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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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From the Atlanta Sun.
Hlial I»**»<* S«»asl We «o
0U into tb« Fight.”
Under this heading _wo give our
, ira to-dav an artiolo from the
Richmond inquirer of the 27 th ult.
In it there aro many things which wo
cordially approve, while there are some
others which wo do not know that
vre rightly understand.
A s to the issues upon which the
Democracy of the United States should
tro into tho groat civic struggle in 18-
f-> xve entirely agroo with tho Enquir
“jn saying that tho wholo question
| 9 presented iu a nutsholl, hy tho St.
louis Republican, in that oho para
graph quoted by tho Enquirer, and
xvbioh is in theso wcnls :
“The ConstituUon&i question uolore
the people then is not whethor a State
has a light to secede, or to nullify an.C
net of Congress. . That was decided in
fact by tho late war ; but whethor a
State has any rights which tho Na
tional Government may not, as Us plea
sure, set asido- When a Central
Government begins to appropriate tho
powers of surrounding States or pro
vinces, it never, of its own accord, cea
ses from the process. It continues the
encroachment, if unresisted, untiljithas
become imporialized, and the States
reduced to outlying dependencies.”
The real true living issue involved
in the next contest in this country, as
we view it, is thus briefly but pointed
ly stated. The only change or modi
fication we would make in it, would bo
to striko out tho words ‘‘National
Government,” and insert in their placo
“Federal Government,” but tho con
text soems to show clear enough that
the meaning of the writer was the
sums. Ho unly»fi'll into tho v
mon error of speaking of tho Mra
Government” as a “ National Govern
mont.”
Now, what wo do not know that wo
rightly understand in this article from
the Enquirer, is, what is therein stat
ed about the absudrity of tho Southern
States keeping up a party “organized
on tho basis of the right of Secession,
to be formally mancouvered in every
political conflict,” &C., and about re
organizing a pro-slavery party in tne
country,”
We say, we do not know' that we rightly
understand these and other like por
tions of the article in question, and
therefore forbear all comments upon
thorn, except to say that wo know of
no proposition or wish, in any part of
the Southern States, entertained by ev
on a single individual, to organize a
party upion any of those conjectural
hypotheses.
The right of secession for all prac
tical purposes was, as we understand,
decided by the war; nor that war can
over settle or decide any or
truth in matters of government or jus
tice between men or States, any raoro
than in matters of Science, Art or re
ligion. War may decide, and deter
mine permanently questions ot policy,
but never questions of Eight.
A Legimate result of the late
war, we believe, was the settlement
—and settlement forever —in this
country, of tho policy of Secession as
a practical mode of rodross against any
usurpations on the part of tho Federal
Government.
This legimato result of tho war has
boon accepted in good faith by all
those States which recently resorted to
this modo of redress for what they re
garded breaches of the common com
pact, and threatened usurpations by
their confederates. Hereafter the
mode of redress for all abuses of pow
er by tho Fedroal Government, which
they seek, will be to make common
cause with all the friends of the Con
stitution in all tfie States.
So of the old question of negro sla
very. Tho Southern seceding States,
all--every one of them—abolished that
institution by thoir own acts. This
*ct on their parts respectively, may or
may not be considered as a logimate
result of the war. Whether the one
or the otlior, however, it was done by
theso States themselvos, and after tho
close of the war—after they had lully
resumod all their obligations to tho
Union under the Constitution, and
were fully recognized by the Federal
Government as constituent members
of the Union, and entitled to an equal
voice on all questions pertaining to its
welfare, even those touching changes
in tho organic law. It is by the acts
of theso States that the Thirteenth
Amendment to tho Constitution is now
a valid part of the organic law of the
Union.
Those questions, therefore, relating
to the right of Secession, for all prac
tical purposes are considerations, as
well as those relating to the nature
and extent of nogro servitude iu tho
Southern States, wo consider emphati
cally, among tne “dead issues. W o
have no disposition to revive them,
nor any questions relating to them an
tecedent to the war. Wo believe also,
that in this matter, we but repeat the
universal sentiment of tho Southern
States. We are dealing with tho liv
ing present and tho live issues now be
fore us. These are tho usurpations of
the majority faction in tho Congress
of the States since tho close of the war
~ since tho proclamation *of peace and
R ince the restoration of the Union by
the resumption of their obligations to
the Constitution, by all the States
which had attempted to withdraw
from it.
The arraignment of tho abuses of
P°wer in these usurpations, “before
the bar of public reason,” for populai
condemnation, is tho platform on
which wo stand. It is no “dead plat
form,” or platform erected on “dead
issues.” unless tho principles of tho
rights of tho people, as well as tho
rights of States bo dead. If this be so
it is useless to say anything about tho
usurpations of Congress in tho Ku
klux Bill, or the Flection Bill, or any
other act of despotism by a confessed
consolidated empire.
But believing that this fatal ond
has not yet boon reached, wo behove
that the High Mission of tho Demo
cratic party is far from being ended.
Its groat work is to arrest the prog
ress of usurpation, and to save tho
country from so lamcntablo a catas
trophe.
I his Mission is net to bo performed by
“cunning” or tricks of any sort, and
above all, it is not to pe porformod by
accepting as rightfully accomplished
facts, such as aro not to be questioned
or assailed ; any of those flagrant usur
pations of power by which the Ku
klux Bill and tho Election Bill aro
olaimod to be rightful exorcises of au
thority.
These fatal blows ot Public Liberty
aro but the results of tho preceding
more glaring usurpations. They aro
but the fruits of tho others, and “by
their fruits yo shall know thorn.” In
the language of the St. Louis Eepub
liaan: “When a central government
begins to appropriate the Powers of
surrounding States or Provinces, it
never of its own accord, ceases from
tho progress.
This Process was begun by tho
majority faction in Congress in their
Reconstruction policy so-callod, by
which, at one blow, ton of the States
of the Union were stricken from the
roll Commonwealths, and put in a
condition far worse than that of Pro
vinces. They were reduced, with all
their seven million of population, to a
condition worse than that of serfdom.
They wore subjected entirely to mili
tary rule, without tho recognition of a
einglo civil right;
What aro tho usurpations of tho
Ku-klux Bill, compared to this fullest
of all blows at tho very citadel of Pub
lic Liberty.
Now wo advise and counsel no for
cible resistance to any of these usur
pations. We advise obedience to them
so long as they are tho forms of law as
judicially expounded and enforced by
those in authority, clothed with
power to execute them. But wo do in
sist, than in denouncing tho latter and
later of theso usurpations, tho voice of
the poopfle shall not be silenced against
the former and greater. We more
over much more insist, that the people
shall not bo taught to believe or as
sort for any purpose whatovor, that
any of these usurpations have boon
nothing but acts of settlements of
questions growing out of tho war or
its results ; and above all wo insist,
that these usurpations shall never bo
recognized by the people at the polls,
as a settlement of any question “in
tho manner and by tho authority Con
stitutionally appointed.”
These measures were in no way
connected with the logimato results of
the war. Tho Union was fully re
stored under the Constitution whon
they wore enacted. Thoy were con
fessedly “outside of the Constitution.”
and therefore openly Revolutionary
in thoir character.
Tho settlement of them—so-called
—was, moreover, the work o. fraud,
perfidy, and violence, a “mode and
manner” utterly at war with tho au
thority Constitutionally.
One of the groat livo questions now,
therefore, boforo the Peoples of tne
United States is indeed the Constitu
tional question, not whether a State
has a right to socode, or to nullify an
act of Congross —but whether a State
has any right which the Federal Gov
ernment may not at its pleasure set
asido.
On this alone, wo aro willing to
unite with all friends of liberty in all
tho States of tho coming contests to
puc out of power those w have
the present control of tho Federal
Government, aud w ho have so wicked
ly abused tlieir high trusts—whose
progress, if not arrested, will end ine
vitable in Despotism. .
If tho battle be pitched upon this
ground alono, with no soft words ot
usurpations of any sort, thoro will bo
no need of “levies.” Volunteers ter
thoir own accord, when the signal is
rivon, will pour forth from every quar
ter with that enthusiasm for the cause,
which love of liberty ever inspires,
and which, in popular elections,, is
ever the surest “earnest oi victory _
A H o-
Wathingfor Kools and Buil
dings.
The following recipe from the Bos
ton Journal of Chemistry, will be
found excellent as a wasu the roofs
of buildings, as well as in all eases
where whitewash is employed for out
door uses: ,
•‘Slack lime in a close box to pre
vent tho escape of steam, and when
slacked pass it through a seive. lo
every six quarts of this lime add one
quart of rock salt and one gallon of
water After this boil and skim clean.
Xu every live gallons of this add, by
slow degrees, throe quarters of a pound
of potash and four quarts of fine sand.
Coloring matter may bo added if do
: i Ami’y with a paint or white
bnlS. 3 Il>*« «‘ l * “ * cll
US paint and is almost as durable as
si-te It will stop small leaks in a
roof, prevent the moss from growing
over it and render it incombustible
from sparks falling on it. When ap
! plied to brick work it renders the
brick utterly impervious to ram: it
endures as long as paint, and expense
is a more trifle ’
DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 20. 1871.
Twenty Yours Ago.
ITow woudrouß nre the chaugrea, Jim,
Since twenty yenrn ago,
W lion wore woolen Jim,
And boy a wore p:\ntn of tow ,
rriicn PliecK were made of calf*,kin,
-rind pocks o 1 homeapuu wool,
And childrendM i hftif d*y»G work
iJcfore the h >ur of school.
Tlie girls took music lessons, Jim,
Upon the tpihumg whorl,
A ad practiced late and early, Jim,
On the spindle swift and reel.
The boys would ride barbaeked to mill,
A dozen miles or so,
And hurry off before day,
Some twenty years ngo.
Th< people rode to meeting, Jim,
In sleds instead of thighs ;
/Ind wagons rode as easy, Jim,
Ah bulge s uoW'tt-days.
And oxen answered well for team,
Though now they’d be too slow
For»people lived not half so fast
Borne t wenty years ago.
O, well do l remember, Jim
That Wilson s patent stove,
That father bought and paid for, Jim,
1 u cloth our gals had wove ,
/Ind how the neighbors wondered
VVheu we got the thing to go •
They r.aid ’(would burst and kill ur all.
Boiuo twenty years ago.
TSie Christian's fiiome.
BY WM. nOBEBTSOtf.
Ac roKß a silent, silent river,
is the Christian’s happy home;
inhere the weary, weary pilgiim,
Shall forever cease to roam.
in that distant, distant haven,
They’re unknown to sin and strife,
2 hey have left this world so dreary,
And they have ‘’eternal lifo,”
Tiietx* the lonesome, way-worn trnv'Kr
/Fill lind all his troubles o’er;
When the happy, happy angels
U reet him on that distant Bliorc,
Ah ! yes, the Christian Journeys from
A world that’s dark, where sin is rife
To fur olf climes, where he will bask
7n streams of everlasting life.
Tlion, sinner, turn, turn and retrace
Thy stops and cease to ro;un;
Cos thou and seek thy father’b face
And the Christian’s home,
Weston, Texas, 1871.
iSreatl upon the Waters.
‘Please, sir, will you give mo a pen
ny, only a penny ?’
‘No—go along with you ; I never
give money to stroet beggars.’
And Mrs. Parker sat a triflo more
erect, if it wore possiblo, in her buf
falo cushionod wagon seat, and grasp
ed the bluo cotton umbrella tighter.
But her husband, Paul Parker, on
whoso kindly faco the hoy turnod his
gaze, said:
“See here, boy; I’ve only got a fif
ty cent piece, and it’s more money
than I ought to give away. I shall
bo bore at throo o’clock this day week
opposite this very tavern ; will you bo
hero to pay it back to mo! Mind, I
only lend it to you ; and may be I’ll
bo able to find soma work for you by
that time.’
‘Yes, sir,’ said the boy glcofully, as
ho scrambled up the wheel, ‘I will be
here, sure.’
‘Paul Parker, you’re a fool!’ said
the woman angrily. You 3calter your
money about as though there were no
end to it. Ho you suppose you’ll ever
see your fifty cents again ?’
‘I hope so, wife,’ said the old man
touching his placid horse gently with
tho reins, and urging him into a sleepy
jog trot. ‘I should bo sorry to think
there wasn’t no truth in that bright
eyed little fellow. Give tho world a
fair chance, that’s all I’vo got to say.’
The blistering August sunshine was
pouring into little garret room in
one of tho most squalid and neglected
purlieus of the town, where a brutal
looking man sat smoking a short,
black pipe, and two or three boys
! lounged around, half asleep. _
A hand organ stood against the
wail, and a monkey dressed in soiled
red rags, chattering in tho window.
Nino’s accordeon and thumped tam
boriuo lay near by ; Nino himsolf,
with toar-stainod cheeks and heavy
eyelids, was crouched iu a corner wist
fully watching tho door, as if rosolved
to avail himsolf of tho first chance
that offered itself to escape.
There was a wild beauty about the
boy in spite of his swarthy cheeks
and forlorn uniform of rags, an at
tractiveness that was difficult to un
derstand. His brow, overshadowod
■by thick black locks, was frank and
! open ; bis eyes wero soft and liquid,
| and thore were both spirit and gon
! lioness in the outlined mouth. Had
I Nino Borlani been tho oifspiing of an
aristocratic lineago, he would have
been called handsome ; but rags and
poverty and blows are anything but
beautifying, and Nino had known lit
tle else in his brief and sunless exis
tence. , , , ~
Presently the man knocked tne
ashes from his pipe and laid it down
with a vicious side-long glance at tho
boy. , ~,
‘So you’d got fifty cents lad away
you was going to gammon mo out of
eh i” he demanded. “You young
vagabond. I’d like to know what you
mean by it. !'” f
‘lt was mine, sobbed tho boy; I
• earned it singin’ under the great folks’
winders, after workiu’ hours was ovor.
I gavo you all I earned in tho day
timo, I did-’
‘Yours !’ growled tlio man savage
ly au d all you earn is mine, and if I
over catch you at any such a trick
again, I’ll split your head open for
, you Whore are you going now ? bit
i; down again.
! Only as far out as W eat Landhill
' tavern,’ said Nino, outreatingly as lus
. | eves marked tho slowly creeping tide
, | of sunshine along tho floor that iorrn
/ ed his only substitute for a clock.
'! ‘\V O ll, yo won’t do no such a thing,
’ said the man, evidently in a most cou-
trary and quarrelsome mood. ‘Go
back to your bench again, do you
hoar You’re not going to stir our of
this houso before night, and not then
unless you behave yourself.’
‘l’ll bo back in ten minutes, cir; I
will indeed.’
‘Hold your noise !’ brutally ejacu
lated his keeper. *1 fell you you
shan’t stir another peg; there n <v !
Dave,’ to cno of tho other boys, Vivo
us n light here for this pipe.’ *
Nino, watching his opportunity a.?
. a wild beast might watch for an es
cape from tho cage, gave a forward
dart just as the man stooped over to
rub his match against the solo of his
boot. But he was not quite quick
enough ; his tyrant seized him rudely
by the arm, and slung him across the
floor as it he had boon a toy. He
foil his tomplo striking against tho
leg of a bedstead iu the eornor, and
lay there quite insensible.
‘Blest if 1 don’t think lie’s done for
dad,’ said ouo of tho hitherto iiupas-;
bivo spectators of tho scone, a boy of I
thirteen who was generally dressed ac ;
a ‘wanderingßavarian,’ with tnuibou- ]
rino and bolls.
‘Let him BJoho; 1 say, snarin', the ;
father, ‘1 11 teach him a lesson.’
Just then tho bell in the old square 1
tower struck throe.
‘I told you ho wouldn’t be here
Paul,’ oxultingly exclaimod Mrs. Par
ker, projecting hor keen gray oyos in-J
to every nook and eornor around tho
dull street in front of tho ‘West Land
hill Houso of entertainment for man
or boast.’ ‘1 know it! Now what do
you think of your lino honest boy <”
I’m sorry for it; wife—sorry from
the bottom of my lioart. I somehow'
thought he was diflbront from tho
common lot of ’em, but I s’poso I
hadn’t ought to expect much from a
lad brought up in tho streets. Well,
lot’s drive on.’
The swift rolling years had sprink
led tkoir blossoms moro plentifully on
deeper linos in his wife's faco. Tho
little girl at the fireside had grown in
to a tall, handsome woman. Unco
more wo enter tho sanctuary of their
lives.
‘lt is father’s stop mother,’ scad Lu
cy Parker, jumping to open tho door.
‘Bad enough, child,” said old Paul
meekly shaking tho powdery fringe of
enow from his overcoat ‘Milton’s
down agin with fevor’n ague; his
wife’s poorly—and Bruco has had a
stroke, so ho can’t work no more.’
‘And they didn’t pay you the mon
ey ? Paul you wore a fool for over
lending it,’ shrieked his wife shrilly,
‘And what aro wo to do, with lawyer
Martin writon’ and writen’ for the
money we owe him.’
‘"Wo can do nothing, wife.’
‘We shall be sold out at auction,
and die in a poorhouso yet. Oh, Paul,
why didn’t you pay moro heed to
what I’vo always kept tolliu’ you 7’
‘Not so bad us that, I hope,’ said
tho old man cheerfully, though the
muscles of his lip and brow quivered.
‘Fathor, is it St. John Martin, tho
Leeds street lawyer, to whom you owe
this money ?’
‘Yes, what do you know about
him ?’
‘Not much; but I mot his son at
several parties last fall, and I—l
think, if you wore to go tliore and toll
him just how it is, or write, even —’
‘No use,’ croaked Mrs. Parker, des
pairingly 1 ‘other folks ain tso ready
to lot go of tkoir money as yoar fa
ther is Lucy.’
‘May ho it’s worth frying,’ said old
Paul hopefully, ‘we’d write this night,
and next week we’ll go up to Boston
and see what answor ho makes us.
Aud then Lucy, blushing like a
sweet poa, ran to get tho pen and pa
per, timidly trusting in tho efficiency
of her p/lau.
‘For his father can’t be so vory
hard-hearted, she thought, uud they
aro so vory rich that surely they will
be willing to wait for this fivo hun
dred dollars until wo can pay it.’
Tho elegantly furnished little office
on Leeds street did not often have
such outre equipiages drawn up) before
it as Paul Parker’s mud-bo-spflashed
box wagon and shaggy pony, and the
elegantly attired young lawyer, who
sat at tho desk examining _ some pa
pers, glanced up in surprise at tho
blooming girl and bont oid man who
entered together, like May and De
cember.
‘Lucy !’
‘Niman ! I thought your father—l
did not know that —’
‘My father is detained at his coufl
! try seat, and! am acting member of
tbe firm, Lucy. Ho took mo into
i partnership last week, and that is—’
Ho turned inquiringly and some
thing with a start, to the brown faced
old man, who stood in tho background.
Lucy introduced her father, and
! stated thoir business with a profusion
of vory becoming blushes. IS he in-
I deed had not expected to find her gal
lant young cavalier for tho past full
: in tho offico of St. John Martin.
‘Wo aro in very straightened cir
! cumstanccs, Hr, Martin,’ concluded
j Lucy, and my father cannot at piroseut
hop)o to diechargo this debt, but I am
soon to havo a very good situation in
t Madame Klvaine’s school as music
; teacher, and we can get along and
1 piay a piart at a timo it your father
I would be so kind its to wait a little
Lucy stopped short j her voice was
1 getting unsteady, and she was far too
pnoud to yield to the fast cotuiug tears
in Niuian Martin’s presence.
| The young man bad listened in si
lence, but now he took a tin box from
its shelf in tho safe, and unlocking i:,
disclosed sundry piaekages of labeled
notoa, receipts, etc.
| “Let mo sec,’ ho said, running his
oye over them,‘it was a note for $300.’
” ‘ls this your note
j ‘Yes, sir.’
Niuian Martin tore it in two, and
, laid tho fragments in tho fire. Paul
j Parker and Lucy gazed in astonish.
| mont as tho young lawyer lifted his
o '3 calmly towards them.
J *Mr. Parker, you will please consid
er that you have received payment for
a very old debt. Wo have balanced
accounts
‘Mir, I don’t understand you,’ said
I the bewildered old man. T don’t , ro-
J mosnhor—’
‘Bu( I do. It is rather moro than
ten years, Mr. Parker since you put
that money at interest.’
‘Sir ?’
‘I will be moro plain with you,’
said the young man, smiling. ‘Per
haps Miss Parker is not aware that I
am only the adopted son of my moro
than father. My real naruo is Nino
Barlini. I am an Italian by birth.
Just ton years ago I was bogging in
tho streets of Landhill, starved and
penniless. A kind hand--you know
whose, Mr. Parker—extended itself
to me in tho hour of nood.’
Tho old man’s face lighted up.
‘I do remember now It was a fif
ty cent piece ; and 1 told you to come
back just a week from the time, and
— r ‘i did not como.’ No, but 1 tried
my very best to come, hut was pre
vented by tho brutality of tho man
whoso slave and drudge J was. Well,
I boggod my way to Boston, having
run away from my tyrant. St. John
Martin found mo ono night in the
streets, perishing from cold and star
vation. He had just lost his only
child, a boy of about my own age, and
not u alike mo in personal nppearanco,
and somehow I seomod to tako tho
sore, vacant placo in his heart. I re
solved that if it evor lay in my power
I would return tho gift a thousand
fold. But 1 never droamod that Lu
cy’s father was my benefactor.’
lie turnod to hor with u bright con
gratulatory smile, while tho brown
faco of old Paul Parker worked with
emotions iio could not conceal.
‘I thought you wouldn’t lm’ cheated
mo, boy ; I thought your face was a
good and true one ! But I haven’t no
right to your generosity. Your fath
or—’
-My fathor and I aro one, sir, in
deed, thought and wish.’
‘1 don’t know how to thank you,
young man.’
‘Then do not attempt it. Perhaps
ono of those days 1 may ask j'ou for
yet moro favors.’
Old Parker went home to his wife
sodatoly triumphant.
‘Wife, you’ve said ‘1 told you so’ all
all your life time ; now it’s my turn.’
‘What on airtk do you menu V’
grumbled his ascetic holpmato. Ido
behove you’re getting iu your dotage.’
‘May bo 1 am ; in that caso though
I wish I’d got it long ago.’
And ho told his adventure, while
Lucy eat by, smiling like a morning
in May.
‘Didn’t I invest that fifty to a good
advantage ?’ ho asked.
•Well, I never !’ was hor ultima
tum.
•JTo wants now favors some day
from me. What do you say, mother.''
Can wo spare our little girl, here ?’
‘Don’t father!’ cried Lucy, hiding
hor faco; hut she did’nt look very an
gry alter all.
TJiu Words We Use.
It has boon calculated that our lan
guage, including tho nomenclature of j
tho arts and sciences, contains 100,000 ,
it is surprising how few aro in com- |
mon U3O. To tho great majority, even j
of educated mon, throo-fuurths of
those words are almost as unfamiliar
as Greek or Choctaw. Strike from the
lexicon all tho words m arly obsolete —,
all tho words of special arts or profes
sions—all the words confined in their ;
usage to particular localities—all tho
wuids which oven the educated speak- ;
or uses only in houiopiathic doses —and
it is astonishing into what a Liliipu- j
tian volume your Brobdiginarian
Webster or Worcliestor will have
shrunk. It has boon calculated that
a child uses only about ono hundred
words ; aud unless he belongs to the
educated classos, ho will never ompdoy
more than three or four hundred. |
A distinguished American scholar osti- j
mates that few speakers or writers
use as mauy as ten thousand words ; 1
ordinary persons, of fair intelligence,
not ovor ‘luce or four thousand. Even
tho groat orator who is able to biing
into the field, in tho war of words,
half tho vast array of light and heavy
troopis which the vocabulary affords,
yet convents himself with a far less
imposing dispflny of verbal force. Even
the all-knowning Milton, whoso wealth
of words scorns amazing, and whom
Dr. Johnson charges with using “a
Babylonish dialect.” uses only 8,00<*;
and Bhakcspenro himself, “tho myriad
minded,” only lf>,ooo- Those facts
show that the difficulty of mastering
tho vocabulary *oi a now tongue is
greatly overrated ; aud they snow, too,
how absurd is tho boast of every new
dictionary-maker that his vocabulary
contains so many thousand words more
than theso of hia p/rodecessor. jhe
Lakeside Monthly.
There is un intelligent dog at Mud
Pine, l»d., so sharp that whenever
company comes to the house he pro
ceeds at once to catch a chicken, a
thing that ho will not do at any other
time.
Tho Democrats of Wisconsin are to
hold their that/* Convention on tho ‘J”.d
of August. The call declaim that the
truo mission of all parties now it to
deal with tho practical questions of tho
day, ignoring those controversies which
have boon settled by the progress of
A“Knitt of Frogs In Arizona.”
Tho phenomenon familiarly known
ns tho “rain of frogs” has boon ridi
culed and contradicted by certain
scientists ; nevertheless, there is abun
dant proof to show that it occurred,
and probably will again. In ltfflt,
the writer, in company with somo fifty
other travelers, bad personal experi
ence of the fact. Wo wore in Arizona,
not less than twenty miles fr on any
stream; pond, or water. Tho day was
extremely ; ill try, wo bad halted to let
our animals graze and rest for an
hour or two. Not a living thing be
sides ourselves and horses was in sight
and certainly no frogs wore hopping
over tho rich, tufted gramma grass,
which covered the ground for miles
in every direction. Suddenly a donso
black cloud made its appearance, and
it soon began to discharge a copious
rain on our unsheltered heads. Tho
drops were very large, and the w ator
quite warm. Nearly every person
w ore a broadbrimined felt hat, which
proved a great protection against
tho rain as * well as against tho
sun. Our attention was soon arres
ted bv tho pelting of something which
struck our hats like hail, but which
proved to bo frogs, and in less thuu
two minutes tho grass was fairly alive
with those creatures. Several of tho
party took some from their hat-rims.
Our unexpected visitors wore all of
one size—about a quarter of tin
inch long from noso to rump, very
lively, and apparantly in good condition
Their fall had boon broken by the
springy, resilient nature of the grass.
It is not probable that several hun
dred thousand, porliaps million, of
frogs had suddenly boon hatched into
life in the ground by the rain, or, if
thoy had that in their infantile glee
they jumped five feot eleven inches
from the earth to tho top of our houds
(nearly to show how tho game of leap
frog should bo played. Nor had thoy
any such caudal appendages, as are
generally attached to juvenile rana.
Thoy cumo from above, in company
with the min, and this fact was made
clear by holding out ilio hand and
seeing thorn fall upon it as well us fin
ding them upon out hat-rims. Iho
eggs from which those reptiles sprung
had undoubtedly boon drawn up into
tho atmosphere by tho action ot a wa
ter spout, and hold in suspension with
aqueous particles long enough to
hatch them out aud give thorn perfect
form ; then, by foroo of mutual attrac
tion, the sopornted particles of vapor
got tegethor in such masses as to form
heavy sheets of water, which, in turn
became amenable to tho law of at
traction of gravitation, returning to
tho earth from whence it had boon
drawn. In tho fall now divisions
woro created, called “drops,” among
which tho lrogs dosooudod, having
boon, .obedient to similar forces, mov
ing with tho aqueous particlos. This
instance is cited to show that other
things besides vapor aro translated
from oiuth to at’uoophiio by certain
well-known and accredited develop
ments of natural laws.— (herluad
Monthly.
£>al is Goel.
Asa gentleman! from Now York
was taking a glass ol wino at the bt
Louis, corner of Freeman and Hop
kins street, Cincinnati, about throo
weoks ago, ho observed at another ta
ble, seated with several others a Ucr
niuu, who soemed uneasy and an
xious, as it tliore might havo been a
Franco-Prussian disag loouietit between
liis beer and himselt. I resuutly in
rail n little girl, her faco radiant with
smiles, exclaiming.
‘Oli, father, wo liavo got a little poy
at home !’
‘But is goot,’ said tho Dutchman,
as the anxiety disappoint; 1 from his
countenance, ‘fill up dor glasses.’
Not many minutes olapsod bofore in
rushed tho little girl again with tho
announcement:
‘Oli, lather, wo havo two little poys
at homo !’
The Dutchman looked a good deal
astonished, and not all gratified at this
little lamily redundancy, but rising ut
length to tho magnitude of tho occa
sion, bo said:
‘Fell, dun, dat is also goot Fill up
dor glasses-’
! In u sow miautos again appeared
, tho radiant messenger with the as
tounding proclamation:
! ‘Oh, lather, we have got three lit
tle poys at home!’
| This was too much oven for Ten
tonic impassibility. There was no
; further call for glasses.
‘Veil, don,’ says he, ‘I goes up dote,
* and 1 stoptder whole tarn pisuess.’
I iin Flirtations.
A pretty girl has sent us the follow
ing definitions :
Fan last- I am independent.
Fan slow—l am engaged.
Fun with right hand in front of face
Como on.
Fan with left hand iu front of face
—Leave me.
Open and shat—Kiss mo.
Open wide—laivo.
Opou half—Friendship
81iut--llate.
Swinging tho fail—Can I see you
home ?
Fail bv right cheek No.
Cai ry in left hand—l>esuou -'of get
ting acquainted.
(’airy with liaudlo to lips—l will
lint with you.
| The true disciple never abide# in
willful pins.
When we find Tina iu our hearts,
we shall find Him iu everything.
A sap-headed boy wroto to his
sweet-heart, who had slighted him
that his brains was on fire, and re
ceived the following reply : “Blow; it
out.”
VOL VI. —NO 23'
Lyon, Dedraffeuried and Irvin,
Attorneys at Law,
iVI/tCOI, - - - GIiCROIA
\ \, r ILL give attention o profmioiui bu«-
~ ‘ . lUp ,(M - t Routb wcfttern A
/ lUui.t Circuifß ; In tiie U S Court*, in
v,ini.i'i, pul /ItUnt*, and by Hjipcla! con-
O''Kit in Miy Pft of || )o State.
Tt\ M. HARPERI
/Korney anil at Law,
n.ni'sa.t, u.t.
J. L. JANES,
Attorney At Law,
DAWSON, Gi.
: ?r - OIT!oe at Court Ifonae.-
*V.>. 9-Cni,
DR. G. W. FARRAR
nAS located in this city, and oilers lug
ProVHsiona! sorrier.-; to the public
Office. 1)0X1 door to tho "Journal office "on
M iin Street, wlieW ho can be found in the
dev, unless p'ofessionaUy engas-rd, arid at
night at bia residence opposite the Haptiat
church feb. 2itf:
C. n. tvooTts. l. c. imTuT.
WOOTEN S> HOYLE,
A-ttornnys at
tf.t 5t 'so.r, a.t.
Jan G-ly.
K. J. WARREN,
ATTORNEY AT LAVV,
h i .f itK& i’i/, i. r, . . . G,|
C. W. WARWICK,
Att’y at Law and Solicitor in Equity
SMITHVILLtt, GA.
Will praotice in Soull, Western and Pataula'
Circuits. Collections promptly remitted.
H, A. COI.UFIR, (j CIIKVKS
TOWNS HOUSE,
DKOAD ST.,
ALBANY, GA..
HY
R A. COLLIER A CO.
Sss |»f»!ies
CXUTTXIMIIEL
I uin now prepared to sc!)
BACON & FLOUR
on TiWKpin lots and at such prices as will
Ho‘. fall to please the planters.
J nue I ft. U. N. C. GRIXR.
McAFEE HOUSE,
At Siuilhtillf, ta.
' I ftflE undersigned having fitted up tbo Me
E Afee /fou-se at fimilhvillc, takes pleasure
in notifying the travelling public that the
above nous- is now iu the “iiiU.lido”of sue
ccsil'ul aduiiiiisciflSioii bv himself. He will
spare no expense to make it a KingT-Oi.A-e’
lb* i ki. .!/ ala ready outlie arrival of the
rain. W. M. McAFEK.
Dawson Business Director
Dry Gooil* JJ ere ha it l«.
/ tltPl.A TI l liEU, Dealers iu
V ! Dry Goods Clothing, Hoots and Shota
flrocories &e. .lleo ugeuls for some ol tlio
most approved Fertilizers, Maiu Street.
KIITNEK, r.DWAitD, Dealer iu
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Groceries
Hardware, Crockery etc.
OUK, \V. I-'. Dealer in Fancy and sta
ple I); v Goods, Mam Ht., liezt door to
J. W. Reddick's.
Grocery KlercUniila.
ROOD, 11. 11., Dealer iu Groceries and
Family supplies generally, at W. F
Orr's old stand, under ‘Journal'' Office,
Main st.
I Olf LESS, .1. E. <; rcccr and Coni-
J mission J/erchaiit, Dealer in Uacon,-
Flour, l.itfuors, Sic
1) EDDK.'K, .1. O roccr dealer iu Ba
k con, Flour, Lard, Tobacco, &e.
■IAKDU AKi:.
r S'l: A IIICOTHEa, Dealers in'
I J Hardware. Iron and Steel, Wagon Tim
bers, mid Plantation Tools Also Manufac
turers ol Tin Ware, Main st., at J. B. Perry’s
old stand.
Baldwin, Andrew. Dealer
in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware f'ut
lerly, Furniture, Ist door from the Hotel.
Druggists.
rumATilAn, v. A., f>rug sist 5 ist
V physician. Will visit by day or night,-
patients in Town or Country—will prescribe
for any am) all the ills that flash is hair to.
Keeps a complete supply of Drugs and Med-,
icines. School Hooks and staiionary—Gar*
den Seeds &0., &0., At his ohl stand. The
Kcd Drug Store on Main St., TKlid/ri Strict
ly Ca:,h lor all articles sold. Moutlily settle
incuts for rrolession.il Service*
I Ul>, DC- 3. It P ile inr
rl Drug:/, D-d-cine*, Oils, raids, By*
Siults, Garden Seed, .V - , Ac.
I.ivcrv J*litl»l«i
nnncii. t. « * *. r., s*uv
I K»ed and .Hivery -Stable. Carriage's
Ha-1 ■*, Bungler, Drays, Wagons, Harness
auJ Malr« for sale or lure. Uo:res boarded
at reasonable ratio. Depot Stieet.
lit. l< KMIIfO MlUi*.
\ »IF, « Will make
♦ i and repaii IV,: oe. Buggies J*lfiw«,.
i Inchon Syreep, Shorts" horreS, i.e-r I’.M-t
1 t'tlioe-. AI w (ITS ri-adv s< 2© »r* -.1 a-