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gatoson aatcrkltt journal, Published Every Ttaur»diy BY FURBYMAS & MERIWETHER TE RMS—Strictly in Advance, Tbree month* His months. «.*• •**■*s* ** On# year.... $* w Hales of Advertising : One dollar per square of ten lines for the Brat Insertion, and Seventy-ffvo Cents per square lor eaob subsequent insertion, not ex ceeding three. Odi square three m0nth5.......8 00 Bn# square six months. • «*.. •*. -- *. 1200 On* square one year 20 00 Two squares three months.,,. 12 00 Two squares six m0nth5.,,,.,...... 18 00 Two square# one year.,,, SO 00 |T#urth of# column three moths 30 00 Fourth of a column six months 50 00 nalT colintd tWe moth* 45 00 Half column six months 70 00 One cojktn# three months 70 00 On# column six months 100 00 *1 btral Deductions Made on tontrnct Advertisements. Le*al Advertising. Sheriff’# Sales, per levy ?2 60 Mortgage Fi Fa Sales per square 6 00 ■Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 •< “ 11 Guardianship, 800 Dismision from Apministration, 8 00 « *• Guardianship, 4 00 Application for leave to sell land, 6 00 Sales of LaDd, per square, 6 00 Sales of Perishable Property per equ’r, 3 00 Notices to Debtors and Creditors,.... 3 60 foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, 2 00 fistray Notices, thirty days, 4 00 Job Work of every description exe ■eutedwith neatness and dispatch, at moderate rites. RAIL-ROAD GUIDE. Smtitliwestern Railroad. WM. HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL POWERS, Sup Leaves Macon 8 A AT; arrives at Eu fauia 6 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. R. WALKER, Superintendent. DAY PASBENGKR TRAIN. Leaves Macon . • • 7 *°£' „ Arrives at Atlanta . . . 1 67 r. M. Leaves Atlanta . . . ® A. M. Arrives at Macon . • • 130 P. M. NIGHT TRAIN. Leaves Macon . • • * V Arrives at Atlanta . . „ Leaves Adaiita • • 8101 .M. Arrives at Macon . . • X 25 A.M. Wciieru &. Atlantic Railroad. CAMPBELL WALLACE, Sup't. DAT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Atlanta . • • 845A M. Leave Dalton .... £ ' Arrive at Chattanooga . • s “ 1 . u Leave Arrive at AtUnt* . • • 1 2 -Oo P. S. NIGHT TRAIN. I,save Atlanta . . • 700 P. M. Arrive at Chattanooga . • 4 },° $ „ Leave Cbatiauooga . . 4SO 1 . »J. Arrive at Dalton . . • 750 P. M. Arrive at Atlanta . . •'C A jjgusinfgg " DR. W. H. HGDNETT WILL, at all times, take great pleasure in waiting on all who desire his services , and ace willit g to pay ior tbe (ante. No other practice is solicited. Dawson, Ga., Jauuary 80Lh, 1868—ly Dll. 11. A. WARNOCK, OFFERS his Professional services to the citizens of Chickasawhatchee and its viciaitT. From ample experience in both *i?i] aud Military practice, he is prepared to ara*t successfully, c&scfl iu every department •/ his profession. junlG’GSif C. B. WOOTEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dtttcson, Ga. j»ai6 1868 ly «. S. OCRI.BY. WILD C. CLEVELAND. GURLEY & CLEVELAND, A TTORNEYiS A T LA JF, JUUford , Baiter County, Ga. J. P. -A.LLETST, WATCH AMD REPAIRER .■IS JEWELER, Dawson, Oa., II prepared to do any work in his line in the very best style. feb23 ts J. G. S. SUUTH7 GUN SMITH and Machinist, i.• Georgia. Repairs all kinds of Guns, Pistols, Sewing ■ahiaes, etc., etc. 2 ly. Km l iREPAIR SHOP AT PRIJrCES' stahk.es, Rawiou, ... Georgia, CAN furnish the public with Carriage Trimming, Harness Mounting, Ac. All W#rk promptly done for the cash. BOTj2’»7Jm HARRIS DENNARD. Fresh Garden Seed EOR A.T Perryman & Meriwether’s Drug Store New Firm! New Firm! ‘ IT h»vinp formed a copart j-„ ?r " h ‘P, »re now orcnpyin|; the new bulld og forraerlj- occupied by Wm. Wooten, on o* n Btre j'’ ? PM <,oor South of the 1 Journal’ ee, end will keep every thing usually found family Grocery, at such prices ul induce all to trade that call oo them. *. „ CROWELL A HOOD. _ W|OD , G» , Ftbruary 6, IS6B -If THE DAWSON JOURNAL Vol. 111. POKTIIV. dlnipMm of 1 rulli. BT JOHN 0. SAX*. The following has a moral which requires but little thought to discover: It was six men of Ilindoostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see tbe Elephant, Though all of them were blind, That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approaehed the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: “O bless me ! —but the Elephant Is very like a wall." The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried ‘‘Ho! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp 1 To me ’tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear.” The Third approached tbe aumial And happening to take The squirming trunk within bis bauds, Thus boldly up and spake : “I see,’’ quoth he, ‘‘the Elephant Is very like a snake." The Fourth reached out his eager hand, And fell above his knee ; “What most this mighty beast is like Is mighty plain," quoth be; “ ’Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree.’’ The fifth , who chanced to touch the ear, Said, “E’en the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact w jo can, This marvel ol the Elephant Is very like a fan 1" The Sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Thau, seizing on the swinging tail That fell wuhin bis scope, “I see,” quoth he, “the Elephant Is very like a rope!" And so these men of Ilindoostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly iu the right Aud partly in the wrong. A Mandat'd Time to tlic Whole W oi l J. A correspondent, writing to the Sci evt.fir American upon the subject of a standard time fur the whole world, says: Tbe annihilation tl distance by ihc telegraph must have forcid upon inaDy minds (he necessity of establishing at some point a time piece which shall gov ern all the rest ol the world, a time dis tinct from the ‘‘local,” and which shall poiut to twelve o’clock at the same ic staut all over this sphere. '1 he hour must be numbered from one to twenty four, inclusive, in order to distinguish it from local time, thus doing away en tirely with A. M end P. M- (wbcD using standard or universal time;) twelve then would mean midnight only at the geverning point, while twenty four would mean noon at th it point For the rest of mankind it would be a certain guide for all official purposes. Railroad time cards w.uld no longer perplex the public, and trains would run on uniform time everywhere. Every watch would have its two sets of hands, one for the local and or.e for the universal time. A telegram sent from Lord n to Sa Francisco, bearing the standard time at staiting, would show to the recipient thcriof exactly how long it took to reach him, how much actual time actually consumed. As it is now, no one can have a near idea without considerable figuring, and then he may be figu'iug twenty-four hours too early or too late Every telegraph and railway once would receive its time daily, so that nowhere would the “tiroes” be a minute “out of joint.” January 31, 1868, one o’clock, would be January 31, 1868, one o’clock, all over tbe official world. What a fine regulator of local time this would be; we should always have one right by having the other correct, there being always the same difference, so that should we know one we would know the other Suppose, then, that Greenwich be the staudaid time as well as the calculating point for longitude. There is still a better 'ime than this, but it so entirely supplants so many familiar terms, such as “noon,” ‘‘morn ing,” “evening,” when used in connec tion with breakfast, dinner and tea, that it would go a little bard at first, though I have no doubt that, at some time, there will be but one time, and at a future day it will be perfectly easy to say “dinner at six o’clock,” which would mean somewhere near oui present time. C3T. ‘John,’ inquired the master of j a hopeful pupil, what is a nailer!’ ‘A mau-who makes nails,’ answered John. ‘Very good. What is a tailor !’ ‘A man who makes tails.’ ,Oh, you stupid fellow,’ said the mas ter, biting hi# lips ; 'a man who makes tails ?’ ,Yes, master,’ replied John, 'if the talor did not put tails to the coats he made, they would be all jackets.’ DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 8«, 186S. Uertionl in Georgia. Headqr’s 3d Mil itary Dist I Georgia, Alabama and For id , > Atlanta, Ga., March 9, 1868 ) General Order No. 39. I. Whereas, The Constitutional Con vention of the State of Georgia, which assembled in Atlanta, in compliance with General Orders No. 89, issued from these headquarters November 19, 1867, did, in pursuance of tbe acti of Congress specified in said General Or ders, proceed to frame a Constitution aud civil government for the State of Georgia, and provide for the publica tion ol said Constitution ; and did fur ther, by an ordinance of said Conven tion adopted March 11, 1868, submit for ratification to tbe persons in said State registered anti to be registered as voters under the aots of C tigress afore | said, at an election to begin on the 20 h day of April, 1868. and to be kept open from day to day, at the discretion of the General C< remanding, as such pla ces as he may designate. 11. And Whereas, by an act of Con gress which became a law March 12, 1868, it is provided that, hereafter, any election, authorized by the acts of Con gress aforesaid, shall be decided by a majority of the votes actually cast; and at the election, in which the question of the adoption or rejection of any Con stitution is submitted, any person duly registered in tbe State may vote in the election district where he offers to vo'e, when he has resided therein for ten days next proceeding such election, up on presentation of his certificate of registration, bis affidavit, or other satis factory evidence of registration, under such regulations as the District Com mander may prescribe. 111. And W’hcreas, said acts of Con gress provide that the election for rati-, fication of said Constitution shall be conducted by the officers or poisons ap pointed or to be appointed by the com manding General, and at tho day fixed by said Convention : IV. It is ordered, That an election he held iu the State of Georgia, com mencing on Monday, the 2 f th day of April, 1868, and continuing four d.:y-, at which the rtg : str-rc.d voters of said State may vote for or against the C i stitu'ion submitted to them by the or dinancc aforesaid. Those voting in fa vor of the Constitution shall have wiit— ten or printed on their ballots the words “For the Constitution,” and those vot ing against the Constitution, shall have written cr printed upon their la'lots tbe words, “Against the Constitution.” V. It stall be tbe duty of the Boards of Registration in Georgia, in accor dance with said acts, commencing four teen days prior to the election herein ordered, and giving reasonable public uotice of the time and place thereof, to revise, for a period of five days, the reg istration lists, and upon beiDg satisfied that any person, not entitled tbereto bag been registered, to strike the name of such person front the list, and such person shall not be allowed to vote.— And such Boards shall' also, during tbe same period, add to such registry the Dames of all persons, who at that time, possess the qualifications required by said acts, wbo have not been already •gistered. In dcoiding who arc to be stricken from or added to the registration lists, the Board will guided by the aets cf Congress relating to reconstruction, and iheir attention is especially called to the Supplementary act which became a law July 19, 1867 VI Said election shall be held in each county in the State under the ?u periotendence of the Boards of R gin— tration, as provided by law, and polls will be opened, af'er due an 1 sufficient noti e, at as many points in each coun ty, not exceeding tbree, as, in tho opin ion of said boards, may be required lor >he convenience of voters. And in any city, or other place, where there is a Jarge cumber of voters, it is hereby made the duty of said boards to open as many polls as may be necessary to ena ble tbe voter* to cast their votes with out unreasonable delay. VII. Auy person duly registered in the State as a voter, may vote in any county in the State where he offers to vote, when he has resided therein for ten days next proceeding the election. V hen he offers to vote in the county where he was registered, and his name appears on the list, of registered voters, he shall not be subject to question or challenge, except for the purpose ot identification, or as to residence. And any person so registered, who may have removed from the corn ty from which he was registered, shall be permitted to vote in any oounty in the State to which he has removed, when he has resided therein for ten days next proceeding the election, upon presentation of bis certificate of registration, or upon mak ing affidavit before a member of tbe Board of registration, or a judge or manager of tho election, that he is reg istered as a voter, naming the county in which he is so registered; that ho hus resided in the county whero he of fers to vote for ten days next proceed ing the election, and that be has not voted at this election. Blanks for such uffidavits will be supplied by the Boards of registration, and the name of tbe vo ter making oath must be endorsed on his ballot, and, all such affidavits must be forwarded with the returns of the election. VIII. The polls stall be opened at eaoh voting place during tbe days of election at 7 o’clock, A M., and olose at 6 o’clock P. M , and shall be kept open between those hours without in termission or adj' urnment. IX All public bar-rooms, saloon&a and other places fur the sale of liquor at retail, at the seve al county seats, and at other polling places, shall be dosed from six o’clock or the evening proceeding tbe election un*il 6 o’clock of the morning after the last day of the election Any person relating this order shall be subject to fine or impris onment Sueriffs and thier deputies and municipal ■ ffieers will be held re sponsible fur tbe strict enforcement of this prohibition, by the aireßt of all per sons who may transgress the same. X The sheriff of each oounty is here by ri quired to be present at the oounty scat, aud to appoint deputies to be present at each polling place in his county, during the whole time that the polls are kept open and until the elec tion is completed, and is made responsi ble that no interference with the judges or election or other interruption of good order shall occur. And aDy sheriff or Deputy Sheriff, or other civil officer, failing to perform, with energy and good faith, the duty required of him by this order, will, upon report made by the judges of the eleotion, be arrested and dealt with by military authority, and punishel by fine or imprisonment. XI The commanding officer of the District of Georgia will issue, through the Superintendent of registration for this State, such detailed instructions as may be necessary to tue craduct of said oleetions in conformity with the act of Congress. XI The returns required by law to be made the results of said election to the commanding general of this milita ry District, will bo rend red by the per sons appointed to superintend the panK, through the commanding officer of the District of Georgia, and in accordance with the detailed instructions already referred to. XIII. No officer who is a candidate for office at said election shall act as register, judge, inspector, manager, clerk, nr in any official capacity connect ed with conducting the election. XIV. Violence of threats of violence, or any oppressive or fraudulent means employed to prevent every person from exercising the right of suffrage, is posi tively prohibited, and every person guil ty of using the same, shall on conviction thereof before a military commission, be punished by fine or imprisonment- XV. No contract or agreement with laborers made for tbe purpose of oou troling their votes, or of restraining them from voting, will be permitted to be enforced against them ia this Dis trict. By Older of Major General Meade. R. C. Drum, Assistant Adjutant General' Headq’rs 3d Military District, Y Georgia, Alabama and Florida, > Atlanta, March 16, 1868 y Genera! Orders No. 42 All civil officers in this military dis trict are hereby required to obey all the orders issued from these Headquar ters relating to tbe performance of their rffieial du ies; and any officer refusing to obey any such order, shall, on con viction thereof before a Military Com mission, be punished by fine or impris onment, or both. By order ot Major General Meade. R. C. Drum, A. A. G. Dastardly Outrage.— The partic u'ars of a meet atrocious outrage upon the person of a young girl, nsimd Em f ily Ledbetter, aged 16. years, by tbe negro outlaw, Henry Brown, havo been furnished us by (’apt Ed Mur phy, of the police The fiendish act was perpetrated about dusk on Hon da*, on the Peach ree road, 21 miles fro*m town, while Miss Ledbot'er was passing ultjiig the road to her honu-. Bhe was violently seized by tbe helliun, and there being no assistance at hand, she was powerless to resist his hellish designs Brown, escaped in'o the woods, and returned to the city, where, at a late hour r.l the nigh , he was ar rested by Capt Ed Murphy and Lieu. Johnson, of the poliee; af er which, he was taken betore his victim who at once recognized him as the guilty par ty The case was up before Judge Smith yesterday, and we hope that Henry Brown, who has long been a pest in It is , oftiinuiiily will speedily find the (Dd of that rope which he hns merited. —Atlanta IsteUtgencer, 10 th test. Fiom the New York World. 'Burning of Barunui’i Museum. STATEMENT OF THE (JIANT OlltL. “I am twenty years of agi ; my uamc is Ann Swaiu ; I weigh 413, and wa# born in Nova Scotia.” Reporter “Are you married Miss Swain Giantess. “No, but I could if I bad wanted to, easy .” Reporter “Where were you at the time of the fire?” (Here tho giant ess smoothed her hair, threw out her noble legs, and shook her dress, look ing very nice all over ) Giautess. “I was in tbe fourth floor between the lecture room and tbo gal lery, aud it was just about half-past twelve o’clock, aud had got everything off me except my chemise and stockings when 1 heard a scream —and such a scream ! J?ays 1, ‘Sakes alive, what oan that be, Ido wonder?’ The po licemen begau to holler, and tho fire and smoke came up stairs into my room. What, was a poor woman to do in such a trouble ? I was iu a tremor and a flutter, but I grabetd iny j wel ry; arid then I heard a womau’a voice cry, ‘l’ve lost my child.’ And sakes alive, I took my jowelry, aud throwing my dress over my shoulders, turned to make my way dowu stairs with all my portable property in the folds of my dress tucked up; but I did not know where to go, when up came two big po licemen, with their clubs in their hands, and baid to me, ‘'Come this wav, roy heavy Old Gai,’ and I went dowu stairs with the impudences, but not before I thought to rescue a pet pelican of mine ; hut us I was going down stairs, a po liceman took hold of me aud pulled the dress, wilh my watch, jowelry, aud a beautiful Muiratnique dress, off my body, aud away tbey went into the smoiie and flumes, and I ueversaw them again aud 1 had to go out into the street the way I was born almost, aud I got over to the hotel, aud her# I um aud my loss is 3,000 for my wardrobe aud jewelry. I saw no reporters that night and made no statement to them.’ Reporter. “Were you as much frightened as you were at tbo last fire iu the old museum, Miss Swain ?” Giantess. “Bakes alive y»uug man —I was twico as skeered. You know that was in the daytime and this was iu the night—sakes alive, and I had nothing on me but my chemise. What was a poor woman to do?” STATEMENT OF THE BEAUTIFUL CIRCAS SIAN, This young lady is very pretty, and quitt a c quette. Her large lustrous eyes opened wide when our reporter asked her a question as to her expeti cnee, and she laughed loudly, and stop pel flirting wilh a your,g man wearing a suock of red i.air, when question Reporter (with a sigh. “How (lid you escape the devastating element ?’’ Zulcima. “Well, I’ll tell ye how, hut please don’t make fun of me in the world, will ye ?” Reporter. “Do not be afraid, miss, I shall not.” “Well, you see I was on the top floor, and I had all my biautiful hair uudone, aud Iwa goiug to bed. Just so. I -was thinking ot all the nice yuuug men with curly hair that 1 bad seen iu tho museum during the day, and looking (laughing) at my thirty thousaud < ollar necklace which Queuu Victoria gave me at Buckingham Palace, when all at once I heard such a scream. I even hear it now, and it makes me feel as if a cold key was put down my back. And then I knew nothing until I was pulled down stairs some way or the other, and I would have fainted hut I was afraid of beiug burned up Then 1 had h >(h --oo me hardly, and I felt ashamed (laughter.) Ye#, indeed, I did. Aud then when 1 got to the doer I was all in a shiver, aud a young man, Mr. Har ris, gallantly tiled to carry me across the snow and slu-b and I lost my shoes. I wear twos and Mr. Harris teus, end be took off his boots and put them on me, but they wou.d not fit. And then he took me avross, and here 1 am. I was so afraid of losing my beautifu hair (with a sigh), aud have lost every thing Including the necklace given me by Queen Vtout!ia. And I thiuk Mr. Harris is a good young man for saviug me,” Reporter. “Did you lose any dress es ?” Zn'cima. “Yes, I lost a splendid clarer colored silk that cost me 392 at Btewart’s. Didn’t 1 Zuruby ?” Zuruby Hannum. “Yes, of coarse you did, dear.” Zu'eima. “I never saw tho Tribune reporter, and never gave him any state ment at all. It isn’t true. You are tbe only one I would give it to.” STATEMENT OF TIIE FAT WOMAN. My name is Adelaide Powers I weigh four hundred pounds I am heavier than the young elephant I was born in Shelby oounty, Kentucky 1 can eat my meals, thank God, and am married. I was on the same floor with Miss Swain, where they have the kitch en and the daguerrean gallery About half pa t twevle I was silting in the bed but had not gone to bed, when I beard the policemen shouting, and they came running up stairs to save me. One of them said “D>you want to be burnt up ?’ and I said “Nn,” when another said ‘Ain’t she fat?’ and hero they caught hold of my leg and they pulled me down stairs, aud I bad no dress on, and when tbey got me across to the ho tel t hey put tny dress on, but they w«re men, and they put it on tbe wrong | side, and hooked it wrong. Tbey also j hooked my corset for me. 1 lost $lO in money, aDd my entire losa is SSOO, wardrobe and all. Why Bre good resolutions like faint ing ladies ? Because tbey want- ‘carry ing out.’ ivo. r. “Home Sweet Home.” Night dropped her shadowy vail over London, and the man le of mists that ait day long; had enveloped the citv grew more dense and fell n bead ed drops of ruin Tbe gas lights burn od brightly at tbe corners, but it was u dreary night to be out in. Yet crows filled the streets for fven in tho night storms, the great thorough seres ore never deserted Guilt and wretch edness are always wakeful and abroad. To realize the desolation of loneliness, one must be a stranger in a crowded city, with a sensitive nature, and a re finement that shru b from rude con tac’s, and uncongenial companion ship. Alor.e in the court.ry with the blue sky above us, and the green grass be neath our feet, there are charms that woo us to forge fulness. There is mu sic in the running stream and beutny in the flowers that grow upon its banks. Bom# German w riter, I have forgotten who, calls flowers the stars of the earth and B'ars the flowers of heaven. Fair and radiant flowers they are and shed their brigh -ness on the smoka wreathed city, but in their mutculess, sos ened aud mellow ed light seem to linger more pleasantly ou green fields and waving corn. Alone in London ? Drenry and des olate reality, that swelled almost to bursting u weary and aching heart The stranger gathered his thin cloak around his shivering form, and drew his hat over hie face, with a sensitive shrinking from the crowd that rudely jostled past h>m. He was alone in London and very poor, not ev. u a shill ing to procure a scanty supper. Bomowhere in a dark part of the city, where the gas lights were few, up man; pair of stairs, was the garret in which he slept; but in it there was nothing save the darkness, one broken ebair and a wretched bed wiib it scan ty covering. When he entered the desolate cham ber in nights like this an unseen com pany sutrounded him, Uie spirits of the viewless air. and iu the wailing of the wind, they tolu him strange mysteri ous ta'es of wretchedness and dread, until, hall wild with dark imaginings, he rushed forth in the night and the pelting storm. Thus through the chill ing sleet and rain he walked the streets, looking into the hard faces of the passers by and wondering if in all London there was another man who hud no one to care for him, no one to love him. And then he thought how deliciously s r nge it would seem to him—a strung! r and a wanderer for many years—to be loved. He hoped tbe b eased light would dawn upon him, but in the ifurkne sos this night it seemed a great way of.— The cloud of poverty and gloom that wrapped his heart was too cold and deep, he feared, for human sympathy ; and love to penetrate. He seemed to j see before him, Fate, with weird fin gers, weaving the mystic web of his i lonely destiny and as he watched the phanLum hands with feveriah intensity, he wondered if at some future day that a mantle of brightness might fall upon him instead of a pall A strain of sweet music broke in upon his lone ly musings. Over ail refined na urea music has an absorbing power, and though it often fills the son! with sad ness it casts upon it tho spell of an ir resi6table fascination ; and the string *r paused in his desolate w alk to listen to the sing Tbe windows of the prince ly mansion were bul half vailed, and be could see the happy group that sur rounded the piano, and the fair girl that sang the s ft minor air which sauk into the !istenet s heart He was a poet, and had written songs of tenderness and love for others to sing. Himself, he couldn’t sing with : such a weight upon his heart The light of genius was in his eye, and the imagery of a fervid imagination gath ered round his brain, and the poet’s native impulse, loving, warm and tru.e, lived within bis heart. Id the sensitive and gif ed the long ing for sympathy and love is far more intense than in ruder Qetures, and all his life long his heart bad yearned w ith passionate eagerness for the puro delights ol home and the bliss of sym pathy und love The song was over but still he line gered, watching the firelight’s fi ful glow, as it shed its ruddy sheen upon the changing group. Again the fair girl took her seat at the piano and sang wi>b inmitable grace and beauty. “Home, Bweet Horae. It, was his song ! He, the homeless wanderer, bad written “Home, SweetiAiome ” lie stood out in the dsi knees and night, listening to his song, the child ol his own heart and brain, locking in a' the window of‘Home, Sweet Home,' knew that in all the world there was no home for him Thu song ended. He "eat down on the store steps cf the stately mansion, . with the raiu beating heavily upon him,! and burying his face in his hands, wept j in the bitterness of hie heart Years passed away, and still he was a homeless wanderer. Often in the streets of London, Berlin, and Paris, he heard -‘Home, Sweet Home,” wt.ich in aH lands and all hea ts had become a household word Later in life he became Consul to Tunis, and dud a stranger in a strange land. Never, save in bis dreams, had ho known the bliss of “Home, tiweet Home 1” ‘Largo bodies movfg slo/ This prov erb dou’t apply to lies, for the bigger tha ar the faster tha go. Barnum fcas left the mureum bu*i cea forever. Josh Rilling# oil Bed Bags- I never see ennybody yet but wbat desp sed bed bugs, f hey tire the mean* est uv awl crawling, creeping, hopping or biting things They dussunt tackle a yiau bidalitn. but sneuk in, after dark aud chaw him while he iz fast usluep A muske-to will ffght you in broad duliio, at short runge, and give yoy n chance to knock his sides—lhe flea is a game bug, and will make a dash at yoi* even in Broudway ; hut the heu bug# in a garroter, who waits tin you s rip and then picks out r mellow p uce to ea| you II l waz ever in the habit of ing, I would not hesi'ate to damn a bed hug rignt tew hU face. Bed hugs arc uncommon smart w A "ttiall way— one puirofthem will stock a hair mattra..s in 2 weeks with bug* enufl iew lay: a small family a whole year It don’t do enny good to pray when bed bugs are in seas in ; the only way tu gut rid <>v them i-. to bile up the whole bed in aqut-fortis aud tuou heave it away and buy anew on-. Bed-hugs v. hen they hav grown an! they intend to, aro about the sizs ot r blue jay's eye, and hav a brown com-' plexion, and when they start out to garrot are uz a grteae spot, but when they gi' thru garroting thry are swelU ed up like a blister. It takes them three day# iew git the swellin out >v them. II bed bugs hav enny destroy tew fill it must be their stummuks, but it seem# to me that they must have been made by acksident, just as a ivvets arc, lew stick into sutnbtxly. If they was got up for #oni9 wise par* pose, they must have took the wrong, for there kant be enny wisdom in chaw ing a man aul night lo»g and ruziu a family besides, tew totter the same trade If there iz some wisdom in aul this, I hope the bugs will chaw them folk# who kail see it, and leave me be, btc kuuz l am one ov the heriticks. Terrible Adveulnre on tkt Plain*. The St. Paul Pioneer relate# tba fol lowing case ot tx' raurdiuary hardship on the D.kota prairies : A M'. Ciieever, in oompaa; with two half-breeds (mail carriers,) left Fori Totten, on Devil’s Lake, for this poiot, about January Ist. They had with them a dog train, for the purpose of transporting their rations and the mail. After havt::g proceeded about half w#y from the fort to B it a Chicaux, a mail Ration (or campim; place,) about equi distant betwoen Fort Tott#a *ud Bib ley’s old crossing of the Cheyenne river, they were ove>taken by ouo of those terrible storms known only to thyso who have been favored wi h the opportunity of enjoying a winter of frontier life in this particular latitude The little par ty suocecdcl in battling with the ele meets until tbey arrived within about three miles of Bdt a Cuieaux, when Cheever, having become much exhaust ed, vtat compelled to take refuge in a coolie. The and, gs were also left behind, as they were much fatigued and tinablu to proceed. The two half-breeds went ahead to the station fur tho purpose of obtaining relief, but were unable to re turn until the expiration of three day# —the storm continuing in full blast all the tiu o While ou their way to the relief of Cheever, they met him coming in—aod in what manner ! Two of the dogs, half starved, were crawling xt hi# bee s, wfiiie by a string be drsggi and what was left of their mate, a portion of which he bad devoured rato (for he had no means of making a tiro,) to save him -clf from starvation. The and gs, in th#>r d< speratioD, had destroyed all his pro visions on the first night he remained in the coolie, aud to kill aud eat ons of them was his -sly safety. On arrivieg n carap both his hands and feet were Sound to be hbdty fn-z n, and tbe flesh has since commpuced failing eff. Strange Occurrence at a Death in Canada. —One day during the latter part of last week a middle-aged man named Isaac Currie, of the township ot Mono, C. W., went to Toronto on a vis it, with his wife. There she was taken sick, and Mr Currie returned home alone. He did not go to bed till 2A. M on Saturday morning, having eaten nothing for some time, and suffered much from cold and exposure. After retiring he was attacked wi'b cramps and was unable to get up On Saturday grew rapidly worse, and by night was totally insensible, breathless and apparently dead. He lay in that condition till the Monday following, when he was buried. It was noticed previous to his interment that the board on whioh he lay was warm, tbit his hand was cloned and sweaty, while his faoe lost its rigidity and assumed a pleasant : smile. This was soon noised abroad, and parties were bold to affirm that he was still alive I Immediately a party weut to the grave and hastily broke open the coffin. No signs of life, how ever, were then visible, and ooroner’a i inquest being heidupon vho body, » ver l diet was returned of “death from ex haustion and exposure ” He was in the grave about an hour before disinterment. Broke ms Agreement.— “ How much do you charge, inassa 'magis trate to marry me and Miss Dinah ?” “Why, Clem, I’ll marry you for two dollars.” “Two dollars ! What da yon charge to marry White folks, trussa?” asked Clem. ’ * „ “Five dollars.” “Well, you marry us like white folks anl I’ll give you five dollars too ” ■‘Why, Clem, that’s a curious bo tiou, but as you desire it I’ll marry you like the white Jolks for five dol lars,” The ceremony being over, Clem and Dinah being one, the mag’strate asked for his fee. Oh 1 no massa, you no cum up to de greement, you no kiss dc brida.” “Get out of tny effi’e, bla k