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Ii Marriage Notices $1.50. Obituaries $1 per square.
I y„ij,es of a personal or private character, intended
K“„ promote any private enterprise or interest, will be
harrert as other advertisements
Advertisers are requested to hand in their favors as
tail? In the week as possible.
Ut Move tern* will be strictly adhered to.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
As heretofore, since the war, the following are the
pwe for notices ofOrdioaries, &c.—to bk paid in ad-
I toes:
I I’Mrty Pays’ Notices ••$ 5 00
Lrtv Days'Notices 6 25
fhlrs nf Lands, Ac. pr. sqr of ten Lines 6 00
Bitty Days’ Notices 7 00
-1 Months' Notices 10 00
T n Days’ Notices of Sales pr sqr 2 00
Siisairn’ Salks —for these Salts, fdr every ii f.a
P 00.
Mortgage Sales, per square. $5 00
"Let nsid“ a liberal per centage for advertising.
Keep yourself unceasingly before the public; and it
I matters not what business you are engaged in, for, if
Ii intelligently »nd industriously pursued, a fortune will
11 be the resuit —Euats Merchants' Magazine.
“A*er I began to advertise my Ironware freely,
I bus;;:.;s (ftcreased with amazing rapiditv. For ten
11 years nast I have spent £30,000 yearlv to keep my
kiipcri«r wares before the public. Had 1 been timid in
: advertising, 1 never should have possessed my fortune
nf tiSO.OOb”.—McLeod Belton, Birmingham.
“ Advertising like Midas’ touch, turns everything to
I Hv it, your daring men draw millions to thtdr
coffers"—Stuart Cloy
I t hat ami,aelty is to love, and boldness to war, the
i w 1 fnl use oi printer's i it, is to success in business.” —
Berber.
‘ The newspapers made Fisk.”—l. Fisk, .Tr.
mt the .aid of advertisements I could have done
' \' u ™ y 'P'', cu ' a dons. I have the most complete
‘ a ib “printers’lnk.” Advertising is the “royal road
t*i business -Bitrnum.
Professiounl Cnriis.
| F. REDDING, Attor np.y at Low,
: * •arnesvil e, Pike go , Ga. Will practice in the
, M c “ !n pnsing the Flint Judicial Circuit, s»ndi
a.. . iTt V S J^ rlal contract All business promptly
lb Bio're t lce in Elder's building, over Cli amber's
augt>-ly.
I BEALL, Attorney at Law,
nit ' ft ". las l* n t Ok- Will practice in the Flint Cir
j- 1 elsewhere by special contract. aug27-ly
"\\ LEAVER, Attorney at Law,
C.mrN nf uL O, Si‘ st " n ' (ia - Will practice in all the
c„ n , r ‘ an . L “ e Circuit, and elsewhere by special
june2s-ly
HALL, Attorney and Counsellor
th" Tin? r- P ra ctice In the counties composing
D l h« Supreme Court of Georyia,
Konbem i J *-ourt of the United States for the
Thommao, n >u,^ern Districts of Georgia.
June 18th, lS7<My.
J HHRMAN, Attorney at Law,
the Klint cireuu 6 ’ rractlee In the Courts of
J o cS 0 r! t l r SMITH, Attorney and
Peters .itreots a *i. ' nr - Office Corner Whitehall and
Verier Courts of CnJ,*',* J V L iII practice in the Su-
Pretne Court of ri- «) e l 8 an( l Diut Circuits, the Su
kict Court ill 1, *- iaf9 i »nd the United States’ Dis-
At iatit» will rorei omil ' unica hons addressed to him at
__J^ r9 ce,ve prompt attention. april9-ly
Attorneys
i-'dy, &n ,i p* Oeorgia. Will attend regu
tonntlog m ' ; lce ln the Superior Courts of the
M " nr °e, UpaoQ Ma, But A 8 ’ H , ' nr F’ Spalding. Pike,
P*r. ’ Mor eau, DeKalb, Gwinnette and Jas-
ec'o-ly
tawfq Attorney at
c ' llr 'P'>ain» the n, , .® a '' W HI practice all the counties
h :!& i cout-u.-t uatla h°och(.e Circuit and elsewhere by
" - declO-ly
b Oa L p IS- Attorne - vs at Law
P d r 3 0mPt aUent,on de P ‘ls. n iy tO
K
l P ractice in the State Courts
e,*, District Court at Atlanta and
— —dec 0-ly
A. ijfj v iTr '■ ■
•a* vil H <;* ;r.,| Homey at Law, Barness
,nt Circuit and A P ract iee in all the counties of
« ~ __ pr eme Court of th@ Sute.
: 1 E ■ Attorney at
Vr.“ n SS
D,. ~~ declS-ly
Rogers wu7T~~:
>tore. Cf Jft ‘ dlc i“«. Office a ; n t i nue the Practice
—“• D. Hardaway’s Drug
—— declS-ly
: - urar'; 1 ' 7 the citi pleased to
Thot oaston e o ol ile,1 >cine ia its t “ a . t ho will contiDue
G a . m Us r &r j OU3 branches at
r j, ; decl9-ly
th«B^ ln ?e,Ga. Att orney at Law
ieclOi',. m !he United st !Ce in Circuit Courts o
District Courts.
on, "ein ave moved up to
new build-
P is P r areil to RO at anl H th ° D, ra ctice of medi
• #,n biin fam n °t in mv ?r U,ne - 1 er!i ons wishing
S tK* 6 * « u wis _ olfi ce. fan call on M.-ssrs.
J 9 bfni), y .? ail a *so leave S
‘triyi'l/ Slivered. 7 message there, which wrH
DR j. O. HUNT.
The systoms of liver
■ n I IT IT A PIT n iB complaint are uneasiness
l\ I II ft X X ’| !ind P“ ln in the side
1 ill ill V il 13 ■ Sometimes the pain is in
I the shoulder, and is mis
taken for rheumatism
The stomach !s affected wifk loss of appetite3 S
ness, t owels In g mera costive, sometimes alternating
with lax. The head is troubled with pain, and dull
heavy sensation considerable loss of memory accom
panied with painful sensation of having left undone
something which ought to have been done. Often com
pl.niimg of weakness, debility, and low spirits Some-
Q2sssj| times, some of the above
f I tr n n I symptom* attend the dis
-111/ Ij] j| I fase, and at other times
li 1 I li II I very few of them; but
■ the Liver is generally the
.•Lurv w.'w.jimcobhbi organ most involved.
Cure the Liver with
DR. SIMMONS’
Liver Regulator,
A preparation of roots and herbs, warranted to be strict
ly vegetable, and cm do no injury to anyone.
It haa been used by hundreds, and known for the last
So years as .me of the most reliable, efficacious and
navrmess preparations ever offered to the suffering If
L a i- is sure to cure
Dyspepsia, headache,
In i?fill ithr
If I iJillliaj.l II) fil.l lima, affections of the
■ bladder, camp dysentery,
f'lirri'i'i ill I i" nil nil nnunir 1 affections of the kidneys,
fever, nervousness, chills, diseases of the skin, impurity
of the blood, melancholy, or depression of spirits, heart
burn, colic, or pains in the bowels, pain in the head,
fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain In back and limbs,
asthma, erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis
eases generally. Prepared only by
J. 11. ZEII,I\ T & CO.,
Trice :by mail $1.85. Druggists, Macon, Ga.
The following highly respectable persons can fully at
test to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to
whom we most respectfully refer;
Gen. W. Holt., President 8. W. R. R. Company;
H?v J. Felder, Perry, Ga,; Col E. K Bparks, Albany,
Ga.; George J Lunsford. Esq.. Conductor 8. W R. R.;
C Masterson, Esq, Sheriff Bibb county; J A. Rirtts,
fhdnbridge, Ga ; Dykes .t Snarhawk. Editors Floridian,
Tallahassee; Rev. J. W. Burke, Macon, Ga.; Virgil
Powers Esq., Superintendent S. W. R. R.; Daniel Bui
lard, Bullard's Station. Macon and Brunswick R. R.,
Twiggs county, Ga ; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory,
Macon, Ga ; Rev. E F. Easterlinn, P. E. Florida Con
ference: Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
Mac >n Telegraph.
For sale by John F ITenry, New York, Jno D. Park,
Cincinnati, Jr.o. Flemming,'New Orleans, and all Drug
gists apl2-ly
j In the Superior Court,
Rule m Si. present the Honorable Jas.
j v\. Greene, Judge of said
J Court.
Ye&tman, Shields &c.- 1 Mortgage, Ac.
vs y
Georgian a Timmons. \ May Term, 1870.
f'i EORGI V-Upson corNTT. — It appearing to the
T Court bv the petition of H. T. Yoatman, B. F.
Shields and G. W. Sneilds partners doing business un •
der the firm name and style of Yeatmun, Shield & Cos ,
accompanied by the note ami Mortgage deed, that on
the first day of December (1868) eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight, the defendant made and delivered to the
plaintiff in r prornisory note bearing date the day and
year aforesaid, whereby the defendant piomises three
months after date of said note to pav the plaintiff or
bearer Eleven hundred and fifty-seven dot ars and
eiahty-oim cents for value received. And that after
wards on the day and year aforesaid the defendant the
better to secure the payment of the said note executed
and delivered to the Plaintiff her deed of Mortgage,
whereby the defendant mortgaged to the plaintiff. Lot
of Land No. and) one situate, lying and being in the
South west corner of the West Front Square of the
town of Thomasti n, also Lot of Land on the West
fiont square of said town of Thomaston. upon which
James AJ. Bmi*h’a Law office formerly stood, in the
county aforesaid. And it. further appearing that said
note remains unpaid. It is therefore, ordered lhat the
said defendant do pay into Court, on or before the first
day of the next Term thereof the principal interest
and cost due on said note, or show cause to the contra
ry if any they can. And that on the failure of the de
fendant to do so, the equity of redemption in and to
said Mortgaged premises be forever thereafter barred
and foreclosed. \nd it is further ordered that this rule
he published in the Georgia Herald forfonr month
previous to the next Term of this Court, or served on
the defendant or her special Agent or Special Attorney
at least three months previous to the next Term of this
Court. By the Cou“t
HALL, GOTTEN & WEAVER.
May Term IS7O Petitioner’s Attorneys.
It further appearing to the Court that the defendant,
Georgiana Timmons, resides out of this Siate and re
sides in the State of Tennessee. It is therefore ordered,
that the foregoing rule he served on the said Georgiana
Timmons by publication in terms of the Statute.
By the Court. May Term, 1870.
HA LI., GOTTEN &, WEAVER.
Petitioner’s Attorney's.
I certify that the above and foregoing is a irue ex
tract from the minutes of the Court
jone4-imlfn H. T. JENNINGS, C. 8. C.
Upson Mortgage Sale.
"VXT ILL be sold before the Courthouse door, in the
VY town of thomaston, Upson county, Georgia, on
the first Tuesday in October next, between the legal
hours of sales the following property, to-wit:
Lot of Land No. 237 in the 11th District of Upson
county, containing acres more or less. Levied
upon as the property of George W. Childs, deceased, to
satisfy a mortgage fi. fa. issued from the Superior Court
of Upson county in favor of Ambrose Murphy, against
Susan Childs now Susan Wi lett.. Executrix of Geo W.
Guilds, deceased, and M. P. Willett in right of his wife.
Said land sold subject to the widow’s dower. Property
pointed out in the mortgage fl. fa.
augC-td O. C. SIIARMAN, Sheriff
Administrator’s Sale.
Wl ILL be sold before the Court House
T T door, in the towm of Thomaston, Upson county,
Ga., on the first Tuesday in November next, to the
highest bidder at public out-cry, all the Real Estate of
Joseph W Todd, late of Upson county, deceased.
Said land lies in the First District of originally Hous
ton, now Upson county, and consists of Lots Nos. Three
Hundred and Eighteen, and South half of 'three Hun
dred and Nineteen, and No. Two Hundred and Ninty
three (all joining) and altogether containing Five Hun
dred and Six and a-quarter acres, more or less, and is
conveniently situated to good schools, churches of dif
ferent denominations, and in very good society. It is
near the Factories, and eight milos from Thomaston,
where a Railroad will very soon terminate. The place
has a good dwelling, good kitchens, good barns and
stables, and all other improvements necessary. It is
well and conveniently watered. It is a beautiful and
pleasant place to live, and has a large amount of wood
land, and the prettiest timber in middle Georgia. The
cleared and wood-land is properly divided with good
fencing enclosing the former, and a large surplus of
rails. The premises will be sold in lots to suit purchas
ers. Titles perfectly good. All persons wishing to
purchase land tn a healthy section and situated as above,
are requested to visit the Administrator on the place or
communicate with him at Waynmanville,.Ga. Terms
cash*. H. W. TODD, Adm’r.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger copy three times
and forward bill to Georgia Herald. septlO-td
DENTISTRY.
r I A IIE undersigned bein£ permanently
JL located in Thomston, still tenders thier professional
services in the practic-of Dentistry to the citizens of
Upson and adjoining counties. Teeth inserted on gold
silver, adamantine or rubber. All work warranted and
a good fit guaranteed. Office np stairs over WILSON
8A WYKK S store.
docO tr BRYAN & SAWYER,
THOMAS f. BETHEL,
DEALER IN
DRY GOODS ISO GROfERIES
SHOES, HATS, CLOTHING, CROCK
ERY WARE &C., &C.
WOULD inform his customers ami the
Y T citizens of this and adjoining counties that he
has received his entire stock of
SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
and would respectfullj solicit all who wish desirable
and substantial goods to give him a call and examine
his and varied stock before purchasing elsewhere.
Th mkful for past avors, he earnestly begs a continu
ance of the same, at his New Fire Proof Store, on Main
street, Thomaston, Ga ap!23-tf
7015 WORK of all kinds neatly executed
at the HERALD OFFICE. deelS-tf
THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, IS7O.
portri).
TO TnE TERRESTIAL GLOBE.
BT A MISERABLE WRETCH.
Roll on, thou ball, roll on !
Through pathless realms of space
Roll on 1
What, though I’m in a sorry case ?
What, though I can not meet my hills ?
What, though I suffer toothache's ills?
Wliat, though I swallow countless pills?
Never you mind!
Roll on f
Roll od, thou ball, roli on!
Through seas of inky air
Roll on!
It’s true I've got no shirts to wear;
It’s true my butcher’s bill is due ;
It’s true my prospects all look blue—
But don’t let that unsettle you!
Never you mind!
Roll on!
[lt rolls on-.
illisfcllflUfons.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The boys of Nashville, Tennessee, have
organized an anti-tobaceo league.
The Chinese converts to Christianity
preach in the streets of San Francisco.
German women have resolved upon a to
tal abstinence fr m French fashions.
The wife of B. T. Babbit, the arap and
salaratus man, wears $80,(M) worth of
diamonds at Saratoga.
A young law student of Galesburg, Illin
ois, has just ordered his sign, “Counselor,
Conciliator, and General Negotiator.”
An ox, raised in Caldwell county, Mo., is
twenty-one hands high and weighs 4,000
pounds.
There are 12,000 windmills in Holland
at the present day, for the purpose of drain
age.
An injured husband compromised with
a wicked minister in Ohio for S4OOO. He
took off five per cent, because he was a
clergyman.
The Stockdale beeDpackery, near Bren
ham, Texas, began operations last Fall, and
for its first season’s work, killed 4,500 cattle,
packed 3.000 tierces of beef, and shipped
off I,< 00,000 pounds of hide and tallow.
At Morrissiana, N. Y., a man tried to kill
another, and was let off on the trial because
he was laboring under “overwrought
tricity. ” Th it is anew term for what old
fashioned people used to call drunk. This
is a progressive age.
The Mayor of St. Joseph, Mo., gave per>
mission to a citizen to kill two dogs which
annoyed him, arid the next morning the
Mayor f >und two of his own pet dogs dead,
with his own warrant of permission for
killing, pinned on their bodies. Though
lie hasn’t exactly got the dydrophobia, that
Mayor is mad.
The Atlanta Constitution says; During
the year 1869, there were brought to, and
distributed from. Atlanta, 26,760 mules ;
since January 1870, 13,240, making a total
in eighteen months of 40,000. These were
all at sold prices averaging, perhaps, S3OO
per head. The aggregate cost of these mules
to the purchasers was $8,000,000,
The authorities at the National Observa
tory at Washington, D. C., have contracted
with Alvin Clarke & Sons, of Cambridge
port, Massachusetts for the construction of
anew telescope, for which Congress appro
priated SSG,OiO at the last session. This
telescope is to be a refracting instrument,
with an object glass of twenty-six inches
in diameter. This glass, it is stated, will
he the largest in the world, and will require
four years for its completion.
The Chicagoans are now much disap
pointed over their figures, showing hut 250,
000, when they expected 400,000; hut it is
the same with Cincinnati, where they claim
ed over 300.000, and have but barely 200,-
000 It is so in all the Western cities, and
to a larger figure in Eastern cities. The
number of houses unoccupied in the large
cities is almost fabulous, and is a proof of
the fact that many persons are leaving the
larger cities and going West aDd South.
There is a man living in Calhoun county,
Miss., who is supposed to be the strongest
man in the State if not in the entire South,
lie is thirty-five years of age, and weighs
two hundred and twenty-five ponnds. He
has been known to carry three bars of rail
road iron, when it takes from three to five
ordinary men to cany one. He can take a
cask containing forty gallons of whisky or
water (the former is preferred, we presume),
and raise it from the ground and drink out
of the bung-hole with as much ease as
auother could out of a common pitcher ; and
he has frequentl} taken a barrel of flour
under each arm, and balancing a sack of
salt on his head, carried them for several
hundred yards with apprently but little
effort. He offers to bet that he can lift
thirteen hundred pounds.
Pleasant Retort —The Mobile Regis
ter and the Louisville Courier Journal have
been tilting at each other for some time
past differing on the policy which the °outh
should persue in regard to the measures
which have been imposed upon her by
Congress. The following is the last from
the Courier-Journal :
The venerable editor of the Mobile Reg
ister and his young attendant, the editor of
the Montgomery Mail, remind us of the
good Sir Florismart and the youthful Ro
lando, who astride of a hyppogriff, went
out in a forest of Brittany to hunt turkey
cocks. They swore both jointly and sepa
rately that they would have turkey-cock or
nothing. They found none. The woods
were cleared of turkey cocks. They starved
a whole month in order to keep their vow
of turkey-cock or nothing. At last Sir
Florismart, who grew faint ar.d weak with
hunger and age, says, “R >lander, dou’t you
think we had better come down to a rob
hin ?” But R lando, who was yet strong
and hearty, replied, “By the blood of the
billy-goat, never.” So, as the legend tuds,
Sir Florismart lay down and died, and some
benevolent ladies came along and resusci
tated the gallant Rolando \tfith bits of
bread and butter.
PROGRESS AND FUTURE OF THE
UNITED STATES.
It has been said and truly said, that the
progre? 3 of the United States has no r ara
iell in the history of nr.tipns. than a
century ago there were but two to three
millions of people, tnen forming remote
dependencies of a monarchical and Europe
an Power. Now the republic has a popu
lation of forty millions or more. For a
long time even after the independence of
the country was established, the settled
portion of it did not extend west of the Al
leghany Mountains, except through a little
bands of pioneers mostly engaged in the
Indian and fur trade. Though a few saga
cious statesmen had some scintillations of
light as t;o what the country might become
in the distant luture, no one realized its
rapid od wondertul growth. The stream
of immigration from the Old World was
steady in former times, it is true ; hut that
was slow, and of course the natural increase
of population could not within so short a
timd make the mighty empire we now see.
Still the American statesman of the early
days of the republic began to lay the foun
dations of a continental republican empire.
Tne acquisition of Lousisiana was a great
event and the first one to carry the people
in large numbers to the immense and rich
valley of the Mississippi. This was really
tfie initial-step to our wonderful territorial
expansion and development. The ambition
and national pride of our people received a
powerful stimulus in that. The acquisition
of Florida, of Texas, ol California, of New
Mexico and Arizonia and of Alaska was
but the sequel of that act and followed tne
natural law of our development.
But new agencies began to work in the
course of time to increase the population of
th * United States and to spread it over the
Continent from the shores of Atlantic to
the Pacific. The wonderful natural wealth
variety of products, cheap lands, free re
publican institutions and a glorious future
attracted the people of all nations from the
Old World. A vast stream of immigration
poured in and cultivated the soil, built up
cities and made the wilderness blossom as
a rose. The redundant population of Eu
rope, with the poverty, tyranny and politi
cal troubles there, increased the volume of
the immigration from year to year, and it
continues to swell more and more. Here
was the home of the oppre-sed and poor,
and here they could find a welcome and
abundance. There is not a village or ham
lat in Europe where this fact is not known.
Then came those mighty agents of modern
civilization and science—the press, steam
power and the magnetic telegraph—to in
crease knowledge, facilitate communication
and to inspire admiration lor this great re
publican and conglomerate representative
nation of the world. The late war started
mankind with the wonderful power and
resources of the republic. It revealed the
fact, of which we were hardly conscious
ourselves before, that the United States is
really the most powerful nation en the
globe, and as regards foreign nations, abso
lutely impregnable. Within the course of
a few years railroads and telegraphs have
covered like network the vast area of the
interior, and have spanned the Continent
over a distance of thousands of miles. A
national debt of enormous magniiude, crea
ted in four or five years, that would have
overwhelmed any other nation unde" such
circumstances is to us comparatively a
bagatelle, and is now being paid off at the
rate of nearly a hundred millions of dollars
a year. Such progress, such wealth and
resources and such power have never been
known before.
All this, however, glorious as it is, only
foreshadows the mighty future of the repub»«
lie. By the natural increase of population
and the enormous stream of immigration
tve shall have, probably, in thirty or thirty -
five years, a hundred millions of people.
The augmentations of wealth will be still
greater. Whatever difficulties we may
labor under at present with regard to the
development of our mercantile marine,
commerce and naval power, we have such
resources, such a geographical position and
such harbors and vast seaboard that we must
become the first maritime and commercial
nation. Nothing can prevent this. And
what is thirty years in the life of a nation
or in history? Ocher nations may and
perhaps will advance under the new and
progressive dispensation of modern science;
hut relatively they have not the resources
and means that we have, Already we see
the moral influence of American ideas and
institutions upon Europe and the rest of the
world, and the time is not distant when this
country will controls indirectly, if not di
rectly, the destinies of mankind. There is
but one thiDg we need, and that is states
men who can comprehend the position we
occupy and the glorious future before us.
Instead of being bound by the past we
should strike out a policy for ourselves in
consonance with our destiny. We should
throw off the swaddling clothes that Europe
has placed upon u# and assert our manhood.
It is our destiny to give the law to nations,
for the people everywhere are with us, and
there is no use of resistance, if we be wise,
to the moral and political power we may
exercise. As to the affairs and interests of
the American Continent, this republic can
do as it wishes, and no odo will presume to
interfere Do the people realize their pow
er and destiny? Does the government at
Washington comprehend the necessities of
of our situation and the jrlory of the repub
lic? These are important questions aa
regards the present and the parties concern
ed, but whatever incapacity may be shown
by those who are in power the grand future
of our country is inevitable.
The Concord Muster. —The New York
Star says: “It it reported that Gen. Grant
is to attend the muster of Gen. Butler’s
grand army at Concord next week. Entler
is to move his army by the left flank of
Great Bethel, through the Dutch Gap Canal,
to the foTe-top gallant mast of the powder
ship, where the right company will go
through the evolutions, while Butler him
self goes through the spoons. The Concord
matrons are said to he industriously bury
ing their plate, and nothing is visible with
in five miles. A petition is in circulation
beggir.g Grant to request Butler to shut
hitnselt in a bottle again, and give the Con
cord people the cork.” We cannot learn
that there is any foundation for these state
ments.
CHARLES DICKENS' COUNSEL TO
6TUDENT3.
In a recent speech at Birmingham. Mr!
Dickens said : “To the students generally
I have had in ray mind, first, to commend
the short motto in two words: Courage—
Persevere This .is motto of a friend and
worker. Not because the eyes of Europe
arc upon them, for I don't in the least bb
lieve it; nor because the eyes of eveu Eng*,
laud are upon them, for I don’t in the least
believe it; not because their doings will be
proclaimed with blast of trumpet at street
corners, for no such musical performance
will take place; nor because self improve
ment is at all certain to lead to worldly
success ; but simply because it is good and
right of itself, and because being so, it docs
assuredly bring with it its own resources
and its own rewards. I would farther
commend to them a very wise and witty
piece cf advice on the conduct of the under
standing, by Rev. Sydney Smith—wisest
and wittiest of the friends I have lost. lie
says: “There is a piece of foppery which
is to bo cautiously guarded against—the
foppery of universality, of knowing all
science, and excelling In all arts, chemistry,
mathematics, algebra, dancing, history,
reasoning, riding, fencing, Low Dutch,
High Dutch, and natural philosophy. In
short, the modern precept of education very
often is, ‘Take the Admirable Crichton for
your model ; I would have you ignorant of
nothing.' ‘Now,’ said ho, ‘my advice, on
the contrary, is to have the cotirage to be
ignorant of a great number of things, in
order that you may avoid the calamity of
being ignorant of everything.'
“To this I would superadd a little truth,
which holds equally good of my own life,
and the lifo of every eminent man I have
ever known. The only serviceable, safe,
certain, remunerative, attainable quality in
every study and every purpose, is the qual
ity of attention. My own invention or im
agination, such as it is, I can most truth
fully assure you, would never have served
me as it has, but for the habit of common
place, humble, patient, daily, laboring,
drudging, attention. Genius, vivacity,
quickness of penetration, brilliancy in as
sociation of ideas, will uot be commanded ;
but attention, after due term of submissive
service, will. Like certain plants, which
to the poorest peasant may grow in the
poorest soil, it can be cultivated by any one,
and it is certain, in its own good season, to
bring forth flowers and fruit.”— Peoples'
Journal.
Printers and Religion. —The chaplain
of the New Hampshire penitentiary says :
“I have the happiness to number among
my friends many printers, but though it
may seem to imply either a lack of ability
on the part of the minister, or the want of
the qualities, I never succeeded well with
that For the nine long years of my
connection with the penitentiary, with ail
inducements offered, not one of that trade
connected himself with my congregation,
and I do not think a man could be found,
of all who ever tenated our prison, who
could set up a column of type. I leave the
reader to make his comments, only remark
ing that this cannot be accideutal, nor can
the explanation be that the emyloyment
keeps them ignorant of the prevailing vices
and immoralities, nor yet that young prin
ters are removeed from the large masses
where corruption engender and spreads
In all these respects this class is exposed.
It is evident that the employment has an
elevating tendency, and is favorable to
intellectual improvement.”
A New Commandment. —Some time ago
the darkeys of Peekskill gave a ball to cel
ebrate the fifteenth amendment. The next
morning, as Eliza, a well known individual
of ebor.y hue, was passing the store of Mr.
A., who lives under the hall*where the hall
was held, the store keeper ran out and said
to her. “See here, Lizer, you colored folas
kept me and my wife awake all last night
with your noisy jumping and dancing.
“What were you doing?” “Doin ? Why
celebratin’ the fifteenth commandment 1”
Mr. A. replied : “Why, there ain't but ten
commadments.” “You git out! Youm’s
ignorumpt white fallow ; “The last time
Congress met they made fifteen command
ments and the la3t one was for the benefit
of black folks!”
A Mother's Influence. —How touching
this triqute of Hon. T. 11. Benton, to his
mother's influence r “My mother asked mo
never to use; I have never touched it
from that time to the present day. She
asked me not to gamble, and I have never
gambled ; I cannot tell who is loosing in
games that are being played. She admon
ished me too, against hard drinking ; and
whatever capacity for endurance I have
at present, and whatever usefulness I have
attained through life, I attribute to' having
complied with her pious and correct wishes.
When I was seven years old she asked me
not to drink, and then I made a resolution
of total abstinence ; and that I have adher
ed to it through all time I owe to my
mother.”
The following description of a base ball
pitcher in action will be appreciated by all
who have watched this important member
of the nine :
“On receiving the ball he raises it in
both hands until it is on a level with his
left eye. Striking an attituge he gazes at
it two or three minutes in a contemplative
way, and then turns it around once or twice
to be sure that it is not at orange or a coco
anut. Assured that be has the genuine
article, he then winks once at the first base
man, twice at the second baseman, and
alter a scowl at the short-stop and a glance
at the home plate, finally delivers the ball
with the precision and rapidity of a can
non-shot.”
An* illiterate negro preacher said to his
congregation, “My breddert, when de fust
man, Adam, wus made, he was made of wet
clay, an’ set up agin de palins to dry.”
“Do you say,” said one of the congregation,
“dat Adam wtrs made of wet clay, an’ set
op agin de p&lins to dry ?” “Yes. snr I
do! “Who made de palins?” “Sit down,
sar 1” said the preacher, sternly ; ‘vucb
questions as dat would upset any system ■ f
theology.”
Au iowo. giri, after UoOuig two aereJ ot j
potatoes, received three offers es marriage.
PIIUNNIE.
A store in Denver Citv has a sign ag fol
d's : FyXeRUT 2 bak 0. * #
A stupid exquisite at a weddipg wished
the bride “many happy returns ot the oc
casion. _
‘lf all the world were blind, what a mel
oneholy sight it would be. said an Irish
clergyman to his congregation.
“Hoast beef,” said a boarder tn a waiter.
“How will you have it, sir?” “Well
done, thou good and faithful servant.”
A man down in Maine Pays if he builds
a houso he will have folding doors, ‘they
are so handy in case of a funeral.’
Tho following epitaph is from a grave
stone out West: .
‘•Herelie* the body of Andrew Leer,
tN hoso mouth did stretch from ear to ear;
Reader, tread lightly o’er his head.
For If he g.ipea by Jore, you’re dead!
One of the amoseinents at Long Branch
is to watch the New Jersey mnspuitoes open
clanls with their bills on the shore. Several
of these useful inscets are being domesticat
ed and taught to punch rivet holes in steam
boilers.
A lady says the first time she was kissed
she felt like a tub of roses swimming in
honey, cologne, nutmegs and cranberries.
She felt as if something was running
through her nerves on feet of diamonds*
escorted by several little cupids in chariots
drawn by angels, shaded by honey suckles,
and tho whole spread with melted rainbows.
An economical method of producing the
Grecian Bend has been discovered. On
rising in the morning before breakfast,
take on an empty stomach, one pint of
green chestnuts, tWo large green apples,
half a pound of raw cabbage, and a quarter
of a pound of honey. A little milk and
vinegar will add to the effect. The bend in
the most unproved form, will appear in
about half an hour.
We heard of a boy the other day, who
accidentally swallowed a silver halt dollar.
They gave him warm water and tartaremet
ic, and antimonial wine, and piked their
lingers down his throat, until the noy
thought ho would throw up his toe nails.
After awhile along came a doctor, Wha un
derstood these cases, lie give the boy a
small dose of patent medicine, and in less
than ten minutes he threw up the the half
dollar in five cent peices 1 Science is a big
thing,
Making a Grea* fuss. —Two Dutch
farmers at Kinderhook, whose farms wore
adjacent, were out in their respective fields,
when One heard and unusualv loud halloo
ing in the direction of a gap in a high stone
wall, and ran with all his speed to tho
place, and (he following brief conversation
ensued ;
“Shon, vat ish te matter?”
“Veil, den,” says John, “I vas trying to
climb on te top of dish high stone wall, and
I fell off, and all te stone wall tumble down
onto me, and has broke one of mine legs off.
and both of mine rib in, and deese pig
stones are laying on de top of mine body.”
“Is dat all ?” says the other ; “vy, you
holow so big loud I tot you gotde toofache.”
From all we have heard about them, the
hotels of Omaha are not very desirable
boarding and lodging houses. Recently a
guest sent in a bill of $63 to the landlord
for killing 900 bed-bugs at seven cents a
piece.
While on the subject we will mention
another adventure that occurod a day or so
ago. A gentleman Vas looking over a hotel
register, when his eye caught sight of one
of these pests of creation traveling about
leisurely over the page. lie turned quietly
to a friend and remarked : ‘Well, this is the
first hotel I ever saw where the bed-bugs
look over the register to see vfhat room you
occupy/
Auntie Ahead.—“ Aunt Chloe, do you
think you are a Christian?”
“Kes, Brudder, I ’spect I is.”
“Do you believe in the Bible Aunty ?”
“Yes, Brudder.”
“Do you know there is a passage in tho
Scriptures which declares that nothing un
clean shall inherit the kingdom ofheaven ?”
“Yes, I’ve herd uv it.”
“Do you believe it?”
“Yes.”
“Well, Chloe, you smoke, and you can
not enter the knigdoin of heaven, because
there is nothing so unclean as the breath of
a smoker. What do vou say to that?”
“Why, I ’specks to leave my breff be
hind me when I go to heaven.
An Eloquent Defenoe of Woman.—
“Dey may rail against women as much as
dey like,” said a darky, lately, “dey can’t
set me against dem. I hab always in my
life found dem to be fust in lub, fust in a
quarrel, fust in de dance, fust in de ice
cream saloon, and de fust, best and last in
de sick room. What would we do without
dem ? Let us be born as young, as ugly,
as helpless as we please and a woman's
arm am ready to receive us. She it am
that guv us our fust dose ob castor oil, and
puts clothes on our helpness, naked limbs,
and cubbers up our foots and noses in long
flannel petticoats ; and it am she, as we grow
op, dat fills our dinner-basket wid dough
nuts and spple3 as wi mart for school, and
licks us when we tear edr trowsers.”
Katrina’s “SnLfDS.”— “Yen I first come
to Filadelfy to serve, I was Very uncivil,”
said Katrina, now a tidy servant in a res
pectable family. “I laugh mooch, and I
feel ashamed to remember t behave ven I
know so little. Shr n—tat vas my beau
Shon, he took me to that teater one night,
ven I been in Filadelfy but tiee weeks.
We sits in to gallery, and we not see goot,
and Shon said he would get a better seat.
So ho puts his leg round der post, and
shlides down mit der pit, and looks up and
calls out: “Katrina \ Katrina ! coom down !
tish agoot place here V and I lean over, and
said 1 : Yfow can I coom down, Shon V
And he said : bShust shlide down ! S> I
put my legs round der pillar, and I shlides
and i\vn. Don der ! how de peoples laugh !
Day biugh so dev play nr ' dat night
up •!; ft* Fve ' lv HT'd vel I,
ut il v huSki.} I’ *' 'U“-c. 1 ' i.- rriocu
but now i puisnes red every time I think*
mit it.
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