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The Washington Gazette VOL. X.! / WEST POINT. ' ’Twas Commencement ere, and the hall-room belle In her dazzling beauty was mine that night. As the music dreamily rose and fell. And the wnltzers whirled in a hlazo of light. I can see them now in the moonbeam ‘a glance Across the street on a billowy floor. That rises and falls with the merry dauoc To a music that floats in my heart once more. A long half-hour in the twilight leaves Os the shrubbery—she, with coquet tish face, And dainty arms in her flowing sleeves. A drauu of satins uud love and lane. In the splendor there of her queenly smile, Through her two bright eyes 1 could see the glow Os cathedral windows, as up the aisle ' We marched to a music’s ebb and flow. All in a dream of Commencement eve ’ I remember I awkwardly buttoned a glove On the dainty arm in its flowing sleeve. With a broken sentence of hope uud But that flashed in her wavy hair And the lieauty that shone in her faultless face, Are all I recall as 1 struggled there A poor brown fly in a web of iace. Yet a laughing, coquettish face I see. As the moonlight falls on the pave ment gray, I can hgapper laugh in the melody Os the yralt/.'s music across tub wav. And I‘ kept the glove so dainty and small, That I stole as she sipped her lemon ade, Till I packed it uway I think with all Os those traps 1 lost in our northern ruid. But I never can list to that waltz divine With its golden measure of joy uud pain, But it brings like the flavor of some old wine To my heart the pftrmth of the past dgaln. A short flirtation—that’s all,you know, Some faded flowers, a silken tress, Tlie letters I burned up years ago, When 1 heard from her last iu the Wilderness. I suppose. cDuUl.aUe see I am maimed and old, She would soften the scorn that was changed to hate, When I chose the bars of the gray and gold, And followed the South to its bitter fate. But here’s to tlie lads of the Northern blue, And here's to the boys of tlie South ern gray. And I would that the Northern star but knew How the Southern cross is liorno to-day. Discontented Women. Everywhere one can find, without much seeking, the discontented woman. Either she lias been crossed In love or unfortunately married, or lias had a hard time In life, or has no hope for the future, or things arc “con trary,” and she Is wretched. In nine cases out of ten —nay In ninety-nine eases out of a hundred—the entire reconstruction of her surroundings woud not make the discontented woman content. It is she herself that wants reconstruction. There is in the life of every human being shadow as well as bright sun shine, December no less than June, hut why should we let the memory of shadow chill us with the warm sun shine above our heads? Why shiver at the recollection of December, when the roses of June bloom ami glow around us ? Shakespeare lias made It very sentimental and lovely, for con cealment, like a worm In the hud, to feed on the damask cheek of disap pointed love; but to the practical mind the suggestion naturally arises that a course of historical or scientific read ing rigidly adhered to, tl,p conquest of language, the clothing of orphan and needy children, the study of even spiders and flics, would be (leatli to that “worm.” This may seem un kind ; so docs the knife of the surgeon to the suffering patient. Many a woman is unhappy simply because she is empty minded and allows her self to brood over real or imaginary woes. If they are real, there is the more need that in some vigorous oc cupation she should forget them ; if they are imaginary, what a silly woman she is! A good strong will enables one to preserve a cheerful serenity, even when passing through the severest trials, and this will exer cise it# functions in keeping out of the mind whatever e»a disturb and un hinge it, and the only way to do this is, to keep the mind full of something else. Like all other faculties of the mind, the will grows strong by exer cise, and she who uses what she has will have more given her. Deep sorrows require potent reme dies, but there is no sorrow sq acute that Intense occupation will not dull its edge, and for the time hush Us gnawings. Physical infirmity may be forgotten in an enthusiastio devotion to some art or enteprise. Ilamerton in his “Intellectual Life” gives of a poor cripple who “could not even sit in bed, and yet contrived both to write and draw and etch on copper, managing the plaguy chemicals, and ; even printing his own proofs. All the | gladness of physical activity was ; completely hotted out of his existence, j and still he said that life was sweet.” Thera are many women bound by : the iron eliath of circumstances who caupot do as they would, but there is ; no one anywhere so wretched or un happy that by resolute, untiring, j patient clinging to what is right and ! wliat is noble and lovely she may not I climb to the table-land of peace and i resignation. The time will never j come in the world when we shall have | everytliTfljf wc Want jnst when amt as we want it. The thing for us to do is to accept our lots and make the besl | possible use of everything that lmj>- poils to us, to be thankful for pain which is a purifier, for poverty, which compels the development of our re sources," for hunger which gives ns keen appetites for plain food, for lie reavment which enables us to sympa thize with those who mourn. When God makes a man or a woman it is by trial; only the dross Is consumed by the flame; tlie fine gold shines out clearest when the tire is hottest. ‘lf all thp time and soul force wasted in vain repining were employed in the conquest of some art or science or ac complishment, what an addition would the ranks of strong, able, execu tive, cheerful women receive. Another Woman In It. 'Washington', D.C., March 7, 1870. The dispatches staled Saturday night that it could lie proven that Mrs. Robe son recti veil large sums of money front parties-interested hi the lumber supply contracts with the Navy Department. The committee lias been on track of this matter for some time, and your correspondent was requested not to publish the names, for fear that it would afford the guilty parties oppor tunity to get dangerous persons and papers out of the way. The of secrecy is now removed, and tlie facts may be given. One S. P. Brown, of this city, has an immense contract for timber supplies. Brown has a silent partner by the name of Wnllack. Wallaek is tlie in dividual spoken of in my dispatch of Saturday night as the trustee of Mrs. Robeson's slush fund. Statements vary slightly ns to the amount of money set ajKirt in Wailaek’s hands for Mrs. Robeson's benefit, but none of them put it under $1"),000, and some place it as high as $70,000. For some time past Mr. 'Wnllack lias regularly invest ed $0,()o0 every mouth for Mrs. Robe son in various securities. Heavy in vestments have also been made in the name of Aim Smith, un aunt of Mrs. liobcson. Mrs. Robeson lias been in Washing ton society, and an intimate ami de voted colleague of Mrs. Belknap. She was a widow when she married tlie ro tund Robeson, and some strange stories were told about her. When Grant’s gang was at tlie zenith of power, Mrs, Robeson, Mrs. Belknap and Mrs. Wil liams ruled society here with a high hand. Two of tlie triumvirate have stepped down and out, and now the remaining one is approaching the jumping-off place. All the devilment seems to be raised by the widows. li)3aence of Greenbacks He looked like a man wtio might have had fifteen cents lust fall, but who had used the last of it weeks ago. When he sat down in the restaurant the waiters paid no heed to him, and he rapped several times before a col ored man si i<l that way. “I want fried oysters,” said the man as he looked over tlie bill of fare. “Dey is just out, fried oysto® is,” replied the waiter. “Bring ntc a chicken, then.” “Dcre isn’t a nhiekf-n in lie place.” “Got any veiisiqu ?” inquired the man. “Not an inch, sah.” “A ml Un m and eggs ?” “No, snip" “See here,” said the man, grating vexed, “I waqt a square meal, I’ve got the ducat# rig!it here, and I can pay for my dinner and buy your old cookshop besides.” He lifted a big roll of greenbacks out of bis pocket, shook it at the darkey and continued: “Have you a chicken ?” “Yes, sail, I gess so, sail; I have de biggist kind o’ belief dat since we com -1 tnenced to talk a chicken has blown right into de kettle an been cooked. And now about dot yension and dose fried oysters—dey has also at-ri vod." “Has that gal got fits ?” asked an old farmer who had paused to see a young lady go through with her calis thenio exercises it| tlie garden, “No," replied the servant girl, “that’s jinilii, yastics.” “So,” said the farmer in a pitying tone, “poor thing; how long has she had 'em ?” The Virgiuia Senate is composed of nineteen attorneys, five physicians, thirteen farmers and the balance mer chants. WASHINGTON* GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 187(5. TJME ENOUGH. Two little fkuirrels out in the sun, One gatlug-an nuts, tile other had none; “Time enough yet,” his constant rc fraiij, “Summer is vstill only just on the wa nc.” 1^ Listen, i%y child, while I tell you his fat®: He roused him at last, but he roused hint too late; Down Jell the snow from a pitiless Cloud, And gaye little squirrel a spotless white elfrotid. Two litltg boys iu a school-room were jrfmvd; One always perfect, the other disgraced: ‘•Time enough yet for my learning,” He said, “I wiUKlimb by and by from the loot -to tlie head.” Listen, mygtlarling: Their locks are itfinlro gray; One as a governor sltteth to-ilny; The other, a pauper, looks out at the door Os the ulmsliouse, and idles his days as of yore. Two of people we meet every day: One is at work, tlie other at play, inning uncalled for, dying unknown — The busiest hive hath ever a drone. Tell me. m v child, if tlie squirrels have * taught The lesson 1 longed to implant in your thought; Answer me this, and my story- is done: Which of the two would you be, Utile one ? Getting Up On Gold Mornings. Some people say it is an easy thing to get up of a cold morning. You have only-, they tell you, to take tlie resolu tion anil tlie tiling is done. This may be very true, just as a boy at school lias «uly to take a flogging ami the thing Isover. To get out of (indeed into the cold, besides the inharmonious nature of the transition, is so unnatural that -the poets, refining the tortures of the damned, make one of their greatest ag onies consist in being suddenly trans ported from heat to cold, “from fire to ice.” “They ure pulled out of tlicir beds,” says Milton, “by harpy-looted fairies, fellows wild come to call them.” A money-getter may be drawn from his bed by a few pence. A proud man may say, “What shall 1 think of my self if I don’t get up?” but a more humble one will be content to waive this prodigious notion of himself out of respect to his kindly bed. All in genious lier in Issl will ask for your proofs and precedents of the ill effects of lying late on cold mornings, and so phisticate unmh on the advantages of an even temperature of body, of the natural propensity (pretty universal) to have our own way, and of the ani mals that roll themselves up and sleep all winter. The record of the running races in tlie United States in 1875, with the value of tlie stakes, is quite respectable when standing by itself, or even when compared with tlie record of English racing seasons of 1875, but it is dwarfed when placed alongside of the trotting and pacing record of the United States during the same period. Tlie number of running races in the United States in 1875 was 880; in England, some thing less than 2,000. The number of trotting and pacing races which took place in the United States and Canada in 1875, of which tlioro is record, was 3,301. The purses and stakes in the running races in the United States amounted to about $100,000; in the trotting and pacing races in the United States ami Canada they amounted to $1,418,701, and the number of horses engaged was upwards of 5,400. Ninety per cent, of the horses engaged were capable of trotting in 3:40 or better. This statement of itself shows what wonderful improvement has been made in the trotting horse within the past twenty years, Running horses are scarcely any better no>v than they were a score of years ago; but the trotter has developed remarkably. flenoraj Bohmiok saves himself from impeachment by resigning “under fire,” and the President saves himself from possible difficulty in England, by accepting his resignation after he had loft that country. The person of an Ambassador is safe from arrest during his ministerial residence, and until lie leaves the country, but, in the case of a Minister whose resignation was ac cepted, his stay could not save him from civil process. The President is very kind to these soiled political doves. Belknap and Bchenck are monuments of his mercy, and testimonials to his fideiUy to friendship, Bqt ho has a singularly oblique method qf showing it, and one that will not commend itself to the people, who like things “oil the square,” A little fellow being told by a young mail to get off his knee, that he was too heavy to hold in that way, made quite a sensation among tlie persons present by yelling bagk, “Too heavy, hey ? Bister Sal weighs a hundred pounds more than I, and you held her on your knee four hours last night," M AIIitSLSS TO THE SUE. Do yon want to purify tlie system ? Do you want to get rid of LiJliousucss? Do you want something to strengthen you ? Do you want a good appetite ? Do you w»ut to got rid of nervousness ? Do you want good dige- ti >u? , Do you want to sleep well? Do you want to build up your constitution ? Do yon want a brisk auu vigorous feeling ? 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Such signal successful- attended its use, that it is now regarded as tlie HE'E’HE Tl AL SPECIFIC For all diseases of tlie Live#, Stomach and Spleen. Asa remedy in MALMtIOUS FEYEKS, 110 WET, COMPLAINTS m-SPLPSI A. MKNTAI. DBPBKSSfON, lIKST- I. JAUNDICE, NAU4H, HICK iIKAUAUIIii. COLIC, OOXHTIjUTION »U(1 BILIOUSNESS. IT 11 AK NO 12Q1 Ar„ Caution. —As there are a number of imitations offered to the public, we would caution the community to buy no Powders or Prepared Simmons’ Elver Regulator unless in our engraved wrapper, with trade mark, stamp ami signature unbroken. None other is genuine. .1. 11. ZEIBIN & GO., Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia. Your valuable morticinu, Simmons' 1.1 ver Regu lator, has saved inn many doctors’ hilla. I use It l )i- everything it in recommended, nud never knew it to tail. I have iwud it iu uolio and grubbs, with my mule.< uiul horses, givaug them about half a buttle at a time. I have not lout oik>that I gave it to. You can recommend it to every ouo that ban stock an being the beat medicine know, for all com* I-laint* that horse lleith la heir to. K. T. 'I \W M loeMyj A gam for T’HftfjKxJrh orttnhrtfhi. p P. TO ALE, Manufacturer of DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS, FLOORING, &e., &c. Dealer in BUI I, D ERS’ IIA RDWA RE, PAINTS, OILS, &c. Sole Agent for The National Mixed Paint Cos., The Great American Fire Extinguish er Cos., Page Machine Belting Cos. SENDFORP Jt I C E S . Office and Warerooms, Nos. 20 A 22 Hayne and 33 &35 Pinck ney Streets. Factory and Yards, Asliley River, West End Broad Stroej, CHARLESTON, S. C. Oetl-ly J. R. & C. H. SMITH Respectfully call 1 lie attention oi the citizens of the, town ami county to the hut that they have just received a SPLENDID ASSORTMENT —->r DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, READY-M ADE CLOTHING —Asa— GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. They also keep constantly on hand a full stock of HEAVY AND FANCY FAMILY GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, FRUITS. WINES. liquors, cigars, ' TOBACCO, SNUFF, And a great many other nrtleles too numerous to mention. All New Goods, of tlie Best Brands and Latest Styles, at the LOWEST CASH FIGURES, to correspond with the times. febl2 SAVEMONEY by sending $4.75 for anv $4 Magazine and THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE (regular price SO,) or-$5,75 for tlie Mag azine and the SEMI-WEEKLY TRI BUNE, (regular price $4-) Address the TRIBUNE, New York, oatj r r iorv i -.Vt iv period like the present, when falsehood and humbug go rampant through tile laud; when the press of the country is deluged with frothy ad vertisements; when, in fact, every art is resorted to in order to catch unsus pecting customers; at such a time I come before the public and ask a hearing! Clothing.—Now, I mean what I say. 1 nni determined to close out my entire stock of Iteudy-Made Clothing at less than cost. Any person needing a ready-made garment can get it for less than he can buy the cloth to make it with. Dry Goods.—l am also offering, at New York cost, the most elegant line of Reversible Black Alpacas. These goods can't lie surpassed for color and durability. A full line of Checked, Striped and l’lain Osnaburgs, Bleached and Brown Shirtings and Sheetings, Ticking, Idnseys, Flannels, Jeans, Table Linen, Shirt Fronts, Radies’ and Gents’ Handkerchiefs, Nainsook and Juceonott Muslin, and a nico assort ment of Radies’ Trimmed Hats, very stylish. Boots and Shoes, Trunks, &c.—l have also on hand a large and elegant assortment of Ladies’and Gent’s Hand made Boots, Shoes & Gaiters, Trunks, Saddles, Bridles, Ac., all of which will be positively sold at cost. Now is your time to get Bargains. UnocßHiics.—l would also call at tention to a full line of Coflee, Sugar, Meat, Flour and Lard, Tobacco, Snuff and Cigars, which I will sell as low as they can he bought in Atlanta or Augusta. “O.v the Square,”—My friends throughout the county will please take notice that I lmvc removed to the Square, and now occupy the corner store lately held by Roberts & Wylie, where 1 will be pleased to see all my friends. J. F. MAHONEY. GUANO! GUANO! GUANO! "We arc now Agents for those Excellent and Reliable Fertilizers, the Patapsco, Russel Coe’s Supek phosthate arid Grange Mixture. We have given up the Agency of all other guanos except the above, which we know to be the best and most reliable. Cash and time prices and terms as reasonable as can Ire made for first class Guanos. Cotton option given at 15 cents per pound, delivered November Ist. _jan7-3tn SMITH & BRO. WANDO FERTILIZER, $46 CASH, $52 TIME, SOS COTTON, Adding Freight from Charleston. WANDO ACID PHOSPHATE, S3O CASH, $35 TIME, $45 COTTON, Adding Freight from Charleston. For sale by ROBERT S. SMITH, Agent at Washington, Ga. The attention of Planters is particu larly called to the Acid Phosphate named above as a cheap and reliable fertilizer. It has been used for several years pust by some of the most success ful planters in the county, and is repre sented by them as a No. 1 fertilizer. Full information given on application to Robert S. Smith, Agent. jan2i-2m Planters’ Hotel, AUGUSTA GA. This well-known hotel having been remodeled, enlarged, thoroughly reno vated and repainted during the sum mer of 1875, is now open, with in creased facilities for the accommodation of the traveling public. B. P. CHATFIELD, jun2B-3m,* Proprietor, INSURE IN THE MOBILE LIFE lIBAItCE CO., MOBILE, ALA. MAURICE McCarthy, President.) <H. M. FRIEND. Secrrtary.* I *^ JOHN AIA(iUIKK, Vice President. j (wIIKH'AKD UuiIANH, Actuary. ASSETS, |500,000.] * . The Mobim: Life was organized four years ago by the Merchants ami Bankers of Mobile—men substantial and well known. It is one of our best Southern Companies. It is « PROMPT IN TII.K PAYMENT OK ITS LOSSES, \ Progressive, and careful in the selection of its risk'. This Company is vapidly becoming popular with Southern Insurers. With exception it is the only Southern Com oiny that increased ita poliejy holders tu 1874. Examine the plans and merits of this Company before insuring elsewhere. W. C. WARD, Agent, Washington, Georgia. * Live, Acli.ic Busit css men wanted in every county in Georgia to act as Ageuta. Airjy to It. O. ItANDALL, General Agent and Manar. er, jul9-ly] Gadsden, Alabama. DuBOSE & DUNCAN HAVE ON HAND AND WILL SELL CHEAP FOR TZEtEE CASH A FULL LINE OF CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, —CONSISTING OF A car-load of I). S. CLEAR SIDES. BACON, D. 8. SIDES, L. C. SIDES, SIIOULDEUS. THE CELEB BATED DIADEM II AMS, COOK & CHEEK’S FLOUR, TIIE BEST N. O. SYRUP, STANDARD SUGARS, OLD GOVT, JAVA, CORDOVA and RIO COFFEES, TOBACCO, CIGARS, CANNED GOODS, Ac. AT WIIOLESAI.E AND RETAIL, CHEAP FOR CASH f GIVE US A CALL BEFORE BUYING ELSEWHERE. PTJI3QSK & DUNCAN. TV EW< WASHINGTON. J. M. CALLAN & CO. HAVE a Large and Commodious Store, in the new part of the town, near the Depot, and have it well filled with a large and attractive stock of PRY GOODS AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Consisting in Clothing, Domestics, Prints, Dress Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hate, Notions, Trunks, Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Ac. Also, Hardware, Willow-ware, and Wooden-ware. Family Groceries and Plantation Supplies, Provisions and Forage, Meat, Meal, Corn, Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Molasses, Syrup, Canned Goods, Tobacco, Cigars, and everything usually found In u first class-Grocery Store, Prices to Suit tlio Times, Call and examine goods and learn prices and terms. It may pay you, be. fore making your purchases, to call at tfie store of ftULly , J, M. CALLAN A CO, {NO. 45.
