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Over in Florida.
—At. the grand Democratic rally at
Tallahassee on tho 2nd itist. the
speakers were Col. Davidson, tho
conservative candidate for congress,
Col. Wilk Call, of Jacksonville, Col.
Brevard and the humorist and orator
Capt. Bloxham. Gardner Williams,
colored, followed. Tho meeting was
a great triumph for Democracy and re
form. The crowd was thoroughly en
thused and on joyed a feast of reason,
and all went away satisfied with the
day’s work. To our Florida friends
we will say again that they must nev
er relax but in .-ease their determina
tion day by day to disenthrall them
selves from Radical villainy.
a—The railroad, under the State’s
management, has been converted en
tirely into a political machine. Three
colored section hand came up the
road on Saturday to attend the Con
servative mass meeting in this city.
In the afternoon, we aro-reliably in
formed, they were peremptorily dis
charged, and were told that it was be
cause they were Democrats. They
have obtained employment at Mr.
Drew’s mills. The road is being
worked nicely for Air. Stearns’ elec
tion. The notice of sale on the 4th
day of December is intended to be
very virtuous, but it carries the road
squarely and well over election da}’,
which is the chief point with the au
thorities.
—The grand display on Saturday
iast is said to have so frightened the
administration that Mo,Lin took to his
bed and Stearns lied from the city by
the first train. Before leaving, how
ever, he directed that every conserv
ative employed on tho railroad, with
out regard to color or previous con
dition of servitude, should be dismiss
ed. As the result of this order, three
\
poor darkeys went up and Stearns is
now reassured.
—T. C. Gass, Republican colored
member of the last Legislature from j
Alachua couuty, is out for Drew and
Hull and the whole Conservative tick
et. The supporters of Stearns & Cos. j
are in great terpidation in Alachua.
—Tlie Conservatives of Columbia •
county have nominated Goo. B. Ellis 1
for the Senate and W. H. L. Towns- j
end and John T. Wolford for the As
sembly. The Republicans have in the ]
field A. A. Hoy to (non-property hold
er) for the Senate and (Jr. G. Keen j
and Charles Thompson for the As-1
sembly.
—Ben. McClennan was shot and
killed at Live Oak last Friday night
by "Earnest Benton. Both were col
ored, and both preachers. An old
grudge led to the difficulty.
—Jonathan C. Gibbs, late colored
Secretary of State, charged Furman
to his face on the stump in Marianna
with being responsible for all the
blood shed iu Jackson couuty. Gov.
Ames, of Mississippi, another carpet
bagger, said that “the blood of twenty
or thirty colored men in that State
would help the Republican party,”
and thereupon he went to work aud
got up a riot at Vicksburg, which end
ed in the killing of a hundred people.
He was only imitating Furman, who
stirred up strife in Jackson county
and procured the killing of a number
of both white and colored. Stearns
himself has charged him with the re
sponsibility for the blood shed in that
county.
—The Swindled Negroes. —The
commissioners in charge of the Freed
man’s Savings Bank make slow pro
gress in settling up the accounts. At
this rate of progress in accumulating
funds it will be four years hence before
another dividend of 20 per cent, can
be paid. The commissions have but
$120,000 on baud, while $600,000 is
required to pay a 20 per cent, divi
dend. The colored people of the South
realize now who swindled them, and
whenever an effort has been made to
acquaint the negroes of all the facts,
the expression lias been that no
Southern man would ever have been
of such meanness.
Serious Illot in Charleston.
Radical Negroes on the Rampage.
Charleston, September 7.--A seri
ous riot occurred late last night, grow
ing out of a street attack by colored
Republicans upon some colored men
who have been taking a conspicious
part in the Democratic canvass. A
small body of whites endeavored to de
fend the Democratic negroes, but they
were overpowered by the number of
the rioters. After a severe fight, in
which pistols were frequently used on
'both sides, the rioters held King
street, the main thoroughfare, from
midnight till sunrise—breaking win
dows, robbing stores, attacking and
beating indiscriininate’y every white
man who showed his face. A large
number of persons were injured,
mostly whites. Several of those shot
are in a critical condition. Intense
excitement prevails, the general feel
; iug being that the trouble is not yet
' over.
The riotous proceedings of the rice
| field negroes on the Combahee have
I been renewed, and the situation is ro
-1 garded as serious.
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1870.
Why Lincoln was Assassinated.
(From Pomeroy’s Democrat.)
Among the chosen friends of John
Wilkes Booth’s boyhood was a dash
ing, chivalrous young man named
Jon Y. Beal, whose home was in tho
beautiful Shenandoah Valley not far
from Winchester. Damon and Py
thias were not more attached to each
other than were Booth and Beal.
Beal was a Southerner in his sympa
thies, and planned raids on Northern
cities, and at last was captured at or
near Buffalo, • tried for piracy on
Northern lakes, and sentenced to be
banged on Bedloo’s Island.
One afternoon in the city of Wash
ington, while Beal was under sentence
of death, there alighted from a car
riage two men, who walked into a
room occupi”' 1 by > Washington
McLean of Cincinnati, who was at
tho time in Washington in the inter
est of his business. These men who
called were Senator Hale, of New
Hampshire, and John Wilkes Booth.
Booth was anxious to save the life of
Beal, his chum and confidential per
sonal friend. He had interested Mr,
Hale in his behalf. They importuned
McLean to go with them to the Pres
ident, as a Democrat—as a friend of
Booth—as a man who had much in
fluence with Mr. Lincoln, and to
vouch with Hale for any promises
Booth might make in return tor this
great favor to him. After a protract
ed interview McLean accompanied ■
Hale and Booth in a carriage to the !
residence of J. W. Forney, who was j
then in bed, tho hour being late.'
Forney was awakened from his sleep j
and told the object of his call. His
sympathies were enlisted, ns ho was
always readv to serve his friends.
It was an hour past midnight when
Hale, Forney, McLean and Booth
were driven to the White House. The
guard, at the request of Forney, ad
mitted the carriage to the grounds.
Mr. Lincoln was called from his sleep,
and there in the dead of night, he sat
and listened to the prayers of Booth
and indorsements of those who came
with him to ask the favor of Execu
tive clemency. This interview lasted
till four in the morning. There was
not a dry eye in the room Booth
knelt at the feet of Lincoln, clasped
his knees with his hands, and begged
him to spare the life of one man—a
personal friend—who, in serving the
ones he loved, had come to the door
of death.
Booth told all. He told, long be
fctVQj in aht Of ihi."..r, t.? do god’i;
bold deed, he had joined in a con
spiracy to abduct the President aud
to hold him as hostage for the release
of certain military prisoners who were
Booth’s friends, and who, it was
thought, were to be shot. He told of
the meetings they had held at the
house of Mrs. Surratt, and that all of
that plan had fallen to the ground
long before. Ho offered his services
at any time and any place or capaci
ty, free of cost or fearless of conse
quences. The eminent gentlemen
who were there with him joined iuthe
request that the prayer of Booth be
granted, and that Beal should be
pardoned. At last President Lincoln,
with tears streaming down his face,
took Booth by the hands, bade him
rrie aud stand like a man, and gave
him his promise that Beal should be
pardoned. He asked the party to de
part that be inigh gain rest for the
morrow, and said that the official
document that they asked for should
be forwarded at once to United States
Marshal, Robert Murray, in New
York, and through him to the officers
charged with the execution of Beal.
After breakfast Lincoln informed
Seward, Secretary of State, what he
had done or promised to do. Sew
ard said that it must not be; that the
public sentiment iu the North de
clared that to pardon Beal would dis
courage enlistments, lengthen the
war, and insult the sentiment that
called for blood. He chided Lincoln
for making such promises without
asking tho advice of his Cabinet, or
advising with himself, (Seward) on
State policy. As the argument grew
contentious, Seward declared that if
the conduct of the war was to be tri
fled with by appeals of humanity he
should get out ot the Cabinet and use
his influence against the President,
and should charge him with being in
sympathy with tho South. Lincoln
yielded aud Beal was executed. The
reaction to Lincoln’s nervous system
was such that for days he was far
from well.
The effect on Booth was terrible, j
He raved like a madmau, and in his
frenzy swore that Liucoln and Sew
ard should both pay for the grief and |
agony'he had been put to. From
the death of Beal, Booth brooded
vengeance for that which he consider
ed a personal affront. His rage took
in Seward, and he engaged Harold,
Atserodt and others to aveng Beal's
death by killing Seward, while he
(Booth) wreaked human vengeance
on the President. At last came the
hour. Booth killed Lincoln. His
friends and the relatives or
avengers tried their best to kill Sew
ard, and when they left him stabbed,
bleeding and bmp as a cloth, as he
rolled over behind tho bed whereon
they found him, they supposed then
work was completely done.
Our story is told. Wo have given
the truth of history, and told exactly
why Abraham Lincoln, the humane
President of the United States, was
killed.
Vermont goes Republican bv a re
duced majority. This was conced
ed.
ORGANIZED HELL IN LOUIS
I ANA.
Opening of (lie Radical Bayonet
Campaign.
Another White Citizen of Morehouse
Parish Murdered Armed Bauds of Ne
groes Fire on a Posse Great Excite
ment In the Country Attempt of Rad
icals to Keop the Negroes from Attend
ing Democratic Meetines.
(.special to N. O. Democrat.)
Bastrop, La., September 4.— The
plans of the Radical 'ampaign lead
ers are producing their natural effects,
even in such a quiet parish as More
house. On Friday last citizens from
Monroe sent for nssi. anee from the
people of Morehouse. ’ Shortly after
this a courier came from Island
: DoSiard, situated between Bayou
| DeSiard, Bayou Bartholomew and
Ouachita river, announcing that the
[ negroes were up and in arms to a
! great number. Citizens immediately
armed and mounted and loft for the
scene of danger, commanded by Sher
iff Poterkiu, of Morehouse.
After scouting for the best part of
the forenoon and finding no armed
bands anywhere they concluded to go
home, and accordingly broke up in
small squads. As one of these j
squads of about fifteen men, under ;
command of Jason James, was riding j
homewards three men were thrown !
out about three hundred yards in ad- j
vunce as a guard.
While passing the Ross place nine
miles southwest of Bastrop, they were
suddenly fired upon by a band of ne
groes, under cover of a ditch on the
roadside. Throe scouts immediately
charged the negroes, who fiod, closely
pursued by the men, and when they
arrived at a fence, somo hundred
yards fnrther on, the fugitives turned j
and delivered another ineffective
volley.
Tho three young men continued to
fire from their revolvers, killing one
and wounding four.
The negroes dispersed. One wound-i
ed negro was taken prisoner, and is j
now in jail in Bastrop. He says they !
were put up to taking arms by white
men, among whom was one, Law, j
who last year murdered Mayor Phelps, ;
of Bastrop.
All tends to show a diabolical plot ]
emanating from the Radical leaders j
to set the country on fire. In justice
to the colored ‘pri of Movebouso
parish, we must state that onlv the j
hands on two places took up arms. !
This is to make capital and to get j
troops.
Worse yet happened last evening.
Two gentlemen, Nick Evans and his
brother, one a rich merchant of Bas
trop and the other a large planter in
the neighborhood, wore going from
their place four or five miles east of
Bastrop to visit a sick neighbor nam
ed Gallaher, when they were waylaid
a short distance from home and shot
by a hidden party with a shot-gun
loaded with buckshot.
Evans fell immediately and died
this moling, six or seven buckshot in
his back and head. No sufficient
cause has yet been given for this mur
der. A negro named Morgan, sup
posed to be the assassin, worked on
Evans’s place, and had been dis
charged. Morgan’s wife is implicated
as accessory, and is reported to have
falsely told Evans that his neighbor,
Gallagher, was sick, in order to in
duce him to go out on the road, where
her husband waited in ambush for
him with a shot-gun. No arrest has
yet been made. The murderer is
supposed to have fled toward Oua
chita. Citizens are in close pursuit.
Quiet is prevailing hei-e now.
The meeting here has just come to
order. Speaking lias not yet began.
Notwithstanding the Radical dark
plots an immense crowd of negroes
arc in attendance, fully 4,000 whites
and blacks present and more arriving.
It may be depended upon for fifteen
hundred to 2,000 Democratic majori
ty. Ten full clubs, composed of whites
and blacks, are present, coming from
the surrounding plaoes in this par
ish.
They Had Been Lovebs. —They were
very fond of each other, very, and had
been engaged. But they quarrelled,
and were *oo proud to make it up.
He called a few days ago at her fa
ther’s house—to see the old gentle
men ou business, of course. She ans
wered his ring at the door bell. Said
he: “Ah, Miss , I believe; isvqur
father within ?”
“No, Sir,” she replied, “Pa is not in
at present. Did you wish to Bee him
personally ?”
“Yes, Miss,” was his bluff response,
feeling that she was yielding, “on very
particular personal business.” And
be proudly turned to go away.” “I
beg your pardon,” she called after
him as he struck the lower step, “but
who shall I say called f" He never
smiled again.-— Cincinnati Commercial.
i—pi ♦ mm
The Fraudulent Census.' —The
Ocala Banner prints a list of four i
hundred and forty-five Conservative j
white voters whose names have been j
stricken from the registration book in j
Mai ion county. This is done be
cause their names are not found in
tho census returns made under the !
act of February, 1875. Nothing
could more clearly show the umoliable
character of the so-called census than
such circumstances as this, It is said
that in Gadsden county nine hundred
names have been taken off.
BEN HILL.
Interesting Talk With (lie Georgia Con
gressman.
(IT. V. UedfieltVs Atlanta letter to the Cin
cinnati Commercial.)
This morning, in perambulating the
j streets of this hot and dusty Demo-
I cratic city, I ran against a man who
carried an umbrella in ono baud and
Ia law book in the other. His steps
was rapid, his head thrown forward
' and down, philosopher like, and his
1 umbrella carried in such ahap-hazard
way as to endanger the stomach of the
! average citizen.
This man was Ben Hill. We shook
‘ hands, exchanged the commonplace
remarks, and walked to his office.
Mr. Hill had just come in from mak
ing a speech on tl*s cowdition of the
country, and was to lea/e on an early
train to attend one of the numerous 1
where he practices, so lie had not long
to talk, but he declared that he could !
tell all he knew between trains any \
time, unless they made remarkably
close connection.
“You see,” said he, “I have to prac
tice law to keep up. My salary as a
Congressman don’t pay my expenses.
But it’s enough. I’m a low salary
man, believing that high salaries in
crease greed for office and corruption
generally.”
I asked Mr. Hill if he would be a
candidate for re-election.
“Yes, if the people want me.”
“And I suppose you have indica
tions that they want you ?’’
“Most assuredly ! Why, ten coun
ties of the district have declared for
me already, and I haven’t even been
in tho district to electioneer with a
man.”
“You have some opposition,
though.”
“Of course, but none that amounts
to anything. I believe I am the
choice of six-sevenths of the people of
my district, irrespective of party. If
lam not, the fact can readily be
shown. Plainly, if the people don’t
want me, they won’t send me.”
“Really,” he continued, “fifteen or
twenty men, mostly about Gaiusville,
can be named, who represent all the
opposition I have in the district. And
I don’t know but the opposition of
some of them comes from the simple
fact that they want the office them-.
selves.”
“Your district has considerable Uu-;
ion element, I believe?”
“X T o, mol that. (fives me strength.
I advocated the Union until the very j
last minute —until war was actually
on hand —doing all that a man possi
bly could do to avert secession.
When it was narrowed down to actu
al war I went with my section. But
many in what is now the Ninth dis- ;
trict did not. They clung to the Un
ion, and more than a regiment of,
these people found their way into the •
Federal Army. Rut they are un
friends now. That
ANDKRSONVILLE SPEECH
so much fuss is made about was only i
a vindication of Southern manhood, i
and I have no opposition to a re-elec- j
tion ou that account, as I know of. In :
fact, I have very little opposition any
way, and as I said before, it is mostly [
confined to a few who want the office
themselves.
AS TO TIIE STATE.
“Georgia,” he continued, “will go !
Democratic by a larger majority than j
ever before. The people have never j
been so united. Even during the !
war there was more division in the j
ranks than now. We will carry all I
the white people and about one-half j
the negroes.”
“The colored population arebecom-1
ing Democratic, are they ?”
“No, not that; but they have lost j
faith in the Radical leaders. They j
were told that if Georgia went Dem- i
ocratic they would be deprived of
their rights, returned to slavery, and j
all that kind of stuff. Well, Georgia
went Democratic, and nothing of the i
kind happened. Ou tho contrary, the |
State is far more quiet and peaceable |
than it ever 'as under Bullock. The
colored people see this, and, mark my |
words, more of them will vote with .
us this fall than ever before; yes, three j
times as many.”
“According to that there will soon |
be but one party in Georgia,” said I.
“That is just what it is coming to
—one narty.”
“AVliat then?”
“Well, independent candidates and
eventually a split up upon lines that
one cannot now foretell. But as for
the Republican party iu Georgia,
there really is none. They cannot
truly bo said to have an organization,
or to amount to anything as oppo
nents. Why, we will carry every one
of the Congressional districts of the
State, every one. Our delegation to
Washington will be solid.”
why it is so.
“I tell our Northern friends in
Washington this,” continued Mr. Hill,
“aud they cannot understand it. I
j tell them that tho Republican party
in tho South is no account, and that
it is organized ignorance, theft, cor
; ruption aud imbecility, and that is
j the reason the whites are arrayed sol
- idly against it. It is not because it is
! the Republican party. And tho Dem
ocratic party does not triumph be
-1 cause it is the Democratic party. It
is because it represents the wealth,
culture, and moral force of the com
munity. That is the whole secret of
the case, and why nearly every South
| oru State has fallen into the hands of
what is termed the Democratic party.
It ii- the only party than can give any
; Southern State peace, law, order and
! good government. Is not this true to
Contrast Georgia now with what it
! was under Bullock. Look at Alabama
i Arkansas and latterly Mississippi. In
the North it is different. Neither
party there monopolizes tho wealth,
intelligence, culture and moral force
of the community. If it did you
would have tho same condition of
things we find here, lake causes pro
duce like results.”
TUK PRESIDENCY.
“What of the Presidency ?”
I Well, I believe Tihlon will be elect
ed, although no man can say the con
i test is free from doubt. It promises
j to be close, but tho chances now seem
| decidedly in favor of Tilden.”
“What effect would his election
have in the South ?”
“Avery tine .-ffh; r 7t would re
store confidence, promote a general;
love of country, reconstruct in deed j
, as well as in name, and make thepeo-1
| pie feel so bright that nil branches of
business would feel tho reviving ef-;
feets.”
“What if Hayes should be chosen ?”
“Under Tilden tho South would he
happy. Under Hayes she would be
quiet. It is but fair to say that Hayes
was least objectionable to Southern
people of any candidate before the
Cincinnati Convention. Perhaps I
should qualify this by mentioning
Bristow. Bristow is well thought of
here. But Hayes is so much better a
man than either Blaine or Morton,
that his selection had a very quieting
effect in tho South. Had either
Blaine or Morton been chosen it
would have appeared as an eternal
declaration of hate toward the South.
The Southern people would have
been disencouraged, with no near
prospect of genuine reconstruction.
There seems to have been three ele
ments in the Cincinnati Convention
—a good element, a bad element, and
a negative element. The first want
ed Bristow, the second wanted
Blaine or Morton, and the other
wanted Hayes. It is a matter of en
couragement to tho South that the
second did not triumph. The radical
hate breeding faction of the Republi
can party is, happily, not so strong as
we feared.
Raising Hogs.
[From the Union Recorder.]
It is better for planters to raise
their own meat even if they use com
mon breeds of the country, but it is
easy ana far more pro'ltumo to pro
cure any of the finer breeds, such as
the Berkshires, Chester Whites, Suf
folks, Nohurus and their crosses.
These breeds fatten easily, grow fast
er and yield, hog for hog, from two
to three times as much meat on the
same feed. Some time last winter
near the close of the year, a Kentucky
paper gave an account of a hog rais
ed there, that weighed about 750 lbs.
He attracted great attention. The
breed was not mentioned, but we
know that great attention is paid in
Kentucky to that matter. It is not
desirable to grow excessive weights, i
the great point is to raise from thrifty
stock. The writer prefers the meat
of hogs that will nett from 180 to 200 .
Bounds, when cleaned for packing..
The first requisite then is a thrifty;
breed. They should have clean pla- J
ces for sloeping and warm, in winter.
The next greut point is to push them ;
in their growth from the time they |
can begin to crack corn for themselves. I
A pig should never be stinted, j
Corn meal is the basis, but every va- j
riety of green tood, clover, rye, corn- 1
stalks, cabbage loaves, and tho like,'
may he added. They should be fed ,
regularly morning noon and night. I
The cost of tho feed will about equal j
the value of the meat; but the hog in
the yard in which he runs, will make
manure enough to equal the cost of j
the food and the meat will be tne nett
profit. With care it will turn out so
every time if the grower has someone
of the thrifty breeds. Our people
should get thorn by all means. A
couple will soon stock a plantation.
In the meantime the common kinds
can be used. Fortunately the people
have an abundance of grain and it
will not speak well for a Georgia far
mer if ho has to buy a pound of hog
meat in the fall, or winter of 1877.
A Gay Turn Out,
In a certain town of North Georgia ;
not long ago a procession was seen
coming conducted by Sherrard Gay, a
man of means and some eccentricity,
living near there. He has a jenny
that ho used to electioneer on iu the
great Polk and Dalas campaign of
1814, and he claims her to he 48 years
old. He brought her out again with
a negro rider, two negroes in front
with drums, others on the back side
with fifes and flags. The jenny was
nearly covered from view by placards,
as follows:
On her forehead: “For President,
Samuel J. Tilden, for vice-Presi
dent, Thomas A. Hendricks.”
On one side of her neck: “For
Governor, Alfred 11. Colquitt.”
On the other side of her neck:
“For Congress, M. A Candler.”
Across her crupper-buckles:
“Hayes and Wheeler.”
This novel procession ' paraded the
town amid the wildest excitement
| and to the great amusement of all
i present. Nil’. Gay is a dyed-in-the
wool Democrat, and has no doqbtj/
tho election of his front tickotj©
says “that Old jenny knows ttnS
of the Democratic tocsin, aneSjßJ
1 ways ready to help the (kht to vijftfl
' rv.” Allhwii News. JHK.
Shall Omni Seize (ho Pr
[From tho Richmond Dm'pntch. 1
It is not improper to remind tho
country frequently that Frank
Blair iu 18(18 predicted that ifGener
! al Gsant ever occupied the Presiden
tial chair, he would not surrender it
alive. If, therefore, Grant chooses to
control the elections in
Mississippi and Florida, by the usi
the aruiv, and the election iu No
York, by the use of tho public money
in bribing votes under tho pretense
: of making deputy marshals of them,
people will put IliiH and that together,
and wonder whether he is providing
a life office for himself. For if he
can persuade the House of Represen
tatives that Haves was not elected
without the votes of the States which
the President controlled by force and
bribery, and the Senate that those
i States were carried for Hayes fairly,
and thus induce one House to refuso
to allow Haves to be counted in, and
the other House to refuse to allow
Tilden to be counted in, Grant will
have nothing to do but to hold on to
the office.
The question which wc have hero
mentioned,and which we have tried
to bring before the minds of the Nor
thern people, lias recently attracted
some attention in Washington city. A
i letter thence to the Cincinnati Cvm
i mere id says:
“A great deal of speculation is in
dulged as to the difficulties that will
; be encountered in counting the votes
of the electoral college if either Tilden
or Hayes shall have hut a small ua
j jority of them.
“Under the law the objection of
either house to the reception of the
vote of a State is sufficient to throw
| out that vote without debate. Tho
assumption is that if Hayes is elected
by a small majority, carrying such
States as North and South Carolina,
Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas,
or any of them, the House will object
to counting the votes of one or more
of those States, or as many of them
as will suffice to oust Hayes and elect
Tilden. On the other hand, the Dem
ocrats profess to bo equally appre
hensive that if Tilden should carry
those States, or some of them, anil
■ should have a small majority in tho
electoral college, the Senate would
i object to the counting of . some of the
votes, and thus defeat Tilden and elect
Hayes.
“Two could play nt that game of
; course, and for each State thrown out
’ D, v..„! i iae one.
It would come to boa question of de
-1 termination with the chances in favor
of the most belligerent, tHI the list of
doubtful States should.be exhausted.
“Curses, liko chickens, come home
to roost.’ A government of force for
the South means a government of
force for the whole country. We are
all in the same boat, as the Northern
people will perhaps find out before
long.
Excerps From Shakspearo.
There is no darkness bat igno
rance.
The cock upbraids one with the
waste of time.
There’s place and means for every
man alive.
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up.
But to support him after.
That’s a valiant flea, that darost eat
his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
Thieves for their robbery have au
thority
When judges steal themselves.
The sweat of industry would dry, and
die,
But for the end it works to.
When devils will their blackest sins
put on,
They do suggest at first with heaven
ly shows.
Wearriness can snore upon the flint,
when restive sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, aud our lit
tle life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it
wears,
Than settled age his sables and his
weeds,
Importing health and graveness.
In oui next issue we will publish
an address to the Baptist ladies of
Georgia, in aid of tho .Foreign Mis
sion cause. The address is from tho
pen of that zealous and devoted siHter,
Mrs. N. A. Bailey, of Quitman. Her
whole heart is in the noble work of
rousing our churches to the sustain
ing of our Foreign Missions, especial
ly the cause of Christ in China, to
which four devoted femalo missiona
ries from Georgia have consecrated
themselves. The address is bound to
do good, and will arouse our sisters
in tho State to renewed energy, and
the organization in every church of a
“Woman’s Mission to Woman” socie
ty.—Christian Index.
The formation of Democratic clubs,
composed of colored voters is qr %
i the fashion in Louisiana.
began to discover that tlVjgfi
lU'te.