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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL b¥ VESTOJV & COMBS. jjiatosoit Journal, rUBUSUKD EVKRY THURSDAY. j'H lI.US— Strictly in •idvanrr. Three months f 75 Sit months 1 25 One year 2 00 advertising raTes^ *O. PQOAKE3. , ONE MOUTH. TWO MONTHS. THREE M'THS. SIX MONTHS. ONE TEAR. ollg . slooss 00 f 7 00j$12 50 S2O 00 I | • TWO 500 760 10 00 18 00 25 00 tubes 700 10 OOj 12 Oo! 20 00 30 00 I 1 *•065 900 12 Oo 16 00 25 OOj 10 00 J 10 Oo 18 00 25 00; 40 00! BO 00 i 1 p j 15 00 25 00: 35 00 60 00 110 00 1 cat., 1 25 00 40 OO* 60 00 110 00,200 0 To •idreo/isrr* .•—The money for ad vertising considered due after first inser tion. Advertisements inserted at intervals to be charged as new each insertion. An additional charge of 10 per cent will be made on advertisements ordered to be in. serted on a particular page. Advertisements under the head of “Spe cial Notices" will be inserted for 15 cents por line, for the first insertion, and 10 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements in the “ I.ocal Column," will be inserted at 25 cents per line for the first, and 20 cent-per line for each eubse qa.nt insertion. All communications or letters on business intended for this oflioe should be addressed l. “ Tbr Dawson Journal " grttftsisicnal Garfl*. Lyon, DeGraffeurieil and Irviu. Attorneys at Law, iHACO.H, • - • GEORGIA. V■* • lI.L give attention to professional bus- Tv iness in the Macon, Southwestern k 7’atauU Circuits ; in the U S Courts, anSa vannah, and Atlanta, and by speciil con. trwet in any part of the State. _ ie. M- HAKfEK ~ jlltoniey api Colippellor at LaW, c./. DR. G. W. FARRAR nAS located in this city, snd offers his Professional services to the public Office next door to the “Journal Oflioe," on Main Street, where he ean be found in the d.v, nnless professionally engaged, nnd at night at his residence opposite the Baptist church feb. 2-ts: C. I. WOOTKM. f. HOYLE. WOOTEN & HOYLE, Attorneys at Itaw, iMirso.v, «.#. Jan 6-ly. K. J. WAR REN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, *l.# UKS I’l/ L/5 - - - «*!■ C. W. WARWICK* Att’y at Law &n<i Solicitor in Equity smitiiville , CA. Will practice in South Western aud Tataula eircfliis. Collections promptly remitted. B. X. COIXIKR. C. T. CIIKVKS, TOWNS HOUSE, BROAD ST.. .A MANY, G.A lIY 9 B. A© COLLI4LIK Af CO. McAFfife H OUSE, At Smitiiville, (ia. f |MIE underslyned liaviny fitted up the Me- L Afea /Louse at Smithvill. 1 , takes pleasure in notifying the travelling public that the abore house ia now in the “full tide” of suc **Mfnl administration bv himself. He will •par* no expense to make it a First-Ceass Ham, J/eala ready on the arrival of the rain. W. M. McAFF.K. GEORGIA. Terrell County: Whereas, Harrison Keya applies to me for Letters of Guardianship of the persons and property of William k Rlla Murdock, minors of William N. J/urdock, deceased. These are therefore to cite aud admonish all peraotis concerned, to be and appear at my office within the time preribed by law, and ahow cause, if any, why said letters should not b* granted. Given under my hand and official signature, this Snd day of Aug. 3-4 w T. il. Jones, Ord. PROVISIONS Wi Till! We are now prepared to fell PROVISIONS ON TIME CRIM & TUCKER . M T*26, ts- CRAWFORD MLS SEMINARY. DAWSON, GA. r POE Fall Term of this Institution will be gin on Monday, 4th day September next. CHARGES- First Class, per month of 4 weeks, $-1 00 Second Class, per month of four weeks, 4 00 Third Class, per month of four week, 600 Payments must be made at the end of each month. Pupils will not be continned in school unless these terms are complied with. Board can be had in pleasant families at tIS or sl6. J. F. SCAIFK, l Principals. J. M. EDWARDS, \ 1 aug 17-lm. Dawson Business Directory, Dry Good* .Hcichanf*, pRK.H, & TUCKER, Dealers in V 7 Dry Goods Clothing, lioois and Shoes Groceries Ac. Also agents for suuie of the most approved fertilizers. Main Street. 17 l’T3in:. EDWARD, Dealer in 1 V Staple and Fancy Dry floods, Croceries Hardware, Crockery etc. ( IV. P. Dealer In Fancy and sta- V /|)le Drv Goods, Main at., next door to ■T. AT, Reddick’s. Grocery .11 crcliauln. HOOD, u. 11., Dealer in Groceries ami Family suoplies generally, at W. F. Orr’s old stand, under ‘Journal" Office Main sf. T DA 1.1-. SS, .1, E. Grocer snd Com , mission 1/ercUaut, Dealer in Bacon, Hour, Liquors, Ac. I) I.DDICSi, .1. Grocer dealer in Ba- Flour, Lard, Tobacco, kr. lIARDWARi:. T EE & BROTHER, Dealers in I J Uovdware. Iron and Steel, Wagon Tiin hers, and Plantation Tools. Also Manufac tnrers of Tin Ware,Mam st., at J. B. Perry’s old stand. BAI.DWTV, A A DREW. Dealer in Dry G-oods, Groceries, Hardware Cut terlr, Furniiure, Ist door from the Hotel. Druggists. / fB EATII.I YJ, o. A., Drugeist and Y_y /’liysician. \\ ill visit by day or night, patients in Town or Country—will prescribe for any and ail the ilia that flesh is heir to. Keeps a complete supply of gs and Mods icines. School Books and stationary—Gar den Seeds J:a., &c., At his old stand, The Red Drug Store on Main St., TEILVS Strict ly Cnrh lor all articles sold. Monthly settle ments for Professional Se, vices. TAXES, DR. J. If., Dealer in el Drugs, J/edicinos, Oils, Paints, Pve Stuffs, Garden Seed, &e., kc. JLivery Stable. PRIXCE. I*. G. A .1. K., Sale, Feed and Livery (Stable. Carriages, Hacks, Buggies, Drays, Wagons, Harness and Mules for sale or hire. Hotses boarded at reasonable rates. Depot Street. BE iCKSJUTII SHOD. ATTAR f, RAX DA EE. Will make T v and repair Wagons, Buggies Plows, Dickson Sweep, Shoeing horses, near Post Office-. Always ready to do work good and cheap Jan. 19 Iv MONTHLY MAGAZINE, Two J>ollara per Annum. 54 PAGES READING MATTER. 30 PAGES ADVERTISEMENTS WALKER, EVANS & COGSWELL : < D. WYATT AIKEN, CUAJIZESTOX, S. C SUBSCRIPTIONS Are respectfully solicited for the eretioa of monument to Tins onfederate Dead of Georgia, And those. Soldiers from other Cooperate SQTtes who were killed or died iu ih?« State. THE MO XU KENT TO COST £50,0*0.' , * The*tlonaorf 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 subscribed, there wiM he given a certificate ni Life Membership to the the Monumental This ceit,ideate will entitle the owner thereof to an equal interest in the following property, jo be dist-ibuted as soon as ii qui.~iie numbers of shares ate sold, tt—wit ,- First, Nine Hundred and one acres of Land in Lincoln county, Geor gia, on which are the well known JLigruder Gold and Copper Mines valued at *l6O 000 And to Seven een Hundred and forty® four shares in One Hundred Thousand Dol lar? of United States currency, to-wit : 1 Share of SW™. 1 .. 5,000 .. •• 2,501 thl-dO -5 .. 2.001 - »V"n in n J 1)00 10,»"„ z £ : ::::::: A *1 ' SIOO,OOO The value of the separate interest to which the holder of each certificate will be entitled, will te determined by the Comnnss.oners.who will announce to the public the manner, the time and place of distiibution. The following gentlemen have consented to act as commissioners, and will either by a committee from their own bodv, or by spe cial trustees, appointed by themealvcs, ro * enve and take proper charge of the money for the Monument, as well as the Real "state and the U. S. Currency offered as induce ments f<r subscription, and will determine noon the plan for the Monument, the inscrip tion thereon, the site therefor, select an ora tor for the occasion, and regulate the cere monies to be observed when the cotuer -1 “derate A. R. Wright, M .A. . Stovall W M. Gardiner, Goode Firyon, Colo nels *C. Snead, Wm. P. Crawford, Majors Joe.B. Camming, Go. T S *cksan Joseph r* I P Giraidey, Hon. K. H- Adam Johnson* Jdnathan M. Miller VV. H. , Goodrich, J- D. Butt, Henry Moore, Dr. W. E ?he Averts in the respective counties wiV retain the money received for the sale of . Tickets until the subscription books are ! V Ck a in order that the several amounts r returned to the ,Share-holders, in case number of subsctip'ions will not war , further proceedure, the /Igenls Will 3 "port 'to this office, weekly, the result of ) r gP ort . when a sufficient number o. , tbetr »lem When * 4 M wi ,| receive 1 noUce" 6 They will then forward to this office ! the --tr^McLAWS,Gen. .4,’ts, t N ,,. 3 Old P. 0. Range, Molothsh tt.. 1 ”• Augusta, t»s. Combo, of Dawson, Ga . will be glad t 0 J; e information and receive subscriptions. DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY AUGUST 21, 1871 the HERO OF THE COREA. Eifiil. XuKce’s East Lrlter ” r ***«u «» the eve of the Attack. “I Command the Carbineer*.” , r . , r '°'» the Lexington t.'azrtte. and to lollowing interesting letter from fno late Lieut. Hugh McKee was writ ten only a sow days belbro the attack ?? pKorean forts in which ho lost ms lilo, and they were the last lines lus lamily ever received from him. In addition to the interest of the letter it sell, it receives an additional interest itom the mournful circumstances in which it was written, although the writer had no premonition that his young and gallant soul stood so near the brink ol eternity. His school mates and old friends will road this last, letter with avidity, and will drop a tear over the early fate of as bright and genial a spirit as ever passed fiom earth. Fi.iasinp Colorado, } River Sauk, Corea, >■ June Ist, 1871 ) The Admiral has just decided to send the “Palos’’ to Chefoo for coal and provisions as sho leaves at day light in the morning, I will only have time to write a short letter this even ing. I have not written during the three weeks that have elapsed since we left Japan, a3 wo had no idea there would bo an opportunity for commun ications with civilizations until we reached Chefoo in this ship, and be sides wo have been very much occu pied in surveying and preparing for offensive operations in case wo are at tacked. We were just tlireo weeks in reaching this place from Nagasaki, a distance of six hundred miles, being detained by fogg and the want of charts to navigate by, so that we ap proached the coast with extreme cau tion. The fleet sailed in reverse order of double eschellon, the smallest ship at the salient angle, and each vessel took soundings and angels, communi cating the result by signal. We found very similar to that of Japan, net-work of'islands which cov er it are not cultivated or even inhab ited. The country is of volcanic for mation, and the scenery of the bays and harbors perfectly picturesque This liver, the Salie or Salt liver is a deboucho of the Lceine, which leads to capital of the country. It was here that the French fought the Coreans in 18GG. Yesterday threo officials from their foreign office visited the ship, and were very peaceful in their overtures, assuring us that wo would not be molested in surveying or in ascending the river it we did not itiro upon them. Governor Low sent a dispatch to their I’rinto Minister with offers of friendship. In accordance with these assurances wo sent the Monocracy, l’alos, and four steam launches to survey a sow miles above where we are anchored. 1 was on du ty on board, and unfoitunatoly did not go. Our b©als had hardly left the ship when rounding a bend in the l iver, they were opened upon by about forty heavy guns and a thousand “gin galls” and other “murdering peices.” Tho range was so short the boats were struct a number of times and the wa ter around them lashed into a foam. We opened upon them with shell, shrapnell and cannister, and in less than half an hour all of their batter ies were silence, and tho Coreans fly ing in aJI direction*. They must have lost a gvoaf lflftny men ; for as they left their works wo shelled them for two miles-* There*’wore two or three thousand men in the forts, and every man tried to be ahead. Tho forts pre sented a beautiful appearance as our boats approached, resembling an im mense fair, lho bend in tho - river was formed by a high promontory, which bristled with cannon from base to summit. At the top was a pavil ion with an immense yellow flag sur mounting it, in the center of which were characters which our interpreters read as “Grand Cqfnniinder-in-chief.” A pistol was fired from this pavilion as a signal for all other batteries to op en. Each line of work from top to bottom had flags of all descriptions planted at intervals of ten or fifteen pa ces, and, as Coreans all dress in white and yellow, we could distinctly see them moving among their guns. Our vessels anchored ajvovo, and we shelled them front and year. The “Monocracy” knocked a hole in her bottom on a lock, and so returned to her former anchorage as soon as nil tho forts were abandoned. We gave orders to act entirely on the defensive. We go up in a day or two, with six hun dred infranfry and eight pieces of ar tillery, and if attacked, will destroy all tlioir forts up to tho capital. Wo had wonderful as it may seem, from tho terrible fusilode opened upon us. only two men wounded ; one lost his lin gers and the other was shot through the shoulder- Meade, of Kentucky, commanded one of tho launches front this ship, and Totten tho other; in the land ton es Meade commands a battery of twelve pieces, and F jrce, also of Kentucky, commands a section in the other bat tery. I have a company of carbineers armed with the Remington breech loading carbines. Though I fear you will find this I rough 6koteh like the showman V‘Dau iel in tho lion’s den,” and have some difficulty in distinguishing Daniel from tho lions, it may give you some idea of the engagement; and I have-not had time for neat topography. The cross-looking affairs are guns which enfiladed us at every point, but they did not fire more than once alter our batteries oponed, “Do write, and fear not,” is what tas girls say to their correspondents. irriton for /‘omrroy * />cmocrut. n MEMOKIAIN. BY CLARA. CLIFTON. How slowly <lrrt£N tho hours away, That once were free from rare How long and gloomy B<vmn tile day That once was short and fair. Those brighter days, those busy days, /tvanishKl years ago. Their light went out when she was laid Beneath tho drifted snow f How still and silent Rooms the room, >4 ml the house as well* Since last the shadow <;f a tomb .4rross our tlireshhold ft 11. Xo prattling voice, no restless feet: No drumming on the pane, Ah, me—./ wouderif my heart ITill e’er know joy again I I linger in a darkened room* /Jeside an empty chair; 1 hold a picture in my baud : A look of gold brown hair, 1 wonder, in that happy land. Where such us she must dwell. If 1 shall ever hear thal voice iu angel chorus sweiV I wonder, doo9 that brighttiair sliiuo Among those flowery fields ; -4ml if her dimpled hands cau trim The sacred flowers heavens yields. The buttercups and daisey’s star The verdant meadows o’er; Hut the who brought me many a Wreath, Culls earthly flowers no more* Hero are the picture books and toys With which she used to play ; Jn quiet order now they Jie For in my a weary day, I turn away, but hi my heart The blessed hope l held, 1 soon shall see the angel one. My arms no more uufcld. I surely know that lie who called My darling from my side. Will keep my treasurer over safe, Whatever may betide. And over on the other shore V uited, we shall stand* To owu, and praiae forevermore, Our Father’s guiding hand. Rockdale, J une 20, 1871. Stick to A'oiir Bli*li Air. Morgan was rich, ami also a good man. The people of the town respected liiin, sent him to Congress, anti seldom undertook anything with out asking his advice. If a school house was to bo built, the plan bad to be talked over with him. Widow P asked liim what she should plant in her field ; farmer S al ways got his advice in buying cattle, and Airs. R consulted him about bringing up her boys. When asked how he was so success ful Mr. Morgan said. I will tell you how it was. One day when 1 was a lad, a party of boys nnd girls were going to a pasture to pick blackbenies. 1 wanted to go with them, but was afraid my father would not let mo.— When 1 told him what was going on, ho at once gave me permission to go with them, I could Jundly contain my self for joy, and rushed into the kitch en, got a big basket, and asked mother for a luncheon. I had tho basket on my arm and was just going out of tbe gate, when my father called me back He took hold of my band, and said, in a very gentle voico : ‘Joseph, what are you going for, to pick berries or to play ?’ ‘To pick berries,’ I replied.— ‘Then, Joseph, I want to tell you one thing. It is this : When you find a pretty good hush, do not leave it for a better oue. The other boys and girls will run about, picking n little hero and thero, wasting a great deal of time and not getting many berries. If you do as they do, you will come home with your basket empty, if you want berries, stick to your bush.’ “I wofit with tho party, ami wo had a capital time. Rut it was just as my father said. No sooner had one found a goed bush than he called all the rest, and they left their several places to to run off to tho now-found treasure. Not content more than a minute or two iu one place, they rambled over the whole pasture, qjot very tired, and at night had hut few berries. My father’s words kepi nidging in my oars, and I ‘stuck to my bush.’ \\ lion night came 1 had a largo basket ol nico berries, more than all the others put together, and was not halt so tired as they wore. I went home hap py. Rut when I entfcred tho house, I found that my father had taken very ill. 110 looked at my basket full of ripe black-berries aud said: ‘Well done, Josoph. Was it not just as I told you ? Always stick to your bush ’ He died a few days after, and 1 had to mako my way in the world asffest I could. Rut my father's words funk deep into my mit | iL«*M | d 1 have never forgotten the experience of tho black berry party; 1 stuck to my bush. — When I had a fair place, and was do ing tolerably well, fdid notjleavoitand spend weeks and months in trykm to find one that was bettor When the other young men said : ‘f us, and wo will make fortunes in a few weeks,’ I shook my head and -tuck to my bush. Fresoutly aiy employers otiered to take mo into business with them. I stayed with the old Ifrfuse un til the principals died, and then I had everything l wanted. The habit of sticking to my business led people to trust me, and gave a character. I owe all I have and am to this motto .* ‘Stick to your bush.’ ” A widower was recently rejected by a damsel who didn’t want attoetions that had been ‘‘warmed over. ’ The woman that maketh a good pudding in silence is better than one that maketh a tart reply. Whether old age is to be respected depends very much whether it applies to men aud women or poultry. Never owe any man more than you are able to pay, and allow no man to owe you more than you are able to lose. A Serf’* Eove. Somo years ago, a Russian noble man was traveling on speciul business in tho intirior of Russia. It was the bogining of wintor, but tiro frost bad set in early. His carriage rolled up to an inn, and he demanded a relay of horses to carry him on to the next sta tion, where ha intended to spend tho night. Tho inn-keeper entreated him. not to proceed, saying there was dan ger iu traveling so late—the wolves were out. Rut the nobleman con cluded that tho man wanted to keep him as a guest replied that it was too 1 early, and ordered the horses to l*o put to. Ho then drove old with his wife and only daughter, who were iu tho carriugo with him. On tho box was a serf who had been raised on the nobleman’s estate, to whom ho was much attached, and who loved his master as he loved his own lifo. They rolled over tho hardened snow, nnd thero seemed no sign of danger. The moon shed her pale light, and brought into burnished silver the road which they were traveling. At length tho little girl said to hor father : “What was that strange noise that I just heard “Oh, nothing but tho wind sighing through the forest trees,” replied tho ■ father. Tho child shut her eyes and was quiet. Rut soon she said again— | “Listen, father, it is not like wind, 1 I think.” Tho father listened, and far, far away, through tho clear, cold, frosty air, ho heard a noise which ho know too well the meaning of. lie then put down the window and spoke to the servant: “The wolves, I fear, are alter us ; make haste. Toll the man to drive faster, and get our pistols ready.” Tho postillion drove faster But tho same mournful sound which the child had heard approached near er and nearer. It was quite clear that a pack of wolves had scouted thorn out. Tho nobleman tried to calm tho anx ious fears of his wi e and child. At last the baying of tbe pack was dis tinctly heard. So he said to his ser vant, “When they come up with us, do you single out one, and tire, and 1 will single out another ; nnd while the rest are devouring them, we shall get on.” As soon as he had pulled down the window, ho saw tho pack in full cry behind, tho largo wolf at their head. Two shots were firod, and two of .the wolves fell. The others immediately set upon them and devoured them : and meanwhile tho carriage gained ground. Rut tho taste of blood made them more furious, and they were soon up with the carnago again!— Again two shots were tired, and two more fell and were devoured. Rut tho carriage was speedily overtaken, and tho post house was yet far distant. — The nobleman then ordered the pos tilion to loose one of his leaders, that they might gain a little time. This was done, and the poor horse plunged frantically into tho forest and the wolves after him, and was torn to pieces Then another horse was sent off to sharo the same fate. Tito car riage labored on as fast as possible with tho remaining horses, but the post-house was still in tho distance.— At length the servant said to Ins mas ter, “1 have served you ever since I was a child ; 1 love you as well as uk' own sols. Nothing now can save yoir but one thing. Let me savo you. I ask you only to look after my wife* and little ones.” The nobleman remonstrated, but iu vain. When the wolves next cattle he threw himself between them and tlfe carriage. Tho panting horses galloped on with the vehicle, and the gales of x tho post-hou.sb just closed in up*p it, as the Earful pack wore on the point of making the last fatal at tack. Rut'the travelers were safe. Next morning they wont, out and the place where the tnithfu. sor vanT had been putted down by tho woVVes. His bones only were there. And%m tho spot the nobleman erected a vyooSon pillar on which is— love hath no man than this* that a man lay down his life for his friend, but God commendeth 11 is love for us, in that while wo were yet siunors, Christ died for us.” A BE.vtTTiFcn Tijocgbt.—When the summer of youth is slowly wasting away in the nightfall of <tge, and ttie becomes deeper and deeper, and fife wears to its close, it is pleasant to look through the vista of time upon tho strrows and felicities of our curli er years. If wo have a home to shel ter, and hearts to rejoice with us, and friends have been gathered together around our firesides, thou the rough places of war faring will have been worn and smoothed away, iu tho twi lightof life, while many dusk spots we have passed through will grow bright er and more beautiful. Happy in doed are those whose intercourse with the world has not changed tho tout! ol iheir holier feelings, or broken those musical chords of the heart, whose vibrations aro so melodius, so tender aud touching iu the evening of lift. A letter from l’aris says that natives of Alsaace and Lorraine, who rebel again* tho Prussian occupation of their native provinces, and-svho have no heart for a longer residence in their own country, daily go to the American Legation iu that city, and inquiries, and then arrangements, looking t< their ouiigration to this country. About two hundred and eighty of these self constitututed exilee left Havre the other day, in tho ship Erin, bound to these "shores. They all have money, and, like many ot their fellow-provin cials who may come here, will mako e-ood citizens. A Had Lillie Story. The mockino Biud’s So no that was Hushed Foheveu.—A very curious in cident, illustrative of tho power which cau bo exorcised over the animal cre ation of kindness aud careful training, 1 oecured but a few days at Seottsville, Kentucky. The sister of Oliieer liar- ! ry Mansfield, of this city, had raised a mockiug bird which sho hau taught i to go nnd come at hor call, and which, j iu return for all the kindness bestow- i od upon it. exhibited a fondness for i hor. . East Monday week Miss Mansfield was taken ill, and to while away tho tedium of tho sick room, sho hud her | little pot brought to hor bedside, and j day nnd night it cheered hor with its I sweet carols, bringing to mind many | happy fuoughts id .field and meadow, sunshine and song. As her illness grew more alarming, and day after day brought no relief from suffering, the warbling* of the little songster rather served to annoy than to please her, and so turning wennly on her pil low she said tohin, ‘‘birdie, hush, you worry me.” Strange to suy, the words seemed to ho understood, for immed iately the song was hushed, and the bird retired within himself, as it were. On the next day the lady died, leaving it would soem, a command of silence upon tho bird, which will never he broken, for although several days elap sed since, and every effort has been made to induce him to Bing, lie lotus es to respond with song to any lips but those of his once loved mistress.- jYashfll’t /'tinner. El HE’S BETTER MO.II EATS. Uf«* Waft iu jnomriiU Os bounty nnd bloom .* /flit they h-uitf like Mveot roses On the odjjc of l he tomb. lUi*sßingN tliey bring u«. Ah lovely ns brief, They meet hh when huppy, Aud leave us in grief. Hues of the morning, % '* TinLjiiip the »ky, Come on the euubeumfl, Aud otf with them fly. Shadows of evening soft outlie shore; HarkneßM cnwrnps them, ne see them no more. So Lib’s better moments’ In brilliance appear* /fawning in honuty. Our journey to cheer* Round uh tliey linger, Like shadows ofeven.* IFould that we, like them, Might melt into Heave.i. £33^on Sunday night last just as the pastor of the colored M. E. (Jhurch was preparing to commence the even ing rorvico, a colored man walked up the aisle and handed him a paper, which was a license for the marriage of Mingo Greys and Mary M-mroo, cole red. Tim couple immediately made their nppouianeo at the al*er when the preacher propounded the us ual preliminary question on such occa sions. “If there bo any present that know any just cause why these per sons should not ho joined together let thorn make it known, or else fore ver after hold their peace.” A voice was heard aud an old colored woman arose saying : “Hold on dere, brud der, Ise got sumo inobjection to Uat proceeding,” going forward to the dis comforted pair. “Wliut aro your ob jections, sister?” “I’so Ills mother and he’s my son, and heeau t s’port n wife and aint old nuff to marry no bow,” said the old woman. The par son was satisfied aud the ceremony in the (Jhurch ended, but tho gallant loth was not to be cheated out his bride, and suatehhig tlm license lrom the hands of the parson exclaimed, ,‘como on Moll, d—d if wo don’t marry uny wuv*. ’ They immediately proceeded to bu apuntn’s Ear room, found a jus tico (w,lit»ynly drinks hweot eider) who .‘fin the presence of those witnesses, in this house of glorious spirits on this holy Rahhatk night 1 do pjpnotriiue you man «nnd vvito. This is a c’up ot do i tblCPdi Al lied rectified happiness. Drink it Go and sin no more, Aiiien.” Lemonade was pie pared tbemll present and the health aud prosperity of the bride aud gloom drank and. the couple went forth to eu joy"7lie of their wedded life under the astrals that Hooked tho daik vault heaven. —Sumter Jtepub- Ucun. What a Littek Rev lira.—A news boy connected with tho Evening Tuiu gram was ©u tho IBtat«n Island ferry slip at the time of tiro accident on Sunday afternoon lu-1. Moved by the drowning cries of thoso w ho were pre cipitated in tho water by the explosion, and being able to swim, tfio courage ous little fellow plunged into the river and succeeded in loseuciilg two help less infants, lie manfully held them m his anus, at the same time keeping hi. use If erect by tbe process known to swimmers as “treading water” until lie mid his young charge* were res cued by ono oi the boats. All honor to the courageous Evening Telegram newsboy. May lie bo well reward©!. —Sew l'vrk J/erald. Tho Texas Pacific Railway is to bo 1515 mites in length. For two hun dred and fifty miles the road will bo an air-line, and in a stretch ot eight hundred and fifteen miles tlieie will he but six bridges. -Vud you have taken tho tototal pledge, have ye'('” itskod one Irish man ol another. Indade 1 have, and am not ashamed ol it alher.” “And did not Paul tell 'Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach i”’ “k’o he did but my name is not Timothy, uad tire res nothing the matter with my ©U maeh.” Eulaula is orgnuiring a gas company VOL VI.--NO 28. Now York Brick mußons demand 2 i 50 per day. Clarksville, Tennessee, boasts of an A’bino. Large numbers of visitors to Look out Mountain. Cincinnati's cotton trade is worth §5,000,000 annually. s .•v doctor's motto is supposed to b© “Patients and long suffering.” A boy who undertook to ride a hors® radish is now practicing on a saddle of mutton. Sumo of the ladies use paint as fid dlers do rosin, to aid them in drawine a beau. A widower was looontly rejected by damsel who didn’t want affections that had boon “warmed over.’’ A writer on school discipline says : “without liberal use of the rod it ia impossible to mako boys smart.” In N\ yoniing the bride furnishea the ring and the license, and the blus hing bridgogoom falls into hysterics! “Thou rainest in this bosom,” as the chop said when a basin of water was thrown over him by the lady h» was seranading. A school mistress finding she had the power to administer physical pun ishment, gavo it to a pupil in tfio shap* of a 3trong dose of rhubarb. Brown—‘W hose box’s (bat Jones?’ -Jones—*Oh, a relation of mine by marriage.’ Brow n—‘What relation ‘c’ Jones—‘A sou ; that's all.” The season for sitting on circular saws has begun. A man down Fuat sat on one the other day, and they bu ried both of him in the same grave A drunken man, sprawling on tho ground in Decatur the other night, anxiously w anted to know if anybody else bad been struck by an earthquake. A school girl was recently asked at an examination by tho clergyman to tell him wlmt Adam lost by iiis fall: “i suppose it was his hat 1" Girl-s make a note of a remark of an old worn-out beau :—“A man who most compliments a woman is the ono who most despises her. A Mississippi negro worked on shares hut got nuttin, ‘because’ said ho.“I worked for do seventh, and wo made do fifth—crop short.” Iu was so hot in Montgomery, Ala., one day recently, that a wag proposed to build a tiro in his stove to cot 1 the atmosphere. Ono street railroad lino it New York —the Third Avenu©—has 1,800 horses GOO passenger cars, aud employs 80t> men. Mrs Samuel Coif, the widow of tin* Into Mr. (,’olt. of revolver fame, reports an income for 1850, lour kujidrod thousand dollars. An old lady read about tbe strike of tho wire-drawers in Worcester, Mass., and said that of all new-fangled things wire drawers must bo tho queerest. A slight coolness rose between ,Tulit» and Augustus at dinner tfio other day at Newport. The attentive waiter separated them with a pyramid of ice cream. It is said that Unfits CTtoato was onco applied to defend a criminal, nnd declined flatly, exclaiming : So steeped in blood and no money f He is a lost man ! An old lady from one of the rural districts astonished a clerk iu ono ol tho a few-ghTys ago, by enquir ing if developments such as they did up letters in.” A#mnn in Illinois©* twenty four lioffi’H after his wife died, aud before* tier funeral, ployed croquet with the girls, l-’ur tit s the indignant neigh bors tarred and feathered him. The genius of a TfosSjjwcoroposer is at last to supply tho nation with a na tional hymn founded on compromise principles. It is to bo made up ot a combination of Yankee Pood o and Dixie, and to bo called Divio Doodle. ‘My bov,’ said a clergyman’ ‘don’t von know that it is wicked to catch fish bn Sunday?’ 1 «: ,,a » sinned much,’ said the boy, without taking bis eyes off tho cork, bam t had a bite.’ I* . ■ A deacon ia Illinois objected to tho or "-an purchased by his church, and when called upon to close the some© with prayer,sniff “Call on the machniol If it can sing Ih* glory ot Goff, it can pray too. Ho call on the maclnne. Thera arc storm bells in Minneso ta, Kansas, Nebraska, and other W cs teru States so infested by devastating tornadoes that farthers are never sure of storiug their crops, and often have their houses and barns swept away. A gentleman ono day indiscreetly asked a lady how old she was. mo sec : 1 was eighteen " 10U "• ■ married, and my husband was thirty ,1 now lie is twice thirty, and that js sv ty ; so, of course, lam twice cigatct , that is thirty-six.” Woman’s sphere is enlarging ns rapidly as the most ambitious woman ought to desire. Mrs. Lavtueia l£- breo lias jnst been indu tl at Euc, Pennsylvania, for torgmg an elabora ted series of pension papers, « to oh tain a Government tho mother ot’ Henry Me Ghee, who was killed in the war. Tn® mutila tions sho accomplished wove abacs, ae I ingenuous as the famous oporat.ons of I that kind in the Bowen divorce eas© in New York.