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Gr E O R Gr IA H E R A L D . VOLi I. Clie (Scorgia ijcralb. JV (j PUBLISHED BY Hall & Alexander. EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. !■ " ■ " TERMS. w _ .|2 00 bli Month* 1 00 ALL PAYMENTS INV AKIABLT IN ADVANCE. Kr —— ADVERTISING RATES. iThe followlng ar<* the rates to which we adhere In Ml contracts for advertising, or where advertisements kr«- handed in without instructions. Disi*laym> \a- Vertisenu nts will he charged according to the shack flip v occupy: t m.m ai.!.' i 'i'. iw. 2m.|« m.[imr ■ U,~ ”*IOO C*2 AOS T <Mt SHI 0 ’ 11 A 00 « Squares ’ 200 sno 10 (HU 15 0> 25 00 * j an ,.,. s 800 7no 15 00i 20 00 80 00 4 5.,. . 4On 10 on 120 00 80 00 !40 00 £ (’idiiinn ft (HI '2 00 no on 40 on 50 00 Z Column ”.... I 10 00 2ol)o 85 0o «5 oo| 8') 00 5 Culinim... 15 00 2ft OO 40 00 TO 00 150 00 B TANARUS, OIUON AKIES, ADM IN UJTK AIOKH, OUAKIUASS, *O. H As heretofore, since the war, the following are the tyricse for notices of Ordinaries, Ac.—to he paid in ad vanck: * * Thirty Days Notices • » *> Forty Days’ Notices •• " fSuiles <>r Linds. Ac pr. sqr of ten Lines o on T n Day-’ Notices of Sales pr sqr 2 oo <iiKKiVrr' Sales. —for these Sales, for every 11 fa 00. m Mortgage Sales, p-r square. $5 00 K Uhituarioe are charged for the same as other ailv ei- Ifsements. professional Qiarlis. f| NO. R. HART A J. Y. ALLEN, hove f P united for the purpose of practicing Law. One or both may always be found in their office. By strict attention to business and fair dealing with all they hope to merit a liberal share of patronage. q ii,, senior member of the firm refers with confidence to all for whom he bus done business fluring the past 'Will practice by contract in any of the courts, or in any portion of the State. Ig Thomas ton Ga., Jan. 22, 1870. jan22—Bin - ■ —————— ■ —■ " ANDERSON A MoGALLA, Attorneys at Law, Oovlmrton, Georgia. Will attend regu larly. and I’rart'ce in the Superior Courts of the ootanties of Newton, Butts, 11. nry, Spalding, l’ike, Monroe, Upson, Morgan, DeKulb, Gwiunette and Jas per __ dcc'O-ly AMES M. MATHEWS, Attorney at f| Laws, Talbutton, Ga., will practice all the counties composing the Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by contract declO-ly \\7 ILMS A WILLIS, Attorneys at Law 4| y Talh'tton, Ga Prompt attention given to bLineaa placed in our hands. diM-10-ly P P. TRIPPE, Attorney at Law .1 i Forsyth, Ga. Will practice in the State Courts am! in the United States' District Court at Atlanta and Savannah, Ga, dec 0-ly I A HUNT. Attorney at Law, Barnes* •J • ville, Ga Will practice in all the counties of th 1 ' Flint Circuit end Supreme Court of the State. i| AKIOV \\ LTIII)KH, Attorney at J Law, Talbotoii, Ga. Mill practice in all the M*unilvs of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and Merri wether counties. .«Seelß-ly *1 I> ALEXANDER, Attorney at Law, • Tliomaston, Ga. Will practice in all the coun ties composing the Flint Circuit, and elsewhere by special contract Special attention given to eolloction, rand settle promptly with cliants. declS-ly rpiIOMAS BEALL, Attorney at Law, iil Ihomaston Ga. Will practice in the Flint. Cir cuit, and elsewhere hy special contract. declS-ly *1 \R. ROGERS will continue the practice S ' of Medicine. Office as heretofore in the Webb Bock. declH-ly 1 \ |‘. (i. W NNAII, is pleased to I / notify tl: ii' f Upson that he will continue the practice <>i : me in its various branches at Thomaston. O i declß-ly JOHN I. lIAI.L. « l II A. OOTTEN. W.M. T. WEAVER. It ALL, GOTTEN & WEAVER, AN J[ | lornevß and Counsellors at Law. Office in At lanta and Thomaston, Ga. Will practice In the coun ties of Fulton. Cobb, Campbell and DcKnlb ('apt. J. A Gotten, will give his attention to business In the a! uve counties and will be found at all times in the office in Atlanta. Will also practice in the counties «f Upson, l’ike, Crawford, Taylor, Talbot, and Merri w. thev, in tin* Supreme Court, and in the District WWlfertf States for the Northern District, of ii, business in the above counties and will remaiimn the Amice in Thomaston, Ga. deelS 1y rUUMTI STRY. fjPUE undersigned being permanently I located in Thomston, still tenders his professional services in the practice of Dentistry to the citizens of Upson and adjoining counties. Teeth inserted on gold, gllver, adamantine or rubber. All work warranted and a cord fit. guaranteed Office up stairs over Suggs & iwliphant’s drug store. B dec!! ts N. BRYAN. DENTAL NOTICE. <MMIE undersigned tnkes pleasure in ■i? 1 notifying the citizens of Thomaston and the vicini ty that those wishing any' kind of Dental work done, either operative or mechanical, and done right with :Hatisfaction given, can do so by calling at my office or -writing to me at Barnes ville, and let me know where to *nd them. G P. CAMPBELL, ■ deeff Sin Rarnesville, Ga. J -- FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN FURNITURE of every Descripti on, Our Manufactory has been overhauled, and Improve J vita new machinery, engine, Ac., and we are now prepared to fur nish the public with Furniture of all kinds at very lov / price*. tfDiPIFiraSL a LAKGE assobt ®[ • , “ i ODINa, f.om the finest Burial cases to «»e cheapest Coffins JLTOrder*foe Coffins should be HMe through Captain DOE, City Sexton mvve are grateful for the large patron*** extended to atd'will endeavor to deserve an increase at our extensive Warer&oms 03 SOLOMON 8T If ecl °-ts MOONEY, BOYD & CO. THOMASTON, OA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1870. CARRIAGES, BUGGIES & WAGONS, Having procured the aervices of MR. JOHN BLAND, the well known PAIN TER and TRIMER, and the beat WORKMAN and BLACK SMITH that can be found in the country ; and have procured the agency of some of th# first-class NORTHERN MANUFAC tories, I am prepared to furuish vehicles of all kinds and styles, from a WHEEL BARROW to the finest Buggy ami Carriage that can be gotten up. BUGGIES will be my speciality. Samples will be kept on hand at all times, where they can be seen at my REPOSITORY. I can suit the fancy of all. I propose to sell as low as they can be purchased elsewhere. The best season* ed Northern timber will be used, and the WORKMANSHIP will be warranted for twelve months—(and no mistake). Two-horse Wagons of the best and latest styles will be kept constants lv on hand ; also, one-horse W O O IST O and “DUMP CARTS.” Repairing done. Bring up your old Buggies and have them repaired. I will repair them cheap, or trade you new ones for them. Shop next door to J. C. Zimmerman’s Furniture Store. Call and see me. If I should be absent Mr. Bland will wait on you. JOSEPH ALLEN. Thomaston, Ga., Jan. 7,1870-3 m M ILLINERY -ZA.IST3D DRESS - MAKING! MRS. S. E. PAYNE, J£EEPS constantly on hand the latest and most Fashionable Styles of HATS AND BONNETS Tluines, Ribbons, and everything to be found in a first class MILLINERY ESTABLITIIMENT, which she offers at the LOWEST CASH PRICES. DRESS - MAKING, Done to order on reasonable terms, and in most approv ed styles. All kinds of Stiching, Pinking and Fluting, done with n e a tne ßß and dispatch. |3F” Agency for Weeff* Celebrated T. F. Sewing Machine. MRS. S. E. PAYNE. declO-tf Thomaston, Ga. G. 11. & A. W. FORCE, WHOLESALE DEALERS IX BOUTS km SHOES WHITEHALL STREET, atlaktta, ga. jan 15-1 y JUST RECEIVED A LARGE lot of Fresh Groceries, etc. of all kinds. New Orleans Sugars of all grades, New Orleans Syrups of ail grades, Fresh Mackerel, etc. Having concluded 1 0 continue basinees will be pleased to see all pj<j friends and as.many new ones as will call. • 1 will-sell very low for the money.- WANTED to buy Five Thousand pounds Dried Peaches. Highest price paid. septl3-tf G. A. CUNNINGHAM. C|c Georgia fieraft, THOMASTON, GA., JAN. 29, 70. THE LAWYERS AND THE CATS. Two Arkansas lawyers was domesticated in the rude hotel of a country town. The hotel was crowded, and the room allotted to our two heroes was also occupied dy six or eight others. Shakedown beds, enough to accommodate the guests, were disposed about the room, against the four walls, leaving an open space in the centre of the apartment. Judge Clark lay with his head to the north, on one side, and Judge Thomas lay with his head to the south, on the other side of the room. So far as the room was concerned, it might be said that their heads represented the north and south poles, respectively. All the other beds in the room were oc cupied. The central part of the room was deemed neutral ground, in which the oc* cupants of the different beds bad equal rights. Here, in picturesque confusion, lay the boots, hats coats and breeches of the sleepers. There were no windows, and though the door was open, there being no moon, the night was very dark in that room. The wily lawyers, who had been oppos ing counsel in a case tried in the town court that day, and had opposed each other with the contumacity of wild pigs, were now the very incarnation 01 meekness, for when the hungry swarm of mosquitoes settled down and bit them on the oue cheek, they slowly turned the other to be bitten also. “But hush 1 hark !” A deep sound strikes the ear like a ris ing knell! “Ye-ow-ow ! Judge Clark and Thomas, were wide awake, and sitting bolt upright in an in stant. Again the starting cry I “Ye'Ow*ye*ow 1” “There’s a d—d cat!” whispered Clark. “Scat, you 1” hissed Thomas. Cat paid no attention to these demon strations, but gave vent to another yowl. • “0, Lord !” cried Clark, “I can’t stand this 1 Where is she, Thomas ?” “On your side of the room somewhere,” replied Thomas. “0, she’s on your side,” said Clark. “Ye-owoow-ow ! “There, I told you she was on your side,” both exclaimed in a breath. And still the “jowl” went on. The idea now entered the heads of both the lawyers, that by the exercise of certain strategy they might be enabled to execute a certain flank movement on the cat, and totally demoralize him. rrautioally each determined to tile “a motion to quash” oat’s tutuohiuenc for that room. Each kept bis plan to himself, and in dark, unable to see each other, prepared for action. Strange as it may appear it is neverthe less true, that the same plan suggested itself to both. In words, the plan would be about as follows : The yowler is evidently looking and call* ing for another cat, with whom he has made an appointment. I will imitat a cat, and this cat will think t’other cat’s around. This cat will come toward me, and when be shall have arrived within reach, I’ll blaze away with anything I can get hold of and knock the mewesic out of him. So each of the portly judges, noiselessly as cream comes to the surface of the milk, hoisted himself onto his hands and knees, and, hippopotamus fashion, advanced to the neutral ground occupying the central portion of the room. Arrived there, Judge Clark selected a bootjack, and Judge Thomas a heavy cow* hide boot, from the heap, and set.lod them* selves down to the work. Clark tightened his grip on the boot jack, throwing up his head, gave vent to a prolonged and unearthly “Ye-ownow !” that would reflect credit upon ten of the largest kind of cats. “Aha” thought Thomas, tf*ho was not six feet away, “he’s immediately close a lound. Now I’ll inveigle him! and he gave the regular dark night call of a femin nine cat. Each of the Judges now advanced a questioning “Ow! ow !” Thomas answered by a reassuring “Pur* wo I pur!” and they advanced a little close er, and Clark produced a questioning “Ow ! ow ! * Thomas answered by a reassuring “Purs ow ! pur !” and they advanced a little more. They were now within easy reach, and each imagining the cat had but a moment more to live, whaled away, the one with his boot, the other with his bootejack. The boot took Clark square in the mouth, demolished his teeth, and the boot-jack came down on Thomas’s bald head just as he was in the midst of a triumphant “Ye» ow!” When lights were brought the cat had disappeared, but the catastrophe was in opposite corners of the room, with heels in the air, swearing blue streaks. lion. Reverdy Johnson watf lately applied to by Mr. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, for an opinion as to the legality of enforcing a tax upon travelers on railroads in the State of Maryland, Mr. Johnson replies, that the tax alluded to is not a tax upon the buisness of the roads, but a specifiic tax on passengers ; therefore, as the to col lect a tax of thirty cents of each traveler involves the right to collect a tax of a thouS" and dollars, the tax is in the nature of a prohibition of transit. This conflicts with the right of a citizen of any State to pass over any part of the country. The law tax ing passengers is, therefore, in Mr. John son’s opinion, unconstitutional. There is a colony of 268 Indians living in Tama county, lowa, who retain all the old usages and customs of their nation, and refuse to become civilized. They own and occupy a tract of the best land in Tama county, and their wigwams and savage pharaphernalia present a mark ed contrast to the fine farms and handsome cities which surround them. ■ ■■ ■■ ■ a to make people acknowledge the corn —tread on their toes, “DIED POOR” “It was a sad funeral to me,” said the speaker; “the sadest I have attended fur many years.” “That of Edmonson ?” “Yes.” “How did he die 1” - “Poor—poor as poverty. His life was one long struggle. Fortune mocked him all the while with golden promises that were destined never to know fullfillment.” “Yet he was patient and enduring,” re marked one of the company. “Patient as a Christian —enduring as a martyr,” was answered. Poor man ! He was worthy ol a better fate. He ought to have succeeded, for he deserved success.” “Did he not succeed ?” questioned the one who had spoken on his patience and endurance. “No, sir. He died poor, just as I have stated. Nothing that he put his hand to ever succeed. A strange fatality seemed to attend every enterprise.” “I was with him in his last moments,” said the other, “and thought he died rich.” “No, he has left nothing behind,” was replied. “The heirs will have no concern as to the admimistration of his estate.” “He left a good name,” said one, “and that is something.” “And a legacy of noble deeds that were done in the name of humanity,” remarked another. “And precious examples,” said a third. “Lessons of patience in suffering ; of hope in adversity: of heavenly confidence when no sunbeams fell upon his bewildering path, was the testimony of another. “Ani high truths, manly courage, heroic fortitude.” “Then he died rich,” was the emphatic declaration. “Richer than the millionarie who went to his long home on the same day miserable in all but gold. A sad funeral didyousay? No, my friend, it was a tri umphal procession ! Not the burial of a human clod, but the ceremonies attendant on the translation of an angel. Did not succeed ! Why, his whole life was a series of successes ? In every conflict he came off the vietur, and now the victor’s crown is on his brow. Any, grasping, soulless, selfish man, with a moderate share of brains, may gather in money, and learn the art of keep** ing it, but not one in a hundred can con quer bravely in the battle of life, as Edmons sou has conquered, and step forth from the ranks of men a Christian hero. No, no; he did not die poor, but rich —rich in neighs borly love, and rich in celestial affections. And his heirs have an interest in the ad* ministration of his affairs. A large proper ty has been left, and let them see to it that they do not lose precious things through false estimates and ignorant depreciations.” “You have anew way of estimating tue werlth of a man,” said the one who had first expressed sympathy for the deceased. “tV* r *° ht way ?” was answered, lhere a le hjgh er things to gain in this world than ‘ - iu n v, oa of princely value ever reward the truth merchant, who trades for wisdom, buying it with silver of truth and the gold of love. He dies rich who can take his treasure with him to the new land where he is to abide forever, and ha who has to leave all behind on which he placed his affections, dies poor indeed. Our friend Edmonson died richer than a Girard or an Astor ; his monument is built of good deeds and noble examples. It will abide forever.” llow “From Greenland's Icy Moun tains” Happened to be written. — Some thirty or forty years ago sermons were to be preached on a particular Sabbath in the town of Wrexham, in the North of Wales, in behalf of the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The clerk of the parish church, to whom, in those times belonged the selection of the singing, came in very disconsolate to the Vicar of the parish and told him that there was no hymn suitable for such a subject. The son in-law of the Vicar happened to be at that time visiting him, and the Vicar, turning to his son-ia-law, said : “You are a bit of a poet; you s*e the distress of my clerk, and what he has to do ; I wish you would re lieve him by writing a hymn for tnis occa« sion, and we will have it struck off and printed. Let it be of a simple, easy meas ure, and we will have it sung on tne Sab** bath.” The son°in-law of the Vicar retired to a corner oithe room, and in an hour and a halt produced a hymn. That hymn was sent to the printers, sheets were struck off aud distributed in every pew, and it was sung on the next Sabbath. Twenty years afterwards, the same Con** gregational minister of Wrexham hunted up in the lumber room the manuscript of this old hymn, and this was the autograph which I had the pleasure of looking vpon— “llegißald Ileber ;” and the hymn was : “From Greenland’* icy mountains, From India's coral staand a hymn which has inspired, perhaps, more of missionary spirit in the Churches than any other.— Rev. W. Morley Punshon. A Plea fob the Babies. —The Courier- Journal notes the fact that a correspondent of the Medical Gazette, who is a practis ing physician, comes to the rescue of the babies against what he denounces as their deadly enemy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. lie says he was called to see an infant that was in a dying condition, ap parently from the effeets of a narotic poison and he was assured that it had taken no medicine but this “soothing syrup.” The doctor took the bottle and had some of the gvrap analyzed by a skillful chemist, and the analysis showed that each ounce of the stuff contained nearly one grain of mor phine. A dose f ‘l* an infant three mouths old, as prescribed by if r s. Winslow’s printed directions, contained an amount of mor phine equal to ten drops of laudanuni. This is ordered to be given to the child every two hours, in certain cases, and- double the quantity to a child of six imnths old. As children are very susceptible to the influ ence of opium, cf which morphine is the active principle, four drops of laudanum baring been known to kill an infant of nine months, and as the manufacturers of Mm, Winslow's Soothing Syrup sell annually about one hundred thousand two-ounce bottles in the single State of New. York, can form some idea of- the num ber of babies that are soothed to perpetual sleep by this nostrum, Mothers had better Stick to catnip tea. The Cause or Martial, Law in War ken.—A correspondent, who signs himself “Warren," writes to the Agusta Chronicle &, Sentinel fl'om Warrenton, under date loth instant, explaining the troubles n that sec tion, and says politics has nothing to do with it. It seetns that there are a few' cuti laws in Taliaferro county, who threatened violence to a number of citizens at Barnett and had spread such terror in the neighs borhood by their acts that the threatened part es called upou the military tor assists ance. We give his version of the affair: There has been no outbreak in our midst, and no violations of law (known) except an outrage which oecured at Barnett. It seemes that a few, very few, outlaws from about Raytown, in Taliferro county, threat ened violence to Mr.Lawrence Battle and others at Barnett, in consequence of their denunciations of notorious ac s lawlessness of these men, Battle was attacked at his own store ; he and the others at Barnett are law abiding clever Democrats; so politics had nothing to do with it. The acts of these men had spread terror over the neighbor hood, and the perpetrators deserve serious punishment. But it was unwise and wrong tor these persons to have called for military aid, which it is believed they did. No ef fort was made to secure redress at the hands of the civil authorities—no warrants even taken out; so it cannot be said that the civil authorities were incompe.ent to the task. It only furnishes another pretext and excuse for Bullock, and fresh reasons for more and intolerance. 1 write this to say that poor down-trodden Warren lias again been victimized on ac count of the lawless acts of a few persons who live out of the county and that with out giving her officers an opportunity of testing lheir ability to produce quiet and suppress disorders. We are under martial law' with Chap Norris as our master. Bench warrentfs now lie in Atlanta for his arrest to answer for high crimes, and w r ith this knowlenge on the part of those in authority, he is sent down here to usurp authority, and that, too, in the face of a decision of a Republican Judge, that he is not the Sheriff of the coun ty. # Though in charms, with bayonets brist ling around us, we are not dismayed.— There is a just God who rules, and in his own good time wrongs will be rectified. Religion — Fashionable : Pretending to be what we teally are not, and “stealing the livery of heaven to serve the devil."— Going to church as a matrer of necessitv, and making devotion a public form instead of a governing principle, or sileut commun ion between the heart and its Creator. Ac tions that make devils laugh aud angels weep. Religion — General: —That which we inherit or embrace as a general principle, from the accident of birth or association, and for which we are not to be censured or praised ; for as we take our language from Sssocianon, so we adopt certain religious tenets from education. Religion—Puke :—Doing good from love to God and our fellow man. Loving justice, hating wrong ; loving virtue, hating vice ; trusting in God and never calling into ques tion his judgments ; or as the apostle James defines it: “Pure religion and undefiled be fore God and the Father is this ; To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and 1 1 keep ourselves unspotted from the world." ....... Repentance :—Sorrow for a wrong done: a keen sense of guilt; good resolutions backel by living action. That repentance based upon expediency or policy and has for its vindication words only, is as shallow as a shade and as transient as a cloud ; but he who feels deeply; will be eloquent in silence or in tears, and every lineament of the face will tell the story of repentance. “Habitual evils change cot on a sudden, But many days must pass and many sorrow: Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To churb desire, to break the stuborn will, And work a second nature in the Soul, 4re virture can resume the place she lost.” The loyal Plot Against Tennessee.— The memorial of Radical Congressmen, praying Congress to destroy the State gov ernment of Tennessee has bean published. It is signed by Horace Maynard, Samuel M. Arnell, W. J. Smith, W. F. Prosser, W. B. Stokes, Lewis Tillman and R. R. Butler. The memorial declares that the August election was carried by fraud ; that men ineligible were allowed to vote ; that youths under twentyoone years of age voted ; that false and fraudulent votes were counted ; and “that the illegal votes so cast were of such great numbers as to be in excess of the majority by which said election was determined in a majority of the counties, so that by said illegal votes the persons and character of the majority of members of the General Assembly were determined " This last specification, which is the seventh, contains the gravamen of the bill of in dictment against this State. Fortunately, we are not without the proof to show that this charge is utterly groundless.— nooga Times. Trichinosis.— A German family living in Kane county, nine miles from Marengo have recently been attacked by trichinosis, from the effects of which disease four mem bers of the family have already died, and the death of a fifth is hourly expected. The disease in this case, has assumed its most virulent form, and a microscopic ex amination of the sausages eaten by the family has disclosed immense numbers of tbe destroying and abhorrent ljttle ghouls in the pork. Dr. Green, who is attending the family, on Tuesday brought to Elgin, several particles of the meat alluded to, which was thoroughly examined by Dr. Winchester, and found to be absolutely alive with trichinae. The case has excited intense interest jo Kane, McHenry a- n d Boone counties, and the afflicted family are now, although comparatively unknown in this neighborhood, the ooserved of all scientific observers But little hope is en D tertained of the ultimate recoyeiy of the still surviving members of the death-stricki en family. An instance of ast mnding liberality shines forth in the case of the divorce-seek ing woman in CoJumbus.Ga., who stated in (Sofert that she didn’t object to -a moderate amount of sinning, but ho.ffrftßd TOfl’t yne of the moderate sort. Work for Congress. —The Courier* Journul’rt Washington special, of Friday, any* that an examination ot the business before the House, shows that a much larger amount of legislation has been blocked out than has been generally supposed, la the House nearly six hundred bills are pend* ing, and ia the Senate over three hundred have been introduced. Os this number twenty five relates to financial matters, six propose free banking, three relative to a redistribution of the National Bank cur rency, and only one provides for au addi tional issue of National Bank notes and proposes to fund the public debt aud provide for resuming specie payment. gS3jT“ The house of Mrs Richardson, aged ninety-seven, at Columbia, S. C. was enter ed Monday last. She was wounded in the I reast with five buckshot, beaten over the head, face and arms, severely bruised, then throwu in the corner of a chicken coop n»ar by on the lot. When found, she was in an insensible condition. Drs. G. S. Trer,evant and B. W. Taylor extracted four bulls from the breast of the injured woman. The old woman is still alive—speaks only at intere vals in monosyllbles. She says that there were two persons engaged in the assault upon her, but as yet no further information has been got’.eu from her.— Savannah Rc> publican. A paper in Illinois talks in this way : “If you owe one but a single dollar, go and pay him : when there is so little money we ought to keep it moving around lively. Jim owed us, and we owed Bill, and Bill owed Jim. Jim got mad because we made him pay one morning last week, but we paid Bill, and Bill paid Jim, and Jim went to bed that night happy as a clam, with just as much money as he had in the morning, and three men out of debt." I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging cozening slave, to get soma office, Have not devised this slandci*. That’s just the reason, and nothing else. When Shakspeare wrote the lines he fixed them up for future application, and they apply to the present state of affairs in Georgia admirably. Poets are prophets too. South Georgia Times. A letter from Richmond, Virginia, says : “The agent here of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad says that this line is daily crowded to the extent of its capacity with negro laborers going South and South* west. Whatever may be tho more remote effect of this remarkable exodus, it ia cer tain that it saves the negroes aud the State from the Quasi famine threatened by the failure of the crops last summer, tttt-A reconstructed African at Washing ton, arrested for stealing, was upbraided by the magistrate: “ I thought, Sam, you be longed to tbe loyal party ; that’s on its good behavior, you kuow ?" “ Dat's just bo, massa; we’s two classes—de high and de low. De hgh takes what’s gav to 'om. like Massa Grant; de low takes what,s not gav to’em, like Massa Butler. I’se alow, massa, dat’s all." According to a recent statement in a New Turk paper, Hamilton Fish didn’t give General Grant but one thousand doll ars for the position of Secretary of State. If this be Uue, it is certainly very credit able to the unselfish patriotism of the Pres* ident, for he could easily have sold the place for much more.— Louisville Courier Journal. Real estat in South Carolina is not looking up much. Ten thousand aores of land in Orangeburg sold last Tuesday for $43,830, and in Ilorry, on sale day, it avers aged only forty cents an acre. Twenty five shares of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad stock sold for $2,25 per share, Randall, the victim of tbe Sleepy Hollow murder, was killed so instantane ously while drinking, that he did not mote a muscle after receiving the death blow. His head, nearly blown off, fell on his shoulder and when found, he was still sit* ting with his lege crossed, his goblet in his hand. The Mariposa Grzette of Dec, 12 says: “The unseasonable conjuntion (May and December) was again illustrated ia this place a few days ago by the uniting in. the bonds of matrimony of a blushing dame, sei ot twelve summers and a favorable cuss of forty o five or thereabouts." WcS* Said a young gent in our town to a. young lady : “Do take a littie honey, Miss young lady handing the butter dish, said,, “thank you, sir, won’t you take a little butter, ’tis so sott, just like yourself." ■‘ J * ' n “Do you call that a veal cutlet, wait* er ?” said an old gentleman, dining at a restaurant. “Why it’s an insult to every calf in the country !" “Well, sir, I didn't mean to insult you," returned the waiter. M&F To succeed in busiuess you must be popular, and to be popular ypu must ad vertise. In plain English, advertise and you will succeed. S®* The total r.umber of deaths in £ for the twelve months ending De' __Kfus bob, of wtucb 252 wero lind 303 were blacks. : — A gentleman in Quincy found an express package addressed to “Adam Sell, Chicago. He opened it, and it was. Facts should always be stated in black and white. Anythiing written in rsd ink of course appears ink-redible. The emigration of Swedes to this country is so great that last year the pop* ulation of Sweden actually decreased. S®* A spnnky bride not far eff married the groomsman .because the bridegroom was too drunk to stand up. •gL. Efforts are being made to induce Edwin Booth to make a Southern tour. NO, 8.