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_ I 1 'll WEEKLY . Volume VIII- "White & Cos., |flc|)uffie acUfklu Jonrual. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. rERMS, - - SI.OOA YEAR. Advertiwiiiji- Rates. On square, first insertion $ 1 (X) Each subsequent insertion 75 One square three months... 10 00 One square six months 15 00 One square twelve months 20 00 Quarter column twelve months 40 00 Half column six months GO 00 Half column twelve months 75 00 One column twelve months 12f 00 *4T Ten lines or less considered a square Alt fractions of squares are counted as full dares. BUSINKS S C a K D S. Watson & Johnson, Attorney" it I Low, THOMSON, OA. •S'Office at the Court-house. PAUL 0. HUDSON, ATTORNEY AT LA W, Thomson, Gn. Will practice .n the Superior Caiirts of the Augusta, Northern anil Middle Circuits, and in the Supreme Court, and will give attention to all cases in Bankruptcy. Aug. 26, 1874. tf _ ALBERT HAPE. Non.ReaUlent IlrntiMt, (yAN still be found ready to attend to the wants of/tld and new patrons, if desired, at their residences. Will also, as heretofore, practise in adjoin ing counties, runic prices insured and all work warranted. . _ „ . Office at the residence of W. E. Spmr. Please address by letter, st Thomson, Ga. O* tf PAM! HOTEL, Charleston , S. C. O. T. ALFOItD A CO., Proprietors. Rates. $2.00, $2.50 suil $.O par day S*nnfl not Oarned ill § A § these times, but it eat) be made in three mouths by any one of either aer. in and part of the conntry who is will ing to work sfeadilv at the employment that wa furnish. *6O per week in your own town. Yon need not 1* away from home over night. Yon can give your whole timo to the work or only your spnre moments. W. have agent, who are making ovor *2O per day. All who engage at once can make money fast. At the present money cannot be mad. so easily and rapidly at any other business. It costs nothing to try the Iras incss. Terms and $6 Outfit free. Address at er . H. Bru.m At Cos., I ortlsnd, Maim Hail* Ontting —IK THE LATitT AND MOST SCIENTIFIC MANNER, —BY— E. D. AMMONITTI, Ax-tint on Human Hair, (OFFICE ITNDEB CENTJKAL HOTEL,) AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, nuuii-tf GIN GEARING, Shalting and Bolts, CHEAPER I HAN EVER —AT THE— Forest City Foundry -AND— Machine Works, GEO. R. LOMBARD & CO- Proprietors., Augusta, Oa., WEngines, CottoD Screws, Mill Gear ing and Machinery of every kind made and repaired. may23-Ai) fooTOMsil Shop, G. W. ROBERTS Announces to the onWic that he is prepared to do all kinds of Wood and Blacksmith work. Building and re pairing Baggies and Wagons a specialty. I defv competition in prices. Thanking the public for past patronage I respectfully solicit a ooutinnanoe of the flame. I am also prepared to do all kinds of Plow work. Shop at Scroggins old stand, on Green way Street, near Shield's Mill. Call ’ G. W. ROBERTS. JL. Mason & Son. Watohmakers and Jewelers, At the old stand of C. C. Bruckner, Main St, Thomson, Ga. Will repair Wstches, Clocks, Jewelry, Ac., cheap ff CASH, and warranted to give entire satirfaction. We are also, agents for the celebrated Crown Bp< jtnclea. also have a complete . .ock of Sewing Machine Fixtures on hand, and are prepared to repair Sewing Machines at the lowest cash prices. Give us a call. Janldtm, Boston has two hundred ohurebse. Seales that will weigh s grain of dust are used in the Philadelphia Mint. Six mail-rider* have lately been mur dered between Fort Davis, Texas and Barilla. A thousand-acre plantation in the Yazoo valley, Miss., recently sold for $55 an acre. In three years more Queen Victoria will hare reigned os long as Qneen Elizabeth. Thomas J. Clay, a grandson of Henry Clay, is a soldier in the regular army in Texas. The only white female oonvict in the North Carolina penitentiary has been liberated by death. The latest official enumeration gives the total number of Federal offioo-hold ers of all kinds and degrees ns 85,880. There are 80,000 Jews in New York, or more than ten times as many as in Jerusalem, and their wealth is estimated at twenty millions. Cardinal Antonelli’s estate has been re-appraised. Instead of amounting to $2,000,000, as was supposed, the aggre gate will not exceed $120,000. There is a French prophecy which says the end of the world will oome when Easter Sunday falls on St. Mark’s Day. This will be the ease in 1886. A woman caught the high French heels of her shoes in a railroad trnok in Merid ian, Minn., and was held fast while the train out off her legs. Two German iron clads came in collis ion in the British channol on the 31st of May last. One was immediately sunk and about 440 lives were lost. The late Prof. Henry made twenty-two inventions and discoveries, not one of which he patented, prefering to leave the fruits of his science for all to profit by who would. The Catholics have bonght 7,000 acres of land in Mecklenburg, Va., on winch they are going to establish an industrial farm for.oducating froedmen. The Beu odictino fathers will have charge of the farm. Thomas Maguire, manager of Bald win’s Theatre, San Francisco, has enga ged the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher to deliver ten lectures on the Pacific coast for SIO,OOO and expenses. There is said to be in Harrison oonuty, Texas, a man fifty years of age, who never spoke a word to any one except his mother and sister, and they have been dead ten years. Marshal Bazaine is living ia Spain in very embarrassing circumstances. He has appealed for aid to all bis old com rade, including President MaoMahon, but in vain. He should come to this country and forge election returns for a living. A London paper says that Sir Charles Nuget, who inherited a baronetcy and $30,000 a year when 11, owed $50,000 by the time he was 21. Money lenders try to get mere boys who are heirs to property to borrow of them. A “Female Hercules,” a native of France, is to be seen in London. Oae of her feats is to lift tip an anvil by the hair of her head, and then have the same anvil placed on her bosom, while three smiths fcrge a horseshoe with their hammers, she talking and singing all the while. Win. Joseph, oi Ackley, La., while drying his head with a towel, rubbed off every spear of hair. Then his eyebrows fell out, and his moustache followed, and finally his whiskers. In one short hoar he was totally bald. The cause of this affliction is unaccounted for. Any person knowing of the where abouts of the children of Gen. Earl Van Dorn will do an act of kindness by com municating with Gen. Joseph Wheeler, at Conrtland, Lawrence county, Alaba ma. It may be the means of greatly benefiting the children. Southern pa pers are requested to copy this notioe. John Murrell, Jr., the only living son of John Murrell, the greatest bandit ever produced in America, is now living in Franklin county, Texas, and is an itinerant Methodist preacher. He has inherited none of the qualities of his mysterious father, and is distinguished by the meekness and lowliness which belongs to the humblest Christian. It is said that his father killed 118 men. A dentist in Munich (Dr. Weil) re lieves people of the pain of having their teeth pulled by extracting the decayed tooth while the patients are under the influence of anaesthetics, and filling it while out. He keeps the tooth out of the socket for an hour or two if neces sary, but finds that it becomes firmly fixed on being replaced. He finds the method applicable both to bicuspids and molars. A terrible and strange accident. oc curred on the Kansas Pacific railroad within forty-five miles of Denver, a few days ago. The night was dark and stormy when a freight engine with fif teen cars plunged down an abyss owing to, the breaking of a bridge. Strange to say, the engine and all the cars were totally engulfed in quick sands and nev er seen again. Three men, the engin eer, fireman and another one who were on the engine were swallowed up in an instant with the train. “A MAP OF BUSY LIFE: ITS FLUCTUATIONS AND ITS VAST CONCERNS THE SUMMER ROSE. [By many excellent judges the following poem is said to be the most bountiful in the language.—En. Joubnal.] BY B. H. WILDE. My life is like the summer rose, That opens to the morning sky ; But, ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground—to die. Bat on the rose’s humble bod The sweetest dews ef night are shed; As if she wept such waste to see ; But none shall weep s tear for me. My life is like the autumn leaf, That trembles in the moon’s pale my ; Its hold is frail, its date u brief. Restless and soon to pass away. Yet, ere that leaf shall fall and fade. The parent tree shall mourn its shade ; The winds bewail the leafless tree ; Bnt none shall breatho a sigh for me. My life is like the print which foot Have left on Tampa's desert strand ; Soon as the rising tide slndl beat. This track shall vanish from the sand. Y’et still, as grieving to efface AU vestige of the human race, On that lone shore loud moaus tho sea ; But none shall o'er lament for me. HELP ONE ANOTHER. Let us help one another. As down life’s rugged path wo stray; Be he frieud or foe or brother, Cast some sunshine in his way. When we sea our neighbor turning From the path of truth and right, Let ns not be proud and scorning, But bring him back to do the right. Sympathize with him in troublo, Help him share his load of grief ; Your coßsoience will reward you double For thus extending him relief. Perhaps his spirit may be broken By the world's relentless frown— Borne word of ours, lightly spoken, Might have helped to break it down. Give him then, the comfort nonded, Bhow him that he has a friend; Think not that 'twill be unheeded, ’Twill to hia salvation tend Think if we were atruggling blindly With no friend or helper uear, How inneh a word spokon kindly Would serve our lonely hearts te cheer. We might save a world of botlior If we'd keep this simple rule in view : Always act toward another As you’d hare them act toward yon. [Written for the MeOufflo Joubnal. J Reminisenocs of Columbia County. BY AN OLD CITIZEN. Junk, 1878. Mr. Editor: Political excitement has always run high, ami at times up to fever heat, in Columbia, somewhat akin to that partisan warfare between Whig and Tory, in North and South Carolina, from 1776 to 1782, when tho infamous Gov. Dunmore and the cmcl Col. Tarleton, “Bloody Bill Cunningham 1 ’ and Col. Fan ning were a terror to tho men, women and children; when Tory •trccilies darkened tho day-time of life, and the fires of hatred and destruction of property lighted up tho darkness of night. Tho political contests of which I write in those “Ucminisconcos” wero not always crimsoned with the footprints of blood, but ofttimes, when Greek met Greek, though tho tug of a general war came not, yet, frequently words came to blows and “pistols for two” darkenod tho history of those days, and made tho political arena hot with the poison ed atmosphere of envenomod ha tred. The bitterness, injustice and ma lignant heart-feeling of party are proverbial, and its unreasonableness and vindictive personalities a mat ter of astonishment. Men who are cool, calm and moderate on all other subject* of conversation, yet when party views arise their entire natures are changed. They becomo hot-blooded, intemperate, inconsid erate and abusive to the last degree. I will instance a fow only of those scenes illustrative of what I have written above. con. ZACHARIAH WILLIAMS. I cast my first vote in the county in 1844, and for tho Henry Clay electors ; and, from that day to this, now and then, I would hear of Col. Zach Williams. He was indeed a noted character. He was born in Wilkes county and moved to Au gusta, where be married a Miss Wakon, sister, I think, of Robert Walton, a notod bank ofijeor for many years, ami one of Augusta’s best citizens. Whilo there Col. Williams had a quarrel with Mr. John Forsyth, which resulted in a sword fight on the South Carolina side of the river. Forsyth made a deadly thrust at Col. Williams which the Colonel skilfully parried, and, in turn, directed a well-aimed thrust at the “Adam’s apple” of Mr. Forsyth, insumating the blade of his rapier between the neck-tie and tho neck, dose to the “jugular.” The terms of the duel were, that on blood being drawn, the contest was to cease. Forsyth's second, sup posing bis fr end murdered, removed the weapon, but there was no stain of Mood. The contest was renewed, when Col. Williams, dexterously handling bis d>amasQus blade, ea rn THOMSON, GA., JUNE 19, 1878. tered the side of Mr. Forsyth, but his life was sav'ed by its striking a rib and curving around to the back. Now, whilo Adam lost a rib that a wife might be made unto him, Mr. Forsyth had a rib that saved his life, though Georgia came near losing him, who, in after years, became one of her brightest jewols. Soon after this, Col. Williams came to Columbia county and set tled near tho head of White Oak creek, on tho quaker, now Wrights mro road, about 6 or 7 miles from Appling. In the days of Troup amb Clark he was the most prominent, fetivo and bitter partisan of tho Clark parly. He was a man of strong native intellect, but of little culture. Ills was a turbulent spirit, free to offor an insult, and qfftok to resent one. He scorned to enjoy life in an atmosphere of strife. Ho was, indeed, the “storm king” in the political clomonts, ready, at tho least provocation, to turn loose tho rude Boreas of his nature upon tho Crawfords and other loadors of tho Troup party, whonoverand wherev er an opportunity offered. An antipode in nature and In politics, was Columbia’s favorite and honored son, HON. PETER CRAWFORD, tho great Head-Centre of tho Troup party. Tho name of Peter Craw ford was the rallying cry—the tocsin—which, like the signal of Roderick Dhu o Clan Alpine's warriors, called up the mailed pan oplied and ready clansmen of the great Troup party to the conflict. CHAS. ANDERSON ORAWKOUD a brother of Peter C., was said to be oven a more popular man with the people, but ho had no desire for plnco or power ; and, beyond being Clerk of tho Superior Conn, ho held no other office. Ho was con tent to follow the humble occupation of tillor of the soil. But Peter Crawford was tho recognized mas ter mind of the party in the county, and against him was hurled the powerful batteries of the Clarkites, undor that shrewd and daring lead #r, Col. Zaeh. Williams. About this timo thoro camo upon the stage a young man of decided talent, and with laudable ambition to enter the political arena as a contestant for its honors. Upon tho same stage also appeared anothor rising's tar, whoso youthful promiso was more than realized. This young man was GKOKGK W. CKAWFOKD, son of Peter Crawford, the noble scion of an illustrious sire. Wm. H. Crawford, by his acknowledged genius and intellect, had bocomo a star of tho first magnitude (which was also doomed to bo eclipsed in tho meridian of its splendor) in that galaxy of constellations that was glittering prospectively for tho Presidential coronet. Peter’s am bition was no higher than county and State offices, with an intellect as good, if not superior, to any of the confreres. I’otor hod not that polish and culture, which would fit him to shine in Courts and Cabinets. Ho had not thoso advantages of early education so necessary to the cultivation and growth of the brightest intellects; but tho ore, in its nutive bed, was pure metal. — Thus endowed by nature with some of her choicest blessings, with a brilliant intellect, uri upright de portment, a laudable ambition, with a suaviter in modo that had nestled him closoly and firmly in the affections of his fellow citizens, he was a target too regal to escape tho shafts and hot shot of the Op position. Col. Zach Williams was his tu premc antagonist—a man dangerous to tho success of his party. His defeat must bo accomplished at any and all buzzards. Pemberton was now editing the Augusta Chronicle. He sat on the editorial tripod no idle spectator of passing events in Columbia. Ilis papor was tho rec ognized organ of the Clark party, and hunce he was a loading man in tjho bitter partizan warfare then raging in tho county. George W. Crawford and Thos. E. Burnside were rising young mon and Attor nies of gicat promise, and both ambitious for the triumph of their respective political favorites. Poetic fans are coming into fash ion in Paris, At the ball givon by the Princes de Sagan to tho Prince and Princes of Wales, tho hostess presented each lady in tho cotillion with a fan inscribed with a fow verses of poetry. The fan giveD to to tho Princes of Wales was made of tortoise shell, and was ornament ed by a crown and threo capids bolding a scroll with an applicable acrostic. .... Mr. J ohn Trammel has been made PostmastQr at Porter Springs. FLEETING JOYS. Time goes in for funny freaks, Mau’s a toy he Ike’s to play with; Notice how he lines our cheeks, Mark what glee ho mokes us gray with. Pleasure comes to soothe our hearts; Often, like tho rose, ’tin prickly ; Soon its radiance departs— Happy moments vauish quickly ! SupjKisiug you by fate's decree Love a girl ami long to greet her, Dou’t the minutes stem to bo Leaden-winged until you meet her ? When tho hour arrives at last, And all care away you banish, Then the tyrant travels fast Happy moments quickly vanish. Here upon this earthly ball Joy awhile will make us gayer, But when sorrow givos a call Ofttimes she proves a ‘‘stayer.” Hope, thou swiftly glidest on— Fragrant aro the flowers tliou piokest; Soon, alas, their bloom is gone— Happy moments fly tho quickest! Never mind, wc needn’t groan ; Tear drops, shower-like, refresh us ; After all, we’re bound to own Joy is like a sweetheart—precious. Cast away regrets aud sighs. Though our cares beset ns thickly, Happy moments lot us pri/.0, Even though they vanish quickly ! Letter from Mr. Stephens. Washington, D. C., 10 June, 1878. Hon. Hunky R. Casey, Chairman Democratic Executive Com mittee, Eighth Congressional Dis trict, Wavcrly Hall, Appling, Oa: Mr Dear Sir: Your kind lottor ofatveekor more ago, informing mo of tho action of tho committee over which you preside, in calling a convention of tho party to moet on tho 15th of August, at Thomson, to nomlnata a candidate for tho next House of Representatives in Con gross, and inquiring what, construc tion should ho placed upon my tolc grarn of tho 25th ult. to Col. H. G. Wright, of Augusta, &c., was duly received. In my briof acknowledg ment at tho timo you wore informed that I would answer you at largo at as early a day as possible. This is tho first opportunity 1 have had to give you such full reply as all tho points in your letter requiro tor a clear understanding of tho whole matter by my constituents. First, then, let me give you the history of that telegram, which is necessary for a correct understand ihg of its true object and meaning; and, secondly, my posit ion in rela tion! to tho coming election, about which so much has been said. Ist. During last winter, while Col. Wright was here, in free conversa tion with him on the subject, I told him, as I did others during the same period, that my inclination was very strong not to allow my name to go before the people again for ro-oloction. The question wus not then decided in my own mind. There wore some matters of import ance relating to currency, finance, <fec., which I wished tb seo proper ly settled for tho rolict of the coun try before l retired, and i hoped theso questions would bo so dis posed of before tlo close of the present session. Still I did not know what might occur to cause mo to feel it to bo my duly to con tinue longer in tho public service if the people desired it. Col. Wright, in my conversation with him, sta ted it might bo necessary for me to consent to continue, in order to pres rvo harmony in the district and prevent divisions growing out of tho aspirations of others desir ing tho position. As spring opened, and my health not scorning to im prove, my mind had nearly reached a fixed determination to carry cut my own in -linatioa as expressed to him. The oxcution of this purpose w# postponed only until alter niy return from a contemplated absence of a week for the benefit of my health, on a visit to a friend near Baltimore), when a now and most agi'ating question was Bprung upon the House and tho country. What occurred soon after 1 loft tho House on this leave of abscnco is well known. On my return from Bnlti- moro on the evening of the 25th ult., I found a very largo pile of let ters which had accumulated on my table whilo I was gone. It was near ten o’clock at night before I got through reading and having them road to me. Tho last on tho pile was from Col. Wright, which had oonie-in the mail of that day. It was of the same purport with scvoral others. 110 wished to know if I bad determined definitely whethor I would boa candidate again or not, as several aspirants for tho posilion would likely up soon, which might create divis ions, &e. lie said it was important that my position in reference to being a candidate again should be settled nt as early a day as possiblo. j This was the substance of his letter. I immediately sent by telegraph to Col. Wright a special dispatch in these words: “Your letter received. I shall stand for re-election. Please publish.” I paid for it as a special dispatch, aud bo v tho Associated Press got bold of it, or how the ! words were changed in it, I know not. lam thus particular iu these small matters because they are vory necessary for a correct understand ing of the whole subjoct. i licse are the facts upon which it was herald ed all ovor tho country that L had announced myself as an “indepen dent candidate.” Now, the object of that telegram was briefly and promptly to soltle tho question as to my candidacy. Its plain purport was that I would continue in my present position if the people of the district desired it, and that I did not intend voluntari ly to retire from my post in this hour of renewed threatening evils of great magnitude. It was a short announcement in good old English form aud timo-honored phrascology of my intention to offer for tho suf frages of tho people for re-e!oc tion. Allow me to say also that it is in tho very same words, I think, used by mo in 1873, when I an nounced my candidacy to till tho vacancy occasioned by the death of the lamented Gen. Ambrose R. W i iglit, father of the Col. 11. G. Wright, whom I was addressing. That announcement was in response to a request by several distinguish ed friends and nearly all, if not all, of the members of tho legislature from tho Eighth C ngressional District, then assembled in Atlanta, and entirely independent of any nomination by or from any party convention whatever. So much for the telegram, its history, objoet and meaning. 2nd, Next, as to my position to ward tho convention so to moot, in view of tho present surroundings and tho tone of several of tho lead ing professed Democratic papers of the Stato, I wish it to bo distinctly understood that I shall neither seek nor decline a nomination at their hands. I never sought a iminina tion from any body of men for any office in tnj life, and 1 never shall. It is equally Into that I never failed to yield to a call oi the pco p o made in any lonnal manner to servo tho country in any capacity or position whore I saw any hopo ful prospect of doing good, and nev er shall fail so to do. Tho Demo crats of the eighth district did, two yoars ago, by a convention of dele gates at Thomson, of their own ac cord, present my name to tho poo pie of tho district as a At, person to represent their interests in Con gress; and asked my consent to al low it to be so j resented. Tho con sent was given, as it was also given under like circumstances two years before that to tho request of a simi lar convention assembled at Augus ta, but in neither of those instances did I seek tho nomination or tho presentation of my name so made, hut did feel tho profourdost gruti tilde for these renewed evidences of popular confidence Allow me further to say that I sorved the people of the eighth district for sev eral years before ti e war, and for not tt h nglo one of theso terms us my nntno pres nlcd by any nomi nating < ouvontion. L stood before the people for their suffrages upon my record, and not upon any license or tickot of permission to boa can didate granted by any intermediate body. That record showed a life devoted to the maintenance of por soual truth, honor, integrity and justice, as well as tho maintenance of the right*, interests and every- thing that tended to promote, phy sically, intellectually, and morally, the glory and renown of Georgia. In this connection I will also say I do not nt all objoct to conventions as a very proper mode, in many in stances, of selecting candidates, especially where all persons partic ipating in them agroo upon certain principles to be maintained, and certain policies to bo pursued, and where thero are several or many aspirants for tho position, and when success can only bo reached by con cert and unity of action, nor do I object to anything done by your committee in tho matter of calling the Thomson convention, nor their recommendation touching tho two thirds rule. That rulo I always re garded as unjust and unfair in its operations, and uttorly out of place in any other except Federal iiomi noting conventions. The reason of its origin and proper application to convention* of the latter class you fully understand, and I need not repeat them hero, Tho effect of this rulo in our fcltuto, district, and county convention*, under tho ma nipulation of ringmasters, is goner ally to defeat rather than to carry out tho will of tho pooplo and fiom this evil has sprung, very naturally, the growing sentiment throughout the country to do away entirely with this mode of selecting candi dates. So much upon those points. One other, in conclusion, I wish to bo distinctly understood, upon- Front tho tono of that class of pa lters in Georgia to which I have ro forred, it would seem that I am to be considered hereafter as having abandoned tho Democratic party, and placed myself in antagonism to its organization by the telegram re ferred to. Parties aro properly characterized by tho principles upon which they ate formed, and not by tho name they may assume in their organization. If the question of my political principles or affiliation, therefore, is rais and in that conven lion, then I plead to its jurisdiction. It I am not a Demoerttt of tho stinfghtest sect in Georgia, then who is? You, my doar sir, know tho material and stuff of which my Democracy is made. You know woll who, in our darkest hours iu 1870, framed that Platform of prin ciples which maintained tho integ rity and equality of the several Statos, and rallied tho peoplo of Georgia to a rescue of their oonsti tutionnl rights in the memorial campaign of that year. You know that you was one of them and I was another. In tho event, there fore, that this convention shall re pudiate mo as an unfit representa tive of Democratic principles and shall attempt to rttlo me out of tho Democratic party bocauso of that telegram, or anything else connec ted with my roceut public acts or sentiments, then I say to you and to them, plainly and distinctly, that I shall regard their edict as but a brutumfulmen issued by an irres ponsible faction of tric'stors, and the question whether I or they are sound in the faith of tlio fathers shall be left for tho true Democracy of tho district to bo settled at the polls. If this shall produce any division or dissension in tho party, then the responsibility for tho con sequences must rest upon those who have so assailed and so grossly mis represented mo. I hold my present commission, not. fr“m tho Thomson convention of 1876, but by the will of tho people of tho eighth district legally oiul constitutionally ex pressed at tho polls. All questions, therefore, touching rny fidelity to principle and integrity in tho exe cution of tho trusts confided t me by them, shall be ultimately decided by them. If they, in their judg ment, shall pronounce sentence of condemnation, I shall, 1 trust, re ceive it with as much fortitude and philosophy as Socrates received tho hemlock, and with as much dignity and composure as Caesar receivod the blade of the offwotts Casea and tho final stab of tho ingrate Brutus. Yours truly, Alexander 11. Stephens. The Girls A-Fishing. There’s generally about six of them iu tho bunch, with light dross es on, and they have throo poles, with as many hooks and lines umong them. As soon us they have got to the river they look for a good place to get down on tho rafts, and tho most venturesome one sticks her boot heel in tho hank and makes two careful step-downs, then sho suddenly finds horself at tho bottom with b th hands in tho water, und a feeling that everybody in the wido world is looking at her, aud sho never tolls any one how she got there. The othor girls profiting by her example, turn around and go down tho bank on their hands and toes backward. Then thoy scamper over tho rafts until they find a shallow place where they can soo the fish, and shout: “Oh 1 I see one.” “Where?” “There 1” “Oh! my, so lie is.” “Let's catch him.” “Who's got the bait?” “You lazy thing, you’ro sitting on my pole.” “Show mo the wrotch that stole my bait.” All ho exclamations aro gotten off in a tono that sends every fish within three acroß square into gal loping hysterics. Thon tho girls by superhuman oxcrlion manage to get a worm on th hook ami “throw in” with a splash like tho launching of a wash tub an 4 await tho result. When a silver fin comos along and nibbles the bait they pull up with a jerk that hud an unfortunate fish weighing loss than fifteen pounds been pn tho hook would have land ed it In the neighborhood of three of four miles out in the country.— Aftorwhilo a feeble minded snnfish contrives "to get fastened on tho hook of a timid woman, and sho gives vont to her tongue: “Oh! something's on my hook!" “Pull up; you littlo idiot!” shout ed five excited voices as their polos and hooks aro dropped and they rush, to the rescue. The- girl with TV umber - ilo-. tors. the bite gives a spasmodic jerk, which seudß the unfortunate sunny into the air th full length of forty feet of lino, and he comes down or the nearest cm ly head with a damp flop that, sets the gill a clawing as though there wore bumblebees in her hair! “Oh ! take it away. Ugh, the nasty thing!" Then they hold up their skirts and gather about that fish as it skips over the logs, one all tho time holding the line in both hands, with her foot on the pole, as though sho had an civil disposed gout at the other end. They talk over it. “How ever will ho got off?”' “Ain’t it pretty ?" “Wonder if it ain't dry ?” “Poor little thing—lot's put it back.” “How will we got tho hook from it ?” “Pick it up,' says a girl- who hacks rapidly out of tho circle. “Good gracious, I'm afraid of it. There, it’s opening its mouth at me.” Just then the sunny wriggles oflT the horde and disappears between two logs iqto tho w iter, ami tho girls try for another bite. But tho sun comes down and fry si tho backs of their nocks, and they got throe headaches in ti e party, and they all get cross and scold at tho fish like as many magpies. If any unwary chub dare show him self in tho water they poke at him with their polos, much to his dis gust. Finally they get mad ad over and throw their poles away, hunt up tho iunch-bakests, climb up into the woods, where they sit around on tho grass and caterpillars, and eat erongh of dried beef and rusk and hard-boiled eggs to give a wood.horse the nightmare; after which they compute notes about their beaux until sundown, when, they go homo and plant envy in the hearts of all their mttslin-delaino friends by tolling what “just a. splendid timo” they had Idlewild, Nkau likiizklia, Ga„ ) Jutie 14th, 1878. y Dbaii Journal : Last Sunday, about 3 o’clock, this section of country was visited by a terrific huricuno, which carried tie* struct! n and death in its train. I must confine myself to what hap pened on my own place. Wo gath ered on tho piazza to watch the clouds which scorned to some so grand. I ran tip stairs ami closed tho blinds and did what little 1 ciuld to secure them. Before I could think, I found the house leak ing so that I could soon ring the water out of nty hair. I ran down stairs, the wind blowing so strong it was with great difficulty T could keep on my feet. My nephew met me, saying, “Aunt e, don’ l>o fright ened; I his is the safest room.” In. this time one chimney was down, part, of the roof gone, many large trees, which had stood the storms, of many years, were blown up by tho roots, one dozen fruit trees blown down, six houses entirely down, my vegetables entirely got;© —hail sufficient for tho oaaimer— and the worst is yet to cotne, for in tho fields, not a ventage of anything left—all lost, everything. Cotton, about 16 acres, with tho exception of a few rows near a fonco. You would not suppose there had been a seed put in tho ground. It was perfectly shaved off. And t’no crop lui-1 been so promising. Wo had worked hard, manngod close, and wero striving to live so as to pay my grocery bill, ami this cotton I hud promised my merchant. My dear Journal, do not think it weakness if tho tears did flow. Tho corn fared no bettor. It is twi ted and broken off to the ground. Sunday morning it was grocn amt flourishing, its tassels looming up so beautifully to the farmer, and in the evening it lay flat, every stalk, for acres, as far as the eye could roach, nothing to ho scon but corn on tho ground as regular as if it had been cut do ten with a knife. Waters melon vines broken off and young molons pelted with the hail, until; thoy lookod liked they hud been shot through. To show you tho crop was unus ually fine, wo brought in a pumpkin which weighed five pounds. If nvy house hud burned to tbs ground, and loft me my crop it would not have hurt me s<> much'. 'I ho rains, of last week prevented our utting tho oats, and they aro a total loss. I feel this most, because, (as this is my first year! having everything to buy, they would help me feed my muh s. As it is I must bo thankful none ol us are lint t. lilosa God for all llis mercies, and say with Job-t “Can v e oxpect good at the hand of God and not evil?” My loss is. very heavy. T\.