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Volume I. „ /riMC’ ‘ - ‘ ‘ UPSON PEL OT, is rriatsrfKW wkitY tha ns hay morn 1 - , t, - P • . .•'l'f(V k V r , - ■#;* Ng*s - —- %2r m Ay Xj ID , ’ j*fVU>r au*i 156u|pfetor. JA M fWR Ii . HOOD, -.’ ‘ A.., N TttWiGier. . -u., A - ; . . Terms of Subscription. •In JHlvanco, fur 1 year. - -.-- - - £2 00 ft payment be delayed 6 months, - - - 260 ,If delayed until the end of the year - - 800 Ratos of Advertising, iloilar per square often fines orJo**, and fifty cents lor t‘ad>.rt*b.M-qiif;|it insert*>n. <; • •, .... ; FrytosslVmaJ fafib, not • oxcetalbig ten lines, wfil be inserted 12 months for - . ! ,’ r- JLibgral contracts made with Merchants” &&d others ■Wishing t<> advertise by the year.*’ For Announcement of Candidate* $5, invariably in advance. - i , Mi'ni.a<os and Peaths inserted free, when accompa nied tiy tt responsible name. Obituaries ol over. 10 lines charged as Advertisements. ’•■ . Legal Advcrtlciug.. - Julies of Land.l and Haifto*'-. tyf iAtralore JS.V-. ecub >r* kn<t *V h uujjwnx, a*A><c aiined I dalasi- to be‘■held on ttig tlleliuVi’ s tV^,sS Hie ’ ‘ • 1 : ‘ ‘ 1 ■■■ • i> ‘it - nated. Notices of these sales must he given in a pub lic gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice for the sale of personal property must be yiven at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must’ be published forty days. Notice that application will ha made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published weekly for two month-.. Citations for Letters of Administration mivt be pub lished thirty days—for Dismission from Administration, monthly six months—for Dismission from Guauliau bhip, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must he published monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers for the full space of three months—for compelling ti- j ties from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always ho continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered, jit the following RATES: Citation on Letters of Administration, £2 50 “ Dismissory from Administration, (i 00 “ “ “ Guardianship, CSO Leave to sell Land or Negroes, 6 00 Sales of personal property, 10 days, 1 sq. 1 50 Sales of land or negroes by Executors, 8 50 Kstrays, two weeks, 1 50 Sheriir.s Sales. (50 davs, 5 00 “ “ 81) “ 2 50 S’i v ‘ Money smt bv mail is at the rhl; of the Editor. , provided, if the remittance miscarry, a receipt be ex hibited from the Post Master. PJR( > FESS I < )NAL OAT* DS. P. W. ALEXANDER, ATTORNEY AT TAW, THOM ASTON, OA. nov2R—ly JAMES w. GKEENIC” A T Ton K K V A T Ij aw . tuom aston; ga. novlß—ly. E. Waiuibx. C. T. Goode. WALKEN & GOODE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW; rutin', Houston uo., ga. hot IS—ts A. C. MOORE, 1) E N T IST, rfHSu\s;oN, (J.\. OFFICE at my House (the late residence of Mrs. iivk%) where 1 Diu prepared to atfmd to all glass es oil! otal Operations. My w ork is my Reference. • nuvlS —ts G. A. MILLKK, ArTOItNKY AT LAW, THOM ASTON, GA. Li SI N1 . ?s < • . s. GEORGE W. DAVIS, TUOMASTON, UPSON CO.. GA., 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. dec 2—2 m t o’ The Griffin papers, the Columbus Weekly En- W -ta a ' ld X oroer and Montgomery (Ala.) weekly Mail insert two months and -send on accounts Hardeman a griffin, Healers in Staple Dry Good.**-ami Groceries of every Description Corner of Cherry and Third Streets, , T MACON, GA. U j * htld call the attention of the Planters of Up lievi S<>n aiu * a 'd,joufin£ counties to the above Card, be s we can make it to their interest to deal with Ga., November 10.1853. nov2s—tf. A. s. brooks’ 7~ I dealer in Family TUOMASTON, GA., conßta, dly on hand a large stock of all kinds „ ,” samilysamily Groceries, Iron, Hollow Ware, &e., &e., „ Liquors for the afflicted. * Fruits and Ovstere iu season. tiov25 —ts t i . _ m t - . /■ Jfr i *■ i V* > SVfIENHAM ACRE. JNO. F. IV EE SOS. ACEE &. IVERSON, iiai uuisTs as and ciiE.msis, SIX OK GOLDEX EAgLK, €OLUM 15 US . GEOR GI A . DEALERS it, Fon-gu and DouvsHe I)rims. Meli ciiii'-.. I uoiiiic.i Amis. Finn Snij> Fine H.mi ainl ‘i-K.tii BruslioSj I’eiTuiliery, Trusses ami Shoulder Braces. Surgical ami Denial instruments, pure Wines and Liquors for Medicinal purposes, Medicine Ch?sts, Glass, l’aiuts, Oils, tarnishes, Dye Stuffs, Fancy and ioi.e: Articles, Fine Tobacco and Havana Sugars. Nc.. janC— ts. IPvQ-LO if U (0 t& Od- □ 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.