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About The Dawson weekly journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1868-1878 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1870)
THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL. j;Y s. B. WESTON. ,111(5(111 (Kllttlilll Jl3UUl.ll, pCBLlSnin EVIBT TMDMCAT. rUtHS-Str Ully in advance. tFjU * 75 Three , Six months , 2 00 0«e year...* 111".' advertising RATES : No. gQf’RS. ONE MONTH. 1 i ! \ TWO MONTHS I | THREE m'tHS J j SIX MONTHS | ONE YEAR. J 8 00 f 5 0(» $ ? 00 sl2 50 S2O 00 500 7 50 10 00 18 00 25 00 7 oo 10 00 12 00 20 Oo 30 00 10 00 18 00 25 oo 40 OO GO 00 i’Xl' 25 OH 40 00 60 00 110 00|200 00 To .Itlrffiisn'" ••-T"** '"'""•y <<*• » J ' ,easing coueiilered due after first in«-r- Aiveriii'ements inserted at intervals to be charged as new eaeh insertion. An additional charge ol 10 per rent, will be made on advertisements ordered to be in terud on * partienl ir page- Advertisements und-r the head or ci.l Notices” will be inserted for 15 cents per line, for the first insertion, and 10 ceuts per line’for each •uueequent insertion. AdvtMliflenirMits in ’Tl»e 44 Local Column, ,illbe inserted »t 20 cents per line lor the Silt «ud 15 cent-per line for each subse q-ient insertion. All communications or letters on business intended for thits offioS kl»»ul d be ttdjrcssfd io“Tue DaWßom Journal ’* RAIL-ROAD guide. 8011 J Investor it Railroad. b Jf HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL roWER, /Slip Leive 2icon 5.15 A. .IT ; arrive at Colmn bui 11.15 A. .IT; Leave M ; arrive at Macon 6.20 P. JT. Leavrs Macon 8 A. JT; arrives at Eu laa.a.i 30, P M ; Leaves Enfaala X 20, A M ; Anivsi at Macon 4 sn, P M. ALBANY BItANCII Reives S.ni hville 1 46, P M ; Arrives at Ail,anti 11, P M ; Leaves Albany 9 35, A M; Arrive!at rS.uuhville 11, A M. Leave CutliOert 3.57 P. M.; arrive at Fori Galas 5.40 P. M ; L ave Fort G tins 7 05 A ji.; arrive al C'uthbcrt 9.05 A. M. Western & Atlantis 1 Ruilroisd. FOSTER BLODGETT, Sup’t. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. L»av» Atlanta . • ■ 5.15 A. M Leave Dalton .... 2.30 P. M trr ve at C iitanooga . . 5.2., I*. 51 .-titt Gliotanooga . • 3.20 \. M to.veit Atlanta . . . 12.06 P. al NIGHT TRAIN. stave'Atlanta ... 7 OO I’. M Lrrtve »l Cliaitanooga . 4-loA M .eave Chattanooga . . 4.50 P. M irrive it I) dtou ... 750 I’. M arrive at Atlanta . .1.41 A. M - J Bvastaxicntai gwfesifonal 6arfls. 1.1. Wultl.s. L C. HOYLK. WOOTEN & HOYLE, Attorneys a.t Law, «.tirso.r,c.f. Jan 6-ly. R. W.DAVIS, Homey at Law, lutrso r. Gai. UFOIBce over J. B. Pe ry’a S ore. Dec '.'Kl, ’69. ts. IMS, BOTSFOBQ. fi. CO., HUAL ESTATE .?f» EJTTS, I '*>#*, Terrell County, tia. RE offiriug for sale desirable dwellings, *• building lots and plantations, bur Register is open to all, Lee of cost, to Sister ibe property the) have for sale aud, Morihe inspection of those wishing to octJSttf c. W. WARWICK, at Law and Solicitor in Equity, SMITBVILLE, GA. ;i rJ' P r »c:ice in South Western and Patau 1 J- WARREN, attorney at law, AHI tSf'IEEE, ... inU. 0!i ' DefiK.UTKNJiEII) & IRVIN, >notpty? at law, »ro»i, . „ , ’ Georgia. „^!’ e * Ue ntion to Professional Busi »uU ICOD . 'South, wi stern, and lt,h ani AM’ IU the U S Courts > in S'*" !iin an r, At ,nu ; and by Spetial Con L - °OHEN & CO. importers OF. is^s i Wines, Gins, Segars, AND dealers in ai!? rjD M] N'NG\HELA WHISKY, •‘nuf« t 4 ure n of t hc Celebrated t ,2 e 'v a H Hitters, ■>•&« .iltanta, Ga. SAVANNMH AND MAC JN CARDS. EINSTEIN, LCXMAN £ CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in HOOTS. SHOES, Ai\ T S> SI ATS, No. 153 Congress Street, E Einstein, 1 8. IL. E' kinan, > Savannah, Ga. A. Vetsburg } m 7. ibn W « 'I 11» V » M tV ,1 Mill TISON & GORDON, COTTON FACTORS —AND— Gensral Commission Merchants, 96 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga. Bugging and Rope or Iron Ties advanced on crops. Liberal cash advances made on consign ments of cotton. Grateful for libersl patronage in the past, a continuance of the the same is respectfully solicited. s**n‘2;rim SMITH, WESCOTT & CO„ Successors to Little, Smith k Cos., —DEALERS IN — Saddles, Harness, Carriage Material, shoe Fi.rut.rus, Abbott, downing A (o’s Concord Buggies and Wagons, t\o. :<!2 Cherry St., Macon, Ga. sej 2;6m D. R. ADAMS, 11. K. WASH HORN, -A. A. ADAMS, Eaton ton, Ga Savannah, Ga. Araei icus,Ga. ADAMS. WASHBURN & CO. FACTORS AND— Commission Merchants, N o. 3, Stoddard’s Lower Range, ly 1 1'64; 6n • Sitrcntltlh, ft Ai.r’u II C< i.QriTT, James BAr.us, Bilker G ,untv, Ga. Ni wion, Ga. Menu H. Colquitt, Savannah, Ga. COLQUITT & BAGC3, f'OiTON FACTORS & GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS. t%i> y street, S>ava«iml», G». Sneeial niten'inn to the sale of Colton, lai .fu r and Timber. Liberii advances on Con-ignnieois. may6;tf F V n .V £ T 1/ li U. A large and elegant assortment of NEW FURNITURE, Os all descriptions. P„rl >r Suites, B droo.n Suites, CU ■ ir-, Mattresses, li iistcads,&c , In great vaticty. Also, Carpets, Oil Clo’lts, Mayings, Hugs, Mots, Window Shades, Wall Pale r, FoK S.AI.F. CIIKAF ! Please givc mesea’l. i Tl O WA- V\ ODD, Next to Lanier House, Macon, (it, BROWN HOUSE. E. E. BROWS «& SON, Fourth St., Opposite Passenger Depot .llacoa, Georgia. ' rillS House having lately been refitted L and repaired, and is now one of the best Hotels in ilie State, and the most conve nient in tite city. The table is supplied with everything the matket affords. leblß’69 THE TOMLINSON DEMAREST CD Manufacturers of FINE CARRIAGES, 2CO Broadway, Now York. Are manufacturing extensively ev ery style cf Carriage, Buggy, and Wagon suitable for the S> urh, from the finest Landau and I’ltcton down to the Velocipede. Mr. W. Woodruff, cf Griffin, Ga., well known throughout the South as the originator of the celebrated Buggy called “The Wood-uff Concord,” isild “The Wooiuff Plantation Wagm, and associated with us in N. V , where we will always k<ep a g od took of these Buggies and V agons on bond, which arc said to be superior to almost any made in America. If you want any kind of a Vehicle, GOOD warranted Work, send your or ders directly to this House, or through any of our Agents, and they will have prompt attention Illustrated circulars will be sent to any person who will write for them. May (3 ly AUSTELL, INMAN & CO., COTTO N FACTORS AND Commission Merchants, .Vo. 02. II 'allSt., .Yfir I 'ork. T. W. Powell, Agent, Dawson, Georgia. Jan 13, ts. C. A. CHEATHAM, | General Commission Merchant Dawson, Georgia. UriU, buy on the best terms possible, anything the planters need, or sell (or the ilerehunts, 1 anything :Uev have to sell. Cotton bought aud sold on commission. I Now on baud and to arrive VO casks cl ear ltibbe Sides which will be sold low for cash. I c. A. CIiEATIIAM. march 11-'OlMy dawson, ga., Thursday, February s, i8?o. To The Travelling Public. MARSHALL HOUSE, n./ i \ i.r.r.n/, aa. V ills first-c'aps Hotel is situated on Brough - ton street, and is convenient to Ihe business part nf the city. O nniliusscs and Biggage Wagons will always be in attendance at the v -rious Depots and Steamboat Landings, to convey p.s-engers to the Hotel. The best Livery Stable accommodations will bo found adjoining the house. Tlie undersigned will spare neither time, trouble nor expense to mike his guests com fortable, and render this House, in everv sub stantial particular, equal, al least, to any in the Siatfe, The rate of Board has been reduced to $3 00 a day. A. 11. LUCE, Proprietor. McAFEE HOUSE, At Smithviile, la. r I 'HE undersigned having taken the Hying I ton I! ouse at Ft. Valley, takes pleasure in notifying the travelling public that both the above houses are now in the ‘ full tide” of successful administration bv himself lie will spate po expense to make them both Fikst-Ci.ass Hotels, Jf/ais ready on the arival of the traih. W. M. McAFEE. MI S S M. WIL L I AMS 0 N MILLINER AND MANTUA MAKER, AND DEALER IN (tillipafj IjOod?, fajicy Qoodp, Yanliee Notions, Xtltc., Etc (Next Door to Dr. rheatham*?,) TEAI.\ ST. - - DAWSON, GA. r ANKFUL for the patronage given me 1 since I h.tve been in business, I hope to merit a continuance ol the same, by close application to business, ari l a desire to please those who may favor me with a call. J/v stock of Fall and Winter Goods will com' P’isc all articles needed by the Ladies in the M"Miner; line, also F.incy Goods and Yankee iVot.ion?, to suit the wants ol Ladies, Misses and Children. Mv object is to please those who call on me, and ask of the ladies of Ter nil, Calhoun and Webster counties, and all whj trade at Dawson, to call and examine my stock. &ept.23-U’. I)|{. WM. If. LEONARD, Smitnville, Lee County, Ga. 1) RSPECTFULLY tenders his services to V the public iu the treatment of all tineas e j of the I2VS;. Havit p for some time n;i>t pi 1 particular a'tention to St HCIEA ii I", he now proposes to make the diseases of thc Ere a speciality. Blindness, Dimness of vision, Cataracts, Amaurosis, Chronic It.flimations, and all other disers*« of the eye treated with perfect success. All cures warranted. Ad dress, DK. WM. D. LEONARD , Hen wick P. 0., (jS'inubville,) B. \V. K. R. nov4;tf Lee county Ga, NIGHT FREIGHT AND ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. Southwestern Railroad Cos. OrrtCK, ) Macon, October 8, 1869. ) ON and after Sunday night, October 10th, inst., this Company will run a night freight and Accommodation Train between Macon and Eufaula, every night, except Sat urday night, connecting at Smithvife with Albany, and at Cuthbert with Port Gaines ac commodation trains, as follows ; L-ave Mircen, 8:26, p. m ; arrive at Knfaula, 11, a. m. ; Leave Eufaula, 7:18 p. nt. ; arrive at A/acon, 9:10 a in. lip train for JAcon pisses Dawson at. 11 p. m. Down Train lor Eufaula passes Dawson 6a. in. Regular mai trains run as heretofore. VIRGIL POWERS, octHjtf Engineer A /SupYdent. Masoaic Notice. I)ERSONS holding -claims against P. T. Schley Lodge will present them to the Secretary for settlement at once. Unless presented beforo first. Saturday in March will not, be paid. Take due notice. By order of the Lodge. JOHN L. GKILTIN, Jan. 20, Im. Secretary. JN T COST! M Cost St WE are now selling our entire stock of DRY HOODS, DKES9 GOODS, CLOTHING, 800 I S & SHOES, YANKEE NO! ION’S, &c , _A.rr cost i CALL SOON AND Supply Your Families with such Goods as you roay need. Seisel & Sternberg. decl6,2m Dawson Business Directory, Dry Good! Itlcfckanls. BURNEY A iHEESON, IVal.'r* ill Dry Goods, Groceries and /ftidwure, JAin-street. CTK I VI, & TUCKER, Dealers in all Aiudsof Dry Goods and Groceries. Main Street. JACOB, Dealer in all J Vkinds of Dry Goods, Main street. IOYLIISS A ORIFFinr, Dealers J in Staple Dry Goods and Groceries, also and Commission A/ergburtts, J/.iin Street, MrKEIWyUY & CROUCH, Dealers in Drv Goods, Clothing, Staple Goods and Family Groceries, Jftin street. OKR, W. F. Dealer In Fancy anti sta ple Dry Goods, Main at., under ‘‘Jour nal’’ Printing Olßce. DEBPLES, W. To., Dealer in Staple' C and FuTtcy Dry Goods, Mod street. Grocery TTereliaiiis ARTHUR, S. I>., De-lcr ill Groceries and Family Supplies. A/ain Street. Commission Merchant, and Deaiet in Ba con, Floor, Meal and Provisions generally, at Sharpe & Brown’s old stand, M tin St. PAKHR & MJABPE, Dealers S in Groceries and Provisions, opposite -Public Square, Main st. f v ltllllic A SiniBOAS Grocery V I ajid Frovisioa Dealeis, South side .Pub lic Square. a.t ROOD, B. U., Dealer in Groceries and ; Faniilv supplies generally, ‘2ud door to ‘Journal’’ OiHce, Main st. MIZEI.iL, R . C. A: Cos. Grocery and Provision dealers. Next door to the Uo tel Main Street, Dawson. Druggists. / HIIIATIIA E. A., Druggist and v_7 Physician. Keeps a good supply of Drugs and Medicines, and prescribes for all the ills that flesh is heir to. At his old stand, the Red Ding Store, Main st JAMES LOYLESS, Dealers in Drugs, J/edieines, Oils, Paints, Dye Stuffs, Garden Seed, &e., &c. felloe & Taylor’s Shop. 1) mrniey Bro’s., Boot A Shoe ma- V kers, and Taylors, West sido Public Square, same building with Tin shop. lIA2AEUI. I L. feOLOAIOA, B ker, Gonfee • tioner, and dealer in Family Groceries Fish and Oysters, J/aiu Street, next to J. W. Roberts*& Cos. VUmS iCAAAfe. HOI>A E'fT IV. E3. Practicing Phy . sician, and Surgeon. Office at Cheat ham’s Drug Store. 13RKCB, Or. .5. W. & SOY, Prac 1 dicing Physicians and .'urgeons. Office at Dr. Gilrn’s old stand, Eußt side Public Dawson. Watc h Repairer. A LLEY, JOKIAf P M will repair x Y Wa'chts, Clocks, Jewelry, J/usic Books, Aeco dious, &c , always to be found at his old starid. on North side of Public Square. Livery fetables. I?ARNIJI?I, A SHARPE, Sale L and Feed Stable. Horses and J/ul s for sale. Horses boarded. North side Pub lic Square. BAB-800.11. 1> AT ;VARD, Dealer in Fine Wince, Brandies, Whiskies, L»ger 8.-er, &c , West side public Square, Main street. It. F. SIMMONS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ikjirso.r, 6./. I>ROMPT attention giveu to all business in trusted to his care. augfi '69;tf BAIvKItr AND • CONFECTIONERY. .1. L. SOLOMON (PARES pleasure in announcing to the ci i- I zens of Da» son and surrounding coun try, that he has determined to relieve the wants of the people by the permanent estab lishment of a first class Bakery & Confectionery, in this place, on Depot street, next door to J. W. Huberts A Cos., whete he is ready, at ail times, to furnish families with FRESH BREAD AND CAKES. And will, at the shortest notice, furnish all kinds of delicacies lor WEDDINGS, PARTIES, &C. RESTAURANT. IN' addition to the above, I am fitting up, and will have open, by the First of Octo ber, a FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT. Where I will be Prepared to cater to the w ants of the inner man, in the way of ft t'STE/tS, 11'tl.lt T../.TIE AY. served to suit every Variety of taste. , We would say to our customers that no Liquors will be kept, and ladies can, without - diffidence visit our house, with the assurance that we will do everything in our power to merit their patronage. Give me a call. Don’t forget, the place. Depot street next door U J. W. Roberts & Cos. J L SOLOMONS. sept23,’69, ly. Sale and Feed Stable. i W k expect to keep on hand, all the season ! Drst, class Horses and Mules for sale. In our purchases we look to wbat is needed in this section, aud trust to merit a liberal patronage from those wha may need stock, fall on us before purchasing. ouiltf FARNUM ii SHARPE. Will 111 Were «t»<t ? White hands folded In peaceful rout, Over h quiet and pulselehKbreast; Eyelids elouefl in sweet repose, . Hltvp, whose quiet no mortal knows. Soft hair lying m rings of gold, Over a foreln'ad white and cold ; {Smiles on the lip whence the bloom has fled, -4h ! but the beautiful boy is dead ! Kneeling In Hngnlsh, the mother cries : “What are death's subtle mysteries 1 If'hy should Ood; If lie loveth all, Let on me such a sorrow' fall f “Oh ! hut my boy was as pure an mow ; Sin had not touched bis heart, ] know ; What had he done that was wrong / .Hi, me!” Ami the mother weepeth sorrowfully. Kpeaketh a voice through the shadows dun ; “Your boy Is dead, and you ween for him ; But think, O Mother w hat might have buen. Had he lived and walked ju the paths of sin. ; “Living—who knowoth ?—he might have died 7’he death that is worse than all beside ; IJ ying, be lives in a nobler life, For his heart wan untaiiUi and by sin or strife. “Robed for his slumb.r, in garments white, Quietly resteth her boy to-night ; Sleeping from life and the w eary din. The heart must know in the ways of sin. *‘Now he is safe from the ills of life; Naught to him are earth’s toil and strife; Hotter, fur better, the grave and shroud, Thun a mother with 6hnmc for her darling bow’d!’ Listened the mother—like holy balm The words were, or some solemn psalm. She had thought uot of the future’s years, With their weight, perhaps, of grief and tears. “Forgive mo,.Father,” she meekly said ; “Now he its safe, my beautiful dead I Safe from sin in thy arms to rest, Now i feel that thou knowest best.” inside View ol Steconsiriiotiou ISow it Works in Soutii Caro* lin a. You have seen, it stated that the Legislature of this State had passed an enactment to pay the interest on certain claims, in coin. It is all only a specimen of tho general tvay in which this silent and uncomplaining people aro robbed by tho northern carpet-baggers who have been ntado their rulers. Claims against tho State were brought up quietly by Scott, the Governor, who then had them funded. (He and liis Legislature are in harmo ny, and the plunder is sometimes di vided.) Then ho had a law passed to make the interest payable in coin.— Scott has made a good thing out of it. Tlie Legislature subsequently passed an act compelling insurance compa nies out of the State to buy SoO,OOU of those bonds and put them in the Treasury as security. It was a good operation for Scott again. I send you an official schedule of our city taxation —the printed returns for the last fiscal year, made up to the Ist of September. The rate on real estate is ~s per cent. Tho total city tax you will see, amounts to $651,881,- (>!i. Os this amount $560,519,75 ts de rived from real estate. Os bonds, etc., returned for taxation, the amount was only $1,271,371, and tlie tax assessed was $6,356,85; the tax on dogs, - per cent, yielding $1,022; on sales of goods, of all kinds, j per cent, $21,- 633, an income tax, 3 per cunt., $7,- 379 ; receipts at cotton presses, 3 per cent., $1,283; sales of stocks and bonds, 1, $1,931; and so on, through the long dismal chapter. It all comes on Heat estate, which pays about five sixths of tlie city tax levied upon Charleston under tho nondescript rule of mil. nig. What a story for busi ness und money in tlie South ! Why, sir, on tho top of all this city tax there is a State tax of 1.20 additional—by which $20,000 pays $740 taxes ! Gentlemen, you don’t know much about the negro government to which we are subjected. The negroes and scalawags in the city councils fre quently have knock-downs and pistol tights at the regular sessions of the hoard. lam not a Charlestonian, and no Charlestonian ever has a word of complaint. But it makes thc blood of any honest Northern man boil with indignation to see how these people are punished, meanly, cowardly, aud in true radical style of vengeance, af ter they had once laid down their arms like men aud accepted the result of the war. They are plundered and robbed and insulted. Why, the Com mon Council of Charleston don’t pay an aggregate tax of one hundred dol lars, all told ! It is a fact. There are plenty of houses here that you can rent for the taxes. Only bind your self to the taxes, aud you will have no other rent to pay. It is robbery and plunder; aud a hordo of carpet-bag gers and negroes aro sucking the life blood of the people, as a wolverine sucks the blood of a deor that he has fastened upon. We hold on, silently, while they rob right and left. Your people in New York and Connecticut have but a faint idea of the reality.— Bills amounting to $3,000 not long ago came before the City Council.— “Why,” said a “rebel” member, “I remember that these have all been paid by a former vote,” naming the time. “l>at no matter,” said Mr. Squash, “dey is hill and doy muss bo paid.” And the vote actually passed paying them all the second time ! and the money was obtained on them. It is about the same iu the Legisla ture. There, not long ago, a bill came up to pay some tailor SMOO for mer chandize and work. It was found to ; be “loyal,” aud at once passed. It proved to bo $lO for a jacket for Ce sar, sls for pants for Cuts, $0 for new hat for Pomp, and so on, all tin*, r way through—it was for clothing the negro member* and their colored friends. Is it any wonder that such a fellow as h’hittemore, the Itov. carpet-bagger who “represents” the Darlington dis trict iu Congress, after skimiing his negro friends and sending home $lO,- 000 in one package by express from Florence (S. C.) to Boston, should be able to ride us. Glorious “reconstruction”! But there is justice in Heaven, und it w ill fail not, sooner or later, to vindicate its power on the affairs of men. —Hartford Times, Boston is 2-10 years old l —certainly old enough to know better. An <>( (lie War. In tho latter port of the year 1862, I was residing in Fredericksburg, Va. with my motlier, *n old lady, suffering from a complicated form of spinal dis ease, which had confined Iter to her bed for a very long period. Tho doc tors pronounced her case hopeless, ami indeed, there wore times when tho slightest noise in the room, or the feeblest effort to move, brought upon her such paroxysms of pain as woro heart-rending to witness. Wo lived completely alone, in a small cottage in tho suburbs, nut ft relative or protector near us, for my father had long been deal, and my two gallant brothers had both fallen in the first battle of Manassas. While tints unfortunately situated, the neighborhood of Fredericksburg became the scene of hostilities. Gen eral Burnside, with an immense force, appeared, upon the Northern batik of the Rappahannock, and endeavored to affect a crossing of the river. Some time before, the main pajrt of tho population of tho town had de serted it; but my poor mother, more weak and ill than usual, could not bo removed to any place of safety. Imagine our position, reader, if you can ! Two feeble women, with a small keg of stale buscuits to support us, left without the remotest prospect of help, in a city already under tho muz zles of nearly a hundred and fifty can non ! A dull lethargy, like that of des pair, overpowered me. I could only listen, stupefied, to tho meanings of tho invalid, and to tho frequent crush ing rolls of musketry lower down tlie river. With tho flight of hope, every ves tige of apprehension and fear seemod to have left mo. 1 was absolutely certain we should both perish, for, to abandon my helpless parent, was a thought which never once my mind. Suddenly, on the morning of tho 11 tli of December, just as I was try ing, after a sleepless night, to prepare some food for breakfast, the dreaded bombardment broke forth in all its fury. “Ah, it has come at last, and we shall soon bo out of all our misery,” said I, stopping quietly to the window and looking out upon tho terrible scenq, No words could convey a pic ture of what I then saw—the air filled with flame, and hissing with deadly missiles; tho crash of buildings crushed by round sliot, and torn opon by bursting shells ; houses momently catching fire, in every direction ; and what was more terrible than all the rest, the frantic shrieks of tlie women and children who, too late, were seek ing safety in lliglit. As 1 stood by tlie window—Heaven knows how loug, for I teas dreadfully fascinated by the spectacle—l witness ed what, even now, as I recall it, makes me shudder. A butcher’s cart, drawn by an im mense grey horse, with a man driving it, and a little boy holding fearfully to the skirts of a man’s coat, had just come rattling into view. 1 had bare ly caught sight of these figures, when a shell burst directly under the uni mars feet —or possibly two of these missiles—for the liorse, the vehicle and the human beings in it, wore lit erally torn to pieces ! 1 could see tho mangled limbs of the poor boy quiv ering on the sidewalk ! At once, and utterly, 1 lost all my resolution. In. fact, 1 must have fainted, since tho next tiling of which 1 was conscious, was my mother’s voice, pitifully begging me to answer her, and say whether 1 had been wounded. I 6taggere<l up from the scat on which 1 Bud fallen, aud attempted to ru-ussure her; but, at may be sup posed, unsuccessfully. For a whole hour after this we remained motion less in our chamber, while the tiring appeared to increase in violence. The windows rattled like skeleton bones, and the very foundations of the house trend iloil and shook at every discharge. 1 was fast becoming calm again— despairingly calm—when 1 heard somebody walking up stairs, and then a well-known voice shouting our names. It was old ltobiu, our negro servant, whom 1 had sent, the day be foro, into the country, to seek for pro visions. My father's slave, and my grandfather’s, liobin, now seventy years of age, but more athletic than many a young man, had clung with pathetic devotion to the poor remnants of “the family,” as lift called us. My heart leaped up when 1 saw his honest black face, and the notion that wo might l)e saved, after all, brought bock all my strength of will and eour uge. Saved ! but how ? People in times of . desperate danger, think quickly, and are apt to resort to singular expodi- I ents. Glaneing about the room, my eyes fell upon a large, but exceedingly light straw chair which l had procured ! for my mother’s convenience when she was strong enough to sit tip. Ah, a lucky conception ! We would wrap the invalid carefully in a double set of blankets, strap her gently to the 1 chair, and, if she could endure the pain of removal, Robiu would take her on. his hack (she was scarcely ns heavy as a child,) and leave the city ' for the tirst place ox safety that otter ed. Hurriedly I proposed this plan to my mother, who to my inexpressible I relief, accepted it eagerly. Her pale faoo tiushod a little, and she actually looked better at that moment, than 1 had seen her look for years. Tenderly !as if she had been a baby, Robin j placed hor in the chair, securing her I frail person by passing several' cords aud a broad strap across her chest anil knees, and lastly, taking the burden, VOL IV. —NO. 51. ; with no apparent effort upon his back, j he went down stairs, bidding mo fol low him. I But oh ! that walk of throe miles, first through the burning streets of Fredericksburg, with the roofs crash ing above our heads, jots of fire dart ing between doors anti windows, tho hiss of halls, and the peculiar singing , of the great shells as they passed in I curves of ffamo through tlie thicken ing smoko; anti then, those greater dangers avoided, our plodding along the country roads, choked up by over thrown carriages, and scattered goods of every description, with horses es caped from their owners, galloping . madly among the debris of many a ruined homestead—can I ever forget it all—over erase from memory the frightful pictures of that time ? At last wo reached a farm house the people of which were our friends. My mother, with exclamations of amazement from the whole family, was taken at once to bed, but, strange to say, she did not scorn at all fa tigued ! This delicate woman who had not left her chamber, scarcely her couch, for years, had braved tlie horrors of a bombardment in the open streets —- ridden on a negro’s back for three or four miles, and yet had notsuccoiuod I And, what is more, from that night my mother’s health improved, until now, five years after, I have the satis faction of seeing her seated comforta bly near mo, and engaged upon some delicate sewing work, in the very chair which formed so important a part of tho rescue of December, 1862 ! Her comparative recovery lias puz zled the faculty, excepting one physi cian of acknowledged genius, who de clares it was tho most natural thing in tho world. “Did you ever read ‘Little Dorrit,' Miss Martha V ho asked me yester day. I replied that I had. “Well, then, recall that scene which repre sents Arthur Glanman’s mother under the influence of a great mental shock, throwing off the paralysis of twenty years, and rushing through the to find little Dorrit, and entreat her mercy! “Ignorant critics laughed at Dick ens for what they called a tour de force but Dickens, as usual, know what ho was about, iriucli shocks, especially in nervous diseases, act often with tho subtle force of galvanism, and tho cases are numerous where what you wouhl have sworn must kill tho pa tient outright, results in a temporary, and even in some cases, (look at your mother,) a permanent cure.” What meanwhile, of old llobin ? He still lives with “the family,” and in his hide old ago delights to repeat to liia cronies tho minutest particulars of the event of which he was tho un questionable hero. Every week he gets more garrulous concerning it, so that, in due time, tho flight from Fredericksburg promises, under bis creative fancy, to develop into quito an •Iliad” of adventures! Currying Concealed Weapons. This barbarous practice has bocome so common that it has been found nec essary in Now York to introduce a bill to prevent it. In too many parts of the country half grown boys and old rowdies aro tho chief offenders. They swagger about full of insolence, conscious of being armed, and aro thus emboldened to commit all kinds of outrages. They insult inolfonsivo people on the streets, on the cars and in places of public amusement, aud, upon the slightest provocation, whip out a deadly weapon and commence shooting or cutting, Mon given to drink habitually go armed, aud, when - crazed with liquor, murder some good man. Young men “go to town” armed as if they were in a land of savages, or as if their lives had been threaten ed. A few drinks—a hasty word—a blow—aud murder is done. The more impudent and offensive a man is tho greater the certainty of his being armed. Such a follow is a coward at heart. He presumes upon his posses sion of a weapon and the defenceless condition of Ids victim. No truly bravo man will go about habitually armed year in and year out, or even for a short time, unless his life is in danger from someone who has sworn to take it. Something ought to be done to put a stop to such a cowardly puaiiauiiuuus custom, or murder will be an every day atfair in every com munity. The enactment of a law making it a penitentiary offense might possibly check it. As it is now, tho habit is increasing, if tho amount of killing aud stabbing going on is any criterion. Queen Victoria is threatened with dropsy. She has often been accused ’of taking a drop—see ? In Chicago James Gordon Bennett is on trial for burglary. You seo thoso»culprits cannot always escape. If “beauty draws by a single hair,” how irresistible some of the women must be who wear a bushel-basket full. I Miss Ireno Fatout is lecturing on woman’s rights in Indiana. Her friends should take their Fatout of the tiro, I A little Boston girl thought tho minister wanted some office, because in praying he kept saying, “Grant, wo beseech thee.” A female resident of » Tennessee town, appropriately named New liuin, recently presented hor husband with a twenty-second little responsibility. A colored woman near Louisville palled her son out of church when ho was leading in prayer and cowhided him. She didn't •behove in such fooL ishness.
