Newspaper Page Text
VOL. VI.
THE APPEAL.
m J'cjjt • •""" ■ * ' • ' ■ . ...
FUBLISHEII EVERY FRIDAY,
# By J. P. SAWTEIX.iI
Terms of Subscription.:
Okb Year. ...$2 00 j Six Months... .sl 25
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE,
gs No attention paid to orders for the pa
per un'ess accompanied by the Cash.
Rates of Advertising.
12 Months
6 Months.
S Months.
I Month.
So. Sqr’s.
1.... $ o.oos 6.00!$ <l.oos 12.00
2.. 5.00 12.00 16.00 20.00
3.. 7.00 15.00| 22.00 2150
4 8.00 17.00 25.00 33.00
I c 9.00 22.00 30.00 45.00
| 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 and 75 cents for each subsequent inser
tion. A liberal dednction made to parties
Who advertise by the year.
Persons sending-advertisetnentsshould mark
the number of times they desire them inser
ted, or they wilUbe continued until forbid and
-barged accordingly. .
Transient advertisements must be paid for
at the time of insertion. If not paid for before
the expiration of the time advertised, 25 per
sent, additional will be charged.
Announcing names of candidates for office,
$5.00. Cash, in all cases
notices over live lines, charged at
regular advertising rides.
■ All communications intended to promote the
private ends or interests of Corporations, So
cieties, or individuals, Will be charged as ad
vertisements,
Joft Work, such as Pamphlets, Circulars,
Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will be execu
ted ill good style and at reasonable rates.
letters addressed to the Proprietor will
lie promptly attended to.
Going up and Coming
"BT Down.
This is a simple song, ! tis true — .
My songs are never over nice—
And yet I’ll try to scatter through
A„little pinch of good advice.
Then listen, pompous friend, and learn
To never boast of much renown,
For fortune’s whees is on the turn,
And some go lip and some come down.
I Know a vast amount of stoclis
A vast amount of pride insures ;
Dut fate has picked so many Mocks.
I wouldn’t like to warrant,yours.
Remember, then, and never spurn
The one ivh' V(lss nml is hard and brown,
For ho is l’Anouldejjo up.
And yo 1 Co G u°nt> t 0 c . bmo dDWII
-*. / '
Anothei'pK*. will agree,'
(The lr * j^^ r,e 118 well confessed,)
That ‘ Coif 1. tocvacy”'*
Is but a s<£ r at best;
And sladuine r rdbe of face,
And Bridget b..er faded gown,
Both represent a g/odly face,
From father Ada\n handed down. • •
Life Is uncertain—full of change ;
Little we have that will'endure,
And 'twere a doctrine new and strange
That places high are most secure ;
And if the fickle goddess smile,
Yielding the sceptre and the crown,
’Tis only for a little while,
Then A goes up and B comes down.
This world, for all of us, my friend..
Hath something more than pounds and
pence; ,
ThCn let me'humbly iWornmeml
.AJittle use of common souse ;
Thus lay all pride and place aside,
And have a care on whom you frown,
For fear you’ll see him geritig* up,
When you are only coaling tlovm.
Dressing for Church. — There
was a time when good taste de
manded the aiso of the plainest
clothes in the sanctuary, When the
wealthiest were distinguished for
tjieir conspicuous absence of person
al adornment, and sartorial display
was a' mark of vulgarity, at such
times and places. But now it
would almost appear as if, whatev
er might be thought of a modest
garb in other places, the'proper cos
tume for the house of God, where,
theoretically, we all go to be re
minded of our common origin and
destiny, were an agglomeration of
all the jewelry, and all the chignons,
and all the paniers, and all the
feathers and furbelows in one’s
wardrobe. The wearer is to carry
all this piled agony to the sanctua*
ry as to a fair—as if her errand
were not so much to- praise as to
be appraised—and there employ
the sacred time in envious compari
son of her own mountain ot milli
nery with the Himalayan triumphs
of her neighbor.— Star .
During our late war there was
a young man in the army who did
not join of his own free will. He
had been drafted. He was not a
brave young man; quite the oth
erwise. One day, during a bloody
battle, our young |piend showed
such a remarkable large white feath
er, that his captain was obliged to
threaten hini with his pistol in or
der to keep him from running away
altogether. Then the youth began
to cry. “You ought to be ashamed
of yourself,” said the captain ; you’re
no better than a bafby. “I wish —l
wuz—a baby, blubbered our hero,
“an' a gal baby at that.”
There is a girl in Newport
who has two perfectly formed
tongues. Won’t the man who gets
her,(be prepared to take to himself
wings and a harp! “Purified
through suffering.”
CUTHBERT 110 APPEAL.
Sitting up for Her Boy.
Here and there throughout the
village a few lights flicker like pale
stars through the darkness. One
shines from an attic window, where
a yQtithful aspirant for literary hon
ors labors, wasting the midnight
oil and the elixir of his life in toil,
useless it may be, save as patience
and industry ate gained, and give
him a hold upon eternal happiness.
Another gleams with a ghastly
light from a chamber into which
death is antering and life departing;
One light shines through a low
cottage window, from which the
curtains are pushed partially aside,
showing a mother’s face, patient
and sweet, but careworn and anx
ious. The eyes, gazing through
the night, are faded and sunken,
but lighted with such love as steals
only into the eyes of true and saint
ly mothers, who watch over and
pray for their children ; who hedge
them iu from the world’s tempta
tion, and make of them noble men,
and.true and loving women. It is
nearly midnight, and the faded eyes
are strained to their utmost to catch
the far-off sight of someone coming
down the street. The mother’s
listening ear loses no sound, how
ever slight, that breaks upon the
stillness that reigns around.
No form seen, no quick step
heard, she drops the curtain slowly
and goes back to the table, where
an open book is lying, and a half
knit sock. The cat jumps up in
her chair, and yawns and shakes
herself, and gradually sinks down
again into repose. No onedispntes
her pbsscssion of the easy-ch&ir,—
IJp and down the littlq room the
mother walks, trying to knit, but
vainly; she can only think of her
son, and woDder and imagine what
is keeping him. Her mind pictures
the worst, and her heart §iiiks low
ej* and lower. Could the thought
less boy know but one half the an
guish he i$ causing, lie would hast
en at once to dispel it with his
presence.' . ( -
She trembles now as she listens,
for ail uncertain step is heard—-a
sound of coarse laughter and drunk
en- ribaldry j her heart stands
still, ahd she grows cold with ap
prehension. The sound passes and
dies away in the distance. Thank
heaven it is not lie, and a glow
comes over her, arid once more her
heart beats quickly.
Only a moment, for the clock on
the mantel shows on its pallid face
that it is almost midnight. Again
the curtain 'is drawn aside, and
again thO anxious, loving eyes peer
into the darkness. Hark ! a sound
of footsteps coming nearer and near
er ; a shadowy form, advancing,
Shows more and more distinct; a
cheery whistle ; a brisk, light step
up the pathway; a throwing wide
open of the door, and the truant
boy finds himself in his mother’s
arms, welcomed and wept over. —
He chafes at the gentle discipline;
he doesn’t like to be led by apron
strings; but he meets bis mother’s
gentle, questioning gaze with one
honest and manly look, and makes
a half-unwilling promise not to bo
so late again. And he keeps his
promise, and in after years
thanks Heaven again and again
that he had a mother who watched
over him, and prayed for him.
He knows better than she, now,
the good that was done by her sit
ting up for her boy.
The Philosopher’s Stone.—
There is a man in San Francisco who
claims to have found out how to
transmute the baser metals into
pure and shinning gold, which (it is
declared) has been searchingly tested
by the assayers and declared to be
the genuine article, one thousand
fine, The lucky and learned man
says that with proper facilities he
can manufacture gold by the ton,
and can produce enough in a few
weeks to freight a ship! He res
olutely refuses to disclose his secret
ana declares that it shall die with
him, and we rather think he will.
Lost wealth may be restored
by industry; the wreck of health
may be regained by temperance;
forgotten knowledge restored by
study ; alienated friendship smooth
ed into forgetfulness ; even forfeit
ed reputation won by penitence
and virtue; but who ever again
looked upon his vanished hours ?
Who ever recalled his slighted
years, stamped them with wisdom,
or erased from heaven’s record the
fearful blot of wasted time.
*—A Cincinnati wife left her hus
band’s board, but took the bed with
her, He is puzzled to know how
to word a legal note of warning
to lnoSpec live 5 creditors,
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1872.
I*ife’@ IB lightest Hour.
Not long since I met a gentleman
who is assessed for more than a
million. Silvered was his hair, care
was upon his brow, and he stooped
beneath his burden of wealth. We
were speaking of that period of life
when We had realized the most per
fect enjoyment, or rather when we
had found the happiness nearest to
being unalloyed. “I’ll tell you,”
said the millionaire, “when was
the happiest hour of my life. At
the age of one-and-twenty I had
saved SBOO. I was earning SSOO a
year, and my father did not take
it from me, only requiring that I
should pay for my board. At the
age of twenty-one I had secured a
pretty cottage, just outside of the
city. I was able to pay two thirds
of the value down, and also td fur
nish it respectably. I was married
on Sunday—-a Sunday in June—at
my father’s house. My wife had
come to me poor in purse, bat rich
in the wealth of her womanhood.
The Sabbath and tbe Sabbath night
we passed beneath my father’s roof,
and on Monday morning I went to
work, leaving my mother and sister
to help in preparing my home. On
Monday evening, when the labors of
the day were done, I went not to
■my parental shelter as in the past,
but to my own house—my Own
home. The holy atmosphere of
that hour seems to surround ihe
even now in the memory. I openfed
the door of my cottage and entered.
I laid my hat upon the little stand
in the hall, and passed on to the
kitchen and dinning room—they were
both one then. I pushed open the
kitchen door and was —in heaven !
Tbe table waS set against the wall.
The evening meal was prepared by
the hand of her who had come to be
my help meet in deed as well as in
game—and by the table, with a
throbing, expectant look upon her
face, stood my * wife. I tried to
speak, and eould not. I could only
clasp the waiting angel to my bos
om, thus showing to her the elas
tic burden of my heart. The years
have passed—long, long years—and
worldly wealth has flowed in upon
me, and lam honored and envied,
but—as true as heaven—l would
give it all—every dollar—for the
joy of that hour, of that June eve
ning, long ago 1”
A Petrified Baby.— A petrified
baby has been exhumed from a
Chicago cemetery. The Times re
port says : “ All, save the mother
of the little infant, stood mutely
looking upon it, but she became
nearly frantic with excitement from
the first moment that the body was
exposed’to view. She had endeav
ored to take it from the coffin, cry
ing bitterly, and wildly insisting
upon taking it with her to her
home. Her husband held her back
,and would not allow her to remove
it. The mother seemed nearly dis
tracted with grief at the thought of
its being reinterred. It looked so
natural and beautiful, so like the
baby that she had placed in the
grave ten years ago., that it brought
up all her sorrow as if she
was but now laying the loved dar
ling in the earth« The body was
removed, with * others which the
family had come there to exhume,
to Graceland, and reburied. The
family are Swedes, audit was learn
ed reside a short distance out of
the city. The child, so remarka
bly preserved, had been buried for
more than ten years.”
An Optical Curiosity. —Hctre ia
a simple little experiment, by which
we can prove the existence of a
blind spot in our eyes.' Shut your
left eye apd with the right one look
steadily at the cross just below,
holding the paper ten or twelve in
ches from the eye.
X o
Now move the paper slowly to
ward the eye, which must be kept
fixed on the cross. At a certain
distance the other figure—the let
ter O—will suddenly disappear} but
you bring the paper nearer, it will
come again into view. You may
not succeed in the -experiment on
the first trial, but with a little pa
tience you can hardly fail, and the
suddenness with which the black
spot vanishes and reappears is very
strikiffte. Now, examination has
showt-Anat, when it disappears* its
image falls exactly on the spot
where the optic nerve enters the
eye, thus proving that spot to be
blind. From the Science of
Health.
V i
- “W hen a fellow is too lazy to
work,” says Sam Slick,, “be paints
his name over the door, and calls it
a tavern, and makes the whole
neighborhood as lazy as himself.”
Billings’ Wit and Wis
dom. ■ I v ; A
KOAKSE SHOT.
When yu see a doktor who al
wus travels on the jump, yu ken
bet be is looking for a job.
the bulk ov mankind are mere
imitators of very poor originals.
It iz a grate deal easier tew be a
philosopher after a toan haz had a
Warm meal than it iz when he don’t
know whare be iz going to git one.
Most meu lament their condishun
in life, there are but phew, after
all, who are superior to it.
To never despair may be God
like* but it aint human.
Affektasfaun looks well in a mon
key.
Trieing to define lovb is like
trifeing tew tell how yu kum tew
brake thru the ice; all yu kno
about it iz, yu fell in, and got duck
ed.
The prinsipal mportans ova mis
tery is the mistery itself. What
makes a ghost so respektable a kar
akter iz that nobody ever saw one.
The pedigree that we receive
from our ancesters ia like the mon
ey we receive from them ; we are
not expected to live on the princi
ple, but on th 6 accumulation and
transmit the principle unimpaired. :
A weak man wants az much
watching as a bad one.
It iz hard work tew define hu
man happiness; the leal possessor
ov it iz the very one who katil de
fine it.
Wealth is no guard against vil
lainy; thare iz as much inikuity
amung the rich az among the poor
aekordmg tew their numbers.
A wize man never enjoys him
self so mutch nor a fool so little,
as when atone.
Avarice iz as hungry az the
grave.
There iz a grate deal of virtew in
this world that iz like jewelry,
mofe for ornameui than use.
lam satisfied that courage in
men iz more often the effekt ov
konstAtution than ov principle.
About the best thing that expe
rience kan teach us iz tew bear
misfortins and sorrow with kom
posure.
Man’s necessities are phew, but
biz wants are endless.
Thare are many people who not
only beleave that this world re
volves on its axis, but they believe
that they are the axis.
Self-made men are most alwus
apt to be a leetle too proud of the
job.
I think thare is as many old
pbools in this world as thare is
young ones, and thare iz this differ
ence between them ; the yung ones
may outgrow their pholly, but the
old ones never do.
The ambishun ov 9 men out ov
10, if it should receive no check,
would end in their destruefion.
A genuine aporism is truth done
up in a small package.
A vishious old man iz a terrible
sight, dispised on earth and batned
in haaven.
The avarishus man. is like the
grave; he takes all that he can lay
his hands on, and gives nothing
baek.
Bashfulness is either the effekt
ov ignorance or modesty—if it iz
ignorance edukashun changes it
into impertinence—if it is modesty,
it will kling tew,a man as long |ts
he has one single virtew left.
Marrying for beauty is a poor
spekulasbun, for enny mau who
sees yure wife has got just about
as much stock in her as you have.
The Hew Election Law. —As a
matter of interest to our people we
publish the following law regula
ting the holding of elections in this
State.
Anr Act to regulate the time of
holding elections in the State of
Georgia.
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That
all elections hereafter to be held in
the State under the constitution and
laws thereof, except for members
of Congress, Presidential electors
and county officers, shall be held
on the first Wednesday in Octo*
ber of the particular years in which
udder the constitution elections
are required to he held, at the pla
ces established by law, and under
the election law of the State.
Sec. 2. That all elections for
members of Congress shall be held
on Tuesday after the first
in Hovember of the year 1872, and
on the same day in every second
year thereafter.
Sec. 3. That all elections for
county officers shall be held on the
first Wednesday in January on the
years in which under the
tion and laws of said State elections
should be held to fill such offices,
beginning on the first Wednesday
in January, 1873.
Those who don’t believe that a fly
has 209,362 pores in his body, should
Gatch one and count them,
Harmony in the married state is
the very first object to be aimed at.
Nothing can preserve affection un
interrupted but a firm resolution
never to differ in will, and a deter
urination in each to consider the
love of the other as of more value
than any object whatever oh which
a wish has been fixed. How light,
in fact, is the sacrifice of any other
wish when weighed against the af
fections of one With whom we ash
to pass our life. And though oppo
sition in a single instance will hard
ly of itself prodiice alienation, yet
every one has his pouch into which
all these little oppositions are put
and while that is filling, tbe alien
ation is insensibly going ob, and
when filled is Complete. It would
puzzle either to say why ; because
no one difference has been marked
enough to produce a serious effect
by itself. But he finds his affections
wearied out by a constant stream
of checks and obstacles. Other
sources of discontent, very common
indeed, are the cross purpose of
husband and wife, in common con
versation ; a disposition to criticize
and question whatever the other say
—a desire always to demonstrate
and make him feel himself in tbe
wrong, especially in sympathy,—
Nothing is so goading. Much bet
ter, therefore, if our companion
views a thing in a different light
from what we do, to leave him in
quiet possession of his view. What
is the use of rectifying him if the
thing be unimportant? And if im
portant, let it pass tor the present
and wait a softer moment and
more conciliatory occason of revis
ing the subject together. It is
wonderful how many persons are
rondered unhappy by inattention
to the rules of prudence.— Thomas
Jefferson. ‘
The Province of Women.--
Next to God, all true men reverence
woman, as mother, wife, sister.
We reveVence her so entirely, and
love her so perfectly for making
life itself worth living, that we
would not have the celestial ideas
with which all the chivllary of our
sex clothes her, dessecrated by con
taminating associations, arfd such
intercourse as shall tend to unsex
and rob her of her sacred dower.
The genuine dignity, tenderness,
virtue and real beauty of a woman’s
life are the product of the shade
and refined privacy, unfitted for Con
tact with the grosser world, the
glare of the burning sunshine or the
cutting winds and storms. Rev
ereuce is the atmosphere inr which
she thrives; severity and coldness
kill her; and yet her dominion is
greater than that of maD.
An Arkansas local soliloquizes
thus: “Some of our exchanges are
publishing as a curious item a state
ment to the effect that a horse in
lowa pulled the plug out of the
bunghole of a barrel for the purpose
of slaking his thirst. We do not
see anything extraordinary in* the
occurrence. No v, if the horse
had pulled the barrel out of * the
bughole and slaked its thirst with
the plug, or if the barrel had pulled
the bunghole of tbe plug and slak-'
ed its thirst with the horse, or if
the plug h3d pulled the horse out
of the barrell and slaked its thirst
with the bunghole, of if the pung
hole had pulled tbe thirst out of tbe
horse and slaked the plug with the
barrel, or if the barrel had pulled
the horse out of the bunghole and
plugged its thirst with a slake, it
might be worth while to make some
fuss over it.”
Inquisitive Children. —Never
laugh at a child when it asks a fool
ish question. It is not foolish to
the child.- If a child is sensitive,
one instance of laughing and ridb
cule, in such a case, might forever
chil 1 its aspirations after self-educa
tion. No matter how trivial a
child’s question may seem to be, it
is entitled to a prompt and kind
answer.
s—**
A man on being deceived into
the small-pox hospital at Bedford,
was asked if he bad been vaccina
ted. “ Yes,” he replied, “when a
child, and I was christened at the
same time, but neither of them,
took.”
A cfoupy youth in a neighbor
ing town, having strongly objected
to* taking his medicine, was induced
to make a hearty meal of buck
wheat cakes and “maple syrup,-’
but the latter proved to be nice syr
up of squills. The- boy said he
“thought something ailed the molas
ses the minute his father told him
he could eat all he wanted to.”
The Dress of Civilized
Women.
I do declare that I think it would
be better to die and get Out of tor
ment at once than to have to rise
every morning sos Some -forty or
fifty years and box one’s body up in
a sort of compressive armor, hang
weights to one’s hips, and more
weights upon one’s head—which
last are supported by the roots of
the hair; put one’s feet into shoes
a number too small, aud not of the
right shape, and with heels like
stilts; and then Set abdtit doing the
Whole duty of women with a cheer
ful face and a spry ait, for from
fifteen to seventeen mortal hours
out of twenty-four! That there
are so many women who are not
frightened into a decline at such a
prospect, and that they bravely un -
dertake to do it—nay, more, that
they even dream that under such
disadvantages they can work side
by side with unshackled man, and
that they die iu trying to do it, cer
tainly says ranch for their courage,
but very little for their common
sense* and .
A man’s dress to a great extent
is fashioned for comfort. He has
contrivances for suspending the.
weight of his clothing from his shuol
ders. If the east wind blows lie
can turn up his coat collar, button
himself up snugly, tlonch his hat
over his eyes, thrust bis hands into
his pockets and bravo the weather.
But imagine a woman removing her
hat of bonnet from the angle at
which fashion says she must, wear
it on account of the weather, or
turning any of her “fixtures 7 up to
protect her neck and throat, or but
toning up anything that was un
buttoned before, or sticking her
hands into her pockets ! She would
be taken for an improper character
out bn a mild spree, or for an es
caped inmate of a lunatic asylum,
should she endeavor by any impromp
tu arrangement of her habiliments
to save hen heal Id. —From the Sci
ence of Health.
Guardian of Purity,
Labor is the mother of wealth
and the guardian of purity. All
great and good men have been
workers. The moral powers of no
man, much less of a boy, are able
successfully to resist for any length
of time,-the temptations which be
set the individual who has npthifig
to do. They are more than a match
for human nature. The damages
of one idle day often are so many
and *so great, that it requires a
whole year to repair them; and
not nnfvequently, life is too short
to replace things as they were be
fore an idle day. The human fam
ily are doomed to toil, and the only
safeguard to the Individual mem
bers of the race is to submit cheer
fully- ...
No work that is useful is dis
graceful. It matters not how hard
it may be. So long as it tends to
advance the welfare of the laborer,
and the prosperity of society m
general, it is honorable. It is al
ways better to be engaged in some
honorable work than to be doing
nothing. Wealth and decency is
the inheritance of the laboring man,
and poverty and shame is the por
tion of the individual who always
has nothing to do.
He is a very genteel and amia
ble youDg man. But he is now in
sane. He splits his hair in the mid
dle. The other day, in combing his
hair, he chanced to get two ft ore
hairs oh one side than on the other.
This destroyed the balance of his
head and overturned his brain.—
He makes a very genteel lunatic,
however.
■
A young woman once mar
ried a man by tbe name of Dust,
against the wish of parents. After
a short time they began to quarrel,
and she attempted to return to her
saying, “Duts thou art, and unto
Duts thou shalt return.” And she
got up and dusted.
A preacher one slippery,frosty
morning, going home with one of
his elderly members, the old gentle
man slipped and fell. When the
minister saw that he was not hurt,
he said, “My friend, sinners stand
on slippery places.” “Yes,” replied
the old man, looking at the preach
er, “I see they do, but I can’t.”
A Fairfield man, who failed to
get a thirty cent pineapple for a
quarter of a dollar, wanted to know
“whether we were breathing the
pure air of freedom or being strang
led with tbe fetid breath of a hel
lish despotism.” The storekeeper
said those were the only pineapples
he had/
House Work.
There is not a girl on earth,
wliethet the daughter of prince or
pauper, who, if made a perfect mis
tress of all household duties, and
w«re thrown into a community
wholly unknown, would not rise
from one station to another, and
eventually become the mistress of
her own mansion; while multitudes
of young women placed in positions
of ease, elegance and affluence, but
being unfitted to fill them, will as
certainly descend from one round
<sf the ladder to another Until at
the close of life, they are found
where the really competent started
from. Mothers of America if you
wish to lid your own and your
children’s households of the des
troying locusts which infest your
houses and eat up your substance,
take a pride in educating your
daughters to be perfect mistresses
of every home duty; then if you
leave them without a dollar, be as
sured they will never a warm
garment, a bounteous meal, or a
cozy roof, nor fail of the respect of
any one who knows them.
The object of the radical politi
cians is to keep alive sectional sus
picions and animosities, in order
that they may plunder the South
ern State governments and steal
tbe Southern electoral vote under
the friendly shield of Military rule.
, The Southern people haVe given
all the evidences they can offer of
their sincerity. The soldiers who
fought under the* rebel flag—men
of courage and honor, have united
in the support of a Liberal Repub
lican candidate for the Presidency,
and have done all in their power to
conciliate the North. Yen the Rad
ical politicians raise the cry of “trait
ors” and “rebels” against them
and refase to accept their proffered
friendship. If this policy is to con
tinue the United States can become
nothing but a second Mexico, and
there can never be peace while the
Union holds together.
The violent tirades of Wendell
Phillips, Gerit Smith, Boutwell and
others, who pour into the ears of
the ignorant negroes the poison of
suspicion and hate, and who urge
upon them a resort to civil war rath
er than a submission to reconcilia
tion, are revolting to the public
midd. Sensible men cannot fail to
see that the doctrines advocated by
Greeley must lead to peace and
happiness, while the doctrine
preached by the Radical supporters
of President Grant must lead to
bloodshed and suffering. “If Gree
ley is elected arm, concentrate, con
ceal your property; but organize
for defense,” is the advice ol Wend
dell Phillips to. the negro. “Black
men, be not deceived by this cry for
reconcilation. Your old oppressors
win never De.reconciled to you, nor
should you be reconciled to them,”
cries Gerrit Smith, and Boutwell,
Harlan and the rest, echothe words/
To what can such teachings lead
but, to continued discord and hatred,
and eventually, perhaps, to a bloody
and cruel war of races ? Are the
finacial interests of the country
safe under such heated appeals to
the passions'of ignorant «nen? If
General Grant is to b* re-elected it
will be by the support of the mon
ied and business classes of tbe coun
try, and it is time for them to make
it a condition of their support that
this reckless playing with fire shall
no longer hazard the safety of their
lives and property. It is time for
the people to let all parties under
stand that whatever candidates may
be successful, the administration of
the next four years must give con
stitutional freedom to the South
ern States, take the iron hand of
military rule from the throat of
that section of the Union and let
the whole nation have peace.—
H. Y. Herald,
Somebody having applied to
an editor for a method by which he
might cure his daughter of her par
tiality for young gentlemen, is
kindly informed that there are sev
eral methods of reform. One way
is to skin the young person; anoth
er is to ptlt her into a well and drop
a few loads of gravel on her head
another is to bind her ankles to an
anvil and upset her out of a boat.
—“I say, Jones, how is it that
your wife dresses so magnificently
and you always appear out at the
elbow?” “You uee, Thompson,
my wife dresses according to the
gazette of fashions, and I dress ac
cording to ray ledger.”
Tbe majority of women care but
little about suffrage. If the back of
car seats could only be hollowed so
as to admit of their bustles lapping
over, the ballot might go to thunder
for what they care. , v < i—
An Irishman having been told
that tbe price of bread had lowered,
exclaimed,. “This is the first time
I ever rejoiced at tbe fall of my
best friend.” - «
O kittens! in our hours of ease,
uncertain toys and full of fleas;
when pain and anguish hang o'er
men, we turn you into sausage
then.- , . r
NO 38*;
kales, yjip'
Written After Visiting tbe Graves
of my Wife and Child.
■ — : —~~
p: and [d I»Y HAMILTON.
i aitilijS ■ g
' ‘iii st "mm i rjf
Heavenly Father, at Thy teet
See a stricken husband bow : -
Comfort him with mercies meet—
O i • it MM k
Save him now. V t *
Under this green .sodded mound
Thou hast laid ray wife away; ’
Heal my bleeding, gaping wound—
Near me stay.
And, my Father, lay Thy hand
Lightly on my weary heart
Lift me up, and jet me stand
Where Thou art. *
My two angels with Thee iive
In Thy bright, celestial home ; 1 • '
1 Help tne, Father, whilst I strive
There to come.
Railroad Adventure in
©Silo,
I was riding in the cars some
days ago, and I sat alongside a fel.
low who was as weather-beaten as
if he had been sitting six weeks
astradle of a watermelon trying to
put out the sun by Spitting At it.
We conversed. I said to hiro,>
What’s your name ?’
Says he, ‘Adolphus.’
Says I, ‘Your mothers name V
Says he, ‘Mary.’
1 looked amazed, and says I,
- —j
‘Mary, Mary ! can it be possible that
you are the lamb?,’
Says he, ‘The what V ;
Says lg ‘The lamb that Mary
had..’ ** W
He revealed the fact that he was
not the lamb, and he further observ
ed,‘lt is all fired hot.’ W
Say I, ‘Did you ever visit a tropj
icaj clime?’ * 't#..
Says he, ‘A what ?’
Say I,‘A hot clime.’.
Says he. ‘Jimmy erix, stranger#
I've plowed up a bill-side Fourth of
July, when the sun set my straw
hat on fire, and if that ain’t a "hot
climb, why I h ain’t beeD to any as
yet.’ _ m.
Before I had time to reply, the
conductor came along and shouted
‘tickets.’
Greeny—l’ve got cone.
Conductor—Money, then, lywtif
Greeny— I hain’t got any.
Conductor—Got a pass ?
Greeny—No, I hain’t got a pass.-
Conductor—Thuuder and spikes,
you don’t expect to travel cm .the
car% for nothing, da you ?
Greeny-—You advertise to take a*
fellow for nothing, anyhow.
Conductor—How so.
Greqny—Why, down there inly
your orifice iu Cincinnati, you’ve
got a great big sign stucK up in
store .writing; it says, ‘Through to
New York without change.’ <
The conductor dropped his anchor
and put that fellow ashore, right by
a White post with black letters on
it which road C. 30 miles.— H. Y.
Paper,
Tobacco Statistics.— During tbe
past year there were 1,333,24*6,000
cigars manufactured in the United
States. At ten cents each, average'
retail price, they would cost smok
ers $138,224,000, and yet there are
more who smoke pipes than cigars.
The present annual production.of
tobacco has been estimated at 4,000,-
000,000 pounds. Suppose It all
made into cigars, one hundred to'
the pound, it would produce 400-,
000,000 ot cigars. Allowing this'
tobacco, unmanufactured, to cost op
the average ten cents a pound, we'
have S4O(hOGO,OQO expended every
year on the weed At least one
and a half times as much more ia ,
required to manufacture it into a
marketable form, and dispose of it
to the consumer. So tb< 3 world
expends one thousand millions of
dollars on an habit..
each; or halt a million school houses
costing $2,0C0 each. It would em
ploy one million of poachers and
one million of each
a salary of S3OO. °
Change oe Tone.— Let Demo
crats cease to speak of voting for
Greeley as “a bitter pill”°or “a
choice of evils.” When we vote'
for Greeley we vote against
Grant, and that is sweet.
When we vote for Greeley we vote
against Centralism, good.
YVhen we vote for Greeley weVote
for an honest man, and that is pleas
ant. When we vote for Greeley we*
vote for the supremacy of the white
race, for the preservation of the
rights of tjfates, for the supremacy
of the civil over thte military power/
for the maitmiiueo- irf the sacred
writ ot'habms mrpus and number
less other valued rights and privile
ges. -sr-ffiewnan Jlerafth
* *■ ‘ i»*f Iflirirlitjf
The Atlanta Constitution esti
mates the less to the Squib from
the recent visitation of the cotton
caterpillar at- Ifuuu ;575.000 f OOO tetf
$40j,06'0',000. ; '