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LUCIUS C. BRYAH, Editor 4c Proprietor. VOL. V. (L;l)c Sontluru (bitfctprisc. ♦ ♦ • ♦ ► —- Thomasville, Georgia. t gm l~f r W EBNKMMV, HKFT. 6, SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. o— The “South kkyEktekphisb” i publish ed weekly at Foot DoiLLAKS per ttnivam, strielly ix advance. ” o ADVKRTISINP TERMS/ Advkrtishmknts will Reinserted for one dollar per square of twelve lines or less for each insertion. From this rate a dis eouHt of TWKNTY-nvK per cent will be made for advertisements inserted for three months or under six months, and fiitt per cent for twelve mouths or more. All ad vertisements sent to the office must be marked with the number of insertions an d sired or the period to be published, and in cvry instance accompanied with the amount required for payment. Marriages and deaths will hereafter be charged for as ad vestisemeats. Special or editorial notices will be published and charged at double the above rates. Payment for subscriptions may at present be made either in current funds, or the products of the country, such a? wheat, flour, corn, bacon, beef, sugar, syrup, tallow, sweet, or irish potatoes, chickens, eggs, &c., &c., at their market value in Thomasville. Remittances may be made by Express at our risk. All others must be at the risk of those making the same. Subscribers names will be droped from the list at the end of the term for which the subscription has been paid, un less renewed.’ All communications should be addressed to Proprietor Southern Entcr prtc,. Tkouiasville Georgia. i;\aiifiriiiig Bottoms ofWelltt. It is riot generally known, we think, how easy a matter it is to examine the bottom ‘of a well, cistern, or pond of’ water, 1 by the <Ufe of a common mir ror., The New Hampshire Journal of Agriculture, “ays z . When the sun is shining brightly, hold a mirror so that the reflected rays of light will fail into the water. A bright spot will be seen at.the bottom t’o light as to show the smallest object very plainly. . By this means we have examined the bottoms of wells fifty feet deep, when half full of water. — The smallest straw or other small ob ject can be perfectly seen from the surface. In the same N way one can examine the bottom of ponds and riv ers,, if the water be soipewhat clear, and not agitated by winds or rapid motion. If a well or cistern be under cover or shaded by buildings, so that *.the sunlight 1 will not fall near the ope* -mug, it is only necessary to employ two mirrors, using one to reflect the opening, and another to send it down perpendicularly into the water. Light may be thrown fifty or a hundred yards to the precise spot desired, and then reflected downward We have used the mirrors with success to reflect the light around a field to g shaded spot, and also to carry it frepu a south window through tw r o rooms, and then into a cistern under the north side of the house. Half a dozen reflections of the light may be made, though each mirror diminishes the brilliancy of the light. Let any gne not familiar with this method try it, and he will find it not only useful, but a pleasant experiment. It will perhaps reveal a mass of sediment at the bottom of a well which has been little thought of, but which may have *been a fruitful source of disease by its decay in the water. —- Specimens of Western oratory are rather stale ; but here is a bit, related by a trustworthy authority as authentic, which has, not been in print before : .'‘Where is Europe, compared America ‘( Nouwbar ! Where is Eng ;land l Nowhar ! They call England the mistress of the sea; but what makes the sea ? The Mississippi riv er makes it. And all we’ve got to do •is to turn the Mississippi into the Mammoth Cave, and the English na >vy will be floundering,in the inua.” THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 18(15. ‘BLIND HOY’S SOLILOQUY.’ Delivered, hut not composed, hy Master F. M. Hod pres, before the Members of the Leg islatnre. in Mill* dtpcville, Ga., December 30,185?, • . ‘ ‘ • The bird (hat never ♦ l ied Ins-wing, Can blitjiely bop and sweetly sing, a I'lio’ prisoned in a narrow cage, Till his bright feathers droop*with age. So I, while never blessed with sight, Shut out from Heaven's surrounding light, Life’s hours aud and years enjoy, Tho’ blind , a merry.hcarted boy. The captive bird jimy never float, ■ Tiiio’ Ifcaven or pour his thrilling, note Mid shady groves, by pleasant streams, That sparkle in the soft moo;i -beams. But he may gaily flutter round, , Within his prison’s scanty bound, And give his soul to song, for he Ne’er longs to taste sweet liberty. Oh ! may I not as happy dwells , Within my unillumiued cell ? May I not leap and sing and play, And turn my constant night to day ? I never saw the sky, the sea, The earth was never green to me ; •Then why, oh ! why should I repine, For blessings that were never mine ? V ■ Think not that blindness tne sad ; My tho’ts like yours are often glad. •Parents I have who love me Their different voices I can telj.. Tho’ far and absent I can hear, In dreams, their nwisic meet toy ear, Is there a star so dear above. As the low voice of one. you love. I never saw my father’s face, Yet on his forehead, when I place My hand and feel the wrinkles fliers, Left less by time than anxious care , I fear the world has sights of woe, To knit the brow of manhood sq. ‘ I sit upon my fathers knee. He’d love me less if I could see. I never saw my mother smile, Her gentle tones my heart, beguile, They fall like distant melody ; HJhey.fire mild and sweet to me. Bhe murmurs not my mother dear, Tho’ sometimes I’ve kissed a tear From her soft cheek, —to tell the joy One smiling,word would give her boy. • Right merry was I every day, Fearless to run about and play, With sisters, brothers, friends aud all, To answer to their sudden call. To join the ring, to speed the chase. To find each playmate’s hiding place, To pass my hand across his brow, — To tell him I could do it. new. Yet. tho’ delightful flew the hours. So passed in childhood’s peaceful brwers, When all were gone to school, but I, I used to sit at home and sigh; And tho’ I never longed to view” The earth so green, the sky so blue, I tho’t I’d give the world to look, Along the pages of a. book. Now, since Phave learned to read and write My heart is filled with new delight. And music too, —can there be found, A sight so beautiful as sound ? Tell me kind friends, in one short word, Am 1 not. like that captive bird ? I live in song and peace and joy, Tho’ blind, a merry-hearted boy. Praise Yoiur Wife. Praise your wife, man; for pity’s sake, give her a little encouragement; it won't hurt her. She has made your house comfortable, your hearth bright and shining, your food agreeable ; for pity's sake, tell her you thank her, if nothing more She don’t expect it; it will make her eyes open wider than they have for these ten years; but it will do her good, all that, and you too. There are many women to>dav thirsting for the word of praise, thd language ot encouragement. Throigh summer’s heat and winter’s toil they have drudged uncomplainingly, and so accustomed have their fathers, broth, ers, and hesbands, become to their monotonous labors, that they look for and upon them as they do the daily rising of the sun, and its daily going down. Homely, every day life may be beautified by an appreciation of its very homeliness. You know that if you can take from your drawer a clean shirt whenever you want it, some body’s fingers have ached in the toil of making it so fresh and agreeable, so smooth and lustrous. Y r ou know that if the floor is clean, manual labor has been performed tp make it so. Eve* rything that plegses the- eye and the’ sense, has been prouuced by constant work, much thought, great care, and untiring efforts, bodily and mentally. it is not that many men do not ap* preciate these things, and feel a glow of gratitude for the numberless atten tions bestowed upon them in sickness and in health, but they are so selfish in that feeling. They dont’t come out with a hearty, “Why, how pleas-* ant you make things look, wife.!” or “I am obliged to you for taking so much pains/’ They thank every body and everything out of doors, be cause it is the custom, and then come home, tip their chairs back and their heels up, pull out the newspaper, grumbje if wife asks them to take, ba ■ by, scold it the fire has got down; or, if everything is just right, shut th.cir mouth. I tell you what, men, young old, if you did but show an civility towards those common articles of housekeeping, your wives; if you gavh the one hundred and sixtieth part of the compliments you almost choked them with before they were married; if you would cease speak of their faults, however banteringly, before others, fewer women would seek for other sources of happiness than your cold, so-so-ish’ affection Praise your wife, then, for all the good qualities she has, and yen zv.\\ -vs’ ‘ g suived that.her dcfi.'ieneics are hilly : counterbalanced by vour own. j • , - ♦ H.- • •_ | What sad mistakes the world ii eiv* i v on to making about'tins thing of hu- j man happiness t Riche's, .greatness, j honors, in the prevalent philosophy, are the elements of true enjoyment.- — Let the rich, the great and the honor able, testify to the point. This tho’t has been ‘suggested by a short para_ graph from the pen of one who has long been threading the avenues of life. It \z simnie, but touching and’ beautiful in its’ truth. Our venerable friend of the Columbus Corner Stone is the man, and here is the sentiment: “We had a friend once who said . i that a man’s age’ought not .to be meas ured by the number of years lie had passed, but by the amount of enjoys ment that life lied afforded him.— Measured by that standard, we count ourself a very old man. We have never had much of this world’s goods or its honors, but we have found life full of enjoyment of a higher charac* ter than those they could afford us, perhaps higner than those they afford others. This world has been and is still a beautiful, and a glorious world to us. We have found in it a great many good and beautilul things and a great many good people. Dark shad ows have sometimes fallen across our pathway, but for the most par it has been marked by sunshine and gladi. ness, and we have no sympathy with tho§e who find in this world nothing but a “vale of tears and low grounds of sorrow.’ ’ A man must be a very bad man,.or very resolutely bent on being miserable, who cannot find con stantly something from which he can extract pleasure and happiness—some thing over which to be glad and ,to rejoice.” The Aril, of Pleasing. A modest and virtuous young man, on first going into sosciety, is apt to be sorely perplexed upon the quess tion, how to make himself agreeable to ladies. -He need not be ashamed of his perplexity. Washington Ir ving, in one of his early sketches, can* fesses that a well dressed lady was an object perfectly “ awful ’’,to his yoi\ng imagination. We were once acquainted with a gentleman of distinction in public life, the father of several accomplished daughters, who could not, even to his fiftieth year, enter a drawing-room when ladies were present, without painful embarrassment. It is certain ly a good sign in a young man to stand in some awe of the beautiful sex. ‘ A person of coarse and vulgar mind, who thinks more of himself than his best friends think of him, and who knows * little of the. worth of a good woman's heart, rushes fearlessly in where an Irving or an Addison v/ould fear to tread. . ’* . : How well we remember an incident of our early days, which helped us to overcome our bashful; dread of the so eiety of ladies ! Seated by the pidc of a beautiful girl of seventeen and over, whelmed with a conciousuess of our inability to say anything to her which she would care to hear, we chanced to observe that she, too,. . was trembling with embarrassment. We felt as a coward feels when lie finds that his. enemy is more completely stricken than himsslf. Addressing ourselves to the task ot diverting our fair acquaintance, we soon forgot our own fears in sympathy with hers. — Bear this in mind, yoiing gentleman who blush and stammer in company with ladies : . The girls are as mgeh afraid of your as you arc of them * You are awkward in your manners you think. If you think so, it is like ly that your fair friend thinks other, wise; for the f( ally ill bred fellows that we have known have never sus pected their ill-breeding. And, after oil, what is good breeding but habits ■■• ad good, nature ? Th,e simple fact j di it yon ,wish to please Is a proof that | you possess, or will soou acquire, ti.ic | power t<? do sc. The good heart and f well informed mind will soon give grace to tjbe demeanor, or will so abundantly atone for the want of it, that its absence will never be noticed. Besides, the girfs—at least the most of them—like a man who is simple ip his manners, provided they see that there is substance and worth ip him- • Graceful manners spd ready wit aye good so far as they go. But be sure of this, Q'h ! bashful, blushihg youth, that both in the society of ladies and of men, you will pass for what you aye worth—no more—no less. The art of pleasing, therefore, is nothing more than the art of becoming an honest, kind, intelligent and highminded man. Such a man, be he graceful as Chcs* terfield or awkward as Caliban, all worthy women trust and love. w - • *— —~ “ Tlie World Owes me a Liv ing!” For what young man ? Because you have spent your time in and squandered your property in diss sipation. Is the debt the world owes you “for value received or are you a poor beneficiary that mankind in general has adopted to educate aud support ? How have you used gnd applied the one, two, or five talepts that nature entrusted you with at the start ? How came the world in your debt ? What benefit have you con. ferred upon society ? “What deeds of charity have you done for your fellow creatures ? What benefit conferred upon your race ? How is the ‘world the better for your having lived in it, or how have you brought it in debt? Have you accepted,.or endorsed drafts lor its benefits payable in eternity ? or stood security for its welfare after ? If none of these, upon wjiat ground is it indebted to you? Bring suit for your claim in the high court of conscience, and see what judgment will be rendered. The world in your debt —never. Were it to push its de mands against you, you would be a psor miserable bankrupt. Go to .work. By the sweat of yopr ,brow, mpst yop earn your bread. The world owes you nothing. — Spirit of the South. Birds and .fniinal* in I*ara~ ay. With birds and animals it is redum* dantly stocked. Bourdain has des cribed, upwards of 300 new species of the feathered tribe, as inhabiting the gorgeous woods apd dense coppices of . c TERMS $4,00 A Year, in Advance. ——** cydr “ • 1 ■"— v Paraguay. Game of every. kind is most abundant. The large partridge, the royal and common duck widgeon and teal ; the snipe, the jack snipe, the water hen, the diver, the wild swan, wild goose, wild turkey, grey and golden plover, the hawk, (an ?ene my of* all these.) the vulture with his curved beak and talon, lording it over the hatyk ; and the eagle, witji his im perial gjance carrying fbay to tjie heart of the vulture. Disputing supremacy even with the eagle, comes the king of vultures, the stately cream colored bird, with crimsoned, yet up feathered neck, ample and outstretched wings, with p beak jet blacjf. Very great is the prerogative of tnjs etnpeior of all the tribes of the air, great almost as was Fpmcia’s; and you shall hear how the king of vultures exercises his sway with him, as with all tyrants, gorging on bloo t d. When the vulture king smells ft parcass from afar, or when he poipiccs with his death like talons ups on a living animal, the imperial bird, nurtured to savage ferocity by such re pasts, fill hjs craving maw with flesh, and slakes |iis insatiable thirst with blood. All his so fy subjects stand apart at a respectful distance, whetting their appetites and regaling their trils, but never dreaming of* an ap’ proach to the carcass, till their master has sung into a state of repletion.— When the royal bird, falling on his s do, closing his eyes, and stretching on the ground his unclenched talons, gives notice to his surrounding and expectant subjects tjhafc tbeir master has gqpe to rest, uud they hop in buns drfcds to the carcass. But the most remarkable of all the feathered tribe in Paraguay, is the parrot, inelipjipg all the varieties of the family, from the cockatoo an,d gpacamays, down tq the little pcrroqup.t, not more than threp inches in length. Though and yellow are the most prominent colors in tbeir plumage, yet the In* dians, with various dyes, so tinge their wiDgs, pulling out the old feathers, and annointing the new shoots with imperishable colors, that you see par rots in Paraguay of all shades of plus mage. So accpte are these .birds, so exquisite their ear, so sagacious the it perception* and so strong their ifniU* tive powers, that they .will listen atteq tively for a few minutes when a per son is speaking, and then give both the words and tone of the Speaker.— They will imitate the cry of a child the squeal of a pig, the bark of ft dog, and the rpew of a cat, ad so admira.. bly that it is impossible not to class them as ventriloquists of the first or* der. In regard to animals, insects and reptiles, the soil of Paraguay is pro lific. There are the jaguar, the lion, the ounce, the wild boar, ‘tjhe tiger, the monkey, the ferret, the stag, the antelope, any abundance of horned cattle, horses, asses* and mples. The boa constrictor abqunds in the woods of Villa Real, which are also filled with lizards, rattlesnakes, locusts, binchucas, beetles, musquitoes, and tavonos, with many others of other tribes too numerous to mention.— AT. Y. Commercial Advertiser. __ r l A Uarvest of'Gold. The following is the official .report of all the American gold received in the United States mint and its branch es, from our first gold discoveries down to June 30,1864 : California $556,718,873 Colorado - 9,783,071 North Carolina 9,121,397 Georgia 6,909,375 Oregon 6,142,433 Idaho 2,308,385 Virginia 1,558,874 South .Carolina ..1,352,969 Alabama . “198,330 Tennessee ,81,406 Utah •••••MM •••••••• 78,509 (Nevada 66,208’ New Mexicp 63,023 Arizona •••••••• •••,••• ••••••••• 29 650 Vermont ..... MUTf ...... *•• 7 298 Rakotah.,.. ••••••••> ... 7,85fc Other sources 202,778 ■ ■■<■ .if , , Total $597,187,734 • . ** . .J . , t NO. 10.