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AnNTP GEORGIA JOTTKlNr^L & MESSENGER GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING PUSHED 1826. MACON TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1870. tht Old Guard for June. J 1 the river. Liberality in Farming. art, and almost in this art alone, “it ^liberal hand which maketh rich.” ^inlity in providing utensils is the saving tiiio and labor. The more perfect his Tertis, the more profitablo are they. , J“j® i* it with his working cattle and with Jj'*. The most perfect in their kinds are u* 6 ! ’JOst profitable. in 8 ood bams and warm shelters is J”®*® of health, strength and comfort to ?***i causes them to thrive on less food, ! Scares from damage all sorts of crops. also in the provision of food for do- J' 5 Uiiaals is tho source of flesh, muscle and v rnoMAs bush English. „ nrI itaina topped with gold and azure, meadows where the violets be, v a turret and embrasure «*« *•«■■«• pinnace, and beside it !#^ rl ’.i.t whose look does not agree *r.i« l *,,j,Jon'e splendor—good betide it! seems, it yet shaU reach the sea. ,, -f-j-r floats on flags and rushes Vender swamp; yet full of glee, !.*• s flood of music gushes I<*= *" hue Ihroat—he, too, will reach the sea. 4 on jjfte. and some to rough logs cling- or bladders, floating free; ^ kdrenfuS eora0 ’ the w J‘ erflin Sb>K, ^ffwiw-trsvelers to the sea. mtsssasst fetesssasa. • , rn ri(*cr8 who strive to sink me ; jtfsfflK &nJ otlior8 friend 'y ; ^tritber. care not what they think mo; •fj Kittir not. when once I reaca the sea. . hinc river! bear me on your waters, 'rrf r ‘v Jnd moontain, cliff and mead and tree «' sal last of Adam's sons and daughters river and must reach that sea. r l,v dsv—tho sun with gray dawn blending, when we embaik, and soars as we s: ,J sinks as we approach our ending; forward when we reach the sea. r&r bevond ? shall we forever wander r . O.J, ocean ? shall we ehtpwrecked be t ,;,. h , omo port beyond i In vain to ponder; S^ebrve returned who entered on that sea. ^(irtrhvidMonthly. 1 ) Don's Flat. (lwc;. nr F. BEET BABSE. Iw’s Flat. That’s its name. And 1 reckon that you Aie a stranger? The same ? Well. I thought it was true— •guar isn’t a man on the river as can’t spot the ;aoe at first view. It was called after Dow— Which the same was an ass— And as to the how Diet the thing kent to pass— * rev.;* your boss to tiiat buckeye, and sit ye Jjva herein the grass: l’on see this yer Dow Hal the worst kind of lack: He slipped up somehow On each tiling thet he struck, v?. tilt'd a’ straddled thet fence rail the dem’d ' tlxs’ed get up and buck. He mined on the bar Till he couldn't pay rates; He was smashed by a car When ho tunneled with Bates; ii right un the top of his trouble kem his wife id five kids irern tho States. It was rough—mighty rough; Hat the boys they stood by, AsJ they brought liim the stuff For a house, on the sly; t! lie old woman—well, she did washing, and took on when no one was nigh. Bat this yer luck of Dow’s Was so powerful mean That the spring near this house Dried right up ®n the green; Si l*sunk forty feet down tor wat», imt - drop to be seen. Then the bar petered out. Aud the boys wouldn’t stay; And the chiUa got about, And his wifo fell away; - hw. in his well, kept a peggin’ in his usual r.diilous way. One day—it was June— And a year ago jest— TUa Dow kem at noon To his work like the rest, *— t shovel and pick on his shoulder, and a der- B ger hid in his breast He goes to the well, And he stands on the brink, Asd stops for a epell Jest to listen and think: tu; tr.n in his eyes (jest like this, sir!) you see, finder made tho cuss blink. flu two ragged gala In the gulch were at play, ■hid a gowned that was Sal's __, Kinder flapped on a bay: for a man to be leavin’, but bis all—as Dc leer’d the folks eay. Ie!—that's a peart hoss liiet you’ve got, ain’t it now ? oiiat might be her cost 1 Jlh? 0! Well, then, Dow— •ote-well, that forty-foot grave wasn't lira sir, Eat day, anyhow. U r a blow of his pick Sorter caved in the side, And he looked and turned sick, Then ho trembled and cried. ■f *e the dern cuss had struck—“Water ?"•— ,; S ?onr parding young man, there you liod! !'• was gold—in the quartz, And it ran all alike: And I reckon live oughts Was the worth of that'strike; hit Louse with the cupifotv’s his’n—which the f*me isn't bad for a Pike, Thet's why it’s Dow’s Flat; And tho thing of it is That he kinder got that Through sheer contrairiness: > imter the demed cuss was seekin, and Tia luck mado him certain to miss. Thet’s so. Thar's your way To the left of yon tree: " But—a—look b’yur, say ? Won’t you come up to tea ? Well, then the next time you’re passin’; and fek after Dow—and thet’s me. VOX. LXTV.—N04 The Presbyterians. Union With the Southern Church—Pro. cee.Unss in the Assembly a t X'hiladel- From the Reunion Assembly Reporter.~\ Dr. Adams snbmitted the following paper from the committee appointed to confer with the Southern Church: RESOLUTIONS IX REGARD TO SOUTHERN ASSEMBLY. Whereas, This General Assembly, at an early pmioa of its sessions, declared its desire to es tablish cordial fraternal relations with the Gen- eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, commonly known as the Southern Assembly, upon the basis of Christian honor, confidence and love, and, with a view to the attainment of this end, appointed a com mittee of five ministers and four elders to con fer with a similar committee, if it should be appointed by the Assembly then in session at Louisville,“in regard to the amicable settle- —‘Wlity o the earth, in seed, culture and tT*? if the source of its bounty. 11 is in agriculture, as in every part of Itoij’ * w ‘ 80 and paternal Providence has in- connected our duty and our happing ^“i°g animals, the oondition of his sne- tininess and benevolence to tfcem. “ting the earth, the condition of man’s •* his industry upon it.—Josiah. jj^fiiish clergyman had a parishioner, an w k° seldom went to church. Ob- her there one Good Friday, frequently her eyes, opening her mouth and " her hands, as ho preached somewhat hpr-n the intensity of ogr Saviour’s death, ho fancied ho had made some upon tho old woman’s mind, and 9 improve it, ho asked her, after the c#, A, “ she thought of the sermon. “Sar- replied: “how could you go furl a story ? Thank the Lord, it was a hri *8°, and don’t consamus; so well "‘“‘ttruel” ment of all existing difficulties, and the opening of a friendly correspondence between the North ern and Southern Churches,” and for the fur therance of the objects contemplated in the appointment of said committee, and with a view to remove the obstacles which might pre vent the acceptance of our proposals by our Southern brethren, reaffirmed the concurrent declaration of the two Assemblies which met in New York last year, to the effect that “no rule or precedent which does not stand approved by both the bodies shall be of any authority in the re-united body, except so far as such rule or precedent may affect the rights of property founded thereon;” and as a further pledge of our sincerity in this movement, sent a copy of our resolutions, together with our Christian salutation, to the Assembly at Louisville, by the bands of delegates clxosen for that pur pose : And whereas, tho Southern Assembly while receiving our delegates with marked courtesy, and formally complying with our proposition for the appointment of a committee of confer ence, has nevertheless accompanied that ap pointment with declarations and conditions which we cannot conscientiously accept, because they involve a virtual pre-judgment of the very difficulties concerning which we invited the con ference. Therefore, .Resolved, That the further consideration of the subject be postponed and tho committee be discharged. At the same time wo cannot for bear to express our profound regret that a meas ure designed and, as wo believe, eminently fit ted to promote the establishment of peace and the advancement of onr Redeemer’s kingdom in every part of our country has apparently fail ed to accomplish its object. We earnestly hope that the negotiations thus suspended may soon be resumed under happier auspices, and here-' by declare our readiness to renew our proposals for a friendly correspondence whenever our Southern brethren shall signify their readiness to accept it in the form and spirit in which it has been offered. Dr. Adams—It seems proper for me to say that we have with ns this morning Rev. Dr. Van Dyke, who was not with us when we had tho re port from our delegation, and whose conduct before that assembly by the testimony of his associate delegates, and from all quarters, was eminently honorable to himself and to onr As sembly. He is now with us. Will it be the pleas ure of the House to have a word from him be fore voting on this question ? Dr. Van Dyke—Mr. Moderator: In the pecu liar relation which I sustain to this whole sub ject, I should be very glad, if it were proper, to be silent. But I have a difficult and yet solemn duty to discharge, and I trust the Assembly will patiently bear with me whilst I attempt to per form it. I wish to present you, sir, my acknowledg ments for the honor which you have conferred upon me by appointing me one of your dele- cates to the Sou*’ l —:— _.% " * P „ cuvlne mission on which we were sen t—a mission whose spirit was in full accord with the spirit of those who came down from heaven to proclaim “Peace on earth and good will to men.” I felt then, I feel now, that the terms on which yon proposed to open negotia tions with our Southern brethren were honor able to you. I believed then, and I believe now, that, so far as they went, they were terms which they could have accepted with perfect consisten cy to their own avowed principles and with per fect satisfaction, so far as I am able to ascertain, to the great majority of the sober Christian peo ple of the South. Mr. Moderator, I wish to be distinctly under stood, that, if I had not held these distinct con victions I never would have consented to take any part in this transaction. Candor requires me to say that my Southern sympathies have not been destroyed, bnt only absorbed and en larged by my broader sympathies for the honor and prosperity of onr grand old Presbyterian Church. [Applause.] I believed then, and I believe now, that those two branches of the Presbyterian Church, though for the present they must and ought to sustain an independent position, for they can do their work on their own ground better than we can do it; yet at the same time these two churches must come into contact along the bor der of a thousand miles, and by the interlacing of social and commercial interests; and the only question left for them and for us to determine is whether it shall be a friendly or a hostile con tact; and I believed it was possible, if we conld get the discussions of these questions out of the newspapers, and, if you will excuse mo for say ing, ont of the hands of those who sometimes sway General Assemblies, and commit the whole discussion to judicious committees, tho difficul ties in the way of our friendly official intercourse with the Southern Chnrch could be removed. It was under this conviction that I cousented to act as one of your committee. Yon have already been informed, that your delegation were cordially and coSrteously re ceived at Louisville. I wish to add to that a remark or two personal to myself. I was pre vented by exhaustion from coming home with the other two members of the committee. I wish to say that during my stay there, of two or three days longer, the [same courtesy was ex tended to me, and nothing was said or done, in public or private, to separate mo from my offi cial position as an acknowledged representative cj this Assembly. And I wish to say further that I was cordially incited and urged to attend an interlocutory meeting of the Southern As sembly about which yon might have seen exag gerated reporis in the nowspapers. I did not think it prudent to accept tho invitation. A am bound to say, however, that nothing was said or done in that private meeting inconsistent with what was said and dono in the publio meeting And now, sir, I wish to express my profound mortification and regret at the temporasy and apparent failure of this effort to make peace. It has failed. The terms and conditions which you have just heard read are manifestly imprac ticable. How can your committeo meet their committee with this terrible indiotment flung across the threshold of our conference? If it wero all true, there is no propriety in putting it there. The things complained of and decided in the paper adopted by the Southern Assembly, aro among tho very questions concerning which we preferred the conference; when men enter into negotiations for the settlement of existing difficulties, it is not for either party to prejudge the case according to their convictions, aim de mand that their decisions shall be conditions precedent to the settlement. Bnt, sir, I cannot stop hero. I think it dne to yon, to this Assembly, to that Assembly and to myself to say the imputation laid there is not true in tho form in which it is laid* [Applause.] Mr. Moderator, there are some at least in this Assembly who firmly believe that during tho heat of passions excited under civil war, the As- embly with which I was formerly connected, did pass acts and make deliverances inconsist ent with the headship of Christ and the consti tution of tho Presbyterian ChuTch. Our voter, onr protests, aro on record on that subject, ana I am not here to take back one word in regard to them; bnt, sir, that this Assembly, that the Christian men and women with whom God has oast my lot, havo taken the crown from the head of Jesus Christ and chained his bride to Cai3ar s chariot wheels; that the two Assemblies, by their reunion, have totally cast aside their for mer testimonies for th© doctrines of grace; that same, this reunited Assembly stands necessarily upon an allowed latitude in the interpretation of the standards of the Church such as must ultimately result in bringing in all forms of doctrinal error —this I strenuously deny. [Applause.] And I say frankly, affectionately and sadly to you and, if it shall reach their ears, to onr Southern brethren—if they wait for us to stultify our selves by admitting such things as these before we enter into negotiations, we will all have to wait for tho settlement of these difficulties until wo get to the General Assembly of the first-born in heaven. Applause.] Now, sir, excuse what may seem, perhaps, to some too great nervousness in regard to my own position. I do not wish/ to be misunderstood. I have endeavored faithfully to serve this As sembly in what I believe to be right, and I be lieve they will accord to me the privilege to put myself right in all respects in regard to this mat ter. The apparent failure of this attempt at negotiation has not altered my opinions or feel ings towards tho Southern Church. True love is not easily offended, and the last thing that a true man consents to do is to co back on his friends. Let no man snppose I am going to do that thing. I love and honor them just as I al ways have done forjhoir firm adherence to the doctrines of grace, and there is not a sounder body on the face of the earth than that Assem bly. I love and honor them for their zeal and and energy and the success with which, under all the disadvantages of their circumstances, they are prosecuting the woik God has given them to do. Yea, I honor them for even what yon may suppose their mistaken zeal, for adhe rence) to their avowed principles under which they have manifestly in this case gone against their interest. It i3 something in these days of mammon worship and temporary expediency to see men sacrificing interest to what they believe to be their principles; and even though in this case we may think their feelings swayed their judgments, we ought not for one moment to snspect their motives to be anything bnt pore and lofty.-y I think that if any man in this As sembly could have been with me and list ened to their discussions npon tho work of the chnrch, and conld have heard the able and protracted and eloquent debate which resulted in the adoption of this paper, he would have come away, as I did, with mingled admiration and grief that men so wise could yet be so unwise; that men on whom God has poured out such splendid endowments for His work, should yet fail to have attained the ability, the gracious ability, to see the things that be long to their peace, and to rise above all the bitter memories of the past to the brighter hopes of the future. And now bear with me once more, while I say in conclusion, that I do not think it should be a cause of regret to any of us that this unsuccess ful attempt has been made. Mr. Moderator, the peace-maker shall inherit in his own soul and before God the beatitude of Christ, even though the olive branch he hears be stripped of its green leaves, and turn to a rod for unreasonable man to lay on his own back. The failure is only ap parent. “Kind words never die.” Kind deeds are but seed corn that fall in the earth to live again. The handful of com you have planted on the top of the mountain shall yet wave like Lebanon. The bread yon havo cast on the waters will return after many days. “The time of figs is not yet;” but it will come—just so surely as love is stronger than hate, just so surely as the clear shining of the summer sun is stron ger than the blowing of the north wind.— An iceberg, floating in polar solitude, may say to itself, if it could think, “I will keep my cold and stem integrity;” but there is a tide, silent and strong as destiny, that shal drift it ont from its isolation; and, sooner or later, it will melt or mingle its kind drops with the waters of tropical seas. Mr. Moderator let ns shine like the sun and not blow like the Jgjnd. , Let us_ love in^h and bit‘te‘r“ ness and evil-speaking, publicly and privately. Let the blood of Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours, through which alone any of us can be saved, wash away the resentments that have their roots in the shedding of hnman blood, and the time will come soon when your desires and mine, and of all of us who sincerely love the Lord Jesus Christ, shall be accomplished in ref erence to this matter—a desire, not for retalia tion, not for human conquest, not for the disin tegration or absorption of a sister chnrch, but just tho desire I expressed in the Southern As sembly, and which I am glad to repeat here— the desire of an affeotionate son, whose father and mother have quarreled, who loves them both, and longs to see them reconciled upon terms that will leave no stain of dishonor upon either ; the desire of those that love the crown and kingdom of Jesus Christ above ail crowns, and kingdoms on earth; the desire of those who, when the people gather at Mizpah and re joice, nevertheless mourn and lift up their voice to God and say, “O, Lord God of Israel, why. is it come to pass this day, that one tribe should be lacking in Israel ?” I crave your indulgence, sir, for having occu pied yonr attention so long, bnt I feel it neces sary to make at least this attempt to put my true attitude before this Assembly. [Applause.] The report was adopted and the committee discharged. Tlie Lora’s Prayer. When the elder Booth was residing in Balti more, a pious, urbane old gentleman of that city, hearing of his wonderful power of elocu tion, one day invited him to dinner, although always depreciating the stage and all theatrical performances. A large company sat down at the table, and, on returning to the drawing room, one of them asked Booth, os a special favor to them all, to repeat tho Lord’s Prayer. He signified his willingness to gratify them, and all eyes were fixed upon him. He slo wly and reverently arose from his chair, trembling with the burden of two great conceptions. He had to realize the chara^er, attributes and presence of the Almighty Being ho was to addross. He wa3 to transform himself into a poor, sinning, stumbling, benighted, needy supplicant, offer ing homage, asking brood, pardon, light and guidance. Says ono of tho company who was present, “It was wonderful to watch the ploy of emotions that convulsed his countenance. He became deathly pale and his oyes, turned tremb ling upwards, were wet with tears. As yet he hod not spoken. The silence could be felt; it had become absolutely painful, until at last the spell was broken as if by an electric shock, as his rich toned voice syllabled forth, ‘OurFather, which art in Heaven,’ etc., with a patho3 and fervid solemnity which thrilled all hearts. He finish^; the silence continued; not a voico was heffid nor a muscle moved in his rapt audi ence, until from a remote corner of the room, a subdued sob was heard, and the old gentleman [the host) stepping forward with streaming eyes and tottering frame, and seized Booth by the hand. ‘Sir,’ said he, in broken accents, ‘you havo afforded me a pleasure for which my whole future life will feel grateful. I am an old man, and every day, from boyhood to the present time I have repeated the Lord’s Prayer; but I never heard it before, never!’ ‘You are right,’ replied Booth, ‘to read that Prayer as it should be read caused me the severest study and labor for thirty years, and I am far from satisfied with my rendering of that wonderful produc tion. Hardly one person in ten thousand com prehends how much beauty, tenderness and grandeur can be condensed in a space so sim ple. That Prayer itself sufficiently illustrates the truth of the Bible, and stamps upon it the seal of divinity.’” Solrtlers’ Memorial Association at Clinton. We learn that on Wednesday last a few ladies of Jones county, met in Clinton and organized a branch of the Soldiers’ Memorial Association, and elected Mrs. A. E. Oatchings, President, and Mrs. R. H. Barrow, Secretary. They have about thirty members. The next meeting of the Association is appointed for Saturday, the 9th of July, at 10 a. il, at whioh time all the ladies of Jones county are respectfully request ed to be present, and become members of the Snez Canal Improvement. While the new channel of intercourse between the great East and the trading countries of Wes tern Europe, has, in spite of all croakings, and the undeniable difficulties of soil and climate, begun with brilliant success, tho need is still felt of greater width and depth of running wa ter. Hence, work is to be immediately recom menced on it, for tho purpose of deepening it to eight metres, the present working depth be ing about six. Only seven dredging machines will be used in the operation, and yet it is be lieved confidently that the undertaking will be completed by the end of tho year 1870. At the same time the widening process will R°_on; and it is anticipated that tho trade of 1871 will commence on this fixe highway of tho Oriental world with abont 25 feet of water in tho channel, and a breadth of nearly 70 feet. Tho expenses of this improvement are to be met by an interest of abont tiroo millions of francs falling due on tho company's, bonds, a surplus fund of nearly 7,000,000 frab^3, and tho current tolls now coming in. These amounts aro deemed amply sufficient, and should the tolls increase during the latter part of the year, ns they have done in the months already past, the work will even be hastened. As it is, the prospect greatly surpasses all that the most ear nest friends of the Canal had anticipated. The French, Italian and Austrian ports on the Med iterranean and the Adriatic have all put regular lines of steamers on the Suez route, and even the British merchants, who were so long and so singularly averse to this grand enterprise, have eome round, not only to admit its utility, but to construct swift steamers expressly for its traffic. Thus, not only the immediate interests of tran sit commerce have been subserved, but ship building has been stimulated and improved. We have already, once cr twice, alluded to the singular fact that the ladings of cotton coming through the canal from Bombay, are largely ab sorbed before they can get through the Mediter ranean, being taken up with avidity by the The Lost Diamond. .I&VMV'SU French, Austrian and Italian manufacturers. This important diversion necessarily reduces the supply to England, and betters the demand for American staples—or else tho English must outbid the foreign consumers on their own line of traffic, employ still swifter steamers, in greater numbers, and, in fine, perforce be chiefly instrumental in helping the progress of the CanaL On the other hand, Italian, French and German luxuries will pour back, via Suez, to the East Indies, China, Japan and Australia, each fresh access of consumption redounding, of course, to the farther advantage of the CanaL This will become particularly striking, so soon as the Mount Cenis Tunnel through the Alps, now requiring but a twelvemonth more labor, shall have been completed ; for then all Middle Europe will have a direct outlet for her num berless wares. As for British voyages with cotton, tea, etc., around the Cape of Good Hope, they are, now, ont of the question for the purpose of ready traffic. Merchants will not wait 120 days for what can be brought to them in 30; and hence, again, we may expect a constant growth of trans portation. The philosophy of modem progress is plainly that increased supply increases de mand up to a certain point, and that channels of intercourse on the main lines of the world’s movement not only become self-supporting, brt create the necessity for others in the same di rection. Hence, we argue not only the com plete success of the Suez Canal in any dimen sions that can bp given to it, but, likewise, the practical usefulness of the British Euphrattan Railroad, now projected. This enterprise, orig inally intended to head off the Snez Canal, vill ultimately help it, and vice versa.—Mercantile Journal. je peoiua " " jiitetafl, Answers. A lady noticed a boy sprinkling salt on the sidewalk to take off the ice, and remarked to a friend, pointing to the salt: “Now, that’s benevolence.” “No it ain’t,” said the boy, somewhat in dignant. “it’s salt” 50 when a lady asked her servant girl if the hired man cleaned off tho snow with alacrity, she replied: “No, ma’am, he used a shovel.” The same literal turn of mind which we have been illustrating is sometimes used in tentionally, and perhaps a little maliciously, and thu3 becomes the property of wit instead of blunder. Thus we hear of a very polite and impressive gentleman who said to a youth in the street: “Boy, may I inquire where Robinsons drug store is?” “Certainly, sir, replied the hoy, very re- spccifully* “Well, sir,” said the gentleman, after wait ing awhile, “where is it?” “I have not the least’idea, yer honor, said the urchin. There was another hoy who was accosted by an ascetic middle aged lady with: "'Boy. I want to go to Dover street.” Well, ma’am,” said the boy, “why don’t you go then?” One day at Lake George, a party of gentle men strolling among tho beautiful islands on the lake with bad luck, espied a iittle fellow with a red shirt and a straw hat, dangling a line over the side of a boat. “•Halloo, boy,” said one of them, “what are you doing?” “Fishing,” came the answer. i..“Well, of course,” said the gentleman, m# what do you catch?” “Fish, you fool; what do you s pose ? f “Did any of you ever see an elephant 8 skin?” inquired a teacher of an infant class. “I have/’ exclaimed one. “Where ?” asked tho teachpr. “On the elephant,” said'the boy, laugh 1 ing. “Sometimes this sort of wit degenerates or rises, as the case may be, into punning, as when Flora pointed pensively to the heavy masses of clouds is the sky, saying: . „ “I wonder where those clouds are going l and her brother replied: 5 1 think they are going to thunder.” Also the following dialogue: “HalW, thoroi how do you sell your wood?” “By the cord.” “How long has it been out? “Four feet” . . “I mean how long has it been since you cut it?” . . “No longer than it is now. And also when Patrick O’Flynn was seen with his collar and his bosom sadly begrim- med, and was indignantly asked by his officer: “Patrick O’Flynn, how loDg do you wear a shirt?” . . “Twenty-Height inches, sir. This remindfs one ot an instance whioh is said to have occurred recently in Chatham street, New York, where a countryman was clamorously besieged by a shopkeeper: “Have you any fine shirts?" said the coun tryman. "A splendid assortment. • Step in, sir.— Every price and eweiy style. The cheapest in the market, sir.” “Are they clean ?” “To be sure, sir.” . “Then,” said the countryman, with great gravity, “you had better put on one, for you need it” The Port Boyar Batleoxd.—The Charleston News of Tuesday says the force at work on this road is being increased at all points. Arrange ments are being made to work night and day, and ■ it is believed that the road will be com pleted to Augusta by the first of November next. The track is being laid rapidly. In anticipation of the early completion of the road, parties are engaged in constructing docks at Battery Point (the terminus of the road,) near Beaufort. ; -o.;: v> '•••. ; CCS«kII iiat?' I’ve knocked about considerable in my short time, and have perhaps, done more work with less results than any man in existence. I have gone through the law, dipped in theology, took a spell at soldiering, dabbled in mechanics, got into surgery, and have at last settled down as a plain, steady going old country doctor. In the year—well, the date is of not mnch consequence, so that may pass—I was taking a hand at watch-making, in tho town of Cramp- toD, tip in the west of the State. Being rather a shuttlecock on the battledore of circumstances than a rambler from inclination, I was remark- ably-steady for a rolling stone. I was temperate, kept little company, and would sit of an even ing in the boss’ kitchen smoking my old briar- wood pipe and reading some work from my se lect library of fifteen volumes which was a strange assortment of treatises on gunning, lo- motivo manufacture, medical culture and tho like. There was a neighbor of ours who would sometimes drop in of an evening and discuss with mo cn politics, religion or kindred subjects, and his quiot, open way made him a great favor ite with me. His face belied nis nature, for while he was simple, good hearted and rigidly honest, his features were extremely homely, his nose twisted awry, his hair and eyebrows of a dead black, and a nervous affection, which coupled with certain snakishness abont the eyes, gave him an extremely sinister appearance. He was an engineer in a factory in the neighbor hood, a married man, with a quiet, plain little woman for a wife, sensible and frank spoken, like himself. Mr. Greenfield, the gentleman for whom I worked, was an excellent artisan, a man trusted to any extent by those in the neighborhood, and, moreover, having an exquisite workman in fine work, jewels of great valno at times passed through his hands for resetting. A wealthy gentleman residing close by, a Mr. Cummings, had left with him an exceedingly large and brilliant diamond, worth at a rough estimate some four thousand dollars in hard gold. This diamond was set in an old fashioned, singular-looking brooch, and was to be reset in a heavy gold ring. The gentleman brought the jewel in a wrapping of tissue paper, and in his pocket book. Mr. Greenfield removed it from its setting and placed it in onr safe in an old jewel case, vhoso cover had been twisted off, and there it lay with a napkin thrown, across it. Guy Scott came in that evening, and, while looking over some charts of machinery, the con- versakon turned upon safe locks. Mr. Green field placed implicit confidence in me, and, knowing the combination of our safe, I invited Guf to examine it; it was standing in the hall between the store and the kitchen, and, taking mif lamp, I tried to explain to him tho principle ofits workings. With an involuntary move ment I pulled the napkin from off tho diamond, aad a stray gleam of light striking it, it blazed splendidly in the gloom about it. “What’s that?” said Scott, with a start, “a diamond!” “Yes,” I replied, carefully closing the safe, “a stone of great value. You Iriusn’t mention it’s being here.” He promised, and, os I thought, there was an end to it; so we fell to smoking our pipes and chatted until it was pretty late in the evening. “Myers,” said Scott, as we were standing at the back door, for a moment, before saying good night, “I want you to lend me twenty dollars until Saturday. To-morrow’s quarter rent day, and I am run rather short; can you do it ?” “Why, of course,” I replied, taking the money from my pocket-book. “You’re very kind, old fellow,” said Scott, ;SU»S*ffi?o 1 lY y 'ini, ^ I “I fell squeamish as the it as soon as possible.” aud I’ll square “Don’t mention it,” said i, pmmuiguuu»»uiu me. “I’d trust you as soon as any man living, Gay, and never be afraid to ask me to split with yon when there’s occasion.” He thanked me again and 37is gone. I rather overslept myself the next morning, and when I came into the shop Mr. Greenfield was hard at work at his table, coat off, glasses on, at a watch which a man had just brought in and was waiting for. This man was Tom Gossage, well known in town as a rakish, ne’er-do-anything, who had plenty of money and a handsome person, and whose conscience being flexible, he was not con sidered exactly a safe family man. This was the character Tom bore, and I noticed, with sur prise, that the door of the safe was ajar. This carelessness on Mr. Greenfield’s part was, I thought, remarkable, and I confess it gave me quite a start. "To make sure, I wont to the safe, lifted the napkin, when I perceived—the diamond was gone. “ Mr. Greenfield 1” I exclaimed, “have yptt taken away the diamond that was under this nap kin ?” “No, no,” he replied, turning ashy pale; “you don't mean to say that it is gone ?” “It certainly is not here,” I replied With my heart in my month. “Not there!” replied Mr. Greenfield, with a gasp. “Good God! it must be there; no one could have taken it!” “The stone is gone,” said I quietly; pray sir, compose yonrself.” “Oh, heaven, I am a ruined man,” he said, frantically pressing his hands to his face. “This matter should be investigated,” said Gossage, moving to the door, “and, if you like, I will at once send up a constable. “No one shall quit this place,” I replied, placing my back against the door, “until -g thorough investigation has been made.” For a moment his oyes met mine; then with a deathly pallor on his face, he turned away and drew his handkerchief to wipe away the beads of perspiration whioh had gathered on his fore head. “Just as you please,” he said, with a strange qnivor in his voice, “the precaution is no doubt necessary.” Mr. Greenfield was searching the shop up and down like ctio half crazed. Even through the excitement of the moment I felt a most in- ■ tense pity for him, for he was a kind-hearted, hard-working man, and the occurrence would lessen the faith that people had so implicitly put in him. __..... .. A boy woo pooaiug, and I tapped on the glass of the door and beckoned him in. He came with eyes opened to the size of saucers, and he seemed stricken with wonderment when I told him to ran and send constables Wilcox and Fish np at once. i They arrived in a few minutes, and tho whole matter was laid open to them. As in duty bound I related the fact that the night before I had exhibited the lock of the safe to Guy Scott; that he had seen tho diamond, bnt tUnt I was _ posi tive that the gem was in the safe when it was locked. Wilcox, a very clear-headed fellow, then proceeded to search Gossage, and I must say that he did it most thoroughly, but it elicit ed no light on the matter. “There is no ground on which this man can be detained,” said Wilcox; “in myopinion Mr. Scott is placed in an exceeding bad light.” Accordingly, Gossage walked out of the door. There was just one bad look ho sent back at me, so full of cunning and triumph that the affair was settled in my mind without judge or jury. “Mr. Greenfield,” said Wilcox, “your course is to go at once to Squire Raymond and swear out a warrant against Guy Scott. And you sir,” (to me,) “must consider yourself under arrest until a definite course of proceeding can be de termined upon.” Mr. Greenfield was by no means a wealthy man, bnt of such exceeding honesty that he had determined to put what ready money he had on deposit nt the bank, together with all the money ho could raise by mortgaging his stock, and thereby cover to Mr. Cummings the loss of his jewel. Accordingly, having thus made himself responsible, he determined to carry on the prose cution in his own name. -j h. j.| - -• an Scott was at once arrested and put in the “jug” until the time whenhe should be removed for trial. For my own part, I made .a. state ment so perfectly elear and concise that I was wanted money, indeed had no use for it, being a single man, and brought proofs of decisive honesty, endorsed by Mr. Greenfield, at once put me at liberty and removed the temporary suspicion that came over me. The time for the trial came on; Scott’s fellow workmen had subscribed an amount (to which I humbly contributed^ sufficient to secure excel lent legal talent. But with twelve thick-headed clods, who knew nothing of the elements of law or logio, the conrt was omnipotent; and upon this over-fed, fish-eyed Dogberry depended the chance of poor Scott’s freedom. The court room was crowded. The prisoner sat in his box, pale out full of confidence. He occasionally addressed a word to his counsel, pated no farther trouble from him as he lay senseless on the floor, and, taking my hat, left him at his leisure to recover a better reasoning. I at once prooeeded to a justice of the peace, left the diamond with him, and in the morning filed my affidavit. Before many days Guy Scott was a free man. He is now a rich man and my visits to his comfortable home are frequent. Bright little faces have crept in about his hearth, and his children love me as though I were their own flesh and blood; but from the eyes of the parents there beams a gratitude that repays me ten times over for all the share I had in the in nocent man’s redemption. The diamond was immediately forwarded to Mr. Cummings who was overjoyed to get it, and now and theD whispering a bit of comfort to his j at once drew a check to Mr. Greenfield’s order, anxious, devoted wife, who sat close beside him. I was pat in tho stand and gave my evidence, and when I was through, turned a look of silent entreaty towards Gny, who nodded a reassur ance of friendship. He knew implicitly that I was conscious of his innocence, and had done nothing but what simple dnty directed. Mr. Greenfield Gossage, and some other witnesses were placed on the stand, and after the argu ments the conrt proceeded to charge the jury. When his honor (?) opened his lips there was a breathless silence in the room. “The pris- oner,” said the muddy-headed fellow, heavily clearing his throat and lifting his dull eyes, “haB everything in his disfavor. He was in want of money, and a witness testifies that he loaned him an amount abont the time of the theft. The asserted fact of the stone being in the safe when it was closed, after he had been satisfying an unhealthy cariosity about tho lock, is quite in definite. Again, he was the only person that left the house between the intervals of the dia mond’s existence in tho depository and the dis covery of its loss. Another witness testifies that the safe was opened in his presence on the morn ing of the discovery, and that all the persons who came into tho aparment np to the time the gem was missing, viz: Mr. Greenfield, his as sistant, and the witness, were snbmitted to a rigid search. Tho prisoner himself is a very in dex of theft and villainy, and I think that the jury will have but very little trouble in render ing a verdict.” I conld have throttled the heavy-brained fool as he comfortably disposed himself in the chair, and complacently speechified away a good man’s character in tho face of a few incidents that would have had no weight in a real court of jus tice. Bnt then the old saying, “Heaven save us from lynch law and country justice." A sorrow unspeakable came over my poor heart as I saw the poor wife clinging with strained arms to all she held dear in this life, and sobbing as though her heart would break. There was but little hope and that was dispelled when the foreman pronounced the single word—“guilty.” A loud shriek and a senseless woman was borne from the place. Hard hearts were throbbing, and sent the tears qnietly down many a tanned cheek; a weak, pale man was grasping at the railings of his box, with a mute appeal in his eyes, but it never reached tho heart of the scarecrow of justice. ****** A year had gone by, and poor Scotthad served out a small portion of his lengthy term. I had given up watch-making and took to studying rgerv. at P College. Ono bright, moonlight night in April, when the pleasant air was tinged with a promise of more genial warmth to come, the students had most all gone out for an evening ride and frolic. Of onr section, only my mate and myself had remained behind; we were in our dissecting room, awaiting the arrival of a “subject” for which we had dubbed together aud were mo mentarily expecting. Two lights were turned almost ont, and only th8_thin spiral flame of the wall and ceiling, and danced mockingly about the dim preoincts of the sink. An hour or two went slowly by, my companion occasionally opening his mouth to give an opin ion on same particular operation, or to hnm one of those questionable dities which seem to pos sess such such attraction for students. Jones was not a bad fellow, bnt, like Hamlet’s des cription of mankind, he resembled an unweeded jarden. His moralities bad been woefully neg- ected, and carelessness rather than vices had sprung np and choked the growth of his better principle* “There is Grogan,” said Jones, as a shrill whistle resounded without, “Wait a bit, and I’ll bring Dim np.” He then put on his coat and left the room, bringing with him the “miner,” brutish looking fellow, with sufficient nerve, apparently, for any species of work. “I left the stiff ’un right under the fence,” said this genius; “fling out the scrip, drop your grapple, and up he goes.” Having paid him the stipulated price, he left the room. Jones then let down through the suspicious looking wooden tube in the comer of the room a stout rope with a small hook on the end, the other extremity of the line passing over a pulley in the ceiling. Then the whistle came again as a signal that all was right—a score of hard tugs with our four arms, and a long crash bag came before us like a ghost.— Once on the floor, it needed no conjecture as to its contents, for its grim outlines told every thing. The bagging was cut away, and, after a few other preparations, Jones laid the body on tho * dissecting table, with a cloth over the face. He then proceeded to make a few in cisions on the body. “I wouldn't work that to-night, Phil," I said; ‘you’ll spoil the study, it is so fearful dim.” i “Oh, I’m only going to remove tho stomach; that’s rough work and can as well be dono now us in tho morning; besides, I don’t want thati to go on ice.”. _ ' “Just as you please,” said I taking my hat and coat; “for my own part, I would rather be patient and get tho good of it." “This chap must have been a preoious hard liver,” said Jones, not listening to me. “Phew —hello—that’s queer.” “What’s queer, Phil?” “A sediment of gravel in the coat of the stomach.” •I should say it was,” said Smith, with a Ifiugh; “pshaw, nonsense.” “Come and see ” - r wancea over to the table, and, with a little cariosity, lifted the doth from the face. There was something in the rigid features that seemed familiar, and struck me as if in connection with scene unpleasant incident. “Yon seem to know that fellow?” said Jones, still slashing away. All at once the memory came back—the body was that of Tom Gossage, the man who had been in the store at Cramp- ton the morning that the diamond was missed. “He victualled expensively,” said Jones, lift ing something from the stomach which glistened dazzlingly in the dull light of the room; “ho evidently fed on the Cleopatra style of cooking.” There it was, with long, scintillating shafts of light quivering and throbbing from its centre, with brilliant rays diverging from its heart—the very diamond for the theft of which poor Guy Scott was suffering in State Prison. The whole thing rushed through my mind in a second. Mr. Greenfield had left the safe door open, and while engaged on the watch Gossage secured the with interest added. The check found him is* New York, completely broken np in spirit an*, barely scratching up enough to eke ont a miser able existence. The money set him up once more, and he is now, I believe, thriving. Poor Jones afterwards came to me with deep concern and a badly discolored eye. “I mistook your motive,” he said, appealing ly, “and you must forgive and forget” “Certainly,” I replied, “bat I owe you an apology for that ugly eye. ” “Ugly eye,” he said, slyly; “faith yours would have been closed if my charitable inten tions had been carried out. However, that is all passed.” All passed, indeed, but in my wardrobe hangs a trifling reminder of the occurrence in the shape of a broadcloth coat, whose left sleeve is cut from the wrist to the shoulder. HIGH TIMES IN A SLEEPING GAB. An Innocent Sian Charged with Somnam bulism—He Gets up n Free Fight, and Walks into a Kentuckian. From the Cinccnnati Commercial. About midnight, when we wero either lost in sleep or drooping away, a fearful scream that made the blood curdle broke upon onr startled ears. This wild yell came from a female throat, and was followed by cries of “Oh! stop him,” “Hold him,” ‘.‘Don’t let him go,” and the wild est confusion ensued. All the men sprang to their feet, and all the women screamed- Run ning along the passage way, I found a woman clinging to a male specimen of humanity, and begging him to go bed, and learned, through a great deal of incoherent exclamation, that the man was a sleep-walker. “Oh, James, do come back to bed; do waken up—please do!” she cried, piteously. “Why, lam awake, you fool!” snorted the husband. “No you’re not. That is the waj[ he always answers, and he’ll go out and get killed under the cars. "Won’t somebody stop the train ?” “Come, come, my good fellow, wake up, wake up,” roared a stout man, shaking the supposed sleep-walker so violently by the shoulders that he must have had a free ad mission to the fireworks. In this he was as sisted by onr Kentncky friend, who appeared in a fearful suit of red flannel. This was too much for tho afflicted man, charged with the crime of somnambulism. He went to fighting; shaking the stout man off with such force that corpulence went down in a sitting position, and hitting Red Flannels in the stomach. Blazes disappeared from sight through the curtains of a section from whence other female soreams went up, and unmistakable evidences of a gen eral engagement. The sleep-walker, after whipping all within reach, explained that he had got up with no in tention to walk in his sleep, but to get a drink of water; but, being given to somnambulism, his wife had taken the alarm, and with this in formation ho retired to his couch in a very sulky manner. Onr Kentucky friend came tumbling Scraicfleu, inti luu’uafmdi ismrtldiilT’Alid’gifMg evidence of having suffered from an encounter. He told me next day that when he raided in on the bedhe rolled over a fat woman into the arms of a thin one, who went at him tooth aind nail, to the great damage of* his underclothes and countenance. Upon a certain occasion two Irishmen, travel ling in the country in search of farm work, chanced to put up at a wayside inn, one of those low, quaint old taverns, with its pump and water trough before the door of which the Btage coach stopped, but the fare of which though homely was always good, and under which hospitable roof our wearied rpoteteps have often rested in unalloyed pleasure. They were seated at the ta ble, when one ofc them observing a saucer of gra ted horse radish upon the board, ignorant of its contents, straightway helped himself to a good sized spoonful. The effect of this on the lach rymal duct was not surprising. •‘Is it cryin’ ye are, Barney?” exclaimed his companion. “Yis!” “What for do yez cry ?” “For the dith of me grandfather.,’ Mickey, however, followed suit with the pun gent vegetable, and with the same effect. “Are yez cryin’, Mickey?” “Yis!” “For what aro yez cryin’, acushla ?” “That ye didn’t die when yer grandfather did, ye blackguard for not tellin’ me there was fire in the stuff,” was the rejoinder. Sir Watkins William Wynne, conversing with a friend about the antiquity of his family, which he carried back to Noah, was told that he was a mushroom. “Ay! ” said he, “how so, pray ? ” “Why,” replied the other, “when I was in Wales, a pedigree of a particular family was shown to me; it filled abont five large skins of parchment, and abont the middle of it was a noto in margin : About this time the world was created." Two Irishmen were ono day engaged in roofing a house, when one of them lost his hold and fell to the ground. The other has tened to him, and inquired, when he found him lying prostrate and still, “Mickey ^Mick ey ! are you dead?” “No.” replied Mickey; not dead, but t>pachelCS3l” Crops in North Carolina.—Tho Wilming ton Journal says: We have fine rains now, and as the wheat is made and the corn crop in the very best condi tion, no fears are now had for the result this year. Never, in the history of the country for one hundred years, has there been such an • abundant harvest of wheat,' nor so good a pros pect for corn. _ p. P.—“Planting and Politics, says the Charleston Courier; tho one the hope and the' other the curse of the country.” That is so, and the misfortune is that the very villainy of the politics compels us to take a hand in them - in self defence. The Southern people would cheerfully agree to stick to their planting and bid politics a long farewell conld they be assur- ed of fair and honest government. • - The Mississippi Radicals are denouncing Got; swallowed the stone, and it had eventually been j other night, one speaker indulged in the proph- covered with the soft coating of the stomach, fcC „ t jj 0 Governor would sink to the same depthof degradation asBrownlow. Whenever a Radical desires to illustrate how low a man can get, no points to the case of Brownlow. and was thus retained until this singular cir cumstance had brought it to light. ‘Thank heaven,” said I, “this will release a man from unjust confinement. Jones, let mo see that stone r Northwestern Georgia.—A gentleman from “Keep away! he cried, fiercely clutching it, ... „ ‘the stomach was mine and all it contained, the State of Dade, tells us things are flourish- You can’t palaver me."’ ing in Northwestern Georgia. The com crop “Giveithere, I say!” I seized his clenched f islook . ngfin6 j y> Wheat was a fair average, suddeSy. Tho gel | and so were oats. The great railway is to open, fell to the floor, and in a twinkling I had it in to Ely ton about the first of July, and the oooa- my pocket. _■ - . . sion is to call forth a grand popular demons tra- • “?- iY6 for Hk 6 ^fito “ C ie iSie l’sav Jr tion of satisfaction. This, they say, is to be ' I only langhed-at- him, and in a towering Orleans, and the Southwest, as well as part of ...» frenzy ho rushed at me. Just one lunge he the great Southern Pacific Railway. The same immediately released on witness bonds, which I made, that, ns I stepped, caught in my coat- i anl k or ity represents the grain crops of had no difficulty in finding. My name was tojn- sleeve and ripped it to the shoulder. In anoth- » J * and promising. porarily under a cloud, bnt tho fact that I neither or moment I dropped him like a log. 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