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VOL. 11. thethomaston herald, PUBLISH RD lIY McMICHAEL & CABANISS, KVF.RY SATURDAY MORNING TERMS. On© Year $2 00 Six Months I 50 All payments INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Alter Oct «ber Ist no name will be put upon the trab seripti«n books unless payment is made in advance T„e paper will be stopped at the expiration of the time p dd for, unless subscription is previous renewed. II tip* addre s <>f a subscriber is to be changed, we m ist have the old address as well as the new one, to prevent mistake • No subscription received for a less period than three months. Served bv Carrier in town without extra charge. No attention paid to anonvmons communications, as we are responsible for everything enterii g our columns. This rule is imperitive Any one sending us t hepames. of snbscrib *©.«'<*, m «11l ai.iiQ thb’IiKKALD Pile ,v«ar FREE An ■< mark after subscribers name indicates that the time of subscription Is out. advertising rates.' The so are the rates to which we adhere in »11 contracts for advertising, or where advertisements *re handed in without instructions. One square ten lines or le>s (Nonpanel type). |l for tbe first and 50 cents lor each subsequent insertion. SQUARES 1T.J1M.13 Ml 6 M. 112 M. 7^r mr - ~ HI 00 * 2 Ml* 7 »'>j*lo 0 I*ls 00 2 Squares 200 sno K) mil 15 On 25 00 H snq ires 800 7"0 15 00 2t 001 30 up 4 squares 400 >0 00 2n 00 3(* ihi| 40 00 V Column 500 200 So OOj'4o 00 50 00 2 column.. 10 00 20 On 85 00 65 On' 80 00 1 Column . 15 00 25 ml' 40 00 ! 70 00 180 00 ppplayed Ad vertlsements will be cnarged according to the hpaukthey occupv. All advertisements should be marked fora specified time, nth- rwise they will be continued and charged for unt'l ordered out. Advertisements inserted at intervals to be charged as new each insertion. Advertisements to run for alonger period th n three months are due and will be collected at the beginning of -acli quarter Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. .lob work most be paid for on delivery. Advertisements discontinued from any cause before expiration of time specified, will be charged only for the time published. Liberal deductions will be made when cash is paid in advance. Professional cards one square $lO 00 a year. Marriage Notices $1.50. Obituaries $! per square. Notices of a personal or private character, intended to prom te anv i rivite enterprise or Interest, will ba charged as other advertisements Advertisers are requ * ted to hand in their favors as enrlv ln"th© wee as p »*-«hle Ikt a ore U ms will he xtrirtly adhere)! to. LEGAL ADVERTISING. As bet et.ofore. since the war. the following nre the pricie for notices of Ordinaries, Ac. —to bk paid in ad va'Cv : Ttiirty Davs' Notices ••$ 5 00 Forty Days' Notices 6 25 Btl sos Lands. Ac pr. sqr of tea Lines 6 00 Sixty Oats’ Notices .. . ... 700 v ix 'Ninths' Notices 1( 00 Tn f» tv-’ Notices of Sales pr sqr ... 200 'itcatrKT' Salks—for these 8 lies, for every fl fa $6 no. Mortgage Sales, p r square. $5 00 “ L«*t, asid * a liberal per cent.ase for advertising Kee you self unceasingly before the public; and it matters not. what bus! mss yop are ••rigagvd in. for, if IntelMgent.lv an ! industriously pursued, a fortune will he th** eesu t —Hunt s Merchants’ Magazine. “\fter I began to a ‘verti-e ,mv iropware freely, business increased with -imaz ng rapidity. For tin y -a’s nast, 1 have spent jJdn.OOO yearL to keep my superior wares bes re the pub’R Had 1 been timid in •» ’ r-'fUit. * m ' ri iMI 'UM K •%-**** yr-v Ur**er*l my flitillift of £l.Vh)oi>” McLeod Itidton. Himiingbam *■ Advertising like Midas' touch, tu r ns everything to gold !ii it. your .luring men draw milHofis to thvir coffers ” —Stuart ('lay •"’hat and irity is to love, and boldness to war, the skillful use of printer’s i |k, is to success in business.’’ — Be c.her. ‘•The newspapers made Kisß.'*—.T Fisk, Jr. Wit ho .t the aid of advertisements I ■ <>u and have done ttoth'ng in mv p dilations. I have the most com pice fai hin “printers'ink.” Adve. Using is the “royal road to bastness ” —Barnnm Professional Pards. DRY v\j NUN V \ LLY Att' rnpvs at Law, Griffin. Ga. Will practice In all the enti ties comprising the Flint .Indicia! Circuit, ttnd in the cmin'iesof Metiwether, Clay ton, Fayette and Coweta. Will practice in the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the District i 'otirt of the United -tates tor the Northern and South ern Districts of Georgia A. n. NUNSAI.LT. [sp'lls-ly] L. T. DOTAT. I Y riLLKN. \rtiu- ev ;t t L\v Tiuuu tf • aston, Ga. VVili practice in the counties com p'lsing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and elsewhere by se-cial contract All business promptly attended to. Office in-Cheney’s brick building. tm-hll-ly DR T K KKN T l> \LL offers his profes sional services tc the citizens of I hmnastou and surrounding country. May be found rlurin t ; e day at 8 D Hardaway V itore, at flight at the former resi de ce of ' haries Wilson. jan 14 ly. rK REDD'NG. Arroroov sc Law, • Barnesvil e. Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the ©’unties comprising the Flint Judicial Gin nit, and e! -ewhe.re by special ontract Al business promptly at’end. dto Oilico in Elder s building, over < hamher’s I in Store. . attgii- y r r'HOVIAS BEALL. Attorney at Law. ■ Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir cuit and elsewhere by special contract. aug27-ly nj T. WEWER Attornpy at Law. • Thomaston, Ga. AVill practice in all the Courts of the Flint Circuit, and elsewhere by special contract. ,|une2s-ly lOHN I. HALL. Attorney nod Counsellor «t Law Will practice In the counties composing 'he Flint Circuit. In the Supreme Court of t.eor la, :i ud tn the District ('ourt of the United States for the Nort(i ern anf j Sou hern Districts of (•eorgia. Thomaston. Ga.. June 18th. IS7"-Iy. JOSEPH 11. SMITH. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and Teters stieets 't.lan’a, Ga. Will practice n 'he Su perior Courts of Coweta and Flint Circuits, the >u pr. i»« i 'ourt of the State, and the United States’ Dis ‘.rict 'o’flYL All com unicatfons addressed to liim at Atlanta will receive prompt attention. sprilSMy VNOERSON & McCALL \. Attorneys st Law. Covington, f'eorgia. Will attend regu b'rly, and Practice in the Superior -Courts of the "auntii’s of Newton, Hutts. H* nry, Spalding Pike. Monroe, Upson, Morgan, Delutlb, Gwinnette and Jas per. dec o—ly T VMEs M. MATHEWS. Attorney at >1 Laws, TaPootton. Ga.. will practice all the counties c ""posing the « hattalioochee Circuit and elsewhere by ,:, oei&l contract decK»-ly U/JLMS& WILLIS Attorneys at Law Talb-'tton, Ga Prompt attention given to busirtosa pl-treA In our Fiaocid. B declO-ly ROBERT F. TIiIVPE. Attorney at Law F’-rsyth, Ga Will practice in the State Conns J in the United States' District Court at Atlanta and Ca, dec 0-1 y T A HUNT. Attorney at Law. Barnes y • V| He, (.a Will practice in all the counties of Hint i ircuit and Supreme Court of th* State. MUIION BETHUNE, Attorney at . Law, Talboton, Ga. Will practice in all the unticj, t | le cpittahoocheo Circuit, and Upson and "Wether counties deciß-ly ] Y' HO'iERS will continue the prufticP A ; Medicine. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug dec ,Q -l V Iy< G. W T HaNNMI. is nleased to the r ., not ! r y the citizens of Upson that be will continue Thu,' ot Medicine in its various brufiches at ao, nMP»n. ()a. declS-ly J S WALKER Attorney at Low *Mt?*° w *** Will practice in Circuit Courts 0 Wo i and in the bolted States District Courts. 77ie sy stoma or liver I 1 "I* D I Sometimes 4he pain Jain loss of «pp^ti r te7n , d n ltk‘ nesa, i.nwels In g.-neral costive. -Pttaeriim-* «1» - wi'h lax The head is o h 7u heavy sensation considerable lose «>f memorv . iron ' 1 P -nmd with mtlnftii st-nsi'ition 6T T™" something which ought t-> have been done nOerT' 1 nC Ib some of tbe a'>ovq LIV R R ■-ill I A II I very few of th-m; bnt I the Liver is generally the *r:,h« Li.. r ,i,h mo,t DR. SIMMONS’ Liver Regulator, < T «- *>'«««- It has been used hv hundreds, and known for the last 35 years as .ne of th- most reliable, efficri-ms nml harmless Reparations ever offered to the suff.-rini If 1 Is sure f., cure'" I’" " ■ l-r ' TB ,f l,lai ™ u J> vqi-psia, headache, nnmn imnn ■l‘itindiee rostiveness.slck RE CDU TO R J —H hi older, c-itnp dysentery, !■■*■■■■*■■ affection* of the kidneys, fever, nervousness, chills, diseases of the -kin. impurity of the blood, mehinchcly, or depression «>f spii its. heart burn,-nil-. or pains in tbe bowels, pain in the head fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain i n bark and limbs asthma erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis eases generally. Prepared only by f H- ZEII.Itf & CO., Piice «1 :by mail 41.85. Druggists. Macon, Ga. ’I he following highly respectable persons can follv at test to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to whom we most respeetfullv refer* Gen W s. Holt, President rt.’w. R. R. Company; R‘v J. Felder, Perry, Ga ; Col K. K Sparks, Alhany’ Ga.; fieorpe J Lunsford. Fsq.. Conductor WR R • C Vastorsnn. Esq. Sheriff Ibbh conntv; J A. Butts! nalnbridge, Ga ; Dykes Ac Sparhawk. Editors Floridian" Tallahassee; Rev. J W. Burke Macon, Ga ; Virgil’ Powers Fsq., Snt erintendent S. W. R R; Daniel Bui lard, Bullard's Stati n. Macon and Brunswick If. R Twiggs county. Gat Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory’ Macon. Ga; Rev L F Easterllnn, P E Florida Con ferorce; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor Mac n Telegraph. For s ib- hv John F TTenrv, New York. Jnn D. Park, Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, New O leans, and all Drug gists (SIXTY FIVE FIH9T PRIZE MELALS AWARDED. THE GREAT Southern Piano ’J MfINUrACTORY. TnsrA.T3 _ E CO., MA N TTF \ CTTTH FPS OF GRAND. SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANO FORTES, BALTIMORE, MD. L strumontg have been hofnro fho I Public for nearly Thirty Years, and up-n their excellence alone attained an nnpurchased pro eminence, which pronounces th-m unoqu.ißed. Their TONE com'iines great power, swe-tness and fine singing quali fy, as well as great purity of Intonation and Sweetness throughout the entire se-.de. Their TOUCH is pliant and elastic and entirely free from the stiffness found in so many Pianos. I isr w ohkman skcip they are nneqirtl'ed using none hut the very best, seas oned material the large capital employed in our busi ness enabling us to keep continually an immense stock of lumber. Ac,, on hand All our Square Pianos have our New Improved Over strung "'Cob and the Agraffe Treble. We would cal! special attention to onr late improve ments in GR A N I > PI A N< >S AN D PQITA R K G RA N DS, Patented Augn«t 14, 1866 which bring the Piano nearer perfection than has vet been attained. Every Piano fully warranted 5 Years We bare made arrangements for ihe Sole Wholesale Agency f>r the most, cel-'rated I’ARLOK ORGANS AND MF.LODF.ONs. wliicli we off r, Wholesale and Retail, at Lowest Factm-v P ices WM. KNABE & CO. septl7-m Baltimore, Aid. “OUR FATHER’S HOUSE;” or, THE UMWRITTEN -WORD. By Daxif.l Maccii D. D,, Author of the popular “ Night Scenes.” r I’'!TTS m;i«tor in thought tint! lqnonnffo 1 shows 11 s untold ricb-s and beauties in the Great House, with its Blooming flowers. SI glng birds. Waving palms. Polling clouds. Beautiful hows Sacr. and mountains. Delightful rivers, Mighty oceans. Thunder ing voi-es. Bbiz’ng heavens and vast, universe with countl-sss beings in millions of worlds, and rea lg to us in each the. Unwritten World, Rose-tinted paper, or nate engravings and snpetb bin li g ‘Rich and varied in thought’ * • haste.” “i nsv and graceful in stvle ” “Correct., pure and elevating in its tendency.” ‘‘Beau tiful and good ” *‘A household treasure” ('omtnenda tions like the above from College Presidents and Pro fessor. ministers of all denominations, and the re’igions and secular press all over the country. Its freshness, purity of language, with clear, open tvpe. flue -teel en gravings. substantial binding, and low price, make it tbe book lor the masses. Agents are soiling from 50 to 150 per week. We want Clergymen, Srhoal Teachers, smart young men and ladies to introduce tbe work for us In every township, and we will pav liberally. No intelligent manor woman need be without a paving business. Send for circular, full description, and terms. Address ZIEGLER A NIc«'URDY, 16 f 5 . Si vth str-et. Philadelphia Pa. 189 Race street. Cincinnati. Ohio, * 69 Monroe street. Chicago. II).. 501 N. Sixth street. St Louis. Mo. seplO-m or, 102 Main street, Spri gfield. Mass. ~ FOUR GOOD BOOKS. Should be Had in every Family. Devotional nnd poetical Poivsiott FAMILY RIBLE, containing a copious Index, Concordance DtcMonary of Biblical Terms. Geograph ical and Historical Index, Fourteen hundred pages furnished tn three styles of binding. L \ WS of BUSINESS for all the ‘Mates in the Union Bv Theophilns Parsons. L L D This volume contains forms for men of every trade or profession, mortgages, deeds, bills of sale.'easts, band, articles of copariner sh;p. will, awards. &c Published by the National Pub li-hing t'o . Nemphis, Tenn. TIG, LIFE OF GEN. R. F LEE. by Jns. D. NfcCibe, author of a life nfStonewall Jackson. Thi-book should find its way into every f .milv as it is one of tbe best wrpten accounts of the heroic deeds of the Great Vir ginian yet. published LI . HT IN THE EAST, b) the well-known writer, . Fleetwood. Mr. JOHN A. COCTTRAN has taken the Agency for Upson and Pike wt 1 cad upon the people with thrse invaluable b(soks immeaiately aprill-3t, STEREOSCOPES, YIEWS, ALBUMS. CH ROMOS, FRAMES. E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., 591 BROADWAY, NEW A ORK, Invite the attention of the Trade to their extensive assortment of the above goods, ot their own publica tion, manufacture and importation. Also, PHOTO LANTERN SLIDES and GRAPIIOSCOPES. NEW VIEW’S OF YOSEMTtE, E. & H. T. ANTHONY A CO., 591 Bkoadwat, New York, Opposite Metropolitan Hotel. Importers and Mannfactaiers of Photographic , / ... mohlAlOm materials. THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 2\tS7l. yVIISCELLANEOUS. r Monthly Orations of the Thomaston Literary Society. We propose to publis'i regularly the orations delivered before the Thomaston Literary Society monthly, by a member <»f the same, appointed for that purpos*. We bejrin in th*s issue with the oratinn of Mr. 0. F. Turner, tbe first delivered before the s »ciety : INFLUENCE OF GREAT HEN AND W MEN. It is said that a pehhle thrown int t the middle /if an rtcf-an will start a ripple that will £’> on, and on. increasing in ma*r; itu le as it prtMieeds, until it eprwin its force on the distant shores, so, likewise, the actions of jzreat men and women are not only felt during their lives, but continue to in crease in the magnitude o( their influence until it extends to the remotest portions of ihe earth. We will uow, for a few minutes, dwell on the actions of some of the world’s greatest men and women. w e will begin by reviewing the life arid actions of one, who was wiser than a Plato, greater than a Pericles, more discreet than a Phoeian, and in moral sentiment as pure as the icicles that hung upon the temple of Diana—we mean the great Athenian legis lator, Solon. This great patriot, statesman and legislator, wrote for Greece a code of laws which not only raised that nation to the highest point of moral, social and politi cal position, but shed its wholpsome influ ence throughout the civilized w >r!d. It was those distinguished lows which mighty Rome as she beg in to launch forth into her career of greatness saw the necessity of adopting, she sent a number of her most eminent Senators to Greece to copy the iaws of S don. These distinguished men arrived at Rome with Solon’s laws written on twelve tables. They were p ac'd in the Roman Senate, and under the influence of those laws she soon became the proud mis tress of the world. Not only was Rome benefited by those laws, but through her power and influence they reached the re motest portions of the civilized world ; and <*ven now, in this our day, we see their in fluence among the nations of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Rome got these laws from Greece, and modern nations received them from Rome, s<> that the influence of this great man is still felt and will continue to he fit for good, to the end of time. L’ cur gns was another of those great legislators whose name has been rendered immortal by the code of laws he produced. ’ Such was their influence on the citizens of Sparta that that nation, although extremely small, be came one among the most distinguished nations of the earth, and tho people living under the influence of those laws were en abled ta maintain a prominent position among the groat nations of the earth for the space of five hundred years. This great legislator lived three hundred years before Solon, near the same period in which Ly curgus lived, the immortal Homer wrote. So inexpressibly grand and sublime was his style that his writings are read even at this day with the same admiration that they were twenty-seven hundred year< ago. Alexander the Great placed such a high estimate on Homer’s works that he made it a rule to lay them under his head every night during the whole of his ten years campaign in Asia. It is more than likely that, the writings of this poet did more to stimulate Alexander to great and glorious deeds than any other one cause. When he had taken possesion of Ecbatans, the Capital of the Per.-ion Empire, there was handed him a golden vase that King Darius had used to keep his precious ointments in. Alexander said on receiving it, that “Darius used this va*e to hold his ointments, hut I have not time for such luxuries, hut I will put it to a more noble purpose—l will use it a*s a place of deposit for Aristotle’s copy of Homer.” But Alexander wa* not only great man who was stimulated to acts of honor and glory by the writings of Ho mer. butthey had the same influence on most of the great warriors, statesmen, philoso phers and legislators of ancient time, and perhaps his writings did much to raise Greece to that pitch of learning and refine ; ment that placed her. in many respects, far above all other nations in cither ancient or modern times. . Contemporarv with Homer was Dido, of Phoeoecia, who was one of the most illustri ous women that the world has ever pro duced, she was the founder of Carthage that grew with such rapidity in every thing that constitutesgrea'nessand influence, it without a parallel in history of cities. In less than one hundred years after Dido had purchased a piece of land on the northern coast of Africa, from the rude barbarians. H e a site for tbe city, Carthage had taken her position among the leading enmm c, rcial c it es of the world, in this branch of business she c iDtinued t-j prosper Until poon she became the proud mistress of tbe seas: this position she he'd for many centuries and continued to grow in riches and power f>r seven or eight hutufred years. Our wooder and admiration are excited when we contemplate the profound wisdom, eagasity, and foresight of this i lustrious woman. Who would have supposed as they beheld her leaving her native country, on account of jneulf and persecution, that she, with har Lttle colony, would display such wisdom in the selection of a place as would leal, in so short a time, her city ard Colony to be come one of the wealthiest and nv st power ful nations the world has ever known? Y©t such#waß the ca«e. G r eit in wealth and commerce wu* Tyre the city r.f her birth, hut grea'er still became Ca-thage which she founded. Thi* wonderful woman lived about the time when Jepthah governed Is rael, and her native country, Phceneeia, adj >ined that, of the Israelites. One thousand years before Dido’s time Semiramis, of Assyria, immortalised her name hv Iver glnri'-us w rs and the hurid n; of th* ijif»gnifici©nt cities of B ibylon nnd Nineveh. Same historians sta»e that she built these mighty cities* others that she enlarged and beautified them. She extended her conques’s fri.m India to Ethiopia, and laid the foundation of the Assyrian Empire on such h firm basis that it enjoyed en almost uninterrupted prosperity for seven hundred years. This woman, like Dido, was one of the most r o rr»nrkahlo of which historv gives an account, when we reflect on her achieve - ments we are astonished at the wonderful influence the actions of a single individual can produce on so many millions of human beings, and that for so many centuries. But to pass over the action and influence of men and women of ancient times, we comedown to the of Queen Elizabeth. This woman did more to raise England to a position of greatness and influence than any other six monarehs that ever sat on the Eng'ish throne. It was in her reign that Shak-peare and Speneer lived. It was during her reign that the English literature reached its highest s’Rte of perfection. She was instrumental in establishing protestant ism on a fi-rn basis, which has since spread over most of the civi iz ‘d world. Who can estimate the wonderful influence this wo man’s neii >ns have had on the nations of the world ? Millions have already sounded her praise, and countless numbers, yet unborn, wi’.i rise up to do her honor. - We now consider the actions and influ ence of some of the most distinguished men of our own country; prominent am<‘hg whom was Washington, who has been justly styled the’father of his country. When we consider the influence that has already re sulted from the actions of this great man, and that xVltich it will rYTt in all time to come, we are left to wonder h >\v it is possi ble that any one man could wield an in fluence that should effeet the welfare of so many mi! ions of men. For the principles of a free government proclaimed and estab lished by him will cease as long as time shall lact. Nations groaning under tyrannical rules will look with, hope and pleasure to the actions of Washington. They will take courage when they consider his success in throwing off the yoke of a tyrant. They will be stimulated to do the same, and in this way bis influence is likely to be felt throughout world in all time to come If we had the time we might dwell with pleasure and profit on many of the great men of our country who figured conspicu ous! v durirtg the revolutionary war, but time would fail _ys were we to take into consideration the influence of such men Patrick Henry, John Adams, Thos. Jeffer son. Franklin Francis M arion, and a host of others whose nam°s we will not men tion. The j e men established a government nnd a code of laws such as the World never before saw ; and sir, this government erect ed by our forefathers entered immediately after the revolution on a career of greatness that leaves h-ar without a parallel among the nations of the earth Sir. we wili be consid ered as unworthy deccndants of tho«e revo lutionary Patriots if we do noi step forward and use our utmost influence to strenghten and psrpotuate the glorious principles es tablished by those distinguishei moo. Let us then consider seriously the motto of Thrs. Jefferson, who was one of the greatest statesmen that this country, or any other, has ever produced, that ‘‘Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.” The Freedom of Religion. A European paper before us states that in Russia all the remaining landed belonging to the Catholic Church has b©eu dec! ire i the prnpertv of the Crown. All the bequests of pie f y and dsnations for religi"us purposes are to be handed over to tpt* Moisten* of the Interior. If the Catho lics nf York ehould fai[ to sympathize in Grant’s national welcome to the young Cz irowitz next month, it should hot destroy his faith in human nature. Should the Radical party triumph in the next Presidential election, tbe Russian policy above noted may be aiopred in these United States, and the free lorn of religion come to he considered one of the Constitu tional vagaries of the Sires of ’76. The New l r >rk Times, in a leader of of its is> ue of the 24rh, on “Republican Policy.” is firing th** heart of rhe Radical Protestants hv declaring that “The Dish Catholic vo;e i« beyond any qest’mn more hostile to our Republican liberties and the truest pros perity of the c 'Untry than was the <ri avo in i‘s m 'st arrogant and su<‘ce-'ftil days.” The plain I'gic of this is: The Catholic religion should he c r ush**d as the slave pow r was. Tlus Ridicalism marches on. Under tbe Grant d-nasry the, Methodist Church, North, would be the established cnurch. The names for the Revenue Reform ticket for President, so *ar. are ex- Secretxry Jacob D Cox and Gov. P. Gratx Brown, of Missouri. mj - m T” L " m Mark Tintin'* First Experience at an Editor. I was a very smart child at ‘the age of thirteen—an unusually smart child. I ih >ught at the time. It was then that I did my first newspaper scribbling, and, most unexpected to me. it stirred up a fine semation in the community. It did indeed, and t was very proud of it, too. I was a printer’s “devil.” and a progres sive and aspiring one* My un *le had me on his paper (the Weekly Hannibal Journal —?2 a year, in advance—soo subscribers, and they paid in cordwcod, cabbage, and unmarketable turnips), and on a lucky summer’s day he left town :n be gone a week, and asked me if I thought I c >uld edit one issue of the judiciously. Ah, didn’t I want to try 1 Hinton was the editor of th° rival paper. He had lately heen jilt ed, and one night a friend found an open note on the poor fellow’s bed, in Which he Stated that he could no longer endure life, and hid drowned himself in Bear creek. The friend ran and twn there, and discovered limton wading back to shore ! lie had con cluded he wouldn’t. The village was full of it for several days, but Hinton did not suspect it. I thought this was a fine op portunity. I wrote an elaborately wretched account of the whole matter, and then illus trated it with villainous cuts engraved on the bottoms of wooden type with a jack knife, one of tllem a picture ot Hinton wading out into the creek in his shirt, with a lantern, sounding the depth of the water with a walking-stick. I thought it was desperately funny, and was densely Uncon scious that there wna any moral obliquity about such a- publication. Being satisfied wub the eff irt, I looked around for other words to conquer, and it struck me that it Wauld make good, interesting matter to charge the editor of a neighboring country paper with a piece of gratuitous rascality and “see him squirm 1” I did it, putting the article into the form of a parody on the burial of “Sir John Moore,” and a pretty crude parody it was, too. Then I lampoon ed two prominent citizens outrageously not because they had done anything to de serve it but merely because ( thought it was my duty to make the paper lively. Nett I gently touched up the newest stranger the lion of the day, the gorgeous journeyman tailor from Quincy. He was a simpming coxcomb of the firri water, and the “loudcßt”-dressed man in tho State. He waH an inveterate woman killer. Every week he wrote lu.shy “poetry” to the Journ al about his newest conquest, llis rhymes fw my week were beaded “To Mary in 11 1,” meaning to Mary in Hannibal, of course. But when setting up the piece I was suddenly riven from hpad to heel by w’hat I regarded as a perfect thunderbolt of humor, and I compreeeed it into a snappy foot-note at the bottom—thus; “We wiil let this thing pass, just this one; hut w wis h Mr J. Goj-d on Runnels to understand that we have a character to sustain, and from tltis time hence forth when he wants to commune with his friends in h— 1 fie must select some other medium than the Columns of this journal !” The paper came out, and I never knew any little thing attract so much attention as those playful trifles of mine. For once the Hanoihjt Journal was in demand—a novelty it had.not experienced before. The whole town was stirred. Hinton dropped in with a double-barreled shot.gun early in the forenoon. When ho f mnd that it was an infant (as he called me) that had done him the damage, he simply pulled my ears and went away ; but he threw flu his situation that night and left town for good. The tailor came with his goose and a pair of shears ; but. he despised me too. and depart ed for the South that night. The two lam ponned citizens ccrne with threats of libel, and went «way incensed at my insignifi cance. The country editor pranetd in with a war whoop next day, suffering for blood to drink, hut ended by forgiving me cordially and inviting me down to the drug store to wash away .all animosity in a fripndiy bumper of "Fahnestock’s Vormifuge.” It was his little j"ke. My uncle was very angry when he got hack, unreasonably so, I thought, cmisid ering what an impetus I had given the paper, and considering, als », that gratitude for his preservation ought to have been uppermost in his mind, inasmuch a? by his delay he had so wonderfully escaped dis secting, tomahawking, 1 1 be! and getting his head shot ofl’. But he softened when he looked at the acc< unt and saw that I actually hooked the unnaraileted number of thirty three new subscribers, and had the vegeta bles to show for it-~cord- wood, cabbage, beans, and unsaleable turnips enough to run the family f >r two years Aw ay with Secret Diplomacy! The treaty negotiated by the Joint Com mission. and to be laid before the Senate next week, is on*» of ex'raordinary imoort ance and if the Fresident nnd his advisers are wise, they will abandon with regard to it the absurd rule which attempts ti cover such and (cumentii with the veil of secrecy. The interests, the political i leas, and patri otic sentiments of the wfi'de Americn people are concerned in this mst'er. The treaty is their property, and their views respecting it should i>e listened to. It should be published before it is finally acted upon bY the Senate, so that the newspaper press in every part of the country may lay it before their readers, and e<> that public opinion may be fully expressed concerning it. There can be no valid objection to the course we recommend. If the treaty is a just, wne, and good cue. it will receive the approbation of iffe people, and Senators can vote to ratify it with the perfect confidence that their cn-tituents will approve their action If it i* a had one. defective in its provisions, unequal in its bearing-, em bodying provisions unjust and injurious to thi* country, the pub'ic will condemn it, and the Senate can reject it without and abt at to the ulterio popular verdict. To Gen. Grant’s Administration it i*» especially necessary that this treaty should be made public and be acted upon publicly. Secrecy in such matters mtsst always be hateful to a free people. President Grant has d'*nefe v things that have bprn popular, and he could not, make a oauer begming in that direction than by giving this treaty to the puhlio at the same rime that he gives it to the Senate.— W. Y Sun Thb SOU O' a non itlaC Tn ft cW York has aquanasrud $50,000 in a single yetir. Joilt Billings' Pa p r ra—Remnant*. Customs are like grease—they make ennvthing slip eazy. There it sum things that kant be counter filled—a blush i* one oV them. Goodness ia list as much or a studiy at mathum&ticks is. If a man expekts tow be very rirtewoui ho rcusn't mii too milch with the world, nhi* too much with himself neither. Thnre is more devilry in the world than there is ignorance. The people who acktually de«erre tew lir their lives over agin arc the rery once who don’t want to do it. The iiche«t m*n or all iZ he who ha* got but little, but has g >t all ho wants. Natur makes all the noblemen—wealth, edukashun, nor pedigree, never made one yet. When a man duz tried favour i alwas try tew remember it, and when he dux me an injury, i aiwaC try tew forget it—if i don’t, I uught to. % *lf a man i t honest he may not alwas be in the right, but he kan never be in the wrong. * Grate talkers are generally grato liars for them who talk so much must sooner or later run out or the truth, and tell whet they drn’t kno. 1 don’t bet thare is enny sich thing nr a perlektly g »od man, or a perfektiy bad man. * I kno or enny quantity or people whose virtews are at the mercy or other folks, who ?.re good simply for the reputashun or it, who haven’t got enny m>re real appetite tew their conscience than a klam haz. I have studdied mi owrr karakter, and mi own impulses for 39 years clussly, end kan’t tell-day (to save a bet) whether i am an honest trew man or not—if thare iz enny b«<ciy who knows about this matter i wish they would address me a letter, enklosing a postage blister. There iz no sekts, nor religious disputes araung the heathen ; they, all of them oook a missionary the same way. One grate reazon whi ‘’Jordan iz sich a ruff road tew travel” iz b»*kause almost every body works inside or their own lot, and lets the turupiko take care of itself. Thare iz lots ov folks who expekt tew eskape hell jist bekause the crowd iz so grate that are going there. Every man makes hiz own pedigree and the best iz a clear conscience. To be a gentleman—git rich and keep a boss and buggy. Virtew in a poor man iz looked upon az a jewel in a tud’s nose. The man who iz a tyrant in hiz house hold iz an abjekt cuss araung his equals. After a man iz fairly burn the next grate blessing iz a square deth. Virtew iz like strength, no man kan tell how mutch he has got or it till he cunis akrost sumtiling he kant. lift. I have cum tew the konklusjon that what every body praises wants closa watching. Thare iz nothing the world will pay so much for as fust rate nonsense, aud thare iz nothing in the market so skase. There is menny folks who are like mules, the only way tew their affeckshuns iz thru the kindness of a klub. Thare aint but phew people who know how to piv gifts, and the number who know how tew receive them iz less. The strongest propenrity in woman’s natur is to want to know “what’* going on 1” and the nest strongest, id tew boss the jib. Sknrn not the day ov little things, for thare iz no man in this world so grate but what sum one kan do him a favofr, or an injury. Tharo iz one witness that never iz guilty or perjury, and that iz the conscience. Tile Only Safety for tile Democracy. If the Democratic party are wise, they have a very good chance to carry the Presi dential election in 1872. All that is neceso sory is to adopt the right platform, and to nomidate the right candidates. As for the the most important of it is ex pressed with great cogency and originality in the following brief extract from a speech recently delivered by the Hon. W. S. Grocsbeck of Cincinnati: “War legislates. History is full of its enactments. It has legislated h**re; its work is fixed, and let us hope ended. We shall not go.backward.” The same stntimcrts-are repressed in different languagr by that brilliant voung statesman, John Quincy Adams of Massa chusetts, the grandson ot one President and the great grandson of another: “The North can never be carried for a new revolution. We must go forward, and not baek We must demaud self govern ment for all, and guarrantee equal rights to every man. Democrats must te democratic to succeed.” If the Democracy will plant themselves unequivocally, baldly, manfully upon the principles laid and >wn in striking utter ances of Mr. Groeabeok and Mr. Adams, their success in 1872 is more than baobable. But if they adopt principles opposed to these, “or i! they attempt to equivocate re specting thege is*ues. so that they may seem in one part of the country to be on one side, and in another part to be on the other side, tb*ir doom is fixed, their defeat inevitable and irremediable. If the leaders of the Democracy hare sense enough, firmness enough, patriotism enough to adopt frankly and heartily the platform which we have pointed out, they need not be in any trouble about finding candidates. In fact, they would not go mry far out of the way in nominating William S Groosbock of Ohio for Pre-ident, and John Quincy Adams of Massachusetss for Vice-PrC'idf»nt A GALVEr-ToN y.-ung man has lost faith in human nature worse than Grant did. He courted a girl over two weeks, and her pa rents said they wouldn’t permit any such thing, so the young people concluded to elope. He got a young man, a friend of his, to take the girl to New Orleans, where he w.-uld meet them and marry the girl, and go somewhere and enjoy life sensibly. The young pr.-x? took tbe girl all right, bot before the fellow that did the courting arrived he had married her and gone to keeping house. The deceived chap says you won’t catch him courting up another girl for someone e up. riot if he knows it. CoMMojt ae se is raiua Ui* in all kinds of business except lore-making. NO. 24.
