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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Jy S. R. WESTON.
|ai»sJ» ga«Ma Journal,
Published Every Thursday.
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_ n j *• •• • • • ouu
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Citations iw Guardiauship, 4 00
Oiimisiou from Administration, 6 00
.f “ Guardianship, 600
indication for leave to Bell land, 4 00
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Kstray Notice * 9?
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ly 3 months—for dismission from Guardian
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RAIL-ROAD GUIDE.
Sontli western Ksiilroiid.
AVM. HOLT, Pres. | YIRGii. POWERS, Bup
Leave Macon 5.16 A. it. ; arrive at Colum
bifs 11.15 A. M. ; Le'ave Columbus 12 40 P.
M j arrive at Macon 6.20 P. Jf.
Leaves Macon 8 A if\ arrives at. Eu
failla 6 30, P M ; Leaves Eufaula 7 20, A M ;
Arrives at Macon 4 50, P M,
ALBANY BRANCH
Leaves Smitliville 1 46, P M ; Arrives at
ViWriV it 11, PM ; Leaves Albany 9 35, AM;
Arrives at smithville 11, A M.
Leave Cnthbert 357 P. M.; arrive at Fort
Giina 5 40 P. .If ; Leave Fort GatriA 7.05 A
M.\ arrive at C'uthbert 9.05 A. it.
Western & Atlantic Uailroad.
F. aUI.BEKT, Sup't.
BAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta . . • 8.45 A. M.
I.e«te Dalton .... 2.30 P. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga . . 5.25 P.M.
Leave Chattanooga . • 3.20 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta . . . 12.06 P.M.
NIGHT TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta . . • 7 00 P. M
Arrive at Chattanooga . . 4.10 A. M
Uave Chattanooga 4.80 P. M
Arrive at Dalton . . . 7.50 P. M
Arrive at Atlanta . . . 1.41 A. M.
§usiaifsig
LEVI C. HOYL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Dawson, - - - - Ga.
\\MLL practice in the several Courts of
'' Law and Equity in this State and the
Circuit Courts of the United States for the
state of Georgia. Also, attention given to
COMMISSION in BANKRUPTCY.
«• B - WOOTEN. R. W. DAVIS.
WOOTEN & DAVIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
liatcHon, Git*
c. W. WARWICK,
Atty at Law and Solicitor in Equity.
SMITH VILLE, 6A.
U^l!„P" C,i ' e ' n South Western and Fatau
its. Collections promptly remitted.
G. S. SMITH,
SMITH
‘ l,Vo JV^icaiJr iSt
B'-S’OiV . r,
K i • : ; Georgia.
on hand a well selected
A3 ">nitiftn ofan'? 0 * 8 ’- C . ap8 ' Curtrid ? eß a " d
Sliver Pu.i deßc r'Ption.
Se»ine Much- " K vT° f a ” k,m,s done. Also,
AlsolWi , Needles for sale.
18 S J&chfnrs 3 ?!' kind " of Guns . Pistols, sew-
etc., etc. F e b 11 '69 ly.
Ti J - Pratt! "
J. B. CRIM.
I nt"^ T & CRIM,
°RV GOODS AND
Merchants,
J-Stot^ 9 made on Colton
08,1 >nd Baltiniore r 00rree P° Bden ts > n Savan-
K ' J - WARREN,
ATTORNEY at law,
\ T *RliS| MLLE, . . . Ul.
\ t *° B WORK.”
5 Ex wu(ed at this Office.
Dawson Business Directory,
Dry Goods Jlei-elinnlN.
UTNER, JACOB, Dealer in all
kinds of Dry Goods, Mam street.
KUTNEB. E.. Dealer i n Funcv and
Staple Dry Goods, and Groceries, Bald
wineold stand, J/ain Street.
IOVLESS At OKIFFIN, Dealers
J iu Staple Dry Goods and Groceries, also
Warehouse and Commission J/ercliants,
A/ain Street,
OKU, WV. F. Dealer in Fancy and sta
ple Dry Goods, Main at., under “Jour
nal” Printing Office.
I)RATTA CRIW, Dealers in all
kinds of Dry Goods and Groceries. Main
Street.
PEEI'EES, W. HI., Dealer in Pfiaple
and Fancy Dry Goods, Loylees’ Block,
Maio street.
Grocery Jlerchaiii*
AETHER, S. 0., Deatsr in Groceries
and Family Supplies. A/ain Street.
J. A., Dealer in Bacon,
Flour. Meal and Provisions generally, at
Sharpe & Brown’s old stand, M tin st.
& SH A KPE, Deahrs
in Groceries and Provisions, opposite
Public Square, Main st.
GKEER A hllino.lß, Grocery
and Provision Dealers, South side Pub
lic Square.
HOOD, K. 11., Dealer in Groceries and
Family supplies generally, next door to
‘Journal” Office, Main st.
MIXEEE, It. C. A Cos. Grocery and
Provision dealers. Next door to the Ho
tel Main Street.
CON FECTIOA E IE IES.
RICIIAKDSO A, D. C. Dealer 'To
Confectionaries, Fisb, Oysters, &c Main
Street.
DrugiiN.
(A HEATH A HI, C. A., Drugeist and
J Physician. Keeps a good supply of
Drusrs and Medicines, and prescribes for all
the ills that flesh is heir to. At his old stand,
the Red Diug Store, Main st.
PH i SICIAIfB.
PRICE, Dr. J. \V. A hOI. Prac
ticing Physicians. Office at Dr. Gilpin’s
old stand, East side Public Square, Dawson.
Walcli Repairer.
VIiLEH, join P„ will repair
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Afusic Books,
Acco dions, Ac , always to tie found at his
old stand, on North side of Public Square.
GitmiHtiiii.
SMITH, J. O. S., Dealer in Guns,
Pistols, Caps, Cartridge*, aud sporting
goods generally, Main st.
TI \ MUSS',
SOllle*, IK. J. Dealer in Stoves and Tin
_ ware of all desorptions. Repaiiing done
on short notice. Northeast side Public square
I.ivcry Stables.
I Vlinini SH tlt PE<3kCb., Sale
. and Livery Stable, Ilorses and Mules for
sale and hire Horses boarded. North side
Public Square.
Boot aisd Shoe Shop.
I~)C7®!%EY, B. F., Makes and repairs
A Boots and Shoes of all kinds, next door
to Gun Shop, Depot st., Dawson.
C. A. CHEATHAM}
General Commission Merchant,
Dawson, Georgia.
W ILL buy on the best terms possible, anything
the planters need, or sell for the Merchants,
anything they have to sell.
Cotton bought aud sold on commission,
march 11-’o9* ly
Now on hand and to arrive 20casks clc.or KiDDCCi
Sides which will be sold low for cash.
C. A. CHEATHAM.
I). R. ADAMS, H. K. WASIIBURN, A. A. ADAMS,
Eatonton, Ga. Savannah, Ga. Ameitcus.Ga.
ADAMS. WASHBURN 4 CO.
FACTORS
—AND—
Commission Merchants,
No. 3, Stoddard’s Lower Range,
Savannah, Ga.
ElfFAll3-A HOTEL,
JEtifaiila .Ala.
moderate,
\, w. VICK & Cos.
May 6th 1869 ..
HEAR™* WITNESS!
NO ARISENIC! NO Ql IEIEE!!
JTO MEItC l it 1* :■' •’
ninti CoctiTT, <Ja., Feb. 11th, 1R69.
“Ss-na-ta'kenD 0 ;. Wilh eft’s Ant,pe
riodic. and have given it m
have never known it to fail in a single m
stance. Bibb county.
For sale in Dawson by A Lovless,
Druggists. ~ ——
marshall house,
a. It. LUCE, Proprietor,
Savannah, - -
THE HEW HOTEL.
baklow house,
AMERICtIS, QA.
W. J. HAKLOW. Proprietor-
tIAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1869.
For the Dawson “Journal.”
ST. ISL B O W .
A TRUE STORY.
BY W. HENDERSON CLACKSTON.
PREFACE.— There is in print a woik I
have never read, entitled St. 12 (no, I pre
sume no lines of similarity exist between it
and the work I now introduce to the public.
If there is similarity, neither the author of
that nor this is at fault. (Several friends pe
rused the M. S. of St. Elbow (since, but slight
ly changed) before St. 12 mo. had made its
appearance, and neither of us knew the oth
er had a single chapter of composition or
even an existence. But enough on that
point.
I have, I think, been guilty of no inaccu
racy in the classical aud literary allusions and
references contained in these chapters. To
him who asserts that they smell of the Ency
clopedia, I reply, one who is greater than I,
tl.e iatchet of whose intellectual shoe 1 am
not worthy to unloose, lias been subjected to
the same savage accusation.
II I have bleuded pednntiy and sense, cen
sure me not, for such is life in elegant society.
Some may say my hero and heroine are too
young, others that I am aiming to ridicule
moral writing, and a few, 1 hope a very few
will suspect me of plotting treason against
some weakness in the great book of the age.
To all these “soft impeachments,” I give a
flat denial. My only object is to tell my
dream, and I can prove by several disinter
ested witnesses that I did really and
bona fide dream every word of it. I was
not in prison like Joseph and BuDvan, I had
eaten so hall-cooked tripe as did the eomno
leut hero of the Chimes, nor did an indigest
ible chicken lay (heavy) on my stomach. I
bad no excuse for dreaming—l needed none.
It was my sovereign and inalienable light,
ana I exercise it, Critics, maligners, fault
finders, “avaunt and quit my sight.” Gentle,
generous,- gracious readers, lend me your
eyes. W. H. C.
Columbus, Ga., August 4 th, 1869.
CHAPTER I.
Protected by shades and bedded in
soft grass, I lay for Lours pouring over
the contents of a volume, promising rare
and uncommon merit. At length, the
book dropped, my eyes dwelt languidly
for a moment on a nerd of little clouds,
which, moving apart, appeared as so
maDj lambs grazing on the green mead
ows of the sky, and then I slept and
dreamed.
The scc-BC was enchanting. Tue bre:
zes, laden with Ilybla sweets ; the mag
nificence of the groves and parks, lawns
and meadows; the intersecting brook
lets; the singing birds; the grand old
gothic castle upon whose conception aud
structure, oven Palladio, the .Rapha
el of architecture, might have rested with
a proud certainty of immortal fame, —
all these, in the mild benignity of an
Autumnal twilight, I leave to the read
er to imagine, since “description will
but make them leas.”
At the base of a large Sycamore tree,
sat a young lady six years old, and a
gentleman who had nearly reached hie
ninth birthday. The dress of the lady
was poplin silk, decorated with bugle
trimmings, gold embroidered lace aud
en echelon, with a half score of flounces.
The gentleman had encased his lithe and
graceful form in a suit of French broad,
cloth, the pants of which from the knee
downward hvbernated in a pair of su
perb moroepo boot-legs.
“I concede, dear brother;” said the la
dy, “that a knowledge of ourseivos, a
metaphysical acquaintance with the
spiritual guests our bodies entertain, is
of great importance, but is quite unat
tainable. Phidias, Pordenone, Hem
ling, Schcreel, Titian and Corrcgio can
give the animating bites, the systems of
the soul within, they can impart form
and comeliness to all that Eye or ban
cy can discern. Upon these the light
of heaven falls in floods. It fal.s thus
upon the sin cursed blighted andbemgl -
ted soul No, brother, we cannot know
ourselves ; Aristotle, Zenophauus, Plato
Leucippus, and Zeno, with a countless
host of others, have Wasted years and
energies in fruitless efforts to explore
the soul. They have but pioneered
along the verge of impenetrable obnew
rity.”
“Why, Ulibilika, you surprise me.—
Indeed your assertion is unaccountable
to me, when I reflect that for months at
a nme, during the past few ycais, 1
have seen you buried in the De Anxma
of Ar’stotle and Schelling’s “Soul of the
Mind,” aud glowing with admiration
at the’ theories of Hegel-Baader, Daub,
Rurdach and Steffens, to say nothing ot
the dogmas of the eleatie and eclectic
schools. Are you thus fond of an im
penetrable obscurity ? do you ‘choose
darkness rather than light?’ ”
“Ah but, Cornucopieos, you forget
that so certainly as each weary paring
h-oug&t the Greeks under Xenophon
nearer the end of their journey, so ev
ery successive volume hurried my anx
ious longing mind towards the conclu
sion and result of its labors, and now
having Starved my hungry m.nd through
a wilderness of books-a wilderness in
-1 to which the light could not penetrate
t ara prepared to look forward, not
' mward. 1 Im™ » tho B, « Jltle * C *'
clops of Homer the gloomy pleasure of
groping in cavern darkness, but give to
mo the pure air and the free light and
let my path bo that in which the “way
faring man cannot err.” The light
along that path will brighten, and it
may be that spiritual discernment—”
“My dear sister, is it possible you
will cousent to jostle along that path of
which you speak, consorting with tbo
great, gross, swolteriug mob No,noi
L would rather be the corpse of Schia
vone than Ainyot in the blojui of health,
a dead originator in preference to a liv
ing imitator. I track no man. Foot
prints arc not ahead iu the way my ic
iutcllcot advances. 1 am no Arab to fel
low, with blind credence, the leadership
of a Sheik—but, hark ! list to tho ring
ing of the bell, the campanologioal sum
mons to the vesper viands.' 1
Reader, let us take a coup-tle-ail of
the tellable in the palatial mansion to
which this couple repaired :
The table was constructed of mapero
mahogany, overlaid and beautifully
checkered with sapphire, ernory snd oth
er varieties of ouundum ; the cloth was
of superb silk balmoral, fringed with
alternate stalactites of gold and diamond.
As to the edibles, the palate of an Ep
icurus or a Leucullus might enjoy them,
but the library of Roxburgh contained |
the emendation of uo intellect capable
of doing justice to their description.--
At erher eud of the table, sat Ojl. El
dorado and Mrs. Stelhrita (‘i’ pronunc
ed ‘e’) St. Elbow. A dress of damask
silk, with the coloring of the Grog ties
links wotf, set off by beaded pearls
closely resembling the la perigrina of
I'hillip 11, surrounded the queenly form
of the madam. Imprisoned in parti
colored maroquio, she held two delicate,
dapper little feet, and from the top of
her organ of hope, rcee a water fall of
amazing altitude, whese summit was
adorned with a multitude of omr:neo‘.-
al hornets. The Col. was a iniiD of
portly and cammandiog presence and
uncommon obesity. Ilia protruding
stomach seemed, as it were, a mound
erected to the memory of the many
departed chickens, which had found at
'is*, long rcstirg place within. I will
not further d.scribe his toilet than to
say he was dressed from top to toe in
true Count tie Orsay style.
“J declare, father,” sail Illihilika af
ter they were seated at the table, “1
fear brother is r> ligi- u-Jy all >at upon a
sea of abstraction*. fide with Zno
phauus he stops to u: tier what is tho
immortal priuciple within, he should
like Eocolampadius be seeking and pur
suing the paih which destiny and divine
benignity has opened for that immor.al
principle to travel. There are many
things we may know, (even though we
see as through a glass darkly,) but niaDy
things we must take on trust, which we
canuot compi'chcnd and—”
“Sister, dear bister, cau it be possible
that a young lady who has reached
her sixth year; and who has enjoyed
your advantages will uttef eilch absurd
and fallacious paradoxes —believe what
you cannot understand ? Trust, have
faith in what passes your comprehen
sion ; why, belief and trust are but the
resui sos the exercise of understanding
and comprehension. Will you believe
an iovieible effect without a visible
cause ? 1 must understand what 1 be
lieve ; knowledge is the price of convic
tion; with ‘nit) mind.”
“Then, brother, how can you believe
your body holds an iiriaiortal spirit, since
spirit atid immortality are impervious to
understanding.”
“Far from it. Listen a moment.—
' .My language aud style of torn position
argue (without any further proof) that
I have read and thought much. Sup
pose a ntfmbei- of witnesses testify that
1 have never read a,volume and never dt
voted an hour to sober rcfljctidn,and sup
pose yoi i know those witnesses to be ve
racious and to have been with me from
ft'y birth, still the voiceless reasoning
ot an impalpable, yet Unerring, argu-
ment forces you to discredit their test 1 - :
mony and believe the truth—and why ?
Because the eyesandth. thinking faculty j
a re the only conduits through which in- |
formation and knowledge can reach the i
understanding, and you know I have in- j
formation and knowledge. Now, then 1
these same witnesses may assert that l(
they have known you from infancy, and j
know you are mortal, of the earth, earthy I
and travelling to the land of dreamless j
and cterual night. With Ilasslas, I re- j
ply, ‘Form and contexture are the only
subjects in the empire of decay, the od- ,
ly conduits through which decomposi
tion can be reached ; this spirit Hkj the
wind and the ocean has ncitbor form
nor contexture —it cannot decay.’ ”
“Does not tho mind weaken ah the
body grows old, brother—weakeu into
second obildhood t”
“By no means. There is no real
second childhood. As the mortal tene
ment is I alii eg away, its misplaced
brioks sometimes obstruct th* channels
of communication with tho world and
weaken the current of thought and feel
ing, but the fountian, though its stream
is interrupted, still possesses and sends
forth bving waters.”
j “Dick,” lemarked Mrs. Stiellarita,
“relies mainly for his proof of soul im
mortality oa tho universal conviotion
pervading all nation, that the animus
survives the corpus This proves— ’’
\ “Nothing more, mother, than that
human beings are vain, ambitious and
forever graspiug at tieasures they can
not reach. No, we diminish the foroe
of truth when we endeavor to sus'aiu
it with pregnable reasoning. Rut fur
ther : Mr. Wesley very cogently rea
sons that if indestructibility be a well
established priuciple with matter, why
i not with mind l I think as much.—
Shall every atom cf this crumbling,
groping tenement be preserved, while its
soaring, God-ike occupant is doomed to
eternal nonentity ? Are not the laws of
God of universal application ? But I
need not enlarge upun this division of
my subject. I carry upon my person—
“ Tut, tut, brother, you answer n mi
nor question to the exclusion cf a major
suggestion which that question presents.
I might with equal propriety have ask
ed 70U to provo the existence of a God.”
“And I would have gone no farther
in proof of that, than the illustration of
the watch, adducod by Walker in bis
‘God in creation and in Christ,’ aDd
which has been plagiarised and hack
neyed by so many subsequent scrib
blers—”
“Wait, brother, you will not let me
finish a sentence, and yet you make ar
gument for me as you go. Your state
ment was that yru would not believe
what you could not understand. You
believe in soul immortality and tho exist
enec of a God and yet you understand
neither. You show why you believe
you cannot convince yourself that you
understand the things you believe.—
Bohnenbergher, Piazzi, and Kepler as
they gazed upon the s'upendous splen
dors of tho ‘starry heavens’ be’ioved
what they could not understand; they
believed in the cxistcuce of a moving
emse—that cause they understood not;
they (util ke yourself,) acknowledged
faith in what they did m t understand.”
“Aud so Mould Oornucop icos,” re
plied C l. Eldorad'-, “he is obliged to
believe vegetation springs from s cd and
yet he cannot understand germination.”
“Yes, father, we all believe many
things we cannot understand and about
which we do not stop to reasou Belief
is no more an act of volition, than res
piration. It comes to us like the gale,
and as feathers we are borne whitherso
ever its changing current drifts us.—
Diderot and Steele yielded not more cer
tainly to the cravings of a hurtful ap
petite, than docs meek humanity to he.
lief. We are traveling through a wil
derness where the light is weak and the
path is dim. We cannot see all the
foes that lie in wait for us ; we cannot
stop to annaliZo the waters of Marsh,
cr examine the cause of their bitterness.
We need not wait for argument to prove
that the rolling seS of divine forgiveness
has buried our transgressions—those
hindering enemies to our progress, We
should look upward for tho manna and
locusts, and move oaward trusting, be
lieving like Bunyan, “tho milk and hon
ey is beyond tbL wildeifloss.” Man!
frail, trembling, fleeting, unreasoning
wayfarer ! To him (as Geo. Reid once
observed) in the tumult of passion and
ambition the languago of reason is au
dible, like the voice of the tempest toss
jed marrincr, amid the pauios of the
storm,
Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm,
Sad are the woe's that wreck hi* manly form,
Rocks, winds and waves his shattered bark
delay,
Ills heart is sad, hi* home is far away.”
“Then is tho idiotic infant responsi
ble ? for you make man an idiot in mind
and an infant in weakness. Is this
i feather to be blamed, because from its
lightness aod passive nature it has been
made the sport of the eddying winds ?
I acknowledge conceptions of the
powers, duties and destiny of man are
of & more elevated character.”
At this point in my dream, Ilenry
Clay, Daniel VVebster and John C. Cal
houn (restored to life) ontered tbc room
rudely and unannounced, and each was
| recognized, welcomed and seated at the
! table. Mr. Cornucopieos was in the
j midst of a scHtCnoe he was addressing
j to his sister, which bo continued to its
I completion, merely introducing the
i “how dye-do’s” ( o tbc distinguished
guests) as trouolesome and vexatious
interludes.
[to be continued}
One of the best soft of minds is that
which minds lis own business. Like
many other ertra good thiugs, including
beef-steak, it is somewhat rare.
£-j£'Subecribe fbr the “Journal.”
THE VILLAGE TOILUEVT.
“Gel out of this ! Back you go to
the poor-house! Tell the overseer
I’ll see him to-night. Start! BoolJ!
When you are hanged wo shall bo rid
of you ; for banged you'll surely bo !”
And Deacon Grover gave the boy a
pu*h from his stoop, and slammed the
door ot tiis house agaiust him.
Tom Steiling stood a little while and
looked back at the closed door, am!
then wandered away—wandered off to
a secluded nook among the bushes hy
the roadside, whero he sat down and
reflected. And this was tho picture
that unrolled itself to his memory.
There was a dim, hazy distance of
clouds, wherein were poveriy, broken
windows, a fireless hearth, a drunken
father, suffering and ruin. But noth
ing stood out in relief until hu came to
his fil'ih year, and then appeared upon
the sombre canvas the alms house of
Lowhampton, and the death-bed of his
widowed mother. Thence the middle
dis'ance and the foreground wore clear
and distinct; but there was no relief of
warm lights or radient spots. The
dark clouds, looming up in tho extreme
distance, cast a painful shadow over
the whole picture, and not one gleam
ot yellow light appeared. The alms
house colored everything Ho had
been but a pauper ! At school he had
been laughed at, and the cold, cruel
tilings bad been thrown iu his face.—
At the age of ten years ho had been
sent out to work—bad been given to a
shoemaker in tho village, and here he
had hoped tho storm of shuino might
end.
Tom was smart ulmost too am irt.
Quick aud lithe as a cat; keen and
bright as a razor; tough and strong
as whipcord; with a substratum of
more than ordinary in'elligenoe—ho
was not one to submit tamely to the
taunts and slurs of the more fortunate
on.s. 'ihe result was, he was often itr
trouble He sought to avenge his own
wrongs, and thus kept himself in hot
water. No one thought of lifting him
up fiorn his degiaded state, and speak
iug kindly to him; but his eldeiS
kicked him and cuffed him, while he
served the same sauce to those whom
he could handle. Parents cf big boys
that camo homo with bruised f ces
and torn garments called T< m Sterling
The Village Torment; and very soon
everybody came to call him so.
The shoemaker kept the Torment
sis months, and then turued him back
into tho alms-house. Next a black
smith took him—a stout, burly, hard
fisted man—who thought ho could
subdue him. But, mercy ! no sooner
had the well-meaning smith given the
lad ono good sound beating than ho
f« nnd fits Torment changed to a young
tiger; and ot th® end of a month lie
sent him back from absolute fear of his
life.
At length, when Tom was thirteen
years old, Beacon Grover took him,
thinking with firm and steady hand to
subdue him. The first piece of infor
mation which Tom rec, ived upon en
tering the Deacon’s lurusehoftf was,
that lie was a hardened wretch, totally
depraved, and without a particle of
gaod in tiis heart; and upon that basis
the work of subduing was commenced.
When D aeon Groier weeded out the
tares from among the young and ton
der vegetables iu his he Was
very careful and patient, and worked
with the utmost so ieitude, li6t ho
should unwittingly harm those plants
which he wished to tiouiisli; but when
he cumo to work of weeding the hires
out from Tom’s young spirit ho hanged
and shook, and beat, never thinking
that there might, perchance, be some
delicate tendrils of aflecti n there
which were woith the saving.
The good Detieon held the lifted for
a year, and then turned life boy from
his door, and told him to go back to
the alms house —turued him forth as
we have seen, telling him that the world
would never lie rid of aim until tie w u3
hange-J
And this was the picture which Tom
Sterling gazed upon in his lonesome
reverie.
Not n single bright spot!
Hark ! Was it an angel that touched
bis memory, and opened a gleaming
nook in the dark chamber?
“Tommy !my child ! 0! be a good
boy —TRT to be good—af.d God wifi
bless you !”
How distant the Voice sound, d—
how long fbfgotter.—and vot how plain
ly. It was as though tho words still
suunded in his ear—as though ho again
stood by his mother's bed, and fell her
atm about his necK, and felt ht-f kiss
Upon his cheek—as though he again
gazed in terror and affright upon the
scene which they told him tvas death.
And Tom forgot all save that one
stream of light— that one glimpse upon
the canvas of Love and Good-will.
And he asked himself, “Shall I go
back to tho pO >r-hou»e ?’’ A little
while of meditation, and he started
resolutely to his feet.
“Never ! never mure ! There mu t
bo light somewhere, and I’ll trad it if I
cau T’
Many a long and weary mile tramped
the boy in search of light; and at
kng:h he found it- found it in tl.e cot
of a poor widow whose only son, and
only child, hud gone away to sea. Up
on the steps of that cot he had sunk
down, weary and faint and an hun
gered, and the wiuo.v had taken him
in and loved and blessed him.
O ! bright and blessed hour ! Tho
genial wai tilth of love pel located that
tarnished soul, and the limgc of ihc re
deemer was reflected as from the fur
nace of the purifier of silver.
Tho boy realized his ignorance, and
thirsted lor knowledge* “Tty to be
good, and God will bless yon /” He
forgot not the words, nor the lips of
her who spoke them 1
VOL. IV. —NO. 26.
I But this was not all. This was not
j the great shock that had broken the
I crust of his iron bondage. Thera
I were other words in bis memory :
I “When you are banged we shall be
rid of you ; for hanged you’ll surelv
he !’’ 'J his was (be shock—this the
blow that find broken UlO chain. For
the first time in his life his fierce spirit
of antagonism had been turned against
the evil gen’us of his life; and when
once ho hud grappled tho enemy ho
would not eurrenJvr.
As Tom grew older, nnd increased'
in knowledge, he became inspired w.tli
the desire to help and to rave just suoh
poor unfortunate wails as he bad been
i 1 the other years. This he communi
cated to the clergyman of tho villago
parish, who gladly gave him nssistance.
Tom entered tho work, nnd loved it.
Every good deed he did swelled his
beat t bigger and bigger, and every
poor unfortuua e lie saved gave him
strength, and courage, and faith.
* * * * # *
The Reverend Air. Sterling was
coming to preach in Lowhampton, nnd
(he people were all eager and anxious.
Ilia fame had reached them, for hard
ly a newspaper had come to the town
for many months that had not con
tained an account of the great and rav
ing worn of that devoted apostle of sal
vation.
Saturday evening came, and Mr
Sterling anived at the door of Deacon
Grover, lor the good old man had en
joined it upon tho stage diiver that tbo
Minister should be left with him. Tho
Deacon- had expected to behold a fino
look ng man, anti ho was not disap
pointed; though tho apostlo was
younger than he had thought. But
when, in tho evening, they sat down
together, the old man’s vonder and
admiration were aroused, and ho could,
only acknowledge to himself that in
knowledge nnd exp riencs his guest
was a man of surpassing slature Anti
not the shadow of a thought crossed
his nr ind that this great and glorious
worker of good was the aforetime Vil
lage Torment that he had so harshly
turned from his door.
It was Sunday—bright, beautiful,
and calm. The minister stood in tho
pulj it, and before him tho pews and
tile ai.-leS were crowded, llis frame
shook when ho arose; his lip quivered
and his eyes wore moist. Rtsople won
dered what could effect him so. But
when ho camo to read to them the
thirteenth chapter of Paul’s First
Episfle to the Corinthians, they ceased
to wonder at his emotions, being lost
in wtnd-*r at tho new beauties and
deep lessons brought to light hy hia
maivollous rendoting of the celestial
richue.s if the chapter—a richness
which they had never befi.ro discov
ered. W hen ho prayed other eyes*
were moist Besides his own.
At length tic read his text: “Inert
shall ho answer them, saying. Verily,
i say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it
not to one of tho least of those, yo did
it not to mo.” And then ho went otv
to open up to his hearers one of tho
noblest departments of Christian labor,
and one that was richest in its rewards,
the lilting up and tto saving of the im
fortunute poor and forsaken. Wo
may talk and toll as we please about
how much we have loved ouf Redeem
er, and how much we have honored
him, the question will surely be (creed
back tl oj us from the Friend anti Sa
vior ot srnne r s—“What have yo dono
for tfcc«fo my outcast and suffering
children ?”
Uy arid by, with fsiltering accent, be
told the simple, touching story of bis
own life. He had no blame—only
love afro good-will; but would they
not accept the lesson, aud lay it w
heart ?
At first when they knew who bd
was, ii was as though a thunderbolt
had burst among them, and they
thought, when the s i victs were end
ed, that they should shrink away »rs
shame, aud not dare to meet him. But
w hen ire came to tho themo of Divine
love and forgiveness, and showed them
his heart, all warm and grateful; and
when ho poured out upon them his
lien blessing, they felt drawn irresisti
bly towards him; so that when he de
scended from the pulpit, they crowdod
around h’tn, eager to respond, from
therr full hearts, to his welcome of love
and good-will.
Os all that congregation Deacon
Grover alone held back. il»w could
he meet the man whom he had as a
poor ahd forsaken boy, cast out from
his doors ? Hut Mr. Sterling at length
gained his side, and took his anil; and]
on the way home he 3Sid to the old'
man:
“You don’t, know Mr. Grrtver,
how many times 1 have blessed you in
my heart ”
“Blessed me ? Blessed ?”
‘•Yes, for ’twusyou who first turned
my thoughts in the right direction. I.
know you oief 11 roughly, and meant
little good to me at the time; but God.
hath wrought great good from it.
And thereupon Mr. (Sterling toiil
the story of that hour’s meditation by
the way- side.
When the old man next spoke, his
voice was low, but earnest and prayer
ful :
“Mr. Sterling, I have never meant fa
do wrong ; but I am free to say that
never, until this day, have I fully known
our Savior; and 1 feel that 1 cau almost
say, with Simeon of old—'Lord, now
lettost thou thy servant depart in peacr;
for mine eyes havo seen thy salvation!’ "
Tho cotton sales at Columbus on
Thursday amounted to 48 bales at
I IIS4o. Middlings are held at 81c. Re
i ceipts baits. Total receipts thus far
48,070 bates against 50 ( 571 same tim*
I last Season.