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SPIRITUALISM.
[lmprovised by Nellie J. T. Brigham, at
the close of a lecture.]
It builds no strong, now church.
Nor forms a creed of human words,
It sends its light through every heart,
Free as the song of birds.
It worships through your human eyes,
Through mists of falling tears,
Until the angid melodics
Steal over all your years.
It stands beside you in your grief,
And walks the path of woe
And brings the sunshine cf relief
That smiling flowers may blow.
It pours through earth’s dark night of years
Truth’s perfect morning hour,
Then joy and peace and hope appear
In love’s celestial bower.
It shines through life’s afflictions deep
And tells of God’s great love,
It lulls your cares and grief to sleep,
And lifts your souls above $
It tells you love can never die—
And brings the loved ones back,
Whose voices making sweet reply,
Sends music o’er your rack.
It sends truth's sunshine searching deep,
Where error hides away ;
And breaking superstitious’ sleep,
Proclaims eternal day.
Race-course of true JLore.
Upon the arrival ono day last week
of a nothern train on the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad at the pretty
Georgian station of Brandon, its pass
sengers had their interest excited by
tho appearance of an unwonted com
motion among the people gathered on
the platform and around the depot.—
Loungers, villagers and trainmen were
all chatting together over some topic
of common intelligence, in a style in
dicating the liveliest feelings in regard
to some unusual matter, and the trav
elers eagerly inquired the meaning of
it all. Then were they told that just
before the arrival of their train a young
man and young woman, mounted upon
foaming thoroughbreds, had come gal
loping up to the station at top-speed to
catch the cars there, iollowed by the
fair one’s father in full cry; and, upon
finding the train not yet arrived, had
swept wildly by on the road to the
nest statiou, with their pursuer still
hotly on their track. It was plain that
the young people were eloping, and,
unless they could reach the nest sta
tion by the time that tho cars did, and
aboard and off before the elder rider
could come up with them, would sure
ly be captured and taken back to pun
ishment. This was enough. With one
voice the now warmly sympathetic pas
sengers called upon their conductor to
spur the iron-horse to the rescue, and
that official gave his engineer tho sig
nal to "pull her wide open and make ex
tra time,” amid the uproarious cheers of
the station. Away thundered the train
after runaways and wrathful sire, and,
when about a mile out of Brandon,
came in sight of the full chase on a
turnpike road running side by side with
the track. Instantly every window in
the cars was crowded with heads, and
platform swarmed with wavers of hats
and handkerchiefs, and the whole trav
eling company entered intensely into
the spirit of the exciting scene like
any ancient audience of knights and
ladies at a tournament. As they came
up with the pursuer and pasted him,
says the Meridian Gazelle, it was no
ticed that he rode a large, very fine
horse, much more powerful aud less
jaded than were the animals bearing
the fugitives, and its every leap under
whip and spur made the distance be
tween them less. Youth and maiden
plied whips also without stint, and
kept a good lead,but upon overtaking
them in turn the train passengers saw
by the straightened necks and panting
sides that their good steeds could not
bear the pace much longer. The girl’s
dishevelled tresses floating back in tho
breeze like a banner of golden thread-,
the hatless youth encouraged her and
the horses with cheering shouts, and
the passengers cheered both in the
heaitiest possible way. The locomo
tive was gauged to keep alongside at
first; but presently the overtaxed ani
mals of the lovers plainly slackedned
their speed, and the figure of the pur
suing sire drew • ominously nearer.—
Then the excitement of the travelers
reached fever-heat; men shouted and
swung hats, women screamed, and the
engine whistled—and all of no avail,for
the horses-could do no more. A moment
it seemed that parental vengeance
must win the day; and then, by a hap
py inspiration, the passengers roared
for the train to stop and take the faint
ing lovers aboard. Down with tire
breaks it was in an instant; the cars
were brought to the quickest possible
halt; and youth, maiden, saddle-bags
and carpet-sacks were dragged on
board by friendly aid just as the stern
VOL. I.}
old man, on the great flying horse,came
near enough in his cloud of dust to be
heard ordering a surrender. Then
screamed the whistle again, and away
flew the train like mad, leaving the en
raged father to shake fist and pistol
at its cheering human freight. Os the
adventurous twain thus enabled to win
the race at last,the lover is only fifteen
years old and the sweetheart thirteen.
Disembarking at the next station, un
der the hearty congratulations of their
numerous rescuers, they were married
at the first parsonage, and went back
to their home as one on the next south
ward-bound train. As for the distanc
ed sire, if he had never g'ot married
himself lie would never have lost such
a race.— New York World.
Husband aud Wife.
There can be no doubt that, if a wo
man grows dissatisfied, it is the fault
of the husband. There is a certain
moral and physical condition which
women attain who are not happy at
homo. They become moody,discontent
ed and sullen. If you ask them the
reason, the answer always is “Oh, that
man!” When pressed for further ex
planations—for it is with the greatest
difficulty you can get a woman of deli
cate susceptibilities to impart her
wrongs—“ that man,” of course, turns
out to be the heartless brute who has
worked her misery—her own husband.
And what is so provoking is he can’t
be brought to see it. He smiles at
her across the table with the assurance
and impertinence of an Irish Low-
Church curate. An invitation to
champagne is a studied insult—he
knows she never drinks it. If he pro
poses to ride with her in the Park, it is
because he has heard her order the
carriage. A trip to Paris would be
all the most exacting -wife could de
sire; but have not all the children been
ordered to the sea-side, and it is impos
sible to go ? You would have thought
h:;xi tVi*.r nrctrl nn*^
thoughtful of husbands. Os course
you would. The hypocrite knows
vvliat he has to expect from society, if
he does not appear to be all this.—
But see him in his domestic privacy,
when he returns, gloomy and cross,
from his day’s business or pleasure.—
Instead of amusing her with the news
or gossip of the day, he pleads fatigue,
and retires to his smoking-room by
himself—whence, presently, his
ous nose announces to the whole house
hold that he is asleep. Is he the com
panion for a woman of cultivated mind
and business habits? Whose concern
is it to overlook the weekly bills, and
see that they are sent in oorrect by the
tradesmen ? What pleasanter occu
pation for a quiet evening? True, the
checks are always forthcoming when
asked for; but any idiot can sign his
name to a document, especially if it
shows on the face of it that he is throw
ing away his money. He actually
paid her milliner’s bill last year with
out looking at the items; merely re
marking that ho thought the total was
rather high, and that she ought to be
a good advertisement for Madame
Fiohue. He doesn’t understand her.—
There is not that sympathy or confix
uence there ought to be between hue
band and wife. He is a fool, and she
was greater for marrying him. Why
did she? Papa was very much involv
ed, as every one knows, and he offered
to relieve him of his embarrassments.
He did not certainly propose to do so
till after she had accepted fSim; but
was she the less sold after all that?—
Os course, he would not have come for
ward if she had refused him. Then he
takes absurd prejudice against this
man and the other; whereas,when Mrs.
Lovemore comes to dinner, he has
neither eyes nor words for any one
else; and, for ought she knows, may at
that very moment be running after her
all over town. Who can help from
pitying and sympathizing with an ad
mirable woman of this kind, whose
path lies in such rough places? What
might she not have been in a different,
perhaps in a more humble sphere.—
Atlanta Whig.
Advanced Minds.
The present century has grown
weary with the weight of those old
dogmatisms that have been forced up
on it by the ignorance of former days.
Those persons who have advanced
minds, have seen the evil of the heavy
burden that has been placed upon the
minds of their predecessors, and by a
slow and deliberate consideration, have
arrived at the conclusion respecting
FAIRBURN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1872.
those grave misconceptions of morali
ty, science, philosophy. You must be
aware that when a man becomes in
spired with a great idea and his mind
is sufficiently positive to give force
and extent to that idea, that society
becomes, in a measure, magnatized
with the subject, and mankind, one af
ter another reach out and grasp it, first
perhaps, to condemn it, afterwards to
consider it, and bring it up from time
to time and treat for awhile as an ene
my, then to see another side to the
question, and oftentimes they adopt
just the sentiment they have condemn
ed. It has been so in regard to the
many subjects that have been pressed
upon the human mind during the pres
ent century. The world has felt the
influence of thoughts that come from
tho advanced minds of the nineteenth
centnry, and ail who arc Biisceptable
to the progressive influence of the day
must think of them in one way or an
other. It is remarkable that those per
sons who see first of all, an idea that
will prove beneficial to mankind in all
coming time, are almost invariably set
up as targets and people do all they
can to murder them. They are slan
dered, reviled and persecuted for dar
ing to understand sooner than other
people, and ho or she must be brave,
indeed, who ventures to announce a
new truth to the world.
We all know that when the science
of astronomy first made its advent, it
was reviled and persecuted, because it
was an innovator, yet, it kept its on
ward march, breaking down a path
way and bearing individuals along
with it, and now in the present day,
all have received it, and that now,
man explores the Heaven and makes
accurate calculations for centuries
ahead. Mankind can understand that
which was unknown and in the past
regarded a wild speculation or the im
aginary whims of an influenced or dis
eased mind.
FeTsouS who iuiui superior intt*; .
al endowments and have thoughts that
are new and could be of great advant
age to mankind, are generally not very
popular or influential, but are arrived
and reviled by those persons who are
not able to understand or appreciate
them aud are tberefoie i.ntimidat id and
prevented from a free, open and candid
expressions of their thoughts which
would be a pleasant relief to them and
advantageous to tho human family.
May the time soon come when there
will be no persecution on account of
the introduction of new idtfal theories
or doctrines. Noctu,
A Little Hero.
The terrible fire which desolated
Chicago, is still fresh upon your minds.
Many incidents which occurred while
the flames were dovouring cherished
and happy homes, are worthy of rec
ord. We will now give one as an ex
ample of honest faithfulness.
It is said that a wealthy widow on
the north side of the city, was strug
gling alone, on that never to be forgot
ten Monday evening, to save some of
her personal goods, when a small and
unknown boy came to her and said;
“1 have been sent by your friend to
ask if I can do anything to help you. ”
The lady gave him a box, aud told
him the best he could do for her was
to take care of that, as it was very
valuable. He disappeared with, and
she carried trunk after trunk to a place
of supposed safety, saw them all burn
ed, and finally barely escaped with
her own life.
All that night and the following
Tuesday passed, and nothing was
heard from the boy or box. Her dia
monds, worth thousands of dollars,
jewelry, choice silver, and some rare
relics were in it, and she was more
troubled for its loss than that of her
house and furniture.
But Tuesday night the boy was
found sitting on the box, which be bad
buried in the sand on the lake shore.
He had been there twenty four hours,
at one time was obliged to half-bury
himself to escape the devouring fire.
The poor boy was hungry and very
tired, but he never once thought of de
serting his charge.
Don’t you think, dear readers, that
such faithfulness is beyond praise ?
How many of you could have resisted
going to see after the fire, or to obtain
fjod, and in thus deserting your post,
perhaps have forgotten exactly where
the treasure was buried, or returned to
find it stolen ? But the faithful boy,
though the flames were almost scorch
ing him, and he was half starved and
wearied out, never waverqd in doing
right.
Now shall we give you a little inci
dent of generous self-denial ?
After the fire, a poor littlo newsboy
was selling papers. He saw much of
suffering and misery about him, and it
touched his heart. He thought he was
able to earn something, while others
were perfectly helpless, so he took his
pennies, went to the relief committee
and said ;
“ Uere’s fifteen cents, it is all I have
got, may be it’ll do a little good. ”
Could he do more than give his all?
And was not this unselfish gift from
the poor little newsboy equal, in the
sight of our Heavenly Father, to
thousands from the rich l—School day
Visitor.
Wellington’s Strategy.
On one occasion during Wellington's
campaign on the Pyrenuees.thaf'Great
Captain” being displeased with the
dispositions General I’icktou had made
for recieving tho assault of Marshal
Soult, who menaced him in front, or
dered the plan to be entirely changed.
But the difficulty was to delay the at
tack of the French until the change
could be effected. This the'Tron Duke”
accomplished in person, in tho follow
ing manner: Duffing his cocked-hat
and waiving it in the air, lie rode furi
ously to the head of a regiment, as if
about to order a charge. Thereupon
rose a tremendous cheer from the rrieu,
which was taken by corps after corps
until it reverberated along the whole
extent of Pickton’s line. As tho roar
died away, Wellington was heard to
remark, musingly, as if addressing
himself—“Soult is a skillful but cau
tious commander, and will not attack
in force until he has -ascertained the
meaning of these cheers. This will give
lime for the sixth division to come up
aud wc shall beat him.” It turned as
anticipated. Soult naturally enough,
subis*-*** an
nounced the arrival af large reinrdice
ments, and did not attack until too
late. Had he struck at the right mo
ment he would have won an easy vic
tory; as it was, he met with a bloody
repulse.
This was strategy. Not the strate
gy of books, but the strategy of gen
ius, engendered and executed in the
same moment. There is no such thing
laid down iu Jomiui. The idea was
born of the occasion and carried out on
the instant.— West Point Star.
Bleeding at the Nose.
Some two years ago, while going
down Broadway, New York, blood com
menced running from tho nose quite
freely. I stepped aside and applied
my handkerchief, intending to repair
to the nearest hotel, when a gentleman
accosted me, saying, “Just put apiece
of paper in your mouth and chew it
rapidly, and it will stop your nose
bleeding. ” Thinking doubtfully, I did
as he suggested, and the flow of blood
ceased almost immediately. I have
seen the remedy tried since quite fre
quently and always with success.-
Doubtless almost any substance would
answer the same purpose. as paper,
the stoppage of the of blood be
ing caused, no doubt, by the rapid mo
tion of the jaws, aud the counteraction
of the muscles and arteries connect
ing the jaw and nose. Physicians
say that by placing a small roll of pa
per or muslin above tho front teeth,
under'the upper lip, and pressing hard
ou the same, will arrest bleeding at
the nose—checking the passage of the
blood through the arteries leading
through the nose.— Country Gentleman.
Truth and Falsehood.—“ Will ie,
why were you gone so long for the wa
ter ?” asked the teacher of a little boy.
“We spilled it, and bad to go back
and fill the bucket again,” was the
prompt reply ; but the bright, noble
face was a shade less bright, less no
ble, than usual, and the eyes dropped
beneath the teacher’s gaze.
The teacher crossed the room and
stood by another, who had been Wil
lie’s companion. •
“ Freddy, were you not gone for the
water longer than was necessary ?”
For an instant Freddy’s eyes were
fixed on the floor, and his face wore a
troubled look. But it was only for an
instant—he looked frankly up to his
teacher’s face.
“ Yes, ma’am,” he bravely answered;
“ we met little Hariy Bradcu and stop
ped to play with him, and then wo
spilled the water and had to go back. ”
Littlo friends, what was the differ
ence in the answers of the two boys ?
{NO. 10.
Neither of them told anything that
was not strictly true. Which one of
them do you think the teacher .trusted
more fully after that ? And which
was the happier of tho two ? — Selected.
The Population of the United
States.
We extract the following from the
census book now in the Clerk Superior
Court’s office :
The whole United States.
1850. 186(1. 18TO.
23,191,870. 31,443,321. 38,558,371,
GEORGIA.
1850. 1800. 1870.
906,185. 1,057,286. 1,184,100.
WHITE.
1850. 1800. 1870.
521,672. 591,550. 038,926.
FREE COLORED.
1850. 1860. 1870.
2,931. 3,500. 515,142.
SLAVES.
1850. 1860. 1870.
381,682. 402,198.
GAMP BELL CO LNTY.
1850. 1860. 1870.
7,232. 8,301. 9,176.
WHITE.
1850. 1860. 1870.
5,718. 6,289. 0,589.
FREE COLORED.
1850. 1800. 1670.
7. 8. 2,587.
SLAVES.
1850. 1860. 1870.
1,5.4. 2,001.
Letter from Texas.
Braunfels, Comai, County, Tex , )
June 21st, 1812. j
Dear Brother : As I have the chance
of mailing a letter ; I avail myself of
the opportunity of writing.
I am about done working my crop,
only a little chopping to do in the cot
ton. Crops are very good, hut badly
damaged from the ovciflow. About
ten days ago, it rained for ten hours,
commencing about dark aud raining
all night 4 my crop is not damaged
i like those on the creeks aud rivers.—
rfieTe are many raninr .
ly a pannel o! fence left. I have heard
of fourteen persons being drowned ;
ten negroes were washed off in one
cabin , and have not been heard of up
to this time. An old gentleman living
near u- lost his wife and oldest daugh
ter, and many valuable things too te
dious to mention. Mr. Watson sowed
four bushels, of wheat and thinks he
will make fifty.
Game is plentiful in this part of
Texas ; I killed a very large buck last
Saturday—wish you were here to help
us eat it.
Your affectionate brother,
Charles Black.
1850.
521,672,
“Mother, mother,” cried a young
rook, returning hurriedly frem its first
flight, “ What sight, my son ?” asked
the rook. “Oh ! white creatures,
screaming and running, straining their
necks, and holding their heads ever so
high. See, mother, there they go !”
“ Geese, my son ; merely geese,” calm
ly replied the sapiei t parent bird.—
“Through life, child, observe, that
when you meet aDy one who makes a
great fuss about himself, and tries to
lift his head higher than the re~t of
the world, you may set him down at
once to be a goose. ” — Selected.
Another Waif.—We learn that of
ficer Murphy found this morning in the
old court-house square, a white infant
child, aged almost two weeks. As
the officer could fiud no one to claim
it he carried it to our worthy Ordinary
Hon. C. T. Ward, who will have to
play wet nurse with a bottle until he
can find a fit and proper substitute.—
No information can be obtained in re
gard to the poor little waif.— Macon
Daily Enterprise.
H. IV. Beecher says:
We do not believe that the common
people of America are ready to throw
away an old servant and put in its
place a party whose whole strength
lies iu the adhesion to it of the very
men whom the Republican party has
fought before, at Stiiloh, at Vicksburg,
at Gettysburg, aud around Richmond.
They tried to take Washington sever
al times before. They could not do it
by bullets, aud wo don’t intend that
they shall by ballots.
How to Destroy Noxious In
sects.
A small black flea, in great swarms,
eats the leaves of cabbage plants af
ter they come up from seeds sown in
the open ground, and also early cab
bage plants, after being set out in the
open ground from hot-beds. A light
dusting of fresh slacked lime over the
plants in the morning, while wet with
dew, will drive them off or kill them.
Dust the plants one morning, and again
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the second morning after that, then
the joy is finished. Tire flea is more
fond of pepper cress than cabbages,
so that it the cress is sown thinly
along with tho cabbage seed, it will
save the cabbages.
A greenish, mealy louse, in vast
numbers, attacks cabbages when near
ly full grown. Two dustings of fresh
lime will kill them.
A black grub, which lodges in the
ground, cats through the stems of
young cabbages, after being trans
planted, causing the heads to drop off.
\\ believer that is observed, search
around the plants, cut off, and find the
grub aud kill it. It is only a quarter
of an inch under the surface. After
it eats off one plant it gets to another,
so that you must search among the
neighboring plants if not fouud where
it has been devasting.
The wire worm lodges in the ground,
and is destructive to the seeds of Li
ma and pole beaus and Indian corn.—
I taut twice as many seeds as you
want plants. Wuea they begin to
push through the ground, draw the
soil gently, and see if there is no
worms in them. If the worms are
theie prick them out with a pin. or .nee
dle aud destroy.
Many of the insects that lodge iu
the ground may be destroyed in this
waj : Dig or plow up the ground in
the fall, or early spring ; sow over it
Peruvian guano, or lime, or salt
They are all poison to insects. Salt
should not be used where cabbages
are to be planted, as it makes them
club-footed.
When berry bushes, or shrubbery.,
or youug trees are attacked by cater
pillars, two dusting of fresh lime over
them, in the mornings, while the leaves
are wet with dew, will kill them all.
It will do the same with large trees
that are infested, but it is difficult to
dust them all over.
1870.
038,926.
1870.
515,142
Reason Why People Driuk.
M. A. because ho hates to refuse a
drink.
Mr. B. because his doctor ordered
him not, and he hates such quackery.
Mr. 0. just takes a drop, because
he’s wet.
Mr. D. because he’s dry.
Mr. E. because be feels something
rising in her stomach.
„ he’s going to send
Mr. 11, because be Las a friend come
from China.
Mr. 1. because he wants to.
Mr. J. because he’s so hot.
ill’. K. because so cold.
Mr, L. because lie has a pain in the
head.
Mr. M. because ho Las a pain ia the
side.
N. because he has a pain in bis
back.
O. because he has a pain in His
chest.
F. because he has pains all over
him.
Q. because he feels light and hap-
PJ-
R. because he feels light and happy.
S. because he’s married.
T. because he’s not.
U. because lie’s divorjjpd..
Y. because he likes to be with Me
friends.
W. because he has no friends, and
enjoys a glass Ry himself.
X. because hia uncle lefth im a leg
acy.
Y. because his aunt did Dot,
Z. We should be liappy to inform
,our readers as to Z’s reason for drink
ing, but ou questioning him he was
found to be too drunk to answer.—
Exchange.
Business Law.—The following brief
compilation of business law is worth a
careful preservation, as it contains the
esse of a large amount of legal ver
bMffe.
It is not legally necessary to say on
a note "for value received.”
A note made ou Sunday is void.
Contracts made on Sunday cannot
be enforced.
A note by a minor is void.
A contract made with a minor is
void.
A contract made with a lonatic is
void.
A note obtained by fraud, or from a
person in a state of intoxication, can
not be collected. 4
If a note.is lost or stolen, it does
not releaasnke maker; be must pay it
if the coiwddljatioß for which it was
given and-TSre amount can be proven.
An endorser of a note is exempt from
liability if not nerved with uotice of
dishonor within twenty-four hours of
its non-payment.
Notes bear interest only when so
stated.
Principals are responsible for the
acts of their agents.
Each individual in a partnership is
responsible for the whole amount 'of
debts of the firm.
Ignorance of the law excuses no one.
It is fraud to conceal a fraud.
The law compels no one to do impos
sibilities.
An agreement without consideration
is void.
Signatures made with a lead pencil
are good in law.
A recipt for money is no* always
conclusive.
The acts of one partner bind all the
rest.— Atlanta Independent.