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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL. BY WESTON & COMBS. Ratoon SitMklj loanial, PUBLISMO KYKKY TUURSDAY. ffjtJlS—Slriillfj i.i .tdvance. Three months $ 16 gix mouths * ; r ' (me ye* r •" ‘ 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-