Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

VOLUME XLII.] MILLEDGE V1LLE, GEORGIA, Mil 1, 1872. NUMBER 40. e liberal Union, IN Id PUBLISHED WEEKLY MILLEDGEVILLE. GA, BOUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE, (Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson Streets,) At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year. S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for first insertion, and seventy-live centsfjr each subse qnent continuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies, Obit- osries exceeding six lines, Nominations for office,Com munications or Editorial notices for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising. 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 PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. Agents for Federal Union in New York City GEO. P. ROWELL & CO.. No. 40 Park Row 8. M. PETTINGILL &. CO., 37 Park Row. fF" Messrs. Griffis & Hoffman, Newspaper Advertising Agent*. No. 4 South St., Baltimore, Md„ are duly authorized to contract for advertisements at oui lotretl rates. Advertisers in that City are requast ed to leave their favors with this house." £ i 15 § i r u t o r g 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*