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About The Dawson weekly journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1868-1878 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1869)
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.
