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About Cuthbert weekly appeal. (Cuthbert, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1871)
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Jon Work, such as Pamphlets, Circulars, Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will he exeeu ted in good slyle and at reasonable iates. All letters addressed to the Proprietor wil l be promptly attended to. UIOMOVAId 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, NO. 43 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.
