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VOLUME IV. ROME STOVE AND HOLLOW-WARE WORKS !! A WRITTEN GUARANTEE WITH EVERY STOVE SOLO. IF ANY PIECE BREAKS FROM HEAT, OR ANYTHING IS THE MAT TER WITH YOUR STOVE. BRING IT BACK AND WE WILL FIX IT IN TWO HOURS OR GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE. EVERY ARTICLE WARRANED. POTS, OVENS, SKILLETS AND LIDS OF ALL SO RTS, JOHN .1. SEAY, UropriHor. Ofilet* and Salesroom 30 Hr,')atl SI., Home, Georgia. FOUNDRY CORNER I R.VNKUIN STREET AN!) RAILROAD. Coppsr, Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware. TIN ROOFING, GUTTERING AND JOll WORK I'ItOMPTU ATTENDED TO TIN W VRE SOLO Vls ICY CHEAP. <U>l N-'till. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE! T II K S* M M E R V*L Ij E (! A Z E T T !J WILL BE FURNISHED TO SUBSCRIBERS, postage puki-aiii, AT THE FOLLOWING RATES: ONE YEAR- - Si-75 SIX MONTHS -- - -- LOO THREE MONTHS 50 Those rates, considering the amount of matter furnished, make Tin: Gazette The Cheapest Weekly Paper In Nonh Georgia. In order to enable every one,to become a subscriber and sup porter of a g lod, substantial home paper, the price has been reduced lo these low figures. Therefore, you arc expected to give us your aid. Take it yourself, and see that all your neighbors take it.'- 41 Aon nooil t I Vonr Ihimily Needs If I Vonr Aciolilious Need 111 THE GAZETTE has endeavored to keep all the promises made by it- proprie tors upon its introduction to the public. This is a guarantee of good faith on their part, when they assert that it will hereafter not only maintain the high standard of its past career, hut will ho constantly improved, as experience suggests and ability enables. The wish and purpose of its management is to make the MOST USEFUL AND READABLE JOURNAL That its income will afford, with self-denial, constant effort, available talent and high pride in their calling, upon the part of its publishers and editor. Asa I'Al‘Hii FOR r rm: FAMILY It will be welcomed for’the purity and variety of its miscellany carefully selected from the best foreign and American literature and for its educational influence in urnishing the current News of the Bay in Brief. THE GAZETTE being of True Democratic principles will countenance nothing but Truth, Justice, and fair dealing to all, and exposing all Rings, Cliques, Frauds, and everything that is calculated to injure or defraud the public. The Manufacturing Interests of Northwest Georgia and Surrounding country, will receive constant attention, and every measure calculated to promote them, especially the development of the various industries of this region, will find in The Gazette hearty support Thanking the public for the favor shown the paper in the past, we invite renewed and enlarged support for the future, of our efforts in assisting to make the .South the peer, in industrial prosperity, educational facilities and political liberality, of any other section of the American Union. Address all communications to JAMES A. CLEMISNT, Editor and Proprietor, *u nirervillc Chattooga Cos., Georgia. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 2. 1577. My Mother's Voice. 1 often think there is a link, ’Tween thiswoild and the other, Ami Bootn to hear afar and rear, A tone death could not smother; That eomes tome from o’er the sea, Where saints in bliss rejoice; The sweetest, sound my hwart has found, My own dear mother’s voice. In dreams of bliss I feel her kiss, Her hand upon my head, And see her there so pure and fair, beside my lonely bed: Flushed is her cheek iff-ho should speak, In accents lowatul mild. While from above with deathless lovo, She looks on mo her child. In mid-day sheen or serene. Or morning’s mellow *;low, By lamp’s dim Ilamo ’tis e'er the same, I hear its music How; And seen, to feel time cannot heal That tie, so early broke . But brings again in grief and pain. The words fond love has spoken. 1 do not know, it may be so. That in my heart's deep cells, This long loved tone remained alone, And there, in sweetness dwells And thence, at will, when all is still, It comes, a living w ole, And in my dreams an angel seems, That; whispers to iny soul. In wilds unknown, on mount ain-dome, Or oceans deep and tiro and, Oil deser plain mid storm and rain, I‘ve on its music fed; And here, at home, no me re to roam, It makes my lmurt rejoice. The sweetest sound it ever found, My own dear mother's voice. DUTY OF PARENTS IN SUSTAINING l>ln i li P^’liools. BY 11BV. JAMES A. CLEMENT. PART VI. How groat th“n is the responsibility resting upon parents to teach their little ones, even from their birth the great principles of religious truth! Parental responsibility, liow great! how fearful!! Have we fully realized our relation to our children? Do wo say, we are unable to perfom these duties? That wo are not prepared for the emergency? Then why did you place yourself in the position, where there was the greatest, and almost sure pos.-ability and the greater probabil ity that such responsibility would devolve upon you? Did you not know before hand that the marriage relation was a sacred and responsible one, not merely with the twain, hut with the results of such relation? We hold that no man, no woman, should assume such a relation until they are properly prepared to dis charge the duties and responsibilities growing out of that relation. And il men and women would not look upon the as. liming of the said marriage relation in so frolicsome light as it is so generally done, but follow the Divine dictation, “marry only in the Lord,” then our children would be oftencr “brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord,” and he found walking in the paths of holiness and r.ot so frequently bringing our gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Recurring again to the duties of pa rental instruction, no one, wo presume, will deny that parental obligation properly to train up the children committed to their charge, exists, and men and women formerly and solemnly pledged themselves to discharge this obligation, when assum l ing the marital relation. “This obliga tion implies a godly life or example. The patents arc to walk in the same holy path they would have their children I ursue. A godly example is a silent monitor, more powerful than the mo.-t affecting appeals, or urgent en treaties, or prudent counsels. The parent is under obligation to submit to the au thority of God, in keeping all his com mandments, not only for his own sake, hut for the sake of his children. All this is implied in the expression with respect to pious Abraham; ‘He will command his children and his household after him.’ “This obligation implies also faithful and tame, t prayer for the children. Job prayed for his children. Prayer is inter course with Go !, and it strengthens ull the social principles, and enlivens in the highest degree every parental emotion and impulse, and so qualifies the parent the better to train up the children in the fear of God. Parental prayer avails with God, and the children are blessed in a thousand ways by the answers he gives. Frequent and solemn prayer sets the ex ample, anil excites the impulse, in the ease of the children. But parental ex ample and prayer are notonough. Faith ful, religious instruction, from the child’s entrance into life, is required. Consider s.nic of the results of pious parental in struction. 11, insensibly blends intellectual and moral instruction iri the same process. This it does at an age when moral im pressions are easily made upon eveiy mental faculty, and moral principles are incorporated in the very texture of mind. “Now, the conscience possesses the tenderesc sensibility, the will is submis sive, the heart is confiding—there is no prejudice to combat- -no prido of opinion to encounter —r.o artful sophistry to ro futo—no deep-laid policy to oppose—the evil propensities are yet dormant—evil passions are as yet asleep—the cares of the world, its business, its excitements, its pleasures, its ambition, its examples, make as yet no appeal to the attention— and released from the responsibilities and solicitudes of life, the young and opening mind may press its whole energies upon moral subjects. Besides, childhood is the Lest time in which to inculcate the principles of moral responsibility. The foundation of moral character is now laid in the a priori fac ulties of mind. Moral being, moral life, moral history, now begin it: their primary elements—doctrines, conduct, enterprises tastes, pleasures, associations, originate in the moral character now formed. The mind now receives the elements of its subsequent indefinite expansion, as a citi zen of time, and a candidate for eternity, flow he is to think, to act, to (eel, as a subject of God’s moral government —what are to he his moral sensibilities and ten dencies -what are to bo the elements of his whole moral being—is now to he de termined. A more solemn or important duty cannot be conceived of than this which is devolved upon parents. 1 The elements of future strength are wrapped up in the organized elements contained within the limits of the unsight ly coil of the acorn, and in their early evolution a child may snap the tender twig; hut in the maturity of their devel opment, tho oak spreads its strong branches towards the heavens, and sur vives tho shock of a thousand storms. The streamlet down the slope of the mountain may be diverted in its early progros from its original course by a tiny obstructing pebble, and so be lost in the depths of some murky, doleful cavern; but had it flowed on in the proper direc tion, it would have received the aid ot countless streams in its progress, and rolled its congregated Waters into the dis tant ocean—a noble river, tin boundary of empires, and bearing upon its broad, deep bosom, the navies and tho commerce of the world. “One of the results of pious parental in struction is, the mind at an early age is brought under tho convicting and con verting grace of God. Children so in structed, know more of the precepts, in vitations, promises, doctrines, warnings, threatening!! of the Bible, and hence have a livelier sense of sin and clearer views of pardon than many old persons who never enjoy and the privilege. The exalted pity and distinguished usefulness of Samuel, Timothy, Augustine, Hooker, Wesley, Dwight, Gardener, Doddridge, and a page of the noblest names among men, are to be ascribed to tho early education of pious parents. From tho same source the State has been furnished with some of its most illustrious champions and strongest pillars; the halls of learning, legislation, and jurisprudence, have been adorned with some of their brightest or naments; and the no less honorable and respectable pursuits and toils of daily lile are dignified with industry, morality and integrity.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) There is probably more genius devel oped in newspaper offices titan anywhere else on earth. A San Francisco editor has recently invented a process by which a far. simile of a whole newspa per page can Let legraphed at once. But this is nothing compared with the feat of the editor of the: Dallas (Texas) Herald , who has invented a “builplione” for searing cattle from tho railroad track. The twenty years of constant thought necessary to complete this wonderful invention has of course left the editor bald-headed, but he has his reward. The “Lullphono" would scare the very dickens to death and Lack again, and as for the poor bull, let him hut hear it once, and he is a rav ing maniac for the rest of his life.— Courier-Journal. An application was made to Sir John lies Muntell, at Salford police court, England, for a summons to stop a cock from crowing so early as three o’clock in the morning. The applicant said a cock began to crow at that unreasonable hour every morning, to the great annoyance of himself and others, and ho wanted the magistrate to assist him in abating the nuisance. Sir John refused to accede to Die request, observing that ho did not know that the crowing of a cock consti tuted an offense which could be brought under the cognizance of‘4he law. A .-tidden draught of hot air is reported | to have passed through a cotton field and peach orchard in YV extern Texas a few days ago, scorching and killing every thing it touched for a space ol one hun dred and forty yards wide and four hun -1 dred yards long. Four South Carolina Widows. At Prosperity, a station on the Green ville A Columbus railroad, says the New berry (S. C.) Herald, there dwells in reach of tho sound of the whistle four widows whoso names and deeds should be printed in letters of gold- \\"e shall tell of them—to spare blushes - first as No. I. This lady—as, in fact, ull the others—lost her husband during the war, and was left in straightened circum stances. Did she sit down and grieve at at her fate? By no means. She has raised four children, besides tine crops, and to-day she has much of last year’s cot ton and flour on hand, is free from debt, and is able to pay cash down for what she wants. No. 2 looks complacently on all of her last crop of cotton and with a scene of perfect rest and absolute fullness of 15,000 pounds of flour, neither of which she has sold because she had no use for the money here’s a widow for you. The only thing which disturbs her rest now is what to do with her new fodder, every place being occupied with the old. She, toe, like a true woman, has raised children end set them up under their own vine and fig tree. No. 3slruggL and through the years which have rolled on since the late unpleasant ness, raised six children; given each at majority sf>(K) in cash. Last year she bought a tract of land for which, $1,400 in good money was paid. Has corn, fod der and other things in abundance. No. 4, like unto the others, has made a splendid fight and brought, up a large family in the way they should go, has of last year’s crop abundance, pays cash in trade and loans her earnings out on interest. What is Moderate Drinking? Tho advocate of total abstinence from intoxicating liquors are wont to condemn even a moderate use of stimulating drinks on the ground teat “moderate drinking is the parent of excessive drinking.” The London Lumet questions the correctness of tins proposition, but. in its negative definition of what is meant by “moderate drinking the votaries ot Bacchus wiil find very little comfort. “The man,” says tho Lancet , “who begins (he day with a ‘soda and brandy’ has very little respect for his constitution, and, if he does not alter bis habits, they will alter his heal ill. t hid glasses o! beer and glasses of spirits in a forenoon do not come within range of moderate drinking. That is not moderate drinking whi h adds fifteen or twenty heats to the pulse, or which flushes the face. Finally, all casual drinking is bad, presumably, and not moderate drinking. Tho system will not receive food merely as a m-tter of conviviality at all sorts of hours. Still less will it receive with im punity drink in this way. Drinking which disturbs sleep, either by making it. heavy or driving it away, is not moderate. Moderate drinking is that which consists with a clean tongue, a good appetite, a slow pulse, a cool skin, a clear head, a steady hand, good walking power and lie lit, refreshing sleep. It is associated with meals, and is entirely subordinated to more convenient and less objectionable forms of food. That such drinking pro duces drunkenness has yet to be proved, as it has yet to be proved essential to health.” The Stonewall Brigade. Col. Kyd Douglas writing to the Phila delphia Times refines the following inci dent of the battle of Manassas: Tho General formed his brigade along the crest of the hill hear the Henry house, the iiuui lyiuc down behind tlm brow of it, in support of the two pieces ol artillery placed in position to play upon the ad vancing foe. Gen. Bee, his brigade being crushed and scattered, rode up to Gen. Jackson, and with the excitement and mortification of an untried but honorable soldier, re ported that the enemy were beating him him hack. “Very wcdl, general, it can’t he belli ed.” replied Jackson. “But how do you expect to stop them?” “We'll give them the bayonet!” was the answer briefly. (Jen. flue wheeled his horse and gallop ed back to liis command. As he did so, General Jackson said to Lieut. L ie, of his staff: “Tull the colonel of this brigade that the enemy are advancing; that when their heads are seen above the hill, let. the whole line rise, move toward with a shout, and trust to the bayonet. I am tired of this long range work. ” do the storm which followed Bee’s re turn to his command, he was smut on foot, Iris horse shot from under him. Wilt) the fury of despair, he strode among his men, tried to rally and to hold them against the torrent which boat upon them; and finally, in a voice which rivaled the roar of battle, he cried out: “Oh, men, there are Jackson and his Virginians standing behind you like a stone wali!” Uttering these word.’of martial baptism, Bee fell dead upon the field, and loft behind him a faiiie which will follow that of Jackson as a shadow. in Cedarvalo, Kansas, a wile pro. anted her husband with a line hoy and it affect ed liis peace of mind to such art extent that he turned liis hogs loosi , left liis calf with the cow ull night, tied an ox up where the diictor’s horse should have been, and did many other excited things. Brigham Young has buried 27 mothers in-law, mid lie wants the United Flutes to understand that lie’s not afraid of a moun tain howitzer loaded t j the muzzle. NUMBER 31. Wo were struck the other day by tho reply of a musician to a friend who had asked him to play on a piano which was out of tuno. Someone was present who had not before heard the pianist. “Do play for us,” said tho musician’s friend, “Dir. Blank will make allowances for the condition of the piano.” “Make allow ances!” replied the pianist, “I have heard that all my life, and it never was and never will be true. Nobody ‘makes al lowances.’ If a pianist plays on a bad piano, or a tenor sings when ho has a sore throat, or an orator gets out of his death bed to make a speech, the audience is disappointed because ho does not do his best work, and it carries away an impres sion of the performance which is likely to last for a ILe-timc. It's the same in house keeping, and dressing, and busi ness, and everything else. People expect the best under ull circumstances. There is no such thing as ‘making allowance.’ " Persons who know something of tho thrift of corns may possibly believe this siory >.f a man who lives at Itidgevillo, Indiana: “He was afflicted with erysipe las in the face seme years ago. Gradually it settled in his nosu, which became har dened at the point. At first it felt like a hard pimple. Gradually it developed into a horny substance like a roaster’s spur, and finally projected itself into a well defined horn. As it grew it became an noying from its length, and, to curtail its dimensions, he began to whittle it down with a sharp knife, and finding it publ ic -, ho continued the whittling process, keeping tho cornuary development down to perhaps a half inch in length. Tho ni i. says he presumes that, if lie had not whittled it down, this singular formation would i.o'v have been about five inches long.” A- California is about two and live eighth times as large as the State of Now York. From its climate its configuration, audits variety of natural resources, it is capable of supporting.! much larger population to the square mile than the State of Now York. New York, yet far from being over-populated, has a population of 4,- 500,()iJ0. 1 n (stlifornia, at the same rate, there is room lor 12,000,000 people. Y r et when a few thou-and people come here, we heein to wonder what they wiil do. 7 hen; is a fair amount of capital in Cali fornia, and with the immigration that is coming in, there will he an abundance of labor. I! the two elements be brought together and work in unison, the State will receive anew impetus, and attain a condition of greater prosperity than ever before. The Glorious Fourth. “Oh, I'll have :i blazing time on the Fourth!" yolled a boy from the City Hall steps ye -torday at another in the yard. “Going to shoot off your mouth?” sneered the other. “No, I liain’t going to she ont off my mouth, hut I've got a firecracker as big as your leg, two hundred torpedoes, six old muskets and a sky-rocket. Mam sold the stove biler yesterday Cor lemons and sugar, dad is around trying to nick gooseberries for a pie, we’ve got the dead thing on a yearling chicken, and it you want to see the goddess of liberty turn handsprings over the clothes line, you come around and look through the alley fence.” — Philaddplun /iuUi'l lit. Self llcspcct. Always remember no one can debase you but yourself. Slander, satire, false hood, injustice—they can never rob you of'your mandood. Men may lie about you, they may denounce you, they may cherish snspioioiia manifold, they may make your Cad ngs the target of their wit and cruelty; never he alarmed; never swerve an inch It uu the lino your judg ment and conscience have marked out for you. '1 hey cannot, by all their efforts, take away your knowledge of yourself’, Urn purity of your motives, the integrity of your character, arid the generosity of your nature. While these are left, you are, in point of fact, unharmed. The Trwinton Southerner tells the fol lowing joke on a man who was endeavor ing to obtain license to teach a school in Wilkcrson county : “lie was asked by Judge Chambers to bound Georgia. Af ter scratching his head violent .y for some time ho said, ‘Gooigia is bounded on the east |,y .Savannah mid Dublin; on the south by the Okctcnokoe swamp; on the north by Atlanta, and on the west by Tolbotton.’ lie didn’t get a license. Hut the man tells u different story. _ Ho says the board of School Commissioners of Wilkotv.on refused to let him have a school because he spelt 'tutors’ with a p.” A Texas newspaper informs its readers wliat kind of people thuy want in that State. They have twice too many doctors, and nine times too many lawyers. In fact they propose to “swap off” lawyers at tho rate of forty lawyers for one Northern fanner. They would like a few more good preachers, and a great many less poor ones. But the great want is farmers; “live million good farmers” will receive a welcome within the borders of Texas. But they want ‘•early-rising, hard work ing, sober, goo 1-managing men.” A C:w fl.-'v ; c- ' n very handsome la !y enk::vtl t dry goods house aid enquire 1 for a “beau*’’ The po itc clerk threw himself’back and remarked that he was at le‘ service. I ‘.Yoh, hut L want a buff’ not a green one,” was the reply. Tho \ ;ur,2 man went on liicasurinu goods im med lately. /