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VOLUME XLH.j
MIL LEDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 6,1871.
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BY MRS. L. VIRGINIA FRENCH.
This is a strange and daring book.
Its success will be as signal, and its
achievement of good as splendid, as
its heroism deserves.
It is the thrilling story of reclama
tion from vice of one woman by anoth
er. To achieve her purpose, the hero
ine in the disguise of male attire,
plunges into a palatial abode of vice
in New Orleans, and encounters perils
which would have overwhelmed a
weaker spirit. But she succeeds. The
brilliant young being who was endan
gered is happily rescued ere the blight
of sin had shed its bale upon her sou!.
Mrs. French has well executed a
difficult task. Hitherto . this gifted
woman, a resident of MeMinnville,
Term., has been known to the literary
world "only as a poet. For - the last
few years her poems have frequently
attracted the attention ol the public,
and she may safely be said to have
achieved, in that line, a national repu
tation. In the recent.elegant volume
edited by “Ida Raymond,” entitled
“ Living Female Writers of the South'’
Mrs. French occupies the most conspic
uous place among the litterateurs of
Tennessee. The biographical sketch
of her which appears there reveals
well the pure and philanthropic char
acter of the author, and sheds its light
on her lofty aim in the production of
“ My Roses.”
We should not be surprised if that
class of persons styled by Robert Burns
“The unco guid, or the rigidly right
eous” should indulge in much acetic
fault-finding over the volume b. fore us.
There are many in this imperfect world
of ours who shy so virtuously at what
St. Paul does indeed advise us gener
ally to “ avoid,” to-wit: “ the appear
ance of evil,” that they tumble blind
ly over the precipice of a real sin on
the opposite side of the highway :
Sin, in this, that they fail to snatch
lrom destruction the innocent who are
entering the threshold of ruin, and j
when a good word, ora helping hand, j
would rescue the falling—yea, even j
sometimes the fallen—from the pit!
“Every critic in art. from Aristotle
and Pliny—from Winkelman and Va
sari, to Reynoldsand Fuseli, has sought
to instruct the painter that nature is
not to be copied but exalted—that the
loftiest order of art, selecting only the
loftiest combinations, is the perpetual
struggle of Humanity to approach the
Gods.” This' exaltation and idealiza
tion of the commonplace is strikingly
visible in “ My Roses ;” and while it
records an extreme case, it presents
an extreme remedy: leaving the irre
sistible conclusion behind it that minor
modifications of the mischief demand
milder or different remedies; and that
a remedy, or an attempt at a remedy,
of a suitable kind to the particular case
in hand is a solemn duty which should
take the place of that scornful and un
womanly inhumanity which the selfish
ness of man has designedly implanted
in the breasts of the softer sex towards
their erring sisters.
“ My Roses” in its picture of the
gorgeous and empoisoned “ MasiOn
des Bijoux” presents a wonderfully ac
curate glimpse at one lamentable
phase of female life which has always
existed and perhaps always will exist.
Hitherto man has not only not effected,
but he has not really attempted to ef
fect a reformation. Man never will :
man ig pre-eminently a selfish being.
His Selfishness, and naught else, has
debarred woman from such attempt.
If, as the gifted authoress of/‘My
Rosts” remarks, reform ever reaches
those glittering yet fearful haunts, wo
man’s pure and brave heart must carry
it thither. How this may be done,
how varying means are to be adapted
to varying cases, we cannot here pause
to argue. “ My Roses” is not intend
ed to point out a common way. It
sefcks an extreme case for presentation,
as the sixth commandment in its Sinai-
tip thunder “ Thou shalt not kill,” em-
TO lOlTHERX TEACHERS AND PAR
ENTS.
A CARD FROM GEN. GORDON.
My excuse for addressing you must
| be the great importance of the subject
to which I would call your attention
—that of the proper education of our
children, and the proper development
of their self-respect and character.
I need not repeat any commonpla
ces in regard to the lasting effect of
early impressions, the almost impossi
bility of diverting the inind from the
bent given it in early years—all this
you know as well as L Nor need 1
say anything about the powerful si
lent influence, in this educational
work, of the school books from which
our children derive their views of
right and wrong, and their knowledge
of tbe facts, or misrepresentations, of
history—for this, too, you kuow full
well.
And when I say that having been,
for long years, almost entirely depen
dent upon the North for our school
books, we hav r e been compelled to use
many which were very distasteful to
us, because we had no alternative, I
only state that which every reader can
substantiate.
Loftg before the war we all felt the
necessity for a change in this respect
—the necessity for unobnoxious school
books—for - unsectional, unpolitical
books—school books prepared by our
own scholars, if that might be ; and
since the war this necessity has in
creased tenfold. Individual efforts, of
the most praiseworthy character have,
from time to time, been made in this
direction by Southern men, but not of
a sufficiently comprehensive nature to
accomplish the purpose in view.
To fully meet the want thus univer
sally felt, several of our ripest scholars,
and most successful teachers,
united
braces a prohibition of all the. minor j j n preparing a Series of School Books
crimes comprehending attempts to com
mit murder, and the perpetration of
mayhems and other species of unlaw
ful personal- violence.
Doubtless among Mrs. French’s own
sex will be found Lady Sneerwells and
Mrs. Grundies who will affect contempt
for the moral of ‘ My Roses.’ But
they should remember that all cannot
ascend to the arctic and icy purity in
which such Alpine birds’bathe their
pinions. Sin exists. We could wish
it otherwise ; but no less a great man
than Edmund Burke has characterize#
such idle wishes as ‘the idlest of all
idle things.’ The sensible—nay the
Christian way—is to recognize it, and
reform it as far as may be practicable.
Such is the aim and tendency of this
unique and remarkable book. On
unsurpassed by any others in excel
lence, beauty and cheapness.
Maury wrote Geographies and As
tronomy ;
Venable wrote Arithmetics, Alge
bras, &c;
Holmes wrote History, Grammars
and Readers ;
Scheie de Vere wrote French Books;
Gildersleeve wrote Latin Books ;
Le Conte wrote Scientific Books ;
Dunton made Writing Books, &c.,
&c.;
And the combined series is called
the “University Series of School
Books ;” a series not only not objec
tionable to our people, but positively
attractive to a degree heretofore en
tirely unknown. Our history, institu
tions and modes of thought here re-
Over-inuch care in avoiding sins of i thorough examination, I am prepared I ceive impartial treatment: and instead
number of 300 and more, tbe men yy’C
all honor and esteem—have put their
money into the work, not to make
profit out of it, although that is cer
tain. but that abundant means should
not be lacking to prosecute the enter
prise on the largest scale.
Will the teachers and parents of the
South unitedly sustain these authors,
and these gentlemen, in the work thus
described, by adopting and using these
books to the exclusion of all not so ac
ceptable ? I do not doubt your an
swer.
If you desire further information in
regard to the books, write to the
University Publishing Company, 155
& 157 Crosby St, New York—or 54
Lexington St., Baltimore—or to meat
Atlanta, Ga., and illustrated Cata
logues, and other information, will be
sent to you at once, without charge.
J. B. GORDON.
An Irishman suffering severely from
tooth-ache, called upon a distinguished
and witty dentist of his native land to
have the tooth extracted. “Oh, Doc-
tiier, darlin’, I’m suffering’ terribly ;
can you aise the pain ?” “Sit down
here,” said the doctor, and I’ll fix you
all right in a jitfy.” “Doctbor, dear,
will it hurt me much ?” “If it don’t,”
said the doctor jocosely, “I won’t
charge you a cent.” “The poor fel
low opened his mouth and in a twink
ling the doctor had hold of the offend
ing member, and’gave it such a twitch
in drawing it that his patient gave a
jump and a scream, as if he thought
his head was off. “Did it hurt you
much ?” asked the doctor, as the poor
sufferer was hobbling around, groan
ing loudly and holding on to his head
and jaws with all his might. “Not a
bit, Doethor, not a bit.” “What !”
exclaimed the astonished doctor.—
“Oh, not a bit, Doethor, not a bit,”
The doctor concluded that he was eu-
chered out of his fee that time, sure.
commission may readily lead us into sins
of omission.
“My Roses” is capacitated to do
great good for a class of human beings
who should long since have attracted
an appropriate share of the reformato
ry exertions of woman : exertions well
guarded, to be sure; still exertions—
not indifference, and blighting indis
criminate condemnation. The noblest
and purest of Mrs. French’s sex must
applaud her motives—those who are
competent to think for themselves, and
dare to adopt the recommendation of
Lord Bolingbroke that “ When we
come to determine, let nothing appear
an Epistolary Preface to his volume of
Essays: “I have*played myself the
inquisitor, and find nothing to my un
derstanding in it contrary or infectious
to the state of religion, or manners,
but rather as 1 suppose medicinable.”
The literary construction of “ My
Roses” is effected according to the
highest style of art, and is nevertheless
so filled with a flood of gushing sym
pathy, so permeated with the impromp
tu light and the flame of an inspired
genius, that its glitter is not that of
ice or snow, but that of the living and
life giving dews of Heaven. A proper
regard has been had for the “ three
unities” of the rhetoricians—the uni
ty of action, of place and of time. From
so venerable as our own understand- j this admirable feature not only is the
interest in the work vastly increased,
but its adaptation to the stage is ren
dered most easy. We doubt not' its
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It is true that Mrs. French’s book
may be used for an evil purpose by
the silly-romantic, or the already vi
tiated, of her sex in “ high-life” who
seize greedily on a pcetext for disguis
ing themselves in the habiliments of
the stronger sex, and seek in such dis
guise haunts generally forbidden to.
virtue. But every candid reader of
“My Roses” must concede that such
would be a perversion of the intention
of the writer and of the true logic of
the book. Mrs. French is no more re
sponsible for the result in such case
than the druggist who vends an ounce
of opium to a suicide unknowing of
tbe suicidal intent.
To guard her work against becoming
too ready a pretext for the viciously
inclined, Mrs. French ha3 chosen to
present a combination-picture not of
every day life, but of highly idealized
possibilities of human existence ami
action. To those who would pervert
the volume to evil conclusions, she
would quietly say, “ when you find
yourself placed in the same circum
stances precisely as Henrietta de Hnu-
terive—with French blood coursing 1 8tarnp it with
through your veins (who lias said there I
are two kinds of nature, Human nature
and Freucli nature ?) and in romantic
old New Orleans—then you may d>
what she did.” “ My Roses” presents
a very uncommon combination of char
acter and circumstances ; and yet the
boundaries of tbe impossible, and even
the improbable are carefully shunned.
In so doing the author lias shown her
skill as an “ Artist in words”—so Sir
Henry Bnlwer Lytton styles himself
in contradistinction to John Gibson,
the Sculptor, whom he characterizes as
“ Artist whose ideas speak in marble.”
Lord Bacon remarked in the taste for
fiction evidence of the greatness and
dignity of the human mind, adding
ingeniously that “ the objects of this
world, and the common train of affairs
which we behold going on in it, do not
fill the mind nor give it entire satisfaction
An accomplished writer of Georgia,
Miss Fannie Andrews (“ Elzie Hay ”)
in a recent able article on “ The Novel
as a work of art,” which appeared in
the best of the Southern periodicals,
“The Southern Magazine,” says “ It
is a humiliating fact that human nature
in its unvarnished state, never fulfills
our ideal.” And Bulwer-Lytton in that
most wonderful of all the productions
of his fertile genius, Zanoni, says that
to say of it what Lord Bacon says in j'of being ignored, the interests of the
South here receive equal representa
tion.
Then as to intrinsic merit, who
knows more about Geography than
Maury, or of History and Grammar
than Holmes, or of Mathematics than
Venable, and so on through all the
list ? Each author is a master in his
special department.
It is for this Series of books, so ex
cellent, so acceptable, so cheap (they
are the cheapest books published) that
your fav T or is solicited.
The books of the University Series
are presented distinctly upon their mer
its ; you are not asked to use inferior
books.
If these two questions can be an
swered affirmatively :—
Are these books equal to any in
merit ?
Are they as cheap as any ?
Should they not receive your pre
ference ? What is more reasonable
than that Southern Schools should be
supplied with books written by South
ern scholars, provided they are equal
ly good with those written by North
ern men V Is it not better both for
us, and for our children, that such
books should be used ?
Already the response which was in
evitable, to this question, has come.—
More than 5,000 of our best Southern
Schools are using these books : several
Southern States have already adopted
them for exclusive use in their public
schools ; County Boards in every
Southern State are adopting them ;—
and the best pri\ T ate schools are re
placing books hitherto used, with
them. The success of the “Universi-
dratnatization will speedily follow its
appearance in its present form ; and
we may expect for it on the stage a
greater Success even than as a simple
it Romance of a June Day.” In fash
ioning this adaptation we suggest it
would be well to modify the piof so as
to obviate the slight disregard of the
unity of time which the twentieth
chapter of the book presents. This
could easily and happily be effected ;
and with this, we conceive its dramat
ic form might be rendered as nearly
perfect as those great masterpieces
which have held possession of the stage
since the days zEschylus, of Euripides
and Sophocles. Its thrilling interest
is not inferior to many of the produc
tions of these great tragic authors
whose immortal compositions have
been the models of all succeeding gen
erations. Its partially happy termina
tion would find precedent in tbe Ath-
(iRc of Racine, and iu twt> of Voltaire’s
finest tragedies, “ Alzire” and the
“ Orphan of China while the remorse
and death of the heroine’s father, and
the fate of Marguerite, afford a sufficient
admixture of disastrous incident to
tragic solemnity and
power.
We might indulge in a very limited
amount of small criticism on verbiage
in a few instances in this elegant vol
ume. But we have said enough. Its
few faults are by no means important;
and we are not to-day iu any mood for
the “mousing owl” species of criticism.
Milledgeville, Ga.
Anger is the most impotent passion
that influences the mind of man ; it ef
fects nothing it undertakes, and hurts
the man who is possessed’ by it, more
than the object against which it is di
rected.
The three indispeusubles of genius
are understanding, feeling, and perse
verance. The three things tiiat en
rich genius are, contentment of mind,
the cherishing of good thoughts, and
the exercise of memory.
“Capital weather, Mr. Jones capital
weadier. My wife’s got such a bad
cold she can’t speak. I like such
weather.”
Fifty years ago—save sufficient ex
ceptions to prove the- rule—there
were no total abstainers ; t now, there
are millions. Is total-Abstinence a
failure'?
Finger Marks.—A gentleman em
ployed a mason to do some work for
him, among other things, to “tbin-
whiten” the walls of one of his cham
bers. This thin whitening is almost
colorless until dried. The gentleman
was much surprised on the morning
after the chamber was finished to find
on the drawers of his bureau, standing
in the room, white fingers. Opening
the drawer, he found the same on the
articles in it, and also, on a pocket
book. An examination revealed the
same marKs on the contents of a bag.
This proved clearly that the mason,
with his wet hands, had opened the
drawer and searched the bag, which
contained no money, and had then
closed the drawer without once think
ing that any one would ever know it.
The “thin-whitening” which hap
pened to be on his bands, did not
show at first, and he probably had no
idea that twelve hour’s drying would
rev'eal his wickedness. Children, be
ware of evil thoughts and deeds ; they
all leave their fingermarks, which will
one day be revealed. If you disobey
your parents, or tell a falsehood, or
take what is not your own you make
sad stains on your character. And so
it is with all sin. It defiles the soul.
It betrays those who engage in it, by
the marks it makes on them. These
marks may be almost, if not quite, in
visible at first. But even if they
should Hot be seeen during any of your
days on earth (which is not at all like
ly.) yet there is a day coming in which
every sin will be manifest.—Home
Journal.
Ant-Power.—During a recent rain
storm some ants made the discovery
that the position they had selected for
a nest, although well up on the side of
a bank, was flooded with water* How
they managed to survive the freshet it
is difficult to say, but next day they
were seen working with great energy
in moving eggs across the country to
hgiher regions. They established a tor
tuous track which was]strictly follow
ed, although an engineer,if they had had
one in their community, might have
diminished the labor. We took the
occasion to take the time of one indi
vidual. He was carrying a load, say
at least equal to two-thirds of his own
weight, mostly up hill and over many
obstructions, and he took no stop for
rest, but rather seemed anxious to run
ty Series” is unprecedented in the his- | a head of his companions, which lie did
tory of school book publishing, and it 1 j ri several instances. He accomplished
is destined to be yet greater. | the journey of fifteen feet in seven min-
Do the people of the South desire to j utes and forty seconds. At this rate it
rid themselves of obnoxious books and . would have taken him forty-five hours
pernicious teachings ? Can it be bet
ter done than by unanimously sustain-
ingthis first comprehensive educational
enterprise of our own scholars, and by
making the “University Series” the
UNIFORM SERIES IN
STA1
EVERY
E.
SOUTHERN
(Including, of course, any other books
having equal claim for consideration.)
Our schools will than be supplied with
books which they can long continue
to use ; pupils compelled to change
their schools will no longer be retar
ded iu their studies by a change of
books, for all will use the same : and
parents will be saved the expeuse of
present constant changes, while they
are relieved of all anxiety in regard to
the character of ti e teachings under
which their children are brought.
This subject, iu all its bearings, is of
the highest importance to us as a people,
my countrymen. It is not a sectional
movement, but a national and patriot
ic one. It is not a mere rivalry be
tween different publishers, or I would
not presume to ask your attention to
it. It goes down deep into our dear
est interests : it is the forming of the
minds of your children and mine,
which is at stake ; the developing of
their self-respect and character which
is to be the result.
it is an enterprise so important to
us that our best citizens—our repre
sentative men in every State, to the
to travel a mile. The creatare meas
ured his own length, in the fifteen feet,
1410 times, as his size was about
the eighth of an inch.
A man to measure his length, say
live feet six, 1440 times, would travel
a mile and a half, which he could not do
in the time, with no load, no obstruc
tion and no uphill ; while a load pro
portionate to the ant’s would, within
a short distance, break his power of en
durance. It is said that some ants
can carry ten times their own weight.
Col. Tom Williams, city marshal, of
Selma, offered the following resolu
tion, at the National Police Conven
tion recently held at St. Louis :
Resolved, That the Chiefs of Police
in Northern and Western States, be
respectfully requested to furnish the
Chiefs of Police iu the Southern States
accurrate photographs and descrip
tkms of all thieves, scoundrels and
Penitentiary convicts, who escape
from Northern and Western States, as
it is believed they will be found either
holding or seeking the different Feder-
eral, State and county offices in the
South, and leaders in the Radical par
ty-
“Are these rooms to let ?" said a po
lite gentleman to a handsome young
lady. “Yes sir.” “Are you to be let
with them ?” “No, sir, I’m to be let
alone.”
DRIFTING APART.
Broad is tlwsea where the vessel are sailing,
Fair are the breezes that waft them aloi g.
Clear is the sky that above them is smiling,
Brilliant the son that is lighting them on.
Ever :!w biimwa are playing around them,
Kissing their sides as they speed them away
O’er the wide Ocean that lies ail befnr- then —
Oceans to cross ere they enter the bay.
Sorr. dimes two vessels w’i sod on together,
Seeming e&cb other to help and tu cheer,
Giving assistance in trial and danger,
Passing the shoals and r-’cks without tear ;
Then, as ti eV journev, a cloud gathers o er them.
Head wind* lueail them, wide tossing each bark.
Splinter the masts, rend the rai's and the rigging.
Waves roll between them, and they dritt apart.
Oli there are hearts sailing nut on life’s ocean,
Banded together by friendship and love,
Giving assistance in trial and sorrow,
Fearing no danger as onward they rove.
Then as they journey, a storm hursts upon them,
Severs the couplings tiiat hind heart to Iieait,
Lashes the sea tiil it loams into madness—
Waves roil between them, and they drift apart.
You that have friends that are loving and tender,
Whom you can trust with the hopes of your soul,
Let not the trials of lile bear asunder
Those who can aid on the way to the goal;
Cling to them always, in darkness, in suusiiine,
And. when to Jesus in prayer goes your heart,
Ask that ill’ blessings inav evefvast on them—
IV.sy him to keep you from drifting apart.
Htxinding ('oinmillers of the Georgia Slate
Srnalr.
Judiciary—Reese, Chairman t Brown, Candler,
Wellborn, Nunnally, lliliyer, Nichols, Hoyle,
Brock. _
Finance—Simmons, Chairman ; Hinton, Can
dler, Burns, H.iiyer, Lester, Heard, Nichols,
Bruton. '
Enrollment—Hoy*e, Chairman ; Welborn, Hi!l»
yer, Peddy. Brown, Kibbee, tV aicti.
The Stats of tiie Republic—VV ellborn, Ciiair-
sn ; R-ese, Hiilyer, Brown, Kibbee, Hinton,
Brock.
Education—Nciois, Chairman ; Kibbee, Jervis,
Reese, Lester, Clark, Campbell.
Interna! Improvements—Nunnally, Chairman ;
Burns. Proton, Erwin, Black, Hinton, Jervis.
Banks —Lester, Chairman; lliliyer, Simmons,
Bums, Erwin, Welch, Stcadm in.
Privileges and Elections—Brown, Chairman ;
Heard, Griffin, Kirkland, Kibbee, flicks, Estes.
Petitions—Estes, Chairman; ifoyle, Black,
Cons, Cameron, Column.
Public Buildings—Erwin, Chairman ; Kirkland,
Lester, Black, Burns, Bruton, Cone.
The Penitentiary—Kihbee, Chairman ; Nichols,
Jones, Cone, Candler, McWhorter, Wallace.
Lunatic Asylum—Ilinton, Chairman ; Simmons,
Erwin, Smith, Kibbee, Matthews, Welch.
Military—'Jeivis, Chairman; Kirkland, Cone,
Erwin, Brock, Estt s, Deveauz.
Printing—Hiilyer, Chairman; Candler, Sim
mons. ilinton. Wellborn,‘Richardson. Clark.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum—Burns, Chairman ;
Jones. Black, Richardson, Hiilyer, McWhorter,
Jervis.
Tbe Institution of the Blind—Jones, Chairman ;
Simmons, Hoyle, Cone, llenry, Kirkland, Mc
Whorter.
Agriculture and Manufactures—Steadman,
Chairman; Jones, Matthews, Jordan, Erwin
McWhorter, Anderson.
Auditing—Candler: Chairman; Bruton, Nich
ols, Peddy, Heard. Kibbee, Wallace.
Engrossing—.Iordan, Chairman; Hiilyer, Cam
eron, Hicks, Cone, Black, Brock.
Journals—Cone, Chairman ; Cameron, Hicks,
Matthews, Welch, Bruton, Wallace.
State Library—Heard, Chairman ; Black, Estes,
Jervis, Welch, Column, Wallace.
New Counties and County Lines—McWhorter,
Chairman; Kirkland, Jordan, Anderson, Smith,
Cons, Crayton.
Standing Committer* of She House ot
Kepreneu laliv r*.
Jndiciary—Hoge ot Fulton, Chairman; Wm.D
Anderson of Cobb, Phillips of Echols, Graham of
Dade, Bacon of Biob, Snead of Richmond, Sim
mons of Gwinnett, Murphy of Harris. Pou of
Muscogee. Scoit of Floyd. Edwards of Elbert,
Peeples of BarrieM, Deil of Screven, Hunter of
Brooks.
Finance—Rawles, of Effingham, Chairman ;
Camming of Richmond, Crittenden of Randolph,
Netherland of Rabun, iiarksdale of Warren, How-
si! of Milton, Jackson of Fulton, Nutting of Bibb,
Cato of Troup, Gray of Bartow, Butts of Hancock,
Ormond of Houston, Hunter of Brooks.
State of the Republic—J. W. Wofford of Bartow
Chairman ; Ciark oi i'ro'.p, Jon** of Terrell, Hali
of Upson. Goldsmith of DeKalb, Bush of Miller,
Hoge of Fulton Goodman of Campbell, Wofford
of Banks, Lang of Lincoln, Johnson ot Jefferson,
Guyton of Laurens, McWhorter of Green.
Military Affairs—Baker of Pika, chairman;
Watters of Jasper, Cbaucey of Early, Paxton of
Charlton, Mattox of Clinch, Carlton of Colquitt,
Sargent of Coweta, Reid of Union, li-ntrue of
Washington, Beil of Webster, Jeukius of Worth.
Banks— Uummiug of Richmond, chairman;
Scott of Floyd. Harvey of Marion, Bowie of Wal
ton, Wynn of Wilkes, Morris of Talbot, West of
White, Trainmeil of Paulding, Griffin of Twiggs,
Beaselev of Jefferson, Clark of Richmond, Booth
of Pulaski, Paulk of Irwin.
Privileges and Eiactions—Phillips of Echols,
chairman ; Pierce of Hancock, Russe!! of Chat
ham, Rutherford of Crawford, Sellers of Appling,
Alired ot Pickens, Floyd of Morgan, Williams of
Decatur, Smith of Oglethorpe, Flvnt of Taliaferro,
Slaton of Wilkes, IPard of Haralson, Colby of
Greene.
Internal Improvements—Hall of Upson, chair
man ; Woodall ofTadiut, Wood of Walker, Sum
mers ot Newton, Heidt of Chatham, Richards of
Cherokee, Woodward of Dooly, Rountree of
Emanuel, Barron of Jones, Pentecost of Carroll,
Riley of Lumpkin, Hudson of Schley, Joues of
Hart.
Agriculture and Manufactures—Davis of New
ton, chairman ; BunuofPolk. Anderson of Cobb,
Bryant of llenry. Jones of Gwinnett, Cox of
Burke, Davioport of Oglethorpe, Johnson of
Clay, Murpby of Burke, Brady of Sumter, Brad-
dey of Glasscock, Handley of Pulaski, Putney of
Dougherty.
Public Expenditures—C A Nutting of Bibb,
chairman ; Kelly of Cnatham. Hammond of Butts,
1 arver of Baker, McMillan of Habersham, McNeal
of Randolph. Pou of Muscogee. Griffin of Houston,
■Snead of Richmond, W113011 of Fulton, Ballen-
ger of Floyd, Ross of Bibb, Manstield of Stewart.
Education—Jackson of Fulton, chairman; Ba
con of Bibb, Wofford of Bartow, Cody of Chatta
hoochee, Davi l of Newton, Simmons of Gwinnett,
Joiner of Dougherty, Etheridge of Putnam, Mc
Neal of Randolph. Bryan of Henry, -Morrison of
Ware, Guerry ot Quitmaa, Berrien of Burke.
Committee on Enrollment—McMiilan ot Hab
ersham, chairman ;. Converse ot Lowndes, Craig
of Teifair, Deil of ricrcven, Cleghorn of Chattoo
ga. Baker of Bryan, Ba,email of Taylor, Sp mce of
Coffee, StoTnll of Columbia, Hiilyer of Camden,
Palmer of Dawson
Journals—Bush of Mil'or, chairman : Killian of
Towns, Cloud of Warren Emerson of Whitfield,
Kennedy of Bullocp, McConnell of Clayton,
Payne of Cs'oosa, Know es of Pierce, Moreland
of Morriwether, Glover of Sumter, Fields of Mur
ray .
Penitentiaiy—Goldsmith of I). 1 Kalb chairman ;
Baker of Pike, Morris of Ts.bot, Harvey of Mari-
Rntherfqrd of Crawford, Dukes of Morgan,
Davenpor. of Oglethorpe, Jones of Hart, Browu of
Monree.
Lunatic Asylum—Etheridge of Pntnam, ehair-
mau ; llughos of Forsyth, Johnson of Jiff’etson,
L psey of Lee, Battle t Th mas, Jones of Terrell,
McN'eal of Randolph, O’Neal of Baldwin, Cloud
of Warren, Clements of Montgomery, Whatley of
Fayette, Lamkin of Columbia, Chastain of Gil
mer.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum—Bunn of Polk, chair
man : Simmons of Had. Lipsey of Lee, Gray of
Bartow, Browner pf Franklin, Farmer of Liber
ty, Browtou ot Tatnail, Mann, of Wilcox, Martin
of Johnson, Meadows of Madison, Howell of
Milton, Wilson of Fnlton, Ba!leng-r of F.oyd.
Blind Asylum—Patillo of Harris, chairman ;
Collins of Mitchell, Taylor of Washington, Em. r-
sou of Vv’hitrield, Jones of Macon, Pierce of Han
cock, Hancock of Jackson, Hooks of Wilkinson,
Richards of Cherokee, Goodman of Campbell,
Franklin of Fannin.
New Counties and Caunty Lines—Fain of Gor«
don, chairman; Guyion of Lauretis, C ark of
Troup, Jones of Gwinnett Ileudley of Puiaski,
Converse of Lowndes, Meadows of Madison,
Woodall of Talbot, Ciower of Monroe, Braddy of
Glasscock, Patdlo of Harris-
Public Printing - ; VVn.. D. Anderson of Cobb,
chairman : Heidt of Chatham, Carlton of Colquitt,
t ato of Troup, Chastain of Gilmer, Netherland
of Rabun, Eichardsun ot Clark, Johnson of Spain*
ing. Me A horter of Greene.
Auditing-. Craig of Telfair, chairman ; Riley of
Lumpkin, Rountree of Emanuel, Franklin #f
Fannin, Atkinson of Thomas.
A lady says the first time she Y\ T as
kissed the felt like a tub of roses swim-
miug in honey, cologne, nutmeg and
cranberries. JShe felt as it something
was running through her nerves on
feet of diamonds, escorted by several
little cupid’s in chariots drawn by an
gels shaded by honeysuckles, and the
l whole spread ’with melted raiubows,
