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THE DA VVSON JOURNAL.
Voi. in.
Uobiiel—Or, a Story without a
fflorul.
BY X—CHAPTER THIRD.
Dear reader, when you finished the
last chapter of this melancholy story
and dwelt upon the fleeting and evanes
cent character of all human calculations
as prefigured by the fate of Dobuol—
when you refleoted cn bow rapidly he
had passed from the zenith to the radius
of his pomp and pageantry after wasting
labor and lavishing money so profusnly,
of course you took a good cry. But all
is not yet told. The shoes were gone,
the sooks out at the toes, the dirt of
yesterday’s ploughing was on the feet
and no water nearer than tho front
piazza. Bob determined to leave—to
betake himself to flight by a sneaking
detour through the back yard. His
hat was left overnight in the old peo
ples’ room—but trifles never stood in
the way of his purposes. Having called
Dave and bade him “geer up and meet
mo at the nigh eend uv widder Gibbses
lane fence,” he slipped slyly out and
moved off. With something amounting
to a religious scrupulousness ho preserv
ed the leap-frog attitude for a full half
mile. Then a feeling of security came
over him and he straightened up, blew
off a-rcgular steam-engine puff and ex'
claimed audibly as if completing an
inaudible sentence, “nurl haint married
Dilsy nuther.” At the sound of his
voice there was a rustling in the leaves
about five steps off and—oh, horrible!
the form of old Snout, resting from the
labor of driving some hogs out of the
“tater” patch, lay stretched upon the
ground. ‘‘Why Robert, what on yearth
ar you doin out here this time a day
’tbout any hat and barefooted ?” Bob
uel was trapped and in mercy to him
we will pass over the bungling, awk -
ward and fearfully embarrassed manner
in which his explanation was delivered
The old gentleman having learned the
’salient points in the matter, forced his
own shoes on Bob’s feet, promised to
keep all that had happened a profound
secret, laughed considerably and finally
induced our hero to take the back track-
A tale was ooncocted to tell the family,
which pleased Bob amazingly and in
deod he felt new as good and hopeful
and happy as only youug, ardeut lovers
know bow to feel. On reaching the
yard fence he saw Miss Dilsey and her
mother feeding and counting the chick
ens— the young creature looked so fresh
and rosy—so like the bright, sunny
morning that shone on her —his heart
began to dance to the music of her
“cbick-chiek-chickee-e-e”—hut hold !
Where is the gigg ? Where’s Dave?
Ah. they and the kritter are quietly
jogging along “atoards the nigh eend
of widdet Gibs’es lane fence.” How
this wretched consciousness intricatcd
the web of his embarrassments wo have
not the ability or inclination to describe,
but just as he reached the top rail of
the feritc a bright thonght struck him,
he would report Dave as a runaway ;
spend the forenoon with Miss Dilsey—
but hark! like Archimidcs he finds the
idea too much for him, he looses his
footing and falls to the ground with his
new pants literally gutted by the splin
tery end of a projecting rail. All relia
ble sources from which we have receiv
ed information on this point in onr
hero's history agree in testifying that
he did not even wait to brush the dust
off of himself on rising, but (discovering
the rent the envious fence rail made) he
re-bounded tho fenoo gracefully as a
oow (upsetting old Snout who had just
started to climb over) and ran like a
deer might be supposed to run with a
grey hound for his file- closer. He
heard the old man bawling oat some
thing about fetching back tho shoes—
but a panic, yea, verily, a legion of
panics impelled him onward, aud it was
not until be had reached “widder Gibses
lane fenoe” (where he found the horse
gracing and Dave leaning over in the
gigg fast asleep) that be thought of the
terrible consequences of being taken up
for stealing eld man Snoutls shoes;
Dave was sent baok to return the shoes
and night found gigg and riders once
more at home.
This adventure is completed, but its
consequences will prove anything but a
parenthesis iu the life history of our
hero. We have been relating what
seemed to bo misfortunes—now for the
“silver lining”—-and when we see that
but for the accidents k that attended this
vUit, but for the mischievous and grease
loving puppies and the prank playing
fence-rail, the mind of Bobuel might
never have been re-dircctcd to his first
love, aud these solemn truths we have
spent so much time and money in ex
huming might have remained in fossil
state forover. When we remember
that iu this, as in many othei instances,
misfortunes are but keys that open the
gates of happiness, let ut bear onr bur
dens with better grace.
DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, APBILIfI, ISOH.
Boh now began to regret his incau
tious haste in breaking with Sabriny,
and as tho Israelite* loDged to return to
tho Egyptian flesh-pots, so aid our
repentant prodigal hero hunger and
thirst to once more “pull the peg outen
old Tomson’s gate.” Whether Sobrmy
had or had not supplied herself with a
bran new beau and whether his recep
tion would or would not be favorable at
the Tomson house were questions so
apocryphal that be sought the counsels
of Sanders Gray (tho school teacher’s
son) to aid in their solution. A letter
was finally resolved upon. Sanders
wrote it, gave it out to Bobuel who
transcribed, and honest Dave was en
trusted with the duty of conveying it
tho next Sabbath. We regret to ack
nowledge that we are only able to fur
nish onr hero’s transcript of this impor
tant epistle as read to him by young
Gray. Whether it is identical with the
original and whether Robert Brown
understood clearly tho import of its
contents aro questions which, after
writing seven hundred and six letters)
spending nine thousand, six hundred
and seven dollars and thirteen cents,
and traveling over the best part of North
America, including Walrussia, we are
still as unable to determine as a Bengal
tiger would be to solve the forty sccoud
problem of Euclid. But here’s the
letter.
Valiialer Cottiug, Vail of Tempy.
Edoribel mist:
When onst motifs ar to be crush
ed by a rigid adhearauts to the rules of
ediket, i am the First to opprzeit when
a sealing of sisiprosity manifests hitaelf
by diferent disinclinations : iam fully
awaro of it, i cried aloud and sed onto
my hart thus fur and no futher shalt
thou go most palporbly palpcrtating and
potenshal cordur. But thou O queen
of harts hast cut me jack that i am, and
the case goze unheeded. Divine and
delishus Sobriny, sovren of my solo,
lite of my life, star of my destiny and
web of my feet; thou art Iho musishen
er that plays on the cords of my natur.
1 am a liar Lorze strings ar reddy to vi
brait tho deep toned mellerdy of recip
rocal luv. So oh relieve my agonizing
sole by sayirig that the eorj us of your
idolizing Robert is yet the subject of
your thoughts and that his persual pre
sents at the manshun of your sire is
still a diserstum. Thcn,asJasen sped
to capture the golden fleas—as Hurcu
les flew to conflict with the furious
Gresham buil, thus will i fly to you—
thus will i come, but with every cir—
custans inimical to your parenial and
uninteriupted blissfulness, i conjure you
by the memorize of the past, the pleas
ures of the present the hoaps of the fu
ture and the sanctity of republican ia
stitusLuns to anser this mons genuit ett
must eucur rit epissle.
Yes, pray don’t be a quaker,
But anser quick and fast,
Or tho i’mc no shumaker
You'll call this my last.
Youres with devoted fondness,
Bobert Brown.
What sadden thought of this letter,
or what was his purpose in giving it the
precise formation it posscses, are mat
ters for his biographer. Be that as it
may, Bobuel, the party most interested
was delighted with it. True, he did
not at first like the idea of calling him
self a liar, but Sir Sanders set that and
other quibles so completely at rest by
reference to the dictionary and a little
argumentation that our exultant hero
boastfully ventured the prediction that
“that ai letter’ll fetch teers outen her
izo ears and nose and both corners of
her mou'.h.”
TO BE CONTINUED
Wear tliis in four Hat.
Pay your debts as soon as you get
any money in your pocket. Do with
out what you don’t need. Speak your
mind when necessary; hold your
tongue when prudent Speak to a
friend in a seedy coat. If you can’t
lend a man money, tell him why ;if
you don’t want to, do the same. Cut
any acquaintance who lacks principle.
Bear with infirmities, but not vices.—
Respect honesty, despise dup icity.—
Wear your old clothes till you are able
to pay for new ones. Aim at comfort
and propriety, not lashion. Acknowl
edge your ignorance, and don't pre
tend to knowledge you haven’t got
Entertain your friends but never be
yond your means. And, above all
things, insure your life, it not already
insured; and if insured, increase your
insurance to the extent of your ability,
tor you know you can make no better
investment. If not overburdened with
money, and if married, be constantly
unwilling to die aud leave your family
in distress—until you insure, when you
may be as happy as you please. If
wealtny, insure for the sake of good
investment, to anticipate a possible un
happy contingency, (for the most weal
thy sometimes become bankrupt,) and
for the sate of the example. Who
ever follows these rules eannot go far
astray.— Sav. Advertiser.
The wife makes the’home, aad home!
|makes the man.
Precious IVurla.
Amongst the innumerable objects of
interest »nd beauty cast by the tide at
the feet of tho seaside wanderer, shells
aro the most universal favorites, and it
is by some of these that the pearls, the
most rich and costly gift that the sea
uymths has it in her sower to bestow is
is formed. From periods of the most
remote antiquity pearls have been high
ly prized, and held in very great esteem.
The pearl fisheries of the Red Sea, as
long as the period of the Ptolemies,
were celebrated for their great produc
tiveness. The Babylonians, Persians,
and aneient Egyptians held pearls in
very high estimation, and it was from
these nations that the Romans first ac
quired the taste for this description of
j-.wel which afterwards led thorn into
suoh fabulous extravagances concerning
it. We arc informed that Servijla, tha
mother of Brutus, was presented with a
pearl by Julius Caesar, the value of
which was £48,457. Tho well known
story of the pearl, valued by Pliuy at
£48,000, which Cleopatra is said to
have dissolved and drank in wine to
the health of Antony at a banquet, has
had some doubt cast on its probability
from the fact of pearls not being readi
ly soluble in common vinegar; but,
from the ettetom which undoubtedly
prevailed about this luxurious period,
of enriching tho goblet of the valued
guest with molton gems, we sco no rea
son for questioning its authenticity.—
Pearl ear .rings of great beauty and
costliness were worn by the ladies of old
Romo, much after the manner in which
they are now. Those of Cleopatra
were valued at £161,458 ; and so un
bounded was the love for adornment of
this kind, that Benaca felt called upon
to protest agaiDstthe heedless extrava
gance of the ladies. It is very ques
tionable, however, whether the gentle
men did not deserve a fair share of
blame, as the pearl mania by no means
confined itself to the fair sex. We find
that victorious Pompey, when engaged
in the highly agreeable amusement of
turning out and rumaging among the
jewel cases and treasure coffers of con
querd Mitridates, found many crowns
composed of pearls ; and because that
luxurious person had, instead of com
mon pigments, caused pearls to he used
in the execution of his portrait, that al
so added greatly to the delectation of
Pompey. One very magnificent pearl
was, during the reign of the Emperor
Severus, split in two, and the halves
were placed as decorations on the stat
ute of Venus, which, at that time, ap
peared to be the most valued in the
Pantheon. It is not to be wondered at
that attempts should have been made
to produoe artificial substances in so
much reques.
A Fashionable Dinner.
A nobby dinner party for twenty waß
given by a lady in New York last
Wednesday evening. The cards of in
vitation were engrav* and in gold and
enclosed in three-cornered envelopes
with gilt edges. At dinner, the table
cloth was of white velveteen, edged with
gilt fringe, and the oenter standard, a
massive epergne of gold, with small has
kets hanging from it, loaded with fruit,
fancy b >x< B, bon-bons, etc. A large
bouquet of rare flowers was placed near
the plate of each guesi, from which was
suspended the bill of fare, printed in
gold letters, on white satin ribbon. The
waiters were dressed in crimson coats,
knee breeches, silk stockings and pow
dered wigs.
Thus dine the “loil” bondholders who
draw their scmi-aunual interest in gold
from the people’s treasury. Fruits and
flowers—bon-bon*—velvet and go'd—
the very menials in crimson and silk.
Laboring men ! —you who sweat all
day in the eye ol the summer sun- I —you
who toil with benumbed fingers in the
wiuter’s frost—how many comforts re
main on pour table after the Govern
ment has extorted from pour industry
the usury upon which these luxurious
pensioners livo ? “They toil not, Dei
‘her do they spin;” yet for them the
tax-garherer makes you stand and de
liver a part of every dollar you cam f
that they may he clad iu velvet and fine
linen, your children must shiver iu rags;
and that they may not want for wine*
your children must cry for bread.
The Dresses of an African King
and ms Court. —ln a recent lecture
delivered in Philadelphia, Monsier Du
Gbaillu, thus describes the dresses of a
negro Ring and his court with whom
he met in his travels in Africa:
“KiDg Diopo was dressed in a swal
low-tailed coat about the style our grand
fathers wore, and that he must havo
procured from some traveler, and noth
ing else besides ! His Prime Minister
had on a white shirt, one sleeve lest, and
which could not havo been washed for
two years, and nothing else ! The sec
ond head man had a hat on, and noth
ing else ! Another one of the party
wore a pair of shoes, and nothing else.
After the King and his ministers came
his wives. His chief wife carried an
umbrella, and wore sething else he
‘ides.’
Eloquent Extract—Thero are
men who desert the altar of a lost cause,
around which they once stood with the
blood in their hearts panting for libera
tion, and wh > kneel to offer homage at
the altars of sucoossfu! wrong There
are men who tr&mplo uuder foot the
the very standards that once floated
proudly over them. There aro men
base enougc to lift their hands against
the very rights for which they once up
lifted swords. Wc are not such. For
as principle is principle, fight is right
—yesterday, to-morrow, forever. Sub
mi?; ion ot might is not surrender of
right. Wcyielltotho one, but never
shall yield up the other.
T 1 A want i f independence displayed
by the Supreme Court id the MxCardie
caFe is a most unfavorable symptom of
the condition of the country. A plaiu
principle affecting tho rights ol the pe
pie was involved, and yet, after many
ineffectual attempts to obiaiu a decision,
the caso was on Tuesday l&id ovei until
the next term. When it is considered
that the reason for this delay is that in
making a decision the court must have
declared the reconstruction acts uncon
stitutional, we are forced to the conclu
sion that the Judges of the Supreme
Court are deterred from discharging
their duty by fear of a revolutionary
Congress- Things have come to a
pretty pass when the judiciary fails in a
plain duty through fear of offendiDg a
usurping legislature. The venerable
Judge Grier did well to clear his skirts
of such culpable conduct.
A Word for Bors.—Truth is one
of tho rarest gems. Many a youth has
been lost to society by allowing it to
tarnish, and foolishly throwing it away.
If this gem still shines in your bosom,
suffer nothing to displace or dim its
lustre.
Profanity is a mark of low breeding
Show us the man who commands the
beat respect; an oath never trembles
on his tongue. Read the catalogue of
crime. Inquire the character of those
who depart from virtue. Without a
single exception; you will find them to
be profane. Think of this, and let not
a vile word disgrace you.
Honcßty, frankness, generosity, vir
tue—blessed traits! Be those yours,
boys, we shall not fear. You will
cla’m the respect and love of all. You
are watched by your elders. Men are
looking for clerks and apprentices,
they have their eyes on you. If you
are upright, steady and industrious,
before loDg you -will have good places,
and the prospect of a useful life before
you.
The Mayor of Charleston,
South Carolina, “got off” rather a neat
jokß the other day, at the expense of
some of the regular visitors of his court.
Immediately after taking his scat, in
the morning, he ordered the doors of
the room to be closed; and the crowd
of idle spectators, after enjoying the
j.r ere lings, were called up< n f r an ex
planation of their presonee. Some were
there on business, and some for mere
transient curiosity. These were excus
o ’ J but the habitual Infers or vagrants
were fined two or three dollars, or as
many days confinement. The police
office since then, has lost all its charms
for loafers.
We would urge our farming and
planting friends not to be deluded by
the temporary remitting of ths tax on
cotton, or the like raising of the price of
cotton in Europe, into planting more
ootton than just to furnish home made
cloth and retain the host seed. Raise
provision crops alone this year,! and be
safe sgaiast any contingencies for food.
If you had had corn, instead of cotton,
for the last seven years in the most
abundance, you would not now be under
the northern foot.
The dearest word in our language is
Lore. The greatest is God. The word
expressing the shortest time is Now.
The three make the sweetest duty of a
man.
The wheat-crop is unusually promis -
ing in this county. Several farmers
have stated to us that they tever had
better prospects for an abundant yield
of that best of cereals than this. We
have heard of one gentleman’s crop that
is knee high and beading.
[Forty ih Advertiser.
Ix accordance with the notice issued
by King William, of Prussia, now Pres
ident of tho North German Confedera
tion, the flag of the unitod nationalities
was hoisted on all German vessels in
port at Now York Wednesday. Royal
salutes were fired at the Hamburg and
Bremen dock at tho hauling down of
the old flag. The day was observed by
a general celebration Sumptuous din
ners were provided on board the Burus
sia, Union, and Cambria, at which
toasts were given to the new Confedera
tion, King William, Count Bismarck
and German commerce.
An intelligent freedman in this city
was heard to remark after reading Gen.
Gordon’s letter addressed to a committee
of freedmeo twelvo months ago (and
long before the General bad any thought
of becoming a candidate for office), that
he wouldn’t vote against a man who
could give expression to such noble
sctttimcLts—sentiments prompted by no
desire to secure the votes of colored
tu«n< —Atlanta O^mibtt.
TVo. 10.
IIN GENERAL.
Butltr affects inability to “manage
impeachment.” His forte has been
the management of plate.
Stanton has religious services in the
War Office every Sunday It is said
that he exhibits every Christian virtu#
except resignation.
Henry Ward Beecher says, in a re
cent sermon:
“When men are insane they ought
uot bo allowed to hang theinaolv .-s,
but when men art fools—there is a
ques.ion.” t
Mr. Putnam, the New York pnb
lisber, says the school books used by
the 5,000,000 would make a road two
feet wide, leading from the earth to tho
moon.
The latest and most ridiculous oiror
in typography was that of a lino in an
exhibition programme, where for “The
burial of Moses” was substituted ‘The
barrel of molasses.”
A rot’s nest, containing an old leath
er wallet and tho mutilutoJ remains
of several bank notes of large denomi
nation was found in an old building in
J First Street, New York, on Sutur-
I day.
i A Western editor thus dolivers liitn
| self:
“We would say the individual who
' stole our shirt off the pole while we
were lying in bed waiting for it to dry
that we sincerely hope the collar may
cut his throat.”
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Telegrapii says that the lust new
thing in is a “puff petticoat,”
which sticks out in a bunch, and causes
the female deviue to look rather like
the Gnuthodon oi Dodo.
An old Frenchman in New Orleans,
who keeps a restaurant, lately labeled
it “Restaurant de Paris,” whereupon,
a Hibernian neighbor of the fomenine
gender, in the same business, on the
opposite side of the street, bung out
hot- sign, “Restaurant de Ireland ’
An Ohio boy married a well pre
served widow of sixty, and his father
avenged himself by wedeipg tho
grand daughter oi his new daughter
in law.
Tho Union Pacific Railroad
is completed to a point twenty-seven
miles west of Cheyenne, and within
four miles of the highest summit on
the entire route. There aro now’ three
thousand men employed on the sec
tion!
Tho Cincinnati Commercial assorts
that General Sherman is an advocate
of negro suffrage.
Queen Victoria refuses to take part
in no ceremony that will remind he: of
Prince Albert. She is to visit Cam
bridge at the commencement and in
augurate a statue of her late bus
band.
Several hundred unpublished letters
and manuscripts by Artemus Ward
are soon to be gWeu to the world.
Someone enlls the time of squeez
ing girls hands the “palmy” days of
•life.
The New York Assembly yesterday
passed a bill to submit the new consti
tution to the people next fall.
A miner who lately came from Vir
ginia City says that vegetation is so
scarce in that region that “two m'lllen
stalks and a hunch ot thistles is called
a grove.”
A Brass band around the bead is
the latest female fashion in New Y~ork.
This is an improvement upon bugles
alone.
The New York City Grand Jury
recommends the establishment of foun
sling hospitals ns a check to the crime
of infanticide in that city
The unfortunate Archduke Henry
of Austria has been severely punished
for bis offense in marrying the pretty
singer, Mile. Hoflman. Not only has
he been deprived of his command, but
a largo portion of his revenues have
been taken from him. The marriage
is null according to the domestic law
pf the imperial family, because it has
been entered info without tho assent
of the assent of the Emperor, and yet
it is valid in the eyes of tho Church.
At a ball in Boston, recently, a lady
| fainted and the attentive janitor rush
od for his camphor, with which the
lady’s face was thoroughly bathed un
ti! she recovered. Then it was ascer
tained that the camphor had been ta
ken from a bottle of inucilago and tho
lady felt too much stuck up to stay
any longer.
Prof. G. B. Vastian, a gentleman of
color, has been refused admission to
the bar of the Pittsburg Court of
Cfaimc.
A Masonic lodge of sorrow was
hold at Philadelphia, yesterday even
ing, in respect for the memory of tho
late Wm, Bockins Schulder, Grand
Tyler of the Grand Lodge of Penasyl
vania. Nearly oue thousand Masons
were present.
A Confederate |;host sends the Nash
villa Banner a Kuklux order and in
closes S2O in Confederate money to
pay the printing. He says it passes in
the moon at par.
The Chicago Times is of the impres
sion that the counties of Illinois elect
ing a majority of delegates to the
Stale Convention, have instructed lor
Pendleton. It claims that the Dem
ocracy of Ohio is not more heartPy or
unanimously for Pendleton than the
Democracy of Illinois.
Tho widow of a German grooer in
Memphis has r '(corrected a stone crock
containing $6,000 in gold, which hor
husband buried during the war, and
died without leaving pny due as to its
whereabouts.
Pussengers by the Santa Fe coach,
which reached Hays City, Ky, cn tha
24th ult, report that on the Wednes
day previous u band of Indians rob
bed a train camped oo Arkansas riv
er, twenty-live miles below Fort
Dodge, of tweuty-fivo mules, and the
next day robbed another train of six
mules and all it* provisions. The In
dians committing these depredations
are said to be Cheyennes.
Tho right Platform.—Among the
rcsilutians pa-tsed at a recent publio
meeting in Robinson county N. 0.,
were tho following:
Resolved, That wo prefer a live Yan
koo to a F juthern traitor and having no
Si rt of use for either wo will not sup
port for office a New England ‘carpet
sdexer or a Southern hybrid or speckled
political hermaphrodite. •
A cow in Iliinois died su’dcnly tho
other day witout any apparent cause
She was opend and it was discovered
that she had beca in tho hardware busi
ness. Thirteen ounces of nails, togeth
er with a lot of brass pins and brass
buttons were found in hir stomach. She
milked carpet tacks.
A spicy littlo paper, called The News*
has just made its appearance in Rich*
mood, Va., and anew paper of the same
name, independent in polities, is about
to make its appearance in Now Orleans.
Both by experienced journalists.
A report from Fort Laramie says
the Cheyennes and Northern Arapa
hoes will bo fully represented at the
Indian Council. Tho Sioux are not ill
yet, but arc expected to arrive by the
7th, when the commission will proba
bly rea- h Larnrnis.
The political excitement is intense
all over North Carolina. Both candid
dates for Governor, also ex-Goverrnorfl
Graham and Vance, and other leading
men, are canvas-jog the State. Not
less than two hundred speeches per day
aro being made.
On the IS h of March, in Edgefield
District, S. C., Wm. Elkins, a maimed
Confederate, returning to his home
about 10 o’clock at night, found the
dead body of his yoUug wife lying in
the yard, tho face and head most hor
ribly crushed' and i-liattered as if by
blows from an ax. His three little
children could give no account of tho
affair Their nurse and some other ne
groes of tie neighborhood, Imvo becd
arrested.
A man named Sweeny, a convict in
the West Virginia I’enitectiary, has
iallon heir to a fortune of $35,000 in
Ireland. lie has fourteen months yet
to serve.
On Friday night last week, about
half past II o’clock, a squad of armed
mtn —supposed to be from Georgia—
took out of the jail at Cleveland, East
Tennessee, six prisoners.
Some of Brownlow’s pets who wars
pardoned on Friday, resumed bm-ineso
on Saturday, and stole several cows,
and are in prison at Nashville awaiting
trial.
John Hunnicutt was killed near Sel
ma, Ala , On Saturday of last week, by
James Swann.
Navigation on the Mississippi is now
open to St. Paul. 'J he steamboat Phil.
Sheridan passod through Lake Pejiiri
Friday night.
A distinguished Union man of North
Georgia, hearing of General Meade’s
decision that Judge Irwin would bo in
eligible to the office of Governor, If
elected, remarked that, since he could
not be permitted to vote for a true
Union man for Governor, he would vote
for aa honest rebel, aud has accordingly
declared his purpose to vote for ratifica
tion and Gen. John B. Gordon.
[Atlanta Opinion.
Secretary Stanton was subpenaed the
other day as a witness in the matter of
tho disposition of the reward offered by
the corporation ot Washington for the
arrest of the assassination conspirators,
lie answered the summons by a note
saying it was inconvenient for him to
leave the War Department, and, accor
diogly, his evidence was taken at bis
office, and so all danger of a raid by tho
ancient and terrible Thomas, who is
waiting and watching on ’tolher side of
ho Secretary’s desk railing, was averted.
Prayer. — A writer very correctly
remarks, God looks not at the oratory
of your prayers, how elegant they may
be; nor at the geometry of your pray
ers, how loDg they may be ; nor at the
aiithmetio ol your prayers, how many
they may be ; nor at the logic of your
prayers, how methodical they may be;
but at the sincerity of them ho looks.
A reporter for a London paper wrote
the verdict of a coroner’s jury “Died
from hemorrhage,” and the 1 public gain
ed the information the next day that
the deceased “died from her marriage,”
This is on a part with the experience
,of a reporter on a Detroit paper, who,
n an article on the city poor, spoke of
he g oit number of persons reduced to
poverty by the “mysterious dcoreea of
: Providei cc.” His astonishment may
be imagined when bo saw the passaga
priuted ‘‘mysterious decrease cf provis
ions ”
Praykb.—Prayer is the rustling of th
wings of the angels that are on thei
way bringing us ihe beams of Heaven.
When the chariots that bring us
ings do rumble, tLeir, wheels do sound
with prayer. We bear the prayer in our
spirits, and the prayer becomes the to
kens oi the corniog hlcswings. Even as
the cloud foreshadoweth tho rain, so
prayer foretbadoweth the blessing.
Z3T Will each of our leaders en
deavor to send us one new subscribe!?