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VOL. 11. THETHOMASTON herald, PUBLISHED RY McMICHAEL & CABANISS, 1 KVKRY SATURDAY MORNING TERMS. V, w |2 00 me 1 50 Si* V, "":,n,ntV INVARIABLY TV ADVANCE A-1 ' not .h**r Ist no name will ho put upon the sub -*,,er |, O ,,Ua unless payment, is made in advance will he stopped at the expiration of the ' fir, unless gnhgcripMon is previous renew, and. tlme h* addr'e g of a suhscriher is to he changed, we '[ ! r ,ve the old address as well as the new one, to vpnt mistake P Vo sti t»seri p ti« » n received for a less period than three ‘"s rve.i bv Carrier in town without extra charge. •/ itien iion paid to anonymous eommunications, as 'are responsihle for everything entering our columns. Thi« rule is imperitive 1 vnv one sending thenmnes of three new snbscrib with tti.HO, we will send the llkkald one year FR N V n h m! , r u after subscribers name indicates that the al of subscription is out. advertising rates. 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Advertisements discontinued from any cause before expiration "l time specified, will be charged only for the timo published. Literal deductions will be made when cash is paid in adviir.ee. Priiteadnnn, cards one square $lO Oft a year. Marriage Notices $1 .50 Obituaries $1 per square. Notices of a personal or private character, intended to promote any i rivate enterprise or interest,-will he | charged as other advertisements Advertisers are reque-ted to hand in their favors as c«rh in the wee as p .ssible Hit it ore te m * will he xtri'tly adhered to. LEGAL ADVERTISING. G heretofore, since the war, the following are the pric-.“ for notice* of Ordinaries, Ac.—to bk paid in ad | vi'cv; I Thirty Days'Notices ••$ 5 00 I Forty Days’ Notices . fi 25 Sale* of Lands. Ac pr. sqr of tea Lines 6 ot) Sixty Dais’ Notices 7 00 kit’ 1 tenths’ Notices H 00 T n Day-’Notices of Sales pr sqr ... 2 Oft 'iikriVkt’ Salks —for these Sales, for every fi fa |S mi. Mortgage Sales, per square. $5 00 “T.pt *sid-‘ a libera! per centage for advertising Ke?u yon-self unceasingly bes >re the public; and it matters nnt what Imsi iess you are engaged in. for, if intelligently an 1 industriously pursued, a fortune will \>etheresu t —Hunt s Merchants’ Magazine. " After I begin to u'verfi-e my ironware freelv, bnsinns increased with Mm izuig rapidity. For ten yen n past I h ive spent £3h.iM)o vearli to keep r ny I ni[n‘r('>r wires hes re the pub'ic llad 1 been timid in n-lvertising, 1 never should have po-sessed rny fortune of —McLeod Belton. Birmingham *• idvcrtising like Midas’ touch, tu> ns everything to gold 0. it, your daring men draw millions to their coffers”—Stuart Clay DVhst audacity is to love, and boldness to war, the ikil'ful use of printer's i i lr , is to success in business.’'— Hr Cher. "The newspapers mode Fisk.*—.T Fisk. Jr. IVirhn it the aid of advertisemen’s I- ou and have done nothing in my p dilations. I have the most com pie’e i fai hin ‘■printers’ ink.” Advertising is the “royal road to business ” —Rarnutn. Professional Pards. |V*Y \b it NUNN \ LliY A'trnevs at « f Liw, (iritfin. Ga. Will practice in all the c<>un- 'he Flint Judicial ('ircuit. nn<l in the toimie*of Met!wether, Clayton, Fayette and Coweta. ill practice in the Supreme Court of Georgia and the I'i-oict Court ot the United states for the Northern and N'Mih ern Districts of Georgia X. U NUSNALLY. [lpllsly] L. T. DOTAL. \ aLLFjN. Attor oov at L ; w Thom— ' HS, in. Ga. Will practice in the eonntiea c»m- I' Hini; [h e Flint Judicial Circuit, and elsewhere hy J'y ,lil . strict All business promptly attended to. Ir ß in Cheney’s brick building. tnehll-ly TU T R KEN DAI Aj offers his pr>‘fes 1/ sional services tc the citizen- of I homnsto'i ami U i’ 11 "' 1 "- country. May be 'mind durin ■ tee day at ' Hardaway’s itore, at night at the former resi <*<•l ' harles Wilson. jan 14 ly. | hbl>l)i N<», At'orooy at Lw. , Barrxesvil p, PiUe co, Ga. Wifi practice in the el l>l ’ n M"' s '"g the Flint Judicial Cir nit, end iii.ni i "ntrict AI t'lisim ‘ss promptly Tin sti, l > ue ia Elder - building, over < hamher’s <irc ' augti- y I BE ALL Attorney ut L*w. enit ( ’ a - w iH practice-in the Flint Cir _ elsewhere by special contract a..g27-!y J' L\\ Kit Attorney sit Low. Courts n f th (i ft- Will practice in all the contr i.-f e Circuit, and elsewhere by special ..June2s-l.v fl V LL. Attorney and (bumsell r th.. l-j ''r" l ''.. ".hi practice in the counties composing in,| mo, , lr . cil 'b In the Supreme Court of <»eor ia, Jin,,, ** h*trict Court <>f the United States for the _ r n and Sou hern Districts of tieorgia. 11 "litston, Ga , June 18th. 187"-1y. . T'biKPH 11. SMITH. Attorney and p , ' °unsellor at Law. Offh-e Corner Whitehall and , ..' rs sheets \tl .nta, Ga. Wll practice n 'he Su- L" 1, Courts of Coweta and Flint Circuits, the su -1 trr, V " l “t °f the State, and the United States’ Dis- A .,; ""a. All coin unications addre-sed to him at will receive prompt attention. aprll9- ly LVNiMJRsoN it McCALLA. Attorneys |1,,1 v Uw.Covln.Vm, Ceorgia. Will attend regu l*ouu'de« n Craet'ce in the Superior Courts of the Im.«J ,V r N ewtnn, Butts. II -nrv, Spalding Pike. I per. * * psi> n , Morgan, DeKalb. Gwinnette and Jas- I dec 0-1 y I M U«s,'Taibno Vll ‘ FW S. A»t Trie v tit ■ th,* ,'L ? n ' W BI practice all the counties V •necial roiit rilc( ltla f>'>ochee Circuit and elsewhere by K — _ decl*i-ly Im Trilhut * LLIS. Attorney,*» sit Luw I ouji nws | /jn, 'ia Prompt attention given to I- declli ly j t * )GFPE. Artnrnev at Low I > n the (r n L,A ,"‘l' pntetice in the State Cour'B ■ ‘- &v annjih. i; a ' District Court at Atlanta and I . dec 0 ly 1,7 • vi!, e U (t U a N Jj Attorney a r Low. Bsirrips- I * hint i'j’ rc |... 'I 1 practice in ail the counties of I T' — Supreme Court of the State. If Law. fL hIHU NE, A rr.n-tiev at ■ K tr n 7 "f the practice in all the ■ •rther counties e 0 rcul1 ' ani * Upson and | U—- dec!S-1y I' ll c " r,fin " p rhe urnoticp I Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drag ITVnr-r: d; ' cls - ly B "ntify t h„ 'UNNAII. is nlonspif to miff* «? he ««nt.inne -O l " n . Ga ae n 1 18 various branches at I s w • | 4 i\<)a. V w? ER . Attorney tit Liw B m the ITnitJa’ 10 * 1 ce in rirc,llt Courts o ■ ne Uaitfl d states District Courts. J. G. KUTTS, | .1 \ MES F. WK-T Ol Upson county, Oa. j Lato with F. L. Mathews. BUTTS & WEST, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND DEALERS IN GROCERIES & PROVISIONS, BARNESVILLE, GA. W E v ' V ' ! ' 1, fr> the confidence Tv of the people and their o_a.su custom. We shall deal for CABII. both buying r.nd selling. Therefore we can sell Goods very cheap. With honesty and promptness for our motto, we solicit, a share of the public patronage. We cordially invite our Mends and the public generally to call on us at Tooley’s New Rr ck Building, near the Macon and Western Railroad Depot, Barnesvllle, Ga, TO THE PUBLIC. I take pleasure in recommending Jas. F. West, who has been with mein hnsiness for the last twelve months T ns being an honest, upright, nnd industrious young man, and every one wi’l get what is due them by dealing witli him. may 13-1 rn FRANCIS L. MATHEWS. ANDREWS & HILL, MANTFACTUIiERS AND DEALERS IN FURNITURE, COFFINS, Sic., Sic., AT .T. & T. G. ANDREWS’ Mill, Five Miles Soul lx west of Thomaston, Ga. \\J E WO uM rp-'rmotfnll v inform nnr V V friends ard the public generally, that we have established a FURNITURE MANUFACTORY at the r.bove named where wo manufacture and keen constantly on hand stipe 1 i >r Furniture <>f all kire's, varieties, and grides. We are prepared to fill all or ders tor (’() hl l i Ns, and do all kinds of Cabinet work with neatness and dispatch We fl itter ourselves that we can please all that kn<>w good work when they see it. t >ur facilities and advantages in preparing our own Lumber and Manofieturing our own Work enables us to otter anv quantity, better varieties, and decidedly better bargains than other Furniture dealers in ihis section of coun'rv. We earnestly request, all that are in need of any thing in -mr line to c ill anti examine < ur stock, as we feel satisfied that, we can give satisfaction in Style, quality and price. All work warranteed to be as repivsi ntetl. Orders solicited. iu.ty2n.ly * ANDREWS <fe IIILL. FOUR GOOD 300XS~ Should be Had in every Family. D LYOT TONAL and Pt-nfitioal PolyglrUt FAMILY BIBLE, containing a copious index, t 'nncordance DicMonarv of Biblical Terms. Geograph ical and Historical Index. »%<• Fourteen hundred pages furnished in three styles of hi "ding L\WS ot BUSINESS to,- ;i || the states in the Union By I'heophDtis Parsons. L L D This volume contains forms f>r m nos every trade or profession, mortgages, dc-ds, bills nf sale, 'easts, b in*i, articles of copariner sh p. will, awards. .fee Published by the National Puli li'bing t o . Nemphis, Tenn. TH i<i LIFE OF GEN. R. F LEE. by .Tas D. McG.be, author of a life ofSt-onewall Jackson. Thi-hook should find its way into every family as it is one of the best written accounts of the heroic deeds of the Great Vir ginian yet published. LI iHT IN THE EAST, by the well-knoxvn writer, Fleetwood. Mr JOHN A. GOCTTRAN has taken the Agency for Upson and Pike counties, and wi 1 ca'l upon the people with these invaluable books immediately aprill-3t. STE li EOSCOPES, A r lE WS, ALBUMS, CII ROM OS, FRAMES. E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., st>l BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Invite the attention of the Trade to their extensive assortment of the above goods, of their own publica tion, manufacture and importation. Also, PHOTO LANTERN SLIDES and GRAPIIOSCOPE. NEW VIEWS OF YOSEMITF.3, E. H. T. ANTHONY & CO., 591 Reimdwat, New York, Opposite Metropolitan Hotel. Importers and Manufacturers of Photogrixptiic Materials. mchlSlftm The Southern Farm and Home. A FIRST CLASS AGRICULTURAL MONTHLY. G \Y. M. BROWNE, EDITOR, At S3 00 per Year in Advance. r n r S u i*onrl Vnliimo commences with | November number. Now is the time to sub scribe. Address, J. W. BURKE, .fe o*b, octS ts Macon. Ga. DR. THOS. A. WARREN, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. OFFFRS his service's to the C’tizens of Griffin and vicinity Special attention given to the treatment of CHRONIC DISEASES. Those at a distance cancan consult him by letter. Office over George Beecher &t o, iilStreet. • ♦**'*’' aprii'29-tf WATCH REPAIRING. rpilß citizens of Dnsno nntl ndjuccnt 1 counties are respectfully informed that 1 have moved my stock to the store o' Mr Wm Wallace, and am now prepared to execute work in mv fine of huM n«ss, on the most favombl ferms. Kep iring of all kinds done at thesh-.rU'Sl nmice and i ■ the neatest, mafi ner. I have facilities h.r turning out good w .rk, and by strict attention so btpdncss ho|ie to receive ft liberal sba'e of patronage. Very respectfnllv, aprilS ts WM L. BRYAN. DENTISTRY! r unHorsiwned hoin.r pcmoncntly £ located in Thomston. still tenders thier professional services in the practice of Dentistry to the citizens of Upson and adjoining eountfi s Teeth inserted on gld silver, adamanti eor rubber. All work warranted and a go. and fir guaranteed. Office up stiirs over WILSON SA WYEK’a store. dec9 ft BRYAN A SAWYER. THOMASTON, QA., SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1871. Miscellaneous. Monthly Oration of the Thomaston Lit erftry Society. The following oTatloti was delivered by J. C. McMichad to the Society on the evening of the 7th instant : MODERATION. There is a e’ear and we’l defined pathway leading from the threshold of everv man’s existence. It passes through the blooming and fragrant flower-gardens, along the verdant plains, across the crvstal waters of the stream of you’h. It leads on through the rich foliaged forests of charming and happv summer, traverses the sear and yel low fi a lds of autumn, and finally wends its wav through the bleak and frigid plains of life’s winter, surrounded by shining mir rors of concealed water, to the dismal shore of this rude world. This pathway is pecu liarly inviting to everv one in his earthly pilgrimage, who is not burning with desire to quaff the last drop from the cup of am bition and wreathe about his name the most extravagant garlands of gWy. Like the roads and paths which check so beauti fully and usefully the rugged surface of earth, it is crossed and run into until the traveling stranger is not unfrequently non plused to foil >w the desired course. While there are many difficulties in fol lowing the thread of moderation through its mysterious windings, we are at times warned of the error of departure by the burdens of excess and extravagance. The impetuous youth with lightness of heart and buoyancy of spirit, the tints of his cheek unmellowed by the influences of time, leaving the propitious roof of his fostering parents, passing from the vision of an ever vigilant and doting mother, unguided hy the dictations of a wise and judicious father, is lead from the sweets of moderation by the enticing blaze of ambition. lie soon becomes inflated witli his own merits, his vision dazzled by the glittering temple of fame, and imagining that it needs hut an effort to grasp the sceptre of power at»d call the world to witness his greatness, he won* dors immediately from the walks of modera tion, whose hedges are lined with the choicest fl >wcrs of true happiness, and whose silver streams sing the sweetest nrmlodms and constitute the most delectable draughts and turns t i the delusive phan toms of consuming ambition. ’Tis then that the soothing of moderation lulls not his throbbing brain ; ’tis then his soul is being surrounded by igneous fuel that will never cease to burn until he brings some proud Prince 4o “bite the dust,” or lays down his own ashes to soften the foot falls of all others who may be deluded by the same vaporv phantoms. The annals of time aff»rd innumerable examples us such m°n hurled from the giddy eimnerience of ambition into the deepest abyss of destructi in. History points to an intellect, massive, piercing and brilliant, a keen and resistless weapon hy which the passions hewed a way to conquest ; an in- tellect that enabled Aaron Burr to strew the r »sy path of the happy with flowers of a still brighter line : to arch tie tr mbled sky of the disponding with the rainbow of hope; to conjure up before the wrapped vision nf the avaricious, mountains of gold, and to point out to the aspiring the shadowy vistas of glory. But the lamp of life must extinguish ; the burning volcano must ex haust its molten bowels according to the inevitable laws of nature. Thus did Burr's lamp burn with increasing brilliancy, re cuperated by the fuel of ambition, and the winter of age brought no snows to c »ol the lava of passion. The crater wore a bright glow, until the hoarse muttering thunders of disaster jarred the flood of extinction from the clouds of annihilation and Burr was swept away to the sea of ignomini ms obliv* ion. No example, of the millions that we might enumeiate, demonstrates more strik ingly the inevitable results than the King of Macedon, who ascended the throne in his twentieth year, charged with the highest and blindest, electricity, prepared to execute hia fathers projected invasion of Persia, chastised the neighboring barbarians and riveted the chains of the Greeks. Impelled by reckless lust of victory, dominion and fame he destroyed Thebes with the excep tion of the house of Pindor, rout'd the forces of Darius, reduced Asia Minor, t-ub dued Tyre, Egpyt, penetrated Lvbia and caused the Amenian Oracle to proclaim him the son of Jupiter. P using awhile from conquest, the spirit of cruelty and de bauchery had become so predominent in his nature that he burned Persepolis, to gratify ihe courtesan, Thais, murdered his veteran General Parmenio, and in a spasm of ine briation stabbed his friend Clytus. While reveling in the intoxicating and immoderate enjoyment of the immense wealth which he found in the royal cities of Susa. E batana, PtTsepolis and Babylon, a fever, said to have been caused or aggravated by immod erate and excessive drinking, compelled him to depart as all otfiers must go who fail to consult and be guided by the spirit of moderation. Rome teMs the sad and melancholy story of Julius Caesar’s departure from the happy mansion of moderation. Impelled by the same burning desire, he pursued the visions of ambition o’er turbulent waters, sur mounting the most formidable barriers, crushing host after host and legion after legion until he, so inflated with his great*- ne*B, believed the stream of humanity directed by his potent hand. But the in* evitable consequences of such immoderation must come. The scene is first augured by the face of the cLuds darkening with wrath, hurling fnrth their angry bolts and piercing the darkest Caverns with their lurid glare. Though the murky canopy of eternal night was soon to extinguish his splendid career, the radiant and burning disc of hope was still visible in the misty distance. He still pursues the phantasmic vision of the imperial crown, and just as lie is electrified with a faint vision of glory’s Elysian fields ; just as his lips open to quaff the coveted chalice, the raging assassin piunges the pointed dagger into his heart, and his life blood, so dear to Rome and to himself, paid for leaving the paradise of moderation. Innumerable examples might be culled from the dusty records of history, but we will indulge but one or two more Turn ;to the lonely island of St. Helena and you see the very personification of grief, gloom and melancholly in the star that rose from the lonely island of Carsica, dashed up the political and military heavens of France, with the rapidity and brilliancy of a meteor took its station among the brightest lumina ries tis the day and dazzled the world with its splendor. Such are the deplorable con sequences when ambition leads us from the path of moderation. As an example worthy of imitation, ex amine the couise and character of the great, glorious and immortal father of American freedom and independence. After leading his people through a long and bloody strug gle, and so endearing himself as to be the first in their hearts, he had the way to the crown open to him, but his soul was too pure and the love for his people too great to stamp the brand of usurpation on his name and deprive posterity of the choicest boon man can enjoy. But let us pause for a moment and watch our frail hark launched on the stream of desires. At first it glides along moderately unmolested by agitated waters, hut the stream widens, and the current grows more rapid until its waters move in wild and seenrrngly frantic aginations, and we are borne over the precipice into the boiling vortex below. When habit has brought the miserable inebriate where “one sip of wine will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams;” when an intimate- acquaintance with old Bacchus the “j 'lly god of laughing pleasures” has enabled him to quaff the “generous juice by juggling priests denied,” and his eves sparkle and grow T lustrous at sight of the headed bubbles on the rine of the crystal cup, reason and sense flee from his brain ; memory is spoiled and be swims for a time in mirth, fancying some divinity within him breeding wings, wherewith, he soars from world to world, and in this dim deli rium. his soul is sacked and drowned by the seas he has swallowed from the capacious bowl. What is a Gentleman ?—ln the course of an address to the Y >ung Men’s Christian As-ociation, delivered lately hy the Bishop of Manchester, his lordship said : S >me people think a gentleman means a m m of independent fortune- a man who has his clothes made in the height of fash ion by the most expensive tailor, a man who tares sumptuously every d«y, a min who need not work hard for his daily bread. None <»/ these things make a gentleman not one of them. Nor all of them together. I have known, when I had charge of country parishes, and when I was brought closer into contact with working men than from my changed position I am brought now 1 have known men of the roughest exterior, who had been accustomed ail their life to follow the plow and look after horses, as thorough gentlemen in heart as any noble man that ever wore ducal coronet. I mean I have known them as unselfish. I have kn >wn them as tender. I hive known them as sympathizing: and all these qualities go to make what I understand by the term "a gentleman.” It is a noble privilege which has been sadly pr .stifut°d. and what I want to tell vnu is that the humblest man in deeds who has the lowest work in life to do, may yet, if his heart he tender, and pure, and true, h°, in the most emphatic sense of the word, a gentleman. Advice of an Old Lady. — Now, John, listen to me, for I am older than you, or I cou’dn’t fie your mother. Never do you marry a young woman, John, before you have contrived n happen where she lives at leas r four ,or five times before breakfast. Y"U should know h >w late she lies in bed in the morning. You should take notice whether her complexion is the same in the morning as it is in the evening, or whether the wash and towel have robbed her of her evening bloom. You should take care to surprise her, so that vou can se° h»’r morn ing dre'ss. and observe how her hair looks when she is not expecting you. If possible, you should be whpre you cu 1 I hear the morning conversation between her and her mother. If she is ill-natured and snappish to her mother, so she will be *o you. f on if. Bor if yon finfi her up and dressed neatly in the morning, with the same countenance, the same smile, the same neatly combed hair, the sanre and pleasant answer to her mother which char acterized her deportment in the evening, and particularly if .-he is lending a hand to •ret the breakfast ready in good season, she is a stunner. John, nnd the sooner you get her to yourself the better. The Josh Billings Pa|)ers^-KorU- Korn is a serial, i am glad ov it. It got its name from Series, a primitiff woman, and inher day the goddess ov oats, and sich like. Korn iz sumtimes called maize, and it grows in sum parts of the western country araaieenly. I have seen it out there 18 foot hi. (I don’t mean the nktual korn itself, but the tree on which it grows). Iv rn haz ears, but never haz but one ear, which iz az deff as an adder. Injun n eal z made out ov k rn. and korn dodgers is made out ov injun meal, and korn dodgers are the tuffest chunks, ov the bread purswashun, known to man. Ivom dodgers are made out ov water, with injun meal mixed into it, and then baked on a hard board, in the presence of a hot fire. When you can’t drive a 10 penny nail into them with a -ledge hammer, are said, hi good iudge*>, to be well done, and are reddv tew be chawed upon. They will keep five years in damp place, and not gro tender, and a dog hit with one ot them will yell for a week, and crawl under the barn and mutter for two days more. I have knnwd two days miself on one side of a korn dodger with"iit produ>ing enny result, and i think could starve to death twice before i could seduce a k 'rn dodger. They git the name of dodger from the imrregiate necessity ov dodgeing if oue iz hove horig »nfa!ly tit yu in anger. It iz far better to be smote hi a 3 vear old steer than a korn dodger that iz only three boors old. K 'rn was fust discovered hi the injuns. but whar they found it i don’t know, and i don’t kt ow az i care. Jonny kake iz make out ov korn, so iz hasty puddin. Hasty pudfin and milk iz quick tew eat. All you hav tew do iz tew gap and swal low, and that is the last of the puddin. Korn was familiar tew antiquity. Joseph was sent down into Egypt after some korn, hut hiz brothers didn’t want him to gn, so they took pity on him, and pitted him in a pit. When hiz brothers got hack hum, and «e r e asktd where Joe waz, they didn’t ac> knowledge the korn, but lied sum. It haz been proved that it is wicked tew lie about korn, or euny ov the other vegeta bles. Tharc iz this difference between lieing and sawng wood, it iz easier tew lie, esp'*shly in the shade. Korn haz one thing that nobody else has got. and that iz a kob. This koh runs thru the middle ov the korn. and iz az phull of korn az Job was ov biles. I alwus feel sorry when i think ov Job. and wonder how he managed tew Bet down in a chair. Knowing how tew set down square on a bile without hurting the chair, iz one ov the lost arts. Job waz a card : he had more pashuns and biles tew the square inch than iz usual. One hundred and twenty-five akers ov korn tew the bushel iz considered a good crop, but I have seen more. I hav seen korn sold lor 10 cents a bushel, and in sum parts ov the western country it iz so much that thare aint no good law against stealing it. In tonklusion, if you want to git a sure krop ov k"rn, and a good price for the krop, feed about four quarts ov it to a shanghai rooster,- then murder the rooster immejiate and sell him for 17 cents a pound, krop and all. Biography Boiled Down. Plutarch. —l only know the g-ntlemnn hy reputation. He was always sp ken of in the plural number. ’Plutarch's lives’ is a common * but how many there were of him I aru not prepared to say. General Duke of Wellington.— An officer in the British army Mr. L ngfel- Inw makes honorable mention of him as ‘The Warden of Unique Foi.it ’ Cinque means five principal points, usually denom inated Five Points. He lived to a ripe old age and died. Julius C.rsar.—Son of obi man Cwar. He was born in R one in his infancy, nnd upon arriving at the siate of manhood fie became a R mian. He was a fig iter and warrior of some tlote. His friend Brutus one morning him how many eggs he had eaten f>r b-eakfast, and he replied *Et til 'Brute ’ llis friend became enraged at being called a brute, and stabbed CiC'ur quite dead. Mahomet. —Author of Koran, an excit ing romance, which be wrote in Mammoth Cave, at Mecca. He was the author of a re ltgious creed, with which he stuffed Turkey and trind to get up a boi! in Greece, bur failed. Many of his early followers suffered great per-ecutions. Some of them were burnt at the stake He had three temples, one at Mecca, undone un eacn side of his head. Guy Fawkes.— A warm-hearted, impul sive Englishman, who believed the Parlia ment too good for this earth and devised an expeditious method of elevating the mem bers to a better sphere. He was interrupt ed in his good intentions, hut for the cir cumstance he would have -made a great noise in the world. He was <-x cuttu for his disinterested benevolence and subse quent’y burnt at a place called Effigy. Bonaparte I.— A harem-scatem sort of a fellow, who occupied a position of consol** arable responsibility in the French nation. The impression went abroad that he wa< ambiti ois, which damaged his reputation materially. He gained the* respect and ad miration of the French nation because hap pily, he was not a Frenchman. When a-ked if he tb- ught hecmld govern France, he replied. ‘Of Corsican.’ The close of his life was not as bright as the beginning, but there was some of it in a narrt w compass. Peter the Hermit Pet<» was principal ly notorious for stirring up a little difficulty between the Christians and the Mahomme dans, which exrended over a period of thir ty years, resuiting in numerous excursions by land and water, under the f urinating title « f the Crusades. Trie Hermit was an itinerate lecturer, and had he lived in our day would have turned his attention to hu mor, thereby saving a deal of bloodshed. The Crusades turned out like the .author of the creed they were intended to anihiiate— a false prophet. InUtK-ncr of Diversified Industry'. From Mr. Greeley’s late speech before the Lexas Agricultural Society, at Houston, wo take the following : Admitting that the South ha* grown, and stili grows too much cotton—(and I judge that three millions of bales grown in 1870 would have netted her as large a sum as the lour millions she actually did grow) —I see no way to counteract this tendency hut hy introducing rew branches of industry whereof the product will also c mm and money. In vain do you exhort the average planter to grow more ern and make pork ; be is of en in debt, and chooses to produce what will surely sell (or the money he s re ly needs, lie is sure*cotton will do this; he is not sure a* to corn aud pork. But plant one hundred cotton and as many woolen factories on the s >d of your State, making a steady ca«h market here for wool and meat, for grain and vegetables, as well as cotton, and now your agriculture will naturally and certainly divide its forces and diversify its products. Farmers, will grow all these if they know that a sure cash mar ket is at hand. A denspr population, a greater var’e y and range of employments, these are pressing wants of the entire South. Every wheel set to turning on a Southern water-fall, every manufactory of edge-tools or farm implements, started in any of your cities or villages, is certain profitably to di vert labor from your cotton fields, as naked preaching never will. There is hardly an acre of Southern land which would not he doubled in value if S mthern farms were mainly cultivated with Southern made im plements, Southern backs clothed in South ern woven fabrics, and Southern d'■veilings filled with Southern-made furniture and wares. And, now that slavery has gone out, it is high time that the useful urts were steadily and rapidly coming in. Am I inculcating what would injure my own section ? Not at all. The more you do for yourselves, the more Vou will require from abroad. The State of Arkansas has more inhabitants than the city of Boston ; yet the latter, while the focus of an immense ' interchange and consumption of do mestic products, .buys and consumes far more of the productions of foreign lands. Our purchases are limited, not by our needs, hut by our means. A thousand times ic has been predicted that we should destroy our foreign commerce by protecting home industry, and a thousand times this has been proved a fallacy hv increased imports under high duties. If Texas were expend ing four times as much as she is, per an num, in the purchase of home-made ware and fabrics, she would buy far more from abroad than she now does. If she had a dozen ax factories in full operation, she might import fewer axes than now, hut her imports of steel, iron, and a hundred other articles, would be swelled beyond computa tion. I hold the naturalization of new and the extension of existing manufactures among the most urgent wants of this State, as of nearly every young community. Hence, I hold —not that you ought to pay a high price for a poor article because it is home made—not that you should forego the grat ification of a legitimate want because tho article it contemplates is not of Texas growth or fabrication— but that each of you should give an intelligent preference, oilier things being equal, to whatever is made on your own soil—should buy your harness, or saddle, or pail, or broom, or plow, or ax, of your neighbor’s make, in preference to one brought from abroad—should take and pay for some first-rate Texas journal before looking aborud for a better. Having thus done your doty by the community whereof you are a part, if you are wilTing and able to take a second journal, I might possibly aid you in finding a good one. Crops in the Wk-t. —The recent cold snap which extended slang the Ohio Valley and through Illinois and Missouri, has done great injury to the crops in that section. Over a wide belt of country the thermome ter sank below the freezing point, and in many sections the fruit crops were entirely destroyed. Grapes, pears and cherries on both sides of the Ohio were destroyed, or greatly injured ; the most of which was very promising will he curtailed, and, worst of all, the tobacco plants nearly all peri-hed, arid the early wheat was seriously injured. It is true that with tlie exception of the fruits this damage is not irreparable, hut it will seriously efT-ec the farmers. Tobacco planters will be able to get more plants, but this necessity will delay setting out, and expose the crop to all the vicissitudes of a late season. Throughout a large portion of Kentucky, and in other localities along the Ohio, there has been a long drought. A gentlemen, one evening, was seated near a lovely woman, when tho company weie proposing connundrums to each o f her. Turning to his companion, hS said : “Why is a lady unlike a mirror?" She gave it up. “Because," said the rude fellow, “i» mirror r* fleets without speaking; a lady sp-aks without reflecting." ‘ Very good," said she. "Now answer me. Why is a mm unlike a mirror?" “I cannot tell you.” "Because the mirror is polished, and the man is not." "Two weeks ago, Mr. Samuel Loverhill. of Newark, N. J., seventy-four years old, was married at Waterloo, to Amy Barclay, of Michigan, aged seventy-three. The officiating clergyman was ninety years old and married the bride to a former husband vr.ure than half a century ago. Two of the bridesmaids were seventy-three aud feven ty-seren years of age." Really, it seems if folks never get old enough to “quit their loolishne.-s." A bacuei/’R says that all he should ask for in a wife would he a good temper, sound health, good understanding, agree able physiognomy, pretty figure, good con nection, domestic habits, resources of amusements, good spirits, conversational talents, elegant manners aud plenty of money ? The inhabitants of a tuvvn in Minnesota recently took a notion to remove their cemetery. In digging about the hones they came acr- ss the body of a woman who was buried thirteen years ago, and found it to ho as hard as stone. Several other bodies were found in the same condition. NO. 27.