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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 24, I860.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
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R- L. Hunter. Secretary Executive Dept.
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2. D. Harrison, Messenger.
STATE HOUSE OFFICERS.
N. C. Barnett, S' c’y of State Sc Surveyor Gen.
J. T. Burns, Comptroller General.
John Jones, Treasurer.
J. G. Montgomery, Librarian.
Jesse Horton, Capt. State House Guard.
Judiciary.
Judges of Supreme Court —Jos. H. Lumpkin,
Iverson L Harris, Dawson A. Walker.
Hi porter. — L. E. Bleckley.
Clerk.—C. W. Dubose.
Deputy Clerk.—F. G. Grieve, office at Milledge-
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Penitentiary.
W. C. Anderson, Principal Keeper.
C. G. Talbird. Assistant Keeper.
A. M. Nisbet, Book Keeper.
Rev. F. L. Brautly, Chaplain.
Lunatic isylum.
Dr T. F. Green, Supt. and Resident Physician.
Dr. T. O. Powell, Assistant Physician.
City Government.
T. F. Newell, Mayor.
Peter Fair, Clerk.
P Ferrell, Marshal.
Auctioneers —White & Wright.
Aldermen.—F. Skinner, F. G. Grieve. A. W.
Callaw ay. Win. Caraker, Walter Paine, C Vaughn.
Sexton.— Thomas Johnson.
Post Master.—W. E. Qnillian.
founty Officers.
B. P. Stubbs. Clerk Superior and Inf r Courts.
John Strother, Sheriff.
John Hammond, Ordinary.
S H Hughes, Tax Receiver.
L. N Callaway, Tax Collector.
I T. Cushing, Coroner..
Jas. C. Whitaker, Surveyor.
Justices /nferivr Court —I)r. G- D. Case, O. P.
Bonner. B. B. deGraffeniieo, A. W. Callaway, W.
H. Scott.
County Court.
Judge—T. W. White.
Solicitor—T F Newell.
Religious Denominations.
Presbyterian Church—Rev. Wni. Flion, Paator,
Methodist “ —Rev. G. W. Yarborough.
Pastor.
Baptist Church—Rev S E Brooks. Pastor.
St. Stephen’s Church—unfilled at present.
Lodges.
Benevolent Lodge No. 3, F. A. M.—B. B. de-
Graffeuried. V/. M.
Time of Meeting—1st A" 3rd Satur. ot each mo-
Temple Chapter No 6—O. V Brown, H. P.
Time of meeting—2d & 4th Saturdays.
[From the New York Knickerbocker.]
TRIE TO THE LAST.’’
[We give the following pathetic verses to onr read
ers. preiuisii g {hat they were written upon an inci
dent which occurred in the last battle of one of the
author’s friends. Having r foreboding of his fate, he
penciled on the plating of the scabbard the name of his
lady love, and the words. “In the face of death my
thoughts are thine.” A faithful comrade removed
from his body and bore to the weeping maiden this
sad token of his constancy. Colonel W. Stewart Haw
kins, of Tennessee, is one of the most chivalrous and
accomplished gentlemen of the South, and though a
foeman, lie has won the esteem of his opponents on
the field, and his captors while iu poison, by his noble
aud manly spirit, his gallant and generous bearing
He is very youthful, and with the enthusiasm of his
years, seems to unite in himself the literary tastes of
Sidney, the valor of Bayard, and the eudurunee of
Rode< ick.J
The bugles blow the battle call.
And through the camp each stalwart band,
To-day his berried columns forms.
To tight for God snd native land !
Brave men are marching by my side.
Our banners finating glad and free,
But yet ai.iidst. tlie brilliant scene
I give my ihougbts to thee !
Asked we, ‘the reverberating cogno
men to which we respond ?’
Said she, ‘Yes.’
Said we, “ ‘Brick’ Pomeroy.”
Then she asked ns of our Western
home. She wanted to know what State
Illinois was in, and if Wisconsin was in
the first or second ward of La Crosse.
And she wanted to know if he had any
young ones in the West. We told her
not any yet!
WIT AND JI'STlt'E IN NIIVMOt RI.
It is well known that some of tin
judges in Missouri are very reluctant
to enforce the law against ministers
of the gospel for exercising their pro
fession without having taken the test
oath, and avail themselves of every
pretence to discharge tfioSe Who are
accused. We tell the following tale
Then she wanted to know as it^was told to us, vouching for noth-
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Of tlie Ciiy of Milledgeville.
Grocery and Provision Stores.
T A CARAKER. Agt., Gioceries, Hardware,
Alc.—old staud of Scott de Caraker.
OKINNER Sc WALLS—Store recently occu
O pieil by W. H. Scott.
W S- STETSON & BRO., at old stand of D.
• B. Stetson.
VI7ALKER Ac JOHNSON, in Fort’s Brick
TT Bunding.^
W RIGHT <fc BROWN, opposite Milledgeville
Hotel.
I > KOOKS & MOORE, Hancock mi., (Jas. Duncan's
lJ old stand.)
M. EDWARDS, Wayne at.
I EFPERS & VAUGHN, 1st door south of Tele-
el graph office.
Pittman a perry, w«yne »t.
ik J. GREEN, opposite Milledge.ville Hotel.
Dry Goods.
JPJOWARD I INfcLEY—under Newell’s Hall.
J OSEPH Sc FASS—3rd door Milledgeville Ho
tel.
ROSENFIELD & BRO.—4th door Mii-
ledgeville Hotel.
ISC’liOF Ac MONHEIMER—5th door Mil-
ledgeville Hotel.
W G. LANTERMAN, Dry, Fancy and Mil-
• linery Goods, opposite Milledgeville Hotel.
M RS. G. LEI KENS, Fashionable Milliner
and Dress Maker.
yjyf BARNETT—Clothing and Dry Goods.
Druggists.
Ac MAFP, 1st door Milledgeville
The horsemen dashing to and fro—
The drums with wild and thunderous roll—
The sights and -ouuds—all thingsthat tend
To kindle valor in the soul;
These all are here- -but in the maze
Of squadrons inovc-d With valiant glee !
Still true to every vow we made,
I give my thbbghts to thee.
The deep booms smite the troubled air.
Eaeh throb proclaims tin*, foeman near,
And faintly echoed from the front,
I hear my gallant comrades cheer,
Wild joys-of henies marching on
Through blond their glorious land to free !
I give to freedom here my life—
But all my iltoughts to thee !
And yet, beloved, I must not tliink
What undreamed bliss may soon be thine.
It would unii.nu me iu tlie woik
Ofguurding well our country’s shrine,
Here on this sWorH I write my truth ;
These words shall yet l by solace l»e,
They’ll tell how iu this last fierce hour
J gave my thoughts to thee.
Along the East the holy morn
Renews file's many cares and joys;
This horn ] hope some wish for me
Thy pure and tender prayers employs,
Another beauteous dawn ot fight
These eyes alas may never see;
But even dying, faint and maimed,
I aiill would think of thee.
And tlieu in coming years that roll,
When scenes of peuce and brightness tliroDg,
And ’round each happy hour is twined
The wreaths ot friendehip.love and song,
Goto the grave whose heart was thine,
And by that spot a mourner he—
One tear for him iliy loved and lost,
Whose last thoughts clung to thee !
ONE IF BRICK PO.TIEROY’S BEST.
HE FINDS A BOSTON SWEETHEART.
if the Mississippi river had eels in it. We
told her nay. And she wanted to know if
the people out in that barbarous region
wore clothes every day, or only wnen
they went sparking. And she warned to
know if they spanked or feruled young
sters in schools. And she wanted to know
if women dressed in bearskins or tilting
hoops, which we suppose are all the same!
And she wanted to know if we had news
papers, and could read and write, and had
ever heard of Anna 1/ickinson. And she
wanted to know if it waa not terrible liv
ing so far from Boston !
Then we caressed her and kissed her so
sweetly. And she twined the eel skins
in garlands, and wreathed them about our
j neck as.she sat there in maiden medita
tion, fancy free; like a box of No. 11
; b< ots. Tnen we said :
I ‘Oh, Betsey Jerusha ! thou hast spoken
; est with wisdom. I will converse thee,
' elastic nymph. I am a barbarian. We
; are all barbarians in the West. 1 am an
! ignorant but well meaning whelp. We
' are all ditto in the West; 1 wear a bear
skin in the West; we are all ditto in that
country. We have no houses, but live
intently without them as ’twere. We
have no carriages for either male or female
so called. But I can love thee. I can
bold thee to mine own. 1 will surround
thee with all the luxuries we have in that
land of darkness, for the sun never rises
in the West !’ Said Betsey, as she play
fully slang the hide off from another con
quered eel, ‘Dt« tell /’
1 wanted information, and thus we dia
logued :
‘My Betsey Jerusha, has much of pa
rents V
‘Yes, Briknel, I have two parents, and
four ante parents.’
‘What didst they do?’
‘My ma taught school and skinned eels,
and my father was an eel catcher and a
silver-tongue politician.’
I 'llnm mall 17 hnvH can voil spank in
J
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I found her in Boston. Betsy Jerusha | ‘How many boys can you 6pank in a
Jones—in three volumes illustrated. I , day ?’
thirsted for intellect; I hungered for beau- : ‘I have spanked twenty-seven in an
ty. I ached for cliaims. I required a hoar, and it wasn’t a good hour for span-
gentle being with a mind like horse bil- king either.’
liards to guide me through this vale of j ‘And eels ! How many eels cans t thou
steers. 1 went to Boston to find my love; peel in & day. Tell me, thon educator of
I found her. She was a school teacher, I the world.’
who drew seven dollars a month for span j ‘Well, now, that is a pretty right smart
king the rule of three intoth * vulgar frac- * of a question ! 1 guess I kin skin Fix a
tions confided to her charge, and for ad minute. I skin era and sling ’em over
ding accomplishments as ’twere to the my shoulder into that are tub. and kin
result of others’ multiplication !—figu j keep one in the air all the time, like a
rately speaking. After school was dis- : cow’s tail in fly time, and I ain t much of
banded, for the day, we walked out to a skinist nuther.’
the beach. Birch Ty day, and beach by l ‘Hoes it hurt the eels ?’
night. * “Why of course it kills the eels !
My love w’as beautiful. She was of that is his fault. If he’d had his
the New England type. She was pure '■ tother side out twouldn t liert em any
itanical. Thus worshipped I her the would have slid oft itself! It s our
most beautiiulest ant in the sugar bowl, doctrine in New England to have things
And she made both ends meet by skin- ' conform to onr notions, even if the eels
ningeels. She was a most exalted and [ don’t like it. 1 on see this is the hub
triumphant eel skinnist. The Massachu- j and the eels have no rights which we, the
setts girls teach school and skin rels for skinners, are bound to respect ! and into
market. Said I, ‘Betsy, if it’s not a skin j the air she playfully tossed another yard
too much, let me go ont with thee and aid i of subdued, quivering agony!
ing :
Three ministers charged with the
crime of preaching ‘the glorious gos
pel ot the Son of God,’ were arraigned
before a judge. They wt^e regularly
indicted, and it was understood that
the proof against them was very
clear.
‘Are you a preacher ?’ said the judge
to oue of them..
‘Yes, sir.’ replied the culprit.
‘To what denomination do you be
long V
•I am a Christian, sir.” [With dig
nity.]
‘A Christian ! What do you mean
by that ?’ Are not all preachers
Christians V
‘I belonged to the sect usually call
ed, but wrongly called, Campbellites.’
[Not so much dignity.]
‘Ah ! then you believe in baptizing
people, in order tbat they may be born
again, do you V
‘No, sir.” [DeGantly.]
‘Mr. Sheriff, discharge that man !—
He is an innocent man ! He is indict
ed for preaching the gospel, and there
isn’t a word of gospel iu the stuff that
he preached ! It’s only some of Alex-
ader Campbell’s nonsense. Discharge
the man!’
‘Are you a preacher?’ said the judge,
addressing the next criminal.
•I am sir,’ said the miscreant.
‘Of what denomination are you ?’
‘I am a Methodist, sir.’ [His looks
showed it.]
*Do you believe in falling from
grace ?’
‘I do sir.’ [Without hesitation.]
IMatkrra Wcara.
Forney in tbe biUtiness of bis hate, in
the intensity of his malignity to the Sonth
and everything belonging to it, never let
slip an opportunity of misrepresenting,
vilifying and slandaring her people.
Like the great captain be so much ad
mires, he spares neither age, sex, Dor con
dition, and ejects the loose expectoration
of his foul talk as readily upon a woman
as upon the lowest of his own associates
who may chance to raise his ire. We
have a specimen of this in a recent arti
cle in the Philadelphia Press on “Southern
Women,” in which an attempt is made to
hold those up to public contempt and scorn
a« “creators of strife and begetters of end
less woe.” But, as tbe prophet of old
found himself unable to curse whom God
had not cursed, and blessed those whom
he was sent for to overwhelm with his
maledictions, so the railingsof this inde
cent and shameless reviler of everything
that is noble, honorable and of good re
port, becomes a tribute to the lofty virtues
of those noble women.
Speaking of tbe conduct of tbe women
of the South during the war, Forney tbns
shows np their iniquities : “Between the
roar of the ftr»t gun and the shriek of the
last victim they displayed an idomhable
energy, a fertility of resource, a boundless
enthusiasm, a contempt fot danger, a ha
tred to the North and a devotion to the
South which fouud no parallel among the
sternest who mounted the deadly breach
or aimed the deadlier shot. If a political
meeting was called and only three atten
ded, oue was a woman; Tf praises, prayers
and blessings were required, women per
formed the pleasing duty, with a feeling
and pathos that were exceeded in fervor
only by the curses they showered on their
opponents and faint-hearted countrymen;
from the beardless youth to the gray-hair
ed sire, there was aono able to resist their
graciousness, their charms, their smiles,
their tears, their loves, but above all their
scorn; sarcasm and contempt.”
It never has been the habit of the wo
men of the South to attend political meet
ings, and we have never heard that they
did so during the war. But the other
charges brought against them are true—
to their immortal honor be it said. The
fervent love of country, the devotion to
principle, the unaffected piety, tbe gene-
But
skin on
1
‘Do you believe in sprinkling peo- j rous self-sacrifice, the cairn courage, the
pie, instead of baptizing them?’ ! womanly tenderness, the unflinching for-
‘I believe that people can be bap- i they exhibited whenever circum-
tized by sprinkling.’ [Much offend- i provoked their exercise, which
e{ j -l 1 ° , this man Forney imputes as crimes to the
"-L , ..... , 1 women of the South will form their crown
‘Do you believe in baptizing ba-, of glory in lhe age8 t0 come And loDg
. ... . i after Forney shall have gone down
It i8 my Opinion, 8ir, that infants j ‘Tothe vile dust from which he sprung,
ought to be baptized.’ [Indignantly.]' Unwept, nnbonored, and unsung,”
‘Not a word of Scripture for any- ! Poetry and Art shall combine to do honor
ind, sir !’ shouted his 1 to the memory of that splendid sisterhood
—the “Women of the South.”—N. Y.
loose! He is no preacher of the Gos
pel ! The Gospel is the truth, and
there isn’t a word of truth in what
that man teaches! Turn him loose !
It’s ridiculous to indict men on such
frivolous pretenses 1
thing of the kind
Honor. ‘Mr. Sheriff, turn that man
JVeirs.
Results of Advertising —Among the
three or four hundred London house*
which must soon be cleared away in the
neighborhood of Temple Bar—the site
Turn him loose !’ J being required for the new Temple of Jua-
Methodist disapp ars, not at all hurt j tice—is that in which “Holloway,” of pill
in his feelings by the judicial abuse he ; and ointment celebrity, carries on his ope-
N ICIIOLS
Hotel.
C LARK Sc
tionery.
HERTY—Drugs, Books and Sta-
D‘‘
Dentist.
If. A. BARNWELL.—Office over
Store of W. S. Stetson & Bro
the
Gr.
Hardware and Tin Shops.
JOSEFli STALEY.
1 4 T. WINDSOR—Tin and Harnesn Manufac-
• turer Ac Repairer & house furnishing goods.
Confectioners.
W T. CONN—Family Groceries, Confection-
• ery and Fancy Articles.
LEI KENS—Confectioneries, Lager Beer,
&.C., Acc.
Retail of Liquors.
T i N. CALLAWAY—at his old stand.
M G. LYNCH, Bar Room and Bowling Sa-
. loon.
Hotels.
W ASHINGTON HALL—Hancock street.—
N. C. Barnett.
M ILLEDGEVILLE HOTEL—S. & R. A
McComb.
Buggy and Wagon Shops.
lI r M. & J. ff. CARAKER—opposite Federal
IT Union office.
Southern Express.
W T. CONN, Agent—Office at Conn’s Va
riety Store.
Printing Offices.
O OUTIIEK RECORDER—K. M. Oime Sc Son.
F EDERAL UNION—Boughton.Nisbet, Barnes
and Moore.—Cor. Hancock Ac Wilkinson at*.
Harness and Saddles.
E J. IlOGUK—1st door McCombs’ old Ho-
. tel.
Note.—Merchants aud Business men of the city
whose names do not appear in this Directory can
have their business published by calling on us, at
the Federal Union office.
EAT0NT0N HOTEL,
T HE Subscriber has opened the Ea
ton Hotel lor the accommodation
of tbe public Travellers and my fnen.s l j
are invited to give me a call. Dae H " n .
kept in readiness for Madison m^nn^ EN
with cars. ^ q *qt
Sept 27, 1865.
HR. M. BRUCE TALBIRH’S
O FFICE is in McComb’a old Hold, where he
can be found at all boura when not profes
fionaily engaged. 39
Milledgeville, April 27tb, 18#6.
J. W. RABUN & CO.,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
110 BAY STMET,
.SAVAXNAII. ga.
J. W. Rabun,
P. H. Wood.
April 24th, JB66. 30 tf
in thy toils, and see thee divest eel of cu
ticle.’ She had three hoops at regular in
tervals. She was a Massachusetts school-
marm. She was an old maid. She un
derstood all of Daboll but the multiplica
tion. She had never been on the multi
ply ! oh, no ! And she could skin eels
faster than the devil could catch a fid
dler !
By the beach we sat. She skinned
eels for the net. proceeds. We talked of
love aud sich. She listened to my tale.
She felt the moving of my plea—the
burning eloquence thereof, so called
Said 1.
‘Oh, Betsy, seein’ its yeou, it’s yeou, i
love yeou, I sweow. I would6t be thine.
I would share my cot, and
•Dream I sleep with thee, love.’
Wouldst be mine / I ain a stranger,
Betsy, 1 am not aged, hut on the contra
ry, am agile as those eel. I will offer thee
all I have. 1 would be thus to thee. 1
would crawl out of myself as those eel
crawl out of his undershirt in thy hands,
and be thine onlyist.
She took up another eel.
‘Oh, Betsey,’ said 1, as 1 laid partly
on the grass, partly in the lap of Betsey,
with the slickery tails of the eels tickling
my nose, ‘were you ever caressed by
mortal V She said no, and looked side-
wise.
She took another eel.
I then caressed her. She said,
‘1 raise the Lord, but that is the first
kiss ever mortal man gave me.’
I asked her if she liked it ? She said
it war better nor spanking a young nn,
orskinnin a big eel. She said she liked
school teaching. It was better than a
gymnasium. She said kissing was better
than skinnin eels. When a Massachu
setts girl says that, you may, with the
lambs on the hills, gamble that she liketh
it with vehement muchness.
The pale moon slid along over onr head
just as easy ! It seemed to skin itself
from under the fleecy clouds, as those
eels skinned themselves from the fingers
ot my Betsey Jerusha. It sat me to
thinking she was something heavenly like
the moon. Only she was a little plumper.
It was a new moon. Newer than Betsey,
and a little slimmer. I conversed with
Betsey She had a little knife, like a
shoe-knife. I » ould have thought her h
shoemaker if she had carried a cobbler’s
kitten and a wax end. But she didn’t
She skinned eel*, chawed spruce gum and
talked love Said she :
• WLat is your name ?”
on purpose!
she’d be mine, so called,
Says we—
‘Do you skin ’em for fun or for profit ?’
Betsey said it was for both. There
was money in it, and it was fun to see
them squirm, for ihey liad no business to
be eels, and to come to New England in
the spring and fall for what they wanted.
And thus Betsey taught me to love. Gen
tle, Christianized Betsey !
And I kissed her. And I hugged her
there and then. Aud 1 told her she should
be happy. And that she should have eels
to skin forever. That I’d have one made
! Then she smiled and said
if I d agree to
find her in eels; to find young ones for her
to spank, to let her come once a year to
see the big organ and rock her baby in
the cradle of liberty; to let her kiss every
nigger she s.*iw; to let her 6pend half her
time in peddling tracks and making flan
nel shirts for babies in Africa, and would
do my best to extend the blessed gospel
and the likeness of Ben Butler in the be
nighted region beyond the hub.
I consented to all she wanted of me ex
cept the nigger. On that I was firrutn.
So was Betsey. She said ‘nigger or sin
gle blessedness.’ She said they were
pets. 1 told her I was a Democrat. Oh,
gracious! She straightened up till her
corsets snapped like a pistol! I thought
she had gone off ! Bat she hadn’t. She
was there yet. Said she, as she scrunch
ed an eel iu her hand and waved her peel
ing machine over her head :
•You a Democrat? Marry a Demo
crat? Go’way! Get eout! Don’t tech
me ! Ob, you great nasty Western man 1
Take your arm away from around my in
tellectual breast ! Oh, you great, ugly
Western he man ! I’d skin you like an
eel! Oh git eout! llise your hoary
locks from that ere lap. I’ll take my eels
and fly from your advances. Marry a
Democrat ? I’m no such woman ! Oh !
you great big, red-whiskered, grayliea’ded,
savage, unrefined, uncultivated, uueddi
cated, big, nasty, he mau! How dare
you talk to me. I’d die first, and then 1
wouldn’t!’ And she did as Joseph did
in tbe night and went off into Egypt, leav
ing me in a bed of eel skins. And now
I’m a gone nutmeg, a busted what-do you-
call-it. I’ve lost my Betsey Jerusha, and
must live in the West beyonu the eels and
school-marm charms of her 1 so adored,
tor us of the West are not of the eel-ite.
Thine, unskinned,
•Bkick’ Pomeroy.
had received
‘What are you, sir?’ said the judge
to the third feloo.
‘Some people call me a preacher,
sir.’ [Meekly.]
•What is your denomination?’
‘I am a Baptist.’ [Head up.]
His Honor’s countenance fell, and
he looked sober and sad. After a pause
he said:
‘Do you believe in salvation by
grace ?’
‘I do.’
‘Do you teach that immersion only
is baptism ?’
That is my faith and practice/
rations. A return has just been furnished
| to the city authorities as the foundation
of a claim for compensation, from which it
appears that the profits of tbe business for
the last three years amounted to between
d£30,000 and t £40,000. The sum paid
for advertising is over 6625,000 per amium,
and the staff of the establishment includes
two hundred women, whose sole duty is
to look after the advertisements, and see
tbat they are inserted as ordered.
Grandest bell in the World.—Dropped
by the burning of the tower which up
held it, at Moscow, this “king of bells”
was used afterwards as a chapel, the
tongue being its motionless altar. This
bell is two feet thick, twenty feet high,
‘My friend, I fear it will go hard and sixty-seven in circumference, weigh-
with you ; I see that you are indicted j ing four hundred thousand pounds. It
for preaching the Gospel, and it ap
peat 8 to me that by your own confes
sion you are guilty.
Baptist looked pretty blue.
‘May it please your honor,’said the
Baptist’s counsel, springingta his feet,
‘that man never preached the Gospel.
I have heard him say a hundred times
was computed to be worth more than $2,-
000,000, but has increased in value, ac
cording to American calculation. It is
the largest hell in the world, and its name
was Tear Rolokoi.
No man can avoid his own company, so had best
make it as good as possible.
Moss on Flower Pots.—Ladies
who are fond of cultivating flowers in
1 * , , • 1 1 u „ 1 ' the house, will find great benefit to the
that he only tried. I have heard him, , ° .. c
1 plants by spreading a coating of moss
‘Mr/sllerifi, discharge this man !- over the earth in their flower pota.-
He's indicted for trying! There’s ™is keeps the water from evapora-
nothing said about the mere effort!- f ,n *’ an £ the
Let him go. sir! Turn him loose!- f?™’ Tea grounds are often used for
Send him’ about his business ! lam! thc P ur r ,ose - he . re , a P°‘ 81ts
astonished that the State’s Attorney w,th a hole m the bottom
should annoy the Court with frivolous ; of tl,e P ot ,’ !’ ut a 1‘ttta »nd in the
J. \ canoor orrrl sw-.ir.air r+ JHOS8, and
indictments!’ 1
Exit Baptist determined to “try” j
again.
‘Court adjourned.’ j
‘God save the State and this Hon-;
orable Court!’ exclaimed the Sher-|
iff.
‘Amen!’ said the three preachers.
And after all, say we, as ridiculous
as the story may seem, it has a moral.
saucer and cover it with
you have a simple and admirable ar
rangement.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, July 16.
The Freedmen’s Bureau bill was put
on its passage in the House this morning,
after reading the President’s veto message,
and passed by the requisite vote—ayes
, „ - , - - . . • 103, nays 33. It was at once sent to the
It the State has a right to prohibit the | g enate an( j that body also passed it by a
preaching of the Gospel, it has a right | two-third vote. Ayes 33, nays 12. The
to decide what the Gospel is; and j bill is therefore a law.
when this is done, we have a national \
church, and the adulterous connection
between the church aud estate becomes
complete. _____
One of tbe lay n>eakera in tbe Alexandria Con
venticn, illustrated his readiness to fraternize with
the Northern brethren, and his feelings towards
them, by the story of “the two men tbat would
not speak to eaeh other; but oue having been ron-
verted at a camp-meeting, on seeing his former
enetn>, held out his haud, saying, “How d’>« do.
Kf.MP? I an* bumble enough to bhake hands with
» dog.” This brought down the house, from its
venerable President to tbe youngest person pres
ent.”
Amongst the “revivals” in England is
tbe old stage coach. There is a four-in
band which does the distance from Lon
don to Brighton daily, is-five hours, and
stage coaches are to be placed on several
of the roads in the South of England.
People patronize the Brighton one very
fairly, and it pays as a rival against the
rail.
Go not for every grief to the physician, for ev
ery quarrel to tbe lawyer, nor for every thirst to
tbe ale pot.