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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
j>y s. R. WESTON.
{laiusoit (WtcelUj) Jonnrjl,
Published Every Thnrsdiy.
TtUlJUS—SlricUy In •ttivancc.
Three month* 00 75
Six months *1 25
One veir -Y2 00
joh It 'ork ot every description eye
"cutedvitli nextuesß and dispatch, at moderate
ntea.
“ r I' c y ul MverlUevnenU.
Sheriff’* Sales, per levy |4 00
Mortcage Ft Fa Sale, each levy 5 00
T i Col * '* »• • .•fi 00
elutions for Letters of Administration, 4 00
” „ u •* Onitdranship, 400
niamisioQ from Administration 5 00
„ “ Guardianship, 5 00
Application for leave to Sell land 4 00
Voliccs to Debtors and Creditors 4 00
Land Sales, Ist sq. *4. each additional. 3 00
Sales of Perishable Property per equ’r, 4 00
EstravNotice, * 00
Votice to perfect service, 7 00
It ilea to Foreclose Mortgage, per sq. 4 00
Rules to establish lost papers per eq. . . 4 00
Rules compelling titles... .8 50
Rules to perfect service, divorce cases. 10 00
' All legal advertisements must be accompa-
nied by cash, or will uot appear.
Sales of land. &e., by Administrators, Ex*
editors or Guardians, are required by law to
be held on the first. Tuesday in the month, bes
tween the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3
ill 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 g .zctte 40 days previous to the day of
sale. , ■ ,
Notices for the sale of personal property
must be given in like manner 10 days previ
ous to «ale and tv.
Notice to Ihe debtors and creditors of an
estate must also be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell lai.d, etc.,
must be published one month.
Citations for letters of Administration,
Guardianship, etc., muHbe published 3o days
fordismis-ion from Administration, month
ly 8 months—for diemis.-ion from Gturtlian
fliip, 40 Jays.
R i|fs of ft. reinsure of Mortgage must be
published monthlY for four months—for es
tablishing lust, papers for the full space of 3
months—for compelling titles from Exeett'ors
or Administrators, where bond bas been giv
en bv the deceased, the full space of three
months.
Publications w ill always be continued un
cording to these, the legal requirements, un
le.-s otherwise ordered.
{Srilaniage and Obim.rv notices of five
linos or ‘ess, no charge. Over five lines, reg
ular rates will be charged.
RAIL-ROAD GUIDE.
Soul li western Kail road.
Wit. HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL TOWEUS, Sup
Drive Macon 5.15 A. Jf ; arrive at Onium
bn? 11.15 A. .)/. ; Leave f/oln-'bus 12 45 P.
i! ; arrive at Macon fi.s« p. if.
Leaves Macon 8 A .If; arrives at Ku
fault 5 lit), P M-; Leaves EufiuL 7 20, A M ;
Arrives at Macon 4 50, P M.
AI.l! SNA’ ltUANcn
T.enve? Raiitbville 1 IG. P M ; Arrives at
A nanv 3 11,1' M ; Le >v< s Aibiny 2 35, A M;
Arrives at Smithv'dl- 11 . A 11.
Leave Cnthh-ri 3 57 P. M ; arrive a» Fort
G ins 5 40 P. .1/ ; L eve F >rt G tins 7 0» A
J/.; artivo at G'aihbevi 9c .7 A, .if.
Wosler:i & Atlnntic Haiirond.
V IIULRE :T, Sup’t.
DAV PASSENGER THAIS.
I,'ivo Atlanta . . . 8 45 A.M.
helve Dalton .... 2.80 P- M.
strive at. Chattanooga . . 5.25 P. M.
Leave Chattanooga . • 5.20 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta . . . 12.U5 P. M.
NIGHT TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta . . . 7 “0 P. M
Arrive at Chattanooga . . 4. In A. M
liemit Chattanooga . . 430 P. M
Arrive at Dalton . . . 7.50 P. M
Arrive at Atlanta . . .1.41 A. M
■■ME TSES2 rKsoaniwrsjyrwvsaaoKsa^KSßt'rai
(SatiU.
LEVI O. I I<> V 5 a,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
D.twson, - - - - C'v a.
A\7ILL practice in the several Courts of
; » hiw and K;juiry in this Sia?e and the
Circuit Courts of the United States for the
State of Georgia, Also, ntteuli n given to
COMMISSION in BANKRUPTCY,
c n WOOTKN. K. w. DAMP.
WOOTEN & ') VJS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
i)aivson, da,
<lrc 24 18fiS ly
C. W. WARWICK,
Att’y at Law and Solicitor in Equity,
SMITHVILLE, GA.
Will practice in South Western and Patau
a Llrcuits - Collections promptly remitted.
J- Cr. S. SMITH,
GKIISr SMITH
•*•**» Ja*iCHI*YMBT
a Jr^o* onst " nt,v oa hand a well selected I
Ain. ?.' ,cln, > Cistols, Caps, Cartridges and
Amaomonofall description
Sew'iI Pr u l l L t ’' 1? of all kinds done. Also,
All R n MßC . hlne Needles for sale.
in~ i) '?F a ' rs a H hinds of Guns, Pistols, sew
-8 J/lchlnea . etc., etc. Feb 11 ’69 ly.
*' J- PRATT. ' J. B.
i’RATT & CRIM,
DRY GOODS AND
Merchants,
fil ' VS D3r, - - GEORGIA.
I Advances made on Cotton
r,ih Bto our correspondents in Savan
nah and Baltimore. oct22 68ly*
*■ J. WAR RE N,
ATTORNEY at law,
sr 'tHKBW'IJLLE, - - - f..f.
JOB WORK.
Neatly Executed as this Office.
K. F. SIMMONS,
ATTORNEY AT LAY/,
!«cal Instate Agent,
—AND
County Agent lor Land k Immigra
tion Office of the state of
Georgia, Dawson Ter
re I County, Ga.
IJKOMPT attention given to all business
intrusted to his care. Will examine ti ■
ties to land and effect the sale or pie oh sue 0 f
the same. aughpf
saddlery and Harness Hm]»oriiiiu.
G. C. FIOGERS,
Oh the Site of the Old Theatre, and onnosite
United States Hotel,
DSC A TUf ST. A TLA XT A , OA.
Convenient to the Passenger Depot. Pri
ces will be found more reasonable and Stock
more complete than anv in the city. Also,
all kinds of Harness ami Skirting Leathers.--
Also, Eriaineted I.eai+iere and Cloths constant
ly en hand, who' -le ami Retail.
CAKRIIGE§ AMD KIIGGIES,
Baby Carriages, Keeking Horses, anil A’u-gv
I mbrellas, of the moft approved style anil tinish
ou baud aud made to order. ' janl t-ly
Alk’-I H. Colquitt, James Basos,
Baker County, Ga. Newton, Ga.
Hugh ll.' Colquitt, Savannah, Ga.
COLQUITT & BAGCS,
COTTON FACTORS & GENERAL
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Buy street, Savannah, Ga.
Special attention to the sale of Cotton,
Lumber and Timber. Liberal advances on
consignments. may6;tf
MEDICAL CA R D.
DR. J. H. JOHNSON,
nAVING Located at BrowilN Sta
lion, will take gredt pleasure
u wailing on all those, who desire his servi
ces* No other piactce solicited.-May 20*.h-tf
alts STTaactiSs
PM. in BAR.
JUST received a New Stock of j Fine
Liquors, Scaur*, #<*., tic.
Will also keep for ihe accommodation of
my customers,
LICM.ONS & ICE.
D.iwr-on, Ga., May 13,lSf.‘J—tf
BFt O W N HOUSE
i . E, BROWS A SON,
Fourth St., Opposite Passenger Depot,
Alneon, Cirauei,.
‘IWIIS House having lately been ri fitted
1 and repaired, and is :kv one of the best
Hotels ill the State, and the most conve
nient in the city. The table is supplied with
everything the rnatkot affords. feblS’tiS
McAFEE HOUSES,
U Sniiihville and Ft. Valley, Ga.
’ J 'HE undersigneii having token the Dying
i ton//ouse at Ft. Valley, tnkes pleasure
in notifying the travelling public that both
the above houses are now in the 1 tell tide”
of successful administration by himself He
will spare no expense to make them both
First-Class Hotels, /.Teals reudv on the
arival of the traih. W. M. McAFEE.
BYINGTON’S HOTEL.
( Opposite The Passenger Depot.')
JIACOft, - - GEORGIA
riMIIS well known Hotel is now conducted
I t.v the Sons of the late J L. Byington,
who was so well known throughout the Slate
for keeping a good Hotel. feblß,iß69
I*ro liosao Publico!
TICKETS FOB OSSd FAKE.
SopthwKSTEitN Uatlkoad Okhck .
Macon Aug. 16, 1869. ■)
ON and after the 19' h inst.. Return Tick
ets, to and from either terminus or s'ft
lion on this Road oan be purchased for One
Fare. Said Tick, is good n’ltil Oe'nber Ist,
and no longer. A fItGII.
aug26;6w Engineer and cup t.
HOUSE AMO 10 f IN DAWSON,
FOlt 5.13. V.
mllK EOT formerly owned by A/.j-
JL C. B. Wooten, on Depot Street, contain*
ing Sis Rooms, and all necessary cut bouses,
most desirable residence
iu town. For particulars apulv at this Office,
or to T. E. LANGLEY,
Brown s Station.
JMO. W. O’CONNER,
Wholesale dealer in
PURE WHISKIES, BRANDIES,
(jins, limns, IVlaes, Ac..
00 cherry si., - - Mucoa, Oa.
And sole agent lor the sale of tbatcelebra*
tatud braud Pure RYE WHISKER
nMi con. All those who wish a pure article
in the way of ll'liinkey, lira nut/,
SfirlfS, *Yft’ mid M*t>rlcr, can gent
b ¥ calling on -lino. W. «»’Coliiier.
lie has also a line stock of Panes Dele'
Soap,, which he offers very VO! s’ tor
Be keeps always ou baud a lull
ami complete slock of
Fancy Ci roccrics,
including Oi'STViIS, Sardine*,
it) its TV.MIS, Currants, JGW
si tv, Italian Macaroni, J fa
. Tomatoes, seas,
"ri cv- s * * .iets, si mum ,
WOLcMSSVS, Sc. ,
*■ v , full stock of all Grades.
f 5 RONES LEMONS*-At slo.™ P« Cos !“
DAWSON, GA., TIIU
Dawson Business Directory.
Dry Good* llcrrlmuts.
KI'TAFK, J ACOB, Dealer in all
kinds of Dry Goods, Mam street.
KI'T."kEIt, E., Dealer in Fancy and
Staple Dry Goods, and Grocciies, Bald
winsold stand, A/aiu Street.
I OFLESH A. URIfFIL Dealers
in Staple Dry Goods and Groceries, also
: Warehouse and Lominission A/erchants,
J/ain Street,
OIJ3S, \V. I'. Dealer in Fancy ami sta
ple Dry Goods, Mam st., under “Jour
nal” Printing Office.
pRATT & CRIM, Dealers In all
* kinds of Dry Goods aud Groceries. Main
Street.
I_>EEI*LES, W. Yff., Dealer in Staple
and Fancy Dry Goods, Loyless’ Block,
MaiD street.
Gl'pcrry Iffercbnnls.
\ ETIIEK, S. It,, Dealer in Groceries
/land Family Supplies. Main Street.
17FLTOW, J. A., Dealer in Bacon,
Flour, Meal and Provisions generally, at
Sharpe & Brown’s old stand, Mrin st.
EjSAR.VIJ.4J & SIBAISt>E, Beali rs
in Groceries and Provisions, opposite
-Public Square, Alain st.
p REER & SITfWOJIS, Grocery
IT and .Provision Dealets, South side Pub
lic Square.
HOOD, SI. IS., Dealer in Groceries and
Fimilv suoplies generally, next door to
Journal” Office, Alain st.
MIZf'LL, E . C. & Cos. Grocery and
Provision dealers. Next door to the Ho
tel Alain Street.
COR FECTXOX ERIE*.
I) ICHARDSOiV, D. C. Dealer in
Cf/onfectionaries, Fish, Oysters, &c Main
Street.
3>s - fsggis{.
f 'A fl HATHA 4|, A., Druggist and
V / Physician. Keeps a good supply of
Drugs and Medicines, and prescribes for all
the ills that fl eh is heir to. At his old stand,
the Red Drug Store, Main st.
Pf! . SH I »,>*».
1 )KICE, Or. .S. W. A SON. Prac
.l ticing Phy-ieians. Office at Dr. Gilpin’s
old stand, Eis' side Public .Square, Dawson.
AVatcli Repairer.
\ IJ.KL JOHAi «*., will repair
1 Ik. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, J/nsic Books,
Aeeo'd’ons, &c , always to be found at his
old stand, on Notih side of 7’ublic Square.
GiitiMnith.
SiYIiTII, J. G. S., Dealer in Guns,
Pistols, Caps, Cartridge”, and sporting
goods generally, Main st.
ti i
Sortie, Es. .¥. D. a'er in Ftov-s nnd Tin
■vare of all desorptions. Repairing done
on short notice. Northeast side Public square
Livery Slitbles.
H IRYI TT. SHIRB»E&Co., Sale
I' and Livery Stable, Horses and Mules for
sale and hire Horses boarded. North side
Public Square.
Root ami Slier Shop.
I > 5 ; 4SS EY, 11. F., Makes and repairs
k Boots aud Shoes of all kinds, next door
to Gun Shop, Depot st., Dawson.
» iisimit - »■ ey-T,-.
C. A. CHEATHAM,
General Commission Merchant,
Dawson, G-eorgia.
UT J LI, buy on the best terms possible, anything
the planters 1, or sell for the Merchants,
anything they have to sell.
Cotton turngilt end sold on commission,
march 11-’i'tMy
Now ou li.-md and to arrive2ocasks clear Ribbed
.Sides which will be sold low for rash.
C. A. CHEATHAM.
n. It. ADAMS, 11. K. WASHBURN, A. A. ADAMS,
Eaton toll, Ga. Savannah, Oa, Americus.Ga.
ADAMS: WASHBURN 4 CO.
FACTOKS
AND—
Commission Merchants,*
No. 3, Stoddard’s Lower Range,
may 1 3'69;6m Savannah, (la.
KIJFAUFA SSOTJESa,
Eufanla -A-la.
MODERATE,
L. W. VICK & Cos.
May 0:h 1869.
IIKAR tiIb WITNESS !
NO A IISEN 1C INO Q UINIEE!!
jro mv it cmi i*; •
B,i,b Ooi'NTV, Ga., Feb. 11th, 1360.
Memrs. L. W. Hunt & Cos.
(»knts —1 have taken Ur. \\ ilhaft s Antipe
,iodic, and have giveu it iu my family, and
unhesitatingly pronounce it. to be the b€Bt
Chill and Fever Medicine th -t I ever saw. I
have never kuown it to fail in a single in
stance. Yours truly,
Thos. J. Gibson, Bibb county,
i For sate iu Dawson by Janes & LoylkSS,
Druggists. march If 69 ts
MARSHALL HOUSE,
A. IS. LICE. Proprietor,
THE SEW HOTEL.
bablow HOUSE,
americus, ga.
w. .I.BIKLDW. Proprietor
DAI, SEPTEMBER 2, 1809
POETRY.
If Yon lvant n Kivu, Take if.
There’s s jolly Saxon proverb,
That is piettv much like this,
That a ma* is half In Heaven
.When he has a woman’s kiss ;
But there's danger in delaying,
And the sweetness may forsake it;
So I tell you, bashful lover,
If you want a kiss, why take it.
Never let another fellow
Steal a march on you in this;
Never let a laughing maiden
Sec you rpoUing for a kiss.
There’s a royal way to kissing.
And the jolly ones who make it
Have a motto that is winning:
If you want a kiss, why take It.
a4ny fool may face a cannon—
Anybody wear a crown—
But a man must v.in a woman,
If he'd have her for his own.
Would ycA ha e the golden apple.
You must find the tree and shake it,
If the thing is worth the having.
And you want a kiss, why take it.
Who would burn upon a desert,
With a forest smiling by ?
Who would give his sunny summer
For a bleak and wintry sky ?
Oh 1 I tell you there is a magic,
And you cannot, cannot break it;
Far the sweetest part of loving
Is, to want a kiss—and take it.
For the Dawson “Journal.”
ST. ELBO W -
A TRUE STORY.
BY W. HENDERSON CLACKSTON.
CHATTEII 111.
“Mr. CalbouD,” obdcrvctl Col. Eldora
do, “the days of miracles are returning.
The children of this age Beam almost to
come into the world, (like Minerva from
the brain of Jupiter,) armed capapie
with the panop'y of learning. In the
moral' and phytiicjl sciences and the fine
and useful (or mechanical and liberal)
arts, they reach, at. one buoyant bound,
an almost marvelous altitude.
The catechism '.heir fathers used is
exchanged for Sehleirmacher’a -Doctrines
of the Christian Faith’ and Crawford’s
‘l’ardoxcs’ ; ‘stories for children’ give
place to ‘Eitte schone anmuthige und leg
enswurdnje Histone von dcr vnscliuldig
letrenglen Leil, Pfalz-graffiti Gennvcra
trie es ihr in abwensenheit ihres herslieben
Ehgcmaols ertjadgai,’ and" other produc
tions of a kin-dyed character ; aud ‘the
Child’s First Book of History’ is cow
the Anabasis of Zmopbon, and ‘the
Nine Muse?,’ (as they were termed.) of
Herodotus, Lyell, Cuvier, Leorhard,
and Buekland, usurp Ihe time of child
ish sports, and, instead of marking the
ground with the boundaries of their lit
tle games, they mw feast upjn the
knowledge of its Geological competition
and structure. I toll you, my dear sir,
they are close behind the foremost ot
the faifcor generation—they are right
upon us , and we must move faster or
step as'de; onward is the progress of
knowledge, upward is the flight of mind.
We arc in a mighty rushing current
of events, and must keep face with the
stream or, swimming ashore, seek repose
upon its flowery margins.”
‘‘Yus, indeed we must ‘move faster
or step aside,’ if we would avoid being
run over by the conceited and unmaner
iy upstarts. Their advancement is even
greater than you represent it. The sim
plicity of the Gospel is lost sight o*
amid the luminous abstrusities of Spino
za and Descartes. Instead of the hu
mility and self abatement promulgated
by the Dibits and practiced by early
Christians, and even heathen philoso
phers, they adopt the doctrine taught by
the devil, (see 31 chapter of Genesis,)
that they are ‘as Gods knowing good
and evil,’ and, instead of common, use
ful, practical sense, they load their naiuds
with an unwieldy weight of subtiities,
abstractions and menial, moral and re
ligious heterodoxca. These, liko the
hoarded treasures of the miser, have on
ly an imaginary value in the mind wbieh
possesses them. The uiind should not
be hurried too rapidly. It should re
ceive knowledge only as it is prepared
to digest and appropriate it. These
young prodigii of learning seldom make
useful or distinguished men. I have
been in public life more than & third of
a century, and I never knew one of them
to enter the Congress of the nation.”
“ ‘Seldom make useful or distinguish,
ed men ?’ Why, Mr. Calhoun, do you
not know that Cbladni made wonderful
discoveries in the theory ts Aceoustie g
at nineteen, that Paul Potter laid the
ground work of his fame as a painter at
fifteen, that Ariosto wrote his tragedy
of Pyrarous and Thisbo in childhood,
that Fuger exhibited the most distin
guished talents for drawingat eleven,and
Samuel Parr had attained to the m.s
tery in scholarship at fourteen ? ’
“I am not prepared to dispute your
statements. I know but little about the
very distinguished persons to whom you
I refer. Ido know, however, that rnaDy
other characters have existed, who were
* known to possets brilliant parts, early
iu lifo. Huoh as llyroo, ChattcrtoD,
Angelo, and Bacon—names so familiar
you will, perhaps, consider me vulgar
and illiterate in calling them. These
mental phenomena—these exceptions to
the rule—are no answer to my state
ments. If a ehild at ono month old
wore found now and then to possess
teeth and a stomach sufficiently strong
to masticate and digest beef and broad,
would that be a reason -Irby all the
mothers of the land should refuse to
their infants the nutriment Naturo has
prepared ? Show me your young Ba
cons and Angelos, and wo will not dir
dute about the nutriment—”
Mr. Webeter was, at this moment,
dabbling some very earnest remark in
the gravy of gesticulation for Mrs.Wtel
arita, who, no longer able to repress her
pride, interrupted Mr. Caihoun, say
ing:
“I can show you one ia the person of
mg Cornueopicos. Not yet nine years
old, be has reached perfection in the
moral, physical aud political science?,
besides being able to wiold the weapons
of argument, successfully with the first
Statesmen of America'”
“Madam, I respectfully suggest that
you montiou an impossibility. Such
human miracles exist only in novels
and in dreams. There, in life-like
likenesses, they glitter aud deceive. Iu
real life, they havo never existed and
never will exist. Writers who profess
to ‘hold the in'rnr up to Nature,’ bind
these citizens of Utopia (like Promctbt
us to his rock) within the lids of novels,
and call them human, but in the thor
oughfare oi life we see the transparen
cy of the imposture.”
The signal was, at this moment, giv
en for the party to leave the table—:hat
signal was the braying of a donkey, that
was wont to be hitched, every evening
at suDset, in rear of the mansion, where
he remained until he sounded the tca-tai'
too. Such was the punctiliousness of
the family about this matter, that no
one was allowed, on auy occasion, to leave
tho-room.juntil tbo bray was heard ; and,
on cne occasion when the doukey for
got himself aud went to sleep, they re
mained at the table all night.
The family now repaired to the parlor,
and the visitors (according to my dream)
van'shed. Ia the parlor, I was r.u -
prised to find another daughter —a
vcuog lady of twenty—a namesake of
her mother. The young lady was rath
er above medium height and of an ele
gant and symmetrical form. Hor eyes
were deeply blue, an 1 a luxury of glossy
curls fell carelessly on the shoulders and
rear and front of a bust which was one
of plastic Nature’s Chef-daurcs. Iler
dress was plain muslin, and a pair of
neat, new slippers concealed her feet.—
She was evidently tho victim of d' ep
melancholy. An expression strang> ly,
sweetly, mournfully earnest, was visible
in every feature of her fair an 1 a beau
tiful face, and was rendered more attrac
tive by tbo patient fortitude, the digni
ty, tho self-possession, and self-regard
which characterized her deportment.—
She sat on an Ottoman, and gazed list
lessly at the lamp burning on the center
ti ble. The bslance of the family, tho’
much interested iu each other, paid no
attention to her. I thought 1 could
detect occasionally, as her attention was
attracted by the sallies aud wrauglings
of the rest, some kindlings of a proud
though chastened independence. For
more tliau two hours, the conversation
on their part and tho silent aDd modest
isolation of the young lady continued.
At length, a servant girl ontered the
room and, coming near her, said : “yi ur
room’s ready,mam,” when she left, bid
ding the rest good night and receiving
no response.
‘ Ob ! the agonv, the deep, unfath
omable, impenetrable agony of this bleed
iug heart," said she, as she threw her
self energrrically rcross a bed, the mo
ment see entered the room. "I could
have home their neglect, their absenee
of affection ; yes, I might have cheerful
ly withstood the bitterest scorn from pa
rents, brother and sister, and siill loved
them as I must, and forever will wi ll
with the tenderest and most earnest love,
—all these I might, have endured, but
this, this great and crushing weight, how |
can l hea/r 1 1?’ *
Instead of tears, a sort < f placid rc:-
ignatiou followed this remark, and she
lay a moment, then rising went arid
stood in the window. The feebla moon
light that glimmered faiotly.through ha
zy clouds, gave to tho languid softness
of Irer features an tfir of almost super
natural beauty. The night waa pleas
ant ; a few stars skirting the northern
horizon towards which she looked, were
dimly visible ; the winds in the tops ol
the large grove of oaks near by might
have given to happier hearts, as Cole
ridge has said, ‘‘in spring tho melan
choly of hope and in Autumn tbo mel
ancholy of rcsignat.on,” but to her hope
at least was now a stranger.
“Had he been untrue,” sho muttered (
“had he succumbed to the relentless ha
tred of my family and forsaken me, the
high-born spirit which I feel I yet re
tain would have loved a lifo it might
have devoted to the manifestation of in
ditf enoc towards him. But to have
die ~ to Lave fallen, and that at a time
when he thought I had yielded to the
pres.-ure, aud turned traitcr to tho vows
1 bad plighted—”
' Hho trembled slightly for an instant,
aud again resumed the air of resigna
tion :
“And why would they deliver this
Jotter (which I havo read a thousand
times) when they refuse uie his dezr mis.
Bives. How this sentence haauts me 1”
and she leaned towards the caudle and
read :
“Oaptain Sloan was mortally woun
ded and died yesterday, lie lived,
perhaps, six Lours after ho was Shot,
ilo requested mo to write you that ti o
news ol your tiniei, ated nuptials with
a Mr. Comb had reached him, that,
considering the influences exerted tip
on you he did not feel it in his heart
to complain against or censure you ;
that he had intended to have written
you so, had be lived lie bade me
say to you that he still regarded you
us ‘more sinned against than sinning’;
that your hand und heart would, lie
thought, have been his, il in your pow
er to bestow them, and that ho loved
you to the last. The enemy drove us
from his dying body, but his brave,
noble, generous spirit they could uot
environ with their lines.”
“What is (here leit me but to drink
to ihe last of its drug?, the cup ol bitter
*Cßß ? Forme, no more, will Nature
bloom and brighten ; no more, will love
or hope or happiness lure me ; no more,
will life be young again. Tho last of
my ‘fitful dreams’ is over. This world,
a ‘banquet hall deserted,’ when will it
prison mo no longer ? Oh! for tho end
of my bondage, the day of my deliver
ance —”
“Missus says put out that light and
go to bed, mum.”
Not a word of reply was male, net a
frown of dissatisfaction was visible, or a
breath of murmuring uttered, but the
unhappy girl obeyed tho order witbeul
delay.
Far in the deco cf that sleepless night,
she arose, fevered aud restless from her
bed and again approached tbo window.
The moon was long since gone—a inyii
ad of stars shone biightly, stilly, pen
sively iu the deep vault of Heaven. Not
a leaf trembled as Naturo seemed listen
ing in breaibloss silence to the plaint ot
the maiden.
“The night that has settled on my
soul is not like this—lightless and slai-
Icsp, racked . by storms aud palled in
blackest clouds, no morning premises to
succeed it. Shall I—shall I do the
deed ?”
Impulsively she se : zed the matches,
lit tho candle, took a pencil aud a piece
of pttper and wrote as follows :
J!. Dear Parents. For two week-
Ik: e been on the eve of suicide, 1
have been prevented ouly by an anxiety
to avoid paining you—-to avoid the pos
sibility of you reproaching youiselves
with my murder. You have not earned
it, dear pa and ma j the love L hour you
has been a tie that bound me here. —
Your determination to prevent me from
marryiog the man of my choice, and
yoor resolution to make me a hermit
until 1 could consent to entertain some
proposal of marriage satisfactory toy. u,
were dictated by the fondest parental
affection for wl.-iea you have the grati
tude of your dying daughter. The re
membrance of your care and affection
throughout my shortlife connected with
the baleful necessity which has iliiven
me to disobey your wishes, might hav
crushed a stronger spirit than mine.—
Rut added to ibis, cornea another weight
too heavy to be borne, but not so sacred
to be mentioned at :1 is solemn and im
pressive moment. Henry was worthy,
more than worthy < f me, and the love l
bear him is “a ruling passion strong ic
death.” If you think I have erred, oh,
dear parents forgive roe—forgive mo all
the wrongs 1 have done—forgive uiy
disobedicuce, and ray ingratitude. Let
the pale corpse of yenr wretched dangh*
ter plead with you /or forgiveness.
Father , mother, brother, sister—fare
well 1”
“Some will say,” eba said, as she pres
sed her delicate white fingers along the
paper she was folding, “that my wind
was affected ; tbo slander will not reach
me. For the world which recedes, 1
care but little, to that which is before, I
direct my way Earth, Time, Moral
ity, good-bye,” she drank the contents
of a largo phial at one swallow. Rais
ing her hands imploringly she exclaim
ed, ‘‘Henry, I come to you—meet me
when I reach the shore,” and then fell
heavely across the bed.
[to *R CONTINUE.]
The Cre continues ti rage in the woods
in Yv’ashington Territory, doing immense
damage to the growing timber. Owing
to the dense sn oke navigation in Puget
Sound is delayed.
Alex. 11. Gow, of Evansville, Ind.,
has been appointed Superintendent of
Public sebool at Dayton. Ohio.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
‘hat tho insurreofton in the Kirghiz
country has been entirely suppressed.
VOL IV. —NO. 29.
A Good One.
In tho olden time, before Maine
laws were invented, Wing kept the old
hotel at Middle Granville, and firotn
his well stocked liar furnished accom
modations lor man and beast. Ho
was a good landlord, but terribly deaf.
Fish, the village painter was afflicted
in the sumo way.
Ono day they were sitting by them
selves in tbo bar room. Wing was
behind tho bar waiting lor the next
customer, while Fish was lounging be
fore the lire with a thirsty look, cast
ing sheep eyes occasionally at Wing’a
decanters, and wishing devoutly that
someone would come in and treat.
A traveler from the South, on his
way to Braudon, stepped iu to inquire
the distance. Going up to the bar he
said:
“Gan you inform me, sir, how far it
is to Brandon ?”
“Brandy,” said the ready host,
jumping up; “Yes, sir, I have some,”
at ti e same time banding down a de
canter of the liquid.
“You misunderstood me,” said the
strung* r. “I asked you how. far it was
to Brandon,"
“They call it pretty good braDdy, ,f
said Wing. “Will you take some su
gar with it?” reaching, as he spoke,
for tho bowl and toddy stick.
The despairing traveler, hoping for
a proper answer, now turned to Fish;
“The landlord,” said he, “seems 10
be deaf; will you tell mo how far it is
to Brandon?”
“Thank you,” said Fish ; ‘‘l don’t
care if I do tase a drink with you I”
The stranger treated and fled.
Proverbs of all Nations.
God euris and the doctor takes the
fee.
Go into the country to hear what
nows thcieis in town.
Go to bed with the lamb and liso
with the lark.
Give neither counsel nor salt till you
arc asked foi it.
God help the poor, for tho rich can
help themselves.
Grieving for misfortunes is liko add
ing gull to wormwood.
Give a clown your finger and he’ll
take your whole hand.
Give a child bis will and a whelp
bis hli, nnd neither will thrive.
Go not for every grief to the physi
cian nor every quarrel to the lawyer,
nor for every thirst to the bowl.
Health is better than wealth.
Health and mirth create hoauty.
Ho that serves the jiublic obliges
nobody.
He who gives to the public gives to
no ono.
He who m irrieth f.,r wealth sells his
liberty.
He that wants health wants every
thing.
llumiUt) gains often more than
pride.
lie is handsome that handsome
does
110 who has no shame lias no con
science.
He that hath an ill name is .half
hanged.
lie is poor indeed that can promise
nothing.
lie that will steal a pin will steal iv
better thing.
He who avoids temptation avoids
the sin.
He w ho wants content caiG find an
easy chair.
He that knows himself best esteems
himself leatt.
T!ic Coon uu«! Carpct-bagier.
The Baton Gouge Advocate is respon
sible for the following good story of
coons and cuipet baggers :
‘ Is that coon lively ?”
“Gh yes, sir,” replied tho black pos
sessor of us wild a specimen as ever
made tracks in the Oornite Swamp.
“Well l want a real lively fellow;
put hitn on that root,” pointing to »
lower knob of a very tail oak, “and
let’s see if he will stir himself.”
No sooner said than done, and tho
cron went up the tree like a greased
streak of lightning.
“You satisfied, boss, he’s lively ?”
“Well, yes, but I don’t wan’t a coon
in a tree top ”
'Tho freedman looked up tho tree,
whistled, and soratened bis head for
an idea, r.nd said ;
“Well, bona, dut coori is like a car
pet bugger; wery promising when he’s
do ten, but when bo’s up ho ain t no use
to nobody.”
I had much rather
hear you preach,” said a baffled swin
dling horse jetekey, see vpu in
terfere in burgama Ltuweon man and
man ”
‘-Well,” replied the parson, “if you.
liud been wbeie you ought to have
been last Sunday you would Lavo
board rue preach.”
“Where was that?” inquired tho
jockey.
“In the Statu Prison,” returned tbo
elergyiuan.
Chas. Capman, long a prominent poli
tician, and head of the Connecticut bar,
died st Hartford Saturday night, aged,
seventy years.
Andrew Cb- isty, an old and wealthy
eitizen of St. Louis, and one of the prin
cipal owrers of the Wigg'ss Ferry Com
pany, died ytrerday.
CbarlesGrsm was hanged at Strouds-,
burg, Pa., yesterday, for participating iu
the murder or Theo. Droaukeaid ou tha
2-Jth of Septmber last.
*so3> Work*
vYe are prepared to do any kind of
Job VV ork, and hope our friends, “es
pecially in Town,’* will at least see us
and get our prices, before the* sent!
tfl their oidsae.