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VOLUME I. Tlllk CARROLLTON ADVOCATE ni.uuji:n ■ rt■ ** Friday mdumnh *v ANDERSON ASBURY ,ICO. jAMKs VV. ASDKIts:*N, IIKNRY ASWI'IIY, DKNIS W. l. 1101'1.1.Y. jiffr Off re in • the T>rn *tnry /}n*fi?iny t next tiocr to J . T Meuthtr t(: t.'o'it J)ry Ctomlti Ksl<tbli*hm’ n(. TVn\it* or M'ostmmo*. Tw dolUn |*r ammni. N P ; . rr*.Mvr.l forj***** Mwn “ m^n’lii* N. illiN!wI•••*• I until 3*ll nmuinw* nrc nn I*l. niilrMat th** |rti.ni *.f tin* pr.ipriitior. Sn MM*’****l iiiilvrn f'conipaniil y ih* r*id ii4urn *i tl*i- u*itli*r. AIUUITUIMi K4*rK* Ituvinr-s ciinU not t-scvmllng six lin<*. ?5 per annum.’ Ylv-rWo.-ni*. in,!rtrl * *1 V’ **i*.ar* *f t*-n ‘ort j’ •**• “ *’ ’** !■*-•• • * c*tu* am fh unfmiiuoiti ii****r l • u*. ANnouiii-itapiii<liilai(iii in n*lvanv. A Itlutml tli-cmmi ill*w*il t' yearly ■t- tin- privilug# of rlmoKini cjonrli-ily, provided Aliev tml t!*••!r !*|*u'*i. ‘frun-ient ti'lviTii-miC i*il *?nh Work-* Cit*l. 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(I THi Unih-il (’uurt* linvo aUo mjiMnio.lly *l*-oiloJ that a j* i-t ii -**r wli negl-ot io pcrfoi'iu 1-ji* ‘Joi\ hv yi’ ro-on Hilo noli*"**. i- r***|tirir**l Ky tin* “lin o l*|*m rliiuuit, of flu* *• lt*f-on •<r jior io- i • luko f i*• in tli** **ol**l* iiow-iui* tier- H-lilr—•<-l to lll**, nr i lieu., roinlin - *<ni<l I* *i Mu-i- r h-blt to ilir prpri*-tor for tin* *mbacrnti*ui pr *r* BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Dl; l> li. .U'llAN, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. ( aHuulltun, <;eor<![.\. DU OKO. T CONNRI.L I ) iflßl'H U V i.rtVri* I)IH I'rnfo—ioiml oorvi ttio < itir.* not < , nr'olli*m un*l noi^li* CAIIIIOLLTON, CARItOLL COUNTY. OEOItGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ir, ls<;i. Kr .in Ki'iitiultv. a riv. r of poetry ti"i forth upon i!ih wot Id. The following is from one of it* clearest >p>ings : THE HUNTER’S LAST RIDE. UV S. C. MKIt'.'KR. One Autumn eTe, when elourl* unfurled S.v pi down the west in bannered splendor, And tlyiinj suite i Imtlicd tbe world In dolphin rainbows mil l an l tender— As if the sun in heitVeu ufar Linger- and to greet the Evening St ir, Mingling Ids glanee of clearer I glit Willi the first radiance of the night, And in the twilight tarrying la'e, Utnv Ming pa-sed ilie westi-rn gate A himt.r wearied with the chase. With In- spent steed was slowly taming Unto his fir-ort’ lestmg place. Where Ins lone ramp-lire light was burning, loir many n mile lea steed lutd gone I O’er the w ide ptspr.c since l|ie dawn. Tlie choice liit. f.mn the saddle hung, I 11., and... r’s fat Imam 11. the lilllTalo's toligu A simp e but a sweet repii.t Tii liivr li s lung and pa nful fast. Slow paced the strong but weary steed ill S| ion- clnai and lightning speed, A coal-black id tlm Norman hived Who iic'i r bid fail, and in limn of need; \ t’i'eat-ire full of st'cngtll and grace, The in.b 1 -t of Ida noble run) In lot, in baitle, or the clui.n, In liiiiii th” bear nil mo iii'riin aid", I o chase liic and it o’er prniiie wide, ( ir and <ah ii|.on the ambuscade Os wily Indian foe mrayed, i r plunge tliMiugli waiter s deepest tlluW, >r br.-n-t th ■ l nviil’a swiftest flow. To lum'S'iinn who hn born the toil, W.-le.an - the r-'-t, and sweet the spoil; >.• luused M.-Uregor m Ida in n I. U nding Ilia sled, when fir In hud Upon Ida s ar led e ir there rnliio A rushing sound of ili lout II uno. A long, lioal’-c, uiuriiiurtiig, sullen sound, As when an enrihipiuke shakes the ground, ( Ir III! Vo|. Illo'a mice of VV I lltll Warns nil to h ave the luvn'a path. \ moment seiireu In* turned h s lietnl, l oo well lie knew that s iiinil of rlo ud, One moment; and M.-tin-gor saw A sight, to eh II !n. sou l wiili awe : Iteliiml him, hi-teuing. onward came A long, ted. serp lit tin ■ of llaine, tVlliell, llis-iug. aho’ i'S tollgll'.a of light Upward into the gathering night, Vliil” nedw"ijr ‘iwixt the cur'h and sky Lilfn D util- Angel Imv ring by, Idle smok ‘-paU r-dl.d in voluni--s dreaJ rin* awful banner ot the and ad. I Q lickly III:- burden was Utltlt'll I ‘ Now Salad ll,” the li t ,tsman/.ried, fcl’l As if the long revenge tli cherish, Were eased if their old foe might perish, Ity the red inonit's ghostly light, Struggling through the smoky ved, Dripping mid d-nk with tear- of night, And chill ini-t. ousting shadows pale, A voice of inflow sc oils to wail, A fidiil, -II Idling, plaintive lone, ’l’ll)illiug the pained air with it- moan, As if some Ariel unsleeping A dinth-watch in the skv wa- keeping, Her harp of tears in pit)’ sweeping. ” Let, Huntsman I from tin final chase, Leaf, Saladin ! from thy hist, long race, ilotsetiian and horse —they both have gone I King with all their armor on, And -Itimbering in their last repose Tog. thev, encircled by Their foes, (From the N . \ . Mercury ) “SWEARING OFF:” AND DOW I m IT. -• Wl.cn I began to write litis scries of papers, 1 believe l stipulated for u per* pc’ mil pardon f. r my inability to pro duce northing but inctlierenco and in consistency ; ami it you find tlii- article :i good deal mixed, the reason is, that I've ii got a severe lit ot my characterist ics this morning, and can t control my mind, \vlmt lit In mind I have, any more than I could steer a last yacht with it tiding whip, or make an unbroken mus tang run in a straight line, by tying tiller ropes to Ids heels. Idkc till the rest of you, I raised my usual annual ciop id g >"d reso'utioua tlii- your, which came to mu'untv, as they always do, on the first of Jiintiury Among n iicr things, | made up my mind that 1 “wouldn't dr nk itn.v moro beer. I pliilos ipliienlly argued, that it a in in has realty got brains, lie wants thorn re uly lor esc n* ud times; and if Im hasn’t got niiv bra ns, it sot no use to try to Ii I the vacancy with beer. Not tli'it I’d been in tbe habit of drinking too much- no mao ever does, according to Ids own notion : but then, I thought i’ll Stop, ns a‘change. Probably n mill ion other young nton made thosnmo resolii tinn on the same day. It s now a wlpde month, and hai “g kept all beer 0:1 the outside id’ me l"t’ that time, 1 tool that indeed beer and I lone parted. And vet. Ilecr lias been a good friend of mine : I respect beer. I venerate beer; in fact, I may -av I love beer, I believe in beer. Peer is an honorable fellow ; ho doesn't pretend for an liocr or Iwo to agree with you, I ko Ibandy, nod then ’ trio up your heels mid leave y* *” in the mystifications applied to the morning j dram. I was free ; never again should I in- j dulgn in tliP-ffuid joy of a julep or a punch ; the grateful cobbler should nev er again cause me t> smile. But hero I met Muggins; it was Muggins, and yet it wasn’t. Muggins ; Muggins in term, in f mture, figure, and in dress, lint no moro like tlm usually grave Muggins in de meanor, then a frisky kitten is bko a wooden decry duck, lie was elate, gay, merry, cxulmig, jubilant, ex It i lea fed ; ho caught, inti by the arm, and shook it, ns if lie a lied a large bet on shaking “If twenty Imrvls in thirty minutes, anti was just a tiia > be:.hid time on his nine tcenth. * She’s done it, O'd Doestieka : I've done it ;* 1 :*#d"iit) it!’ . ‘ What'> jlQiio what, and who or wli t is lt>.u.gtil I, ‘ J ae,'l, us.’Hi l l lust night,’ .nine o’clock, my baby had a wife: my first, no, li:s first, no, her. and my, and our first ; wife a goo-! deal better ; baby good deal expected ; no, bo'll arc better, and both are expected ; that is all my wives and nil my babies are a goo I deal bettor Ilian could be expected ; nurse savs si. Mv first, you know ; wife never hud u nurse ; no, my ii ursc never had a wifii; of eourso, you know what I “lean : rit'y wahy never Imd a bifij; mv hil'e uinl lu.rse, mv niibv ami the wurse lint you see I've mixed : I really can’t say how, whether my nurso has had u baby nu ‘so, or the wahv lias had a ifife, or the w Well, tliis is ttio calm truth ; there are at my house a wife, and I heloiig to tlic sa no ostublishm uit my self- Wilfi their comhiuud help I have gone and borned a baby ; all alive U-uue in to Deliftnnico's and drink a liottlo of Mumm's lies! baby in honor—or of lleid siek’a groett hov, beeanse, von know in honor of my seal baby - wile—’’ Here I stopped him, just n- two police men were (jiscnssiiig whether lie wits pence ibln enough Io Iki arrested, or whether In* was s> dJngc inu that they “iiglit tli let him alone. I got him into the lioiiio and into a corner ; before I could stoplliim, he had yelled to tli” b irkeeper fij* two bo'tlcs ot green baby ; [ mi uriler whit'll the barkeeper who had seen Muggils once before mi licit, div uuilorstou.l perfectly, and immediately prod lice I two buttles of green seal cham pagne, at U 1 mid a liaU a b ittle. I sc/ad Mugg'iis bv t.l,e collar; I sat Muggins down inn chair; I jammed Muggins down li lt'd, mid l held him ‘.are ; f jm.( nu UH’ and Then Lutfky came in, hurriedly, to anv : •• BABY ! !!” Wo coektailed Luffky's baby, and lieered it, and, at my eost. had u couple of bottles of wine to L.’s B. Then 1 swore oil'. Before I got to the doors, of which there were by this time sovoral, Griinby came in, and proclaimed aloud, in tri utnph Baby, you, say, of course, lluby ! that's only half: ‘ TWINS t ! ! !’ Wf drank tlm twins, brandy, beer, wiui*, inn) sherry ; then, at mv suggcstiiui and ex pclisn, we Imd a bot'lo or two of green seals to the health of the twins. Then I snore elf. No, . couldn't have sworn oil’ here, either ; ‘ for I re ueinher eocktailiug a hoy, and saiigu r -eing a g'rl, and chiintpugning a lot of iiioth i-rs’ liaepy rofoveiies after that <>lij I kiUsi. it was here that MakUrvalc lenneil up on the talilu and howled: •'TRI FLKTs ! I !!’ W,i hrntuly pouched those triplets, anil mint jnli’l'cd the mother to that extent that 1 red ly imagiui'd myself in the fashion, and posi tively announced that Mrs, D. had made me the happy father of two pairs of twins, con sisting of nine girls and a boy, Other fellows euiiii” in , never were seen sueli a let of fel lows, mid never hud wives done so much for tho census in so short a time. KvCry fellow aiinojjnced lli.il his wife Imd given him three li.-iis four s-x, or more : but, when Spriggins gravely told us that his wife was the mother of seventy ime children, mid they’d only been married two years, I rein onher some of us doubted it, until Spriggins assured us on his honor that it was true. Then I swore oil’. Tli ii I snipped at t'lo Car'ton House, and swore oil’ again ; then at the ‘ll,. Nicholas, and look a julep, then I swore off: in t some body : took something—swore oil'; then I swore “If ; then I met somebody; then I took something ; then I met something ; then I took somebody ; then swoieolT; then swore something ; then took something. Metropol itan. swore oil', Thorpe’s, swore olf; Pierce's, swore off; Fifth Avenue Hotel, swore oil ; ami soineholy took me home in a euiriagc, where i sesndali/.eil the old mi and Landlady, who dime to the door, by asking her; ‘• How nre ymr twins to night, Mrs, J illow ?'’ And when she replied, indignantly, ‘ Wlial do you in,uin, Mr Deestiolls ?’ I tried to appease her l>y saying : ’Skuse m•, Miss JulluW, 1 didn't know youM sworu e'!.’ Next day, I lent'lieil that the wlndc; thing was a conspiracy, null that no babies had been born in my circle of friends, save one, a very, ■ cry small one, tho sole property of Mr. and Mi's Moloch Muggins I Now, l have sworn off. NUMBER 45. Onions. - Chi in IMienome aoa. “ How is it you raise sueli largo and nica onions?” 1 asked of bii lowa farmer, as 1 vn sitting at the table with him, and observing some oil the tabla. “ Well,” said he, “ we sprout tho seed witb b .iling water, an 1 then plant it early, and li good ground ’’ ‘■ Sprout the seed in boiling water 1” I *r claimml ini|UTi i\ Wlntt do you mean, sir, by that ? V. „ y uliug water kill th* seed ?” “Not at nfl,” In r le it; “but it will sprout them in a minute's lame “It will! it look n . rediblo !” I replied with surprise. ‘ Well, you try it, replied Ire gri uni ugly, I “ when the time eoae to plant, aicl you'll j lilld it just HS I tell ) • “’ I Ami, sure enough, w... a s|a-ing came, ant imy ii. igldior was alien! planting Iris <>u ou spoil, living |n(*seilf, 1 aid “dcwcll, last winter lie-re was n man t-dil me in lowa, ihat to pour oiling water upou black onion seed would s ( , u l .t in onu uiiu uti*. Suppose you try it.” ‘•Very well,” said he; ivinl tnhii'g the l.si - kettle hulling t■ • ‘lll the Stove, lie poured ifiu water thus boiling on tlm and which Ii - fail in a simei-r. booking at it a moment, lie ex claimed. “ Mv coiiseicnco! you have rightly ! told. Only look here !” T looked, anil, behold ! little spron's, about j as large as horse hairs wore shooting out of I the opened ends ot the need! lie did uot retain the water oil the seed above three sec onds. mill in less than one half mintt'c alter i was poured oil, tho sprouts were j*r jeeting from the seeds My lowa friend assured ne that thi- p-o ----cess Would advance the growth of ilt oniou from two to three weeks beyond the ..r Leary method of planting without sproutm-/ Try it, gardeners and farmers ; much may !>.• gain ed l>y it. CF*X- Tin* steamer Dug-Out was iib > t* <’a t* ing lor Salt River, uml tho cabin-le y lutd just returned, after spending sdf> lor stoics, w hew this conversation occurred : Boy. Well, captain, I'vo come on brvrj with the” small stores.'’ Captain.—What have you bought t Boy. 1 spout ic-’d for whiskey, uu lit f r broad. (’ iptain. —Thunder ! what nro tv - gui ; to do with so inueli bread ! •• • 110-. v to Itroiik. One,oil of II I 1 ‘Sab lla. Evil habits, though they west'at a become apparently irrosistablo, ml ir* - curable, and loud many clever men Into speedy destruction, yet none ev *r liocumo so p iworful that they may not Im cor* lee'ixl. Tho firm and rosolutc dotertni nation, is moro than half tbe bi to gam* oil. Here is tho way to break off from pernicious practices,