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THE FAMILY OF FORNEY. We here another piquant article from the pen of “Mack," the wideawake and intelligent correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, in the sketch of the “Dead DuckV' quacking relative! and immediate family, which we publish below. “Mack” deserves credit for this interesting notice of the “house of Forney!” FOKNBV, THE DISINTERESTED PATRIOT. Every once in a while the great Amer ican toady, John W. Forney, speaks of the party which supports the President aa made up of "hirelings,’ a word which he borrows from the vocabulary of the late Southern masters. The public may like to know bow purely disinterested Forney is, and has been, in support of the Republican party —how ranch, self sacrifice he displays in the premises, in fact. Firstly, then, there is John W. Forney the dead duck in propria persona, Clerk of the Senate, at 13,500 a year and atcalings. Secondly, there is D. C. Forney, pub lisher jf the Chronicle, cousin of the dead dock's,in pay of the Senate, drawing a salary of about $2,000 a year for work which he never performs—a clear swindle. Thirdly, there is another Forney, a broth er of the duck's, mail agent between hen, and Philadelphia. Fourthly, there le another brother, male agent on the Pennsylvania Central Road. Fifthly, there is a junior Forney, who all through the war was a staff officer, on duty in Philadelphia. Sixthly, there ia another son of the dead duok’a who, early in the war, waagot a commission in the navy, under a solemu covenant never to be sent to sea, nor exposed to the rude fire of rebel gunt —and he never was. Seventhly, Forney is carried about the city of Washington in a vehicle owned by the Government, drawn by a horse owned -by the Government, and driven by a man pa'd as a laborer in the Caditol grounds,— All.of wich maybe strictly patrotic,but it is not legal. Eighthly, Forney has for a private servant a man who is paid as a laborer for tbe Senate, whicb ia contrary to the law in such cases made and provided. Ninthly, Forney* gets the Chronicle edited by men who are paid as clerks of tbe Senate, which may bo patriotism, but looks like swindling. Tenthly,Toruey wifi employ nobody as clerk or messenger in the Senate who will not help to edit either the Chronicle or Ike I‘rese; which is good economy but bad morals in tho dead duck. Eleventhly, Forney wrote a begging letter to tho President about six months ago.— 'j-'he President did not grant the prayer of the petitioner, and the Chronicle immediate ly came out against Andrew Johnson and hie policy; which may he disinterested, but .doesn't look that way; looks rather like an unsuoceessful attempt to. Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, When thrift may follow, Poumrg. What a self-sacrificing patriot Forney ia, to,be sure! MACK- Arkansas.— Arkansas possessing a soil of unsurpassed richness, and a climate pe culiarly suited to the raising of cotton, is bound to be, in the course of time, the first cotton State in the South. The time Qf this meat depend very much upou our own actions. We peed wise legislation to majte lAC-labor weliave profitable. To do this we must have some system to reg elate and make certain that tbe contracts made between employee and employer will be enforced or damnges will be collec table in case of failure from either party that is delinquent. At present the major* ity of the laborers are negroes, and are Wdftr the management of that God forsa kon institution, the fieedmen’s bureau which we, in all candor, thiuk an enemv, both to the white and black man —and in deed to every one save the pockets of those who have the fortune .of holding positions under it. This is indeed one of the great est obstacles we have to contend with, and if it ie to be continued the little pittance whicli has been left the State by the late war, will be takeu to pay taxes to support this mammoth swindling machine; but let us hope for the best, and think that the good sense of the conservative party North will rally and drive from power the men who are sutaiuing this unconstitutional humbug, and that next April it will leave our soil never to be heard of savages oue of the greatest follies of the past. Then will labor emigrate to our State; and her vast and superior mineral resources will ho improved and worked, our internal system of transportation will be commended and Arkansas will become as she ought, the wesUbest of the Southern States. To effect this end we have much to do ; we must form and put in working order emi grant aid societies, and bring the healthy laborera from the east to supply tbe place of tbe negroes lately set free, and rendered unreliable as laborers. Let all good friends of the State go earnestly to work, and with proper energy and economy, but a few years will suffice to place her among the prosperous States of the American Union. —Monticello Guardian. VEESES FOk’tHE YEA* 1900. Tell John to set the kettle on, I want to take a drive— I only want to go to Rome, And shall be baok at five; Tell cook to dreee those hummingbirds I shot in Mexico, They've now been killed st leaet two daye, They’ll aoon be un peu haufl. And Tom, lake you the gold leaf wings, And atari for Spain at thrae— I want aome Seville oranges. Twist dinner time and tea ; Fly round by Fraaee, and bring anew Perpetual motion gun. To-monow, with some - friends I go A bunting in the aun. The trip I took the other day. To breakfaat iq the moon, Thanks to my Lord Bellair, he Spoiled my new balloon; For, steering through the milky way, Ha ran against a star, . And, turning round again too aoon. Came jolt against my ear. Bat, Tom, yon get the ear repaired, And then let Dan and Dick Inflate with ten square miles of gar, i ipsan to travel quick ; My steam is surely up by posr, Pul tba high-pressure on, Give me the brealb-bag fur the way— All rigbf—hey—whi*—f’m gone. BIHODLAR*DREAM. A gospel minister, pf the Evangelical principles, whose name, from tbe circum stances that occurred, it will be necessary to conoeal, being much fatigued at the conclu sion of the afternoon service, retired to his apartment in order to take a little rest. Lie had not long reclined upon his couch before he fell asleep and began to dream. He dreamed that on walking in his garden, he entered a bower that had been erected in it, where he sat to rend and meditate. While thus employed he thought that be heard some person enter the garden, and leaving hie bower, he immediately hasten ed toward the apot whence the sound seemed to come in order to discover who it was that had eulered. lie had not proceeded far before he discerned a par ticular friend of hi*, a gospel minister of considerable talent, who had rendered himself very popular by his zealous and unweaiied.exertions in the cause of Christ. On appronching his friend, he was sur prised to find his countenance with a gloom, which it had not been accustomed to bear, and that it strongly indicated a violent agitation of mind, apparently aris ing from conscious remorse. After Lite salutations had passed, bis friend asked tbe relator tbe time of day, to which be replied, “twenty-five minutes after four." hearing this the stranger said : “It is only one hour since I died, and now”—(here his countenance spoke unutterable horror.) “Why s<? troubled t" inquired the dream ing minister. “It is not,” said he, “be cause I have not preauhed the gospel; neither ie it because I have noi been ren dered useful; for I have now many seals to .my ministry that can bear testimony to the truth ns it is in Jesus, which they have received from my lips; but it is because I heve been accumulating to myself tbe ap plause of men, more tban the honor that cometh from above; and verily I have my reward.” Having uttered these e xprea sions he hastily disappeared, and was seen no more. The minister walking shortly afterward with the contents of this dream deeply en graven on his memory, proceeded, over whelmed with serious reflections, towaid his chapel, in order to conduct the even ing service. On his way thither he was accosted by s friend, who inquired wheth er he had heard the severe loss the church had sustained in tl.e death of that able minister * * *> and he replied,“No,” but being much affected at the singular in telligence, he inquired of him tbe day and time of the day when bis departure took place. To this bis friend replied, “This af ternoon , at twenty-five minutes after three.” —Herald of Truth. ‘Tom, I hear you are going South to reside,’ ‘Yes; going to Florida.’ * ‘Well, I advise you to get into a to*n where there are no buckets, for when I was iu that region every other man was kicking the bucket.’ - Solution of Haunted Houses. A haunted house is a tenement of any num ber of ordinary atones, to jvbich is added an extra-ordinary one, iu the form of a Ghost Story. A National Bankrupt Law.—lt is an instructive fact, saye tbe Tribune, that the repuguaoce to a national bankrupt law it strongest iu those communities which are least exposed to loss or injury by its op eration. That, the Chamber of Com merce of New York has just reiterated its prayer to Congress to pees the bill already throogh the House, though it ie certain that many millions of debts due from the interior and West to that city would be sponged out by such an act; whereas the West, aa represented in Congress, teems generally averse to such a law, though tbe Weat would be relieved by it of tbe legal obligation to pay many millions owned tbeuce to the East. To other words, tho creditor interest asks for a bankrupt law, while tbe debtor interest resists its enact ment. ■We hope and trust that Congress will not adjourn without letting the captive go free. It would give anew spring to indus try and business, if it were this Summer settled that tbe duty imposed by the Con stitution on Congress of enactieg ami maintaining a national bankrupt law shall no longer be ignored nor evaded. Stopping at a village inn, there came a thunder storm, and Captain Hall, surprised that anew country should reach a per fection in those metedrologic manufactures, said to a bystander, ‘Why, you have very heavy thunder here.’ ‘Well yes,’ replied tbe man, ‘we du, considering the number of inhabitants.’ At the battle of Spires, a regiment bad ordure not to grant any quarter; and an unhappy enemy, wounded and disarmed, begged hard for his life from one of its of ficers. Touched with hit situation, the other replied ‘I pity yoar misfortune, and —ask anything else but that, and upon my honor I will grant your request.’ An old lady, on being examinod before a magistrate as to her place of legai settle ment, was ashed wbat reason she had for supposing her husband bad a legal settle ment in tbet town. The old lady said, ‘He was born and married there, and.they buried him there, and if that isn't settling him there, I don’t know what is.’ The following advertisement recently ap peared in a daily paper: 'A young lady who has received a good education, can read and yriic, and is verted in geography, history, music, dancing and elementary mathematics, wishes a situation in a respec tadlu family at a washer and troner,' O'Connell, in addressing a jury, having exhausted every ordinary epithet of abuse, stopped for a word, added, This naufruge out ruffian.’ When afterwards asked by his friends the meaning of the word, he con tested he did know, but said 'he thought it sounded well.’ •Isn’t it strangt,’ asked a friend the other day, ‘that Sir lsaao Newton should ever have indulged in clownish freaks?’ When did hel’ we inquired. 'Why, when he was dividing the rays of lights, to be sure, for wasn't that rutting up shines?’ A physician orJerad one of his patients to drink Seidlit sj water. The man made up a wry face at the suggestion. 'lt is on ly the first glass that is unpleasant,’ Mid tbe doctor* ‘Very well, then,’ answered tbs tick man, ‘l’ll only dtink the second.’ Avery absent minded individual, being upset from a boat in tbe liver, sank twice before be remembered tlint be could swim. lie fortunately remembered it just before he sauk the last and third time. Sniffkinssays that Jack is a mean and impudent fellow, always cutting hit best friends. Sniffkins means Jack-knife. 0. V. WALKER & CO., 271 BROAD STEKT. AUGUSTA. GA, Auction and General COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Will give prompt and personal attention to all business entrusted to them. or Favors solicited. RxmKNCKs:—Merchants generally of Au gusts, Gs.; Earle A Cos., Sehanck A Downing Dudley I*. Ely A Cos., New York; John Gib eon e Sons A Cos., CUghorn A Herring, James C. Hsnd A Cos, Philadelphia; Heyward, Bart lett A Cos., Ward Love A Cos, Baltimore; Ches ter, Gueld A Sons, Brigham, Thayer A Cos, Boston! Shylock A Rowland, St. Louis, Mo.: Andrew Buchanan A Go, Louisville, Kv.: T. F. Walker, New Orleans, Le.; Goodwin, Ward A Cos, Selma, Alabama, Ala.; Baker, Robbins A Cos., B. A, Weems, Cunningham A Pune, Mobile, Ale.; W. H. Stark, A. Champion, Henry Bryan, Savannah, 6s; Geo. W. Wil liams A Cos, Willis A Chisolm. Charleston, S.C. June I, lAS6, A, 3m. » FLEMING & ROWLAND, Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants, AMGUSTA. GA. KEEP constantly on band a targe and well selected stock of Groceries and Planta tion Supplies, consisting in pert, of SUGAR, COFFEE, IRON. NAILS. BAGGING sod ROPE' ByCON and LARD, Woolen and Cot ton Goods Seovil’e genuine HOJJS, to which they invite the attention of their friends, and the publie generally, [April 27, Sm. HARDWARE, QUTLERY, AGRICULTURAL TOOLS, Ae. FOR SALE BY JOHN &. THOS. A. BONES, 105 Broad Street, Auguste, Ga. June 1, 1866, 6-Sm Southern Kexosine LAMP AND On DEPOT, 309 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga., Under the Planters Hotel. EDWARD i RLEAKELY, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN KEAtOSIjSTE OILt LAMPS, LUANDA LIEKB, ISRACKETS, Ac MY Stock embraces the following articles and styles of GLASS aud METAL HAND LAMPS, NIGHT LAMPS. LARGE AND SMAI.L STAND LAMPS. BRONZE PARLOR LAMPS, HALL SWING LAMPS, HALL BRACKETS, with-and without Reflectors; Chandeliers, all styles, with 2, S, and 1 Lights; Police, Pocket, Globe aod Dark Lanterus; Chimneys and Burners of the most improved kinds; Wicks, Oil Cans, Trimmers, etc. ar Hum Lamp* easy in price from 50 cents to $25 rack. Chandelier* from $5 to SIOO. iar Keep constantly on hand a Large Sup ply of the PUKEST AND RUST KERO SENE OIL MADE, put up in Barrels, and Tin Cana, suitablo for. City or Country. All orders large or small solicited and promp- Ity attended to. E. S. BLEAKLEY. June 1, 1866, 7—3 m § 7ubi- k vorifP-M > rflOK'- 1 Mi? ( Ars,sv Jl ST( ** ESiSiC J „ 111 -•» •• ' • ' - UHfJ FROM THE PL* I HIST ref Li In THE MOST EUIOR*TI, If! '.l OESICHEO i FUHKISHEO (A) U7to onom *T short notice\J SosLL WORK TOR THE COUNTRY a. C»t KULLV soxen fgV HEWITT’S GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA., W. C. HEWITT, Proprietor, Bate of Jfemlt House, Va. Col. GEO. H, JONES, Clerk. June 1. 1866, C-3m, GEO. R. CRUMP & C0.7~ General Commission Merchants and Wholesale Dealers in GROCCRIES. LIQUORS, TOBACCO, Baeon, Lard, Grain, Guano, Ao„ tff Will purchase and sell on Commission, Cotton, Tobeeco, Produce, and Merchandise of every description. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. .tar Refer in-Washington to S. H. Cren shaw, Jss. Junkin, G. W. Bryant, Pettua A Callaway, [Juue 1, 1866,-Sm JOHN D. BUTT. | JOSHUA W. BUTT. JOHN D. BUTT & 6R0.. GENERAL GROCERY' AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 206 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. Will attend to the sale of Cotfon and Produce. 3 r Dealers in Imported Sngars, Brandies Wines andFamily Supplies. [June 1. Stn* J. J. ROBERTSON & CO., Cotton Factors AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, X*. 5, Warren Block, Augusta, Ga. May 10. 1866, 3, ts BORGIA. WILKES COUNTY.—Whereas Arden Evan?, jr., Administrator ou /the eatate of Arden Evans Sr., late of said county, deceased, applies to me for letters of disraia&itin from said trust; Tbeae are, therefore, to cite ao4 admonish, all and singular the kindred and creditor* of said deceased, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to allow cause, if any they have why letters«hould not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at Washington, this 7th day of May JBG6. G. G. NORMAN, . Ordiuary. May fi, 1866, S-lm6ra. « /S BORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.—Whereas v_K Moses H. Arnold, Executor ou the estate of Alien Arnold dso’d., applies to for letters of dismission from said trust: These sre, therefore, to eite admonish, alt aud lingular the and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if aiy they have why letters should not be gran. Given under my hand and official signature, at Washington, this sth day of June, 1866. G. G. NORMAN, Ordinary. June 5, 1866, 7—l m 6m. NOTICE. —All persons indebted to the estate of A. J. Ashmore, late of Wilkes county, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and those having claims against said estate are notified to present them in terms of the law. WIL D. QTTINN, Adm r. May 7, 1866, 3-Ct FRANK. BGRWEIX GREEK F. ARNOLD & CO., DEALERS IN GROCERIES, HARDWARE, &C., AT CLEVELAND’S OLD STAND. WE .lesire to call tbe attention of thajrub lie to our complete Stock of GROCERIES, which we offer cheap for CASH. Our assort ment consists of SUGARS, COFFEES. TEAS, PICKLES, VIN EGAR, LOBSTERS. OYSTERS. SAR DINES, MACKEREL. SALT, CAN NED FRUITS, JELLIES, FINE WINES. BRANDIES, ALE, WHISKEYS, PORTER, CANDIES OF ALL KINDS, SOAP, PIPES, INK. PAPER. CURRANTS, FINE CHEWING ANI) SMOKING TO BACCO. FINE CIGARS, COTTON AND WOOL CARDS, BLyCKING, ALMONDS, RyISINS, HARDWARE. HOBS, TRACE CHAINS, BUCKETS, TUBS, SHOVELS, KPADE3, Axes, Uatehets, Files, Screws, Neils, Prawknivee, Sifters, Padlocks, Broome, Smoothing Irons, Sheers, Sytlie BlaJes, Knives, Forks, Pocket Knives, Measures, Shot am) Caps, GLMSWMB, CROCKERYWARE, TINWARE, AC. . ar Produce of all kimia taken in exchange fur goodaat the HIGHEST market prices. Just Received, A fine lot of SUMMER HATS and SHOES at F. ARNOLD A CO’S. Washington, April 27, 1856, 1-ts c Stands for Clothing when ftshionably made; L Far Light Fabrics to toil Uie spring trade ; o Our eetabiiahment, where please to call; T Tidy garments should be worn by all; H Hot weather, coming rapidly without far; I Invite you to buy yout clothing here; N New styles we aie receiving every week ; G Glad, to see you when our establishment you seek. It E M E MBE R I. SIMON & CO., Fashionable Clothing Emporium 224 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. Mey 18, 1866, s—ts I NEW EDITION, JUST PUBLISHED, OF THE ELEMENTARY SPELLER & READER, By Hoy. J no. Iffooly, Acknowledged by an who hare used it, to ha tha very beat Elementary Book of the kind. SIMPLE, EASY, GRADUAL. NEARLY 30,000 COPIES iLßßifif 80L1! IST Order* from School Trocheri and Country Merchant* attended to at once. Jft For tale by A. BLEAKLEY, 210 Breed street, Augusta, Ga. Marsh so 60 8m