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B, F. WHITE St CO.,'Proprietor* ■(volutig i. i *<£l)c (ftuthbevt Ucpovtcv rC - i L -■ f PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY BY IJT. H. BYRD & R H. WHITE. Tim: of Buujoriptia a. The Cuthben Reporter in pu listieil ai TWO DOL- I LAR- per annum, ill advance; ‘Min Dollar for Six 1 Mouths, anil Sixty C m lor Three Months. j If payment be delayed 0 months, $3 50; if delayed •tie year $3 HO wilt I e required in every instance U sKr In no case will an order for the paper be attend- , Bad to unless accompanied with the money, or a satisi'ac ■pry reference 1 P Bates of Aivartsng. j General Advertisements will be inserted al SI pet square of 12 lines or I'-ss, for the first insertion, end Elliy Cents for em it subsequent insertion Professional Curds, not wtftdiim ted lilies, will be (■verted at .0 a year. Announcement of candidates for office 85, to be paid is advance JM arriages and Deaths inserted grauiunusly. 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Notices fur the sale of personal property must J -be given in.like manner ten days previous to ( aale dav. ’ to debtors and.creditors of an estate > intist be published forty days. I Notice that application will be made to lire Court of Ordinary for leave to sett Land or Ne groes, must be published for two mouths. ! Citations for Letters .if -Administration, Guar dianship. &c , must be published Thirty days— ! far Dismission from Administration, urn tidy, \ six months —for Dismission Iroiti Guardianship,,.. forty days. Rules, for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pnblislied monthly for four months; lortwialilisli- . ing lost papers, for the full space of three months; for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond has been given by the doceased, tube publisned lire full space of thre.e mouths AU-!- . 11 “ illisicllancous. Inlemperaitce and Ipecac:- A writer itt the London “Lancet,'’ says: “I would recommend ipecacuanha as |u& remedy for druukness, taken in hull ■•drachm doses as ait emetic Ipccatmttlta F has the extraordinary of stinm ■bating the whole system, equalizing the ■ circulation, promoting the various secre tions, and iudeed assisting each organ of the body to perform fts function, and re st store it to its normal state. Ipecacuanha Kean be taken with perfect safety as an jferaetie. I believe the administration of | half a drachm of ipecacuanha, and emetic I to |>e a cure for periodical druukness.— lilt is observed, that in the intervals be tween ihe periods of these attacks, the | person is quite sober, and ofteu remains jso for two, three or four months, or for a 1 onger time. When the mania comes on, ( the’intense desire for alchoholic stimulus ■is so strong as to render the sufferer sub ject to no control, and front the sensation | of depression and sinking, lie can look , upon alcoholic stimulants as his only ream dy. When a person is in this state, it will always be found that his stomach is at fault, and the unnatural appetite arises j from that cause alone ; if half a drachm of the powder of ipecacuanha can beta' 1 I ken so as to produce full vomiting, the j for intoxicating stimulus is imme diately removed U *'*Frdta the experience I have had of jrtljk effects of ipecacuanha, I am of opini ’ on, if a patient can be persuaded to fol ( low up the emetic plan for a few times, .fhen the periodical attack comes on, that he will be perfectly cured, and the , habit (for such I look upon it) will be broken.” •- — yrr— —-- , j A quaint old gentleman, of an ac tive, stirring disposition, had a man at work in his garden who was quite the re i verse. ‘ Jones,” said he, “did you ever * see a snail TANARUS” “Certainly,” said Jones. “Then,” said the old man, “yon must I have met him, for you could never over r take him!” I Severe. — A woman quarreling with I Jer husband, told him she believed if she Liras to die be would marry the devil's K.*gghter. “The law does not allow a Btan to marry two sisters,” replied the raffler husband. || To disperse a mob, monut a lamp ;/post and commeuce reading a chapter r from the Bible. ■ CETHBERT REPORTER. AIT ARKANSAS COWARD. FOUNDED ON FACT. The beautiful little town of Van Bo ren, on the Arkansas river, near the Cher okee line, during its early history, was famous for the number and ferocity of its desperadoes, being the principal focus of rendezvous f>r Indian traders and all sorts of adventurers, who had found it necessa ! ry to change their domicils from a land ! governed hy the administration of a rigid criminal code. The half-breed braves ,of the Cherokee nation also Hocked to the saute site to drink carouse, take a j hand at cards, and exhibit their powers iin singular ‘‘set to’s ” with pistols and knives. Such a state of society can be imagined—it cannot be described Mot Ia sun performed its circuit that did not witness some dreadful single combat, with or without murderous weapons, while now • and then dnzeiis at a time, and bv mufti iul agreement marched from the rum shop into a public square and engaged ill iuor ta! strife. ” At this period Thomas B Myers end grated to Arkansas, and opened-a large grocery store in Van Lnreu, acting him self as keeper and retailer. SnMt an oc cupation at tha time, required a man of the most determined courage, as the store always hnd’a back room attached espe cially appropriated to gambling both by day and night,, and where players weie supplied with choicest liquors ol the bar, and would bo sure to bully the grocer out his reusonab.o charges, unless Restrained by fear. i For awhile, however, Myers succeeded admirably. Tlte half breeds, loafers, and charactered fig liters, as they called them selves, held a caucus ami voted mtuuis lHOusly that, the new arrival was a dan gerons subject, and had better be left ! alone. The decision was altogether ow ing to Myers’ personal appearance, as might well be conceived, t all and m4t - ly, and s\metrical in shape, with great, oinflowmcuts both in sfiYugth and agility, lie would have had bat few equals in arms of naked.nature. But the cunning inven tions of art —iron, steel and lead —the thunder and lightning of gunpowder are made to light for the feeblest bosoms, and thus the dwarf and giant, provided both alike, and the heirs of true courage, mow stand on the same level. It was be lieved, also, that, Myers possessed the re solution to handle those horrid engines of destruction, where life and death hung upon the touch of a trigger. His coun tenance betokened the perfection of brave ry. His face wore generally a stern ex pression, and when that molted into a smile seemed still more stern. His eyes were exceedingly black, wild, penetra ting and restless, and had that cold, gleaming,, ipetolic look, which may be re garded as the sure signs of desperation | Besides, he carried an appaling supply of pistols, and a bowie-knife fourteen indies in the blade. Hence, everybody was t obliging and respectful to the ostensible . hero of a period of several weeks, during which au unusual calm reigned through -1 out town. At length a terrible affray occurred at Myers’ grocery. Half a dozen firearms exploded in quick succession, and the deafening roar so frightened the keeper that he took to his heels and fled from his own establishment. The fact settled public opiuion as to his character, f “ What a chicken-hearted coward, to I run from his own castle,’’ exclaimed Gen. ! Cole, the Napoleon of frontier duelists and gamblers. j. “ Why, he hasn’t the spunk of a dead possoui,” lipsed Bill Green, the dandy loafer, combing his soup locks with his long rosy nails. 1 ‘ LetaS drink his liquor and smoke his ’ cigars, and • not pay for them, cau-e as j how he’sa-coward,” said Jack Warhawk, 1 a huge hfilf-hred, and began to fill glass es and hand out cigars, crying : “ Toast to the brave, my boys ; we’ll never want while the world has chickeus 0 f the white feathers.” | The firing in the grocery having ceas ! ed for more than an hour, being replaced by a diu of the most boisterous -mirth, Myers, by great effort, mustered the spi lt to return. He fouud the customers CUTIKHUtT, GA,, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1557. helping themselves with a vengeance, am., thought to overcome them with the as sumption of heroic nirs. lie snatched liis revolver from his pocket, and pointing it at War hawk's breast, sternly ordered him to leave the house “ If that’s what yon are nrter,’’ sliont ’ cd Jack, unsheathing his big bowie knife and springing over the counter, “ here’s what'll give you a ladle full:”’ Myers still kept the revolver presented, but his baud shook like a leaf in a tem pest, and his feet involuntarily retreated backwards by short quick steps The two feelings, physical fear ami courage, were struggling for the mastery. He was endeavoring to act bravely, but his nerves refused their concurrence, and he remained, so to speak, in his equipose— totally incapable of acting at all. He was impotent to tight, and as powerless to fly. There was no such hesitation on the part of Warhawk. Brandishing his knife in his right hand, he seized the flowing locks of Myers in his left, and roaied at the top of his lungs— “ Down, cowardly hound, on your ‘marrow bones, or by blazes I’ll cut your throat !” . Inn edible as it may seem, Myers, still holding his deadly revolver loaded with dx rounds, cowered to the flom - like a beaten hound, anti begged most piteous] r tor his life—a prayer which the mocking half-breed granted, on condition that, he would treat the whole crowd lor a week. From this time the unfortunate Myers was subjected to every species of insult ami outrage. The loafers would pull his nose for mere amusement, the half breeds would spit in his flare just to make him treat, and Geti. Cole, when intoxicated ) would strike him with his cane, to cure him of his cowardice, as ho said. The . miserable grocery keeper brooked all ; these gross indignities with the patience . of a martyr, and would sometime. 1 / meekly remonstrate — “ Gentlemen, it is ungenerous to abuse ; nm thus, for 1 Confess 1 have no courage. I cannot fight ” This continued for a whole year, when . a change occurred that caused the instil t ers to rue their ignoble persecutions. He hud a beautiful wife, whom he loved with the lenderest passion. One day, when the husband was absent, the hideous half breed, Warhawk, instigated to the damu ■ ing deed hy Geo Cole, went to the gro cery keeper’s private residence and ma!- . treated his wife in the most shocking manner. Myers returned home to find his wile dtowned in tears. He heard the httrrpw ; ing tale without external manifestation of , anger or emotion. His face, it is true, became somewhat pale— this lip quivered an instant, and Settled to an expression rigid as a mouth of iron, and his wild f eye, it may be, shot forth a few more ; beams of penetrating fire, but he did not , mutter curses. He uttered not a whisper . or menace—he did not even condole or r sympathise with his wife. He only arm . ed himself with a bowie-knife, fourteen inches in the blade, from hilt to point, . and started for the village, i He came in sight of his enemy prome ! nailing the public square, boasting of his villainous achievement. At this vision Myers’ lips curled into abort id smile, ami his dark eye melted into a stream of tears. Hes stepped to the half breed, and then i said in a hurried whisper— “ Wretch, be quick ; draw ! for by St. > Paul, one of us must die !” And he waited until the other should be ready for strife on equal terms. He did not have to wait long, for Jack un derstanding that cold, glittering, snaky smile, and those hot, gushing tears, as . the certain tokens of murderous madness, immediately unsheathed at the same mo : went with his adversary, and then began the dreadful combat, which was soon de cided- Myers parried three furious blows of - the hateful half-breed, and then grasping | his foe’s clothing with his left hand, with the other plunged the knife into his heart. The Cherokee expired without a groan. And now the inward and terrible pas sions of Myers found vent in appaling ex plosions. His etu'i*es were 1 earful— NO PROSCRIPTION FOR OPINIONS’ SAKE.’ spurned his enemy with his loot, and wish ed he had a hundred lives, so that he could enjoy the pleasure of killing him a hundred times over. His wrath then changed for his other insuiters. He sprang at Bill Green and tore out soap locks by handsful. lie sprang upon Gen. Cole, and pulled his nose until it was flattened between his thumb and lingers—all the while that gory knife dripping with warm blood. His enemies were so taken with sur prise-terror stricken, stupilied, that for a space they seemed utterly incapable of voluntary motion. The coward had suddenly become the bravest of the brave. The equipoise of opposite feeling was destroyed forever ; the sheer power of pure will had con quered physical fear. On the evening of the same day Gen. Cole called a special council of Lis friends to consult on the course he should pursue- The: e was but one opinion that he had been insulted by a gvoss public indignity, and must cull his foe to the field ol hon or. . t Accordingly upon the following day a challenge was dispatched, which Mr My ers very promptly accepted, and fixed the time at noon of the same day—the wea pons to be double barrelled shot g’tnis- — the distance ten paces, ‘Tlie parties met on the sand beach, un der the bank of the river, above the town andhundteds assembled to witness the is; sue. The mortal beligerants were placed by their seconds, ami the death dealing guns enormous double-barrel—rested with dark, yawning muzzles on the sand, in their hands. The spectators were much astonished by the strange contrast exhibited in their appearance. Gen. , Cole was an old experienced duelist, who , had shot his man before he was eighteen, and had often been engaged in affairs of the kind. On the contrary Myers was unacquain ted with lire arms, ami hud hitherto been doomed an unmitigated poltroon And yet, singular to record, the duelist was nervous, agitated, almost trembling, while the reputed coward was calm, firm, stea dy as a rock, with that horrid smile on his curling lip, and a few scattered teat drops gleaming in the sun ott his check. Gen. Cole’s second gave the word. — Fire—one—two—three ! He need not, however, lo have counted so many, for with the echo of the word fire, Myers cl vated his piece as quick as thought, and • touched the trigger. There was a tre mendous roar, and Gen. Cole fell dead. — : His head was pierced with twenty buck ■ shot. ; No man ever again called Myers a , coward in Arkansas ; no one ever thought 1 of such a term, as his shadow gleamed in i the sunlight. He had taken his degree l in the college of desperation, and his dt : ploma was written in blood I - He became a politician of great notori ’ ety in that part of the State ; was re peatedly elected to the Legislature, where ’ he acquired distinction by his talents, but 1 more by bis fearless daring, and be is said i to be in progress of ascension, having re j cently obtained the commission of Major ■ General of the militia. Before many ; mouths we may see his name in the roll i of members of Congress. I Nature made him a coward ; love for his insulted wife made him brave, and 1 bravery conferred honor. * Less Noise. Wesfern judges have queer ideas, if we may believe all we hear of ‘‘court ml , ings.” Fur instance, herd is a yarn con cerning one Judge Bates, who formerly dealt out the law and the “pints thereof ’ somewhere out in Ohio. He very often i gave utterance to sentiments of a charac ter so unusual with the judiciary, that they are said to be eat/ra-judicial. Ol that class was a reproof which lie admin • istered one morning to certain noisy suit ors and lawyers who attended at the Judge’s special levee. The old gentle -man, amidst the din and confusion, rais ed his specs, and looked around his court room with an awful frown After strik ing the table with his gavel and proeut . ing silence, his auditory were electrified to hear him say, “ Gentlemen 1 gentlemen ! I you must keep less noise In-re’ you must ! Fve sent half a dozen people to the I'eni • | teutiary, and haven't heard a word of.the, - evidence The thiag tnust be stopped Uoiiiml to Muirs Somebody. A young couple from Southern Illinois, or Egypt, came to the city the other day j for the avowed purpose of getting hitched together in the traces of matrimony.— The bride was a full-grown red-cheeked, sandy-haired maiden, with a well devel oped bust, and a foot like the Cincinnat ti platform—broad enough to cover the whole country. Ih-r gallant wits six feet nnd an inch, with a fist like a sledge ham mer, and a shock of hair like the remains of a small hurricane. He was rather verdant to be so far from home ; but as love ,can transmogrify an oyster into a swordfish, it Was working wonders in the enamored Sucker. He “ put up” with his intended at a boarding house up town, and immediately started to get a shave, and a justice of the pence. Tl.e barber took off his wiry beard in short order, and gently hinted that he wanted shampoonihg. “ Sham vvliat r” said the Illinoisan— newer having heard the term used before. On being told what shampoouing meant, lie consented to undergo the operation His head was thoroughly scoured and scrubbed, lathered and rubbed, washed and squeezed, and he felt l.ku anew man, but the shampoouing had so bewildered his brain that when lie left the barber’s lie was perfectly oblivious as. to the course lie should steer, to return to fils bride. He wandered about tlte city lit perfect bewilderment, and has not been fteen since. The lady, in the meantime, had await ed in great anxiety for the return of her swain, and finding lie did not come, con cluded lie had incontinently absquatula ted Elm declared, however, that she would never go to Egypt without a “fel ler” of some sort, and hinted that sho wasn’t over particular vvliat name she . went by hereafter. A good-looking young boatman, who was stopping at the house, hearing of the young lady’s distresses, concluded to “buck up” himself. lie was not long in making known his inten tions, mid his advances were received in about the same spirit that a pet eat sub mits to the caresses of a soft hand. When the boatman put the important question, the girl replied : “ Well, I don’t care cf I do. I was foeht over here to git. married, and I’m bound to marry somebody afore I go back. ‘I he gals in the bottom would never git done laughing at me es I went home with out a feller.” The couple were accordingly united in due form, and when last heard from were the happiest pair this side of Salt Lake [*S7. Louis Herald. A Loving Blunder. Two young gentlemen met, a few eve nings ago, at the house of an acquaint ance, some young ladies, for one of whom each gentleman entertained tender feel ings. In a spirit of frolic, otto of the young ladies blew out the lamp, and our two friends, thinking it a favorable mo ment to make known the state of their feelings to the fair object of their regard, moved seats at the same instant, and , placed themselves, as they supposed, by i the lady’s side ; but she had also moved, and the geiitlemein were, in reality, next to each other. As our friends could not whisper without betraying their where abouts, they both gently took, as they i thought, the soft little hand of the char mer ; and when, after awhile, they ven tured to give a tender pressure, each was enraptured to find it returned with an i unmistokable pressure, It may be well imagined that the moments flew rapidly in this silent interchange of mutual affec tion. But the ladies wondering at the unusual silence of the gentlemen, one of them noiselessly slipped out ami suddenly returned with a light. There, sat our friends, most lovingly squeezing .each oth er’s bands, and supreme delight, beaming in tlieir eyes. Their consternation, and the eestacy of the ladies may be imagin ed, but not described. Both gentlemen boiled;-and one was heard say that he “thought all the while Miss ’s hand felt rather hard.” Beauti.'ul Extract. God haswiitlm on the flower* that -weeteu the air—on the breeze that rocks live flower npou the stem-—upon the rajn drop that xelreshes the jqnig of moss that qtt? its head ip the desert—upon itsdlecff chambers—upon eveiy penciled sheet sleeps in the caverns of the deep, no Less, than upon the mighty sun that VWiif and mTrtbcfts of creature® which ~ live in light upon all his wotks lie fra# ’ ‘\wrttcn-y“ N’oneiiveth foi hima?U.” BYRD Sc WHITE, Publishers NUMBER 25. I Wish lie would make lip bis Mind. I wish ho would make up his mind, mu, For I ilon’l care much longer to Wait; 1 ’in sure I have hinted quite strongly That I tliouaht about changing my state; For a sweetheart lie’s really >n backward, 1 I can’t brim; him on, though I try; I own that lie’s very good tempered, Bur then he’s so dreadfully shy. When I speak about love and a collage, lie gives me a glance of surprise, And if I hill hint alMit morriage. lie Mushes quite up to his < yes ’ I can’t make linn jealous—-I've tried it. And tis iiu use my being unkind. For that's not the way, I'm epi tain. To get him to make up his miud. v I’ve sung him Invo sonnets by dozens I've worked him both slippers anil hose. And wove walked out hy moonlight together Yet he never attempts to propose. You really must ask his intentions* Or some other beau i must find ; For. indeed, I won’t tarry much longer. For one who can make up bis uiind. O* Tlte following facts in relation to Washington, are not stated by either Marshall, Irving, Sparks, or Mrs. Kirk land. Though new facts, they may be relied upon as correct : “Although for the time in which he lived, a very distinguished man, the igno rance of Washington in some things is perfectly incredible. He never travelled on a steamboat, never saw a rgdroad, or locomotive engine ; was perfectly igno rant of the principle of the maghctic tele graph ; never lmd a daguerreotype, Colt’s pistol, S'harp-’s rifle, or used a friction match. He eat Tils meals with an iron fork, never used postage stamp on his letters and knew nothing of the applica tion of chloroform to alleviate suffering, or the use of gas for illumination. Such a man as this could hardly be elected President of the United States in these times, although it must be confessed, we occasionally have a candidate who proves not much better informed about matters in general.” A Scared Negro. The Nashville Gazette tell the follow ing story of the recent negro excitement in that vicinity; A few weeks ago, during the oxistenco of patrol regulations, ah old negro man was found secreted in a piece of woods, a few miles from town, evidently laboring under great fear and trepidation. Ou being asked why he was there, lie said ho was affraid to stay at the house where he belonged, and which was close by.— ‘•Wliat are you affraid of,” was asked.— “Why,” he said. “Old Mistress had gone to bed with a pistol on one side of her, and a great big knife on the other, and he was affraid she’d rise!’ A Surplus of Doctors. According to a coirespondent ol the Medical World, physicians have multi plied so rapidly in this,country that new ly fledged M- D.’s are puzzled to find a community which require their services. They are exceedingly, numerous in the Eastern cities, while the West is actually overrun with the sons of Esculapius.— The writer says he has recently made an t-Xtensive exploration to and over the far ffif West, and finds the condition ol things as above staled. In nit the thriving towns and villages in Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska, there are more medical men than patients. One or two invaria-* bly monopolize all the business wor<h having, but even the mod celebrated are poorly compensated, while the prospect is not betleiing. The writer veiy wi.-ely counsels his young brethren to become farmers. ‘ Poetry Improved. The following, from one of the old Bri tish poets, is exquisite. It i§ the very essence of fancy. It was addressed to a lady, upon whose bosom a flake of snow fell and melted : -. “The envious snow came down in haste, To prove lliu breast less fair, But grieved to son itself surpassed. And melts into a tear.” Pshaw! says an exchange; we can beat that any time. Look here— “ Down her wliin- bosom refti-d the tear, (We know i; hadn't onghter,) lin’d ut last—ut lasl—oh deir 1 Her surRT was wet as water Here is a venerable marriage no tice of the “olden time,” taken from the New York Weekly Museum, June 9 1792. Adjectives in fhese days were cheap aud plenty | Married—On Monday evening last, by the Re>. Mr. Beach, John Buchanan, Esq , lo ihe atfiiable, adorable, incompar ’ nble, inflexible, and nonpareil of her sex, i Nancy lAtcy ‘turner, both of this city. . *n z;, i gs-s- Vonee, a long vile ago, I vent out > lin inv apple orchard and climbed a pear tree to get s. me peaches to .make mine ; vtow a plum puddin mit ; and veil Igor, i jtq the toppermost branch, 1 toll from the limb down mit one leg on both Itsidcs of the fence, and like to stove my outsides in.