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About The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1866-1868 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1868)
Datosait (Wlffkln soimiul, Published Every Thursday Tty Elam CliriHtinn. TERMS—Sir Icily in Advance. Tbreo month* Six months $1 26 Ou* year ... Rates or Advertising : One dollar per square of ten lines for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents per square for eaoh subsequent insertion, not ex ceeding three. D One iquare three months $ 8 00 *>ne square six months 12 00 One square one year 20 00 Two squares three months 12 00 Two squares six months 18 00 Two squares one year 80 00 Fourth of a column three moths 80 00 Fourth of a column six months 60 00 Half column three moths 46 00 Half column six months 70 00 One column three months 70 00 One column six months .100 00 Eiberat Reductions Made on Contract Advertisements. Legal Advertising. Sheri IT's Sales, per levy, >2 60 Mortgage Fi Fa Sales per square 6 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 8 00 “ •' Guardianship,. 8 00 Hismisisn from Apministration, 6 00 “ “ Guardianship, 4 00 Application for leave to set! laud 6 00 Sales of Land, per square, 6 00 Sales of Perishable Property per squ’r, 8 00 Notices to Debtors and Creditors,.... 3 60 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, 2 00 Estray Notices, thirty days, 4 00 Job I Pork of every description exe cuted with neatness and dispatch, at moderate rates. ‘ RAIL-ROAD GUIDE. ficutlnvealerii Railroad. W. HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL POWERS, Sup Leaves Maoon 8 AM ; arrives at Eu faula 6 80, P M ; Leaves Eufaula 7 20, A M ; Arrives at Macon 4 60, P M. ALBANY BRANCH. Leave* Smithville 1 46, P M ; Arrives at Albany 3 11, P M ; Leaves Albany 9 35, A M; Arrives at Smithville 11, A M. Macon Ac Western Railroad. A. J. WHITE, President. E. B. WALKER, Superintendent. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Macon . • • 7 Arrives at Atlanta . . . 157 P. M. Leaves Atlanta . . • CSSA. M Arrives at Macon . . . 130 P. M. NIGHT TRAIN. Leaves Macon . ■ • 845 P. M. Arrives at Atlanta • • . 4 50 A. M. Leave«; Atlanta . . • 810 P. M. Arrives at Macon . . • 125A. M. Western & Atlantic Railroad. CAMPBELL WALLACE, Sup’t. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. L«ave Atlanta . • • 845 A. M. Leave Daltou . •_ • • 2,50 i. Arrive at ChattancogiP . . 5.2a 1. M. Ltave Chattanooga . . 8.20 A. M. Arrive at Atlanta . . . 12-06 P. M. NIGHT TRAIN. Leave Atlanta . . • 7 00 P. M Arrive at Chattanooga • . 4.10 A. M. Leave Chattanooga . • 480 P. M Arrive at Dalton . . . 7.50 P. M Arrivo at AllaDta . . . 1.41 A. M. t&arfoj. DHL W. H. HO3N£TT his Professional services to the JL citizens of Dawson ar.d its vicinity. Os sie at Dr. Cheatham’s Drug Store. Resi dace—laie residence of Mrs. Chamberlain, •e Depot street. n0v22’67-tf DR. J. H .JOH NSO IN , Physician K Surgeon, Dawson, • • Georgia. .cr Office at Smith & Williams' Boarding ■•use. u0v22'676m •I NI MO N S & HOYL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Da H'So.r, - - GEORGIA. *v *. botl. jan2s ly. r. t. simmons. cTb. WOOTEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 21 y Dawson, Ga. W. 0. PARRS. J. M. WATSON. PARKS & WATSON, attorneys at Law, •AHSON .... UA. a. p. WATCH AM) ftEPAIRER jfcvM JEWELER. Dawson, Ox a., IS prepared to do any work in his line in the very best style. feb23 ts J. G. S. SMITH, GUIST SMITH and Machinist, DAW'S OAT, : Georgia. Repairs all kinds of Guns, Pistols, Sewing piahinea, etc., etc. , 2 ly. C, W. WARWICK. Attorney at late and Solicitor in Equity. 9METUPIEEE ... GEO., WILL practice in Lee, Sumter, Terrell and Webster, J, E. HIGGINBOTHAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Morgan, Calhoun Cos., Ga., Will practice in all the Court* of the South western and Pataula Circuits. June 1 HIiiSIREPAIIHOP AT PRIJTCES ’ STAREES, Dawson, ... Gcorjiin, ("'jAN. furnish the public with Carriage -/ Trimming, Uarnosu Mounting, Ac. AH »ork promptly done for the cash. »0v22’673m HARRIS DENNARD. THE DAWSON JOURNAL. Yol. 11. DAWSON JOURNAL. DAWSON, GA., JAN. 9, 1868^ EDITORIAL RHLVITIES. Century plants grow wild in Cali fornia, and are rooted out of gardens as a nuisance. Milwaukee has officially decided the value of a man’s beard In a fight a ruffian pulled out a man’s beard and the court awarded him fifteen dollars’ damages. The Treasury building in Washing ton is to cost $5,000,0000. George Francis Train claims to be worth $30,000,000. Zaccheus Greely, father of Horace Greeley, died at Fort Wayne, Penn sylvania, on the 18th iust., aged 86 years. The 4th of March is fixed for hoist ing the American flag io Huvun::a by native Cubans in favor of annexa tion. Seven hundred and seventeen Mis sourians are enjoying the hospitality of the State in the penitentiary. The Kingdom of Bavaria is smaller than the Slate of New York, and yet its standing army numbers 100,000 men. If tho Pope holds out two years lon ger, he will have sat on the Pontifical throne for a period exceeding that of anv of his two hundred and fifty or sixty predecessors. The rumor that Secretary Seward has bought Saturn’s ring, Jutiper’s inoons and half a dozen asteriods is contradicted. The scientific men inform us that light which left stars ol (he twe’th magnitude when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, has not yot reached the earth. Five Pennsylvania patriots wish to be the Radical candidate for the Vico Presidency. These are Cameron, Cur tin, Covode, Grow and Kelley. It is repor’ed that ail the members of the Republican National Commit tee, except Horace Greeley and two others, are in favor of Grant for Pres ident. The peasant woo predicted the death of the Czar Nicholas within a year, has made the same predie'ion in the ease of Alexander. The former monarch was indignan’ and imprison ed the oflender, but the present Czar heard the prediction with equanimi ty- Senator Sherman is preparing a re port on international coinage. He has received specimen coins agreed on at the Paris Congress, w hich w ill pass for the same value among the nations rep resented there. The Government tax of two and a half per cent, on the cotton crop takes one bale of every forty, a tax tar heavier than is laid on any other pro duct. The Mexican General Marquez re cently employed a bricklayer to make a secret chamber in one of his hocses and ‘.he man has not since been seen. They say that Marqbez killed him to save the secret. The shower of stones at the 1 ate eruption ol Vesuvius reached the alti tude of 1,000 feet It cost half a million to allow Bout well & Cos. to extirguish themselves with impeachment. But it was cheap on the whole. Phinens T. Barnum, n%phew and namesake of the grtat P. T. B , has been arrested in Connecticut for steal ing bis step-lather's watch-. The London Times calls the defeat of impeachment “a startling instance of the power of the public opinion on a legislative body.” A Florida negro went to a political meeting armed with a pistol which he .ingeniously inserted in his boot leg, muzzle up, and cocked. He killed only himself. Fifty lives were recently lost by an explosion on board a steamer at Liver pool. The Spanish government offers to sell Cuba and Porto Pico to the Uni ted State*. Since the 20th of Bej>tember 50,673 bushels of apples have been shipped lrom Toledo. The domestic exports of the United States fur thq quarter c’osing with October Ist, were 890,0‘.0,000 in value. It is thought probable the Demo cratic National Convention will be held at Baltimore, soon after the Chicago Convention The last number of “Brick” Pomeroy’s “La Crosse Democrat'* ap }«ear* in eight page form. DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY I>, 186^. Relief for file Ocstiliitc People of the Month. Gen. Howard proposes to meet the cases of distress in the South by a lib eral application of tho surplus funds under his control as bead of the Freed men’a Bureau. An unexpended bal ance of over $8,000,000 still remains in the exchequer of the Bureau. In the case of some South Carolina plan, ter?, who had no money to commence .operations for raising cotton last year, though not legally authorized to make such disposition cf the Bureau funds, advanced a sum of SBO,OOO, taking a lien on the crops for tho repayment of the money. When the planters sold their crops the entire amount was li quidated, and General Howard’s bene ficent course was gratefully appreciated. In the case of tho Mississippi planters, who lost everything by the river inun dations, it is proposed to adopt a similar considerate and politic plaD of action; .tid to relieye immediate distress among the working people, it is suggested to establish depots of provisions at points convenient to the district in which the greatest want prevails. General Gil lem advises that some such stcpsfhnuld be taken and acted on without delay; and recently stated, in conversation with a correspondent of tbc New York Her ald, that the present distress, in his judgment, was confined to the alluvial counties of Mississippi, where the plan ! tors had all their agricultural imple ments swept away by the overflowing, lie admits there is a rising of the ne groes, but not of a political character, the scope of the insurrection embracing nothing more than the slaughter of pigs and poultry. The conspiracy against hogs is especially sanguinary, numbers cl them being nightly waylaid to furnish pork suppers for the hungry darkies Necessity not being cogn’zant of law, and neither work nor food being within cnvencint reach of the negroes, this method of satisfying nature’s longings is considered justifiat 1 by tne friends of the negroes. General Gillem received assurance a from the President and Gen. I Grant that whatever scheme he adopt j ed to give immediate relief to the suffer ers in the Sou'h would receive their ap probatim.— ContiHutioiiniity of Ilie Rccoss strisctioia Acts. There ass several highly important cases about to come before the Su preme Court of the United States, each of which will test the constitu tionality of tho Reconstruction Acts One case, the trial of which is expect ed to begin very shortly, will decide the question as to whether Virginia is in or out of ’.he Union It is confi dently believed that the deci-ion of the court will be that Virginia is not now and never has been out of the Union, in which case the situation in the Southern States will be materially changed. The President, it is said, will then instruct the Military District Commanders to act in strict accord ance with tho decision of the highest tribunal of the nation, and permit the civil governments to resume their functions untrammelled by the military power. It is the belief of a prominent Senator here that a majority ot the Judges of the Supreme Court, when the McArdle case comes up, will de cide that the Reconstruction Acts are unconstitutional, that Chief Justice Chase will deliver the minority report and nrake the most of the oppoitunity to champion the acts and identify him self yet more earnestly with the Radi cal party North and South. If the bottom should thus fall out of the scheme f-r Africanizing the Southern States, it is believed Gen. Grant will reject any nomination coming from the Republican party. Worthy or Imitation —We notice in a Western paper the fact that there is a merchant in the town in which the paper is prin ed, who, whenever a man buys a good bill of goods from hint, makes the purchaser a present ol the village paper in which he advertises, for one year, and .hus lie manages to keep toe customer constantly remind ed of his business—and lie will never forget such a present Shou <J that man give his customers two dollars in greenbacks or in goods, it might soon be forgotton ; hut when he is once a week for fif'y two weeks, placed in re ceipt of his friend's bounty, can any one doubt its being a good way to ad vertise ? This is worthy of imitation by business men Sea tdatous-stories are told in Frank fort in regard, to the conduct ot the Prince of Wales and his brother-in law the young King of Greece, during their recent two days’ sojourn in that city. One day the Prince and Kiug of Greece, rode in an open barouche with three lorettes through the streets They bad several bottles of brandy in their carriage, and were noisy and intoxica ted. A 11 AllvrED HOUSE. Noises, Groans, Uneasy Doors—A Liv id Human head, Dripping with blood, Rolling over the Moor—The Ghost of a Murdered Peddler. Near I.acon, Illinois, there is a lone ly house that just now beats the unen viable notoriety of being haunted. It is an unpainted two-story structure standing by itself, away from the main road, and where dark deeds could he perpetrated with little risk, and is whal is termed a “renter’s” house. Some time last spring a family came to the neighborhood, and, leasing the adjoin ing ground, moved into the house.— The first night of the arrival was sig nalled by mysterious noises, groans, etc., proceeding from a certain unoccu pied room, attended with opening and shutting doors, &e. The next night wan noiser than the first, and glimpses were had of a shad «>wy form, passing swiftly into the room and out doors, which opened and shut of their own accord. They re mained a week, keeping their own counsel, and and imparting their fears to the proprietor alone, who bought their silence and released them from ah engagements. Two weeks later another tenant ar rived and moved into the house, whol ly uniODscious of its ghostly visitors. The firs' and second nights passed without any disturbance; on the third while soundly sleeping, they were awakened by a most heart-rending scream from the room before alluded to, followed by heavy blows, and then a w ild, haggard-looking person came out, passed through the door, which seemed to open and close of its own accord and disappeared in the dark ness. The occupier of the house was no coward, and his firs - impulse was, that robbers were at work, but he seemed spell-bcund and unable to move himself. Severn nights passed with more or less alaims his family grew nervous and declared they would not remain, but he still believing that something more tangible than spirits produced the row, determined to watch taenext night in the room adjoining the small sleep ng apartment from which the nois s came Somewhere between 12 and 1 o'clock the door opened and the same figure appeared, muking di reet'y for the spot where the watcher stood. It was a fearful moment, but ghost or no ghost, he was not to he frightened, and as the apparition pass ed dealt it a blow which seemed to pass clean through the intruder. There were the same heavy blows and shrieks, and then a livid human head, dripping wi h blood, rolled out upon the floor. The house was vacated the next day, the owner purchasing his silence with means sufficient to carry him to Kan sae. Now for an explanation of this strange affair Last winter the house was occupied for a season by a rough and sinister looking family of “refu gees,” who are believed to have mur dered a peddler traveling about tho country carrying a pack. lie visited most of the farmers through the neigh borhood, and was lust seen just at nightfall, going in the direction of this house, which it is believed he never left alive. Shortly after they removed no one knows whither, and took with them a barrel of salted pork, though never known to fatten or purchase a pig. Headers of newspapers at -this time will remember the arrival at Lou isville, Ky., of a barrel, which, excit ing suspicions lrom its sickening stench, wa? opened, and found to contain hu man remains, shipped by whom has never been discovered, though detec tives are at work upon the subject An examination of the floor shows daru-look'ng stains, par'ially eradicat ed with a plane, and there are certain suspicious spots upon tho wall. In corrobora’ton, tbe New York papers of two weeks ago had a notice asxing information concerning one Juan Blanque, a Neapolitan, last heard from through a letter mailed at Lacon iu Decetnb >r last, w herein he sta ed be was meeting with great success. : j Ihe information herein -eontcinod j gained from the owner ol the ptermses in person, and except the supernatural part, which he cannot account, is fully credited by the writer. General Grant. —ln a life of Gen. Grant, by Col. Badesu, a member of his staff, just published, it is state 1 among other things not f itherto known to the public, that the General was a ; slaveholder, and that, about the times j of D/nelson and Shiloh, lie was three times suspended by Halleck, who at j that time commanded the department. I When Halleck was ordered to Wash- j ington as mi'itary adviser and com manding General, he offered the com mand of Grant’s army at Corinth to a Quartermaster named Alien, whose rank was that of Colonel Artificial Comb for Bees —A Swiss invention his been introduced to aid bees in tbe formation af the if comb. Narrow sheets of wax are imprinted, by machinery so as exactly to represent the dividing wall of comb betweeu the cells, these strips are attached to the top of the empty hive, before the new swanu :s pi.* i?, thus CDabl ng the bees to go immediately to work, and .Iso guid ing them iu making the sheets of comb in the proper direction One hundred aDd twenty-six farms, comprising neatly eight thousand acres, added to productive force of Florida du ing November. From ttie Cincinnati Commercial. Tint Orrtipttliciit: o? Ike People. Social statistics arc a very modern growth in this country. VVe have been too .busy with living and acting to tuko account of our modes ot life or methods of employment Up to the date of the Inst census, we believe, no attempt bad been made to classify or record the em ployments of the people, aud even tho statistics gathered under that head in 1860 must be regarded as very rudimen tary and imperfect Still, as presout ing what may be taken as an approxi mation to tbe facts, the figures represent ing the occupations of tho people arc highly interesting. An analysis of tho returns gives the following number of adult persons en gaged in the several employments spec ified : Agriculturists, - 3,219,495 Mechanics & manufacturers, 480,905 Diylaboters, 969,000 Servants, 560.000 M rebants, 123 000 Clerks, 185 000 Physicians, 54,000 Clergymen, * 37,000 Lawyers, 33,193 Our entire population having been a little over thirty one millions, tne num ber of persons whoso occupations are reported amounts to about one in every six, or very nearly the average of heads of 1 unifies or legal voters to the whole population. The remaining five-sixths may he reckoned (as ts definitely done in ihc- British census) as the “domestic clas»,” or women and oersons under age Excluding this class, aud taking on y the five millions seven hundred thous and (in round numbers) who are re turned as having an active occupation, we fiud the following result: Proportion iu agriculture, 1 to If Or rather more than one half. Proportion engaged in manu factures, 1 to 12 Proportion engaged in mer cantile life, 1 to 18 Proportion employe! os day laborers, 1 to 6 Proportion employed as ser vants, 1 to 10 Proportional number of phy sicians, 1 to 100 Proportional number of oler gvnicD, 1 to 150 Proportional number of law yers, 1 to 175 If we take the persons composing what are commonly called the learned professions, we fit and that there arc, a? compared with the whole population : One physician to every 600 pooplc. Oae clergyman to every 800 people. Uno lawyer to every 1,000 people. One merchant to every 250 people. One mauufaoturer to every 65 people. One farmer to every 10 people. Appearance cf Jfscs. —The llall owdl Gazette has possession of a very ancient work called the “Spy," from which it:-ays: ’The following descrip tion of the Savior of mandkind, writer by Publius S-'ntalus, Governor ts Judea, and sent to the Roman Senate when fame of the Messiah began to spread, is quoted by the ‘Spy’ iu a letter ts Bed redin, Superior of the D rvesscs of the Convent of Cogin in Notcli?: “There lives at this time in Judea, a man of singulir virtue, whose name is Jesus Christ, and whom the barbarians esteem as a Prophet; but his own fol lowers adore him as the offspring of im mortal God. He calls back the dead front their graves, and heals all sorts of disease with a word or touch. He is tall and well shaped ; of an amiable, reverend aspect: his hair of a color that can hardly be matched, falling into beau tiful curls below his ears and very grace fully touching Gn his shoulders, and parted on the crown of his head like the Nazarites; bis forehead is very smooth anu large, his cheek without other spot than tout of a lovely red : his nose and mouth are formed with exquisite sym pathy ; bis heard thick and of a color suitable to the hair of his hoad, react ing aD inch b low his chin, and parting in the middle likp a fork; his eyes btigh', clear and sereno ; he re bukes with niagesty, counsels with mildness ; bis whole address whether in word or deed, being elegant and g’ave ; no man has seen him laugh, but he is often seen to weep; he is very temper ate, modest aud wise, a man for hi? ex cellent beauty aud divine perfeotioui, surpassing the children of aten.” Solomon’s Temple Lieutenant Women, an officer of the Royal En gineers, has for a long time punt been engaged, at the expense of an English society, in making extensive explora tions on tho site ol the Temple ot Sol omon ; in Jerusalem, and has already made some startling discoveries lie has, it is stated established oy actual deinonst ation that tho south wall of the sacred enclosure, which contained the Temple, is buriod lor mote than half its depth beneatli an accumula tion of rubbish—probably the ruins of the successive buildings which once crow ned it—and if hared to its foun dution the wail would present an un broken face of solid masonry of near ly 1000 leet lon s , and for a large por tion of that distance more than 150 feet in height. * In Gibson county, la., four white men waylaid a negro named Mulligan, suspected of havipg stolen money from Samuel Stcene, and hong him several tijjes, with a view to extorting a con fession. Tbe negro did not confess— probably because he knew nothing about it. The Democrat says the lynch ers are all Republicans What a ter rible outiage that would have been had it occurred in Georgia. IVo. 41). Extinction if tiie Elephant.— According to tho People's Magazine, thoro i? reason to apprehend, at no dis tant day the almost total cxtiactioo of this coble and valuable animal. It says that an enormous uumber of them ere destroyed in tho course of every year, often as unpleasant neighbors to man in the wild state, prone to make havoc’ with the rice and grain field, but far more persistently and fully to meet tbe demauds of commerce far the ivory of the tusks. Though the largest, and the strongest of all exi-tiog quadrupeds, tho animal is very readily decoyed into cap tivity in order- to be domesticated, aod is as easily slain by the hunter’s rifle. The great hull elephaut of three ton3 weight—leader of herd—generally falls lifeless in an instant, if a ball is skill fully planted in tho eye, or at the base of tho trunk, or behind the ear; aui ‘crack’ sportsmen have been known to kill right and loft one with each barrel In part of the northern province of Ceylon, upon the reward es a few shil lings per head being offered by tho au thorities, 3,500 wore dispatched in less than three year* by the natives. Shef field alono requires annually the slaugh ter of a large army of the huge pachy derms, estimated some years ago at 22,- 000, to luruisj ivory for the various ar ticles produced in its manufacturing es tablishments ; and every civil.zed couc tay needs a supply of the material for the useful and ornamental arts. Hence, not being prolific, it, is by no means im probable that long before our human story is over the elephaut will be num bered with extinct species. Men and Women Get of Employ ment in New York —The New York World publishes a i nrcfully prepared statement, showing that fifty thousand men and women in that city are now out of work, and calls tho serious at tention of Congress (which devotes so much of its attention to radical legisla* tion) to the startling fast. The Woild says: Fifty thousand persons in New York, who live by the lubor of their hands, out of employ, is a more truthful state ment of our financial condition than columns of deftly arranged figures re luting to the national debt. Look at some of the facts • Os tho 28,000 artisans employed in the jewelry’ busmens, 40 per cent, are out of employ ; carpocters’ wages have been reduced from $3 50 to $2 50 a day’, and only half of the journeymen can find employment; of ha'ters, there are 400 who can get work hut one day in six • of tbe 20,000 tailors in the city, one quarter are unemployed, the quan tity of work for them is"CO per cent, less than that assigned them at this time last year, and their wages have been reduced by 33} per cent; 'he iron-workers say that their business has not been, in twenty years, so dull as it is now ; at least 1,000 shipwrights are out of employ, an 1 fritn < tie rad ol the East river to the other but five vessels are building, of which two are steam boats, two tire ferry boats, and one is a sailing vessel; and, to close this sad list,, it is estima'ed that 3,000 servant girls are seeking places, but find none. A Vermont Anecdote. The late Rev Mr Twichell was the most noted Methodist minister in Ver mont, for shrewd and laughable say ings In the pulpit ho maintained a suitable gravity of manner rnd expres sion, but out of thepu’pit he overflow ed with mischief. Occasionally he would, if emergency seemed to require induce something queer into a sermon, for the sake of amusiug tho flagging attention of his hearers. It was him who originated the story of the great mosquitoes. Seeing that some of his audience were getting sleepy he paused in his discourse, and distressed as follows— “ Brethren, you haven’t any idea of the sufferings of our missionaries in the new settlements, on account of the mosquitoes. In some of these regions they arc enormous. A great many of them will weigh a pound, and they will get on tho logs and bark when tne Missionaries are coming along” By this time all ears and eyes were open, and he proceeded to fiuioh his discourse The next day one of his hearers call ed on hint to account for telling lies in the pulpit. “1 here never was a mosquito that weighed a pound,” said he. “But I did not say one would weigh a pound. I said ‘a gtent many’ would weigh a pound, amfl think a million would.” “But you said they would bark at the missionaries ” “No, no, brother; I said they would get on the logs and bark.” The Right Persuasion.—lc terri ble agony a soldier dying ia the hospit al. A visitor asked him : “What Church are you of?” “Os the Church of Christ," ho re plied. “I mean of what persuasion are you?” then inquired tho visitor, “Persuasion,"’ asked the dying man, as his eyes looked heavenward, beaming . with lovo to the Savior, “I ampersand ] td that neither death cor life, nor an—l gels, nor prinu’pjliries, nor peweru, cor i things to Como, uor heightb, nor depth, j nor any crea'ure, shall separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Je sus.” Another Fenian ixploEton has occur red in England, this time killing sever al policemen. The basis ol tho Union Fenian Brotherhood under the presi dency cf John Mitchell ispuhli.h^d. CARRIERS’ ADDRESS TO TBE I’atrois of the ’‘Dawson Journal.” January Ist., 1868. The Carrier greet* with rustic lay, Bis patrons on this New Year’s day ; The poet’s horse in haste ho mounts And doings of the year recounts. The ancient bards were said to sing, As muses taught, when on the wing; Poured through the soul their sweetsst song, That flowed in measured strains along, But no such aids the Carrier claims; Modest arid humble r.re his aims. The history of the fleeting year, Be w 'ave3in verse with boyish fear, Though it may wring fromsomo a silent tear, Whose heartr, like autumn leaves, are with ered, dry and sear. ’Trrou.-i prove a task for Byron, Moore—- Or any hard of ancieat lore, To tuns to pleasant, jingling sound What sixty-seven has brought around, Commerce, science, education— The planting interests of the nation— Every branch is paralyzed— Tho money market is capsized— The cotton-field hae been deserted Sambo’s mind has been diverted, He lays down the shovel and tbe hoe, To Legislative halls to go, The jury-box and other places, Bust share their quoto of black faces, The poor “white trash” must stand aside— Let Sambo into office “slide.’ Joe Brown and Blodgett otand no show— Cuifec to Con~rees too must ge. If things more on at such a rate, Thro’ the year of aixty-eight, The Itadicals may legislate The negrec’s kinky hair all straight, Steveus and Sumner epeak and write, Os nothing but to “strike out white,” Our once proud nation in their hands, Would soon be bare as Afric’s sands. Thank Heaven Jthere are patriots brave ,Our land lrom such disgrace to save, 1 he ball which wns so nobly put In motion in Connec’icu',, Is gaining volume as it speed?, And cowering Bads, like slendor reeds, Quake and tremble ; for they may Be c. u-lied beneath it any day. God speed the sunshine of that day Fanatic rule is swept away— Truth and right assume again O’er this bright, land their wonted reign. With l’opc and Heconstruction past Prosperity again will a cast ner smile upon our And plenty reign on every hand. Now friends, though dark may be tbe times May hope make merry as tbe bells io chimes. Fill hearts with joy aud purses with dimes, That all may respond to my humble rhymes And liberally shell out — not the dimes. But QUARTERS and HALVES —these depreciated times. Promptly the news I’ve brought you each week.* A nd now tbe reward is quite small that I seek A year of plenty may you share, The ills of life aud anxious euro, Corroding thoughts that comforts mar Be distant from vour bosom far; To you be every pleasure given Till safely boused aud crowned in Ileaven. JAMES E. 11ROWX, Carrier. GOSSIP. [FOR GENTLEMEN EXCLUSIVELY]. James Bennett, of Lixington, Ky., ha? got bis twelfth wife. Nothing short of a bailor’s dozen will suit him— ■’hat is one more. The attempt, says a New Orleans pa per, to start an asylum for useless young men failed, as no building could bo con., siruited largo enough. A young man generally gives a look ofhit iiair to his sweetheart beforo he marries her After marriage she can help brrself—and use no scissors. An Ei'glish Fitly, writing to a Lon don paper, says the faces of American Ijdieo are perfectly eharming, and that she coal I never conic to America and return unmarried wero she a man. “An unloved wifo” who ought to know of that of which she speaks, be cause she has had so much experience, ,-ayj that the reason that ladies look so much to money in the matter of mar riage is, that now a-days they so seldom' find anything else in a man worth hav ing- . a ‘‘l shall die happy,” sai! the expir ing bu'band to the wife who was weep ing mo-i dutifully by the bedside, “if iou will only promise not to marry that oVjeot of roj unceasing jealousy, yon# cousin John.” Mako yourself quite easy, love,” said tbe expectant widow, “I am engaged to his brother.’* Somebody—a woman of coarse—in quires why, when Eve was maoufactur. ed from the spare rib, a servant wasn’t made at the same time to wait on her? Somebody else a woman we imagine— replies in tbe following straia ; *'•'' Because Adam never came whining to Eve with a ragged stocking to bo darned, colhr to be sewed On, or It glove to mend “right away, quick now.’ B cause he never read the newspapers until the sun got dcwu behind the palm trees, and then stretching himself out, yawned out, ‘ain’t supper mo3t ready my dear V‘ lie made the lire, and bung the kettle over it himself, we’ll venture ; and pulled the radishes, peeled the po’atocs, and did every thing els« he oi'ght to. Ho milked the oows, fed chickens, anti looked after the chickens h m elf. lie never brought home half a dozen friends to dinner when Eve hadn’t any fresh pooegraaa’es, and the Mongo sea son was over. lie never staved out till eleven o’clock to a ward meeting, hur rating for an oat candidate, and then scold because poor Eve was sitting up and crying inside tbe gates. He never played b iliards, rolled teD pins, and drove fast horses, nor choked Eve with tobacco smoke, tie never loafed around corner groceries, while Eve was rocking |little Gain's cradle at home.. In short he uid not think she was especially cre ated for the purpose of waiting on him, and was not under the impression that it disgraced a man to lighten a woman’s ceres a little. That’s the reason that I Eve did not n eu a hired girl; and wiJi lit was the reison her fair dsc?bd*n>a Idi 1. ' ~ ’ 1 .. ,'h
