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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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Lyon, Delira fl'earied and Irvin.
Attorneys at Law,
JIACOV, - - - GEORGIA.
ITpiLLgive attention to professional bus-
VV iness in the Macon, South western &
/’.itaula Circuits ; in the U S Courts, anSa
vannah, and Atlanta, and by speciil eon
tract in any part of the State.
F. JM. HAKJhEH
jlifpef ajid Oolipjellof at LaV,
/i.iirso.v. c.i.
J. L. JANIES,
Attorney At Law,
DAWSON, Gl.
at Court House.
Keb. 9-Cni,
’ DR. G. W. FARRAR
HAS located in this city, and offers h's !
Professional services to the public
Office next door to the “Journal Office,” on j
Main Stteet, where he can be found in the
day, unless professionally engaged, and at
night at bis residence opposite the Baptist
church feb. 2~tf:
C. B. WOOTEN. L. C. HOYLE.
WOOTEN & HOYLE,
Attovnevn at I.aw,
IM fFSO.r, 0.1.
Jan 6-ly.
K. J. WARREN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SUJtKSW'MLLE, - - - G.l.
G. w 7 WARWICK,
Att’y at Law and Solicitor in Equity
SMITHVILLE, CA.
Will practice in South Western and Pataula
circuits. Collections promptly remitted.
B. A. COLLIER. c. T. CHEVEB.
TOWNS HOUSE,
BUOAD ST.,
ALBANY, GA
UY
B. A. COLLIER & CO. .
McAFEE HOUSE,
At Smitliville, la.
r undersigned having fitted up the Me
l Alee //ousc at Smithville, takes pleasure
in notifying the travelling public that the
»bove house is now in the “full tide”of suc
cessful administration by himself. He will
spare no expense to make it a First-Class
hotel. J/eals ready on the arrival of the
ra ' n - W. M. McAFEE.
GEORGIA, Terrell Comity:
Whereas, Harrison Keys applies to me
fur Letters of Guardianship of the persons
and property of William & Klla Murdock,
unitors ol William N. J/urdock, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all persons concerned, to be and appear at
mj office within the time preribed by law,
and show cause, if any, why said letters
aiiould not be granted. Given under my
and and official signature, this 2nd day of
-4w T. M. Jones, Ord.
CALHOUN SHERIFF SALE.
\yiLL be sold, before the Court House
* T Doer, in Morgan, on Ist Tuesday in
bcptempeT next, between the legal hours of
"ale, One Fourth of Lot of Land, No. 218,
>n 4th District ot said county, in N. E. cor>
cer , to satisfy one justice Court fi fa, in fas
*°F °f Ja.-oes Morrow, Adtn’r ol C. D. Bos.
" ck - vfl . John A. Green.
Levy made and returned to me bv B. Bare'
L. C. G. W. AVERA,
A "gust 3rd,td. Sheriff.
PROVISIONS
11 Til!
"e are now prepared to sell
PROVISIONS ON TIME
?,*£*?* * tucker.
Dawson Business Directory,
Dry Goods Merchants,
pKIB. & TUCKER, Dealers iu
Dry Goods Clothing, Boots and Shoes
Groceries &e. Also agents for some of the
most approved Fertilizers. Main Street.
K ETHER, EDIVAKD, Dealer in
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Groceries
Hardware, Crockery etc.
/ \KR, VV. E. Dealer In Fancy andsta
V. *ule Dry Goods, Main st., next door to
J. W. Reddick’s.
Grocery Merchants.
HOOD, R. is,. Dealer in Groceries and
Family suonlies generally, at W. F.
Orr’s old stand, under ’Journal” Office
Main st.
I Ok LESS, .1, E. Grocer and Com
_ missiou J/erchant, Dealer in Bacon,
Flour, L'quors, Ac.
JFEDDICK, Jl. Grocer dealer in Ba
-1 roil, Flour, Lard, Tobacco, &c.
HARDH' A R E. ~~
T EE & liROT HER, Dealers in
lj Hardware. Iron and Steel, Wagon Tim
b«rs, and Plantation Tools. Also Manufac
turers of Tin Ware,Mam st., at J. B. Perry’s
old stand.
Baldwin, aaduew. Dealer
in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware (Au
toliv, Furniture, Ist door from the Hotel.
Druggists.
I 411 EATIIAVI, C. A., Druggist and
Physician. W’ill visit by dav or night,
patients in Town or Country—»i!l prescribe
for auy and all the ills that flesh is heir to.
Keeps a complete supply of Drugs and Meds
ieines School Books and stationary—Gar
dc<a Seeds &a , &e., Athi3 old stand, The
Red Drug Store on Main St., TERJ/S Strict
ly Cash for all articles sold. Monthly settle
ments for Professional (Services.
TASES DR. J. |g., Dealer in
fl Drugs, J/cdicines, Oils, Paiuts, Dye
Stuffs, Garden Seed, &c., &c.
Livery Stable.
pRIACE, A. G. & J. K., Salo,
1 Feed and Livery Stable. Carriages,
Hacks, Buggies, Drays, Wagons, Harness
and Mules for sale or hire, llo.ses boarded
at reasonable rates. Depot Stieet.
re acKsax rni shoe*-
WARE, RANDALL. Will make
Y T and repair Wagons, Huggies Plows,
Dickson Sweep, Shoeing horses, near Post
Office-. Always ready to co work good and
cheap Jan. 19 ly
great
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MONTHLY MAGAZINE,
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54 PAGES READING MATTER.
30 PAGES ADVERTISEMENTS
WALKER, EVANS &~COGSWELL
D. WYATT AIKEN,
chamijEstom, s. c
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Are respectfully solicited for the ere'ion of
MONUMENT
TO TIIE
Confederate Bead of Georgia,
And those Soldiers from other Confederate
States who were killed or died in this State.
TIIE MONUMENT TO COST $50,000.
The Corner Stone it is proposed shall be
laid on the 4th of July, or so soon thereafter
as the receipts will permit.
For every Five Dollars subsoribed, there
will be given a certificate of Life Membership
to the the Monumental Association. This
ceitificate will entitle the owner thereof to an
equal interest in the following property, to be
distributed as soon as requisite numbers of
slmes are sold, tt-wit :
First, Niue Hundred and one acres
of Laud iu Lincoln county, Geor
gin, on which are the well known
,1/agruder Gold arid Copper Mines
valued at $l5O 000
Aud to Seven'een Hundred and Forty
four shares in One Hundred Thousand Dol
lars of United States currency, to-wit :
1 Share of SIO,OOO $10,00)
1 .. .. 5.000 6,000
2 ■■ 2.50) O.LOO
10 « 2,000 20,000
10 10,001)
ip “ 600 10.009
li .. .. 25 10,000
two “ 10 10,00.
SIOO,OOO
The value of the separate interest to which
the holder of each certificate will be entitled,
will be determined by the Commissioners,w.io
will announce to the public the manner, the
time and ptacc of distribution.
The following gentlemen have renamed
to act as commissioners, and will eh her hv a
committee from their own bodv, or by spe
cial trustees, appointed by themselves, re
ceive and take proper charge of the money
for the Monument, as well as the Real Astato
and the IT. S. Currency offered as induce
ments for subscription, and will determine
upon the plan for the Monument, the inscrip
tion thereon, the eito therefor, select an ora
tor for the occasion, and regulate the cere
monies to be observed when the corner
stone is laid, to-wit : . , .
Generals L McLawg, A. R. Wright, M .A.
Stovall W M. Gardiner. Goode Brvon, t.olo
nels C. Snead, Wm. P. Crawford, Majors j
Jos. B. Cuniminp, Geo. T Sacksan, Jo-ph ,
Ganahl. I. P. Oir rdey, lion. R. »*T. |
Adam Johnston, Jonathan M. Miller, W . I-.
Goodrich, J. D. Butt, Henry Moore, D.. VV. j
E xbc'AgeV.tg in the respective counties will
retain the mouev received for the sale of
Tickets until the subscription boo«» ttr «
closed. In order that the wnltl
may be returned to the > ,ai e-hoeo. • , -fc
the number of subscriptions at 11 not '.«r
rant an' further procecdure, the w.lt
report to this office, weekly, the rcr„ . of
Zr sales. When aauffiei. n-mber o.
will ’then forward to this office
lhe a »-^ A %- T itLAWS,Gen.A-ts,
No 3 Old P. 0. Range, Mi luthsh Si..
* r Augusta, i*** •
W F Combe, of Daw.o: , Ga . will be glad
to give information and receive subscriptions.
DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1871.
the old homestead.
All I here it is, that dear old place,
Unchanged through ail these years ;
llow.like some sweet familiar face
My childhood's home appears l
The grand old trees beside the door
*Vtill spread their branches wide.
sThc river wonders as of yore.
With sweetly murmuring tide ;
The.distant hills look green and gray,
The flowers are blooming wild,
A\u\ everything looks glad to day,
As when / was a child.
Regardless how the years have flown,
Half waudoring I stand
I catch no fond, endearing tone,
I clasp no friendly hand ,
1 think my mother’s siuleto meet,
I list my father’s call,
/ pause to hear my brother’s feet,
Come bounding through the hall 1
Hut silence all around me reigns,
A chill creeps through my heart—
No traceoi those / love remains,
And tears unbidden start.
FFhat though the sunbeam fall as fair,
What though the budding flowers
Still shed their fragrance on the air.
Within life’s golden hours ?
The loving ones that gathered bore
71»ese walls may not restore;
Voices that filled my youthful ear
Will greet my soul no more*
yet I quit the dear old place
With slow and lingering tread,
As when we kiss a clay- cold face,
And leave it with the dead.
■<«!, »■
MY LITTLE RATE.
BY TENOROON.
She stood in the door-way that July
morning, and as the sun shone on her
bright golden head, I seemed to see
a crown there, and as the gentle breez
es caught her drapery and moved it
lightly to and fro in the sunshine, I
fancied I saw wings on Katie’s should
ers. *
Kate lived in Maine. I had always
lived there, but now I Avas going to
California—going to seek my fortune,
and 1 had come to bid Katie good-by.
Kate wore a little band of gold on
finger ; I placed it there weeks be
fore, when I gave myself to Katio and
Katie gave herself to mo. I bade her
lior good-bye the previous night, and
under the starlight kissed her littie
wet cheeks over and over again.
The roses that crept in and out of
the lattice work have long since faded
and gone ; the little vines that twined
around the wires as her love seemed
to twine around me are under the
snow, and the stars were too far away
to hear—so there is nothing to tell
you what I said to Katie or what Ka
tie said to me; nothing to tell you of
the castles wo buildod, and the hopes
we erected ; nothing to tell of our
pledges of love the one to the other.
I went hack four times to kiss Katie
good-bye,.and found her waiting ev
ery time. X was’nt to com© next day,
for Kute hated- scenes, and so did I—
but somohow, whon tho morning
came, 1 felt 1 must have one more look
—one more word —ono more kiss irom
my Katie.
The brave, little darling kncAV my
stop, and met nre at tho door, and I
muttered some excuse as I lObked
I down into her little, pale face ; hut she
only grasped my hanl the tighter and
said slio Avas glad 1 came. Her little
red lips Avere pressed tighly together,
and her blue eyes Avere heavy and sad;
but my woman didn’t cry—the brave,
little heart ran down thoso steps Avith
me to the gate, and the sun, proud of
her no doubt, threw his glory all
around her. Slio looked like an an
gel, and I could’nt help telling her so
§he gavo a little sad laugh, touk both
niy hands in hers, tolu mo all that Avas
in her hoart in one, long, yearning
look from her eyes, and then shutting
them tightly, she kissed nre good-bye,
and ran up the steps into tho house,
shutting tho door behind her.
1 knerv Avhy she ran so—her cour
age was failing, aud the tears would’nt
stay back ; but I glance up at lier win
dow as 1 passed down tho street, and
though tlio blinds Avere closed, yet
rust Nhro u gh tho shutters Avas ono of
Katie’s little hands,—the one with tho
ring- aud oh, hoAV I Avantcd to go
back and cheer the little, lonely heart
that I knew Avas aching so behind tho
blinds. —how I wanted to go back and
kiss away tho tears from her little Avet
face, and com fort my CAvn, littlo Kato.
But I Avalkod on and on away from
her, aAvay to tho depot, for I had a
fi.rtuno to make, a homo to A\’in for
Katio, and tho sooner 1 Avent tho soon
er I would return.
Ah, I’ve worked ,liard since I camo
boro—tAYO years last August. No
money to start on, no lriends to lean
on, though I could have gotten both.
Bnt I camo to Avork ! I camo to earn
Avith my oavh hands a homo fur Katio
and mo.
You thought me gloomy when tlm
drought caato, and over jubilant at
little successes ; but my love for money
is no greater than yours—neither was
iuy fondness ol labor bred in my bones
—but I’ve been working for Katie,
saving for her. She has wound her
self into all my plans —I planted those
roses for her," I built that bower for
her, my shoulders have grown broad,
my bauds coarso and large, my heart
big and deep for Katie.
You see this little pcn-boldor with
tho littlo golden pen ; there is a little |
Hue ink eii tho pen yet. Yes, the hoi- |
der is worn, it belonged to Katie. That ;
iien never spoke to any but me, and it
j on jy spoke for Katie ! Ob, tho words
! that it. has uttered; oh, the comfort 1
it has said ; oh the strength it has giv- j
| on mo, as 1 have toiled here day after
day. . i
Hut it will novel- talk again. My
life is dreary, desolate ; uiy heart is
lonely, lonely; the days are long;
1 there’s no rest for me at night; there
i me no blessed thoughts coming to me
' as t work ; I’ve nothing to look for
ward to—my Katie, my birdie, my
v. omanly darling it dead— gone out of
my life so softly, so suddenly. Oh Ka
tie, was your courago failing that you
went away so soon ? Wero you tired,
Katio darling.
She went to ride they say. Did tho
horses know the precious treasure they
wrecked by the - road-side ! Did they
know the value of the burden they had
borne along so safely, so many times ?
Why, why drag that golden-crowned
head in the dust V ()li, 1 cannot bear
to think of it—l shut my eyes to shut
it out—Why wasn’t 1 there Katie ?
Did I do wrong to leave you ? You
bado me go, and gave me your bless
ing—Oh, it was right, but it seems all
wrong—so hard, so cruel, so dreadful.
Dear littte Kate ! They sent mo this
pen with this letter half completed to
mo. I have asked the little pen over
and over again to toll me tho rest, but
the little songremaius unfinished, and
there is nothing else that will chord
with it on this earth—the music to mo
is a heavenly harmonny, no one but
Ka’io could sing it. The roses are
wilting, the flowers are fading, but
what matters ? Katio will never come
I haven’t a plan I can finish, they be
gan and ended in Katie.
1 watched the clouds last night as
the sun set, and as I looked up I
thought I saw a little baud, Katie’s
hand, beckoning to mo from tho sky.
I wanted to go to her, not to comfort
her this time but to have her comfort
mo. But something held mo back.
I came in and lighted my candle,
and sat here gazing at this little gold
pen. The gold seemed to change to
Katie’s hair, and tho blue to Katie’s
eyes, and as I watched she spoke.
“Johnnie”—oh, how it thrilled me to
hear her dear voice again—“ Johnnie,
work for God as you’ve worked for
me”—and then slio faded away and 1
was left alone. Yes, I have been
selfish. I have loved only one; I
haven’t done my duty by pou, my
friends. I served an angel instead of
God, and God gave her wings and
took her to Himself. But lie sent
the angel hack to lead me to him, and
I leel myself being led up toward the
skies. We shall have a home after
nil, Katio, and I, but, hut it will he
beyond the blue —in God’s own para
dise.
One Vlay lo a Husband's
Heart.
Too much cannot lie said or written
on the subject of cooking, for life
health, prosperity and happiness de
pend upon tho quality of food we eat
Many a man can trace Its fallen for
tunes and shipwrecked hopes to heavy
bread, tough buscuit, and other poor
cooking
Stomachs ought to havo sheet-iron
linings to endure tho burdens aud in
sult iniposod upon thorn by iuoffici id
housewives.
Those long-faced, grain sort, of peo
ple, to whom it seems a sin to laugh
and drive dull care away, are most
likely tho victims of indigestion, which
brings on a multitude of diseases and
makes invalids. Bo a man may work
and do hi* best to accumulate a lor
tuue —hut if his wife does not proper
ly prepare his food, or, if they can af
ford it, see that her hired help does it
in the midst of increasing prosperity
aud blight prospects that man is very
likely to fall sick ; and when his strength
is gone, tho spirit of his projects dies
out, and everything sinks down stag
nant and lifeless.
Women have a far greater respon
sibility in those things than many of
them like to admit or assume. It re
quires very little moro effort to do
things well than to botch them up.
And thero is a satisfaction in knowing
a thing is rightly done which pays for
tho trouble.
Especially is it truo of girls who go
out to work, that they are apt to take
the quickest way of turning oil' work,
if it is not best. They ought to feel tho
importance of their position, and that
they must cook well and keep the
house cleanly, if they desire the family
where they live to he well and happy.
In all departments of housekeeping,
it cost less to bo neat, orderly, and
systematic, and to know just how much
butter, sugar, eggs, and llour to use
on baking-day, as well as just how
long to boiler roast a nice tender piece
of meat, that it may not bo toughened
aud its sAvcctness aud nourishment
cooked away
Good housekeepers know so many
ways to save and economize, of which
an unpractised hand is entirely igno
rant. Experienced cooks make deli
cious and inexpensive dishes of oddr
and ends left over from meal to meal
which in most households are more
or less wasted. Who would believe
that the well-picked bones of a roasted
chicken, with two or three littlo hot.
bones taken from the boiled beefsteak
which was served at breakfast, boilod
two hours in about a quart of water,
will make excelent soup good for the
sick and tempting to the most delicate
taste ? Try it and see.
Soup is strengthening, and can be
made much cheaper and easier tlwui
most people imagine. Beef bones are
just as good for soup after they have
been roasted as any, and save much
expense.
There is no accomplishment for ;
which a woman has so many reasons to j
congratulate herself and bo proud, as
for being a good housekeeper, and the |
founthition of housekeeping is to be a
good cook. —Kin Qrlou.
The world knows no victory to be
compared with a victory over our own
passion. The struggle of life is bo- j
tween the flesh and tiro spirit, and one
or the other finally gains t'ue ascen
dency. Every day and every hour of
the Christian’s life is this contest go
ing on, and it is to think how often it
is that victory is declared in favor ot
this eurth, with its sinful passions.
Dcpsti'tmeiH of Etliirnlfon,
Mule of Gt’orgin.
Oifice State ScnooL Commissioner, 7
Atlanta, Ga., July 21, 1871. $
Hon. John 11. Seals, County School Com
missioner, Greensboro, Greene county,
Georgia:
Dear Sir—Yours of tho 19th inst.
is received. On tho 3d of Juno I gave
you a short and concise statement of
tho amount of Stato School Fund to
bo distributed this fall. To make the
matter more plain, I will say thai on
the first day of April, 1871, tho Comp
troller-General reported to me that
there had been paid in, and was stand
ing to tho credit of the State School
Fund, $282,000, which did not include
the poll-tax of 1870 and some few ac
counts of 1808 and 1809, which Would
increase tho amount several thousand
dollars. To that amount may lio added
the taxes from tho various sources set
aside for school purposes, which may
ho paid in up to November 1, (ten
mouths,) which would bo $125,000 —
in all amounting to between four hun
dred and four hundred aud fifty thous
and dollars. Os course the money is
not in tho treasury, for it was author
ized to bo used for other purposes by
act approved July 29, 1870; but, in
accordance with said act, thero havo
beon deposited in the treasury seven
per cent, bonds of the State to securo
the fund, and which bonds are re
quired to be sold by the Governor to
replace the money when needed for
distribution. I havo no fear but that
the money will bo ready when wanted.
The only trouble is tho small amount
of the fund, which ought to havo boon
supplemented largely by local taxes
levied in each county. I havo no
doubt tho scholastic populatie (chil
dren from G to 21) will bo about 400,
000 ; so that the State Fund will bo
only a little more than one dollar for
each child of school age. But as it
will be impossible for all to attend
school—the school ago including n
broad limit—the money can be used
in each sub-district for the pupils Avho
eau attend school. Now, Ido not be
lievo that tho average attendance will
much exceed 50 per cent, of the whole
number. At that rate the State Fund
will furnish two dollars for each pupil
in attendance —that ought to support
most of tho colored schools and some
of tho white schools for throe mouths.
For instunco, a sub-district has 100
colored children of school ago ; a tone hr
er may be employed by the trustees
at a monthly salary of $33 J lor three
months ; there might be in attendance
upon said school from 40 to 00 pupils
—just as many as choose to como from
the sub-district for which the school is
established. Now, if no local tax is
levied you will need moro money fre m
some source to maintain the most cl
the white ochouls for throo months
Many counties will pur sue this plan
'The trustees will eontiact with the
teacher for throo months, at a speci
fied salary, agreeing, however, in tho
contract, to pay only so much of said
salary from tstato Fund, as they may
havo for tho purpose, and tho balance
by subscriptions of tho patrons of tho
school. Then, before the school com
mences, tho patrons who arc able sub
scribe to pay each his pro rata share of
whatever deficiency there may be in
tbo Stuto Fund. For instance, a sub
district has 100 white children from G
to 21, and therefore will, probably, re
ceive SIOO of State Fund ; tho trustees
contract with tho teacher for three
months at SSO per month ; tho State
Fund pays for tAvo months and tho
patrons subscribing pay for ono month
—if thero should bo twenty-five of
them it would cost each an average of
$2 for throe months school Now, by
this plan, the trustees aro safe, as they
only agree to pay Avhat they havo re
ceived ; the teacher is secured for his
salary —part from the trustees and
part from patrons, who Avould
havo to pay him all of his salaty if it
Avero a tuition or private school—and
tho patrons are certainly relieved of a
part of tho burden, whatever the State
aid may he, and tho school is made
free to all for three month—thus com
plying with tho law, benefit ting tlio
whole community and entitling tho
sub-district to its pro rata share of
School Fund next year.
As you report you can establish 15
or 20 AA'hito schools and many colored, I
and as you have 16 G. M. districts and
three (3) incorporated towns, I pre
sume you propose to establish at least
ono school in each. Do not Jtry to
have too many. If you Iravo a school
of 50 pupils for each 100 school chil
dren residont, you will do well for tho
first year.
If competent toachers cannot be so
cured for all, let one be employed for
two or more schools, teaching one for
three months, and tin n going directly
to another for three months, so keep
ing the good teachers employed all the
year at reasonable salaries and having
good schools. Us course, where a
teacher can maintain a school on the
tuition pltiu, after the three months’
free school is closed, it ought to bo
done. Next year, 1 have no doubt,
I the Legislature will provide undoubted
I authority for local tax. so that the
schools may be made tree tor six
mouths at least.
Tho interest in tho common rehool
system is growing largely, and I have
no fear but tho legislature next ses
sion will amend the law and rnuke it
stronger and better. Every county in
tho Mato is now organized but seven,
aud four of iheao seven soon will be.
1 in 7b counties reporting, there will be
l,h‘J4 schools if teachers can be pro
cured.
Push on the work ! Give us three
months’ free school, by some moans,
lin every sub-district of your county.
I The experiment will be valuable to
you, and from it wo shall all learn
something.
I am, yours respoctfully,
J. K. Lewis,
Stnto School Commissioner.
Love.
There is nothing on earth worthy of
being compared for a moment with
Love. No othei thing that gun give,
by itself, unalloying happiness. A
loveless life is worthless, though poss
ed in luxury, and crowned with tho
proudest laurels of successful ambition.
A life well sot about with love is bless
ed though haunted by that relentless
fate which seems to deny so some men
and women what tho world calls suc
cess. To linvo boon without a parent’s
love in childhood, without a love of
brothers and sisters; to havo passed
youth w ithout that moro romantic love
which makes heaven of earth ; and to
live on in maturity, neither feeling nor
inspiring that strong, enduring lovo
which makes any sacrifice easy, aud
toil pleasant, any burden light, so that
it benefits tho well beloved, is to bo
poor indeed —so poor that even tho
pitying nngols have nothing to give
them that can do any good. And
yet, how many know nothing of love,
or only understand the w'ord in its
coarsost sense, so that ono biushes to
have utterod it in their presence. How
mauy, more pure than these, sneer at
it as a delusion and absurdity, not un
derstanding that pure lovo is not a
thing of the senses, but of tho soul;
not a flame, flickering ami flashing
over tiro passionnto time of lifo, but a
soft, steady glcw, lighting it from tho
cradle to the grave, and one may even
liopo burning on beyond it, since
Heaven itself is lovo.
G«’»i« of Thought.
110 proaehos well who lives well.
Some men need a tempest to save
them from a wreck.
Talk to thyself and insist on a re
ply, yet not before tho world, lest it
think that nobody else will talk to
tlieo.
Tlioy Avlio would abound in hope,
peace and joy, should be much iu
prayer to Him who is tho giver of ov
ory good gift, and w hose face none
seek in vain.
Without virtue there can he no true
happiness; but we want lovo w ith
virtue to give us tho good which this
world is capable of bestowing.
To reprove small faults with undue
vehemonco is as absurd as if a man
tako a great hammer because ho saw
a fly on a friend’s forehead.
Every person insensibly fixes upon
some degree of refinement iu his dis
course—some measure of thought
that lie thinks worth exhibiting. It
is wiso to fix this pretty high, al
though it occasions us to talk tho less.
It was principally the social clement
that led to tho organization of tire
Christian Church’
There is good* reason for believing
that cho Christian Ohurce never sep
arated itself from the eld Jewish until
after tho fall of Jerusalem. Until that
time tho temple avus sacred alike to
thoso that wero Jews and those who
wore Christians.
The power of Christ is tho attrac
tion of his lovo. Morality is good,
but it cannot save. Morality is like
the ono who walks on tho shore and
shouts to tho drowning man to come
and walk also. What ho needs is a
heat with a man in it, to seize and
drag him, if need he, from tho waves
which threaten to overwhelm them.
Morality will do very well to guide us
when safe on the shore, but it will
not servo to deliver us from evil.
I’rayor is an intensely personal
thing. Public prayer lias moaning
only when tho presumed worshippers
aro in sympathy with it. * * * It
is absurd to try to force a prayer upon
thoso who havo not come to pray. Lt
may ehanco to do good sometimes,Tor
the Lord can nrako tho foolishness of
good men to servo him; but it will
disgust more than it will benefit, and
will at least familiarizj their minds to
tho discretion of holy things.
Tho Lord of hosts is the best of
company. His society is the angel’s
delight, and tho bliss of glorified spir
its. Bo thankful, believer, that you
I aro not alone, because tho Father is
| with you, the Son is with you,
tho Holy Ghost is with you,
and what does this moan? It
moans that omnipotence will bo with
you to be your strength, that omnia
cience will ho with you to bo your wis
dom, that immutability will Ire rvitli
you to be you r treasury. “Fear tlrou
not; for 1 am with you to bo your
I treasury. “Four thou not; for lam
I with thee.”
Lycurgus, we are to-d, erected in
bis house an altar to Laughter, and ]
his example was very generally fol
lowed by the Spartans. “Laughing I
cheerfulness,” says iiichter, “throws 1
sunlight on all tire paths of life.” Nor j
lot it be imagined that the disposition
to it is incomputable with earnestness |
of thought or depth of feeling ; on ;
the contraty, it may bo observrd that'
a quick sense of tho humorous is gen
erally accompanied by as quick a
sense of tho pathetic; as may be seen
ut theatrical representations; those
who are most easily moved to tears at
a tragedy, being frequently the loud
est in their risibility at the farce.
In Poston harbor there are bedded
40,000 bushels of oysters.
On the 2Gth 200 persons were pre
cipitated in the water by the breaking
of a bridge leading from Hoboken to
Bath.
VOL VI. —NO 2G.
The Swede.
Wo find the following interesting
letter in tho Thomasville Enterprise
from Judge DuPont, of Quincy, Fla.,
addressed to Mr. D. S. Brandon, of
Thomas county:
Qcinct, Fla., Juno 23, 1871.
Bear Sir :—Yours under date of the
20th inst. is just at hand, and it al
ways affords me much pleasure to be
able to communicate any information
connected with tho subject of foreign
immigration.
Under the auspices of our County
Association, there have beon brought
into this county two installments of
Swedish immigrants, composed of me
chanics, farm-laborers, domestic ser
vants. The first arrived last October
and the last about a month or six
Avooks since. All of those have roadi,
ly found employment, and have (with
ono exception) given universal satis
faction. They are moral and indus
trious m their habits and of tho strict
est integrity. They aro intelligent—
apt in acquiring a knowledge of our
mode of culture, and upon the whole,
the best laborers and servants that I
havo ever been acquainted with. We
find no difficulty in communicating
with them from their firnt arrival, by
signs and othenvise, and iu the space
of a few weeks they acquire a suffi
cient knoAvledgfl of the language to be
gin to frame sentences. Many of them
have made extraordinary progress iu
mastering our lauguago.
I have had ono with me since
October. From the first day he pickets
as much cotton ns any hand in tho
field—made the best fireman that I
over had around tho sugar furnace—
beat all tho hands at splitting rails,
and is ns good a ploughman as thero
is on tho farm. Tho best of all is, ho
never drinks, lies nor steals, and ho is
but a typo of the balance of them.
It costs about seventy-five dollars to
get them hero, but this will depend
somewhat upon tho compensation al
lowed to your emigration agents. For
tho consideration of having their trans
portation and expenses paid, they
agree to serve in tire capacity that
they may be employed, for tho period
of one year from the date of tlreir de
livery to you. Where they pay tho
expenses if their passage wo allow
them as wages $l2O per annum for
nion, and SOO per annum to be em
ployed as cooks, washers, ironors and
house servants, and they aro found to
give entire satisfaction iu all these sev
eral avocations.
Our county is now in co-operation
with tho counties of Leon and Jeffer
son, and we havo organized a District
Association, which embraces tlio en
tire district of Middle Flor.da. 1 (tin
President of both tlio County and Dis
trict Association, and havo been re
cently appointed by tho latter “Gonur
al Superintendent” aud charged with
conductimr tho financial and transpor
tation arrangements of the same. \\ o
havo two agents in our employment,
one foreign and tho other domestic,
aud 1 am just now arranging to dis
patch our foreign agent on another trip
to Sweden to execute tho orders that
have boon handed in. Ho is expected
to tako his departure immediately af
ter tho first of July. My heart is in
this work, behoving, as 1 do, that it
gives the only promise of a speedy
emancipation from our present inflic
tions ; and 1 hope to ho able soon to
devise a plan which will give enlarged
proportions to tho grand enterprise,
so that Any field of operations may ig
nore even States lines, and be limited
only by the demand for laborers and
domestic servants, and tho supply to
he furnished Ly immigration. All my
accounts from tlio several nationalities
of Europe aro favorable to tho con
summation of this enterprise, and it
only remains for us todetermine wheth
er wo will consent to invest our means
iu tho procuring of reliable and effi
cient labor. * * * *
I am very respoctfully yours, etc.,
O. H. DuPont.
p. S.—My Swede has never yet
complained of tho heat, though he is
my principal ploughman, and I havo
never favored him in the slightest de
gree. Indeed ho told ono of my sons,
Avho Avas engaged in ploughing Avith
him a few days ago, that the sun was
no hotter in Florida than it Avas in
Sweden I havo always insisted that
the apprehension about the eflect of a
change of climate was only a medical
humbug. 1 havo found no difficulty
about his diet—he feasts on hominy,
corn, bread and butter-milk—cats very
little fruit and no vegetables.
Tiik Day ok Ebst. —Never was
there a more blessed institution than
the Sunday, tho sacred day of rest
from labor. For the soul’6 health aud
the body’s health of the human race,
on at least one day in seven there
should be an ever recurring intermis
sion of daily toil. Thus, let o man
j attain to a period of three-score and
ten, he has gained a hoiliday of ten
• year’s duration, even if his lot hus
; been labor tor the remaining three
i score years Let childhood he taught
■ to use, aud manhood discreetly use,
| this blessed breathing time, as a day
| on which to raise tho thoughts beyond
' the world, not less than for purposes
j of innocent recreation.
Never be east down by trifles. If a
spider break his thread twenty times,
twenty times will he mend it again.
Make tip your mind to do a thing,
and you will do it. t ear not, if trou
; ble comes upon you; keep up your
1 spirits, though the day boa dark one,
“Trouble never stops forever:
| The darkest day will pass a Way.’
| If the sun is going down, look up
at the stars ; if the earth is darn, keep
your eves on heaven "VV ith God s
presence and God’s promisee, a man
1 or a child may be cheerful.