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THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
Vol. 11.
[For Tlie Dawson Journal.]
Thoughts on Ocutli.
Death is uot a mere chin.era of the
brain, but an awful reality. Death
enters alike the mansion at and the hov
el. He claims the King in his v royal
robes, and the peasant at his daily
toil. All seasons are his own. In
winter, amid the howling blast and
beating rain, ho seeks his prey; and,
as the spring day* dawn and lengthen,
ho is still busy. And in summer,
when the air is vocal with the songs
of birds, and fragrant with tho odor
of flow< rs, we feel his awful presen le.
Even in autumn, when the farmer
j gathers the fruits of his labor, Death
! whets his scythe afresh, and mows
down his thousands. Where is there
a home across whose thresh-hold the
shadow of the deuth-or.gel has not fall
cn ? It may be that a darling btftjft
in all the loveliness of prattling infan
cy, has been taken, ov r whose form
the fond mother has kept watch, weep
ing, praying all in vain; she could not
stay tho steady foot teps of the de
stroyer. The loving and tho mu ih
loved mother may have been called to
dwell in the mansion ol tho blest; nev
er again on earth will tier pleasant
voice be heard ; but around the Throne
of God, she is evor p-aising tho Re
deemer. Il*as the fa.her been taken ?
ah ! how tho throat fills, and tears un
bidden start, as we write this dearest
of names. What mournfully sweet
recollections cluster around it. llovv
the heart feeds upon them in silent
communion ! If that word “father"’ is
now christened in the sanctuary of the
heart, while he who once rejoiced in
the title, has been called to dwell in
the spirit-land, you have cause to weep,
for never again will you feel, as of old,
in your merriest moods; when your
lace is wreathed in smiles, tuere is a
sadness at heart, of which you cannot
free yourself. Lot us bury our loved
ones from our sights if we must, dig
their graves deep, and lay them to rest
in the bosom of tho earth, or let their
-bonet bleach upon some far oIF battle
field, or in the depth of the ocean,
where no sounding lead can reach
thtir watery graves,—or on tho moun
tain top which rears its lofty head to
wer, Heaven; even there they are
not lost to the inner sight, for in our
"near s we have their image, and in the
soft twilight, “when the stars, peep
out ”we love to let memory hear us
hack to those happy days ere the pale
Messenger had summoned those so
dear to us, and barne them to his
gloomy abode. It is a sweet solace,
as we stand beside the col l forms of
tho ewe lover, to think of tho time
when we shall meet tnetn again in a
better land, where all ties severed
here, shall be joined anew. As we go
silently to the s.crcd spot where their
ashes repose, we often feel as if their
spirits were near us True, we cannot
feel the warm pressure of tho hand,
or the k'ss upon the cheek, as we once
did; but there as a holy fe ljng in the
heart, as though we were in the pres
ence of angels.
Miss Willa L. Cheatham.
Aldehoffs Institute, Dawson Ga.
]Froni the La G'roose Democrat.]
lilt Lovt'itjfloil’s Dream.
I was orful dry ’lotber day, George,
«ad fiadin’ a lot ovc green whiskey, I
jist suC kc vl in a skin fall of bit strait
ali n ,T m n’ s rs f Big'i'hful I swollard I
bearu it splosh in my* hech. I was dry
an’ empty both, by gollj—*o d r ?
ai ter hit ris purty weii up in my paunch
Lit snaked through and stood all over
my body, makiu 1 it look like a big rid
icule ktvered with beads, but I sw.lled
tight arter a while, an’ then I tilled up
purty soon. As soon as I coul 1 reach
nit, by runnin’ a spoon handle down mv
front, shot, i ff steam, an’ set hit to rovin'
rouD’ Ilir w.irnt long afore I found
myself tangled by the laigs in the dorg
funnel, an* 1 fell head down hill, si l
thought the TQ'is* peaceful thing I could
do were tu go tu sloop thinkia' of a
roarin wiud mill. Well i dreamed uie
a dream. I thought I was in bell, an’
had been sent there fur votin' the Itadi
kil ticket. 1 felt the justice ove the
sentence, so much so that I didn’t feel
so uneasy on’ mad about Lit as I wud a
been if they bad sent me fur murderiii’
a blind old 'oman, or makin’ a back leg
ove sonic gol’a Ins baby, arter soakin’ it
ia turpentine, or rich 1 ko common weak
ness. I thought i had been there lorg
enough to sorter begin tu git used to
the taste ovo the whiskey they still
down than, an’ 1 mus say I think Lit a
little better than the truck what the
skulkers out ove the Confederate army
biled for the G verntren*, because hit
dident create the appetite to cuss, steal
or desert half as soon, an’ me in Tephet
ot that. ’Xwas saf r whiskey, George,
safer whisky. Well! I thuUght bell
was a perfickly roun’ hole—os roun’ us
a bumbshcll, right plump in tho centro
ove the yeartb. The walls were glez and
as slick as an ingyun peelin’, an’ bit
were jist half full of melted dinner pots,
dig irons, au’ old olrck weitghts, with
a icutu ovc sm kin’ brimstouo a foot
dcp Ihe devil stayed aboard if a
boat, and had himself rowed roun’ jist
as he pit used, by tho jury which fouu’
the true bill agin Jeff Davis They
GA m FRIDAY, APRIL li>, 1807.
look sorter liko they’d like to have an
other pop at that jib I think, by golly
they’d hunt a long spell aforo they fouu’
hit agin if they jist had another chance.
I thought there wi re long fi a'hcraig
elects nailed on the walls to climb by.
They were tquare-aiged ups> the dim
in' had to all be dine one one side, an’
whenever fellers got tired of swimmin’,
they jist set into dimin’. They sorter
slack eff sometimes until they sunk in
the melted water up to thar waistbands
or thar about, an’ then, by the gost ove
a scearcd monkey, they’ve come up over
hand tu their work agin, jist a wnalin’
and snortin’. They wotked like sqair
rdsonatroad mill. Darn’d if they
didenf keep the thing rollin’ strait along
and’, George, jist as sure as you are a
foot high, that’s what keeps tho jearth
turnin’aroun’l has four) out atlas’.
Well, one day the trap door opened, an’
the dev'l rr.’ered ole Forney to steer
under the bole. Ho steer wild an after
swimmin' nearly all over hell he g t hit
sitx.-;J •' • ~lWrw
darn st si nee es tae .n 1 inking cusses yu
ever seed. Every body already thar
turned their heads to louk at ’em and
dumb faster, skeer. and at cm, by c Ilf!
They were Ru k'L, tho ia3t durned
one. Some had ropes atoun* their urs,
with a runoin’ nuee ailin’ the year, some
had b--d holes in tbuir heads, some had
a big gill cut under the’r ohius, and ev
ery one shode signs ove hard times and
hurry. Am .pg ’em I seed Stevens,
Sumaer, Yv id.*, l’at'er—untamed tho
Beast—au* Wendell Pci lips. ‘Hey !’
acz the devil, ‘what’s wrong above—chel
ery V ‘\Y us nor that,’ m z .Yuainer, tho
C institution peonle his riz, au’ ove
korso we are ALr. iiKn.'t, Sty yer inn j
es’y, is Preston Brooks hero?’ ‘Ob, no
sez the devel. ‘Well,’ s z Snmn r, sor
ter brightenin’ up, and rubhin’ his haus
‘I am durned glad ho ain’t. ‘Stop a
minit,’ sez the devil, ‘wait uutil I sort
yu out.’ He tak up a needle as long
as a harpoon, and with a big pile of trace
chains he ti readi<J iThen ho picked
out all the common cusses among ’em
an’ strung ’em on he chain,—a .and then
hung the whole bunch over the aidge ove
the boat into thebrimatono. Jehosafat,
how they sizzled an’sloshed an’ dove,
and sprinkl and hot iron about wif the’r
tails ! A string of von peareh wui have
been just nowbar.
While the devil wua stringin’ the
small fry, Butler, surnamed the Least
aidged back ti wliar I sot in the boat, a
keepia’ one eye sot on the devil end
bother or, me, he whisper and in tny year
‘What’s Sisyphus ?’ >S 1 ‘don’t know,
why?’ ‘Oh, nothin’oply I wanted <o
see which kuowed the mst ii ur trades
him or me. Theu he whispered (that
mortal off eye ove hL’fi still s> t t a ti e
devil,) ‘Say, dns yu know wbar bis
mnj stv keeps hi ;s; . ?’ Fez l .*J os
you see them ei.aius hanging over ‘lie
stern ? he keeps ’em in a tig pot eenk
at‘(other end of hit.* tie jist v. • r.t
over the s'arn he:.l fa-’, au’ coi n'd hit
down the chain oaten si-ht uiMer tho
bi m t , no.
Af'or bein’ gone a spell, bo com i
back lookin’ disapiatud like, but bis
gincral 1 nks were powerfully improv
ed by his both in melted brimstone. I
svvinv, !m looked it l.- tip more like a
hutnun. Sez hi, “Gi)t] ‘, p<>t an’ a 1.”
1 opened n.y eyes. Sc:: he, ‘Haint
Forney got ’em ?’ Sez TANARUS, ‘May be
so; he’a been fumblin’ roan the ntarn
a good wlii'e,’ Darn if he didn't saroh
every po.-.ket Forney bad, an, the ole
cuss uevt-r cot oh him at hit an’ he got
the spoons. While this wore gwine on
old Thai were a tryin’ to claim kin
wif the devil, a comparin' h s foot
along.wif old Nick's. 1 think the p int
were to git an office, for I heard :he
devil keep sayin’ No, no, I be dam if
I do, we has order he o now.’ An’
all the time ole Wade were a pesterin’
nis mnje ty for a free ticket on his dog
gory. 1 sued that the divil were n git
tin monstrous oneasy. Wendell Phil
lips kept a watchin’ f.s' tho side that
went down under the Cinders, an' then
the side what come up oil' ov the lu’ e.
He jist hopped overboard, and swum
over thar. au tryin’ his durndest to
turn hit ’tother way, he’d grab rfio
slopin’ side ove tho elects, an’ then
slosh back agin among tbe melted dog
irons nn' brimstone. I reckon hi must
a made fifty trials afore he quit and
sw um back to the boat, an’ then be
sot in the most yearr.est manner to
persuad !)' the devil to take off the
elects, an* nail ’em on agin upside
down, so as to run bell backwards,
an’ ove rouse tum outside world
with hit w thout givin a single rea
son why hit would help.the matter.—
This made the devil "hi e over. He sed
not a dam one’ove ’em should stay
tbar another hour. Thiv they’d raise
a rebellion sura art’ destiny tiie institu
tion, mi’ til n what wou and the world
do,' particularly New Eng'and ?
1 tell yu he jist rared ; sez bo, ‘l’ll
e’ear my dominion ov yu durn’d
quick,’ an’ be ranged a big borntner
ton, what were in the boat point blank
at tho hatch hole, an’ lie loaded in old
Wade, feet fus’ an" made Forney tech
hit ofl. By golly !he went whizzen
through the ho e, aud bit ruiaed whis
key on the lake on il bit burnt blue.
Next he grabbed old Thad ‘Bez
he, tr mblin,’ ‘Piease, yer majesty,
load her in wif me,’ a pintin t: a she
nigger strung on 'he chain ; says the
devil, ‘No, s r; 1 think we can manage
her arter yu is gone ; and licsides, she
looks lik she needed a little rest.’ Go
lang ! and I jist cotch a glimpse ove
Thud’s hooked foot scrapin’ a splinter
ofl he hatch com bin 1’
Next bo yoked Kumner, and Lo beg
ged to be loaded head fus’ as he sed
he’d always traveled starn fus’ thrugh
life, and be wanted to flu sh his jour
ney the same way, on account ov his
j record. So, starn fus’ ho wont outen
i the batch hole, an’ 1 reckon starn-fus’
| he busted ngin tbe hatch hole, sumfin
awny yondir on the outside.
Boiler's eu‘name the Beast’s turn
cum next. While the dov 1 wero n
loadin’ him in, I observed him busy a
buttonin’up his penkets When the
mortar fired I were a watchin’ the
hatch dost; 1 didn’t liko tho idenr of
his loavin ; but dam if ho went thar,
ho fullered the lino over his vock eye,
at and busted into a million pieces agin
the wall. Spoons and breastpins foil
a foot deep nli over tho lake, an’ I
beam tho wimen all cheer.
Ibo devil then licked his lips, and
went for Wendell, but he jist loped
overboard and dove, an’ tu save his
life the tlev.l couldn’t find him. He’ll
rase trouble thar yit. see if ho don't.
Next ho grabbed Forney, bis steers
man, and sez ho, ‘Y l don’t steer to
suit me,’ and he commenced a loadin’
him in don’t yu believe, jist as tho
cuss’s head were a gein’ out ove sito,
he wh;sp. red in tho devjl’a ear thuijl
were Jamison, the actor. Tho boil
remarked, ‘l’ve got initfia agin Jmai
.Aftjiuw**; *. iat me, by gi 1
b' b kase be e-od the Beast out smar
ted him in tho spoon business. I
bourn sumfia like quack .’ quack ! down
in the bowels of the mortar, an’ hit
went off and so did the duck. Thar’ll
be peace lu hell for a while, if the dev
il can only ketch Wb tide 1 an’ rekon
struct the durn’d raskil
Ole Smutty re.icbe i for me the las'
; fie, an’ put me down bis gun. I sot
in to beggin hard. Fez he, ‘Yu tnus’
go; the pro-perity ove my king loin
and mands that nullin’ bavin tho smell
ove ituuikil o■ 1 1 bits close kin slay
there. I seed yu whisperin’ xis the
Beast, and Id shoot out o!o R ibspier
re bistef, ii I were tn ketch him at
rich an ornary trick, an’ he’s been
helpin’ roll bell roun in aa orderly
way ever since the French Revolu
ti m.’
By gollv I I jist limbered all over,
the gun roared an’ I Wakened. Now
"bat do you think was the matter wif
me ?
I\ by, ole Bob Ilays were a tryin’
his durndest to sp inter a four foot
clapboard over me, sad he wanted me
to get outen his paster afore he shut
the gate for the night. I wero a
sweeten orful, George, perfectly orful.
I sorter wished I hail drempt on a
litt e longer I’d a liked piowerful
well tu a fotin out what had become j
of old Thad after be were shot out ov
bell. Hit’ll so:ter injur his staudin,”
won t bit, as he roams through r.uffin
forever? [ beiiove if I’d been him, I’d
father stayed thar wif tny stie-nigge.-
Bin hard < n unit, though, an* a little
too good for him.
Aint Ia buss on dreams ?
Adventures ol n V/riting l>e :!t
UK
VIC'SIITIDES OF A MILLION.
The Yi-count II hi rt N, <ie I’—,
v.’.-i twcnty-li.o y< a sos ago, had an in
' some of twenty-live thousand litres,
! wifi go «1 1 iok-- ( an illustrious name
aud could have un.do a very bribiunt
: tnarri g l . He had ought to have been
a man in the world, lie only bad one
regret. He had nothing to do. JL*
ivas f. hippy at his lappincss. The
j constant trar quili'y of life fatigued hitc.
iHo needed a little bitter in his cup of
perpetual swoe s. But heaven refused
to grant it to him. lie neoLid to fly
ti other land.*, there to seek the fatigues
the sufferings, the n„ve!ties he lacked.
S l , live years ago, bo entered by
chance au am ton room, just as they
were putiug up a capital portable writing
desk.
He was ab' nt to travel, and it was
just what he Deed' and ; so he bought it
fur three hundred francep.
It probably cost more than ten times
the Hunt, lo the interior there were
c mpartments for every thing, and a
plate bore tho name Lri N—, one of
the richest peers of Ragland 110 was
enchanted with bis purchase, ahd
carried Uhome in 'riumph. Some days
after he set out for Spain ;as he went
from Madrid tOjCadiz, Le was stopped
by tuieve>, who cimple'ely dispoilod
him. Taeraly thing he missed was
lis disk. He prayed them to retu: n it.
They refused, but their chief Don Jose
Maria, promised to send it after him to
Cadiz, on receipt of a ransom. Rob
ert promised two huadro reals, anl
gave the address of the hotel where he
meant to stop at Cadiz, lie sent the
money and got his desk. In America,
in the wilds of Mexico, his desk was
carried off by Mexicans. Ho thought
lit lost. Four moLtbs afterwards he
found iv iu a shop at Vera Cruz, and
paid five hundred francs for it.
lu 1852, having returnd to France,
ho thought of going to Baden. lie
passed tho summer there, and went to
Paiis, visiting Cologne and Aix-la-Chap
elle on the way.
1 Airived tn the frontier which sepa
rates France from fcelgium, he fell into
hands if the custenn house officers.
S-itne days before some skillful fellows
had defrauded the customs to a consid
erable amount, consequently tho effieers
were on their guard.
i The search was long, and the vis
, count became feriuus.
1 ‘What do ycu fear ?’ he asked aDgri
iy- .
1 ‘Ob, sir, objeo sos great va’ue can be
conoealod in a sit 1 space.’
‘Have l the air of smuggler ?’
‘No! but th re are ombassadurs who
smuggle without scruple.’
' The search coutiuued and the vis
oount was astonished to see tho officets
j opc i drawers in his desk, the existence
|of which he was iguor&ut. At last,
full of impatience, he wished to reclaim
it.
■ ‘Now that you have seen all,’ said ht,
‘let us not prolong tLL unpleasant in
ves igatiun.’
i What do yau siy, s : r V
< 'I say that you kuow all, and know
that 1 have nothing oou’rabaud.’
‘Your oioiocßS, sir, nukes mo pity
you. lluvo you any thing to bring
forth. If you do so you will be freed
by paying the dues ; if not, and [ find
anything, there will boa ooufiscation
and a flue ’
‘But you have seen all.’
‘lVrbaj e.’
‘What do yon mean by perhaps V
‘lt is well made. Any one but my
self mig! t have been deceived.’
‘lJut I swear to you tb at J' ou have’
seen all.’
‘Why deceive ? I am going
the contrary.’
‘lf you find anything else, I’ll swear
I kn ivv nothiug of it.’
•A poor ex'use. I warn you I do
not brlicve you.*
‘Let us finish this bad joke.’
‘Me will and too much the worse for
you.’
An l w th avail, the officer pressed
•tgiinst what wit apparently a little or a
ntmi’nt, which tt:w back, d.sclosing a
•trarJrin which was a paper parcel
fbo officer took it out, lookcj at it
md put it back. Th.it is not contra
band, says he with a bow, ‘and with so
much money I was wrorg to accuse you
The viscr.uat was stupified.
‘Bink notes 1’ cri-d he. ‘But I did
uot put them there.’
‘A ou arc very unfortunate, sir, if you
can f rget a million or so readily.’
In Lot t! o e was there a million
pounds sterling.
The viscount took the notes, enunte 1
them, replaced them, and determined to
2nd the owner. Arrived at London, he
sought ' n Lord N , whoso name
was engraved irj ie. The nobleman
n(firmed teat that the money wai not
his. lie had givon this desk to a for
mer valet of Lis, wh se address he gave
she vise unt.
This valet was now a wealthy shop
keeper in Pall Mall. Ho tlod the vis—
c unt he knew nought of the money but
while in Laly had sold tho desk to Count
Lugi b ttimaiini, who was immensely
licb, aud in whose service) he then vas.
The visoiunt set out for Italy, and
went to IDyenna, where Count Sotti
raonti lived. He recognized the desk
but aviwed that be had never placed
any money in ir. He sent the visoount,
howevtr, to the Laura R ,
a former prnna donna of t he San Carlo,
at whose hnuse, in Lis gay days, he had
forgotten his desk.
The Signora recogniz and the desk, and
related th: t she had given it to the
Russian Prince, Alxa's B ,in ex
change fer a p. ail collar.
The vi-eouut set out for Bt. Pjters
burg. He was happv. lie now bad
something to do—to find the tiua own
of tho hidden m >ney. lie planed it a'
u* r t, in order th> tit might not run
the nffi es being 1 iwt.
Prince B knew the desk, but do
clarel he had never conced'd a single
bank note in if. He told the viscount
that oa leaving Italy, he bad gone to
Palis, and had given it, the desk to a
dnnesuse of the opart, Louis P ...
who was net in the habit of concealing
m uiey.
ii bert returned to Parts.
There he learned that after leading a
lige if luxury, Loui-e P had/dwtl
in mi.-ary, aud that her furniture* wap
sold by her creditors. It was at that
sale he bought the desk.
What to i!o now ? he conlJ only
think that the maker cf the desk bed
placed the money there, or it was there
ilepi sited by the Bpaaiak rubers who
stuie it.
The maker at London wrote that he
kn . w nothing of it, and the vi.-o"UDt
lcaraed tint tho Spanub rubbers had
all been hung long since.
Ah 1 it was deposited in the desk by
tbe Mexicans Ho w< nt to Mexico,
whence he retured a few months ago.
lie there diseovered that one of those
into whose bauds i:, had fallen was a
trapper, who carried ca a considerable
trade inekins with tho Americans. This
was sufficient. He must be the man
who concealed the bank noiet.
The vi.count continued hisseaicb,
and at last fouad one day at Vera Cruz
a very prtty young giil ot seventeen,
the duugbitr of the Mexican by a
Frenchwoman, who had come to Vira
Cruz as a milliner.
lu answer to his question’, she told
h : m the knew nothing cf bur father, bu'
be had bee . k lied by a Tcxuu rac •
She was exc sffvely pretty, aud lixe
a sensible fellow, married her ; and hav
ing at la.-.t sometnmg to and >, rcuruci to
Paris wi.h her to enjoy the t’ortu c of
which a siugalar chance hal put him in
posscsti.n,
Tu* Degensracy of Y ouno Men.
—An exchange asks: “Why Is it that
the proportion of youug men ia this
country, who turn out bad y, is so
much larger than it used to be ?” and
finds a Bo.ution ot its question iu the
answer that “a s; irit ol false pride in
duces their parents to put their boys
in stores and offiors, ra’her than ap
prentice them to good trades.” “Me
chanics and laboring men,” the writer
adds, “have too generally imbibed the
idea that they ought to placo their
boys a peg above tho drudgery ol
matiuol lab r, which, however, is a
great mistake "
A snsceptible youth who clerks in a
Main stre.t store, says bu onoe kissed a
girl who was si sweet that ho had to
drink vinegar and eat crab apples for
two vecka af.erwurds to keep himself
from turning to loaf sugar. Dangerous
girl ! Wouldn’t ihe make glorious
feeding for a hive cf bees.
The foTowirg strikes us as something
in the wav of copyrights: ‘Fordisposal,
the copyright of a New Shirt. ‘The
Ptiuoc of Wales’ Traveling Sairt. I’,ice
£oo. Address X. Y. Z., Villa,-
Square, N.’
IVo. 11.
Salvation Wlu ii Leant Expect
ed.
When Gen. Bragg retreated from
Kentucky, a bushwhacker, claimed the
rank ofeuptaiu in the federal army, wts
captured with sixteen of Lis men. Tuey
wore hiiog as guerrillas. Tho Federal?
determined to retaliate by hanging *n
equal number of Confederates of like
rank.
We happonel to be of the rank of
captain at tho time the affair happened,
aud to be a prisoner at Louisville. There
were but three other capta ns with us.
Wo were informed about sunset one day
that into captain and sixteen tneu of us
would be drawn out uext, morning by
iotandbungin retali.tion. Tho pros
pect for us individully was a gloomy
one—only one chanoo in four fur
our neck.
At the same time there was a stand
ing order permitting any Con
federate.who might take tho oath of al
legiance tn the Union to walk out of
prison soot free.
Tho chance for ignominious dea’h
was appauling. The mode of escape
was easy, but disgraceful. In snek a
straight, what was the duty of the
Southern man to bis enuso ami com
rades? Simply to trust to luck and
stare fate iu the faoe—not to walk ignp
naininnsly through the open gate.
Not a man iu that prison wavered.—
At sunlight next morning a ccuricr
came announcing t at a Confederate
captain and sixteen men bad born al
ready hung iu retaliation at Ham ds
burg.
We give this incident of the war for
no other purpose than to show that
there are occasions whin nun should
face the extremist dangers without
(Inching, and that, firtune sometimes
prtsorves us as individuals and as peo
ple when we least expect sulfation.—
[Montgomery Mail.
What no Yocno Men Marry ?
Some young men marry dimples;
some noses; some even marry ankles;
the contest, however, generally lies
between the eyes and the hair The
mouth, too, is occas onully married ;
tho chin not so often. Poor partners,
these, you will own. But young nun
do murry all these, and many other
bits and scraps of a wife, instead of
the true thing Such as the marriage
is, such is the after life. Ho who
would m irry a wife must marry a wo
man. If ho can meet with imo of equal
social position, like ediica ion, simi'ar
ds; o.ition, k ndred sympathies, and
habits congenial to bis own let him
marry But le*. him beware ot a curl
or a neck, however swan like, or a
voice, however melodeous Young 1 1-
dies do also make some queer ma'chee,
aud unite themselves to whiskeis.
A Learned Yoi.tii. A pretty
good joke is told at the axpen e of a
suburban school teacher, who kept
alter school a youngs',, r who had man
ifested a great aversion to acquiring
additional learning, and in the course
of reprimand, the teacher said :
“Now, James, can you tell mo one
single thing you have learned since
tbe quarter commenced ?”
“Yes, I have learned ono thing.”
“What is it?”
“Well, I have 1 arnel where there
is a chestnut tree that none of the boys
know anything about, and I was go n g
there for nuts if you hadn't kept me
after seho 1 ’’
A Clean Sell. — A shf wed country
man was in town the other day, gawky,
unc utb and iuoooent enough, but in
in reality with histyo teeth cut. Pass
ing up Main street, through the Jews’
he was often met wi h impor
tunities to buy. From almost every
stere one rushed out in accordance with
tho BUDoy ieg easti in of the street, to
sc'zi upon and try to firee him to pur
chase. At last oac of them caught him
by tbe arm, and urged him to hi com:
one of Lis customers.
‘Have you any fine shirts V inquired
the ot uotryman, with a v ry inaoeut
lok.
‘A splendid a*s rtinent, sir. Step in
tr. Every price sir, and every style,
the vrry cheapest, sir.’
‘Aro they clean ?’
•To bes r,Si .’
‘Well, then,’ pursued tlic country
man,‘put ono on, for you need it.’
The rage of tho store-keeper may be
imagined, as tho countryman, taming
upoa his heel quietly pursued his way.
Even if your heart is in a cause, i
loom't follow that ycu should put y> ur
foot iu it.
Nepo’eon, Arkansas, sends us an an
ecJote if a Texas soldier :
While trudging along one day n’one
a soldier met a Methodist circuit ri
der, and at once recognized him as
such, but affected ranee ol it.
Preacher.— What Command do you
belong to ?
Soldier—l belong to the th
Texas Regiment.* Van Dorn’s army.
What army do you bel ng to ?
P- (very solemnly,)—l belong to the
army of the Lord.
B.—My friend you've got a long
way femn Head Quartets !
A pour Irishman ap; lied to one of
tho overseers ts the poor fur relief, and
upon some doubt being expressed as to
whether he was a propet object fur par
ochial relief, he ens reed bis suit with
much earn, s dc s.
‘‘Oeb, yir honor,” sail he, “sure I’d
be starved long since, but fer my eat.”
‘ But 1-r what 1” abked the astonished
interrogator.
“My cat,” rejoined the I.ishutan.
“Y\>ur cat—how so 7”
“Sure, y r honor, I told hor eleven
limes for s'xpeaoo a time, and she was
always homt before I could get there
mystlf.”
The South.
We copy from tho Nashvile Gxselto
an extract of a leoture delivered in that
city by,Father Kyao, author of tha ‘Cob*
quered B tnnc
A land without ruins is a land with
out memorios— a land witbodt memo
ries is a land without liberty. A land
that wears a laural orown may be fair to
see, huttwino a few sad cypress leaves
j around tho brow of any land, Hod W
! that land barren, brautiless and bleak,
it becomes lovely in its consecrated cor
onot of sorrow, and it wius the sympa
thy of tho heart and of history. Crowns
of roses fade—crowns of thorns endure.
Calvaries and crucifixions take deepeßt
root of humanity—the triumphs of
might aro transient—they pass and are
forgotten ftho sufferings of rightare gra
ven deepest on the chronicle of nations:
ojv. euuu at[t oi.iqa pu«[] »q) am ax;9 ‘taj,
spreail,
Anil the living tread light ou the hearts of
thcjdead ;
Yes, give me a land that is blest by the dust"
And bright with the deeds of the down-trod*’
den juaq
Yes, give me the laud where the battle's red
blast
Has and ished on the future th 9 form of the
Ye«, give me a land that has legeDds aud layw
Tint tell of the memories ot long vanished
days;
Yes, give* me a land tint hath atory and sung
To tell ol the strife of the right with the'
wrong;
Yes, give me a laud with a grave in eaclr
spot,
And names in the graves that shall 00l be
forgot.
Yes, give me the of the wreok and th#
tomb,
There’s a grandeur iu graves—there’s glory
in gloom—
For out of flu gloom future brightnes lv
born,
As after the night looms the sunrise of morn ;
And the graves of the dead with the grass’
overgrown,
May yet fosrra ihe footstool of liberty’s throne
Aud each single wreck of tile war path of
might,
Shall yet be the rook in the temple of righ*.
Fail, I’iiet stmt - Fancy.
Whit bar is it that often opens bat
never shuts? A crow bar.
Tho horse's coat is the gift of nafure,
but the tailor very often makes a coat
for an ais.
Weak doses of washboard aro now'
recommended to ladies who compluitr
of dispepsia. Young men troubled in
the same way may be cured by a
strong preparation of woodsaw.
“L> > you liko codfish balls, Mr. Wig
gins ?” “I real'y don't know,” said
Wiggins, musingly; “I don’t recollect
of ever atten ling ono.”
An old lady refused to let her nietef
dunce with a young graduate because
she had heard that he was a bachelor
of arts, whereby she understood that
bo was au artful baonolor.
“It is never too late to mend,” said
the old lady when she sat up until 12
oY'ivk P M. to durn her husband's
stockings.
Young Christopher Co’utnbus, de**
scendaut of the great discoverer, has
just eoint into poa ession of his fath
er's e tato and title, Duke of Vera
gus.
The fellow who wm told that the
best cure for palpita'Ji a of tho heart
was to stop bugging and kissing the)
gi.ls, said : “It that is the of.ly reme
dy wl i Ii can be proposed, I say, let
’tT palpitate.”
“Motbep,” said a little six yeat old,
can't I go anil have rnv unibrotype,
taken?’’ “Vo; I guess it isn't worth
while.” “Well, then, you might let
me go and have a tooth pulled ; I neV*
or g) anywhere 1 ’
On a physicbn admonishing a pa*
:ient, on one occasion against his
posed hab t of eating i o lust, aud te I.
ing I itn that bailing the food was a hr
to digestion, he said :
“You speak /ron-icallt, Doctor.
A Colonel ol v iunteers repeatedly
insisted as a eondit on of his offer of
service, “V md, we are not to go Out
of the country, Mr. Pitt! we are not
t> go out of the country.” ‘‘Except, I
suppose,” said the min'sler. cold!v, ‘ia
the case of actual iuvuA n ”
A Critical Case ‘Oh, mitherl
do send for the doctor ! ’ said a littl®
boy nf hreo years.
“What for, mv dear?”
•■Why, there’s a gentleman in the par*
lor, who says he’ll die if Janodon’t mar
ry him- -and -he says she wou’t.”
Junes, who is engaged in tho real
estate bu mess, was riding along tht*
other day, when lie saw this sign ;
“This farm fur sail.” Bee'ng a wo
man picking up an apronful of chips
at the wood-pile, bo poiite'y asked her
when the faitn w»e to sail
“Just as tho man comes along tcho
ran raise the wind.”
“Daughter, why do you not wear
your rings ?”
“Beeruse, papa, they hurt me when
anybody squeezes my hand.” “What
businesi have you, I would like to
know, to have tour band squeezed ?”
“Gerta'nly none; but still, you know,
j Spa. one wr ull like to beep in squeez
i bm order.”
“Have Orders Not to Go.”—“I
have orders, n t to go there ; orders that
l dire uot.disuLoy,” said a youth who
was being tempiod to a sm* king and
oilli ird saloon.
“Gears dun’t bo si womanish ! come
alone like a man,’ shouted the youthr.
“What special crdeis b-vejougof,
G >me show them to us, if you can.—
Stmw us the orders.”
John tu'k a neat little fcoik frem Lin
pocket, and read Dul:
’•Eater not iato tbe paths if the wick-*
e l , a;d go not in tbe way of evil men.
Avoid ii! pass not near! turn from it!
and pass away !
“Now,” s ii John, “you my or
ders forbi Imy going with you. They
are God’s ordi rs, and by his help I
mean to keep th< m ’’