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VOLUME XLII.]
MILLEDGE V1LLE, GEORGIA, Mil 1, 1872.
NUMBER 40.
e liberal Union,
IN
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LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less $2 50
Mortgage ti fa sales, per square 5 00
Citations for Letters of Administration......... 3 00
Guardianship, 3 00
Application for dismission from Administration, 3 00
“ “ “ “ Guardianship, 3 00
“ “ leave to sell Land, 5 00
“ for Homesteads, 1 75
Notice to Debtors and Creditors,.............. 3 00
hales of Laud, &.C., per square 5 00
“ perishable property, 10 days, per square,.. 150
Estray Not ices, 30 days, 3 ()o
foreclosure 0 [ Mortgage, per sq , each time 100
Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,) 1 75
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Laud, &c., by Administrators, Executors
or Guardians, are required bylaw to be held on the
first Tuesday inthe month, between the hours of 10
in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court
House iu the County in which the property is situated.
Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga
idle 40 days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for the sale of personal property must be
given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notices to the debtois nud creditors of an estate
must also be published 10 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary for leave to 6ell Land, &c.,must be publish
ed tor two months.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship,
Scr., must be published 30 days—for dismission from
Administration monthly three months—for dismission
from Guardianship, -50 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish
ed monthly for four mouths—for e^ablishing lost pa
From the New Orleans Times.
LETHE.
Some seek the fabled stone, whose touch will turn all
all things to gold:
Others, the fount ot radiant youth, the poets saDg of
old.
Bat oh ! to me give Lethe’s stream; along its banks
I’d stray.
And quaff, and quaff, until I’d drink all memory away.
I’d bathe me in its waters dark, so bitter, chill and
drear.
Until I'd recollection lost of all I’ve suffered here—
Until the loved, yet painful past, had faded from my
heart.
And memory, with her scourge, no more, the scalding
tears could *tart. •
Oh, why is it lhat mem'ry thus ever holds to view,
The scenes we gladly would forget? Hergla.->s is ever
true;
To show the livid scars and wounds, oar bruised
heart* still bear—
So there a scar we fain would hide, the light falls
strongly there.
pers tor the full space cf three months—for compell
ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where
bond has been given by the deceased, the full spaceof
three months.
Publications will always becontinued according to
these, the legal requirements, uulessotherwise ordered
Oh. will the heur ever come, when I ran calmly say,
I have no sorrow for the past, no eare for coming day?
What is it to me who lives, who dies? or what tome 1
the past ?
This life is but a baffling dream, from which we’ll J
wake at last.
The Public School Fond.
A detailed statement of the sources
and present condition of the School
Fund is published by the State School
Commissioner. After stating what
constitutes the school fund, and its
past history, he concludes as follows :
“The present General Assembly, at
its late session, passed a law appro
priating $300,000 for the payment of
the teachers and school officers who
served last year. This money was to
come, first “out of the funds then in
the Treasury appropriated by law to
the public school system;” and if those
funds should prove insufficient, then
The counties may rest assured, then,
that there is no hope of aid in school
operations the present year from the
State.
The taxes of 1S72. which will prob
ably yield to the school fund $100,000
and which, it is hoped, will be Tender
ed secure by the additional legislation
herein suggested, will not be collected
early enough for distribution in aid of
the schools of this year.
I would recommend the different
County Boards to make the estimate
required of them iu section 33 of the
school law upon the hypothesis that
there will be no aid afforded by the
State, and to submit it when made to
bling from side to side, and taking it The Political Situation.—7 he
zigzag; for a good quarter the little New York Journal of Commerce of
fellow kept the causeway when he i Saturday gives the following views of
came to the conclusion that he could its Washington correspondent upon
stand it no longer and must bolt, and j the political situation :
the Treasury in 1S70, in the room of
the school funds then drawn out.
The statement above shows that
there ought now to be in the Treasu-
. , . ! ry to the credit of the school fund the
Ye§, we will waken when we take our plunge in y r _ ~ - , _ .
Death's dread stream, Sum Oi ®lt>*±,S06 75} WliereaS, I l6Am
And fi ty dreamt 8 ’ ambiti0n8,l0Ve8 W0rebut 80 emp ' from the Treasurer, that the whole
Man, hut an atom floating on the surgingaeaof Tima, amount of funds of all kind8 HOW in
Who wildly wastes his little hour iu sorrow, care and L,:_ _;ii , _ . , ,.
crime. i his custody will not reach oue-tenth
; part of that sum.
^“'’thingstogoid-' fab ' e<! 8t ° De ’ which turns | Under the act of July 28th, 1870,
other* the radiant fount of youth, the poets sang of the very reprehensible policy of throw-
Bnt oh ! tome give Lethe's stream, along it* banks iug School fllllds into the 1 reaSUTy ill
. '’defray, common with all other moneys, to be
And lave and quaff until I d drauk all memory away. . /
from the sale of the bonds placed in I the Grand Juries, seeking at the same
time, to secure its approval; but
Naw Orleans, 1867.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on Lawyers.
Dr. Holmes’ “Breakfast Table” gos
sip in the new number of the Atlan
tic has this mild little expression of
drawn upon, was inaugurated and per
sisted in. The present General As
sembly sought to arrest this, by en
acting, in section 33 amended school
law, that—
“When said common school fuud
shall be received and receipted for.
secure
would repeat what I stated in the cir
cular of the 7th of February, that
there is no safety in attempting actual
school work without that approval.
Allow me to say, in conclusion, that
I am not disheartened by the blunders
and mismanagement exposed on al
most every page of this paper. I am
Book and Job Work, of all kinds
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BAIL BOAS TIME TABLE.
Ariival and Departure of Trains at Milledgeville.
MACON & AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Hay Train.
Down Train to Augusta arrive* at Milledgev., 8.14 a.m.
Up Train to Macon arrives at Milledgeville, 5.35p.m.
Night Train.
Arri ves from Augusta at 12:15 am.
“ “ Macon at 8:40 p in.
EATONTON & GORDON RAILROAD.
Up Train to Eatonton arrive* at Milledgev., 8.45 p. m
Down Train to Gordon arrives “ 2.35 p. m
Post Office Notice.
Milledgeville, Jan. 18, 1872.
From and after this date mails will close as follows:
Malls for Atlanta and Augusta and points beyond
going north and east, will close at 8 o’clock A M.
Mails tor Macon. Southwestern Road, and points
beyond, going south-weft, will close at 5 P. M.
Mai 1 # for Savannah and Florida close at 2.15 P M.
Mails for Eatonton and Monticello closes at8:45. P M.
Office hours from 7 A. M. until 6:30 P. M.
Office open on Sundays from 8 to 9 1-2 A. M.
Money Orders obtained from 7 A. M. until 5 P. M.
JOSIAS MARSHALL, P. M.
Church Directory.
BABTIST CHURCH.
Services 1st and 3d Sundays in each month, at 11
O’clock a m and 7 p m.
Sabbath School at 9 I -2o’clock, a in. S N Boughton,
Sipt. Rev. D E BUTLER, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Honrs of service on Sunday: 11 o’clock, am,
and 7 pm.
Sunday School 3 o’clock p m.—W E Frankland,
Superintendent.
Friends of the Sabbath School arc invited to visit it
S S Missionary Society, monthly, 4th Sunday at 2 p in
Prayer meeting every Wednesday 7 o’clock p m-
Rev A J JARRELL, Pastor.
opinion concerning the members of the fr° m whatever source received, it
shall be the duty of the officer author
ized by law to receive such fund, to
keep the same separate and distinct
from other funds, and said funds shall
be used for educational purposes and
none other, and shall not be invested
in bonds of this State.”
This is the first legislation in refer
ence to the school fund since the adop
tion of the present Constitution, which
I have been able to find, that seeks to
auit witn tnem ; every carry out in good faith the provisions
has a right to the best ° * _..u*
Bar:
The lawyers are a picked lot, “first
scholars” and the like, but their busi
ness is as unsympathetic as Jack
Ketch’s. There is nothing humaniz
ing in their relations with their fel
low-creatures. They defend the man
they know to be a rogue, and not very
rarely throw suspicion on the man they
know.to be innocent. Mind you, I am
not finding fault with them
side of a case
statement it admits of; but I say it | Muoh „ lhi , actioli t „ be com .
does not tend to make thernsympa- : mended< it is i tsel f de f ec tiv e in two re- truth you know. A good many years
thetic. Suppose in a case of Fever vs. g j >ects> j n t jj e fi rst pi uce> came too i ago in the neighborhood of Savannah,
late to save the fund. If this be a! Georgia, lived a wealthy planter
well convinced that, in the altered
state of our Southern society, the pub
lic school system has become an abso
lute necessity* There is no hope out
side of it for multitudes of the children
of the State—white as well as colored
—while it can be demonstrated that
under it, education can be made cheap
er, more thorough, and far more gener
al.
Let us, then, as becomes thoughtful
men, summon to our aid all the pa
tience, the energy, and the wisdom
which we may be able to command,
and make an earnest, protracted effort
to r- trieve the errors of the past, and
build up a system adapted to the
wants of our people, which shall be
the pride and glory of the State.
Gustavus J. Orb,
State School Commissioner.
For the Federal Union-
THAT 1M FEE.
bolt he did, right into a side ditch fill
ed with water, for each side of the
causeway had ditches filled with water
bounding it. On went the little mule
and scrambling out on the other side
the cart wheels struck, back went
country head over heels into the
water, and the awfully frightened
guineas and chickens followed his ex
ample; away went the little mule, and
all that was left of him and the cart
ere he ceased traveling was fragments.
Pineywoods dug out and leaving his
drowning guineas and chickens he
walked on back to where A. and B.
were standing or rather rolling in con
vulsions. and going up to B. he re
marked : “Wal stranger I had no idee
them thar words would a made that
little critter git eout that er way.”
of that instrument upon the subject. L ,, ,
^ following, for it was
We will vodch for the truth of the
told us for the
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Services every Sabbath (except the 2d in each mo)
at 11 o’clock a m. and 7 pm-
Sabbath School at 9 1-2 a m. TT Windsor. Snpt.
Prayer meeting every Friday at 4 o’clock, p m.
Rev C W LANE, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Without a Pastor at present.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock, a in.
Lodges.
I. O. G. T.
nillrdgevilir I.uilge No 115 meets in the Senate
Chamber at the State House on every Friday even
ing at 7 o’clock. C P CRAWFORD, WCT.
E P Lane, Sec’y.
Cold Water Templars meet at the State House eve-
y Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
MASONIC.
Benevolent I.odjir No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d
Saturday nights of each month at Masonic Hall.
G D Case, Sec’y. I 11 HOWARD, W. M.
Temple Chapter meets the second and fourth Sat-
ardsy nights in each mouth.
G D Case, Sec’y. S G WHITE, H P.
ItlilledgeTille I.odge of Perfection A/.& A ’.
B. R.\ meets every Monday uight.
SAM’L G WHITE, T.’.P. -G.-.M.*.
Gao. D.jCase, Exc Grand Sec’y.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—Samuel Walker.
B>ard of Aldermen.—1. F B Mapp; 2 E Trice;
J T A Caraki r; 4 Jacob Caraker; 5 J H McComb;
fi Henry Temples.
Clerk and 1 reasurer—Peter Fair.
Marshal—J B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle.
Deputy Marshal and Street Overseer—Peter Ferrell.
Sexton—F Beeland
City Surveyor—C T Bayne.
City Auctioneer—S J Kidd.
Finance Committee—T A Caraker,Temples, Mapp.
Street
Land
Cemetery
J Caraker, Trice, McComb
McComb, J Caraker, Trice.
Temples, Mapp, T A Caraker.
Board meets 1st and 3d Wi
aooth.
i ednesday nights in each
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Jndge M. R. Beil, Ordinary—office In Masonic Hall.
PL Fair, Clerk Sup’r Court, ’*
Obadiah Arnold Sheriff,
O P Bonner, Dep’ty Sheriff, live* in the country.
Jntia* Marshall, Reo’r Tax Returns—at Post Office.
L N (,’allawav, Tax Collector, office at hi* store.
H Temples, County Tieasurer, office at his store.
Isaac Cushing, Coronor, residence on Wilkinson st.
Jahn Gentry, Constable, residence on Wayne at, near
the Factory.
MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA.
Dr. G. D. Cask, Dean. Dr. 8. G. WHITE, Prea'dt
Regular meeting lirut Monday in December-
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Dr THOS F GREEN, Superintendent
M R Bell, Tr. & Steward.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
D B Sanford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief-
Tne M & M Fire Co. meet* at the Court Room on
the first and third Tuesday nights in each month.
the peoples pavoexpe
NATIONAL GIFT ENTERPRISE)
FOR EDUCBTIOifBL PURPOSES.
ESTABLISHED IN 1869.
On? Tenth Distribution will take place in public in
Hon L- D. Campbell’s Hall,
Monday, May 20, 1872.
$50,000 ■" c izs
I Cash Gift in American Gold, $5,000; I Caih Gift
“ American Silver, $5,000 ; 3 Cash prises, each
$l,0n(). Whole Nam her of Cash Gifts, $1,672. Sin-
gle Tiokets, $1 ; Six Tickets, $5.
10.000 Agents wanted, to whom liberal deduction
will be made. Drawings take place every 60 day*.
Circulars containing references and fall information
•ent to any one ordering them.
Address at once, L- A. BOLI, Manager,
. Look Box 175, Hamilton, Ohio.
Apnl 12,1873. M4I
Patient, the doctor should side with
either party according to whether the
old miser or his expectant heir was
his employer. Suppose the minister
should side with the Lord or the De
vil, according to the salary offered and
other incidental advantages, where the
soul of a sinner was in question. You
can see what a piece of work it would
make of their sympathies. But tl e
lawyers are quicker witted than either
of the other professions, and abler
men generally. They are good-natur
ed, or, if they quarrel, their quarrels
are above-board. I don’t think they
are as accomplished as the ministers,
but they have a way of cramming
with special knowledge for a case
which leaves a certain shallow sedi
ment of intelligence in their memories
about a good many things. They are
apt to talk law iu mixed company,
and they have a way of looking round
when they make a point, as if they
were addressing a jury, that is mighty
aggravating, as I once had occasion to
see when one of ’em, and a pretty fa
mous one, put me on the witness stand
at a dinner party once.
Death of the Largest Woman in
the World.—.Mrs. Amelia Brooks,
said to be the largest woman in the
world, and weighing between 900 and
1000 pounds, died at St. Louis last
week. Her profession was that of a
nurse, in which business she was en-
f'ault in our representatives, it will be
held as a venal one when it is remem
bered that a large number of other
subject8*of the gravest moment were
pressing themselves upon their atten
tion, and demanding at their hands,
immediate action. All could not have
been done at once that ought to have
been done. The other fault is, that
the action above quoted does not ef
fectually reach the source of the trou
ble. As has already been explained, a
very large bulk of the taxes come into
the hands of the Treasurer without
any means of discriminating between
school and other funds, through the
negligence or incompetency of the col
lectors.
If, in addition to the action given
above, the Legislature had further pro
vided that the Comptroller General
should, in no case, receipt tax collec
tors for moneys reported till the tax
for school purposes was separated, in
their returns, from other tuxes, the
remedy would have been completed ;
and I hope this action will be taken at
an early day.
In the merciful allotments of Provi
dence, it rarely happens that men ex
perience from anything that befalls
them unmitigated evil. So it has been
in the passage of the law of July 28th,
1870, already so often referred to.
While that law opens wide the door
for the escape of the school fund, it
gaged until very recently. She was also provides that bonds shall be is-
eight hours dying. As no coffin could ( sued to secure the moneys thus disap-
be found large enough for her, a box j pearing, and I am authorized by the
was built six feet long, twenty-eight j Governor to say that, under the au-
inches broad and twenty-six in depth, thority thus given, he will, at the ear-
Even this was not sufficiently wide,
and it was found necessary to press
the form nine inches, but as that was
the widest box that could be got iuto
the room without tearing out the
front of the house it was thought
more charitable to reduce the clay
than to injure the premises. Her di
mensions were five feet ten inches in
height, twenty-eight inches across the
shoulders and
across the hips.
liest practicable day, cause to be is
sued, in proper legal form, bonds of
the State in sufficient amount “ to per
fectly secure” the$l34,S06 7-5, which,
according to the showing made above,
has been used for other than school
purposes; and have them put upon
the market.
In reference to the bonds placed in
the hands of the Treasurer under that
thirty-seven inches j law in 1870, which he was authorized
Her arms were thir- J to sell to raise the remainder of the
ty-six inches in circumference and her i S300,000 appropriated, he has grave
thighs sixteen inches in diameter.— ; doubts as to whether they can be sold
When she had been arrayed in burial at all under the provisions of law r .—
vestmeuts it was found impossible for ! They are defective in execution, which
seven men to lift her. Finally the box ! in his opinion, will prevent the sale of
was tilted on one side and'she was [them at any other than “ rates injuri-
rolled in while the priests chanted the | ous to the credit of the State.” He
requests me to say, nevertheless, that
he will make an honest effort to carry
into execution the law as it stands.
The State School Commissioner, the
State Board and the Governor, all
sympathize deeply with the teachers
who are still unpaid for honest and
faithful services rendered in accordance
with contracts entered iuto, iu good
faith, on their part, and would be glad
services of the dead. She was then
placed her in a large wagon which
proceeded carefully to Calvary Ceme
tery. The wagon was backed up to
the grave, and eight men an dsix roll
ers combined their exertions to lower
her into her narrow bed.
Notes for Slaves.—The Supreme
Court of the United States delivered a
most important judgment yesterday, one ! to have it in their power to afford im-
involving vast interests at the South.
It held, in a case from Georgia, that
notes given in the purchase of slaves, not
withstanding constitutional prohibitions
of recovery, are valid in law, and the
State Constitutions, so far as they affect
the question, are null and void. All the
grounds set up by the makers of the notes
are overruled. A warranty of a “slave for
life” is held to have no reference to polit
ical changes that may divest the title to
slaves as property.
This is a most important decision and
will give rise to an immense amount of
litigation at the South. Our advice to
parties interested is to meet and compro
mise all such claims at once.—Sa,o. Rep.
Tobacco as an Antidote for
Snake bite.—We learn that the use
of what is sometimes termed the “nox
ious weed” in a case of snake bite was
practically tested a day or two since
on south western railroad. A train band
wai bitten badly, and conductor Gees-
lin immediately applied some tobacco
taken from his mouth to the wound
acd no inconvenience haa been since
suffered by the man.—Macon Telegraph.
mediate relief, but these officers, like
other citizens, are bound to obey the
laws and can do nothing not strictly in
conformity thereto. As soon as any
funds can be realized from the sale of
the two classes of bonds above men
tioned, due notice will be given, and
the money will be distributed among
the counties as speedily as possible.
Section 38 of the amended school
law nukes it the duty of the State
School Commissioner, immediately al
ter the adjournment of the General
Assembly, to Bend to the Ordinary of
each county a statement of the fund
standing to the credit of bis county for
school purposes, to be submitted to the
new County Board at its first meeting.
The foregoing discussion and exhib
it will show the reason why this has
not been done.
If we had the whole of $386,725 06
which the Comptroller's report shows
to be due the school fund,now in hand,
lam of the opinion that it would ex
haust all of it to pay the present in
debtedness.
whom we will call for convenience
sake A, and at the time we are writing
of, one of his friends whom tor con
venience we will call B, was visiting
him. One day while A. and B. were
strolling around they happered to
take the turnpike or causeway
that led to A.’s toll bridge over one of
the low* country creeks or small rivers.
Just as they came in sight of the
bridge they spied coming towards it
one of those never-to-be-forgotten
pineywoods mule market carts with a
pineywoods driver. Those of us who
are familiar with the almost daily ap
pearance of the little jackass and jen-
nett carts coming in to town to sell
wood and chickens will appreciate the
appearance of the little long-eared
mule. This particular mule was very
small, and his owner was remarkably
long legged and tall, a cadaverous
lantern jawed specimen of humanity.
The cart was chuck full of guineas and
chickens, and the shafts were high up
on the little mules wethers, while
seated on the front side of the cart-
body with his feet resting ou the
shafts, one on each side of the little
mule’s rump, with his head just peep
ing sufficiently above his knees for
eye room was pineywoods.
On came the little mule at a snail’s
pace with each ear flipping and flop
ping as he stepped, his nose not more
than six inches from the ground and
he a dozing and dreaming of wire
grass and pine knot curry combs.
“Hello A.,” says B., “you see that
mule, I’ll bet you ten dollars that I
can make him run away.”
“I’ll bet you can’t,” says A.
“Well,” says B., “I’ll do it, but it
must be with the condition that the
owner of the mule is willing.”
Coming to the bridge and paying
his toll to the bridge keeper, piney
woods crossed over and on the Savan-
uah side met B. and A.
“Hossfly Squiar A., you bet this
boy pays his loll ? Yes sir-r-re, he
does that er way.”
‘ Look here friend,” says B., “I have
bet A. ten dollars that I can make
your mule run away provided you are
willing.”
“Wal stranger yer kin ef yer kin,
fur that ere critter ain’t struck er trot
in ten year.”
“Well, all right my friend, I’ll make
him run, now you take your lines.”
“They kin lie where they ar stran
ger.”
“You’d better take them,” B. said
as he walked round to the little mule’s
head, now fast asleep B. pulled his
head up and commenced stroking his
nose and patting his jaws talking non-
seuse all the time, pineywoods eyeing
him attentively. Mules are exceedingly
touchy about their ears, and B. now
catching hold of the mule s ear on the
side from him began to shake it vigor
ously and slipping his other hand in
his pocket drew out a buck shot, and
while pineywoods was looking at the
other hand he slips the shot in the ear
next to him and immediately putting his
mouth close to it pretended to whis
per, and letting the other ear loose
gave that oue a gentle shake. The
little mule seemed electrified and hold
ing his head high he first cocked both
ears and then pricked them up
exhibiting unmistakablesigns of uneasi
ness.
“Take up your lines pineywoods,
while I hold him for he’s going to run
shouted B.,” and as piney made a fran
tic grab B. yelled at the little mule—
“Your grandmother is dead?—and let
him go Away went the little mule
—the bullet settling deeper with each
jump, away he went still faster bob-
TUK WIFE.
The following beautiful and touch
ing lines are said to have been deposit
ed by a loving wife, some months be
fore her death, between the leaves of
her scrap book, where she knew her
husband would find them when she
was gone. They are full of sadness,
and a loving womau’s nature blooms
in every line. Her heart breathes
forth its sad requium on her own grave,
as she lays herself down to sleep all
a'one, and parts forever from him who
should be all to her is this world and
the next. Wife! wife! How inex
pressibly holy the name of wife! She
i9 ail that is left to man of the beauti
ful paradise from which he has wan
dered, and to which he must return.
She is all that holds man up from the
brute world and stamps him with the
pale semblance of*aGod! She is all
of Heaven, of Earth aud of man’s Fu
ture, which is left him. In this world,
she is his God, and the power which
elevates and guides, and leads him on
to the natural and rational consumma
tion of his creation and mission. Of
all the joys of earth, its wealth, its
ambitious, its tinseled glories and sered
pleasures, there is nothing so inexpres
sibly dear to the heart of the true
man, as the companionship of his wile !
Take from us O ! God ! all Thou hast
given—bletout from our sight forever
the beautiful world .'—darken our path
to midnight gloom !—curse us with
afflictions mountain high !—take from
us every floweret of the hearth !—des
poil us of manhood, feature and form
do all this, if in Thy Providence, Thou
wilt, but, O! God, preserve to us from
all the wreck of life that one dearest
beiug of earth, a loving and true wife
But here is the poem :
A DYING WIFE TO her HUSBAND.
Corns osar mo, let mo lay my baud
Ones more upon thy brow.
And let me whisper in thine ear
Lore’s last and fondest vow.
The lips that breathe these trembling words,
When they lie cold in death.
And thy dear cheek can feel no more
Their warm and loving breath.
I go from thee ; God only knows
How I have longed to slay—
How I have shuddered thus to tread
The long and shadowy way-
Faith tells ine that I soon must know
The love the blessed find.
And vet I falter, while I cast
A lingering look behind.
I see thee bowed before me here,
In bitterness and teats;
But 1 can leave thee something still.
To light thy weary years ;
Young tender forms will cling to thee ;
Perhaps will miss my tone,
And though they may not share tby grief,
Thou wilt not feel atone.
Fold them still closer to thy breast,
And soothe thy childish woe,
And cheer the many lonely hours
The motherless must kuow.
The world, with all its hopes and joy*,
Will sometimes make thee giad ;
But they must linger round the hearth
Still desolate and sad.
And, O, when time shall calm thy grief,
Perchance the hour may come
When thou wilt win another form
To share thy heart and home—
When thou wilt welcome to thy board
A younger, fairer face.
And bid thy children smile on her,
Who takes their mother’s place.
But think not, could I speak to thee,
That I would frown or blame,
Though they should love the stranger one,
And call her by my name;
For they will speak to thee of me,
My memory is their trust.
A word, a smile, a look like mine
Will call me from the dust.
Yet make my grave no place of tears.
But let the dear ones bring
To cheer their mother’s home,
The blossoms of the Spring.
And there thou too may’st kneel,
And softly press (he earth
That covers her, whose face once gave
A brightness to thy hearth.
Tbeu will the forms of early years
Steal softly to thy side,
And for an hour thou can’st forget
Thou hast another bride.
She may be all thy heart can ask,
So dear, so true to thee;
But O, the Spring time of thy love,
Its freshuess was for me.
May she be blest, who comforts thee,
And with a gentle hand
Still guide onr lit'le trembling ones,
Who make our household band.
She cannot know the tenderness
That fills their mother's breast.
But she can love them for thy sake,
Aud make thee more than blest!
The Negro Vote the Hope of
the Grantites.—Chevalier Forney is
most pathetic in his appeals to the ne
groes to stand by Grant. He hopes
“ it will not be recorded among the
evidences of the unfitness of the color
ed people for self-government, that
while so many of the leaders of the
“ superior race” are willing to con
sign the General Government to the
tender mercies of the rebel Democra
cy, the colored people bravely confide
in it, and declare their determination
to stand by it to the end.”
What would have become of this
once glorious Republic if the negroes
had not been enfranchised and called
to the rescue? Little did ^>ur revolu
tionary ancestors thiuk that the Afri
can slaves whom they purchased from
the English and Yankee slave traders,
were to be the saviors of the Repub
lic when their own degenerate race
should prove themselves unworthy
the heritage of liberty.
A startling and incredible rumor
breaks from the Capitol to-day, to the
effect that Gen. Grant will furnish a
letter for the Cincinnati Convention,
declining under any circumstances a
renomination. The rumor has not
gone far, but it gives rise to many
theories. Some say he means it; that
he has been induced, in view of the
formidable character assumed by the
proposition to hold a liberal Republi
can Convention at Cincinnati, to with
draw’ his name from the Convention
for the sake of harmony.
Others say be had no idea of the
strength of the Cincinnati movement,
and that under good advice he pro
poses to decline nominally as a sort of
political diversion to gain strength
both for himself and his party, and to
make assurauce of his nomination
doubly sure.
A Democratic census has been taken
in the House of Representatives on the
Cincinnati question. It is found that
there are, of the number of Democrats
usually found at their seats iu the
House, 31 straight out Democrats and
45 “ possums.” It is found that if
Judge Davis aud Curttn, or Charles
Francis Adams and Groes'oeck are
nominated, the 45 “possums” will ad
vocate acquiescence at the Democratic
Convention and 25 of the other 31 will
also give assent, while the other six
will drop in line as humble captives
follow the conqueror. This is consid
ered a fair census, because it is quite
probable that the average would be
the same if all the Democratic Repre
sentatives were present. In the Sen
ate nearly every Democrat stands on
the same footing as the 45 Represen
tatives. A prominent Republican
member of the House told his neighbor
yesterday that it was a little remarka
ble, in his view, that every prominent
Republican who proposed to join the
Cincinnati movement gave excuses for
his conduct. The reply was good, viz :
That those who did not, wisely kept
silent, having no excuse to give ; that
the former went of their own accord,
w’hile the latter feared the party lash ;
that there was to be no “whpping
in” at Cincinnati.
The other member retorted that
every path leading from the Republi
can party went straight to the Demo
cratic camp. To this reply was made
that the Democratic party were trying
its best to get into the Republican ranks
to make the latter strong, and that
An Attempt to Hob and Murder.
The Central Georgian says: A young
man residing in Irwinton, Wilkinson
countv, by the name of Jacob Stin
son, who had abandoned himself to
vicious habits, conceived the fiendish
idea to murder nn old lady by the
name of Chambers, the aunt of his
mother, living on Sandy Creek, who
was supposed to have about one thous
and dollars in gold. To carry out this
devilish purpose, he applied to a ne
gro by the name of Rack Bell to as
sist him, with the promise of giving
him two hundred and fitly dollars of
the money. The negro being by far
the most humane of the two, disclos
ed the scheme. At the instance of
some gentlemen, the negro entered
into his plans, which included that af
ter the murder of the old lady they
would proceed to the house of an old
man, living near, by the name of Hoo
ver, who was thought, likewise, to
have money, and murder him also.—
On the appointed night these gentle
men went to the house of the old lady
and secreted themselves to await his
attempt at this “foul and unnatural
murder.” After remaining till almost
daylight, they were about abandoning
their watch, when it was suggested
that it perhaps might be better to re
main till day. They had scarcely
come to this determination before they
saw two white objects approaching
the house, which proved to be two
men disguised in sheets and other
ways, who walked up to the door and
knocked. The gentlemen concealed
immediately surrounded them, and
stripped them of their disguises, and
there stood the graceless scamp Jacob
Stinson, with a huge club, and the
negro Rack Bell. We are by no means
in favor of lynch law, but if there is,
or ever was, a case that summary jus
tice should be administered, we cannot
but think that this is one that demand
ed a most decisive ex imple—indeed, a
rope and a short shrive would be too
good for him.
The Land Scrip.—The Congressional
Committee on Agriculture has agreed
to report a bill allowing the States
two years additional after 1st July,
for taking out their Educational Land
S-irip. In noticing this fact the Savan
nah Republican says:
“Should such & bill pass Congress,
it would not be amiss for Governor
Smith to submit his action to the LegJ
islature for ratification, aud prove to
interested local cavillers that the great
body of the people approve his appro
priation of the Land Scrip.”
We endorse the suggestion that the
the best end of the Republican party^^Legislature be consulted, if possible,
was about to embrace them, and leave
the office-holders with the name “ Re
publican party” without the recently
disgusted element it has heretofore! the public will be consulted, through
There maybe others besides “interes
ted local cavillers” who object to the
course that has been pursued. ' Let
An English railway engineer and fire
man have baen santeueed to three months’
hard labor for being dead drank at their
post*.
contained. Viewed from our central
standpoint here, the Liberal move
ment seems to be fast- gaining strength.
Its friends do not much care whether
certain prominent gentlemen proclaim
themselves in its favor before or after
the Cincinnati Convention. They in
tend to make the nomination after
such a rule that everybody who op
poses Grant will be satisfied, and every
hostile element of strength be centered
against him. Already they count in
almost any contingency the electoral
votes of New York, Pennsylvania, Illi
nois and Indiana in their favor, and
have strong hopes of carrying Ohio.
Important Decision Respecting
Building Associations.
In the Equity Court at Washington
City, on the 14th, Judge Wylie de
livered an opinion in t;he case of J.
Faust against Henry A. Clarke and
others, which is important to all who
have invested money in building as
sociations. It is well known that
lately a number of suits have been
instituted agaiust these associations,
for the purpose of deciding the pre
miums and fines, charged to be usu
rious aud illegal, aud as this is the
first case decided, it deserves special
attention. From the papers it ap
pears that a stockholder executed
deed of trust on certain pro
perty in 1870 to secure au advance
from the association ot $3,500; that
subsequently a judgment was ob
tained against him, aud the property
offered for sale under the deed of trust,
whereupon the judgment creditor ob
tained an injunction on the grounds of
usury and fraud. The case being re
ferred to the auditor, was heard on ex
ceptions tiled to his report, when the
whole question of premiums and fines
charged by the association was fully
and ably discussed. Judge Wylie, in
delivering his opinion, said he could
see no usury in the transactions of
building associations, as be regarded
them as joint stock companies.
More Agricultural Land Scrip.
—Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, has pre
pared and placed before the Senate
Committee on Education and Labor a
bill to provide for the further endow
ment aud support of colleges for the
benefit of agriculture and the mechan
ic arts. The bill provides that, for
the more complete endowment and
support of colleges of agriculture,
there is appropriated to each State in
which such colleges have been estab
lished, or may hereafter be established
one million acres of public land. The
Governor of the State is to certify to
the Secretary of the Interior that such
colleges have been established, where
upon the Secretary is to issue to the
trustees ot the colleges land warrants
to the amount of one million acres.—
A provision is made that no lands
thus acquired shall be disposed of for
a less price than that received by the
government.
Dolly Varden on thb Brain.—A
lady of Newark, seeing among the reli
gious notices, that a certain cleigyman
would preuch, “D. V.” said at once she
weald go to hear him, preeuming, as she
did, that the subjeetjof tne discourse wee
•‘Delly Verdens,”
the Legislature, if it can be done.
Monroe Advertiser.
The Germans and Gen. Grant.—
A Republican correspondent of the
of the Chicago Tribune, writing from
Germantown, Pennsylvania, says:
The question with the Germans is
simply tliis : Did 60.000 Germans, at
the breaking out of the rebellion,
shoulder their muskets in defence of
their adopted country? Yes, they all
say. A few years after, did Grant’s
administration not only sell the same
guns that were used by those Ger
mans to put down the rebellion, but
manufacture missiles of war and sell
them to the French to butcher their
brothers and relations at home ? They
all say yes to that. “ Ingratitude,
more strong than traitor’s arms, quite
vanquished hina. That raukles in their
hearts, and, as far as I ain able to
judge—and have talked with hun
dreds of them—the German vote in
this State will be solid against Grant.
You may think I am too sanguine, but
I am not; l know what I am talking
about.
The writer declares that if Curtin
can be prevailed on to take the stump
against Grant and in the interests of the
Cincinnati movement, the State can
be carried for the latter by 20,000 ma
jority. _
Economy in a Family.—There is
nothing which goes further towards
[tlacing young housekeepers beyond
the reach of poverty, than a well-de
signed sj'stem of economy in the man
agement of domestic affairs. It does
not matter whether the man furnishfes
little or much tor his family ; if there
is a leakage in his kitchen or the par
lor, it runs away, he knows not how,
and that demon waste cries “more,
more,” like the horseleech’s daughter,
until lie that provided has no more to
give.
It is the husband’s duty to bringjn-
to the house, and it is the duty of the
wife to see that uotbing goes wrong
fully out of it—not the least article,
however unimportant in itself, to estab
lish a precedent; nor under any pre
tence, lor it opens a doer for ruin to
walk in and this seldom leaves an op
portunity unimproved. A man geta
a wife to look alter his affairs and as
sist him in his journey through life,
and not dissipate his property The
husband’s interest should be the wife's
care, aud her greatest ambition should
carry her no further than his welfare
and happiness together with that of
their chilereo.
This should be her sole aim, and the
theatre of her exploits in the bosom
ot her family, where she may do as
much toward making a fortune as he
can do in the workshop, on the farm,
or in the counting-room. It is not the
money earned that makes a man
wealthy ; it is what he actually saves
from his earnings. A good and pru
dent husband makes the deposit of the
fruits of his labor with his best friend :
and if that friend be not true to him,
what has he to hope for ? If he dare
not place confidence in the companion
of his bosom, where is be to place itt
Rural World*
