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PLANTERS WAREHOUSE !
WE now lmve the pleasure of informing
the planters of Randolph and adjacent
counties, that E. McDonald haserected anew.
large and Commodious Warehouse, on depot
Street, south side of and near the public square.
The location being me re central and near the
business part of the city, will enable us to of
fer many more inducements to the planting
public than heretofore —where we will be
pleased to meet with onr numerous old plant
ing friends and customers besides many, many
new ones.
We lmve ample arrangements fortho recep
tion aud
Storage of Cotton ai Ms.
Thankful for past favors, we hope, with in
creased advantages and personal attention, to
give general satisfaction and merit a liberal
patronage. The latest published Commercial
News will at all times be at the service of our
friends and patrons.
Liberal cash advances made ou cotton and
goods in store.
Consignments Solicited.
Personal attention given to the sale of
Cotton, Bagging, Ties, Salt, Guano, Thresh
ing Machines,, Cotton Gins, Wagons,
Buggies, Harness, &<•-, &e.
Plantation supplies furnished atlowe.t mar
ket prices.
Waifon yard, well, rooms, fire places, fur
nished teamsters free.
VVe are looklhg forward with pleasure to
the speedy completion of two new Rail Road
thoroughfares to our city, which will doubt
less cause a great reduction in freights, there
by enhancing tlie value of cotton ami making
our mat ket second to none in the interior.
Planters, look to your lute.est and bii'ig t
your cotton to Cuthbert.
e. McDonald & co.
augß-4tn
ANDREW
Female College,
CUTH3ERT GA.
rpilE exercises of this institution will be
L resumed on Wednesday, tlie 20th of Sep
(ember next, and close on Thursday before the
last Sabbath in June.
The scholastic year will he divided into
Three Terms, beginning 2‘ltU September, lit.
January and lstof April:
REGULAR COURSE:
l'F.lt TERM. PKll ANNUM.
Primary Department sl2 00 S3OOO
Preparatory *• 15 01) 45 00
Collegiate “ 20 00 00,00
Diploma Fee, (paid on
graduating) $5 00
Incidentals 100
Board, Washing, Fuel
and Lights, " 18 00
Regular tuition of daughter's living by the
ministry—no charge.
Each hoarding pupil should be lurnished
with a Bible, Trunk, one .pair of sheets, one
cair of Pillow-case s, one pair Blankets, four
hand-Towcls, over-shoes and umbrella.
EXTRA COURSE :
rtR ANNUM.
Greek arulFiencli, each $lO 0(1
Tuition in Music CO 00
Use of Piano 8 Oil
Drawing aud Pastel 30 00
Instruction in Oi 1 Paiutiug, 40 00
Calisthenics, conducted by a
lady 3 Oo
Singing in Classes No charge
Extra course pursued at the option of Pa
rents and Guardians. Payments must be made
in October, January and April,
Each pupil should be 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 hie bow
to the public, and solicits sympathy and a lib
eral share of patronage.
Summoned to a high and holy work—that
of preparing the mindsaud hearts of the you?g
for the business and pleasures, joys and sor
rows of life—he will call to Ins assistance
the best educators of the country, and address
lfimself to the task with all the zeal and in
dustry that he cannot command. Should time,
whose verdict we woo, demonstrate that lie
oaunot preside with dignity and success—
that he isincapable of imparting instruction—
that lie is is not in the proper place—that A.
K. C. does not return a substantial equivalent
to its patrons—the President will abandon
the enterprise aud refund all damages reli
giously assessed.
Parents and guardians will ing to educate
girls should not forget our healthful locality,
refined society, commodious and well ventila
ted buildings, beautiful grounds, magnificent
grove, aud reasonable rates.
JOHN B McGEHEE,
President- A F. C.
Cuthbert, Ga., Aug. 16th, 1871, it
The City Bar
AND
Billlarca. Saloon
IS now supplied with a Large and Choice
Stock of
Wines, Liquors and Segars,
Both Foreign and Domestic, which can not
be surpassed by any Bar in the Ntate.
Alt the delicacies of the season, in the way
Os Fancy Drinks, fixed in styie.
LAGER BEER only Five Cents per glass.
~ SNUFF _ & TOBACCO,
BY THE JAR AND BOX
Very at
ALLISCN & SIMPSON’S.
CUTHBERT JgJ| APPEAL.
For the Appeal.
An “Old Tune” Besung.
-Tis evening, hark! the distant chime
Os many a deep,sonorous bell,
In music pours its soft farewell
To sunset! It is just the time
That heaven and earth look loveliest ;
And from the portals of the west,
A flood of brilliancy, unknown
To any, save a cloudless clime,
Streams upward to the zenith high,
Suffusing bait the peerless sky
With amber light of radiant tone.
St. Andrew I from tby beanteou3 hill,
A wondrous scene mine eyes survey ;
And through my bosom shoots a thrill,
It hath not felt for many a day.
Before me in the twilight dim,
A wagon, a trio within.
Drawn swiftly along College street,
With flowers and moss, almost as sweet
As the gladsome voices that say :
“ Come, Sundown, ride with us in state,
Crowned with the flowers, that Autumn
late,
Hath sent to bless the closing day.”
If echo, from the far-off mountain,
Returning o'er the Elysian plain,
ILid repeated some rich, soft strain
Os music breathed upon the shore,
Which swells a moment, then again
Is faintly heard retreating o’er
The sleeping waters, faraway,
To die upon some distant bay,
Among the list'uing isles of green
That gem the crystal rays serene,
I could not more astonished been.
Seated there, Nature vic3 with art
To win the homage of the heart ;
How beautiful! But ’tis not all—
Even loveliness like this might pall,
But for the unseen spirit there
Which dwcllet'n in the very air,
And whispers of the dusky wood
From which Nannie and Cobbie Hood,
And Mand, pluck’d Flora’s richest gems,
And of cltinqncpins, pockets full,
To weave into rich diadems
To grace three brows as beautiful
Asa poet’s dream of Graces
That an Artist's linger traces.
Could I arrest the flight of time,
Call Luck ten worthless years of yore,
I would not ask one sorrow less,
Or know one fleeting joy the more,
If I could thus forever ride,
vV'itli this sweet trio by my side.
Cuthbert, Ga., Oct. 2d,’71. Sundown.
How Daniel Webster Pre
pared his Speeches.
In one of the debates in Congress,
which suddenly- called Daniel Web
ter to liis feet, lie made a brief but
most eloquent speech, apparently
without any opportunity for previ
ous preparation. In the course of
his remarks he threw out the fol
lowing sentence, which has ever
since been admired as one of the
most harmonious and expressive in
the English language. lie was
speaking of our military conflict
with Great Britain : —“Our fathers
raised their flag against a power to
which, for purposes of foreign con
quest and subjugation, Home, in the
height of her glory, is not to be
compared ; a power which has (lot
ted over the whole globe with her
possession and her military posts,
whose morning drum-beat, follow
ing the sun in its course and keep
ing pace with the hours, circles the
earth with one continuous and urn
broken strain of martial airs of
England.” As he sat down one of
the Senators congratulated him upon
his speech, and alluding to the
■above passage,'said'’that to him it
was inconceivably how Mr Web
ster in a speech so manifestly un
premeditated, could have formed so
perfect and so beautiful a sentence,
which with hours of study lie could
not improve. Mr. Webster replied
that the passage,was not extempo'
raucous; that in his summer vaca
tion he had visited Quebec, and
while standing on the massive and
almost impregnable citadel there,
looking out upon the wondrous
scene of national grandeur and of
nature’s loveliness spread before
him, the idea occurred to his mind,
lie immediately took liis seat upon
a gun, and with pencil and paper,
sketched the thought in the most
appropriate language he could at
the moment command. Upon ar
riving at his hotel he sat down at
his leisure, and wrote it and rewrote
it, with many- interlineations and
erasures, until he had moulded it
into the form of words which satis
fied him. He then laid it aside in
his retentive memory, to be used
when the occasion should offer.—
The opportunity arose on that day.
State Democratic Committee_
—The members of the State Dem
ocratic Executive Committee are re
quested to meet at the office of the
Chairman, in the city of Macon, on
Tuesday, the 24th day of October,
at 10 o’clock a. m. A full attend
ance is desired.
• Clifford Anderson, Cli’n.
Democratic papers please copy.
Home Again.— H. I. Kimball
and Gov. Bullock arrived in Atlan
ta on Monday. We have it from
good authority that Mr. Kimball
was entirely successful in his finan
cial arrangements in Europe, and
comes back to push his grand rail
road enterprises with renewed vig
or.
The cotton caterpillar has done
much damage in Alabama.
There was a white frost at Cam
den, South Carolina, on the 29th
ultimo.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1871.
Pearl and Blackberries.
“No !” said Dr. Darling, slowly
—“no ! I can’t believe the evidence
of my own senses!” And as he
enunciated the words with impress
ive distinctness he looked solemnly
at Harry Clifford.
He might have found a worse
looking |odividnal to fix his regards
upon than the young M. D., who
had taken his first lessons in bones,
muscles and human anatomy, with
the thei’apeutics belonging thereto,
in the little office across the hall,
and just preparing to hang up a
shingle of his own; for Harry Clif
ford was tall and shapely, with
brown hair and a huge auburn mus
tache, and merry eyes that laughed
like springs of water in the sun
shine.
Hr. Darling took off his specta
cles, folded them, and deliberately
placed them in their case, still with
out taking his eyes from his neo
phyte.—Harry Clifford; but he
looked a little embarrassed, notwith
standing.
“She would have you in a min
ute, if you were to propose,” pur
sued Dr. Darling, dropping great
red hot splashes of sealingwax over
a sheet of blotting paper, and
stamping them with his monogram
seal in an aimless sort of way.
“Yes; but I tell yon, Sir I don’t
want to propose,” said Harry, start
ing at the intertwined D. J. D.’s as
if they were the most interesting
things in the world.
“You don’t want a pretty girl for
a wife ?”
“Not that pretty girl in particu
lar doctor.”
“Nor fifty thousand dollars?” ad
ded the doctor, pronouncing the
three momentous words in a man
ner that made them sound very
weighty indeed.
“I would not object to fifty thou
sand dollars in itself, Sir; but as a
mere appendage to Miss Branbu
ry —”
“I believe the boy is crazy !” ejac
ulated Dr. Darling. “Well, well,
as the Scotch proverb has it, ‘a wil
fu’ man maun hae his way,’ and I
shall interfere no farther. By-tho
wav, Ilarry—”
“Yes, Sir,”
“You are going to the city this
afternoon ?”
“That is my present intention,
Sir.”
“Stop at Depeirre’s will you, and
leave Mrs. Darling’s pearl brooch
to get mended. 1 ought to have
done it a week ago; but a man can’t
think of every thing.”
“Certainly, doctor; and Harry
Clifford deposited the pearl brooch
—an old fashioned ornament of mas
sive gold, set with tiny seed pearls
—in hrs waistcoat pocket.
“Rather a careless way to carry
jewelry, young men!” said Dr.
Darling elevating his eyebrows.
“I never lose anything !” asserted
Ilarry in an oiithanded sort of way.
The morning sun was casting
bright, flickering threads of gold
across the kitchen floor; the morn
ing-glories and Maderia vines, train
ed across the casement, stirred
softly in the mid-July air; and Ur
sula Percy, Mrs. Darling’s -orphan
neice, was busy “doing up black
berries.
Fresh as a rose, with eyes, soft
ened to intense blackness at times
by the shadow of her long lashes,
and smiling scarlet lips, she stood
there - her calico dress concealed by
the house-wifely apron of white
dimity that was tied round her
waist, and her black curls tucked
remorselessly back of her ears—
looking demurely into the bubbling
depths of the preserving-kettle,
like a beautiful parody on one of
the witches in “Maehbeth while
on the whitely scoured pine table
beyond, a glittering tin -vessel was
upheaved with the beautiful jet
black fruit, each separate berry
flashing like the eye of an Orien
tal belle.
“Ursula !”
The pretty young girl Started,
very nearly dropping her skimmer
into the preserving kettle.
“How you startled me, Harry !”
Harry advanced into the kitchen,
with an admiring look at the bright
face, flushed with a little blush and
a good deal of stove-heat.
“You are always at work, Ursu
la.”
£ ‘l have got to work, Harry, to
earn my own living,” Ursula Persy
answered, with a slight uplifting
of her exquisite black brows. “I
am not an heiress, like Miss Brad
bury.”
“Confound Miss Bradbury !’’ ex
claimed our hero. “I hear nothing
but Miss Bradbury the whole time.”
“She is a very sweet young lady,
Harry,” said Ursula, in mildly ap
proving accents.
“I dare say, but—what a lot of
blackberries 3’ou have here, to be
sure, Ursula !”
“Forty quarts,” said Ursula, de
murely. “Aunt Darling always en
joys them so much in the winter.”
Harry put a honey-globule of fruit
into his mouth.
“Blackberries are a beautiful
fruit, Ursula.”
“Very and Miss Percy skimmed
diligently away at the boiling cal
dron.
“Especially when you are doing
them up,” added the young M. D.,
with rather clumsy effort at com
pliment.
Ursula did not answer. Harry
walked up to the range and took
both her hands in his.
“Harry, don't ! The berries will
burn.”
“Let ’em burn, then, who cares ?”
“But what do you want?” she
asked struggling impotently to es
cape, and laughing in spite of the
grave look she fain would have as
sumed.
“To see your eyes, Ursula.”
She litted the soft hazel orbs to
his face; then withdrew them with
sudden shyness.
“Do you know what answer I
read in those eyes, dearest?” he
whispered, after a moment or two
of silence, broken only by the his
sing and simmer of the boiling
blackberries.
“No.”
“I read yes /”
“Oh, Harry, I dare not. Uncle
and aunt are determined you shall
marry Miss Bradbury.”
“And I am so determined not to
marry her. Is a man to be given
away as if he were a house and lot
or a bundle of old clothes, I should
like to know ? Ursula —”
“Harry, they are burning ! I am
sure of it. 1 can smell them. Oh,
do let go my hands !”
Harty Cliffort deftly seized the
big iron spoon, and stirred the boil
ing depths vigorously.
“Its all your imagination, Ursu
la !”
“No, its not; and if they are the
least bit scorched they will be spoil
ed for Aunt Darling.”
“But, Ursula—”
The creaking sound of the open
door beyond suddenly dissolved
the tete-a-tete. Ursula almost push
ed Henry Clifford out of the kitch
en.
“ You’ll be on the piazza to night
when they have all gone to the con
cert? ” he persisted in asking thro’
the crack of the door.
“Yes, yes, any thing—everything;
only go ! ”
And Ilarry went beginning to re
alize that love-making and preserv
ing did not assimilate.
“Your pearl brooch my dear?
Oh, remember now. I gave it to
Ilarry more than a week ago to
have mended. I dare say its done
by this time !” and Dr. Darling turn'
ed expectantly to onr hero.
“ I’m very sorry, began Harry-; ”
“but the brooch disappeared in the
most unaccountable manner from my
vest pocket. 1 know I put it
there—”
“ Yes,” dryly interrupted the
elder gentleman, “ I remember see
ing you put it there, and you assur
ed me at the time that you never
lost anything. So the brooch is
gone, eh? ”
“Yes, sir, it is gone. But Mis.
Darling may rest assured,” Harry
added, with a glance at that lady,
“ that 1 will replace it at the very
earliest opportunity.”
“Ob it is of no consequence at
all! ” said Mrs. Darling, with a
countenance that said plainly, it is
of the very greatest consequence !
“ Perhaps we shall find it some
where about the house.”
But the days slipped by one by
one, and the doom of the pearl
brooch remained involved in the
deepest mystery. Harry Clifford
bought another one and presented
it to Mrs. Darling with a compli
mentary speech. Mrs. Darling
laughed and pinned it into the folds
of the thread lace barb she wore at
her throat.
“But it is so strange what can
have become of the other ! ” said
Mrs. Darling.
It was in the golden month of
September that the old doctor and
Mrs. Darling made up their minds
to invite Miss Bradbury to tea.
“ We’ll have pound-cake aud pre
served blackberries, said Mrs. Dar
ling, who always looked at the ma
terial side of things.
“And if Ilarry don’t come to
terms now, he never will,” added
her husband, who didn’t.
“ Get out the best cliina and the
chased silver tea service, Ursula,”
said Mrs. Darling.
“And wear your pink French cal
ico, child it’s the most becoming
dress you have,” said her uncle with
a loving glauce at the bright little
brunette.
And Ursula Percy- obeyed both
of their mandates.
Miss Bradbury came —a hand
some, showy young lady, with a
smooth “ society ” manner that
made Ursula feel herself very coun
trified and common indeed.
“ Delicious preserves these ! ”
said Miss Bradbury.
“ They are of Ursula’s making,”
said Mrs. Darling. And Harry
Clifford passed his plate for a sec
ond supply.
“ I remember the day they were
brewed, or baked, or whatever it
is you call it,” said he, with an arch
glance at Ursula.
Suddenly old Dr. Darling grew
purple in the face, aud began to
cough violently. Every one started
up.
“He swallowed the spoon !”
cried Miss Bradbury.
“Oh, oh, he’s got the apoplexy !”
screamed Mrs. Darling, hysterically-.
“ Uncle ! dearest uncle ! ” piped
up poor little Ursula, vaguely catch
ing at a glass of water.
But Dr. Darling recovered with
out any- more disastrous symptoms.
“It isn’t the spoon, and I don’t
come of an apoplectic family,” said
he. “ But upon my word, this is
about the biggest blackberry I ever
came perilously near swallowing ! ”
And he held out his wife’s pearl
brooch, boiled up in the blackber
ries !
There was a momentary silence
around the table; and then it was
broken by Mrs. Darling —one of
those blessed old ladies who never
see an inch beyond their own spec
tacled noses.
“ My goodness gracious ! ” said
Mrs. Darling ; “ how could it ever
have Come into the preserved black-
berries ? I —dou’t—see—.”
“But I do, said Dr. Darling, look
ing provokingly knowing. ‘‘Yes;
I see a good many things now that
I did r ot see before.”
And Harry, glancing across the
table at Ursula, was somewhat con
soled to perceive that her cheek
was a shade more scarlet, if that
were possible, than his own.
He followed the old doctor in his
office when the evening meal was
concluded—Ursula did not know
how she ever would have lived
through it, were it not for Mrs.
Darling’s delightful obtuseness, aud
Sophy Bradbury’s surface-charms of
manner —and plunged boldly into
the matter.
“Doctor —•” he began, valiantly- ;
but the old gentleman interrupted
him.
“ There’s no need of any explana
tion, my boy,” lie said. “ I know
why you didn’t want to marry Miss
Bradbury. And I don’t say that I
blame you much; only I came very
near choking to death with Ursula’s
blackberry jam.
And Dr. Darling laughed again
until had his spouse been present,
she would surely- have thought a
second attack of apoplexy among
the inevitables.
“Little Ursula!” be added.
“ Who would have thought of it ?
Well, you shall have my blessing.”
The pearls were all discolored,
and the gold of the old-fashioned
brooch tarnished with the alchemy
of cooking; but Ursula keeps that
old ornament yet, more tenderly
treasured than all the modern knick
knacks with which her young hus
band loads her toilet-table. Aud
every year when she preserves
blackberries, Dr. Darling comes to
tea, and makes ponderous witioisms,
and pretends to search in the crys
tal preserve dish for a “ boiled
brooch ! ”
But then, jolly old gentlemen will
have their jokes.
Tribute to the Late Dr. Bonnell.
At a meeting of the Faculty and
students of the Wesleyan Female
College, in the College Chapel on
Tuesday, October 3d, the following
preamble and resolutions were unan
imously adopted :
The gloom of death has shrouded
our brightest hopes. Our beloved
President, Rev. J. M. Bonnell, D.
D., is dead. His pure life has been
my-steriously and suddenly termi
nated, and our hearts are filled with
grief, which no words can ade
quately express. Richly gifted
with every mental, social and relig
ious virtue, ho combined in his char
acter all the elements of beauty and
greatness. By his patience, gentle
ness and abounding charity 1 , he
won our confidence and command
ed our love.
llis richly- endowed mind was on
ly equalled by his more richly en
dowed heart, and while he, as our
President, was revered and honor
ed for his noble endowments of
mind, we, as his associates and pn
pils, were more attracted and drawn
by the magnetic power of his beau
tiful virtues.
Ilis sudden death did not find
hint sleeping at his post, but as a
faithful servant ho was prepared
for his Master’s summons.
All that was good and virtuous
in character he possessed in an erni
nenf degree,and the sweet fragrance
of his virtues will linger as a pre
cious perfume through all our fu
ture history.
Resolved, That while we cannot
understand the inscrutable Provi
dence that has bereaved us in the
death of our beloved associate and
preceptor, it is our duty- to bow in
humble submission to the divine
will, and to exclaim, “It is the
Lord, let hjm do as seemeth him
good.”
Resolved, That wo will wear a
badge of mourning in honor of his
memory, for the space of thirty
days.
Resolved, That we offer to his
bereaved widow and family our sin
cere Christian condolence, ever pray
ing that the God of grace may- be
their refuge in this day of trouble.
Resolved, That a copy of this pre
amble and resolutions be furnished
the family of the deceased, and to
the Southern Christian Advocate
and Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger for publication.
Wesleyan Female College, Octo
ber 5, 1871.
The first unmistakable symptom
of a depression in the British man
ufacturing busines, that we have
seen, is reported in a London dis
patch of the 6th inst. It states that
the cotton manufacturers of Bom
bay- and North Lancashire have de
cided to reduce the -wages of em-_
ployees on account of the depressed
condition of business.
An old w-oman of Koshkonong,
Wisconsin, who lost a goose two
years ago through the vindictive
ness of an amateur sportsman, has
commenced suit for damages in the
sum of SBO. She calculates that if
the slain fowl had lived, and multi
plied iu accordance with natural
latvs, the sale of the flesh and feath
ers of its descendants w-ould have
brought her the designated sum in
greenbacks.
It is stated that twenty-five hun
dred emigrants from Portugal will
shortly arrive in Charles City coun
ty, Virginia, to occupy a tract of 10,-
000 acres of land. This body of
laud lies ab„ut twenty-five miles be
low Richmond, Virginia.
Striking Conlirmaiiesi of
the Accuracy of the Bihle.
Avery singular aud striking con
firmation of the truth of certain
ancient Bible records has been
brought to light. The land of Mo
ab, lying east of the Jordan aud
Dead Sea, being under Turkish
rule, and the authorities being jeal
ous of all the movements of travel
ers, has been a land of mystery,
and few and far between have been
explorations of it. In 1876, the
Rev. F. A. Klein, a Prussian mis
sionary- at Jerusalem traveling in
Moab under the protection of an
Arab Sheikh, discovered a remark
able stone among the ruins of the
ancient city of Dibon. The stone
was originally three feet five inches
in width aud thickness, with an in
scription oi thirty-four lines.
It is believed originally, there
were eleven hundred letters on the
stone, but only- six hundred and
sixty-nine have been restored, as it
was partially broken in pieces after
curiosity concerning it had led the
Arabs to suppose it valuable, aud
that money could be obtained
for the separate pieces. The in
scription was the ancient character
used by the inhabitants of Moab,
and having been deciphered by
adepts in this species of lore, it is
satisfactorily ascertained that the
inscription is older than most of
the Old Testament, and was, be
yond doubt, made in the y-ear that
Elijah, the prophet, was translated
into heaven. It reads like a chap
ter in the Bible, and gives strong
confirmation to the facts related in
the inspired volume. It has an age
of at least twenty-seven hundred
years, being the work of a people
who dwelt in immediate connection
with the people of Isreal during
the whole period of their marvel
ous history.
The inscription narrates the
achievements of King Mesha, the
Moabite monarch who louught
against Jeboram and Jehosapliat,
aud speaks of the vessels of Jeho
vah taken from the captured Nebo
and dedicated to Chemorh, the na
tional deity of the conqueror. This
inscription not only depicts the wars
between Israel and Moab, so vividly
pictured in the Old Testament, but
also strikingly illustrates the histor
ical, geographical, and religious re
lations oi these kingdoms. There
are few occurrences more remarka
ble, even in this age of surprises,
than the manner in which the Moa
bite stone lias been awakened from
the sleep of three thousand years,
to unfold the secrets of language,
and of history, aud to confirm, by
its emphatic testimony, the essen
tial accuracy of the Book of Books.
Gen. Beauregard.
An “ interviewer ” recently suc
ceeded in pumping the following
out of Gen. Beauregard, while at
Kansas city-, Mo :
Interviewer — What are your per
sonal views upon the “ new depart
ure,” as it is called ? Do you look
upon it as available in the South ?
Beauregard—lt suits me, sir. I
favor it as the nearest and best
road to Democratic success. It
meets my views as being progress
ive. lam tired of living only for
defeat on obsolete dead issues. The
Democratic party must place itself
in the van of progress if it would be
victorious. Let the past go. We
want something more than tradi
tion. We must be in sympathy
with the progressive age we live in.
The Democratic party cannot stand
still. It has done well to accept the
situation and take a front rank in
this age of progress.
Interview’d - —How do the people
of the South regard the “new-de
parture ” of the Democracy ?
Beauregard —As far as I have
been able to observe they are will
ing to accept and endorse it. They
are willing to accept anything that
will insure them from the military
despotism we will surely have if
Grant succeeds in being re-elected.
Interviewer —Whom do you con
sider the first choice of the South
Beauregard (hesitating)—l can
hardly say - . For my own part I
prefer General Hancock, as being a
patriot, a scholar and a statesman ;
while the name of Gratz Brown is
hailed by the people of the South
as the most available. I think Gratz
Brown, of Missouri, upon the new
departure platform, would sweep
the South in 1872.
Interviewer —Gratz Brown is
looked upon in the Northwest as
onr best man, and w r ould certainly
draw- forth a strong vote.
Beauregard—l think so; but
with us of the South wc have noth
ing to say upon that head. We are
prepared to support heartily and
unitedly w’hoever the Northern De
mocracy - may nominate. We care
not w-bo it may be, we shall work
for the election of the ticket. Let
us once effect a change : anything is
better than the present unhappy
condition of the South. The South
ern people know that the battle
will have to be fought and won by
the Northern Democracy, if won at
all. They, therefore, will give eve
ry aid and acquiesce in whatever
may be deemed the best to ensure
a Democratic victory- in 1872.
The municipality of Paris has
voted two million francs for repairs
to monuments and public buildings
damaged during the siege and the
reign of the Commune.
Colorado has ten newspapers and
one hundred and fifteen postollices
through which to distribute them.
The Siireat necessity.
The gospel of Christ, in its sim
ple but great truths, is as important
in good training, as it is in the for
mation of Christian character.—
And here has been the wreck of
many a young character—it was
formed of all things else but Christ';
and wanting that, which the Spirit
gives, it fell to pieces as soon as it
was placed under trial of tempta
tion. Paint truly the beauty of vir
tue, and let vice stand forth in hid
eous ugliness; but the child will
never truly love the one or hate the
other, until he has stood by the
cross and looked upon them.
It is not enough that he knows
sin by- its results; he must know it
as against whom it is committed,
and the character of Ilim against
whom it is committed. This train
ing must present to the mind and
heart the existence of a present,
God, and a God of love, seen and
known in Jesus Christ, the babe of
Bethlehem. Lot the young heart
know that God speaks directly- to
him, that his eye looks upon him ;
let the voice of the Saviour be
heard, and the boy- will become a
moral hero. How many good and
ingenuous boys, fresh from their
home training, falter and then fall,
because their training has been laid
in but a kind ot refined paganism.
How often does the son of the
minister of the Gospel break down
under the jeer and jibe, which are
certain to meet him in a peculiarly
direct manner; when he had all
that teaching could give, except
this realizing sense of God’s pres
ence. Under this training, which
brings him at once to know Christ
as a Saviour and a great exemplar,
aud under no other kind, the parent
can throw himself directly upon
every promise and invitation of the
Gospel, for the security of his child.
He has done for him what is requir
ed, and every sentiment of that
Gospel assures him that God will
grant the Spirit to make the truth a
living truth and saving power.
Then tell the good tidings to chil
dren with hearts, full of love, and
feeling that it is the Saviour who is
their great need. Let Christ be in
ever family-, as one at the hearth
stone—and there, in every scene,
whether of gladness or sorrow,
bring the children to know the truth
through him.
Mexico to be Annexe!.
Anew- annexation sensation has
come to the surface. The report is
that a considerable number of our
people in both the North and South,
are enlisted in a scheme fur annex
ing Mexico to the United States -
that prominent Federal and Confed
erate officers are at the head of it ;
and that the project finds favor in
influential and even high official cir
cles in Mexico. The following is a
dispatch from New York, Oct. 3d,
to the Western Press :
Reliable information lias* been rc
cieved hen that there exists a wide
spread organization of ex-Confed
erate officers, soldiers, politicians,
including, also, many- persons who
served in the Federal army-, whoso
purpose is to bring about the an
nexation of Mexico, peaceably if
they can, forcibly if they must.
This organization expects to secure
the annexation of Mexico within
five y - ears. Joseph E. Johnston,
the famous Confederate General, is
chief of the organization; Rose
crans is in sympathy with the move
ment, and John A. Logan is also
named as one of the prominent
members. It is believed that Jua
rez himself is not friendly to the
objects sought. The demand for
annexation is to begin in Mexico.
Newspapers advocating the cause
W’ill soon be started there, and the
coming winter will see the fruits of
a movementlongconllemplated, but
only now about to be sprung upon
the tw’O republics.
A Model City Council.
The Aldermen for London, in
Great Britain, are elected for life,
and any man refusing to serve is li
able to a fine of $2,500- There are
240 Couneiltnen elected by the free
holders of the city. No man can
be chosen Mayor who is not an Al
derman—who has served as Shoriff.
The Aldermen and Mayor elect
him. His salary is $45,000 a year,
and he is Judge of the Criminal
Court. Moreover, he is Conserva
tor of the Thames, which requires
him to attend to nine Courts a year;
is Admiral of the Port, head of the
lieutenancy of the city, clerk of the
Markets, performs certain duties iu
the Privy Council, presides at pub
lic meetings, entertains distinguish
ed strangers, and makes himself use
ful and ornamental in a variety of
other ways. Evidently the Lord
Mayor of London earns his salary,
and we can see why it is that the
greatest care is always taken in se
lecting the proper man for this high
ly honorable and responsible posi
tion.
The members of the Council must
be of unimpeachable record ; no
man who has ever been a bankrupt
or compromised with his creditors
is eligible. The Council is the leg
islative body of the city.
An English contemporary says:
“If every person possessed a life
policy, there would be few or no
paupers in the next generation.”
No; they would all be killed to
secure the insurance money.
Aiken, S. C., had a heavy black
frost on the Ist inst,
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The Little People.
A writer on school discipline says :
“ Without a liberal use of the rod
it is impossible to make boys smart.”
The Danbury News says that the
reason schoolboys delight to dig and
explore caves, is because of the re
cesses there.
“ Pa, isn’t that man in what they
call the spring time of life?” “Why
my son?” “Because he looks so
very green.”
How do y-ou define “ black as
y-our hat ?” says a school master to
one of liis pupils. “Darkness that
may be felt,” replied the youth,
“Name the longest day in the
year,” said a Nashville teacher to
a young hopeful of five summers. —
“ Sunday,” responded the little vic
tim of blue-law.
“Jontiy-, what do you expect to
do for a living when y-ou get to be
a man ?” “Well, I reckon 111 get
married and board with my wife’s
mother.”
“ Mar, why don’t you speak ?”
asked little Jake. “ Why don’t you
say sumthin funny ?” “ What cau I
say ? Don’t you see I’m busy fry
ing doughnuts ? Say sumthin’ funny,
indeed!”
“ Wal, yer might say Jake, wou’t
yer have a cake'? That ’ud be ftin
ny for you.”
Discretion is the better part of
valor--Tom and Arthur have been
rude to their matuma. Mamma has
complained to papa, who is heard
coining up stairs. Arthur—" I say
Tom, here comes papa,; 1 shall pre
tend to be aslep.” Tom —“ I shaij’t,
I shall get up and put something
on.”
The Louisville Ledgei tells of a
man who quarreled with his wife,
and, in his passion, advised her to
visit the infernal regions. Next
day his little four year old daughter
said to her mother with a very seri
ous face: “Mamma, papa told you
to go to h— l last night, didn’t he?”
“ Yes, darling, but what of it f” —
“ N tiffin, only if I was y-ou I would
not go !”
A drawing master, worrying his
pupil with contemptuous remarks
upon his lack of ability, ended by
asking : “ Now, sir, if you werego
ing to draw me, what part of
me would yon commence first?”
The boy, with a meaning look into
iiis master’s face, answered very
quietly : “ Your neck, sir.”
“ Wei! do you love me?” said an
ugly and not very agreeable friend
of the f unily to the pet four year
old. “I know, but I can’t tell,”
was the answer. “But why not?”
“ Because I should be whipped if I
did,” was the frank answer of the
observing child, who had been
taught by past experience that it
was not always safe to tell the truth.
In Toledo, Ohio, recently, the at
tention of a lady was attracted to a
eouple’of hoys in the street, one of
whom, seemingly addressing the
other, was expressing his indigna
tion in the most bitter term#.
“ Yon fool, you,” he werit on ; “you
cussed fool; I’m ashamed of you.
You’re the darndest fool I ever did
see : confound you !” The lady fi
nally interposed to snggust the un
fitness of such language toward bis
associate, when he replied : “ Why,
I wasn’t talking to this boy ; I was
talking to my dog here. Why,
don’t you believe, ma’am, the cus
sed fool barked at that stono dog
back there in that dooryard. Why,
darn him, I won’t be followed by a
dog that don’t know more than
that!” The lady gave up the job
and retired.
Value the friendship of him who
stands by you in the storm; swarms
of insects will surround you in. the
sunshine.
A local editor assures the kind la
dy who sent him a mince pie, wijfli
the request to “ please in-ert ” tbht
such articles are never crowded out
by a press of other matter.
A California editor has bought a
mule, and a brother editor chroni
cles it as a remarkable instance ©f
self-possession.
Brigham Young takes his im
prisonment very quietly, but some
of his newspapers are talking blood
and thunder at a rapid rate. There
are no fears of a disturbance,
A younl woman in New Orleans,
handsome and bewitching, lately
applied to a lawyer to procure a
divorce from her husband ou the
ground that she could do better. —
Index.
Judge Underwood, of Virgin
ia, has unofficially rendered an opin
ion that the womeu of Virginia
have a right to vote under the fif
teenth amendment.
Leisure is a very pleasant gar
meut to look at, but it is a very
bad one to wear. The ruin of mil
lions may be traced to it.
Glory is well enough for 3 rich
man, but it is of very little conse
quence to a poor man with a large
family.
“A man having been brought be
fore a Dutch justice of the peaoe iu
Canada on charge of having four
wives, the astonished magistrate
exclaimed, “You let dat man go; if
he lifs mit four wifes he has punish
ment enuf. I lifs mit only Von, and
dal’s tnore’n I can stand.”
Grief knits two hearts in closer
bonds than happiness ever can ; and
common suffering is a far stronger
link than common joy.
