Newspaper Page Text
QUITMAN BANNER,
■ PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
® I'ERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
IN aM’anur.
For one year s'3 00
For nix months 2 00
For three months 1 00
For single copy 10
CLUB RATES FOR SUBSCRIPTION.
For a clulj of live $12.50
For a club of ten $22.50
For a club ot tvrcaty $ io.ou
job BiaxirTma.
We have attached to our newspaper establish-
Inenea complete Job Office. Hand-bills of all
kinds, Programmes, Cards, Blanks, Pamphlets,
&<*., executed in the best manner.
RLIITIIBFIEII) this.
on’s Oleum Vitae.
reat German Liniment is an almost
ible cure for
i. Xcuralgia, Rheumatic Pain* in the
Breast, Sides or Joints, Xeri'ous
'idaciit, TooUmche, Earache,
dprains. Bruises. Sicdlings,
Outs. Bites. Burns, dc.
This great remedy should be in every house.—
For Horses tins remedy has no equal.
Ask for Kay ton’s Oleum ViUfc. Take no other.
Sent by express for SI,OO
feayton’s Magic Cure.
L An Egyptian Remedy,
■or the cure of sudden Coughs and Colds. Astb-
Acid Stomach, Heartburn, Sore Throat, Sea
fcWckness, Cholera, Diarrhoea, Cramps and Pains
ui the stomach. Sent by express for sl.
Kayton’s Dyspeptic Pills,
Are a sure an?l pleasant cure for DYSPEPSIA.
BILL IOCS DISOivDLRS, CONSTIPATION, and
Ml disorders of the liver, stomach and bowels,
and when taken regularly will cleanse the blood.
These are the greatest Anti-BHlious Pills ever
placed before the public. Sent by mail for 30
cen taper box.
The above Medicines are prepared and sold by
PROF. H. H. KAY TO A,
SAVANNAH GEORGIA,
To whom all orders should be addressed ; or to
his Wholesale Agents, A. A. SOLOMONS A CO.,
Savannah. Ga.
per A liberal discount to parties selling again.
For sale in tfuiunan, at Or. J. 11. -McCall's drug
store.
F’ebruarv 22, 1887. ly
spmivG
A mt »— —
STOCK.
Culpeper, Creech &C.,
RESPECTFULLY notify their friends and the
public generally, that they have received
their
Sprint/ and Summer
mm m. m 9
Os Merchandize of every description, embracing
all paterna, styles and qualities of
LADIES' MESS GOODS,
DOMESTICS. MISCS. ITU H
Kadics' and Gents’
Hats and Cups, Boots and Shoes, I
and everything generally kept in a Dry Goods I
Store. Also a very complete stock of
FAMILY GROCERIES
HARDWARE, ETC.
ZIP' They tender their sincere thanks to their
friends for the patronage *' liberally extended,
and solicit a continuance of the same.
TVe are prepared to sell at
The Very Lowest Prices.
Quitman, April 13, ISO 7. 12-ts
JAMES B. FINCH,
QUITMAN, GA.,
HAS just deceived and opened a large and
complete assortment of
SPRING & SUMMER
GOODS,
'READY MADE CLOTHING,!
BOOTS AND SHOES,
Gents and Ladies Hats &c.!
Also, a general stock of
Family Groceries,
FLOUR, TOBACCO & COFFEE.
He also ba* on hand a good supply of
Hard ware.
Crockery,
Glassware,
Tinware,
Domestics,
Yarns,
Saddles,
Bridles, <£t.
Old Customers ar.d pnrekaiers generally are
respectfully invited to,, ! nnd examine for them
selves. before purchasing 1.-eulu re.
March 29th. IHG7. J T
TO THE PVBLIt.
T. F. LAWSON,
Offers b's scrrices to the public as a
Manufacturer of Plain Tinware,
And Dealer in Japanned. Planished and Stamp- j
ed Tinw are. House Furnishing Goods. &c. ; and |
in connexion with the above, he has on hand a j
fine lot of
Cooking Stoves, Ranges,:
OFFICE STOVES, AC.,
w hich he offers low to the public.
He also flatters himself that he can furnish to
merchants a better and neater article of Tin- I
ware, and as low or lower than they can par-!
chase elsewhere, north or south. All I ask is a !
chance, before buying elsewhere.
i will also manufacture, at short notice, any- j
thing you may want, out cf tin, sheet-iron, cop- j
per or zinc. Guns and Gun Locks repaired.
S3, Ue has established himself in the two- j
story building sonth of Mrs. Mclntosh's Hotel, i
Quitman, July 12, !gi>7. 23-ts
F. It. FILDES, Editor.
VOL. 11.
k. M. SLOAN', |C. K. GROOVER,
Rome, Ga. i Brooks Cos., Ga.
a r. STUBBS, I A. T. MAC IXTIKK,
Macon, Ga. | Thomasville, Ga.
SLOAN, GROOVER & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
NO. 4 STODDARD’S LOWER RANGE,
Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia
lIBBRAL Advances on Cotton con v- s
J signed to our correspondents in
New r York and Liverpool.
Having been appointed a\gents for the sale of
the Albany Star Cotton Gin and Con
densers, we take pleasure iu offering the same
to the public.
These Gins having been tested, show a marked
superiority over all others, both as to the facility
of working and the improved appearance of the
lint.
Circulars giving full information can be ob
tained by application to tU** nmlnraigned.
sloaN. GUOOVEirA CO.,
• No. 4 Stoddard’s Lower Range,
aug3o-3m Savannah. Go.
“ITST DAVENPORT, -
WITH
E. S JAITRAY & CO.,
DRY GOODS,
350 Broadway, New York
Flannels,
Gloves,
Collars Ties,
Skirt Braids,
Dress Goods,
White Goods,
Linen Goods,
Cloaks, Embroideries,
English Crapes,
Hosiery,
Dress Shirts,
Ribbons,
Lace Articles,
Shawls,
Lace,
Silks,
Yankee Notions, &c.
August 0, 18fi7. 6in
JM PA It TIA L SL FFE KINGS -Nei
ther Wealth, Kelinemcnt, or Condition, are
exempt. The ITui.otokkx, or Females’ Friend is
expressly for the benefit of females who inuy be
suffering from Nervous Irritability, Distressing
Apprehensions, and all those troublesome com
plaints that invito pro mat mo old age. and render
life miserable The Pbilotoken acts like a churm
in relieving pain ; and by controlling the ner
vous system, restores those feelings of confidence
and satisfaction that insure happiness. It is a
radical cure for Dyamenorrhoea, and a treasure
that should be possessed by every female who
desiri s to restore, improve, or preserve her
health, beauty and physical comfort. Descrip
tive pamphlets, containing valuable information
for invalids and heads of families, will be sent on
receipt of postage stamp. Price $1 per bottle ;
the usual discount to the trade.
HARRAL. RISLEY A CO.,
Wholesale Druggists, 141 Chambers st., N. Y.
RISIbEYS extract bttchu.
The most efficient Diuretic and Tonic for
tin* treatment of all complaints resulting from
weakness and darangoment o r the Kidneys and
Urinary Organs—such as pains and weakness in
the back and loins, gravel, dropsy, strauguary,
incontinence, inflamation of the mucus surfaces,
Ac. Risi.ey’s Buchu can be used in all cases, for
children as well as adults, with perfect safety.
Physicians are finding that RistKY’His the most
uniform and reliable preparation, beside being
of greater strength and in larger bottles than
any others. Sold by the Druggists and Merchants
fer $1.50. UAURAL, lUSLEY & CO.,
Proprietors.
N- B. All officinal preparations of medicines
bearing our label are made according to the U.
S. Pharmacopoeia. andTdl goods sold by us are
warranted to be as represented, or may be re
timed at our expense.
Determined to maintain the reputation which
our bouses have always enjoyed for dealing in
Rkijadi.e Medicines, and to merit the continued
confidence of our customers, we assure them
that the same attention will be paid to orders by
mail as when personally present.
HARRAL, RISLEY & CO.,
Wholesale Ifratjt/isls ,
141 Chambers and 1 Hudson Sts., NEW YORK.
Successors to Ilaviland, Keese &, Cos., 1830;
Haviland, Harral cf* Risley ; Harral, Risley <fc
Kitchen : Harral. Risley <fc Tompkins.
August 2.1867. 6m
Great Watch Sale,
ON TOE POPULAR ONE PRICE PLAN.
Giving every Patron a Handsome and Jte.liable
Watch for the loin price of Ten Dol.’ars !
WITHOUT REGARD TO VALUE,
Anil nn* ts* ho
Paid for unless Perfectly Satisfactory.
100 Solid Gold Hunting Watches, S2OO to 750
100 Magic Cased Gold Watches,.... 200 to 500
100 Ladies’ Watches, enameled.. 100 to 300
200 Gold Hunting Chronometer do., 250 to 300
200 Gold Hunting English Levers . 200 to 250
300 Gold Hunting Duplex Watches, 150 to 200
500 Gold Hunting American do. 100 to 250
500 Silver Hunting Levers 50 to 260
500 Silver Hunting Duplexes 75 to 260
500 Gold Ladies’ Watches 50 to 250
1.000 Gold Hunting Lupines 50 to 75
1,000 Miscellaneous Silver Watches. . 50 to 100
2,500 Hunting Silver Watches 25 to 50
5,000 Assorted Watches, all kinds,. 10 to 75
patron obtains a watch by this ar
rangement, costing but $lO, while it may be
worth $750. No partiality shoy. n.
Messrs. Hill, Porter <fc Cos., 2 and 4 D<ry street.
New York City, wish to immediately dispose of
the aoove magnificent stock. Certificates, nam
ing the articles, are placed in sealed envelopes,
and well mixed. Holders are entitled to the ar
ticles named on their certificates, upon payment
of sll, whether it be a watch worth $750 or less.
The return of any of our certificates entitles you
to the article named thereon, upon payment, ir
respective of its worth, and as no article valued
less than $lO is named on any certificate, it will
be seen that this is
Xo Lottery, but a straight forward legitimate trans
action, which may be participated in even
by the most fastidious.
A single certificate will be sent by mail, post
paid, upon receipt of 25 cents ; five for sls elev
en for $2; thirty-three and an elegant premium
for $5; sixty-six and a more valuable premium
'or S10; one hundred and a most superb watch
for SIS! To agents or those seeking employment
this is a rare opportunity. It is a legitimately
conducted business, duly authorized by the gov
ernment, and open to the most careful scrutiny.
Try it. Address,
HILL, PORTER & CO.
aug3o-4m 2 &. 4 Dcy Et., N! Y.
HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIOHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY FEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.
QUITMAN, GEO., SEPTEMBER 6, 1867.
poetical.
From the Albany, N. Y. Argus.
Let us hang him for lii.s Mother.
A RADICAL REFRAIN.
Let us hang him for his mother!
Let us twist his gullet now!
Swing him first, then try him after!
We are practiced and know how.
Let us hang him for his mother,
Whom we slaughtered in his steal;
Hang him! Innocent or guilty—
We can try him when he’s dead!
Sleep justice, sleep!
Judge Fisher is our brother,
A jubilee of blood we keep—
Let’s hanir him for his mother!
Wbv this farce of court and jury?
Why these brawling men of law?
Why this pack of perjured villiaus?
Why this needless trial? Pshaw!
Let us hang him for his mother,
We are mad to see him die;
Come, then, drag him to the slaughter,
We cun try him byo-and byel
Sleep ! justice, sleep!
Judge Fisher i.s our brother,
A jubilee of blood we keep—
Let’s hang him for his mother!
Let’s hang him for his mother!
She was tender, he is tough,
And the woman didn’t struggle
To onr liking hall enough,
When he’s buried Holt cun try him,
If he’s innocent who cares?’
T’will only give some Conover
State prison if he swears.
Sleep! Stanton, sleep!
Thou blood-cemented brother!
While hate and murder round us leap—
We’ll hnug him tor his mother 1
Hlistelhmcous Jlcabittg.
Tlie Old Womnii and the Crow.
At a certain cross roads in the State
of Alabama, stood a small grocery or
whiskey shop, previous to the war, bust
head and chain lightning were dealt out
to die thirsty and unwashed at the Rtnall
sum of five cents a drink, or twenty-five
cents a quart. The presiding genius of
this delectible institution was one Bill
Strikes, who had a domesticated crow as
black as the ace of spades. This crow
had learned, among other things, to re
peat quite plainly the words “dann you,”
which he of course heard frequently re
peated at the grocery. During the prev
alence of a knock down and drag out
fight one day, however, the crow was
frightened from home and flew into the
woods never to return again.
About three miles from the grocery
was a meeting house—an old tumble
down, dilapidated affair, only used on
certain occasions, when the circuit rider
happened to pass that way. In this build
ing t e crow went, taking peaceable
possession; and two days thereafter the
church was thrown open for preaching,
and a crowd assembled, among whom
was a very old lady who was compelled
to use crutches in walking, who took her
seat in the front pew, and was soon deep
ly absorbed in the eloquence of the
preacher. The reverend gentleman had
scarcely gotten under lull headway, and
commenced thundering his anathemas at
all grades of sinners, when a hoarse,
croaking voice from above uttered the
ominous words:
‘‘Damn you!”
The preacher and cmgregation looked
aghast at such profanity, and each peer
ed into bis neighbor’s face to detect some
sign of guilt. Quiet was at length re
stored, however, and the sermon proceed
ed; but ere ten minutes had elapsed the
ominous “damn you” again electrified the
audience, and jiiHt as the preacher cast
his eve npward to search or the delin
quent, the crow flew from his perch, and
alighted on the Bible, calmly surveyed
he crowd as he gave another croak:
“Damn you!”
The effect was electrical. Giving one
startled and terrified glance at the intru
der, the preacher sprang through a win
dow, ca- ry ing sash, glass and all with
him, and set off at break neck pace thro’
the woods, cl sely followed by his horror
stricken congregation, who had piled out
of the building pell mell after him. In
the general scramble, the old lady with
the crutches had been knocked down in
the church, where she lay unable to rise;
an i on seeing her, the crow (who was
after something to eat) flew down beside
her veiy knowingly and croaked:
“Damn you!”
The old lady eyed him savagely for a
few moments, and burst forth in atone
of reckless defiance:
"Yes, and damn you too! I had noth
ing to do with getting up this Methudjst
meeting, arid you know it too!”
The poor old soul had mistaken the
crow for the devil, and concluded to pro
pOtulv.. il pusniMu. the wmtll or hts Sit
tatiie majesty by denying all complicity
in the affair.
The world is full of just such people.
The Women ai.l Right. —The Nashville
Union & Dispatch relates the following
incident, which demonstrates that South
ern women are net only all right nut
ready to work :
An incident occurred recently at the
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, Vir
ginia, that illustrates the independent
spirit of tlie Southern women The head
steward belonging to the immense hotel
of the Springs, dressed himself from top
to toe, and presented himself iu the ball
room to dance with the numerous g.tests
the e assembled. The proprietor imme
diately ordered him out and demanded
what such conduct meant. The negro
replied, it meant equality, arid if he Was
not received into the ball room he and
every other servunt in the establishment
would leave. The lady visitors heard the
circumstance, called on the proprietor and
told him to dismiss every servant in the
house promptly' aud they would serve in
their places until he could procure others
He did so, and the ladies from every part
of the South sojourning at this justly pop
ular watering place went iuto the kitch
en, chambers, laundry, dining-room, etc.,
and filled with perfect satisfaction every
position until the proprietor went to
Charlottesville and procured other ser
vauta. These are uuembellished facts.
from tin' Atlanta Intelligencer.
From Honduras.
The following is a letter received from
Major Malcolm, written from the town of
Medina or Safi Pedro, Honduras, July
29th, 1807, to Col. E. P. Watkins, which
we publish by request:
“My Dear Sir—l have been anxiously
looking for a letter from you, and hope
to get one soon. lam certain that you
cannot be too fully imp-essed with the
importance of keeping me fully posted as
to your movements. I know you are
anxious to learn what wo are doing h re.
['lie health of the colony is generally
good. Out ot four hundred natives in
San Pedro, the only sickness union
them is three or four cases of chills.
Home sickness, except in one ease, has
played entirely out, and men speak of no
other homo than here. The whole theme
of conversation is of a brilliant future
here. It is much gain when men/are
contented. There is nothing that tea. i
keep men of energy from getting ri.
here. Onr people are generally display
ing great energy. The crops‘ait look
ing splendid—corn a month old! waist
high, with a stalk that assures the prac
tical farmer of a certainty that he will
have fat corn cribs. There will be a ve
ry large corn crop rat'seci by the colony,
and the cotton c op will far exceed my
most sanguine expectations. 1 feel cer
tain if no had luck happens to my crop,
that T will raise sixty hales of Sea Island
cotton—now worth iu Belize fifty five
cents. My expenditure on corn arid cot
ton will not, exceed SIOOO, ncliidiug
clearing and fencing I have but one
Care now and that is to see mills—corn
and grist, shingle machines, plaining iria
chines, etc,, with a few brick masons
here.
“As to people coming here, I have no
fears; they can’t be kept away—and if
never another, man comes, it will not
trouble me iu the least. For when I left
the United Status, I slar'ed to find u
home where I could live with jut, and in
| dependent of emigration. I have found
! it, blessed with a more congenial climate,
perfectly healthy, where the orange and
the lemon, with the and licious pine apple
and delicate guava and grape, and the
mango, morrno, zopota, peach and apri
cot, melons and the rose and the lilly, cof
fee and sugar, tobacco, cotton, rice, corn,
plantains, meet), and the healing sarsa
parilla and quinine, potato, tomato, cab
bage, tur ip, encumber and squash—all
grow in great luxuriance side by side;
with wheat, barley and oats on the adja
cent highlands; with pure, bright, spark
ling freestone water in abundance; labor
at ten dollars per month without board;
with a forest rich in dyewoods, india rub
ber, and untold millions ot mahogany,
lignum vitas, laurel, the finest pii es I
ever saw; no taxes; exempt from all mil
itary duty; the privilege of electing our
own civil officers, and enacting our own
municipal laws; witli convenient rivers
to transport our surplus; lostered by the
Government, caressed and flattered by
the people; where crimo is scarcely
known; with a sod that will produce Sj
to 3J bales Sea Island cotton to the acre,
and fifty bushels of corn on the same
acre in the same year; where I only have
to plant cotton once in five years, and
each succeeding crop equal to the first;
where epidemics were never known—
fanned to sleep by sea breezes every
night, with no heavy earns or polished
sash ons to dry up my purse.
What more can I ask on this earth to
make me contented? Col., I would not
paint this picture to a stranger, for feat
he might think it overdrawn—hut you,
iny esteemed frie id, who have been here
and have seen for yourself, know how ut
terly language fails to convey an idea of
the beauty of scenery, fertility of soil,
salubrity of climate and m nerul wealth
of this delightful land. Do you remem
ber on our trip to the capifol, the many
joyous exclamations forced from us as
we would reach the summit of some
grand mountain and survey the beauti
ful plains spreali out beneath, traversed
by numerous bright streams. Colonel,
nothing can keep people from coming
here, now that public attention has been
diawn here. I hope you will bring machi
nery—that is all we want now. With
the very liberal banking privileges gran
ted by the government as 1 w:ote you
from the cap ito I, nothing is lacking tint
the machinery for manufacturing cotton
goods, saw mills, etc., and a broad road
to wealth and happiness is open to US,
we will give anew impetus to the native
by awakening an energy, which they
■never before exercised, and a stimulus to
the government,
Anew era has dawned upon Honduras.
Kueigy, perseverance and industry for
five years and every member ot ourcolo
ny will have tuadv'or laid the bas for
ample fortunes. The natives will awake
fiom their Kip Van winkle bleep, and a
new power will step into the arena, risen
Phoenix-like with new commerce, and
thousands will bless the day of the land
ing of the pilgrims at the first little port
of Omoa. Twenty years will not pass
before the historian will give all the par
ticulars of the sailing of the Trade Wind,
with her Small band of determined hearts,
who went forth to conquer stern fate
ami wring wealth from its hidden recess
es in a strange land. In a word, it is re
enacting the scenes of. the May Flower,
without having to encounter the suffer
ing.-; and privations of the Plymouth rock
pilgrims. Then nevcl weary in well
doing.
VVe all look with much solitude for
your and Judge Ferguson’s return. If
we don’t get the river ojbened all the way
by the first arrival we Will have it suffi
ciently opened to bring up everything
to a plain wagon road”
We have received letters of a recent
date from nearly every one of the colony;
all speak encouragingly of their pros
pects, and represent the health as gener
ally good. No sic! ess outside of o.e
or two cases.
B. P. Watkixs,
ts. P. Ferguson.
Advices from Mexico state that Lopez, i
who betrayed Maximilian, has been as-j
sassinated.
From the Mobile Tribune.
A STRANGE I’KOIMIECV
VCulored Prophet Foretells thej Rocs of bis
People.
THE WHITE MAN SHALI, JOIN WITH A
STRANGE NATION.
AVe publish the following strange
prophecy, and recommend its careful
perusal by onr colored readers; it will
also he read with interest by the public
at large. Great excitemnt has been cre
ated in Itawamba county, Mississippi,
by a recent prophecy made by Lewis
Saxton DeCosta, a colored preacher. It
is said to have created immense sensation
among the blacks in that part of Missis
sippi. DeUos ais aver old man, who
claims to lie the sou of African parents;
his father who was a prince having been
with his mother kidnapped, some dis
tance up tlie Niger, by a slaver, who sold
them to lVdio Blanco the great trader,
at Gallinas, They subsequently belong,
ed to the DeCos a estate ; in Flor da,
where Lewis was raised. After forty
years of slavery he got his fr edoin by
saving from a bin ning building the chil
dren |if his mistressT lie is said to be a
man of remarkable purity ot life and an
officer, (Captain Van AMeet) who heard
him preroli iu Georgia, declares that he
was the most eloquent man he ever heard
in his life. During the war he could not
be indnced|lo give aid to either the Fed
eral or Confederate side, his unvaryi g
reply being that it was his mission to
comfort the In arts of his people. Wide
ly known and everywhere regarded with
extreme veneration by the blacks, it is
not strange that they should be deeply
moved by his Words. •
A VISION.
Lo! my eyes are open and I see clear
ly. For many days 1 fasted and prayed
1 put away from me all malice and
sought to make my heart, clear, my life
pure before God. Alas, the heart of man
is prone to evil. Like the dumb ox, lie
learns wisdom slowly. I confess my sins
I trusted not in myself. Then wisdom
came; my eyes saw the present and the
future. The groat books of time were
opened. So profound was tny astonish
ment that I hungered not, although 1
fasted long. I asked the one who stood
by me "what means these records ?”
The shining one said, “They are the
lives of na ions—mighty people that have
passed away anil left no trace.”
“Don’t God always raise up those who
have been debased,” I asked. “No,” he
replied "more <;f en debasement goes be
fore extinction ; open thine eyes and see
the future of thy people. They are proud.
They trust in themselves rather than in
God. They,'have forgotten the gospel
rule, “Blessyour enemies pray for those
who wrong you ” They speak I ittorly
They are led to hate. They are made to
stand in hostile array. Look abroad now
and see the visions of the future.”
Then was 1 lifted up and through the
blue sky of a summer day I saw all my
people. I saw them working on planta
tions and in shops ! saw them in schools
and churches. They were sometimes
wronged, sometimes shamefully abused,
because they were blaik, but men wan
ted their labor, and they were slowly ris
ing above wrong aud prejudice.
Then there wont forth two bearing vials
of wrath, and these they poured out up
on the whole land. Then tlie sound ol
busy labor became hushed. My people
left tlie field and tlie workshop. Weeds
ch inked up the cotton. The weeds smoth
ei ed th • corn. The workshops slept
Some men lay all day under the siiade
trees in the vain hope of sometimes tak
ing all the property of the white man-.
Others crowded into liquor s.ores and
spent their time in speaking bitterly of
the bad past and wishing for revenge.
The white people upon whom the vials
of wrath were poured became bitter a
fcainst the colored man. They said there
are ten millions of whites while there
are only five millions of these blacks.
Why slrnnld we hear with them longer ?
They seek now to oppress us. They are
our enemies. We will put such burdens
upon them tli. t they will be driven out
blotted out as people. Wo no longer
need their labor. We can hire men from
Asia. AVe can get those men who will
work harder, and he glad lo get for a
years work what we now pay to a black
mail for Working one month.
Then 1 saw millions of people brought
with exceeding swiftness from Asia, and
they filled up the whole Southern coun
try, and they were everywhere preferred
to colored men, and they settled in the
land. Then hard laws were made against
blacks, and they became outcasts and
vagabonds.
1 hen the angel brought me back to Iny
own place and said, ' They that seek
strife and bitterness shall perish thereby”
and I wept much for the calamities ol my
people. A remnant may be saved if they
seek peace with all men and labo as
God has appointed them.
Louis Saxton DeCosta.
An Incident iu the Cars.
On the whole, pleasant traits and inci
dents are not common iu the cars, 1
think. This opinion I expressed to iny
friend Summers the other day. In re
ply to my remarks Ire related a little ad
venture, which as it is appropos, aud
moreover involves a little love and sen
timent 1 give it without apology and in
his words. It appears that iu the most
unlikely places, love and sentiment may
ho discovered.
“I was escorting home the fovoly Char
iotte D , to whom I was at that
time quite devoted. Charlotte could
scarcely find i'“oin to spread her crino
line and arrange, Iter voluminous floun
ces. 1 stood up near her, there being no
vacant seat.
“After a few minutes, came in a poor
woman who deposited a basket of clothes
on the platform, and held iu her arms aj
small c ild, while a little girl hung to !
her dress. She looked tired and weary ;
but there was no vacant seat ; to be
sure Charlotte might huve condensed her
flounces hut she did not; beside her how
ever sat a very lovely and elegant young [
wotriau who seemed trying, by moving
dowu closer to others to make space l
[53.00 per Annum :
INTO. 31.
enough for the stranger between herself
and Miss 1) A * last she succeed
ed and with the sweetest blush I over
saw she invited the poor female to be
seated. Charlotte I' drew Iter
drapery around her and blushed too, but
it was not a pretty blush at all, and she
looked annoyed at the proximity of the
newcomer, who was however, cletui and
decently, though thinly clad.
"The unknown lady drew tlie little
girl upon her lap, and wrapped her vel
vet mantle around the small hulfclad
form, and pot her muff over the hall
frozen little b ue hands.
So grqat was the crowd that I alone
seemed to observe. The child shivered
—the keen wind lrom the door blew up
on her unprotected neck. I saw the
young ladyjqn e ly draw from under her a
shawl which she softly put on the slioul
der of the little one, tie mother looking
on with confused wonder. After a short
time she aroiu to leave the cars, and
would have tomovelLllie shawl, but ttie
unknown gently whispered, “No keep it
for hor. The woman did not answer, the
conductor hurried her out hut her eyes
swam with tears. I noticed her as she
decetided to a basement and 1 remarked
vho house -
‘‘Soon -filter my unknown also arose to
depart 1 was m despair for 1 wanted
to follow and discover her residence, b- t
I could not leave Miss D .
"llovv glad, then, 1 was to see her
bowing, as she passed] nut, to a
mutual acquaintance who stood in the
door way From him ere many minutes,
I had learned her name and address
“To shorten the story as much as pos
sible, that lady is now my wife In the
small incident which introduced her to
me she showed her real character A
few days aftfir’our marriage I showed her
tlie blessed crimson shawl, which I had
redeemed from its owner, and shall ul
ways keep us a memento There arc
sometimes pleasant tilings to be found
in unexpected places; certainly I may
have said to have [licked out my wife iu
the ears.
Touching Passage-
There is a God! This herbs of the val
ley, the cedars of the inoiintnin bless
Him; the inSecfs sport in his beauts; the
elephant salutes him with tlie rising orb
of day; the bird sings Him in the foliage;
the thunder proclaims Him iu heaven; the
ocean declares Him immensity. Man
alone has said ‘tin re'is no God!’ Unite in
thought at the same instant, the must
beautiful objects in nature; suppose that
you see at once nil the hours of the day
and all the seasons o( the yeur; a morn
ing of spring anil morning of autumn; a
night bespangled with stars and a night
covered with clouds; meadows enameled
with flowers and forests hoary with snow;
fields gilded by tints of autumn; then a
lotic you will have a just conception of
the universe. While you are gazing up
on that sun which is plunging under the
vault of the AVcst, another observor ad
mires him emu ging from the gilded gates
of the East. By what inconceivable mag
ic does that aged star which is sinking
fatigued and burning in the shades of
the evening, reappear at the same in
stant fresh and humid with the rosy dews
of morning. At every instant of the day
the glorious orb is at once rising, resplen
dent at noonday and setting in tlie West,
or, rather our senses deceive ns, arid there
is, properly speaking, no East, West or
South in the world. Everything reduc
es itself to a single point, from whence
the light ol day sends Forth at once a
triple king in our substance. The bright
splendor is perhaps that which nature
can present that is most beautiful, for
while it gives us an idea of the perpetu
al magnificence and resistless power of
God, it exhibits at the same time a
shining image of the glorious Trinity.
Tlie Decay of the Cherokee*.
From the Moravian we gather the fol
lowing interesting items about the Che
rokee Indians :
The tribe number* 14,000. T e fe
males outnumber the males more than
1800. Ten years ago the ti ibo numbered
25,000 but tlie ravages of war, the expo
sure - f-tlio refugees iri Northern climates
when they were driven oit from their
homes during the rebellion, and other
oai ses have operated to produce' this
wonderful diminution of numbers. The
Cliei'okees now own iu fee simple about
4,000,000 acres of land, and the United
States government holds in trust for them
$1,000,000 The Cherokee's are the most
enlightened tribe of Indians in the AA’esl
Tlll'V have made most eonotw>iw4.»l.lo pro
irr. ss in civilization. Many of them are
finely educated and are men of culture
uud lefitioment. Before the war they
had a number of good schools and a cade
niies and tlie children of the moi'fe' ifitrlli
gent and wealthy were educated inJEas
tern colleges. They have a legislative
form of goycrnmi nt, with a Senate and
House of Assembly ; a Governor and
head chief elected by the people ; courts
and justice officers. Their country is di
vided into different comities. They held
slaves but in our AVesiern provincialism
that is “played out.” Their former slaves I
are now treated with consideration and
respect, and will soon become the priiici- I
pal men of the tribe, as they are indns- 1
tt'ions and gfeem to Intve a greater desire j
to accumulate property than the native 1
Indians. In proportion to their numbers
the Cherokees previous to the war, were
the wealthiest pOoptp on the face i f tlie
globe. They oWno.T immense herds ol
cattle horses and hogs. Large shipments
of cattle were annually made by them to
New Orleans and ether markets. One
fnan owned 20,000 head qf cattle, anoth
hr 15,000. There were many that owned
10,000, 3,000, 2,000, 1,000 aud 500 bead
vs cattle cadi.
A New Lore 'Lest
The Eriglish papers tell of a sentimen
tal individual named Sturihope, who
having become possessed with the notion
that his wife was not so fund of linn as
she should be rosolved to pm her love to
the leßt. This be did by hanging him-
TLiJW’.s a:. mLUity.Sj
LsViRUIiI.Y IX A OVA VC*. q
One square, (lb tin.-if at Its»,) ilret IhMttloß
fiz.oui- such t-oHeijSJig insMi tloa, Al 00 - »
Wlieu ndvci'lMemeutß ure coatlptuA far odd
tnnnlh ' " longer ttm charge wo!, be u! futlor-s :
112 Months.
i
|_ ■
X Months.-
i
t .Month.
Number
of
Squabw*
1 ... ISo 00 j $lO 00 -$ ft 1)0 S2O 00
2 ! S.OO I 15 00 j 26 00 35 00
3 I 12 00 ' 18 00 j 35 ob 45 00
■I j 10 011 j 24 00 I 40 00 53 00
5 | 20 00 I 35 00 I 45 00 60 00
iCol'ninl 35 00 I 85 00 I 80 00 12fl 00
1 " | 80 00 | 50 00 | 130 00 200 00
Obituary notices. Tributes of Respect and all
articles ota personal character, charged for 41
advertisements.
For announcing candidates for offise, SIO.OO
self in effigy in,tlie attic, and concealing
himself where lie could wu h tint effect
of the spectacle. Herein he sequel ,
j After awhile, hid dtiltjjfhter came up
after a skipping , rape,, tttid caught a
glimpse of the suspended figure. Shq
tan down the stairs screaming, “Oh moth
er, mother I papa has lning himself'
‘Now for it,” tin fight Felik, in ambus
cade, “we,shall have a touching scena
presently." “Hung himself ?’ he heart!
Mrs Stanhope repeat, as she walked leis
urely up the stairs, "lie hasn’t g itplucls
enough for such u thing, or he would
have done so long ago. Well, 1 believe
he has done it however,” she said as she
came in view of Felix’s .representative,
“Moll (to the little girl' I think he ought
to ho cut down. You had better go iiitq
the kitchen and get a knife, toy dear ;
Imt don’t go down too fust, or you might
fall and hurt yourself. Stay, I forgot,
There’s no knife in the
enough. You can go round to Mr Hplmcd
the shoemaker—-.lie’s only tour streets
off—and ask him tijMhis paring
knife; tell him to whet it liefine he sends
it. And, Molly, when you are iu tlm
neighborhood, you can stop at Aunt Sq
key’s and ask how Hit baby is. An]*,
Molly, you can sto > at the grocer’s shop;
as viiii c me back and get a pound of
sugar?’"
“Poo.-- Felix T* glad .Mrs. Slanhope, ,
when her daughter hud departed ; ‘ I
hope we shall get him down before the
vital spark’s extinct, for these buryinga
are very troublesome and cost money.
He wanted to put an end to himself too;
and 1 think I ought to !-«t him have his
own way for once in his life ; lie used lo
say I was always crossing him. 1 wish
lie hadn't spoiled that new clothes lint ;
an old rope might have answered his pur
pose.” Here a voice vvliith sounded like
that of the supposed suicide, broke upon
Mrs. Stanhope’s soliloquy with. “Ybff
confounded Jezabel, I’ll be the death of
you !” Mrs. Stanhope, thinking this
must of course he a ghostly excla
mation ottered a wile scream, and at
tempted to escape down the imirow sfair
case. Feiix, starting fi-om his place of
concealment, gave chase Mrs. Stanhope
stumbled midway on tlie flight of Stairs
and Mr. Stanhope having just reached
her and made a grasp at her disheveled
hair as’it streamed backwaid the atniable
partners precipitated to the in ttom to
gether ; both were badly hiuised.
i Ilow to cure a Carbuncle
1 A correspe,mien t furnishes us kindly
I with the following. It deserves to be
noted by the medical faculty and by those
who may not be able to have able physi
cians at hand when iu such uncommon
danger.
New Orleans. July 21st 18G7
Editors Picayune: Having noticed in
your moriiing’s issue an account of a
death iu Mississippi from the effects of
carbuncle," or Vai hone," I send von a
recipe of a remedy for that (listuse which
has never been known to have failed:
Prepare a round piece of linen of a suf
ficient size to cover the whole diseased
part, and spread thereon a slight film of
stoiax ointment, and thert a layer of bi
chloride of mercury (corrective sub'inm'
of the thickness of a silver quarter dol
lar.
The plaster prepared tints laid with
care upon tlie affected part, and kept in
place with strips of sticking plaster. Af
ter twenty-four hours remove the plaster,
and the carbuncle or pustule will bo
found to have bcefi destroyed. Dress the
place now with storux ointment, spread
upon linen, three times per day; at every
dressing anoint the part with a mixture
of the oils of linseed, lily, camomile and
hyptricnin. In the course of eight or
ton days the eschar falls off, and the sore
is treated like a common one.
This remedy was discov red by a
French blacksmith 1 , by tlie name of l)»r
--dolle, and first made pnbfifc by the Union
Medicate, a French medical journal.
Contraries. — Steele wrote excellently
on temperance—when sober; Johnson’s
essay on politeness is admirable, but ho
was himself a perfect bear; the ny
verses of Young gave one the bines, Bat
he was a brisk, lively man; the “Comforts
of Lite,” by B. Heron, was written ili
prison, under the most distressing cir
cumstances; "Miseries of liftman Life,*'
was, on tlie contrary, composed in a
drawing-roam, where tlie author was sur
rounded by every luxury; all the friends
of Sterne knew huh to be a selfish man,
yet as a writer lie excelled in pathos and
charity, at one time beating bis wMe, at
another wasting his sympathies,over a
dead inofikey. Seneca Wrote in p-raisuof
poverty on a table made of softd gold,
with millions lent out on usury; some of
Hood’s comic effusions \vcre written in
bodily pain and mental distress.
A colored mail, who hai been permit
ted by his former master to n-nYaiii on the
old larm, and had been given Hie use of
two good mares, a wagon, ten head of
hogs, and furnished one j ear's supply to
commence operations on, Voted the
cal ticket, contrary to the Wishes and in
terest of Ids old master; and has l»-eb not'
tilied to prepare to leave the. place fir
another occupant, uni to loaVe the same
annuift of stock of which lie was given
the use, upon the place. The negro has
a family, ;md acknowledges it was the
“vtorst -■'day’s work, die ever did.” St)
much for the advice -f his “best friends.’’
Another tfarkic says “old massa, 1 didn’t
know I was (loiii’dai; cant 1 Terd/lit':"
Ton late, Simon, Wu fate ! —XitliMnUUe
Era.
The lUei'kk.knce.’— During, tie Mexican
war, when Gen Braxton Rr.gg, theu
Captain Bragg-, of tfitfe U. S. Artillery,
was defiendind; the, “old flag” on tlie
plains of Mexico, like most Southern ob
fleers be had' a negro servant. In oti6
of the most trying periods of she war,
that particular darkey deserted and sub
sc-quently beca ue an officer in the Mexi
can army. Tweet" years have e aspid
Gen. Bragg who remained tine to the
flag and followed it wherever the Govern
1 meat ordered it, is to day a tfisfraadiiised
citizen andthe negro who dtsertid, is to
day a voter and a "Re rater” in tit city
of Mobile Comment L satlcta.