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“INTO PEOSORIPTIOKT FOR OPIPTION’S SAKE-“BUT BE SXT PIE YOU ARE RIGHT, TPPEUNT GO AHEAD-” VOLUME G. ®j|c fnhpcith'iit f glak Rates of Idverlisiiiy. The following Hates ok Advertising will hereafter be observed at the Blade Office : For all transient advertising, 80 cents per Square, for the first insertion, or 40 cents per square for each subsequent insertion.— Ten lines or less of Brevier type is a square. One square, one month, $2 00 Two “ “ “ 3 00 Three “ “ “ 4 00 One square three months, 4 00 Two “ “ ■ * 700 Three “ “ “ 9 00 One square, one year, 11 00 Two “ “ “ • 19 00 Three “ “ “ 25 00 The above terms will be strictly adhered to, except in cases of special contract. In no instance will patrons at the North and from a distance, be charged less than home customers. Our space for advertising is limited, and unless we can get it at a fair, remunerating price, we shall do without it, and furnish our readers other matter in its place. Our subscription list already exceeds that of nine tenths of the country papers of Georgia, and is increasing every day. It is, therefore, an excellent advertising medium. As we are a “public institution,” if the peo ple pay our rates, we are obliged to adver tise for them. Tltc Law of Newspapers. 1. Subscribers who il<> not give express notice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to con tinue their subscription. •2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of j their newspapers, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the offices to which they are di rected, they are held responsible until they have settled the hills and ordered theirs discontinued. 4. If Subscribers remove to other places with out informing the publishers, and the newspapers are sent to the former direction, they are held res ponsible. 5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the office, or removing and leav ing them uncalled for, is printa facie evidence of intentional fraud. 6. The United States Court. 9 have also repeat edly decided, that, ft Postmaster who neglects to perform his duty of giving reasonable notice, ns required by the Post Office Department, of the neglect, ofa person to take from the office new spa pers addressed to him. renders the Postmaster lia ble to the publisher for the subscription price. M ■ “ LAGRANG E WORKS! BY 1.01 6S HABTMAH. WE would respectfully inform tbo citizens of LaG range and the surrounding country, that we are carrying on the Marble business on the South side of the Public Square, second door West of tlic Sims House, where we will furnish all kinds of Monuments, Tombs, Headstones, l'urui ture and Mantle-Piece work, of the finest Italian, Egyptian and American Marble, as cheap as it can j be got in the Southern country. All orders promptly attended to. JOHN M. 1> 1 - AIA H’K, * Travelling Agent. We are also agents for Wood A Perntt’s Ornamental Iron Works, and can furnish Iron Hailing for Cemeteries and public or private Iluil dings at Philadelphia prices. Persons wishing Iron Hailing will find it to their interests to cull and examine our book of Natural Designs, as it ■will enable them to judge for themselves. Dec. 2S-nl9-’59-ly. ml M 0 N L ME NT S,T OMB g , vJ ■DIE AD STONESJBWS.VASESJI IL FT- iixi’iuxr, Containing: a great variety of very beautiful MAItULE WORKS, such ns CARVED AND PLAIN MONUMENTS. —OK — AMERICA!*, ITALIA!*, EGYPTIAN ANI TENNESSE MARBLE. To all of which the attention of those who are interested in the purchase of such Marble are re spectfully invited. S. B. 0. will he pleased to till orders ou the most reasonable terms. Call at the Ware-Rooms, opposite the Georgia Railroad Do pot, and see specimens. Atlanta, Dec. 28, ‘59-19-ly 4NDREW J. SMITiI, Attorney at Law, NEWMAN GA. May 7,1868-39-ts. M HIMMT MI. The Greatest;, Reduction ever made in STANDARD SEWING TvPA.CPPITSTES. AFTER this date, I will sell the inncoviil) BARTIIOIiF FAMILY SEWING MACHINE at a reduction of #2O 00 from former prices. P. S.—The New Straight Needle Machine is now out. A. LEYDEN, Gen’l Agent. Atlanta, Nor. 18—14—ly. DRYGOODS! DRYGOODS!! J. L. CUTTING & CO., jYo. 23, Whitehall Street , Atlanta. W E great pleasure in informing our j ▼ ▼ friends and customers that we are receiving a superb assortment of DHY GOODS, among which may be found all the novelties of the season in LADI ES DRESS GOODS, —such as— SILKS, ROBES, LACE POINTS, MANTILLAS, EMBROIDERIES, SHAWLS, <fcc., Ac. We respectfully solicit a call from those visiting Atlanta. J. L. CUTTING CO. Atlanta, March 18-31-ts. y ft*?? I yi/iVUv Jj a J XiV <1 &J& &0 The exercises of this Institution will be resum ed on Monday, January 9th, 1860. KATES OF TUITION. Primary, Spelling, Reading and Writing, . per Quarter, ~ ftt 00 Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, per Quarter, 4 00 Higher English Brandies, per Quarter, 600 Latin and Greek—with the above, 7 50 l£2T* Good board can be had convenient to the school, at from $7 to $lO. Refers to former Pat rons. T. E. DANIEL, Principal. M. E. B. DANIEL, Assit’nt. Dec. 23-nl9-tf SOUTIIERN CULTIVAI OR, A MONTHLY JOURNAL, Devoted to Southern Agriculture, Horticulture, Stock B feeding Poultry, Been, General Jb'arui Economy, (tv., tL'c. and V D. REDMt'uN D, Fell tort T K R M S: One copy, one year, $1 Twenty-five copies, S2O Six copies, “ “ 5 One hundred copies, 75 Always iu advance. No paper sent unless the cash accompanies the Older. The Bills of all specie paying Banks, and Post Office stamps received at par. Remittances, by mail (postpaid) will he at the Publisher's risk. Address WM. S. JONES. Augusta, On. fly Persons who will act as Agents, and obtain subscribers, will be furnished with the paper at club prices. A MIRACLE! A WONDER !! ! “VT ATIONS are astonished and confounded at lN the unprecedented Low Trices of WATCH SPRING STEEL, HOOP SKIRTS at J. J. MKYER & BltO.’S. They are selling 30 Spring Steel lloops for SI.OO | •20 “ ‘ “ “ “ 80 j 15 “ “ “ “ 75 11 “ “ “ 05 9 “ “ “ “ 50 Don’t forget., these are to be had at J J. MEYER & BRO.’S, Bay Street, Newnan, Ga. March 2-29-ts. JOB PRINTING, iisrcLXJiDinsro PAMPHLETS, CIRCULARS, BLANK NOTES, UyJalPcDlij LABELS, RECEIPTS, programmes, BLA.MKS, &c., &c., &c., I Ncatlv and accurately executed at the Office o ‘■ the 1 ni)kpkmknt Blai>k, up stairs, over the Store j of Hilton A Aiiiiaiiam, Corner of Bay Street, Now j nan, < Jeorgin. | fW Our aim is to please by Promptness, Neat j j Work and Moderate Prices. A trial of our Work ’ is respectfully invited. j \Ye are also prepared to Bind, Trim and I get up as neat a Pamphlet as any Book Binder in the Stute, and we can assure our patrons that all orders sent us in this branch of our busi lness, will be promptly and tastefully executed. W. BROCK, All orii (i y a I 1. aw, IIETNG located at Pieroeville, llaralaon county > will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to his care in the following counties:— Haralson, Polk, Carroll, Heard, Campbell, and Coweta. Attention, prompting and candor. September 9, 1856.->-tf. NEWNAN, GA„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 18G0, £jrt fniqini'irnit §kk, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. 11. E. MORROW, ) EDITORS .1. II i; \ KV II A M MOB, [ am, T. W. IIOLTOV, ) PaOI'KIETOBS. W. W. HOOD, Publisher. TERMS : Forone year, ifpaidin advance, f2 00 “ “ “ if not paid in advance, 250 For six months, if paid in advance I<K) • “ “ if not pkid iu advance, 125 No paper will be discontinued until all arreai-a ges are paid, unless attlie option of the proprietor. UKstrllantous. From Gleason’s Literary Companion. THE ADVENTURES OF A BASHFUL MAN. BY CLARA AIOI'STA. Harry Gordon Singleton made Lis debut into tin’s world on a Friday. We deem this fact worth chronicling, since it was an event of some importance to our hero, and be cause we hope to show unbelievers that the old saw about the unluckiness of Friday is correct. From his vety birth, Harry was stigmatized. He was an exceedingly pretty babe, fair complexioned, blue eyed, brown haired, plump and rosy; but he was endow ed with an heritage far worse than a hunch back, a club foot, or a squint-eye —he was bashful ! When the ladies came to look at him in his cradle, and to pronounce him “a little beauty—the express image of his ; pa,” the little “sweet” would invariably put bis fat fist into his mouth and hide his interesting face in the pillow. He could not be won by sugar-plums or peanuts; be would bide behind his mother’s robes when asked for a kiss, and if a stranger attempted i to take him up, said sti anger usually got ! the worst of it, in the tvay of kicks and scratches. So it came to pass that, although people called Harry a charming little thing to his mother ; they expressed themselves aside in j very different terms, and maligned poor j Harry’s infantile character to an unheard of extent. To have listened to the private conversation oL half-dozen old gosajns on ‘ this point, you would have had no doubt in j your mind but Harry Singleton was the | most accurate edition of original sin extant. ! Mrs. Singleton—a fair-faced, handsom woman—regretted very greatly this unfor tunate trait in the temperament of her be- j loved firstborn, and used every endeavor to I break Li in of it, but without success, and j Harry grew up to youth the most beautiful j and retiring of all human beings. He was, I also, singular)’ unlucky. No child ever re- j ceived so many bumps and thumps since | the fall of Adam ; his forehead was a popu- | lous archipelago of blue, yellow and black j bruises, in various stages of coloring. He never touched a knife without cutting his I fingers ; he could scarcely eat his meats j without sticking his folk into his hands, and at length his father would allow him only a ! spoon with which to take his food—believ ing that he could do himself no damage with that pacific instrument, unless he swal lowed it. When there was eon pany at the house, Harry generally retired to an unoccupied room in the attic, where—having ensconced himself in the bed which stood there—he passed the day reading some old novel or book of history, picked out of tbo great chest in the garret used for the repository of rubbish; or, by way of variation, lie sometimes took refuge in the barn, and snugly bidden on the hay-mow, spent the time ill silent mediation on his unfortunate j destiny, lie would walk a mile around | through the fields to avoid meeting a young j lady; and when in the street, if he heard j the sound of wlierls he would leap over the ! wall or fence and lie prone on the ground j until the vehicle had passed by. As he grew older, he lost non© of his pe- j culiarities, and before lie was sixteen veais of age, bis mother’s chief difficulty was the fear that he would live an old bachelor.— Hundreds of silver dollars could not have induced him to speak to a girl of his age, and his father was obliged to forego his purpose of sending him to the Whitesboys’ school. Hut notwithstanding Harry’s excessive hashfulness, he giew up to be a fine fellow —brave, generous and handsome, and there was not a girl in town but would have felt herself honored by bis preference. Harrv, however, stood aloof from all the the female sex, and as a natural consequence, he was the subject of numberless practical jokes, and the hapless occasion of continual gig ! gling among the gay girls at the singing 1 school. When Harry was nineteen, Rosalie Wa fers came to Whitestown to pass some time j with her aunt, Mrs. Judge Flanders. Rosa- I lie was a pretty, bright-eyed, mischievous j fairy of seventeen, and if the truth must be ! confessed, she took quite a liking to hand ; some, bashful Harry Singleton; butof course j she was too much of a coquette to allow I Harry to guess it. He, on his part, thought | jiiuiself dead in love, thongh he dared not I raise, his eyes to the peerless face of his guid ing-star. For whole days he racked his | brain, planning how he should address her, but without deciding upon anything definite, j One night, at. singing-school, a bold idea flashed across bis brain ; its verv boldness made it seem practicable. He would offer to escort Rosalie home ! It was an audacious act, and Harry trem bled in every limb at the thought of it: a cold perspiration started out of every pore ; , his hair nearly stood erect, and his face 1 flushed hot as the bosom of Vesuvius, n© 1 atteijfj'jfc losing, but his fine teuor voice broke dowir; he coughed, hemmed, and flourished his handkerchief, and was at last obliged to sit down in despair. The exercises of the evening closed ; Har ry seized his hat and rushed for the entry, where he took his station in full view of the door through which Rosalie would emerge. Her crimson hood appeared in the doorway, and his teeth chattered in his head, but his resolution was unshaken. He made a sortie in her direction, knocking over little James Brown, the barber, and fearfully mutilating the new calash of Miss Winn, the milliner, in the act; hut these were minor affairs, and not worthy of his notice. He touched the shoulder of Rosalie. “ May I—may I—go home with you to day—to-night—this evening?” stammered he. She put her little hand within his arm. and they went out together into the star light. Harry seemed to tread on air. This world was this world no longer, but the charmed paradise of impossibility; and he dared not speak, lest he should break the spell. The little lady, too, was strangely silent, and the entire distance to the house of Judge [ Flanders was passed without a word. At the door Harry would have bidden his com panion goodnight, but she retained his hand and drew him into the parlor ; and there the light of the chandelier fell full on the face of the pretty laughing woman, and with I dread dismay Harry saw that not Rosalie, I but Mrs. Judge Flanders herself, stood be | fore him. He had waited on the aunt, and not the niece ! He littered an exclamation ; and started up to retire, but Mrs. Flanders j gnodhumoredly detained him. j “ Don’t go, Harry,” she said kindly, “ you j really did bravely. lam proud of you; 1 knew from the first that you had made a I mistake, hut was fearful you would never 1 try sg.ain if I denied your escort. Rosalie I will Leyji soon ; w ait for her.” “ Indeed, ma’am—l—l—should be happy to —not to— in fact, ma’am, I believe I am ! wanted at home.” Harry started for the door backwards, | but instead of choosing that by which he : ; had entered, he boiled out into the dark j j kitchen and seiz’d the handle of the first j door that offered. Mrs. Flanders was fol- j ! lowing close, but before she could utter a : single word she heard his “ good night,” t succeeded immediately by a seties of thumps and rumblings in the direction of the cellar. The truth burst upon her at once. Har ! ry had taken the cellar-door and had fallen down the stairs! She seized a light and I (lew down the steps. There lay Harry, with : his head in the trough of ashes, and his 1 feet unromantically elevated over the shelf of a neighboring cupboard. He was con siderably bruised and stunned, but not oth erwise damaged. Mrs. Flanders would have raised him up, but he anticipated her; and without stopping to shake himself, bounded up the stairs and made a dive at the outer door, the ashes streaming out behind him like a cloud of gray smoke. The door was opened from without, and I Rosalie herself appeared. At sight of the hatless, smoking Harry, she uttered a loud shriek and fell to the floor, while our hero dashed over lier prostrate form and took the track for home, at a speed unequalled in j the annals of foot races. Breathless and i used up genes ally, the young man reached I home, crawled in at a hack window and | retired to his bed, which he kept for three ! days afterward. j In spite of all apologies and flattering j courtesies from Mrs. Flanders—in spite of j gentle, affectionate ad vances from the fair. 1 Rosalie herself, Harry Singleton could nev !er l>e tempted to stey inside the mansion of the judge: and Rosalie, after waiting two j years for Harry to make himself agreeable to her, gave up the vain hope, and became the wife of a substantial widower with four children, which was quite a good beginning. Harry went on his way alone, as his mother had feared and prophesied, and that exemplary little woman set about learning him to repair stockings and replace lost buttons, with commendable patience. Ho had studied for the law, had been two years admitted to the bar, and was a talented and rising young man. Being also wealthy and handsome, half the ladies in the village were in love with him, but he gave them a i wide berth and passed them by. Mr. Singleton dabbled somewhat in poli- ; ties, and at the early age of thirty he was i elected member of Congress; and in cele bration of this event a grand dinner in his honor was given at the Whitestown Hotel. !Of course the successful candidate must be present, and etiquette demanded that he l should bring a lady with hint. The com mittee of arrangements waited upon hint to inform bint of this fact, and it may well be believed that the communication filled him with vague horror. He begged of the gen \ tlemen to provide him a partner, if be must have one, stipulating only that the lady ; j should not be a young lady ; arid in due \ j course of time be was informed that he was Ito attend Mrs. Grnbhins, the widow of Dr. limothy Grubbins, the wealthiest, as well !as the fattest and tallest woman in the whole country. The eventful evening arrived. Mr. Sin- j I gleton took Mrs. Grubbins to the hotel in a j chaise. The lady was magnificently attired : :in a doubleskirted tarleton, with ribbons, feathers, and fearfully extended crinoline. Poor Harry I the thought of escorting that giantess‘into a room filled with people • made him sweat like one under the influence of a powerful dose of ipecachuana. But he was in for it, and must get out the best way he could. Mrs. Grubbins, proud and tri umphant, preceded hirn, breaking the pas sage, and compelling lesser people to yield the ground. Just as she arrived on the threshold of the banqueting ball, she drop ped her fan ; and just at that moment, the audience perceived Harry in the baok- I ground, proposed “three cheers for Hon. Mr. Singleton !” Harry stooped to reclaim the fan, and when the enthusiastic multitude looked for their champion he was nowhere visible.— j Cries ran round the room loud and vehe j ment: “ Mr. Singleton ! where is Mr. Sin- I gleton ?” and directly Mr. Singleton, look- I ing very hot and very much confused, ap I peared from under the upper skirt of Mrs i Grubbins’ dress-tbat lady having complete j ly submerged the honorable gentleman in the folds of her drapery. Gentlemen smiled in their sleeves, and ladies giggled behind their handkerchief: Mrs. Grubbins looked ; more regal than ever, and Mr. Singleton i leaned against a pillar for support. The announcement of dinner was a great relief. Judge F'landets presided: Mrs. Gnib ; bins occupied the seat at Singleton’s right: I Mrs. Flambeaux sat at bis left, and Luov ; Deane, the village belle, was his vis-a vis. Harry’s posiMon was exceedingly embar rassing to one of his peculiar temperament. I lie dared not refuse anything that was offer led him, lest someone should look at him. I and the consequence was. his plate literal!v ! groaned beneath its weight of edi hies. To 1 mato sauce—his especial borrow—was pass ed around : a preserve plate full was alloted ito him. He tried hard to swallow some. I but it stuck fast in liis throat : it choked 1 and sickened him, and set him to coughing I with alarming violence. “You have taken a severe cold, T pre • snme ?” remat ked Miss Flambeaux. I “Yes, madam, thank you, I have.’’ re turned Singleton, trembling on the verge of another sneeze. “Why don't you eat your tomatoes ?” 1 j queried Mrs. Grubbins. “My poor dead | and gone Daniel used to say that there was ; ! nothing in the whole vegetable equal to to matoes.” “No doubt, madam, they are verv fine ;’’ and Singleton essayed a second spoonful.— That second does had well nigh been too much for him, and with desperate resolv , he watched until the whole company were , engaged in drinking a tost, when he tilted the preserve dish and let its contents run • into his napkin, which receptacle he whiffed I , into liis pocket without delay, and immedi ately felt easier. A moment afterwards , Judge Flanders proposed a sentiment: , “The Honorable Harrv Singleton : May , be always retain the title of ‘Honorable,’ , but may he soon resign bis right to be call-,. ed Single. It is not good for man to be •. alone.” |, The sentiment was drank with applause. , Singleton, blushing red hot at the insinua- j tion conveyed by the words of the judge, ~ thrust his hand in Lis pocket to get his!, handkerchief, when instead, out came the ’ , napkin, tomato and all. lie mopped his , forehead vigorously with it, and the luscius vegetable formed an uncutoua poultice there on—completely transfiguring his counte nance. Blinded with the syrup, and half j dead with mortifh ation, he thrust the nap kin into his pocket and secured the hand kerchief, while the astounded company look ed on in silent amazement. “Does your nose bleed, sir?” inquired Mrs. Grubbins, quite audibly. “ What in Heaven’s name is the matter !” : I screamed Judge F'landets. “ Ahem ! only a slight cold, thank you, sir,” stammered Mr. Singleton. “Acowld, is it? Faith now, and yer ‘■ honor’s nose must la? afther turnin’ itself in side out, thin !” exclaimed Mr. O’Toole, the Irish patriot and orator. ; Lucy Deane was laughing; Miss Flam- , beaux was horrified : Mrs. Grubbins looked ; shocked : our friend Singleton was nearly j suffocating with shame. He leaned back in his chair to recover his breath, and as soon a he could speak, begged to be excus- j ‘ed a moment; be did not feel quite well.— | And forthwith lie arose and made for the door; but—horror of horrors!—he bad sat ‘on the pocket containing the napkin of to mato, and bis w hite pautaloons were drip- . ping red with the sanguinary vegetable! A simultaneous shriek burst from all as sembled : ’ “ Good heaven, Mr. Singletou is wounded ! I Murder ! murder ! Call a physician ! Seize 1 the murderer! Send for Dr. Spillpowder ! j Quick —he’ll bleed to death! Murder!murdei’ - I The infuriated audience rushed hither NUMBER 14. and thither, and seme one encountering John, the waiter, with a carving-knife in his band, took him for the perpetrator of the I crime, and seized oport him without defay. John straggled anil swore, and laid about him with right good will, but he was over powered by numbers, and at last obliged to yield. There was a regular fight, and black eye* and swelled noses were the order of the day. Tte ladies fled to the ante room ; Judge Flanders ran for a surgeon, and dnr- I ing the melee Singleton made his escape. — No grass grew beneath his feet; he galloped for home as fast as his legs would carry him; but the night being dark, and be be ing slight)*- flustered, he oi.fortunatefy nsis ; took the Ronse, and entered, uo< Ms owe residence, but that of a correct old spinster named Harriet Willis. The bouse were somewhat similar, and Singleton, without pausing for a light, rushed up stairs and in to bis own chamber, as he thought, where, breathless and exhausted, be flung himself upon the bed. Miss Harriet bad retired some time pre vious, and the sudden advent of Mr. Stngle i ‘on aroused her from a scond alumber.— Springing from the bed. regardless of the fact that her teeth were out, and her natu~ ral curls reposing in the bureau-drawer, she flew from the house to the nearest neigh bor's, where, having secured assistance, she returned to meet the horrified Singleton, just emerging from the door. I’oor Harry tried to explain, bnt Miss W iiiis would listen to nothing : her repu tation was ruined, she said, and Singleton must either settle or marry her ! A fiftv dollar bill, which was given freelv. mended the broken character, and learned Singleton 1 never to go to bed in the dark. The atiair at the Whitestown Hotel was rather a serious one. The patriot O’Toole had his nose broken : Dr. Spillpowder broke iiis horse's wind to get there before Single ton should bleed to death; John, the wait er. broke the heads of the half-dozen gen j tlemen who assisted in his capture: and Judge Flanders broke a'! the bnttons off bis waistbands running after the surgeon and shouting murder. Mr. Singleton is yet unmarried —as fine a i fellow as you would wish : and if you want to see blushing, iust mention tomato sauce to him. Strnnse Orcnrrviice—A ’l ll idcrcr wanders six years, and at last give him’ 1 self up to Justice. A man named Samuel Stanley, who lias been, according to his own storv. a wander er for the last six years, has voluntarily sur rendered himself to the sheriff at St. Fan?. Minnesota, and desires to be sent back to I L abel county. \ a., where he savs he is I charged w ith the homicide of a man named I’eyton. The murder took place six rears ago. He tacitly confessed his gnilt in stat ing that the homicide was caused bv his , having discovered I’eyton in criminal con nection with his wife, and by saving that he did not think his punishment would exceed a short term in the penitentiarv. For the past three years Stanley (who is a native of Ohio) has worked in Miunesota, and previ ously in Wisconsin. He recently returned from a visit to Pembina, on the Red river. The editor of the St. Paul Pioneer, who Lad an interview with him in jail, savs: Without manifesting much contiision for the crime, or fear of punishment, he imagin ed, wherever be lived, that everybody look ed upon him as a murderer. The elements even whispered in his ears, when he had abandoned the society of men. and lived aloue in the depths of the forest. Conse quently be has had no abiding place for six years, but has roamed through the country from Texas to Minnesota, suffering, as he says, more than a hundred deaths. At last, almost worn out, he came to the conclusion to deliver himself up. that after the sentence of the law had been executed, he might again live among his friends, or make a home where he would be undisturbed bv its terrors. The tale of the wanderings is strange and interesting—so strange that it occurred to us that his mind was not sound, but we could detect no evidence of mental aberration, and nothing in his conduct that could not be reeoneild iu view of the awful crime he had committed. Strumous or Scrofulous are the curse, the blight, the potato rot of mankind. Thev are vile and filthy as well as fatal. Thev arise from contamination and impuriety of the blood, and are to be seen all around us ev erywhere. One quarter of all we meet are tainted w ith them, and one quarter of these die of them : die foolishly too, because they arecurable. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla cleanses out the Scrofulous corruption from the blood, renders it pure and healthy, and effectually expurgates the foul contamination from the system. No longer groan under vour Scro fulous disorders, since the irresistible Ayer 1 has provided bis masterly combination of ’ curative virtues that he calls Sarsaparilla. 1 — Democrat, Waterbary, Ct. What key opens the door to misery aud 1 ruin ! Ans. Whis key. Will any one through the Farmer’s De partment, inform a poor man the best way ! to start a nursery I Certainly— get married. Wife (complainingly)—“l haven’t more than a third of the bed.” Husband (triumphantly)—■“ Well, that’s • I all the law allows you.”