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\ Ufa] ’ I I . r ' ’ w . Terns of Subscription. .. »- Wneoopy. one year One.copy, six.months 1-00 •‘fferfeofife*. in<SiiMs, one year, each.... _1 W Single c0pie5........ Sets. * KIT AB subscription* fnYaVibtvln advance j! - BUSINESS CARDS. *t J> i (H H * Lincolnton , Ga. H. ft RONEY, ATTOINKV AT I.AAV, | A THOMSON. 04. Cl) if Will practice in the Auguste. North ern and girguits. .. J PAUL a ffUDSON, AITORNEX AT LA W t Tliomson, On. Will practice in the Superior Courts of 1 the Auguste, Northern anil Middle Circuits, , and in the Supreme Court, ami will give j attention to all cases iu Bankruptcy. Aug. g;>, itit. ts Central t)oH. ib^t MBS. W, M. THOMAS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA w>plltf •*** ** * *> * ** * ' DR. A. C. QUILLIAN, DENTIST, Thomstm, Oft. imra hct:i . Charleston, S. C. a. r. ali-dud .e co., Bates. fil.'W) per day Proprietors. OP VlNi EMS I> fi TJ M ASD MOItPI^'E, A N T IDOTE, l’crma::cut|v cure*? the thuilifl Hol.it. For less Ur&n StriSsfll an f otfbw flisA.vere.l aiid prod-iced by Dr. W. T. Hark, il Georgian. Ucgular grud'iate. 2 1 years 111 tlie Practice of Medicine with an omuldish' and reputation ;!»•«* (k Roeih. for his aneces-fut Lra”*" #alf "rd of diseases. If no cue V es j; .nenniad s 4>Uesfiotis. Price >i*t, and ail particulars mailed to any one on application Advice and Medicine for all ■ni sr,, ci ,; diseases, as well as the Opium H lint. f..ra-fwt«d l.jr F.vpraaain any part of the I' S. Agents M inted in every section. Address W. T. PARK, M. D., P. «>. Bor Atlanta, Ga. decl.»-tf Thomson High Scliool « ' Ffl|U nT | T n BOYS and GIRLS. X HE Spring sauaion of this Institution will open on Monday, January 17,1870, and continue nix scholastic months. Kates 6r Tuition per scholastic year S2O, $lO and S4O, according to class. The Course of Study embraces all the English branches and the ancient lan guages. Students will be charged from time of eiitrauee until close of term. Deductions made iu case of protracted sickness. Board in private families can be obtain ed at reasonable rates. For further particulars apply to the undersigned. E. E. NEAL, Principal. CHAS. A. LADEVEZE, Picture Frames, LOOKING GLASS PLATES, qtoOKUfO GLAUSES in Fbahf.s, PICTURE CORD AND TASSELS, Poreelaiu A Glass Head Picture Naib, »c j c j Illuminated Scriptural Texts, RUSTIC and OVAL FRAMES, WALL BRACKETS, WALL POCKETS, AC. NO. 16 WASHINGTON STEEET, Between Broad and Ellis, AUGUSTA, OA. Paint & Repair shoj. THE undersigned respectfully informs the citizens of McDuffie and surround ing counties that he has opened a shop on Main Street, in Thomson, where he will re ceive orders for Painting. Paper Hanging Repairing Furniture. Ac. CANING CHAIRS AND GLAZING solidted um ry (The Mc§ape pfeeMf Jouijnal. VOL. VI. TO THE " Plate, Mrtits, MAtfUFacvviams OF MCDUFFIE AND ADJOINING CQgK ™ Jw. a3 sJa A ajx sK* TIES. TTTE would call vour attention to our uts Hardware. Carriage Material of every de scription, Springs, Axles, Hubs, Rims, Spokes, .Ac., Also, Harnesa, Upper and HSle Laather. Shoo Findings. Machine Oil. Gum and Hemp Packing, and Belting, all widths, at Manufacture)-* price*. ■■ l. CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES in great variety. All kinds of Carriage Building and Ro , pairing at short notice by experienced work ! men. at prices to gnit the times. Sole Agents for the celebrated JACKSON I PLANTATION WAGON. We invite all who appreciate good goods and the saving of money to give us a call. DAY, TANNAHILL A: CO.. I , (Successors to W. C. Jessup, k‘24-c*. AUGUSTA. GA. : 'the weekly - sun IHTR. NKW YORK. I<*T«. Righteun hundred and seventy-six is the Centennial year. It ft also the year in which an opposition House of Representa tives, the first since the war, will be in pow er at Washington; and the year of the twenty-third election of a President of the ■ United States. All of these events aremure to be of great interest and importunes, es pecially the two latter: and all of them and everything connected with them will he fnl ly aiid freshly reported and expounded in Tun Son. The opposition House of Representatives, taking up the line of ibqiliry opened years ago by The Son, will sternly ail i dilluently ] investigate the corruptions and misdeeds of Ghent's administration; and will, it is to be hoped, lay the foundation for anew and better period iu onr national history. Os aU this I hk Son will contain complete and accurate accounts, furnishing its readers w ith early and trustworthy reformation up on these absorbing topics. The twenty-third Presidential election, with the preparations for it, will be memo rable as deciding upon Grant's aspirations for S third term of power and plunder, and .fill more as fleclifing who shall lio the can didate of the party of Reform, and ns elect ing that candidate. Concerning all these subjects, those who lead The Son will have | the constant means of being thoroughly | well informed. | The Weekly Son, which has attained a circulation of over eighty thyusund copies, already has its readers it), every State and Territory, and wo trust that the year 187 ti will see their numbers doubled. It will continue to be a thorough newspaper.,, All tins gcuoral news’of the day v, ill be fiumd "iii it, condensed when unimportant, at full length when of moment; and always, we trust, treated in a f dltttt, interesting und in stroutive manner. It is our aim t<4 Blake the Weeki.t fh*N the best family newspaper in tlie world, and we shall continue to give in its tubulins a large amount of miscellaneous reading, such as stories, tales, poems, scientific intelli gence. and agricultural information, for which we are not able to make room In our daily edition. Tlie agricultural department especially is one of its prominent features. The fashions are also regularly reported in its columns: uud so are the tnurkets of ev ery kind. The Weekly Sun, eight pages with fifty six broad columns is only $1.20 a year, pos tage prepaid. As this price barely repays the cost of the paper, n<. discount can be made from this rate to clubs, agents, Post masters, or anyone. The Dailt Kvn, a large four page news paper of twenty-eight columns, gives all the news for two cents a copy. Subscription, postage prepaid, .'sic. a mouth or t'fi.f.O a year. Sunday edition extra, sl.lO per year. We have no travelling agents. Address, The Sun, New York City. Economy is Weal! rPHE UNDERSIGNED respectfully in -1 forms the public that he is prepared to REPAIR OLD FURNITURE, of all kinds, at a very moderate cost. If you desire yodr Bureaus, Washfitands, Wardrobes, Sofas, Settees, Chair*, or any kind of room »r parlor Furniture mad'- to look as good as new. brhig them (long. Satisfaction giiaranted. Can be found at J. M. Curtis’ Shop. tfSTTenns Cash. GEO, V. ATKINSON. al2-tf. Main Street, Thomson, Ga. ~ HALL’S ~S SAFE and LOCK CO., Always keep on hajid a large stock of the world-renowned Hall Safes—kotli in Fire and Burglar proof. We also have a large stock of second hand Safes which we have taken in ex change, as bankers and merchants through out tb* entire world have seen the folly of using cheap shoddy work and are adopting the work of Hall’s Safe & Lock Cos., uni versally. We will offer and in fact eb, any of the above second-hand Safes at one fourth their original cost. Please call and examine stock of new and second-hand Safes before purchasing else where. Remember, we are the only Manufactu rers of the Double Chronometic Attach ment for bank Locks. Y'ou can see them by calling at the office and salesroom of HALL’S SAFE & LOCK CO. ATLANTA, GA. No. SI, Broad Street. Sale, GEORGIA—McDuffie Coukty. WILL be sold before the Court House door in Thomson, Ga.v on the first Tuesday in February next, the House and Lot situated in Thomson belonging to the estate of Mary J. Cowles, deceased. Terms: One half cash and balance due first day of November next at 10 per cent, interest from time of purchase. Bond for titles given purchaser. JNO. M. CCKTIS. » Agenti for JAS. L, HARDAWAY,) Legatees. POETICAL. LONGING. ax loxofeluow: I see the lights in the village te »■’ - Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o’er me, That my soul cannot resist. At feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain. And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Gome read to me some poem— Some simple and beautiful lay. That shall soothe this restless feeling, ' And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not front the bards Pul l:me. Whose distant footstep* echo Through the corridors of time. For. like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life’s endless .toil and endeavor, And to-night I Umg for rest. Read from some humble poet. Whose Smug i gushed from his heart. As Khoo*rs from the clouds of summer, Qr tears from the. oylids start. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, ‘ And come like the benediction Tltat.follows after the prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of iny choice, And lend to lho rbymu of the poet of ttiy voice. • And the uigiit shall bo filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And ss silently stoal Away. HAMH A l HKirJS WILL. Well, grandfather was dead. Poor old grandfather ! Orer and over Hgutiv, the thought that he must die had made me you know. And uov it bad happerie and was all over, aud I sat in a kind of miserable drexup, to Law yer Curdle. Wliat vv.il lie asking me. ?— 1 where grandfather kept his will—tliut was it. Had I not been told—did I not know—ft will in iny favor, leaving every thing to me ? Os isonr.se I kua'v of it. “Grandpapa wanted to tell me,” Raid I, under-aUiudiuc hiui at last, “but J would not let hitn. I could not bear to tilinghis Being deiid. .1 hoped fye, would not die before I did.” “Iu legal matters, > ladies arc littlo abort of idiots,” said Mr. Curdle. “1 grieve to distress yon, buts suppose you know tlieiVs a rantpant nl> fury down stairs, who claims this place and every thing ill it—who is really your grandfa- ! ther’s sister, and who, if there is no will found, can turn you out of house mid home. You were uot actually related at all. Come now plain speaking is neces- j sary ; if we find tlie will you are an heir- j ess ; if not, a Ireggur.” “Nothing could mAke me that,” said I. “Nothing while I have ten fingers.” But he had roused me at last. Where had graudfather told me the will was ? I tried to think, No, he had not told me. I had put my hand over his mouth and said : “Grandpa, don't; I shall cry myself to death if you die ; so I slla’n’l waiit anything.” And ho had suid : “Well, well, I know you are not wait ing for dead men's shoes, little one. I know that, my child; aud some other day, some other day.” And the next morning he was found dead in his bed —the very next morning. “Y’ou see, it is somewhere,” said I, “else grandpa would uot have mentioned it.” “You don’t think,” he said, “he had destroyed it, and was about to make a new one, or anything of that sort ?” asked the lawyer. “No," said I, “I thin* not. I’ll try to remember wlmt he said exactly. Oil, this was it, I think : ‘Beulah, it will be very important when I come to leave you that you ahull know alxmt my will. I liave made one and hid it in the most in genious place. ’ Then 1 etopped liiurj. That's all.” "Utter lnsainty," said Mr. Curdle. “Utter insanity.” He was usually very polyte, I dish not wdfider that ilia equaßiihiky *■» dis turbed when X went down stairs and saw the persoi* whom he hid descrilied as a “rampant old fury.” She was a very old woman, with hair that was still bright red, and a long, sharp nose. Hfie was covered with Snuff, which she used constantly, and smelt like a at the top of her voice apparently to no one in particular. “Lawyers, lawyers,” she was sayiug ; “all alike the world over. Didn’t seud me word of my poor brother’s death. Not a word, not a line. So that I shouldn’t come to claim my own. Left it to that gal, eh ? Humbug. She’a no relation at all. Margaret Boker had a little gal already by a first husband when she married him. This is that gal’s child. No, rclation-rjupu.', THOMSON, GA. JANUARY 26.1876. No, no; my brotl er’andl haven’s teen friends, I know ; but all the same if b hasn’t left a will ; and I know he didn’t. AM hi* property is mine.” She took snuff again and scowled at mejfurious’y. I shrank away, und be gan to feel how important it was that the will nhould be found. I searched eagerly enough now. I turned back carpets and shook out curtains. 1 rum maged every desk and drawer, trunk and box iu the house ; all in vain. At last even Mr. Curdle acknowledged that fur ther search was hopeless. “a man should confide his w'U to his lawyer,” Bnid he. “A lawyer's box is the only safe place for it. No doubt this old woman has employed soma one to steal your grandfsther’s will from its ‘very ingenious 1 hiding-place, and the reirtlt i* that you are a beggar.” “Yon are ridiculing poor dead graud l pa, and calling me names,” I said, burst ! ing into tears. “My poor, foolish child !” said Mr. Curdle, “Why didn’t you hear what he had to say, at least ? Together, you I have made a nice mess of it.” i We had certainly, as I acknowledged ; when old Miss Humphries took possess- I ion of the homestead, and I found that 1 : was no longer mistress of tlie dew old j place-r-that J. had nyt even a right there, 1 but was an interloper. When, to crown j all, she came to me juf I lay weeping on I iny bed,and said in her ual'bh, nasal | tones : : “Beulah, *it up and stop crying. I’ve got soniethipg to say to you. ’’ I sat up iukl , wiped uiy eyes. I con sidered her au euemy, and oue never wishes to weep before erne's fs. “Providence is Providence,. B'nhdi More," saiiT she. “You oughtn’t to rebel agin it—no, you oughn’t. You ougiifto lie contented in the condition yo’ve been called to. But I’m not a hard heurted woman. I’m willing to have you stay with me. Yon can help me in the work, you know, I don't keep serv ants—a lazy, idle set, eating you out of house anil home. A young gai like you can be useful if she’s grateful and wil. . ling; hq I’M kectiyou, Beulah More\<’ t was oiify fourteen years old, but I knew as well as 1 know now that I should be a servant without w ages, and I should have preferred iservico anywhere else; but as she spoke a thought darted into my head. 'Grandfather had certainly spoken of hiding a will somewhere. If I staid and rubbed slid scrubbed, Rud dusted diligently, I should jjiteovov it if it w»h above ground, aud not stolen, as Mr, Cardie lailie'ved. Ah, how delightful to'di*eomfit her at 'last 1 How well worth the hard fate and the hard work I know I should have to | elidure. Yes, even her unpleasant com pany could be borue, with this end iu view. So I said taking care pot to speak fix) eagerly, that I would stay, and I gate myself a year to find the will in. A year I is an eternity at fourteen. I That very day old Miss Humphries ; began to siiow me my position by turii ! ing me out of my pretty bedroom, and j sending me into a wliito-washed garret, | with a slooping roof. 1 had had a pretty carpet aud white curtains, and a bookcase, and a Turkish chair, and dainty bed, ail white and pink, and toilette service, pink and white also. I had never done auy work except put ting this room iu order; for we had two old servants besides a man. Now, I scrubbed floors and washed windows and dishes, and liaiMno time Ho read or sew, or wander in the woods, or enjoy myself in the garden. Miss Humphries sent all my school girl friends from the dorr when they asked for me, and it was only after a long, hard fight that I obtained my books, my sewing basket, and my Jew window plants, with which to make my garret more homelike. My black suit became shabby. I felt ashamed to go to church, aud I knew not where to procure other clothing. I was very miserable, but all the while I never forgot my object. Not only did I continue my search all day, but at night I often pattered about tlie house in my bare feet. I bad found many curious places where a will might well have been hidden. For instance, the posts of grandfather’s bed had a hollow space iu them, covered with a carved cap, shaped like a pineapple., winch came off. And behind the carved wooden mantelpiece in his room—the original house was s hundred years old, they said, and very curious—there was a receptacle that might have concealed fifty wills. The old woman never suspected me. Besides, she was half tlie time asleep, nodding in hyr chair, with her snuff-box iu oue haiid, and a diny, black* handkerchief in the other. Dirty as she was personally, she had a ddigli't in seeing riM at Work, however, and set me tasks as hard to me as those the malevolent fairy put upon poor Graciosa were to her. I had cleaned cut the cistern aud made over a feather bed, mended a fence, and cleaned the leaves from the roof. Wherever I was sent I went. Who knew w here the will might be? I had great hopes of the feather bed. Bat now the year I hail giveu myself was nearly over, and the malevolent fairy of my existence had ordered me to white wash Um eow-housc—by the why. I al- ways nmked rlih eJiTf-AiHi 1 tail! agleed to do it with a feeling upon is: that en durance wu* almost at an vixl, that hope was almost gooe, that I must lPii’ve that place if I starved in' a ditch. A diet of salt pork and corn bread, aiid a life all work and no play, had begun to. make havoc with my energy. Tha miserly old woman even guarded the appletrees, locked up the orchard, and sold the fruit by the barrel. Vv bat little fruit I ate, Igotufterdark, through the palings. . No wonder I was thin and had kwt mv fino complexion. r . Tha hum was mixed au a nd; the brush was found “But it on thick. Beulah.” ssid my task mistress. “We don’t want any of the boards to show. Why, where’s your stick ?’’ “I c*n t find oue to fit," said I discon solately. “Oh, I can resell, I think.” “Yon Can’t,” said she. “The idea of whitewashing withs short brush. Go and hunt up, a stick. Why, I kuo.w where there is one—in your own room. I saw it to-day ’’ “That’s dear grandpa’s mine," said I. “I don’t care. Get it.,” saidshe. “It's only a sttok, cane or not .” “I Wont use that iu such a way,” said I. “Grandfather’s cane that ha used to | walk with every day. That I used to ride on when I was a baby. Dear old cane that seems piut of him. I wouldn't ' use it so foi worlds.” ''Sentimental nonsense,” said the old ; woman. “The.idea! When I'm dead I t hey call do what they like with my um- I bvella, I’m sure. Get the stick,” “t won't," said I. “Then t will, and you’ll use it." said . she. ; Away she went, to the garret, and down l she came with the thick and heavy mine, with wither.curve Bur curving on it. A | sort of pale gray wood, polished like | A: 1 " 1 " - “rier<;'H lie slick," said slio,” and you'll see my word is law here. | I never stirred. ! “Tie foifl stick on tlie while wash ! ! brush till'd go to work." said she. j ! “I won’t,” said I. “You won’t ?" : “No." “You're n pretty big girl, Beulah More," said she, “but if you don’t I’il whip you.” “1 dare you to touch me J” said I. ! She lifted the stick. I'm uot sure whoth j cr slie would not have struck me, or j whether it was only in menace ; Imt I | caught it. “Give me my grandfather's cane !” I i cried, ifnd pulled. Bln- pulled also. In a moimuit more a queer tiling happened. The cane parted in the middle, and the old wctiuii Hew one way and I another. She lay on her back, bemoaning herself. I, younger siai lighter, picked myself up at- Once ; but I held on to niv half of gruudnithcrV. cane, and shouted wildly for joy, for in nil justalit I saw that the : eauie was uot broken, but that the one I held was hollow. Something protruded | from it. All I saw was a bit of stiff, j crackling parchment, but. I knew as well ns I did when I drew it out, that I had | found grandfather’s will at last. She knew it. too. She scrambled up, as I flourished it over my head, and flew at me. I mil not sure that my life would have been safe had she caught me. Ter ; ror as well as joy lent wings to my foot* steps. I fl.-w out of the garden, down | the lane, and up the road to the office of 1 Mr. Curdle. i There, in my patched, old frock, with I whitewash daubed over it, I appeared ! breathless and voiceless, grasping in my I hand, dirty and torn and hardened with coarse work, the proof that I was heiress to a fortune. When I went back to the homestead again it was as its mistress, and I never Saw old Miss Humphries again. She had returned to her former dwelling place, leaving many anathemas behind for me. They never hurt me. Curses of that kind, at leas’, me i ably “go home to roost,” But I found tlie other half of tlie dear old cane lying in the long grass, and rejoined it to its mate. I loved it before. Naturally I loved it more than ever now. I still keep it as a talisman. Mrs. Bumzell and the Tramp. Mr. Philander Bumzell resides at Roger's Park He is very fond of play ing practical jokes. All Summer he has beeu amiably entertaining Ins wife, who is a timid woman aud does not keep a servant with tramp-literature, and in structing her what to do iu oase one ul the fraternity should call at the house during his absence. “See, Lucinda,” ha would say, “if oue of them tramps comes to the liouse’u carries on rough, just you say you’ll set the big dog on him, and if he don’t get up aud get, just you yell out ‘Philander !' ‘Philander 1’ or say ‘sic him Towser.’ Don’t be seared, Lucin da, don't be scared.” It occurred to Mr. Bumzell it would be well to test his wife, and see if she was efficient in practice as she claimed to be theoretically, so yesterday he told her he hail to go to Milwaukee, and wouldn’t bo- home till late. Then lie cnnmugly disguised himself us a vagrant man with some false hair, and ltair dye, and a suit of ragged clothes, and about half-past 10 o'clock he walked around to NO. 4. hitt uw kitcbti»»loor. Hu found it un locked, audiwalkitig into the kitchen was surprised to find that his wife was not there. “Just like these women,” he growled ; “a man might come iu her a*nl carry off' the whole bouse out of the door, aud that stupid wouiau'd never know it. Won't I have the joke on Ln ciuda. though 1” be said in rapture, as he jxieketeii the spoons aud forks. At . tiris moment the door opened, aud Mrs, Bumzell entered. •She gave a shriek, and seemed sur prised, and then said faintly : “What do you want, sir?” 'fheu the assumed tramp replied : ‘‘l want some hot dinner, and a suit of clothes, and any money or plate you may have in the house, and a kiss." “Go ’wav, yob had man,” replied the virtuous matron ; “go ’way or I will set the big dog ou you, and Bilstm is awful fierce. He bit a man largos than you on Tuesday,” she added, “Hal ha!” laughed ilie tramp, “that is too thin. You’ve, got no dog ; you ain’t got a pound of sausage meat on the place.” “If you don’t keep quiet,” said Mrs. Btimzell, “I’ll call my husband, you bad man. Here Fred ! Fred !” she shrieked, as the tramp seized a napkin-nug. “Yell away,” said lie, with a mocking laugh : “your husband ain't here, aud 1 his name ain’t Fred, either.” i “He isn’t, isn’t lie? It ain't, ain't, it?” j ejaculated a big, red-headed uan, whom j Mr. Buruzell bad never seen before, as , he bounced iu Ilia shirt, sleeves from au ! inner room. “You inferual scoundrel!" ■ he exclaimed, as, with a fearful kick, he lilted Mr. BmnZeU like a "meteor out of ! the door into the swill-barrel. “I'li : touch you to insult my wife!” and he | hauled Mr. Bumzell out by the neck im'd ! swabbed the coal-heap with him. “You | thought I wasn’t in, eh ?” and he knock ed Mr. Bmuzell’s two eyes into one.— i “Hadn't got no dog, neither? Hero, t Nero—sic ’ini!” and u big bull dog, with a tail like a macaroni, dropped his lower [ jaw, like the tnil-bOard of a coal-cart, ■ end applied himself to the slack of Mr. BurnzeU’n pantaloons. “Hi! Mercy! I surrender! Don’t -hoot! Fire! Police! Here’s jer morn, ing papers! Lucinda ! I’m Bumzell !” yelled the unfortunate man. After some difficulty, they recovered « large per eentnge of him from the dog, and put it to bed, where it was ideutific as the property of Philander Bumzell, of lingers Park. It subsequently tarot. : fired Fi.it Mrs. BiuizcH’s brother Fred erick bad arrived from St. Louis as her husbaud left for Milwaukee. 1 Warning Against the Pursuit of Off ce-sc eking by Young Men. The Hon. Albert G. Brown of Missis sippi recently wrote a letter to a young friend, whereiu be laments that be ever made a political speech or had au office. Ex-Gov. Brown was forthirty-tlireeyears, previous to 1805, continually in high oillciul and political station, uud would therefore seem to have had as extensive and favorable au experience as any of his contemporaries aud associates. We quote as follows : True, as you any, I held many offices. Indeed, l may say that I never knew de feat in any of my aspirations. Aud it is just because I bad success which people call wonderful, that I feel competent to administer a word of “caution” to the youug meu of this generation. My young friend, do not be deceived by the glitter of office. lam now past my three score years, uud am fast travelliug into the tcu. I have held almost every office iu the gift of the people, aud I can truly say with the preacher, “it is all vanity and vexation of spirit." Looking back over u long, aud I hope uot unsuccessful life, I enu say, with a dear conscience, my greatest regret is that I ever made a political speech, or held au office. _ There is a fascination in office which beguiles uicu, but be assured, my young friends, it is the fasoiuation of a serpeut, or, io change the figure, it is the i<jnin Jatuuti which eoaxes yon on to ieevitable ruin. I speak of that which Ido know. If my youug friends will be governed by my advioe, I have this to say, alter all my success as a public man, now w hen my bead is blossoming for the grave, I feel that it would have been better for me if I had followed the occupation of mv father, and been a farmer. The mechanic arts are all honorable. To be a blacksmith, a carpenter or au urtisau of any s>rt is no discredit to any man. Better that than be a jack-leg law yer, a quack doctor, a counter-hopper, or worse still u wretched seeker after of fice. Os all pursuits in life that of a furmer is the most respectable. It may haw its trials and its disappointments, so do all others. The mechanic may lose the wages of his lalxjr, the professional man his fees, the editor may weep . over de linquent subscribers, but the houest, in dustrious farmer is morally certaiu of a fair rotnm for his labor. True, “Paul may plant and Apollos water, but God must give the increase.” But where is the faithful cultivator of the soil, God’s heritage to inau, whoever yet suffered for bread ? Allow me again to “caution” my young friends against the beguiling in fluence of office, and to advise them most earnestly to stick t<> mother earth. Advertielng Q m squur*, first intiertiaft^i.A.,.... V* Bhch subsequent insertion, - 7# One square three months... It Otf One nquafe frfx mr0nfhfi......,,. 1“* Od One square twelve months../...*J0 Quarter column twelve mouth* 4£> t* Half column six mont.hu Cft tXf Half column twelve months..... 75 hO Onv column twelve months ©• Ten lined or lean considered a square All fractions of squares are counted as full squares. Death Os Mrs. AttdreV Johnson. Nashville Amsittaß.H ••WO Sunday morning the American re ceived a special telegram from OfeenViHe announcing the death Saturday night of Mrs. Andrew Johnson, the venerable widow of the lately deceased ex-Presi dent. For many years Mrs. Johnson had been an invalid, her illness being of such a character as to confine her con stantly tp her room, and thoa prevent her .Tom mingling in aoriety. She we* married to the ex-Pro«ident before Be had left the tailor’s beucli. lief early education was superior to his, which efi abled her to be of great assistance tdhifß in bin efforts for the acquisition of knowledge. No woman wls ever more proud dr more justly so of the achieve meuls of her hnsband, and vet stfeh was her native good sense that She *wrs ever the same quiet, domestic, affectionate lady, wife aud mother, whother in the White House or in the humble home »t Greenville. Iu the community where she has lived from childhood she was universally beloved. Her character Waa marked by every Christian trait and her memory will be affectionately oherised by the old and the young of both sexes and of all grades of society. Mrs. Johnson was about G 5 years Os age. She was the mother of five chil dren, three of whom are liviug. She was a member of the Presbyterian church and was highly esteemed by the people of Greenville. She wiIFBC Bfi ried by the side of her husband, whose early struggles and later triumphs the shared. —aiA Mrs. Johnson’s maiden name waa Kli ra McArdel. Slie was born in 1811, and has consequently died in the sixty-fifth year of her age. She waa married in 1829, when she was but eighteen, and her husbaud a youth of twenty. She bone her hnsband five children, at the house of the eldest of whom,. Mrs, Pat terson, the Wile of ex-Seuatpr of Tennessee, she bos now died. Her oldest aud favorite son was thrown fr<. m his horse and instantly killed at the be ginning of the civil war while on hi* ronnd of duty as surgeon of tb* first regiment of Tennessee Union Volun teers. This blow greatly injured her al ready-enfeebled constitution ; opd the sufferings which she consequently un derwent, while earing for the oomfost of her second daughter, Mrs. Stover, and and her daughters family in the moun tains of Tennessee during the first year cf the civil war, completely undermined her strength. Mrs. Stover’s husband, who was Colonel of the Fourth Tennes see iufautry in the Union Army, died qf disease brought on by exposure before the close of the year 1862. Mrs. Johnson’s second sob, Robert Johnson, was removed to an asylum for the insane during his father’s presiden cy. The youngest, Andrew Johnson, jr,, survives his mother. Few women of any condition iu life iu any port of tin* country were called upon to driuk more deeply than Mrs. Johnson of the bitter sup of tbeir country’s afflictions, aud her patience, simplicity of charac ter aud yuaffected piety earned for htr iu the narrow circle of her personal friends and intimates the moat sincere respect aud affection. Cairo iu Peril, The town of Cairo, ou the flats ai lie junction of the Ohio aud Mississippi riv ers, threatens to be wiped Cut of exist ence. The St. Louis Republican says that sometime iu October last the Mis sissippi river began eating into the Illi nois shore for two or three miles above Cairo, aud the process has continued until the city ia threatened with serious danger. The authorities either could not or would not do anything U> arrest the ravages of the river at a time when a little labor, promptly applied, miglit have proved effectual, and now the abrk sion has gone so lar that it ib only about a quarter of a mile across the narrow ueck, from river to river, and this dis tance is being’ gradually diminished by the unobstructed pressure of the Missis sippi agaiust the soft alluvium. It is feured that if some prompt action be not takeu, the Mississippi wnl eat its way to the Ohio, making au island of Cairo, and that this island will then be gradually washed sway. Some of the railroads that euter the city are having trouble already with their approuhes, aud the others are threatened. The dif ficulty is too great for the towu author ities, with their limited resources, to meet, and they have, determined to call on Congress to save their city, by fcuild iug a dyke to reclaim the area that has lieen lost, aud protect the shore from abrasion. A Vat,id Foreran.— The Lowell Jour nal says: The real and personal proper ty of this county was valued SI,OOO j u the Journal lost week. The compositor’s girl went by just ns lie was setting this item up, and in turning from the cypher box to sigh for her receding figure he shop ped before be 0 to. But the mistake might have been a bigger otie. If she bad come along a moment earlier the valuation of the real aud personal prop erty of this county would luive been placed at $3.10. This time that com positor will make it $31,000,000 or there will be n amt of second-hand clothes for s*rio in V** tTmn « rrimnte.