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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.