident
of niy personal history lor one
ptirpose only to warn the yuUtj.l
of the day against the ; ernicions
practice cf dueling, and to plead
with them to war rgtdnsl it. If
the remarks an I suggestions 1 am
making call be <). any service to
Sunday-school teacher* and news
papers interested in the moral pro
gress of society, they are at liber
ty to u- e them, and 1 Mini! even be
grateful to have them widely dis
s 'imitated, so that they may do aft
in itch good as possible. I was
young ami fooii-.lt when I challeng
ed that gentleman, and I thought
it was very fi e and very grand to
be a duelist , and stand upon the
“field of honor.” But l am older
and more, cxpcric-ced now and ufn
Inflexibly opposed to the dreadful
custom. I think it is every man’s
duty to do eve yiuing he c*n to
disc mrage dueling. I always do
it now j 1 discourage it on every
occa ion.
If a man were t-> ehalb-nge me
now—now tha I can folly appre
ciate the iniquity of that practice
1 would go to trial man and take
him by the hand, and lead him to
a quiet; retired room—and kill
li iu.
Michael Dorman, of Pontiac,
Mich , has d ed from the o fleets of
overeating, in spite of the warning
of the disgusted doctor, who said,
“If you will gormandize, why,
Borman dies, that’s all ”
“My wire,*' said a w„g, the other
day, “came near Calling me honey
last night.” “Indeed! how was
that “Why, she called me old
beeswai ”
< «♦«
‘‘Mamma,” said a little boy,who
had been sent to dry a towel be
fore the fire, “Is it done when it’s
brown ?”
An Indian readirig-Tvom is a
Minnesota novelty. The Dakota
Tawaxitu Kin and other high letted
! journals arc on its tile*