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WAS IT AN AMERICAS DISH ! An amusing story is told, of which it is averred that no less a personage than the late George Peabody, the celebrated Amer ican banker, was the hero. It appears thnt Mr. Peabody had invited three Kng lishmcn to meet two Americans at dinner, and on this occasion, having received as a gift ten ears of green corn, determined to renew the recollections of his youth aston ish his English ami please his American guests lv having it served up in the well known American style. Accordingly, at a proper time, plates of butter and salt were placed before each guest, and the banker, with something of an air of mystery, cnnounced that he was now about to treat his guests to a well known and delicious American dish of food, cooked in the American manner. It would bo no novelty to his American guests, but the Englishmen must watch how it was disposed of by them, and fol low their example and manner in disposing of it. Then, at the signal, entered a state ly servent bearing a large covered dish, which he deposited solemnly before Mr. Peabody. In a moment more, in obedi ence to the banker's nod. he whisked off the cover, and there, before the astonished guests, was displayed a pile of ten corn cobs. The banker gazed for an instant in mute horror and dismay, and then found voice to demand an explanation, which was fi nally reached when the cook was summon ed—a fellow who had never before seen an ear of Indian corn in his life. He replied that he had followed his master’s directions to “ strip off the outside before boiling,” which he had done most faithfully, not only husks, as was intended, but grains al so, so that the banker had only what is, in America, the mute evidence of the feast to indicate what were his good intentions to his guests. O, (■i.'orK'!'! What a Damsel. She was young and fair, and a tear glis tened in her eye as she laid her curly head on his shoulder and exclaimed : “<>, George ! I think if I found you did not love me, I should die.” “My darling,” he answered, passing his hand gently around her dimpled chin, '• I will always love you. Do you think 1 would marry you if I did not feel sure of it? In a few flays at the altar I shall vow to love you all my life, and 1 will keep my vow.” A lovely kind of beatific happiness played for a moment like sunshine on her lips, and then she whispered : ”<), George! 1 like to hear you talk that ; you have been so good to me. You have given me a diamond locket, and agold watch and chain, and rings that an angel might wear outside her gloves and not be ashamed, and if I thought that one day you’d be sorry you’d given me all these nice things and want them back again 1 should break my heart!” He held her gently against Ins manly breast, and answered with a quivering voice: ”0, my own darling ! there is nothing on earth that could happen that would make me repent giving you a few tokens of my love, or make me want them back again.” She sprang from his arms like a jo} r ous deer, she shook back her sunny curls, and with a whole poem in her hazel eyes, ex claimed : “ O, George 1 you have taken a load from my heart. I’ve come to say that I can’t marry’you after all, because I’ve seen some body I like better, and I thought you’d want your presents back again.” Tory True. Anderson Intelligencer. We regret to see, in Governor Hamp ton’s interview with a reporter of the New York Herald , that he has thought fit to express a belief that the great bulk of our State debt is perfectly legitimate. AA'ith out the Governor had personally examined the details of this debt he should not ex press any opinion concerning its nature, while the whole subject is undergoing a judicial investigation which he recommend ed. Such statements are calculated to in fluence the investigation. AVhat the peo ple want now is the truth as founded on facts connected with the creation of this debt, and not the off-hand belief of any person. The governor also makes a mis take. we think, in supposing Mr. Ilayes to he “ a true man, who understands the wants of the entire country.” No one ran be a true man who accepts an office which he knows to have been stolen from the peo ple. No one can be a true man who makes such appointments as Stone for Distrct At torney, or Dunn and Drayton for Collectors of Internal Revenue in South Carolina, or of Chamberlain for Solicitor of the Treas ury. Governor Hampton is evidently over gratified for the removal of the troops, which measure Mr. Hayes was starved into by the Democratic House failing to vote money to support the army while it was engaged in coercing sovereign States. A Very Itiul Boy. A bad boy thus describes his misdeeds and their punishments in a letter to a chum : My sister Em has got a feller who has been coming to see her most every night for some time. Night before last just to have a little fun, I went into the parlor, and crawled under the sofa, and waited there till he an’ Em had got settled ; and jnst as he was asking her if she was willing to be come his dear partner for life, and trust to his strong right arm for protection and sup port, I gave three red-hot Indian war whoops, and bumped myself up against the bottom of the sofa, and tired off an old horse pistol that I had borrowed of Sam Johnson, and my gracious how that feller jumped up and scooted for the door! He never stopped to get his hat, but went tum bling heels over head down the door steps. As for Em, she was just that scared that* she sot right down on the ffoor and screech ed like blue blazes, till dad and mothe/' came running in, just as they got* out of bed and wanted to know what the matter was. But Em only yelled louder and pointed under the sofa, till dad got down on his knees, and saw me there, and pull ed me out by the hind leg. When he had got me out in the wood-shed, he wrapped me over his knee ; and then went at me with an old trunk strap, and I haven't got over it yet. Slwn tlrllvral Jarknoii Jlnile Him *y. Hartford Courant. The keeper of a feertain boarding-house, when Andrew Jackson was President, waited on him. one day, and complained that a Tennesseean who had been appoint ed by him to clerkship in one of the de partments, would not pay a board bill. ** Get his note,” said old Hickory, “for the full amount, interest included, payable in sixty days, and bring it to me.” “ Thnt will be of no use,” replied the hoarding-house keeper, “ for he never pays his notes.” “Doas I tell you sir,” said Jackson as he turned away. The next day the boarding-house keeper reappeared at the White House, and handed the note to the President. He took it, read it, wrote “ Andrew Jackson” across the back, in his well-known autograph, and handed it back, saving : “Take that to the Dank of Metropolis, and toll them for me that, nt its maturity, it will he paid by either the drawer or the indorser. They will discount it for you.” A few days afterward the man who bad given the note met his creditor, and taunt ingly said : “ Well, I suppose you have been able to negotiate my paper?” “ Yes,” replied trie boarding-house keep er, “I had no trouble in getting it discount ed at legal rates of interest.” “ Who in the thunder is willing to dis- count my notes?” asked the Tennesseean. “ The Hank of the Metropolis discounted the one you gave me, upon the assurance that if you did not pay it the indorser would.” “ Hut who would indorse my note?” “ General Jackson. And he sent word to the hank that if you did not pay the note he would.” It is hardly necessary to add that the note was promptly paid by the maker. An Answer to Prayer. The Boston Traveler says: A well known and much esteemed gentleman of this city, who by a peculiar accident be came impoverished, was one day not very long since without food in his house for himself and family, though bis acquaint ances and friends never imagined that he was brought to such distress. He went to his closet and prayed for help, and that very day he received through the post office a letter containing a tcn-dollar bill. He does not know to this hour, nor has be the least idea where the letter came from, and he implicitly believes God heard and answered that prayer. The cloud that overshadowed him has since been removed, and he is now employed where he earns a support for his family. “She Knows Her Bl*. 1 ’ “ How noble ! AVhat a kind heart that girl has !” said an enraptured spectator at a party the other evening to a friend. “Do you not observe.” he continued, “ with what delicacy and devotion the beautiful girl devotes herself to the homeliest of her sex, who otherwise would attract no atten tion?” “Mister man,” replied the per son addressed, “ she knows her biz; if I, who am her brother, says it. who shouldn’t? She is there every time. AVhy. when she sticks alongside of an ugly girl it makes her look twice as handsome as she would beside a pretty one. 1 tell von her head is level if it isn’t her own hair she has on the roof of it.” TEE LINDER, A TTORXEY-A TLA ir, HARTWELL, GEORGIA Strict attention will begiven to all business entrusted 32-83 to his care. JOHN P. SHANNON, A TTORNE V-A T-LA W, ELBERTt >X, G EORGIA, Tract ices in the Counties of Elbert. Hart, Madison and Franklin, ami in the Supreme Court; elsewhere when employed. ' 30 JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTOIIXE r AXD COUXSELLOR AT LA IT. ELEERT< >X, GEORGIA, Practices in any Court where he is employed. Reg ularly attends the Courts of the Northern and Wes tern Circuits. 31 g N. CARPENTER, A TTORNEY-A T-LA W, EI.BERTON, GA. Practices in Elbert and adjoining Counties. Prompt attention given to all eases put in bis charge. 31 J B. HODGES, A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W, HARTWELL. HART COUNTY, GA., Will promptly attend to all business intrusted to his care, and collecting made a specialty. 3t QUARLES W. SEIDEL, A T TORN E Y A T L A W, HARTWELL, HART COUNTY. 1 52 GEORGIA. 'T'HOMAS W. TEASLEY, ATTORNEY AT LA W, HARTWELL, GEORGIA, Will practice in the Counties of Hart, Elbert. Ogle tliorpo, Madison, and Franklin, Prompt attention given to the collection of all claims entrusted to his care. 8 A. J. MATHEWS, S URGE OX AND PHYSICIA X, FIRST FLOOR MASONIC HALL, 1 HARTWELL, GA. J)R. GEORGE EBERHART, PR A CTICING PHYSICIAN\ OFFICE, Next Hook to J. W. Williams. 3 HARTWELL, GA. TAR. W. H. McCURRY, Dentist, 1J HARTWELL . GA. 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