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Will also in- 'itles and buv or sell real Estate in ilhaun, Raker and ifttrly Counties, march 21 ~tf U G CA RTLF DQE, Attorney at I, oGAS, - - GGAKUIA. srive close attention to all fntsi n. ncgg entrusted to his care in Aifianv wait. 4-Iv L 7 c- hoyl. Attorney at l.aw ®it'on. Georgia< 0. H. MILLER, AT LAW, lWorgau, tH. in Ordinarr’s Office. 030,3 m JAMES H. GUERRY, Attorneys at Law, f, !I\SO.V, - GEORGIA. Office in the Court House. Feb. 4 J• L. J A.J ST E ATTORNEY at law, da wso y, - GEO It GIA. Office over J..W. Johnston’s store. Jan 7 3 £ fi T PARLOR BCA I IT O organs. £ ST.t.iLtsnEU /.V IS-Sti. Aav first class Sign Painter and l.etterer can ■ ' n SolE “rhing to bis advantage by address* - Ine manufacturer, damel f. beatiy, 'lslington, New Jersey. C. A. t b: e ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. Under its new nianagm. nt, The Atlanta Constitution has w.m lor iteell the title of the leading jot): Dal of the south. 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I’m a gtumpy old bachelor, Grizzlv and gray; I am seven-and-forty, If 1 am a day. lam fussy and crusty, And diy as a bone ; So ladies—good ladies— Just let me alone! Go shake out your riuglet<, And beam out in smiles; Go tinkle your ringlets, And show off hour wiles. Bewitch and bewilder Wherever you can; But pray—pray, lemetrber, I am not the inau! I’m frozen to blushes, I’m ptroof against eyes; I’m hardened to Jimpois, And stony to sighs. Fin tought to each dart That young Cupid can lance; I’m dai in the market At any advance. I sew my own buttons, I darn my own hose; I keep my own counsel, And lold my own clothes, I mind my own business, And live my own life ; I Won’t—no, the dickens— Be plagued with a wife ! And yet there’s nine spinsters v\ ho believe me their fate; There’s two dozen widows Who’d cha ngo their estate’ There's silly young maidens Who blush at my how; All—all bent on marrying me. No matter how; I walk forth in trembling, I come home in dread ; I don’t fear my heart, But 1 do fear my head. My cwilest speech is a growl and a nod ; And that— heavtn save in ! Is “eharmi’ gly odd,” So, ladies —dear ladies— Just hear me, I j ray; In the plaimest way. My 1. gic is simple As logic can he If I won’t marry you, Prny don’t marry me ! \\lint Bci'itiutt of Her. In a little village church in u small American country place, a small con gregation gathered together one Sun: day to hear the old minister preach one ol his old sermons. .Every pew held people well known to each other, and who knew each other’s business. No body there but had heard that Thotns Benton had courted Annie Redwood, and how a 1 was going on well, when the two grand-fathers quartelled about an acre of ground in a stny, unproductive spot, and a family fend commenced, and they were separated. Annie was six and twenty now, and had never had another suitor —and Thomas had left home for good. And the obstinate old giand-fathers sat, not caring a whit for all the trouble they had caused, and never feigning each other’s trespasses, despite the fact that they repeated the Lord’s prayer to gether every Sunday. Some times in summer there would be strange boarde s trout the city in church; but now it was winter, and even one wondered to see a large old woman iu a gr at plaid, old-world looking cloak, and a lur hood, and a deep cap border, come info church, | and seat herself in a back pew. Who j she was no one could guess, and why she came *.o church with such a co'd as she seeme i to have, was a wondet to all. She cougited loud and interrupting the sermon and the pray er, and at last was seized with such a fit of choking, that every head was turned. She seemed to tty to rise, but found herself unable to do so.— j Then A' nie R dwood, leaning toward her mother, whispered : "I.’s a shame People ought to he more Chrisciau-ltke in their conduct. I’ll go and help her out.” Then she arose and went softly down the aisle, and bent over the old la ty and whispered something, on which the poor old soul arose and took her arm, .nd they went out of church together. The coughing was heard outsile for a moment or two, but the services went ou as before, and no one wondered that Aunte Red wood diil not return. The fatuity expected to find her when they reached home, ot cour.-e; but she was not there. She d:d not coate in to dinner, nor did she come to tea. Bv evening much alarm wits felt, and it quirtes were made, but without avail. No one had seen tho girl since she left the church doors. There was a Suuday iraiu to a largo city, and a man kept watch at tho j station all the dt, l y. lie, seeing fewer passengers on Sunday than at any other time, had noticed them all. : The old woman in the plaid cloak had come to the station, but Miss Red. wood was not wit i Iter. A young man spoke to the old lady —nay, she had his atm—hut he might have been a stranger who was assist ing Iter. No one could tell. the old lady could not bo traced a'ter tha’, and nothing more was beard of Annie Redwood. Many thought the old woa an was some dreadful person iu disguise, who had murdered Annie for the handsome watch and ring she wore. Then, too, she had quite a li.tle sum in her pocket; for she had had money left her by an aunt, and was not depend ent on her fathat’s gifts iff pocket money, as the oth r girls were The woods were searched, the ponds dragged, but in vain ; and the pour girl was at last given up for lost. The old people had been very cruel to her about Thomas; now they shed ; bitter and unavailing tears. How much better would it have been to lot Annie marry and have her still with them! - The old grandfathers shook hands for the first time fur years. The fami lies wore recvtnciled; hut Annie was g.ne, and Thomas was gone, aud what was the t.se ? “II only I knew what became of my girl,” sighed Mrs. Redwood. “Ali, yes, and If I knew' my boy was ali\e,” said Mrs. Benton. They were all very sad, hut good country pe< pie never stay away from church fur that. Sundayafter Sunday they met with sad faces, and the black garments they had put on. And a year passed ; and it was the day that Annie had disaptpeared; arid they had all gone ao'.'usual, and were going homeward. Mrs. Redwood was in tears “l think of Annie all day to-day,” she said. “Oh! it is m re than I can boar. Who w >.s that o ! 1 woman? What did she do to my girl?” ’“Oh 1 mother! there she is!” cried one of thedaughters. Ali looked. Before them on the road tottered a large figure iu a plaid cloak, coughing violently The same old woman, no doubt. But who sup ported her? Who — “Good Heaven! is it a ghost ?” screamed Mrs. Redwood. “What is it? Oh ! what is it?” “Annie!” screamed the girls to gether; and screaming, and sobbing, regardless of what any might think of them, thoy surrounded the pair. It was Annie, alive, and holding fast to the arm of the old woman she hail helped out of church just a year before. “Don’t question me on the road,” she said. “Let us go home.” And glad and angry, and a little terrified, the Bentcns and the Red woods entered the Redwood home stead, and closed the door on intru d ars. “We thought you Annie!” sobbed the moths?. “Oh, you have been cruel !” ‘ But I see my death has reunited you all,” said Annie, returning the embrace. “All hero but Tom.” “Oh, poor Tom !” said his mother, “If he wore only here, too !” “But I must have an explanation,” cried Mr. Redwood, turning upon the old woman. “Who are you, madam ? And what life has my daughter led with you? “A happy one, 1 hope, sir,” said tho old tvu , an, tossing ot her bonnet and throwing off bet cloak; and before them stood a tail young man —Thom- as Benton, and no other. Who said : “In this disguise I ran away with Annie a year ago. We changed cos- I tumos in the church p rch, and so got safely off Now we are here again, ready for your blessing, if Ju will give it to us- Ate we lurgiven i' It wus Annies mother who said “ye*” firs', but the others followed in chorious. W nen you see a bee backing up jowatd you, spreading his coaf-tail as be comes, aud there is no other ave nue of escape cut your throat Horn ; from oar to ear. A youth refused to take a pil’. Ilis cralty mother thereupon secretly placed the pill iu a preserved pear, ami gave to nun. Presently she asked; “Tummy have you eaten the pea."? lie replied: Yes, mother; ullbut ti e seed. There is no deeper law of nature than that of change. •run MIGIHfOS HI U Its ULRGK. Tlie Stayer of ITiirly-Iwo ifeir is Discovered in :i <{ni< t and Licit llcuiaiily farmer. From the Shreveport (Lit.) Times. Mr. Courtney, deputy sheriff of Do- Soto Parish, on last Monday or Tues day arrested William Lungley, a v try desperate character, who is wanted in 'texas for many high-handed outrages he has committed in that State. He murdered his last victim in Lee county, where he was well know and feared as a bad man and a remarkably good shot with either pistol or rifle. For some time he was confined in the count} jail of Lee, but subsequently made his escape and tied to Louisiana, settling iu De Bo‘.o Parish, where he ; has been living quietly ami peaceably for nearly two years under an assumed ; name of Jackson. The sheriff of Lee ' county learning of Lungley’s where abouts wrote to the sheriff of Do Soto Parish, giving a full description of the man and the crime he had last committed, and cautioned him to use every p-ocaution lor his capture, as he or some of the posse might possibly lose their lives Soon everything was quietly and systematically arranged for his capture. Mr. Courtney md a small posse went into the neighbor hood where their man was living, and before he was aware of what was going on they suddenly came upon him m the field plowing and unarmed, taxing him completely by surprise.— Lungley immediately realized what was up, and seeing that he had no possible chance of escape, gracefully surrendered, saying; “Gentlemen, 1 know what you want; you are after William Langley. I am tiro mart.” Mr. Courtney infoimed him that he had guessed correctly, and produced the warrant for his arrest. Lungley, after being well secured, said he might as well make a clean breast of it, us it would be the last of him wheu he reached Texas, and confessed to th killing of thirty-two tnen, and said he came near killing a man two days be fore his ane.-t and wished he had done it, as it would have saved him from being captured. During his residence in PeSoto Palish he con ducted himself in a most quiet aud gentlemanly manner, and none of his neighbors for a moment suspected him of being the bloodthirsty villian that lie is. After Lungley’s delivery to the Texan sheriff he invited Mr. Courtney and his posse to come and see him hanged. Good Words About Women. “There are but two fine things in the world,” says Malherbe, “women and roses.” Lessing exclaims: “Wo men is the masterpiece of the universe.” Bourdon says; “The pearl is the im age of purity, butt woman is purer than the peail.” Thackeray writes: “A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven.” Balzac says; “Even the ertors of women spring from her faith in the good.”— Voltaire declares: “All the reasoning cf men ate not worth one sentiment of woman.” Lamartine asserts that “women have nitre heart imagination than men.” O try exe'nims; “Oh, women! lovely women! Nature made thee to temper. Wo had been brutes without you.” To which Mark Iwain adds: “But for you we should fie noth ing, for we should not be hero.’ The o\*-r-I.xesleincut of Bissi- It is> not without a eh ado of melan choly tliat \va notico in almost pvery daily jour: al tho record of a falteiiog in tiio rank* of business men. this successful merchant or mam.f cturer has impaired his health hy over-work, which means too much nervous excite, ment, and he starts for Europe in the hope of building up his health .n a fjroken foundation. Another profes sional tuan is aroused from his dream of ambition with the flightful convic tion that phthisic has fastened its deadly grasp upon his vitals, and the grim imutago of weakness and decay henceforward fill his vision. There has been an alarming increase of disease within a few years, having its origin in the cause we have named, and the effect cf it should be to pro duce greater mod. ra ior. What if the profits are less? Timy cau be contin ued longer and life made happier. There is no necesity for this waste of life - it is a sheer delusion, the effect •of a foolish ambition. Belter accept i the heritage ol poverty or a mode rate t success thau the infallible necoaily cf f an early disease. A Huge Lie. Lord Macaulay said, that a than who had never been in tha tropics could have no conception of a huri cane ; that a man who had never seen Niagara could not know anything ot a cataract,; and that a man who had never read the writings of Bartre (a Frenchman) could have no conception of a lie. Macaulay had, evidently not read the following, which we copy frt m an Alabama paper, in reference to a wild man, ‘ People had been seeing his tracks for seveial ’weeks—they measured thiity-four inches in length and toi r tesn in breadth, and he stepped over sevon rows of cotton at each stride Several hundred men and (logs gath ered for the purpose of capturing him, and did find and capturo him by run ning him up a ravine, in which they penned bi n. They bound him, and he remained quiot until they took his measurement, which showed him to be twenty-one feet and three inches in height and six feet and eight inches across his shoulders. After the meas urement he deliberately and easily burst his fetters and took to flight again—neither the and gs nor the men cariug to follow him further. He trossod the river near Bollefonte, and struck out tor Sand Mountain.” Daiien Gazette fOn Fiiday morning last Capt. Clancy, one of tho pil its of our port, went out in his skiff, accom panied by John Sutler, a young mm from the ridge, and a colored man named Saul, for tho purpose of board ing any inward bound vessel. During the afternoon they fell in with and se cured a schooner. Capt. Clancy hoar ded her, leaving tho others in the skiff to return to his quarters on Wolf Is land. Sutton tells us that the ca;- tain had not left them over halt an hour wheu the squall, which wo a 1 remember, struck them capsizing tho boat, throwing both of them out and apart. Saul called to Sutton advising him to hold on to tho boat, but Sut ton replied, “Quit the boat or you’ll be drowned,” at the same time shov ing him three oars aud the stern seat of the fioat, keeping two oars and a sail himself. Ail this while Sutton was endeavoring to divest himself of his c'othing, Which at last ho succee ded in doing. When about ten yards from each other, lie says he sow Saul suddenly laiso his arm aloft and go down, and he thinks from the suddefi nosa of the movement one of those monster sharks, so numerous there abouts, must have struck him He saw him no more, and upon his disap pearance, he at once struck out for an old wreck about two miles distant, which lie reached by nightfall in safety but as one may iinaginoin avery uncomfortable condition from tho exer tion of swimming so far an 1 a night in the open air on the open sea with no other oovering than the salt spray.— Having remained bn the wreck until twelve (12) o’clock on Sunday all prospects of help out of his awful sit uation Seeming hopeless, tio nerfred himself for a final venture —an effort to reach the shore —ever, though ho must cross the noted feeding place of the sharks. It seemed but a choice between deal 1 s —death by cold aud starvation, or death by those horrible sea-monsters. Yet there was a hope of e-cape, and God mercifully blessed that effort, and permitted him, after another two miles switr, fo land in safety, though perfectly exhausted, on Nanny goat bench, w here tho hospita ble aud kind hearted Crumley fuinily caied for bis in eds, and where his brotiier, who had goue out almost hopelessly to search for him, found him. The sympathetic congratula tions of the community an* with the happy family, whoso rirghi of rorrow closed with so blessed a dawn. - • —i —— A Detroit woman has been think ing over tlie matter a good deal, and she lias concluded that the best way to keep furs through the summer is to put them in a refiigeiutor. —Detroit Free Prts. The ditfeience between happiness anil wisdom i", that the mau who thinks himself most happy is so, while he who thinks himself the moat wise is gnneiaiiy tho reverse. There is no work of art which can do greater honor to the talents and ta ß te of a married woman, and which she ought more readily to polish, than her —daughter. Thoy who, whoa about to marry,seek their happiness in the mere gaining of fortune andpw'sonal beauty, evince a heartle.s disposition, and their.folly is often punished in their success. Straws swim upon the suiface, but pearls lie at the hot cm. Showy pirts strike every common o>o, hut si lid ones are only to bodiscovetod by the most accurate observers of the human head and Luamu b art. VOL. 111. —NO. 24. Nothing but a good life can fit meil for a better one. A Felicity tha: costs pain gives double content. Money is well spent in purchasing tranquility of mind. Indolence is the rust of the mind and the inlet Kf every voice. Wrong none by doing injuries, tit omitting the benefits that are your duty. PuffLg sells many a bookt.'n which the paporkuife refuses to do its office; Men usually follow their wishes till suffe ing compels them to follow their judgment. The sleep of memory is not ita death; forgottett studies are certain aptitudes gone to bleep. The intellect of tho truly wise man’ is like a glass— it admits the light of heaven, and reflects it. Be ala ays at leisnre to do never in ike business dn excuse *,a de cline offices of humnnity. He who is puffed up with the first gale cf prosperity, will bend beneath tho first blast of adversity. The incapacity of men to understand each other is one of the principal caus es of thoir ill-temper towards each other. With love, tho heart becomes a fair and fertile gafdt n, glowing with sun shine aud warm hues, and exhalirg sweet odors. Those who excel in strength am not most likely to show contempt in weakness. A man does not despise ihe weukmssof a child. * IV lieu a woman smiles at an affront, one of two things is certain. She has either lost all modesty, Or she 18 as sured of her revenge. The chief proprieties of wisdom are to be mindful ot tilings paai, careful of things present, and provident of things to come< A great secret of education is to make the exercises of the body and those of the mind serve always as a recreation to each other. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, aud that his heart is no island cut off Iron. o hOr hearts but a continent that joins them. Fidelity We often seem to imag ine that the property of the mind re sembles the property of soa-water’ and loses all its deleteroos particles when once it is fairly fiozen. E uioit. —Th°re is a wonderful vig or of constitution in a popular fallacy. When the wcrkl has once got hold of •! Hit, it is astonishing how hard it is 'n got it out o! the world. There are few men Who, were tehy certain of death on their seventieth birthday, would think of preparation. To-iuoir.iw may be the gate of an eternity, and they go on in their folly. Such as have virtue always in tnmr mouth, and neglect it in practice, nr , like a harp which emits a sound pi n-iiig to others, while its own body is wholly insensible to the music pro duced. Saudcrsville Georgians Mr. Bryant Watkins, o’ e of our good paying sub scribers, has a Corn field of seven acres about which we hnve hoard such seemingly extravagant statement of its probable yield of 500 bushels, &c., called at our office on Saturday and from him we elicited the following in‘ teresting facts: Mr. Watkins, thirty years ago, bought 113 acres of iaod, part of the sottlmfeiit he now own?, for $150; two years before the land was sold at sherifi’s Si\d for $75. The truct was considered so poor that some of liis neighbors asked him if be really thought he couid support his large fatin' yon such a place. But bis suc cess lias justified his decision. When Mr. Watkins first measured the corn on a field of seven acres, U| on which he bestowed especial care, the yield was 42} bushels p°r acre; the next year the yield w ts 52 bushels per acre; tha third year was 78 bushels'; the fourth year it there was a remarkable drouth and he ouly realized 50 bushels; the fifth year he gathered from one acre 7G bushels, (he three best acres yi£sd ed 217} bushels. For four years he has taken the premium at our district fair. He thinks his seven acres will at least yield 400 bushels this year. This shows what well directed labor with judicious feitilizing can do upon poor land. Why may not every far mer do as well? A young rtiau recently indited and sent the following beauiifol poem td his sweetheart; If I was a hog, (And you a dog,) liOJting away iu the yard, And the old man should say, Drive that hug away Would you worry or bile very bard 7 To which, she briefly replied; W hen l’in a dog, And y< u a hi g W u.deling from the stye, I'd biearl e not alB k, But merely remark, Go fc poiky, root hog or die*