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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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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,
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; 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.
