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8 200 PER ANNUM.
THE THOMSON ADVERTISER.
Weekly, at $2,00 per annum, in advance.
DeLANEY & ANDERSON, Publishers.
Job Printing of every description, executed
t this office.
MANURE DEPOT!
THE ODDEST
<£ U4N: a H 0 U s E
In Augusta.
Established 1855.
Os this one thing you may be sure :
You’ll have poorer ps without MANURE.
t bEg to offer
PURE PERUVIAN GUANO, 2,<HK) I.BS.
Cash i * llO
LAND PLASTER,
Cash **)
On Time
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO,
Cash *7O
On Time 60
FLOUR OF RAW UN STEAMED BONE,
Cash - *7O
On Time
GROUND BONE,
Cash
On Time ,b
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE OF LIME,
(For Composting with Cotton Seed.) •
Cash •!*“
On Time ■ >7 ’ so
Time Sales are pay aide by Planters. Draft*
on good Factors, maturing Ist November, 1870,
■without interest, j Q MATHEWSON,
3m7 285 Broad Street, Augusta, On.
ALBERT HATCH’S
New Carriage and Harness
Repository,
177 Rrond St, Augusta, Ga.
One door below Southern Ex re<s office, in the
Augusta Hot 1 Building.
AGENT FOR
THETOrfILINSON DEMAREST CO.’S
CELEBRATED
Carriages, Buggies & Plantation Wagons.
Ha-ne-s always on bend nnd male to Order.—
Repairing nc.itl, done, and at sliort notice. 3ml
sys IHANUFACTUR F. *<S*
Superior Cotton Yarn
No. 6to 12. A Do*, No. 400 to 700.
MA r PTU E S S E S
All sixes an l i[ualir.ies to suit, orders.
IB a t t 1 n f? .
Os IV .ste or Good Cotton
W;0 O L CARDING.
The q lality of Oie Rolls unsurpassed.
FLOUR and MEAL
t |TIE GRTBT MILL cannot, b surt.nssed in
I the quality, nor the quahtil of MEAL or
FLOUR turn.-d. A supply of .leal or Flour
constantly on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
i u taste and price
Fancy, Double Extra. Extra Family, FnmMy
Superfine, an l Fine. Graham Ftnur nnd Grit
v> order. SH MiTS and HU AN. for Feed
ilsn kept. The patronage of tbc public is re
spectfu’ly asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
\ splendid stock of
Dry Cood3 and Groceries
in hand and for oils Cheap for Onsh or barter
lot all kinds of Country Produce.
F„ STEADMAN, Prop’r.
STkadman Newton Cos., On., Feblß 19,
Mrs. N. BRUM CLARK’S
MILLINERY & DRESS MAKING
ESTAItLIS iMENT.
251 Broad street. Augusta, On.
JUBT RECEIVED a l u ge and varied stock of
Bonnets. Hats, Feathers, Flowers, etc., etc.,
which are oflfere 1 at a'small advance on the cost.
Mrs.CLARK ;iv es her careful attention to
the DRESS m\KIXO department. Ladies
wishing a perfect fit will be gratified, by calling
on Mrs. C. J3*TA p -rfect fit guaranteed.
ggy-All work delivered when prrmised.
Bridal Tromwaanxjmaile in Style.
Prices Reasonable.
MRS, N. BRUM uLARK,
2m50 25l Broad street, Avgusta, Ga.
Agent for the Florence Sewing Machine.
THE 6EORGIA PAPER iVIILLS.
CAR ULL CO., GA.,
*»7"ILL pay Casit for Rags, Rope, Bagging,
IT and old Papers. Orders solicited for
Wrapping, Manilla, and Printing Paper.
New Mill, Pure Water, Live Men. Prices
Low. Terms Cash.
All inquiries promptly answered. Address
M. P. KELLOGG, Pres. Cos .
g m 2 “College Temple,” New nan, Ga.
O O- P A it T N E 11 SHlP
—Cotton Factors
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
An gust a, Georgia.
STOVALL & ROWLAND.
TIIE undersigned, having associated them
selve* in the Commission Business, umler t he
name and style of STOVALL & ROWLAND,
will give personal - attention to the sale ot
Cotton and other produce, and would respect
fully solicit Planters and Merchants’ business.
Orders for BAGGING, ROPE, TIBS and
FAMILY SUPPLI .S promptly attended to. —
Cash advances on consignments.
Office, corner Jackson and Reyldssteew,
opposite Poullaiu's A areliouse.
'll. A. STOVALL.
CHAS. A. ROWLAND
gept. 10 3m43 formerly Fleming A Rowland
THE THOMSON ADVERTISER.
J. C. MORRIS,
Attorney cut Law,
CON VERS, GA.
L3rOTTf3I3,
COVINGTON, GA.,
TnEflEovo Ilolel has just been opened in
this City. Newly furnished throughout,
and the undersigned will spare no-pains to make
it a favorite retreat for the traveling public
5-stf G. F. MERIWETHER, Pr. p’r.
L. B. Anderson. A. C. McCalla.
ANDERSON A 'McCALLA,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
COVINGTON, GA.
TT7TI.I. attend regularly, and practice in the
\ V Superior Courts of the Counties of Newton,
Butts, ITenry, Spalding, Pike, Monroe, Upson,
Jasper, Waltou, DeKalb, Mprgan and Gwinnett.—
HOL D YOU R C OTTON!
I HAVE road* mr i -uremcuts to Ship for
Flantcrs their COTTON to New York, and
hold the same for them until the Ist of July
next, ami will advance one half of the value of
Cotton on the d*y us ship i ent. Call and make
voar ar. aturements, nuJ hold your cotton for
Higher Prices. A. la. CAMP.
Covington. Ga,. Nor. 8, T569.—2m2
I would respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton, and adjoining
t A counties, that I have opened a
SADDLE nnd HARNESS SHOP
On north side public square in COVINGTON
where I :int prepared to make to order, Harness
Saddles, A c , or Uepair the same at short notice,
and in the best style.
17 if . JAMES B. BROWN
\C. COOK infc >nns his friends and t lie pnb
• lie that he is now prepared to fill Ills orders
for Vines and Planting, A full assortment of
choice Grape Vines and Cuttings for sale low.
Also agent for K. iTlleureurc’s Air Treatment of
Wines, and in Distilling, Malting, Manufacture of
Syrups, Sugar, Oils, in Tanning, and all Fluids,
and many solids, as Bread making, curing Tobacco,
and other organic substances.—ly4Bj
.1 OsK. 1’ II V. TINS LB Y,
Watchmaker A Jeweler
Is fully prepared to Repair Watches, Cloek'
jnd Jew.dr\, in the best Style, at short notice,
Al! Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House.—stf
JO IT in S • CARROLL,
DENTIST
coVln (S ton, g ko n gra.
Teeth Filled, or New ones Inserted,in
‘tiVtil •Yth. best Style. an«l on Reasonable Term#
Office Rear of R. King's Store.—l ltf
Yew Photographic Gallery.
¥ HAVE completed my NEW GALLERY over
3 the P<)*>T ()FFloland am satisfied that. I
can, wiin nw n- w Skv 1 ight, take as Fine a
Picture a» any Artist in th<- State. As I use
none hut Hie very best, mateiial, I will guarntee
satisfaction to all in need of Pictures. Give
me a oalt au«l cxau.iio* specimen-*.
J. W CRAWFORD, Artist.
Covingt.nn, Ga, Nov. 20, 1809.—4 30tf
JEWELRY! JEWELRY!
rll AVI’. JUBTOPENED a Fine lot of Jew. b y,
inciii’dng nil the Ice styles of Ladies’ Fine
Cold PrtiM ri, 'S an t Far ltin./s. also Slu-11, J e t,
Corri'Ran,and Pmtrl Breast Pius, nnd ifracelcts,
Gcrr's shell, J-t. Hair, St.-el, and Leather,
Watch i hains. Finger Kings, &<;. Also, anew
lot of Watches and (’Jocks, and a full supply of
Spectacles, Ca«e«, I respectfully invite a
call from the ladies, anl all n " antof anything
J. M. LEVY.
OH. TI IT’S .SARSAPARILLA AND QUEENS
Dr.LL.UT. The great Blood Pnrifier.
, y: TUTT’S EXPECTORANT. A certain cure
H \R. TI TT’S IMPROVED HAIR DYE. The
1 / ' . -t Dve in tro*
OR. TUTT’S VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS,
For Liver Complaint, Dispcpsla, <fec.
Tl.ese valuable Preparations are for sale in
( ovingtltn, hv... Dr. J. E. IT. WARE
] , C.-nyers, by DR. J. A. STEWART
Ii Jom-,horo, by GEORGE MANSFIELD
Hi Thomson by A. I). HILL
FISK’S METALLIC B'JSIAL CASES
AND CAS K!’T S ,
-or sale by THOMPSON & HUTCHINS,
]y29 (,'ovington Ga.
I lotels.
PL AN TERS HOTEL,
Auouhta. GnonnrA,
This well ktiown first class lUtel is now re
opened for thr accommodation of *he traveling
public, with the assurance that those who may
have •>-o:n*ion to visit Augusta, will be made
comfortab'e. As this Hotel is now complete in
every Department, the Proprietor hopes, that by
strict and personal attention, to merit a share of
public patronage.
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Pro’p,
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA OEOKOIA
WHITAKER .<t SASBEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
i;cr Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot,
white & Whitlock, Prc tetors
Having re-leased and renovated ie above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain uests m a
most satisfactory manner. Charp » fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot .rceof charge
CLOTHIPIS AT WHOLESALE.
R. P. S. KIMBRO &■ CO.,
Decatur Street, ATLANTA, GA.
1 TTE beg to inform our friends and the Public,
W that we arc now opening the largest and
choicest stock of
READY MADE CLOTH IN «,
Ever offered in Atlanta, and propose doing a
Wholesale Jobbing Business.
Haring associated ourselves- with one of the
largest Manufacturing Houses of Philadelphia
we are enabled to sell goods as low as any House
in the country, and respectfully invite you to
call and examine our st. ek. as we jnean what
we say in regard to low prices. .
We will keep constantly on hand a full stock
of Clothing and Furnishing Goods for Men’s
Wear. .
Ho not fait to call and examine our stock
before - eking your purchases, as we believe « e
can make it to your interest to l uy your goods
of „ a . 11. P. S. KIMBRO A CO.
Atlanta, Ga.—3m43
THOMSON GA, JAN, ?2, 1870.
The Tempest oi the Soul.
Tempests their furious course may sweep
Swiftly o'er the troubled deep,
Darkness may lend her gloomy aid, |
And wrap the groaning world in shade ;
But man can show a darker hour,
And bend beneath a stronger power;—
There is a tempest of the soul,
I A gloom where wilder billows roil I
The howling wilderness may spread
Its pathless deserts, parched and dread,
Where not a blade of herbage blooms,
Nor yields the breeze its soft perfumes;
Where silence, death, and horror reign
Uncheeked, across I lie wide domain ;
There is a desert of the mind
Mure hopeless, dreary, undefined !
There. Sorror, moody Discontent,
And gnawing Care, are wildly blent;
There Horror hangs her darkest clouds,
And the whole seenc.in goont enshrouds;
A sickly ray is cast around,
Where nought but dreariness is found ;
A feeling that may not ho told,
Dark, rending, lonely, drear, and cold.
The wildest ills that darken life
Are rapture to the bosom’s slrife ;
The tempest, in its blackest form,
Ts beauty to the bosom's storm ;
The ocean, lashed to fury loud.
Its high waves mingling with the cloud,
Is peaceful, sweet serenity
To passion’s dark and houndless sea.
There sleeps no calm, there smiles no rest,
When storms arc warring in the breast;
There is no moment of reposo
In bosoms lashodby bidden woos ;
The scorpion sting the fury renrs,
And every trembling filiro tears;
The vulture preys with bloody beak
Upon the heart that can but break I
Anew denomination of religionists is spring-’
ing up in Massachusetts. The converts arc
already numerous. They holievo in the doc
trine of future rewards and punishments, and
that the good, when they die, will go to Bos'
lon. They have just commenced business,
and haven’t yet determined where the bad will
goto. There was at first a strong party in
favor ofc Chicago, but they vvet-o induced to
ahanf on tbc idea of that place—not because
they thought it unfit for the future almdo of
of the damned, but on neeonrrt of tbc cost of
transportation.
John Van Bureti once won a suit at which
the opposite parly was so much enraged that
lie declared that whenever he met “Princo
John” he would jafeh into him. They en
oomtlcrod each other at an oyster counter.—
The man at once addressed hint '
"Mr. Van Bureti, is there a cause so bad, or
an individual so infamous, that your services
cannot ho obtained 7"
“t cannot say,” said John, swallowing an
other oyslcr-. and, stooping over, he asked in
an undertone that everybody could hear:
“What have you been doing?”
A loyal Washington nigger was arrested for
stealing—an unusual occurrence, by the way
—when the magistrate said : “I thought, Sam,
you belonged to the lny.il party; that’s on its
good behavior, you know? ® ‘‘Dat’s just so,
massa ; we’s two clauses—do high and do low.
Do high takes what’s guv to ’em like
Mass-a. Grant; do low takes what’s not guv to
’em like Massa Butler. I’se a low, massa,
dat’s all.”
Several tons of Cirlifornia flax have lately
been worked into bagging, and the result of
the experiment is said to be highly satisfactory.
It is considered that the fabric made from the
California article is superior to that from the
jute which is imported at a heavy expense.
During a revival meeting, a good Methodist
lady made a fervent exhortation, prefacing i
with the remark that sho once enjoyed herself
hy going to theatres. An inattentive but en
thusiastic brother shouted: ‘‘So did I—bless
the Lord 1”
“My dear Dolly, I am surprised ot your
taste in wearing another woman’s hair on
your head," said Smith to bis wife. “My
dear Joe, I am equally astonished that you
persist in wearing another sheep’s wool on your
back. There now 1”
A young man living in Lafayette, Ind., is
humility personified. The other day he asked
ayoungl.-idy if ho might “be allowed the priv
ilege of going home with her,” and was indig
nantly refused ; whereupon he inquired very
humbly if lie might be “allowed to sit on tho
fence and see her go by.”
Mr. Mungen, of Ohio, who advoeatod the
repudiation of national debt, in a speech in
the House of Representatives on the 14th inst.,
voted against the proposed increase of $44,-
000,000 greenbacks, whereat his constituents
are greatly incensed, and there is some talk of
formally calling upon him to resign,
A religious paper says that “Shoo, Fly,” is
more popular than the Lord's Prayer. If the
religious people would practice on the Lord's
Prayer as much as the minstrels do on their
favorite, there is no reason why it shouldn’t be
as popular.
A lady asked Iter gardener why the weeds
always outgrow the flowers. “Madame,” an
swered he, “ tho soil is mother to tho weeds,
but only step mother to the flowers."
The Peabody funeral fleet is due at Portland
about the 18th inst. Extensive perparations
are making in Boston and Portland to give
proper effect to the occasion.
REPORT
Bend before the Newton County Agricultural
Spciety, January 8, 1870.
jjMit. President, and Gbnti.emen of TtiE
Soc. ~y:— Wu, tho Committee appointed to
examine the “Ladies’ Department" at'the
State Agricultural Fair, held in Macon in
NdYvmbor last, and report the result and con
clusions of our examination to this Club ; beg
to state that we entered upon that examination
umu r difficulties. First: we are candid to
confess that we wore not competent Judges of
the merits of many of the articles found on
exhibition in this Department, and especially
is t!-'S-truo of tho Chairman of the Committee
—h - bung -‘Benedick the Bachelor.”
Again: you have heard or read, perhaps,
that Bcikes said the Fair was a “scrouge.”—
Btf'L Spikes was right; it was a scrouge—a
tree 'ttdous scrouge. The articles furnished
by the ladies for exhibition were placed in the
seem and story of the Laboratory Building; and
here the scrouge was intense—culminating in
a S' noezo and a jam, crushing and almost in
extitleable; the like of which wo never saw,
or%,t before. Wo not only had no room to
rn|ke ' critical examination of the various
armies‘found on exhibition, but often no room
in which to turn round, without committing a
trespass upon some gentleman’s corn,or form-,
ingjl n ‘entangling alliance’ with some ladies’
pas thernalin ; tho result of which was, some
tiff a fierce ‘damn’ from the gentleman for
tMSi.aforesaid trespass; nnd from tho lady a
rebuking look, withering and wilting in tho
eitii me in its effects upon us, for forming the
said entangling alliance, as aforesaid.
. 'Hlsiso who were so unfortunate, or fortu
nate, as tho case may be, as not to have been
present on that grand occasion, can form no
conception of the huge proportions of this dis-
Kculty.
Once more : tho scrouge ns intimated, came
to a head on this floor of the building, nnd was
got on up hero ohiefly by tho ladies therrtseltos,
who were ns thick as Autumn leaves, nnd
thicker too; so Hint, when wo essayed to exs
amine tho articles on exhibition, beautiful and
exquisite as many of them were, we wore so
bewitched nnd bewildered by the wondrous
bcfttilv nnd transcendent loveliness of the
ladies themselves, that we forgot our duty.—
Who would, or who could fix his admiring
gaze upon earth’s tiny glow-worms, when
abqve him thick, as swarming bees, heaven’s
countless stars beamed and twinkled in match
less beauty and glorious brilliancy ? .
The naturo and character of this difficulty is
such, that wc feel free to throw ourselves at
full length uponhlto leniency of at least any
tinji -very one who even merely peeped into
Shi, t-oom of the building, for nil defects in
tj.is report. Wo shall not attempt to parlicu
.triz ns t-i any of the many articles wc saw
on exhibition in this Department. Wore we
to do so, wo would not know where to com
mence, or when to stop. Suffice it to say, that
wc saw paintings which for beauty of concep
tion, correctness of design, skill of execution
and exquisitencss of finish, were worthy of tho
highest praise and heartiest ndrnirution-highly
suggestive of the fact, that some names in this
line, already given to fame, had better look
well to their laurels.
Close by some of thoso paintings, we saw
preserves and jellies, (we trust that no one will
be shocked by the single step from paintings
to preserves) the very looks of whoso delicate,
but rich, luscious, tempting color and appear
aneo were enough to make one’s mouth fairly
water; and we have not a particle of doubt
but that a round bait of which, accompanied
with a quantum sufficit of some of tho inviting
cake and wine near by, would make one think
strongly, that ho was feasting on tho famed
“Nectar of the Gods.”
Hard by these sweets and dainties, if you
will pardon another step in perhaps an awk
ward and unexpected direction, wc noticed s
most exquisite article of woman’s apparel—
name unknown, at least to tho chairman of
your committee—whose delicate texture, rich
pattern, spotless purity—for it was white as
the robe of a saint—ornate and beautiful finish,
made np a ‘th;ng of bo;.jty,’ the possession of
which would make glad the heart of a princess.
Nostling close by this ‘tl.ing of beauty,’ and
occupying, irt our opinion, a most appropriate
position, was n perfect little gem of a baby
dress, gotten up in a style and after a fashion
that would transform in a moment, ‘in the
twinkling of an eye,’ the brawlingcst bugbear
of a brat that ever bore the impress of human
ity, into the sweetest, darlingest little angel of
a baity that ever had, in expectancy, its moth
er’s loveliness and its father’s manliness.
Occupying a neighboring position, wo saw
quilts nnd coverlets, which—well, they were
charming; and a quiet snooze under their soft
an»j graceful folds would no doubt be full of
dreams of Paradise and visions of the Angola.
And in this Department we beard music, no
idea of whioh can we give you. We have read
of the ‘inusio of the spheres,’ and of tho mel
qdy way back yonder, in the long long ago,
yjien the ‘morning stars sang together;’ but
ficither of theso ‘fill the bill’ by any manner
of means. Os the music we heard in this
Department, we can only say as has been said
of ‘Adam’s recollection of his fall,’ —it stands
alone.
But we would hy no means create the im
pression, that in our opinion, each and every
article we saw on exhibition in this Depart
ment, deserved a premium, for we saw many
articles, the equals of which in merit and
boauty, we think may be found in many a
good housewife's home ; and whioh she never
dreamed of sending to a Fair.
Still, wc saw enough, in our opinion, to
justify us in saying that the brave men of
Georgia are, and of right ought to bo proud of
their mothers, thoir wives, their daughters,
their sisters, and their sweet hearts.
It may be going outside of the scope ex
pected of our report; still, wc cannot close
without speaking of something wo saw, not
exactly in the ‘ladies! department.’ We *isi
ted tho Velobipede Rink, where we saw a
woman, so called, dressed in a flashy hybrid
manner, enter the arena astride a Velocipede,
and before a noisy rude mixed multitude, eon
tost with men, the palm of speed and bottom.
But we are glad, ayo 1 ptoud, to be able bo
say, that this woman was no daughter of
Georgia, or of the South, the land we love; and
we hope and confidently believe, that the day
will never come, when a daughter of hers will
be seen exhibiting herself in a manner and
after a fashion, so immodest, so unlovely, so
unwomanly ! The daughters of Georgia were
made for no sugli purpose! They were made
to love, and to be loved—the light and orna
ment of our homes—the joy and pride of our
hearts, they are benntiful, stars ever pointing
us by their purity and loveliness, to happier
homes above tho sky, whore dwell in blissful
existence their kindred spirits, the angels.
J. B. Davis,
N. C. Carr,
F. M. Whitehead,
Committee.
No Resurrection t
Tho following beautiful extract is from a
speech delivered by Hon. D. W. Voorhees, of
Indiana :
It is a melancholy spectacle to behold a free
government die. Tho world, it is true, is filled
with evidences of decay. All nature speaks
tho voice of dissolution, and tho highway of
history and of life is strown with the wrecks
which Time the groat despoiler, has made.—
llto hopes of the future, bright visions of re
vtvtng glory, are nowhere denied to the Jheart
of man, save as he gazes on the downfall of
legal liberty. He listens mournfully to the
autumn winds ns they sigh through dismantled
forests, but ho knows that their breath will be
soft anti vernal in tho spring, and that the
doad flowers and withered foliage will blossom
and bloom again. 110 sees the sky overcast
with the angry frown of tempests, but he knows
that the sun will reappear and the emblazonry
of God cannot perish. Man himself, this
slrango connecting link between dust and De
ity, totters wearily, wearily onward under the
weight of years and pain, toward tho ton.b,
but how briefly his life lingers nrouhd tho
dismal spot. It is filled with tears and grief:
and the willow and cypress gather kround it
with their loving but mournfut embrace.
And is this all ? Not so 1 If a man-die,
ahull he not live again ? Beyond the grave in
the distant Aiden, Hope provides an elysium
of the soul where it assumes immortality, and
life becomes an endless splendor. But where,
sir, in all the dreary regions of the past, filled
with convulsions, rtr.d -crimes; o.tti vou point
your finger to the tomb of a freo oomtnonwetilth
on which the angels of resurrection have ever
descended or from whose sepulchre the stone
of dcspofi-itit has ever been rolled away?—
IV here, in what ago, and in what clime have
the veins of constitutional freedom renewed
their youth, and regained their 10-t estate?
By whose strong grip has tho dead corpse of
the Republic, once fallen, ever been raised ?
The merciful Maker who walked upon the
waters and bade the winds be still, left no or
dained apostle with the power to wrench apart
the jaws of national death, and release the
victim of despotism. Tho wail of tho heart
broken over tho doad is not so sad to me as the
realization of this fact. But all history, with
a loud, unbroken voice, proclaims it ; and the
evidence of what the past has been is conclusive
to mv mind of what the future will be.—
Wherever in tho domain of human ccnduot a
people once posses.-ed of libct ty have surrender
od these great gifts of God at tho command of
tho usurper, they have never afterwards proven
themselves worthy to regain their forfeited
treasure.
It is stntod that Chief Justice Chase has
written lotters to reform members of tho Ohio
Legislature lie has influence with, urging
upon them tho importance of ratifying tho
Fifteenth Amendment. The Chief Justice is
exceedingly anxious that Ohio should ratify
tho amendment, and is said to be using his
personal influence for this purpose. In con
versation with a gentleman a few days ago, ho
said he would be very much disappointed if
tho Ohio Legislature did not ratify the amend
ment. lie thought, from his knowledge of the
re'orm members elect, that most of them would
vote for it.
Alluding to tho woman suffrago question,
the San Joaquin, California, Itopubliean says:
“ She for whose love man has defied every
danger, has streaked her face with dirty paint,
dug up tho tomahawk, raised the whoop, and
sallied forth on the war path. Woman suffrage
robs man of his dearest privilege and his most
powerful incentive to deeds of valor and re
nown.”
Tho Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore Gazette, writing under date of tho 10th
instant; say 9 :
Tho National Intelligcncor died this morn
ing at an early hour, for the fourth time.—
This pitch, however, it is not only dead, but
buried, and beyond resurrection. Its last pro
prietor, in penning its obituary, takes care
(like Cervantes with his hero, Don Quixotte)
to give ample notico that no more sallies can
possibly occur. The coast is therefore clear
nnd I learn that parties have already arranged
for tho issue of a purely Democratic pnpar at
the metropolis.
The State Department lias received, from tho
Governor of New York official notification of
tho repeal of the ratification of tho fifteenth
amendment.
VOL 4. NO. IQ;
“Alone.”
What a short word, and how significant,
in so many different senses. Alone 1 whilri'
it speaks vest and peace to Somo of earth’s
children, to others, it breathes forth the hcavs
iest burthens of grief and despair.
“Alone at last 1” attd'the weary statesman
sinks into his chair, in his private library, in
the very abandon of the relief he feels
Weary in heart, body and mind, so glad he
can at last find one moment his own. Alone f
how sweet the word to him, sines his cares"
have weighed so heavily upon him, and planted*
so many deep furrows in that once smooth'
brow, and sprinkled thi. kly with silver thoso
once dark locks. Ills thoughts aro turned to
the past, with its wearisome record, and 1
through the dim future he tries to trace, by
the aid of the past, tho. realities of life that
await him. j.Ver and anon he starts as if frorf
some horrid phantom, and seems to wrap him*
self more securely in the delightful elysium of
alone !
“Oh! how Ido enjoy being alono, some*
itnics r» and a merry school girl threw hersej/
on the ottoman, in front of the grate, while hqr
bright eyes, Naming with joy, began busily
traemg heart pictures in the glowing coals.—
The young being whose soul overflowed' *ith‘
the happiness and beauty of living, .sough*
solitude in the very exuberance of her j„js
ousness, to wonder if it-sifould ever be thus ttf
the end of her life journey ; that she should
continue in the same beautiful flowory paths of
life, without one rough stone or sharp thorn of
envy, malice or bitterness to bruise or pierce
tho tender feet, so accustomed to the paths of
pleasantness and peace. Dream on, fair
dreamer 1 would that the beatftiMl pictures
you trace could bo more than' realised—that
you could live on your sweot life, unsullied by
care, and undimnied by Horrow. But to those'
“ born of cart h ”it cannot be. The realities'
of life cannot be passed by in silonce. The’
true and pure of every ago and condition/
must meet the temptations and trials that beset
the path of every one, and, “alone, some*
times ' only the moro plainly points us to the’
only haven of rest prepared beyond the “si
lent river.”
Alone I In a cozy room beside a tiny work
stand, on which rests a clear, bright lamp, t£
young wife bends dreamily over her sewing
while she, ever and anon, glances up at the'
busy clock on the mantle shelf to note the'
hour. Hotv laggard is old Time, to her, for
tho hands of tho clock do drag so slowly over
each minute. “Alone” has no charms for
hor. To have her “dear, dear Harry’’ seated
near her is the sum of her greatest happiness’.
And while tho bright dressing gown ar.d gaily'
braidod slippers lie empty before the warin’
fire, her heart will bo restless and discontented,
while she wearily counts the moments n« tt.av
pass away. Patience, young wife, ’tis only
one of the many trials which await you. Tho
stern demands of life detain from you the*
•'boson ‘dear one,’ and, all alone 1 you draw
fairy pictures of the happiness of his coming.-
1 ho iron door clangs to, the heavy bolts aro
drawn, and the miserable prisoner is alone in
hisjfuu! cell. The bright and pure sunshine ir
domed lam, for his crimo is one that can
claim no leniency at tho hands of the jailor.-
A murderer 1 how pale his face grows and
how despairingly he sinks on the floor and
covers his face with his hands, irt the first moV
ments of solitude, when the terrible words fall
so heavily upon his heart and he fully realizes
the terribleness of the alone to which his own’
act has consigned him. While in the agon/
of remorse lie exclaims, “My mother! how'
can sho bear to hear of my fearful crime?”
• lie pearly gates of his innocence are forever*
closed upon him, as the darkness of despair
cieeps into his heart, he curses the day ho’
first saw the light, and alone, to him, is more'
terrible than can he described, .and he sinks
beneath the load of agony to dream of the'
happy past.
A fair, sad eyed mother sat near an open
window, before a Irttlo trunk, which she was
sadly packing with fairy like clothes, that la/
on the chairs, in the empty crib, and on the'
sofa of the pleasant bed chamber—as each tiny
article! found a resting place in tho trunk, a
mother’s tears embalmed them. At lost a
little stocking and erumplod shoe lay in hor
lap and hor tears fell faster yet. The exaefl
impress of tho darling little feet were still
in them, although those same feet were long
since stilled forever. The mother oressed them
(p her breast, and felt more deeply tho pangs
of her loneliness. For her darling, the swoot
wearer of the little clothes, had been snatched
from her bosom in the beauty and purity of
its infancy. The golden stream of sunshine'
camo in at the open window, and rested lov*
ingly on tho pictured image, shrouded in
crape, of a beautiful infant, which hung on
the wall. There its glimmering warm rays
flooded the little crib, and goldened the little’
clothes, which that gentle, sad mother pul
away in tho trunk, all warm with tho sun*
light.
Alono ! alono ! rung more clearly and sadly
in her heart, but she grieved not, as one with
out hope for her trust was stayed on the ‘Rock
of ages,’ and sho knew it would not he be*
trayed.
A prodigal son writes his father from Omaha ; ;
“1 have to have my only shirt washed by the
dozen, for it is in twelve pieces, and the smallest
liolo in it is the one 1 put my head through,”
A French writer has said that to dream
gloriously, you must act gloriously when 1 ’
awake;aud to bring ungels down to converse
with you in your sleep, you must labor in the'
cause of virtue during the day.
In diving to the bottom of pleasures; vs’
bring up more gravel ibuu pearls.