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THE JEFFERSON ifil NEWS & FIRMER. Vol. 1. T HiE Jefferson News & Farmer B Y HARRISON & ROBERTS! LOUISVILLE CARDS ~ B.W. Cargwell, W. F. Dtuny. Carswell <fc Denny, attorneys at law, LOUISVILLE GEORGIA, WILL practice in all the Counties in the Middle Circuit. Also Burke in Au gu»ta Circuit All business entrusted to their ears will meet with prompt attention. Nor, 3. 27 ly H. W. J. HAM. ATTORNEY AT I. AW, SWAIN3BORO’, OA. Will practice in tho Middle and Augusta Circaiti. All business entrusted to his care will meet with prompt attention. Nov. 17th, 1871, 2 If. fa. CAIN J. H. POLHILL. CAIN a POLHILL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW LOUISVILLE 9 GA. May 5,1871. 1 ly- T. F. HARLOW WatcH M:a,lsl©r —AND— in. El 3E» All R El R f-;t. nnlsville, Oa- Special ATTENTION GIVEN to reno vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES &c , &c. Also Agent for tho Florence Sow ing Machine that is made. May 5,1871. 1 lyr: DR, 1. R. POWEIL, LOUISVILLE, GA. Thankful for the patronage enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con tinuing tho offer of his professional services to patrons and friends. May 5, 1871. 1 lyr. MEDIOAIj. DR. J. R. SMITH late of SandersvillcGa., offers his Professional services to the citizens of Louisville, and Jefferson county. An experience of nearly forty years in the profession, should entitle him to Public 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. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. T Look Out for the Sign of THE GOLDEN BEE HIVE, IF yon wish to buy your Dry Goods at the lowest prices, GEORGE WEBER. No. 176 Broad Street, Opposite, AUGUSTA HOTEL. Novelties ! GEORGE WEBER HAS just returned from the North with an elegant assortment of FALL and WIN TER BUY (lOOBS. To meet the wants of a constantly increasing patronage, I have remodeled the interior of tho spacious establishment No 176 Broad Street, Opposite Augustathe Hel, making it one of the finest Stores in the city. I have also engaged the services of a num ber of polite and efficient salesmen, who will be happy to serve their numerous friends in this community. The Ladies will find it to their interest to examine my Stock. They will always find bargains at The Bee Hive Store. Oct. 6,23 ly Flour I Flour WEEKLY from SELECTED WHEAT, from one of the best Mills in the United States, which we unhesitatingly pronounce as good as any ever made into a biscuit. This Flour is put up to please the most fas tidious Epicurian taste. Cannotbe sold for less than sll per barrel. Other Brands of good FAMILY FLOUR at $3 per barrel. Flour of lower grades at loner figures: All within reach will find it to their interest to buy their flour from us. Try it. M. A. EVANS & CO- Bartow,’September 8, 19tfn tTmabrwaltbrs MM: Broad St., Augusta, Ga. MARBLE MONUMENTS, TOMB STONES &C.; &C. Marble Mantels and F arniture-Marble of all kinds Furnished to Order. All work for the Country carefully boxed for shipment. M'eh 18 p ’7O ly. ' Rebl,7lly Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Thursday, January 25, 1872. New Advertisements. Dissolution —OF— C&V&EWNEESHIP. The Copartnership heretofore ex isting between the undersigned, un der the firm name of SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO. is this day dissolved by muiual con <tent. Messrs ISAAC M. FRANK and GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN are alone authorized to settle the affairs of the late firm, collect all moneys due, and sign in liquidation. SAM’L M. LEDERER, I. M. FRANK, GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN Savannah, July 18th, 1871. Copartnership Notice. The undersigned have this day associated themselves together as Partners for the transaction of a 'General DRY GOODS business in the City of Savannah, under the firm name of FRANK & ECKSTEIN, AT 131 BROUGHTON ST., where they will continue to carry an extensive stock ot S T A IP IL SB AND 1 €1 DMT DOOMS AND I©li 0 H S . Possessing facilities to purchase Goods in the Northern Markets on the very best term?, will coniine ue to offer such INDUCEMENTS as will make it the interest of BUYERS to deal with us. Thanking you for the kind favors bestowed on the late firm, we re spectfully solicit your patronage in future. Also an early examination of our stock and prices. Yours respectfully, FRANK dc ECKSTEIN. 131 Broughton St. Parlies desiring to send orders for Goods or Samples of Dry Goods will find them promptly attended to by addressing P. O. BOX 3S, Savannah, Ga. August 18, ly. a J. Wauckk Proprietor. R. M. McDonald * Cos, Druggists and Gon. Ag*to, San Francisco, Cal., and 32 and 3 4 Commcroe St, N’.Y. BULLIONS Boar Testimony to their Wdilflerfal Curative Effects. Thej are not a vile Fancy Drink, made ot Poor Ram, tThiikeri Proof Spirits and Refuse Ll q u ora doctored, spioed and iwoetened to pleaso the taste, called “Tonics,” “Appetizers,” “Restorers,” &0., that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but are a true Medioine,made from the Native Roots and Herbs of Cali fornia, free from all Alcoholic Stiraulnnts. They are the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER ami A LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, a perfect Reno vator and Invigorator of the System, carrying off all poisonous matter and restoring the blood to a healthy con dition. No porson can tako these Bitters according to directions and remain long nnwell,provided their bones are: not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair. They are a Gentle Purgative as well ns a Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar merit of acting as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver, and all the Viscoral Organs. FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, In yonng or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood or at the turn of life, these Tonio Bitters have no equal. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rltenmn tism and Goat, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Bil lons, Remittent and Intermittent Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys nad Bladder, these Bitters have beon most suoecnaful. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced by derangement of the Di gestive Organs. DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Headache, Pain In tho Bhoulders.Uoughs, Tightness of the Chest. DissincM, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth. Bilious Attacks. Palpitation of tkc Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in tho regions of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the oflsprings of Dyspepsia. They Invigorate the Stomach and stimulate the torpid Liver and Bowels, which render them of unequalled efll eaey in cleansing the blood of all impuritios, and impart ing new life and rigor to the whole system. <* FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions. Tetter, Sal- Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Car buncles, Ring-Worms, Scald Head, Sore Byes, Erysipelas, Itch,Scurfs, Discolorations of tho Skin, Humors and Die. eases of the Skin, of whatever namo or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use ot these Bitters. One bottle in such cases will convince, the most incredulous of their curative effects. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its im parities bursting through tho skin in Pimples, Erup tions or Sores; cleanse It when you find It obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul, and your feolings will tell you when. Keep tho Wood pure, and the health of the system will follow. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed and removod. Bays a distinguished physiologist, there Is searoely an individual upon the face of the earth whose body is exempt from tkd presence of worms. It is not upon the healthy elements of the body that worms exist, but upon the diseased humors and slimy deposits that breed these living monsters of disease. No System of Medicine, no Tonuifugos, no anthelmintics, will free the system from worms liko theso Bitters. J. WALKER, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD dr CO„ D* "grists and Gen. Agents, San Francisco, California, B9*BOLD BY ALL DRUUUI3TB AND DEALERS. p Maj 13, 1871, l y . DABBY'S FIJPimCTIC FLUID f > pißT^Dvaluabh^Tamriy* foi removiug baa odors io >ll kinds of sickness; for burns sores, wounds, stings; for Erysipelas, rheumatism, >nd all skin diseases; lor catarrh, sore mouth, sore throat, diptheria; for colio, diarrhoea, cholera; as awash to soften and beautify the skin; to remove taken in terDaHy^t^TeirarT^hed^xteniany;' so lngiflyrecommendedTyT?rv!l!o*ha^rused Druggists and (Joun ry Merchants, and may be ordered di rectTsTofThe""”“““““""""""" DAUBY PROPHYLACTIC CO. " 161 William Street, N. Y. p De024’70 ly. rilay2 nJuue3 ly W«. H. Tijox. Wm. W. Gordan TISON & GORDON, (kstablishkd, 1854.) COTTON FACTORS AND Commission Merchants^ US BAT STBEET SAVANNAH, GA. T)AGGING AND IRON TIES ADVAN |~> CED on Crops. Liberal Cash Advances made on Consign mont of Cotton. Careful attention to all busi ness, and prompt returns Guaranteed, oct. 9r an 4m. LAWTON, HART & CO FACTORS AND Commission Merchants, SstV&MJV&B!* U seal advances made en Cotton in Stcio. oet. J r an 4 m J. M. J. T. Botherell, J. M. Dye,Jr DYE, BOTHWELL if CO., COTTON FACTORS —AND comiuission merchants NO. 143 REYNOLDS ST., AUGUSTA, - - - GEORGIA. LIBERAL advances made on cotton aud t other produce when required. Orders forfilagging, Ties and family supplies prompt ly filled. All business entrusted to us will have onr prompt personal attention. Commission for selling Cotton, li percent Stp. 23 89 6m PULASKI HOUSE Savannah, Ga W. 11. WILTBEItGEIf, Proprietor Miscellaneous. From tho University Monthly. HIGHER FEMALE EDUCATION. The lime was when the highest aim of woman was to be a goo:l house-keeper. Now this branch of knowledge is not to be despised, and there is a counter danger of its be ing neglected, against which we would warn our female readers.— Household limit is a necessary and valuable attribute of woman. Do mestic health and comlort, the phys ieal well-being of children—with which their higher well-being is closely connected—the happiness ot husband, father and brother, and the pleasures of home, all in a great measure depend on it. But it is not the chiefend ol our wives and daugh ters to cook bread and darn stock ings. Next came the idea that what are called accomplishments are the highest goml of of womankind. Females were excluded from severer studies under the notion that they were not lit for these studies, or that these sludies were not fit for them. Tfiat we are still to some extent under the influence of this opinion is appa rent from the fact that the grade of education in their institutions is in ferior so that of our male colleges. We advocate Literature as against mere house-keeping and against mere ornament. A liberal educa tion is claimed as the. rightful boon of woman. It is uot accessary to slop to define accurately what is meant by a liberal education. The general sense of lhe term is well un derstood. It is such an education, as is afforded by the belter class of colleges in ibis country, and more completely by the Universities of Great Britain and Germany. Amongst us, however, and to some extent in Europe, an evil tendency is developing itself in accordance with the materialistic proclivities of the age. The wonderful discoveries in the physical sciences, and the countless applications ol them to material purposes, have given a mighty impulse to this class of slud ies. However beneficial this may be in many respects, the effect on education is highly deleterious.— These things exalt our animal na tures, and augment our physical comfort; but ihey do not, to a cor responding degree, improve the mind and adorn the heart. Our in stitutions of learning have not whol ly refused to spmpathize with the age in its descent towards a gross and degrading materialism, alike detrimental to the intellect and sub versive of the best social affections. Let us resist this downward ten dency ! Sad will be the day when philosophical and classical studies shall be neglected. That the female mind is capable of pursuing these studies, is evident from the eminence to which many of the sex have attained. The names of Madame de Stael, Mrs. Somer ville, Harriet Martineau, Hannah Moore, and olhpr illustrious women, will occur to the reader. Woman’s capacity is further shown by the pro ficiency of many of the pupils in our higher institutions. If she have the capacity, why should it be repress ed ? If nature has endowed her with the ability to tread the walks of lit erature, and to enjoy the noblest thoughts of men, and the manifold works of God, why should she be kept forever drumming on the piano, or making awkward black marks on pasteboard ? Should she whose soul swells with the majestic rhythm of of Milton, or flows along the chaste and even levels of Addison, be con demned all her days to circumscribe her thoughts within the limits of a button-hole ? These exalted capacities beget aspirations. Many women whose energies are wasted in the trifles of fashionable life, are conscious of power to rise into the loftier regions of thought. A miserable distortion, and a painful sense of want, must and do follow from this repression of their better natures. We do not ut terly condemn accomplishments.— Within proper btunds, they are useful and elegant. Where there exists a special talent for any of them, it should be highly cultivated. But we protest against requiring the whole generation of females to run one giddy and undeviating round of of light and fantastic education. Most of them have no taste for these things. The majority of the people, both men and women, that we meet with in this every-day world, are made for more solid and homely pur poses. Few can hope to Snine in these aerial spheres. Think of the immense ou:lay of time, labor, and money expended in learning music, and with what result ? You meet a boarding-school Miss, with the ink not dry on her diploma, and ask her to give you some music: she is very diffident—cannot play without her notes; the notes are pro tuced; with straining mind and crumped lingers, she beats a humdrum on tho tenur ed instrument. Yet ten years, thou sands of dollars, and infinite toil have been expended in learning this single art. What stores ot knowl edge would the same time and Inbm have acquired ! What a noble libra ry would this money have bought ! We do not preceive the peculiar felicity of having a costly piano which the young lady cannot piny on, and no books except a dozen yel low-backed novels and trashy maga zines. Half the money and hull the labor would have furnished her with plenty of hooks to read and plenty of sense to understand them. It is insult to the charming genius of music, that so many of her votaries perpetually bring lame, blind, and hall offerings to her altars. As already remarked, where one exhibits capacity for music, it should be cultivated to ihe highest pitch of excellence. It is a rate and illus trious gill, and demands our hom age. The human voice being a nat ural instrument, being in some meas ure adapted to music in all, and he ing required to pour forth its melo dies in public worship, does not lie within the scope of the previous re marks. Another reason why “accomplish ments” should no longer enjoy pre cedence is, that that they are in most instances a temporary acquisition. They do not last. In a very few years after leaving school they are neglected. We may complain of this, aud rale the ladies roundly for it; but still the fact remains, they almost all quit their practice, if from the promptings of vanity in themselves or their parents, they have been led for many years to walk in a vain show, and to pretend to love and understand that which they bate and of which they know nothing, the miserable mask can no longer be worn. If the chiefend of banging on a piano be to win a hus band—as the Orientals hang costly pearls around their daughters in or der to attract suitors—that end is at tained, or they despair of attaining it; in either case the curtain lulls and the doughface drops. It ts im possible that it should be otherwise. What mother, with children anil ser vants around her, with the cares of dinner, and the sweet thoughts of her husband’s comfort, feels dis posed to forsake this earthly para dise for the purpose of creating a wretched discord among stringed instruments! The Occidental nations all require the presence of woman in society ; amongst us,she constitutes its bright est ornament; her influence pre serves it from rudeness and excess. It is of great consequence, therefore, that her education should fil her to shine in society. Now the charm of social life is conversation—conver sation, as distinguished ou the one hand from a prosy monologue, and on the other trom a flippant gossip— a genial discourse, in which two or more personshaving many points of sympathy, freely interchange their thoughts for mutual profit and pleas ure. Far inferior to this are all the gau dy but deceitful trapping of the card table and the dance. If she would diffuse the greatest pleasure most widely, let her talk well; but in or der to talk well, she must talk intel ligently, and she cannot talk intelli gently unless she he intelligent. In order that the superiority of an educated person in conversation may appear, it is not necessary that that the particular topics should be introduced on which he is specially informed ; but it will be seen, what ever may be the subject. “Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness of illustration, quickness, vigor, fancy, words, im ages ; it decorates every thing, and gives the power of trifling, without being undignified or absurd.” Now, can the whole round of the ornamental branches give these?— Can a smattering of Grammar, and a snatch of History, and a total igno ranee of the Belles-Lettres afford them ; There must be thorough cul ture ; young ladies must study hard and long; their days and nights must be given to the whole field of polite literature. They cannot talk of that which they have learned by role ; it is not enough that they re tain half an idea here, and the tourlh of one there ; there knowledge will break down too soon; they will never be quite sure about any thing, and hence will he afraid to venture a remark. That they may be at ease in society, they must beon the gen eral level of the Intelligence of those around them. Nothing can be more delightful than the convetsalion of an educated and refined woman. Her bird-like voice charms the sense; her flowing thoughts charm the soul; her beam ing eyes and kindling cheek thrill and transfix the heart. Words take on t'resh forms as they fall, front her lips; uiul common i ie;is me trans muted into poetic fancies and pious aspirations as tiny passthrough the alembic of her mind. No wonder that men gather around her, and with chivalrous devotion lay down it her feet their free-will offerings ofhotriage, respect, and love. She reigns a queen in the hearts of the oilier sex; she is the glory ol her own. T. A. Hoyt. “Thou art coming to a King, Large petitions with thee brin^.” Alexander the Great had about his Courts a philosopher of whom he was proud : being once in a strait, this philosopher applied to his master for aid. He was iustiuctcd to draw from the treasury whatever lie wanted, lie drew upon the Treasurer for ten thousand pounds. The Treasurer refused and appeal ed to the Emperor. “The philoso pher asks too much,” he said. Al exander heard him patiently and or dered him to pay the last farthing of it. “This man honors me by his large requests—give him whatever he asks.” This same great man once dis patched a courier alter a bag of treasure very huniedly. The cou rier found the bag and turned bis course to the Emperor's camp, but ere he had reached it, his faithful steed fell exhausted and died. The equally faithful courier shouldered the money and at last came stagger ing into the lent of the Emperor, who gazed intently upon him a ino ant! then ordered him to take the whole of it for himself. The soldier muttered, “It is too much for me to receive.” It is not too much Jhr me to give," replied the great man, and turned away to his duties. A greater than Alexander hath said “Open thy mouth wide ayd 1 will fill it.” There is no blessing too rich for him to give. Never too Old to Learn. In Wales people never get too old to learn, rior too wise to study. It is no uncommon thing to see men of foursome years still scholars in the Sunday-school. They began when little children —they kept it up when they became men, and now that their heads are white, and they almost ready for the school above, they are all the more ardent and anxious to learn. It has never crossed their minds that they have learned enough—much less that they have learned it all. They think eternity is not too long to study and serve their God. It was in this little province that one of the judges of the Queen’s Criminal Courts put on his while gloves and announced that there was was not one case on docket to he tried. This unparalleled prosperity the Judge attributed to their Sun day-school training. But it required no statesman or philosopher to see that. It would require an American statesman not to sec it. F. Jkffhhson’s Ten Rules—Jeffer son’s ten rules arc good yet, especi ally so for those who have the train ing of the pupils in our public schools. They are so short and concise, and embody so much of value, that it would be well if they were clipped and put where we could sec them often. They read as follows: 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap. 5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. S. How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened. 9. Take things always by the smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. Make Home Attractive. —There is one thing I would be glad to see more parents understand, namely, that when they spend money judi ciously to improve and adorn the house, and the ground around it, they are in effect paying their chil dren a premium to stay at home, as much as possible, to enjoy it; but that when they spend money unne cessarily in fine clothing and jewel ry for their children, they are pay ing them a premium to spend their time away from home, that is, in those places where they can attract the most attention, and make the most display. “Mi Showman, can the leopard change his spots?” “Yes, sir; when he gets tired of one spot he can go to the other.” No. 38 A WIFE'S POWER. The power ol a wile for good or | evil is irresistible. Home must be | the seat of happiness, or it must be j fotever unknown. A good wife is |to a man wisdom, courage and i strength ; a bad one is confusion, weakness and despair. No condi tion is hopeless to a man where his wife possesses limitless, decision, and economy. There is no outward prosperity which can counteract in dolence, extravagance and folly at home. No spirit can long endure bad domestic influence. Man is strong, but his heart is not adamant. He delights in enterprise and action, but to sustain him he needs a tran> rpiil mind ; and especially if he is lan intellectual man, with a whole heart, he needs his moral forces in the conflicts of life. To recover his composure, home must be a place ot cheerfulness and of comfort. There his soul renews its strength and goes forth with fresh vigor to encounter the labor and trouble of lile. But it at home he finds no rest, and is there met with bad temper, sulleuness, jealousy or gloom, or is assailed by complaints and censure, hope vanishes and he sinks into des pair. Such is the case with too many who, it might seem, have no conflicts or trials of life ; for such is woman’s power. Study and Longevity.—Be cause brain work promotes the con sumption of nutrition quite as much as bodily labor, a hard student will get ravenously hungry. The thing which keeps a man in health is the constant renewal of the particles of his body; labor uses up the new particles ol nutriment, and works off the old ones; eating supplies new ones in their stead, and in this way the body is always kept new and young, and vigorous and thrifty. If a man does not work at all, sits still for a great part of his time, the old, worn out particles ofthe system remain in it and clog it up, and be fore long the body becomes torpid, and the mind dull, in time approach ing to idiocy. The brain, like the body, appropriates the nutriment of food to its uses, and works off the old, effete, matter. Kant, one of the most profound thinkers of his generation, living beyond three score and ten, gave it as the result of his observation that “Intellectual pursuits tend to prolong life;” and President Humphrey, of Amherst College, said at the age of eighty two, “I have yet to see the man who died from the effects of hard study.” Newton, the greatest think er of his time, lived to the age of seventy-three; and Herschel, the greatest astromer of 1113 age, lived beyond ninety, and so did Hum boldt, the immortal author of “Cos mos.” If ever a hard student dies young, it is because he has not lived rightly.— Dr. W. W. Hall. Leaving Home. —The generation that is now rising to industrial pur suits in the rural districts of the United States, ought to be impress ed with the idea that they cannot better their condition by hastening away from their homes and trying their fortunes in a great town. In nine cases out of ten, as proved by actual statistics, they are better off as they are now. Indepenbence, knowledge, culture, character, the good opinion of others, are all as ca sily acquired in the country as in a great majority of instances, is wealth, that attainment which is prized a bove all others. How many who have made the change have regret ted it all their lives, and their chil dren after them. There is nothing in our social condition more to be deplored than the haste to "be rich that has taken such a hold of the American people, and now prompts this fondness for cities. It has been wonderfully stimulated by our in flated currency, and it can now be controlled only by moral agencies of the most effectual kind. There are many things more desirable and more respectable than wealth. Avery ungallant journalist, who has recently visited all the courts of Europe, says, in a letter to the Etoile Beige, that] he did not see a single good-looking princess. As for the Grand-duchess hereditary of Russia, about whose beauty so much has been written, he says that she is a thin and sour-looking creature, who appears to be over thirty years of age. Queen Olga of Greece he calls a pert-looking little woman, who ev idently lacks brains. The Empress Augusta ofGermany he charges with dressing in too youthful a style.— “Her majesty,” he says, “is a home ly.woman; and so is her daughter in-law, the fat and ungraceful crown princess. The Princess Frederick Charles, in whom I expected to find an angelic beauty, from what I had read about her, is a coarse-featured lady, with very imperious and awk ward manners. -She appeared to me more like a housekeeper or a farmer’;} wife than a princess.”