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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL. Jy S. R. WESTON. |ai»sJ» ga«Ma Journal, Published Every Thursday. TERMS— Strictly in .tilvance. Three months <’? One veer 1)0 lob It'ork of every description exe cuted»itb neatness and dispatch, at moderate rites. Hate* of Legal Jidvertlßemenls. Sheriff's Sale", per levy,... *4 00 Mortage Fi Fa Sale, each levy 6 00 _ n j *• •• • • • ouu rations for Letters of Administration, 4 00 Citations iw Guardiauship, 4 00 Oiimisiou from Administration, 6 00 .f “ Guardianship, 600 indication for leave to Bell land, 4 00 N’odecs to Debtors and Creditors 4 00 i and Sales W l at iq. #4. each additional. 3 00 S,les „f Perishable Property per squ’r, 4 00 Kstray Notice * 9? Notice to perfect service, 7 00 Kil.-S to Foreclose Mortgage, per eq. 4 00 Rales to establish lost papers per sq... 400 Rules compelling titles... 3 60 Rales to perfect service, divorce cases. 10 00 All legal advertisements must be accompa nied bv cash, or will not appear. Sales of Land, &c., by Administrators, Ex ecutors or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the 6rst Tuesday in the month, bes tween the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 a the afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the property is situated. notices of these sales must be given in a public gazette 40 days previous to the day of “Notices for the sale of personal property mast be given in like manner 10 days previ ou§ to sale cUt. Notice to the debtors and creditors ot an •dale must also be published 40 day s. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell laud, etc., must be published one month. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, etc., must be published 30 days -for dismission from Administration, month ly 3 months—for dismission from Guardian ship, 40 days. , „ , , . Rules of fo.cclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four mooths—for es tablishing lost papers for ihe full space of 3 mouths—for bothpehing titles lrom Executors or AdminisirstorS, where bond has been giv en by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued ac cording to these, the legal requirements, un |r-« otheewisc ordered. (y Maniage and Obituary notices of five lines or le«»j no charge. Over five lines, reg ular rates will be chsrged. 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.