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Newspaper Page TextYOL. V. THE APPEAL. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAT, BY SAWTELL & CHRISTIAN. Terms of Subscription: Osh Year....s3 00 | Six Months....s2 00 IKVARIABLY IK ADVAKCE. %gg~ No attention paid to orders for the pa per un'ess accompanied by the Cash. Rates of Advertising: v One square, (ten lines or less.) $1 00 for the ?' rst and 75 cents for each subsequent raser ion. A liberal deduction made to parties tvho advertise by the year. Persons sending advertisements should mark the number of times they desire them inser ted, or they will be continued until toibid and bharged accordingly. . Transient advertisements must be paid lor ht the time of insertion. , Announcing names of candidates for omce, '*5.00. Cash, in all case*. Obituary notices over five lines, charged at tegular advertising ra'es. All communications intended to promote tne private ends or interests of Corporations, (so cieties, or individuals, will be charged as ad vertisements. Jo* Work, such as Pamphlets, Circn.ars, Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will be execu ted in good style and at seasonable rates. All letters addressed to the Proprietor will he promptly attended to. ANDREW Female College, cuthbert qa. fpHE exercises of this institution will be |_ resumed on Wednesday, the 20th of Sep tember ne?t,.and clow on Thnrsoay before the last Sabbath ill June. The scholastic year will be divided into Three Terms, beginning 2<>th September, Ist. January and Istof April: REGULAR COURSE: l’Klt TERM. TER ANNUM. Primary Department sl2 00 S3OOO Preparatory ' l 15 00 'ls 00 Collegiate “ 20 00 00,00 Diplnmu Fee, (paid on gradual.'ng) SSOO Incidentals 100 Hoard, Washing, Fuel and Lights, 18( 0 Regular tuition of daughters living by the tninist ry—no Charge Each hoarding pupil should be turnished with a Bible, Trunk, one pair of sheets, one pair of Pillow-cases, one pair Blankets, four iiand-Towclr, over shoes and umbrella. EXTRA COURSE: , ja Ter annum. Greek nndFrerich, each flO 00 Tuition in Music - 00 00 Use of Plano 8 00 Drawing and Pastel 30 00 Instrucion in Oi 1 Painting, 41 00 Calixthenics, conducted by a lady _ 5 Singing in Classes No chaigu. Extra course pursued at the option of Pa rents and Guardians Payments must be made in October, January and April. Each pupil should he present a* the opening of the School. The undersigned having been elected Presi dent of Andrew Female College, an old and popular Institution, sends fraternal greetings to the Colleges of the South, makes his bow to the public, and solicits sympathy and n lib eral share of patronage. Summoned to a high and holy work—that of preparing the minds and hearts of the you g for the business and pleasures, ■ joys and sor rows of life—he will call to his assistance the best educators of the country, and address himself to the task with all the zeal and in dustry that, he cannot command. Should time, whose verdict we woo, demonstrate that he rauhot preside with dignity and success— that lie fa incapable of imparting instruction — that he is is not in the proper place—that A. F. C. does not return a substantial equivalent to its patrons-the President will abandon the enterprise and refund all damages reli giously assessed. Parents and guardians wishing to educate girls should not forget our Ueulthlul locality, refined society, commodious and well ventila ted buildings,' beautiful grounds, magnificent groTe, and reasonable ratPS. JOHN B McGEHEE, President A F. C. Cuthbert, Ga., Ang. 16th, 1871, ts Ice Cream! 1 WOULD respect fully inform ray numer ous friends and patrons that I have com pteted and opened my ICE CREAM SALOON, And aiu prepaied to serve them in the very beet of style. I have spared no pains or ex {tense in fitting up my establishment, and c. n truthfully say I have the Finest Saloon in S. W. Georgia, And am fully prepared to nu-et the wants of the public. My LAMES’ SALOOA, Has been arranged and furnished with a spe tial desire to please. Adjoining is the GEN TLKMEN’S SALOON, which has been tbor oughly re-furnished and fitted up in the best of style. These saloons are so constructed as to enable me to throw them both into one, when occasions riquire it, and be enabled to scat from Y 5 to 100 Guests! in the same room. lam also fuliy prepared Vo furnish my customers with a superior arti- Scle of SODA WATER! i have also gone to considerable expense in hpaking Improvements in this department of »ny business, and am lietttr prepared than Vver bcfoie to meet the wants of the public. ICE! ICE!! I will keep Ice on h. nd for sale iu quanti ties to suit the public. Give me a call. A. W. GILLESPIE. ZW" A full assortment, of Confectioneries always on hand. aug4-ct The City Bar AND Billiard Saloon IS now supplied with a Large and Choice Stock of Wines, Liquors and Segars, Both Foreign and Domestic, which can not he surpassed by anv liar in the -State. All the delicacies of the season, in ihe w >y Os Fancy Drinks, fixed in styio. LAGER BEER only Five Cents per glass. A FIXE Assortment of Slates, For sale by TANARUS» S. POWELL, Irustcc, CUTHBERT |g§f APPEAL. Fall and Winter Imp Mon, I©7l. RIBBONS, Millinery & Straw Goods. ARMSTRONG, CATOR&CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Bonnet, Trimming, Velvet Ribbons, Bonnet Silks, Satins and Velvets, Blonds, Netts, Crapes, Ruche3, Flowers, Feath era, Ornaments, Straw Bonnets & Ladies’ Hats, TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED SHAKER HOODS ScC, 237 and 239 BALTIMORE ST., Baltimore, Md., Offer the largest stock to be found in this countiy, and unequalled in choice variety and cheapness, comprising the latest European novelties. Orders solicited, and prompt attention giv en. augll -4t FOR SALE! Three Plantations. AS I have decided to change my occupa tion, and my place of residence, I oiler for sale the following desirable property : My IN STEWART COUNTY, GA., SeVen miles south of Lumpkin, and fifteen north of Cuthbert, on the road from the for mer to the latter place, containing 1,631 ACHES; About three fourths cleared and in a high state of cultivation. There are three se'.tlements on the place. The Improvements are Good. The dtA-iliug has recently been recovered and repainted in and out ride. It has seven rooms anfj a cook; room, and pantry attached. There are a plenty of good cabins for labor ers, and the most of them with good brick chimney.-, a good gin house and screw, new stables and cribs, a large two story bam, a good smoke house, dairy, carriage house, and blacksmith shop. There a e two good springs near the dwell ing, and many more on the plantation There is a plenty of cane on the place to winter a large number of cattle. W A. Moteland on the place will show the plantation to any one wishing to see it. Also, MY PLANTATION IS RAXDOLPIi COUX’TY; GEORGIA, Near Benevolence, containing three hundred and twenty acres ; two hundred cleared and In a good S'ate of cultivation, with all neces sary improvements, dwelling, cabins, stables, cribs, a good gin house and screw, choice fruit tiees of different kinds, splendid well and spring water, Convenient to Churches and Schools, And noted for its healthfulr.ess. Any one wishing to see the place, I r. fe them to W. A. Moreland on my place iu Stew art. And MY PLANTATION IN RUSSELL COUNTY, ALA., Fourteen miles from Columlms, near Big Ucln’c Creek, two aud a half miles from the flourishing town of Silver Kuu. on the Mo bile & Girard R. R., containing nine hnndred and seventy-five acres, about one half cleared and in a good state of cultivation, well im proved, in an Excellent Neighborhood of the best society, and unsurpassed for liealth fulness; a plenty of good spring water on any part of the plantation ; a small creek running diagonally throngh the main body of the plan tation The dwelling has six large rooras, and a store room, hath room, and two pantries, al so a cook room conrected to the and welling by a colonade; good framed cabins with hr ck chimneys, t-wo sets of btahies, two carriage houses, blacksmith shop, good gin house and screw, aud other buildings, fruit of different kinds. Mi P. 11. Perry who lives near the place will take pleasure in showing it to any one. My terms for either place is one half cash, the balance In one and two yeais with interest. Either place for rent after ihe first of Dccem .or next, if not sold bv that tune. My address will b. Atlanta, Ga., nut:l after the first of October next, theu Cuthbert Ga., until the firet of January next, augll-tf A. F. MORELAND. VALUABLE Property for Sale AT A SACRIFICE For tlie Money! I want, to sell my OftlST & FLOURING MILLS near Fort Gaines. Ga., run by wa ter—never fai ling stream. The best Mills in Southwest Georgia. Also, my PLANTATION one and a half miles from Cotton Hill, containing 650 acres of land, neat and comfortable residence, beau tiful location, alt necessary out houses, negro cabins, ect., together with STOCK of all kinds Cotton Hill is noted for its School. Place as healthy as the mountains. Will sell cheap. Apply for particulars to JOHN CALLAWAY, Cotton Hill. Or W. C. GUNN, Fort Gaines, Ga. Enterprise R.R. Cos. "VTOTICE is hereby given, that Books for subscription to the Capital Stock of the Enterprise Railroad Company, will be opened at Lumpkin, on Monday the 18tli day (1 Sep tember next; and on the day thereafter, at same place, there will be an election for Direc tors (seven) to manage the affairs ot said com pany. L. BRYAN, T. W. BATTLE, W. R. HOLLIDAY, J. G. SINGER, J. L. WIMBERLY, auglß 3')d Corporators. Extract Strawberry, Vanilla, Pineapple and Lemon, For Flavoring, at B. J. JACKSON’S. CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1871. Phffibe Cary’s Hymn. TOUCHING STORY OF ITS RECITAL. One of her hymns—a favorite in many Christian families and congre gations—we must quote, not only for its own sake, but because there is a story connected with it that we wish to tell: NEARER HOME. One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o’er and o’er; I’m nearer my home to-day Than l ever have been before. Nearer my Father’s bouse. Where the many mansions be ; Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the crystal sea) Nearer the bound of life, Where we lay our burdens down, Nearer leaving the cross, Nearer gaining tli; crown. But the waves of that silent sea Roll dark before my sight, That brightly the ether side Break on a shore of light. O. if my mortal feet Ilave almost gained the brink, I( it be I am nearer homo Even to-day than I think. Fa ther, perfect my trnst, Let my spirit feel in death That her feet are firmly set On the Rock of a living faith. A gentleman iu China, intrusted with packages for a young man trora his friends in the United States, learned that he would probably be found in a certain gambling bouse. He went thither, but not seeing the young man, sat down and wait ed in the hope that he might come in. The place was a bedlam of Loises, men getting angry over their cards, aud frequently coming to blows. Near him sat two men— one young, the other forty years of age. They were betting and drink ing in a terrible way, the older one giving utterance continually to the foulest profanity. Two games had been finished, the young man losing each time. The third game, with fresh bottles of brandy, had just be gun, and the young man sat lazily back in his chair while the oldest shuffled his cards. The man was along time dealing the cards, and the young man looking care lessly about the room began to hum a tune. He went on, till he began to sing the hymn of Phoebe Cary, above quoted. The words, says the writer of the story, repeated iu such a vile place, at first made me shud der. A sabbath school by inn in a gambling den 1 But* while the young man sang,.the elder stopped dealing the cards, stared at the singer a moment, and, throwing the cards oil the floor, exclaimed: “Har ry, where did you learn that tune?” “What tune?” “Why, that one you’ve been singing.” The man said he did not know what he had been singing, when the elder re peated the words, with tears in his eyes, and the young man said he had learned them in Sunday school in America. “ Come,” said the elder getting up ; “ come, Harry ; here’s what I won from you; go and use it for some good purpose. As for me, as God sees me, I have played my last game, and drank my last bottle. 1 have misled you, Harry, and I am sorry. Givo me your hand, my boy, and that, for old America’s sake, ii no other, you will quit this itilei nal business.” The gentleman who tells the story (originally published in the Boston Daily News) saw these two men leave ihe gambling house together, and walk away ariu in arm ; and he remarks : “It must be a source of great joy to Miss Cary to know that her lines, which have comfort ed so many Christian hearts, have been the means of awakening in the breasts of two tempted and er ring men on the other side of the globe a resolution to lead a better life.” It was a source of great joy to Miss Cary, as we happen to know. Before us lies a private letter from her to an aged friend, in this city, with the printed story enclosed, and containing this comment: “ I in close the hymn and the story for you, not because I am vain of the notice, but because I thought you would feel a peculiar interest in them when you know the hymn was written eighteen years ago (1842) in your house. 1 composed it in the littleback third-story bed-room, on Sunday morning, after coming from church ; and it makes me very happy to think that any word I could say has done a little good in the world.” The Drunkest Story Out.— Cousin Nourma is responsible for the following concerning Jim Smith and Johnny Green, who, after having had a grand bout one night, concluded to go home. Ar riving at Smith’s house, which they knew by some peculiarity that even a drunken man couldn’t mistake, they commenced to shout: “ Missus Sum-hic-mith! Ho, Missus-mith ! ” “ What do you want, you drunk en brutes ? ” shouted Mrs. Smith, from the Window; “ Ern you Miss Mith ? ” “Yes, I am. Who are you and what do you want ? ” “ Es yer Missus Sum—hie—ith, come ’ere an* 1 pick out Missur Smif, for Johnny Green wants ter go-ome.” Philosophers tell us that the world revolves on its axles, and Josh Billings tells us that full half the folks on the Garth think i they are the axles. The Doctor’s Story. “ Do you think that he will come soon, Mildred ? ” “ I don’t know Minnie. Is the coffee ready!” “ Yes, it is all prepared, and, the slippers are toasting in front of the big easy chair. I wish he would come ! Mildred, suppose you and I make a solemn mutual contract, never to marry a doctor ?” I laughed involuntarily at my little sister’s face of comic serious ness. “We had much better wait until a doctor wooes us,” I 6aid with a grave, elderly sisterly air. “Get your book, Minnie ; we can read a page at least in that odd, old Ger man story, while we are waiting.” How the tempest raged around our house on that dreary Decem ber night. Minnie and I shudder ed instinctively, safe and sheltered as we knew' ourselves to be, beside the white-hot gate, with velvet car pets underneath our feet, and crim son curtains shuttiligout the tem pestuous storm and darkness of the outer world. We had closed the piano and laid aside our drawing, and were now sitting side by side, thoughtfully awaiting uncle Mor daunt’s return, for the clock point ed to midnight, and he had been absent since a comparatively early hour in the evening. At length there was a sharp, quick ring at the door-bell, a famil iar footstep stamping off the snow' in the hall below, and uncle Mor daunt’s genial face appeared, fram ed in furs, aud rosy as a wintei’s apple xvitb the touch of the keen night air. “Well girls, sitting up for me, eh ? Upon my ivord, I think you are in a fair way to spoil the old bachelor,” he said cheerily. “ We could not go to bed while you were out on such a night as this, uncle,” said Minnie, a house wifely little spirit, as she rang the bell for his customary cup of smo king coffee while I, the eldest, yet most petted one, took my seat close beside the big arm chair, with my cheek nestled upon my uncle’s knee. “How did it happen that you were detaiued so late, uncle ?” ask ed Minnie. “ I have been at the death bed of an old friend to-mght,” said Dr. Mordaunt, thoughtfully gazing at the ruby red glow of the coals as he stirred his fragrant coffee. “An old friend, uncle. Who can it be ?” “ Do you remember seeing Thorn ton Gray here occasionally ?” “ What! that tall, slender man, with large black eyes, that Minnie calls ‘caves of smouldering fire,' and hair curiously streaked with gray ?” “ Exactly, nty love 1 Well it was to his bedside that I was sum moned to-night, and ho is dead. Fortunate man,” repeated my un cle slowly, “he is dead ! : ’ “ Why do you call him fortunate, uncle Mordaunt?” I asked, half awed by the singular tone of voice. “ Because, Mildred, his life has been a sorrowful dream—a succes sion of mistakes, darkly shadowed with mystery • and now the cur tain of gloom is lifted on the other shore ct the dark river!” “ Tell us about it, uncle,” I said. “ Listen, then, my dear,” said Mr. Mordaunt, stroking down my curls with an involuntary move ment of his hand—a motion that I felt was only semi-conscious. “Let me see; it is now eighteen —nineteen—yes, twenty years— how time flies ; to bo sure ! —since I went down from the vicinity of New York to a small inland village by stage coach, then the most usual method of travel. It was a dismal stormy night, not unlike the pres ent one, and my fellow-passenger was a woman closely' vieled and apparently in a great distress of mind. Once when the stage coach stopped for a moment in front oi some brilliantly lighted inn she restlessly adjusted the folds of the thick black veil. It was that of a_ young girl scarcely more than sixteen, and surpassingly lovely.— Once or twice in the darkness, I thought I heard a sob, and was almost tempted to speak, aud ask her what her troubles were.” “Oh, uncle, why did not you ?” eagerly reproached Minnie. “ I probably should, were I placed in similar circumstances now ; there is no knowing what a good chance word of cheer, of sympathy, may some times effect; but 1 was young er and more timid then, and she was a total stranger to me. At a village called Bradforth, the stage stopped for the night, and I saw no more of my mysterious companion. “ The next morning I was adjust ing my fur wrapping on the steps ot the unpretentious hotel and wait ing rather impatiently for the lum bering stage-coach to report itself, when a boy came rapidly up the one main street of the village. “ Please sir,” he ejaculated breath lessly, “are you a physician?” “ Aye my lad, what’s wanting ?” “ Will you just step th.s way sir? They’ve just taken a woman’s body out of the river, and father says may be there’s a spark of life iu it yet. Oh, sir, make haste, please,” he added “she’s so pretty' and so girlish looking 1” “ What was it that reminded me so Strangely at that instant of my lovely fellow passenger of the night before. What made me remember with a thrill of undefined appre hension, the strange look of despair that was in her eyes that one in stant that the light played upon her unconscious face ? I can scarce- ly answer that question even to my self, yet all of a sudden the certain ty flashed across my' mind that it was a case of suicide ! “ There was quite a little crowd assembled on the snowy shores of the turbid looking river, where bloeks of steely ice were rocking, half submerged in the freezing cur rent ; but they made way in silence for me, as I passed hurriedly through their ranks. There in the centre, stretched on a bier made of a few rough boards, lay the dripping and frozen corpse of the young girl!” We were both silent, in a sort of hushed horror; my uncle’s low, solemn voice and impressive de scription seemed to bring up the very reality before us. He paused an instant, and then resumed : “My children, such a sight as that once seen, is not easily forgot ten. Although twenty years have elapsed, I call see her now as plain ly as I saw her then; the marble beauty of her pallid face, the vio let eyes, wide open and glazed with death ; the magnificent golden hair, whose long, wet tresses streamed around her face; and above all, the look of utter misery and hope lessness that stamped the beautiful features even in death. “ I stooped down mechanically', felt the moveless pulse, and pissed my hands over the icy lips, but, as I had been morally certain from the first, I was useless. “ She has been dead for hours,” I said, turning to the little crowd who were breathlessly awaiting ray verdict. “ Poor, pretty thing !” said one of the women who were bendrag over her; “and she’s scarce more than sixteen, to judge by her looks. To think she’s gone so early—poor pretty child 1” “ Nobody knew anything about her; she was a total stranger in the village, and oven the close ex amination of her scanty effects and clothing failed to produce any clue to her identity. I remained over one day iu the village to attend the coroner’s inquest and saw her bur ied in the snow-covered church yard among the gray, dreary old tombstones ere 1 resumed my jour ney. “•Several years passed by, and I had nearly forgotten the lovely corpse beside the turbid river, and the strange romantic episode it had formed in my life, when one even ing I received Thornton Gray’s card, bearing the name of a, fash ionable New York hotel, aud the words, hurriedly scribbled under neath in pencil, “Just from Par:...— Os course I hurried through my list of patients, and hastened to the hotel as soon as practicable, for Gray had beeti one of my earliest and deares/t friends.” “ Hallo, Mordaunt —the same so ber-faced old fellow as ever !” “ He met me with a cordial grasp of tlie hand, and welcoming smile, yet somehow I fancied that he was changed. There was an eager, searching look about his face—an impatient restlessness in his man ner, that struck me as unusual j but later in the evening he explained the secret of what had puzzled me at first. “ The truth is, Mordaunt,” he said, “ I am engaged in a search.” “ A search,” I echoed ; “and for whom or what ?” “ For one in whom my life’s whole happiness is bound up,” he answered, with a sort of passionate energy. “Four years ago, Mor dannt I was engaged to the loveli est creature God’s sun ever shone on, but —mad fool that I was—l became foolishly jealous at anoth er’s attention to her—Celestine. — She was not rich, in fact she was dependent on the kindness of a dis tant relation; but oh how lovely how perfect, she was ? I can’t speak or think of her without be ing maddened at my own folly.— Well, we parted ; she silent and dismayed, I fit 11 of fierce, unreason ing anger, swearing in my insane wrath never to set eyes on her more. I sailed for Europe the next morning—ah, how well I re member that snowy December day ! But when I returned, repentant and sorrowing, ready to kiss the very hem of her garment with con trition, it was too late. The cousin with whom she W'as dwelling was dead, his family scattered, no one knew whither, and all clue to Ce lestine’s whereabout was irrevoka bly lost. Now you know the ob ject of my search. Till I find my wronged, injured angel, life has not one hour of rest or peace for me !” “ And have you no key whatev er to this mystery ?” I asked. “ None, save her picture, which, even in the storm of my first tem porary madness, I could not bare to cast from me.” He took a small velvet case from his breast, touched a little clasp aud it sprang open. “ There,” he said, placing the picture in my hands “it gives but a faint idea of her surpassing beauty, and yet it is like what Celestine was.” “As I looked upon it, a sickness as of death passed over my heart. I was gazing upon the beautiful face that had lain in the freezing snow beside the cruel rivet 1 at Brand ford. Celestine and the unknown corpse were the same. “I returned the picture to him in silence; I could nbt speak. I could not dash his fevered hopes to the ground. And up to the hour of uis death, Mildred, he never knew that she for whom he was vainly seeking the earth over had long- s'nee passed beyoud the power of human love or despair:” My uncle was silent for a minute or two; Presently he spoke again : “To bighthe died* with Celestine’s picture tying on his heart as it had lam in life. Gcrd is more merciful far than man ; and I believed that now the dark mystery is solved; that the beautiful girl w ho perished so miserably in the dark waves of the wintry stream, and the gray haired lover who mourned for her with the constancy of a lifetime, are united at last!” And this was my uncle’s story— one of those romances that some times happens in real life under our own eyes. Was it not worth jot ting down, “even as it was told to me ?” What Beecher Thinks of Cains’ Wife. There is no record of Cain’s court ship or wedding. However inter esting to the parties themselves it is of no interest to us, except upon tho supposition that the account in Genesis of the creation of Adam was designed to exclude the suppo sition that any people had been cre ated. If Adam and Eve were the sole progenitors of the race, Cain and Abel, it is inferred, must have married their own sisters—a con nection which is shocking to the sensibilities of the whole race, at a subsequent 6tage of development But many of the fathers of the church denied that Adam and Eve and their children were the only people of the globe. They affirm ed that th« text in Genesis very plainly implies that there were other inhabitants besides Adam’s family. They allege that verse 14, capter 4, of Genesis plainly implies that the world was already w idely populated. For when God declared that Cain should be driven from his family, and make a vagabond m the earth, Cain deprecated the sen tence and replied “that every one that findeth me shall sljay aie.” It was plainly not his family connec tion that he feared, for he desired not to be driven forth from them. Jt was the people that he should meet when a wanderer in the earth. Who, then, were the people that Cain should fear to meet when he should, have gone forth into the earth ? It is also reasoned by scholars that the most natural method of soothing his fears would have been to tell him “there are no other peo ple on the earth except your father’s children.” Instead of that, the Lord is represented as falling in with Cain’s impression respecting the population of the world, and that he set a mark on Cain, lest any one finding him should slay him.— (Gen. iv:ls.) Still further, it is said that Cain, separating himself from his kindred, went to the land of Nod, east of Odom, “he built a city,aud called tho name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.” The fathers very pertinently asked, where did tho people come from that lived in the city’ ? That would be an extraordinary state of things that would have enabled Cain to fill up the city, however small, with his own children ! And it is infer red, therefore, there were other peo ple in the land besides the immedi ate posteiity of Adam. If Adam was the only progenitor, Cain must have married his sister. If there were lines of people, other Adams, as it were, might have married into another stock. We do not express any’ judgment in the matter. We give our corres pondent opinions "that have been held in the early days of the church, but with the statement that almost all modern Christian writers' have rejected them. But as the origin of races has in our day assumed an important sci entific dcvelop meh t, and as very many able scientists held to a variety of original stocks, it is interesting to know that those views have been held before, and upon supposed Biblical grounds. But are there no marc questions about-Cain? Does nobody wish to know x\hat the mark was which the Lord affixed to Cain? Does ho one wi.'h lo kiioiV how Cain died ? Questions must be scarce to leave such points untouched. It Cain is to be raised, ltd study ought to be thoroughly dealt with. Injurious Effects of a Few Homeopathic Doses. —“ Sam,” said a minister of Dumblane one day to his mau-of-all-work, “you must bot tle the cask of whiskey this after noon ; but as the vapor from the W'hiskey may be injurious, take a glass before yon begin to prevent intoxication.” Now, Samuel was an old soldier and was never in better spirits than when bottling w’hiskey, and having received from his master a special license to taste, ho went to work most heartily. Some hours after the minister visited the cellar to in spect progress, and was horrified to find Sam lying his full length on the floor unconscious of all around. “ Sam!” ho stud, “ you have not taken my’ advice, you see the conse quence—rise, Sara, and take a glass yet; it may restore yon.” Sam, nothing loth, took tho glass from the minister’s hand and, hav ing emptied it, said, “ Oh, sir, this is the thirteenth glass I’ve tu’en, bitl’mhae better !” A recent text of Beecher’s was, “My soul cleaveth (into dust” — $20,000 gold dust. If you want to glide smoothly, use the oil of patience freely. The Temperance Question. Tiifc temperance question is not understood, dr w'edare say, its ene mies would be but few in number. Many look upon temperance, as though that beautiful word contain ed a misty, ghostly, deathly mean ing. Others think they see in it the symbolism of fanaticism.-- While still others look upon it as a species of diabolisms inciting men to trespass upon the sacred rights of others. One minister of tlie Gos pel declares in the pulpit that it means one thing, and another in the same vineyard of the Lord, de clares that it means another thing. Now’, the only reason for this discrepency of opinion among men, is ignorance of the subject. As regards this ignorance, as much is due to the improper handling of the subject by temperance advo cates, as to the misrepresentations of enemies. The temperance question is a sim ple one—easily understood— and no one should be ignorant of it. Here it is iu all its “horrors” and “hideousness.’’ Alchoholic liquors are poisoning tho minds, injuring the health, and damning the souls of our friends, our fathers, our ehildreu. It makes men trample upon, abuse and mal treat our daughthers, our mothers, our sisters. We, therefore, shall use all the means in our power to get our friends and. loved oues to quit drinking the accursed stuff. This is the True Temperance Question. It is one of “love to our neighbor.” We intend no harm to any one, but good to all. We come with an olive leaf, offering a way of peace to troubled hearts. Men may differ about the mean ing of temperance as a Scripture term, and work upon their con sciences to bend them to their latne interpretations of it; but the Tem perance Question which w r e are or ganized to cerry out, is that we have given above. Is there any sensible man that can demur to so true a position ? Do not Alcoholic Liquors poison the mind ? You have examples of it around you. — You have simply to open your eyes and see it. It is truo. Thousands W'ho would be an honor to their families, are mentally poisoned The wing of the intellect is clipped by the demon, and the brightest thoughts perish in its breath. Do not Alcoholic Liquors injure the health ? We assert upon the author ity of our best Physicians, that it is the dyspepsia of nearly all our young men, and produces llyppo chandriasis, Visceral obstructions, Dropsy and Paralysis. We state this not only upon the authority of intelligent physicians of our own acquaintance, but also upon the standard authority of all physicians —the United States Dispensatory. But you Ree examples of prema ture decay in many of bur fellow citizens, and hence none can deny the proposition. Do not Alcoholic Liqudrs damn the souls of our friends ? God says; “No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of Ileaven.” Did you ever have a friend to die drunk or from the effects of drinking? If so, there is no hope. God never changes. In our own little community, we have known of several who have “bit the dust.” Poo£ men.— Would to God you had heeded our humble warning. You know it is truo. Then who can deny the prop osition: Do not Alcoholic Liquors cause good husbands to abuse their w ives ? Ah ! poor woman. Could the. tears that you have shed from the violence of drunken husbands, be gathered together, it would be one of the saddest sights poor mortality ever gazed upon. Have you a daughter or sister mistreated ? These are plain words, I know', but the subject ie likewise plain, and demands the plainest exposition.— It is a living question : not a dead one. It is to be regarded in the concrete, as well as in the abstract. Who can deny the proposition ? If then, our propositions cannot be denied, is our conclusion unjust, and unchristian, or is it a species of diabilism, fanaticism, or of uncer tain meaning. Reason prompts a better answer —love of humanity inculcates a better doctrine. “We, therefore, shall use all the means in our power to get our friends and loved ones to quit drink ing the accursed stuff.” In Georgia, w r e have over six thousand, who have enrolled their names under our banner, and still they come. Reader, will you not come too? We will receive you gladly. W. E. H. Searcy: Hay and Turnips.— Those who keep their hay-lofts down East will be sorry to hear that the crop of hay in that section is short, and prices will probably rule high. It, therefore, becomes specially impor tant to save all the native hay pos sible. Turnips should also be plen tifully sown. The turnip crop has never been appreciated in this country—es pecially at the South. It is a crop that requires little labor, and may be put in when other crops are “laid by,” and harvested also late in the fall, at convenience. The ground should he made rich ; a lot that has been cow-penned, or a rich low corner of new upland may bo selected. Any of the phos phates, or ground bones, may be applied with profit as a ttfp dress ing. Domestic magazines—wives who blow np their husbands: NO. 37 A Sad Story. Among a savage elan Os cannibalism people; A missionary mart Set tip bis modest sicepio; Ami there oath day lie would Pursue his noble labors, lie told them to be good And bade them love their neighUirs. The cannibals, with grins, Gave ear to themes he treated, They crossed their tawney shins, And on their hams were seated: And yet they were not lcslj That missionary's faborg, He taught them lo li.is cost The way to love their ucighbom. For one day. wh*n for prayers Those cannibals they met hitn, They caught him unawares— , . , Tlu-y killed him and they ate him ! They said they found him good—, 1 le'd practiced what he taught tliera— And now they understood The goodness he had brought (fie mV And when they filled each iri iw,' They said while they deplored hiid. “They’d loved him—live and raw— But roasted, they adored him* ” llox. Cassius M. Ci.ay, in reply to tm invitation to be pre-cut at the emancipationcclebration at Bow ling Green, Ky., concludes his let ter with the following pertinent re marks : No government cqn be honestly administered while the Chief mag istrate is a candidate for re-election, and the grossest abuses are being now perpetrated for that reason. ; Military men should receive mili tary honors and emoluments!. Ci- : vilians are entitled to the civi! bon-; ors of the Republic. It would Life just as wise on the day of battle to put civilians at the head of the troops, to the exclusion of military men, as it is to put civil affairs in the hands of mere soldiers. Our whole history, - qnd all history,- proves the K»ity of §(iol\ a cOftrse. Let Grant, then, and the tary Riftg,” retire into their prop er sphere, and let the Government come into the hands of statesmen who know what they arc doing. I speak plainly upon these subjects; because I believe that tlie attempt again to impose Grant upon the country will be fatal to tlie Repub lican party, if not ruinous to the Republic. Very truly your obedieftt SCrVarlt, C; Ml Clay. t A Touch of Nature. The following incident, that comes direct from one of the parties con cerned, conveys an instruction which may well be laid to heart by good people North and South : Mrs 8., a Southern lady tflio had lost a son, an only child, in the Con federate army, was sitting in the parlor of a hotel in St. Louis, when a Northern lady' entered the room. A conversation scon cfenimeiicedj when, after the exchange of a words, the Northern iatly asked i “Were you in this city during the war?” , “ No, madam,” was the reply,’ “ I was in the South.” “ What! on the Rebel side ?’’ “ Yes, aud lost a sou'; only child, in our army’.” The Northern lady lirdsd dt onric from her seat, and, throwing her arms around the neck of her late enemy, exclaimed: “ Then we.can deeply sympathize with one another. I, too, lost a no ble boVj atl (inly child, in the ariny of the Union; and both our dar lings died convinced that they were doing their duty.” One of these dear ones was “ a Rebel,” the other “a Yankee.” W; "■ «4»— aafc.'yr—- Diarrikb.—At this piftifetilfer season, the following very excellent recipe may bot be iiioportune; This is said to be a never failing euro for cramp diarrlim : • - , Pulverized rhubarb, drachm 1 Bicarbonate of soda, dractri 1 Essence of peppermint, drachms 2 Tincture of camphor, drachm 1 Sulphate of morphine, grains 10 White sugar, ouuces 4 Boiling water, pint 1 Put the first six articles in a bot tle then pour in gradually the boil ing water. Dose : A teaspoonful— to be taken once every three to six hours, according to the circum stances. , f Pear Trees. —The Horticulturist says train y*ur pear trees for gar den and field use so they will branch at a distance of one to two feet from the ground, and enumerates the following advantages for doing so : u lt is easy to trim and gather the fruit; falling fruit is little injur ed, all branches being sturdy, will not be strained by overbearing of 1 overweight of frtilt; soil will be kept shaded and moist; trunk #HI be protected from the scorching sun.” A peddler, speakifig of the vil lainous whisky thfey have out in Colorado, says, “After taking two drinks of it, he stole his own goods aud hid them in the woods, and for his life, can’t remember he put them.” Eighty thousand dfellUrS liaffe been subscribed hi Colutfibms to the new bank, not a dollar of Which was given by the merchants. The latter will be called on iiext month, when it is expected the above aniuilut will be swelled to $150,000.