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tra soTiRT roßLic,
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TTTIL li practice in the Courts of j
W McDuffie and adjoining Counties. .
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMSON, GA.
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era and Middle Circuits. nolyl
PAUL 0. HUDSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Thomson, Ota.
Will apractic* in the Superior Court* of
the Augusta. Northern aud Middle Circuits,
and in the Supreme Court, and will give
attention to all cases in Bankruptcy.
Aug. W, 1,74. ts
Central ¥)otel.
by
MRS. W. M. THOMAS.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
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Fine CAROLINA. TENS ESSE anl KEN
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23 E TTJ IT .
p,,t {i Lvnb, Veal. Matron, Hog-heed
Cheese, Sausage, Mixed, or Ai L PORK, as
order al. Cor red Beef, l’ork, and Tongues.
A full stock always on hand.
A CARD.
I AM frequently asked bv my friends if I
am doing a general practice, or only at
tending inch cslls as may be made iD good
weather or convenient to my office.
In answer to the above. I would say to
mv former patrons and friends, that from
th'is date I will enter upon the active duties
ol mv profession looking iu part to those
who may ask ray services for my reward
Office on Main Street, iu Hoizeudorfs
May l' -ts. JAS. S. JONES.
LAND FOB SALE,
I OFFER for sale on very reasonable
terms a farm lying within one mile of
Thomson, containing one hundred acres,
one-half in woodland. Good dwelling
house of five rooms, and all necessary out
buildings. Good fences and good water.
Good orchard.
This is one of the most productive and
conveniently situated places in the country.
For terms apply in person or by letter to
J. T. WRIGHT,
Aug. IG-tf. Thomson, Ga.
JOHN NEILAS,
TAYLOR,
RETURNS his thanks to the people of
Thomson and vicinity for the libe.ral
encouragement and patronage heretofore
received, and notifies them that he will be
in Thomson one-half of each month (every
other week) and will be pleased to see all
in need of work in his line. He can be
found at the store of A. J. Adkins,
f 12, 1876-ts.
TOWN PROPERTY
For Sale.
I OFFER for sale, on terms suitable to
the times, a lot in Thomson, on Lumpkin
street, containing one acre. This lot is en
closed with a good new fence, has a well of
excellent water, a good barn, stable, buggy
house, acd cow-stall. I will also sell with
the same a lot of excellent seasoned lum
ber, containing over 2:4.0(X) feet now on the
premises, sawed according to bill furnished
by a contractor for a dwelling similar to
the residence of J. E White. Also 15,000
shingles on the lot. .
This lot is in one of the most desirable
localities in town.
PAUL C. HUDSON,
July 25,tf. Thomson. Ga.
<Fltc Prlufc THedtls Jownat
VOL. VI.
KT E 'W' F A. L L STOCK
—OP—
BBT GOODS!
TH E FIRST ITT THE CITY,
—AT—
W. T. ANDERSON & CO.’S,
BETWEEN CENTRAL AND GLOBE HOTELS.
O
OUR STOCK was purchased before the recent advance in prices. We are, consequent
ly, prepared to sell cheaper than any others.
Nee Our Prices :
C5/»00 Yards Choice Prints, at 5 and 6{o.
i Yards Brown and Bleached Shirting, at sc.
FIRST COME , FIRST SERVED!
j 9,000 Yards French Percales, slightly damaged—regular price 20o —but sold (as
are) at 10c. They won’t last long.
| 5,500 Yards 10-4 Sheeting, bought at unction. We offer at 18c. Very cheap. i
! 8,000 Yards all Wool Bed Flannel, every width and price.
(DRESS GOODS AND SILKS!
The prettiest Black Silk ever sold in anj market. Bought from a House round the
corner. We offer at $2.
1,1 OO Y ards Camel’s Hair Suiting, worth 30c., will sell at 12j.
Elegant Black Cashmere, 70c. to th. finest.
COLORED DRESS GOODS.
See the assortment. Fontablue Suitings. Damasse Raye, Cordova Scrolls, Armoure
i de Turns, Circassian Brilliantiue, Turqoise, Brodira, Romain Cloth, Snow Cloth, etc.
LINEN STOCK COMPLETE.
Table Damask every price, Napkins and Doylies. Full assortment.
Specialties No. 1.
i IGO Dozen Harris’ Seamless two Button Kid Gloves, black and colored, at if 2 per
pair.
; EJG.ooo Smith and Soil’s best Needles, sc. per paper.
I >-*O,IXIO Sr-WING MA' HINE NEEDLES, all makes, (> for 25.
Goo Dozen Buohe's, well made. 20c. per dozen.
1 Centennial Trunk filled with Ladies’ Scarfs, 25c. each. Take your choice
Specialties No. 2.
| i a>o Dozen Ladies’ Vest, suited to the season, 45c. each.
•**£■> Dozen Madam Foy’s Corsets and Skirt Supporter combined. Come and
sea them.
Dozen Perfect Fitting French Corsetts, One. each.
50 Dozen Ladies Collars, Plain and Embroidered, 50. each.
CONCLUSION.
*¥& Dozen Wamsuttu Shirts, entirely finished, at 75c. each.
CASH BUYERS come and see us. Will do you good.
under SIO.OO must be accompanied with Draft, P. O. Order or Ca3h.
W. T. ANDERSON A CO.,
242, Broad street,
i 120-c* AUGUSTA, GA.
F ÜBNITUB JB .
l)eG AS j
SUCCESSOR TO E. G. ROGERS
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
f unit tun: Healer $ Enkdalier.
UNQEBTAKING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES*
147, 147 1-2 & 149, Broad Street,
Sunday and Night calls 102 Greeno St. tfUGGSTS*
«E STaSSan - 15
Taos. A. Scott,.
y\. T his old stand on Main Street, is now receiving a largo and carefully selected
stock of
DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, Ac., Ac.,
READY MADE CLOTHING, of all kinds,
DRESS GOODS and GENTS’. FURNISHING GOODS,
A fine line of
SHAWLS, CLOAKS and SACQUES,
CALICOES, DOMESTICS and all Staple Goods.
a MATE &88Q8TMKATF QF
127-ts.
W. DANIEL. C. A. ROWLAND.
DANIEL & ROWLAND,
COTTON FACTORS,
—AND—
Commission M erchants,
CORNER JACKSON AND REYNOLDS STREETS,
Augusta, <*a.
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED- BAGGING, TIES AND FAMILY SUPPLIES FUR
NISHED. h3O-b*
€Has. c.'FTi<:infeT
FRENCH AND AMERICAN CALF SKINS,
Oak and Hemlock Sole Leather ,
Shoe FindingH, Etc.,
!at the Lowest Prices. ©FALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.
JA CKSON STRfr'ET, between Broad, and Reynold * Streets,
ts VG&STsSt - 2 QK9UGItX,
A. M. BENSON. W. N. MERCIEIt.
Henson it Mehcibr,
Cotton Factors
And GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No* §' 9 W&smmM tf&etntM* &#•
fSTYVILL give our personal arid undivided attention to the STORAGE and SEL
LING OF COTTON for our friends and the public.
ar. experience of THIRTY YEARS in the Cotton Buainew=, all we a*k if* 1o
1 give uh a iriai \V27-c*.
THOMSON, GA. OCTOBEE 11. 1876.
POETICAL.
HELEN GRAY.
Because one loves you, Helen Gray,
Is that a reason you should pout.
And, like a March w nd, veer about,
And frown and Ray your shrewish sky?
Don’t strain the chord until it shap*s:
Don’t split the sound heart with your
wedge;
Don’t cut your fingers with the edge
Os your keen wit—you may, perhaps.
Because you’re handsome, Helen Gray,
Is that a reason to be proud ?
Your eyes are bold, your laugh is loud,
Your steps go mincing on their way;
But so you miss that modest chart*
Which is the surest charm of all
Take heed, you may yet trip und^fall,
And no one care to stretch his arm.
Stoop from your bight, cold Helen Gray:
Come down and take a lowlier place.
Come down to fill it now with grace.
Come down perforce you must souucr day,
For years cannot be kept at. bay,
And fading years will make yon old.
And, in your turn, will men seem-coM,
When you yourself are nipped and gray.
e— ll2.'- . j
THE KIUHT BOWER; |
OR,
AN OLD LAWYER’S STORY ! j
It was Judge Lurlington’s owu impres
sion.
Half a dozen lawyers fresh from their
studies, aud just. admitted to the bur,
were listening to hia advice. The old
jurist had a bottle of wine at his elbow,
and was iu a communicative mood.
"Young men,” he paid, “whatever may
be your atruit, neverluke a case before ft
jury, or any eourt, unless you have your
light bower for a head. ”
If the reader surmises from this that
the old Judge was fond of euchre, he
will not have surmised amiss.
The young men looked at him inquir
ing^-
“I moan,” he added, "that you shall
never advocate a cause into the work of
w hich you cannot cuter with a clear con
science. You shall never accept a client
whoso cause you dp not believe tu he
j ist.”
"Can that rule always be adhered to?”
asked one of the listeners.
"It can,” answered Liu-lington, em
phatically. “It is a lawyer’s firm rock
of foundation, and the only sure pqfut 'cU
departure to the ccspMfoav.d .wkJKosso
of his fellows.”
"Have you always followed that rule,
Judge ?”
“I was never tempted from it but
once,” he replied. “I will tell s>ou the
story, if you would like to hear it.”
Os course they would like to ; aud
having laid as.da his pipe, the old man
began :
“One day I was waited upon by a man
who gave his name us Leban Sarfurt.
He was of middle-age, well-dressed, and
at first, sigh* appearei. to be ago t.leman ;
but the illusion was dispelled when ap
proaching business. He was hard and
unfeeling, aud naturally a villian. Suc
cess iu his speculation had saved him
from becoming a highwayman. I heard
of him as a heavy dealer in tho up-river
lands, lie asked- rill' if I was willing to
undertake a job which would call me to
Shiretou. I told him I was open to
anything legitimate that would pay.”
“Mr. Lurlington,” said he, tapping
me with a coarse familiarity upon the
arm. “I want to secure your services ;
you must not ba engaged 0., the other
side.”
“I told him if ho would explain to me
the case I might bo better able to give
him an answer. He bit an enormous
quid of tobacco from a black plug, and
having got it into shape between his jaws
he went on with his stoiy.
“The case is one of ejectment. An
elderly man, named Phillip Acton, had
died leaving a valuable estate. There
was nearly a thousand acres of land,
with opportunities for developing im
mense water power; and ere many years
that laud would be worth more than a
million dollars. At present upon the
estate, and claiming it as a son of the
deceased, was a man calling himself
William Aeton.”
“But,” said Sarfurt, “he is not a legit
imate child at all. His mother was Betsy
Totwood, at one time a girl in Acton’s
employ. Aeton, I know, was never
married. He brought, the boy up aud
educated him, and fiow the fellow thinks
he will step into his protector’s shoes. I
can prove that I am the oniy living rela
tive of Philip Acton. Ho was my uncle
—my mother’s brother—and, to a lawyer
as smart as yon, there can be no trouble
iu proving my title. I can bring the
witnesses to your- hatid.”
“He told me he would give me five
hundred dollars if I would undertake the
case, and an additional thousand if I
gained. That was a big fee—far more
than I had then made in all my plead ng.
It was tempting. And yet I saw that it
was not perfectly dear—not entirely
honest. The probability was that this
William Acton was Philip’s child ; aud
it was not impossible that iPhillip had
married Betsy Totwood. It struck me
that he fancied he had yontg Acton so
far in his power that he could eject him
from the title. But what Imd I partic
ularly to do with that ? If I accepted a
client, I must serve him. I had no bns-
I iness but to serve bis interest. I finally
I told Mr. Sarfurt that I woijld think the
matter over. I would probably have
business in Shiretou during the session
of the court, aud -I would call on him
there and examine more fully. I could
not take his retainer uutil I bad further
light.”
"But," said he, “will you promise not
to take up for the other side ?”
"I told him I would do nothing with
out further consultation with him.”
"Because,” 1 e added, “if you are for
me lam sure to wiu. Acton can’t find a
lawyer that can hold a light to you. I
know them all.”
“Ne matter whether I believed him or
no’, I did not feel fluttered.
“Two weeks later I received a letter
from Sarfurt, promising mo live thous
aud dollars if 1 won.
“The live thousand dollars was a
atrong argument. Was not law really a
game of chance, in which the strongest
baud and longest purse must win ? I
told myself yes. Yes—aud I sat dowu
and wrote a reply, saying that I would
take the case. But I did not mail it at
once. That night I put it under my
pillow, and slept over it ; and on the
following morning I threw it into the fire.
I would not make up my mind until I
had seen other parties—until I had been
on the grounds. And I wrote to Laban
Sarfurt. to wait.
“Two weeks later I harnessed my
horse to the wagon, and, with my wife
and child, started for Shiretou. I had
been married two years, and our little j
babe., a girl, was a year old, our pride, !
our pet, and our darling. Shiretou was
a distince of about thirty miles. We!
had been having rainy weather for a |
week or bo, and it had now cleared off
bright and beautiful. Wo stopped aud ;
took dinner at a wayside inn, four miles j
beyond which was a stream which must
be forded. The inn-keeper told me that
the stream was somewhat swollen frjm
the late rains, but that if my horse was
trusty there could be no .-.anger.
“Arrived at the stream, the Wampa
tuek River, I found the water indeed
risen, and the current strong, but I saw
that others had recently gone over, aud
I resolved to veiture. 1 knew my horse
and had faith in hbr. My wife was
anxious, but. she trusted my judgement,
A third of the way across the water .iu*
j'overjihe hub of, tho A little
more aud it would have reached the
body of the wagon. I began to be
alarmed ; I feared I had left the true
track. Pre> eiit.ly my'horse stumbled and
staggered, having evidently stepped on a
moving stone. The wagon swayed aud
tipped, and the flood poured in upon us.
My wife slipped, and in a moment more
we were in the water. With one hand I
grasped the harness upon the horse and
with the other 1 held my wife. I wa-:
thus struggling when ft wild cry from
her lips startled the air. Our child was
washed away.
“Oh, my soul 1 I canuot tell you whftt
I suffered during those moments. ,1
could not help our darling If 1 left my
wife she was lost, I clung to the horse
and clung to my shrieking wife —shriek-
ing to God for mercy for her child. In
the distauoe upon the bosom of the surg
ing flood I could see our little one, her
white dress gleaming iu the sun, being
borne swiftly away. A moment more and j
I saw a man plunge from the bank into
tho river. I saw this much, and then an
intervening point of land shut out the
sceee. The horse was now rapidly
nearing the shore, and ero long my wife '
and I were on dry land, with tho horse
and wagon. As soon as 1 was sure my
wife was safe 1 it her to care for the
horse while I posted off down the river
bank iu quest of the swimmer and child.
“You may well understand that all
this time I was frantic. I was a machine
being operated upon by a surging and
agoniz'iig emotion. How long or how
i'ar I wandered I do not know, but at
length I met a man, wet and diippiug,
with my darling iu his arms, my daring
safe and sound. He told me that he had
caught the child within a few rods of the
falls, and that in lauding he had cleared
the fatal abyss by not more than two
yards. He was a young man not more
then 25, handsome and stalwart. He
said be had seen my wagon tip, aud was
coming to my assistance when lie saw
the eliild wash away. “I threw my life
in the balance,” said he, with a genial
smile, “aud thank God 1 both the lives
were saved!”
“I asked him how I should ever re
pay him. He stopped me with an im
ploring gesture :
“ ‘it you talk of more pay than 1 have
already received,’ he said, ‘if you can
rob me of the only solid reward I can
claim, mercy ! if saving the life of such a
cherub is not enough of reward in itself,
then hard is the heart that craves more.’
And. with moistened eyes, he told me
that be had a child of his own at home—
an only child of very near the same age.
“I asked if he would tell me his name.
With a smile he answered that his name
did not matter—lie was not sure thu„ lie
had a name. I then asked him if he
knew me. Ho nodded, and said he
thought I might bo Mr. Lulling ton, of
Walbridge. When I told him ho was
correct, he said that he must hurry home.
And with that he turned away. 1 was
too deeply moved to stop him, and when
' lie had disappeard T started to rejoin my
wife wit.li a clawuing impression that the
man might bo slightly deranged. But.
my darling was safe—her broad, fleecy
cloak had floated out and kept her h*ad
above water—and I went on my way
rejoicing, resolved that the preserver of
my child should u >t be forgotten.
“I will not tell yon of the emotion of
my wife when she held her child once
more in her arms. We reached Shir':ton
before uight, and found quarters at a
comfortable tavern.
“On the following day Laban Ssrfurt
called upon me and was about to spread
hie evidence for my iusp action, whan I
interrupted him. I told lurn 1 could rot
accept iiis confidence until 1 lmd made
up my mind to take his case in hand.
Something seemed to whisper that there
was danger ahead. I did not feel com
fortabio in that man a presence. I felt
as though he was trying to buy me. The
court would sit in four days. I told him
I would give him a final answer in two
days from that time.
“That evening I made a confident of
my wife, and asked her what I should
do. “If I take the case,” I said, “I am
sure of 53,000. She hade me do what
was right. “God has been very kind to
us," she said. Lat us look to him for
guidance.”
“After this I called on the clergyman
of the place, whose sou bad been my
classmate iu college, and whom I had
once before visited. He received me
heartily, aud by and by I asked him
about William Acton. The result of all
he told me summed up in his closing
sentence. Said he :
“ ‘I am sure william Acton was Philip
Acton’s child—iu fact I know it—and 1
think the father and mother were mar
ried. Betsy died very soon after her
child was born, and we kuew that Philip
always treated the boy as a legitimate
child ; and that, lie loved him as such I
cun confidently affirm.’
“On the following morning, after
breakfast as 1 sat by ti e window in the
bar-room, I saw coming from the street
the man who had 6aved my child. Ho
v as walking slowly, like one in trouble.
I pointed him out to my host, and asked
him who he was.
“ ‘That is William Acton. Perhaps
yon have heard of the trouble he is likely
to have with Laban Sarlurt?”
“I sai£ I h~d hoard. t
‘“I hope h- may coins out all right,’
th« host added ; ‘but lam fearful. He
has got « hard and heartless customer to
deal with.’
“I si u • my mouth and held my peace
until Laban Sarlurt called for his final
answer. I said to him :
“Mr. Sirfmt, I have been considering
nil this time whether I could undertake
your euso with a clear conscience—
whether I should be helping the side of
justice and right in helping you. I now
know him for a mini who nobly risked
his own life to save the life of my child.
For that deed I will reward him if 1 can.
I have not, as yet, accepted one of your
private disclosures ; I have gained from
you nothing wiiich you could wish to
keep from the public. I cannot take
your case, but, I tell yon f rankly, that f
yon prosecute, I will defend William
Acton.
“I did not. mind S.irfurt’s wrath. He
raved aud swore and stamped, and then
he went oil' and engaged two lawyers
from Herkimer to take his case. I called
upon Acton, and told him I would defend
him, if he v ould accept my services, as I
had accepted his. He took my baud
and thanked me.
“I have made a great many pleas iu
my life, but I think I never made a bet
ter one than I made to that, jury on that
occasion. They were out not over five
minutes. By their verdict William Acton
was the lawful possessor of the estate
his father had left.
“From that day I never hesitated to
refuse a case to which I could give
my heart. Such a stand on the part of
a lawyer Irecomcs known, and the public
feels it ; mid what the public feels jnrics
are sure to feel.
“Concerning William Acton, I will
only add that he became my bosom
friend. Ho always felt that he owed his
title to bis valuable property to me ; and
I knew that to him 1 was indebted for
the home that was mine for thirty years.
He was very delicate iu the gift of that
piece of property. He deeded i. to my
wife. The husband of my oldest daugh
ter is his oldest son.”
Superstition About Friday.
There ure many who are very supersti
tious regarding Friday, hut the following
facts compiled by an exchange must
convince any one that his superstition
agaiust Friday as an unlucky day, is an
error :
It was on Friday, the 3d of August,
1192, that Columbus sailed from the
harbor of Palos for the new world. It
was on Friday, the 12th of October, that
he first saw land after sixty-five days of
navigation. It was on Friday, the 14th
of January, 1093, he started ou his re
turn to announce the result of h-is search.
It was on Friday, the 15th of March,
1493, that he disembarked in Andalusia.
It was on Friday that he discovered the
American continent. It was on Friday
that Heury VII. gave John Cabot his
dispatch from the voyage which resulted
iu discovery of North America.
Advertising Kilter*.
One square, first insertion v....$ 1 o<j
Eacli subsequent insertion IS
One square three months .... 10 rtf
One square Six months IS WJ
One square twelve m0nth5..:...':.',,.,. Off
Quarter column twelve months...,., 4fi,Qo
Half column *ix month*..ST#
Half colu-on twelve mouths 78 fit
One coiwnrn twelve mouther: .... IK Os
'ivT q’en lines or less considered a square
All fractious of squares ore Counted as full
squares.
NO. 41
On Friday September, 9th, 12u\
Wcndez founded St. Augustine.—On
Friday November 10th, 1620, the May,
Flower first disembarked a few emigrants
ou Americau soil at Providence town, and
on Friday, December 22d, 1630, the
passengers finally lauded at. Plymouth
liock. It was on Friday, February 22d,
1732 that George Washington wa» bom.,
It was on Friday, June 16, 1775, the
battle of Bunker Hill was fought, and
on Friday, October 7th, 1777, that the
surrender of Saratoga took place, the
event which decided France to give her
aid to tho eolouies. The treason of
Arnold was discovered on Friday, York
towu surrendered, and on Friday that
Richard Heury Lee read the Declaration!
of Independence tv the Continental
Congress.
The Pope’s Recognition of the
Southern Coiiitderacy.
There wan captured among the dootl
mentary records of the confederate gov
ernment at Richmod, after the fall of
that city iu 1865, a letter addressed and
written in Latin to Jefferson Davis,
“president of the confederate states of
America,” by Pope Pius IX., of which
the following is a translation : :
“ Illustrious and Honorable Sir:
Health! We have received with all
fitting kindnesa the gentleman sent by.
yonr excellency to deliver uh your letters
bearing date the 23d of September last.
We certainly experienced no small pleat
in'e when we learned from tile tame
gentleman and the letters, of your exeel*
lency with what emotions of joy and,
gratitude towards us you Irene affected,
illustrious and honorable sir, when you
were first made acquainted with our
fitters to those reverend brethren, John,
archbishop of New York, and John,
archbishop of New Orleans, written ran
the 18th of October » f last year, in whit h
we again and again urged aud exhorted
the same reverend brethren that, as be
hooved their distinguished piety and
their Episcopal charge, they should •
most zealnusly use every effort, in ou*
name also, to bring to an end the fatal.
civil war that had arisen in those regions
and that those peoples of America might
ot length attain mutual peace aud con
cord, aud be united in mutual charity.
Ami very gratclul was it toms, illustrious
and honorable air, to perceive that yon
and those people were animated with the
same feelings of peace and tranquility
which we so earnestly inculcated in the
: letters mentioned as having been ad
j dressed to the aforesaid reverend breth-
I reu. And would that other people, also,
iof those tegions, and their rulers,
seriously considering bow grievous aud
; mournful a thing is intestine wur, would
be pleased with trauqu’l minds to em
brace and enter upon counsels of peaer.
We indeed shall not cease with moat
fervent prayers to beseech and pray God,
the oinuipitent ami all good, to ponr out
| the spirit of Christian charity and peace
I upon nil these people of America at and
I deliver thorn from the evils so great with
j which they are afflicted,
i “And of the most merciful Lord of
compassion himself, we likewiso pray
that He may illumine your excellenoy
with the light of His grace, and may
conjoin you in perfect love with ourself,
“Given at St. Fetor's, Dec. 3d, in the
year 1853, and of our pontificate the
eighteenth. Pics P. P. IX ”
I The letter was accompanied by the
j following note of Mr. A. Dudley Mann,
who was formerly an assistant secretary
of state of the United States, and
who was sent abroad by Davis as a
diplomatic agent or commissioner :
“Bbcssbi.s, May 9, 1864.— Mr. presi
dent : Herewith I have tbe honor to
transmit the letter whi h bis iioliuess
Pope Pins IX. addressed to your excel
lency mi tbe third of December last.
Mr. W. Jefferson Buehanan has oblig
ingly undertaken iis conveyance, aud
will deliver in person.
“This letter will grace the archives of
the executive office in all coming time.
It will live, too, forever in story as the
production of the first potentate who
formally recognized your official posi
tion, and accorded to one of the diplo
matic representatives of the confederate
states an audience in an established oooit
palace, like that at St James or Tulleries.
“I have the liouor to be with most
distinguished consideration, your excel
lency’s obedient servant.
A. DirmtEX Mash.”
Which le RiohF? Either tho Jap
anese people do everything backward,
left-handed and upside down, or we do.
A traveler in Japan writes :
“I see a man planing. He pulls the
plane towards him, I notice a blacksmith
at work. Ho pulls the hallows with bis
feet, while be is holding’and hammering
with both hands. He lias several irons
in the fire, and keeps his din.iej-pob
boiling with the waste flame. The coop
er holds bis tub wit* his toes. All of
them sit down when they work. How
strange I This is an important differeuoe
between a European and an Asiatio,
One sits down to his work,-and the other
stands up to it. Tire Japanese say we
are reversed. ■ Tliey call our penmanship'
“crab-writing,” because, they gay, it
“goes backward.” In » Japanese stable
wo find the horse’s think where we look
for his head. Japanese screws-screw the
other way. Their looks thrust to the
left, ours to the right. A Caucasian, t*
injure his enemy, kills.him; a Japanese
| kills himself to spite his foe. Which is
right ?