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LUCIUS C. BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor. >
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LAW AND MEDICAL CARDS.
ROBERT H. HARRIS,
axtorne y at law,
Quitman, (icoraia,
u
Circuit. . U > l v
S. B SPENCER,
ATTO RN E Y A T I AW ,
Thoraaav'illf, Georgia.
Will attend pp>n.ptl v to all C pH business en
trusted to his care itt the Southern
’ fUlßfft and \\ ;ir- of tha Bs 1
C. P. HANSELL, -
ATTORNEY at law,
Thomaotilii". Grdrgia
Ja.u3l ._ 5 [ - y
ROBERT G. MITCHELL,
ATTOII NE Y A T LA W ,
THOMASVILLE, GA.
over McLase’s Sttre.*^M
Jan 24 .
’ L C. BRY AN,
ATTO li NE Y A T LA W ,
TbonaaTille, Grorgia.
Jan I ‘ ‘ M
j. R.Reiil. *l. !>. W. K. DrWilt. Q. O I
Dra. Itllil* N OfWfTT,
OFFER theii services to tlu
Thomasville and vicinity.
at l> ■ !>■ U
Feb >1 8 ts
Ur. T. S. HOriil-YS,
OFFICE
lv St A VIH JLOT with KESIDEVCK.
: fc'. O. IRMOL l>,
HESIDENT DENTIST
THOMASVILLE, GA, •
IV H i -■yj
M
the la*’ ten years •
Or. R. W. BisTOA
Having perrnaneaUy locate i. in Thomas’
ville, respectfully offers Iris services to the
citizens of .the- Town at. 1 Surrounding
Country, in the. practice of Medicine. Sur
gery and Mi twin -y. Will also pay spe
cial attention to Ike treatment if 1 - i’ -
of Women. Office !t II Ev . ns
upstairs: ja,nl7-3m
A . C. . F I it ii I SO V .
of Queen’* College.)
PHtSICAN, SUi 51 ‘ &c.,
Boston, Georgia.
May die consulted at Mr. Murphy’- near
Railroad Station.
APOTHECARY
. HAJ-ilj.
• _
W, P. GLOWER & GO.,
I>l i. I GGIISTS-
Have renovated anl refitted i he.St ore next
to Vounc's Hotel, for . the purpose of es
tablishing a
First Class Drug Store.
The new firm ash for a share of patron
age, and invite the attention of the citi
aens to their well selected stock of
Metticlnes,
Fancy and Toilet Articles,
Soaps lterfumerj.
Fjiit* Green anti attack Teas,
Kerstine Lamps apd Oil,
l>Ti: STIFFS.
T-ogether with every other article usually
kept in a well appointed Drug Store.
Physicians’ Prescripli ns carefully
prepared. 4—if
Jan 24
D
MEDICINES.
f | the undersigi 1 the
elegant Drug Store ol Dr. Little, take
pleasure in announcing to the people o”
Thomasville. and the country generally,
that they have just received a full supply
of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Paints.
Oils, Perfumery, Stationery, et., etc. Call
and examine for yourselves
By strict attention to business, coitrto 1
. ons and honorable dealing with our cus
tomers we hope to merit and receive a libe
ral share of patronage.
WINN & CASS ELS.
James N. Wins,
Samuel J. Cas.sels,
% janl7l f.
FRESH DRUGS
DU. P. S. BOWAR j)a< just remive la
large stock of tresh Drugs,purchased j
at the best manufactories i,n the Uaitcdt
States, and embracing every article in the ]
Medical Department. //is Drugs- were’
purchased with the view of supplying the
market w.ith the very ’
Best Quality, of Medicines •
manufactured, and the prices were'rot
therefore consulted. . lie will nevertheless
sell upon easy terms, and-feels sure that
he can give satisfaction.
Thankful for the liberal patronage ex.
tended to him hereto:ore by the people of
Thomas County, he. hopes to merit a eontin
uaiion of their favors. He may be- found
at his old Sum-i opposite Remington x Son.
Jan 4, ts P. S. BOV UR.
■ ‘ ■■ ■ —in “
GROKGIA —C linch C'ouuly.
Whereas. Ziba K : e applies to said Court
for letters of Guardianship, for the property*,
person and effects of Duru-aisllemierson, >iec'd.
All persons are notified p> file their objections
in said Court, otherwise said letiers will be
grauted iu terms of the law.
H. MORGAN.
Feb 01 8-40d Ordinary.
GtOßl.lt—Clinch County.
To all whom it may Concern:
Whereas, Benjamin Dryden and Nathan
Drydeu. lias applied to me for Letters of Ad
ministration on the estate of Benjamin Dry- i
den. late of sa-,d County.deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
parties interested, whether kiudred or credit
ors, to show cause it any thev have, within
the time prescribed* y law. why letters should
not fce granted, to said applicant. Witness mv
hand this Februarv 5,1866.
H. MORGAN.
Feb 21 s.3d Ordinary.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
GEO. T. PATTEN,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
TIIOn taviLLR, ,4.
\\'ILL P'iih-h.i.-e and -ell Cotton. Huron.
IT !lHitr, IWyrnp. Wool. Ac., Ac., on 1
Couunissioy, forward Cotton and other Pro- :
diice to Savannah, and Goods trom Depot 6) j
other points.
Onlerf and Consignments solicited. ‘ I
Feb 14 * 7-3ni*
GEORGE PATTEN,
F o r w ardi it g
AND
COMMISSION’ MIIRCII IYT,
NtVAVVtII, GEORGI.I.
npKNDERS his services to the Merchants of
1 TiiomasviHe and the Planters of Thomas
Comity, for the forwarding- of floods, the sale \
of Pro-'uce and purchase of Supplies, and re
spr. tfuilv solicits their patronage-
Febll 7-ilm* .j
J. R. S. OAVI3 & GO.,
Auction & Commission
MERCHANTS,
Vr.it door to It. A 1.. Golilbrri-; ‘ Store.
SOLICIT consignments of goads of all de
scriptionsr Particular attention paid to
i telling real and persoual property.
‘ V ‘Auction sales on Wednesdays and Satur*
days—day and night.
,J. R S D V VIS.
G. A. JEFFERS-.
Feb L 4 7-3m*
F; W. SIMS.) . i J F. WITEATON,
Late of the / i La eof the firm of
Republican.'J •( Wilder. Wheaton Sc Cos.
F. W. SIMS & Cos.,
FACTORS AND’ GENERAL
j . mmm ME2CI&ITS.
• . DEALERS IN ‘
Mcrchamlixo, l*rodisce, Tim
ber, Lumber anti Cotton.
Consignment* and orders respectfully solicit
ed. and whether by wagon, river, railroad or
Im u. will receive the strietest atigntioiL I
The- Forwarding Business carefully and
e. 710
VIMNAS Ev- t'o.,
GENERAIi
CO M2UISSION & C R 0 CERY
M EECHANTS,
SAVANNAH, . . . . , GEORGIA.
A. 3. MILLER. SAMUEL D. THOMAS.
D. G. LIVINGSTON.
Jan 24 4-Cm*
I jrLrmiALON&jr,
COTTON FACTOR
mm m mi emmissiai
Mcucli ant
No 94 Bay Street,
jan 1-3 in GA.
; TISUN & GORDON.
COTTO-Y FACTORS,
mm ms- mini
r.-z euc xz: &
88 Bay Street,
SAVANNA!!. GEORGIA.
Special attention will be given to the sale
of SYRUP, LUMBER, ROSIN, TURPEN-
I TINE, Ac.
— 0:0
SAVANNAH. Ist., Sept., 1860.
We are again in our old Office, prepared
i for business. An experience in this city
Ol over eleven years, and our undivided
j attention to all business entrusted, induces
| us to hope for a continuance of the liberal
patronage heretofore extended.
WM. H. TISOtf,
WYI. W. GORDON.
Jan 1 thn
F. Schuster. . G. Ileisisiu*.
SCHUSTER & KEINSiUS.
Sliipping,
mmm mo laavAißiK
M E St C I! 4 Y T S ,
Ml Ear St.. SAVANNAH, Ga:
Consignments of for sale in this
, market or for shipment to our friends in
New York. Philadelphia, Boston Balti
more. Liverpool and Germany are solicited
and liberal advances made. Orders for
Wines, Liquors, Groceries, s.c,, promptly
j attended to.
AGENTS FOR
Crciitc de Bonzy and Veuve Clicquot
CHAMPAGNE.
DILTIIEY, SABL & CO’S.,
Rhine Wines, and P. I, de Tenet & dc
j Georges’
BORDEAUX WINES-,
Novß 6mo
GEORGIA —Colquitt County.
Whereas. Nancy .T. Alger, Administratrix on
the estate of JaiiK-s R Alg. r. deceased, having
filed her petition in this Court for letters of
Dismission: —All persons are hereby notified
• r - fill r eir objections in Court, within the
time prescribed by law. Otherwise letters of
j dismission will be granted the applicant. Given
under uiv official signature. Feb. 5. H'iri. ,
. ISAAC CARLTON,
j. Feb 21 8-tun Ordinary.
<5 EO H<s 1.4 C'liiirh County.
To all whom it may Concern : .
Whereas. Mrs Prudence Smith, applies to
me for letters ol administration on the estate of
William Johnson, late of said County, deed.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
and singular, the kindred and creditors of said
deceased, to be and appear at mv office within
| the time prescribed bv law. and show cause if
any thev have, why letters of administration
should not l>e granted to said applicant. Wit
ness mv hand in office. Feb 17, 1866.
li. MORGAN,
Feb 21 8 30d Ordinary.
VOTIfE.—Will hesoldon the First Tues
iA dav in April next, at the Court House, in
the town of Thomasville, within the legal
hours of sale. Lot of Land, No. 32. in 14th
District. The property of tfie estate of Geo.
Folsom, deceased. Terms on dav of sale.
JOS4AH J EVERETT,
Feb 21 8 td Adrn'r.
SECRKT AKV SE 4V 411 I’*
Speech -ii-laiiiing the lreii.tleiit* Veto
At the “reat Johnson meetine held
in Cooper Institute, Now York'city,
on the 2.2 J in-:.— . j
Mr. Seward said, after a few words
o-f introduction : Mr ha*, shall I speak
nf or ah >nt ‘/ The call of your meet
ing the subje ct, but first let
rue say, that I am not here as an alar*
mist. 1 am not here to say I hat. Ihe
nation is in peril or danger—in peril it
you adopt the opinions, in peril if you
reject them, in peril if yju adop’ the
views of the apparent or real majority
of Congress, or if you reject them.
It is not in peril any way, nor do I
think that the Cause of liberty and hu
man freedom, the cause of progress,
melioration or civilization, the cause
of national aggrandisement, present or
future, material or moral, is in danger
of being long arrested, whether you
adopt one set of politic il opinions or an.
other. The Union —that is to say, the
nation —has been rescu and fn.ru all its
perils, the noble ship has passed from
tempests and billows into the verge of
a sate harbor, and is now securely rid- 1
ing into her anchnt- moorings, will
out a broken spar or a lc k, starboard, i
or larboard, Tore or aft. There are
j some small reel's yet to pass a-s she
approaches those .moorings One pi
lot says that she may safely enter
I directly through them; the other 1
says that she must tack, and lowering
j sail take time to go around tlu in. That’
is all the difference of opinion between ■
the pilots, and I should not practice |
my habitual charity if l did not admit
that 1 think them both sincere and
honest. But the vessel wiii go in safe
ly, one way-or the other.
’ ‘fhe worst that- need not happen-will
•be that by’faking the wrong • instead
of. the right pasJ'ig'C, or cven-tak-ing
the right passage ana avoiding the
wrong one, the vessel may rol-l a little,
and some-honest, capable, or even tier
serving political), titesuplil, President
or Congressmen may get washe ! over
hoard-. I should be sorry for this, l' u *-
if it can not be helped, it can be borne
It I am one of the unfortunates let no
friend be concerned on that account.
As honest, as good, as capable politi
catis, statesmen, Congressmen arid
Presidents will make their appearance
hereafter taster than needed to’com*-
maud the ship, as well and as wisely as
any tiiat have heretofore stalked their
hour upon the deck in the alternations
of the calm and tempest tlnu always,
attend political navigation.
Nevertheless, although I do not •
think we are in a crisis, the question
to-day is worthy of deliberation exam
ination and consideration. The sub
ject before us is the difference of opin
ion which reveals itself but too clearly
between the President and Congress.
The President, as we -til see, is a man
of decided convictions. ‘lhe legi-da
tive leaders are trying not to coincide
with him in opinion 5 they have ap
pealed to us outsiders, as’ it were, to
pronounce between them.
The speaker then ‘.vent on to prove
that there was actual y no difference of
importance between the President and 1
Congress, however much it might seem
otherwise, lie said both have uot the
Union restored as originally planned ;
it should be without slavery, secession
or compromise ; not with freedmen and j
refugees abandoned to suffering and 1
O ‘
prosecution, but with freedmen em.-.
ployed in productive, self-sustaining
tndus ry ; with refugees under pr it c*
tion law f.nd order. The Pro.- id on t I
sees that it has come out at last, and he ,
accepts the situation.
Congress, on the other band, hesi’
ta‘e, delay, debate and agoni/.e not bo i
cause it has not come outright, but
because they have not indivi aially had
their own way in bringing it to that
happy determination. I apprehend no
serious difficulty from the conviction
that ll ere never was and never can
be any successful process for the res
toration of union and harmony among
the States except the one with which
the President has avowed himself sat
isfied. Grant that the rebellion is
dispersed, ended and exhausted; —dead
even, at the root—then it follows,"nee
. * j
essartaliy, that the States, sooner or ’
later, must be organized by loyal men.
in accordance, with the change in o'm - ’
fundamental law, and resume their
places in Congress. AT the rebel-
States but Texas have don i just. that,
thing, and Texas is doing-the same as
fast us possible..
The President is in harmony with
all the States that were in rebellion,
and the Executive and Judicial de
partments .are rapidly resuming their
, functions Loyal representatives more
or less, from these States, are standing,
at the doors of -Congress, and have
bes there for three months,
asking to be admitted to'seats which 1
the disloyal representatives .had pre-.
viously left. Meanwhile Congress
passed law after law, imposes burthens,
and duty after upon the States', which,
against their earnest desire, are left
unrepresented. I feel sure that loyal
men from the now loyal States will
sooner or later be admitted into this
Congress or the next.
When this is done, the process of
restoration will be complete, for that is
all that remains to be done. The
speaker thought that territorial govs
emments for the seceded States were’
perfectly impracticable; this was also
rejected by Mr. Lincoln. Say
you will, the States are already organs
Tliomasville, Georgia, ’Wednesday. March 14, 1866.
7 m w* • * 7 /
ized in perfect .harmony wi.th our
amended National Constitution-, arid
sre ia earnest co-operation w tli the
Federal i foyernnietit. It is imrossir
b!e to reduce States to a territorial con-.!
d'tii h. Congress- has had a llocon
>truetion Conmlittt-e. com; o-o i ot tis-v
r members, who ftaip*Btopped tha
•ylteel- of legislation for three months,
to enable them. to-sabmit a plan djflter--
cut from Chat which is now on’ -he eve .
of a.happy consu nuiartion, aud What
have they given - us ?
One proposed amendment to tlie
C m.-titution is to compel the exclu led
States to equalize suffrage upon the
penalty- of abridgment o£ rcp.-osi-nta
ti< n. This was no plan of reconstruct !
tion, but an obstruction. The resolu
tion which passed the House on Tuesi
day last directly declares that, loyal
lepreseafatives shall not be admitted
from loyal States until Congress shall
pass a law for that purpose, which law
cannot be enacted without the lTesi-
Jent’s approval, and which C.nuot be
consistently gi.ven in view of opinions
he is known to entertain. This recdlu*
lion, then, is riot the plan for recon*-
struction, hut for indefinite postpone-
I moot and delay. •
j - When the - rebellion began- we'deter
mined. to humble the rebt Is, and’ have |
huu bled them and brought them back
! with humiliation and . repentance, sa-'j
ing for restoration. The popular voice ;
’ was that all members oi the family, j
however prodigal they had been, would !
be received at the board. These efforts
1 at obstruction, then, afe as .impracti
cable as I think they are vicious. No
State can keep itself out of the Union,
or keep itself in a territorial condition
under the Union,
• The States which are in the Union
cannot be taken or kept out of its lirn
its. The States that-are in the Union
cannot keep any States'that are out
sine from, coining iu Congress is ha
bitually. inclined to this experiment.
It hesitated about Michigan and Mis
souri; reeled and staggered over Ten**
ncssee arid California, and c.onvulsed
the nation about Kansas. Yet they
arc all iu. the Union, all happy, all
loyal.
How many committees of confer-*
ence did we have, Sw many joint res
olutions depying'that A'migress ever
would consent 10 tht admission °f such
unwelcome intruders ? Ilo.w maiD 7
con.promises, securing guarantees for
freed am and for slaver y when broken
and scattered, when one after another
ot these States came in, a.-* if by a head
long thrust, and hurled by Almighty
Providence, who was determined, the
people of thi* continent sho- Id not be
so many discordant nations, but one
united natiou !
The joint committee of fifteen, in
.1839, succeeded in excluding Califor
nia eight months, until, a majority of
the nation should cotyptomiso and si.-
lence forever the debate upon slavery.
The compromise was by its terms, to
be perpetual. The compromise of
1850 lingered for four years and then
perished, .giving place to the no w hap
pily consummated adjustment of the
slavery question by the complete Abr
ogation of that institution.
W hen 1 left Cuiigtess in 1861, com
mittees and conventions demanded
stipulations that fetters be put on New
Mexico Nevada and Colofa o. • You
can never keep States of this Un
ion. Present distrusts of future States
have no substantial grounds.. They are
begotten of miserable fears and fac
tions. It over this tiring ot keeping ou*
States by joint resolutions of Congress
could have had a change of peuna
neqt success, that time has passed
away. A.
No State has ever been hiudered-in
coining into the Union except on ques
tion* of African bondage, which- has
now gone to the dogs and is surely
finished. .No State will ever herearfter
be hindered in-coining into the Union
I have deseiibed has anything alarm
ing iu it. ‘ihe territory wants to be
a State. 1 would not keep a State in
teriitorial condition any longer than-*
compelled.- ‘. *
In beginning, practically, every State
hud s|retfv < \\ e abolished it .in some
States without any. disorder,and when
slavery raised itself in opposition io the
Government, we destroyed it altogeth
er. . We have done ail this in ninety
years, without’ inipeiial government or
proconsular teiritorial system, but in
equal Stales, prfis <ied over bv tederal •
or restricted government. They are
sett iing. the whole case of the Airicari
iii the West Indies just as. we are.
The conflict of opinion ‘between the
President- ‘and.- Congress in reference
to the Freeduicn’s Bureau, is in its
consequences comparatively unimpor
tant, and would excite little interest if
it stood alone.
Both agree that this bureau was
created for the transition peril and be
tween war and peace, and should cease
at the ei dos that period. The Presi
dent thinks that period nearly passed,
and the original provision is sufficient,
while (A ngress thinks the original pro
vision needs enlarging. I agree with
the President in the hope that the ex
traordinary provision which the bill
makes will not be necessary, but that
the whole question may be simplified
by simple reference to the existing
law.
The law of March 3, 1865, which
created the Freedu en’s Bureau, pro®
vides that it shall continue in force
during the war of rebellion and one
full year thereafter. When docs that
\ear expire ?In he President’s judg
ment, as I tin I< ;sr ind the matter, the
war of reb< Hfon has been coming and ■
is. still coming to an end, but it is noi
yet felly closed. It is on this ground
• that he oiaintains an army, .continuc
the writ ftabtas ■ corpHf and exereisr
taartial la.w where, these, thing*! are
found neee-sary in the rebel Stat- s
I The existence of the rebellion \va- le
gally ann >nuneed by Executive ; roc* t
fa (nation in HU I.’ . .
. The end of the ’rebellion'ought to
t>e, and niay’ be expected to be, .an*
nounced by declaration by the Presi
; dent or Gongress, or both. For all
practical purposes, the - rebellion will,
j in law, eottic to an e.nd i'l the President
Or Congress —one or both—officially
announces its termination: Now, sup
j pose this announcement to be made by
, the PrasULeotao4 by Congress, or by
1 either oi’ them, to-morrow.
In that case the Freedmen’s Bnroau
is continued by virtue of tire limitation
prescribed in the act of March 3, 1865
one year after such proclamation shall
have boon made. Thus the Freed-
men’s Bureau would continue by the
original limitation until the’22d day. ]
.of February, .1867, a very proper day
on which to bring, it to an end. If j
Congress si ould find it necessary to |
; prolong its existence, it can at once
j take the necessary, steps, for it will at
that date have been in session nearly
three months.
Ought the President of the United
States to be denounced in the house
of bis enemies, much more ought he
to be denounced the house of his
j friends, for refusing, in* the absence of
any necessity, to occupy or retain, and
exercise powers greater than those
which arc exercised by any imperial
magistrate in the world. 1 trust this
fault of declining, imperial powers too
hastily tendered by a confidiog Con
gress may be forgiven by a generous
people.
It will be a sad hour for the. Re.
public when ilie refusal of unnecessary
powers and patronage by the Pres
ident shall be held to be a crime.
When it shall be so considered, the
time will have - arrived for setting at
the White House an imperial throne,
and surroun ling, the Executive with
imperial legions.
The meeting was also addressed by
q> (1 Mnosie General Dennison, Henry
J. Ray:i .° n d, Francis l>. Gulling* Dan
iel S. DickinJ 011 ! ail;! George Opdkc.
The meeting dispersed at a late hour.
When a man has Leon Imth
fuly in the honest performance of h:s
duty; he is thought Better off if s.ueeCS*
attend him in this world. But if it 40-
happens, in the providence of God,
that these material results do not fob
low that performance, still lie carries
in his own mind the consciousness
that he lias tried to do what is right
in the sight ot God, rendering to ev
erybody his due, contributing all lie
can to the general happiness and itn.
provcment, .diffusing as much enjoy
ment and contentment as he can in
the little circle of which he. is the cen
tre; witli this consciousness he goes
through life happy as a king, though
ho may not be a king, ends it in felic
ity, and goes where there is an end of
all these- controversies, because there
is but one God and one Father, before,
whom al] his children are equal. —
Chief —Justice Chase.
Irg so da {rood. —There are many
ways. The field is the world, oppor
j tunities offer on. cveiy hand, and the
ways and means are almost innumera
able. You eau speak for God. You
can recommend religion by your'lif'e.
You can point sin tiers to the Saviour.
! You can pray. You can distribute
Bibles and books arid tracts. Always
I carry someone with you, and sell or
| give them; scatter them everywhere;
put leaflets in vour letters to friends
• You can write; there are religious pa
l pers which will and scatter-your evan
gelical seeds as on the wings ot the
wind. Use these lielj s; s[ ead through
’ the press; and wherever you are, and
by all the means in your power, a-nd in
all. the. .ways open to you, try to do
good, and y U will riot live in vain.
God will bless you; and in the great
day many will arise and call you bless
ed. Try to dp good.’
.- - .
Divine Sympathy.— l know their
- sorrow, Exod. 3:7. Man cannot say
so, There are many sensitive fibres of
the sofil the best and ten derest human
sympathy .cannot touch. But the
Prince of. Sufferers, He who led the
way in the path of sorrow, kocweih
our frame. When crushing bereave
ment lies like ice on the heart, when
the dearest earthly friend cannot enter
1 into the peculiarities of grief, Jesus
can, Jesus dots. He who once l ore
my sins, also carried my sorrows. That
eye now on the throne was once with
me weeping I can think, in all my
affliction, lie was afflicted, and in all
my tears, Jesus wept. —Macduff.
-
“Dan,’’ said a little boy of four years
’’give me ten cents to buy a monkey.’
‘‘We’ve got one in the house now,”
said the elder brother.
“Who is it Dan ?” said the Gittle
fellow.
“Y’ou !” was the reply.
| “Then give me ten cents to buy the
. monkey si me candy.”
His brother “shelled over” imraej
diately.
BILL ARP.
The Milledgi-ville correspondent of
the New York News gives the follow - [
ing history of this humorist:
• Among the celebrities present in
our Legislature is the lion. G. 11.
Smith, Bill Arp, so called I know
not inu-ch of this original genius
but on the authority of those who do
know, I will say that he is descended
from the congenial States of Massachu
setts aud South Carolina, bis father be-
I ing from the Bay State, and lus moth
er a native of the City of Charleston,
: There is nothing peculiar touch ng his
paters al ancestors unless it be that lie ,
j adventured from the City of Boston in
1817 w th a cargo of brick, hound fur
Savannah, and he had to throw them j
overboard when in the -precincts - of
that port, in order to save himself from
an unpleasant wetting. The loss of
; his cargo was a death blow so his
! finances, and lie became a citizen of
! Georgia, as the lawyers say, “e.c necs
j situti n The mother of the afore
: said William was left aii orphan in
Charleston —her parents being carried |
off sudJenly by yellow fever She
and her only brother were finally sep
arated by a covetous’re la tion, one be.. J
1 ing sent to Savannah to the Orphan
: Asylum,. and the other to Boston ,
1 Being children of tender age, neither
knew anything of wliat ‘disposition
had been made of the other. .The
sister was taken from the Asylum by
Mrs. Gou-idinua mother of the celebra
ted divine of that name,’ and the broth
er was picked up, a pauper, in the
.streets of Boston. . . ■ • •
A special Providence seems to have
overlooked thena both, for the sister
was well cared for and educated, and
[ the Brother taken charge of by a an
estimable man, whose daughter lie ass
forwards married. . Vain were their
efforts to tino each other. Vain were
the visits made to Charleston tcTfind a
trace of their respective histories —
t he sister had married arid the brother
too,-and Bill Arp in h : s mischievous
youth was old enough to scan tho “pile
ters” in Webster’s Spelling Book
when, his anxious mother made otie
more effort to find some kindred blood.
No father or mother, I rot her or sister,
uncle or., aunt, no. a-necstr 1 friend;-
not even an .'acquaintance off her infan
cy did she know in the wide, wide
world.’ To gratify her', a not'ec .was
imojishel in the principal papers.of
the U> itod State*, which, I am assur
ed was in the following words ‘:
CAROLINE AMS MAGUIRE,
born .in Charleston in'the'year ISIO
was asperated from an o;ily brother
w f, u she was six ye.ars old. Her
father wuS named francis, and mother’s
name was‘tuary. Tliey'• lived in
fenee in li i j’av f^ttecfc, and died of
yetlow f'eVer iu ISty.; ‘■ •
“Any infirmation'of her lost brothel*
will be gratefully received by her at
Savannah Georgia, address of A. 11.
Smith.”
As this little history is interestingly
romantic, I will continue it to a result.
Caroline’s brother had made repeat
ed visits to his native city, but return
ed sorrowful finding no traces ot his
-ister. • He had exceedingly prosper**
ed, and his friends and neighbors all.
knew of bis.misfortune On Sabbath,
while he was at church in the town
of Randolph, his nearest neighbor was
reclining on his couch, perusing the :
Boston papers. Noticing the above
advertisement, he bounced up from his
repose, and in gown and slippers ran
across the .street, to tell the glorious,
news. Maguire was not at home. In
his excite-up rit he hurried, into the
church, ‘arid, while the minister was .
dispensing the gospel truth, he rushed
down the aisle, and exclaimed with
glad emotion, “Maguire ! I've found
your sister !’'• No pen can describe the
scene; every member of the congrega
tion and every citizep of the- little vil- ‘
Inge knew the afflicting hi-torv. The
brother, overcome by the glad tidings
rushed from the church a id at once
started for Georgia, whore he soon ar
rived, and soon embraced bis long lost
sister—one of the most beautiful and
interesting wornen in h r ’ neighbor
hood, which character she bears to
this day* Mr. Maguire was a candi-.
date for Congress in 1863, on the Mc-
Clellan ticket arid was defeated-. His
eldest son (Bill’s cousin,) was appoin*
ted consul, by President Baebanari,
at Melbourne, Australia.; but was de>-
posed by Mr. Lincoln, because be en
tertained (’apt. Setiitnes of .the- Ala
bama. He has written home that if
his Governniemf should harm a hair
of Mr. Davis’ head, he will forswear
allegiance to his country and become
a citizen of Great Britain.
But to my friend William. I learn
that he was a diligent and quiet stus
dent in Franklin College, but did not
graduate That on leaving College he
soon married, wedding the daughter
of Judge Hue bins psi *Geor da. W ll
iaui then, at the urgent solicitation of
the Judge, studied law a few days, t nd
was admitted to the bar. He sc tied
in Rome, Ga , having a3 his law part- !
ner, the Hon J. W. H. Underwood, !
who was Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives of the Geoigia Legislature
in 1857- To use his own lahguage,
the said William has been since that
time, continually engaged in raising
children and chickens, always having
cn hand a large family of both, dhe
former he values at one hundred tho 1
- sand tolars each, and says, as an hon**!
VOL, VI.—Xo, 11.
est man lie will pay taxes on them at
that rate it’the State requires it.
Early in tlie war, he was [laced by
General Bartow on his staff, and was
afterward transferred to General G T.
Anderson's Brigade. Bill says he did
not do any fit on’ to hurt, but that on
one or two occasions he was powerful
ly exposed. It was during his con
nection with the army that sciies of
inimitable letters addressed to A. Link
horn, but which Bill says was true then
but uiut now.” On account of declin
ing health he resigned his commis-
sion, and returned home in’ time to be
run off by the fowl invader, lie be
came a Rome Runagee, aiid I am in
formed don't think much of thobi%i>
ness. He still labors under the con
vict on that from the cumber of times
they caught him he was speshully run
and w:i, bekase lie rit them fowl letters. .
Bill is now a cons stent member of the
Georgia Legislature, and ('hairman of
the Finance committee in the Senate
Long may lie ware, etc •
Some New York corespondent gives
the following glimpse of high style in
Shoddydmn: : : ‘
The lady of the mansion wears a
dress of golden tissue n-verye-llow satin,
i which flashes like fire, to match this
gaudy robe, her brow is banded with
j a coronet-of Hot usd flame. This lasi
; but crown iirg surprise for her dealing,
j-ou virus guests, lias-bocn effected by
j concrahng .a trig of- gas beneath bet
| ample skirts, and conducting it by a
l flexible tube ‘through, her luxurient
I hair,, into the jets which form, the
j crown. Sapphires and opals, gleam
upon her n ck and arms, and’ stuil Iho
!’ fan of golden oriental p.lnmage whieti
; she canies; diamonds flash from the
clasps of her gilded slipper; diamonds
again, worn outside of her flame co'lor
| ed kids, flash from the fingers of Chix
imperial dame. There she stands, a
| monument of bad taste'and superfluous
! wea'th. blazing awgiv tikeeqie g’igan*.
j tie. candle, and inspiring, every ono
with an uncomfortable desire to rush
and clap on an extinguisher.-
• Little Things.— Springs are lit
tle tilings but they are s mrces of lar
ger. streams ; a helm is a litt'e thing,
but it govcitrs the ci urse of the ship ;
a brhllc bit is ;i little thing, but sec its
use and p iw> rs ; nails and pegs a c
little things but they hold the parts of
a large building together ; a word, a
look, a ‘rown are all little things, but
powerful for. good or evil. Think, of
this, aid mind the little things. Pay
•tii at htlle debt ; it is a promise, re
deem it—it Da shilling, hand it over \
.you know-what importantevents hang
upon it. Keep your word sacredly
—keep it to your children, they will
mark it sooner than any one else , and
the.effects will probably bo ns lasting
as life.’ Mind the little things'.
A Slraiigo floret
. -In 1774 Burke’s Peerage, or'ill
predecessor, if it was not extant at that
time, was better understood in the
English Parliament than the Bible,
In that year i)f. Webster was. a popu
lar preacher of the kirk of Scotland in
Edinburgh. Business brought him to
London, and one day when passing
the of Lords, his curiosity in
duced him to make an effort to stop
and see them. None were admitted
without an order except noblemen’*
servants Webster, being ignorant of
the rule, requested admittance.
What Lord do you belong to ? ask
ed the door-keeper.
To the .Lo r d Jehovah, replied Web*
ster.
To the Lord Jehovah .?. queried th*
door keeper. I have kept here seven
•years, but have not heard of such
Lord, jack, said’ he to his fellow
■he per on the front steps, herd is a
chap who says lie belongs to the
Lord Jehovah ; do you know of such
a Lord ? ‘ • -
Never heard of him > Eaid Jack.
• But. said the Doctor, there is suel*
a Lord. • . . .
Pass ’ini in, said Tack'. I suppose
it’s some pour .Scotch Lord. • .
• This ocGurre 1 at a perfod .when
there was not one in twenty of all the
manufacturing and rural districts in
England whQ could read the Bible or
write bis owii name. Sabbath school*
were, intreduecd in 1773.
! • Significant. —The Now York World
of the.2oth inst. says-: • Among the
signs of the times may be noticed the
f.iCt tliat -Henry Ward Beech r endor
ses the President's policy including
the Frecdioen’s Bureau bill. He stated
in his address, in Brooklyn, last night,
that for thirty years he had agitated
fur the destruction of shv< ry., but that
having been accomplished, he was now
for the complete restoration of the
Union. It is manifest that if men like
B ‘echer leave the Republican party,
Stephens’will not have a corporal’s
guard at his back in the House ofllep°
resentatives which succeeds the pre
sent one.
BQyA good naturel fellow, who
was near eaten out of house and home
by the constaut visits of his friends,
was one day complaining bitterly ot
his numerous visitors. “Shure. an I’ll
t'sll ye how to get rid of ’em,” said an
Irishman. “Pray how 7” “Lind mon
ey to the poor ones and borrow from
the rich ones and nather sort will ever
trouble you again.’’