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Pr /;;.</> AD YERTISEMENTB.
Iproclamation.
■rf,-, B. BULLOCK,
Governor of said Btaie.
. official information has been received
■ V. 4T inient that a murder was committed
r ls of Carroll, on the night, of the 13th
■ , .jpon the body of John W. Wood
persons unknown, as is alleged,
V! a iuakuovrn person or persons have fled
ft*. zht proper, therefore, to is*h« this
hereby offering a reward of ONE
IXJLLAR3 for the apprehension and
v»ii| person or persons unknown, with
I IKcient to convict, to the said county and
■ . Her that they may be brought to trial
I fr.*e with which they stand charged.
■ uiy hand and the Great Seal of the
l, »t the Capitol in Atlanta, this the elev-
I l*» of March, in the year of otrr Lord
I ~n Hundred and fieveuty-bne, aud of the
Lfyndence of the United States of America
L.N'iMty-fifth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
it Governor :
Pavid 0. Cotttxo, Secretary of State.
hreb 16.1871-43-4 t
|A Proclamation ,
■ ORR I A .
■irrus B. BULLOCK,
Governor of laid State.
official information has been received
It-i« Department that a murder was committed
■: < county of Chatham on or about tire 20th
I nrvli.f. upon the body of Chavis Davis, by
He Li. hard (jr» uit, !H is alleged, and that the said
lutthuftaff from justice.
If »*re thought proper, therefore.lc) issue this
■ imatiou, hereby offering a reward of FIVE
■VI lV f l> DOLLARS for the apprehension and
li.K v .‘the Mid Grant, with proof sufficient to
pvH. to the Sheriff of said county and State in
pi*r tint he may bo brought to trial for the
n** with which ho stands charged.
la -.ii'.i't my hand and the Great Seal of the
the Capitol in Atlanta, this - the thir-
e r .:i day of March, iii the year of our Lord
...*en Hundred and Seventy-one, and of the
■ndenceof the United States of America
wXltietysSfth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
ib Governor :
aiDti. CoiTitiG, Secretary of State.
Inch 16, 1871-43-41
A PROCLAMATION*
IEORGIA :
IjRVFUS B. BULLOCK,
Governor of said State.
■ Official information has been receiv-
IDepartment that a murder was com
I'-iti the county of Muscogee, on the night
P - 2tth of Febrn try, npoli the body of Brooks
| a person of color by one John Aaron, as
r l (*l and that Aaron has fled from justice :
1 la*» thought proper, therefore, to issue this
~ T ‘Venation hereby offering a reward iff Five
“-'•'cd Dollars for the apprenension and deliv
-the said Aaron, with proof sufficient to con
the Sltoriff of staid county and State, in or*
»t he brought to trial for the offence *with
r - 2he stands charged.
f (l v?n ‘"Her my hmd and the great Seal of the
At the capital in Atlanta, this eight day
in the year of our Lord Eighteen
Handle 1 ami Siveaty-ona, and oflndepend
ot\tl)o l iiitod States of America tfceit i*e*
tr*m. 7 ’U i' * 1 - -
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
*'? the Governor; |
David o. Corrao, Secretary of Statia.
16-43-4 t.
•t PROCLAMATION.
G EOK O I A :
B&ms B. BULLOCK,
Governor of said State.
‘"pkias, Official information has been received
this department that a murdev was committed
■ the county of Bibb, on the 13th day of Kovern
upon the body af Gus Redding, by one
Lov*. a person of color, as is alleged, and
~ k ‘said Lov* has fled from justice.
* thought prop?r, therefore, to issue this
; Reclamation, hereby offeringa reward of FIVE
■‘iSDhLD DOLLARS for the apprehehfcion aud
'"'i'ery of the said Love, with proof Sufficient to
f to the Sheriff of said county and state, in
f '" er that he may be brought to trial for the of
*rH w tth which he stands charged.
' en under my bad and the GTeat Seal of tb
at the Capitol in Atlanta, this fifteenth
( Ry of March, in the year of our Lord Etgh
!<,en Hundred and Seventy-one, and of the
of the United States of America
,hc Siuety fifth.
1 ; the Governor;
David G. Cottiko, Secretary of State.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
M «t!iC3iß7i, flit
,J -3,1871.
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VOL. V.
Proposed democratic Platform for
187 2.
iition^ ttwf* ° f pr °,^ r
to preseht them tfe C^Ttgrbss.
of fourteen sections, in which it is declared
to be tlse duty of C&ngfess l !
First—To provide for the immediate res
duclion of direct taxation and of import du
ties to a strictly revenue standard.
Second—To provide for the immediate
reduction of public expendituies in all the
departments of the Government.
Tluvd—To abolish all sinecure offices
and the system of collecting the revenue
by Secret informers and spies.
Fourth—To restore to the people of the
States and their local governments the
rights originally possessed by them under
the Constitution.
Fifth—To abolish governmental paper
money and to residro the old constitutional
currency—gold and silver.
Sixth— r fo reduce the army to a peace
footing, and abolish a system recently es
tablished of employing military officers in
the discharge of civil duties.
Seventh—To provide against accumula
tion and retention ol large sums of money
in the public treasury, by which the inters
terests of the people are subordinated to
government influence and made dependent
upon the caprice and personal views of the
head of that department;
Eighth—To prevent the purchase and
sale of the public credit by the Secretary
of the Treasury, at his own option, with
no other control than his individual and
personal will.
Ninth —To bring the President and his
cabinet advlsefa under the authority of
law, making them obedient to its provis
ions, and alike with others subject to its
penalties.
Tenth—To restore to the Southern States
and people, peace, prosperity and content
ment, which can only be accomplished by
a cessation of vindictive legislation and
military interference, and a recognition of
their equal rights, including self-govorn>
ment and political equality with the other
States and people of the Union.
Eleventh—To revive American com
merce.
Twelfth—To restore Ameiicau credit.
Thirteenth-—.To reinaugurate American
republican simplicity in the administration
of public affairs ; and
Fourteenth —To aid, by proper, legal
and constitutional authority in the full de«»
velopmcnt of thp agricultural, mineral and
commercial resources of tlm country.
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.
•WILLIAM WIRT AND HIS SWEETHEART. ASJOBY OF
DEGREDATIoN AHD REFORM.
There is on b touching incident of the life
of William Wirt. In his younger days he
was a victim to that passion for intoxica
ting drinks which seems peculiarly the
bane of onr professions. Affianced to a
beautiful and accomplished young woman,
he had made and broken repeated pledges
of amendment, and she after'patiently aud
kindly enduring his digraceful habits, had
at length dismissed him, deeming him in
corrigible. The next meeting after his dis
missal, was iu the public street of the city
of Richmond. William Wirt lay diunk and
asleep, on the side walk, on a hot summer
day, the rays of the son pouring down on
uncovered bead, and the flies crawling over
|,is swollen features. As the young lady
approached in her walk, her attention was
attracted by the spectacle. Grange to her
eyes, but alas ! so common to others who
knew the victim, as to attract little remark.
She did not at first recognize the sleeper,
aud was about to hasten on, when ahe was
led by one of those impulses which form
the turning points in human lives, to scru
tinize his features. What was her emo
tion when she recognised in him her dis.*
carded lover ! She drew forth her hand'
kerchief, and carefully spread it over his
face and hurried away. When Wirt came
to himself, he found the handkerchief and
in oue corner the initials of Lis beloved
name. With a heart almost breaking with
grin! and remorse, he made anew vow o
reformation. He kept that vow and he
...arried the owner of that bar. . e ' c ‘"'
Well might he preserve the handkeich ,
as he did, all his life, guarding it with the
jealous care with which Othello kept the
Egyptian charmer’s gift end ‘making it a
i darling like his precious eye.*
BAIXBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1871.
Eroaa the Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
jLife.
:. w ..
A b%by jflajred withthe surplice sleeve
Amfthe Priest bade the mystic waters flow—
“In the name of the Father, of the Son
And of the Holy Spirit.”—Three in One!
'Spotless as a lily's leaf !
Whiter than the Christmas snow j
Not a shade of sin or grief—
And the babe laughed sweet and low.
A smile flirt*ed over the baby’s face—
Or was it the gleam of its angel’s wing
Just passing then ? and leaving a trace
Os its presence, as it soaied to sing
A hymn, when words and waters win
To grace and life a child of sin ?
Not an outward sign or token
Ihat tbr- child was saved from woe—
But the bunds of sin were broken.
And the Babe laughed sweet and low.
A cloud rose up to the Mother’s eyes—
And out of the'cloud griefs rain fell fast ;
Came the Baby’s smiles and the Mother’s sighfc
Out of the Future, or the Past ?
Ah ! gleam and gloom must ever meet,
And gall must mingle with the Sweet 1
Tea ! upon her Baby’s laughter "
Trickled tears—’tis always so—
Mothers dread the dark Hereafter—
But her Babe laughed sweet and low.
And the years, like waves, broke on the shots
Os the Mother’s heart, and her Baby’s life—
But her lone heart drifted away before
Her little boy knew an hour of strife l
Drifted away on a summers eve
Ere the orphaned boy knew how to grieve.
Her humble grave was gently made
Where roses bloomed in Summer’s glow ;
[laid
The wild birds sang were the hearts were
And her Boy—laughed sweet and low.
He floated away from his Mother’s grave,
Like a fragile flower on a bright stream’s tide!
Till he hear;! the moan of the mighty wave
That welcomed the stream to the ocean wide !
Out from the shore and over the deep,
He saild away—and he learned to weep ?
Furrowed grew the face, once fair—
Under storms of human woe ;
Silver gray the bright, brown hair j
And he wailed sad and low.
And years swept on, as first they swept;
Bright wavelets once—wild billows now ;
Wherever he sailed —he ever wept
And a clould hung o’er his brow,
Over the deep into the dark,
But no one knew where sank his bark.
Wild roses watched the Mother’s tomb,
The world still laughed—’tis ever so ;
God only knew the Baby’s doom
That laughed so sweet and low !
[From the Atlanta New Era, Radical]
THE KU KLUX BIEJL.
Now that Reconstruction is over, we
hope Congress will attempt no Legislation
in reference to this State that would not
apply to jiaseachnsetts’as well as to Geor
gia, under the Constitution of the United
States. Any attempt at this late day, to
revise reconstruction ; to amend the blun
ders of the past or provide against the ex
igencies of the future, that is not cleailj’
within the purview of the Constitution, and,
therefore, applicable to a State fully enti
tled to demand all the rights and privileg
es of the Union, can never meet the en
dorsement of the Republicans in this sec
tion. And insurrection in Pennsylvania or
Massachusetts that defied the local author
ities, would, of course, demand the inter
vention of the Federal power ; and the same
is true of Georgia or South Carolina. But
Congress can now claim no authority to
legislate for Georgia upon the assumption
that this is a ‘rebel State/ and, therefore,
beyond the pale of Constitutional proiog.*—
tives. She is now the equal of the loyal
States ; and ary Kn-Klux bill for Georgia
that would not under similar circumstances
be as applicable to Massachusetts or New
York, will not meet the approbation of
Georgia Republicans We warn our Re
publican is ..us iu Congress to keep with
in Constitutional limits oh this matter.
Judge Bingham’s zeal has come too late;
and his efforts to press extreme measures
in reference to Georgia, only serves to il
lustrate the inconsistency of his whole ca
reer on this Recobjtruction issue. He
mast now accept reconstruction as accom
plished, and recognize the Southern States
as the political equals of the Northern
States. No other course will be endorsed
by the Republican party. No other course
ought to be endorsed by any party.
•You mus» have lived here a long time,
said a traveling Englishman to an Oiegon
pointer: ‘Yes sir, I have. Do you see
that mountain ? Well when I came here
that mountain was a hole in the giotind !’
The Englishman opened his halfshut eyes.
A Righteous ' Decision —The Marine
Court of New York has decided that a sew
ing machine is not liable for debt. The
ground was, first that a sewing machine is
a necessary article of household Inrniture ;
second that it is necessary for the support
of the family, thus placing it on the same
footiug with a surgeons instruments and
S a carpenters tcols.
if! ' ■
AN AFFECTING SCENE.
The Son of General Prim Opens the
Coffin of His Father.
Herald Madrid Letter.]
Wednesday, the Ist inst., in the after-
UOOfl, an affecting; took place in the
Basilica de Atoclia;.
General Gaminde, Captain General of
Catalonia, accompanied by the Commiasa'-
Ifel General pf the Spanish army, with his
aides-de-camp, as also the aides-de-camp
of King Amadeus and other intimate
friends of the unfortunate General Prim,
went to the Church Atocha, and descended
to the panthean for the purpose of paying
a tribute of profound respect to the mortal
remains of the illustrious General and
statesman who, on terminating his work in
procuring a King for the Spaniard, fell by
the hands of assassins.
THE SON OF THE DECEASED AT THE COFFIN.
The young Duke de lou CasUllejos, Prim’s
son and heir, a youth of some thriteen sum
mers, was of the party and stood beside
the coffin of his deceased father. The
young Duke wore the uniform of the Hus
sais, to which corps he belongs. The tad’s
Countenance bore an aspect of calm resold
tion, hardly to be expected from one so
young, fco nearly related and so fondly be
loved by the late General. He drew the
keys of the coffin from his pocket, and
with a'steady hand applied them to the
locks, gently raised the lid, and after look
ing for a few moments upon the face of
his dead father, turned round to the Gen
erals and other officers forming the party,
the party. Ho spoke not a word, bnt point
ed with his right hand to the coffin. As
the young Duke, with upturned face, look*
ed at these distinguished visitors to his
dead parent’s narrow abode, his ex
pression wore something like an
appeal. His dark eyes flashed, his face
paled, and his lips quivered. He seemed
to say, ‘Behold the mutilated remains of
my father—your chief, yonr friend, he with
whom you tonght side by side in a hun«
died engagements—is justice never to be
done him ? Are his assassins never to be
discovered ? Is his murder never to be
avenged ?”
As the gray-headed veterans gazed with
sadness on the marble features of the hero
of the African campaign, tears glistened in
their eyes and trickled down their cheeks*
Their lips compressed, and thore than one
hand convulsively grasped the hilt of his
sword, and seemed leady to respond to the
silent though eloquent appeal of the young
Duke, A long and painful silence followed;
fiery passions subsided and better
thoughts predominated. The stern fea
tures of the veterans relaxed, and their
lips moved in prayer for the repose of the
soul of their comrade* the General, states
man and King-maker.
ADIEU.
The lid of the coffin was silently closed,
the bolts of the locks again turned cn their
levers, and Prim’s orphan having taken
possession of the keys the mournful pro
cession retired.
Southen Vegetables in New Yore..— On
the 21th inst-, Fulton Market received from
Charleston, three hundred bushels of green
peas and thirty bushels of strawberries by
steam from Charleston, S. C. The‘truck
trade’ of the South has now begun. Every
steamer if we have no cold snaps will car
ry increased quantities of asparagras,
green peas, new Irish potatoes and straw
berries, and the traffic will continue anti 1 '
cipating in success in various vegetables
and fruit crops, until Deleware commences
the shipment of peaches and watermelons.
A Crumb of Comfort ro Good Wives.—
Many a discouraged mother foWs her tired
hands at night, and feels as if she had
after all, done nothing, although she had
not spent an idle moment since she rose.
Is it nothing that your little helpless chil
dren has had some one to cckne to with all
their childish griefs and joys ? Is it noth
ing that yonr husband feels ‘sate’ when he
is away to his business because your cares
ful hand directs each and every thing at
home ? Is it nothing, when his business is
over, that be has the blessed refuge of home
which you have that day done your best to
brighten and refine f Ob, wearyfand faith
ful mother, you little know your power
when you say ‘I have doneno thing/ There
is a book in which a fairer record than
this is written over against your name-
Poor Brigham— News from Salt Lake
City brings the mournful intelligence that
Brigham Young has lost, during the past
year, twenty-five of his molhers-in-law.
How terribly depressed this poor, bereav
ed orphan must feci l We tender onr syra*
path ice,
A TfttTMP.-r-An Ohio Congressman' named
Van Trump 5s a trump, and has administer
ed a tart little reproof to the Radical negro
worshippers. The following bill, introduc*
ed i.p the House of Representatives on the
21th, “*o abolish white slavery in the
States lately in rebelion,’' veill do. It is a
timely arid shows that Van Trump
Bas the right idea-of wimt should be trumps
in the political future t
*'Be it enacted the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Uuuitcd States of
America, in Congress assembled, That on
and after the 4th day of July 1871, there
shall be in the States lately in rebellion,
neither slavery nor involuntary sevitude,
except for the punishment of crinto, among
the white denizens of such States, common
ly denominated the Caucassian race, con
tradistinguished from the higher class of
American citizens of African deficeut ; and
that white persons, by a special act of
grace and boon, shall forever hereafter
have, hold, and possess all the rights, priv
ileges, immunities and franchises, as the
said dominant colored Ethiopian race, and
to possess the same in all the late rebellious
States as aforesaid.
“Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That
the President of the United States be fully
authorized to employ all tbe military force
of the nation to carry out the provisions of
this act-”
The Jews. —Some one has this to say of
the Jews :
The politest people in the world are not
the French but tbe Jews. They are mal
treated aud reviled ; in many countries
hey are despoiled of civil privileges and
social rights, yet they are everywhere po
lite, affable and insinuating. They are re
markable for industry and
ndulge iq few recriminations ; are faithful
to old associations ; respectful to the pre>
judices of others, not more worldly-minded
or money-loving than people generally are,
and everything considered, they surpass
pther nationalities in courtesy, faffability
and forbearance. Few persons excel in
address a bright and polished Jew. There
is no rusticity among this people. The
difficulty is that they are too generally
judged from the lowest classes. To judge
a nation fairly, we must take tjie average
intelligence and position. The highest
aud the lowest are pretty mueb alike all
the world over; This will be tho experi
ence of every one who has been cosrao
politanized by* travel,
Robbert in Abbevili.b.— It' is reported
that the safe of the County Treasurer of
Abbeville, South Carolina, Mr. L. H. Rus
sell, was robbed on Friday night, and
about ten thousand dollars carried off.—
Tho safe was deliberately opened and
the money abstracted. The guilty party
is strongly suspected.
The Japanese have but one newspaper,
which comes out but once a month, in the
shape of a stitched pamphlet of about
one hundred pages •It has been
established a little more than a year.
They boast also of one railway, twenty
mi s es long ; but others arc in progress.
Enormous Importation of Silver into Liv
erpool.—On Sunday morning last there
arrived in the Mersey one of the largest
importations of silver that has ever taken
place at Liverpool. The Guion Company’s
steamer Wisconsin, Captain Williams,
which arrived that day irom New York,
had on board the enormous quantity of
sixty-five tous and five cwt. ot silver coin
principally Spanish and Mexican dollars, a
large amount of which is intended for this
Country, and the remainder for different
parts of the continent. As soon as the
Wisconsin was secured at her moormgs in
dock, the work of getting the specie boxes
ashore was commenced, and in a short
time safely completed. Wagons were in
readiness and the specie was conveyed to
the London and Northwestern Railway
Station, where it was placed in fourteen
closed railway vans, and dispatched to
London by an early train on Monday morns
iag.—London Standard, March, 15,
An Industrious Hen.—A month or two
ago the Ottawa Free Trader contained the
following account of a very busy hen :
‘Sam Parris going out to fight the world
armed only with a setting heu ! She can
beat that other hen that sat fonr years on
a couple of billiard balls and ivory door
knobs. Since the first of March she has
hatched out four lots of chickens. She
hatched out 11 in April, and raised 8 ; in
June she turned oot 13, and raisedlO ; and
in October she has got oat 13, and has 10
lively little chickens running around her
at present —making in all 39 chickens
raised or nearly so, and 50 hatched this
season. She laid the eggs herself, fixed
up her owu nest in a haymow, out of the
reach of other hens and conducted the
transaction to suit herself. She is evident-,
ly a strong minded female of the hen per
suasion. She is a business hen, and un -
married .* we believe—or, all eveDts, her
husband’s name is unknown.’
The southern sun.
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My First Experience in Journalism!
BT Mark twain.
NO, 4?
I was a very smart child at the ago of thirteen
—an unusually Smart child. I thought at the tlmf.
It was then that I did ray first newspaper scrib
bling, and most unexpectedly to one, It stirred up
a fine sensation in the community. It did, In
deed, and I was very prowl of it, too.
t was a printer’s “devil," aud a progressive and
Aspiring ones. Mr uncle had me on his paper (the
“Weekly Bannibal Journal,”) two dollars a year
in advance— 6o") subscribers, and they paid fa
eerd-wood, cabbages; and unmarketable turnips,
and ou sducky summer’s day he left town to be
gone a week, and asked me If I thought I could
edit oue edition of tho paper judiciously. Ah,
didn't (want to try ! Hinion was the editor of
tho rival papeV. He had lately been jilted, and
one night a friend found an open note on the
poor fellow’s bed, in which he said he could no
longer endure life, and had drowned himself in
Bear Creek. The friend ran down there and dis
covered Hinton wading back to shore 1 He had
concluded he wouldn’t. The village was full of
it for several days, but Hinton did not suspect It.
I thought this was a flue opportunity. I w*oto an
elaborately wretched account of the whole matter,
and then illustrated it with villainous outs en
graved on the bt.ttom of wooden typo with a jack
knife—one of them a picture of Hinton wading out
into the creek in his shirt, with a lantern, sound
ing the depth of the water with a Walking-stick.
I thought it was desperately lunny, and was dense*
ly unconscious that thero was any moral obliqui
ty about 6uch a publication. Being satisfied with
this effort I looked about for other worlds to con
quer, and it struck me that It would make good
interesting matter to charge the editor of a neigh
boring country paper with a piece of gratuitous
rascality and “see him squirm”—l did it, putting
the article into the form of a parody on the Burial
of “Sir John Moore"—and a pretty udore parody
it was too. Then I lampooned two prominent
citizens outrageously—not because they had don®
anything to deserve It, but merely because I
thought it was my duty to mako the paper lively
Next I gently touched up the newest stranger—
the lion of the day, the gorgeous journeyman tail
or from Quincy, He was a simpering coxcomb of
the first water and the “loudest” dressed man In
the State. He was an Inveterate woman-killer.
Every week he wrote lushy ‘poetry’ for the “Jour
nal” about his newest conquest. His rhymes for
my week were headed “Maet in H -t,” meaning
Mary in Hannibal, of course. But While setting
up the piece I was suddenly riven from head to
heel by what I regarded as a perfect thunderbolt
of humor, and T compressed it into a snappy foot?
ncte at the bottom, thus : “We will let this thing
pass, just this once; but we wish Mr. J. Gordon
Hun riels to understand distinctly that we have 0
character to sustain, and ftom this time forth,
when he wants to commune with his friends in
h—l, he must select some other medium than tbd
columns of this journal I ’
The paper came out, and I never kneW ifijr lit
tle thing to attract so much attention as those
playful trifles of mine. For onro iho Hannibal
“Journal” was in demand—a novelty it had not
experienced before The whole town was stirred.
Hinton dropped in with a double barreled sbot-gnii
early in tbe forenoon. Whon he found ttjat it was
an infant (as he called me) that had done hirti
the damage, he simply pulled my ears and went
away ; but he threw up his situation that night
and left town for good. The tailor came with hi 4
gocse and a pair of shears; but he despised me,
too, and departed for the South that night. The
two lampooned citizens came witji threads of libel;
and weutaway incensed at my insignificance. Tbo
country editor pranced in with a war-whoop next
day, sufiering for blood to drink; but he ended by
forgiving me cordially and inviting me down to
the drug store to wash away all animosity io a
friendly bnmper of “Fahnestock's YertfiifugfS.'*
It was his little joke.
My uncle was Very angry when he got back—
unreasonably so, I thought, considering what an
impetus I had given the paper, and considering
also that gratitude for his preservation ought to
have been uppermost :u hisftnind, inasmuch as by
his delay he had so wonderfully escaped dissection,
tomahawking, libel, and ‘getting bis head shot off.
But he softened when he looked at the accounts
and saw that I uad actually booked the unparal
leled number of thirty three new subscribers, and
had the vegetables to show for it, cord-wood) cab
bages, beans, and unsaleable turnips enough tq
run the family for two years!—Galaxy.
Slander. —Anybody can soil the reputation of any
individual, bow.ver pure aad efiaste, by uttering
a suspicion that hi? enemies will believe and bis
friend* never hear of. A puff of the idle wind can
take a million of the seeds of a thistle and do a
work of mischief which the husbandman must la
bor long to undo, the floating particles being too
fine to be see* and too light to be stopped. Such
are tbe seeds of slander, so easily sown, so difficult
to be gathered np, aud so pernicious in their fruits.
The slanderer knows that many a wind Will catch
up the plague and became poisoned by hit insinu
ations, without ever seeking the antidote. No
reputation can refute a sneer, nor any human skill
prevent mieebief.
An Atlanta Robber Captured in Augusta.
Many of our readers wilt recollect that,
some three or fodryears ago, an adroit en«
tered the Atlanta National Bank, in broad
daylight picked op a package ot several
thousand dpllars and was about making
his escape through the window when b&
was captured by Hon. James L, Dunning.
He was tried and convicted and received
thirty-nine lashes, besides a sentence to the
penitentiary for five years. On his way
to Milledgeville be escaped, and nothing
has been heard of him since. He waa ara
rested last Tuesday for robbing the money
drawer of George T. Jackson A Co.— Era*