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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.
LUCIUS C. BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor.!
Terms, $4.00 a year in Advance. J
Law and Medical Cards.
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BRYAN & HARRIS,
attorneys at law,
Tin\*vii.i.k. a %.
I OFFICE first door i* second, Uory of
Stark's Confectionary.
LC. KWvan. K- B. HAjßißte |
Mar 14 11 ts
MITCHELL & MITCHELL.
AT L.tw,
TIIOMASVILLE, ; : : GEORGIA.
Office over McLeatf** store —opposite |
Mr list er.* .V Yrntti sr s.
W. I>. Mitchell. R. Ct. Mitchell. (
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s. B. SrE.NCEit. C. P- Hassell.
Spencer & Hansell,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
TIIOMASVILLE, GA.
Will nave |>rotii|'t attention to all legal busi
iu-ss entnwteil to tW-ir rare in tlie counties of
tlte Southern Circuit —Ot-eatur of the South-. (
Western —*wl Cliuvli, Ware and Appling, of
the Brunswick (i rcuit.
net over Messrs. Wolff A Brothers
Store. j
W. M. HAYES. J- A. SEWARD. |
HAYES & SEWARD,
ATTOK.VEVS AT LAW,
TIIOMASVILLE, GEORGIA* I
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C. C. RICHARDSON,
ATTORNEY j
. AST)
COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
TIiO.nASVH-EE, C l.
June 6 23 ts
J. IC. Be id, H. I>. IV. F. DcWitl, H. .
i>. It LIB & Be WITT,
OFFER their services to the Citizens of j
Thoutasritle and vieiuitv.
VtTOFFIVE of l)r. Dr Witt* Drier Store i
Feb 21 , ■ . Btf
Ur. T. S. HOPKINS,
OFFICE
IN HAWK I,T willi KESIDE.\CB. j
1. O. ARIOI.B,
RESIDENT DENTIST
TnOMASVILLE, GA. \
A\r ILL Le found at the old
V V stand occupied by him tor
the last t*n years |
Amt 23-12 in
Dr. CLOWER
II AVIXG permanently located in Thomas- j
1. ville, otters his I'rofo—ioiinl fkrri- i
re* to the public.
i at the Drug-Store of W. P. j
Clower A Cos.
I the house formerly oc
cupied hy Dr, Brandon. lmtr 11 ly
I’ItESH 1
DRUGS!
OR IV S. BOWER has jtnst returned from
New York and Philadelphia, with tt lunge
►.lock of
FEES! 11 RELIABLE DRUBS.
Purchased with a great deal of care from the
best tnaiuifiicliUtrs iu tin- country—embracing
every article in the Medical i>epartmeat—
which lie propuscs to sell ou as good terms jis
can la* had in this market. < |
He would call particular attention to bis I
large supply of
FANCY ARTICLES,
Such as. Soaps, Cologne, Perfumes, Pomades,
Cosmetics, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Combs, .
vVc., till of which he can sell at reasonable
prices, considering the quality of the articles. ,
He has some preparations which will restore i
to the bald head a beautiful suit of half, tarn |
gray hair to its healthy and natural color, and ■
restore the bloom of youth to the faded visage. !
He would call special attention to Ids large !
stock of Phalon's Night Blooming Cerens,ami ■
Laird's Bloom of Youth, tftrr me v i'aW.
I’. S. BOWEIi.
.Fnm> 2fl 2.3-ts
APOTHECARY
HALL.
W. P. CLOWER & CO.,
•DRUGGISTS.
Have renovated and refitted tkeStore next I
to VnHng's Hotel, for the purpose of es
tablishing a
First Class Drug Store.
The new firm ask for a share of patron
age, and invite the attention of the citi- ‘
eons to their well selected stock of
Medicines,
Fancy and Toilet Articles,
Soaps ami Perfumery.
Fine Green anil Riack Teas, j
Kerosiiie Lamps ami Oil,
BYE STI FFS,
Together with every other anisic usually
kept in ft well appointed Drug Storo.
Ee?” Fkfftictant’ .Freecriptiona carefully
prepared * 4—f f
Jan 24’
DRUGS
and
The undersigned having purchased the
elegant Drug Store of Dr. Little, take
pleasure in announcing to the people of
Thomasville, and the country generally".
l&flLthey have just received a full supply
of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Taints,
Oils, Ferfumery, Stationery, et., etc. Call
and examine for yourselves.
By strict attention to business, courtcs
ous and honorable dealing with our cus
tomers we hope to merit and receive a libe
ral share of patronage.
WINN i CAS3ELS.
.Tames N. Wins,
Samikl J. Cassels.
jan 17tf
f AAUR .greatest Purifier and Disinfectant
f- known—DARBY'S PROPHYLACTIC
fXVID. For sale by e
w r. clower;
swig Druggies.
Commission Merchants.
Smallwood, Hodgkiss & 00,
COTTON
Factors
AVD
GENERAL
COMMISSION
| fSSBOHAKYS,
\o. 1© Beaver SI., -Yen York.
- /
J. L. Sm vt.i.wooti, formerly Smallwood, Earle
A. Cos., and J. 1.. Smallwood A Cos.
Thos. H lloiutKiSs, Georgia, Y Late Hodgkiss,
G. W. Scott, Florida, > Scott V Go.,
D. 11. Poole, Georgia. ) New York.
arc prepared through R£ c i dent Agists
j to Advance on aml Will < ollon iimllthe
Woathern Fort*. or forward from These
I'ortw to !\'ew York or liirerpool B>irec*t,
as our friend* may prefer.
Our connoctiona iu Liverpool rC Such as
will give our eustyinere r.il the advantages of
that market.
July 4 27-ly
Duncan & Johnston,
COTTON FACTORS
COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, : GEORGIA.
REFERS TO
I Cot. A. T. Mclntire, Thomaaville, Ga.
Col. E. Remington, “
Donald McLean, Esq., “ “
July 25 6m
J R.S. DAVIS A CO.,
yVTJ CTIOjNT
COMMISSION
AND
Foi'hbji'iiiig hjei , el);h]fs,
THOMASVILLE, GA.
J. R. S. Davis. G. A. Jeffers. \
July H 28 ts j
TISON & GORDON,
COTTON FACTORS,
COMMISSION m FOHFARDING
Mcrcliants,
LSMS?,* SAVANNAH, G A
WM. 11. TISON. WM. W. GORDON.
May 1(3 6m
lOHN W.ANDERSON&SONS,
Factors and General
COMMISSION m FORUMS
Mcrcliants,
Corner Drayton & Bryan Strrrts,
SAVANNAH, GA.
May 30 , 6m
H.BKTAW, A. 1.. HARTRIMK, K. XV. S. NKKF.
Ijftteof J. Savannah Ga., Cincinnati, O.
! Bryan k Son
1 Savanh.Ga.
Bryan, Hartridge & Cos.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
BEOKEEB,
No. 163 Bay Mlreet, SAV.IXAAII, Gn, j
Strict attention given to Consignments I
and Collections. apr 11 Cm ;
; V. W. SIMS, Y / J. F. WHEATON,
T.ate of the > 2 Late of the firm of
Republican. ) (_ Wilder, Wheaton & Cos. i
F. W. SIMS & Cos.,
SAVANNAH, GA.,
FACTORS AND GENERAL
COMMISSIOB MERCHANTS,
DEALERS IN
Ylert'liamlisp, Produce, Tim
ber, Lumber ami Cotton.
Cun sign lneiiUjutd orders rosj'eotfuHv solicit*
i ed, and whether hy wagon, riyey, railroad or
, sea. will rebel VO the strictest attention.
The Forwarding Business carefully and
l promptly done. mar 7 lfMhn
J. L. VILLALONGA.
COTTON FACTOR
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
M ercliant,
No. 94 Bay Street,
jan 1-ts SA VAXXAIT, GA.
W. Carvki. Hall. Jas. E. Mveus.
J. llavson Thomas, Jr.
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Hall, Myers & Thomas
GENERAL
COMMISSION
Mcrcliants,
No. 3, Commerce St., Baltimore.
Reference* t
J. Hanson Thomas, Pres't Farmers’ and Mer
chant.- National Bank. Tison it Gordon. Sav'h
Kirkland, Gmse A Cos.. Jno. Williams &. Sou,
Williams, Bee A Cos., X. Y.. Brien Sc Car
rere. N Y., C. Morton Stewart. H. L.
Whitridge, D. -If. Gordon, Ya.,
Edward S. Myers, J. P. Plea
sants A Son, Tlioe. J.
Carson A Cos.
Wm. H. MacFarland. Pre't Fanners’ Bank,Va.
Mar 14 11 -6m
VfOTICK. —Two months after date I shall
XN apply t-o tlie Court of Ordinary of Col
quitt County, fi r leave to sell all the Real Es
tate ot William Vick, deceased.
JAMES ALDERMAN,
Au 30 60d Adm'r
THE CLOSING SCENE.
) The following is pronounced by the
! Westminster Review to be unquestion
ably the finest American poem ever
written: j
Within the sober realms of leafless trees,
The russet year inhaled the dreamy air,
j Like some tanned, reaper in his hour of ease, ]
When all tlie fields are lying brown and
bare.
The grav bams looking from their hazv h'lls, I
i O’er the dun waters widening in the vales,
, Seat down tlie air a greeting to the mills,
Ou the dull thunder of alternate flails.
! AH sights were mellowed, and till sounds
\y tt, Bu O'lued,
Jr Tlie hills seemed further and the streams
* sang low,
As in a dream tlie distant woodman hewed
His winter log, with many a uiullled blow.
The embattled forests, ere while armed with
srold,
Their banners bright with every martial
hue,
Now stood like some sad beaten host of old,
Withdrawn afar in Time's remotest blue.
On sombre wings the vulture tried his flight;
; The dove scarce heard his singing mate's
complaint;
Ami like a star slow drooping in the light,
The villiage church vane seemed to pale
and faint
The sentinel cock upon the hill side crew—
Crew thrice—and all was stiller than before;
Silent, till some replying warbler blew
Ilis altera horn, and then was heard no
moie.
i Where erst the jay within the elm's tall crest.
Made garrulous trouble round her unfledged
young ;
And where the oriole hung her swaying nest,
By every light wind like a censor swung.
’ Where sang tlie noisy martins of the caves.
The busy swallows circling ever near—
Fore boding, as the rustic mind believes.
An early harvest and a plenteous year.
Where every bird that walked the vernal feast,
Shook the sweet slumber from its wings at
morn.
To warn the reaper of the rosy lust;
All now was sunless, empty and forlorn.
Alone from out the stubble, piped the quail:
And croaked the crow through all the dreary
gloom;
Alone the pheasant, drumming in the vale,
Made echo in the distant cottage loom.
fhertJ was no bud, iio bloom upon the bowers ;
The spiders ttloved their thin shrouds night
by night,
1 The thistle down, the only ghost of flowers,
| Sailed slowly by—passed tloisless out of
sight:
1,. ; / /
Amid all this—in this most dreary air,
I And where the woodbine shed upon the porch
i Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood t nere,
Firing the floor with its inverted torch.
Amid all this—the centre of the scene,
The white-haired matron, with monotonous
tread,
Plied tlie swift wheel, and with her joyous
mein
Sat like a fate,and watched the flying thread.
She had known sorrow. lie had walked with
Her,
Oft supped, and broke with her the ashen
crust,
And in tlie dead leaves still she heard the stir
Os his thick mantle trailing in the dust.
While yet her check was bright with summer
bloom,
Her country summoned, and she gave her all;
And twice war bowed to her liis sable plume—
Regave the sword to rust upon the wall.
Regave the sword, but not the hand that drew
And struck for liberty the dying blow,
Nor him who, to bis sire and country true,
Fell ’mid the ranks of the invading foe.
Long, but not loud, the drooping wheel went
°n.
Like the low murmur of a hive at noon ;
Long, but not loud, the memory of the gone
Breathed through her lips a sad and tremu
lous.tone.
At last the thread was snapped, her head was
l>ow<*t!;
lase dropped the distaff through her hand
serene,
! And loving neighbors smoothed her careful
shroud:
While death and winter closed the autumn
st'ene.
i
- National Intelligencer,—
| For more than one-third of a century
the two owners and editors of the In
telligencer never had a settlement of
; accounts, but each member of the firm
drew from the common fund what
money he desired. In that connection,
I will here mention a few lemarkable
business particulars, as follows : Be
tween the year 1825 and 1859 both
: inclusive, the monthly expenses of the
! National Intelligencer averaged 84,-
! 000, or $1,680,000 for the whole pe
; riod. The amount drawn out by Mr.
Gales during that time, for his per
sonal expenses, was $017,570.40, and
I by Mr. Seaton, 8219,271.14--making
together $80G,041.54, or a grand to
tal of moneys disbursed by the office,
i in thirty-five years, 82,510,641.54. —
! Os course these were not the earnings
] of the Intelligencer alone, but were
; greatly enhanced by the various Con
gressional publications which bore the
i impriut of Messrs. Gales & Seaton.
I After the death of Mr. Gales, ’ the of
j fice was found indebted to Mr. Seaton
in the sum of &i70.(X)0, which was pre
sented to him by the widow of his late
partner. — Round Table.
• *
Why Onk Should not Swear.—
1 An article in the Pittsburg Preacher
gives six good reasons why a man
should not swear :
1. It is mean. A man of high moral
standing would almost as soon steal a
sheep as swear.
2. It is vulgar—altogether too low
for a deoent man.
3. It is cowardly—implying a fear
either of not being believed or obey
ed.
4. It is ungentlemanly. A gentle
man, according to Webster, is a gen
teel man—well-bred, refined. Such a
one will no more swear than go into
the street to throw mud with a loafer.
5. It is indecent—offensive to deli
cacy, and extremely unfit for human
ears.
C. It is foolish. “Want of decency
is n want of sense.”
Thomasville, Georgia, Thursday, September 13, ISG6.
[From the Marion, (S. C.) Crescent.]
The National Express anil Transpor
tation Company.
Our attention has been called to the
subjoined letter of General W. S.
Walker, agent of the National Ex- I
press and Transportation Ccmpany, at
1 Charleston. We think that the facts
i and arguments, set forth in the letter,
I should be published for the informa-
I tion of the public. Gen. Walker was
for two years in command of the Third
Military District of South Carolina,
with headquarters at Pocotaligo :
Office National Ex. and }
Trans. Cos., >
Charleston, July 27, 18GG. )
Dear Sir 3 It is reported to me,
through your clerk, that you have a
box to send to Marion C. H., for a
party who have instructed you to send
by the Southern Express, on account
of the greater cheapness of their rates. 1
The box in question weighs 323 j
pounds, which I am informed the
i Southern Express will carry for 86,50. 1
t We cannot carrv it at this rate, for
the reason that wc cannot afford to pay
for the privilege of carrying freight.
The Southern Express, as well as
the National, pay to each road—the
Northeastern and the W.ltnington and j
Manchester Bail Hoad—at the rate of .
I one dollar per hundred pounds. They,, j
j therefore, pay for the carriage of this
box to the fail road $6,46. This leaves
an apparent profit of four cents.
We all know, however, the great
outlay to which an express company
is subjected. Tho Adam’s Company
(of which the Southern Express is a
branch) have in this city a superinten
dent, an agent, four clerk?, five mess
engers, a large store a-t a high rent,
four wagons, six drivers, and eleven
horses. Between Charleston and Mari
on C. II they have not less than ten
way agents, with hired laborers for
the reception and removal of goods.
You will also note that in every par
ticular enumerated their expenditure
is greater than ours, with the excep
tion of the amount paid the rail roads.
The salaries of all their employees are
higher, and they support a larger num*
ber of horses. And yet, although our
expenses are less than theirs, we
■know from eareful calculation, that at
the rate of charges proposed by them
to Marion C. 11. wc would sink at least
25 cents on every hundred pounds.
The purpose of this remarkable ac
commodation of the public scarcely
needs comment. But how is the tax
on their resources supported ? Partly
by enormous capital, secured by high
charges through many years of monop
oly, enabling them to afford a present
loss in order to obtain a future gain
after the destruction of a dangerous
rival. But they also indemnify them
selves for losses here by a high tariff
on the rail roads where the National
Express Company does not compete
with them. The losses at one point
are made up by large gains at another.
This system of underbiding, therefore,
cannot last long after the introduction
of our competition over all the roads
where the Adams Express is running.
We are willing to submit our charges
to the scrutiny of the public, and can
show that, though our rates may in
some instances exceed those of the
Adams’ Express, yet our profits are
very small. We confidently appeal
to substantial and intelligent men to
sustain us in charges that will allow a
small profit. They know that a South
ern company,in its infancy, cannot oth
erwise be supported. It may be a light
tax as compared with the temporary
charges of the Adams’ Express, who
have an important object to attain in
the future by sinking money for the
present. But, if we are maintained
it will be found in a few months that
the charges of both companies will be
about equal, and both at reasonable
rates. Whereas, if we are driven off
by a penny wise and pound foolish
policy, the rates of the Adams’ would
be at least doubled, most probably
trebled. We are the only competitor
in the field of the South who stood a
chance of success. If a company
started under the auspices of General
J. E. Johnston, appealing to the
Southern people on the ground of
patriotic sympathy and mercantile in
terest fail, who can expect to suc
ceed ?
The communications of the Company
have recently been extended through
Montgomery to Mobile and New Or
leans, by the Albany and Gulf Road J
’ to Thomasville, in Southwestern Geor
gia, and to Jacksonvile, Florida. The
route has also been reopened via
Wilmington and Vfeldon, after a legal
contest. The stockholders have shown
I a tenacity and determination to sup
; port their enterprise that deserves suc
cess ; and we deem it demonstrable
that it is for the real and permanent
interest of the community that it
should be sustained by their liberal
patronage.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient srv’t,
W. S. WALKER, Agent.
THE FIELD OF SA.DOWA.
The name of the village where the
great battle between “the Prussians and
Austrians took place on the 3d of July
is not Cudowa (which is a watering
place in Prussian Silesia), nor Sudowa
(which is a village on the other side of
the Elbe), but Sadowa.
It is a small place between the town
of Ilorie (pronounced Horschitz, i e.,
Fireplace) and the fortress of Konig
gratz, five miles distant from the latter
city and— miles from Jacephstadt.
Horic is the seat of tho Bohemian
calico manufactory and the great pro
duce market of lticsengebridge [Giant
Mountains]. It has seven thousand
inhabitants, of whom two thousand
five hundred are occupied iu the cal
ico factories.
In the neighborhood of Sadowa is
the renowned castle and park of Count
Harrach, one of the richest noblemen
of Austria. The castle is a real won
der-work of historic curiosity and ar
tistic splendor. It is built in close
imitation of Windsor Castle, in En
gland, in the midst of a park and old
forest of twenty-seven square miles.
The large hall, called the Kaiserall,
[the Hall of Emperors] is remarkable
tor its splendor. It contains the por
j traits of all Emperors cf Austria,
| painted by the first masters of Ger-
I many and Italy. The walls are frescoes
in Pompeiian style. The floor repre
sents, by inlaid woodwork of the most
costly kind, the renowned painting of i
Kaulbach, “the Hunncuechlact’’ [the
battle-of tho Huns.] Every piece of]
furniture is of ebony wood inlaid with
! ivory and solid gold.
Another hall is called King Edward
11 Hall. The furniture was brought
over from the Castle of Carnavon, and
the identical furniture used by the re
nowned English King. The dining
saloon is called the Ilirschsaal [the
Deerhall]. The chairs, tables, goblets,
doors and floor are made of deerhorn.
The door of this splendid room has
cost 5000 florins or $2500. To give
in short, an idea of the costliness of
the whole, it may suffice to state that
Count Harrach devoted, during twelve
years, the income of twenty-two of his
estates for the building and decorating
of the castle, called “Schloss Ilara
dck.”
Count Harrach himself is not only
a nobleman of the highest standing,
but also a manufacturing lord. The
great Bohemian glass manufactory at
Neuwald, an immense iron work num
erous cotton mills, linen spinnerics
and coal mines, and vast estates in
Bohemia, Moravia and Stirla, give him
an income of nearly 2,000,000 florins
[81,000,000]. The Prussian army,
therefore, will find a splendid camping
place in the large doer park of the
Count, and the prussian commanders
splendid headquarters in the Castle of
Hradek. q,.
■. G i ■■ D-D • ‘
The Soathrrn PnciHc Raiirond.’
In connection with the Mexican
question we spoke yesterday of anew
and magnificent trade which at no dis
tant day will spring upon our Pacific
border. Take Guaymas, Sonora, It is
a most desirable port, with a choice,
safe and capacious harbor. It is tho
terminus of a projected, railroad, the
surveys of which have already com
menced. In December and January
last a surveying party, under charge
of Mr. Maxon, in the service of a New
York company, made survey of three
hundred miles from Guaymas through
Hermosillo and Magdalena to the
Arizona boundary, to the town of Santa
Cruz. From that point the route
turned eastward to El Paso, on the
confines of Texas.
A more feasible route for a road can
not be found on the continent. From
Guaymas to Cruz is as level as
an Illinois prairie—the entire dis
tance. From Santa Cruz to El Paso,
the same. Thence across Texas, the
whole country knows about. That
Southern railroad will be built. The
surveys would now be completed but
for iterruptions occasioned in Febuary
by Apaches. The maps of the survey
made are now in New York. The
work of survey will soon be resumed
and then when that road is built,
Guaymas will be, like San Francisco,
one of the grand ports connecting the
United States)' by lines of steamships
and vessels, with Japan, China and
the Indies. The silver and gold and
copper of this new territory, with its
flour, and cottoon, and tobacco, and
hides and wool, and its countless flocks
of sheep, and h'eMs of cattle and mules
and horses, will .make it the the richest
portion of America.— St. Louis Re
publican.
A Recipe M r ortli One Thousand
Dollars. —“Take, one pound of sal soda,
, and half a pound of unslacked lime
—put it in a gallon of water and boil
twenty minutes. Let it stand till cool
then strain off, and put it in a stone
jug or jar. Soak your clothes over
night, or until they are all wet through
—then wring them out, and rub on
plenty of soap, and in one boiling of
elothes well covered with water, add
one teaspoonful of washing fluid.—
Boil half an hour briskly—then wash
them thoroughly through one suds,
and rinse with water, and your clothes
will look better than the old way of
washing twice before boiling. This
is an available recipe, and I want every
poor tired woman to try it. I think
with a patent to do the little
rubbing, the Wash : WQrpan might take
the last novel and compose herself on
the lounge, and let the washipg do
itself. The woman who can keep a
secret has known this a year or two,
but her husband told it while on an
electioneering tour..” So says the Ohio
Cultivator.
A Few Wnnl'i to the Respectable Col
ored I‘eople.
We understand that the sober, staid,
respectable cotorcd residents of this
oity are much chagiined by the am
bitious pretentions and disorderly and
minatory proceedings of the organized
bands of c lored men, whose military
parades were stopped by General Ter
ry. They complain that these organ
izations are composed, for tin most
pait of colored persons who have neith
er homes nor permanent interests in
this city ; of idle, dissolute and dissi
pated vagrants, who have wandered to
this city from distant quarters. Wc
learn also that our respectable colored
people complain of the evil influences
exerted by white emissaries from the
North, and that they intend to adopt
some satisfactory method of making
their opinions known. They have
found out also that the Freedman's
Bureau is for the most part, adminis
tered in the interests of the Radical
party, and not the freedmen ; that it i
is a political machine whose aim is to
foment discord between the whites
i and black. Those colored people who
j are intelligent, who have property, or
j regular occupations, have no interests
in common with the vagrants who,
| under the influence and direction of
j low white men and the paid agents of
i Radicalism, are threatening the whole
1 South with disturbances. Soouer or
later the orderly, well-behaved colored
classes will have to draw the line be
tween themselves and the disorderly
classes. The sooner they publicly
take their true position, separate them
selves from the turbulent characters
whose aim is to involve the whole col
ored population in trouble, and exert
all their influence, privately and pub*
licly, individually and in aggregate, to
put down the mischievous blaek men,
and infamous white men who stand at
their backs, the better it will be for
us all
There is no reason why the two
races, each maintaining its true and
natural position in the scale of society,
should not live together in. harmony.
Thq better classes of whites exert, all
their influence to these ends; why
should not the better classes of colored
people do the same? If they disap
prove the turbulent conduct of the
inferior classes of their own color, or
of the mischievous interference of
white Radical incendiaries Irom the
North, and are satisfied that our courts
and our citizens will do them justice
respect their rights and protect them
in their person and property —they
ought, in some authentic form, so to
declare, so as to silence the number
less calumnies invented by the Radi
cals.— Richmond lVhiy, Avg. 7.
Rcuinrkabtc Escapes of Eminent Tien.
Some years agQ a young man, hold*
ing a subordinate position in the East
, India service, twice attempted to de ;
prive himself of life by snapping a
loaded pistol at his head. ‘ Each time
the pistol missed fire. A friend en
tered his room shortly afterward, when
he requested him to fire it out of the
window; .it then werit off without any
difficulty. Satisfied thus that the wea
pon had been duly primed and loaded,
the young man sprang up, exclaiming,
“I must be preserved for something
great!” and from that moment gave
up the idea of suicide, which for some
time previous had been uppermost in
his thoughts. That young man after
ward became Lord Clive.
Two brothers were, on one accasion,
walkingtogether, when a violent storm,
thunder and lightning overtook them.
One was struck dead on the spot; the
other was spared, else would the name
of the great reformer, Martin Luther,
have been unknown to mankind.
Bacon, the sculptor, when a tender
boy of five years old, fell into the pit :
of a soap boiler and must have perished,
had not a workman, just entering the
yard, observed his head and delivered
him.
When Oliver Crnmwell was an in
fant, a monkey snatched him from his
cradle, leaped with him through a
garret window, and ran along the leads
of the house. The utmoat alarm was
excited among the inmates, and vari
ous were the devices used to resoue the
child from the guardianship of his
newly found protector. All were un
availing ; his would-be rescuers had
lost courage, and were in despair of
ever seeing the baby alive again, when
the monkey retraced his steps, and
deposited its burden safely on the bed
On a subsequent occasion, the waters
had well nigh quenched his insatiable
ambition. lie fell into a pond, from
drowning in which a clergyman named
Johnson was the sole instrument of
his rescue.
At the seige of Leicester, a young
soldier about seventeen years of age,
was drawn out for centry duty. One
of his comrades was very anxious to
take his place. No objection was
made, and this man went. He was
shot dead while on guard. This young
man, first drawn, afterwards became
the author of u Pilgrims Progress.”
Doddridge, when born, was so weak
ly an infant he was believed to be
dead* A nurse standing by fancied
she saw some signs of vitality.—
Thus the feeble spark of life was saved
from being extinguished, and an em
inent author and consistent Christian
preserved to the world.
John Wesley, when a child, was
only just preserved from fire. Almost
YOL. YL—No. 37.
the moment after lie was rescued, the
roof of the house where he Had been
fell in. Os Philip Henry a similar in
stance is recorded.
John Knox, the renowned Scotch
reformer, was always wont to sit at
the head of the table, with his back
to tho window. On one particular
evening, however, without being able
to account for it, he would neither
himself, nor permit any one else to
occupy his place. That very night •
a bullet was shot in at the window,
purposely to kill him ; it grazed the .
seat in which he sat, and made a holt}
in the foot of the candlestick on the
table.
Many years have now elapsed since
three subalterns might have been seen
struggling in the water of St. Helena;
one ot them, peculiarly helpless, was
succumbing. lie was saved to life
as Author Wcllcsly, Duke of Welling
ton.
The life of John Newton is but the
history of marvelous deliverances. As
a youth lie had agreed to accompany
some friends on board of a man of-’var.
lie arrived too late ; the boat in which
his friends had gone was capsized,
and all its occupants drowned. On
another occasion when tide surveyor
in the port of Liverpool, some business
had detained him, so that he eamo
much later than usual, to the great
surprise of those who were. in. the hab
it of observing his undeviating piinet
uality. He went out in a boat, as
heretofore, to inspect a ship, which
blew up before he reached her. Had
he left the shore a few minutes sooner,
he must have perished with the rest on
board.
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Drink Less* With Your Meal*.
—One great error that we commit is
’ that we drink too much at our meals.
Before we have sufficiently masticated
and insalivated our food to enable us
to swallow it, we force it down by
taking water or warm drinks. This
. not only dilutes the saliva, but weak
ens the gastric juice aftor the food gets
into the stomach. Many persons take
a swallow of fluid with almost every .
mouthful ■of food. Look along the
dinner table in any of our. hotels and
fashionable private dining rooms, an 1
you will be surpriged at the quantities .
which are drank during the meal; and
if your mind be not takeft up with
observing the errors of pthprs, you ‘
may discover the same .evil in year- .
self, and thus be led to correct it; — ■
This habit, sooner or later, ends in
producing dyspepsia and constipations,
than which there are no afflictions more
destructive of health and comfort.—- .
When we are thirsty, at our meals or
at other times, we should drink to al
lay suich thirst only.. All.solid food
should be thoroughly ground and mix
ed with saliva in the. mouth, unaided
and undiluted bv water or other-drinks.
Rely upon it, this apparent necessity
for drinking is a mere habit, which we
can correct at will; and all who prizg
health at its true value will not con
sider its preservation or purchase too,
high at the cost ot attending to so
simplo a matter.
Quick Work. — We heard a story
told on a ‘Yank : which we must re
peat. lie belonged to Sherman’s
crockery smashing squad when on their
little pleasure trip to the sea. Being
separated from liis command one dark
night, he found himself hotly pursued
by a squad of yellow rebels. Racing
down .a. rough ravine, his horse fell,
throwing him a stunning fall,- and
then galloped away. When he recov
ered he commenced feeling round in
the darkness for his. steed-. Ihesently
he encountered-the carcass of a skin*
ned horse; after feeling it carelully
all over from noso to tail, he came tq
the sage • conclusion that it was his
own. “Well,”'said he, ‘1 swow- t°
gravy, if that ain’t quick-work; no
sooner clown: than the hide’s ojJ'. ‘ I’m
glad they did.n’t And me.’ lie gave
his opinion on his return to camp that.
leather must be ? pesky skerse among
the rebs,’ and that they beat.‘creation
a skinning quick.’
A hard shell preacher wound
up a flashing sermon with this mag
nificent : “My brethern and sistren !
es a man’s full of religion you can't
hurt him ! There was the three Ara- .
bian children; they put ’em in a fiery .
furnace hetted seven times hotter than
rt could be het, and it didn’t swinge-a
hair on their heads. And there wag
John the Evangelest; they put him—
and where do you think, brethern and
sistern, they put him? Why they
put him into a caladromatie of bilin ile,
and biled him all night, and didn’t faze
his she’ll! And there was Danile they
put him in a lion’s den—and what, my
fellow travelers and respected auditors,
do you think he was put into a lion's
den for? Why, for praying three
times a day. Don’t be alarmed, breth
ren and sistren ; I don’t think any of
you will ever get into a lion’s den ?’’
It is dangerous to. use guano in thq
soil of Kansas. A vexacious writer
says : “A few hours after planting cu*.
cumber seed with guano, .the dirt be
gan to fly, and the vines came up like
a strpak,. and although he started off
at the top of his speed, the vines ov
ertook him and covered him ; and on
taking out his knife tq cut the thing,
he found a large cucumber gone to
seed in his pocket ” r