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VOL. VI. THE SOUTHERN SUN. Published Weekly by JOHN R. HAYES. Proprietor* Terms of Subscription* one year,.. .$2 50 One Copy, nix month* j /jq One Jopy, three month* .."..*..1 GO Advertisements. V 111 be inserted at one dollar per aq.iare for the find Inseition. Liberal deduction* rvll he made on cm tract*. ObituurieHiind marriage* will be ehargtd tlie name a* other advertisement*; K A iES OF ADVERTISING! No Squares.| 1 Mo. 2 Mqb 3 Mob 6 Mo* 12 Mos I *'l"are .$4 00 $7 ()0 $97)0 j iTIX) s2o7)<) •2 squares SOO 11 00 14 00 20 00 30 00 :: squar e* 12 00 15 00 20 00 26 00 40 00 4 squares 16 00 20 001 26 00 33 00 60 00 f, squares 20 00 25 oO 82 00!40 0 GO 00 t; squares 21 00 31 00 88 00 48 ( 0 7u < 0 7 squares 28 00 37 00 45 00 56 oO 80 00 8 squares 32 00 43 00 62 00164 On 90 00 1' squares 36 00 48 Oo 60 00172 00 100 00 id squares 40 00 5> 00 68 Oo|Bo 00 110 00 k column 44 0G 62 00 74 GO 89 00 120 0) A Poet’s Dream. BY SUSANNA t. My days are such busy days, I have no time for singing Half of the chimes and grateful lays Which in my soul are ringing. The same old round of work and cares Awaits each morning’s waking; r.ach night the same a weary frame, And sometimes sad heart aching. But yet thank God that onmypaih Os quiet household cluty Has fall’ll a flower of magic power,— The poet’s rense of beauty ; And things the woild calls common things To me have d< ep revealing, Oft touching springs with their light wings Os highest, holiest feeling- A ne*t of dewy primroses, In their thick leaves reposing* A white cloud sailing through the pky,— A daisy’s petals closing ; The laughter of a happy child, A greeting from a neighbor.— All these have brought me stores of thought Through many an hour of labor. Sometimes I dream a pleasant dream 'Twill scarcely bear the t iling,— A mighty wood’s great Solitude, A lonely rustic dwelling*; Shut out from all the world's great strife, Cut off from all things human, — A mind serene, a holy life, ’ • A quiet thoughtful woman. A dream—l know ’tis but a dream,— But yet as such I prize it; In troubled days my spirit strays Years lieuce to realize it. Oh, selfish pray’r these clouds of care But make the goal the brighter ; When God sees fit to order it, Mj load will be the lighter. From the Chicago Tribune, June 20. Tlie Negro in Europe. How AK EDUCATED DARKEY WHO WRITES HIS NAME IN THE MTPDI.K IS RECEIVED. Major T Morris Chester, a colored member of the Loudon bar; delivered a lecture last evening in the Olivet Baptist Church, on Fourth Avenue. It was entitled ‘‘An Evening with Royalty,” and vas listened to very attentively by a small but ap pieciative audienco. He commenced by referrii g to the exceptional circumstances under which colored men have been brought out in this coun try. Sortie of the colored people had advanced gradually, and done a great deal of good. Others °I them had received distinctions abroad which e intended as a recognition of the manhood oJ then raoo. Under ordinary oirounnstonccs it "V>ald ho vanity to give publicity to them ; but, ®s they had been governed by exceptional consid fnitions, ho asked to be pardoned for anyostenta t: u or pride that he might manifest. He then fh*ve a description of a vi.-it to the courts of Eu rope. He had an interview with the Russian Em peror at St Petersburg, and was received by the Grand Duke Constantine, who expressed the war mest interest in the colored people of this country, (specially iu the cause of freedmen. He was al-o received by the Iviug of Denmark, and at the Swedish .Court. In the winter of 1868 he was in vited to a grand reception at Dresden, and was presented to the King and Yhe crown princes?. There were about a thousand persons present, fifty of them being Americans. He was approached by *ll, and his intercourse with them was very pleas ant and agreeable. 1 he colored man was received at these cou its the same as anvbody else. He was present at one of Queen Victoria's levees. Nothing was said et the English regal levees, the gatherings being very formal and stiff. In conclusion he urged the col ored people to educate themselves, as it was only through education that they could break down ex irtu g prejudices and open the avenues of advance ment and secure the opportunities enjoyed by others. When they were educated they could at tain distinction, and not before. In the courts of Earop© no white man can expect pieferences be c* lse he was white, nor could a black man be •ause he was black* Everv man stood upon his own merits, and only by his position, accompanied ■J ‘--credited influence, could be expect to gain admission into those charmed circles which re •vivtd their Inspiration from royally. Southern '■ Sm. [Written for the S oHthern Sun.] Summer Hours. st t. b. w. "Welcome golden summer hour*, Tinting, robing, snmmer’* scene : Wreathing garlands, bringing flowers, Music laden like a dream ; !*f fence Tieath the starlight broken By the balmy Southern gale, Where ihe lute, some lover's token, Sweetly bieathes his earnest tale. E’fmm°r sleeping Lies the lake, while Phoebus’ beam Peeking down through vim-let* rreeping, Lights the babbling woodland stream : W here tho fountain silver gleaming Murmurs soft at rosy dawn, Sweetest song is fairy streaming I ill the summer lights are gone. Bummer hours, parsing, fleeting, Treasures of the twelvemonths care, Crimson liuhts viDj shadows meeting, Ceres crowned with offerings rare : While at dawn Aurora s fingers Rosy paint bright summer’s reign, And at eve fair Hesper lingers With her pgt rless jewelled train. Summer hours, dreamy, beaming ; Luna lights the azure far W r here the vesper shadows streaming Set with many a jewelled star, "fyhile ’mid copse and trellised bower* Birds with fairy note and song, "Warble through the silent hours ‘ Summer hours, linger long.” Rules fob Table Etiquette. —Do notcommence eating before y<-ur hosjt gets through with hie graco. I have known men to bite a biscuit as large as a blacking box into a half moon, and have to hold it between their teeth, tinder a suspension of rules during the blessing. This is disgi aeeful. 2- Don’t sup soup with a fork. Your soup will have you at disadvantage with such odds. Besides it is souperfluouh. 8. In passing your plate to be re-helped; retain your knife in your vest pocket. 4. When asked for a dish, do not propel it along the surface of the tffble atter the manner of the gams of sliovel-board, but pitch it gracefully, after the manner of quoits, This is quoit sufficient. 5. Never try to eat fish wi h a salt cellar. 6. While drink ; ng be careful not to empty hot coffee or anything of that sort into you t neigh bor's paper collar. 7 Do not eat too fast. frou will not got left, if you make up in heroic deses for lost time 8 If you find anything suspicious in your don’t eat any more hash, and if there is anything wrong in your butter, propose a toast or tell an anecdote. 9. When you burn your mouth with cold potato’ dont whistle or make faces at the company, hut Shed tears in silence. 10. Never leave the table without asking the lady of the house to be excused ; but if you hap pen to be at a barbacue or u free lunch, dont leave it as long as there is a bone or a crumb in sight. If you will studiously observe these rules and don’t appropriate the table napkin under the con temptible pretense that you thought it was your your pocket handkerchief, you will succeed ad' mirably. An awkward looking, stage struck booster, went t* see one of the theatrical managers at Philadel phia lately, and solicited an engagements “What role would jou prefer,' my frier d?” asked the manager. “Well, Squire.” said the would be American Roscius. ‘I ain’t partial to rolls, no how ; corn dodgers is my favorite.” Livlkci in the Past. —For Mr. Stephens’ culture, ability and intentions we have very great respect. But his point of observation is bad. He dwells in a Georgia Village. He is surrounded by old associ ations ; old habits, old notions, o’d books, and is, himself an old man. much out of the current of that fresh and generous vitality which isbeginning toponr its rich blood into the politics of the period. Mr. Stephens' salutation reads neatly and drearily, it carries us back not forward, and “forward” is the word for this young South, which wants to get away from the war. which wants to get away frofn passion, from violence, from failure, which wants to unite itself to anew line, which wants to cut itself loose from a festering Jcorpse.— Courier- Journal. Backsliding Temperance M ex .—The Washington Chronicle is respos-ible for the follow ing : A sad story comes from Georgia concerning the fate of a temperance insmance society, which was etui ted by ten persons, each anleiug Up 55. ano contributing $5 a month, those who didn’t back slide in twelvemonths to divide the accumulated amount. All but one relapsed into their errois. ami on the appointed ay tbecurvivor called at the Treasurer’s to obtain the $650 dne. Tho Treasur er being out, he took a seat and a drink of whis ky. At that moment the clock struck twelve, and the solemn information was conveyed to his eais that the Treasurer had lost all the moner at the skin game of poker wnh the presiding elder, and had gone the way of all defaulting treasurers. The ; sad event has cast, etd. The is, we believe, a most damnable falsehood, i —Ed. Southern Sun. Not to be Beaten -Ist Boy.—My mamma has J ,r o t the shmiugest hair in all Bayswater '2d B. —My mamma has got the curlingest bait in all London. . i i S (, b._ My mamma has got the longest hair l all England. / .. •2d B —My mamma has got the thickest hair m all the world. , Ist. My mamma can s \t on nor nair. 2d. B.—My mamma can takeoff her hair. Ar * Joixma.! —Devoted to tlie Interests or Georgia. BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1871. Love s Sacrifice. Some years ago a Russian nobleman was traveling on special business iu the infe rior of Russia. It was the begiti9rffg~ of winter but the trust had set in elily. His carriage rolled up to an inn, and ho deman ded a relay of horses to carry him on to the next station, where he intended to pass the n : gl)t. The iu keeper entreated him not to proceed, for he said there was danger in traveling so late—the wolves were out. Bat the nobleman thought the man merely wanted to keep him as his giiest. ; he 6aid it was too early for wolves; and ordered the horse3 to be put to the carriage.. He then drove off, when his wife and bis only daughter inside the carriage with him. On the box of the carriage was a serf who had been born on the nobleman's estate, to whom he was much attached, and who loved his ♦ master as he loved his own life. They rolled over the hardened snow and there Seemed no sign of danger. The moon shed her pale light and brought out into bur nished silver the road on which they were going. At length the iittle girl said to her father : ‘What was that strange, howling noise that I just ho -i ,j ?• ‘Oli, nothing but the wind sighing through the forest trees, 1 the father replied. The child shut her eyes and was quiet. But soon she said again : 'Listen, -father ; it is not like the wind, I tliiuk. The father listened, and far, far away, in the distance behind him, through the clear; cold, frost air, heard a noise which he too well knew the meaning of. He then put down the window and spoke to the servant. ‘The* wolves; I fear, are after us; make hat.se. Tell the man to drive faster, and get yoiir pistols ready.* The postillion drove faster. But the same mourful sounds which the child had heard approached nearer and nearer. It whs clear that a pack of wolves had scents ed them out. The nobleman tried to calm the fears of his wife and child, At last the baying of the pack was distinctly heard. So he said to the servant : ‘When they come up with Us do you single out one and fire, and I will single out another, and while the re'st are devouring them we shall get on.* As soon as bn put down the window he saw the pack in fuH cry behind, the large dog-wolf at their head. Two shots were fired, and two of the wolves fell. The oth ers instantly set upon and devoured them, and meanwhile the carnage gained ground But the taste of blood only made them more furious, and they were soort up {with the carriage again. Again two shots were fired and two fell and were devoured. But the carriage was soon overtaken, and the post-house was yet far distant. The noble man then ordered the postillion to loose one of his leaders, that they might gain a little time, This was done, and the poor horse plunged frantically into the forest and the wolves after him, and was soon torn to pieces. Then| another horse was sent off and shared the same jfate. The carriage labored on as fast as it could with the two remaining horses, but the post house was still distant. At length the ser vant said to the master : ‘I have served you ever since I was a child pi love you as well as my own life. Nothing can save you but one thing. Let me save you. I ask you only to look after my wife and little ones.* The nobleman remonstrated, but in vain. When the wolves next came up, the faith ful fellow threw himself among them. The panting horses galloped on with the Car riage, and the gale ß of the pust-house just closed iu Upon it as the fearful pack were on the point of making the last fatal at<* tack. But the travelers were safe The next rooming they went out and saw the place where she faithful servant had been palled down by the wolves. Bis bones only were mere, and on the spot the noble man erected a pillar, on which is written, ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man may lay down bis life for a friend. 4 ‘But God commendetb his love toward os, iu that while we were yet sinners, Chiist died for us.’ Wh a* are yon disturbing the whole house with your yells for ? demanded New Jersey landlord of a guest whom be found late at night seemingly in pursuit of in visible foes, and yelling at the top of his voice. ‘I am snooting the battle cry of fleadora* as he went ahead with his search and his yells. JOSH BILLINGS. The Fashionable Woman’s Prayer, Sfrengthet mi husband, and may hiz faith an| biz money bold oat to the last. Ijfraw the Same’s wool ov unsuspicious twilight over his eyes, that mi flotations may look to him like viktoryg, and that mi bills may Rtientheh his pride in me. B’ess, oh, Fortune mi krirnps, rata and frizzles, and let thy glory shiue on mi paiut and powder. When i walk out before the gaze ov vulgar men, regulate mi wiggle, aud add uu grace ta mi gaiters. Whep i bow myßelf in worship, grant that i may do it with Taviehing elegance, and preserve unto the la9t the lily-white oi mi flesh and the taper of my fingers. Destroy mine eneniies-witli the gaul ov jealousy, aud eat thou up with teeth of envy all thoz who gaze at mi style; Save me from wrinkles and foster mi plumpness. Fill mi both eyes, oh, Fortune ! with the plaintive pizon of infatuashun, that i may lay out mi vtctims, the men, as kuuni as images graven. Let the lily and roze strive together ih mi cheek, and may mi neck swim like a goose on the bnzzum ov kiystal water. Enable me, oh, Fortune ! to wear shoes still a little smaller, and save me from all horns and buqyons. Bless Fanny, mi lapdog, and rain down bezoms of destruckshun upon thoze who would bur* a hair of Uektor, my kitten. Smile, oh, Fortune 1 most sweetly upon Dick, mi kanary, and watch over with the fondness of A mother, mi two lily white mice with red eyes. Enable the poor to shirk for themselves, and save me from all missionary beggars. Shed the light of thi countenance on mi kammel‘s hair shawl, mi lavender silk, mi point laee and mi necklace of diamond, and keep tlie mOths out ov mi sable, i beseech thee, O Fortune ! A Hint to Meddlers. A FABLE. A little white rose bloomed all by her self in a nook in tke hedge. ‘Ah !‘ cried the wind in passing, what a pity you should be suffocated there 1 I wjll blow a hole in the hedge, and the breeze shall find you through it. T pray sir you will leave me as I aril, I breathe well enough, 4 said the rose. ‘I know better, 1 said the wind, an 1 rent the hedge as he passed on, and the boys rushed through aud made her tremble with fear. ‘You are not well placed there, 4 he said aft he <|ame by again ; ‘l'll give you a bet ter berth than that.' ‘I beg yon leave me as I am, I like my place well (•hough if it were not for the gap yon made, 4 said the rt)se. But the wind would not listen ; he broke her stem and she fell to the ground. ‘Oh you musu’t lie there,* he Cried ; 'l’ll carry you to-tlie spot that will suit yoil ex actly.' ‘Nay. t entreat thee to let me lie and fade in this pleasant grass/ said the rose bes Becchiugly ; but he caught her up and whriled her on a few yards when petals were scattered and her leafless stem was cast on the hedge. ‘Hi>w is this J exclaimed the wind. ‘How is it ? this is how it is/ replied the hedge ; ‘there are some folks that are never satisfied but when they are meddling in other folks's affairs , they think nobody can be happy except in their way ; and you are one of them, and this bare stem is a specimen of your woik.' Sxaee Story. —A lady informed us in Salem, Sunday, that the chicken snake has been very troublesome during the rainy weather. She killed two during the past week—both in her house. One bad been delected in the act of sucking eggs, and the othur, a huge varmint some five feet in length , had got among a brood of three weeks-old chickens, and by his clucking, had drawn towards him four of the feather ed tribe, three of which be bad devoured and was discovered with the legs of the fourth one portruding from his mouth, and dispatched. That fourth chicken is -now the liveliest one of the remaining portioD of the brood, —Colunfbus Sun. The American Congress of Science will meet in Indianapolis next August: It is j expected that the convention will be the i largest which hasevet met in this country. Some of the most eminent men in Europe ■ will be present, Ambition. BT A. a. 9. A brooklet rippled through the reed*, A nd on its surface fair "White liilies grsw—ah, well for them Had they but rented there. But one the fairest of them all— Seized with a wild unrest, Pine-l for the vast plain* of the sea— Ambition filled her breast. And slowly from her sister-group She drew her petals free— Floated one morning, full of hope, Toward the unknown sea. A growingriver swiftly ran Through rushes strong and tall— . Hark J—how o’er each intending weir The boiling torrents fall ! The lily trembled ; “Is .this life f Ah, I will home again ” Bnt no - the impetuous stream rushed on, All effort was in vain. » 'Whelm’d in the widening, mighty flood, Too late the dying flower Sighed for the brook amid the roods,— Thought of her bud-hood hour, Roll’d'on tho river to the tea, Aud ere another day, The floods of ocean took the flower, And bore it dead away- Two Scenes. —A gtfillernan took his son to a drunken row in a tavern, where the inmates were fighting and swearing, and he said, know what has caused all this?' 'No, fiir.' His father, pointing to the decanters sparkling with rum, said, ‘That's the cause; will you take a drink?' The boy started back with horror and exclaimed,. ‘No' Then lie took the child to the cage of a man with delirium tremens. The boy gazed upon him affrighted as the drunkard , raved and tore aud, thinking the demons were after him, cried, ‘Leave mo alone! leave me alonei I see ‘erfij They're coming. ‘Do you ltuow the cause of this my boy?' 'No, sir.' 'This is caused by drink—will you have some?* and he shrunk back as he refused the cup, Next they called at the miserable hovel of a drunkard, where these was squalid poverty, and the drunken father .beating his wife aud with oaths knocking down the children. 'What has caused this?' said the father. When told that it was rum, he declared he would never touch a drop in his life. But suppose that lad should bo invited to a wedding feast where with fruit and cake the cup is passed amid scenest of cheerfulness and gayety; where all the friends are respectable, beloved and he should be asked to drink, would he refuse? Or suppose him walking out with his fa* ther on New Year's day to call upon* his young lady friends to enjoy the festivity of ushering in the New Year—With other things, wine is handed to him by a smiL ing girl. His noble hearted father whom he loves, presses the wine-glass to his lips, and compliments the young lady the ex cellence of its quality; what wouder if the son follow his example? A grocer at Indianapolis has had a mil lion dollars dropped into his pocket after a most surprising method. He discovered that he had a hereditary claim to a la’-ge tract of land in New York, and weut to work to collect his proofs of title, which having accomplished he set them upon the parties now holding the property. They like sensible men saw that Hie ‘had them/ and propased to pay a compromise tp the tune of a million dollars, and take his quit claim. He like anotbes sensible man, ! concluded to accept, and is now in posses sion of his funds. Most psople would have speut the balance of their lives trying to ] get such a claim as this through a chance ry court. A good story is told of a man who went for the first time to a bowling alley and kept firing away at the pins, to the immG nent peril of the boy, who, so far from hav ing anything to do in ‘setting up* the pins, was actively at work in endeavoring to avoid the balla-of the player which rattled on ail sides of the piha without touching them. At last, the fellow, seeing the pre dicament the hoy was in, jelled out as be let drive another ball, ‘stand iu among/the pius, bey, if you don't want to get hurt l* The golden wedding of old Mr. Jesse Grant, father of the administration, was, duly celebrated at Elizabeth, N. J. Thurs day last. The Cabinet and a train load of honored the occasion. * Getting Rib of a Bore. —Superintendents of railways arc the worst bored class of people in the world. One of them, who had been much worried by Che applications of a young man for a situation, relates his experience aa followa: “There wn one chap who would never take a refusal, but called repeatedly, day after day, qntil ho became a perfect annoyance. Finally I got tired of him, and determined to ffk him. When morning came, he was after me as usual, and inquiring about the pros pects. I replied, pulling "ont my watch: ‘Let me sec, it is naw a quarter of nin®; You wait here an hour and a quarter, and you can have a position. Tho ten o'clock train always brings in two or three dead hands, who have been killed on the road, and then yori will be all right.' The fellow slid, and has not been back slnccl* William Tell Distanced. —The Gieen ville Times of Saturday has the following paragraph, which only goes to prove what an imitative fellow Sambo is,: , It is not to bo supposed that we have out* lived the proclivity to display feats of ni cest marksmanship, as one of them occurred within a few miles of Greenville, som® few days since, wanting somewhat in ro> mance but making up iu tragedy.' A* w® wero told it, two negro men on the Hodget place agreed to make a test of skill in th® ( use of the Winchester rifle; one of thenq stationing himself some little distance from the other aud shooting a bullet as close tQ the top of his head as he cou'd* IT® beat Bill Tell a little; only ho shot bis bullet under the top of his object’s head, burying it in his brain, The man’s skull was meM* ured after his death, and was just thred quarters of an inch thick. Dfi' Korcm in the Louisiana Hocas. — A Senegambiau ‘legislator* iu tho House o{ Representatives of Louisiana, was called, to order for what the Speaker was pleased to term a breach of uecuium. Tho Senas gambian member had been listening to a. speech by a Congo member, and on that close of said speech classically observed: ‘Dat nigga is a dam liar, an'.l/ll frow my boot down his froat if he opens his cella dodh ou me again. To this Chesterfieldian outburst tho Speak er responded with maHot, called for orde r * and ventured to declare ‘the gentlcmau guilty of a breach of decorum.* ‘Br— hr— breach of and—who, sab? breach ob de—who?' ‘Breach of decorum, sir.* *Dar‘s no kormn heah at all, sab; I'm 4, qualified memba, sab, a setiu heah for to - do dc business op my constitumus; an ir dat dam nigga fetches his lies to cfia‘seoi<* bly, I'll frow a number seventeen boot into dat trap douh ob his, sah.' > , v . After the indignant gentleman had Urns given expression to his sentiments, the other gentleman subdued, and the august assembly of law»nv*kers for tho State of Louisiana weut on with their fmjiottan| business. ' Anew disease ha* recently attacked hogs in Fultou county Illinois. It t* difs Cerent in its symptoms from hog cholera and seems more like a congestive chill aa manifested iu human being*. When tbs hogs are attacked they bunch up togcthar for warmth. The Chill is followed by fever when they soon die. The per centag* ot deaths is largo — • - The Chicago Tribune say# ; “The Ku Klux bill about which there has been so much and snch ear nest controversy, expires at the close ot the »«** session of Congress." We Sod the seme error pre-v' Vailing in the columns of many of our oontempofr raries. The fact is, however, that thlre. i« DO limitation whatsoever to the duration of tbsectaftj a whole. The provision authorizing the Preside** to suspend the privilege of tbe writ of habeas cor* pus is made terminable at the end of next regular see ion of Congress, and this restriction has bee* popularly but erroneously extended to the entire act. Tbe mistake is not an unnatural one, b«l if worth correction.—Boston Advertiser. The Wise Mm —The learned man i* only use ful to the learned ; the wise man equally useful to. the wise and the simple. The merely learned man has not elevated his mind abovs of oth ers ; his judgments are not mote penetrating —bin remarks not more delicate, nor his actions more beautiful than those of others. It ia wholly differ ent with the wise man; he moves far above thg common level ; he observes everything from different point of view. In his employments «•*» is always aim, in hi* views always freedom, SM all with him » above the oommon level- Them sends Os French peesnts are preparing m j emirate to the United Stales, who would hav« thought of the thing but for the for ths lala FMA co-German war 1 D< übthss the civil war MW raging will do still more to drive the people away, f for on every hand there is dread, uncertainty, MW the prospects of permanent ttanquility, not ml*. ja France, but throughout all Europe, ip vspf dubious. NO. 6.