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fSn titiUehln Jourual, Published Erery Thursday BY PERRYMAN & MERIWETHEH TERMS—SirUtlft in Advance. three months... 0? Six months and One year * 2 00 Halt* af Advertising : One dollar per square of ten hues for the first insertion, and Seventy-live Cents pei square for each subsequent insertion, not ex ceeding three. One square three months * 8 00 fine square six months 12 Os) One square one year 20 00 Two squares three months 12 00 Two squares six months 18 00 Two squares one year 80 00 Fourth of A column three moths 30 00 Fourth of a column six months 60 00 Half column throe moths 45 Oo Half column six months TO 00 One column three months TO 00 One column six months 100 00 Liberal Deductions Made on Contract Advertisements. •HHMHMMllllllMliMlllllimillMllllllHlMlimilllHllHllllHlll Legal Advertising. Sheriff’s Sales, per levy, ?2 50 Mortgage Fi Fa Sales per square 6 00 Citations for letters of Administration, 8 00 >< “ “ Guardianship,. 300 Dismision from Apminiatration, 6 00 •« “ Guardianship, 4 00 Application for leave to sell 1and,..... 6 00 gales of Land, per square, 6 00 Sales of Perishable Property per sqn’r, 3 00 Notices to Debtors and Creditors,.... 3 60 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, 2 00 Estray Notices, thirty days, 4 00 Job Work of every description exe cuted with neatness and dispatch, at moderate rates. RAIL-ROAD GUIDE. eHlhwcstern Railroad. WM. HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL POWERS, Sup Leave Macon 5.16 A. M. ; arrive at Colum bus 11.15 A. M. ; Leave Columbus 12.45 r. M- ; arrive at Macon 6.20 P. M. Leaves Macon 8 AM ; arrives at Eu faula 5 30, P M ; Leaves Eufaula T 20, A M ; Arrives at Macon 4 50, P M. ALBANY BRANCH. Leaves Smithville 1 46, P M ; Arrives at Albany 3 11, P M ; Leaves Albany 9 36, A M; Arrives *i Smithville 11, A M. Leave Cuthbert 3.5 T P. M. ; arrive at Fort Gams 5.4 u P. M ; Leave Fort Gains T. 05 A. M.\ anive at 6’uthbert 9.05 A. M. Macon «fc Western Railroad. A J. WHITE, President. 11, WALKER, Superintendent. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Macon . . . T 30 A. M. Arrives at Atlanta . . . 1 57 P. M. Leaves Atlanta . ■ • 6 55 A. M. Arrives at Macon . . . ISOP. M. NIGHT TRAIN. Leaves Macon . • . 8 45 P. M. Arrives at Atlanta . • . 4 50 A. M. Leaves Atlanta . . • 8 10 P. M. Artires at Macon . . . 125A. M. Western Jk. Atlantic Railroad. CAMPBELL WALLACE, Sup’t. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Atlanta . • • 8.45 A. M. Leave Dalton .... 2.H0 P M. Arrive at Chattanooga . . 6.25 P. M. Leave Chattanooga . . 8-2<> A. M. Arilve at Atlanta . . . 12.05 P. M. NIGHT TRAIN. Leave Atlanta . . • 7 00 P. M. Arrive at ChattaDOOga . . 4.10 A. M Leave Chattanooga . . 4.30 P. M. Arrive at Dalton . . . 7.50 P. M. Arrive at Atlanta . . . 1.41 A. M. fgustatfs 6ar4ji. drTw. k. hqdnett WILL, at all times, take great pleasure in waiting on all who desire his Services, and are willirg to pay for the •ame. No other practice is solicited. Dawson, Ga., January SOtb, 1868—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, he is prepared to freat successfully, cases in every deDartment •f bis profession. jani6’6Btf C. B. WOOTEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Datcson, Ga. j»° 10 1868 ly •. S. oorlkt, wild c. clbtkland GURLEY & CLEVELAND, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Mils ord, Baker County, Ga. SMITH and Machinist, DA Il’SO.f, : Georgia Japairs all kln{l» of Gnns, Pi»to!s, Sewing ■ acees, etc., etc. 2 ly. HARNESS A REPAIR SHOP 41 PMJrCES' ST.tttl.Eß, ®»w*on, r > . Georgia, (; A _ W furn 'sh the public with Carriage V-/1 rimming, Harness Mounting, *c. All work promptly done for the cash 80V22 678 m HARRIS DENNABD. Fresh Garden Seed ®*or sale a.t Ferryman & Meriwether’s Drug Store New Firm! New Firm! r PHE undersigned having formed a copart- Inw foJ„ lp .’ arc now occupying the uew build up nJ. me r y occ “ pied by Wm. Wooten, on 0«o re ,** door South of the ‘Journal’ in •«’ *.** , W, H keep everything usually found as will •* ® 8,8 ♦‘"lily Grocery, at such prices 1111Ddnce »>• to trade that call on them. ZWr a. rV. CaoVVE LI- * HOOD, t-’awson, Ga., February 6, 1668 -ts 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!?