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JOHN H. SEALS,
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J. A. Steele, Secretary Executive Department 1
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John B. Trippe, Treasurer
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The firm of j. m. bowles & co. is this
day dissolved by mutual consent, Wm. B. Seals
retiring. The business will be continued by J. M.
Bowles at the same stand, where he will keep, at ail
times, a full supply of Family Groceries, and will be
ready and willing to serve his friends at very Short Pro
fits for the CASH. J. M. BOWLES,
Feb 25 WM. B. SEALS.
LOST OR STOLEN.
ALL persons are forewarned against trading for |
the following notes: A note on Wm F Luckie for
Seventeen Dollars and Forty Cents, dated in April or
May last, and due the twenty fifth December thcreat
ter ; one on Wm Moore for Twelve Dollars and 1 wen
ty-five Cents, dated in May or June last, and due the
twenty-fifth December thereafter; one on David I helps
of Hancock county for Twenty Dollars, dated in March
last and due from date; and one on John Mitchell ot
Mount Zion for Seventeen Dollars Twelve and a-halt
cents, dated in April last, and due the twenty-filth ot
December thereafter. , ..
The above notes were made payable to the sunscriDcr
ns guardian of free boys Jerry and Ben ; and the ma
kers of the same are requested to make payment to no
person except myself ct my order.
THOMAS D. SANFORD.
Greenesboro’, March 4, 1858. _
Fresh cranberries and currants.
March 25 J. M. BOWLES.
ORANGES AND LEMONS.
March 25 J. M. BOWLES.
IF you want bright and sharp Knives, buy a BATH
J- BRICK ot [April 22] J. M. BOWLES.
A NICE lot of CROWDER PEAS for sale by
April 22 J. M. BOWLES.
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April 15, 1858
Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS,
RATEFUL to the good citizens of Pen
’- J field and vicinity, for the liberal confidence
(Jl and encouragement given him, respectfully contin
ues a tender of his professional services to them.
Dr. R. J. Massey, his former partner in the practice,
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and cannot be obtained. March 11,1858
rpHE SUBSCRIBER IS WOW OPENING
J. a nice stock of
Spring and Summer Goods,
to which the attention of the citizens of Penfield and
vicinity is respectfully invited. The styles of the sea
son are unusually handsome and prices very reasonable.
An early call will be highly appreciated.
Penfield, March 25th Wm. B. SEALS.
JUST RECEIVED!
A Large Stock of Family Groceries!
CONSISTING OF
All Grades Sugar and Coffee ;
Fine Syrups and Molasses ;
Good Apple Vinegar; Rice ;
Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Mackerel;
A large lot of Hydraulic Candles, which can he
bought exceedingly low;
A variety of Pickles ; Maccaroni; Sago;
Currants ; Raisins and Candies ;
Table Salt; Soda ; Pepper and Spices ;
Chewing and Smoking Tobacco ;
Pipes ; Any quality of a Cigar ;
Large lot of Jar Snuff;
All qualities of Soap;
Drugs and Patent Medicines ;
Perfumery—a choice lot.
By way of remark, I would say to the citizens and vi
cinity of Penfield, that I am giving this business my un
divided attention ; and if they will give me a liberal pa
tronage, I will save them the TROUBLE and EX
PENSE of going farther.
Penfield, Ga. March 9, 1857. J. M. BOWLES.
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nits. COE & LATIMER would inform their friends
and patients that one of the firm will constantly
remain in Greenesboro’, and that the other will be found
in the following places at the times specified below:
White Plains, from March Ist to March 14th.
Mount Zion, “ “ 15th to “ 28th.
Oxford, “ April 12th to April 25th.
Penfield, “ “ 26th to May 9th.
As this time table will be strictly adhered to, those
who call early will be most likely to receive attention.
Feb 25th, 1858 .
A GOOD lot of SALT in new sacks.
March 18, 1858 J. M. BOWLES.
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For sale by TIIOS. P. STOVALL,
April 29-ts Augusta, Ga.
ALL persons are forewarned against trading for a
note of $53 00, held by Franklin Moore against
myself. The considerations for which the note was
given having failed, I decline paying it.
April 8, 1858 W. W. DURHAM.
ANOTHER “ JOHN ANDERSON.”
Sometime since, says the Home Journal, we pub
lished two verses of “John Anderson,” with an
additional stanza, written l>y a gentleman of this
city. As it was left, the poem was incomplete;
it ended too soon —an unusual fault in poetry.
The verse furnished us by Mr. Gould was a fin
ishing touch ; and the amended lyric was copied
into all the principal journals in the United
States. The reader will please remember that
Burn’s song was “ a make up” from a very old and
coarse ballad of the same title; so there are no
grounds for the charge that has been brought
against Mr. Gould, i. e. of “attempting to improve
the sweet singer.” But there is another “ John
| Anderson,” it seems, whose merits certainly have
a claim on public favor. This John is an lowa
production, and we find it in the Oslcaloosa Her
ald of last week:
John Anderson, my jo, John,
I weel remember yet,
That time sae lan” ago, John,
The day when first we met;
It was a bonnie day, John,
Within the month o’ June,
When lambkins a’ were playing, John,
Alang the banks o’ Doon.
.Since then we’ve seen a few, John,
O’ earthly ups and downs,
And had nae scanty view, John,
O’ fortune’s smiles and trowns ;
But when misfortunes came, John,
Eeach bore a part, you know;
And thus we made the load mail- light,
John Anderson, my jo.
And now that wc hac grown, John,
Na rich, but well to do,
Nae king upon his throne, John,
Mair blest than I and you;
For we hae gear enough, John,
To last us till we go
To where there arc nae rich nor poor,
John Anderson, my jo.
And when to that blest warld, John,
By death we’re ta’en away,
We’ll leave nae wealth behind, John
To make us wish to stay;
But a’ the wish we’ll hae, John
Will be that neither go
To leave the ither lang behind,
John Anderson, my jo,
John Anderson, my jo, John,
When in that hame on high,
We meet, to part nae mair, John,
Nae mair again to die ;
What pleasure will it gie, John,
Still hand in hand to go
Through a’ the flow’ry walks above,
John Anderson, my jo.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY G, 1 858.
EDITRESS^
( V JJ
BY VIKS. If I. E. BRYAN.
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BY MARY E. BRYAN.
CHAPTER 11.
IT was the evening of the soiree dctnsanle. Ber
tha and my mother had gone to dress, Claire
was playing chess with my father, who dearly
loved a quiet game. A servant brought a mes
sage from mama—“ Was it not time Miss Claire
was dressing for the night ?”
“.In a moment,” replied my father. “Pooh!
what a bungling move that was of mine; yo u
might have checkmated me by queen in five
moves, if you had taken advantage of it, Claire.”
And so the game continued. My sister and
mother had been quite uneasy as to Claire’s ap
pearance the night of her first introduction to
New York society. She had gone out very little
during the week that had passed since her arri
val ; and though my mother pronounced her dress
very “ quakerisli,” she could see nothing to find
fault with, nothing outre, for the lead-colored
ginghams and tiny black aprons, or the plain,
dark silks fitting so perfectly her beautiful figure,
were just such as suited her quiet, intellectual
face.
“I wonder,” said Bertha half-a-dozen times
that day, “what cousin Claire intends wearing to
night?” But Cousin Claire never vouchsafed the
desired information, and there was something in
her reserved, though gentle manner, that forbade
all idle questioning. But Claire at last retired to
dress just as I had concluded—knowing her in
difference to admiration—that she intended ap
pearing in the gray silk she wore. I was sur
prised that night, when hearing a buzz through
the crowded saloon, I turned and saw my cousin
entering the room, leaning upon my mother’s
arm and looking so regal, so infinitely above those
around her, that I could scarce repress the excla
mation that involuntarily rose to my lips. She
wore a dress of rich black velvet, her beautiful
neck and arms uncovered and clasped with orna
ments of pearl set in jet. Her abundant hair,
encircling her proud head like a coronet, had
only a single white japonica, contrasting with its
darkness. I had no opportunity of speaking to
her until the evening was considerably advanced,
when, as I was passing a curtained alcove, I felt
a light touch upon my arm. It was Claire.
“ Where is your friend, the young author?” she
asked; “ I expected to have seen him to-night; I
have been looking around the room for him.”
“He is here,” I replied; “but I doubt if you
would be able to identify him with the idea you
have formed of Orso. lie is probably the last
man in the room you would take to be a poet;
and I smiled, as I glanced to the opposite side of
the room, where he sat between an old harridan
of iorty, who persisted in thinking herself a
beauty, and an elderly spinster with hooked nose
and green spectacles, who affected the has bleu.
Both were evidently highly amused, and Dash
wood, whose maxim it was to make the best of
every situation, however unpleasant, was playing
the agreeable in his finest style. A glance from
me brought him to my side, and he was formally
presented to Claire.
“Pardon me,” I said, “for interrupting your
interesting conversation. Did you ever feel the
force of the word bored, Frank?” He smiled, as
he followed the direction of my eye.
“In the lexicon of politeness which Fashion
reserves for a bright man of the world, there is no
such word as bored —at least, when applied to
ladies,” lie said, gallantly.
“ And in that lexicon, if I may believe my
cousin Paul, the word sincerity is marked obso
lete,” said Claire. Frank regarded her with more
interest than he had done before.
“You will admit,” he replied, “that sincerity
is a virtue of rather doubtful use in fashionable
life.”
“ ‘fo,” returned Claire; “ even considered in
the narrow view of policy, truth is best. Insin
cerity and falsehood may succeed for a time, but
truth will eventually triumph. And as for the
popularity which flattery and fawning may ob
tain, every right mind will hold it in contempt.”
“There 1” said I, “since you have fairly began
a discussion, I will leave you and talk poetry to
Miss Malvina Stubbs. What is her last poem
about Frank? You are au fait to such affairs.
Something about ‘ blighted hearts’ and 4 unfor
gotten memories,’ I suppose. All ugly women
scribble, and scribble the same things. I left
them, but frequently afterwards my glance wan
dered to where they sat apart—conversing earn
estly, and apparently unconscious of the presence
of others. Claire’s noble face was glowing with
thought, and there was the look half sad, half
earnest, upon Dash wood’s brow that I never saw
it wear, except in those brief moments when bet
ter influences were in the ascendant; when he
allowed the troubled waters of his soul to settle
like a fountain, and reveal a transient glimpse of
the beautiful image of what he had once been.
After that, Dashwood was a frequent guest at
our fireside. Bertha rarely spent an evening at
home, and as Claire seldom accompanied herjvl
was well satisfied to have her entertained by one
whose society seemed so pleasant to her as Dasli
wood’s. Ho was, as my mother had said, a bril
liant talker, changing with ready tact from grave
to gay, illuminating all subjects with the glory of
his genius and of his wit, which in Claire s pres
ence was always refined. >Slie seemed to have
drawn out all the innate nobility of his nature.
For once, ho pursued his occupation with some
thing like regularity and finished several brilliant
articles, which were published, copied and foi
which he received, not only the praise of his pub
lishers, hut, what he affirmed was far more im
portant, money. Ho was a beautiful reader,
and he frequently brought over the newest works
and read them aloud to Claire and myself, or,
seated at the piano, he would deligh t us for hours
with his strange, fantastic improvisations. lie
followed no artistic rules, was*as ignorant of
crotchets and quavers as of tent stich, but there
was the true poetry of music in the wild, irregu
lar fantasias he improvised.
Strange I never thought of the possibility of
my high-souled cousin loving this bright, but
erratic and fallen genius; but as Bulwer says, “ if
there be anything on which even the most sensi
ble men are dull-eyed, where those eyes are not
lightened by jealousy, it is as to the probabilities
of another male creature being beloved;” and
besides, I forgot that the grave faults of his char
acter were unknown to my cousin. 1 had never
spoken of them, because it had never occurred to
me to do so; and even if it had, I should have
thought it unnecessary; and I saw, too, that his
society interested her, and, neglected as she was
by my mother and Bertha, who could neither
understand nor appreciate her, I was well pleased
to find anything to contribute to tlic pleasure of
her visit.
But she learned the truth at last. An impor
tant election was at hand, and the excitement of
the canvass affected all like a contagious fever—
even the straight-forward business men of Wall
Street.
The electioneering, that great leveller of all dis
tinctions, was going on, and Dashwood took an
active part in the contest. He neglected all
business and devoted his talents to advancing
the interests of his party.
j Politics was his passion, and when the fever
was on him, it called out all the strength and
brilliancy of his genius. He wrote political pam
phlets, he penned paragraphs of keen, biting
satire, he made speeches, tln’ough which, amid
much of the grandiloquent flourish of words with
which orators are wont to humbug their hearers,
there flashed out sentences of living, burning elo
quence, such as Jeremy Taylor might have en
vied. Mass and club meetings and party gath
erings were frequent, wine was freely circulated,
and at such orgies Dashwood was the leading
spirit, lie drank from the fount of Helicon, as
he had called alcohol, and the waters of his soul
were again darkened, and the image reflected
in its depths grew fainter; the sweet dreams of
renown that had stolen of late like awakening
winds over his sluggish spirit, and the high
prompt ings of genius, lost theirpower.
For weeks we had not seen him. “What has
your friend Dashwood done with himself?” asked
my father one night as he quietly sipped his tea.
“Oh !” I replied, “ Harris has secured his ser
vices in the present campaign, and Frank has
given up poetry to do electioneering work. Sad
thing for him, too, I fear! These party meetings
are very disorderly—mere drinking bouts, inflict.
They had quite a time, I understand, at Levy’s
restaurant last night, and Dashwood was elected
king of the Bohemians—rather a questionable
distinction.”
My father shook his head gravely. Frank was
a favorite of his, as lie was of all, for his careless,
genial good humor and rare intellect were irre
sistible.
“ Fine young fellow,” lie said; “good heart and
clever head; pity that he will throw himself away
in this reckless manner.”
But I scarcely heard his comments; I was
looking at Claire. She had glanced up eagerly
at my father’s first question, and when I replied
her countenance wore a puzzled look that changed
into an expression of intense anguish, as with
blanched cheek and quivering lip she rose from
the tabic. She hoped her agitation was unno
ticed, and strove hard to conceal it.
“The poor carp,” she said, bending down over
the globe of fish; “they have had no supper.
Uncle, you have forgotten your pets to-night;”
and then she glided from the room, and I
watched her from the window open tlic gate of
the garden, bright with moonlight, and enter an
isolated harbor at the farther extremity.
The truth had flashed suddenly upon me, and
with it came a pang of self-accusation. My cousin
loved Frank Dashwood, and it was I who had
brought about the acquaintance; it was I who
had unwittingly encouraged the attachment. I
had unconsciously judged Claire by the standard
I had formed of woman—by the calculating,
world-wise young ladies of my sister’s coterie, and
I had now found my mistake. I waited impa
tiently for her return, and at length determine l
to follow her and learn from her lips the confirm
ation of my fears.
“Cousin,” said I, as I took the rustic seat be
side her and drew my arm tenderly around
her waist, “ lias a cheerful fire and my poor so
ciety no charms for you, that you prefer the cold
moonlight and the companionship of the stars?”
•She looked up and smiled faintly. She was
calm and pale, but there were traces of tears on
her cheek and on the long, drooping lashes.
“Paul,” she replied, “do you remember that
you read to me yesterday, that ‘youth in its
troubles looks up instinctively to the stars ?’ You
thought the sentence a true and beautiful one ;
may it not hold good in the sorrows of maturer
years?” There was a sad sweetness in her voice
that almost brought tears to my eyes.
“Claire,” I said, “I would not have intruded
upon your privacy, had it not been that I cannot
rest to-niglit until you have answered me one
question. Not till scarcely half an hour ago did
I suspect that Frank Dashwood was anything to
you. lam tortured by self-reproach, and it is
with all the tender solicitude of a brother that I
ask you if my fears are true?”
She bowed her head upon her hands without
speaking “Tt is enough, Claire. Blind that I
was—criminally blind, not to have foreseen it. I
cannot forgive myself for not having warned you,
for not having told you, that with all his brilliant
gifts, the man I introduced as my friend was not
worthy of my cousin’s noble love. May I ask
another question, Claire? Is there any engage
ment between you?”
“None,” she said; “I know that he loves me,
but I do not think he suspects how fully it is re
turned.”
“ And shall he never know it ?”
“ Never. Oh, Paul! intemperance has been the
bane of my life; it embittered my childhood; it
was the shadow that darkened our household
hearth; it was the one blot on the character of
my father; it despoiled my home of its pleasures
and broke the heart of my mother; and now
now when I have just emerged from the Upas
shadow, I who knew no natural childhood, no
joyous girlhood; now, when the desolate shrine
has found an idol, when Love has cropped the ]
flowers from the grave of dead sorrowrs and 1
woven them into garlands; to find now, that the *
trail of the serpen! is upon them. Oh, Paul! J
what is left for me?” j
“ Your own strong, brave heart will teach you, i
Claire. You have—for you have taught it to me *
—that courage that belongs to woman —the quiet (
endurance which conquers and strengthens—which ,
in the end brings peach. Your idol has become i
clay; be strong, Claire, and cast it from its shrine.” s
“It is what shall be done,” she said, earnestly; !
“ but”—and the firmness passed from her tones— .
“the heart! the heart! Oh! how desolate will i
the heart be!”
How the simple pathos of her voice waked an
answering echo in the lonely charnel of my own
heart!
“ Claire,” I said, yielding to a sudden impulse,
“ Frank Dashwood told me once that ‘ love would
be his redemption;’ Ido not think his dissipa
ted habits are confirmed, and if he had some
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strong motive to stimulate him—something to
live for, to hope for, I think^—nay, I am almost
sure, that it would indeed be his salvation. At
least, you can test him, Claire; and think, what
a glorious work for you, my sweet cousin, to re*
deem that erring heart, to rescue an intellect so
noble from degradation!”
Her eyes were rivetted to mine as I spoke, and
her face in the soft moonlight was transfigured
by the intensity of her emotions into the beauty
of an angel’s.
“Thank you, cousin,” she said, simply; “I will
indeed make the endeavor; my heart tells me I
shall succeed.”
The next night Frank Dashwood came, and,
contrary to my usual habit, I left them alone and
went to my study— not to read, but to wait the
result of the interview with nervous anxiety. Two
hours later Frank came into my room, his coun
tenance all aglow with happiness.
“Paul,” he said, grasping my hand and press
ing it warmly,” your cousin is an angel. She ha3
told me all, and I thank you for the share you
have had in my happiness. Thenceforth my life
shall no more be wasted. 11 is no longer my own ;
it is linked to another, nobler existence. lam
no more alone in the world; I have another to
live for, and the efforts of the genius she has re
awakened shall be dedicated to her.”
His eyes were suffused with tears, and there
was an earnestness in his manner, a depth in his
voice, that told the sincerity of his words.
“Frank,” I said, “let that small, fair hand be
laid upon your helm, and trust your life-bark to
her.”
[to BF, CONTINUED.]
THE DEGENERACY OF THE AGE.
THE degeneracy of the human race is the great
lament of those who compare the present
with the past, and look forward to the prospects
of future generations. “ They are falling from
us,” they cry ; “ the great men of our time-—men of
great intellects, brave hearts and steadfast princi*
pies; men of the stalwart hand and iron frame
they are passing from us, and where, in the pres
ent enfeebled race— the race of kiddied dandies,
of delicate organizations, susceptible nerves and
weak intellects, shall we find men to supply their
place?” The effeminacy and luxurious indolence
that undermined the liberty of ancient Athens,
is creeping even to the farthest confines of our
republic. The hardy, energetic race, who laughed
at peril and privation, at famine and fatigue—the
patient, tireless minds who sought for knowledge
with an eagerness nothing could abate, an ardor
that impediments and disadvantageous circum
stances served only to increase—where are they ?
Is it true, as the wise ones tell us, that they are
fast disappearing? That self-denying heroism
and hardy, healthful ambition are fast dying out
of the great American heart? That should tho
tocsin of war again ring from shore to shore of
our broad Republic, we should want the honest
eloquence, the disinterested patriotism of a Pat
rick Henry to arouse, the wisdom of a Franklin
to plan and the courage and determination of a
Washington to execute? It is true, that tho
present age can boast of few master spirits. Ped
antry tinctures the minds of its scholars, and sel
fish motives and rabid party spirit take the place
of patriotism in the hearts of its statesmen.
But we will not look forward with gloomy pro
phecies for the future. Surely a land so prolific
in all else will not fail to produce master intel
lects, leading spirits that shall direct the destinies
of the future generation. In a country whose
government throws wide the gates of knowledge,
where no prejudices of rank or birth, no restraints
of tyranny may fetter the daring feet that would
ascend the eminence of intellectual powers, surely
they will not be deterred from fulfilling a destiny
so glorious by listless indolence and want of en
ergy and perseverance.
There are as many fortunes to be made, as
many laurels to be won now as there ever were,
and I would ask no better guerdon for success
than youth and health, a brave spirit and an
honest heart. A woman sighs “ I wish,” but man
should say “ I will.’ 1
Instead of spending bis time in coining pretty
ph •ases, learning stunning ties for his cravat and
regarding matrimony as the great object of exis
tence, as soon as the young man quits the shadow
of his college walls, and leaves behind him the
dream-life of a student, he should say to the Ho
mer and Virgil he closes,
“ I have sung with you an epic,
I will live an epic now,”
and then take his place in the great battle of
life, fill his post with honor, and strive, with hon
orable and laudable ambition, to attain the high
est that lies within the compass of his powers.
M. B.
COMMON SENSE.
She came among the gathering crowd,
A maiden fair, without pretence,
And when they asked her humble name
She whispered mildly, “ Common Sense.
Her modest garb drew every eye,
Her ample cloak, her shoes of leather:
And, when they sneered, she simply said,
“ I dress according to the weather.”
They argued long and reasoned loud
In dubious Hindoo phrase mysterious,
While she, poor child, could not divine
Why girls so young should be so serious.
They knew the length of Plato’s beard,
And how the scholars wrote in Saturn;
She studied authors not so deep,
And took the Bible for her pattern.
And so she said, “ Excuse me, friends,
I find all have their proper places,
And Common Sense should stay at home
With cheerful hearts and smiling faces.”
The Last of the Moguls.— The old King of
Delhi, the last of the Mogul Emperors, has been
condemned by the British authorities to be trans
ported to one of the Adaman Islands, and be
held as a convict for the few remaining years of
his life. Ilis complicity, as the nominal head of
the revolt in India, the avowed purpose of which
was the restoration of the Mogul dynasty, and his
more terrible complicity in the massacre and tor
tures of the British women and children in Delhi,
would have amply justified his condemnation to
death ; but it appears that Capt. Hodson, of the
British army, who effected his capture under very
difficult circumstances, promised to spare his life,
and the British judicial authorities honorably re
spect that promise. The Andaman Islands are
situated in the Bay of Bengal, about half way be
tween Capo Negrais and the Nicobar Islands.
Their total area is about 8,000 square miles. They
are inhabited by a couple of thousand Malays, of
the most savage character, and are supposed to
be one of the principal resorts of the pirates of the
Indian Seas.
The Coming’ Summer,
It is said that the Earl of Rosse, one of the first as
tronomers in Europe, has told a gentleman in England
that he anticipated one of the most intensely hot sum
mers this year that has ever been known, and he ad
vised farmers to build sheds for their cattle, by way ot
protection against the extreme heat.