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VOL. 1.1 RATES OF LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS Sheriff’s Sates, (30 (lays) per levy §2 50 • “ (60 days) per levy 500 Tax lectors’ Sales (30 days) per levy 2 50 Administrators, Executors or Guar dian Sale-, (40 days) per square—lo lines Nonparie' 5 00 Notice to Debtors end Credit >rs (30 da. s) 5 00 Leave to sell Heal Estate (3.1 days)... 500 C’fation-Leiicrs of Administration (30 days 3 00 “ “ ot Guardianship (30 days) 3 00 Le tr- D smissio-: of Administration (90 days) 5 00 “ “ Guardianship (90 days 5 00 Estray Notices—Cattle (1 insertion)... 5 00 " ‘ Horse or Mule(6o days) COO Exemption ol 11 mi slead or Personali ty (2 w’ks 2 00 | Divorce Notic- ; (lamtin) 5 (to j T.-n lines so ia NoMparlc), or its equi'a , lent in st;ai-e f o- sritutes a square A" leeal advertisements enumerated above will be charged $5 00 per square for 4 :r*sertio s. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, first insertion $1 00 To each subsequent insertion 50 One Square, six months 9 00 One Square, twelve months 12 00 Liberal deduction will be made for con tract advertisements. Enough to pay for composition will be sharped for change f ndvertisermnts, Ml articles published for the benefit o parties or individuals, at their cwn solicitation will be charged for as advertisements. RATES OF SUBSCRIP TION )ne copy of the paper one year, $ 2 00 Three copies of the paper one year,.... 5 00 ‘-’ive copies of the paper one year, 8 00 Ten copies of the paper one year, 15 00 Invariably in Advance. fl&S~ Communications solicited from all sec tions, but in no instance will they he inserted vi hout the name of the writer accompany them. MR WM A. MAVIS, an expperi cooed timid in the printing business is now an attache of this Office, and tries to render every satisfaction. jtES* Address all communications to O. A. CANTRELL. i_him —Miwiii nr —.v--—wawu-g- ONE BV ONE. One by one the snde are flowing, One by one the moments fall ; Some are coming, so mo are going, Do not strive to grasp them all. One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each, Let no future dreams elate thee, Learn thou first what these can teach. One by one (bright gilts from heaven), Joys are sent thee here below ; Take them redily when given, Heady too to let them go. I Oae by oue thy gre’fs shall meet thee, Do not fear an armed hand; One wiU fade as others greet thee— Shadows passing thro’ the land. Do not look at life’s long soir >w; See Uoiv small each moment’s pain, God will help thee for to-morrow', So each day begin again. Every hour that fleets so slowly Has its task to (! ) or bear; Luminous the crown, and holy, When each gem is set with care. D > ;ot linger with regretting. Or for passing hours despond; N r, the daily toil forgetting, Look too eagerly beyond. Hours i re golden links God’s token. Reaching Heaven; but one by one, Take them less the chain be broken, E e thy pilgrimage be done. Jackson’s Speech.— A correspondent gives to the Hopkinsville New Era the following ns a speech made by General Jacks-m, when lie was yet a poor backwoods lawyer in Tennessee and unknown to fame: He was emplayed to procecnte a ne gro for the murder of another in a fit ol jealousy, and 1 1 is speech to the jury was the following paragraph: “No more shall the voice of the murdered man be heard in the songs of the met ry corn-huskings. No more shall lie pluck the forrest resound with the echoes of his hunting horn, as with his dogs lie chased the ’possum and th ■ coon. No more shall his nimble fiset keep time to te music of the ban jo as lie patted juba and cut pigeon -swing. The voice once s > joyful is now hushed in death. 'Those limbs .one ■ so agile are now rigid and still. ■ His body now lies npou the blood stained turf, with his big toe pointing 'up to the blue arched vault of heaven.” A worthy deacon in a town some where or other, gave notice at a pray er meeting, the other night, of a church meeting that was to be held immediately after, and unconsciously ‘ added : “There is no objection to the leinale brethren remaining.” This re minds us of a clergyman who told in . his sermon of a very affecting scene, where “there wubu’l a dry tear in the house.” THE PALMETTO SHIELD. [From tl.r- R irulolph E'lterprise# The Use of Tobacco. Inis article is telling 1 its alarmin r i effects upon the human family, it is I killing it- thousands annually by slow poison, it has found its way into every dans of men of all grade and character, with very few exceptions. Men aid women use it ; now reader, you are perhaps, ready to say, he is going to abuse everybody that uses tobacco ; not so, my friendly reader, I have no quarrel with you ; but if you have per. milted j’ouiself to become a slave to that poisonous weed, I pity you ; and am going to inv 'e you in the lan guage of the prophet, ‘come now and let us reason together.” Tobacco spoils th- breath, causes the teeth to decay, the general health is impaired, time is wasted and forever lost, man’s and ys are shortened, lienee, he: is robbed of his time, he is robbed of his money ; and yet, he seems patiently to suDmit to all this poisonous, injurious, filthy and expensive imposition almost with out a raurmer. Tin* churches arc spoiled by its use, and even preachers of the gospel have not escaped it, lint have la come its deceived, prisoned, mesmerized, injured victims, and they too stilimit to its robbery, thev too seem to be intoxicated by it so that they can not- loose its grasp, and like the poor drunkard, they abuse the habit and the filthy stuff, but say they can’t quit its use. I take for example tire preachers of the M. E. Church South in Georgia alone, and propose to show by facts and figures the cost of this article an nually. There are in Georgia, about 931 preachers of this denomination supposing them to pay out on an av erage each, $27,50, (which is far be low the actual cost of their tobacco,) and we show an amount of $29,602 Look, think, this amount of money wasted and worse than wasted, and that by a class of men setting them selves up as lights of the world, and at the same time preach to others to a! stain from every appearance of evil, and scold and abuse the members of the church for wasting their tnoDey, and not supporting the gospel, (as they call it,) or in other words, do not give them tobacco enough These preachers arc examples for the church to follow, arrd thousands do follow this example. I am a Methodist myself, and speak only of my own denomina tion. I suppose that other denomina tions ate equally as guilty ; if not let them speak in self-defence, the Church and the world of mankind are to be pitied ; but their leaders will certainly he held responsible. Go to the Church and you can scarcely kneel down for prayer, without soiling your clothes, and when tiie members are invited to come around the sacramental board to commemorate the death and sufferings of the Savior, this same difficulty is there, then look around, and you find that preachers and other leading mem bers sat there, and made the floor in that filthy condition, it is with great difficulty that the members can prevent staining their clothes. 0 ! shame, shame, I know I am taking a very un. popular position, notwithstanding, this monstrous poison is acknowledged by all to be filthy, expensive and injurious, yet, it is very popular in ail classes, so much so that hardly any one will attempt to oppose its use and we boast as being an enlightened people Sup pose we use figures a little further to show its cost in the country in general, and for example, there lives in one county 1750 families who u-e tobacco, at an average cost of $27,50 each, and we find the amount to be $47,337,50. Suppose a county to contain a territory of twenty four miles square, lay oft' that territory into sections of four miles square, and build a school house in each of these sections, at a cost $250,00 this would take S9OOO : then build a church in each at a cost of SSOO each, amounting to SIB,OOO, there would hen be remaining $20,337,50 to divide by the number of school houses, and we have $562 1 1 pay a teaehei for eacl) school the first year after building the churches and school houses, u'ter the first year having the houses already there, would be enough to pay a teach er for each school $1,314,90, an amount sufficient to pay the tuition of every child that is raised from 5 to 20 yeais, but to show the results further, multi ply this sum of 47,337,50 by the num ber of counties in the State and we find it to amount to $6,285,239,20 in PALMETTO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1873 "nun wii ii - ** 1 w • one State alone, multiply tills by the I number of States, and there get the enormous sum of s2op 415,837,50. This amount wuulu educate every child that is raised in the United States. This amount is wasted by a people boasting of their knowledge, their polite and economical habits, and good manners. Besides its filth and c st and inconven iences, its very offense effects those who do not use it. But this is not all yet ; there are at h ast two States in the Union whose time is entirely devoD-djo raising and manufacturing, tobacco now suppose these two St tes abnn'on the tobacco crop, and raise corn instead thereof ; i st unite 190,000 hands to the State (which is below tlie average number) and each hand raise 250 bushels ol corn, and we would have forty million bushels of corn raised annually, more than we do have, a sufficiency to feed ! every pauper who is not able to earn i their bread by hand-work in the world, I to say nothing of the injury to the con sumer while using it. The doctors in ail their medical wiitings, condemn its use, and, yet, they as a class, are as great slaves to it, as any other class of men. There may t e some excuse for them to use it, to induce others to do so, in order that they may have more practice. There may bo likewise some excuse for the merchant to use it, in order that he may get more sale for it. Boys smoke the pipe or cigar, be • cause they eoticlud th tit makes them look more like a man ; hut soon the In bit is formed, and the poor fellow finds himself led into a hibit that is iu every respect injurious to him, but now he cannot quit using tobacco, h must love it, destroy health or not, kill or not kill, cost or not cost, tobacco must come, it must be had, he is distracted without it, he hates and abuses the nasty stuff, and wishes he could aban don it, but he can not, it has done, is still doing its destructive work upon him or her. I pity the man or lady who has even started in this habit, who has formed the appetite so that it is beyond their control, they are not controled by their own will and judg ment, but by the influence of an article which lias complete control of thein. Reatler, examifle closely lluse facts and figures and reflect, then let rea son and judgment dictate for you, and act accordingly, govern yourself, and don’t be governed by a po sonous ene my. I may write on this subject again, if i do, I shall have to notice the ladies as I go along, for 1 see many of them, have so forgotten the purity of their nature as to run the risk of poisoning themselves with tobacco ; but I close for the present, by declaring myself an enemy to the use of tobacco, but a true friend to all mankind. A. B. C. Begin Right. —Begin the day with rrayer, and you can end it with praise Do not forget your privilege to lay your wants before the Lord, and com mit Hie keeping of v our soul to him in well doing as unto a faithful Creator There are many toiling ones whose time is not at their own command. But there is no one who cannot hold converse with God. “The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers ” He can hear amid the clang and roar of machinery, or the hum of hundreds of voices. The heart can go up to him, no matter what the surroundings. Wherever Abraham pitched his tent, there he raised up an altar to the Lord. So wherever the Christian heart, is there is also an acceptable altar Irom which the increase of prayer and praise may ascend. Yet are there few who may not, if they will, find time and place for pri vate communion with God before en tering on the morning’s duties. It is not the lack ui t me so much as lack of heart which withholds men from prayer. “Prayer and provender never hinder the journey,” and our nu merous cares are reasons why we should pray rather thau why' we should not. VY lio but a fool would leave off’ Ins shoes because the road was unu sually rough? Luther, in his business seasons, felt that praying time was never lost. Y\ lien remarkably pressed with labors, he would say, “I have so much to do that I cannot get on without three hours a day praying.” Sir Matthew Halo also bears testi mony : “If I omit pray ing and reading God’s word in the morning, nothing goes well all day.” EJ.,w many of us ! "’ho have had a similar experiei ce may find here the cause ..f many of our failures, and consequent discontent and loss of happiness | A learned writer in the Atlantic Monthly says t; at it our esteemed grand parent, the lat . Col Adam, had lived until now, and Ud never trimm ed his finger-nails, they would to-day have been a tiiouamJ y rils long, v e have sever ceass a to mourn the early death of A , but if he had survived nut I now, with his ytiU uncut, we should have insisted iqon cutting either His acquaintance or his nails.— Courier- Journal. OHDIN ANCES Ob' PALMETTO. Be it ordained by the Commissioners of the town of Palmetto. Sec. Ist. No person shall do, or cause to be done, any labor on the Sabbath day, unless it be work of necessity, any person violating this section, shall pay a fine not to exceed ten dollars and costs or imprisonment not exceeding five days in calaboose. Sec. 2 No person shall write, paint, draw or cut any letter or letters, word or words, or devices, or in any manner mutilate or deface any public building, or church, or any shade tree, on any public Street under a penalty of five dollars, or confined in calaboose uot exceeding five days and ail ci sts. Smc. 3. That any person who shall fasten any horse or animal to any shade tree, o fence, or to any thing mi or by the side walk, shall pay a fine, of not exceeding two dollars and costs, and the Marshal shall in every case seize the horse or other animal and re tain it until the fine and costs are paid. Sec. 4 No person shall put any ob structions in any public street, or on any side walk except in case of build ing, any person who shall place any obstructions as aforesaid, refusing or failing to remove the same in ten hours after being notified, by the Mar shal, shall pay a fine, not to exceed five dollars and costs. Sec. 5. Any person, or persons who shall drive a vehicle, or ride in a dis orderly manner, through the streets, or who shall ride on or place any ve liicle on the side walk, shall pay a finrq not exceeding two dollars and costs, or confined in calaboose, until the fine and costs are paid. Sec 6 No person or persons shall keep a disorderly holme, ir houses of ill lame, any house or houses that is inhabited by disorderly peftsona of .ini moral character, shall be considered a disorderly house, or housed of ill-fame, and any or all inmates of such house or houses, shall be considoied the keeper or keepers of the same, and subject to the penalties of this section And any person or persons who shall rent or cans-- to be rented, any house ir houses, to be used as disorderly house or lions s of ill-fame shall be considered a keeper or keepers of the same, any pers< u vioalating this sec tion shall pay a fine not less than ten dollars, for each violation, or confined in calaboose at the discretion of the Council. Sfc. 7. Any merchant, or dealci in any kind of Merchandise, who shall keep ope ( doors on the Sabbath day or cause the same to be done; or trade, or trafic, shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars and cost, or be con fined in Calaboose at the discretion ol the Council. Sec. 8. Any person who shall be guilty of any act of public indecency, or using obscene, vulgar, or profane language, oi of quarreling or fighting, 1 or act in a disoiderly manner shall pay a fine not excluding ten dollars and cost, or be confined in Hie calaboose at the discretion of the Council. Sec. 9. Any person who shall make any unnecessary noise at night to the disturbance of any of the citizens, shall be fined live dollars and cost. Sec. 10. Any person who may be found drunk and acting in a disorderly manner, or lying down on the streets shall be arrested by the Marshal and confined in the calaboose until sober, I and shall pay a fine not exceeding five dollars ami cost. Sec. 11. That no person shall dis charge any kind of firearms, within two hundred yards ol any occupied house, within the corporate limits of said town, (unless good and sufficient reason is given,) under a penalty of nut less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars. Sec. 12. The Commissioners may grant license to retaii ardent s irits in said town, on application made. All persons to whom they grant such li cense, shall pay to the Clerk fifty did lars per annum ; said amount to be paid quarterly All applicants shall give bond with approved security, in a sum not less than five hundred dol lars, and take Hie oatli required by law Sec. 13. If any person shall in said town retail or sell in qnan it es less than one quart any ardent spirits, without having obtained such license, paid the required tax, given the requit ed bond amt taken said oath he or she, may be fined not more Ilian one hun dred dollars and e. st, or confined in the calaboose at the discretion of the Council. Sec. 14. No license shall be trans forcible. No license shall protect more th in one place and that place decided in said license, and no ardent spirits shall be retailed in tiie streets of said town, any person violating this sec Don, shall pay a fine not i xcecdlng two hundred dollars, or be c n fined in the Calaboose at tiie discretion of the Council. Sec.- 15. That every owner or pro prietor of a billiard, pool or bagatelle table on which billiards,pool or baguteP is played, shall apply the Clerk md obtain license, for which shall be ; aid ten dollars per annum. ‘Any person violating this section shall pay a fine of twenty-five dollars, and such bil Hard, pool or bagatelle table, shall be subject for the payment of such fine. Sec. 16. All persons who are en gaged in any mercantile trade of any kind, in said town, owners of livery stabies, artists, and all others who trade upon the streets, without having paid a tax as merchants, And every proprietor ir owner of a hotel, or house ol public entertainment, shall apply to the Clerk and abtain license for the same 1 . Which license shall be ton dol lars per annum, also every black-smith shop, wood shop, barber shop, shoe shop, buggy shop, cabinet shop and silver or gun smith ; the proprietor shall apply to the Cleik and obtain license, therefer, which license shall be five dollars per annum All law yers, doctors and dentists, shall obtain license from the Clerk, for carrying on their profession, which license shall be five dollars, and executions may issue against any and all sucli persons who tail, or refuse to obtain license herein, specified. Sec. 17. Every male citizen liable to road duty, under tire laws of th s state, and a resident of Palmetto, shall be subject to a street tax of three dol lars per annum, to be paid into the town Treasury by the Ist day of April in each year, all persons subject to aid tax, and refusing to pay by the required time, shall be subject to double tax, with costs of collection by execution. Sec. 18 It shall be the duty of the Clerk to receive from every person in said town, a list of their real estate and its value, he, she or they may have, or hold in their own rights or the rights of another person on Ist day of June in each year, and return tho same to the board of Commissioners, by the Ist day August thereafter; and should any per son fail, or refuse to return their real estate at its value at the time specified, or shall return it at less than its real value, on such information being had by the board of Commissioners it shall Lus their* duty to appoiutthree free hoi ders who shall assess the value,of such i real estate as may be neglected, or ’ fraudulently returned, and return the same to the board of Commissioners. And all property assessed and returned by said free holders, shall be double taxed. Tire boaid of Commissioners shall levy such a per cent, on the the property, given iu as they may deem right and proper, for defraying the necessary expenses of said town. And the Marshal shall collect the taxes so levied, by the fifteenth day of Octo ber of each year. .Sec. 19. No blacksmith shop or plank kiln, shall be erected within 75 feet of any dwelling house, store house, or other build.ngs of value, within tiie cor porate limits of said town. Nor shall any house be occupied as such, unless made fire proof; any person violating this section shall be fined not less than ten dollar , and the plank kiln, or shop shall be subject to the payment of said fine and cost. Sec. 20. 'i’lie commissioners may pass such rules as they may deem i cc essary for the government of the board, and such rules shall be record ed by the clerk, in a book to be kept lor that purpose, and such rules shall he strictly adhered to at all regular and called meetings. Sec. 21. No peddler or traveler shall offer for sale any goods, wares or met’ chandisp, within the indjprporation limits of said town without first ob taining firm the clerk of Council a li cense, for which she or they shall pay the sum of five dollars, and clerk’s fee, for each and every day, he she or they shall offer any goods, wares or mer chandise for sab*, any person violating this section, shall be fined not exceed ing ten dollars or be confined in cala booS' , at the discretion of the Council. Sec. 22, All shows or exhibition of animals, slight of hand, legerdemain or tricks of any kind, owners or pro prietors of same shall pay a license, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, for each day’s petformance, any person violating this section, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs, or be con fined in calaboose at tho discretion of the Council. Sec 23, If any animal shall die in said town, it shall he the duty of the Marshal to notify the owner, of such dead animal, to remove tiie same out of the incorporate limits of said town, and upon failure or refusal of said owner to do the same, within ten hours, after being notified by the Marshal, shall pay a fine of five dollars and the Marshal shall cause the same to be re moved at the expeuse of the owner. Sec 24, If any person or persons shall resist the authority of the Mai slial or molest him in the perf .nuance of his dlilies, I e or they shall pay a fine, of not less than ten rior more than fifty dollars, at the discre ti m of the Council. Sec 25. In case of distnt banco of 111 • peace in Slid town, the Marshal or any one of the commissioners, miy smimiona to his aid any number of citi zens, of sa l town, and any citizen fail ing or refusing to obey said summons, to render the assistance so required shall be fined a sum of not less than ten dollars, nor exceeding twenty-five dollars. Sf.c. 26 No person or-personwith in the incorporate limits of said town, shall bet at any game of cards, or trameif auy kind, any person violating ttiis Sect'on, shall pay a fine of not less than five nor exceeding twenty five dollars, or be confined in calaboose at the discretion of the Council. Sec. 27. Any proprietor of any pool billiard or bagatelle tahlo, allow ing any person or persons to bet at any game played on same or allowing bet ting at any game of cards or other games of any kind in their own h uso or holmes occupied by them, shall pay a fine of not less than twenty dollars, nor exceeding fifty dollars, or confined in calaboose at the discretion of the Council. Sec. 28. No person or persons, shall within ti e incorporate limits of said town, play at any game of cards, mar bles or game of any kind, for amuse ment or otherwise on sabbath. Any person violating this section, shall pay a fine of not less than five tier more than fifty dollars, or confined in cala boose at the discretion of the Council. Sec. 29 From and after the adoption if this section, it shall be the duty rr the Marshal to take up all liotses or mules running at large in the town of Palmetto, and keep them at the expens of the owner, until the owner pays fine of fifty cents. Sec. 30 All dealers in ardent spir its are forbidden to sell any spirituous liquors on the Sabbath, or keep open doors. All who violate this section, shall be fined a sum not exceeding ten dollars, or imprisoned in the calabooso at the discretion of the Council. Sec. 31. So much of section 15 of these Ordinances, as pertains to the amount of tax levied on Billinril Tables is hereby repealed,and the tax per annum on such tables, from anil after this date, shall be twcuty-five dollars. Sec. 32. Be it further ordered that all witnesses summoned hy the Mar shal to appear before the Council, to testify, shall be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or thirty Jays con finement in the Calaboose for contempt, if they fail to appear. Sec. 33. Any person who shall l>9 guilty of using fire-works, of any dis cription, within the incorporate limits of Palmetto, shall be fill' and five dollar* or imprisonment in Calaboose, at the discretion of the Council. MARSHAL’S FEES. For serving summons each case, 25 cts. For each additional copy, when there are more than one defendant, 15 cts. For serving Subpoena on witnees 25 cts For taking bond to apppear before the Council, $1 00. Fur attending trial, 25 cts. For serving li fa, 50 cts. For making deeds to real estate or personal property when requested, $2 00. Ejecting occupants of houses of ill fame, $2 00 For arresting persons and confining in the Calaboose, $1 00 For arresting and bringing before the Commissioners, $1 00. For receiving prisoners in Cala boose, 50 cts. For dieting- prisoners per day 50 cts. For settling fi. fa. if paid before sale $1 00. For collecting tax on real estate, per ct. CLERK'S FEES. For issuing License to retailers, $1 00. For taking Bond, 60 cts. For issuing License to Auctioneer*. $2 00. For issuing license to Shows or other performances, $2 00. For issuing all other License re quired by Ordinances,sl 00. For each case tried by Council 50 cts. issuing fi fas, 50 cts. “ every Subpoena ticket, 15 cts “ signing instruments of writing, when it becomes necessary for ths Clerk’s official signature, SI,OO. For receiving tax returns, or real es tate percent. Council for 873 \V. \V. Floyd, Chairman 8 Zellars, Treasurer, 0. T. Smith, Tlios. H Meimfee, i’ D. Lmigiiiti I . W. Hood, Marsh >l, E. R. Tlio'nton, Clei .. NO 38.