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About Cuthbert weekly appeal. (Cuthbert, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1872)
VOL. VI. THE APPEAL. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, By J. P. SAWTELL. Terms of Subscription: Oxn Yeaj $3 00 | Six Months —s2 00 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. XW No attention paid to orders for the pa <per un'ess accompanied by the Cash. Kates of Advertising. 12 Months t> Months. j Months: l Month. ■ So. Sqr's. 1 $ 3.00 | 6.00$ 9.00$ 12.00 $ 5.00 12.00 16.00 20.00 3 LOO 15.00 22.00 27.50 4 . 8.00 17.00 25.00 33.00 J c 9.00 22.00 30.00 45.00 1 c 17.00 35.00 50.00 75.00 >1 c 30.00 50.00 75.00 125.00 2 c 50.00 75.00 One square, (ten lines or less,) $1 00 for the first aud 75cents for each subsequent inser tion.. A liberal deduction made to parties who advertise by the year- Persons sending advertisementeshould mark th« number of times they desire them inser ted, <ythey wilUbe continued until forbid and '•harmed accordingly. Transient advertisements must be paid for at tha time of insertion. If not paid for before the expiration Os the time advertised, U 5 per cent, additional will be charged. Announcing names of candidates for office, $5.08. Cash, in all eases. Obituary notices over live lines, charged at regular advertising ntf'es. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of Corporations, So cieties, or individuals, will be charged as ad vertisements. Job Work, such as Pamphlets, Circulars, Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will he execu ted in good style and at reasonable rates. All letters addressed to the Proprietor will be promptly attended to. No iVlortgagc on the Farm. BY JOIIX 11. YATES. Mary let’s ltiU the fatted calf mid celebrate the day. For the last dreadful mortgage on the farm is wiped away ; I have got the papers with me, they arc -right as right can be— Let us laugh and sing together, for the dear old farm is free. Don't ail the Yankees celebrate the Fourth day of July, Because ’twas then that freedom's sun lit up our nation’s'sky ? Why sho ildn’t we then celebrate, and ibis day ne'er forget ? Where is there any freedom like being out of debt? J ve rir. up many inornin’s 'an Lour before * the sun, And night has overtaken me before the task was done ; When weary with my labor t’was this thought that nerved my arm, Each day of toil will help to pay the mort gage on the farm, Aud Mary, you have done your part in row in’ to the shore By takin" eggs aud butter to the little village store ; You did u'ot spend the money in dressing up for show, But sang from morn till evening in your fa ded calico. And Bessie, Our sweet daughter—God bless her lovjng heart, The lad that gets her for a wife must be by nator smart— She’s gone without piano, her lonely hours to charm, To have a band in payin’ off the mortgage on the farm. I’ll build a little cottage soon, to make your * heart rejoice; I’ll buy a good piano to go with Bessie's voice; Toil shall not make your butter with that up -and down concern, For I’ll go this very day and buy the finest patent churn. Lay by your faded calico, and go with me to town, And get 'yourself and Bessie anew and shi ning gown ; Low prices for our produce need not give us now alarm. • Spruce up a little, Mary ! there’s no mort gage on the farm. While our hearts are now so joyful, let us, Mary, not torget To thank the God of Heaven for being out of debt, • For He gave the rain ond sunshine and put strength into my arm, And lengthened out the days to see no mort gage on the farm. A Font of Type.— As a scrap of information, we give the proportions in which the different letters are Cast to a font of type, and in which they occur iu print: Letter c, 1,509; t, 600 ; a, 850; n, o, s, i, 800 ; h, 640; r, 620; and, 440; 1, 400; u, 340; c, m, 800; f, 150; w, y, 200, g, p, 170; b, 160; v, 120; k, 80; q, 53; j, x, 40; z, 20. Besides, there are the combin ed letters, fi, 40; ff, 40 fl, 20; ffi, 15; 111,10; se, 10; cc, 5. The proportion for capitals aud small capitals dif fers from the small letters. In those, I takes the first place, then TANARUS, then A, and then E, etc. An odd genius in Carroll county, who owns six or eight hundred acres of land, has not been off his plantation in sixteen or eighteen years. He labors daily on his fai m, wearing neither hat nor shoes, sum mer or winter ; wears cotton goods manufactured by his own hands, pnd has not washed himself, not even his face, in five years. Send one dollar and get the Ar pEAL through the campaign. CUTHBERT |gjfj APPEAL. For the Cntlibert Appeal. A Tour Through Texas,' OR Information for Emigrants. CALLIN COUNTY, County Seat, McKinney. Area, 870 square miles. Population be tween 10,000 and 12,000. About two-tliirds of this county is prairie and the rest timbered. The crops about the same as in neighboring counties. Since the war, cotton has been found the most profitable crop. Average yield per acre of corn, 30 to 40 bushels; of cotton one half to two thirds of a bale.— Four-fifths of the farm labor done by white persons, and the owners of the farms, very few negroes in this county, and labor very scarce. Good cultivated farms are' worth $8 to S2O, per acre ; uncultivated, $3 to SB. The price of timber ed lands $5 to $25 per acre. Farms can be bought partly on credit.— (I omit prices of farm product and stock is several counties, as they are the same, or nearly so, in all the counties to which I refer} Farming and stock-raising are about equally pursued, all kinds of stock are raised, but sheep chiefly. There are no railroads in this county yet. Jefferson and Galveston are the chief markets, McKinney, Farmers ville and Plano, are the chief towns. COLORADO COUNTY, County Seat, Columbus. Aren, 905 square miles. This county has an abundant supply of timber, about half the area, being bottom land heavily timbered. This is one of the best farming counties. The avorage yield of corn is from 30 to* 40 bushels per acre, and of cotton from half a bale to a bale and a half; but like many other counties it suffered severely from the cotton worm last year, and from a de structive overflow of the Colorado— the water rising higher than ever known. This county produces all the usual products of the country in great abundance, the lands being of the best quality, and the bottom lands being alluvial and of inex haustible fertility. Stock of all kinds do well, and especially hogs. The climate is generally healthy.— A hand can cultivate from 25 to 30 acres in corn and cotton. The county is divided in the middle by the Colorado ltiver, which may be successfully navigated with proper improvement. The B. 13. B. and Col.- Railroad, has its present ter minus at Columbus, which crosses the Colorado by a tine, bridge, Co lumbus is therefore the depot of a large trade west of the Colorado River. It is expected that this road will be extended west to Con gale, and thence to San Antonio. The large trade commanded by this road goes to Galveston and Houston. Good farm lands can be bought at from $2 to $5, per aero, though improved lands are often worth $lO to sls. The Railroad has given additional value to the lands in this county. CORNALCOUNTY, County Seat, New Braumfelts.-- Area, 575 square miles, population near 10,000. This county is chief ly settled by Germans, and is one of the best improved in the State. New Branmfclts is the chief and ody town of importance having a population of near 5000. The evi dence of thrift and prosperity, and of the abundant supply of all that is necessary to social enjoyment, can scarcely fail to strike the most casual observer. Tho same may be said of this county as of the rest of the western counties. This county has the best water powers of any county in the State. Tim ber enough for ordinary purposes. COMANCHE COUNTY, County Seat, Comanche. Area, 1050 square miles. Population, 1500, corn and wheat are the chief products. The yield of corn being about forty bushels and wheat twelve bushels. About half the county is wood-land, •*thc “ cross timbers” running through the west ern part of the county. This is properly a stock-raising county, though much of it is well adapted to farming which is steadily increas ing. Leon River the principal stream, runs through the county. The native mustang grape is abun dant. Lands wo rib from $1 to $lO. There are few freedmen iu this county. COOKE COUNTY, County Seat, Gainesville. Area, 900 square miles. While this is one of the very best counties in the State, it is a frontier' county and has suffered much from the Indians, und more especially since the late war. The government has given ■5 CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1872, little or no protection. Many of the citizens have been murdered, scalped, or carried into captivity, and many thousand dollars worth of property destroyed and carried off yearly by the savages. But they have now better prospects of protection and many of the citizens, who have left on account of the In dians are now returning. The eas tern part of the couuty, from Red River to Denton county, is within the belt called the “cross timbers/’ and constitutes one third of the county. The balance of the county is chiefly prairie, except on the riv ers. There are very few negroes in this county. Good white labor is worth from $lB to S2O specie per month. The lands are mellow aud easily cultivated, one band cultiva ting usually about 25 acres. All the products are raised in abun dance. This is a fine wheat coun ty, and all the other small grains are raised. Cotton is being success fully raised within tho past three years. The bottom lands on Red River are exceeding rich, and often produce 60 bushels of corn to the acre, and 25 bushels wheat. Thir ty-five bushels of California wheat have been raised per acre. The finest lands here are sold at from $1 to $5 per acre. Though when improved they command sls per acre. T. M. A. A Terrible Overflow. From the Montgomery Advertis er, the editor of which conversed with a gentleman just from the scene of ruin, we condense the fol lowing particulars: Between Birmingham and Tusca loosa .lie'found tho bridge across Big Sandy Creek washed away and the Warrior river opposite the mouth of the creek more than six miles wide. The latter stream had then wsen 62 feet at the city of Tuscaloosa, and was overflowing all the farms along its banks and bottoms, carrying disaster and suf fering in its comse. At the cross ing of the railroad bridge of the South and North Rond fifty miles above the city it had risen to the unprecented height of 80 feet, sweeping away tho iron bridge as though it had been a mere cobweb. Os the seven bridges across Cun ningham’s Creek in Jefferson coun ty, five had been swept completely away inflicting such damage to the road as to delay its completion two months or more. The iron bridge across the Warrior was to have been swung at seven o’clock of the evening on which it was destroyed. The bridge across Turkey Creek withstood the pressure notwith standing tho fact that a gin house lodged against its timbers and was there torn to pieces by the waters. Every water mill in Jefferson coun ty with the solitary exception of Boyle’s mill, which was slightly ca reened, was carried away. Mr. Boyle’s residence was washed away in the night, and it was with only superhuman exertion that he rescued his family. All .of his household goojls, even his little dog, went down the mighty torrent.— Houses of all sorts and sizes, along even the most insignificant water courses were carried away and their debris was, on Tuesday last, every where visible on the surface of the "Warrior and Cahaba rivers. The Cahaba, at the crossing of the Selma and Meridian Road, was at one time more than two miles wide. A number of trestles on the eastern side of that stream were tie stroyed and both ends of the bridge along with them. Everywhere the waters could reach, the destruc tion has been terrible. We havo heard of no loss of life, however. Tho suffering that will necessari ly result from this terrible calamity cannot fail to be very severe. It is estimated that in Tuscaloosa county alone, it has cast not less than 2,- 500 people on the charity of the public. Public meetings are being called toTonsider the best means of aiding the sufferers, and we learn thatthe State will be asked to extend them whatever assistance may bo deomed right and necessary in view of all the circumstances in the case. A number of families in Hale and Greene have also been in volved, and in Jefferson there is no estimating the damage that has been done or the suffering entailed upon her citizens. Blount, Win ston and Walker have also been in jured, but to what probable extent we. have not yet been advised. —Eufoula Times July 2 3rd. Since ladies have taken to wearing newspapers for bustles, pub lishers complain that their fair sub scribers are more in “arrears” than ever- Indian Atrocities in Texas. Murder of the Aged. The Noting Ta ken Captive. Washington, July 17. —The War Department has an official report of the massacre by Indians of the family of Abel Lee, residing on the Clear Fork of the Brazos river, abont sixteen miles below Fort Griffin, Texas. Lieut. Gilbreth, of the 11th infantry, who was.sent to investigate the case with a party of soldiers, reports the massacre one of exceeding brutality. The fol lowing persons were in the house at the time of the attack, which was at 5£ o’clock, p. m., Sunday, June Bth: Abel Leo and Lillie Lee, each aged about 60 years; Francis Lee, aged 8; Cordelia, aged 15 ; Susanna, aged 17 ; John Abel Lee, aged 6, and a man named Me Carthy. Abel, Lillie and Frances Lee were killel; the old man while sitting in his door, the old lady in tho same room, and the little girl while running from the house. All were killed with arrows, and all of them scalped. Every particle of skin on which hair grew was re moved from the head. Mrs. Lee’s ears were cut off, and the bodies of both herself and husband mutila ted and arrows left sticking in them. The little girl Frances had only the arrow which killed her. Cordelia, Susanna and John Abel Lee 'were taken prisoners by the Indians. The bodies of the dead were bur ied by the citizens. Col. Wood, commanding the post at Fort Griffin, writes; “Immedi ately upon the return of Lieut. Gil breth two scouting parties were sent iu pursuit of these Indians, but owing to the high water it was about eight hours after starting before they could cross the Clear Fork. By sending the men, equipments, &c., across in a small skill'and swimming the hoises, they wero all safely crossed and landed by sunset, July 12th. Owing to the small number of troops at the post and the preparation being made for Col. Mackenzie’s expedition, it was impossible to send very large par ties, and so much time elapsed be fore the Clear Fork could be cross* cd, owing to the high water, of which the Indians took advantage, there is little hope of overtaking them. The non-commissioned offi. cers in charge of the detachments have, however, been instructed to use every effort to ascertain the fate of the captives, the direction of the trail, and what Indians compose the party.” General Augur, commanding the Department of Texas, says :• “Mac kenize got off on the 14th from Richardson, and it is hoped his movements may prevent those raids on the northen Texas frontier, for the time being at least.” General Augur fears more ex tensive operations will have to be taken against these Indians before they will remain peaceable. With Mexico on one side and the reser vations on the other, as places of refuge, and security for themselves and their plunder, the present de fensive system will not effect much. —ln St. Paul, a young man treated his sweetheart to the circus, and accidently got separated from her.. After searching distractedly for half an hour, he discovered his adored imbibing lemonade with a rival. Jerking off his coat, he was soon engaged in a rough and tum ble fight. The damsel looked cool ly on as they gouged each other’s eyes, and finally remarked : “ Fight it out, you chaps; l am going with the feller who’ll take me to the show to-night.” Toothpicks. —The business of manufacturing these little articles is beginning to assume some im portance. The toothpick-factory m Canton, Me., furnishes more work than any other business in town.— Over one hundred cords of poplar have'been hauled for its use this season, and converted into tooth picks. Each of the machines used will, it is said, make five thousand toothpicks in a minute. Mercer University was incorpo rated in 1838, and is consequently thirty-four years old. It was orig inally established at Penfield, but, yielding to the spirit of the times, was last year removed to Macon.— This city has given it a handsome lot and $125,000 for buildings which arc now being erected. Un der a contract, twelve boys, recom mended by the City Council will receive gratuitous instruction iu the college. The Brothers. A Scene in a Gambling House In 1849 the principal banking in-' stitutions of the chance kind in San Francisco were the “Bella Union,” “Veranda,’“Nim de Oro/’.and “Par ker House,” all situated about the “Plaza,” and each employed a band of music to lessen the tedious hours of that rainy winter, and to drown the noise of jingliug gold and sil ver, and the cursing ejaculations of the gamblers. Many a sad scene has taken place within these saloons, that chilled the blood ot the beholder, and is re membered with horror. I once carelessly" sauntered through one of these places. My attention was at tracted toward a person who had large piles of gold before him. The staring eyeballs, the swollen veins upon his face, and clenched bands told of heavy losses. Mingled ex clamations of horror' aud contempt would ascap§ him, and he seemed unconscious 'of all that was going on around him. His gaze was bent upon the cards as if his life’s blood was the stake at issue. In this case his last dollar was placed within the dealer’s bank; then, with the fren zy of a maniac, he drew a long, ugly dirk-knile and plunged it. up to the bilt into his own body, and sunk a corpse on the table. A few rude jeers followed this act; the body was removed, and the game went on as though nothing had hap pened —as though another victim had not been added to the gambler’s damning record, or another man had not died. lie started with a largo stock of goods, given him by his father to sell on commission, and the father’s fortune depended on the safe return of the money so invested ; but as usual with young men he indulged in the full liberty of unbridled li cense, and while tho ship stopped at one of the South American ports, he engendered the first seeds of “play.” But for a w T hile after his arrival the excitement of trade, and the energy necessary to accomplish a successful issue, kept his mind busy. One day, by appointment, he was to meet a mercantile friend at this time, and while waiting for his friend’s arrival, staked a few dollars upon the turn of the cards, when the latent disease sprang into life, and it carried him headlong over the precipice, and ended in the tragic manner related. The “Nim de Oro” was a gam bling saloon on Washington street opposite the El Dorado, and in 1849 was the principal resort of the dis banded soldiers of the California regiments, and also of tho soldiers who had been engaged in the war with Mexico. Behind one of the largest monte banks in the room sat a man who had won for himself honorable mention, and an officer’s commiss ion was given him for his bravery at the storming of Monterey ; but preferring the climate of California and its “golden” prospects to a more northern home, he embarked for that country at the close of the war with Mexico, and, upon ar riving, he opened a gambling saloon. The emigrants came by thousands, and two or three nights after his arrival a young man came in and seated himself at the bank and staked various sums oit the cards, until he had lost nearly all the money he possessed. Excited by tho game, and mad dened With his losses, he accused the dealer of cheating. The dea ler replied sharply ; the lie passed, and then the young man struck the dealer a severe blow upon the face. Quick as thought the sharp report of a pistol followed, and the gam. bier’s clothing was covered with the youug man’s blood —he had shot him through the right breast. The room was soon cleared of the spec tators, the door closed and medical attendance called in to aid the wounded man. The gambler Sat moodily over his bank, running the small monte cards through his fingers, and per haps thinking of the deed just per petrated, when the wounded man gave a groan of agony as the doct or’s probe reached the bottom of the wound. The doctor inquired what State ho was from, and the wounded man replied: “From Vermont.” The gambler raised his head, for it had been a long time since he had seen a person from the home of his childhood, and Vermont being the name of his native State, the mere mention of the name interested him. * ' The doctor next inquired the name of the place where his pa rents resided, if he has any. The wounded man replied : “Montpelier.” The gambler sprang to his feet, his limbs trembled, and his face was as pale as death, for Montpe lier was the home of .his youth, and perhaps the wounded man might have been his playmate—- knew his parents, his brothers and sisters. He clung convulsively I to the table, and with the conten ding emotions of rapid thought and the weight of injury inflicted, could scarcely keep upon his feet. A stimulant was given to the wounded man, and ho was momen tarily relieved from that weakness tho body is so subject to after a severe wound, when the doctor inquired if there was any friend in the city ho wished to send for. “Yes,” he replied, “my wife. She is at the City Hotel, on the cor ner of Clay and Kearny streets Tell Mary to hasten, for I am badly hurt.” A man was sent to bring his wife to him. “Doctor,” said the gambler, /save that man’s life and there is my bank, and ten thousand dollars iu Bnr goyne, and you shall have it all 1” The doctor felt the pulse of the man, and probed the wound anew. •The gambler watched him with the greatest anxiety until tho inspection was finished when the doctor shook hi? head in token of impossibility. The gambler sat by the side of the wounded man, bathed his head, and staunched tho flow of blood from his wound, until the arrival of his wife. Sho came, accompa nied by a few friends, and as heroic women bear their misfortunes, so she bore hers. Not a word of reproach passed her—words of cheerfulness only passed her lips, as tears cours ed each other down her cheeks. To her inquiry as to the chances of her husband’s recovery, the doctor as sured her there was no hope what ever—that tho wound was mortal, and that in a few hours the woun ded man must die. She sank down od her knees, and invoked the mer cy of a forgiving Cod upon her dy ing hnsband and his murderer. Tha gambler knelt at the side of the wounded man ami asked his forgiveness for the great wrong he had committed, and also that of his afflicted wife, whch was readily granted. “This,” said he, is for disobeying the sacred injunction of rny aged father and mother. I have faced death a thousand times, but still I have escaped ; the balls of an enemy have whistled past my ears as thick as hailstone, and the bursting bomb lias exploded at my feet. Still I have lived. O God ! and for this ! High above the red tide of battle I have carried my country’s ensign, and that won for me a name among men. When not’one comrade was left to tell of the battle, I escaped unhurt! Why was I not killed with the rest ? All that was proud and pleasing to man I have had, and if I could recall this last act by living on the husks, sleeping in a pauper's grave and renouncing ev every proud act of my life, I would do it. I was born in the same vil lage with that man ’ we were born beneath the same roof, and—O Cod ! the same mother gave us birth ! He must not die—he is my brother!” And the gambler sunk down in a swoon on the floor. The wounded man raised him self up on his elbows : his glazed eyes wandered about the room as if searching for some particular one. “Mary,” said he, “is my brother William here—” The words choaked in his throat tffiTguigling blood stopped his ut terance, and he sank a corpse apon his pillow. The wife knelt again, but it was beside the dead body, and invoked the blessing of God on his soul and forgiveness for his murderer. The gambler awoke from his swoon, staggered up to the wife and said : “Mary, would it were otherwise; for I have nothing to lite for now ; the dead or dying do not want any thing in this world; take this cer tificate of deposit to our aged father, and tell our parents we are both dead ; but oh ! do not tell them how we died.” But before the woman could re ply, or any one interfere,- the report of a pistol sounded again, and the fratricide had ceased to live ! On the hill near Rincon Point were two graves, a few years ago, inclosed with a picket-fence, and one tombstone at their head, with the simple inscription — “Brothers.” A Night of Horror. It was night when I arrived home. There was something so provoca ting in the darkness and utter quiet in which I found the premises wrap ped that I determined togivealove ly surprise; but nature, apealing to me on a vital point, I dropped into the diningroom with the view of re freshing myself with a bite of cold joint by way of preliminary. Striking a light, I found that my wants had been anticipated, for there on the table lay the remains of a repast —breast of chickens, cakes, cheese and what not. Being sharp set, I pitched in, a glass of old port materially assisting the process of indigestion. All at once my eye caught sight of a meerchaum upon the mantle. Now there is nothing very alarming in a meerchaum per fe, but when the meerchaum is the property of a stranger and is found upon one’s premises during bis absence, it be comes invested with an importance which it could derive from no other circumstance. Tliore was also a pa per of Turkish tobacco. “The fel low has a taste, at all events,” said I, and I filled and smoked, drank a bumper and cogitated. Now Maria knows I am not in the least j ealous ; knows it had never entered my head to suspect her of any imprudence; but this, to say the least of it, had a very suspicious I drank again. Yet I protested I was not jealous. At that moment I started aud sprang from my feet as if at the touch of an electric battery for on the settee in the corner lay an impudent looking hat and cane; and even a pair of gloves ! To smash the hat into smithereens, to tear the gloves into fragments, to snap the cane into flinders was done in a moment. I toox another bum per, and folding my arms, glared majestically around. Not that I was jealous ! O ! dear no ! I was resuming my seat and pipe, to cogitate over of course of pro ceedure, when I received another • shock. My eye had alighted upon a note which had fallen under the table. It was in a feminine hand. “Dear Ohailie,” it ran, “I’m so glad you’ve arrived. Sammy’s away.— Don’t stand upon ceremony. We’ll have such a nice time ! Cold lunch and all agreeable. Come over at once.” Sammy’s my name. “Perfidious woman ! It is thus—” I threw it into the fire aftef trampling on it. I fortified myself with another glass, took off my stock ings, and started up stairs. On .the way I stumbled over a strange cat in the kitchen. In my ascent I suppose I must have made some noise, fora strange dog set up a furious yell in the back area. It may be as well to.prepare for contingencies. I reflected, as I re-entered the parlor with a view to possessing myself of a poker. Dark as it was, I secured the desired ob ject, and was retreating, when I fan cied somebody came in On tiptoe;— Holding my breath, I dodged past him, and crept up stairs like a thief not that I was jealous but only to see what was going On. After a pause, during which I could fcoiint the beats of my heart, I tried the bedroom door. It was not locked and all was dark within. A gentle snore—not a rough, exasperating; reckless thing, but more of a musi cal moan—came from the bed. “She is asleep,” mused I; “the sleep of a stfiitiger’s toes was the tread of a cat. Poor dear Maria ! how could I so wrong you ?” I dis robed and slipped in bed. “Charles, how long you have been !” said a feminine voice; Gracious goodness— it was that of a stranger ! A cold perspiration broke out all over me as I reflected upon the horrors of my situation.— The house I had purchased was one of a pair which had been built exact ly alikti, fatigued and sleepy direct from the cars, I must have entered my neighbor’s man sion instead of my own ! I pounced out upon the floor. “Excuse me, dear,” I whispered “I think I hear burglars.” “What—again ? I think you must be mistaken.” “I’ll go and see.” said I, and hud dling on something I groped my way to the stairs, descending them with a cold feeliug all the way down my back, and crept into the base ment. There I made another appal ling discovery—the clothes I had put on were somebody else’s and not my ovu ! Safe on the sidewalk, 1 glanced up at the-house from which I had just escaped, thinking how should NO 31. I manage to return the borrowed toggery. Arid it was my house, after all j Resolved tin ail explanation, I rung the bell boldly. I heard thrf tip, tippety-tip of a pair of well known feet, and Wris at once in the arms of Mrs. Spiviris. “Why don’t yon remerrifeer, Satli my,” she said, in replying to my in terrogation j “I told you brother Charles was coming from the tiotltt try with his new wife to pais a few days with its. I have given up OUt own bedroom.” Well, havn’t I been tliere, and got into bed, and stolen Charie’s,clothes while he was after burglars ? Thei note to Charlie was sufficiently ex plained. I will never be jealotts agairii fiver. E.vcr and ever tae world goes round,• Bearing its burdens and crosses j Ever and eves the years roll on, With tbeir tide of sorrows and losssfc Ever and ever the.book of iifd Bears upon its pages Tho weary, Weary lay of the hearty Sung through all tha age 9. Ever and ever with outstretched hands We grasp for a golden mortoWj Ever and ever the billows of time Are freighted with bitter sorrow.- Ever and ever the lips smile odi That the world may walk in blindness;' Little they know of the heart’s wild wo* When the face looks but with kindness; Ever and ever the shawows fall Over the golden mosses ; Ever a gleam from paradise Lightens our cares and crosses; Ever and ever the morning dawns On hopes that are bredtbed in gladness) Ever and ever the pigbt brings in Its tide of bitter sadness. Golden Words. Many shining actions owe theit* success to chance, though the gen s eral or statesman turns aWay with the applause. The long sleep of death close* our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. Sleep is the half ol time Which heals us. Never write on a subject with* out having first read yotirself full on it j and never read on a subject till you hate thought yotirself hun gry on it. The art of pleasing consists in be ing pleased. To be amiable is Id be satisfied with one’s self arid cth* ers. Good humor is essential tti pleasantry. The avaricious man is like- the barreri, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain ribd dews with greediness, but yields nO fruitful herbs or plants for the bene fit of others. A mjm is like a bit of Dabtadof spar, which Jias no luster as yoii turn it in yotir hand; tlntil you come to a particular angle; then it slitiws deep and beautiful colors. •In the opinion of the world; raari l'iage ends all, as it does in a come dy. The trutli is precisely the re verse. It begins all; So they say of death, “ It is tile tirid trf ail things,*’ Tes, j list as much afi niarriagC; Pleasure and pain, though direct ly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant compan* ions ; and it is a fact that the same motions arid rhnscies of the face are employed both in laughing and crjn big. A man is known to his dog iijf the Sttlell, to life tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; eatih of these know him, but how little or bow much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known orily to God. I think half the troubles fo# which men go slouching in a pray er to God, are caused by their ih* tolerable pride. Many of our cartis arti but a morbid Way of looking at our privileges; We let tidf bless higs get mouldy and then call them curses. Nearly .all the papers in the State suspended an issue in order to allow their printers to rest on the 4th of July Holiday. The Methodist Episcopal Church has established since the war ted conferences in the Southern States, with a membership of 162,000 per sons, 767 preachers, and some 1,600, Jocal preachers. There have been expended abont $1,200,000 in behalf of and by these organizations, thd value of whose school and church property amounts to about $1,300,. 000. These ten conferences have also raised some $7,000 which has been paid info the general Freed mtn’s Aid fund. A secret has been defined as ‘ anythiug made known to every ' body in a whisper.”
