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Five minuses uftcr', the con (factor re entered the car. X made room for him at my side. “hit down; conductor; you've noth in" to do this minute. ” He obeyed ' r ... “What do yotf mean by telling such Anecdote of Hon. A- H. Stephens, i “The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, • of Georgia, has recovered froin his! recent attack of severe illness.-’ i At the time we write, this paragraph meets the public eye in nearly every f newspaper in the country, and enables \ an old and favonte contributor to . various departments of this Magazine | to tell the following story: Twenty-flYe years ago we had -aj political correspondence with Mr. j Stephens, called forth by our mutual j admiration and support of Mi*. Clay. ! When General Scott was a candidate . for the Presidency Mr. Stephens was a j member of Congress, and, being in Washington, we determinedrto .make S' his acquaintance, passing up Penn sylvania Avenne, with Mr. Stephens’s hotel address in our hands, our atten tion was suddenly arrested by the ap pearance of a persofi who seemed tobe in the very last stages of a ; consuming sickness. Itwasto us a miracle that any one so attenuated, and wasted away in A Democratic and Family Newspaper. THOMAS J. CATER BT . AfCS. to r. kaigrLETT. - ‘/. newurfd^? corespondent relates that r m tb* fudfhing after the terrible bathe oh f'lWt, Sept 1, 1870, six hundred cavalry kfcthitef, xVftlYont riders, galloped up at the '"sound of me bugles, aud took their accus tomed places in the French ranks.] '. 'Morning dawns on the heights of Sedan, . "And the golden sunlight feHs . UVti the.woods hnd rocky steeps, ’ ’ ’ \ Over the castlnwtdb, . ‘ . / . 1 Over the valley oi the Mi-use; - Over the tented ground, „ Where the seatatodhoslB are rallying At the ahfih-bugies sbund.' But yesterday, and the sun lciok'ed down On a dark and fearful sight. When hostile feie metdiostile foe, • In stern, nnyielding tight; 'And gidloping to the rendezvous, On the bright September morn, 'Six huhdredjriderJess steeds rush dn, At sound of the bugle-horn: 'Morning dawns on the battle-E&ld, Aud t uid-.r Ihu callii, bine sky, 'Sleeping the still, cold slesp ol .death, Six hundred horsemen lie. 'No sound of the bugle stirs their souls „ To tlie Klruggle and the strife— 'Ko sound but the angel-trump shidl call The f dim again to life. The ka-oken tanks of the •dunasstiSs, 'Hie warriors stout and bold, "Are gathering in at tliemartiai, calf, And the saddened tale is f61d: While — - ' - ' a lie just How?” I spoke Under my breath; he replied Savannah morning news h ou ston HOME JOURN A in the same tone:, * ’’ “About what?” “About the reason yon stopped Just now. - ’ He smiled: . v - “To tell you the truth, I stepped to take ou a single passenger—a gentle man who has come down from Bays-' water.” i;*Eor the purpose of travelmg a weekly Family newspaper Sow Is the Time to. SnbScrifie for it; “i or the purpose oi {raveling once more over the same rout?” “Exactly so—for the purpose’ of traveling it in certain society. Don’t be alarmed for your own safety—it’s a Yon have your choice, and can take either the Daily, Tri-Weekly, or Weekly Edition. ; - ./‘Tlfts detective? fe sits by the dorr yonder, with a ragged' ftur cap' pulled over liis eyei Did you' eTOr see a more perfect specimen-of .the di lapidated conntiyman?” I smiled; I conld hardly help it; “What is'tlie case?” .“A murder—a man and his'wife and two, little. childrenT-^their’ throats cat,' last night, aiidthe Jfouse set on fire afterfwmls.”. . • C* “Great heavens! what a 'monster!” "We had continued the conversation throughout in a'whisper, scarcely above our breath, and how the conductor rose tot! left toe to study the faces of my fellow passengers, With 'curious dread and hbrror. ’ Some how, often ns I rfevblVe'd the matter in my mind, my fahey would settle on a coarse, gross looking .man opposite, with a bushy betod .and shaggy coat, with the collar turned up around liis ears. I felt convinced that this man Withthe heavy hanging jaw ©LOTHING, and curious, we gazedat the disappear ing form, todfinally to give some relief to our sympathetic; curiosity,ir? asked a Jehu stkndihgmearby : ... ' .r . ‘WVho is that man?”'- “That .man,” said the- coachman, pointing Ms whip disdainfully after the apptoitidn—“fliatihim,’’he reput ed; ana 'hm face assumed a-look- of complete disgust—“that -man,” the words the third time being' uttered with a diabolical' sheer, “is one of the most contemptible and unprincipled cheats in, ’Washington. ” We expressed our surprise at such a sweeping denunciation against ah in is,in an respects, a Democratic jonrnnl, f-thiul to Democratic principles,- Snd earnest in the advo cacy of Democralicmeasores. It believes that the success of-its party is necessary to the salvation of the country. Its reputation as a news journal will he maintained as -heretofore. In Domestic, For eign and Commercial Intelligence, Literature, etc., it is not surpassed by any paper-in thee ounlry. Its whole character is comprehensively stated in saying that it . is a great Democratic and Family Newspaper, devoted to the interests of the people of the Bduth t To - every business man, its Market Intelligence alone is worth many times its sub scription. COE Wt T. THOMPSON, with able assistants, has controlbf the Editorial and News columns; while its corps of Be porters are reliable in every respbet! TEEMS : One Year, nfi $10.00 Six Months,................5.00 XiireeMojiths .•.'S.-t.’itV-li'.'. 2.5U 36 O O T S AND SHOES tei KvSfyhody Subscribe for it at once! „ JI-—the rendezvous, On the br/ght September morn, ix hundred riderless ste&3S rush o: At the soundhf the bu l:-hcm. “Why, it’s Aleck Stephens, of Georgia,” said the fellow, with evident surprise at ohr ighoraheei ’ . “And what has he done?” we asked, with some warmth. 4 ‘What could such, to honorable gentlemen, and distin guished-member of Congress do, to justify you - in speaking that way of him?” ; „. ‘-Why; you,, see,” said the Mlow, with an affection of meekness'— ‘ “you see, we licensed hackrden of Washing ton city get five dollars for .attending a Congressman’s funeral—its one of omr parqnisites—and we have had onr eye on Aleck Stephens for this .four years as being as good as five dollars in pur pocket, but he keeps moving about tod cheating ns out of onr. just And so iiasl&us remarkable inan for a quarter of a century lived on, in spite of what appetos to.bethe matt unfa vorable -—circumstances, pel-forming MISCELLANY, cross I caught the wide-open blue orbs of the fair little girl. ' Obeying the , instantaneous impulse of my heart, I arose and went over to her. “You heard, wliat . we were ’Saying, my child?” “Yes^-trmnrder—oh; howhomble!” “Do not be frightened—ho oSie shall hurt you.’’-■ She smiled up in my face with street It was a bitter night in January—a night when homeless wanderers op the moors might" have sunk down and frozen to death, and the very marrow ’■seemed; to congeal in one’s berhea. ‘■There’s oiie advantage .in steam,” ^growled a fat old gentleman in the comer seat; ‘‘wind and weather don’t •affect it No flesh and blood-horse ‘could stand a night like this, but the ■ iron horsy keeps straightahead, wheth- .er the thermometer is at zero or a boiling water bent ” Just then the coiidWctoS entered, j ■ ‘Tickets, gentleineh; if-you please. ” , - “It’s a dreadful Bight, conductor, I said, feeling with stiflehed fingers for my ticket/in the Ifreost pocket of mv edat. “Dreadful sir,” fpelfegfy rosiiorided 1 the conductor. “WTiy, the brakemen can’t live ontside, and so I look the other way when they creep in, poor STOCK Is published every Monday, Wednesday and Sat urday, and is made from ?fie 'dafly editions. TEEMS: One Year, Yi'i..i.... ..’I ;.$f».00 Six Months, u.tn) deel7-tf Professional Man I Three Months,. ONE DOLLAR SAVED 18 TWO DOLLARS MADE! .’meanwhile'to amount bf intellectual la bor that justly places hiin among the leading minds ahd most industrious men. of-the pountiy; Is lsaned every Friday, is designed, for conntry readers, and contains a careful summary of the news of the week, with the principal editorials, the current news, the latest dispatches, and full market reports, TEEMS: One Year, $2.00 Six Months, 1.00 Can a WOman Keep a Secret? The Nineteenth Century,’ a periptli- i&d published' in: Charleston,■ thus treats this much mooted point: ‘JMen say women can’tkeep a secret. It's just the reverse —women can, men can’t. ' Women carry with them secrets tliat would killany man. Woman never tells; man always does. Woman suffers tod dies; man . blahs and lives. Man : cannot keep a secret; woman cannot make.it known. What is sport to : the man is death to the woman.' Adam was a‘ sneak. Eve would have kept the apple a sceret. Be ye faithful. Who ever heard a woman talk about her lover’s fiascos?’ Everybody has heard a man gossip.. Man delights in telling : No attention paid to orders unless accompanied by the money. Postmasters everywhere arc authorized to act an IT WILL CONTAIN man who Was coming on frbm.Chicago got off at Bunn’s - Four Comers; with her baby in her arms a corpse!’-’ “Frozen to death?” • “Aye, frozen to death, and she never thought, poor thing; but it was asleep.; ‘My baby’s cold,’ says she, liut Wre^ll . soon warm it, when -get home. ’ It; a nightas tliis?” And the condncibr opened the dbor and -plunged across tlie coupling into the next cor, crying out: “Hardwick!" It was quite a considerable city, with it handsome iron depot; flaring gas lamps aud the usual crowd around the platform,-with hands . in its pockets, .and its cigar ends flaming through the night. Onr car was nearly the last of the long tt-niil; ahd but oHe pkSSenger en tered it—a ttenfla 1 young gM Wrapped in u gray blanket shawl; ail'd wearing a neat httle ti'ai'eliiTg- liat of giny ‘straw, trimmed with stphe bbSfc-e'd. vel vet flowers. .She seemed to hesitate, like one unused to traveling, and final-- ly sat down near tlie door. • “Pardon me, youug lt>dy,” said I, “but yon had better come nearer to the stpve.” ’ *. She ttnr-ted, hesitated an instance, 'and then obeyed.. - %.‘Does this -train go ■ to ■ BayswEter?” • >he t.'sltcd in a voice, so doltciousfy soft . 'andkwei t that it sceihhd to- thidll tliroughme. - - :, NEWS FROM ALL QTTARTEKi Money can be sent by Post Office order or Ex press at our risk. Address , ,1; H: KOT'taL, : • .111 Boy Street, fiavaunah. I drew the water, and held up the enp; but instead of-taking it ; she ap- proachedj'she bruehed suddenly past me, opened the door, and ruttied out upon the platform. “Stop her! Stop her!” shouted the detective, springing to his feet;' “she will be killed; cpndnctor, -bmlfeTnii.Ti holdup!”’ Mterature of the Highest Order, I AM AGENT FOB THE CELEBRATED SOUTHERN FARM & HOME PEABODY HOUSTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL CLU Agriculture, Manufacture women don’t. Woman never fells tales out of school; iiibh are always blabing. So. doWn with toother old adage.: Woman can keep a' secret, and her’ ability, to do so is proved by the con- duet-pf’a-St. Jolins (New Brunswick) Aud every mrtnber will contain articles of inteVeet to tlie PLANTERS: lii Polife will lie DGNSESTiC ECOKORSY 1 Will Sell at WiafiUfacturers’ New York Prices. - - $50 Believing that the success of the Democrats: Party is the only hope of saving the cot; from f nr.ti'Ctal and social min, and of restoring it to its former condition of honor,; pcr-l^and freedom from tyranny and oppression. Nevertheless, IT WILL NOT E POLITICAL PAPER, IN THE STRICT MEANING OF THE TERM, hut vriii! A BoiiD and Ingenious Thief.—A sliarp trick wras' performed this mom-, ing which fdr singularity afld address is quite equal to anything that hgploo- currpd in a long time. Acamage’eon- tamlng a lady stopped in front of No. 13 Broad street, and she alighted.— She entered, holding in her hand a check on Van Schaiek & Co., amount ing to S525,'payable t6 bearer, and drawin. by a well-known firm. The. check was presented and paid. The lady returned to her carriage, and just •NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. thiiig,-1 bcEeve.” - “What?” I ejaculated, .“yon Sure ly, do not inean that child—” • v ‘Tmeto, ” add the detectivejeahnly, “thsit child as you call her, is Attila Burton, -a mimed woman, of twenty- six years of age, who last. nitotymur-’ dered four persons in cold blood, and avnAtrying-to escape to Canada—that’s wEall metui;’’.: . Tlie train was stopped, and a party of us, headed by the'condnctyr and I-iuivo dnVbf thfi Feabody Cotton-Seed Shdlera. in operation tit my gin house near Fort Valley, and know that : .1 . j. W. BURKE AGO....... GEN. WM. M.. BROWNE,. .Pahlisliers. ... .Editor. JOURNAL FOR THE HOME AND F1REMDE. It will do all that Is claimed for- it ! “Yes; can I be Of any service to •yoUf!” : ■ . ‘T)h, no—at least not until we reacb 'Baxswater. I would like a carriage then.” ‘'We shall not be thr-re yet. these Tlivoo hours.” .‘•Do we stop again?” ' “Only at Exmouth.” . ’ 1 She drew a deep sigh, seeniingly -of relief, and settled btick.in a- qomer.— By the light 1m the lflin^ dlut hnng -in its bniss %tin : e Yqjjposite, I could see 1u r. face, Gjtit hf a lovely’child. Ap- Aer'entiV ® was no mart than sixteen pViW large biro eyes, g()18eh. hair, tu-nshed smoothly back from her. face :tn<l a little rosy month like that of a baby. ' ‘Do -yon expect friends to meet you TttjBayswater, my child?” 1 asked in- “N6, sSl d fen -going to schooL ‘there.” . i “It will be an awkward hour: for tyon Ho r.nive at—one in the morning.” “O, I am not afraid,"she said, wit Ji nn artless little laugh; “I shall go ’straight to the seminary. ” . So the express (rain thundered on, with steady, ceaseless pulsing nt its Lrqti.SVcaih ap'd constant roar. Suddenly. l£e whistle sotmded, - tllih trnin began to slacken its speed. rfwSgpv we are not at Exmout.h {yet,” ’i 5 thought, “unlessl have fal len iinc’oiiseibusly asleep tod allowed the progress of time to escape me.” I glanced at my watch;, it was Rarely hnK-past eleven, tod I km-w we were- 'not due at Exmouth mitil after twelve, I rubbed the frost from the pane and looked out Wo had stopped at a lonely Httle way station in the midst bf a dense pine woods. lV is this Ikdvsouth®'’ .. . It was the soft Voice bf the pretty travidli-r oiposito. “No—I don't know what place it- is; ■some way station.” “Does this train stop at way sta- PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT MACON, GEORGIA pjf It will be our endeavor to admit ft) bur fcolninns nothing that will olTrn,: aslo of the most festidicus—nothing that could not he read with perfect propriety a It will grind and sieve FROM 300 TO oOOiBUSHELS OF SEED PER DAY, WITH ONE MULE. Single Copy One Year, Three Copies. “ Five Copies, “ ....... Sincle Coj^ Six .months,..,. -. jgft- Livariab.y in advance. It is wall known that the hull of the cotton seed-is as good a fertilizer as the seed.it- sdf; and that .there.are ten or tw elve bushels of kernels to every bale of cotton, worth as inuth as com for a great many feed purposes, so the planter may save ohe-half the com it, takes to feed his stcck. Every planter should have one. Cash orders solicited ty FAMILY CIRCLE jo*- it will aim at a high standand in literature, and wfll raideaV r to exclude sf trash which finds publicity in fco many of out papers. phthiesN- No^was it ;lo fbund her,. lying: quite j before we lead by the liy mangled side of-the te by'the forcevL. abnost; beyond recognition! - “Well she escaped justice in this It willl taL a stand for wbnt it believes to be the EIGHT SIDE in all qnnt come before the puifcc, and wiU ADHERE TO THE RIGHT, without f* egardleta alike of the flattery of ftiencLs and the hatred of foes. Tho Southern Parm and. Heme, publiHhod by 3. W. Burke k CoMacon Ga., edited by Gen. Win. M.Browne,'is on onr table. AVd have carcfaily watched this monthly from-the first to the pres- world if not in the nexl;” said .the de tective, gloomily, as he-stood looking ent number, snd regard it as among t ie Hist pub lications of its cbnaractor in the United Staten. Every, farmer should have a copy- Terms $2 per aiiTinm:—Christian Observer, Catlettsbnrg, Ky. We present the table of contents of the last number of the Southern Farm snd Home, pub lished st Macon, Btf., to show our readers what valuable information they are losing by Defecting to subscribe to this magazine. This-one number- is of more valnc to any farmer who can read, than tile money necessary to secure the magazine the entire ycar>—Georgia Clipper. - - The Farm and Home, published by JT. W.-Bnrhe k Co., Macon, Ga-, is gotten lip in the handsomest style; and-lsfnEof the ttoA useful and practical^ information. Let the farmers of tiiis section sub scribe at once for this most valuable Agricultural Journal. Price $2.00 i year. If is worth th«a A NE W . i KKS ATION jgp- n will monfully defend And earnestly labor to prcmote the interfcU of tfc«; pie nrioog whom it circulates, find it* erfmnns will ever be open to all coramun.ci: of interest to its readers. on a railroad found the advertised train not going to start, in consequence of the fireman having. neglected to keep np steam, and ordered a special train, at a cost of about forty pounds, wluch ho-paid tod then brought to action forAhe recovery-af the* money, and ten-pounds, additional fair his.own lossbf favo hours’ time. The. judge expressed himself “astonishe.d” that the comptoy had resisted such a claim and the juty gave the plaintiff^ a ver- should have taken prompt measures to -prevent it.” - They lifted np the dead fair tiling, and carried it to the nearest place of fefugfrT^a: lonely farmhouse 'among the' frozen hills, tod we returned to 'the team,-rea’cMng Bajtevafer only .a few minutes behind ’onr regular time. ■ * . .Aid when in tlie next morning’s'pa- pers I read to account of the murder ess, I thought of the slender creature’s, blue eyes and rosebud mouth, with a The-totalqf the losses and damages to Strasburg during the siege is. esti mated to amount to 97,07(5.000. Of the 3,59S houses in the city, 148 have been, completely destroyed, and from 2,000 to 3,000 damaged." "..An Outrage axd Swift Retribu tion.—On -Thursday evening last a young ladyi " whose name wehavebeen- unable to learn, was attacked by a ne gro named Bill Bland, who had been at work in a coid bank near the wind mill six miles south of this place, and was shamefully mutilated. In strug gling to release herself from the grasp Then Let Everybody Rally to Its Support! The Wae In Europe.—Baron Gerdt’, the Prussian Minister, does not appeal: to indulge in ver-y strong hopes of the capitulation of Paris. In conversation a few days since with prominent gen tlemen in Washington, he stated.-.that he htd received no official dispatches We have not the time to call on every man m the county ana w nun to don’t wait, but come npof jow own accord! Reader, if you take tty W0ik and Induce Your Neighbor to Subscribe! The Place to get More than Tour Money’s Worth! other than the last circular of Bis marck, already published, hut that the situation was no means as encouraging for the PnissiaB tony as it was on the original investment of Paris, The cold weather and intense enthusiasm of the French, he thought, might yet redeem Paris. At an interview with Secretary Bontwell the latter was posi tive in the opinion that King William had lost his one great chance for im mortality as a great and generous man in liis withdrawing his army from French soil on the capture of Metz and Strasburg. Mr. Boutwell thought that, with tiie.se cities in their posses sion, the Prussian Generals should lions?” . “Not generally; they must have been specially signalled here. You .are cold, my child; your voice trem bles.” . . . .. t" ‘•It- is cold,” she Said, in a scarcely nndible voice, drawing iter shawl toonnd her. “Oil, I wish they would hurry on!” “We are moving once more,” I said, “C;:ndiU'!<-r”4-foi- the man of tickets was passing through the tar—^“why ‘did we stop at that backwoods place?” "Out of water,” was the reply, as he hurriedly passed by. Nowi"knew.perfectly well that this nnsw p was’ not the teuc’sohttion of the ! ihattf r. Onr delay did not exceed half it minute, :.ltogether too short a time ; for repleni.-htng the boilers; s n;l where j ‘on earth was the Vat r to com • front' in that de oj-toe str.-ich of brrreaqnii^ ] 'food-.. of the demon, she was thrown viojent- ly to the-ground, and tbs ht'avy foiin of the negro billing upon her, broke three of her ribs and otherwise injured her. We are’ informed that as soon as. he accomplished his devilish designs sis.—Auburn Iteifgencer. With a view ol patting this excellent magazine in j the hands of every family in Honsten and the ad-! Term*) joining counties, we propose to dub rt With the . j . - . _ Houston Home Journal, i Any one send , _ : NAL ONE YEi as follow,; . -. - - j •one COP" SOUTHERN FARM And HOME, , money, it will l he attempted to shoot her, but, fortu nately, tlie pistol would not fire. The girl is to orphan, and but little hopes oj her recovery are entertained. The j negro was arrested, and, after making | a full confession of the deed, was hung : up by the side of the road, where he: was left hanging for three days, with i a paper pifcited to his coat, upon which ; woo • nn oC44-.-.-n GT r.f tliic Imrifr ! B?gs leave to inform the people of Perry and riefnih" that he has opened a DOLLAR | STORE at Tcundcy's old stand, undo-the office of tlie HOUSTON HOME JOUBHAL, where he will keep a splendid stock of Goods, ’ .- ~J* the Prussian Generals should have retired, and the French would : gladly have let them go. But if they ! had done so it would have been in vio lation of the spirit of the whole Ger- iftan nation, then fully aroused, and eager for Baris and nothing less.— S(ir. Heirs. was written, “Let this man hang. Miama (d/b.) Cable, Hoc. 24. EYERY ARTICLE WILL BE SOLD FOR $1.00 ONE COPY HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, For $3.50, Cash. dd.ess J. w. BURKE & CO., Macon. Or i. ■»- WitERMAN, Verts- Who is the best physician on rec- ord ? job; because he never lost his pa tience. j NOW IS THE TIME TO GET BARGAINS. COME ALONG AND BEING Reader, can't you induce your neigh bor to subscribe for the Houston Home Journal ?