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LJLii 1 tiU * /} ’ -*• ‘ J a -r '■ THE JEFFERSON £g£ NEWS & FARMER. Vol. 1. THE Jefferson News & Farmer BY HARRISON & ROBERTS: A LIVE FIRST CLASS Weekly Newspaper FOR THE Fatm, Garden, and Fireside 3?nblish.ed. EYery Friday Morning AT . LOUISVILLE, GA TERMS $2 50 PER INSUM IN ADVANCE bates op advertising. 1 y«ar. 6 months. i 8 months. 4 | fm SQUARE? I |snoU 15.86 sfdft *IB.OO *20.00 a 1.75 5.00 12.00 18.00 30.00 3 2.00 7.00 16.00. 28 00 40.00 4 3.50 9.00 25.00 85*90 50.00 5 i 4.00 12.00 28.00 1 40,09 60.00 icoll 6.00 T 6.00 34.00 50.00 76.00 Icoli 10.00 25.00 60.00 80.00 120.00 1 colj 20.00 60.00 80.00 120.00 160.00 ■ — “ UtUAL ADVJUITISIXO. Ordinary's.— Citations for letters ot ad ninistration, guardianship, &c. $ 3 00 Homestead notice ... --- 200 Applicationtor dism’u from adm’n-. 500 Application for ofguard’n.... 350 Application for leave to sell Land-.... 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors.... 300 Sales of Land, per square of ten lines 500 Sale of personal per sq., ten days.... 150 Sheriff’s— Each levy of ten lines 2 50 Mortgage sales of ten lines or less.. 500 Tax Collector’s sales, (2 months 5 00 Clerk's —Foreclosure of mortgage and other monthly’s, per 5quare........ 1 00 fistray notices, thirty days 3 00 Sales of Land, by Administrators, Execu tors or Guardians, are required, by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and’ Arte in the afternoon, at the Court house in the- County In which the property <s situated. Notice ot these sales must be published 40 days previous to the day of sale; Notice for the sale of personal property must be published 10 days 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, Guardianship, &c., must be published 30 lays—for dismission from Administration, n onthly six months, {or dismission from guar lUnship, 40 days. Rales for foreclosure of Mortgages must be published monthly for four months —for estabfishing.ipst papers, for the full spate of Wree months —for cofnpalling titles fromEx scutors of Administrators, where bond has teen given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Application for Homestead to be published twice in the space of ten consecutive days. LOUISVILLE CARDS. J a. CAIN J. B. rOLHILL CAIN S POLHILL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW LOUISVILLE, GA. • 9, mtv - 1 ly. T.,sffhß A R L 0 W Watch IsAa,]s.©r -AN»- IH. ZE3 js* A. I Jbs. Jty .*■*., Special attention’ given to reno vating and repwring WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES &c., &c. Also Agent for the heat Sewing Machine that is made- May 5,1871. , 1 iyt: DR. L R. POWELL, LOUISVILLE, GA. Thankful for the patronage enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con tinuing the offer of his professional services to patrons and friends. Mays, 1871. 1 lyr; ~W. H. FAY, LOUISVILLE, GA. - SADDLE —AND— Ip Sir ness IMialreF. . ff BOOTS Cb SHOBS ade to order All work warranted and sat isfaction guaranted both as to worle,n*dpti ee Give me a call. May I, JR7T. mum idioal. rvß. H. SMITH late of SandersvilloGa., JL/ offers bis Professional services to the efnlfemrS Lbmavtne, and Jefferson county. An experience of nearly forty years _in the profession, should entitle him to Pnblic Con fidence. Special attention paid to Obstetrics and the diseases of women and children, of fice at Mrs. Doctor Millers. Louisville June 20,1871. 8 ts. Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Friday, September 29, 1871. New Advertisements. Dissolution —OF— €Q®&mwwE®miPu The Copartnership heretofore ex isling between the undersigned, un der the firm name of SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO. is this day dissolved by mutual con sent. Messrs ISAAC- M. FRANK and FUSTAVE ECKSTEIN are alone authorized to settle the affairs ol the late firm, collect all moneys due, and sign in liquidation. SAM’L M. LEDERER, I. M. FRANK, GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN, Savannah, July lSih, IS7I. Copartnership Notice. The undersigned have ibis day associated themselves together as Partners for the transaction of a General DRY GOODS business in the City ol Savannah, under the firm name of FRANKS ECKSTEIN. AT 131 BROUGHTON ST., where they will continue to carry an extensive stock ot* 8 ® A IF It m AND BHI &©©»§ AND IQTI Q R S . Possessing facilities to purchase Goods in the Northern Markets on the very best terms, will contin ue to offer such IMIHJOBniEiNTS as will make it the interest of /• BUYERS to deal with us. spectfully solicit your patronage in future. Also an early examination t>fot»r stock and prices. Yout;s respeci fully. FBAVt * tcftSTEM, 131 Broughton St- Parties desiring to send orders for Goods or Samples of Dry Goods will find them promptly attended to by addressing P. O. BOX 33, Savannah, Ga. August 18, ly. n fPkcllattetras. The Indian Chief- The following beautiful story is old, but literally true, and was first published in a lecture delivered by William Tracy, Esq., of Utica, N. Y., on the early history of Oneida county : One of the first settlers in Western New York was Judge W , who established himself at Whitestown, about four miles from Utica. He brought his family with him, among whom waSa widowed daughter with only one child—a fine boy about four years old. You will recollect, the country around was an unbroken for est, and this was the domain of the savage tribes. Judge W saw the necessity of keeping on good terms with the Indians, for, as he was nearly alone, lie was completely at their mercy. Accordingly he took every opportu nity to assure them of his kindly feelings, and to secure their good will in return. Several of the chiefs came to see him, and all appeared pacific. But there was one thing that troubled him ; an aged chief of the Oneida tribe, and one of great influence, who resided at a distance of a dozen miles, and had not yet been to see him, nor could he ascer tain the views and feelings ofthe sa chem in respect to his settlement in that region. At last he sent in a message, and the answer was that the chief would visit him on the morrow. True to his appointment, the sa chem came ; Judge W receiv ed him with marks o f respect, and introduced his wife, his daughter, and little boy. The interview that followed was interesting. Upon its result the Judge was convinced that his security might depend, and he was therefore exceedingly anxious to make a favorable impression upon the distinguished chief. He ex pressed his desire to settle in the country, to live on terms of amity and good fellowship with the Indi ans, and to be useful to them by in troducing among them the arts ol civilization. The chief heard him out, and then said : ‘‘Brother, you ask much and you promise much. What pledge can you give of your faith ? The white mail’s word may be good to the white man, yet it is but wind when spoken to the Indian.” “I have put my life in your hands,” said the Judge, “is not that an evi dence of my good intention ? I have placed confidence in the Indian, and will not believe that be will abuse or betray the trust that is thus re posed.” “So much is well,” replied the chief, “the Indian w’ill repay confi dence with confidence; if you will trust him lie will trust you. Let this boy go to my wigwam—l will bring him back in three days with my answer!” If an arrow had pierced the bo som ot the mother, she could not have felt a deeper p?ng than went to her heart as the Indian made this proposal. She sprang forward and running to the boy, who stood at the side of the Sachem, looking into his face with pleased wonder and admiration, she encircled him in her arms, and pressing hitn to her bo som, was about to fly from the room. A gloomy ominous frown came over the Sachem’s brow, but he did not speak. But not so with Judge W . He knew that the success of their enter prise, the lives of his family depend ed on the decision of a moment. “Stay, slay, my daughter,” lie said, “bring back the boy, I beseech ; you. He is not more to you than to me. I would uot risk a hair of his head. But my child he must go with the chief. God will watch over him ! He will be a3 safe in the Sachem’s wigwam as beneath pur own roof.” The agonized mother hesitated for a moment and then slowly returned, placing the boy on the knefc ol the chief, and kneeliug at his feet burst into a flood of tears. The gloom passed from the Sachem’s brow. He arose and departed. I shall not attempt to describe the agony of the mother for the ensuing days. She was agitated by contend ing hopes and fears. In the night she awoke from sleep; seeming to hear the screams ol her child calling on its mother lor help. But time wore slowly away—and the third day came. How slowly did the hours pass. The morning waned away, noon arrived; yet the Sa chem came not. There was a gloom over the whole household. The mother was pale and silent. Judge W-- walked the floor to and fro, going every few minutes to the door, and looking through the opening in the forest towards the Sachem’s abode. . At last, as the rays of the setting sun were thrown upon the tops of, the trees around, the eagle feathers of the chief were seen dancing above the bushes in the distance. He ad vanced rapidly—and the little boy was at his side. He was gaily at tired as a 3’oung chief—liis feet be ing dressed in moccasins, a fine bea ver skin was on his shoulders, and eagle feathers were stuck in his hair. 'He was in excellent spirits, and so proud was he of his honors, that he seemed two inches taller than he was before. He was soon in his tnoiher’s arms, and in that brief min ute she seemed to pass from death to life. It was a happy meeting—too happy for me to describe. The while man has conquered,’ said the Sachem; ‘hereafter let us be friends. You have trusted an Indian, he will repay you with confidence and friendship.’ Ho was as good as his word; and Judge W lived for many years in peace with the Indian tribes, and succeeded in laying the foundation of a llourishing and prospeious com munity.—Providence (11. I.) Herald. A Wonderful Burning Well. The Louisville Courier-Journal gives an account of a wonderful burning well in Lincoln county, in that Slate, some six miles east of Grab Orchard, at tlie base of the Cumberland mountains,on the banks of a small stream called Dix river. The water in this well is in a con stant slate of ebullition, and regu larly every day, between four and five o’clock in ihe afternoon over flows. A large quantity of gas is liberated, said to be carbuerelted hydrogen gas, to which a light be ing applied, a flame, sometimes ten or fifteen reel in height, results. Ihe Journal tells the following slory in connection with the well: In the early part of the present century, when Kentucky, and espe cially the mountain districts, were hut sparsely settled, a man by the name ol Shanks owned this portion of Lincoln county in which the well is situated. At that lime all the salt used in the Slate had to be brought Irom Louisville or imported Irom Virginia at a very large ex pense, in ihooe days of stage coach es and covered wagons. Mr. Shanks had evidence of salt on his land, and determined upon trying wheth er he might not find that commodity by boring in the vicinity of his salt licks.. He sunk two or three shafts, but unsuccessfully, when his neigh bors began to laugh at “old Shanks’ folly.” He minded not a whit their jeers, but swore that he would sink one more shaft, if he bored clear through into . Sure enough, alter boring to quite a depth, his drill fell through, the drill shaft was blown some distance into the air by escaping gas, which ignit ed from a fire near by, and even the surface of the river itself formed one broad sheet of flame. Oil flowed out with the gas, which accounted for the “river on fire,” but all this to the spectators was incomprehensi ble, and a general stampede from the country round about resulted. Old Shanks had been as good as his word. He had bored clear through into hell, and his neighbors fled Irom the vicinity as Irom a pesti lence, leaving growing crops, houses, properly of alt sorts behind in the general terror. After a lapse of years the vicinity was again settled, but the well now inspires wonder instead of the pristine fright. Keep Stbaight Ahead. —Pay no attention to slanderers or gossip mongers. Keep straight on your course, and let their backbitings die the death of neglect. What is the use ol lying awake nights, brooding over the remarks of some false friend, that runs through your brain like forked lightning ? What’s the use of getting into a worry and fret over a gossip that has been set afloat to your disadvantage, by some med dlesome busybody, who has more time than character ? These things can’t possibly injure you, unless, in deed, you take notice of them, and in combatting them give them char acter and standing. If what is said about you is true, set yourself right at once; if it is false, let it go for what it will fetch. If a bee sting you, would you go to the hive and destroy it? Would not a thousand come upon you ? It is wisdom to say little respecting the injuries you have received. We are generally losers in the end, if we stop to re fute all backbitings and gossipings we may hear by the way. They are annoy ing, it is true, bat not dan gerous, so long as we do not stop to expostuiate-ana scold. Our charac- are formed and sustained! by ouiselves, and by our own actions and purposes, and not by others. Let qS' always hear" in mind, that “calumrilatorVmiiy usually be trust ed to time and the slow but steady justice of public opinion" Light in the Sick Chamber. — fire quaniily of light admitted imo the sick chamber is a matter of immense importance to its suffering occupant. As light is an element of cheerful ness, it is on that account desirable that as much should be admitted as the patient can bear without incon venience. The light should soft and subdued anil not glaring. Care should be taken dial blight, lustrous objects, such as crystals and mirrors, should be kept out of sight. How to Rest. —The best mode of resting when fatigued, depends upon the cause of the fatigue, and the condition of the person at the time. There is one thing, however, which will always rest a tired per son, and that is a sponge or towel bath over the entire surface of the body, followed by a thorough rub bing and friction of the surface. Os course the temperature of the water and the vigor and amount of rub bing must be graduated to the i strength ol the person. When the fatigue is mental, arising from over exertion ol the brain, the muscles should be called into action, as by walking, horseback riding, rowing, playing ball, pitching quoits, gym nastics, etc. General muscular fa tigue is quickly relieved by lying on the face and having someone rub and percuss the back vigorously. Also, but less readily, by lying flat upon the back upon a hard couch or bed, or upon the floor, with the hands back of or under the head, but the bead not otherwise raised, and taking full, deep breaths. Lo cal muscular fatigue may be relieved by changing position and bringing other parts ofthe body in action. Be Contented. —Bulwer says that poverty is only an idea in nine cases out of ten. Some men with SIO,OOO a year suffer more for want of means than others with SSOO. The reason is the richer man has his artificial wants. His income is $lO,- 000 a year, and he suffers enough by being dunned lor unpaid debts to kill a sensitive man. A man who earns a dollar a day and does not go into debt is the happier of the two. Very few people who have never been rich will believe this, but it is true. There are thousands and thousands with princely incomes who never know a minute’s peace, because they live beyond their means. There is really more hap piness among the workingmen in the world than among those who are called rich. —Scientific American. There is hardly another sight in the world, says Hawthorne in one of his romances, so pretty as that of a company of young girls—almost women grown—at play, and so giv ing themselves up to their airy im pulse that their tip-toes barely touch the ground. Girls are so incompar ably wilder and more effervescent than boys, more untamable, and re gardless of rule and limit, with an evershifiing variety breaking contin ually into new modes of fun, but with a harmonious propriety through all. Their steps, their voices ap pear free as the wind, but keep con sonance with a strain of music inau dible to us. Young men and boys, on the other hand, play according to recognized law old traditionary games, permitting no caprices of fancy, but with scope enough for the outbreak of savage instincts; for, young or old, in play or in earnest, man is prone to be a brute. A Beautiful Funeral.—Re turning from the cemetery where so many of the nation’s honored dead repose, a funeral procession was met. Slowly, and on foot, it was march ing toward the East. A little rose wood coffin mutely but eloquently told the story o! the death of some body’s baby—somebody’s blue-eyed darling—and the story that a moth er’s tears were falling thick and fast and that a father’s heart was wrung with agony. The burial case con taining the little body once animated by the soul which has already heard the soft music of the welcome, “Suf fer little children to come unto me,” was guarded by six maidens clothed in virgin white. They were the pall-bearers, and three walked on each side of the bier, which was garlanded with flowers. The pro cession followed on—how far? only up to the portal of the tomb. Mor tal feet could not follow the shining steps of the little one on the golden shore. — Patriot. Sonne girls will never learn to re strain the natural impulses of their nature. A minister was baptizing a girl at Ripon, Wis., and whan he had submerged her and came put of the water, be asked her how she felt in her mind. Her answer was, hunky, only a little wet.’ There were manufactured in the United Slates last year over a half million sewing machines. How to Live on Sixpence a Lay. This is the title of a pamphlet just published by an English gentle man, Dr. Nichols, in which lie un dertakes to show that “the average man can not only live on sixpence a day, but that such living will make him, like ‘early to bed anti early to rise,’ healthy, wealthy, witty and wise.” Perhaps it was not to he expected that the sixpence a day should cover the cost of clothes, house rent, rates taxes, and other concomitants of civilization; ami so we acquiesce with a sigh in the pro priety of leaving such matters out of consideration. It is enough to be convinced that, ‘so far as food and drink are concerned, every one can live nicely, comfortably, healthfully, | on sixpence a day.’ We are espe cially careful to mark the word drink ; for we remember that a learned judge being asked on a cer tain occasion whether a thirsty, lock eihupjury might have some water supplied to them, said that, ‘as lie didn’t think it was meal, and he was quite sure that it wasn’t drink, they might be allowed to have it.’ We move cautiously forward, and the doctor soon shows of what lie is ca pable. Whether we oat milk, or butter- or cheese, or beefstake, or a mutton-chop,, we eat grass at se cond-hand’ he says : and ‘all flesh is grass,’ he quotes, in a sense which is certainly not iuteded in the Scrip tural passage and which would jus tify Canihalism. What conclusion is he about to draw? Are we, in order to keep within our sixpence a day, to follow ihe example of Nebu chadnezzar ? But things are not quite so bad as that, lie puis his veto upon all flesh ol land animals : but he allow s an occasional penny worth of fish, and the grains, vege tables, and fruits he recommends] are. in number as the sand on the sea-shore. If you wish to he a real epicure upon sixpence a day, a ‘pen nyworth of potatoes and a pennv worth of dried codfish boiled togeth er, then both mashed and mixed to geiiier with a bit of butter, make an excellent dish. Add a pennyworth of greens, and no one need dine better.” Os course, if you had to entertain some genteel personage, yon would add some “cracked wheat mush, milk, sugar and stew ed prunes.” But the chief question in all these affairs is with what choice liquors you are to wash down all these dainties; and the reply is, rain-water. Filtered, if you like ; but in any case rain-water. The doctor declares it were far better to drink even light wines than tea and coffee, which, under certain citcum slances, entail all sorts ol diseases, and especially paralysis and apo plexy. The fare he appears to par licularly recommend is oatmeal, as sisted by rain-water; and he desires that this combination should lie ta ken “in pleasant company, gayly and mirthfully, and with thanksgiv ing.” But has the doctor any ex amples to advance of persons who have really lived on sixpence or less a day ? He has many ; but it can not be that they are satisfactory or encouraging. The cases lie al ludes to of persons who are believed to have lived on very little food, ‘or none whatever’ belong, as he justly observes,, ‘to the supcrnaturalorder.’ The mqny abstemious saints, too, whom he mentions by name, cannot be considered to strengthen his cause ; for lie undertakes to gratify the senses as well as satisfy the mere bodily wants of men, whereas the abstemiousness ofthe saints was confessedly penitential. Nor is the doctor more fortunate in the ‘mil lions’ who according to his account, ‘live on less’ than sixpence a day. He finds them in ‘some poor-law unions,’ in ‘the Irish prisons,’ and in other places ; but he makes no at tempt to show that they find their condition at all desirable or ‘delight ful to the senses,’ or that, however healthy they may be, they are wealthy, or witty, or wise.’ We Must Work. —Every man builds his own house ; builds it ma ny chambered, fresh-ventilated, pic ture-bung, vine-wreathed, guest lull ; or, low-pent, bare-walU, llow erless, inhospitable—just in accor dance with his inner nature. Pre cisely as the internal force of affiui tyinthe Mol I u sic lays hold of and aggregates round itself the flue lime paricles in the sea water, so does the internal force in the human soul lay hold of and aggregate around itself what it wants. The surrounding ocean holds in solution knowledge, pleasure, meat, drink, wit, wisdom, friends, flowers, Uod ; and out of this wealth we secrete our shells— clam-shells or nautilus-shells, as we are clams or nautili. We find what wecrave—fun if we have a zest for the funny ; friends, if we long for friends ; beauty, if we love beauty ; thought, ifwe tend to thought— Slowly we build up our bouse, small or large ; if we are refined, it is No. 22* refined; if we are roomy, it is roomy. Hon. Jack Hamiltou, ex Governor of Texas, says the Macon Tetegtar.h, is a l.out as well qualified to pronounce an opinion upon the character of the Texas trcwly loyl as any man we know. Ho used to be ‘-in” with them. Well, here is what he says about the creatures who make up the majority cf the so-called Legislature of that State : “I never saw a man give one cf them a dollar for his vote, nor did I ever see them steal anything. But when we see n poor, miserable cuss, who never had 61u0 in his life, come to Austin, borrow money *o pay his expenses, and pies cntly find him losing a thousand dollars in n night at faro, driving around in a fancy team, making liquor bills, wine hills, and all sorts of bills, and buying a buggy aud fine horses to go home iu, we know ho is a thief as well as if wo hud seen him steal." The Bainbridge Sun, ot the 16th, says: “From all sections of our county come gloomy reports about the condition of the crops since the late storm and rain. All the low lands have bperi sub merged, aud the crops thereon almost totally destroyed. It is very unfortu nate lor the piospcrity of our section that such is the case, but there is no gettin" around it—the damages to a great cx> tent are irreparable. T he Talbotton American says the corn crop of that 6eetiou will be short, and not a half crop of cotton can be made, now. Clark, the American bond forger, has been sentenced to eighteen months im prisonment at hard labor, lor pretending to be a Mr. Cole, banker of Lyons and New York. Clark is supposed* to have also assumed the name of Roberts, for nefarious purposes, but owing to tlie want of evidence, it was impossible to tuuish him for this crime. —Savannah Ada. Tho Atlanta Sun says that Gov. Bul lock told a gentleman of that city, w hom he met in New York previous to his de parture for California, that ho would re turn to Georgia by the 4th of October, and whon ho reached there a very differ ent phase would be put upon the pro ceedings iu relation to the State road prosecutions. A farmer planting near Tallahassee reports that the recent severe winds blew a great deal of his cotton down, and tho heavy rains beat it into the giouud, and it has sprouted, and the little stalks aro growing finely, some of them having three or four leaves. At a meeting ot a “Ladies’ Society held recently in Baraboo, Wis., there wero present seventeen babies, and to wards the close of tho evening’s enter tainment some fool of a man set all tho women by the ears by offering a premi um to tho hansomest child. After a lively fist fight of ten minutes’ duration tho society dispersed, never to meet again in this world. Anew thieving dodge is practiced by females who enter cars, and, finding a gentleman sitting alone, ask if the other seat is occupied. The gentleman at once motions her to be seated, when she po litely asks him if he won’t allow her to sit by the window. Os courso this re quest is also granted, and she becomes seated. Presently she finds that there is not air enough in the car, and requests the gentleman to raise the window. He at once rises to do so, and as he leans over her she picks his pocket or removes his watch, which she passes to a male confederate in the next seat behind her Crops in Alabama,— The caterpillar is completing the destruction which the rust bad begun in the cotton fiolds of Pike connty. In Shunter dry weather and rust will reduce the crop one-half. Iu the neighborhood of Tuscumbia the crops aro very nearly burned up. De vastation is the rule in Henry county.' In tho neighborhood of Eufaula fields are now baTC which a few weeks ago promised a luxuriant yield. In North Alabama the corn crop will be short, and cotton is droopiug. The Wilcox Vindicator reckons upon but ono-third of a crop of all kinds. This report is similar to the one coming up from all the cotton growing sections of the South.— Montgomery Ado., 17th. Starved to Death.— Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 16.—A dispatch from Fish kill Lauding saysthat a little boy aged seven years, belonging to the strong wo man of O'Brien's menagerie, died of starvation at StonimWo Thursday night. The die patch odds that while at Stonu ville, he was shut up, in a room alone with his hands tied behind his back. Look ing from tho window, he begged tho cook to get kiln a piece of bread. She got a ladder and ascended to the win dow, aud threw the bread on the floor. She sah! he looked as if lie lmd not a drop of blood in hhn. : It is stated that lie was purchased in Paris for one hun dred dollars to perform with her iti tho menagerie. The poor littlo fellow wga buried yesterday. Step3 have been ta ken to arrest the woman. —— The sureities Upon the bonds of tho collectors qf internal revenue against whom suite have beon commenced for balances due (he government, are very generally asking for a continuance of the suits until the- term of tho eonrt. Commissioner Dregless uniformly de cline* to, rfjjueals vs thia character, beiߣ determined to press suits in &n these eases. ! i riaAwJ 1m: - l »ki It ..' .~1 * ”is.-t The Lewfcu Lab«rTl»MgtfH lecde nounced the introduction of foreigners” into English workshops aa a dangerous political precedent,