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MACON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1880
VOLUME NO— L V
Politics at the Uf-BoUln;.
I blebcs dat any nigger’s in a sorry sort-o’
way
Dat swallows all de racket dat de politi
cians say i
For I’s been a grown up cullud man sum
forty years or so,
An I’s heard ’em make de same old ’ser-
tions heap o’ times bcfo’.
Dar’s lots o’ cttssed foolishness and gassln’
any way,
’Bout bustin’ up de coustercbuslon eb ry
’lection day;
’Cause I gib it as de notion ob a plain an’
humble man,: .. ' Y
Dat de gub’ment an’ de country, too, is
tough enough to stan’,
I nebcr takes more polertics dan one good
man can tote,
And I don’t need any ’visin’ when I go to
drapmy vote; «- ....
I talks wld all de canerdates, an’ tell ’em
what I choose,
But I goes in on de side dat gib3 de big
gest bobbykews1
Scribner’s Monthly.
THE VICLODS WIFE.
PRACTICE IS A GEORGIA CRIM
INAL COURT. '
Harry bone rut a Boporter.
BY “X. I. E.”
Bibb County Court—
State of Georgia f wife
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^TUhnar^Sarapson, colored. 1 Beating.
“ i ou don’t see anything startling that,
I suppose.” Marrybone paused, lit his
cigar, and, with one foot poised gracefully
on the railing of the hotel porch, sat si
lently watcliiug the stars: “Well, I ad
mit that it pretents no extraordinary
points, as 1 have stated. I am told that
all through the docket may be found sim
ilar records, yet this case was shrouded
with an interest peculiar to. itsfelf: You
see the colored aristocracy were shocked,
for the parties were from that fashionable
resort well known under the classic name
of Gum Swamp. This settlement does
riot appear on the State map. Why it is,
the colored mind has never been able to
comprehend; yet, the fact that Gum
Swamp exists is indisputable. I have
been there. It lies east of Macon, on the
county line. No gushing spring, charged
with licaliug powers, tempts the moneyed
gentlemen of color to invest their few dol
lars there; no brown stone fronts-look out
,ipC" fashionable drives, nor does the
fickle tide p!:jfully toss its white caps
upon the woolly pat?2. Science tells os
that the tide went out and ha; return-
cd for a thousand years, and even colon!.,
capitalists in search of seaside building
lots, will not purchase while the possibil
ity of its returning is so faint. No; here
reside the gentlemen, descendants of
that ancestor who was left ont in the dark,
to dry. Day after day they go forth into
the fields and watch **•/■«»
cotton ana the corn, while the owners of
the land go to town and borrow money to
support them in their leisure;- and there
on the swamp edge ascends the smoke of
their castles.
No one save the ignorant would ever
mistake the aristocratic dwelling In Gum
Swamp for thcplebian; one unacquainted
with the rules of good ■ colored society
might, because the houses have a strange
resemblance to each other—log pen, two
room houses. To be sure they are alike,
but the chimneys, ah! some are brick and
some merely frame-wood plastered with
mud. That, gentlemen, that, is the di
viding line between blue blood and the
canaille. You think, possibly, that the
group of ragged piccaninnies are staring
at you. So they are, but not at your
charms. They are waiting to see the ex
pression of wonder on your face—the awe
struck gaze—the shadow of grandeur, that
majestic architecture always casts upon
the tonrist when first confronted by its
graceful proportions. They are waiting
to sec the effect that the brick chimney
has upon you, just as the Roman guide
smiles with superiority when he brings a
party before St. Peters; for of all things
earthly to the Gum Swamper, jr., the
brick chimneys are the grandest.”
“You can imagine,” gentlemen, contin
ued Marrybone, ro-ligbting his cigar,
which, during this outburst had
gone out, “the stir in Gum Swamp,
when • rumor like wildfire flashed
through the place, that Tillman Sampson
had been arrested for wife beating—(ar
rested at church two miles off, pro baby,
because Till’s fence was the county line,
and more than once had served as a bar
rier twirl him and the law)—Tillman
Sampson, who livfed la a house with a
brick chimney. What was the country
coming to ? The grannies who sat in the
door ways, for it was Sunday, ceased their
search around the roots of the kinks that
adorn the juvenile swampers’ heads,
ceased cracking jokes, and turned their
spectacled, wonder-stretched eyes, upon
the news-bearer. Little Swampers, thus
released, stood around him in open mouth
ed wonder, each absently searching for
the industrious red bug through his one
greasy garment—garment which was ’.he
very soul of wit—and then went off in
chattering groups to view again the brick
chimneys.
Alas! it was too true. The John Jacob
Astor, the Brummcll, the Chesterfield of
Gum Swamp, was in the clutches of the
law.
Gum Swamp was .divided instantly
into two factions. One half went off to
side with and encourage the wife, at whose
instance the arrest wa3 made, and who
had directed the bailiff to the spot where
Till, was engaged in his devotions —to
other women—the other to sympathize
with Old Kiah and Tildy, the afllicted
parents of the imprisoned Sampson.
Old Tildy was achast at this stain upon
the Sampson escutcheon.
“’Fore God, Kiab,” she said, “Ise neb-
ber ’spected, ’wen I tuk dat gal out’n de
cott’n patch, en gin her er a hous’ wid a
brie* chimbley, dat dis day would cum.”
“Xcbber you mine, old ’omatt,, i ’bout
dat, dis by ah bisness dun cum, au’ got to
be got Iru wid./-I’m gwine to townAis
hvah very cummin’ day an’ -git me a
white man fur to law de case. \Vhar dat
stockin’ ?” ___
Old Tildy produced a dilapidalcd hose
and early da’wn saw Old Kiah scanning
with anxious eye the various law signs In
the city. "Ah, gentlemen, the good book
w as correct when It said: “It is an evil
generation that seeketh after a sign.’
Once before he-bad been involved in
court and, I regret to say, as defendant in
a hog stealing case. The yejing lawyer,
whose eloquence- bad earned nis silver
dollar, had also earned Ills everlasting
gratitude and confidence. He knew his
sigu by the peculiar ornaments npon it,
and made his way upstairs. The door
was locked. The legal mind was doubt
less, at that moment, acquiring force and
refreshment in sleep. Somefaint wonder
arose in the old'man's min'd that Philus
Sharp could be absent from his- post,
when Tillman Sampson, of Gum Swamp,
languished in jail, but he quieted himself
until, set within the circle of a white stiff
collar, the legal head appeared above the
steps.
The confidential arrangements between
client and counsel are Inviolable and
cannot be touehed upon even were the
facts known. It is presumable, though,
that the old stocking sbed from its capa- — — , — -
clous folds—heaven bless the large legged not hide from the jury the fact that a
—i_i > -si Attk.. » -aaJ JaaI aT IvAaiinn tiai) ♦ a Iron nl a
whose leg was withdrawn from mundane
paths. It is presumable also that these
“dolIars*of our daddies” found a new
home in legal habiliments. Knowing,
however, the abstemiousness that manes
the conduct of our lawyers, It is neither
charitable nor wise to presume that later
In the day they were exchanged for the
“spirit of our ancestors”—onr ancestors
never drank beer.
“Oh yes! Oh yes! The Bibb county
conrt is now open; God bless the State
and His Honor, the Jedge.” Such was
the prayer, gentlemen, the bailiff offered
up before serving the court with his daily
hash, and'such was the cry that fell upon
the ears of the Gum Swampers who,
from beyond the rai 1 , gazed in vast num-
bers upon the privileged few within. I
sat within and near the rail, and to this
short prayer responded, “Amen.”
“Strike the Jury!” exclaimed the Judge,
who sat upon the throne toying with a
small croquet mallet. The jury sat over
to the left, but did not appear much
alarmed. While I was waiting to see the
one man bold enongh to tacklo twelve, I
heard a whispering outside the rail:
“What fur he gwine to strik’umfur,
Unc’ Kiah?”
Old Kiab, whose experience bad made
him a Solon among the Swampers, yet
whose memory was very indistinct on his
own case, he having been badly jostled,
mentally, looked down 'on his questioner
patronizingly:
“Shaw, soney, don’t yer know how ter
tell a came pup? Hole um up byde
yean flat’s how dey tells er good jury-
hit um; ef dey holler, den dey won’t do,
honey; dey can’t lofe roun’ hyah.”
“If such were really true,” whispered a
young lawyer next to me, “what a lot of
scarred veterans would frown from out
our jury boxes.”
I told him I thought so too, because,
being a new hand in court business, I
thought best not to appear ignorant.
The Swampers were denied the pleas
ure of hearing the jurors “holler.” A
gentleman roso up and called out the
names of twelve who took hold of a book,
and listened, while another man rattled
off something that sounded like a buzz
saw trying to talk. Here Old Kiah was
interviewed again.
“Unc Kiah?”
“Shr-r-r”—
“What fur dey smell de book fur?”
That appeared to be a stumper for Old
Kiah, and he pressed the interrogatory
Swamper to the rear with a second shr-r-r.
nere I had timo to view the jury. Near
ly all Were young men from about town,
to whom the whole affair appeared to be
a joke, but in the middle of the front row
sat & three hundred pounder, whose fat
person occupied all of bis chair and lay in
folds upon its' arms. His round jovial
f*ee looked like the moon at twilight, and
his biji bill- e ves gazed good-naturedly
throii'-h a pair of frow-r’mmed spectacles
upon the scene. His hair, like tne poet’s
“young companions,” was “scattered anu
gone,” but the treachery did not seep*-*•
welch. hioUa upon liim. ue earned a
massive stick, upon whose ivory head, as
he planted it firmly before him, rested his
hands. Not a word escaped this juror
during the course of the trial. He gave
to every speaker, from the clerk to the
judge, marked, nay, even cheerful atten
tion. I instantly gave him the name of
Pickwick.
At this instant somebody began to call
the names of the witnesses—Dinah Samp
son, Gus Bell, Obc O’Neal,’ and ended
with the command: “Come to the book.”
From the sideofthe solicitor—so-called
I was told from the solicitude he exliioits
for getting people in jail—rose Dinah, the
prosecutrix. Resignation and broken-
fieartcdness strove for mastery in her gin-
gercake face. Folding her hands meekly
she stood before the book. A hum of ex
citement rose out among the Swampers
a3 a tall, well dressed darkey, answering
to the name of Gns Bell (another “bricK
chimbley” owner) advanced down the
lane and grabbed the book. Then came
a chill pestered white man and grasped
the same object. The solicitor gave them
the oath.
“The evidence that you and each of
yonr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-selpyr God; kiss the
book.”
“Mr. Bailiff call Kiah Sampson, Tildy
Sampson, Caesar Troup.”
The bailiff called them, and in they
came.
“Take the book! The evidence that
you and yonr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-selpyr God
kissthebook.” .
“Put them nnder the rule Mr. Bailiff,”
says the judge. The rule was outside I
suppose, as they all went out but Dinah.
I went out to see them put under the rule
but the bailiff didn’t do it; he disobeyed
a direct order of the court, and when I
went back I mentioned it to the judge
who only ordered me to sit down. Some
men never can appreciate kindness. Af
ter scowling at me a minute he said:
“Call the first witness for, the State.”
Dinah got up, but her lawyer, the solici
tor, called her back. By close attention
I made bis directions to be: “Cry a little
for the jury if you can.” She could. She
started off rapidly:
“He beat me wid er pine knot, an’ boss
my bed.”
Here Till’s lawyer jumped up.
“I object to this woman’s testimony, as
she is the wife of the defendant.”
Up coine the solicitor to wrangle about
it, but the court tells the witness to go on.
She begins once more:
“He beat me wid a pme knot—”
Up comes Till’s lawyer-again. His pen
Is held high in air, and he gives the court
a sidelong look: “I hope your honor will
remember my objection?” The court
gives bis word of honor that he will, and
the witness goes on—
“He beat me wid a pine knot, en buss
my bed open, en offer me fifty cents ter
tek off de bloody drcs’, en wore out ter
three fut plane’ on me, an throw’d me’n
my chile out’n de rode—boo-hoo-booboo-
hoohoo.”
The witness, who had been getting
more and more wrought up, broke down.
I felt moist about the eyes, but nobody
else was affected. The jury waited pa
tiently for a let-up in the shower, and the
prisoner chewed away unconcernedly
while he watched a fly navigate the ceil
ing. He was a big buck negro—pardon
me, a gentleman of color—and wore a
blue cravat without a collar, liis court
dress. His counsel in a low voice asked
him camly but pointedly: “Did you?”
He shook his head and devoted his atten
tion once more to the fly. The solicitor
here rose and turned off the shower.
“Yon say he hit you with a lightwood
-knot; when was that?”
The witness sobbed once or twice con
vulsively, and ber face resumed its origi
nal meekness and serenity.
“A year las’ spring—twixtde spring an’
de cole wedder.”
“Where ’bouts. What county?”
“Dis yer county!”
“What connty is this?”
“Wot county? Bibb county.”
.“Who saw it, or who was present?”
“Tildy Samptron an’ Unc! Kiah Samp
son.” ~ . •-
“And he offered yon—”
“He tolc me he’d done gimme fifty
cents ter tek off de dress, an’ he wore ont
er three feet plane’ on me, an’ throw’d—”
“Nevermind about that, just answer
he questions.”-
The Solicitor drew it all out in detail,
and the defense cross-questioned her. He
tangled her up, got her mad, but could
stockings—sundry silver dollars, cither 1 good deal of beating had taken place.
Old Klah’s .earnings air a legacy from one Then the defendant’s lawyer sat down.
‘‘Call Cullodious Bell.”
In steps Cullodious, and the delend-
ant’s lawyer rises:
“I object to this witness, may it please
yonr honor, on the ground of incompe-
tency from youth. Will your honor ex
amine her?”
Collodions was about ten years old,
she took her place and surveyed the court
steadily. •
“How old are you?”
“Dunno sab?” says the court.
“What are you here for?”
“I cum to tell ’bout dat brie*.”
Here there was a general laugh. Pick
wick leans forward and smiles benignant-
ly through his glasses.
“Nevermind about that; where will
you go if yon tell a lie?”
“Dunno sab; spec’ de ole man’ll git
me.”
“Proceed Mr. Solicitor.”
“Well, tell the jury all you know about
this case.”
The witness lifts her voice and sings
out her testimony.
“Bill Adams com up to me wid a brie’
bat in he ban’ en say, die! Cullojus! I’m
gwine ter kill yer; en George Adams say,
ale! Cullojus! Pm gwine ter hellpim—”
The solicitor grabs his paper and jumps
up—
“May it please the court this witness is
here through on another case; she has
been called by mistake.”
Exit “Cullojus,” amid a general laugh
ter.
“Mr. Bailiff, call Obe O’Neal.”
Enters Obe.
“If your honor please, this witness has
been sick, and I ask that he be allowed
to sit down. Take a seat Mr. O’Neal.”
“Not any right now, thankee; ’ll sit
down bimeby.”
“Well, Mr. O’Neal, did Tillman ever
make any admission to yon about whip
ping his wife?”
“Yes, sir; he said he hit ’er with a pine
knot; he told me twice afterwards ’bout
whipping ’er.”
“When was it he whipped her?”
“Last spring an’ las’fill.”
“The witness is with yon,” says the so-
licitorw The defense rises slowly but
firmly.
“What is vour name.”
“Obe O’Neal.’.’
“Where do yon live?”
“Gum Swamp.”
“When did Tillman make these admis
sions^
“Las’ fall a year ago.
“You are positive about that?”
“No, sir.' It was, I think, about Feb
ruary or March.”
“You are positive about that?”
“Yes, sir.”
The prisoner pulls his counsel’s coat
tail and shakes his head.
The witness further said (I give only
the answer, gentlemen) “Don’t know;
the next time was last year; in the spring:
told mo in the swamp: nia wire, ne said,
was abouC JP take out a warrant; other
case was settled: tc!* ms three times;
that’s all.”
Exit O’Neal.
“Mr. Bailiff,” says the solicitor, who
sees the case progressing finely, and is
consequently more suave, “will you please
call Cicsar Troup.’ ’
Troup makes his entrance like a plow
hand jogging home at night. There was
nothing peculiar about Troup’s appear
ance except his right leg. This limb ap
peared to start out from his body with
straightforward intentions, but ere it
reached the floor had traveled towards
every point of the compass. This gave
an air of uncertainty to his intentions re
garding the exact place where he intend
ed to step.
“Did you, or did you not, see Tillman
Samp3ou strike hi3 wife?”
“I seed ’im struck ’er wid er little piece
er pine splinter, ’bout as big as my littl’
fing’r.”
“When was thi3?”
Witness pats his finger on his nose and
fixes his eyes upon the floor in profound
meditation.
“Dunno, sah.”
“Was it in the spring, summer, autumn
or winter?”
More meditation.
“Dunno, sah, I spec’ it war.”
“Which?”
More meditation, during which the
witness leaves the floor and fixes his gaze
on the ceiling.
“Dunno, sah.”
“Had you planted your crop?”
More reflection.
“Dunno, sah ”
“Had you gathered your crop?”
Reflection as before.
‘•Dunno, sah.”
“Where had you—had you been that
day?”
‘•Dunno, sah.”
“What— but never mind. The witness
is with you.”
Solicitor sits down overcome. Defense
rises slowly.
“What do you know about this case,
anyhow?” *
“Dunno, sah.”
“You can go.”
The solicitor announces “closed,” and
the defense gets np.
“Mr. Bailiff, call Kiah Sampson.”
In comes Kiah like a race horse, a little
old tnan without a coat; owner of a brick
chimney and no coat. He takes the
stand.
“Is Tillman here, your son?”
“Dat’s wot dey say.”
Kiah tarns the palms of his hands for
ward, shows his ivories and bows to the
jury. Pickwick laughs and shakes the
entire jury.
“How far is it from your house to his?”
“’Bout twenty foot, sah."
“Did you ever see or hear him beat his
Wife?”
The witness throws his head ' to one
side, rests his hands on his hips, and
chuckles as if the question amuses him.
“No sah! nebber did nor nobody else.”
“Did you ever hear her crying and
screaming?”
“Nebber hyah’er cry from debeatin,’
butsbe cryen holler like a chile all de
time—cry for nuthin’, en mek’ more fuss
of any oom an in de swamp; datooman
am dc debbil; steal! good Lori, wouldn't
let ’er cam roun de hous’; steal de fedder
off de thicken, en don’t ’predate nuthin’;
dun gin her a hous’ wid .er brick chim
bley”—
•‘That will do. The witness is with
yon.” Solicitor rises.
“Kiah!”
“Yes, sah!”
“Don’t you remember”—
“Yes, sab!”
“Wait until I ask the question?”
“Yes, sah!”
“Don’t yon remember that Tillman
struck Dinah over the head—”
“No sah. Nebber did done it; dat
ooman sah”—
“Never mind; answer my question.
You say you never saw him strike her?”
“No, sah; she de very debbil”—
“Just answer my question.” Solidtor
is getting mad.
“Ye*, sah!”
“Don’t you remember?”—
“Yes, sah!”
“What do yon remember? Yon say
you remember now what is it?”
“Dat ooman am de very debbel”—
‘Yon can go.”
“Call Tildy Sampson,” says the de
fense smilingly. Tildy came. Her bat
was on the back of her head; defiance
was in every motion, and her testimony
was hong npon a hair trigger. She' ex
changed scowls with Dinah.
“Are you the mother of Tillman Samp
son?”
“I is?”
“Did you, or did you not, ever kUoy
him to strike her?”
“Hit ’er? No sab! She tell a lie, the
nasty, stinkin’ ”—
“Silence!”
That came from tho court. Pickwick
and one or two of the court were convuls
ed. The court administers a reproof to
the witness, and the case proceeds.
“Did you ever hear screaming or the
noise of blows in her house?”
“No, sah; I hyah her all time cussin’
him, an’ tellin’ lies on him, an’ kickin’ up
de debbil, runnin’ roun’ do neighbers—
you needn’ look at me you yaller huz
zy”—
“Silence!”
From the court, who administers an
other reproof.
“He never threw her out in the road,
then?”
“Throw her out’n de road! didn’t done
it; she grab de chile en run eff en scream,
en kick up, en cuss!”—
“That’ll do.”
—“En toll lies. She don’t hab no
does”— lt ,
“Silence!”
—“An’ done put ’er in de boos’ wid a
brie’ ”—
“Mr. Bailiff take”—
“Never mind your honor, I am through
with her,” puts in the defense.
“And I,” laughs the solidtor.
—“An’ she dun dun more deviltryment
tellin’ lies”—
Here the witness’ voice died away in
the hall, whence the bailiff had dragged
her. A fierce scuffle was heard outside,
and another voice shouted: “Give ’em de
sidewipe, Tildy.” There was a fall, and
order was restored. The court settled
back in its chair and the exdtement
among the Gum Swampers died away.
Pickwick took off his glasses and wiped
them, and the jurors straightened their
faces. The prisoner advanced before the
jury to make his statement. His man
ner was calm and unimpassioned, and
his side of the affair was related in a way
that left no doubt of its untruthfulness.
“Din't dun it gempleums. And nebber
whipper but oncst, en don it war wid er
pine splinter. Nebber tole Obie O’Neal
dat I blooded her up wid er pine kuot.
En she enss, en tell lies roun’ de Swamp,
en holler en mek er fuss, en I don’t know
wat dat ooman mean, all time tellin’ lies
en taken warrants en cossin me munny.
I wurks ail day en night en can’t git
Tong wid ’er no way. Nebber whipper
tall, nebber hit ’or in my my life. Dais
all I got ter relate in dis hyah fuss.”
Having concluded this extraordinary
defense, Tillman sat down and grandly
rose the solicitor, running hi3 hand
through his hair and letting a mocking
smile play about his sarcastic lips. The
solicitor, by the way, was solicitor pro
rem. only, a young man of promise—in
fact a young man of promises. Slowly
but surely he opened bis book and be
gan.
“Gentlemen o* ili6 Jury, tho law re
quires us to elect from the numerous in
stances of beating we have proven which
one we will rely upon for a conviction.
We shall expect you to consider the cir
cumstances of the occasion upomwhich
the defendant beat his wife with a pine
knot, and to bring in a verdict of guilty
against him.” The solicitor then pointed
out the law and sat down.
CSHTBAL RAILROAD.
poetical license could be tolerated, that
would sing,
“And e’en the harebell lifts its head
Elastic from her fairy tread.”
No, gentlemen! he cared nothing for all , - ,, . . _ . .
this; something came over him like the , of the Central Railroad and Banking
memory of a dream, bidding him kneel Company is a fine exhibit. We give only
to the affinity which heaven had drawn i J 1 A be tl re ® d
unto him. The lip was thick, and the ! J £ tte P tion ' . The
hair more inclined to kink than curl, bnt exh ! blt of ****** y eara business shows
tbe girl was solid and Samson washu-
Report of the President and Directors
-A Mpleodid Exhibit.
The report of the president and direct-
man. Metaphorically, he .molt. Yon
cap imagine the rest; the sylvan glades,
the moonlight walks, the fetes au clair de
tune, and the midnight jamborees among
the ripened com shacks, and that event
ful night, when, with but the stars above
them, she laicl her hands in his, promis
ing in the homely language of her race to
stapd by him ‘until tlie cows came home
to roost.’ Oh, yesi and so he built his
home in the fairy palace of 'an eventful
future. The day-came, and the pair knelt
before the preacher and beard him, as the
ceremony ended, proclaim: “She is his’n
en he are hern”—
“£u I guv her a hous’ wid er brie’
chimbley. Ther yaller back hornet”—
“Silence!” thundered the court. Mr.
Bailiff take that woman out, and if
she Creates-a disturbance again lock her
up Iki the house without a brick chim
ney.”
Old Tildy had crept back into the room
and, burning with the recollection of her
wrongs, had joined in the argument.
“Gentlemon of the Jury,” continued the
counsel, “I must ask your indulgence for
the poor woman who has been so summa
rily ejected from this room. A mother’s
affection is her apology. Still she has
suggested a fact to me which has great
weight. When Samson rose from the al
tar and led his bride into a new life,
where did he locate her? Was it in some
mud hut in the cancbrake where the fire
place was in the middle of the room, and
the chimney a hole in the roof? Was lt a
hut with sticks crossed outside the wall,
and plastered with mud, through which
the sluggish smoke might wind itself a
tortuous path? No. But beneath the
spreading pine, near where a bubbling
spring mnnnured the livelong day, a solid
log cabin was built, and rising from the
forward v-nd a majestic brick, cbimney
smote old Dame Nature in the face with
an architectural stateliness. He, this la
borer of the fields before you now, points
to that monument of his love,and asks, ( is
not the charge of unkindness refuted?’
But let us pass inside. No Chickering
piano meets the observant eye or salutes
the ear with mellow music, but on the
door hangs a banjo. No costly paintings
adorn the walls, but the best liis wealth
affords are there* and a colored print,
representing Moses Banding down the
laws, faces the girl- in the flying trapeze
across the room No aiabaster clock
swings a gilt Cupid tlirough the flying mo
ments of the day, but, set within the ad
vertisement of Simmons’ Liver Regulator,
an energetic little time piece keeps cheer-
fill steps with old Father Time. NoBrus-
an immense increase over the previous
year, and is a credit to the excellent man
agement of the company’s interests.
The following statement exhibits the
earnings and expenditures of the company
for the year ending on the 31st of August:
EARNINGS.
Central Railroad, Savannah
Division, $1,681,142 55
Central Railroad, Atlanta Dl-
iiBi' MtABoapi
L. 46,387 07
844,866 13
14,513 87
vision,
Central Railroad Bank,
Southwestern Railroad,
Upson Connty Railroad,
Total for roads and bank, $3,100,480 82
EXPENDITURES OF AT.T. KINDS.
Cental Railroad,
Savadnali Di-
vion . . . $850,020 59
Central Railroad,
303,000 46
17,105 00
460,478 48
14,831 52—1,652,554 06
Atlanta Divis
ion . . . .
Central Railroad
Bahk . . .
Southwestern
Railroad .
Upson County
| {Railroad .
Leaving net . ... $1,537,034 86
This shows a very gratifying result as
compared with the operations for tho pre
vious year, the increase in gross earnings
having been $365,043.20, wmle the expen
ditures have only increased $36,253.85,
leaving the net income $329,689.35 more
than for the year ending on the 31st of
August, 1879. ‘
The report to the stockholders of the
Ocean Steamship Company shows the re
sult of its operatious. The collision of
the City of Savannah with the bark To-
bey, on the 17th day of January, in the
harbor of New York, has cost the com
pany $41,187-00, and there are yet seme
unadjusted claims, which will somewhat
increase this amount; but, notwithstand
ing the loss from this accident, the earn
ings of the company have been more than
for the previous year.
The report says: “The Board desires
again to call attention to the fact that
there has not yet been a partition of the
branches of tho Western railroad between
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany and our own, as contemplated by the
agreement between the competes."
During tho year $144,000 of South
western railroad bonds became due and
were paid, using S60 shares of the stock
of that company, the balance—$58,000—
in cosh.
In reference to tho railroad cointuission,
the report says L- “A'inlliiug that some
mediator between the railroads of the
afels carpet covers the floor, but it is white j country and their patrons is necessary and
and tidy, and Pisib Was there to keep it desirablo, it is certainly but reasonable to
A liusb fell upon tbe scene as Philus
Sharp, Esq., rose for the defense, his
smooth handsome face drooping over tho
recollection of his client’s wrongs.
“Gentlemen of the jury,” he began, ad
vancing sadly to the bar, “out of the mul
tiplicity of the testimony, the State has
selected that relating to the pine knot.
And why? Because, gentlemen of the
j'uiy, it is upon that evidence a conviction
is expected, and hopes are had that yon
der fettered unfortunate will be punish
ed.” Here he indicates the defendant by
a faint but gracefully suggestive wave of
the band. “The case then before you,
narrows down to that ono instance, and
now let us see what is the evidence. The
laclirymose witness for the State tells you
that the defendant ‘busted her head open
with a pine knot, and wore out a three
foot plank upon her.’ Whether the plank
wa3 three feet thick or three feet long she
does not say, and I call your attention to
this because it is a fair sample of her tes
timony and its general looseness. She
tells you, furthermore, gentlemen, that
Kiah and Tildy Sampson were "present
and saw it, and that she was all bloodied
up, so much so that Tillman offered her
fifty cents to take off her bloody dress. In
this she is contradicted by Kiah and Til
dy who tell you—and never in my whole
practice have I heard witnesses testify so
truthfully—that nothing of the kind ever
happened in their presence. So much
for tiie Iacbmnose witness. The next is
Obie O’Neal. Obie did not know much
about it; be remembered tbat on one or
two occasions, when, he could not recall,
the defendant told him he had been beat
ing his wife; but, gentlemen cf the jury,
not one word docs he say about the time
of which they complain. Not one word.
He tells you it was In tbe fall, then the
spring, that tho beating was acknowl
edged to have been given. - Here are two
distinct times positively stated, and it
rests with you, gentlemen, to believe
neither or both. When a witness shows
such eagerness to testify that he places
the offense at two different periods of the
year, it is safe to believe that - neither is
true. You well know, gentlemen, that
two negatives are equivalenttorm affirm
ative; it now rests with yon to say that
the rule works both ways, arid that two
affirmatives are equivalent to a negative.
If you do this you cannot find the pris
oner guilty.” Pickwick was much im
pressed with this logic. He leaned his
head upon his stick, and appeared to be
lost in thought. The younger members
of the Jury seemed to be somewhat con
fused. After carefully wiping his mouth
with a blue silk handkerchief, 'Philus
Sharp came out. from his pile of hooks,
whence he had slowly retreated, and re
sumed his argument in a voice that trem
bled as he proceeded: “Gentlemen of the
jury, I see before me, men to whom I can
speak and be undeistood. Few of you
are married, I presume”—
Pickwick drew out a bandanna, and
mechanically wiped the bald spot on liis
head.
“Yon cannot, therefore, know the an
guish which overwhelms the husband
when he first is taught that tile angel,
whom as a girl he had wooed and won, is
beginning to shod the beautiful wings to
which his fancy had linked her. Ah!
gentlemen, the realization is bitter indeed
when it comes. I am confined to the evi
dence it is true, but were I allowed to go
beyond, I might picture to you scenes in
the lile of this man that would destroy
your hopes of happiness forever. Think
of this strong man Sampson. By some
woodland spring methinks he first beheld
his Delilah; it may be, tbat coming from
his daily toil she joined him, supporting
npon her woolly bead with Tbalian grace
the full and overflowing cotton basket; or
lt may be, that in the gentle gloaming of
evening,-she burst upon him from the
canebrake, whooping up with mellow
voice and guiding with nimble step tbe
belated kine, she, Delilah, the thing of
beauty but alas, alas, not to him a joy
forever. Ha cared not that ber skin was
dark, or that the dress tucked in one
great roll about her waist revealed to him
it. iiias, alas for our unfulfilled expeta-
tions. Walnut furniture and costly bric-
a-brac are scarce, in fact absent, but a
couple of split bottom ebairs stretchout
their arms invitingly, and an old fashion
ed bedstead lilts up its pillars to the ceil
ing. Here in this virgin spot the fires of
another household were lit amid the
myriad homes of earth.
“Not many weeks had elapsed before a
change was apparent. One day Tillman
had to duck his head to avoid the flight
of a flat iron, which caromed on Moses,
broke his laws, and knocked the girl out
of the flying trapeze. On another occa
sion the wild sweep of a broom grazing
his intended head, put the Regulator hors
du combat, and sent the clicking moments
of the day into the middle of the follow
ing week. One of the chairs lost an arm,
the other a leg, and the headboard of the
bed began to look like a war map of Par
is. Tho angels’ wings had shed their
feathers and displayed a muscle sickening
to look upon. My client, gentlemen, was
a man. He caught her, and with a pine
splinter, taught her that the way of the
transgressor is hard. He. chose a splinter
because the laws allowed a man to whip
his wife with a switch the size of Ills lit
tle finger, and switches being siarce the
splinter was apt to confer the most good,
with the least eflort. Had he not a right
to whip her?”
“Uv course he did, honey; w’y de law
contemplate dis yer very case. De low
down huzzy ought ter had five hun
dred”—
“Silence!” thundered the court again,
and Old Kiah, whose presence of mind
was lost in the argument, shrank away
mumbling: “You jes’ let me git my ban’s
on ’er en i’ll frazzle dat yaller hide inter
fodder. Dar aint no foolishness ’bout
e!”
This produced a laugh all around, and
the defendant, who had slept through the
eloquent recital of his wrongs, sat up and
gazed about him blankly.
“Gentlemen of the jury,” concluded
Philus Sharp, who had lost tbe thread of
bis argument, “into your hands I leave
my client; well knowing tbat justice only
will be meted'out to him.”
I turned around and bet cigars with the
young attorney that the verdict would be
“not guilty.” He took it.
The Solicitor rose again. He let ont at
full speed before the first quarter was
reached. He began by calling the pris
oner names. In one breath he called the i
defendant’s lawyer “my distinguished !
brother:” in thn next he intimated that he I
expect that so large an interest as that
represented by the railroads, and which
has done so much to develop the resources
of the country, should hare some protec
tion beyond the rulings of any tribunal
(however competent and honeat in its in
tentions), from which there is no appeal.
The present act puts in the hands
of the commissioners unlimited au
thority over the railroads of the State.
This large property is no longer man
aged by its owners, and whether its earn
ings are greater or less, virtually depends
upon tbe rates and rulings made hy tbe
commissioners, tbe officers appointed by
stockholders and directors being power
less. The mere statement of these facts
will show on what a precarious founda
tion your property rests, and it.is believed
would even startle tbe Legislature tbat
passed tbe act, could they review it in the
light of experience. It is understood tbat
tho present commissioners recognize some,
if not all, of the imperfections of the law
in its present form, and it is to be hoped
that they will recommend the needed
modifications, so as to render its adminis
tration, under all circumstances and in
any hand, just to all parties.”
The Savannah News, commenting edi -
torially upon this report, says:
In our local columns this morniDg will
be found the report of the president, Mr.
MV. M. Wadley, and directors of the Cen
tral railroad, to the stockholders of that
coiporation. It will be seen that the gross
earnings of the road during the year end
ing on the 31st oi August last, were $365,
043.20 more than during the previous
year, while the'expenses were much less
than usual, leaving a net income for the
road of $320,680.35 more than on the 31st
of August, 1870*
This is indeed a gratifying exhibit, and
one which will tend to make the hearts of
the stockholders glad. It will be seen,
however, that Mr. Wadley, in the spirit of
conservatism, which has been the marked
characteristic of his administration, and
which has been amply justified by expe
rience; cautions tboie interested in tbe
road that this is an exceptionally good
report, and that the result of the work of
this line may not be so satisfactory in the
future. The increased earnings of the
road last year were, in the main, due to
the general prosperity.of the entire coun
try and the universal revival of business.
This may or may not continue; bnt,
as the report says, aven with the
same amount of traffic and equal
rates, not only an advance in the
cost of material and labor must be ex-
Colquitt and HiaDefiuners.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger
Parties standing aloof from the present
political contest in this State are amazed
at the number and variety of the charges
brought against its chief magistrate, and
not a few have expressed disgust in
stronger than polite iauguage at its con
tinuance, after they have all been prompt
ly met and disproved.
One reason, perhaps, why they have
been so generally believed and accepted
as truths is the supposed high standing of
the accusers who first gave them voice,
Tbe extreme acidity, not to say acrimony,
with which the rump nominee has
planned his attacks,-and which have af
forded the key to his assistants, might
furnish an excuse for adopting the same
line of procedure, bnt as Norwood and
his followers have the monopoly of- bill
ingsgate, it is proposed to let them retain
it, as they will need every safety valve
open—some men affect to find relief in
cursing—when the result of the coming
election is known* •, ■
To enter their field of accusations and
review them, would take more space thau
is usually given to such subjects, and is
needless now since the Governor has over
his own signature so ably and completely
refuted them. . To review his accusers or
some of them is the object of this paper,
and if some Georgians of other days find
themselves photographed, let them con
sole themselves that at this late day they
should not come from that quiet obscurity
to which an' Gver-nnappreciating De
mocracy so long ago consigned them.
This mode of treating the subject is more
desirable, since it is the pride of Norwood
and his disciples to point to their follow
ers as tchile, while those of his opponents
are all black; in other words, if Norwood
is beaten, it will be by the colored vote as.
the white vote is for him solid and vice
versa. It is rather humiliating that a na
tive of Georgia; one who has illustrated
her courage upon innumerable battle
fields—her Christianity in the pulpit, and
her wisdom hy his councils in tbe inter
ests of peace and concord—is' forsaken of
the whites, his kinsmen and his friends,
and cau only claim, in the language of his
defamers, “the miserable negro follow
ing” of t he Stale.
I shall not dispute the assertions made
by somejpersons, who by their dress might
be taken for gentlemen—neither shall 'I
dispute the {ilea that all the gentlemen are
going to vote for Norwood, because com
mon sense teaches it to be an impossibili
ty to be a gentleman and a blackguard at
one. and tbe same 'time.' Before
jsgjjgjae WrttaWnsftS!
liced, viz., a good many who condemn
him on account of his poverty, in other
Words his inability to pay liis debts. Some
of tuese gemlemen are very loud lunged
in their denunciaation of him, fore
the fact S3 some or them seem to'do that
their own estates would crumble to dust if
the claims against them were paid.
Among the chief accusers, however,
steps to the front ex-Governor Jas. M.
Smith, whose administration as Gov
ernor of Georgia was notable for three
things, viz: The Smith-JoHnSon contro-
very, in which the said Smith;-Was shown
up to be a doubledealer—a po
litical hypocrite—a man whose
word was not to be trusted,
or whoso pledges were to be taken—none
of which he denied,or resented. Coming
from a'source like HerschelV. Johnsou,
backed up with time, date and place, the
accusitions were entitled to respect, and
the people of Georgia did respect them
enough to decide them to allow their late
Governor to retire to private life.
The next exploit, the execution of Su
san Eberhardt, is claimed by his ptesenl
converts to the Norwood faith, as the act
which killed his popularity in Georgia.
This needs no denial here. The laws
condemned her under the evidence; the
people of the State had been so thorough
ly disgusted with the non-enforcement of
the law in mnrder cases,that an executive
who wonld see them enforced wa3 hailed
with delight, rather than frowns of disap
proval. Some newspapers tried to get np
a little sentiment on it, and perhaps suc
ceeded just as we see papers now working
themselves up on the present rump issue.
The act, aside from the sex of the con
demned, was approved by every thinking
man and woman in the State.
The ex-Governor thinks Gov. Colquitt
honest but weak. It is a pity that the
New York bondholders of the Macon and
Brunswick railroad could not be con
vinced tbat weakness was his only mala
dy I The ex-Governor, after that fishy
transaction, involving the honor of the
State, as well as hi3 official pledge, should
urge much charity in judging of bis hon
est, but weak (?) successor. More
anon. Sphtnx.
brother;” In the next he intimated that he
was an ass. He"picked up the testimony pected. but a considerable increase m the
and fitted it together like a prize puzzle; rolling stock of the road (to the
he took up the defendant and made him [ value of at least $200,000) must be made
sudh a scoundrel that L unconsciously be-J during the coming year. Besides this,
gan to edge away from him. He dwelt - also contingent liabilities now uriforseen
ailectingly upon tbe condition of tbe poor j but not unlikely to occur .at any time,
woman who asked her countrymen for' and from which tbe company has .been
the protection that her husband.denied ' remarkably free during the year just post;
her. “God forbid,” he exclaimed excited- j must be considered and provided against,
ly, “that the day shall ever come when Hence, we may infer that President Wad-
tjie women of this land shall be turned J ley and the directors, while exceedingly
away empty-handed when they seek jus- pleased with tbe present exhibit of the
tico here in these halls!” j earnings of the pad, are not inclined to
I heard a faint “Amen” from Pickwick, • indulge in undue elation, hut rather warn
and responded by applauding, but was in- ' their stockholders from expecting too
stantiy suppressed by the bailiff, and so • much lu the future—a very wise_ sugges-
the speech boomed along to tbe end. We . tion, certainly tending to prevent possible
were tickled at ono moment by light ze- j disappointment ana consequent' abuse oi
pbyrs of pathos, aud overwhelmed in the t the administration,
next hy torrents of eloquence. When it J Onejof the cost interesting features of
ended I went round to where the judge this report is the allusion therein made
sat eyeing tbe prisoner. I to the tbe railway comriiission law of
“Fine speech that yOUr honor; the coun-_ Georgia, and the injury it is capable of
try”— j working the 'railways of the State. The
“Who are you?” _ I commissioners are admitted to be gentie-
I looked at him a little startled by his men of the highest standing aud unques-
ahrupt manner. I tioned: integrity, but the law Itself is
“Didn’t you hear that eloquent’^- | shown to be stringent and despotic. It
“If you don’t sit down,” he roared, “Pll plaoes unlimited authority over the vast
fine yon for a contempt.” | Iron highways of the Stats in the hands ot
1 sat down and. he proceeded to charge the,commissioners, and, to u«e the lan-
the jury in a matter-of-fact way. I never guage of the report, “this large property
saw a man so impervious to eloquence, j is no longer managed by its owners, and
The jury went out, but In five minutes . whether its earnings are to be great-
Pickwick and one of the jurors came in ; er or less virtually depends upon
to be re-chaiged. I afterwards learned' the rates and rulings made by tbe
they bad had a difference of opinion on a | Commissioners, tbe stockholders and di
point in the judge’s charge, and badhlteh- rectors being powerless. The mere state-
cd. Pickwick had hit the junior over the ' ment of these facts will show upon what
head, and tho junior bad butted Pick, in I a precarious foundation the value of the
the stomach, so .that neither of them bad i stock nsts, and it is believed it wonld
much idea of the case. The court called * even startle the Legislature which passed
them all back and charged them again, tbs act, could they review lt in the light
and in ten minutes they brought in a ver- J of experience.”- The report then proceeds
diet of “guilty.” Amid many laments- to recommend that the law be altered so
tions from tbe Gum Swampers, the court astomake the Board of Commissioners
adjourned. Whisky, did you say? I be- ' simply a board #f arbitration to settle all
lievelwill. I differences wln-h may arise between the
B I roads and their patrons. This, our read-
a leg, the calf of which extended to the I —Ask for Silver Spray Cologne and en well know, is what the-Nines has ad
juster and a foot which, when it fell, no {lake no other. vocatedfrom the very first.
How Gen. Hancock Receives His
Visitors.—The . Globe-Democrat says
that the General receives at bis headquar
ters, and the warlike character of the es
tablishment would never be dreamed of,
for from chief to messengers they are all
clothed in sombre, stupid citizens’ clothes;
not a bit of glory and glitter about it.
Regular visitors send their cards, and are
marched un straights to tbe sanctum,
while for ladles the General comes down
and shows all the courtesy and politeness
for which he is tamed. If he :s a Demo
crat, no one could fall to be charmed with
the manners and appearance of the elder
ly, white-moustached gentleman. Having
been ushered in, there entered to us, in
Shakespearean speech, a finely built and
handsome man, who looks worn and
wearied; and, in the hoodlum language of
Lotta, he evidently finds that this being a
Presidential candidate “is not what it is
cracked up to be.” There are circles un
der his eyes already, aud for the harass-
ments, the weariness and vexations that
are to follow, one must pity him. With
all this pressure of affairs, the General
declared that he liked to receive ladies;
their calls were a recreation and.a pleas
ure to him, besides the honor and the deli
cate compliment implied in their making
the pilgrimage across to the island. His
mail comes in bags now; telegrams and
letters cover his table a foot deep, and al
though lie may begin opening liis mail, he
never has time to finish it. Even while
he insisted on offering us chairs and chat
ted with us, the wires overhead were
clicking ominously, and telegrams were
pouring in from the men in Maine, who
were laboring for him on that day with
tbe undreamed of results.
Democratic Cordial.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says: A letter received
here to-day from Senator Wallace says
Pennsylvania is sure for Hancock, and
Sergeant-at-Arms Bright, of the Senate,
who is just back from Indiana, says the
Democrats will run away with the State
in October. Information from Tennessee
is tbat the Republican candidate for gov
ernor, Judge Hawkins, and Judge Wright,
the Democratic candidate, will have joint
discussions on the issues of the canvass.
The Democratic State committee has is
sued an address admitting that Demo- .
cratic success is imperiled by
the split in the party on the debt question,
and counseling the utmost activity on the
part of the regular organization,
In Democratic circles confidence in the
resalt of the Presidential election is esti
mated the encouraging reports re
ceived daily from all directions. Senator
Vest writes from Indianapolis to a friend
here that Indiana will give ten thousand
majority for Landers. Not the least en
couraging feature of the Democratic out
look is the assurance that comes from
many sources in Virginia that the electo
ral vote of that State is safe for Hancock.
The Republicans had little thought of
Virginia in their calculations before the
Maine election, and now, on the heel of
that disheartening result, they have nei
ther energy nor money to spend upon
such an unpromising field as Vir
ginia would be for Republican en
deavor, even under the most favorable cir
cumstances, It is stated upon authority of
a Republican member of Congress from
tbe South, that recently Senator Don
Cameron earnestly advised the national
committee of his party against making
any fight for the electoral vote of Virgin
ia, declaring it to be. plainly out of the
power of the Republicans to capture it,
even though the committee should have
the means requisite to pay the capitation
tax for the negroes, and otherwise put the
demoralized and disbanded Virginia Re
publican party in fighting shape. It is
stated also that General Mahonetolda
member of the Democratic national com
mittee that whenever it should become
apparent that the Republicans would se
riously contend for the electoral vote, of
Virginia he would urge his friends to take
down their electoral ticket. The trouble
is that such an event might not become
apparent until about sundown on election
dqy. But General Mabone has no
idea of any such thing. He counts confi
dently on 15,000 to 20,000 majority, which
he could only obtain by Republican aid.
GlWnljack Floppert in Indiana.
A special Indianapolis dlsjsatch to the
Philadelphia-Tinier says a geuePsM J >mblq‘
of Greenbackerg into the Democratic party
seems to have set ih in' this State. 1 To- ’ 1
morrow tbe Sentinel will contain a letter
from Jacob B. Yeagley, addressed' to' C.
C. Post, chairman of the Greenback State
committee, in which Yeagley announces
his withdrawal from the Greenback ticket
and declares his intention to support the
Democratic party and its ticket through
the remainder of the campaign. Mr.
Yeagley says, among oilier things: “For
the Nationals to continue the hopeless
struggle against the two parties Is practi
cally, to slap a friend and foe in the face
with idiotic vehemence. To elect such a
man as General Garfield President of the
United States over so brave a man as
General W, S. Hancock, • against whom
his political opponenta have not been able
to make a single derogatory charge in his
lite-long services to bis country, would be
a national calamity. The true and logi
cal question therefore, is, shall we con
tinue the present administration or defeat
it? I shall, therefore, act with the Demo-
ceatic party in, tbe future.” George Par
ker, National candidate for State Senator
from Marion county, has also withdrawn
aud declared his intention to support the
Democratic ticket.
Young Mr. Latehours, was sitting on
the porch the other night watching a
seventeen-year-old girl trying to keep
awake long enongh to see the morning
star rise. They talked astronomy. “I
wish I was a star,” he said, smiling at his
own poetic fancy. “I would rather yon
'vere a comet,” she said dreamily. His
heartbeat tumultuously. “And why?”
he asked tenderly, at the same time tak
ing her unresisting little hands in his own;
“ and why ?” he repeated imperiously.
“Oh,” she said' with a brooding earnest
ness that fell upon his apul like a bare foot
on a cold oilcloth, “because then you
wonld come around only once in 1,500
years!” He didn’t say anything until he
was half way to the front gate, when he
turned around and shook his fist at the
house and muttered between bis teeth
that “by the dads, it would be a thunder
ing sight longer than that before he would
come around again.” But by that time
the poor girl was in bed and sound asleep.
Poor Lady Coutts has been forced by the
vicious intermeddling with her priv ate af
fairs to announce through a friend in a
formal way that tbe Queen has not object
ed to her marriage; that her Aiture ■ hus
band, Ashmead Bartlett, has never been
in her pay as private secretary, the only
connection between them being the purely
honorary one which sprang from their
mutual esteem, and that she will not lose
her property oh marriage. Somewhat
neatly, too, Lady Contts drops tbe remark
that no one objected when ber grandfather
at 86 married the actress, Miss Welton, at
38; or the actress, alter “his death at the
ripe age of 49, married the Duke of St.
Albans in his 25th year. Weddings be
tween January and May seem to run in
the family; bnt then, it is generally under
stood in these matters that January is
masculine and May feminine.
Sir Garnet Wolseley has lately been
giving a piece' of advice to the English
army which meets warm approval. The
army has got rid, it is said, of much of
that rigidity of movement which ‘it bor
rowed from the Prussians, and now “It
should find out wbat an action is really
like and then adopt a drill adopted to tac
tical realities.” lienee, as “the culmina-
tory point of any action is ntter confusion,
tbe drill ought to prepare for it and regu-
jations ought to be framed for it.”
The story of Charles Smith, second as
sistant engineer of the ill-fated YeraCiuz,
contains a thrilling narrative of the sea.
Mr. Smith cannot swim a stroke, but yet
floated on different pieces of the wreck
from the spot where tbe vessel went down
to the beach, fifty miles off. By the violent
action of the waters his/ entire clothing
Levity and cheerfulnkss Be
tween these two there is a wide distinc
tion ; and the mind which is most open to
levity is frequently a stranger to cheerful
ness. It has been remarked that trans
ports of intemperate mirth are often no
more than flashes from dark clouds; and
in proportion to the violence of the effhl-
gence is the succeeding gloom. Levity
may be the forced production of folly or
vice; cheerfulness is the naturial offspring
of wisdom and virtue only. The one 5
an occasional agitation; the other a perma
nent habit. The one degrades the charac
ter; the other is perfectly consistent with
the dignity of reason and the steady and
manly spirit of religion. To aim at con
stant succession of high and vivid sensa
tions of pleasure is an idea of happinesa
perfectly chimerical. Calm and tempera^-.
enjoyment is the utmost that is alloted to
man. Beyond this we struggle in vain to
raise our state; aud in fact depress our «
joys by endeavoring to he^gbtma tbem.
Instead of those fallacious hopqs cd per
petual festivity with which She world
would allure us, religion confers npon us
a cheerful tranquillity. Instead of daz
zling us with meteors of joy which sparkle
and expire, it sheds around us a calm and
steady light, more solid, more equal, and
udAro testing.
The importance of protecting chil
dren’s shoes from wear at the toe, all par
ents are aware of, but many have neg
lected to avail themselves of this great
wviliflJDW account of the appearance of
, , , , , . „ „ , the stiM bn. All such will find the A.
was torn from his body. Piece after piece S. T. 0»*8. Black Tip, advertised in an-
of wreck, on which he caught, was broken ! otbeg asMtea, just the thing they have
by the see, end yet, though no swimmer, bees leaking for. Beautiful, neat, thev
he managed to get another. • will wear as long as the metal. Iw 1
