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BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. 3ne copy of the paper one year, $ 2 00 Three copies of the paper one year 5 00 Five copies of the paper one year 8 00 Ten copies of the paper one year, 15 00 Invariably in Advance. Communications solicited from all eec tione, but in na instance will they be inserted without the name of the writer accompany them. pSF Address all communications to CANTRELL & ANDREWS. 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 BATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square* first insertion ... To each subsequent in5erti0n.......... w* Ono Square, six months 9 0# One Square, twelve months. .... .. '. 12 00 Liberal deduction will be made forxon 11act advertisements. ps3' Enough to pay for composition will be charged for change of advertisements. All articles published fur the benefit of parties or individuals, at their twn solicitation wilt be charged for as advertisement* 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.