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s;ih)soit c’Ulrrhlvr sounial, Fublitllied Every Thursday or PERRYMAN Si MEIUUIiTUUR. TKtt.il/S~Sfrlctff/ in .tdcance. Three mouths , 00 76 Six month 3 fl '25 Cue year 2 00 H< tics of *#«f vert lain jr/ : One dollar per square of leu lines for the Brvtr insertion, and Seventy-five Gents per square for Bach subsequent insertion, t#ot ex— caedios three. One square three months $ 8 00 »ne square six months !!i 00 One square one year. 20 00 Two squares three months 12 00 Two Squares six months 18 00 Two squares oue year 80 00 Fourth of a column three moths 30 00 Fourth of a column six mouths 60 00 Half column three moths 45 00 U»lf column six months 7o 00 0«s column three months 70 00 One column six months 100 00 Liberal induction* .Hade on Contract 1 1deertisemcnts . JLeftal Advertisiug. Sheriff’s Sales, per levy, f2 60 Mlftgage Vi Fa Sales per square 6 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 “ * l Guardianship,. 800 DiMflision' from Apministratiou, 0 00 . * " Guardianship, 4 Off Application for leave to sell land, 6 00 per square, 5 00 | Gales of Perishable Property per equ’r, 3 00 Notices to Debtors and Creditors,.... 3 50 Foreclosure of Mortgujre, per square, 2 00 Estray Notices, thirty days, 4 00 Job I W'ork of every description exe cuted ivith neatness and dispatch, at moderate rates. RAIL-ROAD GUIDE. • < ■ *' Sentlitmierii Railroad. WSL HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL POWERS, Sup Leaves Macon 8 A if ; arrives at Eu faula 5 30, P M ; Leaves Eufaula 7 20, A M ; Arrives at Macon 4 60, P M. ALBANY BRANCH. Leaves 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 &. Western Railroad. A. J. WHITE, President. E. 11. WALKER, Superintendent. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Macon . . . 7 SO A. M. Arrives at Atlanta . . . 1 67 P. M. Leaves Atlanta . . . 6 55 A. M. Arrives at Macon . . . 130 P. M. NIGHT TRAIN. Leaves Macon . » . 8 45 P. M. Arrives at Atlanta . . .4 60 A. M. 'Learres Atlanta . . . 8 10 P. M. Arrives at Macon . . . 125A. M. Western & Atlantic Railroad. CAMPBELL WALLACE, Sup’L CAT DA6SENGEE TRAIN. Leave Atlanta . . . 8 45 A. M. Leave Dalton ... . 230 P. SI. Arrive at Chattanooga . . 5.25 P. M. Leave Chattanooga . . X.in a. M. Arrive at Atlanta . . . 12.i SP. JI. ' NIGHT T&A’N. Leave Atlanta ... 7OuP. M. Arrive at Chattanooga - .tH)A. M. Leave Chattanooga . • 4. * ■ SI- Arrive at Dalton . - 7 P- Arrive at Atlanta . . . 1-41 A. M. ” gtmuegs ©ante. dr. w. h. mum WILL, at all times, take great, pleasure In waiting on all who desire his services, and are .willing to pay lor the same. No Oliver practice is solicited. Dawson, Ga., January 30th, IS6B—ly 11 A. WARNOCK, OFFERS his Professional services to the citizens of Chickasawhatchee and its vicinity. From ample experience in both •ivil and Military practice, ho is prepared to tract successfully, cases in every department hia profession, j*Blß’6Blf ’ C. B. WOOTEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, boa »■>!«•' )it -- , > » . ■ Bateson, da. jan 16 1868 ly O. f. GURLEY. WILD C. CLEVELAND. GURLEY & CLEVELAND, A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Milford, Baker County, Ga. P>. ALLEN, WATCH MB REPAIRER JER ELER. Dawson, Ga., IS prepared to do any work in his line in the very best style. fcb23 ts J. G. S. SMITH, oxnsr SMITH and j Machinist, Wta n'S(KV, : Georgia. Repairs all kinds of Guns, Pistols, Sewing ttahines, etc., etc. 2 U iaPSi® ,*T PRUrCMio BT.IBLBS, I>aivson, - Gc»i» i!l i CAS furnish the public with Carriage Trimming, Harness Mourning, to. All ( work promptly done for the cash. nov22’«73m 11 ARRIS DENNARD. Shipments To Liverpool! FREE OF CH ARGE HAVING always first class vessels on the berth for Liverpool, we will receive and forward cottou at the lowest curreut rate*, frae of commission, charging only the actual expenses attending the removal hum the depot to the press. We are prepared to advanoe, when required, threa fourths of the value and guaranteed proceeds. Wm. M. TUN NO A CO , Savannah, Ga. Fresh Garden Seed EOR BALE A.T ferryman & Meriwether’s Drug THE DAWSON JOURNAL. Vol. 111. POr/fRv, Over llie River. Over the river they beckon to me, Loved ones who’ve gone to the further side, lbs gleam of their snowy robes I see, But their voices are lost in the rushing tide- There’s one with ringlets of sunny gold, And eyes the reflection of Heaven’s own blue He crossed In twilight, gray and cold, And the pale mist hid from mortal view, We saw not the angels who met him there, The gate of the city we could not see ! Over the river—over the river, My brother stands waiting to welcome me. Over the river the boatman pale Carried another—the household pet— Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale— Darling Minnie ! I see liar yet, She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands, And peacefully entered the phantom bark; Wo watched it guide from the river sands, And all our suusbiuo grew strangely dark. We know she is safe on the further side, Where all the ransomed and angels be: Over the river, the mystic river, My childhood’s idol is waiting for me. For none return from those quiet shores, Who cross with the boatman cold and pals: We hear the dip of the golden oars, And oatch a glimpse of the snowy sail— And lo I they have passed from our yearning hearts; They cross the stream, and are gone for aye; We may not slmdder the veil apart. That hides from our vision the gate of day. We only know that their barks no more May sail with ours o’er life’s stormy sea ; Yel somewhere, I know, on the unseen shore, They watch, and beckon, and wait for me. And I sit and think, when the sunset's gold Is flushing river and hill and shore, I shall one day stand by the water cold, And list for the sound of the boatman’s oar; I shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail; I shall hear the boat as it gaiDS the strand; I shall pass from sight with the boataao pale To the better shore of the Spirit Land ; I shall know the loved ones who’ve gone be fore, And joyfully sweet will the meeting be, When over the river, the peaceful river, The Angel of Death shall carry me ! Angry Words. There is nothing that sounds bo harsh, so grating, so discordant to the ear, as angry words. They thrill the uerves, pam the heart, awaken bitter emotions in the breast; they cause the eye to flab, the cheek to glow, and they bring a stinging, recriminating reply to the we only control our tempera, when irri tated by the baity language of o’hers, and give the soft answer that turncth away wrath, how msDy bit er leeliogs, would we site ourselves ant our friends Bn we do not make one <fl rt to sub due our angry pn->i 01s, but yield to them at once, and cruel, reproachful words and abusive epithets pa«- our lips, of which,soon after, we bitterly repeut. We are told that the heart is desperate ly wicked, prone to sin as the sparks (ly upwards; and how true it is ! we feel it every day and every hour. The most trifling circumstances, even a word, or look, or tone, are sufficient to fill the heart with anger, and the tongue, (fiat, unruly member, is ever ready to < xccute its promptings, and word follows word in quick succession, till wo scarcely know what we are Baying. The seuod of our owu sharp-tones excites us sti'l more, and fans therflame, which already, burns fiercely witbin our breasts. At. length, we arc exhausted by our own violcuce, the fires of anger gradually ex pire, and we become cool and oollected. In our hours of solitude, we reflect upon what has passed, and our brows flush with shame, as we recall our passionate words; we reproach ourselves bitterly, and wish that we could obliterate them ; butweeaunot; they have sunk deep into the hearts of our friends, and the memory of them rankles painfully iu our own. Angry words—they pollute tht lips; they estrange friends; they briug self-reproach to those who utter them,and sorrow to those to whom they j are addressed. Then let us guard our hearts againat angry passions, and our lips against angry words. Let us keep constant and vigilant watch over our tongues, the wounds of which arc sharper than those of a two edged sword. Let us try never to speak amiss, and a victo ry inoro glorious thau that of a con quering Lero will be ours.— Eianydist. An old negro in Connec'icut who had always been very constant in attending church, and prided himself furthermore in being the first there, happened to be detained far beyend the usual hour one Sunday morn ing- “ John,” said Cuffeo, as he stood carding bis wool for trie occasion, ‘hab do kindness to tel! me wtiat o’clock i “Can’t tel! ye, Cuflee, do ole clock | am stopped. * 1 shod think it am pur ty considerable late ” “Iso wouldn’t be exposed if it Twar half an hour on top o’ dat,” returned Cuffeo and hurried to church as fast as his -bandy legs would carry him. , lie entered towards tho end cl the sermon, just as the parson was reitera ting for the last time: ‘ The last shall be first, and the hist shall be lust.” Cuflee turned round and went out exclaiming: “Dat means me—l cum last but lee out fused - anyhow ! De next time dis nigger goes late to mectin, be no go at all. 1 ' Tailor’s revenge—giving a customer fits. I)A.waoiV, TtIUHStVAV, FEBRUARY 13. ISOS. Mebskb. Edit rh —I send you here with as requested, a lettor of mine writ ten erigonally to an old school-mate of mino, now President of the Rochester Theological Siminary. lie had re quested me to allow him to publish some of my communications touebiug upon the condition of Southern affairs, because many of his friends to whom he had occasionally exhibited my letters were greatly surprised to Cud the state of things and the feeling of Southern men so differont from what they had been taught by their own Papers and Politicians, and especially because the working of the Fracdrnen’s Bureau ap peared altogether at variance with the expectations and sta'ements of the Rad ical Party. Respectfully, II W Aldkhoff. Dawson, Feb. 7th 1868. From the Rochester Daily Union and Adver. Condition of Hie Month Under Radical Rule—The Negro t o tiutf Machinery—Agricn1 1n 1- al Interests—Decline of Cot ton Culture—Restitution and Despondency of the People. The following extracts from a private isttcr of a resident of Georgia to a gen tleman of this city, graphically portray the effects of radical despotism at the South : Dawson, Ga , Dee. 14, 1867. Respected Friend : I percicve from your letters, what I had olten suspected befoie, that the Northern people arc most strangely, unenlightened 36 to the true social and political of the South, and that this ignorance, no doubt fostered by corrupt politicians, is rapidly Lurrying on uttgr yum in this devoted land by hostile legislation de signed lo subject the white man politi cally to the negro. Ibis is inevitable if the honest and patriotic, though blinded, masses of the North do not come to the rescue. Ibe late Democratic victories appear to foreshadow such a course • though as those elections did not change the complexion of the present Congress itiß to be feared that such a rescue will come only after the mischief is done in the Radical and Negio State Conven - ! turns now being heid in the Southern ! Stales. You will have learnd trom the names that the Radicals and Negroes ! carried the late election in favor oft! ties did not go to the palls at all. I could till a dozen sheets with the reci tal of incidents showing the sbameful oess of the farce, and’the fully or mad ness of giving the right of suffrage to the iguoraot and bru'al Negro# With ■you 'he negro is more stimulated to the lower classes of while men, but here he is but one degree above the mule with whicti he works in the li Id Some of them put their votes into the post office. The tickets were all furnish ed them by the “Loyal Leaguers;” if if you ask one whom he voted for, or whether he voted for or against the Convention, all the answer he could make was that be voted the “yell w” ticket. Many came with their wives and children ; they evidently considered it a great thing ; they brought halters and bags along as they had been told that they would get a mule for the one or provisions for the other. Officers of the Bureau had told many that unless they voted the Radical ticket, they would be sold back into slavery, or that, they would be fined SIOO or S2OO. The negro manifestly associates the rights of suffrage with some pecuniary advantage such as the possession of 40 acres of land; hence, I think, when he becomes disabused of this notion, he will in a few years become wholly indifferent to the privilege ; and, if less influenced by “Loyal Leaguers,” he will sell his vote to either party for a drink of whisky.— So many whiles beiDg distranchiscd, the negroes aided by corrupt, renegade whites have large majorities in all the Southern States; if therefore the Con stitution to be framed by the Conven tion now in sossion in Atlanta, should not be defeated when submitted to the popular vote, the Negroes will control nearly all the offices of the Siato; im pose taxes which only the whiles, as property holders, will have to pay; raise uo doubt a heavy school fund for the education of the blacks; and iu Bbort, you can readily imagine that without I the restraint of self interest in the impo sition oi public burdends which usually acts upon the wb tc law maker, a negro Legislature will ruu riot in their efforts to live off the white man’s wealth. In addition to tLe political evils now weighing down the South, I have to mention tho utter prostration of all braiches of industry; besides this, some portions such atf Lousiana, Texas and parts of Arkacsis and Mississippi, have enJurt-d *errribie misfortunes of tbeir own; fl iods, tierce etoims, excessive 1 rain-* or drouth-*, and the “army w*Tm,’ have destroyed ihcir properties or crops, and then the yellow fever swept away the poor people by thousands; in many eases, whole families tell be for# this fearful disease. However, you will have seen this yourself in the papers The condition of the planters in this country is truly fearful. Last spring a few of them had the means to rnako a crop, so that they bought from the mer chants their meat and breadstuff at from 2 and mostly 8 times the current, pri ces of those articles; while to obtain . these advances they bad U mortgage j their crops, stock*, aud many times all, to the merchants It was thought that, if ootton would sell at 25 or 80 cents the planter might be ablo to pay out; but, instead of that, cotton has been steadily declining, 80 that it now brings only 9 or 10 cents, which was the price usually before the war The war has loft note of them any re somcis to fail back upon; hence, the inevitable consequence that the planters are utterly ruined ; they will have no means to put in another crop without j some miraculous aid; some who work ed thirty or forty hands this year will ingage not more (han 4 or 5. And this fact will give rise to aoofhcT evil, for as large numbers of negroes will fail to ob tain employment, they will organize themselves into large armed bodies as they are already doing along the coast, even taking cotton and selling it in Sa vannah, and make their living by plun der. It has already been discovered that the planter can no longer expect to raise his own pork, for the negroes are fast killing up all the hogs in this conn try. Ihen the negro has become whol- , ly unreliable as a worker; it now takes ( two to do the work of o„c before ernan— | cipation. , If ootton should remain below 20c, which, in view of the strong toreign competition is highly probable, it will no longer pay the cost of cuhivation ; then the planter having no longer the benefit of the seed as a fertilizer, will soon impoverish Lis land so that he can not even raise corn ; but whenever this country is brought down to the cultiva tion ofgraia only it will no longer pay to cultivate the land at sll. lam living in what is cullrd the “garden spot of Geor gia, ’ yet 10 bushels of corn is all this soil will bring by the eld of c >tton seed >n « fav'Tabl' 11 •' iK.> »a owns years we have resided h- re, there has been only out favorable season The planters arc and w holding buck their cot ton, waiting for an advance ; but, 1 ?t »r iu vain ; many arc trying to swindle the merchants by soiling their cotton secretly at other points, t-h ugh mort gaged to them ; -others arc trying la evade their liabilities by refusing te pay their debts on the ground of extortion. This cripples the meicbants, and most of them will have to break. The con sequence of all this is that there is scarcely any money in circulation ; Ev ery body finds it hard to meet his nee cssary family expenses. Furthermore, this terrible ‘train up on a people used to wealth and super fluity, who never had to hen »te iu buy- j iug aoythirg they wanted, is having a sad effect upon their mrale. Mary take to hard drink ; pnblio confidence is destroyed; and we hear almost daily of some outrageous ease of swindling—> This slate cf things of course, effect* me very seriously. A war of racts is thought by many inevitable. i firmly believe that this country, at least, the Southern two-tbirds of it, will become a howling wilderness again— another Hayti. And why all this?— Because the Northern people loved the savage negro better than their white Southern brethren. The Northern men are sowing a crop of tho fiercest, bitterest hate in the breasts of South ern men and their descendants, which whenever there comes a season for tho gathering, will produce, most fearful re sults. Was there ever a civil war after which the vanquished patty were nn re cruelly insulted and impoverished thau this people ? Was there ever a people left with a darker and more helples-* fu ture ? It is only that this people know the utter futility of the thing, sr they would rise again and shake off this hate ful tyranny, aiyi break this mockery of a Uuioo with a people who aro either fanarics or worshippers of the “almigh ty dollar,” but aro utterly incapable of that sentiment of a noble, magnani mous victor, who spares the foe when down. I write the sentiments of every respectable Southern maD. But I tear I have already dwelt too ring on this subject. The weather has been delightful with the exception of three or four cold days. This is really a pleasant country to live iu ; the winters arc c>ld only a few days at a time, g morally i tier a rain.— • lu summer ilie thermometer vanes be tween SO and 95 deg re s; but wo ate witLiu reach of the Gull breezes, so that there is seldom any lack of a Irek wind. la Tenncscee it is usually two hut at night for comfortable sleep.— Here it is always delightful at night, and although one sleeps on the cover the first half of the night, soma cover is always needed the rest of it. Then wo have no mosquitoes, except near water courses ; and although there is much rickness io this part of the State, the only and principal diseases arc chills aud fever, bilious and intermittent fever, typhoid is very rare hero, though very common and generally fatal iu Upper Georgia apd Tennessee. The diseases of this region are very I rarely fatal. It is indeed surprising how few people die here. During two years we have resided in this place, two or three children died l»st year, and S' me four or live persons this year If this country could support me, 1 would exchange it for no other that I have seen I have nowhere found the peo ple so generous, social aud hospitable I could go for weeks from one house to another, and enjoy their unstinted and hereditary hospitality. What a pity that such a peoplo have to become mean and calculating ia order to make enough to live, n. w. a. Woman's Grare. I can pass by the tomb of a man vri'h somewhat of a calm indifferenoe; but wben I survey the grave of a female, a sigh involuntarily escapes me. With the holy name of woman, 1 associate every soft, tender, and dolicate affecliuD. 1 think of her as the ycuog and bash ful virgin, with eyes sparkling, and cheeks crimsoned with each impassioned feeling of the hesrt, an the kind affec tionate wife, absorbed in the exorcise of her domestic duties; as the chaste and virtuous matron, tired with the follies of the world, and preparing for the grave into which sbe must so soon de'cend. Oh ! there is something iu contempla ting the character of a woman, that raises the soul far above the vulgar lev el of soejetj. fsho is. farmed to adorn and humanize mankind, to soothe his c-arcs, and strew bis path with flowers. In fie hour of distress she is the rock on which he leans for support, and when fate calls him from existence, her tears bede w bis grave Ml !■“» ■ i n > w v . j c _ done, to his memory lie open to the cm ; but the mock aud uiiebstruslvc excellences ot the othey sleep with her uunotiecd in the grave. Iu her may have sbcnc the gcuius of a poet, wiih the virtues of a saint. She, too, may have passed unheeded along the s'erile pathway of her existence, and felt for others as I now feci for her.—[Anon. Lahorund I»l«m y Power. The eloquent Rev. Air. Chopin, thus speak- of the achievements of labor lie asks “whocan adequately describe the triumph* of labor, urged on by tlje potent t-poll ol money. ft has .ex tor etl the secret* ol tho universe, and trained its; pOvyeia into myriads of forms of use atld beauty. Prom the bosom of the old creation, it I Taft de veloped anew the creation ol indtntry and art. It has been its tasker l its glory to overcome obstacles. Mountains have been levelled uhd valleys been exalt cd belurc it. It has broken the rocky wul iuto fertile glades ; it hat crowned the hill tups with fruit aud venture, and bouu 1 orouad she very fret of ocean, ridges of golden corn. Up fromribe.suu less and hoary deeps, up from the shapeless quarry, it drags its spiritless marbles, aud rears its palaoes of pomp: It tears the stubbuin met us from the bowels of the glofie, aud makes them ductile to its will, ft marches steadily ou over the swelling flood, and through the mountain clefts. It fins its way through the winds cf ocean, tramples them iu its course, surges aud mingles them with flakes ot fire. CivfiiZAiiou follows in its path It achieve* grand er victories, it waves more durable, tro phies, it bolds wider sway than fhd con queror. lbs name becomes tioud and his monuments mumble ; but tabor con verts his red lutUiu fields into gardens, aud errtts msctnnt nts significant of lxH : ter thing.-*. ItJlths iu u ofurnot diiv '«n by the wind It writes with the lightning. It sits crowned as a t quccn in a thousand cities, aud sends up its roar of triumph from a million wheels. It glisteus iu theira'urle cf the loom, it ring-aud sparkles from the steely ham mer, it glories in shapes of beauty, it speaks iu words of power, it makes the sinewy arm strong with liberty, tbs poor roans heart rich with content urowns the swarthy and sweaty brow with hon or, and dignity, and peace. ‘jfcZg’Unc.a Isaac was a great stickier for grammar, lie always stuck t,o it that the adjective ‘good’’ admitted of no degrees of comparison,; ‘■for,” said he, “wlmt is good is good, and good is pool enoiigh. “One day .fake was reading’aloud the adventures of »n unlucky and not remarkably bright youth. Uheu he ( tune to ll.e Sentence : “Long ere Jue re'urged ” Uncle Ike suddenly- filler.!-up tod him, Ter the seventeenth time : “iut, tut,, boy ! 1 fiat's very bml grammar: readciGTectly— tuny eared —theie is no su.-h compound adjec tive as ‘Long ea- I.’ _ No. One* Niglit iu a Hospital. nr jane t/ieb. “You will come again lady V “Would you not like for mo to come ?” I said, art I bent over, the low bed. “I will die if you leave me now,” be said. “Then I shall come; but now it is time to return—a night’s rent will do you a world of good ” “l wish you would not go," he said faintly. ’ i ho tones were so full of entreaty, so full of an unknown wanting, that 1 stepped and paused. “You are very much better—surely you do not fear.’’ !3lie will come to-night,” ho answer ed, laying his I ami on-tnine, and gazing upun m» with his dark, sunken, but burning eyes, “and I cannot meet her alone,” I felt bis pulse—-there was do fe ver, no delirium in its quiet beat. 1 rose to go, but an unknown power restrained rite, throwing aside my wrappers, I sat down on the foot of the bed “An tour, more thao an hour !” lie murmured. “Have 1 ebam-ed much ?’ “Yes, very much,” I auswered sad >y- -1 *d lo will know me—know nio anywhere.” .“You arc much better,’’ I rallied, smoothing the white pillowT “In a few days you will be able to return borne, ” . ■ * “When Madeline comes, she will tuke mo with her ” 1 shaded the light from the sufleror's face; still bis bund clasped mine, and bis searching glance rested on the clos ed door. A night in a hospital! Tositsur umnded by the Buttering; to Jeel the clasp ol the fevered hand, as if it was sending its molten Java through your being—life arid death, earth and ira mortality 1 was startled from my reverie by Uic suodep movement of my patient, and the glad cry that rung from bis “Mhe has cornd I** The door swung noiales’y back, and u t.il, nmgmticemly formed woman, whose blacu vestments swayed to and |O , and over whose shoulders hung u wealth of raven hail, stood within the open portals. l»hWit seemed to mo mi unseen shadow c|uug around her. 1 looked upon my pat.cut, his up Its whole l'flcty Ws tyy the low bed, her arms wound around the dying man, and her lips pressed passionately to bis. A glory not of earth 101 l over the white face j the limbs relaxed; I bent eagerly forward, suppressing the cry that rose to my lips. In the dim light my patient vvas a one. I gazed eager ly around. Purely I did not dream I brought the tight to bear upon my pa trent's features. lie was dead ! Throwing tho sheets over the still form, I hastened to the watcher’s department. They bore bitn quietly into another chamber.— Ills bunds were clasped tightly over bis chest; within them lava cltscd ease containing two miniatures. 1 un fasUmod it. Ihe oue side contained a picture ol the •unkjiuwq dead ; the oth er— and there burst upon my view the mirrored s6lf of that beautiful woman —thtfcuas Madeline. It was band mi to me to retain until someone call ed lor it, ’I Lure were no mqurnera, but I gath ered white roses and flung them over flic new grave, and went back to life's duty a sadder,' ar.d I trust a belter woman “It is singular,” stud the attending surgeor. to me, “that the wife of the gentleman you mused that night should have died at the sumo hour, only ten minutes before. I am fold sh» was suddenly indisposed aa she rose from the supper table, and about twelve, almost wl.fiout a struggle she died, cal.iug passionately upon her bus band.” He passed on to attend his duties, not noticing the deathly pallor that gathered on my face 'l went borne w it|i a terrible fear l acking my whole systeirt. 1 wept as if softie part of my life had been drawn into a vast void —swept as if the late of these two was blende-J with my o»u. _ Never w ithout a shudder do I recall that one night iii a hospital. ‘Charlie, my dear,” said a loving mother to a hopeful son, just bud ding into breeches. “Charley, my dear come here and get some can dy.” “I guess I won’t.naiad it now moth of/’ replied Charley, “I've got iu some tobacco.” “I say Oiein,” cried two disputing darkies, appealing I t decision to a sa ble umpire, “which word is right; diz actly or dezictly ?” 'Hie sable umpire reflected a mo menf, and then, with a look oi wisdom said; *•••» “I cau’t tell pierzuet’y.V AVheutly has produced the ’White Faw'n at Niblo’s, ‘ that thrift may ihl ' low fawning.” The only General for whom we i feel any great degree of respect is i “General News,” when ho is Well dres | sod up. FTrauri Towers, on a bust,’ cut tip j face of At friend w'itlr a sbfgel. — • • laloiiifcrautc In Uligli Place*. “Mack,” the Washington correspon dent of the Cincinnati Commercial, in his lettor of tbo 17th uH., tolls the fol lowing ; - • " ' 3 There never was greater noed than at present for a vigorous prosecution of intomperunce in high places \\ hetlier Senator had become discouraged or disgusted I knew not, but he seouis to Lave- entirely relin- quished his Cbriijtjan efforts, of a year ago, to reform Gfrngressional breth ren through the agency of his temper unco society. One gentleman, who vvas an exem plary member of the Congressional Temperance Society a year ago, as tonished and appalled the boarders at Willard’s one morning last week, by entering the breakfast room in his night shirt, at 10 a. m ; another was taken heme in a hand cart, not many Sunday’s since, while still another, over who-te conversion all the ladies wore a year ago saturating their pock et banterchiefs, and “carrying 0 n” in a more melo-dramatic way than any thing recorded of the Brick Lane Btanch of tbo Ebenezer Temperance Society, of which the eider Mr. Wel ler’s “seeon wintur” was such a bright and shining light—that gentleman, (need I say he is a distinguished Sen ator from the West f) has been for a weok or mure confined to his room and a diet of pickled cabbage to help him over prolonged carouse, terminating m the deliriums. N./r is this all;'- Would that it Were. It is not even the worst. As thia subject is a delicate one, I shall be pardoned, I trust, for with holding names. The moral sense of tbo nineteenth century revolts against such publicity as a vile slander. The newspapers are licensed to be funny over the police court reports, and to blazon forth £poor John Smith’s de bauch as an awful example, but be tween a groat man and his “little weakness” the moral one hangs a viel which no journalistic Asmodcus dare lift, with incurring censure as a respon sible scribbler and an envenomed cal umniator. A particular case (I repeat that I usa no names) has • become so serious of late, that an eminent Bwhnn „f the Methodist Church has iMpnt for, and has come nil the w'(tffiM*Fhij B delphia to sea. wb.*-t oi ftce is, or ought lo be, to adminis’er, instead of prohibit vpili'tkul consola tion. M |1 JLot*. By Joe Blank.—Re keeriul that you alius git your muna before you givo a reeeet ; and alius git a receet be fors you give your muna. Fl you air ouh » quarter es a second tu late, you won’tthar iu time. We’ve got lots of men with toweren intollcx and hrillycut geuyus and all that, but then you see we need just a few men of good caramon sense like. There may be seme swett sadness iu chewing the bitter cud of adversity, but the most uv ’em iu this section would rather hav terbacker you know. Es wise «en never made tifistaks, this wood be a Lard wm Id for fools— ol whom a great many are wbiob. Its no uso to be in.zombie to da be— couse you’re afrade you cau’t.he happy to-morrow. It required all kinds nv men to tnaik up the wut ld, and so you tee there had to be some egotietikie dutu fools for ho* t:l cletks. ‘lt don’t take as ranch sense to pick a lock or forge a check as it'dusto fijt'dd rt. • When it rains podden, you • hold up your dish, hut don’t *ptnd your time wateben for a shower, , It don’t take a smart man to be a fool. You can’t do business without pease any more tfcao yu keu start a kooper shop on a lung hole, A. man that don’t kno enny thing, will tell it the first' time Lo gets a chano*. Es I enjoy enny thing more than the prosperity of a m*od man, it iu the pun ishment of an in eroa! scoundrel. - -■ ' t The citizens of Diinville, To., bnve deemed by Vote to make a eoroortife *„b-*criplioti of $125,000 to the Norfolk aud Uieut Western liuiiroad, The pulisco-iptions for the erection of the Uresbytei ian Female College iu Abingdon, Virginia, bavo already reached tfio handsome sum of $5,000. lion. Wm. Lander, who w-as a member of the Confederate Congress died in Lincolnton, N C., on th* Gtli inef. Aaron Jones has got into court in Cincinnati lor threatening to punch » man's bead. , - William Daniel, aged 101,has jusn died in Fayette otmnty, 111. Hi? sisteiq aged 10f3, hia loss. , It Las Iwen legally decided in Eng land that a stamped sac simile of a sig nature bears the same value as the written one. Gov Baker, of Iu , jfltlonad one hundred and fir et*n coh\i ts from the State prison in 1807. George M. Dent, a brother in-law of Gen Grant, is a candidate for Con gress in Arizona. A Christian mnri lad better go lo the theatre than go home whming be cause 1 e can’t go. A flew way to pry old debts—sittle them. .