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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE
BYJAS. A. WEIGHT AND HUGH WILSON?
THE WASHmfffOS SASTTE,
TERMS.—Throe Dollar* a year in advance.
f&T No Subscriptions taken for a ahorte
ime than aix months.
At Twilight
We ait by the window, my baby and I,
In the fading sunset light,
Watching the darkness creep over the sky,
Out of the Eastern night;
We see the stars come trembling out
In tbs trset of the fallen sun,
And we fee! that quiet within and without,
That cornea when the day is done.
Whst hare ire been doing all day, alt day,
Since the roey morning smiled I
Playing at wort and working at play,
Ood help ns, mother and child;
But much I fear these little hands
Have put me to shame to day:
For God, who is earnest, understands
Truly our work and play.
I think of kindussa left undone.
That might have brightened the day;
Os duties dreamed of, but never begun.
Scattered along my way;
Yoji lie with peace in your violet eyea—
You have not learned regret—
Por the sorrowfal rears that make us wise
Have not come tn my tab; yet.
Aud still, as I ait in this twilight hour,
At the close of a weary day,
Even sorrow and sin do notquite have power
To keep a blessing away—
A blessing that falls like the dew from heaven
On tire parched and thimy ground;
And in loving much, because much furgivon,
My deejwr peace is found.
Your life, my baby, is just begun,
And mine is growing old;
But we re children both in the eye* af One
Whose years are all untold;
He holds ue both in His loving hand,
He pardons all onrain,
Aud by aud-by, to the sarno sweet land
He will gently let ua in.
Peculiarities of Low Life in Lon
don.—We published lately an account of a
strahge scene in London life. Every Sun
day morning, it aeeipa, alwut bju-Vclook
a crowd of wen ap&' possession
our streets wiOti.a jm&w nyimt*»;
o
est'elass, ana I'm) 'bring with them for
sale the most nondescript collection of ar
ticles. Birds are the most numerous, and
from them the scene is called the Shore
ditch Bird Fair. Birds of all kinds are to
be found— tinging birds, common English
birds, rare foreign birds, manufactured
birds with real bodies and false heads, or
dyed birds, made beautiful for ever, by
Shoreditch Rachels. But tbe bird duf •
mare ouly the centre of tbe Fair. We
read of dogs, mice, anatomical ponies,
broken down perambulators, old keys,
locks, and hardware, and even fiddles and.
concertinas. This crowd too like an army
brings its camp followers—venders of pies
and ginger beer, low betting men, and
even a stro.l preacher, whose quality may
be imagined from bis title of. “Black Jem
mie the Cutler.” Beer and spirits cannot
be openly sold, for it is Sunday, and the
hour of ‘Divine Service,’ and the public
houses and beer-shops are shut.
But the restriction is easily evaded. Holes
are cut in partition walls, through which
the drink is passed to the neighboring hous
es. Where two streets are parallel it.is
easy to admit custouiars into the backyard
through an opposite house—and, in fact,
the police have found parties of men sit
ting in tbo yards of public houses with
barrels of beer by their side. The buying
and selling at the Fair is, of course, con
ducted with tbs' usual noise, and we are
sorry to add, amid the grossest and loud
est obscenity and blasphemy. And all
this as we have said, on Sunday tnorniog
between ten and one o’clock and under
the very shadow of two churches, which are
so near that tbe shouts and curses of the
Fair interrupt the worship of the congre
gations, and the sound of the church or
gans is beard amid the indecencies of the
crowd. *
How to Seep Cider.—The editor o
the Massachusetts Plowman remarks asjbl
lows on the best plan, to keep cider: WbeD
the cider is in the barrel, going through a
lively fermentation, add as much white
sugar as will be equal to half or three
quarters of a pound to each gallon of cider,
and let the fermentation proceed until tbe
liquid attains the most agreeable taste,
then add an eighth to a quarter of an ounce
of sulphite of lime to each gallon of cider
in tbe cask, first mixing the powder in
about a quart of tbe cider, and then pour
ing it back into the cask and giving
it a tborongh shaking or rolling. After
standing bunged up a few days to give
time for the lime to become well in
corporated with tbe cider, it may be bottled
ff or used directly from the cask. Do ntSj
mistake the sulphate for sulphite of lime.
,phe latter is a manufactured articlo, and is
worth by the barrel from thirty to Toffy
oents a pound. It will preserve the sweet
ness of cider, but unless ake is taken not
to use it too strong, it will taste a little of
the sulphur.
A Smoker’s Joke.—On Friday last
(says the Hamilton Time t, of Aug. 18),
a large party of excursionists from Gode
rich, Clinton, Mitchell, Stratford, aud other
places iu the west, came down over tbe
Grand Trunk to this city- There was do
smoking car on the train, and lovers or the
“weed" were therefore greatly annoyed. In
order to enjoy the luxury in comfort., a
lawyet named Woods, a resident of Strat
ford, Sis'said; perpetrated what he con
sidered a huge joke, but which was iu re
ality a very small and very mean transi
tion. Entering one of the cars, filled with
Goderich people, to whom he was un
known, he nhouted in a toDo of authority,
“All ladies in this car arCiequeated to take
seats in 000 of the forward cars.” Think
ing he was an official of the company, the
innocent though obliging people immedi
ately got up aud went iu search of seals
elsewhere. The train was in motion at the
time, and as many of the ladies had parcels
to look, after and some even had children
iu their aims, it was with much difficulty
and no small dauger that they moved from
car to car. They also experienced consid
erable trouble in finding seats, the cars
being well filled. As soon as the ladies had
all left the car, the individual who had
perpetrated this ungeutlemanly act pulled
out his pipe, with tbo remark, “Now, boys,
you "can smoke away, the women have
all gone." He and his companions thus
seated themselves comfortably in the places
from which the ladies had been driven,
aud smoked away in ease during tbe re
mainder of the journey. On discovering
that they had been deceived, the ladies of
course were furious.— New York Times.
Beware or Gaudy Colours,— “The
windows of gentlemen's furnishing stores
in this city have been brightened up for
some months past with flaming red and
•orange-coloured socks aud tM*#Vsliirts.—
I* ex
oeedtngly brilliant. colours
flash upon the passer-by with almost the
vividness of a druggist’s show bottles. Ar
ticles so beautiful and sanctioned as the
latest fashion have met with a ready sale ;
though worn where they do not in the
eyes of the world impart any charm to the
wearer. To some extent articles of under
wear, dipped in the same gorgeous dyes
have fouud favour with the ladies; but on
this point onr information is not so positive.
Iu England, where these originate and hav e
insinuated themselves oext to the cuticle of
great numbers pf young peofde, much alarm
has been caused by a'recent paragraph in
tbe Lancet —a medical and surgical journal
of high authority. Complaint had been
made to a ‘sitting alderman nt Guildhall,
that the dye in these splendid socks, &c.,
caused irritation and an eruption on the
skin, and eventually actual sores. We do
oot learn that the ‘sitting alderman at
Guildhall’ did anything about it except to
make the complaint public. The Lancet
corroborated the statement by reference to
the case of a danse use at Drury Lane
Theatre, one of ..whose feet was badly poi
soned by a red stocking. An eruption
covered exactly that part of her foot which
was concealed by her dancing shoe. Tbe
red stocking seemed to be identified as the
agent of mischief, because the necessities
of the ballet required the girl to wear a
stocking of another colour on the other
foot, and that was unharmed. The injured
foot soon heAled up upon wearing white
hose.”— Journal of Commerce.
Family Wine-Drinkikq.— Dr. Day,
superintendent of the New York Btate
Inebriate Asylum, recently delivered an
address before the inmates of tbe institu
tion, in which he stated that moderate
drinking families, more than bar-room or
groggery, are tbe schools in which the fun
damental principles of intemperance are
taught. Among other things he said :
It is my firm belief that no family ac
customed to the daily use of ardent spirits
ever failed to plant tbe seeds of that fear
ful disease, which sooner or later produced
a harvest of griefs. In every such family
you may find the scroll of the prophet
which was written within and wvhout with
‘mourning, lamentation, and woe.” It is
■here that the tender digestive organs of
children are 'perverted and predisposed to
habits of intemperance. From loDg obser
vation I am convinced that one or more of
the members of every wine-drinking family
become, sooner or tater, drunkards. —
Drunkenness, in every instance, is tbe sim
ple failure of an attempt to drink moder
ately.
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1869.
Looking Up.
“1 have no faith," she said, and rigbei?
“This gracifus blesaing is denied,
And daily struggles leave me weak,
ynd farther from the goal I seek”
1 read her heart; and knew bar feel’s
Were brightened by a mist of tears,
That veiled her spirit like a shroud,
As over tiny grave* she bowed.
Twaa faith that made ua yield them up;
Through faith alone we drank the cup;
While on her lips, so sore bereft,
The hitter taste alone is lef>.
“I have no faith,” she sighed; “the way
Seems longer, darker, every day;
This yearning heart I fain would still
And keep submissive to His will.
Uis loving presenoc I bespeak;
His promised recompense I seek;
Yet etill with doubts aud fears I cops;
I hare no faith—l hare no hope.”
Dear love, forget thyself awhile;
Thou dost obscure the Saviour's smile;
Thyself, and alt thy woes, my sweet,
Have made a tangle for thy feet.
Faith, Icvely blossom, is not found
By eyes that grovel on the ground;
And hearts have measurement of bliss
By what they gaiu, and what they miss.
Look up; and let the radiant Cross
Take from thy heart all souse of loss;
From out the duet of earth arise,
Aud on thy Saviour fix thine eyee.
A holy light illumed her fee. 1 ,
The outward sign of inward gaace ;
She looked, and saw her Saviour there,
Aud found an answer to her prayer.
The Old >t New.
g ad- >
Another year i V* Vo stand
once wore upoi \ L»T-/UJj’olfl of the
new. Itis'aJuD.; 4 Y*’, and for
tears. ‘iffring, Sn* 1 ~ > H ‘ Autumn,
Winter have passed, arc {massing
away, and with them how many vis
ions which have left nothing of their
loveliness behind, how many dreams
of Hope, which huve passed with the
passing year 1 Jlow many flowers of
joy and love have blooniod, by tUo,
vyayside of only*** the!Jig* 1
corroding tfhieTi iif filin', amt to jjMff
into nothingness again. Upon each
brow ho has left liis mark, and east
his shadow upon each lioart. The
young liavo been cut down in the
bloom of health, tho middle-aged in
the prime of manly vigor, aud tho old
have sunk into tho peaceful and silent
grave. Family .ties have been broken,
warm hearts have been crushed out
by the weight of affliction, and all
have realized by how frail a tenure
we hold the best and brightest of
earthly enjoyments. In tho struggle
for wealth, “fortune, tho fickle god
dess,” has displayed her glittering
prizes in the view of all, bnt realized
tbe aspirations only of a chosen few.
Aud even of those who have grasped
the proffered boon, how few have
found the pleasant enjoyments which
are supposed to linger in hor train ?
The golden apples which they grasped
have, like Dead Sea fruit, turned to
dust and ashes upon their lips.
At the dose of tho old year let us
profit by the examples of the past,
and learn tho lessons which it teaches.
Amid all which is fluctuating and
transitory, Idt us seek after and find
those principles whiqh are fixed aud
eternal. Let us perform the duties
which lie in our path, leaving conse
quences to the All-wise Disposer of
events. Let us be true to ourselves,
and we can be false to no one else.
Let us cultivate tbe Apostolic virtues,
faith, knowledge, temperance, pa
tience, godliness, brotherly kindnoss,
charity, and if they bring ns not the
gifts of fortune, they offer the witness
of a good conscience, and that inwajd
satisfaction, which is virtue’s own ex
ceeding great reward. —Abbeville Press
Complete the Amnesty.—There
soems to be a generally expressed
wish among the more moderate of
tho leading journals of the country
that the President should complete
his work of amnesty by releasing all
political prisoners now held in con
finement, including those at tho Dry
Tortugas. The Washington Express
saytr; Wc heartily concur in the hope
that the President will equalize the
closing days of his rule with sueli a
graceful act of Executive clemency.
The New York World speaks as fol
lows:
The-President having issued his
proclamation extending a full pardon
to all persona, without any exception
whatsoever, for the offence of treason
United States, or adher
ing to fteir enemies, giving them "aid
or eomfcrt, it would
that, those held to the
greatest known political offence have
been pardoned, a similar grace should
bo extended to such as are now under
punishment for political offences of a
lesser grade. On tLc SQtJi of last Ju
ly them was introduced' -Hdo the
Hpusa by Mr. Eldridge a resolution
that tfce Secretary of War be directed
to inform that body of tho names of
all poisons then under sentonco by
military commissions, courts or auy
other military authority, at Dry Tor
tngas, together with the nature of thw
crimes charged, aud Che term
tence, and tho unexpired re
maining. There is no better time
than on the re-assembliDg of Congross
to forthwith revive this resolution and
push it to- a vote. Some poor wrotch,
forgotten doubtless by all but his
jailors, may now bo in a dungeon by
sentence of a drum-head court held
in tho heat bf passion, and were there
but one such it is time to opon tho
prison gates and let-tie captive go.
Sacking Manners. —The Bound J’u-
We joins its voice with telling foroe against
eomtf jf the indecencies of modern society.
In a late issue it reads a lecture to smokers
in the following manner:
'llioatreel is not a private smoking-room.
One man has no more light to void his to
httwb smoke iuto the face of another tnan
tfoip iic has to void his saliva. If ho has,
why, iu the name of sense ? Bccauso the
tmo|e is less disagreeable 1 That is a mat
(«!*-%individual preference; and, besides,a
roagtlins no tight to do the least disngreea-
Why may not a tnan appear on
fttoadway with a slick strnppod horizontally
»s,vf§!, his lack, or an open package of ns
safrAida in his pocket, or a polecat in his
artrlf, or his clothes dripping with kerosene
odjnlb os much right ns he may smoke
jJM 1 Because it is not customary to
■HpMisaftalidn in (ha pocket, nobody
VTiiapAhout it! if it only were the custom,
we should lie.-,> .» fearful cry from the to
baoco-imokers themselves. If a man
troads upon another’s foot ho apologizes;
but ho will carelessly void offensive smoke
into his very throat, and never think that
he does anything reprehensible. If a man
dislikes smoking, he can keep out of the
street. But the right of the tobacco hater
in t lie street is equal to that of tbe tobacco
lovir; to rein from smok ng in public
plai es is not granting a concession, hut not
to iffrain is violating n right. Upon ac
lua right, without reference to the sanction
oft istoin, a man would bo perfectly juati—
fiat !e in resonting tho smoking of the to
bac to near him as a personal affront.
The following excellent article is copied
from the Scientific American :
•fWo believe tho surest wav to tho proper
political reconstruction of the South, is the
reconstruction of her industries. Possibly
some of these cannot bo restored; if not,
others can ho substituted. There are plenty
of capitalists, who, once convinced that tho
situation is accepted, and that the shape
affairs have assumed is regarded by the
people of the South as inevitable, would
not only bo willing, but nnxiuus to aid in
developing the Vast resources of that
biuised, but, by no means, utterly de
slroyed seotion. People of the South, you
owe it to yourselves, to show that you can
be as energetic ’id peace as you were brave
in war. Cultivate your lands. Induce
Northern capital to come to your help,
by discouraging lawlessness, and by secur
ing the peaceful possession of property.
Let us bury the past, and look forward
with courage and hope to the future; a fu
ture big with blessings ar.d prosperity if
you will; prosperity and strength such as
in your palmiest days yon never realized in
the past. We speak what wo do know,
when we assure you that tho msfsses at the
North will never consent to see yon sys
tematically opposed, and that they eagerly
hope for the coming lime, when, with re
Buscitated vitality, your industries shall
shoot into vigorous growth, and you shall
be rlofcer, more peaceful, happier, than you
ever could have been under the old dispen
sation.
“Bnt we do not plead with the South
alone. We exhort all sections to put aside
feelings of self-interest, and to work to
gether for peace; peace from party bicker
ings, from sectional wranglings; peace, not
merely in name, but in verity.”
Tbe Sultan has issued an edict liberating
Jerusalem forever from military service
and from the payment of any taxes levied
on account of military operations.
Birthplace of the 1 Bonapartks.—lt
will always be tbe cWefopride of Ajaccio
that she gave birth to Lbflfcpsat Emperor
Ahosafcto the square
by the sea beach, stands an equestrian
Btalue of the conqueror, sunounded by his
four brothofs on foot. They are all attired
in Roman fashion, and are turned seaward,
to the west, as if to symbolise the emigra
tion of his family to conquer Europe. His
father’s house stands close by. An old
Italian waiting woman, who had long been
iu tbe service of the Murals, keeps it ana
shows it. Sho is well-mannered, and can
tell many stories of thj various members of
the Boufrpai te familjk Those who fancy
that Napolf onfrMmlfbcrß W a menu dwelling
of poor parlwtapUl bePTrprised to find so
much space find (usance iu these apart
menls. Os couj/e, hie family was not
rich in comparison with the wealth of the
French or English nobles ; bur for Cor
sicans they were well-to-do, aud Iheir house
has an air of antique dignity. The chairs
of the outrance saloon have been literally
stripped of their coverings by the enthusi
astic visitors; tbe horsehair stuffing pro
trudes itself in a sort of comic pride, as if
protesting that it came to be so tattered
in an honorable service. Some of the fur
nitnre seems new; but many old cabinets
inlaid with marble, agate, and lapis lazuh,
suoh as Italian families preserve for gener
ations, have an air of respcotable antiquity
about them. Nor is there Bny doubt that
the young Napoleon led his minuotes bo
ncatli the stiff girandoles of the formal
dano’ing-room. There, too, in a dark back
chamber, is tho bed in which he was born.
At the foot is a photograph of the present
Prince Imperial, sent by the Empress Eu
gene, who, when she visited tho room, wept
inueh —pianso motto (to see tho old lady’s
phrase)—nt seeing the place where Buch
lofty destinies began. Ou the wnll of the
same room is a potrait of Napoleon himself
as the young Geuefal of the Republic—
with the) citizen’s unkempt hair, the fierce
fire of the Revolution iu his eyes, and a
frown upon his forehead,';-#' llo one of his
mother, a handsome woman, with Napo
eonic eyes, brows, usd nose.
A Rkconstiiucted Wedding.—A ne
gro wedding lately took place in this coun
try, nt which the sable parson thus spoke:
Ueic is a couple who liavo walked out
to night, wishing to be jinod in nnd thri>>
love, and wishing all dem dul have, any
ting twixt dem come forward and'spenk
now ; let dem hold dar peace now and
forever more. I want every ear to hear
and every heart to enjoy.
Mr. Jim Thomson, whomsoever stand
astly by your left side, do you take her for
yonr beloved wife, to wait on her through
sickness and through health, safe and be
safe, holy and be holy, loving and be lov
ing ; do you love her mother; do you love
her father; do you love her brothers
do you tove her sisters; do you love her
master; do you love her mistress; do you
love your God the best?"
Answer —‘I do.’
Miss Mary Thompson, whomsoever
stands fastly by your right side do you
tako lo be your dear beloved husband, to
wait on him through health arid through
confliccion, sufe end be safe, holy nnd he
holy; do you love hie .mother; do you
love his father; do you love his brothers;
do you love his sisters; do you love God
to bo the best ?
Answer—‘l will.’
I shall pronouuce Mr. Jim to hold Mies
Mary fastly by the right hand, nnd I shall
pronounce you both to be mau and wife
by the commandments of God. We shall
hope,and trusting through,God that you
may live right, that you may dio right,
now and forever more. Now, Mr. Jim,
slew your bride. —Montgomery Mail.
This “small farm” system is the one
really practical method of restoring tho
South to prosperity. There is a nal#ral
pride in large estates, and a natural objec
tion to breaking up large possessions. But
the circumstances which warranted great
estates, and wbich placed tbe wealth and
power of a community in a few bands, ate
wholly changed, and with the altered con
dition of affairs a now system of property
owning is necessary. Instead of our prince
ly plantations, there must boa hundred,
homestead-, and as the country is more
thickly settled and wealth is more evenly
distributed, tho South may become richer
nd more thrifty than ever before.
Something for Cuts. —It is not gener
ally known that the leaves of a geranium
are an excellent application for cuts, where
the skin is rupped off and other wounds of
that kind. One or two leaves must be bru
sed and applied to the part, and the wound
will be cicatrized in a short time.
Let those who are appointed to judge o
the character of others bear in mind the!
own imperfections, and rather strive by
sympathy to soften tho pang arising from
a conviction of guilt, than by misrepre
sentation to increase it.
VOL. Ill—NO. 88
NEWS SUMMARY.
Vanderbilt is popularly supposed to have
made between five and six million dollar*
by the late corner id the New York Cen
tral.
Florida is called the poor man’s para
dise by a correspondent. He says a five
hundred dollar house there i» as good as a
two thousand five hundred dollar one at
the North. There are no wood pile or hay
mow to provide, and tlio land is fifty cents
an acre.
Two San Francisco policemen tried -to
arrest a Chinaman on the 2d of this
month. They found it necessary to leave
him a moment, and so handcuffed him
with his arms each side of a lamp post.
When they returned their prisoner was
gone—be had climbed up the post and
swung his arms over the top.
Rcverdy Johnson yesterday received a
deputation of London artisan*, who were
desirous of founding a colony in Nebraska.
Mr. Johnson favored the project.
A distillery, a plaster mill and seven
small dwellings in Richmond, were de
stroyed by fire on Saturday last.
Five houses in Lynn Massachusetts,
wero destroyed by fire on Christmas day.
Loss S3 00,000.
A desporate fight between negroes and
Germans occurred in a ball-room in Mc-
Kenzie street, Newark, on Christmas eve.
At the commencement of the trouble the
lights were put out and the greater part
off the fight took place in the dark. Five
persons were injured and nine negroes
were arrested.
One of the San Francisco papers has
added a now fenture to its birth, marriage
and death column—“ Divorces.” -This de-.
partment is as well supported and as muoh
a public convenience ns its companions.
It becomes quite a question how far the
employment of colored troops in the army
“pays,” ns a matter of economy. The
Surgeon-Generals report shows that for
the last year, among white soldiers, the
proportion of death to cases treated was
as 1 to 07; among the colored soldiers
ns Ito sis; nnd the disproportion of sick
to well was quite ns marked.
The first straw berries of the season
made their appearance in the New Or
leans market last week, selling three dol
lars the basket.
There has been three thousand three
hundred bankrupt cases in Virginia.
W. J. Monk, a Union brigadier in the
. war, is on trial in New Orleans for robbing
the mail. The jury cannot agree-
Savannah. —The Ogeeohee < troubles
still continue. Middleton’s house was
burned last night, and the crop ruined.
All the whites on the place came to the
city except one ma", who has not been
seen since the commencement of the trou
ble.
Travellers on the Ogeeche road, leading
to Savannah, are stopped at various points
and qnestioned by armed negroes. There
are armed and organized bodies of negroes
on every road leading to tLat city, who
have their pickets stationed at short inter
vals to give notice ot the approach of
travellers.
Flotow, the musical composer, was
nlely divorced from his sixth wife in order
to marry her sister.
Jladiuo. —The threatened disturbances
at Seville have subsided, and the country
is entirely tranquil.
The Cretan insugents have made submis
sion to Turkish authority. A provisional
government has been established.
In some recent submarine work in the
river Seine at Paris, one of tbc divers em
ployed remained at the bottom so long as
to excite the alarm of the attendants. Thu
bubbles which aroso indicated that he was
alive and stationary, but he could not or
would not reply signals. Another uivsr
was sent down, who found his predecessor
gloriously drunk, and enjoying a cosy nap
upon the bottom of the river.
Great activity continues to be shown in
the preparations for the (Ecumenical Coun
cil. Citations have been issued for eight
new Councillors—rone being summoned
from America, one from Spain, two from
France, and four from Germany. An in
vitalion was sent to the Rev. John Henry
Newman, of England, but be lias desired to
bo excused, on the ground of his sge and
bad health.
Rev. W. 11. Milbnrn, the well known
blind preacher, has hopes of recovering
his sight. He is now under the care of
Prof. Von Graef, the eminent occnlist at
Berlin. Should his expectation be real
zed, his friends will rejoice, and his for
mer Methodist brethren will doubtless ad
vise him to avoid the glare of the sun and
of high ritualistic gaslight.