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_Hants Merchant#’ Magazine.
\p„r l began to i verti-e my Ironware freely,
ed with ,’inz ng rapidity. For ten
„,,, ( hive spent fSdu.oiH) veai-L to keep ny
. v ires hes re the public Had l been timid in
I never sh mid have po-sessed my fortune
»** - Vic Lead Helton. Hiroiingliam
'11,.. ~imc like liilas* t-uich. tir-ns everything to
, i) j,_ vmi daring men • raw millions to their
.ffers” —Smart l *1 ay
hit an I aeit\ is'to loves arid boldness to war, the
fil us,- of printer’s i »t\ to success in business ’ -
tth il lof advertisetnohts I ■ ou'd have done
.-in mv p eulaiions 1 have the most comple e
, lin " ~-in:er-* ink.” Ad ve. Using is l ife “foyal mad
a -.iness" -H.arnum.
Professional Paros,
■y \ \ .i. \ i -> • i, v ri ' «*»
If H'lnii. (’,i will prsctic in » b•* Flint Cirfcnlt. or
■ c iin I alii rid ]tiui iiftt Iv to business. j m Id- ts.
\Y X , ; \ ■n- <r l. '
rh'invi.iton, * I:t , will practice in *ll 'lie Courts
j ; in. t.irc ni. .mil tlsi-wh re bv sp> ci iV contract
lii'ii y’s brick but din}!. Southeast. Corner
I " iii-cain. jin 13 t f
III' ; \I i ’k •> i>U L. > v ' ■ t',. ■ "
II f "1 iv located it Tin* Rock, ten Uoffhis pr fe«sionat
r 1 ito th.- -urrounilii g com utility. anil promises to
j tno labor or attention to those who in i\ patronize
july 22-t.mo
U ! " V\H A it'll. V• r niry a -1 <’ " •
VI lnat L iw, Thoni.aston. Oa Will practice
■•v. al o n s >| the state es (b orui,, and uttend
I *y to all business entrust, dto iiis care.
I Ml t s
U I V\ t)\ ,v *I>VH K K v r r• i •> i 1
I) Li vjinffl,, ( ; a otlb-ein Almah 'all, next do .r
r ur Office Will practice in the Counties
'Hu; the Flint 1 tremt, and in the United States
"Urt. AUctitfoii erven to Caffes itV Bankruptcy,
I tUvIH ly
!) V'L ,v MJ \s K I JiY A ru.u Aa.
L‘ Law, itritlin. t»a. Will practice in all the court
[' ' Pnsiiiir ih" Flint Judicial Circuit, and in the
f «uit ieiiivelifer, t'bavton, Fayette and Coweta.
u'ticein the Supreme Cnfrrt of CCofgia. and the
, ' '-nrt. oi the United Mates tor the Northern and
• mi Botnets ol f Jonrjiia
'l«li,|,y. iapllo-"ly] L. T. ItltTAl.
I V V IjUK \ v or »*v I !. \V I'" tt
|‘ ' ""n, tfa. Will practice in the counties c»tn
the Flint Judicial Circuit. and elsewhere hy
1 contract All business promptly attended to.
>n Cheney’s brick nuildinr*. inch'll-ly
[U r K KKN »V l, L tL-s hi * nr t-N
--L‘' * | l:i | S( > rv { C ,>a tc the citizen' of l homaston and
, line country. May be found i'nrin t e day at
h 1 s: 'tore, at night at the former reside ee of
I l! and„ uiiposUe Rogers &, Cheney’s Warehouse.
*»Uiy“
] V' Il'dDl) i N"i i. Vr nt".**v Rf I>itr.
, • Barnesvile, I’ike co, Ga. Will practice in the
r 'S e.otnprisiug the Flint Judisurf Cir* nit, and
special onlract AI nusiness promptly
't’ 1,1 Oihoe in Blder - building, over Chamber's
IM,ir « ugH- y.
\ Vk v ‘ A ttiiffc-v n' L itv.
[Suit anj n ' ' ,a - "'ill practice in the Flint Oir
- ~.,1 Fv s;„ ,ia| contract. aug‘27 ly
i tflai 1 ,!,' IjL Ur,r ' ,ev ’ , " l °" i ' , “ i 1
H" Fiir tt . .! ,ract * ce ia the counties composing
f - i In the l>i i ln t,IH Supreme Court of ueor ia,
1' -".ern ind oUl ' t ~f tlu ‘ WnUed States for the
'csto f)’; 1 h ; TQ Histrlct* of (ieorgia.
- “• <*a., Jufie lsth. isrro.iy.
'VIt 'llU V N M oO.VLL \. Aturans
f iy, an«{ r e<>rgia. Will attend
i~f v ,l ' <e * n the Superior • 'nurts of the
r‘ ar °e. luivm "o" n ' ll- nrv, Snal ling Pike
• I organ, I)eKalb Gwinnette and das
_____ dec U r ly
R LalP„ 'R Alli Fj AS. Att >rnov fit
* '■nctliM r> '! !t,>n ' ~;i. w ill practice all the counties
" r H itiahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
___—udract decio-ly#
* vmP 1 L Atr ifnoy „f huw Haoies,
L i ;o.._ X y i ! 1 Practice n all the counties of—
'"taad Supreme Court of the State.
to o * BKHIUiVK \ t.ii-n-v ,ir
■\ -s ..f Ga Will practice in all the
Sft ’"trip. * Hattahooi-hee Circuit, and Upson and
* dec i S-1 y
m\\ i; );M , . ’• ;
1 / v. II <• >Mtiiitio tf|p Mi* ii*fii*o
■ ” ‘" ino Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
■ dee l-My
■J i^rr~ —
MttoL * 'Vv LKRft A'tnrnPv «t Liw
■ " hi practice in Circuit Courts of
■ "»the United States District Courts.
LADIES’ FANCY STORE!
OVER
™ ** ! s4| J i/\** '*\ " *
MESSES. FLEMISTEE & BEOOES,
OOKHKSt OF IIILL AND SOLOMON 9TRK.ETS,
GRIFFIN. GEORGIA,
OLLI) respectfully inform the good
citizens of Thornaston and vicinity that we have now
j i store, and keep Constantly on hand a superior stock
and very latest styles of
LADIES’ FINE DRESS GOODS,
LADIES’ <St' CHILDRENS’ SHOES,
LADIES’ dEWEI.RY,
LADIES’ HOSIERY,
LADIES’ NOTIONS,
MILLINERY, &t.
A thousand little tricks and trinkets that Men-Mer
chants know nothing about, to be found at ouj^SjAre.
MILLINE LtYT !
The Choicest, Freshest, and SWEETEST, stock in
t-h* maket. Goods inanufActufed to suit the taste of
customers. Orders respectfully solicited. Call on or
address
MRS. M. A. HIGHTOWER 3c 0.,
mayiß-tf Griffin, Georgia.
ANDREWS & Hi]L U
M ANirFAOTUItKUS AND DF.ALKK3 TN
lURNITURE,
OaPFIJJ-3, &.C., &0.,
AT
J. Si T. G. ANDREWS’ Mill, Five Miles
Southwest of Thornaston, Gu.
\ \ L would respotttfullv inform om-
T * friends and the public generally, that we have
estahed a
FURNITURE MANUFACTORY
at the i.bffve named pi ac, Tfliere we manufacture and
keep constantly on hand superior Kiiriiiinre<>f all kinds,
varii tiev. and grides. VVe are prepared to fill all or
'bvs lor < OhhlNs, and do all kinils at ( abinet work
with neatness and dispatch We.flatter ourselves that,
we can please all that know good work when they see
it. Our facilities and advantages in preparing our own
Lumber and Nbtnufiu-tuiing our ow Work enables us
,0 ofivr anv quantity, better v arieties, an I «leci<'edly
better baigiins than other Furniture dealers in this
section of country. \\ r e earnestly request all that are
in nee-1 of any ihi ng in our line to cd I and examine i ur
stock, as we feel satisfie I that we can give sati>tacTion
m style, quality and price. All work warranteed to be
as represented. Orders solicited.
may 20 )y JAS ANDREWS & L S. HILL.
‘COTTON rooi)!'
A FERTILIZER' ESPECIALLY
FOR COTTON.
Seftd for CIRCULAR before purchasing.
BUY IT I TRY IT !
Afnd you will NEVER REC.IILT IT.
ROGERS & t SIEVE A, Agents,
Thornaston, Gt£ ,
F. W. SIMS dc CO., Agent. Savannah, Oa. *jan2o 2m
Ms lUXTIVEIM
gQ RISLS. BLUE RYE WIffSKY.
BIiLS. CROWES EYE WHISKY.
X.OO BP>LB ' Di:NCAN bourbon.
BBLS. FA I RE AY BOURBON.
100 li ' 3LS caUN willsK,jr *
And a Large assortment of Inf-ported and Domestic
BRANDFIS AND WINFS,
so. ... ■
Which we offer extremely low. As we buy only from
Distillers and firs class Importersand only FOR CASH,
we can offer rare inducement. Give us a call and ex
ami our stock. COIIEV »!t C 0.,
oct2l m Atlanta, Ga.
cannon Housed
(Recently St. James Hotel.l
Marietta Street, Gate City IHock,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Board, P--r DaV. <n‘t2L-6'ti
D3. THDS. A. WARDEN.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
OFFERS b.i< sorvienjs to tho C’tiz'-ns 1 f
Griffin and vicinity Special attention given to
the treatment ot
CHRONIC ‘DISEASES.
Those at adlst, mce can- an consult him hy letter.
Oflice over George Beecher ACo , ill Street.
aprll29-tf
WATCH REPAIRING.
r citizens of f-I>B<* at'H udjarDfit
I. counties are respectfully informed that 1 have
moved my stock to the store o Mr. Wm. Wallace, atid
am now prepared to execute work in my line of busi
ness, on the most favorabj * terms, IL-p iring ot all
kinds done at the shortest no! Ice and i Hie neatest int»a
ner. I have facilities n-r turning out good Work, arid'hy
strict attention to business hot»e to receive a liberal
abate of patronage. Very respectfully,
apj-iIS-tt W..U L. BRYAN. ;
-1 V- * ~r.
BYINOTON’S HOTEL,
CORNER BROADWAY AND UILL 6TREI TO,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
THOM ASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1872.
READ THIS!
C. W. EVIcKENNEY &, CO.
Lt-tura thanks for the Siocrai patronage of the public ic
the past, and hope by lair dealing to be able to retain
the same in future. We shall keep on hand at all times
a luil Stock of
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS!
EATS, SHOES, Ac.,
Which we will sell at short profits. In consequence of
the stringency of tlie money market and the further fact
that we are not able to do so, we are compelled to
SELL FOU CASH
alone in the future. Those in arrears will please come
forward and settle at once as we must )4ftve money,
jan6-3mo
\V. A. TUF.LKY, ) j \y. p. BUBSKY,
ot Teiinebsee. f ( of Georgia.
SAVE YOOPi MONEY
IIY GOING TO
BARNESVILLE,
And PATRONIZING
TIBLEY k HUSSEY
GENEB \L
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
. AND DEALERS IN
BACON.
LARD.
CORN,
FLOUR,
OATS,
COFFEE,
SUGAR.
S Y R (J P .
and Molasses. NORTHERN and BHOP M ADE SHOES,
Cotton Yarns and Domestics.
They, tils-<. keep constantly onh-md a variety of Fami
ly 11 III)' K'ilK', Plow and Breast Grains. Harness and
Collars. Hoes, Ac , all ot whi -U will be sold a little
i he .per tff-in thfe'Cheapest. FOR M'-.TURLKY
h v ur many ai quaint ;kneee and f-ien-ls in 'rennessee,
gives uS an advantage in buying our Bacon. Lard,
Flmtr. and Corn, which enables us to offi r inducements
to the trade that others cannot do. Gome around and
see if w e don’t give you a bargain, First door Hast of
the hotel, B\Tv.V ..SVILLK. GA. jan27 ly
GIIEMEY,
WAREHOUSE
AND
COTTON COMMISSION
:M:in:R,oi-3:A.:fcTTS,
THOM ASTON, GKORGI A.
I 7 |'l take ibis rnvhrd of informing opr
? » fi i nils ami the public generally that our NE W
W A RKH< >USE is now com fleteil and we ate now pre
pared to sei ve them in the
Storag3 and Sale of Cotton.
Our Scales ar-‘ m'w and c >rr -ot, and haring secured
the -«-rvicc»ot* a competent and reliable Scab sinan. wo
can safclv guarantee to do justice to both buyers and
sellers. LIBERAL
ADVANCES
will be made on CO’f’TON in store BUYERS IN
TIIOMASTOV will pay Banv svill** PRICES for Cot
ton. 1 nsnrancc-on Cotton in Warehouse <<uo per cent.
oct7-6in
FOUTZ’S
CELEBRATED
Hons ami Cattle Powflers.
p*i This preparation, long and favorably
| known, will thoroughly re-inyigOrate
k a J v* broken down and low-spirited horses,
TV'S! strengthening and clt-ansing the
|| stomach and intestines.
It is a sure pr ventive of all diseases
incident to this animal, such as LUNG
FE V ER. GLANDERS, YELLOW
WATER, HEAVES. COUGHS, DI3-
TEMPER, FEVERS, FO UNDER,
LOSS OK APPETITE AND VITAL
ENERGY, kc. Its use improves
the wind, increases the appetite— fjflW y
gives a smooth and glossy skin—and
transforms the miserable skeleton
intoafluK-looiing andsjiirite 1 horse.
To keepers of Cows this prepara
.w-J u L< i I> on is invaluable. It is a sure pre-
Mir' ventive against Rinderpest, Hollow
v* Mf'ir ,i J 1 H° l *n, ete. It lias been proven by
I actuil l experiment to increase the
**v(.}t /Y -j *i * quantity of milk and cream twenty
per cent, and make the butter firm
and sweet. In fattening cattle, it
gives them an appetite, loosens their hide, and makes
them thrive much faster.
In all dL-'oses of Swin?, su<Bi as Coughs, Ulcers in
the Lungs. Liver, &e., tins article acts
as u >pecific. By putting from one- L A
half a t>aper to a paper in a barrel of
swill the above diseases wilt be erndi i'
cat-.-d or entirely prevented. If given f.R
in time,- :l certain preventive and cr ,
core for the flog Cholera.
DATID E. FtWTZ, Proprietor,
BILTDIORE. 5V il.
For sale bv Druggists and Storekeepers throughout
the United States, Canadas and South America
For Sale by J. W. ATWATER,
Thornaston, Ga. novll-ly
TH OS. F. BETHE L,
DEALER
iisv hoods mi groceries
A \ToL LF) inform his customorc and
? V fiiends that his Fall stock is now complete, and
solicit- 4 from them a continuance of their forme! pa ron
n?.. at hi 6 now fire proof store on Alain street, rhotn s
tob,’ Ga. maySMMf
Miscellaneous.
The Rapid Increase in the Use of Artili
cial Manure*,
Besides tbe oarg e s of mineral phosphate
of limg, the imp .rt <*f h.ines into Gre.tt
Britain in IsTL 2,0 '0 tons in exi-e>s of
; 1870. «lid oJ Ou tons tn exee«3 of ISG9. A
p *rt of i{.i vo h )in-s are huri.cd into animal
which is first ns.-d in r» fin
i:>f, at 1 then treated with sulphuric acid,
and made into soluble acid phosphate, un
| and» r tr e riaii e of superphosphate of lime;
! winch is sold in at about s3l,
jio'd, * r-r ton, warranted to contain twenty
per (•: ut phosphoric acid, tbe balance being
sulj h aof auto, and from bones a little ni
troo s i Lone dust from unburntd bones
is quoted Jr 12. gold, per ton. Dried hlcod
containing tiitien per cent nitrogen has
been s iid in England at ]SjO and even £0 1
P f *r ton. Peruvian guano, warranted to
contain 1G per cent of ammonia, is selling
| there at st'2, gold, per tun ; this also rich
j in plkosphoric acid. The import of nitrate
! of soda from Peru into Great Britain for
eleven months of 1871 was* 18,000 tons more
than iu the whole year of 1870. This salt
contains about filteen percent of ammonia;
it is found in a conglomerate, mixed with
sand ar-d marine salt; its price in England
I about $3.30 per Cwt. Nitric acid also
comes from f’eru. It is nearly half potash.
Prof. 'V die says of ail substances containing
potash, this is the best suited to agricultu
ral wants. Thousands of t<>ns of muriate
of potash are now imported into England
from Hamburg ; it comes from the salt
mines of Btra> f urilt in Prussia. It is said
that more potash was made there last year
thau was obtained from ail the wood ashes
throughout the world.
This rapid and enormous increase in the
use ot artificial manures in England, cannot
fail to astonish many of our slow and easy
farmers who hold their land in sue simple,
and have no landlord to sharpen their wits
and give them energy in farm management
But they would be quite as much astonished
and they Could see how much pains the En
glish farmer talus underdrain his lan-J,
aid to make, save and apply his farm yard
manure. He grows einTia ms quantities of
t-eets and legumes, fiftys oil ami cotton*
-ec-d cake, as much to enrich his manure
(ieap as to add to the market price of his
(arm stock. Ou the other hand, our South
ern farmers who grow cotton almost entire
ly by tlie aid of artificial fertilisers, will
■ mly marvel how the English farmer cast
e ntrive to make so much fain -yard manure
m supplement his commercial fertilizers.
But the Southern farmers have already be
gan to grow less cotton and more grass,
clover and grain crops, by which they will
ke -p mure stock, make more manure, and
upplement special fertil zcrs by humus in
( he soil. P<mifrotj's Democrat
The Xcvt Colt.u» Crop—Will the Next Crop
be at. Short Une J—Kfleet of tbe Presulen
tiail Campaign on Negro Labor—lmpor
tant Considerations for tbe Commercial
"World,
foe New Orleans correspondent of the
New York World writes :
Business men in this great cotton mart
are discussing a serious problem. What
: wiii Ye tlie effect of the Presidential cam
paign on tlie next cotton crop? The ques
ti m is one of equal importance at the North,
for upo.i the great staple depends curability
to meet cur commercial obligations to Eu
rope and to regulate our business at home.
It is beyond and übt that Gen. Grant will
make extra irdinary eff irts to carry the
Southern States To tins end every species
of cajolery, every sensation dodge known to
political wire-pullers, will be used to bring
out and fasten the negro vote There vYili
bem.ss conventions, barbecues, torchlight
processions, protrac ed meetings, and all
that sort ot thing, to tickle tlie African ear
and eye. Lahor will therefore be uncertain
in its operations. Tbe negro, after all, is
bur a child in intellect. He is easily drawn
away by glitter and show. The excitement
and dissipation of a political gathering, tlie
flattery and fawning of white men who
want his vote, are peculiarly attractive to
him. He is impuvident. He has no dis
position to work for more than a bare
livelihood. When tlie barbecue comes in
competition with tlie hoe, free liquor at the
hustings with toil in the field, who doubts
where our colored brother will be found?
fine hottest part of the Presidential cam
paign will come in the picking season,
when a day or an hour lost is so much lost
to the cotton crop, and a loss that cannot
he retrieved. Is it not pos-ible, therefore,
that next season mav be a vptv short crop
in consequence of the partial withdrawal of
tlie negroes from labor, and may not the
price for middlings i nee more range in the ,
thirties ? The m »r ter is worthy of thought -j
in the commercial w rid.
To Refund thk Lott -n Tax. — The bid
intri duced into the House of Representatives j
to refund the cotton fax paid in the years j
1865 r 1806 18G7 and 18G8. provides for the
appointment of three commissioners to de
termine the stun due to each claimant. The |
amounts derernii ed to be due are to be j
p.i«i in per cent forty-year bonds, or
eerttficau - for small sums e rnmotable into
PU'-h h >nrH which are to be used a- bank
ing capital f> r a<(d tional national batiks
in tbe Southern States.— Savannah News.
Au DIU Settler.
fi eQ R- S. Sievens, General Manager
lof Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway,
j was pushing that great enterprise south
warti at tbe rate of three miles a dav, he
came across a veteran Missouri farmer, who
I L*r titty years had lived on his frontier
plantation undisturbed, even by wars, ru
mors of wars, pestilence or famine, so far
from disease and telegraph was ho.
One night the advance men came upon
his old farm-house, when the following
dialogue ensued :
“Then you’re gwine to build a railroad,
; are ye?”
! “Yes.”
“Wbar am it cornin’ from, and whar am
i it gwine to go?”
“From Sedalia, in Missouri, down through
Mis s >uri, Kansas, the Indian Territory and
so on through l’t xas to the city of Mexico.”
“The hell, you say !”
“Yes, that is what is guipg on.”
“And you’s guine to run it right through
my plantation ?”
“Yes.”
“Do you hear that, old woman? We’ve
got to move !”
“Not necessarily. All we want is the
right of way.”
“Wall—y >u tan have that are, but xho’d
a’ thought a railroad would ever hit us?”
“You have a good farm here?”
“Yes—fair to mind ing.”
“About fur thousand.”
“Not many improvements?”
‘ No—it takes me so long to lock after
the cattle I can’t improve touch.” *
“Have you a well on the premises?”
“Yes—a elippiu’ good une ; only it leaks
a little.”
“Leaks? How’s that?”
“You see we dug down forty feet when
we came to a rock, but no water. Then I
! walled it up. and we hauled the water from
the river, about forty barrels a day, and
filled into it. We don’t use mure’n five bar
rels a day ; all the rest leaks out somehow.
I was gwine to dig another well next year,
but ’praps I can hire the water hauled on
the cars cheaper nor I can build !”
For thirteen years this old planter had
hauled forty barrels ol wider a day to
empty info that rock-bottomed hole, rather
than dig anew w*ell or bring water in a
pipe from a spring only a miie away, when
Northern workers of enterprise come to fill
up that country and set things to humming.
How the old fossils will stare, and wonder
they never thought of such things before!
Nevedn Eai-tliquake—Over 1000 Shocks—
Rivers itim up Stream.
A San Francisco dispatch of March 3let,
to the Western Dress, states that additional
advices from Nevada, place the number
killed by the recent earthquake at 20, and
tlie wounded at ,tOO.
In Desert county, stretching from Owen’s
lake to the Mexican line, are the craters of
innumerable volcanoes ilo! long extinct, and
several mud volcanoes active. It is sup
posed that some of these old volcanoes may
be eruptive again. A gentleman from In*
dependence asserts that smoke and ashes
from volcanoes are distinctly seen south
ward from that place, and word has been
brought there that lava has been flnving
down the mountain. This is not authenti
cated. Pie shocks contit ued decreasing
up to Thursday morning, when over a thou
sand had been counted. At Tibbett’s
rariche, fifteen miles above Independence,
forty acres of ground sunk seven feet below
the surface of the surrounding country.
Big Owen Lake has risen four feet since
the first sii >ck. Owen’s river ran over it?
banks, depositing shoals of fish on shore
after it receded, for a distance of three or
four miles. Through Line Pine the earth
cracked, and one side remained stationary,
while the other tank seven or eight feet,
leaving a wall of earth extending threo
miles in length, where formerly was a level
plain. Innumerable craek9 Were made I
throughout the valley. Kern and Owen
rivers turned and ran up stream for several
minutes, leaving their beds dry, and finally
returned with largely increased volume.
No parallel to this earthquake bas occurred
since 1812.
Mr Greeley' writes to a confectioner in
Bouton that m making ealves’-foct jelly,
the Durham breed should always be select
ed. Take a lire calf, place th£ hind feet in
a corn mill, and then commence to turn,
and the jelly will flow oat in its crude state.
Collect this in a pan amd throw away the
calf. When properly stewedf and flavored
with the fruit of the Axle-tree, it makes a
delicious condiment, and is also good for
bone felons.
In the same letter he denies that sugar
plums can fte succesfully grafted on the
Mtspiliis or Japan p um. “The Sugar
Pium,” he says, ‘ is the natural fruit of the
Cane. While visiting the South I
olten saw colored children gathering them
fn-m the parent stalk, already done up in
f tney paper and blue ribbons ”
W hen a Hindoo priest is about to baptize
an infant, he utters the following beautiful
i*entim*'nt ; “Little babe, thou entereet the
w >r!d weeping, while all around you smile,
continue so to live that you may depart in
smiles while all around you weep.” 1
luk National D&MocitAcr.— The Demo
t'raiic party ill nut be passive in the cota-
i residential election. On the contrary
they have resolved to put forth their very
best exertions. T. he National Executive
Committee will meet soonlifter she Cincin
nati C invention, or in the early part of
M ty, and will appoint a day and place for
the assembling of the National Convention
of the party. To ere will be u regular Con
vention, a regular platform and a regular
ticket. But these will be in accord with
the spirit of the tim<»3—fully up to the
requirements es the occasion. There is no
danger of rash and inconsiderate counsels
prevailing.
If the programme at Cincinnati be as
sensible, broad and liberal us that adopted
l\y the 1 abor Ilsjformera at Columbus, it
will receive the endorsement and support of
the Democrats. Only so far do they feel
pledged to the new political movement.
The time suggested for the Democratic
Convention is the Fourth of July ; the place,
St. Louis. We approve of h >th, and hope
both suggestions will be adopted by the
Executive Committee. What time so ap*
propriate for the holding of a Democratic
National Convention ns the anniversary day
of American Independence, and what place
so suitable as the young, growing metropo
lis of truns-Mississippi, the birth-place of
the Liberal Movement, so far as the last
programme is concerned.— Wilmington (N.
C.) Star.
The bearing of the Southern people, as a
whole, under all that they have been forced,
at the point of the bayonet, and in other
wavs hardly less tyronnous, to undergo, has
been such as to command the respect and
admiration of all candid and unpiejudiced
men. Theirs has been no common lot,
their sufferings uo Common sufferings, nor
is what they have lost to be measured by
any common standard. Amid it all they
have been brave, stout hearted, courage
ous* not sullen nor despairing, though
greatly tempted to despair; but looking
forward, through present darkness and over
present calamities, to tl e dawn of a better
day. Their putiouce, their strength, their
good cheer have nut in vain. Tho
day is breaking, and this is due in great
measure to their temperateness, wisdom and
forbearance unJer trying circumstances.
It cannot but bo believed and hoped that
the exercise of these will continue to the
end. The receut past to lbs Southern peo
ple is a dreary waste. The opening future
is full of promise to them as an integral
part of the American people. And tho
time is not far distant when, relieved of tho
present embarrassments that impede their
progress and bear them down, they will
illustrate, for the encouragement of other
nations and other times, how true it is
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Os their dead selves to higher things.
[ Wist inyion Vat riot.
llei.L.—There is something plausible af
ter all in the doctrine of the Spiritualists
that the real torment of the future state
consists not in a fire and brimstone bell,
but in still hanging around in spirit form
the scenes which one had left, and seeing
how things go on after one’s death. It
must be hell for the spirit of a dead mining
speculator to see stock go up, without the
power of euchering somebody out of a
thousand. Isn’t it hell for a raiser to see
all his savings squandered; for a husband
to see his wife, who swore she loved him ho
fondly, flirt at his iuneral with y >uog
Smith, whom he kicked out of the house,
for a smart business-like spirit, to Bee his
late partner miss chance after chance of
making a pile; for a mining spirit to see
fellows running adrift the wroDg way—
well, we shall all know how it is ourselves
some day.
Wit at Became of the Confederate
Gold —An interesting letter from Col. R.
S. MoSes, clearing up the mystery that has
long hung around the of the
gold belonging to the Confederacy, is pub'
lished in several of our exchanges. A
small portion of it, it appears, was convert
ed into rations for the returning soldiers,
ard no doubt faithfully, while the bulk of
If was turned 07cr to the Federal Quarter
master at Augusta for similar appropria
tions, but whether it was appropriated may
he an interesting subject of inquiry st tho
hands of the authorities at Washington. —
Savannah News.
British Capital for American Indcs-
Tries. — Anew joint-stock eornpaoy has
been formed in tiui*guw for the purpose of
acquiring and working mines and other
property in the State of 6hio. The'prop
erty extends to f?ov i* 'res, and contains
extensive deposits of bb clay-band,
and ball ironstone, ies coal and c’av.
The capital of the company is £250 000, in
£lO shares, and raining operations have
already been begun under the management
of gentlemen connected with Glasgow.
A Riddle
Safe on a fair one’s arm my first may rest,
And raise no tumult in a husband’s breast;
To those who neither creep, nor run, nor fly
The want of legs my second will supply.
My whole's a rival of the fairest toast,
An'i when I’m liked the heat I suffer most
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