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JO HN C. RE 11),
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
junel’s9-ly. . G reenesboro, Georgia.
ROLIN W.~STEVENS,
ATTQ'RK S Y AT LAW,
Greensboro’ Georgia.
WILL practice tn the counties ofGreene,
Baldwin, Putnam; onran, Oglethorpe,
Taliaferro and Hancock [K-b 2. 1559-tf.]
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patronage than 1 anticipated, and again offer my pro
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DENTIST R Y.
DR. II*.W.
Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist.
Pcnfleld, Georgia,
WOULD inform U>e citizens of Greene and ad
joining eountie*. that he is prepared to perform
MMiy operation pertaining to bis profession, wiitiiiest
•tiers and dispatch, He will insert from one to an en
tire ael ol teeth. I< iah'a intention in please.
.He will be In Greenesborn on Monrlav. Tuesdav
and Wednesday of each weeek and in Peofi. ltl the
remainder of hislimo.
Anv call from the country that may b - tendered
him will meet with prompt attention, lie refers to
Dr. J >hu B Murphy of Rome —Feb. OT 1860.
FRESH FRUIT,
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m WINTER!
JJAYING been apjtointed Agents for
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1N6,. ULASS FRUIT JARS,
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p.ice'than horetofore.
•‘These J :rs speak Tor themselves”
and are considered by those who hava used
them, THE BEST AND MOST I2ELIA BLE
FRUIT JARS JX MARKET, , being made
of GLASS, they will not corrode, and arc free
otions urgtd *g*i*l U a.
A Wae&ty Journal—’Devoted to Eomo Literature, Agriculture* ForcigU aad Domestic News, Wit, Humor, &e.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Unseen Spirits.
BV N. P. WILMS.
The shadows lay along Broadway,
’Twas near the twilight tide,
And gjowly there a lady fair
Was walking in ner pride—
Alone walked 6he. yet viewlessly
W'knd spirits at her side-
Pence, charm’d the street beneath her feet
And honor charmed the air,
And all astir looked kind on her
And called her good nnd fair—
For all God ever gave to her
She kept with chary cate.
She kept with care her beauties rare
From lovers warm nnd true.
For her heart was cold to all but gold,
And the rich'came not to woo.
Alt, honored well are charms to sell
When priests the selling do !
Now, walking there was one more fair—
A slight girl lily-pale,
And site had unseen company
To make the spirit quail —
‘Twixt want andscorn site walked forlorn
And uothing could avail
No mercy now can clear her brow
For this world’s peace to pray—
For, as love’s wild prayer dissolves in air.
Her woman’s heart gave wav ;
And thesin forgiven by Christ iu heaven
By man is cuised av. ay.
Terrific lialloou Adventure.
“You are about to witness Professor O.’s
ascension,” said a gentleman to me, as I
entered the enclosure devoted to an a?ro
nautic display. He was an entire stranger
tome; bur not being superstitious in mat
ters ot etiquette, as we might suppose a
“gentleman ot distinction” to he, I did uot.
object to this brusque inode nt iutroduc
tion, and so civilly answered “Yes.”
“But 1 shall go umber to toe it than
you will,” continued the gentleman ; “I
intend to ascend with Professor C.”
“You may go farther and faro worse,”
said 1.
“You are pleased to be witty,” saia lie;
“hut 1 intend to make some examination
ol those upper regions for myself, to as
certain whether the stars celestial are on
duty during the day, or whether their’s is
as much a sinecure as tho office of our
‘stars terrestrial. Would you not like to
asce >d with us ?”
“No, thank you kindly,” said I; “in
getting iulo tho clouds one might lose
oneself--the way is likely to be mutt
Every one to his taste; the earth h, s such
charms tor me that I would not change a
spadeful of it for cubic miles of the blue
empyrean. I’m uo poet.”
Yaiii declaration! How little did I
imagine the horrors which awaited me !
How little did 1 foresee my dreadful fate
iu hanging between the heavens and the
earth, a spectacle to laughing men, gig
gling women, and iusensatc, hooting
boys!
Wo entered the enclosure. There was
the vast silken bubble, puffing nut its hol
low cheeks like the face of a fat clown
when laughing, nnd rising aud tugging
away at the ropes, as if impatient to leave
our society.
“You will accompany me?” said iny
friend ;to which I replied in the nega
tive.
“Perhaps the gentleman would assist in
cutting the ropes,” said the tßronaut.
“Certainly,” said 1, “with pleasure.”
“Thank you,” said the aeronaut; “please
take your station.”
Hu aud my friend entered the car. I
grasped one of the ropes nnd awaited the
order. _ln a moment it came.
“Cut!” said one voice. “No, hold on !”
said another.
1 was bewildered, and did both. Whoa
the others cut, 1 did the same, and with
the direction to hold on, I gtasped the
end of the rope still near me, aud ‘ held
on.” In a .noiueut more I was fifty feet
from the ground.
Imagine iny suspense! There was I,
like a freshly caught fish, dangling at the
end of n line, with the balloou represent
ing the boat. 1 cried out to iny friend and
the aeronaut, but iu vain. The spectators
below, thinking I was some serial acrobat,
who was about to turn fifty double somer
setsand then alight upon his feet before
them, cheered sufficiently to drown my
voice. The parties iu the car could not
see me; but, by the hat swung occasion
ally over the side, I knew they were bow
ing to the crowd below. Meanwhile, I
■ was swinging like a pendulum below them,
with only teu fingers to sustain my weight
of one hundred and eighty pounds (I’m
rather stout,) and to preserve me from be
ing thinly spread over the ground beneath,
from “larding the lean earth” with my
human form divine- What an age ot ter
ror! The dome off the Independent
Church became a parasol; men became
nine-pins, aud the houses as before began
to look like so many chicken-coops.
In the meantime iny fingers stiffened,
but 1 Hatched the rope with the energy of
despair.* I bad long ceased calling; I ex
hausted myself. Suddenly a cold perspi
■ ration broke ,t upon me ; T knew my
GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1860.
hour had come. My fingers were slowly
slipping down tho rope. Oil? those ag
onizing moments. Inch by inch I ap
proached my doom. First the left hand
lost its hold; and theD, ns I felt the end
slipping by the little linger of the right, 1
jf.veonc brief prayer, and fell— out ok
bed !
Being, as I before observed, a corpulent
man, my fall Lad shaken the whole house,
and the alarmed inmates aroused from
their “sweet slumbers,” were knocking
violently at the door, which had t'.e efteet
of restoring mo to consciousness, wheil I
discovered that my “terrific balloon as
cent” was nothing more than a nightmare,
superinduced, I am led to believe, by the
festivities usual on day, in winch 1
may ray I indulged somewhat on Monday
last, in ,No ! I will not betray my
friends; but allow me to tell you. dent
reader, that such a Shanghai dinner as
they gave, is uot to be sneezed at.
“lutiocent Flirtations/*
If there is and feature of American soci
ety which cries more loudly than any other
for reform, that feature, par excellence, is
tlie system ot flirtation carried on by mar
ried women. Ninetenths of all the di
vorce suits brought by husbands against
their wives for criminality can be traced
directly to “innocent flirtation.” And the
weak victim of an elopement almost inva
riably can look hack to her first error as
the time when she received the attentions
of another than her husband. The inno
cent flirtations of married women are the
abominations ot modern society, and tend
as directly to subvert the domestic rela
tions as visiting tippling shops does to
drunkenness. Sidney Smith says, “Shaw
me u woman who will not blush while dis
playing her beauty, grace or charms, arid
you will have shown me one whose virtue
hangs upon a thread which a word will
cut.” There are some women who can al
ways see iu the many that surround them
iu their comminglings with society certain
attractive points : u others that their expe
rience i ells them are not possessed by their
kunbamrs, .on. whenever they diseern one
of these apparent excellencies in others
they are sure to see a corresponding defi
ciency at home. Forgetting that none are
perfect, such women are apt to magnify :
mole hills of faults into mountains of crimes
x An uneasiness, therefore, takes possession
of them, and they think over their hus
band’s defects until their happiness is de
stroyed, and they are prepared to receive
the attentions of all those who approach
them, hoping and expecting to find a “con
geniality” which their owu imaginations
have convinced them is essential to happi
ness. This disquietude is heightened
whoti thev consider that they are bound
already iu matrimonial obligations which
cannot he severed, and as society, though
guilty of the same failings, perhaps equal
ly with them, will not look with complac
ency upon them in receivingfamiliar atten
tions in public, clandestine meetiugs are
next in consideration, and honor and vir
tue yield a willing pray to perverted judg
ments’ and” sensual appetites. The wile
seeks to keep from her husband knowledge
of her preference for another, until from
her too oft repotted intimacies with others,
her heart is utterly estranged from him.a—
Then actuated by guilt alone, feeling her
self debased beyond redemption, she
throws off tho cloak of privacy, and etr.er
ges into the world an outcast, despised and
shunned by those perhaps equally as guil
ty, and by society at large. Is proof of
this needed ? Are not elopements tho or
der of the day? Are they not coming to
be more prevalent than any other species
of crime 1 Divorces by the dozen are of
common occurrence, and society is contin
ually nauseated with tho tales of guilt
brought to light by the newspapers aud
courts. We are not. sure that there is any
remedy for this state ot filings as long as
parents persist in trainiug up their dangh-1
lers in idleness, mid some iu luxury and
effeminacy—utterly ignorant of the true j
aim and object of existence—with only a|
parior education for the first, aud a “fast
life” for the other, having no greater care
than to carefully fit their daughters in ex
tensive appearance, tor the matrimonial
market and to establish tbeir sons in ‘ po- j
s'tions” amongst the corrupt suiroundings
of fashionable society, thus giving to both
an outside show, which is entirely at war
with the real business of life.
A good story is told of a Connecti
cut parson. His country parish raised his
salary from three hundred to four hundred
dollars. The good man objected for three
reasons. “Fuat,” said he. “because you
can’t afford to give more than three hun
dred. Second, because my preaching isn’t
worth more than that. Third, because 1
have to collect my salary, which, hereto
fore, has been the hardest part of my la
bors among you. If I have to collect an
additional hundred, it will kill me.
Lady Byron. —This lady, a few days
previous to her death, sent the sum of two
hundred dollars to the Sicilian committee
of London, in aid of the Garibaldi fund.—
By her death, her eldest grandson, aged
tirentyfour years, enters the House of
Lords as Baron Wentworth
A Free Man Suing to be Made a Slave.
Under the act of the Legislature of
Louisiana allowing free persons of color
to bring suit to reduce themselves to a
state of slavery and elect their owners, a
good many applications have been made.
The District Attorney, who is already
overburdened with regular criminal busi
ness, and who is charged with the duty
of acting as amicus curiae of the tiegro who
brings a suit under this head, finds he has
a heavy docket of cases of this class.
The following petition in one of these
cases, which has been served upon the
District Attdf'iey, is a fair specimen of
the grounds and ren?oL’. a upon which pe
titioners sqek to avail thenisel'C? the
benevolent features of tills statute:
John Clifton, a free man of color, vs.
State ok Louisiana. Sixth District
Court in and for the Parish of Orleaus.
Tc the Hon. the J edge of the Sixth Distr.
Court in and for the Parish
ot Orleans:
Your petitioner, John Clifton, a free
man of color, who has resided iu this city
ami State for the last ten years, and who
is about 40 years of age, begß leave res
pectfully to represent that having long
since become satisfied that the rights, lib
erties and tree agency exorcised by per
sons of the African descent, it being the
status of your petitioner, is merely theo
retical and having no foundation in point
of fact. Therefore, your petitioner, who
was born m the South, wedded to all its
institutions, lias selected under the Act of
the Legislature, approved March the 17th
1859, as Ins owner aud master, Green Lee
Bunt pass.
Wherefore petitioner prays that this pe
tition he accepted nnd filed, nnd that after
duo legal proceedings had, m accordance
with the Act aforesaid, that your petition
er be adjudged and decreed to be the
slave for life of him, Green L. Bumpass.
and for such further relief as tho case may
require.
’ his
Signed, John Clifton,
mark.
Signed, Thomas J. Earhart, Att’y.
John Clifton is evidently a philosopher.
He lias the sagacity to percieve and the
courage to avow that with a kind and good
master his status ns q slave would be pie
terahle to the mockery of freedom with
which tlioso seek to delude him, who pre
tend that he can ever sustain himself us
the equal of the white man, when Naturo
andciicurnstano.es have made him his in
terior. As an inferior, John Clifton nat
urally seeks a protector and guardian,
and the law furnishes him one of his own
choice, who by the acceptance of this
guardianship, incurs the obligation to pro
tect vnd support him. Sneli is the oper
ation of our Act of the Legislature per
mitting of color to select their
owners arid becomo slaves.— N. Q, Delta,
■-- .
The Knock Down Argument.
Messrs. Johnson and Stephens both use
an argument which they think conclusive,
hut which we think as weak as the old
woman’s coffee, that had just nine grains
to the gallon. It is, that in as much as we
agreed to lea v e our rights to the judiciary,
and the Supreme judicial tribunal of the
country has decided in our favor, that we
ought to be well pleased and satisfied, not
withstanding the strongest man of our par
ty, backed by a majority, refuse to be gov
erned by it. Here is logic for you with a
vengeance. If a school boy had put such
a thing in his composition, the master
would have refused to receive it; but as it
is proclaimed by two distinguished gentle
men, it is hailed as powerful aud unanswer
able. This is about the amount of it.—
Wo have carried our case to law. and the
judgment is in our favor, but our adversa
ry stands out in contempt of judgment.—
What a victory we have gained! How
: thankful we ought to be!
The judgment, which has a political ap
’ plication and effect, is that we have a tight
to go with our slaves in the territories, and
; that that right cannot be impaired by any
power until a State Constitution is properly
formed. But tho political power which
must see that this judgment is executed as
a rule of political conduct, says we refuse
!to do so. Nevertheless we must bo grate
-1 fulthat the decision is in our favor. We
have the shadow —what care sensible men
for the substance 1
Besides, it is of very small consequence
that our adversary has solemnly agreed to
award us this right if thus determined iu
our favor. What has good faith to do with
shaping the ctmrse of men who at least
ougiit to be bunest ? Fall iu ! fall in ! on
the strong tide—keep the party together.
Southern rights are at present not practical
We hope wagive no offence if we add that
a lick at the eighty urillhms is practical in
the eyes of all men. And it is just here
that the understanding ot many become
obtase. seeing that the ofre is more readily
grasped thau the other.— Albany Fat, iot.
iy Never strike a child while yon are
in anger. Never interfere with your lius
band o* wife in the correction of a child
;in its presence. The parents must be uni*
I ted, or there is an end to government. —
! Never make light promises to children, of
i rewards or puuisbuieuts; but scrupulously
j fulfill what von promise. Begin early with
1 your children. Break their temper if it
is high, while young; it may cost you amjl
them a pang, but it will save you botli
fifty afterwards ; and then be steady in
yonr government. Use the rod sparingly
—it is better nnd easier to command from
their love and respect than their fear.—
Keep these rules, ar.d my word for it your
children will be a happiness to you while
young, and an honoF to you when they
grow up.
Mr. Toombs’ Speech.
Hon. Robert Toothbfl, of Ga., lias re
cently made a speech in the Senate, which
like all hi effoits, is characterized by
boldness and ability. We give the lat
ter part of his speech as reported in tho
Herald :
He reviewed at length the Dred Scoff
decision- tc show that it sustained to the
fullest extent the right of slavery to pro
tection in tho Territories. Ke had no
idea that Mr. Douglas’ prediction that the
Union would be dissolved if this doctrine
was enforced would be fulfilled. He
thought the Union could stand u little
more than that. The government could
not be distroyod ; justice and truth would
preserve it; but it the dissolution of the
Union was to result from this protection,
let it come. He would adhere to no gov
ernment that refused to grant him the pro
tection it owed him. Mr. Toombs read
from Mr. .Douglas’ Freeport speech to
show that ho asserted the people of the
Territories could exclude slavery in spite
of the decision of tho Supremo Court,
which was in direct opposition to his
speech of July, 1856. lie accused Mr.
Douglas of playing at the game of “heads
I Win, tails yon lose,” and seeking by
craft and cunning to do what it was not
holdnesstodo by open and manly effort.
That was not the bargain, and the Gov
ernment could uot he maintained without
observance of good faith. If the territo
ries would not obey the fundamental law
of the land he would take the government
from them, and give them one that would.
He said the true issue had been avoided.
The Senator from Mississippi (Brown)
clamored for a law that would do no good;
and the Senator from allinois clamored
against a law that would do him no liann.
Non-intervention had been confounded
with squatter sovereignty, and the rights
of tho South in the Territories with a
slave code. Ile controverted Mr. Brown’s
position that tho Territories, by the exer
cise of a taxing power, might keep slaves
out. The slave code afforded no remedy.
He would not give a code of laws to he
administered by a set of men who, in re
fusing protection where it owed it. had
showed themselves unfit to be trusted.
In conclusion, he called on his political
friends to put the stamp ot disapproval on-
of squatter sovereignty.
There was a gleam of light coming from
Chicago. Active had been devoured by
his own dogs. He called on the democ
racy to unite against the common foe.
[The last part of Mr, Toombs’ speech
was not very well heard, but understood
as vindicating the action of the Southern
delegates at Charleston, and urging their
return to Baltimore, with the view of uni
ting to defeat the republicans.)
Jesus and the Dead Dog*
Jesus, says a very old Persian story, ar
rived one evening at the gates of a certain
city, and sent his disciples forward to pre
pare suppor, while he himself, intent on
doing go,id, walked through the streets in
to the market-place.
And he saw at the corner of the market
some people gathered together, looking at
an object on the ground; and he drew near
to see what it might be. It was a dead
dog, with a halter round his neck by
which lie appeared to have been dragged
through the dirt; and a viler, a more ab
ject, a more unclean thing, never met the
eyes of man.
And those who stood by looked on with
abhorrence. ,
“Faugh!’’ said one, stopping his nose,
“it pollutes the air.” “How long,” said
another, “shall this foul beast offend our
sight ?” “Look at his torn hide,” said a
third ; “one could not even cut a shoe out
of it.” “And his cars,” said a fourth, “all
draggled and bleeding.” “No doubt,”
said a fifth, “be has keen haDged for thiev
ing”
And Jesus beard them; and looking
down compassionately on the dead crea
ture, he said:
“Pearls are not equal to the whiteness
of his teeth.”
Then tbe people turned toward him
with amazement, and said among them
selves :
“Who is this 1 This must bo Jesus of
Nazareth, for only he could find something
to pity and approve even in a dead dog!”
and being ashamed, they bowed tbeir
heads before bim, and each went on his
way.
An Indignant Editor. —Tbe editor of
the Nashville (Tetin.) Union. on missing
his pen one morning from its aecsutomed
place in tho sanctum, thus mournfully
wails: “Hung be the heavens in black!
and yon, bright sun, if your engagements
are not too pressing, turn from your burn
ing pathway across tbe firmament—sink
to the bosom of tho southern seas—and let
Terms—§l,so Always in Advance.
the day be niglit! Let tho world bo
draped In mourning of thine unnatural ab
sence, nnd let dirge, and wail, and requiem
swell mournfully up from all the volceftil
things of earth! Our affection is twined
nbottt it ns the lovijig arms of the grape
vine are twined abbuf the wedded <Wt4 of
its bosom, and fkor tender reCoHecffbfl of
its many excellencies riiW foteviw, plead,
like angels trumpet-tongued; against the
deep dyed wretch who took it off. Deaf,
lamented sharer of our days pf toil and
nights of scribling! hail and farewell 1
Peace to thine ashes, and ashes be
peace nt him who tore flvcc lienee t”
Kindness.—Bo kind to all. In thesb
few words how much meaning there may
be—meaning of vital importance to thu
person eohcernCd.’ By being kind nothing
is lost, but’ itVAeh be gained.— *even it
nothing is gained Sirecfiy to t'liC doffoi* qf
kindness, there is, r never-failing Rtippiy
of benefit accruing to him. By an act of
kindness, not only the blessings of the
benefitted, but of the world, nnd of God,
alighted on tho bend of him who does the
act. Through all our lives we may look
in vain for any other trait which gives
greater celebrity to its possessor than kind
ness. Washington was a gieat. mart, but
was that tlie only reason why Iris name is
revered and blessed by thousands ? Np.
—it is because lie used that, greatness for
the benefit of his country and fellow-beings.
Napoleon is recollected ; but is it with the
same kind regard with which we remem
ber Washington ? No,—“it is w ith bitter 1
feelings atul a loud lament that the name
Bonaparte is recalled.- And why | Be
cause he had no nobleness in liis sohl.
May each and all read and reflect upon tho
lives of the departed great, of our 6Wri’
as well as other countries, judging whether
they arc recollected for kind deeds or fyr
etil ones, —consider how they are regard
ed, whether Hke Washington or Napoleon,
and then make a solemn vow—l willAio
kind—renewing the vow as often as tlio
tempter comes. Those who thus live, t
the coming of gitoy hairs, will- have little
to repent ot.-^-Ex:
. _ ‘ f ‘
Mining in tub United States.—AV’
though America, from its dicovory until',
this day, h#3 furnished the gireat balk of
the precious metals, mining as an art, or
as a seif lice, lias never been well under
stood here, nor systematically followed, 1
especially in tbe United States. GoM be
ing found, for the most part, on tbe surface,
or in the alluvial sands, is extracted by the
rudest means aud the most unskillful ope-’
rators, the process being unworthy of the’
name of mining. Tlie few deep mines in
Virginia and the CarolinaS, where the gold 1
bearing rocks are wrought, scarcely form
an exception tb this remark.
Tho ores of silver and those of the leiss
valuable metals, are, however, to be pro
cured-only by deep mining, and the resour
ces'af the United States are to be devel--
opod’ iiv thftf dfre'cfhffiV Th‘e galena—oro
of lead‘d ol Missouri and tbe adjacent re
gions, has been hitherto dug from beds of
clay at a considerable dejpth. TliCr6 iffniV
regular lode or vein, and the process of
procuring it is even less like mining than
the washing of auriferous sands, Thu Da
tive copper of Lake Superior Las no anal
ogy in the previous history of mineral ex
ploration.—Nat. Intelligencer.
v Prepayment ok Postage by Stampk.-
The recent order of the Postmaster Gen
eral requiring the pre-payment of postage
to be made, in all cases, by the United
States postage stamps, is said to have been
misunderstood by some postmasters, as
compelling tbe pre-payment of postage
upon all letters and other mail matter ad
dressed to foreign countries. To correct
any misapprehensions, it is now officially
announced that the purpose of the new
regulation is simply to require pre-payment
by postage stamps instead of mouey in all
cases when postage is prepaid in the Uni
ted States; leaving it. as heretofore! en
tirely optional with tho senders te pay the
postage in advance, or leave it unpaid,
when mailing letters for Canada or ofler
British North American provinces, Great
Britain, Prussia, France, Belgium, and the
German States, by the Bremen and Ham**
burg mails, as our postal our postal arrange-’
meats with each of those countrios havd
adopted the principle of optional pre-pay
ment.
In order to facilitate pre-payment of pos
tage on letters addressed to foreign coun
tries, and to avoid the necessity of affixing
thereto a large number of stamps which
would in some instances increase tbe weight
so as to subject the letters to additional
postage, the Department has ordered the’
issuing of ucw stampsof the denominations
ot twenty-foftr, thirty, and ninety- cents,
respectively. The tw enty-four cent Stamps
will be ready for distribution next , week,-
the thirty eent stamps soon thereafter, and
the ninety eons Stamps as soon as they’
can he pfoetfretL—*• Baltimore ‘
—•—j—a* a .•■;>*. si it
Pike’s Peak Wrr.-Tbey have a *poal”
at Pike’s Peak, who lias perpetrated the
following : - „ . *’tgy
Luck varies with the men who hunt
For gold, as I’ll explain : <_*
Some find the ore fotrfatei,
While others **ek 4n rain t
NUMBER 27*