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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE,
BYJAS..I WRIGHT AND HUGH WILSON.
ROSADALIS,
THE GREAT
BkOftft peaipsa,
I'-U H e s '
Scro?ula in its Various Forms,
Such as Consumption in its curlier stages, F.o
largement and Ulcers'ion of the Ulan is
Joints, Bones, Kidneys, Uterus,
Chronic Rheumatism, Km;—
tious of the Skin,
Chronic Sore
Eyes,
etc.
ALSO
SS -W *“ BjC K |C- » «* 9
IN ALL US FORMS.
DISEASES OF WOMEN,
Lot of AppHHt, i&ivß IJeadachc. Liver Ow
pltu -/* Pain in Bud: Imprudence in Lift.
Oravil, (JESEUAW BAD HEALTH, and
all 1)1
BM, Live?,. litejs and Elate.
It is a Perfect Renevator.
RO3AP.4LIS >ra<Ji<:*!s9 every kind of hu
nor and bad laint, and restores the entire
system to a healthy condition.
Jt is Perfectly Harmless, never producing
the slightest injury.
It is not a secret Quack Remedy. The ar
ticles of uhich it is made are published around
each boltle.
Recommended hy the Medical Faculty and
many Thousands of ottr Best Citizens.
tar For Testimonials of remaffeahle cutes
nee "RosadaH* Atnitmac' for tin* year.
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
OFFICECipU. IlEnt)WSAJuielN rO£II STf
HAVING rented the well known ami cora
inudioUH Fire Proof Warehouse on Mcln
fseh si reef, formerly occupied by M*b*is. Bu«-
Lio and Walker, ami more recently by Messrs
J. B. Walker <fc Bon, we are prepared in give
our best attention to the
Storage and Sale of Cotton and oilier
Produce consigned to our care.
Orders for Bagging K pc, die., promptly at
tended to. Liberal CA SH AVVANCEH
made at all times on Produce in Store.
We take pleasure in announcing our coDnex
ion with Col. Wiley N. Walton, of Wilkes
county.
AGENTS FOR
Gullet’s Patent Improved Steel Brush
COTTON 6K
Sept, 4—Ln
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE ON THE GEOR
GIA RAILROAD.
ON and after Thursday, Oct lOih, 1867, the
Pawenifer Trains ou the Georgia Railroad
will run as follows:
PAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
(Daily, Sundays Excepted.)
Leave Augusta nt 7.80 a. m
Leave Atlanta at 5.00 a. rn.
Arrive at Augusta at 8 30 p. rn.
Arrive at Atlanta at 6.80 p. rn.
NIGET PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at ••8.15 p. m
Leave Atlanta at 5 46 p. m
Arrive at Augusta »t 3.00 a. fri
Arrive at Atlanta at 6.45 a m
BERZKMA PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4.00 a. m
Leave Bereelfa at 7.10 p. m
Arrive at Augvsla at... v 8.50 a. in
Arrive at Berzt tty at 5.46 p. in
Passengeis for Sparta, Washingt.. n and
Aliens, Oa., must take Day Pasaenger Train
from Augusta and Atlanta.
Passengers for Point, Montgomery,
Selma, Mobile ar.d New” Orleans, must leave
Augusta on Night Passenger Traiu at 8.15 p. m.
to make close cohneclious.
Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand
Junction, Memphis, Louisville, and Si. Louis,
to take either train and make close connec
tions. s
Through Ticket* and Baggage Checked
through to the above places.
Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars on all Night
Passenger Trains.
E. W. COLE,
General Superendent.
Nov. 11, 867, 28
J. J. PEARCE. CUAS. A. PEARCE
J. J. PEARCE & SON,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commit Merchants,
J ACKSON STREET,
MBffl, M.
STORE tnd SELL COTTON and other PRO
DUCE.
jy Cash Advances.
Biggin j, Wap* and Family Supplies fur
nished as uiuat. Aug 14—6 m.
JAMES R, PRINGLE,
FACTOR
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
NO. 6 NORTH A DOER’S WHARF,
CUABLUSUOX, S. 0.
Sept 4 —3 m
E. P, CO ~.
Yfarelioiise & Cohiiiussm Merchants,
iLTJGTJSTA, &A m
ADVANCES made <y.> COTTON Rod PRO
-11 DUCE in store to oar friends
in Savannah, Jew Vera and Liverpool.
CONSIGN MKNTrt to im delivered direct
from Railioad Cars it our W<wviv>nse, therby
avoiding drayage, all unnecessary
handling.
Commission on of vlottoi. ONE -4ND
EON QUARTER I’lpS CENT.
Sept 10—3 m )
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GEORGIA, Wilkes Cos mity.
vv 11EREAB Juhusof) Norman, Adnilnislra
trator of John 11. Norinsu dec’d, represent* to
the CourK in his petition duly filed and enter
ed on record, that he has fully administered on
the Estate of said John 11. Norman deo’d.
This is therefore, lo cite all person? concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any
they can, why said administrator should not ho
discharged from his Administration and receive
letters of dismission therefrom*
GEO. DYSON,
Sept. 7, 1688—Gin Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Wilkes County.
WHEREAS Johnson Norman, Administra
tor ot Ehj.ih Norman dec’d., represents to the
Court, in his petition duly filed and entered on
teeord, that he has fully administered on the
Estate of said Elijah Norman, dec’d. This is
therefore, to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they can,
why said administrator should not he dis
charged from his administration gud receive
letters of dismission therefrom*
GEO. DYaON,
Sept. 7, 18G8—6m. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Wilkes County.
WIIEREASZ. 1). Colley, Executor of Deni- |
cy Colley, dec’d, represents to the Court, in hi* i
petition duly filed and entered on record, that he
has fully ad minis e red on tho Estate of said
Demcy Colley, dec’d. This is therefore, lo cite
all p tsous concerned, kindred and creditors, to
show cause, if any they can, why said l'>eeu
tor should not be discharged from his executor- (
ship and receive letters of dismission there
from. GEO. DYaON, Ord’y. ]
Sept. 7,1868—6 m.
GEOROIA, Wilkes County.
WHEREAS Wilburn W. Ilill, Administra- !
tor of John McCorkle, dec’d, represents to the ,
Court, in h s petition duly filed and entered on
record, that he has fully administered on the
Eaiate of said John McCorkle, dec’d. This is
therefore, to eite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if anv they cun,
whv said dr.inistrator should not he dis
charged f.om his administration and receive
letters of dismission therefrom.
GEO. DYSL/N,
Ordinary.
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How to Foretell the Weather.
—A correspondent of tbo Augusta
Chronicle makes the following asser
tions relative to the weather :
A rid sky (mind you, now, sky.)
in the morning signifieth rairi. Light
ning in tho north signifieth rain.
Snails crawling to and up trees
signifieth rain; the higher up the tree
they crawl, tbo heavier will bo tbo
fall of rain.
A red sky (mind you, now, sky;
not clouds,) at sunset, s ; gnifieth fair
weather.
Anew moon, with its horns turned
down, indiculeth a rainy moon.
Anew moon, with its horns
turned up, indicateth a clear moon.
Ants working at early dawn indi
eatclb a clear day.
Evening red and morning grey',
will light the traveler on his way;
but evening grey ihorriing red, will
pour down rain on traveler’s head.
In winter, a red sunsit indicateth
wind and severe cold.
On a child being told that he must
be broken of a bad babit, be replied,
‘Papa, hadn’t I bettor be mended ?”
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBERB; 1868.
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
TERMS.—Three Dollars a year iu advance.
IST No Subscriptions taken for a short©
ime than six months.
The Best That I Can.
**l cannot do much,** said a little star,
“To,mike UjiKUrk world bright!
My silvery bqftras cannot struggle far
Through the gfoora of night!
But I’m <tulftpart of God’s great plat,
1 .And I’ll chleifully do the best that lean!”
►•*shat.* t ha use,” said afl *eey cloud,
* “Os th#°e few drops that I hold?
They wrH hardly betid the lily prou ,
Though caught iu her cup of gold!
Y|t am l • part of God’s great p!si,
So %>f treasures I’ll give as well as I can.”
A c/bld went merrity forth to plnv,
a thought, like a silver thread,
Kept binding in aud out all day
Through t golden head:
•Mother said, ‘Darling, do all you can,
For yufi are a pTujrUof God’s great plan!’”
She knew no more than the glancing star,
Nor. the cloud with its chalice full!
How, why; aud for what, all strange things
Wet© f
She was only a child at school!
But thought—“lt is part of God’s great plan
That even 1 should do all that I can.”
So she helped a younger child along,
When the road was rough to the feet,
.4ml she sung from her heart u little song
That we all thought passing sweet,
And her father, a weary, toil worn man,
Said, “I too will do the best that 1 can.”
Our best I ah I children, the best of us
Must hide our faces away,
Wh4Ur the Lord of the vineyard comes to look
Ai our task, at the close of day 1
Bit* for strength from abovo—’tie the Mas
'ei’a plau—
W®** pray, aud we’ll do the best that we
The Grandchildren are Coming.
After all, what is tbe use? Wo set
up our house, and ono by one tho
children fly into it like birds out of
some foreign wood into a cage—one,
two, three, four, and more. With
eaoh one comes also a cry; and that
is tho key-note lo which an hundred
sorrows aJd their voices, and gradu
ally swell into that strange chorus
which men cull human life! For each
child there is to boa fringe of care on
the edge of every day. Each child
brings burdens and anxieties. Tears
in their eyes are but harbingers of
many more in the eyes of all who love
them! To shape them from infancy
to goodness, to teach their hands, to
drill their heads, to repair their mis
takes, and secure firm footing in an
honorable manhood, who can measure
the thought, tho feeling, the endcav
f And then, when tho long task is
done, is there no compensation '! Or
do they not, one by one, detach them
selves, and, like comely fruit, fall from
the bough the on which they grow,
leaving it bearing—is snatched away
by some ono who has known her few
er weeks than the parents have years
She goes. Tho bouse is empty of
her. Her room, her drawers, her
hooks, and school tasks, loudly pre
served, carry a sadness lo tho moth
er’s heart every thno they are looked
upon. The boys, almost before you
dream that they liavo ceased to tbe
boys, come asking the father’s blessing
on a now comer. By the time that
father or mother is conscious of age
and infirmity, the whoio brood
is scattered and gone. The house is
solitary. It used to be straightened
for room when the children were at
hofne, but now there is room too
much. It used to be noisy, but now
one might doze all day, for all the
noise. Only tho fire snapping out
suddenly, or tho drowsy old clock lick
ing behind the door, or a kitten mow
ing to get in, or to get
out, or a squeaking rat or mouse,
makes an audible noise. When the
children are all home, a man is like a
Norway spruce, whose woll-grown
branches, beginning from tho level of
the ground, rise up in a perfect pyra
mid, shaping the tree to exquisite pro-
I portions. But each child married is
a bough lopped off, leaving a wide
space, until the parent trunk is final
ly trimmed up like a shaft, and all
the verdure left clinging about the
top.
In European communities, the chil
dren often marry and settle down
around their childhood home. But
this is rare in America. The endless
circulation that is going on sweeps
away the children ; and to bo married
is almost synonymous with going fur
away from borne.
AH this, Mr. Bonner, describes my
ista'oof mind last week. It is very
j different ntty. Word has come that
I the giandeCtldren aro coining home.
| Coming hoi,io f What! both the chil
dren ? aid their mother? for a good
long visit? Bless their little hearts,
let them w me. There's nothing in
this house (to good for them. Now,
then, wo skill have a household once
more. Children are the flowers which
God set is Town from henvon to en
liven and elieer this life. What was 1
say ing a little back, about the care,
and anxiety, and pain, and trouble, of
bringing thorn up? Stuff —mere stuff,
Mr. Bonner, i assure you.
Don’t hoiiovo a word of it. I was
surely in a- dream. It was a half
nightmascj lum awake now, and I
assure youj that ho who is tit to have
and roar children, will see ten, yes, an
hundred joys to every sorrow, and
tho sunshine of their smiles will turn
into rainbows every tear they shed, or
cuuso lo be shed.
If there, id uny thing iu this world
that pays ns lt goes along, it is taking
earo of children. .Raising flowers is
ail very well. But flowers have in
them no mischief; they behuvo too
well; they lack human naturo; they
need tho iridescent qualities oi dispo
sition that flash trom tho surface of
overy child's life. Children a trouble ?
Do they pout, fret, disobey, and go
wrong? Don’t you, with your asters
arid honeysuckles? What would you
givo to have a singing vino, or a flow
er that could learn to say its prayers !
Why’, troublo in tho nursery is a
parent’s pastime. If ono don’t be
lieve it, let' him for a while
without children. He will soon be
glad to iffettr that tho grandchildren
aro coming homo.
Well, vve must got ready for thorn.
Let tho drawers be filled with candy.
Got out tho ciib, and pul up tho dear
iitllo narrow bed again.
Hunt up tho dolls, tho wagons, the
play-houso, the picture -books, tho
strings. Where are tho tall chairs for
tile tahlj, »nd tho littlo cups, and
knives and,f'nks, If a child’s hand?
It looksßko living again !
Fow, jv-o' ahull bo walked up in tho
morning'.py a chubby roguo climbing
upon the bed, and playing tricks with
my eye- and nose. Then will c me
tho tro( ping down to breakfast, and
all the lublo antics. Then wo will go
up to family prayers, arid what a time
those children will make of it. Chil
dren are not natural worshippers.
But how patient will we be ! Noth
ing shall fret us. Already' wo aro
more robust, arid shall let out tho
buckle of our girdle ono or two holes.
In short, the grandchildren aro com
ing; and in bringing themselves hack
to us, they biirig back the childhood of
their patents too, and bring us back
lo ourselves.
“I Don't Care.”
“Mamma, I failod throe times in my
lesson this morning, and have got
down in ray class. 1 do not care ; I
don't mean to study any harder, if I
get to the toot.”
“I am sorry, Harry, to hear you
speak so. Tlioso tbroo blioit words,
T don’t c.iro,’ have boon tho ruin oi a
great many in this world.”
“The lesson was real hard, mamma;
and the teacher didn’t half explain it
and that was the reason I failed: so 1
don’t care.”
“There it is again, Harry. You
must not allow yourself to use those
foolish words so often. I once knew
a little bnv, who, almost as soon as he
could speak, would cry out, ‘I don’t
care I’ if any thing wont wrong. If
he broke any of his playthings, or
couldn’t fix them to suit him, he would
dash them to the floor in a passion,
and shout, ‘I don’t care!’ in an angry
voice. When ho w r as old -enough to
go to school, ho didn’t like to study;
and, when his kind friends would tell
him what an ignorant man ho would
become if he was so idle when a boy,
ho would toss his bead, and answer,
‘Oh, I don’t care!’ Whon ho grew
older, his idlo habits brought him into
bad company; and bo learned to drink
liquor willi them, arid use profane
words. His mother begged him, with
tears in her eyes, to leave his bad
companions, and try to do better. ‘I
like them, and I mean to go with them:
it they aro bad, I don’t care,’ was his
foolish rep'y. At length ho was in
duced to join a set ol thioves, and
share in their plunder. They had
planned to break open a house one
night, and steal the silver; but one of
their number urged them to wait un
til a darker night.
‘No,’ said this reckless youth ; ‘let
us go to-uigbt. I dou’t caro if we do
get caught.’
“Tboy succeeded in committing the
robbery; but were soon found out, and
all were sentenced to serve a long term
in the Sta o’a-prison. You see, Har
ry, to what a sad end ‘I don’t care’
brought ono boy ; and I hope his his
tory will prove a warning to you.—
Besides, my dear, persons who use
these wolds often speak au untruth.
They do care very much, although
they persist they do not. Now. Har
ry, are you quite sure you wouldn’q
care if-,you got to the foot of your
class?”
“No, mamma: I know I should caro.
I only said so because 1 was angry. I
will try to leave off saying theso
words. I never thought before they
might lead to ro much haruj^’
“I hopo you will, Ilavry; and you
can not begin to soon to break off such
a poriiiuious habit. When any thing
goes wrong, it will bo much better to
say, instead of ‘1 don’t care,” ‘l’m
sorry this has happened: I’ll try to
do bolter next time.”-r-77ie Well
Spring
The Bee Hive.
Professor Huxley, of London, fur
snihos somo, interesting information in
regard to tho life and habits of' that
familiar insect, the bee. Speaking of
the so-called social insects, bees, wasps
and ants, he say's :
“These insects aro distinguished, not
only by thoir combining together in
great numbers, but also by tho species
presenting itself under three or four
distinct forms. Thus, in tho bee we
have (1,) the working boo, or imper
fect female, (2,) the drone or true
male—and (3,) tho fertile female or
queen. Sometimes in tho ant there
are four distinct forms, for tho work
ing ants aro directed into two sots—
(l,) the ordinary workers—and (2,)
other workers exclusively concerned
in defence. These are the soldier
ants, they' have largo'heads and strong
mandibles.
“In regard to the bees, ono point is
soon made out—viz : that the drones
aro true males, and that the queen is
an indubitable female. But the true
condition of tho workers was only
made out after much investigation.
They are simply females stunted in
their development, for they possess
stings (which are peculiar, to females)
and other features of female organi
zation.
“To follow out tiie history of a hive,
wo find in early spring tho comb of
the last year containing a great mass
of bees—workers and one larger than
the rest, the true queen. At this pe
riod there arc no males and no larva;.
Tho first operation consists in the
walking up of the hive. The workers
sally forth and collect honey and poll
en. Theso workers or neuters sepa
rate into two divisions—ono party is
employed in collecting food, the other
in turning it to account, when collec
ted. These latter, the well fed ones,
hang themselves up in bunches in tho
hive, and the nutriment they have re
ceived is converted into wax, which is
separated from the body, and passes
out between the abdominal rings.
After this period of rest, they set to
work and employ the wax to build up
cells. Tho others return to the hive,
and regurgitate the saccharine matter
that they have collected into tho colls,
which the other set have formed—so
that, howev*or disagreeable the idea
may be, honey' is really tho vomit of
bees. Other cells, at this period, are
ready for the deposit of eggs. For
this purpose the workers build up
three different kinds of cells. The
cells for the workers, and the drones
do not greatly differ, but those for tho
queens, only a few in number, are lar
ger, and not hexagonal, but rounded.
“The queen marches along the rows
of cells, and drops an egg into tho
open mouth of each. The eggs are
elongated, aud stick to the bottom of
the cells, so that ov'ery cell contains
an egg. Tho larva;, when they
emerge from the egg, are all perfectly
similar—they possess no feet, and are
perfectly' helpless, so that they have
to be fed—for this purpose the work
ing bees store up in their crops a chy
lous substance which they regurgitate
into the cells of tho larva;. During
the first six days the food supplied to
cells is of the same character—but af
ter this period the queeti larva; con-
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tinue to be supplied with the same
form of highly elaborated food, but
the others are then fed on a mixture
of honey' and pollen.
“After a time the larva; changes in
to a clnysalis, the lid of the cell is
shut down and covered over with
wax, and the final changes are under
gone. In tho first place there is a
vastly greater number of workor-cells
made than queen-cells, and these
emerge first, and they share in tho
workers work of the hive. By-and-by
the young queen is ready to pas3 out
of her cell. She thou makes a kind
of chirping noise. At this tho old
queen gets into a great rage, and tries
to destroy tho young one; but tho
workers assemble round their new
queen, and repel tho attacks of the
old sovereign respectfully, but firmly.
Then, on a sudden accession of rage,
the old queen deserts the hive, follow
ed by a certain number of workers,
who form an escort for her. This is
what is known as the first swarm —the
old queen with her followers found a
new home. Soon after this there is a
second swarm, participated in by the
new queen and a numerous escort.
They' ascend high up iu tho air, and
again return to the hive. This cere
mony installs tho new queen into of
fico, and she is prepared to perpetuate
the cxistenco of tho hive, and remains
in command until tho birth of anew
queen on the following spring, when
she, enraged at tho evidences of affec
tion which aro manifested for the
new-comer, leaves tho hive ih disgust,
and founds anew home.
“We liavo now another difficulty to
solve. Why is it that out of a work
er’s cell, there alway's proceeds a stun
ted female, out of a drone’s cell a
male, and out of a queen’s cell a per
fect female? Some bee-keepers soon
found out how tho difference between
the neuters and t he queens was brought
about. It was not noticed that tbe
hive loses its queen sometimes, and
then, if not six day's old, the living
workers wore ablo to convert any
grub they chose into a full-grown
queen, simply by altering the condi
tion of its life. 1 They enlarge its cell,
alter its Shape, anrl-oontinuc tasupply
it with highly elaborated nutriment;
therefore, if no arrest of development
takes place, a perfect female insect is
formed.
“It is thus seen that the bees pos
sess the power of checking the devel
opment of their young, by altering
tho condition of their existence. This
startling fact, therefore, is proved,
that each working boo is a potential
queen, stunted in development by de
privation of nutriment.
“As to tho drones, it was ascertain
ed, after long investigation, that they
proceeded’ from non-fecundatcd ova,
the queen possessing the power of in
terrupting the fecundation of certain
ova, and of virgin reproduction.”
Tea as a Medical Stimulant—
The last number of the Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal contains an in
teresting communication upon the
action of thein on the human system.
Thein i3 au integral part of tea, and
give3 to that herb its peculiar force as
a stimulant. It is also found in coffee,
and in certain South American plants,
whoso leaves aro used to prepare a
table beverage. Tho author of the
article in question made several ex
periments of thein upon human cases.
It was found thut in every instance
tho pulse was lowered, a norvous
tremuiousness followed, and special
mental activity was noticeable. One
gentleman, under the influence of
this alkaloid, spoke emphatically of
his “increased brain power, enabling
him to read certain books, which he
had before accounted as abstruse, with
tho greatest ease, and an extraordi
nary power of grasping the subject
without any effort, as he read rapidly
od.” Tbo testimony of “ono of tho
most powerful writers amoogst our
New England women” is also adduced.
Her testimony was to tho effect that
“sorno hours after taking a largo
quantity of tea, she felt that there
v/as nothing left but her bead, which
furnished rapidly language of ideas
of tbo best quality, and in goodly
quantity, all night long.” In its medi
cal form thein is employed as a seda
tive. This, by the way, appears
something like a strong idiopathic
endorsement of-Hahneman’s theory.
It cures neuralgic headaches, where
pills are objected to. Thoiu ointment
ior tho hair is found to have like ef
fect. Pastiles made with thein, when
burnt in a room, aru said to produce
an equally soothing effect to irritate
nerves.