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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
by S. It. WESTON.
sat#sott Jfonraal,
published Every Thursday.
,_«,» **'<—Strictly in *4(lranee.
Siimuo'-- 9 |2oo
One year
description exe
cntedwitU ueatuees and dispatch, eratfl
rates. ——
nates of Legal * hlrertisemcnU ’•
Sheriff’s Sales, per levy ft 00
MortUeE. Fa Sale, each levy 6 00
T x Col 0 00
Citations' for Letters of Administration, 4 00
11 „ ii >‘ Guardianship, 400
Oistnision from Administration, 6 00
„ “ Guardianship, 5 00
Anniication for leave to sell land 4 00
Notices to Debtors and Creditors 4 00
I and Sales, Ist sq. *4, erfoh additional. 3 00
Sales of Perishable Property per etjti’r, 4 00
Estray Notice, * 00
Notice to perfect service, 7 00
K ties to Foreclose Mortgage, per sq. 4 00
Rules to establish lost papers per sq.. . 4 00
Kales compelling titles... 3 SO
Kales to perfect service, divorce cases. 10 00
All legal advertisements must be accompa
nied by cash, or will not appear.
Sales of Land, &c., by Administrators, Ex
ecutors or Guardians, arc required by law to
be held on the first Tuesday in the month, bes
tween the hours of lo in the forenoon and 3
in the afternoon, at the Court House in the
cotintv in which the property is situated.
Notices of these sales must be given tu a
public gazette 40 days previous to the day of
Notices for the sale of personal property
mast be given in liUe manner 10 days previ
ous to sale dry.
Notice to the debtors and ereditors of an
estate must also be published 4o days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary lor leave lo sell laid, etc.,
must be published one month.
Citations for letters of Administration,
Guardianship, etc., must be pnblished-30 days
—fordismis-ion from Administration, month
ly 3 mouths—for dismission from Guaidian
sliip, 40 Jays.
Rules of IVeelosuic of Mortgage must he
published monthly for four months— for es
tablishing lost papers for the full space of 3
moDths—for compelling titles from Executors
or Administrators, where bond has been giv
en by the deceased, the full space ol three
months.
Publications will always be continued ac
cording to these, the legal requirements, un
less otherwise ordered.
£g"ll»riiage ltd Obituary notices of five
lines or ‘e-s, no charge. Over live lines, reg -
ular rates will be charged.
RAIL-RO&D GUIDE.
Sniilli western Itailroail.
WM. HOLT, r*rcs. | VIRGIL TOWERS, Sup
Leave Macon 5.15 A. .1/ ; arrive at Colnm
bus 11.15 A. .1/ ; Leave Coin'"bus 12 45 I*.
M ; arrive at Macon 6.20 T. M.
Leaves Macon .3 A .1/; arrives at Eu
(aula 5 30, T M ; Leaves Eufvnla 7 20, A M ;
Arrives at Macon 4 So, T M.
ALBANY BRANCH
leaves Smithvillc 1 46, C M ; Arrives at
Albany 3 11, T M ; I,oaves Albany U 35, A M;
Arrives at Smithville 11, A M.
Leave Cuthhert 3 57 I’. M. ; arrive at Port
Rains 040 r. M ; Reave Eorl Gains 7.05 A
.1/.; arrive at G'ulhbert 9.05 A. .IP.
Western A Atlantic ilnilroad.
F HERBERT, Sup’t,
DAY PASS KNA3It TRAIN.
J.eave Atlauta . . . #45 A. M.
Leave Dalton .... 2.60 F. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga . . 5.25 T. M.
Leave Chattanooga . . 3.20 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta . . . 12.05 P. M.
NKJIIT TRAIN.
heave Atlanta . . . 7 00 P. M
Arrive at Chattanooga . . 4.1(1 A. M
heave Chattanooga . . 430 T. M
Arrive at Dalton . . . 750 P. M
Arrive at Atlanta . . . 1.41 A. M
©m’tis.
LEVI C. 110 YL,
ATTORNEY’ AT LAW,
Dawson, - - - - Gra,.
AVnLf, practice in the pevefnl Courts of
* * I-nw and Equity in this Sia»o and the
circuit Courts of the United States for the
htate ot Georgia. Also, attend n given to
COMMISSION in BANKRUFTCY.
c. r>. WOOTEN. R. w. DAVIS.
WOOTEN & DAVIS,
attorneys at law,
Wflirson, tia.
•lee 24 1863 Iv
c. W. WARWICK,
Att y at Law and Solicitor in Equity,
SMITHYILLE, OA.
i P r #clicp in South Western and Patau
__ rcnila- Collections promptly remitted.
J * ft. S. SMITH,
0 U X SMITH
I > Jfl.tCHI.riST
I>A W SQN, . . . Georgia .
well selected
Amanition’of’ I'? I '’. Cap8 * Cartridges and
g:i ° T , < ! * description.
SewineM of h!1 k ’"" l3 done. Ala#,
Also R Mae . h ' ne Needles (or sale,
inr si/ai.K’ >H,rS k ' n d 8 of Guns, Pistols sew-
etc., etc. Feb 11 ’69 ly.
P * ATr - J. h. OKIM
DR Y GOODS AND
Grocery Merchants,
”A H S(k v
- - GEOROI4,
shirks a,lvanc «» made on Cotton
nnb a „a ~, 0 o,lr correspondents in Savan
— ' pct«a«Bij*
K * J * WARREN,
AT TOP,NEY at law,
Sl ‘KK*i irtr, . . . c.t.
. J OQ WORK.
Nllv lAcnifni a j (hi; Hflicc.
Dawson Business Directory.
Dry Good* Nlerrlinntv.
KUTA lilt, .Mt'OII, Dealer in all
kinds of Dry Goods, Mam street.
KUTJWEKs £«« Dealer in Ftun
Staple Dry Goods, and Groceries, Dald
winsold stand, A/;.in Street.
f ovr.lista ,v GKM I I V Dealers
I J in Stop)* Dry Goods and Groceries, alsrr
Warehouse and Commission J/ercbants,
~1/a in Street,
OK ik, W. I’. Dealer in Fancy shd sta
pie Dry Goods, Main st., under “Jour
nal” I’rinting Office.
| )R! TT & <l£l H, Dealers in Ml
I kinds of Dry Gtrods and Groceries. Main
Street.
»V. iVI., Dealer in ,Staple
and Fancy Dry yyoods, Loyless’ Dlock,
Main street.
Grocery Mei-clii'iils.
ACT II UK, S. !>., Dealer in Gt ‘‘cerics
and Family Supplies. ' .I/aiu Street.
S.'S’OA, Jf. A., Dealer in Eicon,
Flour. Meal and Provisions generally, at
Sharpe & Brown’s old stand, M tin st.
|;\ mill A SHARPS-:, Deal, rs
1 in Groceries and Provisions, opposite
Public Square, Main st.
C3 lillliK A UOSS, Grocery
J and Provision Dealers, South side 7’ub
lic Square.
HOOI>, IS. SI., Dealer in Groceries and
Family supplies generally, next door to
‘Journal” Office, Main «♦-.
MIZUiL, Al I’o. Grocery and
y*rovision dculere*. Next door to the Ho
tel Main Street.
COS lB<TIO\l;it IBS.
1> IB II
1 V t/onleciionaiies, Fish, Oyster?, &e Main
Street.
Drii^sisl.
/ >ll DATIIA *l, fj. A Druggist and
V J Physician. Keeps a good supply of
Medicines, and presences for all
the ills that flesh is heirfo. At his old stand,
the Ked Dmg Stnrp, Main st.
niiSKIA^.
IyKICV, Dr. .3. W. A SOU, IW-
I licing Physicians. Office at Dr. Gilpin’s
old stand, East side Public Square, Dawson.
Uiilcla llepairer.
A .301! A I\, will repair
L \ Watches, (.locks, Jr-welry, Ifusic Books,
Acco*dions, «Ve , always to he found at his
old stand, on North side of Public Square.
SJIITI2, .3. 4*. Dealer in (Jims,
_ Pistols, Caps, Cartridges, and sporting
goods generally, Main st.
TIM shop.
Ooitle, SC. .E. Dealer in Stoves and Tin
tOwareofull de-erptions. Uepairing done
on stum notice. Northeast side Public square
Livery Sfsthlcs.
rwini n, sn \ u i»k<i r«.,i«t«
1 and Livery Stable, Horses and Mules for
sale and hire Horses boarded. North side
/hiblic Square.
Boot aairi Shoo Shop.
I > IlatLl E. V, IE. B\, Makes and repairs
L\ Boots and Shoes of all kinds, next door
to Gun Shop, Depot st., Dawson.
C. A. CHEATHAM,
General Commission Merchant,
Dawson, Georgia.
ll'lT.l, luiv on Ihc l>™t toi-nip poaßiliL-, anything;
VI the planters n<f<l, or soil for the MerilianU,
anything they have to sell,
Cotton bought and wold on fominißsion.
march 11-’69-1 y , . , .
Novell hand and to arrive2o caska dear Ribbed
Sides which will lie sold low for cash.
c. A. CHEATHAM.
n. R. ADAMS, 11. K. WASHBURN, A. A. AUAMS,
Eatouton, Ga. Savannah, Ga. Ameiicus.Cra.
ADAMS. WASHBURN« CO.
FACTORS
AND —
Commission Merchants,
No. 3, Stoddard’s Lower Range,
may 1 3’69;6m Sa van #i ah
EIJFALLiA HOTEL,
Ehifaula. JVla.
MODERATE,
[, W. VtCK & Cos.
May O'h 1860 ,
HEAR™* WITNESS!
NO ARSENIC! NO QUININE!!
jro ■Menc vii i* •
Bibb County, G*., Feb. 11th, 1569.
“tf-llSt Wilheft’ B Anti pe
riodic and have given it in my family, and
unhesitatingly pronounce it to be tlm bet
Chill and Fever Med,erne that l 1
have never knoivn it to fail in a single
stance. I Bibb county.
For sale in Dawson by Janes fc
. march 11 ovhi
Druggists.
marshall house,
B. M Proprietor,
SavaMi" 11 ' " “
tub BAV HOTEL,
PABLOW HO I S I’,
AMERICUS, qa.
W.J. |SAHL«"- Proprietor'
DAWSON, DA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 18(50.
POETRY.
For the Dawson Journal.
TO
It was upon a Friday night,
When Hub and I first met,
o4nd should I live an hundred years,
That night I’ll not forget.
1 fixed up in my Sunday best,
Aud thought 1 looked quite wiuning,
Rut every time 1 looked at Hub,
lie kept up such a grinning.
lie talked about the cotton crops,
And I about the weather.
And as the hours passed slowly by,
W'e both sat there together.
I told him all about myself,
And of tile sights Pd seen;
But when I saw him slightly smile,
1 know he thought me green.
1 told him ot the mountain high,
And of the crooked rivet;
To stand Upon the “Lookout Point,”
Would make a person shiver.
I told him, too, of “Taylor’s Ilidge,”
And a tunnel through a hill;
Said I, “It’s just ns dark as pitch,
Go in there when you.will."
I told him I was scared to death,
When I got to the city;
Hub raised his eyes and said, “0, my !
Indeed, it wa9 such a pity.”
I told him how it frightened me
To ride upon the car,
And when I got to the hotel
How all the folks did stare.
“I saw the Governor, too,’’ said I,
“In all his power aud might;
’Twas Mr. Bullock, I believe,
And sure he is a sight.”
W'hen I had told Hub all I knew,
’Twas time for ms to part;
But when he undertook to go,-
I found lie lud my heart,
ne went away, bat come again.
And said be liked me better,
Aud asked me when I came down home,
To write him back a letter.
I told him no, I couldn’t write,
And he asked my reason why.
And when I said, “l don’t know how,”
Hub sadly said good -bye.
PRISCILLA.
[Fiom the llnivcrsalist Herald.
‘-Giai-n lo Hospitality.”
It is laid down in holy Writ, ns one
of the things required of us ns Chris
tians, and citizens rs the world, that
we be “given to hospitality.” To il
lustrate this point, I will relate a cir
cumstance which oecured some years
ago in regard to two men; the one liv
ing in South Carolina, and tho other
in Virginia. The Virginian w.is trav
eling in South Carolina, on a cold
rainy day in winter, and being unwell,
he commenced at 3 o'clock in the af
ternoon to week a shelter; but he
sought in vain, until night came on,
when he called at a fine, large man
sion, where tie was determined to stay
;f possible, but all his persuasions and
entreaties availed nothing. The proud
aristocrat, who owned the premises,
turned a deaf ear to all his pleadings,
and told him in a haughty manner that
he should not remain on his promises,
and drove him out of his house, insult
ingly. Mounting his horse, ho pur
sued his way amid Die darkness and
rain, until 11 o’clock bolbre he could
tmd entertainment. Two years after
wards this same South Carolinian, who
so unfeelingly turned off his fellow man
from his door, was travelling in Vir
ginia with his wife and two daughters,
when it po happened, that his carriage
which contained his family, broke
down. While deploring his condition,
not knowing what to do, a gentleman
rode up on horseback and observing
his situation, and at the same time rec
ognizing him as the gentleman who
had once treated him so unkindly, con
eluded that now was the time to
venged on him. Accordingly, he told
him that he would ride back to his
house and send his carriage after his
family, that they should be hospitably
entertained until the carriage could be
repaired, which was done. For two
or three days, the Carolinian was thus
detained, during which time every act
of kindness was lavished upon them,
and cakes were cooked up for them to
take with them, when they should
leave. At last, they got ready to de
part, the Carolinian asked for his bill.
The Virginian replied that he had no
charge to make. The Carolinian in
sisted, until the Virginian replied, that
if he must make a charge, ho would
charge him never again tc turn away
a weary traveler from his door, and es
peeially in the night, and in the rain.
The Carolinians remembered the cir
cumstance, and said with much morti
fication, that ho never would. The
story needs no comment. Ii should be
a lesson to every one who reads it, not
to be neglectful of the ties of hum&ni
. S. J. McMoeius.
ty.
The heat in the East Indies during
tho presont summer is said to bo very
excessive. Apoplexy and cholera have
been very fatal bothto the Eaglish res*
idents and the natives and many villa
£cs have been entirely depopulated.
For the Dawson “Journal."
H T. ELUOW.
A TRUE STORY’.
11Y W. HKNOKRSON CI.ACKKTOM.
CHATTER 11.
j ‘’Sister,” observed Mr. (lornuoopicos,
“I propose to refer the subject of our
yesterday’s discussion to the arbitrament
of C.d Clay .—What say yon, old gon
tlcmau, (lapping Mr. Clay on the sboul
der,) to acting the part assigned you V
“I will most e’joerfully consent, broth
er; for 1 know Mr. Clay is compelled to
decide that Romance was cultivated and
carried to a high degree of perfection,
long before tho dawn of tho middle
ages.”
“And 1 know he will decide that, with
the exception of those miserable Milo
sian tales*atid a brief story in theiOyro
pedia of Xenophon, there is positively
no scmblaucc of Romance up to tho time
of Miguel Cervantes. Go to the seven
teenth century, aud tell me if the Ar
rniuius ol Lobcnstc’n and the Asiatiscbn
llanizc cf Zeiglcr do not exhibit on
themselves the water marks of a branch
of literature, which has yet, far to rise '!
Arc not the productions of Madm’ile Scu
den, of Btark, Richardson, and La Fon
taine, and Wagner, Jean I’aul, Schle
gel, Tick, and Ilippel,—are they not
all stamped with indie».'ions of a want
of maturity and development iu the
great ak— science ?”
“11a, ha, ha. Why, brother, it was
only this forenoon that <1 heard you
dwelling, with rapture, on the Le Brut
of Waite and his Roman do Rose, which,
[ am sure, were writteu prior la the
year Jn’2o. Beside \ P.Uat your
tion may come from yiiur owii lips) oniat
did you tell tne some weeks ago aboirjf'
those elegant and graoeful fictions, Ar
gents, Bothos and Tolemachus ?”
“I told you nothing 1 have reason to
retrace The first two are legendary
fables like the history of Hercules or
Theseus, and the latter three ate polit
ical dissertations. That they are all
tinged with delicate touches of Romance,
[ will not deny, in (hem, as in many
other productions of the same period,
faint morning beams of liun-inco, pone
(rating the and -use copses of Fable, Biog
raphy and Politics, denoted the dawn of
a day whose suti was yet to rise. Those
glimpses of Romance in tlie story of Ca
ilypso, Eift-haris acil Anti ope whet tie
sword of my argument.”
“YYhy, Romance, not in the dawn,
but in the richness of perfection, abounds
in the poetry and iu the prrsc of early
Grecian and Roman literature. Ro
mance is but feeble with the col ring of
imagination in its present acceptation.
Y’oU need not go to the Troubatours to
find it; it exis'ei in the fertile niinds of
Homer, Euripides and Sappha. Then
and now, it is blended with history, pol
itics, and indeed every branch of scicnc<\
The Mythology of the ancients is but
truth so mingled with Romance, that
the one cannot be separated from the
other. But, brother, do you forget
D’Urfc wrote Astree before the time if
which you speak, and Gombervillo nnd
Calprcncde made heroes and heroines
out of the eawo materials which are uow
used ?”
“Well, well, this question is to be de
cided by our friend, the Col. Come, sir,
give us the light of your judgement.”
At this moment, I dreamed that (my
attention being thus attracted to the vis
itors) l saw Mr. Webster so overcome
with shame and eonfusion at his own
want of learning and information that
he had his open hands close up before bis
eyes, and was peeping bashfully between
this fingers at the young prodigius ; and
Mr. Calhoun had bit off the corners of
three pocket handkerchiefs, in his em
barrassment, and was beginning to nib
ble at the stalactites on the tablc-oloth.
Clay, always imperturbably, bent on
them the caim and calculating glance
of his eagle eye and replied :
“I am wholly incompetent to decide
your question. My time, children, (they
both frowned) has been devoted to those
kinds of efforts and departments of
knowledge, which, in my judgement,
would must successfully serve my race,
and I have found life much too short to
complete these duties. It may be that
some of your authors are better than
those I have read. Does your Tick and
Hippcl, buddy, (Oornucopicos looked
daggers) teach you that little folia
should be seen and not heard in the com.
pany of grown people ? do they furnish
the philosopher’s stone by which you are
enabled to turn each little sandgrain in
the hour-glass to gold l Do they leaan
you that life is reality, not fiction and
romance, and do they help to qualify
you for its great duties ?
My littlo datlings, (oh ! how they
scowled !) I have found more knowledge
that I could get in its purity without
| any mixture of the wonderful and mi—
j raculous thau I have had leisure to ob
'lain.
1 have found my fellow-creatures the
victims of misery, blinded, benighted,
and mad with the phreray of evil pas
sions and false ambitious—‘pou pen
sions on the bounty of an hour.’ It has
been the earnest desire of niv hoart, aud
the labor of my life to better their con
dition. The political, social and relig
ious information, necessary to aid me in
the discharge of this duty and to guide
tuy own wavering steps in the way
of rectitude, have absorbed all the mo
ments of a long life which could be de
voted to readiug. To what extent fa
ble, folly fiction, and romance, blended
with more substantial literature at va
rious stages of the world's history, I
have but an accidental and limited
kuow'edge. I have found those matters
only when I was searching for others
and, passing by them, I continued uiy
search.”
“Mr. Clay, you surprise me,” said Tl
libiliba. “Do you find nothing in Lan
celot du Lae, Sangri al and Merlin to
exalt and ennoble human nature, to ele
vate the aspirations of the mind, direct
the wayward impulses of tho heart and
impart to struggling, weary mortals
fresh courage for the warfare of life 7
Why, sir, fictions nre tho green spots
and cool springs in the desert of exi;-
tence.”
“Ah !’’ ej ictulated Mr. Clay.
‘ Sister is right, sir, and you arc un
worthy the reputation you enjoy, or you
could not be induced to treat her obser
vation with sueh unblushing irony.”
At the conclusion t f this remark, he
arose indignantly to leave. Mr. Clay,
who bad been speaking to Miss lllibili
ka anil tmd not const qucntlv heard the
thought Mr. Coroucopicos had
riscrftd get in hit) lap, and so he caught
him, put him on his knee, commenced
the foot-patting, baby ride, and contin
ued to talk, wholly unconscious of the
squirmiugs of that young gentleman.
“About those green spots and cool
springs, falsely so called, ton many halt
and loiter life away.” “Lot rac go,"
said Mr, Cornuoopioos, but the groat
Kentuckian heard him not. “Fictions
are more properly tho opium of the mind.
They elevate our feelings abovo the
standard nrture lias adopted, aod imparl
a happiness that feeds and lives on un
real aud unreasoning dreams.” “Brute!
Ruffian ! Unclasp your demoniac clutch,
cs, or condign and summary punishment
awaits you.” “I.istead id exalting and
ennobling human nature, thjy only ex
alt our opinions of human character to
such an extent as must result in a grie
vous disappointment.” “Demon !
Ghoul ! Unhinge theso bauds or die,”
and the tough hide of the orator stood
proof against the nails of tho young St.
Elbow. “The lives and actions of the
great and good, who have ehed lustre
upon the history of your own and other
countries, will be quite as suecissful id
‘elevating the aspirations of yeitr mind
and directing the impulses of your heart,
as anything you might find on those fool
i&h stories about the Round Table.’’ You
Ized ! You Ainsliaspand ! You Ercbian
Miuion of Ahrimau 1 Lbsenthiall me
or—”
Just at this moment, Mr. Olay, feel
ing a flea in his sock, lot go the prison
er, (not dreaming that he did him a fi
vor,) drew a candle to the edge of the ta
bio, raised his foot as high as possible,
pulled down his sock, and looked care
fully for the tricky iusect. Miss lllibi
iika, with amiable and sweet-tempered
scorufulness, had turued her back full
upon the great ex Senator. Messrs.
WVbster and Calhoun, having bumped
heads while engaged in the dip-nuddiug
business, were now wide awake. They
had drawn courage from tho example of
Clay, and were iu conversation with the
host and hostess.
Thus tabloauxed, let the curtain of this
chapter fall and bile them, and do not
get impatient, reader, to know why tboy
all remained so loDg around the table,
or why I keep the love matters (those
sweetening in the cup of my dream) so
long untasted.
[to jie CONTINUED ]
The New York Evening Mail says,
‘Messrs. A- TANARUS, Stewart & Cos. say they
havo never done as largo a businesa at
this time of the year before. They at
tribute the fact to their having adver
tised more this season than ever belore.
Undoubtedly they are right. We are
astonished to ste that so lew of our
merchants avail themselves of our city
papers these dull times We notice
quite a number of stores have goods on
hand now, that should have been sold
long ago—but they haDg fire lor tho
want of advertising.
The Mobilo Register declares that
Col. Mann, Democratic candidate in the
First District of Alabama, was defeated
by delinquent white voters, and not by
negroes. Whereupon our contempor--
rv gives these negligent chaps a scorch
ing lecture, and thinks if they do not
rote Duw they will be obliged to fghl
bcicaftcr. *
of lla<li«'Stli*ni in Month
Carolina.
From tho .YIX Century, DeFoti
tuitie’s trow magazine published month
ly at Charleston, wo take tho follow
ing, nnd regret we not having the cuts
to represent the characters. The first
represents a negro making tracks for
home, with no uniform except a shirt
collar nnd military hat with a feather
in it. Tho second is mounted on a
mule vri;tr gun and saber :
One of “do State Melish” returning
from active service against whito folks
in Abbeville and Edgefield Distiicts.
Ifohas been raided upon, demoralized
and scattcicd. Jlo soliloquizes thua
!y:
“Wlin—wba dut ? I golly, dis cliile
am done skoer cleen troo. Das so. All
berry nice talk about do melish and de
leb’n doll’r a muut, and de good close,
an do gun for shoot, but el de Lord
spar mo to git home dis time, I gwine
for stick to do plow tail. Das so. Ki 1
I wonder what do ole ’oornan tink
when dis gomnian git to de cabin wid
niilTin on but he shirt collar and cotton
umborill. Do kumpnin hab been short
and wigrus, ’cordin to de Gubner’s
paper, but war’s do melish ? Dus de
queshun. Mekkin’ flunk muberneut
troo de bush like me. i golly, di-n»
Abbefield and fidgeville fellers cleen
de niillingtery ont’n about two minit’n
ahas. Doymin no rospovtor ob pus
sons,but dey do lubdein nice Winde
chcstor ride we carry out wid a lub
passin dat ob a'ooinan—an’ dey got
'cm all, das so, das so. I reek'll de
010 man send a brigade out dis time
fur fotcli ’em back. Hut dis chile don’t
go wid’em, no silh ! lie’s gwioe for
look on de fun wid a eagle eye, al
"spectful distance, fur when de smash
kum, sump’ns gwino for break, sho.”
Btatk Cavalry Private Juno
Grant on Guard —Who dur ? Look
yere, boy, nun o’ yor foolishness wid
dis picket, or dar’li be a second ban
funeral round vere, with ycr name on
a pine box. Do cabalry ob do State
am gwine for do dar duly, and enfy to
be meddle wid by no trash. Do Gub
tier say dat the price of wigilanco am
de ’tornal liberty, wid de pay aa ’quip
monta trow n in. Das better dun hoin*
taler or plantin’ corn, an das de tin H I
'list for do. Wigilance, de cap’ll say,
in epiafiifieution of do Gubuer, nicifn
dat wo am to git idl de cullud wotors
to the poll we kin, and chase ’round
de country (vhou dey scatter like ; an’
liberty am alius to have yer hedquar
ter iu do saddle, and draw ration.—
Tank de Lor’ dat de cullud man at
last hab got he right.
Very Aimisiiig.
The most beautiful play for the home
eirele, aud one that hffurd.s more real
enjoyment th an any other, is termed
tho 1 Printer’s DJigbt,” aod as some of
our subscribers appetr to kuow nothing
about it, we will tell them how it is por
formed. Take a shoct of letter paper,
pen and ink, sit down by tho table, dip
tbo pen in the ink, address the ed
itor of the paper you have been
in the habit of roading, thus: “Dear
Sir—enclosed find the subscription price
of your excellent paper for tho time yen
have been sending it to mo, and also foi
one year in advance. Please acknowl
edge receipt.” Then pull out your
pooket book, enclose a roll of greenbacks
iu the sheet of paper, and put it in an
envelop, direct it to tho editor, put a
stamp on it, and send it to the post of
fice, and your part of the play is done,
after which you can go to bed and
dream of angels, pretty women and lov
ing wives. -
Second Scene — Editor's Sanctum —
Roy enters with an armful of letters—
editor opens ODe from John Smith, and
his eyes sparkle with delight as he un
rolls a ten dollar bill—open a second
letter, signed by Dill Jones, and finds a
fire dollar bill—opens a third letter,
signed Jim Johnson, and out rolls a
twenty dollar bill—editor begins to feel
good all over—keeps on opening till
over a hundred dollars is counted out,
when his joy becomes unuteiablc, he
feels rich, aud calls up the foreman, the
printers, and the devil and divides it
with them. They also show signs of
fecliDg good, and a prayer goes up from
every man in the cffice for the health,
happiness aDd prosperity of all prompt-,
paying subscribers. Now that our read
ers know bow, we hope every man of
them who is in arrears will try the game
just to see how much itJal pleasure it
will afford them.— Ex.
Negro Eloquence.— Man isde first
animal in de creation; be springs up like
de hopper grass, hops about like a popper
grass, aud dies de same as a jackass !
Twenty of the Cuban prisoners have
escaped from Fernando Po.
The new Republican movement in
NewYork is said to be in tho interest of
Seward,
VOL. IV. —NO. 28.
Foiirful Tcmperaiiee Inr«.
The Rev. Michael Cragan has led n
very romantic life. He is an Irishman
i and was well educated. He was or.
i darned and assigned to a small parish
. near Dublin, lie was not long there
before ho took a notion to shift bis
quarters to America. After throe
years a favorable opportunity present
ed itself, and hither he came.
Reaching our shores he ber.t his
footsteps in the direction ol Omaha,
and tficro lie became the shepherd of :i
largo fleck, lie continued in this ca
pacity lor over two years, and would
probably have remained longer had
not an uuforseun misfortune overtaken
him.
The Pacific railroad was then push
ing its iron bands across tho continent,
and tho city of Omaha had become the
lieadijuuiters of many bard and loose
characters. These, the clergyman aK
leges, seduced him into drinking. This
pernicious habit crept upon liirn by
degrees, and at last he was no better
than a worthless drunkard. Asa nect
essary consequence, he was expelled
by the Bishop of his diocease.
Thrown upon his own resources, he
came eastward and settled in Newark,
where for a time his behavior was
faultless. Ills only associates were
tho priests of that city, nnd they assert
that there was nothing objectionable
in lis conduct. Hut hero again, at
length, he took to tho bottle. Finding
himself w ithout lands, ho went around
among poor people, and beggod their
hard earnings under various shallow
pretexts. In this way ho amassed it
nice little sum Ilis career was cut
short, however, and ho was apprehend,
ed and lodged ir. jail. Ho was tried
anil sentenced to six months incarcera
tion iu tho Penitentiary. Through the
intercession of forgiving priests, ho was
released sifter lie had served thirty
days. He was none tho better for his
bitter experience.
lie camo over lo Now York and
took a loom in the Eastarn Hotel in
Whitehall stroet. Hero he began
again to practice his old frauds for gin.
Ho went around from houso to house
soliciting contributions for anew
church edifice, and in Ibis way ob
tained $(50(). Among bis victims aro
Congressman Fox, Police Justice Ho-,
gan, Alderman Moore, Coroner Flynn
and Deputy Coroner Shyne.
Early yesterday morning the rever
end gentleman having donnod his best
suit, walked down Washington street
in quest of more victims.
110 bad not proceeded far when he
was met face to face by Deputy Coro
ner Hhyne, whom ho hud fleeced the
day previous This gentleman in tho
interval had heard of tna clergyman’s
antecedents, and had also been in
formed that ho had been seen entering
one of the stibterrauoun brothels on
Greenwich street in a stato of intoxica,
tion. He preferod a complaint against
tho Rev. Mr. Cragan to Roundsman
Henry A. Hudson, aDd that officer
forthwith arrested tbo offender and
took him to tho Liberty Street Police
Station.
By orders of Captain Speight tho
prisoner was without delay taken to
tho Tombs Police Court nnd arrainged
before Justice Kelley, who remanded
him buck to the station under the pre
text cf procuring iurtber testimony
against tho prisoner. No less than six
ty compla'nts are expected to be
against him, the majority from poople
who can but ill afford the loss. lL%is
to be called up for examination this
morning before Justice Kelly.—[N*Y
A certsiu man, who is very rich now,
was very yoor when he was a boy. When
asked how ho got his riches, ho said :
“My father taught me never to play till
my work was fioiihod, and never to
spend my money till I had earned it. If
I had but an hour’s work in the day I
must do that the first thing, aud iu an
hour after this I was allowed to play ;
and then I could play with much raoro
pleasure than if I had the thought of
aD unfinished task before my mind. I
early formed the habit of doing every
thing in time, and it soon became easy
to do so. It is to this I owe my pros
perity.’* Let every one who read* this
do likewise.
The other day a young lady stepped
into a well known establishment on
Baltimore St.., and enquired of a hand
soma olerk :
“Sir, havo you any mouse colored la
dies gloves
“Mouse-colored, Misa ?
“Yen, a sort of gray—just tho color
of your drawers meaning tho storq
drawers, whioh were painted gray,
“My drawers, Miss,” ejaculated thw
young man, glancing down at Vis dress
to see if every thing was right and tight
—“My drawers, Miss? why I don't wear
