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mmwu -- - .- r -...»v ; 1*,!!, , ov,, SHE JEFFEBSON A HEWS & FARMER, Vbl. 1. THE Jefferson News'A Farmer, B Y HARRISON & ROBERTS: A LIVE FIRST CLASS FOR THE Farm, Gardes, and Fireside s 3?ublisliecl Every Friday Morning . A T EOUIBVILLE, GA TERM I? 59 PER ItiM* IN ADVANCE "bates OF ADVERTISING. 1 year, j 6 months. | . 8 months. ' 4 weeks. 1 Week. SQUAKES i , #itw mt.w %>2u.uu a 1,75 5.00 U-UO .13.00 30.00 •1 2.00 • 7.00 ic:00 2S-00 40.00 a 8.50 9.00 25.00 35.00 50.00 5 ! 4.00 12.00 25.00 10.00 60.00 icoll 6.00 15.00 8-f.OO 50.00 7a.00 A coif 10.00 25.00 00.00 80,00 120.00 loolj 20.00 50.00 60.00!i2U'00 160.00 legal advertising. Ordinary's.— Citations tor letters ot adjiinlstration,guardianship, &c. $3 00 Homestead notice 2 00 Applicationlor dism’n from adm’n.. 500 Applicationfor dism’n of guard’n 3 50 Application for leave to sell Lend 5.00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors.... 300 Sales of Band, par square of leu Lucs 500 Sale of personal per sq., ten deys.... 150 Sheriff’s —Each levy often' lines. ...-, 2 50 Mortgage sales of ten lines or less.. 500 Tax Collector's sales, (2 months 5 00 C/er£’s--Fot*ecloSure of mortgage and other monthly’s, per square 1 00 Estray notices,thirty days 3 00 Sales of Baud, hy. Administrators, Execu tors or Guardians, are required, by law to be hetdon'ttgffSi'W Tuesday in the month, between, tbtf|h<furi of jteß in the forenoon and three in the' afternoon, at tbo Court house in the county in which the property ;s situated. Notico of these sales must be published 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notice for the sale us personal property must 06 published 10 daye previous to sale day. Notice to debtors and creditors, 40 day Notice that application will be made of the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, 4 weeks. Citations for letters of Administration, Guarliansbip, &c., must be published. 30 Jays—for dismission from Administration, nonihly six months, for dismission from guar lUnship, 40 days.. Bales for foreclosure of Mortgages must b«p«Miahed-monthly for four months —for sstablishimglost papers, for the full space oj lire* mo'wF f< » o .£j>Yll*ttJt tilths trom Ex -catoramr4idi*Suife»l#,,w»‘ete bO«d has Seen given by the deceased, tho full space of three months. Application f6r Homestead to be puolished twice in the space of ten consecutive days. LOUISVILLE CARDS. J G. CAIN J. H. POLHILL. CAIN ? POLHILL, ATTORNEYS' AT LAW LOUISVILLE, OA. Wa,toll Maker —AND— IHBi* AillEH., I. ou is vi 11 o, Qa- SpECIAB ATtßSltlO^/GIVF.X to reno vating and repairing,WATCHEß, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SEWING? MACHINES &c„ &c. Also Agent for the best Sewing Maohine that is made- - ' May 5,1871. 1 pr= DR. I. R. POWELL. BOUISYIBBE, GA. Thankful FOKTHE PATRONAGE enjoyd# heretofore, takes this method of con tinuing the offer of his professional services to patrons and friends. |May 5,1871. 1 lyn -W. H. FAY, LOCISYILiE, OA. saddle —AND— Harness balder. ..<xy x> T D dfc? SHOES ado to order AU work warrantadand Sat isfaction guaranted both as to work and pr ice 'ljftjljfa site M EDIOAIi. DR J. R. lateoFEaifdefsvillo Ga’., offers his Professional services to the citizens of Bouisville, and Jefferson county. An experience of nearly forty years in tne profession, should entitle him to Public Con fidence Sfawal attention paid to Obstetrics and the diseases of Women and children. Of fice at Mrs. Doctor fillers. Louisville J out 90,1871. 8 ts. Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Friday, September 15, 1871. The Widow MyeV Breach of Promise Suit— The Extravagances of Cowfsh^- From the hihuagja .Trthiu-.il ■ TLa "Widow Myers, of Onondaga, N. Y., sued her neighbor, Harris, for breach of promise. Harris liad been a frequent visitor for abovV.VPo years and a half at the house of tho plantiff—a widow nearly 30 years of age, with three children. It 1 seems to have been the opinion of the friends of tho plantiff (and no doubt sli.o thought 60 herself) that Harris would marry her ; but ho (Harris,) a sow months ago, suddenly discovered that he loved another woman better, and verified this belief a short time since by marrying her. Hence thi? action to recover damages. Tho follow ing tender epistle, sent by the loving swain, was read in Court : My Dear Mrs. M.: Every time I think of yon my heart-Hops up and down like a churn-dasher. Sensations of unutterable joy capor over it like young goats on a stable voeff. and thrill through it like Spanish needles through a pair of tow linen trowseis. Asa gos ling swimmetli with delight through a mud puddle, so swim I in a sea of glory. VisioDsof ecstatic rapture thicker than tie haiis ot’ a blacking brush and brighter than the hues of a humming : bird's pinions, visit ma in my slumbers," and borne on their invisible wings, ytftii' image stands before me, and I reach out to grasp it like a pointer snapping at a bottle-fly. When first beheld your angelic perfections,' 1 was bewildered, and my brains whi'jqd around dike ,a bumble bee under a glass tumbler. My eyes stood open like cellar doors in a country town, and I lifted up my ears to catch tho silvery accents ot your voice. My tonguo refused tj wag, and in silent adoration I drank in the sweet infection of love as t% thirsty,, man swal loweth a tumbler of hot whiskey punch. Since the light of your face fell upon my life, I sometimes feel ns if I lift myself up by my boot-straps to the top of the church steeple, and pull the boll rope for singing school: Day an you are in iny thoughts. V/nen Auro ra, blushing like a bride, rises from her saffron colored couch ; when the jay bird pipes his tuneful lay in tho apple tree by the spring-house ; when the chanticleer’s shrill clarion hccahls the morn ; when tho awakening pig arises from liis bed and grunteth, aud goetk for his morning refreshments ; when the drowsy beetle wheels ’0 droning flight at sultry noon-tide ; and when the low ing hsrds come home at milking-time. I think of thee ; and, like a piece of gum clastic, my heart seems stretched clear across my bosom. Your hair is like the mane of my sorrel horse, pow dered with gold j and the brass pins skewered throng vour waterfall sll me with unbounded awe. Yotir forehead is smoother thau the elbow of an old coat. Your eyes are glorious to "behold. In their liquid depths I see legions of lit tle cupids bathing, like a cohort of ants in an old army cracker. When tneir fire hit me upon my manly breast it pen etrated my whole anatomy as a load of bird shot through a rotten apple. Your nose is from a chunk of Parian marble, and your mouth is puckered with sweet ness. Nectar lingers on your lips, liko honey on a'bear’s pkw, and myriads of unfledged kisses are there, ready to fly out and light somewhere, like blue birds out of their parents’ nests. Your laugh rings in my ears liko the wind-harp’s strain, or thfi bleat of’ll stray ,I«**J> on a bleak hillside. TI»A dimple! oar your cheeks are like flowers in beds of roses, or hollows in cakes of homemade sugar. I am dying to fly to thy presence, and pour out the burning eloquence of) my love as thrifty housewives pour out hot coffee. Away mum yon I am as melancholy as a sick rat. Sometimes I can hear tho Jnne bugs of despondency buzzing in my cars, and feel the cold lizards of despair Crawling down my hack. Uncouth fears, like a thousand minnows nibbling at tny spirits, and my soul is pierced with doubts like au old cheese is bored with skippers. My love for you is stronger than the smell of Coffey’s patent butter, or tho kick of a young cow, more unselfish than a kitten’s first caferwaut/ 'As a song bird hankers for tho light of tho day, the cautious mousb for the fresh ba con iu the trap, as a mean pap hankers for new milk, so I long (or thee. You are fairer than a" speckled pullet, sweeter than a Yankee doughnut fried iu sorghum molasses, brighter thau a topknot plumage on tho head of a Mus covy duck. You are candy, kisses, rai sins, pound cake, aud sweetened toddy altogether. If these few remarks will enable you to see the inside of my boul, and me to win your affections, I shall boas happy as a woodpecker on a cherry tree, or a stage horse in a green pasture. If. yyu cannot reciprocate my thrilling passions, I will pino away like empoisoned bedbug, and fall away from a flourishing vine of life, an untimely branch; and in tho coming years, when the shadows grow from the hills; ancrOid pTiilSHopliTcSr fTAf siegs his chocrftil evening hymns, you, happy in another’s dove, can cu’.ne and drop A tear avid aEt#iWfold upon the last resting-place of Your’s affectionately. 11. "Verdict for plaintiff, aud SSOO damages Agricultural" G!oi.n4cE.— Tf Georgia establishes an Agricultural College next fall so as to'gcVoiif ac.es of Congress land, she has no need to build now college houses at Athens or any where else ; the vacant public buildings (and public lands too) at aro all ready, and the school can open in January. —Christian Crucible. A Pretty Story. —A gentleman writing froth Paris, tells a very pret ty story of a" peasant and his wife, who were very poor indeed, almost destitute, and so, though they loved each other much, she went out as a iiurse, to Paris. In Paris she enter ed the service of some rich Ameri cans, who, when they returned to their own country, offered her terms so tempting that she rrossed the At lantic with them. Year after year p she sent her earnings to her husbfthd, and year alter year he laid by the the hard won gold, until there was enougfrto buy the cottage he lived hi, and ji little held or t wo; enough to keep them iu independence all their lives. Tire gentleman went in to the collage and saw the new wal nut furniture, and- was told by the peasant that all this comfort was lu-r do big, all this Wealth her winning slfe had learned to write on purpose that she. might write, to him, and month after month her kindly letters Game, cheering him under the trial of liar absence;. It was lour years since she had left "ine*coil age, and for these four lonely years the father had been like a widower, and the children had grown around him. Honor to the Scissors. —The news paper repot ter says: Some people, ignorant of what good editing is, im agine the getting up of selected mat ter to be the easiest, work in the world to do, whereas it is the nicest work that is done on a payer. If they find the editor with scissors in baud, they are sure to say, ‘'Eh ! tit's is the way you get up original matter,” eh! accompanying their new anil witty questions with au id iotic wink or smile. The facts tire, that the interest, the morality, the variety, and usefulness ot a paper depend, in no small degree, upon its selected matter, and few men are fully capable of the position who would not themselves be able to write many of the articles they se lect. A sensible editor desires con siderable selected matter, because he knowsthat one mind cannot make so good a paper as live or six. In the gtudnal development of a bud into a beautiful and lull grown flower, there is something that in vites our deepest admiration. Bui there is a development surpassing this in beauty and grandness—the development of human character. Whatobject more worthy our con templation than that of a nut.nut foul passing through each success ive stage of its existence, the rapid cultivation of our intellect and the bringing out of that which God lias endowed us with? We tire born with the germ of character within us; and as our bodies develop themselves, so do our characters. Some traits of character necessarily unfold them selves with our growth ; others need Jo be. stimulated and excited into growth by some parl’"cu ! af influ ence. -The man ot genius has that wiibin him which is to stamp him as such. Tliq great general has the ol general-hip borti with him ; all that is needed is some pow erful influence to develop it. A Lon’g Branch correspondent thus concludes an account of a light lor a kiss: “She fought fair, how ever, and when she could fight no longer for want of breath, she yield ed handsomely. Her arms fell down by her side—her hair fell back over her shoulders—her eyes closed, and there lay a l'tlle. plump mouth all in the air. Gracious, did you ever see 'a ha wk pounce on a robin ? or a bee upon a clover top ? I need not say more. What a beautiful picture for »"patnter,” One man in a hundred reads a Ipok ; ninety-nine in a hundred, a newspaper, Nearly a century ago, w'hen the American press, which is lriow a spreading oak, was in its green twigg, Thomas Jefferson,said In* would rather live in a country with newspapers and without a gov ernment than in a country with a government but without newspapers. The press instead being the fourth, is the first estate of the realm. [ Golden Age. When a man is unable to tell the lime by his watch because there are .two hands and he does not know which to believe, if is a tolerable sure* sign that- he has partaken of more refreshments ihan his nature requires. In a town in Ohio, not long ago, die women went in hands of two and three with their knitting and sewing into the dram shops of the place, and spent thq whole day with their work, and talked politely upon various topics. Husbands and friends came in, saw how things looked, and had not the courage to step to the bar and drink. This was kept up for several days and the result was, ev ery shop in the place was closed, Cast a Live Yourself. —A young man, poor and dejected, stood watching some anglers on the bank of a stream. At length, approach ing a basket well filled with fine fish, lie sighed, “If now I had these, 1 would be happy. 1 could sell them at a fair price, and buy me food and lodging.” “I will give you a good fish.” said the owner, who chanced-' to overhear his words, “if'yoii will do me a tri fling favor.” “Aml what is that?” asked the other eagerly. “Only lend this line tiil I come back; I wish to go on a short er rand.’ The proposal was gladly accep ted. The old fisherman was gone" so long that the young man began to be impatient. |Moanwhile, however, the hungry ILh snapped .greedily at the baited book, and the young man lost Lis depression in the excite ment ot pulling them in, and when the owner ol the line returned he had caught a large number. Counting out from them as many as were in ihe"'basket and presenting them to ilie young man, the old fisherman said : “1 lulfi'l my promise.for the fish 3'ou have caught, to teach you that whenever you see oihers earning what you need, to waste no time in fruitless wishes, but to cast a line for yourself. BlaetLiEgatthsNoss.. Some two years'itgo while going down Broadway, in New York, blood commenced running from my nose quite '"reely. 1 stepped aside and applied my handkerchief, intending to repair to the nearest hotel, when a gentleman accosted me, saying : “Just pul a piece of paper in your mouth, chew it rapidly, and it will stop your nose bleeding.” Thank-, iog him rather doubtfully, 1 did as he suggested, and the flow of blood ceased almost immediately. I have seen the remedy tried since quite frequently, and always with success. Doubtless any substance would answer the same purpose as paper, tiie stoppage of the flow of blood be ing caused, no doubt, by the rapid motion of the jaws, and the counter action of the. musch sand arteries connecting the jaws and the nose. Physicians sav that placing a small roll of paper or muslin above the front teeth, under the upper lip, and pressing hard on the same, will ar rest bleeding from the hose—check ing the passage of blood through the arteries leading through the nose. Coun/ri/ Gentleman. The want of ability to sleep well is an indication of impaired health which demands prompt attention. Asa remedy for this, Dr. Hall re commends that present associations be broken up, whatever may be the sacrifice ; that some more active employment be undertaken ; or a long journey to be taken on horse back, if" possible, aud with a good companion. A Professor in a certain college had taken his class out, on a pleas ant afternoon, to exercise them in practical surveying. The next morning they were to he examined bn the same. The first man was called up. Said the Professor : “How would yon go to work to sur vey a lot of land ?” (D.-ep thinking, but no answer.) “If a man should come to you to gel you to survery a lot of land, what would you do ?” “I think,” said the student, thought fully, “I should tell thin he had bet ter get somebody else.” At a recent Sabbath school con cert, a liule boy stood up to say his ‘piece,’ and forgetting the text, hesi tated a moment, then with all the assurance possible said, ‘Blessed are the shoemakers.’ A Mississippi negro was recently set upon by a party in disguise and Ku-Kluxed. On being questioned he said his K. K. friends were of the colored persuasion. He was asked why he thought so. “I smelt ’urn, massa,” was the short and convinc ing reply. If half the pains were taken by some people to perform the labor al lotted them that are taken by them to avoid it, we should hear much less said about the troubles of life, and see much more actually com pleted. Cutting Timber. —If posts or rails are heeded for service during the winter, the trees may be cut now while in full leaf. Allowed to lie as the trees are cut, the evaporation from the leaves will drain the limber nearly dry, when a short exposure afterwards will very effectually sea son it. The economy of using posts and rails peeled is very great: the loose bark retains moisture between it apd, the wood, and the sap wood soon rots. When pealed the sap wood dri«s, and will last many years longer. \\ aste Paper for Household Use.—Few housekeepers have lime to black their stoves every day, or even every week. Many wash them in either clear water or dishwater. This keeps them clean, but they look very brown. After a stove has once been thoroughly blacked it can be kept looking perfectly well for a long time by rubbing it with old pa per every morning. If I occasionally find a spot of gravy or fruit juice that the paper will not take off, 1 rub it with a wet cloth, but do not pul on water enough to take off the blacking, i find that rubbing with paper is a much nicer way of keeping my tea kettle, col lee-pot and tea-pot bright and clean, ■than the old way of washing them in suds, she inside of coffee and tea-pots should be rinsed in cleat water, and never in the dish water. Rubbing with dry paper is also the best way of polishing knives, spoons and tin-ware after scouring. Thissaves wetting the knife handles. If a little flour be held on the paper in rubbing tin ware and spoons, they shine like new silver. For polish ring windows, mirrors, lamp chim ney's, etc., 1 always use paper in preference to dry cloth. Preserves anil [tickles keep much better if a brown paper instead of a cloth, is tied over the jar. Canned fruit is not so apt to mould, if a piece of writing paper cut to fit the can, is laid directly on top of the fruit. Paper is much better to put under a carpet than straw. It is warmer, thinner, and makes less noise when one walks over it. A fair carpet can be made for a room that is not in constant use, by pasting several thicknesses of newspaper on the floor, over them a layer of wall pa per and giving it a coat of varnish. ID cold weather I have often placed newspapers between mv bed quilts knowing two thicknesses ot paper are as warm as a quilt. If it is ne cessaty to step upon a chair, always lay a paper on it ; this saves rub bing tlie vi'tuish off. Children easi ly learn the habit of doing so. {Hearth and Home. A few Sheep on the Farm.— The relative profit is much grcaiei from a small Hock than a large one. The grain farmer, no matter how few Ins acres, can make money be keeping a few sheep. There is al ways room fir them somewhere,and they consume and tmn into nmney, food, that otherwise would waste. But he must be careful not to over stock. To illustrate, suppose the farmer cultivates only eighty acies, raising grain chiefly, lie keeps a few cows and the necessary teams. One fifth ofh'sfarm is in pasture, one-fifth meadow ; rue planted, one spring grain, and one wheat. He thinks he has as much stock as he can prof itably keep, but if he puts on one sheep to every five acres, he will find their products clear gain. In the spring, early, they can run on the soil which is to be planted, and one sheep to each acre will not hurt the land, yet they will live well. After that they will go into the pas ture and will glean alter the cows to advantage. A run on the stubbles alter hat vest will not be fell where each sheep has two acres, aud in the fall there is plenty of feed. Thro’ the winter they can he well kept on what the other stock would not con sume, with the addition of a little grain. Probably the most profitable are some of the coarser wooled, mutton breeds. Their lambs sell to the butchers for high prices, and when fat, the sheep fetch as much as a yearling steer. Sixteen mutton sheep well managed would produce a yearly income of one hundred dol lars, where, if none were kept, noth ing would be realized. The greatest drawback is liability to loss by dogs ; and it is a disgrace to any Stale to protect its curs so well that they expel, to a certain extent, the only animal which pan cheapen the meat and clothing ol the people.— American Ilttral Home. Cure for the Peach-Borer.— M. IJ. Bateham says, that alter two years trial of Carbolic Soap, lie feels quite safe in recommending its use as the cheapest and best method yet found for the prevention of inju ry hy the peach-borer, and pre sumes it will be equally aseflii a tious for the apple-borer. His method of using is as follows : “Take a five pound can of soap (costing only $2,) and turn it into a barrel one-third full of hot water, stir it oceasionlaly, and let it stand a lew l»our3, or over night, for the soap to dissolve; then fill up the barrel with cold water— or I sometimes use soapsuds frOtn the kitchen for this purpose. The liquor is not fit For use. It is of a milky appearance, and pungent but nqj offensive odor. It is too strong for using on plants, but will not hurl j the Lark or wood of itees, applied with a paint-brush around the base of the trees, taking care to have the liquid enter ali crevices, it immedi ately destroys all the inseet-eggo that have been deposited, and uuy young worms w hich have not pene trated fiuthcr than the bark ; arid 1 believe that for some weeks at least", unless heavy rains occur, the odor prevents the ninth from depositing their eggs. One application in July or early in August is sufficient.— The barrel of liquid described is sufficient for a thousand trees ol boring size, and an active lad cau do woik in two days.” Mr. Butcham’s suggestions are valuable, aud we endorse bis meth od, but think five pounds is toogiych for one band : it had better go over two barrels. If this strong iquid, in one barrel only, comes b direct contact with any tender roots, it w ill surely kill them ; but if dis solved a little more,’then it will do the.samework o!" destruction to ejtgs. with less danger to t.ie trees.-—Hoi ticullirrist. A Remarkable Ghost-Story. Lord Brougham, in his recenliy f.ublished autobiography, gives an account of a trip he made to Noiwax, aud relates how, on a cold day it ■Norway, he arrived at an. hou which had the usual luxury of u bath room. lie says : “Tired whj, du- cold of y< sterday, ! was glad tr ; take advantage of a hot bath !>efo.- I turned in. And here a most re markable thing happened to me— so remarkable that i must tell the story from ilm beginning. Alder I h it the high-school, I went with G , my most intimate friend, t< attend the classes in the university. I’liere was no divinity class, but wt Inquuuily in our walks discussed iud speculated upon many gruvi sul jeqi.s, among oihers, on the im irioriality of tin- soui, anti on a tu rn re stale. This question, and thi possibility, l will not say of ghosts walking, but ot" the dead nppeaiine to the living, w ere subejets of rmici speculation ; and we actually com mitted the folly of drawing up aj agreement, written with our blood. dial whichever ot us should din tin first should appear to the oilier, ani> thus solve any doubts we had enter mined of the ‘file alter death.’ Af ter we had finished our classes m the college, G went to India. having got an appointment these in the civil service. He seldom wroti to me, and alter the lapse of a few years l had almost forgotten him ; moreover, his family having little connection with Edinburgh, I st ldon saw or heard any tiling of them, qi of him through ilicm, so that all tin old school boy intimacy had rliee out, and I had nearly forgotten hi existence. 1 lin'd taken, as I had said, a warm bath ; and while lying in it and enjoy ing the comfort of ih< heart, alter the late freezing 1 had undergone, 1 turned my huadaiound looking toward the chair ou which 1 had deposited my clothes, as 1 was about to get-oct of the bath. On.tb chair sat G , looking calmly aj, me! How I got out of the. bath I Ruov not, but on recovering my sense 1 found myself sprawling on th< floor. The apparition, or witatevei it was that had luken the likeness <> G , had disappeared. This vis ion produced such a shock, that 1 had no inclination to talk about it. or to speak about it even to Stuart; but the impression it made upon nm was 100 vivid to be easily forgotten, and so strongly was I affecied by .it that I have here written down the whole,history, with the date. Decern her the 19th, and all the partreuirtr.- as they are now fresh before me. No doubt I bad fallen asleep; and* anil that the appearanee presented so distinctly to my eyes Was a dream, I cannot lor a , moment doubt ; ytA lor years I had no communication. 'viili G , nor had there beemanv tiling to recall hint to my reVUev tion ; nothing half taken place‘du ring oar Sweoilish travels either connected with G , or w'th In dia, or with any thing relating' iir him, or lo any member of Ids j-mri ly. I recollected quickly ertough our old discussion and the bargain wo bad made. X could trot ois.. charge from my mind ti*o sion dial G must have. died,. and that his appearance tonie. was to he received bv uie a future suite ; yet' all 'the while I felt convinced tti it die wholo r was « dream ; and so pain Fully vivid ams so unfading was the impression that I could not bring myself to ufifc ot it or to make the slightest TTIIU : sion to it. I finished dressing, and, as we had agreed to make an- early start, 1 was ready by six o’pJ»ck,ih£. hour of our early break fast. “Brougham, October 16, I have just been copying out from my journal lire account pf T this strange dream ’. 'CcYtissima, mortis t%'. ago! And now, to finish Hhe stt)b>? I begun above sixty yekrsStnte: gbSti No. 20 after my return to Edinburgh there arrived a letter from India, announ cing G ’s death, and staled that he had died on the 19th of Decem ber.” A Novel Negro Society.—The New Orleans Picayune, which has but a slighting opinion of the civili sation ot the local negroes, and fre quently shocks the world with its namative of fright ul |excesses and outrages committed atnonglhe blacks ot Louisi ina, now calls attention to ihe fact that within the past two or diree years an organization has been formed among the negroes which i3 uniting less than a for Wak ing the Dead. ’ The members of this heathenish band mourn anybo dy’s dead friend lor a pecuniary consideration. When one is dead the band proceeds lo his house, a brother prays in a loud voice and he choir chants a doleful dirge. X hen there is a pause for a few min utes, at the end of which all pray, shriek and howl together till they are out of breath, when they par lake of refreshments. These ab sorbed. there begins the death yellof a Congo negro, which is accompa nied with variations of the Voudou ritual, and the noise can be heard Ibr two or three squares. The per orinahce lasts from about 10 o’clock it night till day-break. True Words. Never be ashamed ot ever having "ved any one. It perchance you nave hated, then blush lor it, but not ter love. It does not mailer at ill whether the person on whom our affections fixed themselves re ciprocated the sentiments. Where here is no shame in loving, in itself be fact ol having given love without reward can biing none with it. You live only bestowed a gift more a riceless than any jewel can be up on one who did not thank you. tSiuce there is sorrow lo one’s self ui it, it is best to struggle with the lcart, auri keep it until it is asked or ; but if it goes forth, despite all •if..it, no need lo feel like a guilty liing and long lo hide from your •cry self. Providence gave you bat great love, and I believe that -omehow it will mingle with the life • I the one that it hovers over, and died a perfume and lend a sweet mss tu it, though it has never been spoken. Many a woman's life has shrivel led away under the weight of “dis ippoiuted love,” merely because her diame in it was so great. The false sentiment that leaches her to scorn a natural feeling, has worn her beau ty away, robbed her of all hope in lie presence of the future. I think ii would be better if even a woman dared to say, “1 loved him, but he iid not. love me,'’ with the same sweet sudness with which, when venrs have glided, she can utter the words, “X loved him, and he died*” The recent fall of a twelve-pound mete'die stone at Searsport, Mass., was preceded by an explosion, like the report of a heavy gun, followed !, y ft rushing sound, like the escape .0 steam bom a boiler. The sound -eeraed to come from the south, and to fiioye. northwardly. The stone dropped wub such force that it sank iwoleetinto the ground, but was seen to fall, and was quickly dug .ui. It was quite hot and broken, hoNvever, and could only be removed m pieces. Its color Was gray, ex cept the outside, which was black, and showed plainly the effect of melting heat. A Phase of the Lumber Busi ness.—A Michigan paper publishes m interesting sketch of the rise and growth of barge transportation of rnriber. Previous to 1862 much difficulty was experienced by ship pers off.lumber in band hog their staple and sending it to market.— l’he Saginaw Ygliey, the greatest u region of the West, was especially cramped for fih'ih’ties of transportation, and a e'itfzett coitcerved the Idea of barge transportation, which is now grow ing to he one of the most important branches of our lake commerce. There Were then lying st the vari ous ports on the lake a large num bedm pr\vhat had been splen did steamers lor passenger tians [nutation, but their .occupation was gong- -Tkwsa were utilized for the purpose, and now,the barge inter est bus grown to huge proportions. This season there are 128 barges with an aggregate capacity of 39- 700 tops. Custom House measure ment, aiid worth over $1,000,000 engaged in carrying to market* the products of ih&Jote#* the mines, the. farms. Besides, not fiir % n barges and tugs *„> etigagfU m towmgj these, wiiirncar r>u.g capacity of 6,000 ton* ard represents and capital of, say, ssqq . 000. Employment is ‘given by this uew system to fully men*