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P. W. ALEXANDER,
ATTORNEY AT TAW,
THOM ASTON, OA.
nov2R—ly
JAMES w. GKEENIC”
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novlß—ly.
E. Waiuibx. C. T. Goode.
WALKEN & GOODE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW;
rutin', Houston uo., ga.
hot IS—ts
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rfHSu\s;oN, (J.\.
OFFICE at my House (the late residence of Mrs.
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es oil! otal Operations. My w ork is my Reference.
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ArTOItNKY AT LAW,
THOM ASTON, GA.
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GEORGE W. DAVIS,
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KEEPS constantly on hand a superior lot of Drv
Goods, Ready-Made Clothing, Hardware, Cutlery.
Powder. Shot. Lead. Pancake and Common Tobacco,
all ot which will be sold at the lowest prices for cash,
or on the usual time.
£ y <’all :m2 see him. declO
GrRANITE I LXi,
OPPOSITE TIIE LANIER HOUSE,
GEORGIA.
K. V . DEXSE,
(Late of the Floyd House,)
ec^t> L . Proprietor.
Tr ou *: 3BCo \jl se,
ATLANTA. GEORGIA,
B y 13 11 * J * 1>• no A” TANARUS) ,
Ty ho has taken a lease of the property, and intends
’ * to • brush up” and have tiling-* as they should be.
He would be glad to see his old friends, and others
when they visit this flourishing citv.
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t o’ The Griffin papers, the Columbus Weekly En-
W -ta a ' ld X oroer and Montgomery (Ala.)
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Healers in Staple Dry Good.**-ami
Groceries of every Description
Corner of Cherry and Third Streets,
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s we can make it to their interest to deal with
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I dealer in Family
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From the South rn Recorder.
‘Hte Educational Act.
i The ppgse nfc Educational AcL it*is well,
known, .was the result.rpi dt : t:'oniereiiee
ybnuifittee, mid a kind of eonapiAfftfse be
tween'the different systems proposed by
members of the legislature. That tliepre
j seiit act is complete, or that it meets the
wants of Education-i.n otir .State,* po pne
who haa “gjyun • tho subject a jMSfgjgSp*.”
44tqugbtyU&iev -- it • ‘Urtftifxa-’
l V- M-vurienfh! slop ; one” intended
’to ( n'4 v e oftt the p=eopk*Vffi'iud and Thoughts
•npem ihe subject, leaving it for future leg
islation to profit by experience, and adopt
ing the best plan suggested, whenever they
see it is needed, and will work advantage
ously to the end it is intended. We give
J the following reflections of a writer in the i
! Atlanta Intelligencer, and will continue to j
put dish everything tending to throw light j
upon cur educational system.
We received during the sitting of the!
legislature, several communications sug
gestive ot plans, which was intended more
for the legislature than for the general
reader. As our columns a-t that time was
too much crowded with the proceedings of
that body, we were compelled to lay them
aside. If-i l l we will now take pleasure in
laying before the public anything that will
be attended with profit on the subject.
To tiie Friends of Education in
Georgia.—The Legislature, just adjourn
ed, lias added certainly SIOO,OOO to the
School turn! of our State, contingently
more, and in the same Act lias provided j
for the gradual increase.of this fund as the !
State debt is extinguished. These arc com- !
slikiv.bb :t .p. . in the right direct An, and
will doubtless be followed by others per
fecting our Educational system, if the
Friends of Education in every county in
Geary in tv ill now yo actively to ivork to
perfect the system in their own county.
This Act, you will perceive, leaves each
county to do as each officer please. This
is- riyht. We do not wish to force any
county wedded to poor Schools, to a ban- j
don them. “Ephviam is joined to his Idols,
! let him al.me.” Ifi.it this Act is excecd
in ,l(i defect>ve in submitting the selection
and execution of a system in each county,
to a Body flint lias no permanent exist -
ence viz : the Grand Jury It, would seem
almost impossible to expect a body of men
gathered together only for one wel:, and
never to meet again , to perfect, adopt, and
; carry into successful operation, so impor
;.uii .i matuv, as the establishment of a!
new School
■ tins icaiuiv was thrown into the Act for
! the very purpose of rendering any change
| m iiio present system impreictic'dde of
i course. 1 make no such charge. I can- ;
; not, however, conceive a more impractica
j file plan, than the one adopted.
However, we must not he discouraged
j at apparent diificuhies. Tlmnkful for small
| favors, lot us see if we cannot do a great 1
deal even with this discouraging plan.— !
What can be done ?
Ist The Ordinary of each county can be |
prepared to submit to the Grand Jury any
suggestions for alterations in his county.
He can gather statistics, have a map of
the county drawn, suggest proper lines for j
School Districts, get information as to the ‘
operations of other counties, and thus be |
prepared to submit a plan to the Jury.
2nd Let the friends of Education in each
county be active in enlisting the sympa
thies and zeal of every Grand Juror prior 1
to the session of the court. Give him facts, 1
and figures, and make his heart burn with ;
a desire to promote so good a work.
fid By all /neons let no county in Geor- j
gia reduce her local School Tax. because of!
this additional amount to be received from j
the State. Such result would make the
present Act a curse instead of a blessing. 1
On the contrary let Grand Juries in unison
with the present feeling of the People, re
commend higher School Taxes, and thus |
give us in each county a fund with which
something can l>e done.
4th Let the friends of this cause in ev
\ cry county correspond and communicate j
freely with each other, see that there may
I be some harmony in our action. We ought
|to have u a head,” but we have none pro
vided. Let us counsel together and do all
that we can.
With due hesitation let me suggest,
whether it would not be well to devote the
! entire sum received from the State this j
j next year, to the building of School Houses, j
! in the hope that another Legislature will
organize some system for us. To build
J School Houses, all that the Grand Jury
. would have to do, would be to authorize i
“THE UNION OF THE STATESOISTiNCT, LIKE THEJBiLLOWS: ONE,HIKE THE SEA.”
TIIOMASTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1559.
the Ordinary and county Surveyor to lay
off ti- specified number of School Districts,
and then declare how the fund received
from the Stat** shall be divided among
these Districts. Private subscription would
raise enough, added to this fund to build
good School Houses, and thus a great step
would have been taken. This is merely a
suggestion. Let us hear from y&u, Friends
of Free Schools ! Jefferson.
From tlie.X'a- liville Banner.
“Bless do Lord, Massa, I took de
same old track.*”—Old Sa^niy.
Another Presidential .election, is ap
j preaching.. The jfim Ofia’riother Deiiiocrat
. ie administration is settjpg behind the fijj
f gry clouds of public disajiprobdtion. , Of-,
lice holders, as they lounge on the cush
iony chair of place, begin to feel-tfmsejdt
I grow uneasy beneath them. As thcy-.waK’
i low in indolence and case, upon -the jt/Wny
■ notluhei of* Tatroiiage, tlieir sweet
fcjl ■ %=■ by dark forebodings of the
a§ikfibVn ffiture.’ ‘"Nightmares afflict—
ghosts afiright them in their dreams, and
instead of the soothing slumbers in which
they were wont to indulge, tiny behold,
in their troubled sleep, armless bands, like
the one that made Belshazzar tremble, wri
ting their doom upon the walls. All at once
they wake up. Something must be done.
The country’s in danger! The rights of
the South are particularly imperilled—as
usual. What a hard time the rights of the
South do have, to be sure. Like old Mr.
Tnrvevdrop, they have to bo ‘“shaken up”
every now and then, or like the Shanghai
rooster that crowed so loud that he cap
sized himself, they have to bo “set up”
regularly. It is reported of this remarka
ble “rooster” that, a negro followed him con
stantly to “set him up,” every time he crow
ed. The Democratic party seemed to be
performing the same office to the rights of
the South , that the negro did to the roos
ter. The crowing is so loud that some
how these poor rights are as flat as the
rooster, just before every Presidentitd elec
tion, and of course nobody but the great
Democratic party am “set cm up.” It is
amusing to recur to the history of the Dem
ocratic party for the last fifteen or twenty
yav-'H, when preparing for a Presidential
race. They have not failed in a single in
stance, within that time, to denounce the
Whig or Opposition candidate for the Pres
idency as an abolitionist or as untrue to the
rights of the South. Gen. Harrison was
denounced as an abolitionist and as untrue
to the South, while Martin Van Ifiiivu was
held up as the soundest slavery man and
the truest friend the Smith ever had. Gen.
Harrison died before the policy of his ad
ministration was developed. Bui iio par
ti zan, however blind, would dare to write
the infamous falsehood upon Ids tomb.—
And Martin Van Buren—where is lie ?
“Where has he been, and what bailie
be- n doing ? ‘ What is lie now ? Free ho
mo! Henry Clay was denounced as an ab
olitionist and as untrue to the South.—
Will any Democrat now dare say that this
was not a falsehood as to Mr. Clnv ?
Jy the subsequent eulogies of that j
party they have acknowledged that ;
they maligned and falsified Mr. Clay, j
They now consider it a stroke of partizan ‘
policy to praise him. Gen. Taylor was j
denounced as untrue to the South, !
though living in an extreme Southern State, ;
and owning a large number of slaves him
self. Will any Democfkt, now dare sav
that this charge against Gen. Taylor was 1
true. The blood of the patriots that he I
led to glorious (h ath and joyous victory
upon the fields of Mexico, would cry from ;
tlieir ground against the party that would |
now sully the memory of the honest old pa- j
triot by such a charge. Gen. Scott, hear- !
ing upon his body scars under
both Northern and Southern suns, in de
fence of his country, and born in a South
ern State, was thus denounced. Millard j
Fillmore, the policy of whoso administra- !
tion proved the falsehood of the charge, :
was denounced in like manner. Although
he had furnished proof of its falsity in ad- :
vance, yet, the Democratic party did not j
blush to repeat the charge when he was a
candidate for the Presidency.
William Henry Harrison, Henrv Clay,
Zachery Taylor/ Winfield Scott, Millard ‘
Fillmore, stand up! Democratic party
look on these men ! Can any land or ag- i
boast a nobler band of patriots ? Would
not Borne, in her palmiest days, liave de
lighted to number them among herjeweds ?
And yet, when tney stood in yom; way H
the accursed spoils of power, you denoune- ’
ed them as abolitionists and as untrue to I
one-half of that confederacy whose history
their lives illustrated and adorned. If a
long career of crime and injustice has mm
destroyed the virtue to blush, your check
rvould certainly be crimson on beholding
before you the illustrious men wo- w char
acters your life has been devoted in ma
ligning.
That same party is to day denouncing:
John Bell as an abolitionist and as untrue
to the South, because tliev think lie stand
in their way to power. Let *Mr. Bell look ■
at the distinguished company in which the
denunciations of the Democratic pun tv
piace him—Harrison, Clay, Taylor—the
reveled and immortal dead ! Scott and
k ilhuore—the illustrious
the Democratic party pay Mr. Beil a high
er compliment ? But, liotv strange that
they should expect the people to believe an
j old charge that has become so Morn from
use that it looks seedy—so stale that it
stinks. To charge Abolitionism upon
their opponents has become a disease with
; the Democratic party, and has now assu
med a iironic form. It’s a quadrenial lie
j 808 ‘•'<? bound to tell and they tell it
: with as much sang froid as if they had not
I been caught in it repeatedly, and forced to
acknowledge it. Their presumption .is
confidence in the guillibility
>of people unbounded and their shame
leiA bvnfiniciice unparalleled.
course of the party reminds us ot
thafisugg'-sted the heading of
■ mis article. _ Two bothers —one of “them, i
nmjJ a distinguished gentleman of this
State, and the other a little Vss distin
guished in an adjoining State —had a ne
gro who took it into his head that he ought
to preach: The church appointed a time
j for Sawnv to preach his trial sermon.—
; caiwny applied to ins young masters to
help him out of the /"gyi. Being young
! men of education mvu • TomplLlimi us,
they prepared S.iwny a pretty fine sermon,
which ho memorised well. The appointed
time came, Sawny mounted the pulpit and
let oft’ his sermon to the astonishment of
the c mgregatjou and the admiration of
the Church, borne were forgiving him a
license right away, but others thinking
that Sawny had done rather too well, re
fused, and they finally agreed to appoint
another time for Sawny to preach. Sawny
said nothing to his young masters during
the week, but when the next Sabbath Tol
l'd around, the time appointed for the
preaching of his second trial sermon, lie
mounted the pulpit, took a different text,
but preached exactly the same sermon.—
That evening his young masters meeting
him, asked him hew lie cauie/out in his
second trial. “Bless de Lord master I took
de same old track.” Saw ny thought if it
pleased the people once, he could just
change the text and please them again.—
Saumy reasoned like a Democrat, but xve
hope 1 there was more truth in his sermon
than there is in the same old negro ser
mons that the Democracy preach to the
people every four years.
Whatever else may be said of the De
mocracy, there is one party virtue that it
posseses in a degree that no other politi
cal organization ever approached. Weal
hid.- to us cool, unblushing effrontery ; and
the occasion for the remark is to be found
in the Appeal of yesterday.
‘‘The opposition,” says that journal “to
the Democracy, is a motley crewj ringed,
streaked, and striped as were Jacob’s cat
tle.”
r faken altogether, this is the richest cx
hibition of the season. It comes from a
paper that has for months been engaged in
proving the entire harmony of the Democ
racy by waging active war upon a Demo
cratic organ in the same city. At least,
the ]■! asant recreation in which it has been
engaged, would he construed into liostili
ties, in any other but the Democratic camp.
It is tiie* organ of a party, represented, in
the Congress of the United States, hy
Senor Otero, a Spanish Catholic : Benja
min, a West Indian Jew; and Shields, an
Irhh Protestant. A harmony of race and
of a hgion that, is not easy to excel. Itusthe
organ of a party whose President and Sec
retary are at open variance upon one of the
must important- questions of governmental
ppiicy. The organ of a party whose mem
bers agree upon no • one thing save an
equal avidity for the spoils. Bigler and
his wing, are the zealous advocate* of a
tariff tor protection. Hunter and his v ing,
pronounce it unnconstitutional. The a
grarian, Johnson, of Tennessee, sits cheek
by jowl with the aristocratic Hammond.
Stewart, and the Northwestern Democra
cy in a'body’ are the warm advocates of
the wildest system of internal improve
ments. Toombs, and the South-eastern
Democracy, bitterly oppose just and nec
essary appropriations tor works of nation
al importance. Douglas maintains the
the doctrine of absolute sovereignty in the
people of a Territory, and Jeff. Davis de
n unces i as worse than the Wilrnot Pro
viso. Blight advocates the right of un
nai uraided tfifr-igr*er? to vote in elections,
auf t>rovn utterly disclaims it as a Dem
ocratic p inciple-. The Governor, of South
Carolina recommends there-opening the
African ilave trade, and a DeimicmtieCon
gress vote it unwise and iniquitous. ’ Mr.
Bovce advocates free trade and direct tax
ation. Ur. Florence regards the origin- ‘
a: rofsjicha proposition as a madman, i
Mr. Cubing h lieves that our maritime j
strengthjdep.-nds upon a continuance of
the fish fig bounties, and Air. Clay pro-,
‘ vein a monstrous imposition up
on otlui industrial pursuits. Wm. L.
livi is time pretty
tween Insulations of the Democracy, and
the organization of Southern Leagues ; in
dulging himself in an occasional episode to
prove that the Nashville Union in the up
holder of an Abolition Professor in the
Lebanon Law School. Mr. Soule aids and
encourages lillibuster enterprises, and J udge
Campbell does his best to imprison the
whole batch from Walker down. ‘ Mr. Eng
lish makes a compromise of the Kansas is
sue, goes home and repudiates it, and comes
hack to Congress an.unchanged Democrat.
Martin Van Buren votes the Democratic
ticket, and John Cochrane has become an
oracle among the faithful. J ames C. J ones
makes Democratic speeches, Preston is
appointed a Democratic Minister, and
Clii-igman fillra Democratic chair in the
Senate. The publisher of the Washingti ->
Union is elected Public Printer by a Dem
ocratic Congress, and : lie editor of the
States charges him with stealing an hun
dred thousand dollars of the public money.
We could fill a‘ volume wißi similar” in
stances but those are enough to show that
there is no shade or variation of religion,
law, race, politics or -knavery, that does not
find a home in the bosom of the great Dem -
ocratic party. —Memphis Eagle de Enquir
er.
From the “Washington Stales’.
Tiie KeecptioxTof lion. James L.
Orr, at New York.
Hon. James L. Orr was reeci\ r ed in the
j city-of New York, yesterday, hy his friends
at the Chambers of tiie; Board of Alder
; men. A large concourse of citizens as
sembled to greet this distinguished South
o o
ern Representative. At the time appoint
| ed he made his appearance in the room,
J and was greeted with great applause. Af
ter order was restored the Mayor made a
few complimentary remarks in behalf of
the city, expressive of the feelings which
the citizens of New r York entertained to
wards him as a man and Reprcpresen
tative, and the high official position
which he occupied in tiie Councils of our
national Union, in reply to which Mr. Tin
made the following remarks :
Mr. Mayor, and Gentlemen of the Com
mon Schools : I avail myself of this occa
sion to make my acknowledgments to you
for your kindness, consideration and cor
dial greeting and reception. I am . urc I
am indebted fin- it much more to the lfi di
official position I occupy than to any mer
it of my own ; and I am glad this is so,
too ; I am glad there is a responsive chord
in the hearts of the people of New York
to the government, its institutions and Its
officers. - There is a conservatism in poli
tics in New York which has characterized
her from the very organization of 1 lie gov
ernment down to the present time ; I trust
it may continue. This is the great city of
New York—one single night of depres
sion—one single night of revolution in any
part of this country would cause that mag
nificent commerce which spreads over and
enriches and ennobles the Union- sin
gle night of anarchy or revy 1 \
cause that commerce to withe
stroyed. I trust that that cc .1
may continue to exist, and thru
tion to the Union as it was n t: mr
fathers may continue, and tliate , .1 and
South, East and V est, may oe aiv.a .> aide
here within the walls of the City Councils
of New York to receive the*: kindliest and
most cordial greeting. 1 thank you again
for your consideration in tend- rUg to me
this distinguished honor.
After the speech, the Mayor intro weed
to him a large number of citizens.
deflator Hunter is already announced as
the prominent Administration candidate
for the Charleston nomination. I? is even
positively stated that the President himself
declared Mr. Hunger to be the only man
worthy to succeed him ?
If that is the only recommendation Mr.
flfinter Ims of being the only man worthy
to succeed Mr. Buchanan, he would be bet
ter without than with it, for to he worthy
as he is worthy, is tantamount to saying
that Kq is n'nworthy, for he has been
“weighed in the balance and found want
! •’ holdii
presidential scales of 1860, will exhibit to
the world the estimate in whi -h Democra
cy is held by the people of the United States,
for that scale is destined to kick the beam!
When Presidents select their successors, it
is time for the people to let it be known
that they have a voice- in the selection.
The peojde M ill select the man whom they
wisli to rule over them. Tim Presid* nt
need not trouble himself.— Wadcsboro’
Argun,
H P Bas # 8 .
Faun g,. Mon;wini( ry Mail,
A Duel in Jotttiik.
” They have been all bound over,” was
tho remark ed a gentleman as we entered
the room where we were sitting with a ster
ling old boulder from the primitive forma
tion of Virginia, t’ol. Jack D .
“Ah,” said the old gentleman, “that's
always the way, now-a-aavs. Men black
guard’each other in the ri’ -v-o.noers : they
challenge one another—tin-ir ifi. n*h take
the ease in hand without being ftfked. If
the} can t settle the difficulty gom* one
gives information, and the parties are
over ; then they go abroad to tight, tjod
the telegraph and police interfere anti pre
i vent it/’
We remarked that a man must be very
unlucky, if he should be killed in spite of
all these humane interventions, with the
additional advantage of bad shooting and
good doctoring.
“ Yes, sir ; they tuk© us much pains to
prevent a duel now, as they used to do ttf
j see fair pfay” ‘ *%.
I “ llow were such things arranged in
your day, Colonel ?”
“ Very ditferent, sir ; very different. .All
was peace and civility. If men talked,
they had to answer, and it made them
careful what they said ’’
“ Colonel/’ saida friend, “tell us about
I the dm 1 with the Scotchman.”
“ Oil, you want to turn everything into
a joke. 1 shan’t tell you.”
“ Here, boy, till these glasses with port
julep. You know’ the Colonel’s mixture.-
Nov,-, i’olonel, toll us alt about it.” Wo
joined in the request, and the julep hav
ing proved to the old gentleman’s taste,
j smile lit his benevolent countenance.
“ Well, 1 can’t refuse you. It will go
to show that in the days 1 was talking of
we loved lair play and no interruption.
“ I had an own cousin—he was a lawyer,
(die clay lie insulted a Scotch storekeeper,
who had got to he a magistrate. The
Scotchman didn’t resent it, and the gen
tlemen on the. bench with him, agreed that
if he permitted it to pass without resent
ing it, they would cut his acquaintance. —
Tins r< solution was made known to him
next- (lay by a Committee, one of whom, ‘
('<>!. B. W.—you must have heard of him ?
—swore that if lie didn’t horsewhip ht?f.
man, he would never buy anything at his
s(ore, or borrow’ another dollar of his mon
ey. The Scotchman put himself into their
hands ; they instructed him to attack this
young lawyer, and then they all dined with
him and played 100, and drank juleps un
til near morning, and then went home. —
The Scotchman, according to promise,
went to the Court House and attacked the
lawyer with a horsewhip. Our side WAS
now up in arms. My cousin challenged
the Scotchman, and it was accepted. We
went to work practising our man. I was.
hut about twenty, and I had to run the
bullets, set up the target, and give the
word. We used to go out in the
and they sent our dinner to us, and
night the old man. my father—ho was
a Justice of the Peace— used to ask mo,
“ Well, Jack, how does Billy get oft ?” —
Os course I used to say, “ very well, sir/
bn it was not true, for my cousin shot
worse and worse every day. At length I.
was sent to see old Light Horse Harry, to
get his pistols—”
“Old who ? interposed a bystander.
“Light Horse Harry, sir ! W here wore
you raised, not to know who he was ? Yeti’
must be ad and Scopanker, sir—”
We hastened to explain that itwaaO-ei*
eral Harry Lee, of the 11 evolution. Tkw
querist apologised—the Colonel was satis
lied, took a drink and went on.
“ I was sent with a servant, sir, a body
servant, and a portmanteau, sir, as high as
his ears. No gentleman traveled in those
davs without a portmanteau.”
“W 1 lether lie had anything to put in it
or not,” broke in Ben, who could not resist
< ven at the expense of his countrymen.
“i’< u are a degenerate dog, and I shall nol notiae
your interruption, sir,” rallied the old man. “1 ro4e
iili i)5 1: f and got to old Light Hon e Harry’s aboutsun
up. 1 hailed the lion e, hut got no answer for some
tune, except the balking of dogs. At last an old ne
gro woina*) ‘ a.me to the corner of the house, and asked
my name and business. I told her both. It was not
long then till the front door opened and old Light
Horse i -in e out; he had on red flannel drawers, rfe
asked after my father, and apologise.? for fief coming *
out, saying. ‘ The and and Deputy .Sheriffs had an exe
cution agnii t him, and 1 e thought at firs! I was one
of them. 1!“ then go’ <ut his pistols andhanded"them
to n r v.'i h : much care as if they had been children.
He cau'. i:"l nr n>t o lot them gi'twet, andnot to run
my 1 n,:e . <ui of ‘store lead.’ ‘Get you,’ said he,’
some i let and m uhl y< ur la!!:—they will be more
: >.i 1 and heavle.'. With that we parted, and 1 went
1 ack home.”
” Hut the du Colonel, let us hear about the duel!”
st id Ben. •
“Let u > tike a p epantory drink,” I suggestea.—
This was c’u'y performed.
‘ The day v.'.. es. re mil'd the Colonel, “and the
me:i v. ore 1. fight on tl;e giound. There was a select
com si ‘. Genth ti • in lull dress—none of your
and 1 i lice. Win :i the men were jilaced. I called
oir ‘ m .1 on th ■ other side, first blood, torn
:lv ■ .‘l..g < .v.l cl punch !’ 1 did that to encourage
my man, sir.”
it! kit would ha - “had a different effect on me,”
said the Irrepressible Vn.
Th“ ■ and mati - in. .cd him with a !sofc, but smllad
and we.u on.
• ii i pist Is v.ctelo ded —the word gitcn—n4 tft
!i . ti'.“ S’ ofc!i a bellowed lik • a bull, kfy
n i “and. >ly man was delighted. * liaA
i’ u id. ■ kaid fe. ‘l’ll get him next lith#/
• V id <1 s age. said 1 ‘don’t y< n see the man's
and ! W.. hi J ,-ee v.hnt i- the matter;’ eo 1 want
it 1 t.a.do :de i tt;:l n iiirv. The second told me
!)•• ‘ i ‘ t. 1 never km w till then that man•
i Vo i , t hi big toe; but 1 suppose it's the
ii. - l.i :d hit the 9cot< liman on (he shin,
o :■.>). i- . ,V. and < u off the point nf his toe as
j .ic • if \on li: I it with a chi.-el. It was thA
tii.:.ie liisn !;;t. ■ ■o. But that ended it. I won the
punch. We laid afi ■ lie that lasted a week, and 1 nev-*
• j.. Jo!a <1 1 j lice officer or constable fremt
Ji:st to last of the whole matter.”
A wit and a fool in company arc like a
crab an an oyster ; tbe one watches till
flio otl.cr opens Ins mouth, that he may
eat him up.-
Number 9.