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My Slaters and 1.
, BT LILLIAS.
In a plain brown house by the highway side—
No ornament save what Nature supplied—
Wlmre the Swallow made her homely nest.
And ti.e Mo bin plumed his crimson breast :
’Mid sweet country air, and fragrant corn,
’Twas there mV sisters aird I were born,
Ob ! ’twas there that nur mother hushed ns to rest.
And laid our head's on he.” fond warm breast,
And bent her knees in earnest prayer
To ask if God would bb-ss us C ere,
As we giew up to womanhood
In the spot where the liitle brown house stood.
A merrier band could no where be found
Than the one that played on the brown house
ground.
We sported ’neath the cool shade trees,
And carol’d forth our childish glee* ;
We were merry at eve anti merry at morn
In the spot where sisters and I were born.
But Time passed on and pressed bis hand
On the brow of each of that gleeful band,
And matuiity cume and drew ns away.
From our cliil bond sport and innocent pla\—
As we crossed tin threshold we breathed a sigh
And thought of the past, my sisters and I
Five there were in mir little band
We roamed the wood band in hand
And made play bouses in the sand.
To see which one won and longest stand
Gathered flowers by tlie cool brook side
And bathed our feet in its chvvstal tide.
Oli ! '(was there those happv da vs were passed,
Bu' Old Time gatln red them in o> fast,
And stored them away ir his garner cold
That now we are utmost growing old ;
But age will ne’er dim in fond Memory’s eye
The tilings I’ve told of my sisters and I.
T said \Vrt wpve five lint err wp first drew
Owr infancy's breath, tho God who is true,
In b nntv had invert bv nnr dear mother
Two sisters whom we ha ve loved as each other
nut one to womanhood’s years had hut sta»d
When 'r.eath the gieen sod her sweet face was laid.
Years have passed swiftlv on and sisr=>rs four
Have wended their wav from the brown house door*
Found love Vhrtt cohid • nt there he sriven
And broke the number that one was seven :
And now there (>*■ but two who stay
In the little brown house where we were so gay.
Mv sisters and t mv sisters and T.
God keep eve- on ns thy watchful eve :
Oh * keep from decay, the house hv *he wav
That sheltered our heads in Life’s bright day,
Keep first in each heart the saerert tie.
That link together, my sisters and I.
It Van Should <lct Harried.
If vou should e’er manned. John.
I’ll tell von what to do
Go «ret a little tenement
vt~ ,Tnst bi<r enough for two ;
And one spare room r or company.
And one snare bed within it
If you’d begin Rove’s l’*fe aright.
You had better th s begin it.
In furtnnitnre he moderate. John.
And let the Muffed chairs wait :
Ope looking gl.a'-s will do for both
Yourself and loving ma'e ;
And Brussels too and other things
Which make a fine appearance.
If von can better afford it they
Will better look a year hence.
Fome think f v ev must have pictures. John,
Fnpevh and costly, too :
y our wife will he a picture. John.
Let that suffice for von
Remember how the wme man said,
A tent, with lore within it.
Is better than asnlendid house.
With bickering every minute.
And one word, ns to corking, John—
Your wife can do the best ;
For love to make the hisciot vi 39
Is better far than venst ;
}sn matter if each dav von don’t
Brin" tinker on the tah'e.
’Twill better relish hv-and-by
When you are better able.
For all von onv pay money. John—
Monev earned everv dav ;
If von would have vonr life run smooth*
There is no better wav
A note to nav is an uglv thing
(If a thins: von choose to call >t)
When it hangs o’er a man who
Ko money in his wallet.
And now. when yon are marred, John,
Don’t try to ape the rich ;
I' took them many a toilsome year
To gain their envied niche ;
And if you’d 'ruin the summit. John,
Look wel’ b> your begin eng.
And what yo i win will we 1. repay
The care and toil of winning.
Atl iQd P 9 Journal-Devoted to ttae Interests or Georgia.
BAIXBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, JUXE 3), 1870
AN OLD M\N’s STOGY
Many years ago, a temperance meeting
was be din a certain village, A liitle toy
who lived in tin* village, w.ts very anxious
to fro, and pci«naded his father to tak* rum.
Hie lmy never forgot that meeting, and he
wrote tin* account of it years afterwards*
One of the speakers ut the meeting; was an
old man, His hair was white, and his
brow furrowed with age and sorrow
A hen he arose to speak, he said*
“My friends, I am an old man, standing;
alone at the end of lift* oj ou ney. Tears
ate in my eyes and deep soriow is in mv
heart. lam without friends, or home, or
kindled on earth, Il was not always so
Once 1 had a mother. With her old hear*'
‘••rush* and wi'lj sorrow, she went down in her
grave 1 once had a wifi* —a fair, angel
hearted creatuve as ever smiled in an
earthly home. Her blue eyes grew dun,
as th' floods of sorrow washed away t«
brightness and In r tender heart I wrung
till every fibre was broken. I once had a
noble boy; but he was driven from the ruins
of his hom** and yet my old heart yearns to
know if he yet lives I once had a babe, a
sweet lovely babe; bill these hands de
stroyed it, and now it lives with Him
who loveth the little ones. Do not spurn
me, my friends,’ continued the old man.
‘There is ligin in rny -veiling sky. The
spirit of my mother nj dees over lln* return
of her prodgal son. The injured wife
smiles upon him who turns b .ck to virtue
and honor. The child angel'meets rue ai
night fall atid I seem to fed Ids tiny hands
upon my feverish cheek. My brave boy,
if he.yet lives would lorgiv* the sorrowing
old man lot* treatment that- diove him out
into the world, and the blow that manned
him f<»r life, (rod forgive rue for lln* ruin
1 have brought upon all that were about
me.
I was a drunkard. From wealth and
respectability, I plunged into -poverty and
shame. 1 dragged my firnily down with
me. For years I saw the cheek of my wile
grow pale, and her slops grew weary. I
left In r alone to struggle for tin* children,
while I was drinking and rioiitig at the
tavern. She never complained, though she
and the children, often went hungry to
beu.
‘One New Year’s night, I returned late
o the hut where charity had given us
sin her My wife was still up, and shiVef*
ing over the coals. 1 demanded food.
told me there was none, and then burst into
tears. I fi* reelv ord* red her to g**t me
Soiie, Hie timed her < yes sadly up on Urn,
the teats t illing fasi d\er her jpaig 'clb ek
At tniS 'nioiiVeiiV Vine Vihild in the rr dir
Avvoke, And Uttered A cry of hunger, start
ling the despairing' m<nhei, and making
ne\V sorrow m In r breaking In art
*\Ve iiav i.o tood, J.tines ; we iiavi* had
none For s< v. nil days. I have nothing for
tin babe. U 1 my once kin<i UUsliun* l ,
must We slltl Vt ?’
‘That sad, pleading face, and those
sir* aming eyes, and the feeble wotil of the
child maddened me ; and I—ye.-, I struck
her n fierce iilovv in ihe lac**, and sin* fell
foi Ward upon the hearth. It seemed as
the nines of lied were raging in rny bosom,
and the feeling of the wrong 1 had com
mi fed added fuel to the flames. I had
m>ver stiuck mv wife before, but now some
ti-n ibb* impulse drove w* <>n, and I stooped
down, as vv *il as I c<»u!d in a drunken state
and clinched both of my bands in her hair.
‘For nun cy’s sake, James !’ exclaimed
m\ wife, as site looked up iulo my fiendish
countenance, “you will not kill us ? You
will n«,-t harm Willie ?’ And she sprung
to the cradle and grasped him ’n her arms
I caught hei again by the hair and drag*
ged her to tho door and as I lilted the latch
the wind burst in with a cloud of snow
With a fiendish yell I still dragged her on
and hurled her out amid tile darkness and
storm. Then ws’h a wild .laugh I closed
the door and fastened it. Her pleading
moans and the sharp cry of her babe min
gled with the w .il of tin* blast. But my
horrible work wa- not done yet.
‘I turned to tin* bed where mv eldest son
was lying, snatched him from his slumbers,
and, against his half awakened struggles,
opened the door and thrust him out. In the
agonv of fear lie uttered that sacred name
I was no longer worthy to bear. He called
nK , Fat Hi-k ! and locked his fingers in my
side pocket I could not wrench the grasp
away ; but, with h Cruelty of a fiend, I
shut tho door upon his arm. ad, - zing
my k«ife severed it at the wrist.
‘lt was morning when I awoke, and ft e
storm had ceased. I looked atound to the
accustomed p ace for my wife. As I mLs.
ed her, a dim dark scene, as of some burn-
bio n-gb mere, came over me. I tlmug it
must be a fearful dream, hut involuntarily
opened the den,* with a shuddering dread.
As iln* dooVyemd the snow burst in, and
something th** threshold with a
dull ,M ‘ av iV [,£ My blood shot like
melted ,*» njjh my veb.a, and I c,»Vr'
**ied my ey. q. 3.0 shut on the sight. It was
—0 G .<! ! horrible—il was my loving
wile and her babe, tioz-ii to deutii ! With
tin m tb<'n- . ve, she had bowed herself
over the shield it. and wrapped ail
her it, and leaving h«*r !
pei«.*n_* the storm. She had pla-
ced ln*r hair over the face of tin* child, and
the sleet had fn.z n it to tin* pale cheek,
lit** frost was whin* on the lids of ns half
open* and eyes and upon its tiny finders.
*1 never knew what became of my brave
boy,’
Here the old man bowed his head and
wept ; and till in the house .wept with him
l hen in the low tones < t heart-broden sor
row, he continued :
‘I was arrested, and for long months I was
a raving maniac When I recovered, I
was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years, but that was nothing to the tot Hires
1 have endured in rny bosom. And Id* sire
to spend tin* little remnant of 1113 life in
striving *o warn others not to enter a path
which has been so dark and fearful to me
Whet, the old Ilian had finished, tin* teni
perenct* story, ilrepl-dge was produced
and he asked the people to come forward
and sign it. The father of tin* boy referred
to leaped tr *tn his seat, and pressed for
ward to sign the pledge. As he look the
pen in his hand, lie hesitated a moment.
‘Sign it., young man, sign it/ said the
venerable speaker. ‘Angels won'd sign it,
I won and vvriie my name in blood, ren thou
satnl times if it would undo the ruin I have
vrotiglu, ami bring back my loved atid
lost ones.
The voting matt wrote, ‘M> r imer Hud -
son/ The old man looked. He Wiped Ills
eyes and looked again. His lace flushed
fi< i v red—and then a deathlike paleness
Collie over it.
‘lt is—no, it cannot b* ; v**t how stiange?
Paid >ll me, sir, but that Was the name of
mv brave ! oy.’
Tim young man ti < mb'ed and held up his
left arm, from winch tin? hand had been
severed.
They loi ked for a m >m«*nt in each oth*
it’s eyes, and the old man exclaimed:
‘My own injured boy 1’
The yotiog man cried >nt —
‘My poor, dear father I’
Then they fell Upon each other’s n* ek and
wept leafs of penitence and forgiveness
tog I her.
Oabbage Culture. —F. WT, Rath wav,
N. J„ considers salt m cessaiy to thedeveN
tipmeid of catibage, especially ill place.'*
f,»r from the cast. He finds th«*m more
ci isp, of b<*tlet flavor, and to keep better
when sail is ust*d than without. He used
it as follows: A few days after setting
out tin* plants, and when they are damp,
either after a lain or when the due is
on,l take -.t small dish of fine salt and walk
ing among th** rows, sprinkle a little pinch
of salt on the centre of each plant, when
the leaves begin to gmw. I repeat the
.sailing, and when tue centre of the leaves
begin to form the head, I apply sail again,
scattering it over the leaves ; alter this 1
look them over occasionally, and il I find
plants that and" not head well and appear
diseased, I sprinkh and the salt over freely ;
this w-dl save all such plants. A quart of
salt is sufficient for 500 plants in a s* ason,
although more can be tw and wilh safety.
As it draws towards the close of the
session one might expect Congress to do
something of public benefit, but the old
beaten track is the one still trod; thus: 111
the Senate* to pass a land grab ;to pass
another land grab ; to flourish the negro
about; to pass more laud grabs* 111 the
House* to propose the annex it ion of Kami
schatka. of the Feejees, of the North Pole,
all ill. high price. ; to pass a land grab ; to
1 ass another laud grab ; to propose more
annexation, at high figmes; and then grab,
grab, grab. — World.
And so Radicalism carries its sectional
; bate towards even the dead soldiers of the
Union in Southern soil. On motion of Mr.
i Shank**, of Indiana, the Army lull is amend***
ed by appropriating S2O 000 *b»r orunineti
tal trees and -hr ntis in the Northern Celtics
teries;’ none of the I .il stigg. sting that
perhaps the d* ad in 8 nthern eene-iei-ies
I bad an equal light to the ornamentation at
trees and shrubs about their graves, or
perhaps .even a greater right; seeing that
five to one, the Union soldiers buried in the
South were they fell »*xeeed t heir couit ades
, interred 3iort.li.— World.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
In the Reform Convention at Columbia,
S C. the following platform, prepared by
the Committee, was submitted by its chairs*
man, General Butler, and unanimously
adopted ;
PLATFORM.
This Convention, representing citizens of
Souih Carolina irrespective of parly, ass
scudded to orgamz • the good people of the
Slut** ir. an effort to reform the present in*
| competent, extravagant, prejudiced and
Corrupt administration of the State Gov
ernment, und to establish instead
just and equal laws, order and harmony,
economy in public expend tores, a strict
accountability of office-holders, and the
election to * ffiee only of men of known lions
esty and integrity, doth declare and atis
flounce the folh wing principles upon which
men of al! parties may' unite for the pur
poses aforesaid :
Fust. The Fifteenth amendment of
the Constitution of the United States hav
ing b**en by the proper authorities pros
claimed ratified by the requisite number of
States, and having been received and ac
quiesced in as a law in a l the States of
tin* Union, ought to be fairly administered
and faithfully obeyed as fundamental law.
Second. The vast changes in our sys*
tern of government, wrought by the inter
national war between the two sections of
the States, and following in its train, are so
far incorporated into the constitutions and
laws of th** States, and of the United Suites
as t<* r* quire that they be regarded as ao
complished fids, having the force and «*b
ligation of law.
Third This solemn and complete recog
nition of the existing laws brings the peo
ple of South Carolina into entire harmony
upon all questions- of civil and political
right, and should unite aft honest men in
an earnest and determined «ffort to eslab
lisb a just, equal and faithfti administt'a
tion of the govern nent, in the interest- ol
no class or clique, but for the benefit of a
united people.
Feeding H<*os.— Y D. a correspondent »»l
the Main** Farmer, says that his experience
has taught him that unless you wish to
raise shadowy hogs and sloshy pork do not
incorporate into their f*>od more liquid
than nature demand*. That to** much
swiil distends the stomach and Weakens
the organs of digestion und assimilation.
He is now feeding six legs weighing three
hundred pounds each. His allowance t<*
each hog per m* al, feeding twice per day
is one part of raw meal mixed with three
pints of water* He seis water before his
hogs but they do not drink it- He com*
mences feeding his pigs in the same man
ner and they soon learn not to cry for
swill. Some, not quit 0 as enthusiastic as
himself accuse him of having "nog on the
brain.’’ lie does not care for the insinua
tion, but says it pays. His motto is to
tak<* a live interest in your business and to
seek in all things the better way.
The Best Ice Cream.— Our best confec
tioners in making’ their cream use about
eight ounces of loaf sugar to every quar.
of cream. To fl-tvor four quarts of cream
with vanilla requires a beau and a halt
boiled in a little a.ilk. If with lemon, the
outer rinds of three lemons should be gra
ted very fine, or six drops of oil of lernoi
to every four quarts of cream. Four
quai ls of good cream will make seven
quarts ot ice cream, if well beaten ; while
thin milky cream will increase but little
and never become perfectly smooth. The
ice should be fine and put into the freezer
with alternate layeis of salt —say about
two quarts of salt to un eight quart free*
zer—the ice and salt as they work down to
be filled up.
The Bov of the Period. — An Atignsta
letter to the Atlanta Constitution, says
Augusta lias the ot» y boy of the period.
worked hard last winter and this spring
accumulating mousy enough to help sup
port bis mother and sisters and pay his tui
tion at school. He attends diligently to his
scholastic duties from 8 a m. to 2p. m. t
and mak s himself generally useful at home
in ihe afternoon and makes $1,50 at night
watching. That lad we venture, will make
a good maik in the world.
Kid Gloves. — The Woild says : The kid
glove is about to cease from its mission as
theembh ra of aristocracy "ti account of
defection in pi ices* Very excellent kid*
are now sold it* Paris at thirty cents a par*
and on Broadway they are marked as low
as fifty cents. The market is absolutely
overst< eked, and even the present p.ices
cannot bo maintained in the trade.
FEARFUL TRADEGY AT ASHLEY,
MISSOURI.
From the St. Louis Rt publican, of Sats
nrday, we condense the following account
of one of the niont horrible deeds of savage
passion and desperation that we have ever
heard of :
Some mouths since Miss Summers went
from Quincy, where her parents reside, to
Ashley, and engaged as a teacher in the
'N at son seminary at that place. It ap*
pears that, betoro she left home a young
tnuu tiamejj. Ambruso Coe, of Galesburg,
Uh. had been paying his addtoases to her.
He was of a good family and possessed of
some means, but his manners and characs
ter were repulsive to the lady, aud his re*
posted proposals for her hand were rejected.
This ill luck in his suit seems to have
greatly irritated his naturally ugly dispo
sitiori, and he had been heard to threaten
any one who should ever be more fortunate
in the young lady’s affections.
Hopeless and desperate he followed Miss
Summers from Quincy to Ashley, and hired
himself as a farm laborer near the town for
the purpose of acting the spy on her ac?
lions. It appears that last Sunday he
went to town and attended church, where
he saw the young lady in company with a
gentleman, of her acquaintance. Coe tra
ced them home, and followed them into the
house where Miss Summers boarded*
Going into the room where the lady waa
he asked permission of her to talk with her
in private, which she granted, the gentle
man who accompanied her from church
retiring. Coe immediately locked the door
and commenced the work of butchering
her with an old knife which he had pro*
cured, and sharpened for the murderous
purpose. The Bcreams of the lady irntne*
diately alarmed the whole house, and a
number of persons rushing to the door and
finding it lockt and, broke it open. They
(mind Miss Sumitiers lying on the floor in a
pool of her blood, With her spine completes
ly sevmed, other fatal wounds in her
breast, aud the knife still sticking in the
last wound She died in a few moments.
The maddened lover stood by begging
;hos<r> that came in to kill him at once. Coe
was arrested and placed in Bowling Green
jail, to await his trial, *nd has not been
lynched as was first reported* Miss Sum
mers wan 22 years of age, and is said to
have been beautiful aud highly accom
plished,
Tfts Brother of Senator RBvfits,—-Th§
brother of the colored Senator, Revels,
lives m Nashville* says the Nashville Ban
ner* He is a doctor, and received & thor
ough medical education at a college in
Louisiana, the expenses being paid by the
American Colonization Society, who prow
noted to send him to Liberia. The war
broke out, and Dr, RtfVels never left tb«
United States but, with commendable spirit
lie went to Work aiad paid back every cent
ihat had been expended by the Society on
his education. He now enjoys a very
considerable practice among hia race in
Nashville, and is regarded as an excellent
physician and a man of good natural ca
pacity.
Tremendous Perohation. — A stump speak*
er thus scatters himself around in answer
to ati opponent ;
Build a worm feuce around winter’s
supply of summer weather ; skim she
clouds from the sky with a teaspoon; break
a hurricane to harness ; ground sluice an
earthquake; oake hell in an ice house; lasso
an avalanche; put a cover on the active
ciater of a volcano; hive all tha stars in a
nail keg; hang the ocean on a grape vine
to dry; put the sky in a gourd; unbuckle
the bell of eternity, and paste ‘TO LET’on
the sun and moon; but never for a moment
sir, delude yourself with the idea that aoy
ticket of your party can beat ours.
The Georgia Bill. —A Washington dis*
patch to the Nashville American says:
The Georgiu difficulty was settled yes*
terday (Thursday) by the Reconstruction
Committee, it having been agreed to subs
mit the whole question to the House, with
the statement that eight members are for
Sir. Faro Wurth’* bill* which does, and sev%
en members for Mr. Bailer’s which does
not provide for ail election this fall. It was
further stipulated that a full ipportumty
for debate and amendments should beak
lowed in in the House. It is not expected
the report will be brought in for several
days. The bill*as agreed upon provides
for the admission of the State at one®, at
the Same time repealing ail laws which
prolid it tho organization of the Georgia
militia.
An ancient and interesting relic of Meth*
odism has come into the possession of Rev,
W. H Boole, of New York city. It is the
old Church Bible from which the Rev. Sam
uel Wesh-y ami John Wesley, the founders
of Meth<*dism, preached in Epwortb, and
which remained in their parish sot QTGt
woe hundred year*.
NO. 9.