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The Cartersville Semi-Weekly Express. Published on every Tuesday and Friday Mornings VOLUME X. The Carlersvillc Express Is published Semi-Weekly cm every TUE - DAY AND FRIDAY, by S. H. SMITH & Cos., Editors and Prop’rs. Iu the town of < artersville, Bartow County, Ga. Terr j •? of Subscription: ONLY $2 A YEAR!!! INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Thursday Morning Edition, one year) 1.50 Thin latter proposition is confined to citizens of Bartow county only. Terms of Advertising: Transient (O it Month or Lms.'S per square often solid Nonpariel or Brevier lines or loss, One l»ollar for the first, and Fifty Cents for each sub sequent, Insertion. Annual or Contract, One Hundred and Twenty Dollars per column, or in that proportion. s>ijofeßßional (^ar^s. John W. Wolford, ATTORNEY AT LAW. CARTERSVI LLJC - GEORGIA. Office over Pinkerton’s Drug Store. Oct. 17. A. P. Wofford, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTKRSVILLH, GEORGIA. Office in the Court-House, June 28,1870. R. W. Wurpliey, ATTTORNEY AT LAW, . CAETERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention given to the col lection of claims. Office xvitb Col. Abda John son. OcC 1. John 4. Jones, ATTORNEY AT LAW & REAL ESTATE AGENT, OARTERBVILLE GEORGIA. Will attend promptly to all professional busi ness entrusted to his care; also, to the buying and selling of Real Estate. Jan 1. Jcre. A. Howard, Ordinary of Bartow County. OARTERBVILLE, GEORGIA. Jan 1,1870. A. M. Ponte, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ARTERSVILLE GEORGIA. ( With Col. Warren Akin,) Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb, Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Mmimy, Whitfield and ad joining counties. March 30. T. W. >ll J.NKU, . 0. n. MILNER. Milner A Milner, ATTORNEYS ‘AT LAW. CAUTERSVILLE, GEORGIA Will attend promptly to business entrusted to their care. Jan. 15. Warren Akin, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTKRBVII LE, GEORGIA. Will practice in all the courts of the Sl ate. Sam. IV. Patillo, Fashionable Tailor and Agent for Sewing Machines, WILL attend promptly to the Cutting. Ite paifir.it, and Making Boys’ and Mens’ '•Clothing; also. Agent for the sale of the cele brated Grover & Baker Sewing Machines. 01- iflcc over Stokely & Williams Store. Entrance 'from the rear. feb 17. %V. R. Monntea.sile, ■Jeweler and Watch and Clock Repairer, 'O ARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Office in trout of A. A. Skinner & Go’s Store. Kcnnc.saw House, MARIETTA, GEORGIA. 18 still open to the traveling public as well as summer visitors. Parties desiring to make arrangements for the season can be accommo dated! Rooms neat and clean and especially adapted for families. A tine large piazza has been recently added to the comforts of the estab lishment. FLETCHER & FREYER, junelSwtf Proprietors. S. O’SHIELDS, Fash ion able Ta iior 9 Cartersville, Georgia. HAVE just received the latest European and American styles of Mens’ and Boys’ Cloth ing, and is prepared to Cut and Making to or der. Office upstairs iu Liebmau’s store, East side of the Railroad. sept. 29. Dr. 4. A. Jackson, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OFFICE IN THE ME W DR UO STORE. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Jan 4th, 1871. WM. 0. BOWLER, MANUFACTURER OF, AND DEALEH IIST, SINGLE AND DOUBLE HARNESS, Saddles, COLLARS, LEATHER, &C. KErAIRISti IM>.\ i: With neatness and dispatch. afiy-Shop « n West Main Street, near the old Market House, CAItTJEIISVILLE, GA. feb 21-wly WM. O BOWLER. GEAR SHOP." hv w. c. mwmm, CARTERSVILLE, GA. M/nufacturer of Harness, Bri tilt s, Gear, etc*, and Dealer in « , Saddles, Leather. Repairing done on short, notice. Work war ranted to stand the test. Hides Wanted, jan. 24,187t.-swly ~ 1 I>»*. Me. JoUiwon, ,)EXT,ST * 'iff •• 5 Cartersville , Ga. Teeth drawn without pain, by the use oi nar cotic spray. inch 9. J. T. OWEN, JEWELER, Main Street, Cartersville, Ga.. Will furnish anything in his lipe as cheap as It can be bought anywhere. Tie is'always at his post, ready to serve liis customers. Every thing war an ted to give satistaetiou. SHARP &ELOYD, Successors to Geo. SHARP, Jr., ATLANTA, GA„ Wholesale And Retail Jewelers, We Keep a Large and Varied Assortment of FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, AND SPECTACLES. SMB MSm WME, A SPECIALTY. We Mamifactuae Tea Sets, Forks, Spoons. Goblets, Cups, Knives, etc. Tfi?emiumß Ifor t .Agricultural Jfaitis. We are prepared to fill any order for Fairs at short notice; also to give any information in regard to Premiums. Orders by mail or in person, will receive prompt and careful attention. We ask a com parison of Stock, Prices and Workmanship with any house in the State. Watches and Jewelry carefully Repaired and Warranted. Masonic Badges and Sunday School Badges made to order. AH Work Guaranteed. ENGRAVING FREE OF CHARGE. SHARP & FLOYD. May 28, sxvly. R EA D IT is well known to Doctors and to Ladies that Women are subject L yv to numerous diseases pc- Ji WA culiar to their sex—such as Suppression of the JFvmi.-AiO*' Menses, Whites, Painful M’nthlv ‘Periods.’ Rheu mutism of the Back and vR-A Womb, Irregular Men- •'• struation, lfemorrhage. or Excessive ‘Flow,’and AS|jjgpJssNfigP» Prolapsus Interior Fall ing of the Womb. ,* These diseases have sol ■-= dom been treated successfully. The profession has sought dilligeutly fbr some remedy that wo’ld enable them to treat these diseases with success. At last, that remedy has been discovered by one of the most skilful physicians in the State of Georgia. The remedy is Bradfield’s Female Regulator. It is purely vegetable, and is put up in Atlan ta, by braDkield & CO. It will purify the blood and strengthen the system, relieve irritation of the kidneys, and is a perfect specific for all the above diseases; as certain a cure as Quinine is in Chills and Fevers. For a history of diseases, and certificates ofits worderful cures, the reader is referred to the wrapper around the bottle. Every bottle war ranted to give satisfaction or money refunded. LaGrangk, Ga., March 23,1870. BRADFTELD & CO., ATLANTA, G A.: Dear Sirs: T take pleasure in stating that 1 have used, for the last twenty years, the medi cine you are putting ,ip, known as OR. J. BRAD FIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR, and con sider it the best combination ever gotten to gether for the diseases for which it is recom mended. r have been familiar with the pre scription both as a practitioner of medicine and in domestic practice, and can honestly say that 1 ttonsider it a boon to suffering females, and can but hope that every lady in our whole land, who may be suffering' in any way peculiar to their sex. may be able to procure a bottle, that their sufferings may not only be relieved, but that they may he restored to health & strength. With my kindest regards, I am, respectfully, W. B. FERRELL, M. D.' We, the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure in commending to the trade, Dr. .T. Bradfield’s Female Regulator—believing it to be a good and reliable remedy for the diseases for which he recommends it. W. A. LANS DELL, PEMBERTON, WILSON, TAYLOR & CO. RE DIVINE & FOX, W. C. LAWSHE, Atlanta, Ga. W. ROOT & SON, Marietta, Ga. ACTS with gentleness and thoroughness upon the Liver and General Circula tion-keeps the Bowels in Natural Motion and Cleanses the System from all impuri ties- ! 1 . Never tail s'„ ~", ' 'to Cure Li v e rimr. 0. S. rrOphltTSlPisease in an y|| x | jform. Tor- l >i«11 - “ „ u , „ " ' t.y. Enlarg ment, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Loss of Ap petite, Nausea, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn. Debility, Low Spirits, Cold Feet and Hands, Costiveness, Listlessness, Colic, Chronic Diarrhea, and Chronic Chills and Fever. Compouned in strict accordance with skillful chemistry ami scientific pharmacy, this purely veg-1 " ' -—-“T- - iteta b 1 e Compo un and | [has. after the severe- II CELEBRATED | lest test of t w entyj I lyears in cessant usej ' """"J.-..'.' ;~Tfi>eon stvl ed the Gkkat Restorative and Recuperant by the enlightened testimony of thousands us ing it; so harmoniously adjusted that it keeps the Liver in healthful action; and when the directions are observed the process of waste and replenishment in the human system con tinues uninterruptedly to a ripe old age, and man, like the patriarchs of old, drops into the grave full of years, and without a struggle, whenever i* ' ' r ~”’*** ID hath claims his ~ , ! 'preroga tive. Ada- irLiver Medicme.iiptedto the most! | | Idclicate tempo r a-^~* ; 11 ~~, ‘“‘inont & robust constitution, it can be given with equal safety and success to the yeuug child, invalid lady or strong man. j line 2,1871, Bridles, HR. O. S. PROPRITT’S Anodyne Pain Kill It. NEVER FAILING! KILLS PAIS IN EVERY FORM. Cl URES Pain* in the Back, Chest, Ilips or j Limbs, Rheumatism, Xcuralgia, Coughs, Colds, Bronchial Affections, Kidney Diseases, Dys pepsia, Liver Complaint ; Colic, Cholera, Cholera Morbus , Pleurisy, Asthma, Heart Burn, Tooth Ache, Jaw Ache, Ear Ache, Head Ache, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Contusions, Sores, Lacerated- Wounds, Scalds, Burns, Chill Blains, Frost Bites. Poisons, of all kinds, vegetable or animal. Os all f|pAIN KILL IT! the Remedies ever discovered for the relief of suffering humanity, this is the best Pain Medica tor. k>uncn to Medical Science. The cure is speedy and permanent in the most inveterate diseases. This is no humbug, but a grand medical discovery. A Pain Killer containing no poison to inflame, puralize or drive the inflammation upon an in ternal organ. Its efficiency is truly wonderful —Relief is Instantaneous. It is destined to banish pains and aches, wounds and bruises, from the face ol'the earth, may 6, 1871. CERTIFICATES: We, the undersigned, haved used Hr. Proph itt’s Prepaartious, and take pleasure in recom mending them to the public, as being all he claims for them: Col. R J Henderson, Covington, Ga.; 0 T Rog ers, Covington, Ga.; O S Porter, Covington, Ga.; Prof. J L Jones, Covington, Ga.; Rev. M W Ar nold, Georgia Conference; Rev. W W Oslin, Ga. Conference; K M Swanson, Monticello, Ga.; Ro bert Barnes, Jasper County, Ga.; AMRobinson, Monticello, Ga.; James Wright, Putnam county, Ga.; A Westbrook, Putnam county, Ga.; Judge ,TJ Floyd, Covington, Ga.; W L Bcbce, “Cov ington Enterprise,”; A H Zachry, Conyers, Ga; George Wallace, Atlanta, Ga.; Dick Lockett, Davis county, Texas; W Hawk Whatley, Cus seta, Texas; W C Roberts, Linden countv, Tex as: Tommy & Stewart, Atlanta, Ga; W A Lans dell, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga; R F Maddox & Cos.; Atlanta, Ga.; Uriah Stephens, Cartersville, Ga.; A N Louis, Lowndes countv, Ga.; Joseph Land, Lowndes county, Ga.; J as. Jefferson. Carters ville, Ga.; W I. Ellis, Dooly county, Ga.; W A Forehand, Dooly county, Ga.;John B. Davis Newton Factory, Ga.; B F Bass, Lowndues eo. CARTERSV ILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEP’T 'I'Z 1871. Church Directory. Methodist Church, Rev. John T. Norris, Supernumerary. The pulpit of this Church is filled, the first Sab bath in each inonth. by Rev. Wit. H. Felton; the 2nd Sabbath in each month, by Rev. Jas. W. Harris; the 3rd Sabbath in each month, by Rev. j so. T. Norris; the 4th Sabbath in each inonth, by Rev. I)k, W. W. Leak. Ser vices every Sunday night. Prayer meeting held on Wednesday evening of each week. Sabath School Sunday mornings, com mencing at 9 o’clock. Baptist Cliurcli. Rev. Robert H. Headkx, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday and Sunday night by the Pastor. Prayer Meeting held on Thursday' night of each week. Sabbatli School every Sunday morning com meucing at 9 o’clock. Presbyterian Church. Rev. Theodore E. Smith, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night, by the Pastor. Prayer Meeting held on Tuesday evening of each week. Sabbath School every Sunday morning,! com mencing at 9 o’clock. Episcopal Cliurcli. Rev. Alexander J. I>rysdale, Rector. Preaching every Second Sunday in each month, commencing at half past four o'clock, p. m. Services, in the future, will be held in the building belonging to JDr. W. W. Leak, in the rear of the new Methodist Church. THE CAUSE ANDCure OF CONSUMPTION. —The primary cause ofConsumption is derange ment of the digestive organs. This derange ment produces deficient nutrition and assimila tion. Ry assimilation I mean that process by which tlie nutriment of the food is converted into blood, and thence into the solids of the body. Persons with digestion thus impaired, having the slightest predisposition to pulmon ary disease, or if they take cold, will be very liable to have Consumtion of the Lungs in some of its forms; and I hold that it will be impossi ble to cure any case of Consumption without first restoring a good digestion and healthy as similation. The very first thing to be done is to cleanse the stomach and bowels from all dis eased mucus and slime, which is clogging these organs so that they cannot perform their func tions, and then rouse up and restore the liver to a healthy action. For this purpose the surest and best*remedy Is Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. These Pills clean the stomach and bowels of all the dead and morbid slime that is causing dis ease and decay in the whole system. They will clear out the liver of all diseased bile that has accumulated there, and rouse it up to anew and healthy action, by which natural and healthy bile is secreted. The stomach, bowels, and liver are thus clean sed by the use of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills; hut there remains in the stomach an excess of acid, the organ is torpid and the appetite poor. In the bowels the lacteals are weak, and requiring strength and support. It is in a con dition like this that Schenck’s Seaweed Tonic proves to be the most valuable remedy ever dis covered, It is alkaline, and it use will neutra lize all excess of acid-, making the stomach sweet and fresh; it will give permanent tone to this important organ, and create a good, hearty appetite, and prepare the system for the first process of a good digestion, and ultimately makegood, healthy, living blood. After this preparatory treatment, what remains to cure most cases of Consumption is the free and per severing use of Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup. The Pulmonic Syrup nourishes the system, purifies the blood, aiid is readily absorbed into the cir culation, and thence distributed to the diseased lungs. There it ripens all morbid whether in the form of abscesses or tubercles, and then assists Nature to expel all the disease matter, in the torm of free expectoration, when once it ripens. It is then, by the great healing and purifying properties of SchencVs Piumonic Syrup, that ail ulcers and cavities are healed up sound, and my patient is cured. The essential thing to be done in curing Con. sumption is to get up a good appetite and a good digestion, so that the body will grotv in flesh and get strong. If a person has diseased lungs.—a cavity or abseess there,—the cavity cannot heal, the matter cannot ripen, so long as the system is below par. What is necessary to cure is anew order of things,—a good appe tite, a good nutrition, the body to grow in flesh and get fat; tlieu Nature is helped, the cavities will heal, the matter will ripen and be thrown otf in large quantities, and the person regain health and strength. This is the true and only plan to cure Coi sumption, and if a person is very bad, if the lungs are not entirely destroy ed, or even if one lung is entirely gone, if there is enough vitality left in the other to heal up, there is hope. I have seen many persons cured with only one sound lung, live and enjoy life to a good old age. %'his is what Schenck’s Medizmesfvvill do to cure Consumption, They will clean out the stomach, sweeten and strengthen it, get up a good digestion, and give Nature the assistance she needs to clear the system of all the disease that is in the lungs, whatever the form may be. It is important that while using Schenck’s Medicines, care should he exercised not to take cold; keep in-doors in cold and damp weather; avoid night air, and take out-door exercise only in a genial and warm sunshine. I wish it distinctly understood that when I recommend a patient to he careful in regard to taking cold, while using my Medicines, I do so for a special reason. A man who has but par tially recovered from the effects of a had cold is far more liable to a relapse than one who has been entirely cured; and it is precisely the same in regard to Consumption. So long as the lungs are not perfectly healed, just so long is there imminent danger of a full return of the disease. Hence it is that Iso strenuously cau tion pulmonary patients against exposing themselves to an atmosphere that is not genial and pleasant. Confirmed Consumptives’lungs are a mass of sores, which the least change of atmosphere will inflame. The grand secret of my success with my Medicines consists in my ability to subdue inflammation instead of pro voking it, as many of the faculty do. An in flamed lung cannot, with safety to the patient, he exposed to the biting blasts of Winter or the chilling winds of Spring or Autumn. It shoul be carefully shielded from all irritating influ ences. The utmost caution should he observed in this particular, as without it a cure under almost any circumstances is an impossibility. The person should he kept on a wholesome and nutritious diet, and all the Medicines con tinued until the body has restored to it the nat ural qunnity of flesh and strength. I was myself cured by this treatment of the worst kind of Consumption, and have lived to get fat and hearty these many years, with one lung mostly gone. I have cured thousands since, and very many have been cured by- this treatment whom L have never seen. About the First of October I expect to take possession of my new building, at the North east Corner of Sixth and Arch Sreets, where I shall be pleased to give advice to all who may require it. Full directions accompany all my Remedies, so that a person in any part of the world can he readily cured by a strict observance of the same. J.H.SCHENCK, M D,, Philadelphia. JAS. W. STRANGE, Dealer In, and Manufacturer ,0f TIJf WARE, A\D House-Furnishing' Goods, ALSO DEALER IN First-Class Stoves At The Lowest Cash Prices . WILL BARTER FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE, RAOS, AC. Cartersville, Jan. 20th, ’7l-ly. Brick and Stone Mason, CARTERSVILLE, GA. ]»• prepared to do any of the above work upon short notice ami at low figuera “Onward arid Upward.” g 9 E . __ A GEORGIA VOLIATEEK. BY XARIFr. We find tbe following touching lines in the Richmond -Eaquirer. They were written by Mrs. Townsend, at a neglected grave of one who was a member of the Twelfth Georgia, a reg iment whose gallantry was conspieious on every field where its colors waved, and which won praise for peculiar daring even among the ‘‘foot cavalry” of Jackson: Far up the lonely mountain side, My' wandering footsteps led: The moss lay thick beneath my feet, The pine sighed overhead. The trace of a dismantled fort Lay in the forest nave. And in the shadow near my path, I saw a soldier’s grave. The bramble wrestled with the weed Upon the lowly mound, The simple head board, rudely writ, Had rotted on the ground; I raised it with a reverent hand, From dust its words to clear; But time had blotted all but these— “A Georgia Volunteer” I saw the toad aud scaly snake From tangled coverts start, And hide themselves among the weeds Above the dead man’s heart; But undisturbed in sleep profound, Unheeding, there he lay— His coffin but the mountain soil, His shroud, Confederate gray. I heard the Shenandoah roll Along the vale below, I saw the Alleghanies rise Towards the realms of snow. Tbe “Valley campaign” rose to inind- Its leader’s name—and then I knew the sleeper had been one Os Stonewall Jackson’s men. Yet whence he came, what lip shall say, What tougue will ever tell, What desolated hearths and hearts Have been because he fell ? What sad eyed maiden braids her hair, Her hair which he held dear ? One lock of which, perchance, lies with ’ • The Georgia Volunteer. What mother with long-watching eyes, And white bps eeld aud dumb, Waits with appalling patience for Her darling boy to come ? Her boy, whose mountain grave swells up, But one of many a scar Cut on the face of our fair laud By gory-handed war! What fights he fought, what wounds he wore, Are all unknown to fame: Remember, on his lonely grave There is not e’en a name ! That he fought well, and bravely, too, Aud held his country dear, We know—else he had never been “A Georgia Volunteer He sleeps—what need to question now If he were wrong or right, He knows, ere this, whose cause was just In God, the Father’s sight. He wields no warlike weapons now, Returns no foeman’s thrust— Who, but a coward, would revile An honest soldier’s dust ? Roll, Shenandoah, proudly roll Adown thy rocky glen; Above thee lies the grave of one Os Stonewall Jackson’s men ! Beneath the cedar and the pine, In solitude austere. Unknown, unnamed, forgotton lies “A Georgia Volunteer ! The first willow tree ever planted in A merica, was out on the line of the present Third avenue, New York city, one hundred and eighty years ago. It was a willow twig which came in a package of figs from Baby lon ; was stuck into the ground, and in two years became quite a large tree. This is in all respects true.— Lexington Dispatch, The Atlanta Fair commenc-s October the 16th and continues for five days. Ten thou sand dollars in premiums are offered, and provisions have been made for the comfort of twenty five thousand visitors. We return thanks to Mr. Sam’l A. Echols, Secretary, for a complimentary season tick et. The Gainesville Eagle learns that some Ohio capitalists have recently bought, some valuable property on thp Chestatee river, on the line of Hall county, Ga', and will change the current of the river, so as to work out the gold, of which the bed is full. Cartecay river in Gilmer county, at Cartecay mines, is also being turned, for a like purpose. A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing from Rockingham county, Va,, says: “A strange freak of nature has taken place in the track of the severe hailstorm that occurred in this region some three weeks ago. We are not aware of anything of the kind occurring heretofore. It is this: that all the orchards in thetrack of the hail storm' have come out in full bloom. Some orchards are in as full bloom as they ever were in the springs Not only are ..he ap ples in bloom, but the locust trees ip many places are also in bloom. A gentleman came to my house, last week, and told me, ou his road here, he saw an apple tree with several bushels of ripe apples on it, and thousands of blooms on the same tree. A very pretty but strange sight.” jfcaT New corn has found its way to the Knoxville market, and sells at iif ty cents per busheL &b & r&i on a. ELSEWHERE REST. “I am very lired, Master ; Weary of the day, Bid me lay my toil aside, Sleep the noon away.’* But the Friend who knows and loves me best, Breathes in gentle answer, ‘Elsewhare rest.’ “I am very tired, Master, Weary of my sin. Bid Thy Spirit haste its work, Make me pure within,” Clean and pure in peaceful whiteness dress ed.” • But the Master whispers, ‘Elsewhere rest.’ “I am very tired, Master, Weary of my pain. One sweet healing touch from Thao Makes me sound again. Is there not a Gilead balm confessed V* Still the voice respondeth, ‘Elsewhere rest.’ “I am very tired, Master, Weary of the strife Os the heavy armor borne, Os the shock ciflife ; Touch with blessed balm both brow and breast. Hark! “Fight on, my soldiers—‘Elsewhere rest,” “I am very tired, soldier, When I bore thy pain, Fought thy fight and shed my blood For thy garments’ staiu ; Fainted with thy burden on the tree! Wilt thou not endure an hour—for Me t” “I am very tired, Master, But my love is strong, I will follow Thee, my Master, Though the way be long, Till the hot sun seaks the dewy west, And tlie “Elsewhere” brings the blessed “rest.” THE BEAUTIFUL GATE. Lord open the door, for I falter ; I faint in this stifled air, In dust and straightness I lose my breath ; This life of self is a living death ; Let me into thy pastures broad and fair, To the sun and the wind from thy moun tains free; Lord, open the door to me ! There is a holier life and truer Than ever my heart has found , There is a nobler work than is wrought— within These walls so charred by the fires of sin, Where I toil like a captive blind and bound : An open door—to a freer task In Thy nearer smile I ask. Yet the world is Thy field, Thy Garden ; On earth art thou still at home ; When Thou bendest hither Thy hallowing eye, My narrow work-room seems vast and high, Its dingy ceiling—a rainbow dome ; Stand ever thus by my narrow door, And toil will be toil—no more. Through the rosy portals of morning, Now the tides of sunshine flow Over the earth and the glistening sea, The praise thou inspirest rolls back te Thee, Its tones through the infinite arches go ; Yet crippled and dumb behold me wait, Dear Lord 1 at the beautiful gate. CHILD AT PRAYER. “Now lay me”—say it, darling. “Lay me,” lisped the tiny lips Os my darling, kneeling, bending O’er her tiny finger-tips. “Down to sleep”—“To sleep,” she mur mured, And her curly head dropped low. “I pray the Lord,” I gently added— “ You can say it all, I know.” “Fray the Lord”—the words came faintly ; Fainter still, *‘My soul to keep”—• Then the tired head fairly nodded, And the child was fast asleep. But the dewy eyes half opened, When I clasped her to my breast: And the dear voice softly whispered— “Mamma, God knows all the rest.” s£2FH)ne of the most graceful stanzas ever addressed a woman, was that of an English nobleman, Lord Herbert, to an Italian Nun: “Die when you will, you need not wear, At Heaven’s Court, a form more fair Than Beauty at your birth has given ; Keep but the lips, the tyes we see, The voice we hear, and you will be An angel ready made for Heaven !” [Exchange. Heaven help the man who im agines that he can dodge enemies by trying to please everybody! If such an individual ever succeeded, we should be glad of it—not that one should be going through the world trying to find beams to knock and thump his head against, disputing every man’s opinion; fighting and elbowing, and crowding all who differ from him. That, again, is another extreme. Other people have their opinions; so have we. Don’t fall into the error of supposing they will respect you more for turning your coat every day to match the color of theirs. Wear your own clothes, in spite of wind and weather, storm and sunshine. It costs the irresolute and vascilating ten times the trouble to wind atid shuf fle and twist than honest, manly inde pendence to stand its ground. Fretting is the doctor’s best friend all over the world. *-’*«>< \ > ■» A Sad Warning (o Husband*. In a village not a thousand miles from West Union lives a family. The house of this family was visited one day by a peripatetic vendor of cheap dry goods, who inveigled the calico half to select finery to the value of ten dol lars, for which she guaranteed her hus band to pay. Meeting him on the street, payment was demanded and peremptorily refused. Mr. Pedler would have pay or his goods. Mr. Familyman told him to gnaw a tile and tlee nnto the mountains of Hepsi dam. The merchandize fouud its way again to his pack. The pot boiled, and stewed, and fumed, and by the time the lord and master found his way home there was the devil to pay— if not the pedler. The way the brooms, mops, wooden bowls, tin pans and dishes flew about his head was start ling to timid nerves. She’d learn him not to pay her bills, the miserable scoot! That was all she kept him for, and if he couldn’t do that he might git! As the crockery was getting a little more numerous, he considered it advisable to git! He now paftakes of his hash at a hotel and anxiously awaits the ar rival of a flag of truce with an an nouncement that terms of peace will be considered. All husbands can see the warning. [ West Union (loica) Gazette. The Fallen Youth. I went, a few days ago, into a jail to see a young man who was once a Sab bath School scholar. The keeper took a large bunch of keys, and led us through the long, gloomy halls where sat the young man we had come to see. The walls of the room were of course stone, the floor of thick plank, and before the windows were strong iron bars. Without, all was beautiful; the green fields, the sweet flowers and the sing ing birds were as lovely as ever, but this young man could enjoy none of these—no, never again could ho go out, for he was condemned to death. Yes, he had killed a man, and now he him self must die. Think of it; only twen ty years old—and a murderer. I sat down beside him, aud talked with him. “Oh,” said he, as the tears, rolled down his cheeks, “I did not mean to do it, but I was drunk; then I got augry, and before I knew what I was about, I killed him. Oh if I had minded my mother, I should never have come to this—l should never have been here.” It would have made your heart ache, as it did mine, to see aud talk with him. Once he was a happy, playful child like you, now he is a poor con demned, wicked young man. He did not mind his mother, did not govern his own temper, aud as he grew' older he went with bad boys who taught him bad habits; and he became worse and worse, until, as he said, when drunk, in a moment of passion, he kill ed a man, and now', after a few weeks, he must suffer the dreadful penalty.— As I left him, he said, “Will you pray for me ?” and he added, “Oh tell the boys everywhere to mind their moth ers and keep away from bad company. [ American Messenger. A C hapter on Butter, “Why is it my son, that when you drop your bread and butter it is al ways on the butter side ?” “Don’t know. It hadn’t orter, had it? The strongest side ought to be up, and this is the strongest butter I have ever seen.” “Hush—its some of your aunt’s churning.” “Did she churn it, the great lazy thing?” “What, your aunt?” “No, this here butter. To make the poor old woman churn it when it’s strong enough to churn itself.” “Hush, Zep, I’ve eat a great deal worse in the most aristocratic houses.” “Well, people of rank ought to eat lt * ‘Why ?” “Cause it’s rank butter.” “You varrnit, you ! what makes you talk so smart?” “Cause the butter has taken the skin off my tongue.” “Zep, don’t lie ! I can’t throw away the butter.” “I’ll tell you what I would do with it; keep in to draw blisters. You ought to see the flies keel over as soon as they touch it.”—index. •Sk-The following is the latest ver sion of the difference between the ages of ladies at 16 and 60, as given by “Chawles:” “At 16 careless and happy; At 60 hairless and eappy 1” Oh, the creature! the miserable creature! “Sir, did you intend to spit in my face ?” “I did.'" “You did, ha ? Well youd better not repeat your insult too often, for if you should once arouse the sleeping lion in my bi east, no one can imagine what m.ght be the conse quences 1” At a lladical barbecue the other day a black “man and brother” offer ed the following toast; “De Gubnor of Alabama—he cum in wid berry lit tle opposition; he will go out of ofliis wid none at aIL” Jolly Saratogans when the fun eral bells begin to toll, bet on the age of the deceased. S. 11. Smith ,?• Cos., Prnpriti,,^. avioftoij, - A Kacy Incident. Soon after the opening of the E**t Tennessee and Georgia railroad, there chanced to be traveling over Jthe line in a car where there were but a f e * passengers, a gentleman who was seat ed opposite the stove, wrapped np i n his shawl and meditations. Night came on. Presently in bounded a brakeman, loudly slamming the door behind him —one of those country geniuses, who, with a laudable ambi tion, had a day or two agone abandon ed the girls, the fiddle and the plow tail, to climb in the world ’ and be came a brakeman. He had been tho the neighborhood frol ics, at thenouse raisings, at the con shuekings, and at the cross road’s dog gery fighting ground, and now he felt sure that he was kingbee on railroads. Strutting up to the stovo, he slammed down his mntern, kicked the mud from his huge boots on the foot- board of the seat, spit tobacco juice copiously and noisily on the hissirg stove, cross ed his muscular thighs, took a survey of the aforesaid boots with harness leather straps, and then belhougUt himself of the ’customer’ sitting oppo site, on whom he proceeded to bestow a lengthened and saucy look, as though he doubted the ’ customer’s’ right to be in coach at all. At length he sought knowledge: “Whar ar you gwine, mister?’ ‘To Dalton, sir,’ responded the geu tleman, quietly. ‘Preacher, ain't you ?’ ‘No sir, lam not; but why do you ask?* Oh ! nothing, only I thought I saw ‘Hark from the Tombs sticking out all over you, like the measles. You know me, I reckon ?’ ‘I am sorry to say I do not.’ ‘Well, I’ll just be derned; why, whar the devil where you raised ?’ ,At Maryville, East Tennessee.’ •Oh! that excuses you, for if ever I heard tell ov that settlement afore I wish I may be durued, aud I knows every place, I dua.’ ‘You seem to be well acquainted with the place you are occupying,’ re marked the stranger, almost choking with efforts to suppress his laughter. ‘What place do you mean, Mister ? This ere red bench, covered with dried skins of cow’s tongues, ar my office.’ ‘I alluded to your office, and by the way, what is your position on the road ?’ ‘Brakeman ! By the jumpin gemi my I thought everybody knowed that: brakeman over the Yeast Tennessee and Georgia railroad.’ ‘Unfortunately, I did not know it/ ‘Well, you’d soon found the fac’out if you’d cut up any shines ronn hero, huggin’ wimruin, or cussing, or trying tobteal anybody’s carpet bag, or talk ing sassy, to the conductor, or sich —Why, I’d a chucked you bottom foremost thru’ that winder, like dar tin’ clap-boards thru’ the cracks ova barn, for I mean to run this ere train on high moral principles, I dns. An’ you didn’t, know I was the brakeman on this yere railroad V 'lndeed, sir,l did not T 'Well, old Slideeasy, all I has to say is that for a man of your looks you knows les3 than any uian I ever saw. How do rau manage to make a livin’ euyhow 7* ‘I receive a salary; I am President of this road; Wallace is my name; but I have not the pleasure of knowing yours; will you be kind enough to in form me ?’ All symptons of ’ king bee’ disap peared at this thunderbolt announce ment. and in the stead were seen tim id humility, crushed pride of place, a strong ’ ge f - up and git’ expression* and a , doggoned ’ appearance gener ally. The Brakeman slid. kgU “A Tennessee farmer who went to Texas to buy a farm, was greatly prejudiced against the cour.try he thought to settle id, from the fact that a doctor whom he cal!ed to attend him when he was seized with a fever, began trying on his clothes immediate ly after a prescription. The fact that while the doctor was trying on his coat, the chambermaid was examining his handkerchiefs, and the porter was. struggling with his boots, lent wings, to his imagination, and doubtless an influence in regard to his. speedy exit from the State.” A Yankee having told an Englishman that he shot, on one particular occasion, 9'jO snipe, his interlocutor asked him why h* didn’t make it a thousand at once. “No,” said he ; “not likely I’m going to tell a lie for one snipe.” Whereupon the Englishman rii*«U and determined not to he outdone, began t*» tell a long story of a man having swam from Liverpool to Boston. “Bid you see him?” asked the yankeo suddenly. “Did you see him yourself!” “Why, yes; of course I did. I was com ing across, and our vessel passed him a mile out of Boston harbor.” “Well, I’m glad you saw him. stranger, ’cos you’re a witness that I did it- %*** was me” — Patriot. At a school in Newcastle, the ter asked a class of boys the of the word pause, one little boy T ANARUS, * v 6ir:. whea I’m eatin’ I a PPJ» when I’m done I’m tight. whom he was coiut g^ before » girl arrested for that. M'MIiKR.H