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Newspaper Page Textr ,* ■ Sy^T-,.. Hates ox Ad' Advertisements will b« inserted LAE per square for the first insertioi • -TENTS per square for each oontin time under one month. Forloage- aral deduction will be made, ten lines, solid. ^ Notices in local column, less than rent* a lino. ; , . _ , D KCSSI02T Of' TSiniTKD STATES SOP HEME COCE.T \ Sheriff Horht*,-o «■ & sales P« square.—. * •• rtx Collector's Sale*. P«r square — * •# Foreclosure Mortgage, per square, each liuiq, 1 *0 Scemption Notices (.in advance). -W,~ 25 Bole Siai’s, per square. each time.— »a- The above Segal rates corrected by Ordfcary . / I I « » county. I.JVTO’ 2TOTIC3S. „ TEE ..ACME- FURNITURE STORE. LJ.M Ait COEii— II. COSH, IIowkli. Com. - f • - - ' J 1 —, qiH.EA.T attorskys it law, .Vlliscs, Ga' SiEETTCTlOIT OP PPXCES. Having purchased the internet of Messrs Gann and Heaves in the ATHENS FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CO. J. in IXntpree Building, I am now prepared to offer PTENITCRE of ail style* and descriptions at prices heretofore un known in this market, and which defy competition. I shaH also keep on haud tor sale, DOBTOn, ATTOflNSY AT UW, HASH, DOORS* AXD HT.11VIIS* . Cur%cr\t& ^ aplS-H73-tf nnd respectfully invite an examination of my stock nnd prices before parch CAPT. JAY O. GAILEY, lon^ and favorably ktown in this line, is iu charge business and will be pTeaswl to SW? R!J ol.* ' i call. I also keep constantly on band rchaaing elsewhere. „ — —, —rge of my Furniture d friends an«l as many new ones as will favor him with p G. 'UllOMsfON, , 1 ATTOnNSY AT LAW, sr*.'ial attention paid to crrulna! practice. appiv to Ex-Gov. T. H. Watts end Hon. David Hopton, Montgomery, Ala. ‘?K*e over l\)<t Office Athens, Ga. GOl^riNp* AND BUttlAL CA8E8 Of all styles, the prices of whfrh ka>» been greatly f educcd. AU persons in the city purchasing ‘ i this Hue, wilHie furnished, free of charge, with the SPLENDID HEARSE H.trro %v« ATrOHNEYS AT LAW, fiilljf •%'-# Ta'madgo, IXocap-ofl & C*o. U^ '-I i.TMl'IilX, Attorney at Lae Athens Georgia, ~ iFortlieni Carriage •r Courts of ^be ;• ious a specialty. ATTORNEY fVATKiXS' repairs, AT LAW, .r.E, GA. Ou IN" COURT-HOUSE, OPPOSITE rv's office. Personal attention toidl til; usted to his care. apO-tt J ACNHON A THOMAS, attorneys at law, Athens, Ga. ®* • in old Franklin House Building Broad Street, also at the Court House. Ail parties desirifoff Criminal Warrants nn c .; Uicm «nv tim* hy'*i.;'tyinn to trUjConrit?. Selidkjw at ::** Otf.W. ■ A n nr:f. w j cobb, iucoesror to Erwin tfc Cobb.) vrrUli.NRI- AT LAW, / :iiiWs, .\- Jiiilge A. S. Erwin, ekerson «fe Co. K 'USItT R.vitoso Wilbur F. Kelsey. IP.aifcrd & Stslserr, . tiorueys at La w, Ko°?iFi 1 and ini' And ConnsMlor's and Solicitor'! s W.irfn, Pulaski County, Ga Special ana im- nie.iiuW attest;on**!ven to any businesscon- raruing la* ds. Intruders promptly ejected from, and titles denied up, sml wild lands look* v.l after generally, will buy and *ch lands, pay taxes lor nonresidents etc. Will practice in c!L the eoaoties contingent to either the M.&3* K. R. ortho Atlantic & and U. R. Good je» lereuco given wheu desired. July ifth. -v* T. uV aFfc=lusaaie nr Se 'walar, \• >tK*ad,s Si^ao Store next door to Rresc & lane's. Broad street, Athens, Georgia. All UVEBY. FEED M SALE STASLE. Which i and wht s'ways kept in elegant style. Don't forget taat Ijhave materially [reduced my price-*, i in need of anything in my line, call at the ’ ~ IJutlianasy. Come gently death, when, at the cloeesflife Worn with the march, and weary of the »trile, I draw ay latest breath; Llksaome kind friend, vha with a noialess tread And silent voice draws high mpto mj bed, 9e come thou gently death. Ob. let me dose my eyes like one who deeps Wh* o’er ay sense thy dreamless slumber And let a* softly lie With calmly d!de<Vhands upon my breast, Like one who after labor takes his rest, So let me gently die. When the reel asnaapslreand lades away/ pquil.cdbn* a ’ ** Bi trauqu And may a feeling of —par renese With gentle radiance soften 12fe*s a And peace my bosom fill. May kindly fhc^s gather round my bed. The cherished friends with whom ay heart is wed l? And gently, softly fall „ r twili-hf ahadww; may I listening hear [lake silver harp strings, sounding sweet and clear, Anodic vc ices call. ACME FURNITURE STORE, B :0AD STREET, ATHENS, GEORGIA. r Vi H. McftINTY, Proprietor. J:0. GklsESv Aiperiutcrulent. . D. 0. I BURLEY, .2.11' T .T7"TS « Smith and Stsei Worker! ‘ 1. T . w I have fitted up a shop ou the corner of Clayton Sreet, and Colleg AvetVie upposite TiLvABcfc, Hodgson &Co's., where I will do al kinds of llltekfimithirtg.-. / Will make and repair Carriages Buggies and Wag ms. Horso shoeing by the. ! . ; BEST SHOE SMITH’S IN THE STATE. Mill Picks, Plows repaired. Nearly and all kinds of Plantation Tools ”!Ii Li 1,1 made and rirre * TWSITTY TSAHS In theiy-st t^ops North and Soi outh, and for the Last few years 2£&23.a.ger of Hodgson. Bro’s. Smith. Shop, make me co. •onfident. that I Tnave Inc'mo; will please all that favor me with their patronage. I have flic most expert workmen, use the best material and charge the LOWEST PRICES „ all -WORK warrantrid. Shop Opposite Talmadge, Hodgson & Co's., Athens, Georgia. feb.25.im. Whither it be when summer skie* are fair, And summer birds make music in the air. Oh, gently time my breath; Or in the winter when the chilly snow Wraps like a shroud, the cold dead earth below, Oh, gently be my death. A Long Session Probable. Alex. H. Stephen's Speech in Thursday's Caucus. He Insists That the Democratic Coxgrfss Should Begin Work at Once—The Repeal of the Internal Revenue System and Unlimited Coinage of Silver Advocated—The Election Law Referred To a-' a Thing of the Past. ~ - - Come like the change which pa'nt* the autumn leaf. And let the parting hour on earth be brief The lost beneath the skies ; Come gently death, when my life's rare is run When 1 the victor’s ftdeless wreath have woo And close my weary eyes. A Strange Criminal's End. The Cracksman Who Fiddled and Carved Angels for a Pastime. AND Charles Peace, the notorious bur glar and murderer, recently convicted of the murder of Arthur Dyson, a civil engineer, at Baimercross, on November 29, 1876, was hanged at Leeds, England, on Tuesday. Peace was as romantic and biter- e-ting a character as has ever been embalmed in the public annals. He hud natural gifts which were of im mense advantage to him in his pro fession, and to these he added nu merous accomplishments, which he could always employ to divert atten tion troia his true work. Born in Sheffield, Peace grew up to the estate of a workingman, but be almost immediately abandoned the shop to become fir-t a fiddler in the music halls aud then a thief. He went through an apprenticeship in his native city, and was sevetal times imprisoned meanwhile. It was after his raaniage that the peculiar line of conduct which made him famous was developed. Settling with his wife and children in another town, he pot his children to Sunday school; fiddled religious tunes, blew hymns on the harmonica, carved wooden figures of saints and angels, and discu-sed theology with the clergymen of his parish. But in WANDO ™ PHOSPHATE, 3IADE BY THE WANDO PHOSPHATE COMPANY, w- Athene Gocxgia- LA.NN o* REAVES, PROPRIETORS. W IK b* ton ml at their old stand, rear Frank- a lioise bnUtlintf, Tbozras street. Keep al- ,uv.h »»». hand good Turoonta and ea.-etui dri ers. Suck well cared for wheir en* mated to ar cure, stock on tend for sale »t all rimo** declStf. Analysis of War.do Fertilizer.' Analysis of Acid Phosphate. Per Cent. \ ^ U < * b 1 > J W Cent. BONE PHOSPHATE LIME, Dissolved..12.S1 | BONE PHOSPHATE LIME, Dissolved.. 17.S4 •• •• “ lieJnced... 4.43 j *• “ “ KeJaccd... 6.5s AVAILABLE.... U I.' DECOMPOSED,,.. SCHOOL BOOKS'! All 'fihsStiificl Book* in uiii at the Lucy Cobb Institute, , W&ndo Aetl rVosfhsts 1 of your uleaTiiwptiat^ pselring too a hsap. ...... -. k if tht aompoft irivem oflT auv smnU, cover it with 5ro04i dry earth. itter main ofl long » time as poaaible, say at least lour or five weeks, protecting it from tba van. Befo» xuSag mix all together. Apply •• otter J»ttU4«er*»a0the rate of 25-> to 300 lb*, to the acre. fl U.L». llnua- Qclinol Alfcpar—t th. Cot*oo Seed iu the furrow very earto bedlop it, and at planting opentae ridge fit Jrilul!«3 OflaliOWgls noma dUiOul p-^ t in ilt the Aeil Pie-flute re- you wouid any otlier Fertilizer. CSB.TX^IO^.T’SIS and at tiie Various Schools in the City, X-OYTv7"^03T PIGUKSS, r.ioaus BJacl tl.e W.»r!J—ut See «r«rj thing, call at se.-t.UUf Bia BURKE’S BOOK-STORE. Sautlisrn Msluai Issace COL-IX’^-TST'S", jBsTssmra, GsortGiA. YOUNG 1- G. HAHRIS, Prosielent STEVENS rnoa ts, SMTetarj. v _ . v.'tl^Ii.ul I. t| Yof.vo L. IT.VKUU, Jaas H. Nrwtos, lia. Hkhbt Hun., ALIUS I*. lIUHIIMh . niwaar TkomaC 1 Stkvkss Tuomas Elisa L. Sewtos, FEKOl-SAIfD 1’IIIS la r 1>B- IL_M. Smtih. v;. Total.... AMMONIA potash CHARLES B. SHEPARD, Jr. U. • . t.do fi£UUCCU... OmW , . . . las , , . . —-—font bisdo'v.T jtw and: free the blood ... .l'i il,efa.}”Klf.AR«»*. : ». - *>v . - . . . .54.?? into Ids fate so Unit be resembled a a..fT L. Divto ust mu j aUo _ At times he was a round- ....24 28 ^ Total,... ■.■.'.•laiSS 3 ""!! O'l’f'- i"~ - J ' =g.23 & CHARLES C.a IEPAKD, Jr. Directions for Using Acid Phosphate. * agiven aoH rio OSCEOLA, OCONEE COUNTY. GA.. Jan. 1st. isT9. Mr J VS II. HOGGINS, Athei.n, Ga.—Dear Sir: I used Waudo Acid 1’hospUufc at late of one lmndred aud tiftv lbs ncr uere. applied in the drill and Uddcd ou the same; ttr OoUou I 'used .iton -tubble laud, it did better for me tlmu any e ertuu^r twmsed, it nadc me mole than m as much cotton per acre as where I used none. thum p-, Yours Truly, J- H - THOMPSON, - > ' • ‘ JACKl^US AKOCJfre, GA, Isb. U,U!A M- J \S. H HUGGINS, Athens, Ga.—Dear Sir: 1 have used*' aaaot'esliSaer for tw« yew» nd a. o’fully satisfied that it is ouc of the best Fertilisers level used; it has paid me a la ire profit fi tilC lUVf^tlUCIlt. re. ,, Tty i qn Yours very Truly, .. A . • ' VY. H. WA..r.. [New York Times.] Washington, March 21. tenor of the discussion in the Demo cratic caucus of yesterday has been very generally commented upon to day, and it is accepted us conclusive that there will be a much longer ses sion of the present Congress than was expected. There is little doubt that there has been an efibit made, on the part of many of the conservative Demociats, to work up a sentiment in favor of a short session, and it was thought when -he caucus met yester day that that sentiment w.is strong enough to secure a declaration against attempting any general 1 gisiation. Such a decimation would probably have been made had it no: been for Alexander H. Stephens, who made the speech which turned the tide, aud procured an expression directly opposite to what had been expected. In speaking upon the subject to-day, Mr. Stephens said to the Times cor respondent : “ I regard it as se tied now that the committees will be ap pointed and that we will go on with legislation. I think we should do so; that is what I said in caucus, and I give my reasons therefor; but my re marks have been misrepresented, and l have not seen a lair statement of my po-iliou in any of the papers. What I did say was in substance as follows: '• The occasion is a grave one. A very heavy responsibility rests upon the Democrats ot the House and of the Senate. It is the fust time iu many years that both branches are Democratic. It is true that this is an extraordinary session of Congress called by the Pre-idem but the Forty- sixth Congress is now in session, and it should uot only look to the special legislation for which it was convened, but to all other business that legiti- Jud. Brownin’s Account of I-u- benstein’s Piano-Playing. tern is unequal on Slates as well as classes and individuals. Virginia alone, since the war has paid in inter nal revenue on her tobacco more than enough to cancel her entire State debt, now amounting to over SW,~ 000,000. It is true that in the last Congress we reduced the tax on to bacco from 24 cents to 16 cents, bat it is still an enormous tax upon the labor of that State, unequal and un just. Tlie same applies to Kentucky, Missouri, and other tobacco-growing States. I would by no means advo cate the renewal of the old system ol income tax. That was wrong in many respects. It bore unjustly upon labor in its various departments, pro fessional and otherwise, bo: I would reach, by a just and equal system,. t I the property and wealth of the coun-1 the intire insides clean out, and scater The | try, whether consisting of stocks, I ed ’em to the four winds of heaven.’’ bonds, or other public securities, j “Played well, did he?” from which largeine mesare derived, j “You bet he did; bat don’t inter- I mean now only to say that a proper rup, me. When he first set down he, and just system can be devised, arid A Musical Critic. “ Jud-, they say you heard Ruben stein play when you were in New York.” “ I hi id in the cool.” “Well, tell us about it.”; “What! me? I might’s well tell you about the creation of the world.” “Come, now; no mock modesty. Go ahea :i .” “Well, sir, he had the blamedest, biggest, cattycomeredest pianner you ever laid eyes on; somethin’ like a dis tracted billiard-table on three legs. The lid was hiested, and mighty well it was. If it hadn’t been, he’d a tore that we should not adjourn without at least attempting relief upon this subject. “ One other thought. One reason of the present depression throughout the country is the want of sufficient volume of currency. Currency is the life blood of the body politic. At this time,.by the continued contrac tion under tiie present financial sys tem, there is a deficiency of currency necessary for the business of the country. This could, in my opinion, and ought to be, remedied by remov ing tiie present restriction upon the coinage of silver. The coinage of this metal should be unrestricted, un limited. Besides this. I would bring into active and immediate use ail the present bullion of the country. I would authorize the assaying and stamping, to an unlimited extent, of all gold or silver bullion that could peared to keer mighty little ’bout playin,’ anil wisht he hadn’t come. He tweedle leedle’d a little on the trible, and twooddle-codle-oodle’d some on the base—jest foolin’ aud boxin, the thing’s jaws for bein’ iu his way. And I says to a man settin, next to me. ses’ I, ‘w! at strt of fool playin’ is that ?’ And he says, ‘Ileisli 1* But presently his hands commenced cha sin’ one ’iiother up and down the keys like a passel of rats scamperin’ through a garret very suilt. Parts ot it was sweet, though, and renun ded me of a sugar squiird turuin the wheel of a candy cage. “ ‘Now,’ I says to my neighbor, lie’s showln’ otE Ke tliiuks he’s a doin’ of it, hut he ain’t got uo idee, no plan of nothiu’. If he’d play me up a tune of some kind or other, I’d—’ “But my neighbor says '’Tleish L the dusk of evening he would drive ! mately belongs to it. 1 am therefore oat with the pony and fi: that he j very much averse to limiting iegisla- owned, aud next morning the coun-! tlon to these two appropriation meas- try side would Be startled • 'with the n-port of a house broken i jm’-ii and a bo->ty secured. The man was a natural actor, and couid assume all sorts of c oyer dis guises at a moment’s notice. He had the power ofaltering the shape of his body and his filial expression in a way to puzzle the moat skillful de tective. and he conld at will thrust shouldered, sickly looking man, who sloshed along with ftteei l muscles. and at oilier times, wheu occasion re quired, he was straight and alert, his toot as fleet as that of a deer, his arms’ body and legs as elastic and bar! as tempered steel. Among other gifts Peace included that of influencing wo- Tl,e above stated Fertilizers are for sale in quan'.ilisy 4ie suit pOrthMets. Cottcp orlic i fil otherwise. For ten ns apply * h/SuGBINS, AgOllt. V, No. 7 Broad Street, Athene Gs. Judge J. N. GARRISON, Gillesville, Bank, County, Ga. jan.23.3ffi. Seer • il-JW. n«v|h Ji IVLACKSMITHING —At-" f ' OUR NEW BtUCK SHfiP —AT CHE— , i: j Com:; Clayton And Jackson Sts. • First-Class 1 A ''jKjclaUy, by the beat Skoer in Georgia. ChmsTn i t.lii ng. XJJL Segar s,Wisies jrm - s Athens, ‘Georgia. ‘ Keep on hand the Finest Brands of W!,,e * ^.d Whiskies. Ciyeimwti Beer always fiesh. FiuiE Lunch At U Q^GiaOCJH Eve »v Day, rNt'.'ls*, etc,, rc^taircd it-shell STF.EL WORKING. jan.il.S Axes, Mill Ficka, lloea, G*® ftnest temper. Work warranted. PLANTATION WORK. Flows, Wagons, Carriages, etc., repaired in the “ * and at * * ” Carriages, JOuggieS, Wagons, Harness AND Vehicles of all Kinds ! AIT va>rt H(iteffiU9hortdk4i^ Tiie BestNUteriol Used and None but First Class Workman * Eriaployed—^uo Malmhle or tart tron naed—-thus w»t l endangering the lives of persons using our ’ best manner and at short notice. Sole patantce of Bassett’s plow stock. iTo~h.Tr. 2JL. Sasss-th. rr^rcnSO-ly. IWsry.mca WBh .more tlua th«S job. « z«Bd at one time. MmahoodanULOll dlsoi*«CT" s^- Repairing a Specialty. ■*» PRICES LOWER THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE STA 7 E, A. L. BURPEE. faH on or Opposite Gann & KeavesStable, Spring St, Athens, Ga men. In 1300 a family named Dyson went to five at DartnaU, mai blief field, Mrs. Dyson was an Am riean woman, having married her husband, an Englishman, at Cleveland, Ohio. Peace tell in love with Mrs. Dyson, and she s.-eiu-i to have reciprocated, for she went about with Peace to theatres, etc, and on one occasion was photographed with him. Mr. Dyson suon discovered the real character of hie wife’o friend, ami forbade him the house. Mrs. Dyson had to deliver her hus band’s ultimatum. Peace was indig- lAut. ITe .resolved never to “enter lliat again.’’ Occasionally he loitered near the house for the purpose of talking with Mr* Dyson. One night she told him to go. He pointed a revolver at her threatening to kilt her anil her husband. A magistrate’s warrant- Was issued for himi bat he decamped. The Dysons then dcCer- ' mined to remove to Baam rcro-s to escape Peace. , The first man they saw after arriv ing at Bannercross, however, was the “cawc-r of saintly images.” He told Mrs. ’Dyson he* would annoy h. r ~T wBbrever. she went, and did oot care iorber or the police. This was iu October, 1376. At about eight o’clock on the night of November 29, a month later, Mra Dyson went out into the yard at the back of her house, holding a lantern in her band. As she was rewriting into the boose she was confronted by Peace. “Spiak, or I’ll, fire,” he said. She creamed and rnshed into a little out side closet. Her hasbaiul, bearing her cry, uaiue out of the house on the iusi.ui:,; Hearing loot-steps she re- appiared in the yard aud saw the prisoner Walking away into the street, She also saw her husband going after him, and she followed her husband. Peace turned round and fired. The shot went into an adjacent wall. Peace fired a<rain and Dyson fell at his wile’s feet. Peace by this time was in the road, where he stood for a fe wpninuies, bat, seeing some people who bad heard the disturbance mid the firing harrying to the spot, fie sealed a garden wall leading to some meadows and disap peared. Dyson did uot speak again. He died a few*hours afte he was shot. Peace was subseqnetly arrested for robbery, hot haring given the name ot Ward, wag nijt recognized for some time. His daring attempt to escape from a railway train while running at full speed, near Sheffield, and his con viction, have been recently published. very impatient. “I was just about to git up aud go be brought to our Mints, and author- j home, bein’ tired of that fooiis uess ize issue of Government certificate \ when I heard a little bird waking up for the amount of its value in denom- I away oft’iu the woods and calling inatious now allowed by law for coin - j sleepy-like to his mate, aud I looked age. The Miut power of the United Up am 1 Isetd hat Ruben wasbeginnia States cannot now turn out more to take some interest in his business, than So6,0U0,0J0 per annum, but by j and I set down again. Tiie music assaying the bullion aud stamping its j began to make pictures for me taster value iu blocks or bars, aud the issu- than you could shaken stick, to tell ufips. The OOnntry, in my judgment,' notwithstanding what has been said to the contrary, is in a very depressed condition in its commerce an-1 in all its great industries. It is needless to say now what has produced this state of things. The people throughout the country, in the cities and in the rural districts, are looking to Congress for relief or for the correction of that system ol'legislation which has pro- duccd the present stale of thiuj.es. I do npt intend to say anything now as to the character of the legislation which should be adopted, bat if Con gress should resolve simply to pass the two appropriation Gills which failed, and then adjourn with a deaf ear to the appeals coming up from all quarters, I think they would be dirclicijn the discharge of their public duties. “There are some matters of legis laiiou coming up that I think should be acted upon at ouce. First, the internal revenue system should be modified. For myself I am free to say that I would strike the entire sys tem from the statute book. 1 know it is said that it is essential for the tnainleuaiice of the credit of the Gov ernment—that we cannot dis; ense with the large revenues derived from that source. There is no one in this House less d sposed to weaken the credit of this Government than I, but there are other ways of collecting the necessary revenues, and modes more equal and just in their opera tion, and more practical than our preseut system. This, at least, is my judgiueut. Without going into de tails, 1 must say that I think the pres ent system, winch subjects the farmer to a penally of 12 months in the Al bany Feniteutiary for distilling bis own grain or fruits for his own use is a monstrous outrage. I think that for his own use a man has as much right to boil his earn into whiskey as another lias tep boil it into hominy. But, it is sank where w ill yon get the revenue that comes from this source ? I say, remodel your tariff. From the present free 1L-1 many addi tional millions may be raised. From the present prohibitory list many more millions may be raised by re ducing existiug duties to revenue points. Again, there is another mode of raising the necessary revenues, much more just au<l equal in its oper ations. I mean the ad valorem tax upon tfie property of the country ; if not upon laud, at least upon personal property. There are millions of per sonal property in the Uuited States untaxed by the Federal Government. Where is the justice in taxing the poor laborer $15 or $20 for bis whis key and tobacco, while others, pos sessed of, hundreds, thousands, and millions, pay nothing lor their posses sions, which are protected by the Government? We should equalize taxes. : All who enjoy the advan tages of the Government should bear equally the necessary and just burdens. Our present system bears uuequally and unjustly, in my opinion, upon the toiling millions. “ While I said I would be willing to strike from the statute-book our whole svatem of internal revenue, with its* most expen-ive machinery, yet ilj upon a fall hearing, it should be thought best to retain part, some of hs worst features should be most certainly removed. The present sys- anre of certificates tor the amounts, $5!j0,000,000, or perhaps §700,003,- 000, of currency could he put out iu six months, or a year at the furthest. This would be no inflated cur: ency; it would be uo flat money; it would be the best currency iu the world; it would be receivable for all public dues. We have passed that day in civilizitiou ia which the coins, gold or silver, are wauled ia ordinary hus- uess transactions. We have come to tiia,t point at which we want., not tales like the story-books, audio start ail sorts of teeliua—it just toted me like I was a child wherever it ph ased, ai'.d^showed me all kind of things that is and thin ;s that isn’t aai could’t never be. It was the peep o’day. The light come faint troui the East, the breeze blowed geutle. end Iresh, some more birds waked up iu the orchard, then some more in tiie trees near the hou3e, and all begun to stir, and the gal opened the shutters. Just then the first beam of the suu fel promlSes'to pay, but' the' equivalent"‘ufou fin* fiiossctns, alettle more and it tor coin. I am myself for hard money I was brought up in the hard inouey school. 1 am for hard money, not to carry about in your pocket, or roil in wheelbarro ws, out to remain in the vanlts of the Treasury, with its equivalent iu the form of paper in the hands of the people lor the use of trade. Tuese exchequer or Govern ment certificates—call them what you may—would be equivalent, dollar for dollar, for coin, for the Govern ment would hold gold or silver to cover every dollar outstanding, and this curr-ncy would in a few years be perfectly good lor exchanges when ever we have commercial dealiugs, from China to Australia. “Another measure, I think, we ought to repeal, and that is the Fed eral prohibition against Slate b lik ing. This subject I do not now pro pose to discuss. I only mean briefly to point out some of the great que-.» tions which, in my judgment, devolve upon this Democratic Congress. These I have stated are bnt a few of them. As to the immediate causes which required this extra session of Congress, I look upon them only as small matters considered by the side of the grave and heavier duties lor which the country will hold us respon sible. As to the test oaths and jurors’ oaths, troops at the polls— these, as a matter of course, will be disposed of. They are side issues, however great iu them.-elves, it is true, but I anticipate uo conflict whatever betwecu Congress and the Executive upon them. Their days are numbered They are now hardly anything more than the relics of toe pa-t, at least I now so consider them. Don’t let us travel out of the way to pick up a fight. Let us go right on, in tiie usual way—organize the House, raise the usual committees, and show the country that we do not shirk the great respousibi.ilics that are upon us. Do uot let us assemble and adjourn with a deaf car to the appeals of a distressed people. Do not let us, I entreat you, hrudicap ourselves ia toe beginning, by toe passage of a resolution that we will do nothing for the relief of the country. Do uot let us then muzzle ourselves in ad vance. Let us at least hear the ap peals of the people and sec if relief Lj iu our, power. If this Congress, in my judgment, does its duty to toe whole country in the restoration of constitutional liberty, with toe pres ervation of law and order, peace aud harmony, throughout the entire land, as it ought to do, theu a bright and glorious tntare awaits us. But if "it uow, at the very beginning, shrinks from the responsibility, and taiters and shows itself unequal to the task im posed upon it, then I care not how soon the cnrtaiu which hides future events shall fell opon my vision. Before starling for Europe Mr. Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador to France, wrote to the interpreter, at tached to the French Consulate at Shanghai, asking him to write a let ter intomiii.g the Paris foreign office that his wife would not be able to shake hands or dine with gentlemen. Should any official desire an intro duction, tiie acquaintance ’ must be confined to a distant courtesy: m ''~ is strictly Confncian and Chinese, techt the roses on the bushes, and the next tiling it was broad day ; the sun fairly blared; ike birds sang like they’d split their little throats: all the leaves was movin’, and fllashin’ diamonds of dew aud the whole world was bright aud happy as a king. Seemed to me like there was a good breakfast in e ery house ia the land, and uot a sick ckilJ or woman anywhere. It was a fine niorniu’ “And I »ays to my neighbor, ‘That’s music, that is.’ “But he glar’d at me like he’d like to cut my throat. “Presently, the winds turned; it begun to thicken n:>, and a kind of grey mist come over things; I got low- spirited d’rcctly.-Tlien a silver rain begun to fail- I could see toe drops touch the ground ; some flashed up 1 ke l oug pearl ear rings, and the rest roied away like round rabies. It was pretty, but nielaiicoly. Then .the pearls gathered them selves into long strands and necklaces, and then they melted into thin silver streams .running between golden gravels, and then the streams joined each other at the bot tom of the hill, and made a brook that fllowed silent, except that you could kinder see the music, specially when the bushes ou the banks moved os the music went down the vailey. I could smell,,the flowers in the meadow. But the suu didn’t shine, nor the birds sing; it was a foggy day, bnt not cold. Tne most curious thing, though, was the little white angel boy, like you see in pictures, that run ahead of the music book, and led it on and bn, away out of the world, where no man ever was —1 never was, certain. I could see that boy just as plain as I see you. Then the mooulight came, without any sunset, aud shone on the grave yards, where some few ghost lifted their hands and went over the wall, and between the black sharp top trees splendid marble houses rose up, with fine ladies in the lit up windows, and men that loved ’em, but could never get a nigh ’em, and played on guitars under the trees, and made me that miserable I could a cried because I wanted to love somebody, I don’t know who, better than the man with guitars did. Then the suu went down, it got dark, the wind moaned aud wept like a lost child for its dead mother, and I could a got up then. and tbar and preached a better sermon than I ever listened to. There wasn’t a thing in the world left to live for, not a blame thing; tod yet I did’t w^nt that music to stop one bit It was happier to be miserable than'to be happy without being miserable. I couldn’t’ under-' stand it. I bung my head and pulled nut my handkerchief^ and blowed my u >se loud to keep from cryiu’.. My eyes is weak anyway; I didn’t want anybody to ke a gazin’ at me a snivlin’, and its nobody’s business what I do with my nose. It’s mine. But some several glar-d at me, mad as Tucker. “Theu, all of a sadden, old Ruben changed his tune. He ripped and be rat’d, he tipped and tar’d, he praqced and be charged, like the gram! entry at a circus. -Feared to me that ali the gas in the house was turned on at once, things got so bright, and I hilt up my head, ready to look any man 1 — in the face, and not afisard of noth in'. It was a circus, and a brass baud, and a big ball, all goin‘ on at the same time. He lit into them keys like a—thousand of brick; he give 1 em no rest, day or night; he set evry livin' jint in me agoin, and not bein' able to stand it no longer, I jumpt spang onto my seat and just hollowered : “Go ft, my Rub* !” “Evry blamed man, woman and child in the bouse rizon me and shout ed, ‘Put him. out! put him out!' “Pat your great grandmother’s gtizzly grey greenish cat into the middle of next month 1’ I says. ‘Tech me if you dar! I paid ray ^ mom y, and vou jest come a nigh me.’ _ “With that, some several policemen rnn up, and I had to simmer dowr. But I would a' fit any fool that la d hands on me, for I ym bound So bear Ruby out or die. “Ho had changed liis tone agin. He hopt-light ladies and tip toed fine from eend to eend ot the key-board- He played soft, aud low, and solemn. I heard tiie church bells over toe hills. The candles in Heaven was lit, One by one I saw the stars rise. The great organ of eternity began to play from the world’s end to the world’s end, and all the angels went to prayt-rs. Then toe music changed to water, tuft of feeling that couldn t be thought, much less told about, and begun to drop—drip, drop, drip, drop—clear aud sweet, like tears of joy failin' into a lake of gl ry. It was sweeter than that. It was as a sweetheart sweetnin’ sweetness with white sugar mixt with powdered sils ver and seed diamond'. It was too sweet. I tell you the audieuce cheered Ruben he kinder bowel like lie wanted to say, ‘Much obleeged, but I’d rattier you wouldn’t iutt-rrup’ ‘He stopt a minute or two to fetch breath. Then he got mad. He run his fingers tiirongh his har, he shoved up his sieves, he opened his coal tails a little further, he dug up his stool, he leaned over, aud, sir, he just went for that old pianner. He slapt her face, lie boxed her jaws, he pulled her nose, he pinched her ears, and he scraiched her cheeks till she fairly yelled He knockt her down aud he stompt on her shameful. She bel lowed like a bull, she bleated like a calf, she howled like a hound, she squeeied like a pig, she shrieked like a rat, and then he wouldu’t let her up. He run a quarter stretch down the low-grounds ot the base, till ho got clean into the bowels of the earth, and you beard thunde'-galloping after thunder through the hollows and caves of perdition; and then he fox chased his right hand with his left, tell lie got away out of the trible into tbe clouds, whar the notes was finer than the pints of cambric tieedleg^and^yoa couldn’t "hear nothin” bVrtTuffffhad- Jers of’em. Aud theu he wouldn’t let the old pianner go. For’ard-two’d, he crost over first gentleman, he crost over first lady, he balanced to pards, he chassadc right and left, back to your places, he all hands’d aroun’, la dies to the right, promenade all, in and out, here and thar, back and forth, up and down, perpetual motion, doub le aud twisted and tied and turned and tacked and tangled into forty* ’leven thousand doable bow knots. By jings! it was a mixtery. And fhet he wouldn’t let the old pianner go. He fetcht up his right wing, he fetcht up his left wing, be fetcht up his centre, he fetcht up his reserves. He tired by file, he fired by platoons, by company, by regiments and by brigades. He opened his cannon, seige-gnns down thar, Napoleons here, twelve-pounders yonder, big guns, little guns, ntiJdle-sizu gnus, round shot, shells, shrapnels, grape, canisters, mortars, mince and maga zines, every livin’ battery and bomd a-goin’ at the same time. The house irimbled, the lights danced, the walls shuk, the floor come up’ the ceilin’ come-down, the sky split, the ground rockt; heavens and earth, creation, sweet potatoes, Moses, nine-peaces, glory, tea-penny uai's, my Mary Ann, hallelujah, sweet Caesar iu a siinmon tree, Jeroosai’m, Tump Thompson in a tumbler-cart roodle-oodle-oodle-ood- Ie-oodle-ruddle uddle-uddle-uddle ad dle—raddle -addlo- addle-addle* addle —tiddle-iddle-iddle-iddle—reetle-eet- le-eetle- cetle- ettle -cetle—p- r-r-r- r- lang! p-r-r-r-r-r-r-land 1 Bang! “With that bang,! he fitted hisself bodily into the ar, and he come down with his knees, his ten fingers, his ten '.oes, his elbows, and his nose, striking every single, solitary key on that pl anner at the same time. The thing busted, and went off into seventeen hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-two' hemi-demi- se mi-quivers, aud l kuow’d no mo.” “When I cpme to I were under ground about twenty foot, in a placs they call Oyster Bay, treatin’ a Yan kee tbat I never hud eyes on before, and never expect to agin. Day was breakin' by tbe lime I got to the St. Nicholas Hotel, and I pledge yon my word I didn’t know my name. The man asked me the number of room, and I told him, 'J/ot music on the half shell for ,tico! ’ I pintedly did. Mosks Adams. Cipher This. If our readers are inclined toward deciphering the mysterious, we offer them the aunexed puzzle and recom mend the original riddle to the care ful consideration of those of oar readers who think it means them. By a careful and contin ued application for a time it may be; solved, and we cannot bat think when solved, a very great length of time will elapse before tbe benefit of this It YOUR solution will be left in a PAPE form that we can really RPA. appreciate. This concln- sion, however, may bo problematic, bnt shall anxiously await its deter mination, trusting that it may be in our favor.—Ex, I FY OUO WEFO YU P 1 the contrary, sre Mmidercd wtahtof to conduce their subscription*. i. it subscribers order tke discontinuance o tliclr periodical*, tb« publishers raay continue to sosd them until all arraarasr* a*. paH. . S. It .Ufcscrtbcrc neglect or refese to taka Mi pcrfeiieala from the ofiec to wklek they an di rected, they rno fccU responsible until they huso settled thalr hill* and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers move to other plaeea without notifying publishers, and the papers are rent to the former direction, they are held responsible. 5. 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Southern banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1878-1879, April 01, 1879, Image 1