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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL BY WESTON & COMBS. gatosott ©leekln Journal, FOBLISHKD STKRT THURSDAY. TEIMiS— Strictly in Advance. Three monthi.» $ 75 Six months 1 25 Ose year. 2 00 ADVERTISING rates' squares. . ONE MONTH. TWO MONTHS. THREE M’THB. I SIX MONTHS. ONE TEAR. ONK. $ 800 $ 500 $ 700 sl2 60 S2O 00 TWO I 5 00| 7 60 1 io 00] 18 00; 25 00 thrke 700 10 00 12 00 20 00 30 00 POUR 900 12 00 15 00 25 00 40 00 | 10 00 18 00 25 00 40 00 80 00 15 00 25 00 85 00 60 00 110 00 j Co t. 25 00 40 00 60 00 110 00 200 0 To •/Idvertisers :—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 ceDts per line for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements in the “ Local Column,” will be inserted at 25 cents per line for the first, and 20 cent-per line for each subse quent insertion. All communications or letters on business intended for this office should be addressed to “ Thi Dawson Journal ” SwftMlraal Catft. C. B. WOOTEN, Attorney at Law, MACON, GA. T't’lLL practice in the Circuit Courts es \v South-west Ga., and in the District and Supreme courts of the State and United States. All business from whatever section or of whatever character entrusted to him will receive prompt attention. oet-b~’7l. Lyon, DeGraffenried and Irvin. Attorneys at Law, IfIACOS, • - - GEORGIA. WJ ILL give attention 'o professional bus v V iness in the Macon, South western & Pataula Circuits ; in the U S Courts, anSa vannah, and .Atlanta, and by epcciil con- any part of the State. ~"B\ JVL. HAKFEK Jlttopy api Colippellor at Lato n.m'so.v, ga. DR. G. W. FARRAR HAS located in this city, and offrrs Ins Pro'essional services to the public - Office next door to the “Journal Office,” on Main Street, where he can be found in the day, unless professionally engaged, and at night at his residence opposite the Baptist church 2-ts: k. j. w a rr¥^, ATTORNEY AT LAW, STAUKSW'ILLE, - • - C. w WARWICK, Att’y at Law and Solicitor in Equity SMITHVILLE, QA. Will practice in South Wesern and Fataula circuits. Collections promptly remitted. B. A. COLLIER. C. T. CIIKVES. TOWNS HOUSE, ItltOAll ST., ALBANY, GA ' BY B. A. COLLIER & CO. . McAFE HOUSE, At Smithvillf, ta. undersigned having fitted up the Me -L Afee //ouse at Smith ville, takes pleasure in notifying the travelling public that the above house is now in the “lull tide”of suc cessful administration by himself. He will spare no expense to make it a First-Class Hotkl. J/eals ready on the arrival of the rain. W. M. McAFEE. PftIVISIONS IK Mi We are now prepared to fell PROVISIONS ON TIME CRIM & TUCKER. M ya‘2s, if- COTTONr CAMPBELL &. JONES Again offer their eervicea to rianter3 and Merchants, as ,Wareliouse & Commission MERCHANTS. And ask a continuance of the patronage so liberally given them the past, season. Close personal attention given to the Stor fgo and Sale of Colton, and to the filling of orders for Bagging and Ties and Plantation Supplies. > Refer to the patrons of the past season. A’emember the place— Iron Warehouse, Poplar st., MACOKI, GA. P • S.—Agents for the Winship Improved Cotton Gin and John Merryman & Co.’s Am won iated Dissolved Bones, which we now of fer at . reduced price, septli 8m Dawson Business irectory, Dry Gouda IVcrcliauts, C RIM, Ac TUCKER, Dealers in Dry Goods Clothing, Boots and Shoes Groceries Ac. v4!so agents for some of the most approved Fertilizers. Main Street. KUTN ER, EDIVARD, Dealer in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Groceries Hardware, Crockery etc. ODD* W. F. Dealer In Fancy and sta ple Dry Goods, Main st., next door to J. W. Reddick’s. Grocery Merchants. Hood, b. ie, Dealer in Groceries and Family supplies generally, at W. F. Orr’s old stand, under ‘Journal” Office, Main gt. T OV I.ESS, ,1. E. Grocer and Com mission J/erchant, Dealer in Bacon, Flour, Liquors, &c. REDDICK, J. Grocer dealer in Ba con, Flour, Lard, Tobacco, &e. HARDWARE. Lee & BROTHER, Dealers in Hardware. Iron and Steel, Wagon Tim bars, and Plantation Tools. Also Manufac turers of Tin Ware,Main st., at J. B. Perry’s old stand. Baldwin, anorexv. Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware 6’ut teriy, Furniture, Ist door from the Hotel. Druggists. CIIEATIIAR, C. A., Druggist and Physician. Will visit by day or night, patients in Town will prescribe for any and all the ilia that flesh is heir to. Keeps a complete supply of Drugs and Med icines. School Books and stationary—Gar den Seeds &3., &c., At his old stand. The Red Drug Store on Main St., <TERJ/S Strict ly Cash. JAIMES, DR. J. R., Dealer in Drugs, J/edicines, Oils, Paints, Dy« Stuffs, Gar den Seed, &c., Ac. Eivery Stable. PRINCE, I*. G. & 3. K., Sale, Feed and Livery Stable. Carriages, Hacks, Buggies, Drays, Wagons, Harness and Mules for sale or hire. lloises boarded at reasonable rates. Depot Street. BLtCKSMITH S6HU\ WARE, RAHDALL. Will make V T and repair Wagons, Buggies Plows, Dickson Sweep, Shoeing horses, near Post Office-. Always ready to do work good and cheap Jan. 19 ly HARDEN & SPARKS. SEND their annual greeting to their many friends and patrons. 7hey arc at their old stand, ready and willing to serve them in the Storage and Sale of Cotton. They deem it unnecessary to make pledges —for “by their fruits ye shall know them.’ Judge us by these—we ask no more. Y >ur interest is our interest; and our long experi ence enable- us lo guard and advance it.— Mom we cannot promise—more you will not expect. The usual accommodations extended to those who honor us wi'h their pa'ronaee. septl-l 6m HARDEMAN & SPAKKA latltEtEVF, WAiIEHOUS E. NEAR THE UepoL I hereby iuform my friends and the public generally, that I will weigh and store their cotton at SOcts per Bale for the first and 12 1-2 ets for each month thereafter. I will sell cotton, for my patrons, FREE OF CHARGE* This Ithinlc, with my long experience in buying ar.d sell ng cotton, coupled with the consideration that mv Warehouse is entirely isolated from any other huilding will secute to my patrons advantages unequnled in Southwest Georgia. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed. J* A. 11l AKS. p % S. Call in and examine our stock of Dry Goods and Groceries. We will sell o you as cheap ts any body in town. We are at liter's old Stand, near Depot, and near by his Wrehouso. JOHNSON & LKh. sepr2l lm GEORG! A,Calliouu County: A'oticc is hereby given to all parties concerned to show cause before me on the first Tuesday in November next, why betters of Administration on the estate of Stephen D. Jobnsoo, dec’d, should not be vested in lie Cletk of the Superior Court of said coun ty, or some other fit and proper person. Given under nay hand and official signa ture this September 30th, 1871. J. JOHN BECK, Ordinary. oc!s 30d LAWTOJI * WIGLISGHAM, BUCCeBBOrH to LAWTOS & LAWTOiI, fourth street, Macon, Georgia, WAKBHOUBK Cotton and Commission Merchants. Advances made on Cotton in Store when desired. Guano Dealers. aug. **-■* PLANTATION Fo* B^l©* I OFFER for sale mv place, five miles be low Dawson, immediately on the Railroad, Detaining 1417* acres. Well watered and imbered. Asa Stock Aarm, unsurpassed— Healthy .desirable everyway. To any one wanting a homo, here is an opportunity to eet one at half its real value, as I am deter mined to sell, either for money or cotten to a responsible party. Apply to W. F. ORR, Dawson. If not sold, will be for rent. a ‘scptl4 3m W.T. BURGE. DAWSON. GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1871 Kathleen, The Little Clay Bearer. BY GEO. XLINQLE. Kathleen, poor weary one, where are thy locks of gold ? Where are the silken, golden locks 1 loved to braid of old t Where is the glitter of thine eye, the light along thy face— -411 gone’ quite gone, all shorn and lost t oh who In thee could trace The Kathleen of Killarney’s hill, the fairest of us all; 2Tie dearest far of all the seven beneath the vine twined wall. Oh, vine-twined wall, your ears have rung with laughter in the past With old grand songs, such dear old songs, aud iaiuHt the leaves were cast The whispered words when twilight came. Thy leaves ? no crown, / think, Bound conqueror’s brow, in ail the world, so fon dly link on link As crowns dark, crisp, that used to bind our he roes then. Oh, say Have fairies of the wild-wood power to give back one day, To give one small, one little day ? but if they have oh, where /s wild-wood of the fairies? tell me where, oli t Tell me where. The stain is on thee, .Kathleen; on thy tatters, on thy face * On thy shorn, soft hair, thy tired, thin hands th?y pass thee in the race— Thine eye is fuled, faded; thou art weary, yet stay not, The gang moves past, the eyes that watch turn on thee, falter not. / would bear thy burden, Kathleen, / would bear it could these hands Move one grain more, or moving it relieve thee from these bands- Turn not thine eye upou me lest the agonies that wake Be too much unto this burdened heart that trem bles for thy sake, That would shed its lingering blood-drops or would fear no gang or scourge Could it give thee rest, my Loved, my Lost, stay let the pale crowd surge, Let the weary feet move wearily, let all move on still on, la these arms,if I can bear thee, thou shalt rest, thou little one! Clasp me tighter, weary Kathleen- -what I thy touch is icy cold, What thy clasp undone forever ? Give me back the braids of go Id, Give me back the blue eyes glitter, the fairest of the seven Give me back, or grant, God merciful, that alone she lind not heaven. A Balloon Incident. THRILLING AND TRAGICAL SPECTACLE. The recent shocking balloon acci dent at Paoli, Indiana, is thus describ ed more in detail by a correspondent of the Cincinnatti Gazette, his letter being dated the Ist instant; Professor Wilbur was engaged by the Orange County (Indiana) Pair to make an ascension in his hot air bal loon each day of the fair. On each as cension but the last he had check ropes attached to allow the balloon to go no higher than he desired : but on Satur day evening, September 30, the clos ing day of the fair, he detached the lines to allow the serial ship to take him whithsoever it would. Mr. Knapp, the editor of the Orange County Union, had arranged to make the ascent with Professor Wilbur. Af ter inflating tho balloon to its utmost capacity, Mr. Knapp stepped into the car The Professor had hold of the rope which attached tho car to the bale loon, and gave the word to “let go.” Prom seme cause he failed to reach the ear in time. As the car began to rise Professor Wilbur kept hold of the rope and attempted to get in. He succeeded in getting his elbow over tho inside of the edge of the basket, his body outside and feet dangling in tho air, and in this perilous position started up. When about fifteen or twenty feet from the ground it came in contact with one of the ropes that held the balloon while being inflated, and threw Mr. Knapp out, who fell to tho ground, sustaining considerable in jury. The balloon being lightened cf a part of its weight, shot upward al most with the speed of an arrow. Pro fessor Wilbur still clung to the basket and endeavoring to gain the car, as cended to tho height of about one mile as near as could be guessed, and when at that attidude the spectators were horror stricken to see him lose his hold and t fall to tho earth. It was truly a heartrending specta cle, and one which we may hope never to 6ee again. Men and woman shout ing, shrieking, screaming, and falling upon their knees, and in the anguish of their hearts imploring Heaven to protect them. But prayers and sym pathy were unavailing. The professor was seen high up in the air with face down, arms and legs extended, his body in a circular motion descending at a fearful speed. He was about one minute in falling, and struck the earth with his head first, bursting it open. The sound of the fall was heard by the citizens of Paoli, a half mile from the place. His hat, which came off a few seconds before he started, fell within four feet from him shortly after he reached the ground, he hav ing passed it about midway down. The balloon rose to an immense height, and taking a northwesterly direction, landed some three miles from the scen6 at the disaster. His body was taken to tho Albert House, in Paoli, and cared for by his wife, who witnessed the terrible trage dy. It is stated by some persons pres ent that Mr. Knapp gave the word to “let go” before Professor. Wilbur gain ed the car. Why are young ladies so partial to sunlight ? Because they are daugh ters of Eve. A Missouri newspaper claims that the hogs of that State are so fat that in order to find out where their heads are it is necessary to make them squeal and then judge by the sound. A Talc of 10S5. Tho year 1685, which Wodrod has called a “black year in Skotland,” 6aw many of the saints of God suffer for the Master’s sake. But it was one too, of great deliverance, and heard glad hymns from joyful lips. It is of one of such deliverances that my sto ry speaks. Early in tho spring of that year tho Godly lien wick determined to preach in the viemity of Blaganuach, among the mountains, and the place chosen was an impenetrable morass, where, if the dragoons did appear, they would bo helpless, from the nature of the ground, while their prey could escape ou foot. The text that day was, “Ho that toucli etli you toucheth the apple of His eye.” While the congrogatiun, dooply in terested, wore listening with eager at tention tho outlooks announced that tho dreaded foes were only a quarter of a mile distant. All was confusion in a moment. Tho greater number hastened to tho morass, while one who had changed clothes with the preach er, in case of such interruption, took a different direction hoping his ministe rial dress would decoy them from the right path. His ruse succeeded. Most of the cavalry, determined to secure the preacher at all eronts, followed him. Speedily they found advance over the springy, boggy turf impossible, and determined that two or three of tho most robust should go on toot. This, too, failed ; for unaccustomed to tho ground, and oncumborod with heavy armor, the men flounced in the quag mire and wore with difficulty rescued. One in his struggles broke bis leg and this incident endod the pursuit. The injured soldier was carried back to Blagannach, and there left at the house of a Covenanter. Tradition says that time and suffering wrought a change on him—that from being a reckless desperado, he became an ear nest Christian, and preached the faith he once labored to destroy. Thus this accident which to him may have seem ed a great evil was the means ot bo stowing on him the greatest possible blessing. Thus God is From seeming evil still educing good. The persecuted Covenanters escaped unhurt, and in the deep forests which then clothed the valley of tho Crawick, their leaders met that same evening to appoint a day for the same sacred ser vice. This done, commending each other to their Father’s care, they sought their severai hiding places, thanking God for the deliverance He had vouchsafed to them. Most of the leadors afterwards sealed their testi mony with their blood. Let us who know little of their sufferings, seek to possess their faith. Over t!ic River, nay Darling. BY A. W. FRENCH. 1 have grown weary iny darling, Weary of wondering here A evt?r to meet or t o greet yon, Never your sweet voice to hear. Shadows around me are falling Longer my feet ca nr.ot roam Say ! are you waiting my darling, Waiting to welcome me home f Over the river my darling In the bright mansion of gold AVer 1 long to be sitting Close by your side as of old. Say ! arc the pearly gates open, /s there a place left for me ? Will I be welcome among you, JFlicn from this earth I am free Tho’ here in life wc were parted. Nothing could chill our food love .Dearer and brighter it groweth As / draw near you above. JPaiting the spirit’s last bidding, Calmly death’s eomeing tide, Soon / will meet you my darling, Down by the lone riversde* Hide Dealer's Sign. The proprietor of a tan-yarJ, adja cent to a certain town in Virginia, con cluded to build a stand, or sort of sign on one of the main streets, for the pur pose of vending his leather, buying raw hides, and the like. After com pleting his building, he began to con eider what sort of a sign it would be best to put up for the purpose of at tacking attention to his new estab lishment; and for days and weeks he was sorely puzzled on this subject. Several devices were, ono after anoth er, adopted, and, on further considera tion, rejected. At last a happy idea struck him. He bored an auger hole through the door post, and stuck a calf s tail into it, with tho bushy end daunting out. After a while, ho no ticed a grave looking personage stand ing near the door with his spectacles, gazing intently on tho sign. And there he still continued to stand, dum bly absorbed, gazing and gazing, un til the curiosity of the hidedealer was greatly excited in turn. He stepped out and addressed the individual “Good morning,” said he. “Morning,” said tho other, without moving his eyes from the sign. “Bo you want to buy Leather ?” in quired the doaler. “No.” “Do you want to sell hides ?” “No.” “Perhaps you are a farmer.” “No.” “A merchant, may be.” “No.” “Are you a doctor ?” “No.” “What are you, then?” “I am a philosopher. I have been standing here for an hour, trying to ascertain how that calf got through that auger hole!” A young man who has been attend ing county fairs rogards the vegetable known as the prize package to be the great American staple product this fall. A Temperance Story. Judge Hay, tho tomperance lecturer, in one of his es Forts, got off tho follow ing hit at ‘moderate drinkers ‘All those who in youth acquire the habit of drinking whiskey, at forty years of age will be total abstuinors jor drunkards. No person can use whiskey for forty years with modera tion. If thero is a porson in the audi , once before me whoso experience dis putes this lot him make it kuown, I will account for it, or acknowledge that I am mistaken.’ A tall, largo man arose, and folding his arms arroas hi breas 1 , avid : ‘I offer myself asono whose own ex perience contradicts your statements.’ ‘Are you a moderate drinkor ?’ ask ed tho judgo. ‘I am.’ ‘How long havo you drank in mod eration i” ‘Forty years.’ ‘And were never intoxicated ?’ ‘Never.’ ‘Well*’ romarkod the judge, scan ning his subject from head to foot, ‘yours is a singular case; yet I think it is easily accounted for. lam re minded by it of a little story - A col ored man, with a loaf of bread and a bottle of whiskey sat down to dine on the bank of a clear stream. In break ing the bread ho dropped off the crumbs into toe water. Those were eagerly seized and eaten by tho fish. That circumstance suggested to the darkey the idea of dipping the bread into tflo whiskey and feei’i ig it to them. He tried it, it worked weU.|b'orae of tho fish ate of it, became drunk, ahd floated helpless ou the surface. In this way ho easily caught a largo number. But in the stream was a largo fish, very unlike the rest. It partook freely of the broad and whis key, with no perceptible effect. It was shy of every effort of the darkey to take it. Ho rosolved to havo it at all hazards, that he might learn his name and nature. He procured a not, and aftor much effort caught it, carried it to a colored neighbor, and asked bis opinion in the matter. Tho other sur veyed the wonder a moment, and then said : ‘Sambo, I understand dis case. Dis fish is a mullet head ; it aiu’t got any brains.’ ‘ln other words,’ added the Judge, ‘alcohol affects only the brains and, of courso, those having none may drink without injury.’ The storm of laughter which follow ed drove the ‘modorato drinker’ sud denly from tho house. The ‘‘Fifth Cull.” A good story is told of a couple of farmers who lived a sow miles apart. One day one called on tho othor, hap pening around at dinner. The porson called upon, by tho way, was a vory penurious old fellow. He was seated at tho table enjoying his meal Tho visi tor drew to tho stovo looking vory wist fully at tho table, expecting tho far mer to ask him to dine. The old far mer kept on eating. “What’s tho nows up y< ur way neighbor ?” (still eating.) “No nows, eh ?” ‘No, I believe not.’ (Presently a thought struck tho visitor.) ‘Well, yes, friend, I did hoar of one iteqj of nows that was worth something.’ *na‘ what is that ?’ ‘Neighbor Jones has a cow that has five calves.’ ‘ls that so ? What does the fifth calf do when then tho others are suck ing ?’. ‘Why, ho stands and looks on, just as I do, like a fool.’ ‘Mary, put on another plate.’ A Rites Avery important strippling, whom favoritism had made quarter-master in a regiment of infantry, wishing one day to dismount from his charger for tho purpose of wetting his whistle and adjusting his spurs, called out in very commanding tones to a spectator who was standing near : ‘Here, fellow, hold this horse.’ ‘Doos he kick ?’ bawled out tho per son addressed. ‘Kick ! no. Take hold of him.’ ‘Does ho bite ?’ ‘Bite ! no. Take hold of the bridle, I say ’ ‘Does it tako two to hold him ? ‘No ’ ‘Thou hold him yourself.’ An Irishman noticing a lady pass down the street, espied two strings de pending from under her mantle. Not knowing that those were styled sashes and were hanging in their right place he exclaimed : “An’ faith, ma’am, yer gallussees aro loose !” “What does ho know ?t’ was the in quiry of a business man, who wished to engage a young person as au assist ant. ,‘Well,” the party inquired of replied hesitatingly, “he is great at euchre.” There was no engagemeut in that instance. A young man says that there may have been such a thing as real true love in oldeu times, but that now the notion is entirely obsoleto; and if you ask a young lady now-a-days to share your lot, she immediately wants to know how large that “lot” is.— lndex. The author of “My Summer in tho Garden” remarks that: “Nothingl shows ono who has friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. I had a good friend in the country, whom I almost never visited excopt in cherry time : ‘By their fruits you shall know them.’ ’’ Young Brother—“ What’s tho mat ter, Mary ? Aro you unhappy because neither of those tellows you were flirt ing with at croquot yesterday proposed to you ?” Mary—“ Both did, Tom. And —I said yes to the wrong ouo L” The Drapers. (Still as was the ocean, In a calm light and pule, A hundred ships lay on it, Each with a windless sail* A hundred skippers were fretting, Each search’d the sea and tlie skies, Each for a wind was praying, But never a wind would rise. The prayers rose up to /7euveu, • 7n Euglish, German, Greek, Each of the hundred skippers, lu his own tongue did speak. Each of the hundred skippers, Loath in tne calm to stay, Wanted the wind to waken. To blow him on his way. Each in his own direction, Would have his good ship blown, vtnd a hundred winds were Wanted, If each was to get his owu. Each on the deck was paring, With discouteuted mind And when tho wind would come uot, All though the Lord unkind, Poor fools! Had he granted their Wishes* Snd were the end to see, The hundred winds would havo hurled them 2Y> the bottom of the sea. A Frceich Tragedy. A correspondent of tho World writes :A j oung, beautiful and aristi - cratic woman made her appearance in Grenoble some months siuco with an artillery officer. She led an extreme ly retired life. Her neighbors though tlioy picked out from hor conversations that nh« was a native of Meaux, pos sessed some f rtuno and was an or phan. Her relations with tho artillery olfieerwere unhallowed. A brilliant marriage was offered him. Ho accepted it. Tho neighbors of tho first-men tioned woman seeing nobody coiue out of her residence for some days, inform ed the police. The door was broken open. Tho young woman was found on hor bod. fche had pastod close all her windows, lighted charcoal, swallowed laudanum, and tied a ropo with a slip knot around hor threat, the other end fastened to tho ceiling. Heath seemed to have refused all theso sum mons. Sho was still alivo, though in sonsiblo, and thero wore appearances that sho had long been wooing death. Sho remained insensible for four and twenty hours after tho discovery, and then expired. Thero was found upon her table - a sheet of paper containing theso words: “A poor creature socks in death that peace she may no longer hopo to pos sess in this world Lot them who discover my body tako no step to dis cover who I have beon, or what namo I bear. Moreover, all search would prove vain. I have no family—l have not even a friend in the world. No body knows mo hero. I die without remorse, because my sufferings hove beon so long and many. My hopo is, God will look with mercy upon the crime I commit in ending life, for He kuowoth every day of ruy lifo has boon martydom. 1 forgive from the bottom of my heart ho who has caused me all my wretchedness. Ho took my heart and he trampled it under foot May ho never know the manner of my death !. I’ut my body in the ground, and let an humble wooden cross chal lenge prayers over tho unknown one’s grave. —Miserrimui /” A Holy Recollection. BY MISS E. C. S. Mothers who from a stern sense of duty, have punished while you wept over your wayward children, did you over tako thorn to tho secret chamber, where no eye can see, savo His who reaila tho inmost thoughts, and thero on bended knees, ask for guidance of Him, who said “Train up a child in the way ho should go.” In deep hu mility and unwavering faith, havo you said—liord show us tho way ? Aud havo you ever failed to reeeivo a bles sing -oonor or later ? Many instances aro on record, and many more are re corded only on the heart of the once wayward one, where the remembrance of those spirit communings havo proved a “savor of life unto life.”— Forgotten for a time may be the holy recollection, tho warning voico may be stifled by a long courso of sin, but tba hour will come when it will be remem bered, and that voice will plead more earnestly, for having been so long neglected. It may bo tho mariner, who has boen conspicuous for his coarso jests, profane language, and vicious habits; but at some timo, wltf n the fearful storm is tearing away mast, rigging, and hopo, a sense of utter helplessness will come over him, and he will seek protection from his moth er's God. It will bo recalled by tho votary of pleasuro, the frequentor of the haunts of vice, he who has dead ened by dissipation all the sweet im pulses of his being, yet it will he re called, perhaps like Moore’s man of sin, by sceiug a child at prayer ; aud mem ory will go back over the years of crime and guilt, to tho happy past when, puro and innocent, he bowed at his mother’s knee. Ah ! yours is a serious as well as a sweet responsibility. Not only is it j’our sweet task to mould tho mind of jour child, and fit it for usefulness here, but on your faithfulness partially depends his hope of happiness in tho world to come ; for a mother’s prayor is the invisible chain that links the soul to hoavon —Orpluini Uo:ne Ban n. r. ‘That man,’ says a wag, ‘came to this city forty years ago, purchased a basket, and commenced gathering rgas. How much do you reckon he ia worth now ?’ We gave it up. ‘Noth ing, he continued, after a pause, ‘and . he owes for the basket.’ VOL. VI. —NO. 37. Yesterday, To-tlny, To morrow. To-morrow ! A peiiod of time that is always comiug but is never here : to-day is present, yesterday has been, but to-morrow we have never seen.— Wo may say wo will do this or that to-morrow, but when tho time comes, it is uo longer to-morrow, but to-day. And we do not know that it will come to any of us. Remember children, tho proverb. “Boast not thyself of to-morrow.” Don’t put off any* thing that should lie done to day, till to-morrow ; for the time that you now call to-morrow, may not come to you. Yceterday. It is gone from us for ever, freighted with whatever stood or evil wo have don >. If we have done well it is a comfort to know that it stands forever on the records of yes* terday : bni if wo have done evil how fearful to know that it also is there to appear against us at the day of judge ment We cannot roll baick the whoela of timo to correct it; cannot turn back and go over if as we can a piece of work. Remember this childien, and try to keep the record bright. To-day. Is passing, so gently yotf scarcely notice it: but it is passing, and once past, it has past forever.—• Moment by moment it slips away. If you would know the value of time, just reflect for a moment, a crumb of it is given to us at once: we must use that or waste it, bofore another is giv en. Nothing else is given to ui w sparingly. Any thing else, we muy accumulate, but wo cannot lay up time; it slips from us without our will or consent. The old Romans had a god oallod Saturn, which moans time.— Noticing how fast time slipped away, they set their wits to work to explain, the causo of this, and the conclusion thoy came to was, that Saturn de voured all his male children as soon as they wore born : so minutes, hours and days disappeared soon after they came into existence, and were never seen any more, but others like then* kept coining. What a numerous fam ily old Saturn hqd, and what a cruel father to gobble them all up ! The wise old Romans believed this folly, for thoy knew nothing about the Bible God. But we know bettor : we know {hat God givos us time, and He will require us to account to Him for it. — How solemn is tho thought! Tiy children, as your beautiful 60ng s«y* to, ‘Give to each flying minute, tfoim lhiiiy to keep in store.* that you may not be ashamed or afraid to meet at the bar of God. “loiactlne” It is the sweet, sweet song, warbled to and fro among the topmost boughs of the heart, and filling the whole air with such joy and gladness as the song of tho birds do when the summer morning comes out of darkness, and day is born on tho mountains. We have all our possessions in the - future which we call “sometime.” Beautiful flowers and singing birds are there, only our hands seldom grasp the one, or our ears hear tho other.— But oh reader, be of good cheer, for' all the good there is in a goldon “some tirno when the hills aud valleys are all passed ; wlieu the wear and fever, the disappointments and sorrows of life aro over, then thero is a place and the rest of God. Oh, homestead, over whose roof falls no shadow or oven ’clouds; and over whoso threshold the voice of sor row is never heard ; built upon eter nal hills and standing with thy spiroa l and pinnacles of celestial beauty ons high, those who love God, shall rest under thy shadows, where there is no> more sorrow nor pain, nor the sound of weeping—“sometime.” — Trentice. Immortality —How beautiful the? folio vying gem from the pen of tho late Goo, D. l’reutice, and how happy the heart that can these beauties as he portrays them: “Why is it that the rainbow and the’ cloud come over us with a beauty that is not of earth, and then pass away, and leave us to muse on their fwied lovolinoss ? Why is it that the stars' which hold their nightly festival around the midnight throne are placed above reach of our limited faculties, foreveY mocking us with their unapproachable glory '( And why is it that bright forms of human beauty are presented to cur viiw, aud then taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of affec tion to flow back in Alpine torrents upon our hearts ? We are born to a higher destiny than that of earth. — Thero is a realm where the rainbow never fades—where tho stars will be set out bofore us like islands that slum ber on the ocean, and where the beau tiful being passes before us like a me teor will stay in our presence forever.” A negro witness, on a horse trial iri a New Jersey court, was aked to ex plain tho difference between a box stall and a common stall. Straightening himself up, he pointed to the square enclosure in which the Judge waa seated, and said: ‘Hat are’s what I call a box stall, dere where and it old hoss is sittin !’ It took a good many raps of the Judge’s gavel to restore order in that court. Gon. Albort I’iko, of Arkansas, the distinguished Mason, recently vLited Newburyport, Massachusetts, the place of his birth A little supper, to he given him by his friends at one of the hotels, was spoiled by the landlord saying that there v, as not enough money in tho city to buy a supper o f him for a Rebel General. Anoth* t Republican was found, however, who was not so ardont, aud in his house the supper took place as proposed.—* Repub icon listrinar.